Why is Harry talking?

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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?

Given the authors, it's clearly going to be a flattering portrait of MM and PH. No doubt their victim status will be expanded upon to the nth degree.

But whereas the public had considerable sympathy towards Diana when she did her tell-all with Andrew Morton, (three in the marriage etc) the public's attitude, particularly in the UK, towards the Sussexes' whinging is likely to be completely hostile, given more recent events.

The timing of this revelation about the book by the MoS is unlikely to have been a happy coincidence either.

I doubt the Brits are the intended readers. We are just the idiots that keep them in the lifestyle to which they are accustomed.

I think H has lost his mind. He is doing all sorts of things that just 3 years ago, pre M, I would have laid sizeable bets on him NEVER doing, the book being the most obvious.

He must be bored out of his brain in that LA mansion. No friends. Nothing to do except roll around with Archie, with M and the nanny for company. The Royals are outdoor country types. I imagine C&C are loving the unexpected unscheduled prolonged stay at C's favourite place on earth, Balmoral/Birkhall. Plenty of long walks, fishing, chatting to ghillies from a safe distance, painting. His idea of bliss.
W&K have three older children to keep them busy, and can roam the Sandringham estate. Maybe they are getting the children busy with ponies. Kate loves playing tennis and they have a tennis court.
H&M can lounge by the pool, in between making sure Archie doesn't crawl into the pool or get sunburnt. Even if there is a tennis court is there any record of M ever doing anything sporty? There is literally nothing else for him to do.

That poor baby. History repeating itself.

It seems that William (same maternal loss as a child) has deliberately worked to create a ‘normal’ little family with his wife, where all Harry has gone all Hollywood.

He seems to never have been happy and is looking for something - which he won’t find in a partner that isn’t completely supportive and increasingly kind-hearted and self-sacrificing. Two large egos can’t exist in the same marriage!

However much the rent is quoted for whichever place they're staying in, it's possible they got a good deal brokered for the kudos of having gen-yoo-ine royalty living there.

Despite the fact that in "the States, you don’t grow up with the same understanding of the royal family" and people there may well "not know much about" the royal family. Ahem.

Trouble is, as they distance themselves further from the royals (as the duke and duchess of Windsor did) or, indeed, are further distanced by the royals (like Sarah Ferguson, for example) the deals will probably get less generous and more will be expected in return.

The more HAM persist with the victim narrative and staying in the spotlight at all cost, the more people go off them.

Soon they’ll reach a point when even their most rabid supporters will be eye rolling.

But whereas the public had considerable sympathy towards Diana when she did her tell-all with Andrew Morton, (three in the marriage etc) the public's attitude, particularly in the UK, towards the Sussexes' whinging is likely to be completely hostile, given more recent events.

Morton's book revealed details that were genuinely unknown before, at least to most of us proles. I remember being at work when one of the Drs came in with the Sunday Times, and we were all agog and debating the truth - none of us had previous knowledge of the bulimia for instance (although anorexia had been hinted at and could have been guessed given her extreme thinness at times).

This book will reveal what? A pile of whingeing poor me complaints. Who wants to read that?

He must be bored out of his brain in that LA mansion.

Absolutely, Fanny, for all the reasons you elucidate.

And, of course, the things that might have replaced seeing friends and family or his hobbies (although he's not allowed to hunt anymore, and I'm not sure if Meghan's given the green light to polo, in view of the alleged cruelty to the ponies on occasion), like red carpet events or addressing important meetings with his important thoughts, can't happen at present.

Apparently, he's been persuaded to give up drinking too (having been a bit of a party boy in his youth) so he can't even get pissed every now and then.

They haven't even got the day-to-day tasks of shopping for/cooking food, organising the house, WFH (properly, I mean; not just churning out the occasional publicity grabber). I read Meghan likes to cook. So do I, but I imagine it's even more fun if you don't have to do it, every day.

There's the rolling-around of course. Ooh! And yoga!

And maybe he'll catch up on his reading.

he can't even get pissed every now and then.....how long before he's paying the pool boy to sneak some contraband in?

M will go looking for him one day and find him rolling around in the garden outhouse with the staff.

I love the way the HAM book piece is now WAY down the MoS online page - well below the Sophie Wessex and Victoria Beckham stories. Someone at AN is having fun

He might be learning a new hobby or doing an online train to be a counsellor course

I see a lot of cheap online courses on wowcher advertised at the moment...

There is another article on blind gossip about a marriage in trouble.... famous actress, unemployed husband

I know from above Serenas husband sent that text - in an interview last week Serena denied knowing MM - was done in a jokey way but interesting that she didn’t just say MM is a friend and she’d rather not answer questions about her at the moment.

Has anyone mentioned the latest Blind Gossip article ?

M will go looking for him one day and find him rolling around in the garden outhouse with the staff.

Thinking about it, up until 2015, he's always had routine imposed on his life: from small child to school to army.

Since then, he's had his royal engagements and charity work, involvement with friends and family (seemingly, a previously excellent relationship with his DB and SiL) and hobbies/pursuits that were mainly physical.

Since 2018 he's had his relationship with Meghan, which must have been pretty intense during, what I quaintly call, their courting years.
Living in different countries and seeing each other infrequently makes for an intense, exciting relationship with little time for dull mundane problems to creep in. Especially, I should imagine, if it's conducted at the luxurious level of private jets and borrowed mansions.

Now, it's all gone a bit quiet and, seemingly WRT family, sour.
There's no routine & nothing much to do. Or at least, nothing much that he did previously.

It's a lot for "rolling around" to replace.

I saw that clip with Serena and Naomi Campbell and you could read it either way. It could very well be her way of refusing to be drawn into gossip about MM - whether or not they are still mates.

Someone on the public eye posted recently that Harry thrives on routine and structure, but Meghan is different and is a free spirit.
Will be interesting to see how that works out for the two of them in isolation.

Courting months, not years.

Stalking months, if certain sources are to be believed.

Haven’t read the full thread but is she pregnant? She looks it in that photo.

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Courting months, not years.

Well, yes, true.

I'm not sure how often they were actually together between meeting and marrying.

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Oooooooh (sound of penny dropping) Serena Williams is married to Alexis Ohanian?!!!

8 million a year to rent a house. They are IDIOTS.

they could buy this outright for the same price