Harry and Meghan 'are invited to appear on Buckingham Palace balcony at Queen's Platinum Jubilee'

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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10729859/Prince-Harry-Meghan-Markle-invited-make-balcony-appearance-Jubilee.html

No source cited, so could just be made up news.

How do you all feel about this? Is it another refusing-to-fly-the-flag-at-half-mast-for-Diana misreading of the public mood? Does anybody actually care? And, if not, what does that signify?

Odd thing for him to say.

Ooops wrong comment.

Very odd thing for him to say?

I’ve just read that, and agree it’s a very odd thing to say. Maybe a reference to Andrew?

“I'm just making sure she's protected and got the right people around her”

@StartupRepair that ticked me off, I thought it was SO patronising. She’s been doing the job for 70 years. Even the Queen isn’t safe from mansplaining.

This!
Such a hypocrite.
He claims to want privacy and yet happy to share juicy titbits of Royal life to keep his name in the press.
He can’t seem to shut up. The more he talks the more stupid he sounds.

Protecting the Queen and making sure she has the right people around her? I hadn't realised that Harry was behind this....

I imagine the Queen is trying hard to bring them back into the fold to some extent, for the sake of William and Charles as well as the ‘look’ of the thing. Agree with the poster who said she is doing what she can before her time runs out, and doing it her way.
I don’t think they should appear after the way they’ve embarrassed themselves and shat all over the family, but they’ll do whatever they feel will raise their profile and make them money.

I think his latest statement is ridiculous. The upshot seems to be more distrust and suspicion. I’m sure William and Charles are doing far more to protect the Queen than Harry. They’re actually around for one thing.

In all honestly I feel they have devalued the institution and undermined the 60 or 70 years Queen Elizabeth has reigned over.

It could be a bad decision that destroys brands/careers.

Who remembers Ratners imploding over prawn sandwich speech.

or even Anthea Turner and the chocolate snowflake Wedding.

Very easy to destroy a carefully managed brand

No, they absolutely should not attend after the oprah interview. They will simply use such an important event as fodder for the their netflix series, and Harry will still go on to publish his book which is likely to be even more explosive and damaging to the RF. The RF are being played, and it is fairly obvious at least to me that Prince Philip was the person with the best judgement in that family, he was able to guide and assist the Queen, since he died she seems to have made one mistake after another.

I very much they will not appear on the balcony and ruin this event for the Queen.

Me too. Pompous little twerp. If he actually gave a shit, he'd have spent some time with her.

wondering if the “right people” comment is anything to do with the war of the biographies if his book and Angela Kelly’s give completely different versions of events “recollections may vary”?

A very odd thing to say in a public sphere. The kind of thing people say when they are worried about older people being pressured into changing wills or going into a nursing home. Maybe he thinks she’s “trapped” in the institution too.

I agree with Prince Charles that the capital letters “Royal Family” is too big and there’s absolutely no reason that people who bring it into disrepute like Andrew or Harry/Meghan should have a place at official events. It’s so unnecessary. PP’s memorial became the Andrew sideshow for absolutely no reason. All people care about are the monarch, the heirs, and the cute little kids!

If he actually gave a shit, he'd have spent some time with her

Or at least not done the hideous nasty and spiteful interview with Oprah. At the very least Harry could have just been respectful and kept his distance.

His latest comments are a broadside as there is clearly a split in the RF probably over H&M and Andrew between the Queen, PC and PW and without Prince Philip to instil some order and authority this is could get very ugly indeed. At some point PC is going to need to assert his authority - as future King and send the grabby leeches around the Queen packing.

People focus too much on the ‘Royal’ and forget about the ‘Family’. They’re not working royals but they’re still part of the family (the Queen said as much when they left) and so they should be there if they are wanted. It’s a family occasion as well as a constitutional one.

StartupRepair · 20/04/2022 05:47
“Harry has announced that he sees his role as protecting HM and making sure she has the right people around her.”

I find this just a touch grandiose from someone who has trashed her institution and visited her once in 2 years.

Me too. I have just watched the interview trailer and am astounded . What on earth is he doing to protect HM ? How is that comment helping the situation? I would really like a Harry supporter to explain as I simply don’t get it . Rather than waving an olive branch , it’s more a red rag .

I am raising my eyebrows at Harry’s expressed self-importance here. Like him, I have chosen to live in the other side of the world from the rest of my family. Unlike him, this wasn’t due to any issues within my family. I consider myself close to my mother - we zoom every weekend.

I would never presume to tell anyone that role I play in her life, however, because I am very well aware that when it comes to the day to day support and assistance, I am simply not there. It is others in our family who fill the roles of meeting her needs. They would (quite rightfully!) be rather pissed off if I started sounding off to all and sundry about what I do for her. Telling the world you see yourself as protecting her just makes you sound incredibly self-involved, and dismissive of everyone else who is there for her, Harry.

Why not?

I bet half the proles slagging off Harry and Meghan will be there waving up at them.

ut they’re still part of the family (the Queen said as much when they left) and so they should be there if they are wanted. It’s a family occasion as well as a constitutional one

It is a state occasion.Funded by the British tax payer.
Harry and Megan have no place on the balcony at a state event.
They should crawl back to the states and carry on reading crystals or writing boring books, the British public are done with the rolling circus that is H&M and quite frankly hope they never come back! The US is most definitely welcome to the delightful couple.

Exactly, the balcony is a state occasion, PP memorial was arguably more family than state. They have it the wrong way around.

I think nobody should be in that balcony, but as a worst case scenario it should be just the direct succession line.

My respect for the Queen has gone down since the Andrew issue. If she wants to put a paedophile to her side in a public event because he is her son, or allow Harry and Megan to continue living like millionaires out of their “royal connection” (let’s not forget that child sleeping in a tent for a year raised 4 times as much money for charity than Harry and Megan did in the same time) that’s not an old lady ovegg the look is having the Queen behaving like… Boris?

I hope they are there. Andrew can give it a skip.

Moreover Harry couldn't be bothered to rock up for the memorial of his own Grandfather and support his Grandmother but he can make the balcony moment effortlessly (with rolling cameras of course from Netflix)
He is a fake and phoney with no moral compass or values whatsoever, and that is the polite version.

I hope someone somewhere deals with this robustly and advises the Queen to keep the toxic couple and Andy well away from proceedings or risk the British Public deciding enough is truly enough, we will not tolerate this piss poor behaviour any longer.

The very fact we are even having this conversation at all makes me think the Queen is really very very seriously ill, and wonder whether we will see anyone on the balcony at all. Her decision to take Andrew to the memorial was a strong message that she no longer cares what people think, and ceasing to care after seventy years of dedication and diligence can only mean one thing in my view.

Unfortunately I think the explanation is the Queen actually believes Andrew (I suppose someone has to) and is trying to use her own popularity to "save" him as well as some other unpopular family members before she dies. She's thinking with her mum head not her head of state...!