To think the palace should issue a statement condemning Clarkson's comments?

[Reindeersnooker]

I'm all for their dignified silence on everything else. I don't trust Harry or Megan. But Jeremy Clarkson's comments are horrific and were made in Britain against a woman who has become a member of their family.

NOT issuing a statement sends out such a hurtful message and indicates that anything can be said about her, for all they care. Even the MPs have managed to put something on paper.

It's clear that Harry will be beyond hurt if they do nothing and this time he'd have a point, IMO. Each comment like this published in the press erodes the boundaries for online trolls. If I was Meghan, I wouldn't feel I could return to the UK as it's clear the normal rules don't apply to her. What will her children think of Britain when they grow up and become aware of these articles? Won't they be likely to wonder how the palace responded? While it makes no sense to try and placate Harry generally, letting this play out without one word of censure to the press seems needlessly provocative.

It wouldn't be difficult to issue a statement saying something to the effect of "We stand against bullying and hate speech..." Two lines to indicate they see it and it's not ok.

Or not?

Is that you Meghan?

Funny all the Fans of H&M demanding the RF make a statment, why should they. Have the Grifters finnaly lost their voice?

Where is H&M`s Stament? strangley silent when it suits them. Why should the RF speak up first, Meghan and Hasbeen cant seem to stop speaking on camera why not now.

They hate the RF and the firm soo much it must be obvious they dont want them to speak on their behalf.

@Virginiaplain I was starting to wonder, seems to live on here defending and spinning tales on behalf of Megsy.

Yes of course they should but they won't because Jeremy is Camilla's friend.

Oh god here we go again 😂

No.

I'd love to know what makes men like JC and Piers hate Meghan so much.

I strongly suspect their penises are put out of joint because women like Meghan will NEVER fuck them or so much as glance in their direction

IMO I can’t believe it’s dragged out this long with more commentators getting involved and at some point people will move on

I wouldn't worry, Marsha; when attention finally moves on Clarkson will no doubt produce another stunt for his fellow oafs to chortle over, but in the meantime he'll be thoroughly enjoying the ruckus he's created

It is, after all, his entire MO

Camilla was with Clarkson around the time the article was being published. Camilla’s charity campaign work on preventing violence against women is undermined by Clarkson’s words

How?

His words are nothing to do with her or her work. He hadn’t published the column then and she didn’t host the lunch. If anyone think so it’s because just looking to shift blame onto another woman. Good old misogyny ey.

I just think the optics look very very poor for Camilla right now.
There is no way Diana would have agreed to go with pier's Morgan there!

Clarkson’s words are some of the worst written about Meghan in a national newspaper by someone who wines and dines in royal circles. If the palace permit this then they are responsible for giving the media permission to write anything about this one member of the royal family who is their only person of colour too.

What do you think the Royals ‘allowed’ exactly? And what does the media need the RF’s permission for?

Pier's Morgan has been gunning for Megan for years now and even lost a job over it.
If Camilla or her "team" doesn't understand how speaking about women like this degenerates them, leading to violence she needs to step down immediately as a parton to this charity.

@MarshaBradyo
Public opinion is not split

There has been a years worth of complaints in a few days

The royals haven't made a statement because it's all a bit too close to home . The royals depend on the media to keep the show on the road and to keep the skeletons in the cupboard

They will probably be forced to make some mealy mouthed statement sooner or later

But the damage had been done
Camilla PR is in tatters

It is plausible that Camilla would let her friends do her dirty work. She is a mischief maker and not a girl's girl. Anybody who creeps around with another's husband for years in such a way cannot be a good human being.

Btw, her son (Tom) is the person who is a friend of Clarkson for those who do not know.

Yes exactlyZ

Nor to mention after Diana’s death a gentleman’s agreement was formed between the press and the palace that UK press wouldnt pap Royals children. That’s based on a mutual agreement in person and good will of the press - they would jeopardise that (and almost did a few years ago when Catherine started taking her own pictures rather than doing press ops) if they started doing a tit for tat policy of speaking out every time someone writes something they don’t like.

There is no way Diana would have agreed to go with pier's Morgan there!

Does that fabulous psychic ability of yours that can confidently predict what a woman dead for 25 years would have done stretch to the numbers for the next Euromillions? If it does PM me and I promise to see you right

I didn’t say Andrew sneaked in anywhere? I said he didn’t need his mother’s permission to do an interview and could easily have orchestrated it himself (which he largely did)

Clarkson is relying on the analogy to get away with his vile words. So if people object - or if he is sued - he can say “Oh silly you you’ve misunderstand I’m just talking like she’s in a popular TV show, I don’t actually want violence against her hahahahaha”

Largely ??

He had permission to use Buckingham place and you know it

In what way will releasing a statement protect anyone?

That’s because a plastic surgeon doctored photos of him performing a procedure on ‘Catherine’, claiming he gave her Botox. It wasn’t in response to press stories or a column.

How utterly obtuse.

They can release a statement to say they are deeply disappointed in a piece written by JC on mm.
They can say it was an error of judgement that Camilla attended the bash with pm also in attendance and as a patron of domestic violence charity she condems public degeneration of women in such terms especially of her step daughter in law.

Garry 🤣

Yes exactly they’re 40yo people they don’t need daddy to defend them, it’s not school.

Im guessing they’re lining up to sue JC and the rag. They are quite litigious by nature, and I hope they do just to see the people at The Scum squirm and simper.

As an aside I hate referring to Clarkson by his initials, they’re the same as that bloke whose birthday it is on Sunday

20k complaints out of a population of 67m - say 50m adults.

no poster on here has any idea of what the overall general public think. The number of complaints merely reflect a twitter type level of frothing backlash and I do wonder how many of those complaints actually read the whole column - there was wholesale encouragement here for other posters to write and complain, replicate that on twitter and off you go.

I was much more offended by Jordan Gray on Channel four with a self written song saying he/her was better than any woman and flashing his genitals and playing the piano with his penis and the regulator deemed that was ok and Channel 4 was praised for being innovative. That was misogyny at its finest

Who said it was? It’s a completely different situation. They confirmed the pictures were not of Catherine. I’m sure RF should have got that crystal ball out again that they own, looked it it he future and aww this happen and so not do that