Harry and Meghan what they’ll do next

[PelicanPie]

Let’s strive to keep on topic and not engage with posts designed to disrupt.

Since the audience are looking at him on a big screen anyway, could he not have presented it by video conference call?

Nice try, Call Me Harry, taking the train to Edinburgh instead of flying from London. But he doesn’t take the ferry across to Vancouver island - flights to and from the mainland every time.

@TheMustressMhor

May I shoulder some of that burden mustress ? Your post made my heart sink

Harry can chalk that up as a success IMO. His speech was excellent.

People used to complain that the News of the World was garbage. In actuality the majority of their stories were correct even though they got a lot of them from shady dealings ie phone hacking.

I like cake.

Harry can chalk that up as a success IMO. His speech was excellent.

I agree.

However it's a shame his message is sullied by very reasonable questions as to his credibility in delivering it as a result of recent less than judicious use of private jets and his likely high future carbon footprint as he (and his security team) travel between the U.K., Canada and US.

I caught a bit about "Just Harry" on the news this morning. It was part of an entertainment segment being presented by....
....Ben Mulroney.

Whenever I read about Ellen or Oprah getting the first interview, I wonder if Ben has ever been in the running? I assume not as he is just a Canadian entertainment news reporter, and not world famous.

I can't bear the endless self pity around the pair if them. Step away by all means but then don't keep coming back to make sure everyone knows how hard done by and resentful you are. Telling people you are superior by not using the word royal even though you could is not very superior. It's incredibly passive aggressive. No PR worth their salt would EVER advise posting such a statement up. It's so blantantly her US team who have clearly no idea. The whole thing is really irksome and juvenile. If I were HM the Queen I would have their heads chopped off or similar.

So whilst I'm not holding up the Mail as anywhere near a paragon of journalistic/editorial ethics you can't simply say what they print is automatically rubbish

It certainly has a narrow, xenophobic, misogynistic and nasty tone to its reporting. So excuse me if I roll my eyes at posters pompously stating they like to 'read widely across lots of sources' when that means they indulge their base instinct for nasty, salacious tittle tattle.

But their audience is the US, not the UK. That's where their future income will be generated. Having posted that, Americans don't like self pity, particularly not from people in the 1% of income. I doubt this is coming from their US team.

@NumbersStation

I've sent you a PM.

Roll away @TheNavigator, you've got absolutely no idea what I read. I am still looking forward to joining you on the other threads where you're discussing more important issues,if you want to point me to them.

You don't have to look to the mail though - the writing on their own website is sufficient to communicate the navel gazing, self-justified indignation coming through. Literally by their / her own hand. It's so gobsmackingly crass it's almost funny.

You don't have to look to the mail though Indeed, I would never look to the Mail for anything. I am not bothered enough to check out their website and endlessly dissect their every utterance. I think the RF is an outdated and pointless institution and don't understand the craven fawing to the queen. As far as I am concerned, H&M are no more guilty of wealth, privilege and hypocrisy that the rest of the royals so I think the particular ire they have inspired is a result of at best unpleasant and insular views and at worse mysogyny and racism.

Yet here you are, Navigator, telling everyone what they should not read, about a couple, and a family, you have no interest in.

for you Mustress

Taken from a Daily Mail article:

Meghan will appear in London with her husband for an awards ceremony for sick and injured military personnel on March 5

That seems pretty certain. I wonder how long they’ll both stay for.

If she does come for the awards ceremony (which I doubt) I will be very interested to see how she is received.

If I were HM the Queen I would have their heads chopped off or similar.

Steady on!!

FFS another thread bites the dust.

Seriously - how long can they live rent free in Canada is my question?

I don’t think anyone will boo her. Ex service personnel are on the whole a pretty polite bunch.

I really can’t blame him for the “Call me Harry” thing. It’s odd how differently people read things but I felt positive about him for the first time in ages. Amazing. I think he was pretty well received and he looks quite happy in the set up.

Sadly,though, there is the mountain of other garbage to consider and disapprove of.

It certainly has a narrow, xenophobic, misogynistic and nasty tone to its reporting.

Yes I'd agree with that.

It's not my cup of tea as I've already mentioned.

The point I was making however, is that whatever the papers editorial stance (and whether you approve or not), saying "not to give a second's credence to a single word written" implies that the paper prints outright lies and I've pointed out this this is inaccurate.

That doesn't mean anyone has to agree with the "slant" or "bias" of any story - obviously any copy on any subject can be written to "support" or not a certain position but that doesn't mean that what's written is untrue.

It's absolutely fair to say the editorial stance on H&M is unsupportive rather even "neutral".

What's an interest question (given they tend to be pro-royal in general given their right wing stance) is have they adopted this position given H&M's "betrayal" of the monarchy or because they are reflecting the views of the readership for clicks or are they inducing such anti H&M sentiment?

Possibly all three....but if you step away from the Mail I think it's fair to say that in the wider press and social media, support for the couple is lukewarm at best.

Are they still in the same house on Vancouver Island at the moment? Owned by the wealthy Russian guy?

Yes, by all accounts, they are still in the same house on Vancouver Island. I always assumed they were renting that property, not living there for free.