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Grrrrr Prince Harry ...

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FlipHesAnnoying · 27/04/2022 15:59

When will he stop criticising the UK (fair enough you left us (thanks!), but stop with the 'oh the USA is great and UK is crap etc...' It's annoying)

And .... Remember Harry - we are NOT ALL LOADED!!! Where are we supposed to get the money for all this therapy you think we should have? The NHS is at breaking point (have you noticed? What r you doing to help?) And we can't all afford private therapy Harry ... especially not 4 years worth!! 'my therapist spoke to your therapist..' is not a reality for most of us struggling to afford heating.

Out of touch much? Yes

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FlipHesAnnoying · 27/04/2022 22:14

MyCatIsAJerk

*I’ll never understand the hatred for someone you don’t know, will never meet and who has absolutely no effect on your life whatsoever.
It’s absurd.

And only know about from what you read in the trashy tabloids. Even more absurd. And sad.*

I don't hate the guy! I said I find him annoying! I'm letting off steam on an anonymous forum. I used to like (what I believed at the time, to be the true) Harry, and always thought given his dislike of the press that if he was going to leave the UK one day, he'd disappear off somewhere quietly and keep away from the media and the limelight. That I would have respected! and that would have led to no media interviews and subsequent comments from the public.

However, Harry stated one of his main reasons for leaving the UK was press intrusion, and since he's gone he's done nothing but ensure his face and voice are constantly out there in the press.

If you keep doing interviews in the media, keep making nasty comments for the world to hear, about your family and your country of origin, then you can expect people to comment and have a reaction! If he wants people to stop commenting and reacting to him, he should pipe down and stop giving interviews and being in the media every 5 minutes!!

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ancientgran · 27/04/2022 22:14

Dr Milward taught at Aberystwyth University and tutored Charles He said,
"I wasn't in favour of him -becoming Prince of Wales. And he knew it," Dr Millward told The Sun.
"(But) in the end, I got on quite well with him and he was good to get to know.
"I found him intelligent and quite charming. We became quite close."

So a Welsh language specialist who wasn't keen on Charles becoming Prince of Wales decided he was intelligent and quite charming. He's probably a better judge than any of us on here.

TheKeatingFive · 27/04/2022 22:18

So a Welsh language specialist who wasn't keen on Charles becoming Prince of Wales decided he was intelligent and quite charming.

😂

Well of course he said that to the press.

What benefit would it be to him or anyone else to say something different?

Thats a big part of the problem for the royals. People often don't tell them the truth.

ancientgran · 27/04/2022 22:18

TheKeatingFive · 27/04/2022 22:10

Do you think that is ideal, I can't remember any teachers suggesting that packing mine off to another continent for a couple of terms during A levels would be a good idea

Given that you weren't in a position to bring a retinue of tutors with you, it's not exactly comparable.

Tutors don't mean it isn't disruptive and did he bring a retinue of tutors with him? I remember it all being in the papers back then but I can't remember anything about a retinue of tutors.

Of course you don't know if I'm actually a multi millionaire who just keeps it quiet on MN. Maybe I could have afforded a retinue of tutors. You don't actually know anything about my position just like I don't know anything about yours.

TheKeatingFive · 27/04/2022 22:22

Tutors don't mean it isn't disruptive

Best money education can buy. All the resources that he could possibly want. And he gets a B and a C.

it doesn't indicate a top class intellect, though you are of course within your rights to keep denying that to yourself if you want to.

TheKeatingFive · 27/04/2022 22:23

Of course you don't know if I'm actually a multi millionaire who just keeps it quiet on MN.

you might be, but the overwhelming likelihood is that you aren't. 🤷‍♀️

ancientgran · 27/04/2022 22:24

TheKeatingFive · 27/04/2022 22:18

So a Welsh language specialist who wasn't keen on Charles becoming Prince of Wales decided he was intelligent and quite charming.

😂

Well of course he said that to the press.

What benefit would it be to him or anyone else to say something different?

Thats a big part of the problem for the royals. People often don't tell them the truth.

Well he also said he didn't want to tutor him and wasn't proud of it, that he was forced to do it. He also said that contrary to The Crown story he never invited him home for tea and his wife wouldn't have allowed it. He was a republican and didn't attend the investiture.

Doesn't sound like a typical sycophant does he.

ancientgran · 27/04/2022 22:25

TheKeatingFive · 27/04/2022 22:23

Of course you don't know if I'm actually a multi millionaire who just keeps it quiet on MN.

you might be, but the overwhelming likelihood is that you aren't. 🤷‍♀️

You think, well maybe you are right but then again someone had to have the big lottery win didn't they.

ancientgran · 27/04/2022 22:28

TheKeatingFive · 27/04/2022 22:18

So a Welsh language specialist who wasn't keen on Charles becoming Prince of Wales decided he was intelligent and quite charming.

😂

Well of course he said that to the press.

What benefit would it be to him or anyone else to say something different?

Thats a big part of the problem for the royals. People often don't tell them the truth.

I actually think that is really disrespectful to Dr Millward who seemed to be a man who knew his own mind and wasn't afraid to say what he thought. Of course he's dead so he isn't able to defend himself.

TheKeatingFive · 27/04/2022 22:29

Doesn't sound like a typical sycophant does he.

Sycophants come in all shapes and sizes.

He may also have become fond of him and was just trying to be kind, who knows?

But fundamentally it was a throwaway comment for the press, he wasn't putting his academic reputation on the line for him there or anything.

TheKeatingFive · 27/04/2022 22:30

You think, well maybe you are right but then again someone had to have the big lottery win didn't they.

Again, statistically, overwhelmingly unlikely.

Bluerose77 · 27/04/2022 22:31

I’ll never understand the hatred for someone you don’t know, will never meet and who has absolutely no effect on your life whatsoever.
It’s absurd.

Anyone in the public eye will get discussed/criticized. We don't know any of them, nor do we have to to talk about them. But if we shouldn't criticise because we don't know them then we don't really have the right to say positive things about them.

I suppose it's one way of ending celebrity culture.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 27/04/2022 22:39

I’ll never understand the hatred for someone you don’t know, will never meet ... And only know about from what you read in the trashy tabloids

I agree with the first sentence - you can hate the behaviour but hardly the person if you don't know them - but not the bit I've bolded

After all the trashy media aren't needed to watch Harry making speeches which so often seek to make things all about him, even in situations where others might expect to be the priority

sst1234 · 27/04/2022 23:23

Is he still yapping and is the media still paying attention to this second rage excommunicated Royal?

TheKeatingFive · 27/04/2022 23:30

is the media still paying attention to this second rage excommunicated Royal?

The media still pays attention because people like the OP continue to click on the links.

If people want them to go away, then they need stop engaging. It is that simple.

UndertheCedartree · 28/04/2022 01:02

mathanxiety · 27/04/2022 20:40

@Bluerose77 yes, the entire family are shamelessly living off the fat of the land, never making a peep about the plight of millions of citizens because it's not their place to be 'political', yet the bile is all directed at him for having the temerity to state that the UK is in trouble, that the NHS is failing, and that mental health services are better elsewhere.

The little I know about mental health services in the States comes from internet forums. The women I have spoken to with similar serious mental health conditions to me, often can't afford their medications. They only ever get inpatient care for a couple of months at most. I get all my medication for free and long term inpatient care when I have needed it. Of course there are lots of issues with the NHS mental health services but honestly I'd much rather take my chances here.

queenofarles · 28/04/2022 01:13

He's trying to flog the expensive corporate therapy app that's paying him a fortune but dressing it up as being selfless and concerned
sounds like a thermomix party.

LetitiaLeghorn · 28/04/2022 03:03

BitOutOfPractice · 27/04/2022 22:13

I honestly don’t know why so many people on mn are so wound up about this. It’s so utterly irrelevant.

as for people starting threads right say so and do is out of touch…maybe have a think about the issues that really matter instead of being distracted by this meaningless tabloid fodder.

Of it's so irrelevant, why are you bothering to post about it? 🤔

Soffit · 28/04/2022 09:16

TheKeatingFive · 27/04/2022 21:12

Charles has a Cambridge degree, he's not stupid

He got a third. Which is practically unheard of. They couldn't fail him, so that classification told everyone all they needed to know.

Many Cambridge graduates would tell you that two particular Royals are openly the subject of regular piss taking at Trinity and Jesus for this very reason 😂

CathyorClaire · 28/04/2022 09:56

I honestly don’t know why so many people on mn are so wound up about this. It’s so utterly irrelevant

Thank goodness you can overcome the tedium and put them straight.

Abra1d1 · 28/04/2022 10:08

desiringonlychild2022 · 27/04/2022 19:57

I am not usually interested in the royals but i somehow feel offended by this.

Doesn't the fact that everyone and their dog uses therapy in california show that people are pretty damn unhappy in california ? What is there to boast about?

I've heard it said that the reason there is so much therapy in California is that it's set up historically and culturally as being the ultimate place on the planet to live, the ultimate aspiration. And if you make it to California and you're still not happy, where else can you go? There's just an ocean in front of you.

IcedPurple · 28/04/2022 11:05

Abra1d1 · 28/04/2022 10:08

I've heard it said that the reason there is so much therapy in California is that it's set up historically and culturally as being the ultimate place on the planet to live, the ultimate aspiration. And if you make it to California and you're still not happy, where else can you go? There's just an ocean in front of you.

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Yes, and America, California in particular, have a very 'happy clappy' culture. Enforced positivity if you like. If you're not happy all the time, then there's something wrong. Whereas in Europe, certainly in northern Europe, I think we have more of an understanding that life isn't all sunshine and avocado, and trying to make it so can do more harm than good.

queenofarles · 28/04/2022 11:19

I've heard it said that the reason there is so much therapy in California is that it's set up historically and culturally as being the ultimate place on the planet to live, the ultimate aspiration. And if you make it to California and you're still not happy, where else can you go? There's just an ocean in front of you

Medicine in the US leans towards over diagnosing mental health illnesses. The answer to anything is You need therapy , speak to someone , see someone , this is not normal ..etc.

New York is the same, you work in finance ? Oh whose your therapist ?

Harry while I do believe must have suffered after the death of his mother for many years , he actually has no idea just how lucky he was compared to so many people who went through hell after the death of a parent.
he went to the best schools, still had a home, cosseted by everyone including those aids he is criticising now. He really had the chance of experiencing a normal teen upbringing.
you can’t just be still angry and resentful after so many years , people move on, they come to peace with past and concentrate on the present.

but it seems he can’t let go , he is more angry and resentful than he ever was.

Viviennemary · 28/04/2022 11:21

I agree with nowhere else to go. Rich and living in California. Sounds idyllic. We could say oh if I had more money I'd be happy or a bigger house. Or even meet our soulmate. Harry has done all that.

ValerieCupcake · 28/04/2022 11:23

FlipHesAnnoying · 27/04/2022 16:18

He's behaving like an utter tool but I feel pity more than anything else he looks so unhappy and stressed. Quitting his RF life/job/duty has obviously been very different to how he thought. I always thought an ex pat life in Africa working with children and animals was what he wanted not this awful failure at celebrity life its like a slo mo car crash.

I agree...

He'd probably have had that if he had married someone different or not got married at all and been a lot happier. For someone who says he's happy, well I'd hate to see him look miserable.