Harry Windsor getting upset about Peter Phillips

[WhenTheDustSettles]

Am I missing something? There is a story in the press today about Harry refusing to go to Peter Phillips's wedding, allegedly because he sold his first wedding to Hello (or OK) magazine. What am I missing here - these magazines have featured Kate and William's wedding, Sophie and Edward, Eugenie and Jack, loads of them. Including his own wedding to Meghan. I thought that's just what they do, so what's Harry's issue? Is it that Peter Phillips got paid and the rest didn't?

The excuse given by Harry is something to do with upsetting him about his girlfriend Chelsy Davy. He's supposedly so happy with Meghan, so why does anything to do with Chelsy bother him now?

For info, this is not a "royal bashing" "Meghan bashing" post. It's to get understanding of how these things work.

I'm sure there must be a thread somewhere" AIBU not to invite my husbands first cousin and wife to my wedding? They an 11 hour flight away and have 2 young children. I have never met them. They might also steal the limelight on my special day."
Equally "my fiancé's uncle has excepted but it leaving straight after the ceremony to go to the races."

This

This.

I absolutely think H would have rocked up solo if he had been invited (unless of course the elite tax payer funded security was not afforded to him). I think M would not have been seen dead attending it.

As if anyone on mn know op, I mean c'mon

i wouldn’t indulge the mail with their ridiculous stories

but it’s true that Peter Phillips was paid for the whole exclusive thing with Hello and interview etc

for other royal weddings Hello would have paid for “pool” official photos, none were their own

Why do you care?

So because it’s in the press, it has to be true 🤦‍♀️ I think you will find they were not invited as although once close like the rest of his family he’s estranged from Peter!

Harry was not invited.
Probably for all the reasons posted above, possibly because the cousins are not that close and perhaps because he actually lives too far away (and would have found it difficult to cadge a lift in a private jet).
The gutter press loves to invent stories. Look for the words likely, could and might!

It’s probably best to stop reading made up journalism. 🤷‍♀️

I don't "care" but you don't have to really care about something to be able to talk about it do you. The main point of my question was what was the difference between Peter's first wedding appearing in a celeb mag and him getting grief about it and Harry, William, Eugenie and others not. That's been answered.

I'm now also enlightened that the rest of the stuff and spurious reasons put forward on the press about Harry not going are 🐂💩.

It also doesn't mean that because I wanted to discuss what's been printed that I believe what's been printed. It was obvious that bringing Chelsey into it was a big reach.

Yes, what a complete surprise🙄 Literally no one missed the mad glut of '...I don't want this to turn into a H&M bashing thread BUT...'

The little knot of MNers who post inane crap at the mere mention of Harry and Meghan names never sleeps.

The Mail has a vendetta against most of humanity.

That is nonsense, probably came from 'a source close to'. Harry would not have refused an invitation for that reason and, at the time, nobody thought much of it. There were a few sniffs but that's all, soon forgotten.

Zara and Mike did the same for their wedding. I remember seeing the photos in the magazine. Again, no big fuss.

The cousins have always been close. By royal standards this was a fairly simple, small affair, there were probably several people who couldn't go. It looked lovely.

It really is a scurrilous rag.

I wouldn't be happy if somebody I knew sold a story of mine to the papers for personal financial gain. Would you?

I also wouldn't be happy if they were unpleasant to my ex, my friend, my partner, my parents, or anyone really. Would you?

Let me guess, was the story from a “source close to [insert]” - if so, total bollocks.

We know they ALL have their favourite royal reporters to leak to.

We know, when Harry was single, he was shagging a Daily Mail reporter and giving her info about his activities and whereabouts, we know he was inadvertently revealed as the ‘source’ for a People magazine article, when some junior copywriter revealed the ‘source’ was a personal email from Harry,. We know Meghan uses her friends as sources to get her message out nd we know she and Harry were the source for Omid Scobie book. We know Camilla’s son is a journalist and Camilla, Eugenie, Beatrice are buddies with Jeremy Clarkson.

Harry and Meghan invite journalists into their home, allow friends to speak to reporters on their behalf, have curated a long list of media friends to push whatever agenda is of the moment.

H&M and the RF have PR teams working full time for them, Claiming ‘a source’ disclosed some information is not the utter bollocks people like to think it is.

They are being sarcastic/taking the mickey!

But they also brief against each other. There are always ' rival' stories where they are trying to get one over on someone in their family by claiming something or another. The AMW stories and the house stories for a start. One person said Charles was soft of Andrew and William put his foot down, next mi ute William is calling him to sympathise because he's worried about his mental health. One minute ute Charles is paying the York girls rent then suddenly a story pips up that William is going to have a review of Royal properties when he's King. It's almost as if they have too many staff and not enough to do...

I absolutely agree.

The RF don’t have fulltime PR and communications departments for nothing, in the same way H&M have in house PR teams, based in not only the US, but also in the UK, as well as external PR companies working on their behalf. We know from Harry in Spare and his ex PR employees, their PR people are pretty much worked to the bone by H&M.

If your cousin had spent the last 5 or 6 years badmouthing your family all over social media, telly and in podcasts, then had moved to the other side of the world saying he wanted nothing more to do with the lot of you, would you invite that cousin to your wedding? Especially when you knew that attention would be on the cousin and his wife, rather than the you as the groom and your new bride?

Course you wouldn't.

the point is there Isn't a problem. it seems near improbable that Harry has said to anyone "oh we're not going cos of what he did last time". If he's felt the need to justify not going and not wanted to admit he isn't invited, I'm sure he'd just cite a lack of personal security

He can’t cite lack of personal security as the reason, because with the King, Queen and the Kings heir at the event the level of security will be the highest level any RF event demands.

I wouldn’t be surprised if he did use the privacy thing as an excuse, it also makes the point and reminds others he is not the only one who breached his family’s privacy.

I do think he wasn’t invited though.

Is this the Peter Phillips who sold his first wedding to Hello Magazine, allowed pictures to be published of Kate demonstrating that William had let her go alone to meet his family for the first time while he flew to his ex girlfriends wedding, then years later broke COVID restrictions by having an affair and travelling to meet his lover, subsequently breaking up his marriage? Although like the rest of them he probably thinks no crime is worse than leaving and inviting scrutiny on them.

This. How is this not common sense OP?
The whole wedding would have been everyone side eyeing Harry, not one eye would have been on bride/groom, so why on earth would he have been invited?