Archewell to replace Sussex Royal

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--www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/apr/07/harry-and-meghan-to-launch-new-charitable-outfit--

I am really not sure about this. They "felt compelled" to share how the name came about and to announce their new venture but they're not releasing details because they want the focus to remain on the Covid crisis?

This is a mess. Full of contradiction. I finally admit that they have lost their way.

What always confuses me with Harry is why he just couldn’t have stayed in the Army. He liked it. Appeared happy. We never heard about his other issues because he was immersed in his job. All his problems surfaced when he didn’t have much of a role. The age old issue for the “spare”. Having a job you love is great therapy and without it, he’s pretty much walked into a disaster.

He couldn’t stay in the Army because his location was leaked to the Press and compromised his fellow soldiers. He was offered a desk job but turned it down. He was devastated to have to leave.

Well he didn’t need to be on active service all the time. So only active service was an issue regarding location. The Army has all sorts of roles. It didn’t seem properly considered or all possibilities explored. The palace wanted him to do Royal duties which he didn’t really want. I would have thought that him keeping a job and being royal would be better then this mess.

Just a thought on the name Archie vs Rachel anagram. I know a Rachel who's name gets shortened to Rachie. 🤷🏼‍♀️

If you’re going for silent letters, remove the R and the L, you get ache.... just saying...

Totally agree they’re paying mega loads for PR and doing their own thing. Bet their team are thoroughly fed up.

Apparently he left the army to concentrate his royal duties:

www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1131837/prince-harry-news-the-queen-meghan-markle-royal-family-latest-army-job

How ironic.

concentrate on

And what a splendid job he did of that

Yes. That was my point. He didn’t really want that life did he? Royal duties were an expectation not his choice. He really needed to stay in the Army with a role that suited him. Being a Royal with a loosely defined role wasn’t good enough but then Andrew should have taught them this.

Yep. Ironic as I said.

I just don’t think he could
Continue to be on active service as the security implications were too difficult. He didn’t want an admin job. He was very bitter about that.

I don’t know much about the army but I think there’s a middle ground between fighting and paper pushing?

I’m sure there’s a lot of tactical/strategic stuff that requires a combination of planning, field visits, meeting servicemen at all levels etc

The archewellfoundation.com address no longer takes you straight to YouTube. I wonder who has dealt with that and how much it cost them

A pretty penny to sort that out, I imagine. I linked the actual video upthread.

What was the YouTube video about?

Goldigga.

"I don’t know much about the army but I think there’s a middle ground between fighting and paper pushing?"

Not really - you are severely career limited if you are not fully deployable (whatever the reason). Yes you might rotate through desk jobs, but it'll always be back to fully operational. And senior desk jobs will not be assigned to individuals without recent operational and command experience.

"I'm sure there’s a lot of tactical/strategic stuff that requires a combination of planning, field visits"

Yes, those are the desk jobs mentioned above.

"meeting servicemen at all levels etc"

Yes, there is a welfare structure, but that's pretty localised and usually a fairly junior role. Other visits tend to be by senior commanders - ie those in operational jobs, who will have spent much of their careers in operational jobs.

It’s not always a junior role. I know a very high ranking officer who heads up such efforts. Harry was only a Captain! This guy is waaaay above that. Also we don’t just have roles in Afghanistan and hot spots. We have pulled out of Afghanistan haven’t we so there must be roles for the Army not on active service abroad. I still think all options were not looked at because the palace wanted him to do Royal duties. Not because there wasn’t a better role for him in the Army.

You might ask what’s the point of being in the Army if you cannot do he full role anyway?

Most of the time, desk jobs go to older/more senior people (at least in the Navy which is my family experience). But for H, a desk job would have been the obvious solution - reduced risk, easier security, still able to support the troops etc. To have declined, at his age and given the security considerations, seems to have been a rash move. The military need the desk people just as much as the frontline ones IMO.

The Army has desk jobs at all sorts of levels. Having a staff job is often seen as a necessary evil. And the more senior ones require substantial operational command experience to be considered for appointment.

(Backroom function desk jobs have nearly all been civilianised; only those which really have to be done by the military remain, and they are military only because recent ops experience is needed).

Their PR team will most likely have said to wait before they announce the new name to avoid looking like insensitive twats, but no! M&H thought Archewell trumps people loosing loved ones, their jobs and possibly their lives.

People really liked them and they have fucked that up. They just needed to do nothing and take the money. How hard could that be?

They just needed to do nothing and take the money. How hard could that be?

So true. They probably can't even remember themselves what it was all for.

Harry really didn’t know how ordinary people live. Really no idea. Of course, he’s not alone in that.