Harry & Meghan - to hope the Royals answer back?

[DontReallyCareBut]

I think the allegations in the Oprah interview are serious enough that protocol should be breached and the Royals should have a voice to give their side too.

"Whilst some recollections may vary" - you two can't even get your own bloody story straight and the version we have differs entirely so how's about we talk to each other like adults rather eh?

I expect (if it wasn't already) that all future communications with H&M will be exceptionally careful. They're going to start looking really silly if they keep trying to "tell their truth" - they've already done the book, now the interview - without having something new to add. The royals will be doing the minimum to give them any further ammunition.

I thought 'while some recollections may vary' was British for 'you big fat liar'.

Me too! Anything else would have added further gossip and scandal. Excellent statement from the palace imo.

I still want to know where Doria was between when Meghan was 11 and went to college.

@StatisticallyChallenged

"Whilst some recollections may vary" - you two can't even get your own bloody story straight and the version we have differs entirely so how's about we talk to each other like adults rather eh?

I expect (if it wasn't already) that all future communications with H&M will be exceptionally careful. They're going to start looking really silly if they keep trying to "tell their truth" - they've already done the book, now the interview - without having something new to add. The royals will be doing the minimum to give them any further ammunition.

Puts a new perspective on why Charles stopped taking Harry’s calls and asked him to put everything in writing instead, doesn’t it?

I am now wondering if H and M will issue another snippy statement.

I think the RF should investigate who said this and what was said and then come out and deal with it. So, say for example XXWhoeverXXX said it, make it public, given an interview, and offer a genuine apology. That way H&M can not hold the RF to ransom and it will be laid bare and then move on from it.

If they don't do this eventually Harry will tell all. He is basically blackmailing the RF by withholding this info, so let's take the wind out of his sails and deal with it.

Tell us what happened and then the British public can deal with it and move on.

Line of succession - they may boot him off that who knows. I doubt it.

Probably not, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a specific Regency Act written up (this is especially likely if William comes to the throne before G is 18 but might even be done anyway as a precaution) to ensure H wouldn't be the regent if George became king before he turns 18. I bet they'll also be taking travel precautions more seriously, I would expect to see the Cambridges travelling separately more often.

Wonder if anyone asked Kate to have another kid yet, just to be on the safe side

I think now is the time to put this to bed.

No more Harry and Meghan stories in the press.

Let them live the life they want. Sadly for them, I think their celebrity will soon wane if the UK public/ press show no interest in them.

*Megan is just as white as she is black. She's 50/50.

Actually, her mum, Doria, is from a mixed-race heritage.*

Puts a new perspective on why Charles stopped taking Harry’s calls and asked him to put everything in writing instead, doesn’t it?

Wouldn't surprise me. Also takes the heat out of things - far easier to be calm and make your points in writing.

I read "recollections may vary" as "we don't want to call you out as liars in front of the whole world". The whole statement is much like a parent who, while their child is screaming "I hate you!" in the supermarket, calmly says "Well I love you, so let's move away from all these people and try to calm down".

A very dignified statement from the Palace. I'm glad they made a short statement and that was all. I especially love the some recollections may vary, a bit like saying, well it's not how we remember it but you can say that. I don't think they'll do anything further and i hope they don't either. That's all the response needed.

I’m not surprised Charles didn’t take his calls. I’d be amazed if he took them now - worried that they’d be blabbed to Oprah.

I think HM can remove the Sussex titles but it would require an act of parliament to remove Harry’s Prince title . It may well happen if they keep spouting off.

@StatisticallyChallenged

Puts a new perspective on why Charles stopped taking Harry’s calls and asked him to put everything in writing instead, doesn’t it?

Wouldn't surprise me. Also takes the heat out of things - far easier to be calm and make your points in writing.

I agree it makes a lot of sense to do things ins writing. It's exactly the sort of advice somone on here would have given as it not only ensures you have proof but as you said it also gives time to consider the response and makes sure nothing is said in the heat of the moment.

@Same4Walls

A listers are savvy people, they won't like to be too close to people so thin skinned who run their mouths off to the world for exposure.

That's a very interesting point. I don't suspect its occured to them that most people they would want to associate with in America will probably go nowhere near them for fear of every comment being misinterpreted or used as ammo against them in future.

Exactly. If both of them treat their families like that, publicly, they are not going to be trusted by anyone now.

Very good point indeed.

Just to go back to Thomas Markle for a moment.
Someone linked to this article the other day, and Meghan wrote very warmly about her father.
Re her racial heritage, she recalled wanting a doll set as a child, but they only came in either white or black. Her father bought both sets, and amalgamated them so that she had the black mum, the white dad and one black and one white child.
Similarly, when she was filling in a form and stuck as to what box to tick for her ethnicity as there wasn't one for bi-racial kids, she left it blank. Her father later told her if she came across it again, to make her own box.
I loved those anecdotes.

Also takes the heat out of things - far easier to be calm and make your points in writing.

Yup. And it’s exactly the advice that someone on here would be given if their well-off adult child was calling up angry that they weren’t being given money.

It is a shame when families fall apart though. Especially when done in a way which makes reconciliation nigh on impossible.

No to both the de-titling and the public inquiry. The first plays into the victim tit-for-tat narrative, pouring oil on the fire. The second is a governmental mechanism (so funded by the public) for investigating issues of serious public concern. It's wholly inappropriate for picking over personal 'truths' or circumventing a workplace investigation into bullying allegations.

I think the RF should investigate who said this and what was said and then come out and deal with it. So, say for example XXWhoeverXXX said it, make it public, given an interview, and offer a genuine apology. That way H&M can not hold the RF to ransom and it will be laid bare and then move on from it

Not going to happen and there'd probably be no point anyway
It's pretty clear from the Oprah performance that H&M favour insinuations above actual proof, so even if the RF "dealt with it publicly" what's to stop them making a few more?

Frankly I'd pay no more attention to unsubstantiated allegations than I would an anonymous letter - especially when they're laced with inconsistencies - and sometimes, for the recipient, it can be a case of the less said the better

@VanillaIce

I’d love to rummage through the waste paper basket to read the early drafts....

Oh, same!

I did not see it Octane when she said that they had concerns, what concerns were they? Were the concerns identified?