Harry & Meghan 14

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A thread for those who wish to discuss what's in the news and what your take on it is.

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I can see why Thomas feels miffed. Doria and Harry are very close. Harry is paying Doria’s rent . Doria is an involved grandmother. He’s been written out of the family history.
I should think the last thing Meghan is interested in is becoming a British citizen now. She makes no bones about not liking Britain at all anyway.
It really does rankle that they seem to be biting the hand that feeds them. They are supported by British taxpayers money yet they live in another country, and are about to give a tell all interview and trade on their names as ex Royals. Their security costs millions of pounds yet when it suits her, Meghan gets photographed , keeping herself in the papers. All the while bleating about their need for privacy. Yet M’s ‘friends’ talk to the press at every opportunity.
It makes me sick.

Plus there will be no more ‘official’ photos of Archie I assume now. That to the poster up thread who mentioned it.

Just catching up with the thread. Some random thoughts...

It’s also what a few of us think - Meghan wasn’t prepared enough.

Harry did say in their engagement interview that he’d warned her about what she was getting into, but I suppose nothing can truly prepare you for what it’s like to join the RF at the speed in which she did. Having said that, Meghan is a woman in her late 30s with a lot of life experience behind her. Diana was just over half her age when she joined the RF - so I think Meghan had it easier in that sense. Kate and Wills’ approach was the ideal but they had the luxury of time on their side.

I can see why H&M wanted to get on with marriage as quickly as possible, as they obviously both wanted a child. But although I really admired their “hit the ground running” approach that they mentioned in the interview, perhaps in hindsight it was a case of too much, too soon.

The piece on Doria in the Daily Mail mentions that Doria, Thomas Markle and Meghan all spent Thanksgiving together in 2016, shortly after Meghan started dating Harry. So Meghan and her father were close until relatively recently. Like I say though, this was from the Daily Mail so no idea if it’s true or not.

I’m at how sensitive some posters are being on these threads. If I want to scroll on by and not engage with you then I absolutely will - as per MNHQ’s own advice in the previous thread.

Happy Sunday y’all!

7Worfs

I think they both wanted to get married. I think they both brought a great deal to the table and they both desperately wanted to lock it down and were BOTH terrified that if the other found out too much then they wouldn't go through with it. Both played all the issues and potential problems down and sprinted down the aisle.

Also completely agree. Also about Harry’s downward trajectory. He isn’t going to have any male friends out there of the sort he is friendly with now. No ex military, hunting shooting fishing types . Just M’s stylist type friends with whom he has nothing at all in common.

I am feeling increasingly frustrated with the situation. Initially I thought she’d be a breath of fresh air and they’d get young people to support the RF. Now though I agree wither the above sentiment that they are biting the hand that feeds them and in my view if they’re not here, working for UK tax payers, all funding should be entirely cut. I am including support from PC in that as ultimately even his duchy income is equitable to tax revenue. Security costs I would be okay with a transition period but if they want a quiet, private lifestyle the costs should greatly reduce anyway and to be truly financially independent they must pay for these.

Sunset yes no more official ones, but I don’t doubt that we will now see much more of him...

When M was first married and had fallen out with her father, I read that Doria was being used as a piggy in the middle to pass on letters etc. I assume that’s how Thomas received the letter from M which was published.
He spoke very warmly about her in the interview.

Reading the vanity fair article also made me wonder how Doria felt when Harry made the ‘family she never had’ comment. I can imagine how furious my own mother would be! Yet Harry has apparently always known they were close and immediately bonded with Doria- doesn’t add up.

I get the impression that Harry is not the type to carefully read every word on his own website. He seems umm the broad picture type rather than an eye for detail.

I really don't like the milk for free phrase - whenever I have heard it - well it isn't referring to getting paid for an honest day's work. This is what I meant by I am not sure exactly what the DM is trying to imply but it isn't nice.

Yes, also the duchy is for the Prince of Wales and the primogeniture line, not specifically for Charles.

I look at the RF individuals more as caretakers until they pass responsibilities to the next one, so bleeding duchy wealth into paying LA rents for no gain to the U.K. people is not on in my book.

That comment certainly isn’t the sort of comment you’d expect from an ex social worker is it?
Certainly a strange motto for a humanitarian to take on board too.
Something isn’t adding up..

I wonder if Charles knows Doria’s rent is being paid for out of funds he supplies...

The secrecy about ownership of the Vancouver Island property is concerning. I read these is a law planned for this year in Canada which will effectively make the ownership transparent. I hope this is the case.
Ownership could be very important from a safety and security point of view. I wonder whether our security services know who owns the property?

Didn't William buy or pay towards the Middleton's latest house?

Don’t get me started on self-aggrandising language... anyone styling themselves as ‘humanitarian’ is more transactional than altruistic in their charity.

Sunset this is exactly my concern, it all doesn’t compute and makes me feel very wary as to their true intentions, and pretty mugged off as a taxpayer that I’m supporting them!

That would be strange if he did, the Middletons are millionaires! I did read that somewhere though, you’re right diddl.

Where are we reading about Doria and her rent?

I can't find the article.

TIA!

The owner is going to want something in return, as someone upthread mentioned. There no such thing as a free lunch. Or free milk...
It all smacks of Andrew’s shenanigans doesn’t it! Very uncomfortable.

Yes, this mansion can now be marketed as ‘previously occupied by HRH so and so, property so lovely it convinced them to leave the RF and move in’.

And that’s the least unsavoury spin on it!

I wouldn't be surprised if that happened with the Middletons to be honest. Their current house was a very big upgrade.

cynically placemarking

Encyclo - it is lead article on the DM website.

So Meghan has an Aunt Sondra on her mum’s side. and two Uncles on her Dads side. Yet none of them were at the wedding .