Removing E:R from Harry’s Uniform

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I am certainly not one of H&M’s fans but I think that for someone to actually remove the ER initials from his military uniform for the vigil was beyond petty.

The decision was made to allow him to wear a military uniform, fine, Andrew was also given permission but to take the time and trouble to remove the Queen’s initials from the epaulettes was, I think, really childish. I know he has chosen to not be a working Royal but the initals were left on Andrew’s epaulettes so why were Harry’s removed?

Apart from anything else, this will just add grist to the mill of H&M’s litany of complaints but for once, I think they’d be justified in being upset by this.

Expect I’ll be flamed for this and there are many more important things going on in the world but I do think this was a snotty thing to do to Harry.

This will be a whole new chapter for his updated book and more Netflix and Spotify content.

Just think of all that lovely $$$$$$$

Montecito mansion's, security, polo ponies and designer clothes don't just pay for their selves you know!

I wonder if Meghan chooses his underpants or does he or is it a mix of both ?😂

This. DH couldn't wear his uniform, as he'd left the forces some years ago.

It seems a bit 'give an inch and they'll take a yard' - allowed to wear uniform and keep beard, and now moaning because he didn't have his ADC epauletes.

You were right first time, it's Elizabeth Regina. It'll take a long time to change the royal cypher on everything, aren't they all hand embroidered.

Chances are nobody did. The phrase "royal/inside/close friend"* is code for " we made it up but because we haven't named anybody, the story cannot be proven or disproved", as told to me by an actual journalist many years ago. That is why unless the source is named or there is actual proof then believe nothing you read.

*Delete as applicable

Well said.

So who sold the story?
I bet you no one would have noted it if it had not been in the press.
So what is the source of this story?

Does that matter? He knew.

Harry doesn’t think rules should apply to him in any situation , that’s the trouble.

I can get my head around all the ex service men who'd also like to wear uniform at an important event yet are barred from doing so due to protocol being infuriated.

If Harry chooses not to be in the RF he can't hold the military honorary roles so has the same rules now as all other ex service men.

But he doesn't want to be like a normal ex service man he still wants all the special honours.

Even though he hates the RF bubble and wants a normal non public life 🙄

Seems maybe all the pomp and status is much more important to him than he thought?

Who here has spoken to Harry?
you are basing his feelings on the papers stating his feelings

It certainly has

It means Elizabeth the Queen ( Regina is Latin for Queen). CR will be Charles Rex ( King)

This covers it. It’s an unnecessary story. Perhaps Harry’s friend Omid leaked it or was asked to. Perhaps it was flagged by a military contact. Either way, Harry no longer holds the role that merits the initials, so should not have been surprised, let alone ‘devastated’ or ‘humiliated’.

As many people have said this week, you don’t leave an employer then expect all the staff perks to continue.

More generally, I think it would have been much simpler/more appropriate to have Andrew and Harry in suits.

My thoughts too

Harry has chosen to wear other military uniforms in the past

YANBU.

P E T T Y.

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How do you know that Harry "turned down" an invitation from the Queen to Balmoral? Was there an official statement about this from Harry or from the Queen? Or is it something you read in the Daily Mail?

Do you know for a fact that the offer was made and "they were not bothered"?

It's petty that someone leaked it to the media and said Harry was heartbroken. If I'd just lost my gran (who I hadn't seen as much as I could have done) then the reason I'd be heartbroken would be her loss not because my uniform is the same as it was the last time I wore it.

This

He should also know then why it wasn't present on his uniform. Or does he expect to keep receiving exemptions to protocol from daddy?

It strikes me that the person who this story came from originally may be an individual with a eye for detail, a keen sense of persecution, the ability to influence Prince Harry to feel aggrieved and absolutely no understanding (or will to understand) about British protocol.

Gosh. Who could that be?

Just to say for all those and their spouses who were not allowed to wear their uniform - I do feel for you - My niece was not allowed to wear hers. . But I do hold to this is something of a family event & this is why if HMTQ or KC asked for them to be allowed to wear those for two days well I can't get too worked up. As long as that it it and no further. I do not know Harry but he and his wife do seem to be somewhat petulant & they & their spokespeople don't seem to say anything positive.

Anyway let H&M do what they must to maintain their lifestyle , preferably not just doing it by knocking down the RF with half truths or even untruths , not sure they have anything else to offer but hey ho ( & I don't wish any family with young children ill ) but let us not see anything else of PA.

I do think though that tomorrow whether anyone is a republican or not bothered about the RF or likes them - It should be a time for a woman who spent 70 years doing things she probably did not want to . But did . So M&H are a sideshow. Not the main event

@REP22 thank you although I would have thought that, given the Queen’s age the new CR initials would have been ready to be sewn on; it’s not as if they wouldn’t have staff to do that!

Obviously it is correct that Harry didn’t have the ER on his uniform but it will just give H&M more ammunition unless they finally learn not to tell tales when they back to the States (which I very much doubt).

They shouldn't pander to them though in case they run off and sell stories about it, that's pathetic.