Royal Family response to Harry and Meghan

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Any predictions? Any recommendations?
(And any thoughts when we get the response?).

Not necessarily because a grandparent is black but she probably was worried given the credible threats to their life and her feeling like they were without adequate security .

news.sky.com/story/amp/prince-harry-and-meghan-faced-credible-threats-by-far-right-extremists-says-met-polices-ex-counterterror-chief-neil-basu-12758496

I absolutely do believe there were credible threats to their lives, but I think had they still been living in the Uk this would not have been revealed.
For security reasons.

I’d wager there’s credible threats to all of their lives tbh.

So the extremely highly trained elite armed guards assigned to her round the clock weren't good enough?

What more did she want?

And again I ask the question which is never answered. If she felt so terribly at risk and felt her security was being neglected, why did she want 'half in half out'?

Someone said upthread, "I do wonder sometimes why Harry didn’t explain what it was like."

I think the answer to this is, at least in part, that he couldn't explain it, because he had never known anything else, so to him, having a private office, attracting screaming crowds, being very limited in what you could say, etc, was simply reality. If someone asked me to explain my life to another person whose own life was as different from mine as Harry's was from Meghan's, pre-marriage, I would find it incredibly difficult.

Leaving aside that he is obviously a bear of very little brain indeed, when you think that the combined teaching power of Eton could only get him two mediocre A levels. And although I think he is able to be empathetic about some things and with some people, the way that senior members of the Royal family are brought up and socialised makes it extremely hard for them genuinely to put other people ahead of themselves, despite all the twaddle about serving the nation.

Completely agree with this. Although all the teaching in the world can't 'get' someone good A Levels. They do actually need to have the ability themselves and the motivation to study.

Not a Royalist but if they so detest the institution it would make sense for KC to strip them of every title they own.

Minding their own business on I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!, extremely standard.

Re the Tindalls - at least they aren't projecting themselves as some sort of saviours of the world. It's very different.

It's all just too sad. I don't like the posters saying they love all the gossip, they're still just people with family problems, feel so sorry for Kate and Wills. M&H need to just stfu now

<insert grasping at straws gif here >

Shocking article in the Daily Mail about their recent Netflix clip release, H&M have used footage of paparazzi for other people and pretended it was theirs.

I agree with commentary elsewhere that a Netflix trailer is unlikely to be the work of the Sussexes themselves. Also that this is very much aimed at a US market and as such the use of stock photos/footage is much more usual and expected.

"Memories differ. We love Harry and Meghan and children and wish them well" followed by business as usual is the best response if at all possible".

Another vote now for this response. It very much reduces the O2 from the fire H&M keep trying to light. I'm seeing more and more responses from people who are viewing them more negatively now due to their insistence on public whinging. We all know Meghan had a horrible time, but you've spoken about it already, move on and just enjoy your beautiful children. She's very lucky, she just doesn't seem to see it.

I feel she's the type of person who needs universal adoration and totally positive responses. She needs everyone to like her and can't seem to accept that's impossible, and keeping on telling us us all how bad you had it doesn't endear you more to us, it's just off putting. I've been in the position of having someone lie about me, and it's devastating to know some people believe the lies. I just made sure I told the truth when asked and stepped back totally from the situation, spreading stories about the other person like H&M do doesn't make it better.

And this isn't a soap opera, these are human beings who just happen to be public figures. It's highly unedifying seeing comments conflating the two.

If I was the royals press secretary i would issue a statement saying.

“recollections still vary, but we do love them, and wish Harry and Meghan all the best “

and leave it there. Nothing else necessary, the utter put down in it would actually be highly amusing, it would take all the heat out of it, nothing harry and Meghan can further do, no incendiary act. Just a short pithy put down and walk away.

The queen mastered brevity in her communications and Charles should aim for the same

in reality I’d really want to say “recollections vary, how wild, bless them. We do love them though”

😂

"I thought Charles was bad but William is even worse . Ignoring all the speculation about him , he just appears completely inauthentic ."

I genuinely don't understand what the last sentence means.

If I were the royals’ press secretary I’d arrange a Buck Pal viewing night of the first episode with Charlie, Camilla, Wills, Kate, Andrew in uniform, Fergie, Lady SH and every other notorious royal, maybe James Hewitt and Charles Spencer too, and leak it like Squidgygate. But I’m a messy bitch who lives for drama.

I look forward to watching the Gogglebox crowd watching it.

I do wonder sometimes why Harry didn’t explain what it was like

Ive said something similar a few times about Harry.

If Meghan posted about him and the things she was unaware of about his life, family and the expectations (like being unaware they curtsied to the Queen in private until heading to meet her) she’d have got a very loud “LTB”.

I have wondered if it’s a coincidence that the women that did understand what it was like - Christ Davy, Cressida Bonas - ran for their lives. The one that he actually got down the aisle seemed very ill-prepared for what being his wife actually meant.

They’ll never remove the Sussex titles from them though imo. For two reasons -
1 - removing Harry’s Prince title won’t happen so he’d be Prince Harry and Meghan would be Princess Harry. Which would take the media about twenty seconds to turn into Prince Harry and Princess Meghan and would actually be more sellable,
2 - they know that once people know removing titles is actually relatively simple it’ll be questioned why they haven’t removed Andrew’s. Then the next time someone fucks up and is massively u popular the clamour will be there to remove it - imagine the push for Charles’ titles to be removed around the time of his divorce and then again Diana’s death when he was so disliked. They know that George/Charlotte/Louis/their children/themselves might be the next to be unpopular and once people start losing titles regularly it’ll be over for them all.

I think no response is best or the late Queen's response "recollections may vary"

The Tindalls haven’t tried to make money sobbing and bitching about their privileged lot in life. They don’t profit from endlessly saying how awful the royals are. Harry and Meghan are not exactly international sports stars. Both Tindalls have excelled on the world stage in their own arenas.

I've been in the position of having someone lie about me, and it's devastating to know some people believe the lies.

This made me ponder how many of us have had similar. I guess most of us, to some extent. And does this make us more sympathetic to the Wales?
Similarly, are most of us now struggling more and more to empathise with the 'hard-done-by' narrative of the Sussexes?

If you are not interested enough to watch it, why do you care enough to comment?

I'm not interested enough to waste possibly SIX HOURS of my life watching it. If it was one hour I'd probably watch it whilst catching up with the ironing wasting my time on here

I don't think the RF should say anything. It hasn't taken long for sm to unpick a lot of the guff in the trailers. The fact checking already looks a bit flaky and that won't wash if they are insisting this is the truth.

All I see at the moment are one couple throwing stones at another.

I'm not saying it's not been both, but at the moment it's very much coming from the Sussex side.

are most of us now struggling more and more to empathise with the 'hard-done-by' narrative of the Sussexes?

I think as the cost of living crisis continues to hit, fewer and fewer people will have tolerance for anyone extremely wealthy moaning about their lot.

They will definitely wheel the kids out for some shameless PR

Agreed. George and Charlotte will appear at various occasions.