Harry and Meghan (and the Electric Car Market)

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…… with an occasional look at wild garlic.

Thanks to MrsHuggett for the thread title.

This is Thread Ten, unbelievably.

@MaisWeee Some of these posters are here from the first thread. Shining the torch. Some side tracking food talk is alway's allowed.

Or tomorrow or next week

He's leaving later in the week I read after some more 'meetings'. I wonder what all the meetings are about.
I thought his statement was a little bit pass agg-but hey ho-off they go then-it will be interesting to see what they do next (one assumes not much as they are going for a peaceful life).

I wonder if Edward will be secretly thrilled-he might now be plucked out of obscurity and given some fetes to open!

Harry's speech glossed over the most important thing to have brought them to this point, which was their inability to work within the existing framework of the monarchy as an institution.

If they were committed to service, as he says, they might have done better not to undermine and butt heads with the institution they were trying to serve.

In adult life Edward was far down the pecking order, Diana had her sons while he was a student, then fergie turned up. Poor Edward lacked glamour. Back in the eighties the Kents were also busy, the Duke, Prince and Princess Michael, and Princess Alexandra, plus the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret appeared a bit.
So while there might have been too many royals, they now seem to need a few extra.
Or to take Princess Michael out of mothballs.

I would like to meet Anne, she's only a few years older than me, but seemingly has 100x more energy!

imaginary cat YES. Service means sublimination...

I wonder if Edward will be secretly thrilled-he might now be plucked out of obscurity and given some fetes to open! That made me laugh!!

Actually speaking of Princess Michael; the Kents are pretty poor.
(Well compared to other Royals) They had to sell their country house in order to pay a commercial rent for their apartment in Kensington Palace.

Which ones are the Kents?

Is there someone called Princess Michael?

From The Express:

'After King Edward VIII abdicated he was exiled to France to live with his lover Wallis Simpson but was determined to keep eating like a Royal, flying his breakfast in from England every single day.'

'The fish was supplied by the luxury grocer Fortnum and Mason, a favourite of the Queen'.

"They were craster kippers from Northumberland – very heavily smoked, very very oaky."

Not very environmentally friendly. He did this during the abdication crisis. I'm sure it included wild garlic, goes well with fish.

I suspect Harry will be going back tonight, but the article above points out that the royals have always historically had expensive eating habits, and it's to be questioned if a drop in food standards is something H will also have to deal with (after all he used to hunt for grouse) and whether it will be the straw that breaks the camels back.

Note I've stayed on topic

Prince Michael of Kent and Princess Michael of Kent (he is first cousin to the Queen)

Oh just googled and she's very goodlooking! Who did she marry then? Or how is he related?

Princess Michael of Kent was the one that wore a blackamoor brooch on her first meeting with Meghan and later apologised for not realising she had caused racial offence.

So a son of the fella who abdicated?

No the abdicator and Wallis were childless.
Not sure who Kent's dad or mum was.

Poor Edward lacked glamour. It's seems service and duty are considered more glamorous these days...

Princess Michael of Kent. Was it intentional? Apparently she had the brooch for a long time and had worn it before. It would have been a really stupid thing for her to do. But then I don't know much about the Kents.

It's a very shitty thing to do on purpose.

There was a Duke of Kent, who was killed during the war. He was the youngest brother of King Edward VIII (Duke of Windsor) and George VI, the Queen’s father.
He had 2 sons, the current Duke of Kent, his brother, Prince Michael and a daughter, Princess Alexandra of Kent.

There was also a 4 th brother, the Duke of Gloucester. His Heir, died young, so the second son (a Trained Architect) became the current Duke of Gloucester.

Prince Michael is the son of Prince George Duke of Kent, a younger son of George V.

MaisWee - no he is a descendant of George V son. I have added a family tree for clarity

www.townandcountrymag.com/society/a20736482/british-royal-family-tree/

Prince Michael of Kent's father was Prince George, Duke of Kent. He was the brother of George VI & Edward VIII, so The Queen's Uncle.

Princess Michael has form for being racist
Her father was revealed to have been a Nazi officer.

sorry SerenDippity I cross posted!

Will they need to remove their HRH from the website.
I can picture Meghan counting the views on their website.
I've probably added 50 views since it was launched.