Harry’s podcast

[smilesy]

Carrying on the discussion about Harry’s podcast.

[Ocsetldil]

Wowsers.

[ShamedBySiri]

I don't understand how any of what he is doing is making him a better parent. His child has no contact with any of the wider family on either side (except the maternal grandmother). They seem very concerned about a title for his child and yet surely the best thing he could do would be to do as Anne did and gift commoner status (ie no title) to his children. Especially as surely there is no point in having a title if they are living in the USA and are USA citizens. Meanwhile living in the USA where every other person has a gun, worrying about security - how can he say he can go out and about feeling a little more free, taking Archie on the back of his bike (followed by security in a gas guzzling car)?

I was thinking recently how some wealthy people manage to keep very private - no doubt the wealth helps, and it's quite possible if that is what one wants. For example, I'm a tennis fan, follow various players and tennis news on Twitter, great fan of Andy Murray. I was quite surprised to read recently he and Kim have just had a fourth baby - I didn't know they'd had a third! They stay totally under the radar. And JKRowling - her children are, I believe, about 27, 17 & 15. I haven't a clue what any of them are up to, the eldest presumably went to university and has a job now, the younger two at school. I can't recall reading anything about them in the press.
Even Madonna's children - I occasionally see pictures of Lourdes and there was a custody problem with her son, but for the most part they seem to go under the radar.
It's perfectly possible if you don't court publicity.

Then there is the issue of security. Personally I would HATE to live in a country with no gun laws.

When I was a student nurse, a lonnngggg time ago, I worked on a very strict ward, one didn't speak to the sister or staff nurses unless spoken to. One of the staff nurses went on a trip to Hollywood and California for her holiday. When she came back she gave us a blow by blow account of her trip, as us students sat there silently listening () and ended with the memorable words "and we even saw someone shot"!! I cannot think why I didn't ask a string of questions, starting with "did you run for cover or did you give first aid?" but I was so surprised none of us said anything!

Anyway, if one is concerned for the safety and privacy of one's child, I believe it can be far better achieved here in the U.K.
And if H&M had wanted to settle into a Cotswold estate like Anne's Gatcombe and more or less retire from the RF, maybe just doing the odd big occasion, living quietly in between, I doubt anyone would have begrudged them that, and they could have had security and privacy quite easily.

[Puzzledandpissedoff]

I see we remembered the same thing, nimbuscloud

In fairness to Harry I don't doubt there was a lot of pain in his childhood - with a family as dysfunctional as his it could hardly be otherwise - but I just wonder why he keeps yapping publicly
As a PP said, there's a difference between sweeping things under the carpet and dealing with them privately, but that requires judgement and he doesn't appear to have any

[CallmeHendricks]

@nimbuscloud

Keep your hair on!
Is it not also widely accepted that Andrew was the Queens favourite?

Only by the same sort of people.

[ShamedBySiri]

How they had that ‘ princess talk’ how toe curling. Did they rob it from Sarah Ferguson’s new mills and boon offering

It's too funny. I'm imagining M dressed up in one of those dresses from the Disney store, complete with a tiara from Claire's accessories whilst delivering that little homily.

[GabsAlot]

i wish hed fuck off with his pity party-so much for we just want to be normal and have some privacy

[Lauren15]

If he wanted out of the RF in his 20s, why did he quit the army because of the demands of his RF role. Hmmm....

[merrymelody]

Washing dirty linen in public has never been admirable.

[TheSuezCanalTugBoat]

Harry is still young and blinded by love. I think he will come to regret creating this circus in a few years time.

I hope the royal family leave the door open for him and Meghan. We all make mistakes, and we were all young and stupid once.

[phodopus]

This advert with this thread did make me laugh!

[RaspberryRoyale88]

He’s not a silly teenager. He’s a grown man in his thirties. I’ve no love for the Royal family but watching them both air their linen in public is just so tacky.

[LittleBearPad]

It's too funny. I'm imagining M dressed up in one of those dresses from the Disney store, complete with a tiara from Claire's accessories whilst delivering that little homily.

An Ariel costume naturally... because she got her voice back!

[supermoonrising]

No such thing as royalty they all do smelly poopy poos just like you

[Gothichouse40]

Let me get this right. His grandfather is not long deceased, his grandmother and the rest of the family are still in mourning. So he does a podcast with more of the same as was said in the television interview. This from the man that said he took his wife and child to the USA to avoid the media, and obtain the privacy they crave. Am I missing something here? It's like they have never left the UK. We are still getting this circus sideshow. The queen can well do without this cr*p.

[BlackCatShadow]

Are they popular in the US? Whenever I read comments about them on US websites, they are way more savage than anything I’ve seen on UK sites. I mean really really harsh.

I think it’s possible he’s a narcissist. They probably have enough money to live a quiet and happy life in Montecito, but I feel that they thrive off the attention.

[CallmeHendricks]

If Harry was telling the truth about having been told he was unhinged and needed help and to go somewhere to get it, then how come Meghan was told she couldn't?

[friendlycat]

This whole charade is now getting beyond ridiculous frankly. The pair of them seem to be tone deaf to their own hypocrisy. Surely even the Americans are going to get bored of all this whining pretty soon. And let’s face it nobody there would care less about them if they didn’t have their royal connections which just makes a mockery of everything that they are complaining about.

It’s all even more unedifying considering HRH Prince Phillip has recently died and here’s Harry once again putting the boot in so to speak in effect criticising his father and his father’s parents regarding their child rearing skills. Perhaps it’s a good job that young Archie isn’t able to read all about his own father at the moment. We can only hope that by the time he can, both of his parents will have shut up and moved on with their lives to focus on other matters.

It’s become a huge “yawn fest” full of wrongly perceived victim status. The lad and his missus need to focus on something else now ... but what else is there?

[StormzyinaTCup]

Harry is still young and blinded by love. I think he will come to regret creating this circus in a few years time.

He really isn't that young, he’s not that far off 40 (although some of his behaviours are what I would expect from a child).

He is yet to face any real parenting challenges (he is still in the rose tinted phase) and when he inevitably does (as any parent does) he will have to make what he/they believe is the best decision at that particular time just as Prince Charles would have done for PW and PH. I would imagine PH would be devastated if in 20 years time Archie questioned their shoddy parenting choices and openly criticised them both in a ‘spill your guts’ chat show.

Unfortunately PH is so consumed in himself that any reasonable thought process went out of the window a fair while ago and we now have these shenanigans playing out.

[Mrstwiddle]

If H is no longer an active member of the Royal family, essentially his tales of woe is all he’s got, he’s obviously trying to make “mental health preaching” his thing, but really it’s just very dull.

I do wonder whether he’s going to have to keep coming up with more and more “revelations” just to keep the focus on them, because really, other than being professional victims, they don’t have much else going for them as figures of interest.

[Aspiringmatriarch]

@smilesy

It’s all very well him wearing his heart on his sleeve, but he is publicly disparaging his father and grandparents. It is not relevant that they are the Royal Family, they are his family and are also human beings and will be hurt by this. There is so much over sharing without a thought for the other people involved.

But I really don't see it as disparaging them per se. It's more about the 'firm' as a whole and what it does to people. Not very diplomatic certainly but he's hardly been hateful about them.

[StormzyinaTCup]

Just seen your post phodopus

[CharityDingle]

@TheSuezCanalTugBoat

Harry is still young and blinded by love. I think he will come to regret creating this circus in a few years time.

I hope the royal family leave the door open for him and Meghan. We all make mistakes, and we were all young and stupid once.

He is 36, not 16...

[Aspiringmatriarch]

To be fair, he appears very young for his age. I don't think his intentions are bad though.