To not understand why the Duke and Duchess of Suffolk only came over for 4 days?

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I just find this really odd. To fly all that way then only stay 4 days? Surely they had other family to visit, could have made a bit of a holiday of it. I can&t imagine 2 long flights with toddlers that close together - it would be exhausting!

Probably easier to keep the children on Pacific time zone if they just come for a few days. Jet lag travelling East is hard.

If they were truly afraid of lack of protection and their security why did Meghan lower her window in the car and wave to people as they drove away from the cathedral?
She could have been attacked then if there was any real danger. Which I doubt.

They all fly long distances for short visits. In 2019 William flew to New Zealand for one night. He did not make a holiday of it.

It would be crazy for an ordinary person to fly economy and pay a lot of money to fly to New Zealand for one night. But on a private jet with amazing food and drink and some good books I can imagine it would be quite enjoyable.

YABU to start yet another goady Sussexes' thread. No-one knows their schedule and actually despite the best attempts of the tabloids and the social media trolls, I don't think anyone really cares where they are or what they do.

Why on earth do you care what a couple
of celebrities/royals does with their time and money

Exactly!

I think whatever they did would have been criticized. I am glad for the queen at least that they came because not to have would have been an insult and they are, after all, family. Moving to California may or may not have been the right thing for them to do but it's done now so they may as well get on with the rest of their lives. Which will hopefully be as private as possible.

@goldfinchfan why does Edward have security when he travelled by Tube? Why does William have security when he worked "undercover" as a Big Issue seller on the streets?

Use your imagination. At times, they a;; appear in situations as if security is not a concern. In reality, there will be security and it will have been massively risk assessed.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10882071/Harry-Meghan-met-mixture-boos-cheers.html

@DaisyQuakeJohnson I think a small minority of quite-obsessed people do. The vast majority of people could not care less.
I can see why security is important though. There are so many slight crazy people on the internet making up stories about them. From the wild ones such as that Meghan used a surrogate, to people who think they know exactly what each Royal family member is thinking or feeling.

They needed to fly back home ASAP to get back to work writing up their latest woke hypocritical nonsense about climate change and how us plebs must do our bit for the planet and give up flying and driving unless it's an absolutely essential journey such as travelling to a bookshop to buy their latest book on whatever self righteous crap they're peddling.

Can you kindly link to a few of these 'widely reported' stories?

Go watch the footage.

Don't think any "other family" would have been particularly keen to see them after their revelations.

I wonder if he met any of his Spencer relatives. They seem to got off lightly revelation-wise.

Two white-supremacist podcasters said Prince Harry should be “judicially killed for treason” for marrying Meghan Markle and called their son, 3-year-old Archie, “an abomination that should be put down,” a British court has heard.

This is a current case in a British court.

YABU and incredibly nosey & prurient. Get a life rather than speculating on the lives of strangers.

Thanks I had not realised they were cheered and booed.

Sussex, not Suffolk.

Private jets make this sort of thing easy. They were very much back stage and I’m sure conversations would have been strained. Nobody wants to be quoted on Oprah. No big photos to keep Netflix happy either. It must have been difficult.

God people seriously need to take a moment and get a life. Meghan would be blamed whether she took a week, a month, or a few days. I’m honestly shocked the war in Ukraine or cost of living crisis hasn’t been blamed on her yet. What’s killing the royal family isn’t the antichrist Meghan or her ‘puppet’ Harry it’s the pathetic over analysis and picking over minor bollocks that the rest of the world sees for what it is. And I’m sure we will see for what it is in a documentary in 10-20 years time thinking ‘wow - how did a hate campaign that stood on nothing but minor insurrections (that Kate does and is praised for but that’s by the by) trump an actual nonce in the royal family’. It’s not even that cleverly done. Sorry for the rant but it never fails to shock me how ridiculous this obsession is. Like truly get a hobby.

So how does the Frogmore Cottage thing work when they came back. I thought someone else (Beatrice or her sister) lived there?

There could be many reasons like

• Harry usually plays polo on a Sunday

-maybe they wanted to get back in time for Archie to go to school on Monday

• they always intended to leave after the birthday party and a meeting with the Queen
• they found it stressful being booed so legged it

-maybe they've been away for so long that they want to build up the length of trips until they are more enjoyable ? -maybe they generally meet in the US. We saw Eugenie at the Super Bowl with Harry and there was nothing in the press beforehand. Similarly the Cambridge family are able to go abroad and we hear about it after the face eg they went to James Middleton's wedding in the South of France.

You can track private jet flights as they are public record and you'd see that rich people take them like we takes tubes and buses- remember that Friends episode where Monica goes on a date with a billionaire and he flies her to Italy for dinner ? Having your own space and being able to fly with assistants etc is going to be much easier than wrangling young kids in economy.

Probably didn’t want to stay any longer. It’s a bit awkward after the Oprah interview. I don’t like them, but can’t blame them for not staying. There have been ridiculous critical articles about them daily since they got here. Criticised for not taking part in enough events, but if they had gone to everything they would have been accused of trying to make it all about them.

Maybe they weren't invited to any press opportunities.

I wonder if they spent time with Charles and William during their visit? It seems unlikely as they both would have been busy with jubilee celebrations.

It was Eugenie who lived in Frogmore cottage but I read a story saying she had moved to Portugal recently.