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Harry suing the home office

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TooEarlyForMe · 18/03/2022 15:11

Does he realise where the money they would have to pay him if he was successful in suing, would come from?

The British public

Thanks Harry.

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Ownedbymycats · 19/03/2022 01:36

The police force is a finite resource which we're often very vocal in criticising for it's shortcomings. Thankfully the police force resources cannot be purchased in the way Harry has requested. He's a private citizen now and presumably doesn't need to visit the UK.

girlmom21 · 19/03/2022 01:53

He became a target the minute he married a WOC.

Oh bollocks. Nobody cares about her skin colour. Its their attitudes that are the problem.

Migrainesbythedozen · 19/03/2022 01:54

@girlmom21

He became a target the minute he married a WOC.

Oh bollocks. Nobody cares about her skin colour. Its their attitudes that are the problem.

@girlmom21 That is a very ignorant comment considering the racist abuse Meghan experienced. Seriously how are we still at the point that we are denying the blatant obvious??
merrymelodies · 19/03/2022 02:22

He and his wife are addicted to money and attention. Why can't they keep a low profile?

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Migrainesbythedozen · 19/03/2022 05:30

@Billandben444 Can we just give the WOC bit a rest.

No, we can't, and us WOC won't. Because you are invalidating us and the reason why Meghan and Harry had to leave the UK thus all the hatred that followed. It is central to the entire discussion.

You know I understand if people don't like Harry and Meghan, but denying the very essence of the harassment and hate that led to them leaving the UK is not helpful to anyone or the discussion because denying it is an insult to all of us who have experienced racism.

Migrainesbythedozen · 19/03/2022 05:33

@Billandben444 Sorry, I forgot to say that if people didn't ignore the very reason the harassment of them started, we wouldn't need to keep inserting it. It's the posters who say they 'copped a bit of abuse, so what?' that really show why it needs to be repeated and inserted ad nauseam until people stop denying it. It is central to the entire drama. And it's so disheartening to see the amount of posters denying that racism was a major issue. If there wasn't this culture of denial on here, we wouldn't need to keep repeating it.

cherrycokr · 19/03/2022 05:52

He wouldn’t be if he’d just shut the fuck up.

How would that placate the right wing crazies who think he's a race traitor?

custardbear · 19/03/2022 05:59

He's actually making himself a target, he should have done what the 'said' they'd do, not bugger off, cream off their titles and his name, make tsunami type waves and turn around and expect others to pick up their bill.
Stay away, or just arrive and visit your relatives where there is security anyway, don't be touting for business in the UK, in reality over the last few years you're frankly become a disgrace to your family and the majority of the British public

cherrycokr · 19/03/2022 06:03

I think Harry is hugely classist and he's not interested in the 'little people'.

Why would you think any royals cares about the little people?

cherrycokr · 19/03/2022 06:38

I do feel very sorry for the Queen, she should be celebrating this year but there's the Andrew episode, now Charles's charity has the police investigation re cash for honours & Williams tour hasn't got off to a great start plus he's Earthshot initiative has funding from the Sultan who is a P&O executive & then Harry. That all adds up to a ton of bad press.

DesertStorms · 19/03/2022 08:05

I didn’t see any racism towards M apart from at the very beginning from one paper which I didn’t read. I’m not on SM. What I saw was an awful lot of good will and a hope that Harry would be happy. The RF did things for her that they hadn’t for other Royal brides. They really tried to help and include her. Instead of acknowledging that, she made a point of insisting they were already married and didn’t want the huge wedding she had invited lots of celebrities to, many of whom she hardly knew.
Harry has shown himself up to be spoilt, petulant and greedy. He’s been breathtaking in his disregard for the feelings of his family. He never looks happy these days, and all these legal suits he keeps firing off at every opportunity make him ridiculous. If he doesn’t want to make himself a target for crazies, why doesn’t he quietly live his life out of the spotlight ? Because he wants lots of money! He can’t have it both ways.

If he seemed happy and stopped all the negativity we would all be delighted for him. Instead, he scowls and complains all the time, or seems to be sucking up to people who will give him money. His timing and tone are completely insensitive .

His grandmother and father are elderly. His niece and nephews are growing up not knowing him. The important thing is famiiy .He only has his wife and children now. He’s cut himself off from all he knew and loved once, and that won’t make him happy long term.

ajandjjmum · 19/03/2022 08:05

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Princess Anne doesn't get it and she literally had to fight off a kidnapper.
At the time that happened, she was second in line to the throne.
ajandjjmum · 19/03/2022 08:06

*Apologies - fourth - after her three brothers. (She should have been second though! Grin)

ajandjjmum · 19/03/2022 08:38

[quote Migrainesbythedozen]@theemperorhasnoclothes He isn't suing for extra cash. He's suing for the right to spend his own cash.[/quote]
On something that's not for sale.

HRTQueen · 19/03/2022 09:17

No one cares about her skin colour Hmm

Yeah right. Many do not like the idea of a non white person being married into the royal family and one who comes from a completely different background too and American. How many comments have I read (and on here) he would have been much happier with his ex blah blah she would have fitted in better Hmm

TatianaBis · 19/03/2022 09:27

Not only is she not white, she’s not posh, she’s not British, she’s been married before and she’s an actress to boot!

If Harry had married a posh blonde, how different things would have been.

TheHoptimist · 19/03/2022 09:33

@girlmom21

He became a target the minute he married a WOC.

Oh bollocks. Nobody cares about her skin colour. Its their attitudes that are the problem.

Isn’t that the racist mantra ? I’m not a racist. It isn’t about colour but the person?
MushroomCow99 · 19/03/2022 09:35

Think it's time they just abolished this joke of a family.
When the queen dies, they should die out too. It's so medieval.

girlmom21 · 19/03/2022 09:36

@TheHoptimist but he's getting as much flack now as she is, because they're acting like tossers.

I don't dispute some people were racist initially and didn't like the idea of anyone who wasn't white in the royal family - but that's not most peoples issue.

I probably shouldn't have said nobody cares but for most people the issue isn't her skin colour

Blossomtoes · 19/03/2022 09:40

@TatianaBis

Not only is she not white, she’s not posh, she’s not British, she’s been married before and she’s an actress to boot!

If Harry had married a posh blonde, how different things would have been.

Would they? That went well for his father.
HRTQueen · 19/03/2022 09:58

The press absolutely adored Diana at first. It was their intrusion and the restrictions of living as a royal having every moment of her life controlled that she rebelled against that turned the inner royal circle and the press against her

The press hounded her to her death. Harry doesn’t want the same for him of his family is that so hard to understand and for him to what his wife and children. We shouldn’t even need to have the conversation about racism but it’s there so it shouldn’t be ignored

His life will never ever be free because of who he is and the interest still in Diana intensifies this (there is still huge number of articles about her 25 years in from her death)

Surely in the very least owed to him after what he went through is the safety for him and his family when they visit after the tragedy he went through that we all publicly witnessed.

Didn’t the press agree to back off what happened to that pact

pleasehelpwi3 · 19/03/2022 10:10

So much hatred because one man married a ‘loud black girl.’

Puzzledandpissedoff · 19/03/2022 10:19

the utter gall to say the UK security services who, as someone else has pointed out, have not 'lost' any visting big wigs recently so have a pretty impressive track record, are wrong and he - with his copious lack of security service experience - is right

That was me, and I see that nobody's yet commented on why Harry perceives a problem when it's been made clear that he'll still get protection if a need's been professionally identified

And why do posters keep saying "He offered to pay for it" like some sort of truism, when the high court have been told that this was "notably not advanced to Ravec" when he visited for the statue unveiling?
It's true that he said this later, but who knows that this wasn't just another twist in the account to shore up his position?