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..to be furious with Harry and Meghan

247 replies

NeedToGoToBedNow · 09/01/2020 18:41

Ok ok, we've had loads of threads. I accept their decision to want to resign from public duties - always though Harry might do that ...

BUT ... why should we pay for them? How come they get to keep Frogmore cottage, which WE the tax payer have paid for? And we have just paid over 2 million for them to renovate it???

If they want to go their seperate ways from Royal duties, FINE...... BUT , if they do that, they surely should relinquish the perks (i.e. the house, cars, money that comes with the job) and do what the rest of us do - earn their own.

(Feeling irrationally angry for some reason!!!)

OP posts:
StoneofDestiny · 09/01/2020 20:19

Interested all the reporting about the Queen/Palace being 'disappointed' about H&M yet no statement they are 'disappointed' in the behaviour of Andrew (or indeed any of the other royal PITA who have disgraced their privileged positions - Charles, Fergie, Philip, Edward, Sophie to name a few.

DuchessofWoke · 09/01/2020 20:20

If you are from another country, are you not foreign?

Theworldisfullofgs · 09/01/2020 20:20

Yes you are.

NotACleverName · 09/01/2020 20:21

I'm gonna Paypal you 20p so you can get a life, OP.

SaphfireRose · 09/01/2020 20:21

If you become a citizen of a country, are you still foreign? How long does it take for one to no longer be considered foreign?

DuchessofWoke · 09/01/2020 20:21

Oh, according to a previous poster, foreign is a racist term.

DuchessofWoke · 09/01/2020 20:22

Meghan is not a British citizen.

Presumably she never will be now.

BigChocFrenzy · 09/01/2020 20:22

wtf are "wokesters totalitarian luxury beliefs" ?

That H & M and Canada allegedly share ?

H&M bang on about climate change - like a couple of colleagues at work
I just smile and carry on. Doesn't bother me

DuchessofWoke · 09/01/2020 20:22

What’s your beef with the word foreign?

SaphfireRose · 09/01/2020 20:23

The intention is clearly there. There is no need to point out she's 'foreign' (even though she has become a naturalised citizen, as well as Christened as an Anglican - what else does she need to do?).

BigChocFrenzy · 09/01/2020 20:24

"foreign, older, divorced actress wife"

What is wrong with any pf those things ? Hmm

WorriedMum6868 · 09/01/2020 20:24

To all those asking whether Andy raped the teenager, do you think a trafficked girl can give informed consent?
Shame on you if you think she can.

DuchessofWoke · 09/01/2020 20:24

Well, I didn’t say it.

But I presume the poster was pointing to the fact that as a “foreigner” Meghan had little understanding of how the British royal family operates.

You’re saying “foreign” really means non-white. Are you?

TheWorldturnedUpsideDown · 09/01/2020 20:25

He's already without being asked given so much to the UK public including being paraded out to look at flowers the paying baying public gave to honour his mother.

He's been raked over, had his wild years published, he's been fodder for the UK press and its citizens.. Non of this he asked for.

He's given enough and now he has a stable proper relationship, the first he's ever had and his own family he's perfectly entitled to say bye bye and keep frogmoore... Services by dint of birth rendered.

DuchessofWoke · 09/01/2020 20:26

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think Meghan is a naturalised citizen of the UK.

Thestrangestthing · 09/01/2020 20:26

Good god, with everything going on around the world this is the top news story everywhere! People really need to get a life and realise that one Prince, who will never even make it to the throne, is well within his rights to live his life as he wants, as is his wife, who BTW had her own money before she met him. Everyone really needs to stop fucking crying about it!

TheWorldturnedUpsideDown · 09/01/2020 20:29

However I think the race colour thing is utter shite. I don't think the majority who dislike Megan due to colour.

Justneedatemporaryname · 09/01/2020 20:30

@DuchessofWoke

It is really pathetic that you actually chose your username to belittle Meghan and are spending so much energy spewing hatred towards somebody you have never met. You really need to get a life. Your jealousy is showing.

Actionhasmagic · 09/01/2020 20:30

Be angry with Prince andrew

HaudYerWheeshtYaWeeBellend · 09/01/2020 20:30

Passes the grip to the “furious” Hmm OP

TheWorldturnedUpsideDown · 09/01/2020 20:30

I can't believe with Andy that anyone even thinks about Harry and Megan.

He's a disgrace..

TellMeWhoTheVilliansAre · 09/01/2020 20:32

H&M have no idea about the real world

I'm like a broken record at this stage but they don't live in the real world. They live in a very get different world to you or me. Everything they do is scrutinised. Every single day there is another story about them in multiple papers. Their lives aren't their own. They can't do right for doing wrong. Everyone has an opinion without actually really knowing anything about them.

Imagine living that life. Every single day. Every waking minute.

Meghan has only been involved witb the Royal family for a few years. Before that she DID live in the real world. She worked. She earned her own money. She made her own decisions and the papers, and keyboard warriors didn't feel the need to rip them apart.

Why does this bother so many people? When I decided to move out of home and spread my wings and become independent, I knew I still had the support of my family. I'm sure everyone here will also encourage and support their children in becoming independent. Yet when Harry says he's going to move away people are baying for blood and saying he better be totally cut off!

It's ridiculous.

And nobody's business except their's and their families.

ItIsTheWay · 09/01/2020 20:32

Luxury beliefs
Beliefs held by upper-class people that ultimately work to diminish the lives of lower-class people.

PlanDeRaccordement · 09/01/2020 20:32

Meghan is not a U.K. citizen. It takes five years from date of marriage and you have to reside in the UK the whole time except for holidays. So the earliest she can naturalise would be May 2023

JinglingHellsBells · 09/01/2020 20:33

He's been raked over, had his wild years published, he's been fodder for the UK press and its citizens.. Non of this he asked for.

Really?

Well maybe you ought to remember that he had a position of privilege and bar a few years in the Forces, he was behaving like an idiot, a spoilt brat, and bringing the RF into disrepute.

He wouldn't have got press attention if he'd kept his head down and behaved in a sensible way.