Harry and Meghan and Doria car accident?

[OneFrenchEgg]

Just heard this on the radio, does anyone have an actual source? Can't see it anywhere yet, I'm sure that is what I heard, assume not 'serious' as in risk to them?

Book and talk fodder for them for the next few years.

Oh behave. No one is ill wishing them. They are fine.

People here are just asking sensible questions, like; why give up their security detail to get in a cab and why not call the police when it was clear that they were being pursued, rather than driving around for two hours?

Also, how can you have a car chase in NYC traffic? Surely someone would have noticed and it would have been all over the news last night!

maybe it's fake news, I doubt it's attention seeking 🙄

Ok so according to the telegraph

The paps chased them in their vehicle, they stopped at a police station
Left there in a cab as hoping they would not be seen
Pursued again
Went to another police station
Finally got home to where they were staying
Paps very reckless throughout

I assume they didn't want their location to be known but 2 hour car chase it's not
Persecution it absolutely is though

Maybe the UK wasn't that bad after all

Why would there be any possible need for a 2 hour car chase to avoid a photo of the two of them with her mum, which they'd posed for earlier that day.?

Obviously I understand they don't want to be papped, but was there really no where safe to stop in 2 hours?

The news was released by their own spokesperson.

Why would you or your driver keep driving, recklessly to the point of near-collisions, for two hours?
That's just stupid and incredibly risky to others.

I don't think they had one?

So absolutely nothing happened then. Still, let's not let that get in the way of a story they can dine out for years on.

Yes it was Omid Scobie who first tweeted about it. I don’t see anyone wishing anything bad to happen to anyone but it seems like a healthy degree of scepticism is in order!

In a statement, the prince's spokesperson said the "relentless pursuit" lasted for over two hours.

^From BBC link earlier.

So I don't see how it be fake news if it's come from Harry spokesperson.

I dont really get this. Why not stay in your blacked out vehicle and be driven safely home? Why make it into a chase, jumping into taxies and so on? Seems reckless.

I didn't think of this!! I'm even more dubious about the whole thing now...

I didn't realise Omid was an official spokesperson?

Apparently they leapt out of the SUV into a passing taxi to put the paparazzi off the trail and get safely home….🤔

It just sounds like attention-seeking bollox to me.

BBC have update their on-line article which now has this at the end:

Earlier this week, a lawyer representing Prince Harry told a London court that he should be allowed to challenge a government decision that denied him the ability to pay for police protection while in the UK.

There were a lot of photogs at the event. However, that included the Backgrid paps who are well know paid for paps- Kim K uses them to get flattering pap shots. If they were there then someone asked them to be there.

Paparazzi shouldn’t be chasing people. However, it is beyond me why they would get into a cab instead of waiting for a police escort.

@frankgu

Didn’t he claim in court this week not to know either of them socially and to just be a royal reporter (so no vested interest in helping Harry win his case).

It's not about wishing ill on anyone, it's about taking with a pinch of salt a story emanating from someone who has already proved themselves to have a somewhat...on-off relationship with the truth. It's all very convenient so far, isn't it: an event guaranteed to throw up echoes of his mother's untimely demise just at a time he's in a wrangle over his security; no evidence available (in the phone camera age of 2023? In one of the busiest - and often grid-locked! - cities in the entire world?) apart from a photo which, oh guess what, they're not going to release for reasons; the inexplicability of them being in a bog-standard yellow NYC cab rather than the SUV they arrived in...none of it really adds up, does it?

Yeah tone is weird

Let's not be cynical 😄there may be perfectly good reasons for all of those factors, of course...

Does no one feel just a little bit sceptical as the news was released by Harry's 'spokesperson'?

Followed for two hours?
'Near collisions'

Why didn't their driver pull over/ off the road somewhere?

And, is it any surprise to any of them that if you court attention, the press will be involved?

Recklessly endangering the lives of members of the public - absolutely disgusting behaviour.

Exactly