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AIBU to think that Prince Harry is coming across as the most tone deaf and hypocritical member of the RF right now?

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ChocolateSantaisthebestkind · 26/02/2021 09:54

Yes the guy lost his mother in a tragic way at a young age. (So have many) Yes he was forced out into the public eye in the middle of grief (which was horrific at the time and worse on reflection) BUT he is now an adult man with a family and access to life of extreme privilege yet he cannot seem to realise that him publically complaining about his lot in life and telling the rest of us how to behave is distasteful. Also, the petulant way he seems to communicate with the media is just undelining his immaturity and lack of awareness. By which I mean, the potshots in statements and rapping with James Corden and his pathetic man of the people schtick. If you want to be Hazzer give up your title and STFU!

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Roussette · 26/02/2021 18:38

thetell so agree with you. It's such a transition time for a woman... meeting someone new, marrying, getting pregnant and then THE family that MM had to cope with.

Trying to do the right thing, doing the wrong thing, being reported for doing the wrong thing when she was trying to fit in.

An absolute nightmare.

I do hope thetell it's all settled down for you with your extended family.

Mintjulia · 26/02/2021 18:38

I think that's a bit harsh.

However I do think that having stepped back from Royal life in search of privacy, he could stop courting the press and publicity.

As a private citizen, why doesn't he retreat to his lovely spacious house in California and stop giving interviews.

phoenixrosehere · 26/02/2021 18:38

I've had four large bumps and never felt the need to cradle them or keep touching them.

Is there an award for not touching your bump?

I guess I lose. I touched both of mine, the first for comfort and reassurance and the second because he was ridiculously active that I thought he was going to come out “Alien-style”.

Can only imagine the ridicule I would have received by people such as yourself..

Robieuni · 26/02/2021 18:39

I can’t see this ending well for them.
They hate the press and their intrusiveness, yet their new careers will depend on them to a large extent. I can’t see they are going to marry the two.

Sparklingbrook · 26/02/2021 18:39

@Roussette

Do you not have a remote control?

Ok, sorry but 🤣😂🤣

I am Shock at the number of posters who want to see the back of them, wish they would go away, they never want to see them again, they can't stand their stupid messages, or whatever...and yet... know more than I do about them lol

Yes! All the 'I don't watch or read anything about them, I wish they would go away' people seem to have an encyclopedic knowledge of them. They could go on Mastermind with H&M their specialist subject. Grin
AngelicaElizaAndPeggy · 26/02/2021 18:39

@millymoo and @radio4rocks - Well why don't you just ignore him when he's in the news? It's almost like you actually enjoy being so outraged and incensed. Bit sad, really.

wewillmeetagain · 26/02/2021 18:40

@TheKeatingFive where was she and harry while he was being harassed by the media? Where was she when he was in hospital ill? The fact that literally none of her family were at her wedding apart from her mother tells me everything i need to know.

Roussette · 26/02/2021 18:41

And devote their precious time to discussing them on here

Yep. So... for instance... I am not Gordon Ramsay's biggest fan. So, I have avoided his gameshow, I don't watch cooking programmes he does, and I swerve press about him if at all possible..
I also know nothing about him and don't post about him.

slashlover · 26/02/2021 18:43

The fact that literally none of her family were at her wedding apart from her mother tells me everything i need to know.

Woman goes NC with her toxic family, gets blasted on here for not inviting said family to her wedding.

Roussette · 26/02/2021 18:43

< groans >
Not the 'who was at the wedding' thing again.

justab0utsurviving · 26/02/2021 18:44

@TheKeatingFive

There is a middle ground between loving them and hating them . People can like them but not agree with their actions. Occasionally find them smug and some of their decisions poor. Not unlike how I feel about my older brother

wewillmeetagain · 26/02/2021 18:45

@slashlover you are actually quite close! I live just down the road from frogmore and the castle and i have two different relatives who work in very prominent positions there. Trust me when i say that staff talk!

TheKeatingFive · 26/02/2021 18:45

The fact that literally none of her family were at her wedding apart from her mother tells me everything i need to know.

About people you’ve never met..

Okaaaay then. Hmm

I mean, I have a friend who didn’t invite her father to her wedding because of years of physical abuse. But you’d have ‘everything you need to know’ from her one action apparently.

Daphnise · 26/02/2021 18:46

He can do what he likes as long as absolutely no UK taxpayers' money is given to him directly or indirectly.

He seems an empty vessel just being filled with ditzy Californian nonsense, and being taken for a massive fool by his wife.

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TheKeatingFive · 26/02/2021 18:48

People can like them but not agree with their actions

I’m more interested in the people who claim to be totally uninterested in what they have to say, they’re nothings, why is anyone giving them publicity?

Yet clearly know heaps about them and are on here constantly, giving them the ‘oxygen’ that they criticise them for apparently wanting

Sparklingbrook · 26/02/2021 18:48

He seems an empty vessel just being filled with ditzy Californian nonsense, and being taken for a massive fool by his wife

'Ditzy Californian nonsense'. Confused Such as?

ElspethFlashman · 26/02/2021 18:48

I hate this gatekeeping stuff.

You can only post about them if you're a fan, basically.

wewillmeetagain · 26/02/2021 18:49

@TheKeatingFive bit different not inviting one family member for a very good reason to literally having no family from either side there !

Sparklingbrook · 26/02/2021 18:50

@ElspethFlashman

I hate this gatekeeping stuff.

You can only post about them if you're a fan, basically.

You can post whatever you like on MN, what's the problem? it's a discussion site. Posters have different opinions nothing to do with 'gatekeeping'. If it's against Talk Guidelines and gets reported MN may delete it same as any other thread...
TheKeatingFive · 26/02/2021 18:50

She has a trail of people behind her that she has just discarded when she is done with them!

What are you basing this on?

She has clearly broken ties with her father and half sister. I don’t blame her for that.

As for anyone else, it’s just whatever small amounts of info the press could dig up. Basically zilch.

VulcanVause · 26/02/2021 18:51

Williams alleged affair - what ? Had he ? Really ?

I am amused. I think we have some royal ladies-in-waiting on here with 'I don't like her tone' and
'Her behaviour means blah blah'*
This !
I really do think that people who constantly moan about Harry and Meghan are jealous of :

  1. their money
  2. the fact that Meghan managed to marry Harry - they think she’s not worthy. Probably racism.

Just leave them alone ! I wish them all the best. Well rid of this country and it’s toxic media

LuaDipa · 26/02/2021 18:51

@BasiliskStare

OK so one comment and then no more
  1. I think H&M could have lived a life of service ( albeit not 1st in line to the throne ) so very very much they could - Harry - I think e.g. invictus games etc - brilliant) There are so many things Meghan could have done - I think
  2. I am not entirely sure that why they think they had bad press - is there evidence for this ? I think they were rather celebrated and welcomed ( especially Meghan )
  3. I think there is a difference between service and celebrity philanthropy

Well that is my point & beyond that they can do what they like in my view

Meghan had horrendous press. There was an article comparing the differing treatment of Kate and Meghan for exactly the same thing. It was an awful read, but quite apparent to anyone who was paying the slightest bit of attention.

There is, without doubt, an undercurrent of racism here. Many people don’t like Meghan, think she has led Harry - a grown man responsible for his own choices - astray, think she has delusions of grandeur. The truth is no-one knows what their true motivations are. But many are more than happy to blindly accept the narrative of the gutter press.

I don’t believe most of what I read about them any more than I believed the ‘Waity Kate’ misogynist bullshit. I truly hope that they are living the life they dreamed of.

TheKeatingFive · 26/02/2021 18:52

to literally having no family from either side there

Some people have very small families. Did that pass you by? Equally some people break with their families for good reason. I know plenty of them too.

And in fact, the guest list for the wedding was never actually published, so it’s all conjecture.

AngelicaElizaAndPeggy · 26/02/2021 18:53

@wewillmeetagain well, your relatives in 'prominent' positions will be thrilled to know that you've been revealing that they've breached their NDA's all over the internet, then.

Let's hope they're all busy fruffling the queen's scatter cushions right now and not looking through this thread and guessing who you are!

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