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Harry and Meghan biography

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sunshinesupermum · 26/04/2020 12:08

Hasn't Prince Harry learnt anything from his mother's experience of having someone write her biography 'to set the record straight'? Couldn't they have at least waited until after his grandmother's death, however long that might be?

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8257071/Meghan-Harry-biography-bombshell-Royals.html

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ArchePenguin · 30/04/2020 08:45

Biscuit it’s Catherine.

ArchePenguin · 30/04/2020 08:48

Most of the racist comments are the reader replies and they are vile.

This thread questions the behaviour of two individuals, before anyone goes off on one.

User721 · 30/04/2020 09:06

This latest story about missing the army reminds me of the War of Wales. Harry seems to be sending a message to Meghan and the public. Im sure there is trouble in paradise, if it wasn't for Archie H would be back in the UK very soon. However would he leave Archie behind? Probably not. Meghan had played a blinder getting Archie back to LA, Harry is stuck there for good now.

Archebaldpenguin · 30/04/2020 09:09

Meghan has indeed played a blinder getting Harry to California where divorce law is 50/50

Myimaginarycathasfleas · 30/04/2020 09:21

I also think trouble in paradise. But under the surface.

The biography, I predict, will be the story of their Great Love, and how they both (?) sacrificed everything to be together and follow their dream. I don't think it will be as murky as a tell all, I believe H wants to reconcile with his family, especially W, and wouldn't put that at risk.

RosesandIris · 30/04/2020 09:30

They either have an extremely strong marriage or there is bound to be trouble in paradise. They are completely isolated, in a rented house , in what is to H a completely foreign environment. They have no work, a young baby and no family support. All of Hs friends have been left behind. Plus they are being vilified on both sides of the Atlantic in general. Any marriage would be under the most incredible strain.I wouldn’t like to be the nanny in that house.

Ihavenoidewhatsgoingon · 30/04/2020 09:35

Is divorce 50 / 50 on assets earned during the marriage or on total wealth in California

Justmuddlingalong · 30/04/2020 09:37

Was there a pre nup signed?

CallmeAngelina · 30/04/2020 10:10

They either have an extremely strong marriage or there is bound to be trouble in paradise.
2 years is a bit early to say whether a marriage is strong or not. And it should still be in the honeymoon phase anyway.

LadyEloise · 30/04/2020 10:22

Picture 6 of TimeLady's Daily Mail link article, Meghan looks stunning.
She annoys me, I don't particularly like her but she is beautiful

Nikhedonia · 30/04/2020 10:55

Oh she is absolutely beautiful

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sunshinesupermum · 30/04/2020 10:57

Edward VIII was also very unhappy being cut off from Britain after he abdicated for the woman he loved.

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CallmeAngelina · 30/04/2020 11:06

And Britain (and the Royal Family) never forgave him, either.

Biscuit0110 · 30/04/2020 11:08

I find it hard to imagine how Harry could ever be happy in Hollywood, for someone that loves the army, discipline, humour and country pursuits, I see nothing there for him at all.

Was he even involved in the decision?

Meghan could have issued an ultimatum for all we know, and he has had no choice in the matter (and from the reports it sounds increasingly like he is unhappy)

I don't doubt Harry's desire to disappear from the media spotlight and raise his child in peace, but I rather imagined he would choose the African plains, Johannesburg or somewhere wild and exotic where he could follow his dreams of conservation, whilst raising a young family. This is not the life he would have chosen for Archie, for his baby to grow into a world of plastic celebrity. Hollywood is surely the sum total of everything Harry was hoping to avoid.

Sadly I think Harry has been very badly misled from the beginning, and sold a dream that was never going to happen. Meghan to her credit has played a blinder, for now, she has everything she wants.

BarleylemonPenguin · 30/04/2020 11:12

Edward VIII was also very unhappy being cut off from Britain after he abdicated for the woman he loved

...and the said woman did not want the events that transpired either. She felt that she was on a runaway train and, I am almost certain, so does M. The parallels are uncanny.

RosesandIris · 30/04/2020 11:14

Yes M has everything she wants apart from a miserable, needy husband. She also doesn’t have the dream job she thought she would land just by being associated with him.
He is in a trap with no way out. From being a well loved, down to earth member of the RF, he’s turned himself into an angry, rude and resentful man , hanging on to his wife’s hem, completely dominated , and with no meaningful role at all.

caperberries · 30/04/2020 11:21

I think Meghan was hoping to imitate Gal Gadot with her video yest, but the comparison isn't flattering IMO.

Gal is genuinely beautiful

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ajandjjmum · 30/04/2020 11:32

I think an important difference between Edward/Wallis and Harry/Meghan, is that Edward enjoyed the party lifestyle, and he and Wallis had fun in the same way with their friends. Although we now understand that she would have been happy to leave it at 'having fun'.

Harry never wanted the plastic La-la land life - he wanted the outdoor, active, conservationist life, preferably in Africa. Meghan pretended that was her ambition too, until he was snared. So I would question whether they ever actually enjoyed the same lifestyle, and he now finds himself in a position he hates.

Just my thought.....

Myimaginarycathasfleas · 30/04/2020 11:50

I agree with you in part, Roses.

I think it's too early to tell whether they have a strong marriage. They clearly love each other, but the strength of a marriage is so much more than that. They are only now being tested.

Day to day, they are probably as happy as pigs in muck, they're on permanent holiday with their baby and can spend all day playing. If they want to dabble in a bit of work all they have to do is ring up one of their charities, put in a quick video call, get their PR to tip off the media, job done for the day. What they think of as work really isn't work as the rest of us know it. Not that either of them are lazy, but much of what they do seems to fall squarely into the category of what dear Len Goodman would term "faffin' abaht"

The strain will be around what their future holds. None of their "projects" have any longevity. They need huge amounts of money to sustain the lifestyle they clearly aspire to.

As Royals, they didn't need to generate a living, they earned their keep by doing unpaid good works. I had huge hopes for them as Commonwealth ambassadors, I really thought this was going to be their role. I'm so disappointed that they stuffed up this opportunity, but I think they have.

SadOrWickedFairy · 30/04/2020 11:50

I believe they had hoped for a 'special role' within the RF and believed they could hold on to the trappings without the duty

I think a 'special role' could have been achieved, but not at the breakneck speed that events happened - the quick marriage, then a child. If they had had a longer engagement it would have allowed the time needed to map out a role for them that was different/separate to that occupied by William and Catherine, but one that didn't compete. However, no way would they have got the trappings without the duty element, that would never have been countenanced.

I also think it would have been possible to do after the marriage, again given time, but I think Harry and Meghan wouldn't compromise and wanted everything their own way, and to their timetable they called the bluff of the RF and it backfired on them. I am sure H&M thought they were so special and important that the RF would cave immediately to their demands, I don't for one minute think this was the outcome they either expected or wanted.

CallmeAngelina · 30/04/2020 12:02

I don't for one minute think this was the outcome they either expected or wanted.
I agree, as evidenced by the rather barbed remark about it that Harry put in one of his missives when they were leaving.

MrsJoshNavidi · 30/04/2020 12:32

At one time, Harry and William were so close, and the three of them did so many joint engagements, I had some sort of vision that when William becomes king the brothers would treat the role as some sort of "job share", particularly given William's expressed reluctance to take on the role when he was younger.
That's not going to happen now.

RosesandIris · 30/04/2020 12:34

I think they would have done that if H had married a different woman. I think that’s how all of them same things initially.

RosesandIris · 30/04/2020 12:34

Saw not same

RosesandIris · 30/04/2020 12:39

Day to day, they are probably as happy as pigs in muck, they're on permanent holiday with their baby and can spend all day playing.

I don’t think either of them are happy though. I think that’s the spin they’re putting on it to save face. I suspect they are bored and frustrated. From that leak yesterday, it certainly seems Harry is.