Thread 18?

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I go away for the weekend and thread 17 disappears

March isn’t too far away now. Will we see their return for the commonwealth service?

Have they found a new home yet?

Will they make an appearance at Beatrice’s wedding?

ha! annie I think you may have hit the nail on the head there!

Or, little old England is so small and boring, they'd be much better able to change the world with the movers and shakers in LA... have they found a house there yet?

Hahaha tiara. It just beggars belief. I read Dandy's speculation of the phases of their plan and thought surely not, but the signs are there that perhaps this was the plan all along and they thought they'd get away with it. It just makes M out to be more of a hustler than I thought and H more stupid than I thought and both more arrogant than I thought.

The thing about Harry is, his role as the sibling-to-the-future-king didn’t really have a defined path or precedent. Unlike Margaret or Andrew, he’s currently two generations away from the Monarch. In some ways that’s quite a distance. And a lot of his press attention is because he’s the son of someone famous who died in tragic circumstances leaving him motherless at a young age. Before that, he lived with a lot of press interest due to his parents’ relationship and split. He’s grown up in the media spotlight. I wouldn’t blame him if he both loathes and unconsciously craves it.

Perhaps the plan became more obvious to the RF and they pulled away emotionally from supporting them. I think H has been fed a line that you've never been happy; they [the press] killed your mom H!; look what they're doing to me and what they'll do to Archie, we have to get away; they've [your family H] done nothing to support us so sod them, we'll do it our way; we're as royal as they are, they don't have a monopoly on the world royal, especially not in the US!

Oh yes, both Dandy.

Ha just seen your post about the franchise Annie . I almost put in my phased plan that they’d be representing the RF in the US (at first). I do think they probably saw it like that, and to a small extent they would have been right.

'word royal' not 'world royal'

Yes, that's why Canada, part of the commonwealth, was an obvious stepping stone Dandy.

I also think H is impetuous, wanted to shake up/modernise the RF and is used to being indulged so didn't see anything wrong with the plan, even if it was planted by M.

World Royal would be right too though

Yes, it wasn't the worst slip-up

Sometimes autocorrect is totally Freudian.

I also wonder/think that H&M might have been fobbed off a bit by the RF/queen. "Let's just see how things pan out for a couple of months H", in other words see if the public will swallow what they wanted to do. Even if that wasn't communicated I think the queen might have allowed them to make their deals this past month to test the water and see the public's reaction. There's no blueprint for this.

@annielouise I think you're right, they envisages a McRoyal Family set up.

You’d think they’d learn from the lessons history could have taught them. They wouldn’t have had to do much research to discover the miserable and pointless existence the Duke of Windsor had post abdication - and the utter ruthlessness of the RF when it needs to batten down the hatches.

McRoyal

They might be planning ahead for future children's names though - 'Princess Royal Elizabeth' and 'Prince Michael Jackson Harrison' or something. Princess and Prince being their first names that they can monetise how them how they like.

^ lighthearted before I get jumped on

Alsohuman - I think you mean "batten down the haitches" not hatches

I think you mean "batten down the haitches" not hatches

Inspired annie!

BTW Prince Andrew is 60 today. Local councils declined to ring bells, but they did at Westminster Abbey, being very strict followers of protocol. And also because the Abbey is a "Royal Peculiar".

I'll let you draw your own conclusions...

Royal Peculiar. Hmm.

Royal Peculiar sounds like a brand of beer.

It so does.

Maybe the Royal Collection can brand and sell that, with all the profits going to an anti- human trafficking charity.

What about Sussex Royal Peculiar

Couldn’t agree more annie and dandy. I’m also starting to think Harry isn’t necessarily a nice person - we’ve imputed a lot onto him given his mother. However when I saw the way he spoke to a reporter (can’t remember where - think it was the Africa trip). And it was so condescending.