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Why is Harry talking?

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botanicalart · 19/04/2020 17:49

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8234071/Row-Prince-Harry-claims-UKs-coronavirus-crisis-better-led-believe.html

Is there something seriously wrong with him?

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LetTheCabbagesDie · 22/04/2020 17:12

Shlee very interesting point

BalloonSlayer · 22/04/2020 20:48

I thought the text messages printed were odd, as if they were written with publication in mind. They said unnecessary things like "we have phoned you and texted you but you haven't replied or picked up." Meghan's Dad would have known that he hadn't picked up or answered the texts. So why say it? Perhaps because you need the texts as proof.

Similar was the bit about " we are sending the security people back who you turned away yesterday."

Winterlife · 22/04/2020 20:52

I don't believe any of the stuff about her being abusive tbh.

I believe it all, as it's come from various sources, at various times. Someone who is not difficult doesn't lose three staff members in a matter of months. They also aren't spoken to by HMQ herself.

Re PR - I know someone who works PR in Hollywood. He has A list clients, as well as less famous clients. He said that celebrities get "in trouble" when they do anything on social media on their own - something live (i.e., not controlled by their PR), or just posting on twitter (usually).

Winterlife · 22/04/2020 20:54

The texts to Thomas Markle - I assume he didn't answer them because he was in hospital having surgery after a heart attack.

Similar was the bit about " we are sending the security people back who you turned away yesterday."

Which was texted just after "We don't know where you are."

Those two aren't exactly brain surgeons, are they?

RosesandIris · 22/04/2020 20:54

I don’t understand why Harry needed to text a man he’d never met. It was for Meghan to text her father not Harry. Why is he intervening at all?

OVienna · 22/04/2020 20:57

Her father's a nut job. I think H and M have gone totally rogue and am of the 'critical' view as will be seen in previous threads. But they can be misguided and self-centred and have behaved utterly and relentlessly inappropriately in pursuit of their current weird lifestyle goals. AND he can nevertheless be a nut job that would give anyone pause for concern under many circumstances, let alone thrusting into view through your marriage to a member of the RF. I am sure Meghan had sleepless nights and I'd stake my mortgage on the fact a patten of concerning behaviour was shaping up in the run up to the wedding. One thing I really admire Meghan for is that she could hold it together on the wedding day, despite all that went on beforehand. It is humiliating to have one family member there and it not work out for your dad to be, with Prince Charles walking you down the aisle. (For this reason, and the grace they showed her, I also resent the criticism that has been leveled at them, so unfair.) Superficially it seems obvious M and H could have planned it better but I wonder if he's super stubborn and wasn't having it. And it became a question of what would be worse - him turning up and doing gawd knows what.Or being criticised for not facilitating it.

I am not on her side with the court case as I don't believe that letter was leaked or the friends speaking to People did so w/o her consent. But I do believe the father is a loose canon and she didn't manage it well. They misjudged how to manage him perhaps.

OVienna · 22/04/2020 20:58

I am basing this on the interview he did earlier in the year where he said things like: They'd better start talking to me....or else.

custardbear · 22/04/2020 20:59

Has Harry ... or Archie for that matter, ever met Thomas Markle?

RosesandIris · 22/04/2020 21:00

No. As has been mentioned numerous times!

OVienna · 22/04/2020 21:01

And admitted getting paid for interviews that included content about her.

SirVixofVixHall · 22/04/2020 21:01

No Harry has never met him, so I am sure he has never seen his grandson.

Winterlife · 22/04/2020 21:13

I don't think Thomas Markle is a nut job. I think he's selfish, in a way, and proves the adage that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

OVienna · 22/04/2020 21:18

I think he is but I do agree the "apple doesn't fall from the tree". Thst can be true as well.

RosesandIris · 22/04/2020 21:22

They certainly seem a strange family. Complex. I still wonder why M chose to live with him for most of her childhood instead of her mother. I read somewhere that Doria had a boyfriend for a long period. Perhaps she’s didnt like him.

Bluntness100 · 22/04/2020 21:58

I don’t think he’s a nut job ether, I think he’s a man who is hugely out of his depth.

OVienna · 22/04/2020 22:00

I found his comments in the interview very sinister.

Zug2 · 22/04/2020 22:06

Her father and her half sister have shown themselves to be horrible, horrible people, who really do not care for their daughter and sister ! Meg, Harry and Archie are well rid of them !

The text messages released this week, show that they both did try for a truce prior to the wedding, I think they are lucky he wasn't there, I get the feeling TM just couldn't face it as he knew he would have been a fish out of water. I still feel for her and the humiliation and name calling she suffered at the hands of her family.

StartupRepair · 22/04/2020 22:06

It was part of the whole unseemly rush to the altar, imo. I could not imagine anyone I know, in any normal average family, choosing to spend their life with someone without meeting their parents. Bizarre. It's not as if they could not afford the airfare or could not get time off work. They could have easily slipped away for a few days in Mexico. Now every detail of this family breakdown is in the press. The Queen must be hating it.

RosesandIris · 22/04/2020 22:10

I don’t think he’s a nut job ether, I think he’s a man who is hugely out of his depth.

I think so too.

RosesandIris · 22/04/2020 22:12

Has anyone read the Blind Gossip piece?

Winterlife · 22/04/2020 22:12

The text messages were very self serving.

Who sends a text message asking “What hospital are you at?”

TimeLady · 22/04/2020 22:15

I don't think he's a nut job. I think he was (is) hurt and angry and it's perfectly understandable.

I can imagine my dad's reaction if I'd expected him to walk me down the aisle to a man he'd never met. Or ditto my DH's when my DD married. That's the crux of the matter, imo.

OVienna · 22/04/2020 22:15

Rose no. I'll seek it.

SirVixofVixHall · 22/04/2020 22:16

Yes, very strange to have never met him , given that he was supposedly coming to the wedding, so not totally estranged. Marrying anyone without meeting their parents is odd enough, (unless there has been an understandable ending of the parent/child relationship). Marrying into the RF is a whole other layer of difficulty, so needed careful consideration, over time.
I agree with pp that the texts are written clearly with the expectation that they will be published.

ShleeAnKree · 22/04/2020 22:18

Same as the letter!

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