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Oprah is annoying me already.

@GoLightlyontheEarth

If course they can buy a house, but if money is an issue and the poor darlings have to do some ‘work’ to pay for their protection, why spend a sickening amount on a vast mansion in an exclusive area?

Exactly! I’m sick of the paid of them and hope they’re plain old Harry and Meghan and not the Duke and Duchess by the end of the week

Would you tell a dr to give up their career because their family was a total shite and they had to move away?

I would if the doctor was asking me to top up their salary and buy them a new house.

Right so you don’t want to pay for them, but you also don’t want them to earn a living.

I mean, come on 😂

Not sure what you mean. I didn’t say they can’t earn a living. I said they can’t expect British tax payers to pay for them to set up a new life and the security that requires when they no longer work for UK plc as it were.

Did anyone click the comment “I just love rescuing” when Oprah commented on the chickens. I mean, does she ever let up on the saintly narrative? That was a massive eye roll moment on our sofa. Who says that about themselves?

I’ve been a waitress, an actress, a princess and a duchess. Next stop beatification.

Whole thing is absurd. Slimmed down RF, they’re not going to have the glitz and ££ and titles of William, but still had more than their fair share of nasty press. Charles (I assume) doesn’t relent in the “slimmed down RF”, neither Harry (because he’s not that sharp) nor Meghan expected it to really happen to them. So they have awful press and social media whilst being told they’re going to be “less royal” than the sil they don’t much like, the older sibling, etc. About as royal as Eugenie (who Meghan knew before she even met Harry, accprding to the interview).

They move overseas, to “step down/ away/ whatever”. Charles says, well if you’re not working royals living (mostly) in the UK then you get nowt, Harry is shocked that he can be “cut off without a penny” (of unearned income), Meghan is of a mindset of not accommodating/ forgiving family, so they do a revenge interview. And of course some of it is an exaggeration or about what could have happened rather than what did happen, because they’re angry and bitter and want to “win” this public argument (all’s fair in live and war, the end justifies the means, etc).

@VanillaIce

Did anyone click the comment “I just love rescuing” when Oprah commented on the chickens. I mean, does she ever let up on the saintly narrative? That was a massive eye roll moment on our sofa. Who says that about themselves?

I’ve been a waitress, an actress, a princess and a duchess. Next stop beatification.

Absolutely hilarious. She's not exactly putting up refugees in her mansion.

Can't imagine Granny Lizzy will be rushing out to buy the new baby a waffle maker.
I would have loved to be on the sofa beside Charles, William, Kate, Queenie and Auld Phil on zoom watching that interview.

Looks like Alex Beresford nearly made Piers Morgan cry, delighted someone pulled him up, see how he handles confrontation.
Was he never taught "don't give it if you can't take it"

I call BS on the three days before wedding.

Such and obvious lie. Does she think we are stupid ? Married by the Archbishop of Canterbury, no less. 'So she called him and said, look....
...Also, Marriage certs (along with birth and death certs) are public records. So the date has been recorded. Would the Archbishop of Canterbury really have gone along with the charade ?

Two ceremonies are actually quite normal in some European countries, and it's quite possible they did this: but NOT with the Archbishop! The first ceremony is the legal one, and is quite quick and impersonal. Just the signing of the papers, the legal commitment etc.

Followed by the church ceremony which can by days, weeks, months later, without any legal registration, signing of papers, etc. It's the blessing, the exchange of vows, and is far more personal. In Germany you HAVE to have two weddings, in fact. (Or just one, the legal one.)

My daughter in Ireland also had two weddings, a quiet legal one in March, and a church one the following August. The legal one always comes first.
I think it's possible they did this, but definitely the AofC wouldn't have let himself be ordered to do it, and it wouldn't even have been possible.

I find it highly unlikely MM didn't know she had to curtsey to the Queen.
It shows total ignorance not to do your homework on such a prominent family
There is no way that she wouldn't have been given advice about protocol, it's at the heart of the RF, if not for her but to not embarrass them
PH would/will have many contacts at his finger tips to help his wife, why didn't he use them? Unless the whole 'mental health should not be swept under the carpet' was just a publicity stunt
Archie is not in line to become a Prince yet, PH would know this so where did they pluck this from? Why would he not correct her?
Now that they have announced to the world they have no security what happens ?
I liked them alot but now I'm seeing how very special and entitled they think they are
They are either in or out.
They should show some conviction and name the person who made the comment about skin colour otherwise its just heresay

Piers Morgan didn't come across well this morning. The weatherman ( I don't know his name) was only saying his piece about the interview and how Piers comes across about them. Rather than engage and admit that he maybe had a point, he stormed off!
I think he hit a nerve! The truth hurts and people like him will never admit they are wrong.
Debate is seeing all points of view , in my book anyway. Unfortunately , PM just can't.
I wish someone could sit him down and tell him that all this obsession he seems to have about her is completely irrational. I would love to just have a chat to him over a cup of tea and just say, let it drop now. Move on. See the other side of the coin? Why can't the people around him tell him to stop it?
I don't hate the man , but today he was as petulant as he accuses them of being !
I despair really :)

Looks like Alex Beresford nearly made Piers Morgan cry, delighted someone pulled him up, see how he handles confrontation.
Was he never taught "don't give it if you can't take it"

PMorgan is the most odious disgusting man. He has spent years slagging MM off, in the most awful way.
Someone calls him out on it.... and he takes 20 seconds of a it, then walks off set.

This sums it up for me from Alex...
“I understand that you don’t like Meghan Markle. You’ve made it so clear a number of times on this programme, and I understand that you had a personal relationship with Meghan Markle and she cut you off. Has she said anything about you after she cut you off? She’s entitled to cut you off if she wants to. And yet you continue to trash her.”

I am now going on to Twitter to see the well deserved roasting he is going to get. Good. He spends his life tweeting bile about her. His turn now.

@YogaInTheory

Harry has put every single one of his eggs in meghans basket. He’s burnt so many bridges now, and it was very very clear that he was not the orchestrator of that interview. He’s clearly hurt and damaged by what’s occured, but that interview was all about Meghan

I thought it was interesting that Harry was sitting in the chicken den, what was that all about? semiotically comes across like he is captured and caged. Also, the wholesome collecting of rescue chicken eggs, felt somehow symbolic. But for what?

Well Harry was trapped like one of the chickens in the battery farm that is the palace of course. Then Meghan came and freed him to live a wholesome natural life in the country. Except that battery hens don't usually spent every night getting pissed up in Mahiki and Boujis like Harry did. And he doesn't live in the country farming chickens with Meghan, they live in LA doing interviews with Oprah. But close enough!

He spends his life tweeting bile about her. His turn now. Karma He is embarrassing obnoxious and a bully.

Except that battery hens don't usually spent every night getting pissed up in Mahiki and Boujis like Harry did

So you are saying that Harry was pissed every night in clubs?

You are talking total crap and just making stuff up and it does you no favours!

Is it totally out of the realms of possibility that she wanted security for herself but then realising that she wasn’t going to get it based on her ‘position’ in the family that she then fought for at least Harry to keep his?

Not at all; that would actually make perfect sense, but then why whine on and on about something that's already been "accepted"?

I thought it was interesting that Harry was sitting in the chicken den ... semiotically comes across like he is captured and caged

A metaphor which some may well consider to be apt

BTW if anyone wants the transcript of the interview it's here - apologies for using the ridiculous Sun for a link, but for once they've made themselves useful in producing it: www.thesun.co.uk/news/14277841/meghan-markle-oprah-interview-full-transcript/

@VanillaIce

Would you tell a dr to give up their career because their family was a total shite and they had to move away?

I would if the doctor was asking me to top up their salary and buy them a new house.

I agree, especially if they were also a millionaire many times over and didn’t need to work ever again if they lived a simpler life.

Looks like the haters are supporting PM opinion on the daily fail callings for Alex B's job resignation.

The whole thing is a load of bollocks really. Ms passport may have been in safe keeping at the Palace but she was free to and see friends abroad and visit her mother.
Harry could have asked his own therapist for a recommendation for someone to help M. He could have paid for it himself. No need to ask the Palace.
The whole Prince/not Prince thing is done according to rules which are set in stone. M should have gone to speak to the Queen or Charles for clarification, but ‘H’ was left to have all the conversations which then filtered down to her. Of course Archie would have been protected whilst out with them. When he started school, he would have had protection, certainly once Charles was King. If he didn’t, they could have paid for it out of their own money as Andrew did. It would have been a lot cheaper than their lifestyle now.
The story about Kate seems to have really got to her. Did she expect the Palace to issue statements about who did not or did make each other cry? They aren’t schoolgirls. It’s embarrassing.
She seems to have no idea whatsoever about what she was taking on in the first place. If she did no research, who is at fault? She comes across as very very naive and gullible.
The story about already being married has been shown to be untrue, but no thought has been given as to how it comes across. The nation was duped and Welby embarrassed and made to look duplicitous? Bloody stupid of them to mention it at all, especially when they are being misleading.
They are living in a massive mansion, the three of them, which cost an eye watering amount. They could have bought a much smaller house in much less expensive area. Quietly got on with their lives and attempted to heal the rifts with ALL their families. Instead they are professional victims who appear to have no gratitude, Grace or dignity.
I cannot see how either of them can ever be seen with the RF again. Charles, William and the Queen must be absolutely devastated.
They are also hanging the skin colour quite over someone’s head as a bargaining chip. We don’t know the context in which it was said and the timing is different according to each of them.
The whole thing is a farce. I think they both believe their narrative, but it’s the narrative or two very immature and damaged people. Thank God they have gone now and hopefully won’t have to hear any more or their ‘poor me’ rhetoric.

Excellent post! @GoLightlyontheEarth

Why do most of my highlighted posts fail?

Would you tell a dr to give up their career because their family was a total shite and they had to move away?
Maybe if my career told me that my wife and/or kids can not be on my benefits (like health insurance) and my wife can not make her own earning to make sure my child can be on health insurance.

So much deliberate mishearing and misunderstanding of the interview. PMSL at the haters and racists this morning. They really dont see how blatant they have become, and it's wonderful.

It seems to me that Meghan has a very forceful type of personality and a strong belief that her views are the only ones that count. Harry, for whatever reasons, (brainwashed/ blinded by love and/or awe/ need to be emotionally dependent etc etc) has fully embraced her views and narrative and can only see the world through Meghan's eyes now.
It created the perfect storm and inevitably led to their ill thought out and very badly planned exit from the RF. They only have themselves to blame for it in my opinion.
Having said that, my position on Meghan is fairly neutral, and I don't dislike her. I do think that her personality is definitely not suited to be a member of the RF though. She would have been much better suited to have gone into politics.

@GoLightlyontheEarth

If course they can buy a house, but if money is an issue and the poor darlings have to do some ‘work’ to pay for their protection, why spend a sickening amount on a vast mansion in an exclusive area?

It does seem crazily excessive for a couple so obsessed with “living authentically”. I know he’s been raised royal, but Nottingham Cottage was apparently small, Meghan’s Toronto house was small, and even Frogmore Cottage was a fraction of the size of that sprawling Montecito property (estate really). If they only planned two DC, was Ben with Doria and a small staff, that is a lot of space.

EVEN with Doria and...^