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To think that Harry and Megan's return to the UK has everything to do with money running out?

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TheBlueKoala · 20/08/2026 08:19

That really. I mean it's not like they are loved here whether it comes to family or the public. I think Harry might genuinly want to live in England whereas his wife is looking for the attention and money.

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iwishitwouldstartraining · Yesterday 11:46

NerrSnerr · Yesterday 11:38

I’d love to know what happens behind closed doors and who are the ‘real baddies’ (although I suspect that all of them are terrible people behind the scenes). You don’t need to know the truth when you read these threads through as so many people genuinely believe the fantasies they make up in their head is the truth and they 100% believe their reality is real.

I love it when posters say they’re definitely not influenced by the media, but are clearly influenced by the equally delusional tiktokers and the like. Utter madness.

I can’t remember if people were this bonkers about the royals in the 90s when there was all the Charles and Camilla drama.

I think many people assumed that Charles would never become King and that if he wanted to marry Camilla he would have to go and live abroad.

iwishitwouldstartraining · Yesterday 11:48

AnitaCam · Yesterday 11:45

Maybe you are clutching at straws in an attempt at power play?

It's an anonymous forum, so I don't know how a power play would work, but I do think you might benefit from reading up on British history. The British Royal Family were going 'NC' with each other long before people talked about 'going NC'. It helps when you have lots of houses.

TheignT · Yesterday 11:50

NerrSnerr · Yesterday 11:38

I’d love to know what happens behind closed doors and who are the ‘real baddies’ (although I suspect that all of them are terrible people behind the scenes). You don’t need to know the truth when you read these threads through as so many people genuinely believe the fantasies they make up in their head is the truth and they 100% believe their reality is real.

I love it when posters say they’re definitely not influenced by the media, but are clearly influenced by the equally delusional tiktokers and the like. Utter madness.

I can’t remember if people were this bonkers about the royals in the 90s when there was all the Charles and Camilla drama.

They were certainly bonkers about Diana. The people demanding William and Harry were returned to London so the nutters could express their distress to two kids have a lot to answer for.

NerrSnerr · Yesterday 11:52

iwishitwouldstartraining · Yesterday 11:46

I think many people assumed that Charles would never become King and that if he wanted to marry Camilla he would have to go and live abroad.

I remember lots of questions about what would happen if he married Camilla but did people pretend (or delusional believe) that they know exactly what they were all thinking?

TheignT · Yesterday 11:52

iwishitwouldstartraining · Yesterday 11:48

It's an anonymous forum, so I don't know how a power play would work, but I do think you might benefit from reading up on British history. The British Royal Family were going 'NC' with each other long before people talked about 'going NC'. It helps when you have lots of houses.

Did any of them do books about it. I suppose going on TV wasn't available to many.

NerrSnerr · Yesterday 11:53

TheignT · Yesterday 11:50

They were certainly bonkers about Diana. The people demanding William and Harry were returned to London so the nutters could express their distress to two kids have a lot to answer for.

Oh god yes. Lots of madness at that time. I guess I was focusing more about the people nowadays who seem to genuinely believe they know what all the royals are thinking and what happens behind closed doors.

x2boys · Yesterday 11:54

GunnelVallquist · Yesterday 11:35

Surprised they haven’t been blamed for Charles’ and Kate’s cancer.

Some posters tried to by saying the stress of them leaving might hsve been a factor.

GunnelVallquist · Yesterday 11:55

x2boys · Yesterday 11:54

Some posters tried to by saying the stress of them leaving might hsve been a factor.

Says a lot about those people.

Desperatelyseekinglazysusan · Yesterday 11:56

Gowlett · 20/08/2026 08:41

I always remember Meghan saying that she didn’t want to view the house initially as she knew it was out of their league. Next thing, they owned it. Who lent them the money?

I think she was signing up for a certain lifestyle & didn’t understand what the RF is about. The baby shower was a definite turning point for the Queen, with Princess Kardashian.

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I don't know how people can still cite The Queen as an arbiter of anything. She had her head In the sand about her family for decades. Not only refusing to discipline her 'favourite child' but refusing to allow anyone else to discipline him, paying off his victim, silencing police officers and civil servants and passing the whole shit show onto her eldest son after consistently ignoring him and his concerns. But when it comes to baby showers and coloured nail polish, she was on it like a hawk, stamping out that bad behaviour!

Theunamedcat · Yesterday 11:58

GunnelVallquist · Yesterday 11:18

I’m not a supporter of any monarchy, I think it’s an antiquated institution myself, but surely nobody can think that Andrew for instance is more deserving of security than Harry and his wife and children?

If its based on threats chances are Andrew does have more threats than harry i wouldn't say he "deserves" it morally but im not judge and jury am I

Desperatelyseekinglazysusan · Yesterday 11:59

Apart from Charles, Diana, Fergie, Anne, Margaret...
Hopefully Harry won't resort to murder!

TheignT · Yesterday 12:08

Theunamedcat · Yesterday 11:58

If its based on threats chances are Andrew does have more threats than harry i wouldn't say he "deserves" it morally but im not judge and jury am I

Probably more that he needs it although given what Harry said about killing Talibans id think it's a tough choice.

iwishitwouldstartraining · Yesterday 12:12

TheignT · Yesterday 11:52

Did any of them do books about it. I suppose going on TV wasn't available to many.

Diana and Charles certainly provided information to people who wrote books and they each did TV interviews. I don't think Harry's book revealed anything more embarrassing?

iwishitwouldstartraining · Yesterday 12:16

NerrSnerr · Yesterday 11:52

I remember lots of questions about what would happen if he married Camilla but did people pretend (or delusional believe) that they know exactly what they were all thinking?

did people pretend (or delusional believe) that they know exactly what they were all thinking?

Yes - otherwise there would be nothing to write about.

x2boys · Yesterday 12:16

iwishitwouldstartraining · Yesterday 12:12

Diana and Charles certainly provided information to people who wrote books and they each did TV interviews. I don't think Harry's book revealed anything more embarrassing?

Diana did the infamous " there were three of us in marriage" inerview
And i think Charles also did one where he admitted to cheating once his marrisge had broken down.

OnlyUsername · Yesterday 12:19

@TheignT I'm just providing background on the two actresses. I'm still not sure what it's got to do with your age.

TheignT · Yesterday 12:21

iwishitwouldstartraining · Yesterday 12:12

Diana and Charles certainly provided information to people who wrote books and they each did TV interviews. I don't think Harry's book revealed anything more embarrassing?

I haven't read the book. I did see the Charles and Diana interviews and I don't think they dished dirt on other people, it was about each from what I remember. Diana did make allegations but I don't think she identified people from what I remember other than Camilla. I don't remember Charles commenting on the men Diana was rumoured to be involved with. It's a long time ago so maybe they did.

The things I thought were bad from quotes I've seen about the book were comments about the disabled woman at his school who I assume would be easily identified and the woman he had sex with, I think it was in a field behind a pub or something like that. She definitely was identified. I can't understand why he would embarrass people like that unless he thinks people like that don't matter.

Didn't he also make some comments on William losing his hair. Karmas got him on that one.

TheignT · Yesterday 12:25

OnlyUsername · Yesterday 12:19

@TheignT I'm just providing background on the two actresses. I'm still not sure what it's got to do with your age.

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Well I imagine younger people might be interested in them and their films. I'm not the only one whose never heard of them. It sounded like we were supposed to know them, maybe be impressed that Meghan was going to be in a film with them.

I'm actually allowed to say I've never heard of hem, it's not compulsory.

Whaleandsnail6 · Yesterday 12:25

TheignT · Yesterday 12:21

I haven't read the book. I did see the Charles and Diana interviews and I don't think they dished dirt on other people, it was about each from what I remember. Diana did make allegations but I don't think she identified people from what I remember other than Camilla. I don't remember Charles commenting on the men Diana was rumoured to be involved with. It's a long time ago so maybe they did.

The things I thought were bad from quotes I've seen about the book were comments about the disabled woman at his school who I assume would be easily identified and the woman he had sex with, I think it was in a field behind a pub or something like that. She definitely was identified. I can't understand why he would embarrass people like that unless he thinks people like that don't matter.

Didn't he also make some comments on William losing his hair. Karmas got him on that one.

Harry also blatantly lied in Spare to hammer his "poor me" narrative home...he lied that he was alone at boarding school when the queen mother died and that he was told by staff, which just simply wasn't true. He was on holiday with his father and brother.

Wouldn't trust his recollection or version of things tbh since that was such an easy thing to fact check.

x2boys · Yesterday 12:39

Whaleandsnail6 · Yesterday 12:25

Harry also blatantly lied in Spare to hammer his "poor me" narrative home...he lied that he was alone at boarding school when the queen mother died and that he was told by staff, which just simply wasn't true. He was on holiday with his father and brother.

Wouldn't trust his recollection or version of things tbh since that was such an easy thing to fact check.

Msybe he got confused with Princess Margaret who died just sixweeks before her mother ?
I mean why would he deliberatley lie sbout something like that?

ChickenNuggetDreamland · Yesterday 12:41

I honestly couldn’t give a flying fcuk and am totally baffled as to why people waste their headspace over it.

Portakalkedi · Yesterday 15:24

selfloveandselfrespect · Yesterday 01:43

Yes, i find it weird too. I mean, what have they actually done to deserve all the hate. Just wierd..

For the 27 billionth time, why do you people think it's hatred? Nobody cares enough to hate them. What many do feel is derision, amusement, the feel of watching a car crash, which sadly is human nature. People who go around showing off and seeking attention while whinging about privacy (only their own of course) will always attract gossip and fascination in seeing what their next wrong step will be, particularly when they flounced off in spectacular fashion and now come crawling back here - even though it's apparently too dangerous, unlike say, Colombia.

simpsonthecat · Yesterday 15:39

If it isn't hate, I don't know what it is. 28,000 posts on a numbered thread about Harry and Meghan on here sure isn't anything but dislike. Salivating about their next wrong step isn't affection is it? Why care enough

I honestly don't get it. They are annoying and irritating at times but they are hardly mass murderers.

There is a multi million $ industry around hating them. Books, media, podcasts, articles, youtube channels on and on and on.

x2boys · Yesterday 16:36

Portakalkedi · Yesterday 15:24

For the 27 billionth time, why do you people think it's hatred? Nobody cares enough to hate them. What many do feel is derision, amusement, the feel of watching a car crash, which sadly is human nature. People who go around showing off and seeking attention while whinging about privacy (only their own of course) will always attract gossip and fascination in seeing what their next wrong step will be, particularly when they flounced off in spectacular fashion and now come crawling back here - even though it's apparently too dangerous, unlike say, Colombia.

The eleventy billion threads about them suggest otherwise...

MeetMeOnTheCorner · Yesterday 16:56

Dislike is not hate. Hate has a legal definition. Disliking their attitude and the way they conduct themselves is not hate.