We had to buy our Notts Cott furniture from Ikea on M's credit card- boo hoo

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Really?
Another statement probably way off the truth.

H is reported as saying they were amazed when they visited W&C in Kensington Palace and saw the art work, the furniture etc etc.

Whereas HE had to kit out Notts Cott with Ikea stuff that M bought using her CC. (Harrods is just down the road as is John Lewis .)

Has he forgotten the £millions of tax payers' money that was used to tart up Nott Cott?

And that he's now had to pay back as they buggered off the US soon afterwards?

Yet another warped statement, oozing with unfounded jealousy.

I'm guessing it was Meghan who was amazed and who planted the seeds of dissatisfaction in the first place. 'Why does your brother live in a huge pile with lots of art work when you are in this tiny cottage with shabby furniture?'. He then started to look at things from a different perspective. Meghan just didn't understand the whole system.

Pardon my ignorance, but aren't working royals not allowed to make an income?

If MM was forbidden from working then I can see why she would expect them to pay for things like furniture.

Yes - if that was on another thread, people would be asking if it was financial abuse.

@WisteriaLodge And? Kate had Jo Malone candles lit in Westminster Abbey on her wedding day. No biggie really and nothing much to remark on in the grand scheme of things.

I'm puzzled to see that the Kindle version of Spare is available on amazon now at £4.49. The hardback at £10. There are two different price points . Very strange. I looked at the sample and it seems very dull.

He's 74 so not late 70,s given both his parents lived to ripe old ages chances,are he will live well.into.his 90,s
whilst it s sad both his parents died in about a year and half of each other at 99and 96,that surely can't have come as a huge shock🙄

NGL IKEA really do do the best ziplock bags I have ever encountered.

Harold was remiss to not get some sort of advertising deal signed with IKEA pre book release… I definitely feel an IKEA visit coming on.

I don't know how it works. Who owns the script? Did Harry hire the ghostwriter so the script is Harry's. Or did Penguin Random House hire the ghost writer and Harry gave the info and what the writer produced, belonged to the publishers?

I can't quite figure how they couldn't make changes to the book and the documentary if they were produced by themselves.

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Ridiculous farce about sums it up

This is another step in Meghan the narcs plan to rinse and bleed Harry dry and he’s falling for it like an idiot.
this is what toxic people do- alienate the person from their families, take their support away, become everything to that person, use them and then watch them fall apart and implode. She will be planning a runner and then will take what she wants and leave him hung out to dry. I actually feel sorry for him.

Why Meghan's credir card, and not Harry's (or both)

I'm actually quite upset about this

I'm disgusted by it. The implication from this that the title means (among other things) that he exists literally to provide spare parts when you only have to look at their childhood pictures to see how loved he was.

I don;t understand why Meghan had to pay for the furniture alone? Surley they'd buy it together?

If she'd wanted scented candles, then it would quite possible have been a 'yes'

What was reported at the time was not that. It was for some sort of scented spray. That was a no.

Then there was the unfair WAH 'but Kate'
That Kate did not have a spray seemed to get lost in the kerfuffle. She has scented candles, and IIRC they weren't considered/rejected for the Sussexes

When I read the title I thought it’s a joke, still not convinced it’s not.

If there’s someone posting on MN claiming they have to use their credit card to furnish their BF’s pad when the BF is a millionaire, she would be given the advice to LTB!! It’s your chance to run Meghan!!

I’m bored with all this already. But this is a very reasonable point and probably the point really. Attention being diverted from the rest of the family. Don’t look at us look at them and their spending with their American ways.

This really isn’t the case though - all the royal’s spending habits have always been extensively covered by the media. Here’s just some of the many many stores critical of the then-Cambridge’s move to Adelaide Cottage in Windsor. You will find similar stories about them refurbishing Anmer House and their apartment in Kensington palace (and subsequent works they have Dione on both properties). Check out the rvery ecent headlines about the cost of Kate’s wardrobe last year too.

www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/royals/kate-and-williams-kids-enrolling-in-ritzy-new-school-is-tone-deaf/news-story/7983c7e81dcf0bb8247084f501b98ec9

www.mirror.co.uk/news/royals/kate-williams-fourth-home-shows-27802447

www.gbnews.uk/news/kate-and-william-slammed-over-disgraceful-relocation-to-adelaide-cottage-as-brits-face-crippling-inflation/355967

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/royal-family/republic-graham-smith-kate-middleton-william-home-b2150590.html

I agree @Mellymoon . Seen it play out in my own family. It's horrible to watch and even though you try to make the 'Harry' in the situation try and see sense, they don't and you just have to sit on the side lines and watch the crash happen. Sad really.

A good example of the double standards - this has been reported on/mentioned negatively many times, even though Kate did something very similar and as you say it's hardly a big deal.

The point I am making, which I stand by is the fact that the OP suggested that the art belongs to the nation, who in turn have to pay to be able to access it. I questioned why that was

Because a priceless collection of art and artefacts is very expensive to exhibit, transport, store, secure, conserve and insure; and the people who do all those things have to be paid, as well.

The IKEA names system seems to be quite simple, when it is going by the following rules:

• Bathroom articles: names of Scandinavian lakes, rivers and bays
• Bedlinen, bed covers, pillows/cushions: flowers, plants, precious stones
• Beds, wardrobes, hall furniture: names of Norwegian places
• Bookcase ranges: occupations, Scandinavian boy’s names
• Bowls, vases, candles, and candle holders: names of Swedish places, descriptive words, spices, herbs, fruits and berries
• Boxes, wall decoration, pictures and frames, clocks: Swedish colloquial expressions, also names of Swedish places
• Carpets: names of Danish places
• Chairs, desks: men’s names
• Children’s items: mammals, birds, adjectives
• Curtain accessories: mathematical and geometrical terms
• Dining tables and chairs: names of Finnish places
• Fabrics, curtains: women’s names
• Garden furniture: Swedish islands
• Kitchen accessories: foreign words, spices, herbs, fish, mushrooms, fruits or berries, functional descriptions
• Kitchens: grammatical terms, sometimes also other names
• Lighting: terms from music, chemistry, meteorology, measures, weights, seasons, months, days, boats, nautical terms
• Upholstered furniture, coffee tables, rattan furniture, bookshelves, media storage, doorknobs: names of Swedish places

Well in an irony, relating to me being 'generous' that Harry needs book shelves, it seems that the Ikea 'Harald' would be a bookcase range...

but who would pay for anything? Surely their was "royal money" payng for things - lik ethier weekly shop etc staff.

they don't earn money in the traditional sense, but have an allowance from the crown - that's their salary....

Be fair, he is entitled to be amazed at art work, he did AL Art you know.

( disclaimer, someone did AL Art under his name , it might or might not have been Harold.)

Most things in the palace like the art and antique furnishings, belong to the state. They do not personally belong to the royal family.

To be honest I used to like Harry but the more he says/writes, the more I actually detest him. He is a completely spoilt brat. He had a beautiful home to live in for free. He's complaining about buying his own furniture?! They are both millionaires! They wanted the public to fund it instead?!!! Urghh what on earth is Harry thinking by exposing his naive and self entitled attitude. Can I please ask the fans of Harry, why you like him? Even now?!

The thing is, it's not remotely similar.

One is a chemical spray.

The other is adding scent to candles that were going to be burning there anyway.