Royals don't marry for love

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Headline on front page of the Metro seen on the train. Didn't read the article. Said by Harry.

Who's he referring to? His brother?

It was Kate who was described as 'pushing 50', the poster conveniently forgetting Meghan is a couple of years older.

I don't think he understands that love can be withstanding a few crises and going the distance. He is still so immature that he thinks love is that crazy emotional feeling.

Looking at Kate and William's body language, it's looks affectionate, and their eye contact is really strong. I think their marriage is strong based on that.

He’s being totally disingenuous and he knows it.

That family are carrying on the bloodlines of our ancient country’s heritage- through their marriages they all literally carry the blood in their veins of the Kings and Queens in our history books stretching right back through the mists of time from every corner of the British Isles.

Of course they put more consideration into who they marry than the rest of us do.

@Redglitter when they met the south african prime minister, william looked really adoringly at Kate when she was talking to him. Contrast to poor harry's face when Meghan did the cabaret curtsey

Historically that is absolutely true and is very probably true still in many cases.

I think it's unkind for Harry to invite media scrutiny on the marriages of his family members especially, as a PP highlighted, there are children involved.

I feel for the royal children.

Sadly I think Harry is also mistaken that he has married for love - well, maybe he has but I’m pretty sure Meghan hasn’t married for love I’m afraid.

Is H completely unaware of that he is only who he is because of his family.
Once his DW gets bored of him, he'll be nothing. All the PDAs look like she is clinging on to him in case he runs away.

@Pearmain , I think she did. Poor thing, didn't realise that she was expected to have some dignity. Imagine the horror and shame of being expected to curtsy to a monarch.

I couldn't remember the occasion but that was one I was thinking of. He couldn't take his eyes off her. I've never seen him look at her the way Harry looked at Meghan at that curtsey

William didn't rush into marrying Kate because as he's said he wanted her to realise what life would be like for her. If Harry had done similar maybe things would have turned out very differently

Well, he’s right, in that royals traditionally did not marry for the love. The Queen was extremely fortunate that Philip was a suitable match (royalty himself) and they did love each other, but they were the exception that proves the rule.

But he can’t be talking about William and Kate, as they are the first example of a future monarch being able to marry for love.

Don’t people remember that William and Kate broke up after he was essentially told that a commoner (and not even aristocracy; Diana was derided as a commoner, but she was ‘at least’ an aristocrat) was not a suitable match?

But I guess they realised that forcing people to marry someone they don’t love just doesn’t work in this day and age, and so they were allowed to get back together and ultimately marry.

Yes, they look so unhappy together….

My point about Meghan's age being relevant was that unlike Kate and William, she never had ten years to decide and only a few reproductive years left.

I think it's unkind for Harry to invite media scrutiny on the marriages of his family members especially, as a PP highlighted, there are children involved.

This made me think that it would have been perfectly possible for Haz and Megs to tell Their Story without being negative about his brother, sister-in-law, niece and nephews.

It would seem that Harry is gunning for William because he wants to show that he has made the right choice, despite William warning him to slow down in his romance with Meghan. I am sure that this was a sensible warning. Marrying in to the RF inevitably means that you are taking on the job that goes with it, and it seems from the documentary that Meghan really didn’t understand this. Meghan for her part seems to have Kate in her sights for no apparent reason that I can think of, other than maybe jealousy 🤷‍♀️

hear, hear! Every thing he says are generalisations, hearsay and speculation. Never any specifics like what the newspapers actually said in the early days that were racist. Its against the law anyway to peddle hate speech, so I don't get what he's talking about. 'The men' in the family having to marry a specific type of stepford wife? So own it and say who you mean? Charles (agreed but I'm sure he knows that) Andrew? Apparently loved (still does) Fergie. Edward? Loves Sophie. William? Absurd to say he doesn't love his wife.

Nasty, entitled, paranoid and utterly tone deaf.

Yes the Kate thing is strange as, over the years, Kate has come across as a likeable, easy going girl next door type (despite her privileged upbringing). I can't imagine her having many enemies.

Rarely do I ever comment (or even read) this sort of thread, but I think it really is time for H&M to STFU now, quit with the media shenanigans, and go off and have a nice comfortable low profile family life somewhere.

It is never a good idea to burn bridges - or to shit on your own doorstep - and at the moment it appears that they are gleefully doing both.

All this will come back to bite them on the arse in the end, you mark my words.

Well the Queen married for love as did her parents and Uncle David, so it's not unknown!

We're really talking about Harry's choice. Meghan chose not to have children at a younger age when married to her other husband. If Harry had been a little less desperate for love and a family, he wouldn't have rushed into a marriage which has cost him so much. I only hope he can find happiness in his new life in america, and stop the pointless war against the royal family

Edward and Wallis, queen mother and king George, Andrew and fergie, Edward and Sophie, Zara and thingy (name escapes me) , plus his brother and Catherine (and Harry called her the sister he never had - they seemed to be pretty close). Not many key royals not on that list, who all seemed to marry for love. Was he thinking back to the arranged marriages of the Regency?

He's a twat to invite scrutiny into the marriages of his family members, especially if those marriages involve young children.

He's just giving out little tidbits of information to save some for the next Netflix series, it's all very calculated. If he cared about the truth, integrity etc it all would have come out in the Oprah interview.

If he had any integrity he wouldn't go on TV to criticise his family at all.

It's a nasty inference about K&W's relationship. He could have said, 'my father didn't marry for love' or similar. Even if there is a grain of truth in the inference, he should think about his DNs and save them the 'pain' he's always wanking on about.

@crumpet, but don't you understand, what they have it TROO LURVE. What the others have isn't.
If my BIL/DB invited me over to meet his new girlfriend and she was barefoot and in ripped jeans, I wouldn't have been particularly impressed but if she'd tried to hug me I'd have been horrified.

He has spoken about how his father didn't marry the woman he loved and was encouraged to marry Diana, Charles of course is married to the woman he always loved, thankfully for him.

William and Kate did not rush things, they look pretty close for a couple with 3 kids married over 10 years.