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?

They just. Showed the clip of PH talking about granny on BBC breakfast. Dan Wallers eyes nearly rolled out of his head 😂

That is great. I really like Harry and Meghan and on a personal level it would be nice for Harry to repair his relationships with his family. I hope they do come. It would be great if they were able to move past this whole situation. I suspect whomever made the comments to Meghan/Harry whichever about Archie’s likely colour won’t be feeling to delighted though.

oliviastwisted · 20/04/2022 09:12
“That is great. I really like Harry and Meghan and on a personal level it would be nice for Harry to repair his relationships with his family. I hope they do come. It would be great if they were able to move past this whole situation. I suspect whomever made the comments to Meghan/Harry whichever about Archie’s likely colour won’t be feeling to delighted though.”

And do you think that Harry’s latest interview will repair his relationship with his family?

Two points about the latest Harry interview

1/who does HM need protecting from?

2/who are the “right people“ around her ? Is this referring to Prince Andrew etc who live close by ?
After PA recent outing clinging on to HM this made me shudder a bit !

Who is "us"? I am quite happy to see them, thank you.

It’s an odd thing to say.

I think by “right people around her” he is actually referring to her staff, ie the “men in grey suits”. He used them in the Oprah interview to try and criticise the institution without criticising the Queen herself, although it didn’t work because a) the power gap between Harry and the Queen’s staff is too great, they don’t have the ability to defend themselves against him, it came across as mean and privileged, and b) the Queen IS the institution, the buck stops there, if you criticise the monarchy then you criticise the monarch, that’s the point - and who is responsible for hiring the men in grey suits? The Queen. I’m sure she would’ve taken it as an insult, the idea she is not running the show, the idea she is being manipulated by men running it for her. He’s being patronising to the Queen and yet again demonstrating his privilege over her staff. That’s who I think he’s referring to.

Well I will be glad to see them there, if they decide to attend. You do not speak for the British public.

Argh.... and I thought H&M were finally done with the awkward comments.

Unfortunately I agree that the Queen is not at all in good shape and that she is aware of how little time she likely has left. Even the Palace are having to admit to "mobility problems" so it would seem it is even worse than that, they like to admit as little as possible.

It would not surprise me if she get through the Jubilee celebrations and then quietly passed away. I will be sad whenever that day comes.

I appreciate H&M wanting to cease being working royals, that was entirely a choice for them to make, but they seemed to burn every possible bridge on the way out.

They have very little to show for the last two years. It's been difficult due to Covid and the pregnancy and arrival of Lilli but there seems to be very little money earned, given how much they need to sustain their lifestyle, and even just pay for their house.

Their charity/foundation has earned almost nothing considering their celebrity status.

The ability to, at least, have a civil/cordial relationship between H&M and the Royal Family would be good for both sides.

I thought that the fleeting visit may have started to slightly thaw things, with the Queen if no one else.

There were no immediate comments from H&M's camp and everything seemed to settle quietly without much fuss.

Then H opens his sodding mouth... again. The notion that H is, in any way, protecting her, is ridiculous. What did he accomplish in an hour in the country?

All that comment will do, assuming it's the only stupid comment in that interview, is wind everyone up.

I actually feel sorry for M. What on earth has she ended up married to and into. She must be banging her head against the wall at that comment. She's not daft, she has seen how the Oprah interview went down, sticking the knife in is not a long term plan and it is not going to help them succeed going forward.

H is now off the leash with no one bold enough to stand up to him and tease him into the Prince we saw before he left the Royal Family. He says whatever he wants and clearly he is no where near as bright as he was presented previously.

Foot in mouth syndrome.

As for Andrew, I have no words. He was entitled to be at his father's memorial service, and travelling with the Queen was the right decision as he went in through the side door, but for heavens sake, walking her up the aisle?!

Hopefully Charles and William have enough sense to cut the balcony as soon as Charles is King. Immediate line of succession only, if at all!

I almost wish they would just cancel the Jubilee, and let the Queen make a statement from her home and everyone enjoys a long weekend of BBQs and family time.
No balcony stress or the rest of the pomp - it is going to look so out of place and crass given the cost of living crisis and the war raging. It was only noted in the Telegraph today that the Queen may not make ANY of the arrangements including the balcony and fly past. That is where we are in reality, and so what is the point?

It is an expensive, over the top idea/charade created by a team that did not know a war was coming. Dial it down whilst they have the chance, a weekend of reflection would go down better perhaps, plant the trees and make a simple address on the day - that deals with the H&M problem, the Andrew problem - the media and public backlash that will surely come at the expense of it all and will look like the RF are (finally) really in touch with the people.

No they haven't. The Royal family did all of that and more. All they did was to say 'enough'

I felt a bit sad seeing Harry at Invictus talking to the teams because it was a bit like seeing the old Harry back. I wish he'd do more of that and less of the whinging and the vacuous statements*

(*eg he did an interview on Dutch TV where the interviewer asked him about his comments on Ukraine, what did he mean by "we need to do more"? And he was like uhhh... we need to Do More, we need to Step Up, we need to Use Less Words And More Action, repeating all the empty buzzphrases with zero specifics. And she kept pressing him, what did he mean by "do more" and who is it addressed to? And he was like uhhhh... everyone? Everyone needs to Do More? it was painful...)

I wonder if Harry was making a dig at Angela Kelly, the queen's dresser who fell out with Meghan over the wedding tiara.

We can all debate who H is referring to but what is HE doing to protect her as stated in the interview ?

I think given the Queen's mobility these days, I don't think there will be a balcony appearance at all and all of this turgid sh1t is coming from Sunshine Sachs...........

I think the whole thing will be very low key in terms of her attendance, and she may appear for a carriage ride but that will be it.

She's simply not up to 10 or 15 minutes standing out and waving. As are few 96 year olds.

Could it be that the Royals had a Zoom meeting and confessed to each other that they weren’t much feeling in the mood for doing the whole grinning-and-waving Buckingham Palace balcony routine?

They might have agreed that they would all rather have a low-key barbecue at Windsor to mark the occasion, at which point the idea of hiring Meghan and Harry as royal stand-ins took shape...

I think the comments mentioned in the trailer for this latest interview - the right people around her and Harry’s home being US at the moment - may be to do with his role as one of the four people who have official remit to stand in for queen. The counsellors of the state would usually be the monarch’s spouse and the next four in the line of succession who are over 21. I wonder if Harry has been told he is no longer eligible as he’s not a “working royal” and lives permanently outside the UK. It made my eyes roll too.

What did Angela Kelly say? Other than that the queen' bullying led to her being an alcoholic.

I presume Harry is talking about the kind of people who give bad advise to the queen, the kind that when Harry and the queen make an appointment, come back at the last minute to block him from seeing her.

@Partyintheusa2012
YOu just made up your post in your head.
It has been posted plenty of times on here, what H&M have been doing in the past 2yrs, and it's a lot. Just for Sentebale alone, he raised over 1.3M. Their fund is there to raise and donate, not keep for profit making.

H&M's contribution has been pitiful not They have been doing precisely nothing except for slagging off each side of the family in public, taking the world and its dog to court and trying to grab as much of the global stage as they can, they are not a force for good but a damaged, toxic narc couple that should be kept a million miles away from our poorly Queen.

Everything they do with the RF will be converted into cash for their own lavish lifestyle, they will continue to sell them out and when they publish the tell all book looking to crush whatever is left of the RF by then, one can hardly be surprised given their performance to date. Not good people. No one any of us would want within our own families or social circles. This is a basic assessment based on the facts by anyone of average intelligence.

Well said Swaying

She’s his granny. Why wouldn’t they?

So?

The Queen is his grandmother. He's her flesh and blood, her grandson. Contrary to some decidedly weird MN posts & threads about him, there is no reason to suppose they're enemies.

No issue with family being together for special occasions. Can't say I care but, good for them anyway. Opinion of randoms will make no difference to the outcome really

Daily Heil link tho - Yuk.

Again Swayingpalmtrees, you think you can speak for all people. You cannot. You may not wish them to be in your family, you do not speak for me, thank God.

Come to think of it, 'our' queen does not seem to have a problem with Harry. The so called strife is told by the press - who have never spoken to the queen. For all we know, the family could be agreeing with what Harry says. Harry probably speaks to the queen more than most people - especially now he is not talking to her on a formal capacity.