Meet the Other Phone. Protection built in.

Meet the Other Phone.
Protection built in.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

The royal family

Harry and Meghan Resigning - HRH No More

999 replies

TheMustressMhor · 18/01/2020 18:42

Thread Nine.

How will they react to this?

OP posts:
Thread gallery
6
annielouise · 18/01/2020 21:33

I give the marriage two more years. MM will still be a duchess when they divorce. What does she need H any more for.

JulietJanuary · 18/01/2020 21:33

Fancy Harry not realising the military might be a bit peeved.

JacquesHammer · 18/01/2020 21:34

I give the marriage two more years

Steady on Mystic Smeg

annielouise · 18/01/2020 21:39

Mark my words Jacques - you might be eating yours in two years' time Grin

JacquesHammer · 18/01/2020 21:42

Mark my words Jacques - you might be eating yours in two years' time

I have no clue whether they’ll be together. I’ve never professed to have. I’ve made comment previously that salivating over whether a couple will get divorced is very much lacking in class. Whether they get divorced or not, that point will always be correct.

FlickingVees · 18/01/2020 21:44

I hope it works out for all of them. hope the Queen is OK, and glad to hear Prince P is still amongst us.

On the surface of it I think Harry and Meghan are well matched.. as a previous poster said they’re both grifters.

I just was hoping that Harry was more than that shallow surface, you know? I guess we were all just holding our breath for him to mature... now we’re exhaling with kind of a resigned disinterest.

I also think sacking off the military thing for the Lion King was very very bad form.
People die and are injured for Queen and county, and he promised to serve... I’m glad them gave him the boot.

I’d say Meghan will want to move on quick, but will be trapped very like Wallis. My feeling is that she’ll dump him when she’s not able to pimp him out, and he’s dragging her down.

She moves very quickly... seems very reckless. However her speed must come in handy to dodge responsibilities and consequences.

Selling tea towels, and singing for your supper, eh? seems a bit of a come down for a Prince, even a halfwit Prince. I’d say the shine will go off that life pretty quickly. How many times can you dine out on how it was to lose your mother. I hope they don’t move on to selling insider stories from the RF, like that Butler guy.

I wonder who’s going to support them... it’s been very silent... not a whisper of support. neutral statement from Oprah... I wonder is that deal gone up in smoke?

if you look at it objectively, neither of them have any qualifications to actually promote climate change awareness, and with all the private jets etc they come across as hypocrites.

What do they have to offer the environmental / women’s justice community anyway.

There are many, many more qualified than them to speak, and many more who have put in the work.
it’s so patronising to think that can step off a private jet, saunter onto a stage barefoot and give a lecture: or rock up unannounced to a women’s shelter and go through the press release and approve the photos.

They’ve neither studied nor worked in these sectors..

In some ways William is far more qualified to comment on climate change and environmental issues as he did a geography degree.. he’s actually done some work on it... not just pissed about with one A level in art, or a degree in drama ffs.

I wonder if Oprah, Ellen and the like are watching the train wreck, and making plans to back quietly away from them.

I know if I was still working in the charity I was in, I’d refuse any visit... that kind of divisive visit would not be welcome... I certainly wouldn’t give MM a present, or let her merch a necklace / jewellery line for a third party using the charity as a backdrop.

Most charities follow a code of governance, and have a board of directors who will insist that a policy regarding visitors and fundraising is upheld for the best interests of the charity, and those the charity serves, and categorically not the sleb. who fancies a self promoting do-good Instagram post.

It’s all so tawdry, and cheap, and offensive.

I’m sure there’s a compound German word for this, like the mix of strange fascination, creeping unease, and repulsion you feel when watching a train wreck in slow motion.

Hubris before nemesis.

kinsss · 18/01/2020 21:44

Well that was all v interesting

This was planned when Archie Harrison was born. They are all in on it and the deal was done long ago. IMV

The resultant hoo ha was planned also. For lots of reasons. Mainly to get the public behind a slimmed down Succession a la the pics on Madges table.

We must be idiots if we don't see this..

All I can say now is that I wish them happiness.

annielouise · 18/01/2020 21:48

"salivating"! wow. And calling someone mystic smeg IS classy Hmm?

Anyone can see the signs aren't good for a long-lasting marriage. Both children of divorced parents, MM married previously, estrangement and lack of family support on her side, also a dysfunctional family on his side, they married extremely quickly after not having lived together in the same country for any length of time, the pressures of living in a new country where H in particular probably has few friends, intense media pressure, vast swathes of people seem disgusted with them right now, they'll be working together largely I expect so that will be hard, both their motives for marrying each other seem suspect. Nope, not good signs.

JulietJanuary · 18/01/2020 21:48

It's a bit of Weltschmerz in my case.

RUOK · 18/01/2020 21:48

I looked. I clicked on their website and when I read the quote from HMQ
www.royal.uk/21st-birthday-speech-21-april-1947
The gut stabbing irony of it finished me off.

I won't be clicking, engaging, supporting or buying into anything else they schlep our way from now on.

By all means retire and go plough their own furrow. I don't worry about that whatsoever, go and be happy, but absolutely don't take us for mugs. Don't pretend you're something you're not.

That's utterly shameful in the circumstances.

Nikhedonia · 18/01/2020 21:48

MM will still be a duchess when they divorce.

Is that guaranteed? Can the Queen not strip someone of "Duchess"?

BeTheRabbit · 18/01/2020 21:49

Might not use their titles but will probably still make money from them. It is not right.

JacquesHammer · 18/01/2020 21:50

both their motives for marrying each other seem suspect

😂

NumbersStation · 18/01/2020 21:51

As a person I’m not impressed.

As a veteran, I’m not impressed.

The ties I have to the military? They are voicing their displeasure.

I wish him well and good luck in his marriage. I suspect he may need it.

#classy/notclassy

annielouise · 18/01/2020 21:51

I don't know Nikhedonia but if Fergie kept the title Duchess, I don't see why Meghan wouldn't be able to. She's had a child with a prince.

I'd respect them a bit more if they gave up the titles but of course they need them to make money.

Nikhedonia · 18/01/2020 21:52

And I also cannot understand the posts about the Queen "showing them who's boss" and how she should be negotiating Brexit Confused. How exactly did the Queen do this?!

JulietJanuary · 18/01/2020 21:52

RUOK, exactly.

That quote did it for me too.
Sad.

lilmishap · 18/01/2020 21:52

Are there a few sly few digs at Harry or Meghan in HMQs statement?

"many months of conversations and more recent discussions"

HMQ was only involved in the latter lasting a couple of weeks, why mention the former?

"Two years of intense scrutiny"
Although they spent many months plotting in secret despite the intense scrutiny?

And this beauty

"I want to thank them for all their dedicated work across this country, the Commonwealth and beyond, and am particularly proud of how Meghan has so quickly become one of the family.",

So not proud of the dedicated work then?.
But thought she'd slip in a mention of the speed at which M got her feet under the table?

"support their wish for a more independent life"
I want them to Fuck Off as well.

So
I love you all, (despite you calling us toxic) Your child is my grandson don't forget that, happy for you, I want you to fuck off and you're absolutely not allowed to represent me or the Army.
I'm so certain you'll embarrass us I forbid you to use HRH. Oh and you're paying that house back as well.

It's actually more than a few sly digs

lilmishap · 18/01/2020 21:53

Bold fail. Sorry

2020BetterBeBetter · 18/01/2020 21:54

I give the marriage two more years. MM will still be a duchess when they divorce. What does she need H any more for.

I wouldn’t wish a divorce on anyone and I do hope they will have a happy future, especially for Archie.

Yes Meghan would still be able to keep the title as long as Harry is Duke of Sussex. However, it’s traditional for the second son of the monarch to be the Duke of York. If Andrew dies whilst Charles is King and Charles follows the tradition, he could rescind Harry’s current title altogether and (if divorced or to divorce) Meghan would also lose the title but Harry could then go on to be the Duke of York, which is a more prestigious dukedom. If Charles has a short reign, then who knows what William will do considering how strained their relationship is said to be. The title is rescindable by the monarch and with relations being strained, keeping it is not a forgone certainty. However, I can’t see the Royal Family ever turning it’s back on Harry so if it’s the title and prestige Meghan is after, then he always has a need for him.

thenightsky · 18/01/2020 21:55

Its like when Lennon got married to Yoko Ono and the Beatles fell apart. Grin

Nikhedonia · 18/01/2020 21:55

@lilmishap I didn't read it that way at all.

JulietJanuary · 18/01/2020 21:57

Or maybe more like Macca and Heather!

kinsss · 18/01/2020 21:58

Harry wanted out and Meghan agreed. Good on them I say.

The only way out for him was to marry a FURRENER. They planned this well and I hope they will be very happy away from the Firm.

2020BetterBeBetter · 18/01/2020 21:59

Its like when Lennon got married to Yoko Ono and the Beatles fell apart.

The Royal Family is a lot more robust than a short lived rock band! I’m fairly certain the Queen bought Harry and Meghan’s silence over any future tell alls or anything at all embarrassing in exchange for giving them an easy way out.