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.

It was an arranged marriage. Her father was dying to marry one of his daughters to Charles. The responsibility lies with her family, not him. They should have ensured she had the maturity and tools to start married life or asked for the RF to wait or not consider her.

“Whereas HE had to kit out Notts Cott with Ikea stuff that M bought using her CC.”

Well if Meghan and Harry’s relationship can survive a trip to IKEA to kit out a whole house, and then assemble it all all, we now know they can survive anything.

(I can just see Oprah’s face).

Why does it have to be either his mum or his wife's fault? How about he's just a weirdo?

@x2boys So basically you are saying his feelings on this are not worth worrying about because he's 74, not 75+ and his parents were in their 90s when they died.

How empathetic of you.

My parents are / were similar age. I can assure you that when an elderly parent dies, the fact they are old makes no difference to the grief.

Clearly you have not experienced this.

And there is no guarantee he will live to his 90s.
It doesn't always work like that.

You know when someone has had a bit too much therapy and starts to analyse and interpret every tiny detail of all their interactions? That’s where Harry is.

Sure, going over ones past really helps in therapy. But at a point you need to stop pouring over every detail, accept what happened and develop healthy coping mechanisms and move on, making the changes that will benefit you and your family. Accept you can’t change people around you, so put healthy boundaries in place.

Harry is stuck. Pouring over every tiny detail and apportioning blame to various parties. It’s often recommended in therapy that you write “no send” letters. Where you get to air all your shit and aggrievances to those who’ve hurt you, BUT you don't send it.

Shame that in Harry’s case, he (the greedy twit) hit publish instead of save to draft.

Exactly . Charles previously went out with Sarah Spencer but she wasn’t prepared to marry him.

They also have income streams from their property - at the time H&M were working royals, Prince Charles had all the revenues from the Duchy and associated business ventures. It is very likely that, as well as sovereign grant covering official expenses and his/their own private income from investments, they received funding from Charles (es for wedding and setting up home costs)

Did you actually see pictures of where Harry & Meghan were living when she first moved to London? I know that it was on the grounds of Kensington palace and had a little paved garden - but it was a kinda dingy and cheap little unit with ratty carpet and cheap furniture. Then Harry and Meghan visit his brother & sister in laws place and it’s a palace. But they hold out because grandma gave Will & Kate a Norfolk property when they got married. The only thing Kate wanted to change was the kitchen because it wasn’t her aesthetic. When Harry & Meghan got married they were gifted dilapidated workers cottages that weren’t habitable and they spent millions of their own money making it habitable.

Yet, they see “the little Emperor” with a house in the country, a palace for the weekdays filled with art and furniture & Meghan is going to ikea and putting Klaksta & Hemnes furniture together.
Then right around the corner Will & Kate are permitted to move into a beautiful house on the Windsor estate & they will inherit and very soon move into Windsor Castle.

I must be the only person in the world who believes them! They got the dirty end of the stick.
I know that Harry has been given more wealth and privilege than I can ever imagine - but he was born into it!! He is the scapegoat in his family. Now Will has children Harry isn’t as important.

The Crown should be looking after Harry and Meghan. Will & Kate are always helicoptering places including taking their children to Mustique for holidays. We all know how safe helicopters are (they are not safe). The Crown erred in their treatment of Harry and Meghan.

It was racist (the disgusting old royal) asking what colour skin Archie would have. Most people here are white but it’s a massive deal to say that to a black person. It’s quite frankly disgusting.

I completely empathise with Harry & Meghan and even though a lot of the stuff in ikea is expensive now - who would have thought Meghan would have to put ikea furniture on her credit card? Harry is a prince and was a working member of the royal family then.

Also, Meghan saying “baby brain” to Kate was not worthy of a WW3 reaction from William. William and Kate hated her and hate her still.

I’m completely on the side of Harry & Meghan. Unfortunately both sides of their family have toxic people in them. It’s no wonder they have tried to make a new tribe with American celebrities.

Because neither his mum or wife were/are ‘royal.’ I’ve learned on mn that a shocking number of people (presumably mostly women) on here, are seemingly willing to blame everything on anyone but the royal family members. Thank god not everyone does this. And they don’t in the wider world either. At least not in my wider world.

This 100%

Did you actually see pictures of where Harry & Meghan were living when she first moved to London? I know that it was on the grounds of Kensington palace and had a little paved garden - but it was a kinda dingy and cheap little unit with ratty carpet and cheap furniture. Then Harry and Meghan visit his brother & sister in laws place and it’s a palace

Yes, and it’s where William and Kate AND their baby son - two actual heirs to the throne - lived until the palace they currently live in now was renovated and decorated exactly as they wanted it. Which is also exactly what the plan was for harry and Meghan too. I’m really not seeing your point here.

If they and you are too stupid to understand the concept of delayed gratification, we can’t help you.

@Morestrangethings - Harry’s mother was a member of the British Aristocracy. She was a lady and came from a titled lineage. She even wore her own family tiara to her wedding because her family had one as they come from old money.

Agree, I can't believe she would not insist on having a massive input,

Do they want the money back? Or the furniture back? I'm a bit bemused by this 'revelation'.
Harry makes being a second son look like middle child syndrome on steroids.
I agree with PPs that Harry's admissions of drug taking, etc, don't play well if he has to paint himself as a responsible father at a later date. But I don't agree it's a problem that he's shown who he is (including being either foolish or malicious enough to put all this in a book).
He has shown what a wonderful job the RF PR did for him prior to this point.
I keep waiting for him to cross lines and swords with the Spencers. Diana was just as critical of her own family as she was of the RF. Even more so sometimes. But she desperately wanted William to be King. I wonder what it would take for the Spencers to 'reply' to H.

No that's not what I'm saying of course he would have been sad ,but when your parents are 99 and 96 you can't expect them. to.live forever im not being unsympathetic at all but that's life ,and they were extremely lucky to have a very long and luxurious life my parents are both 80 so. Yes at some point I will.experience this m
may Be Charles won't live untill.his 90,s but I'm not the one killing him off in the next 5-10 years.

@Beautiful3 completely agree. Interestingly, whilst there have been umpteen threads on this topic since yesterday, I’ve noticed that the fans / defenders are nowhere near as prolific as they have been on previous H&M threads.

How does one pay for an Ikea order without using a credit card? Is there an option at checkout to send a butler around with a wad of cash?

@Intrepidescape - are you joking? The man inherited £30 million at least. I honestly can’t see Meghan queueing up for the meatball special nor deciphering the flat pack instructions for the Torfnung table.

@Intrepidescape actually the taxpayer forked out £2.4 million to renovate Frogmore Cottage. H and M only paid it back when they stopped being working royals.

Just think how much of an IKEA binge they could have had with all that money spent on Hermès blankets. Or was it actually just one stunt blanket that got moved around so was in all the photos 🤔😂

It's important to know this - they weren't being treated differently at all.

But they perceived a slight. Where there was none. Which tells you something about their mental state.

@Velvetween I agree, too much therapy. People, how ever well intentioned, will say and do the wrong thing from time to time. It’s not that everyone has been out to get him!

To analyse everything that’s ever happened to you, through your own internal adult lens is not healthy. I’ve got a friend going through it at the moment (she even calls me up on my use of language and whether it’s ‘helpful’ 🙄).

He was surrounded by family that loved him, with a fantastic education, great friends, he had a great time in the army (very well liked).
What’s all this about?!

Adelaide cottage, which W & C live in is smaller than frogmore. Frogmore cottage is huge, HM wedding was huge. M spent more on clothes than any one else in the royal household. They were both independently wealthy before they got together. Nott Cott was lived in by Harry by choice, before him Kate and wills lived in it with baby George so it can’t be that much of an IKEA clad hell hole.
As usual with HM the inconsistencies continue.

Sky News: Harry complaints about ''how disrespectful it was for one of the Queen's private secretaries to park next to his window and block out his bedroom light''

Bloody hell, who got to proofread this out of his friends and allies and wife? Because they did not have his interest at heart.

Not sure that is the same as living rent free in a royal cottage….