Does anyone want a thread for people who are happy for Harry and Meghan?

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Just seeing if there’s any interest. I think they have their faults but I think this may turn out to be a good thing long term. Anyone want to join in?

I hope it works out for them, glad they decided not to put up with all the shit.
I hope we can downsize the family a lot more.

The other threads are obsessive and often crazy. Apparently the people of Britain will be taking to the streets when 'she' breaks up with Harry (who they can all tell is being manipulated and torn from his loving family by that woman) and stops Archie coming to the UK!?!

Nothing much too add. I'm yet another poster who is a republican (would also like to get rid of inherited titles and to redistribute the obscene amount of wealth that those with titles often have) and has never been interested in stories about the royals.

But I have so much sympathy for Harry and Meghan. They've got their faults (as have we all) but love each other, love their son, have been treated appallingly by the press and haven't been publicly defended by their families.

I can't blame them for wanting out of the RF and out of this country.

Yeah why not. I like them, always have. I wish them well, just read what Harry said in a speech last night and was quite moved. The right decisions have been made but still it is sad that it's come to this.

I also think their situation just underlines how ridiculous the royal family is as an institution in today's world. It's a family but it's also a job, good luck trying to quit one but not the other - there are all sorts of complications as we see now with their negotiations. What other job is so invasive that even giving birth is considered a work event? Diana and Fergie found it hard enough to deal with all that, but it must be a hundred times worse now with social media. There is just no place for it in today's world.

I was just browsing some of the threads about them, in the vague hopes that they weren't as bad as I recalled. But they are.

Then I read this gem.

"These threads are like Katie Hopkins talking to herself endlessly grin"

Thank you, whoever you are.

Apparently if the Sussexes divorce and Meghan keeps Archie from Harry and Britain then people will take to the streets in protest

I think the average person of Britain doesn't care about the royals and is more worried about imminent Brexit! Which to be fair, is a far more pressing issue.

Has MN actually said why they're allowing TEN threads of vicious vitriol towards a married couple with a young baby? The level of spite and made up bullshit on those threads is appalling, especially on a parenting site. I'm actually quite disgusted it's being allowed to stand and in doing so, being encouraged. It's getting quite out of hand imo and need shutting down.

@BonnesVacances I guess they could say it's discussing current events. But I think it's possible to discuss the situation without it descending into what it's become - an excuse to have a pop at a women they've decided is a nasty piece of work because the tabloids and Blind Gossip say so.

bonnesvacances have you reported the latest live thread? if enough people do, maybe they will take it seriously? I just have, will let you know what they say.

The vitriol on here and in the press, and social media etc.. makes me wish I could just move to Canada or New Zealand.

There is the whole using them to distract the media from other members of the Family (Andrew, William etc.).

There is the Pier Morgan problem.

There is the racism. As a white person I can see it clearly, and I know I miss a lot of the more subtle stuff.

This isn't really the country I thought I lived in. A lot of MN is no longer the supportive place it used to be (it was so much nicer in the "den of vipers" days).

It is enough to make anyone a republican (except I don't really want a President unless maybe one like the Irish one with little power).
I admire the Queen, and she actually comes across as more caring in this than Charles or William. But...

I admire the Queen, and she actually comes across as more caring in this than Charles or William

More caring about Andrew, yes.

Just yesterday he walks alongside her to church. Just once could she not say to him 'look Andrew, given what you've been up to, and bearing in mind at this moment in time I want to show a supportive face to the public with H&M, it is not going to look good if you are there. It is sending out mixed messages about your behaviour and H&M'

I am also surprised Charles has not said a word.

As for the threads on here, they are quite shocking and MNHQ need to get their act together. We're not allowed to even barely say the word Madeleine yet this can go on and on. Bullying of a woman and of a family.

Yy @Rousette, in that respect HM is no different from any other enabling mother/grandmother in any other family. These men do these awful things because they know they can get away with it.

Having read last night that Meghan was supposed to have written Harry's speech and forced him into it I am left wondering why just why all the bitching, if Mn is anything to go by it's no wonder Harry says he has no option because who would want to stay here when that level of abuse is directed at the one you love and your baby is ripped apart for being "cross eyed" or "a monkey" most decent human beings would be on the next plane out of here, but as I keep saying I bet the ones slinging insults couldn't cope with that level of shite being thrown at themselves

I think what they have done is incredibly brave. Harry has taken steps to protect his family after what happened to his mother.

He says he had no choice and he is right.

I’m glad he met and fell in love with a strong woman who could stand by him and together leave with dignity and integrity.

I agree Bugged it's a very brave move. It's like breaking the mould, and someone had to do it. It was inevitable given the vile coverage she, he and them have had.

Thank heavens for a thread with some human kindness and decency.

The way this young family has been treated by the media is pure harrassment and dubiously legal, let alone just plain unkindness of an almost unbelievable extent.

Meghan wrote his speech - what bollocks is this!? Who says so? Stuff is just being concocted to have a go at them.

Why on earth would he want to stay here when his every move is scrutinised and fuel for cruel people?

Whatever happened to human decency and the British sense of fairness?

Sometimes I think I'm reading different things to other people! I read Harry's speech, thought he couldn't make it clearer that he's not a henpecked DH and this is all of his doing. Then I read that Meghan is supposed to have written his speech!

People are batshit. They really are. I cannot wait until this "feels are more important than facts" era is over and we go back to requiring evidence before we make up our minds about stuff.

Bonnes I agree . I think ppl don't bother to find evidence or even consider views that are different from whatever media feed is shouting loudest .

I notice on MN that ppl don't scroll back a few posts to see that the thread has been updated or that a question asked a million times has been answered .

Is this the way that ppl make their minds up about political issues/who to have as Prime Minister ????

I can understand them wanting out. Meghan has been treated despicably, especially by Piers Morgan.
I hope they find happiness in a new role, it won't be easy for them.

I am just so confused as my husband said that they shouldn't be part of the royal family as they are using public money and he didn't like them. Then they step down and he'd annoyed and saying they are horrible. They seem to have had no chance to win. I never disliked them and it is shocking that people around me have painted a picture of her based completely off heresay from tabloids.

It won't be easy for them
It cannot be easy now with all the hate filled vile abuse they're having spewed at tbem

I am no more “happy for them” as I would be about hearing good news about any other people that I don’t know/have no relevance in My life.
But I certainly understand their reasons for wanting to jack it in and I say good luck to them.

I do think Harry will struggle in the real world though after being used to having his every whim catered to. It will be interesting to see how he adapts, but I guess that will depend on how similar his new life is to his old life in terms of the help he’ll get - he may well love the freedom of looking after himself.

Given that Harry has gone through Sandhurst and served in Afghanistan I'm not sure why he wouldn't cope with the 'real world'.

Just out of interest, how do you report a thread, rather than a post? I just get this on the drop down, no option to report.