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To think Meghan Markle has every right to worry about her security?

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Hardware252525252525 · 20/08/2026 22:07

I’m not a monarchist and haven’t really taken much notice of the whole saga, but obviously do know the main points.

However, the comments across Mumsnet and multiple newspapers and websites are absolutely insane and unhinged. People who don’t know them insisting she’s leaving Harry and the kids, is controlling him, that they’re skint and tge
kids will have to go to state school if Charles doesn’t pay, people saying they hope a random stranger sees her and gives her ‘some home truths’.

It is absolutely crackers and I worry about the sanity of the people who seem to really believe they know them.

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Hardware252525252525 · Today 16:21

moonraker0 · Today 16:15

Harry is not a celebrity.

As long as the British taxpayer is funding anything (£500k for electric prison vans in Albania for example) then they should get a say in it and have the right to an opinion. Unfortunately for Harry & Meghan that includes their security if we end up paying for it.

There’s no reason at all to believe the public tax bill is changing.

And of course he’s a celebrity.

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Swiftie1878 · Today 16:21

Besidemyselfwithworry · Today 16:19

This????
they change their minds every 2 mins and people are bored with it all at a guess?

South Park nailed it.

Hardware252525252525 · Today 16:23

Benjithedog · Today 16:17

And yet another poster using mental health as a tool to insult others. It’s so childish and playground stuff. Do grow up dear as this look is most unbecoming.

I apologise to all of those people who’ve been diagnosed as barking mad and are therefore insulted.

But there is something wrong mentally with people who get obsessed with celebrities to such a degree.

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Hardware252525252525 · Today 16:24

Swiftie1878 · Today 16:17

They said that the British public is racist and that is why she had such a hard time here and they had to leave.
She’s batshit.

It is totally normal that people should be angry with them. The fact you don’t get it doesn’t make it ‘unhinged’. It just means you haven’t been listening.

They have never said that the British public is racist. You’re angry about things that haven’t happened.

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Hardware252525252525 · Today 16:25

Besidemyselfwithworry · Today 16:19

This????
they change their minds every 2 mins and people are bored with it all at a guess?

It’s easily avoided though.

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Swiftie1878 · Today 16:25

Hardware252525252525 · Today 16:24

They have never said that the British public is racist. You’re angry about things that haven’t happened.

Yes, they have. Again, you haven’t been paying attention.

Hardware252525252525 · Today 16:25

Swiftie1878 · Today 16:21

Then THEY need to pay for it.

Which they are.

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ShedShedShed · Today 16:26

Swiftie1878 · Today 16:25

Yes, they have. Again, you haven’t been paying attention.

Show us the quotes please

Hardware252525252525 · Today 16:27

Swiftie1878 · Today 16:25

Yes, they have. Again, you haven’t been paying attention.

Could you direct me to where they’ve said this?

I’ve tried to find it myself, but can only see accusations of racism against the British press (and arguably unnamed members of the Royal Family). I can’t see anywhere that they’ve accused the British public of being racist?

Although plenty of them are.

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Besidemyselfwithworry · Today 16:27

Hardware252525252525 · Today 16:25

It’s easily avoided though.

Absolutely
they’ll be selling their sorry again soon
we went back to the uk and were rejected so we’ve come back to the USA
that’ll be next
after the king has bank rolled them no doubt
I’m sure it’s all engineered

EmeraldShamrock000 · Today 16:27

💯 if or when one of the family is hurt, you’ll have the 1000’s of people who are encouraging the hate offering sympathy online.
The Daily mail should be band from hounding them without a current or relevant news source over the daily obsessive BS.

Benjithedog · Today 16:29

Hardware252525252525 · Today 16:23

I apologise to all of those people who’ve been diagnosed as barking mad and are therefore insulted.

But there is something wrong mentally with people who get obsessed with celebrities to such a degree.

And you aren’t one suppose? Also using mental heath as a weapon against others indicates your inability to argue a point without resorting to childish insults. It’s pathetic and it reflects on you and only you.

moonraker0 · Today 16:30

Hardware252525252525 · Today 16:21

There’s no reason at all to believe the public tax bill is changing.

And of course he’s a celebrity.

It’s not about it changing. It’s about prioritising where it goes and two rich adults with no proper jobs who flunked out of being working royals shouldn’t be a priority when hospitals, schools and public services are underfunded.

Hardware252525252525 · Today 16:31

Benjithedog · Today 16:29

And you aren’t one suppose? Also using mental heath as a weapon against others indicates your inability to argue a point without resorting to childish insults. It’s pathetic and it reflects on you and only you.

I’m mildly interested in celebrity gossip, yes. Love a bit of drama. So I clicked on the Harry and Meghan thread, and it was utterly insane. Properly batshit. As were comments on the newspaper stories. Hence the thread.

Hope this helps.

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Benjithedog · Today 16:31

Hardware252525252525 · Today 16:08

Although they clearly need it given the insanity of some of the public when it comes to them.

If so then they pay for it or they remain in America where they also pay for it. It really isn’t that difficult
is it?

Hardware252525252525 · Today 16:31

Besidemyselfwithworry · Today 16:27

Absolutely
they’ll be selling their sorry again soon
we went back to the uk and were rejected so we’ve come back to the USA
that’ll be next
after the king has bank rolled them no doubt
I’m sure it’s all engineered

It doesn’t make any difference to us though.

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Hardware252525252525 · Today 16:32

EmeraldShamrock000 · Today 16:27

💯 if or when one of the family is hurt, you’ll have the 1000’s of people who are encouraging the hate offering sympathy online.
The Daily mail should be band from hounding them without a current or relevant news source over the daily obsessive BS.

It would be Diana all over again.

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Hardware252525252525 · Today 16:32

moonraker0 · Today 16:30

It’s not about it changing. It’s about prioritising where it goes and two rich adults with no proper jobs who flunked out of being working royals shouldn’t be a priority when hospitals, schools and public services are underfunded.

Yes, taxes should only be spent on the good royals who sponge properly.

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Hardware252525252525 · Today 16:33

Benjithedog · Today 16:31

If so then they pay for it or they remain in America where they also pay for it. It really isn’t that difficult
is it?

No one is suggesting anything different. They are paying for it.

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Benjithedog · Today 16:37

Hardware252525252525 · Today 16:31

I’m mildly interested in celebrity gossip, yes. Love a bit of drama. So I clicked on the Harry and Meghan thread, and it was utterly insane. Properly batshit. As were comments on the newspaper stories. Hence the thread.

Hope this helps.

Well it doesn’t help you and you seem to be getting a bit hysterical about two people you don’t know and you are the one calling others mentally ill or unhinged. Why don’t you calm down and come back with an argument that doesn’t rely on insults and maybe people will take you seriously.

Benjithedog · Today 16:38

Hardware252525252525 · Today 16:33

No one is suggesting anything different. They are paying for it.

Well that’s good then isn’t it. Everyone’s a winner.🏅

moonraker0 · Today 16:41

Hardware252525252525 · Today 16:32

Yes, taxes should only be spent on the good royals who sponge properly.

Which is exactly why we don’t pay for Andrew anymore and rightly so. You also might want to change your title, as Meghan said herself it’s Sussex now not Markle.

Superhansrantowindsor · Today 16:41

Harry should have security and so should his family. He didn’t ask to be the king’s son.
I read Spare. A lot of the stupidity associated with them both is actually due to Harry imo. He has the biggest chip on his shoulder but she gets all the blame.
They are both hypocrites though.

KittyTinker · Today 16:43

Hardware252525252525 · Today 16:03

Anyone of the British public who has been upset by celebrities they have never met needs to get a serious grip of themselves.

This is a very strange thing to say, I’m absolutely not grouping H&M in with these but I really wish that people had paid more attention to celebrities like Jimmy Savile and Garry Glitter who were hiding in plain sight. By the way I haven’t met either of them but I do feel I can have an opinion on them.

Hardware252525252525 · Today 16:46

Benjithedog · Today 16:37

Well it doesn’t help you and you seem to be getting a bit hysterical about two people you don’t know and you are the one calling others mentally ill or unhinged. Why don’t you calm down and come back with an argument that doesn’t rely on insults and maybe people will take you seriously.

Nice bit of misogyny. Which, I suspect, is also a large part of the Meghan hatred.

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