Why did Harry and Meghan walk in alone?

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I have had a very busy weekend so have only been able to catch snippets of the jubilee weekend events but noticed how Harry and Meghan walked into the service together, seemingly after everybody else, including those sitting in front and behind them?
Why was this? I understand why they didn't walk in with the serving royals but it seemed strange that their entrance stood out so much.

I think the whole thing had a sober occasion. Almost like a funeral before the queen died

But Zara Tindall isn’t a working royal and I wouldn’t class Beatrice and Eugénie as working royals either? I think they should have been at the concert and pageant but they were clearly told not to attend.

@WooNoodle it felt like that with the final balcony appearance, that this was it and how weird to think you’re celebrating being king as your mother has died.

You were happy to see them with their racist family who caused them to have all sorts of problems and inherited genetic pain? Caused them to have MH issues, made them cry, took their passport, phone and freedoms away?

Or they were invited and chose not to come? I don't think there is any 'clearly' about it. They apparently flew home yesterday afternoon too, before the festivities had ended and before the Queen had thanked everyone.

I thought their visit was really odd, tbh, as they'd said they were coming over for the Jubilee, but then barely turned up to anything. Kate's family were at the pageant yesterday, as were Zara and Mike, Beatrice & Eugenie and their husbands, the Cambridge children, so I'm sure if H&M had wanted to go they could've done. Every time Harry comes over, it's like he can't wait to leave. He goes to the thing he absolutely has to and then jumps on a plane back to CA at the first possible opportunity.

I think Harry came because he's trying to keep in his grandmother's good books, so that she makes it clear in her will that he keeps Frogmore. Once the Queen has gone, he's on shaky ground because he's been so unpleasant about (and maybe to) his father, who will be King.

I feel a little sorry for Harry's children who don't have a relationship with either of their grandfathers though, and live do far from all those cousins. Must be hard for Harry if he sees those pictures of Louie on Prince Charles' lap.

I imagine the next time we'll see Harry and Meghan will be at the Queen's funeral sadly. Whether they turn up for Charles' coronation will be another matter! 😂

There's no winning, if they had been at the balcony you would have complained, turns out they weren't you are still complaining. If they had attended all the events you would have said they are overshadowing the queen or stealing everyones thunder. Someone still found the heart to say they wouldn't let Meghan steal her thunder. Good grief that poor woman cannot catch a break!

I wonder if they were supposed to sit at the end near the aisle but Beatrice sat there first. normally the ones who enter the row first would walk to the far end and sit down

Ah yes maybe

Yes, thank goodness. The sheer vitriol (on here and on another popular gossip site) aimed at this couple is scary - I have to remind myself it's a handful of people online, and not the majority of humankind that have such contempt and disdain for them both.

This is how it seems. It's almost as if people just make up shite as they go along for the fun of it. A long list of random, guesswork assumptions and contradictions.

I don't understand the issue with this comment.

In my opinion, the outfit didn't flatter MM's figure - it made her look flat, broad and with no waist or boobs. We know from other outfits that's categorically not the case - she has a beautiful figure. But this outfit did not flatter her at all.

It's not being mean to have an opinion about an outfit. And MM often doesn't seem to pick especially well for the more formal outfits. The contrast is even more stark because she looks stunning in the more relaxed outfits which she is clearly more comfortable in. The pregnancy photo shoot of her with the long flowing dress is absolutely gorgeous.

Re the wire, I've got no idea about the collar - but it seems a bit far fetched. I know they've got to deliver to Netflix but audio with no accompanying Netflix photos? Can't see the point. Plus there would be uproar. It is unusual for a royal or even a celebrity to be fiddling with their outfit, but maybe it was just a nervous habit?

So they could see if the crowd booed or screamed for them and only them.

one press said Harry looked haunted - we know how bloody awkward or is when you’re pissed off with someone and you know they will be where you will be

I understand the seats had names. Why would Beatrice and Eugenie leave their seats to let them pass otherwise? You’d just budge up.

I think MM looked stunning. And handled the situation well, it cant have been easy being booed. Trashy crowd.

Pretty much what I was going to say. The woman could give all her money to charity, flail herself daily and wear a hair shirt and people would still say she was doing it for attention.

I imagine Harry looked sombre because he knows how some people (the press in particular) feel about them and he probably just felt bloody awkward.

I find it amazing how those who appear to hate them so much cant see how H&Ms decisions were to do with how they were treated here. The press were vile to to them (and yet really quite tame with Prince Andrew, considering how awful he is - why is that?). Would you want to live in a country where no matter what you did, you were torn apart for every little thing you did? I certainly wouldn`t.

I`m not a royalist, not a H&M fan in particular, but the whole H&M hate on this site is quite odd. And the amount of assumptions and "knowledge" by people who have never met them is hilarious!

Oh wow, some weird formatting going on there!

And the amount of assumptions and "knowledge" by people who have never met them is hilarious!

Do you have to know a public figure personally before you can take a view of their actions and behaviour?

If I was told I wasn’t welcome at the royal box at the concert and pageant, I would go home too to leave it up in the air that I wasn’t, not that I couldn’t attend. Just like PA’s “Covid”

i think MM always looks the most normal as she wears a coat over clothes. Not the hideous coat dress uniform. And she wears trousers and tights at formal stuff. I like her!

I have to agree it's just bizarre. I also thought that hologram in the golden carriage was just bizarre given she is still alive.
It was like she is attending her own funeral hence the OTT decorations. I have never seen it like this before.

M+H were actually cheered, the papers lied as it didn't fit their narrative. Boris and his Mrs were booed.

You can do whatever you want. It won't stop people thinking you're a psycho if you display psycho -like behaviour for example.

I liked the hologram it was like her majesty through the ages

I must say that I thought in several photos of H he looked rather pensive. I wonder if it's finally dawned on him what he's given up.

Or maybe he's just having second thoughts about all the shit he's told his ghost writer that's going to come out in his blockbuster memoir, due to be published in the autumn?

The Oprah interview was bad enough, but Harry actually didn't say very much - it was mainly Meghan's show - this memoir though is all him and no way will his publishers let him get away with a few vague references - it's going to full of the most private, awful stuff, because why else would he be being paid $20 million? He's was probably thinking 'This is the last time I'm going to welcome at all in my family, because I'm about to do the most horrendous hatchet job on the lot of them'.

I’d guess that H&M chose not to attend the concert/pageant because it would have looked as though they want to be at ‘fun’ royal occasions but not fulfil royal duties. Or it would have looked as though they were attention seeking.