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Prince Harry - sounds articulate and quite intelligent

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pigalow27 · 08/01/2023 22:39

There seems to be an accepted view that Prince Harry is very dim and unintelligent but he seems to be to be really quite articulate and have a wide vocabulary (antagonist, complicit.) I've thought this before when he made a speech at the Invictus games but assumed it was written for him and he was reading it but the answers to the questions in the interview couldn't all possibly have been learnt,

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BlueKaftan · 09/01/2023 08:27

You lot are nasty. What’s wrong? Are you taking this personally? It’s his life and he has every right to set the record straight.

Tyrantosaurus · 09/01/2023 08:29

asblindasabat · 08/01/2023 22:54

I didn’t understand the bit where he said that he never said the RF were racist. I’m almost certain he did say that? Or at the very least he implied it. Being concerned about the skin colour of the baby in that context would imply it is racist?

He clarified it as unconscious bias. They were more in ignorant than actively racist and evil.

Orangefir · 09/01/2023 08:31

User787878787878 · 09/01/2023 07:34

It will be interesting to see whether the Anderson Cooper interview is more incisive. He's acknowledged as being good at follow-up questions, and as a multi-award winning journalist of many years he's clearly very good at what he does.

The sit-down with Tom Bradby wasn't an interview - more of a facilitated talk, where Harry had the opportunity to present his chosen points. I hope the interview with AC involves some challenge.

Unfortunately it was only 30 odd mins and Harry seemed to behave better with Anderson. Obviously because he courting an American audience.
Anderson did ask about the titles, Harry’s response was removing them wouldn’t make any difference. Anderson also asked about calling camilla dangerous. But it wasn’t a probing interview to be honest

ElizabethBest · 09/01/2023 08:35

I knew him at school (Socials, plays etc). Unless he’s had a brain transplant, he is most definitely not intelligent. The thing that shocks me about all this though, is that he was always unfailingly nice. This bizarre series of attacks on absolutely everyone and everything is not the way he was at all, although I didn’t know him well.

TheFairyCaravan · 09/01/2023 08:37

NewYearNewCareer · 09/01/2023 07:57

I was a bit confused 🫤 when he said William attacked him - and he did nothing - isn’t he a trained fighter?

If DS2 attacked DS1 (wouldn’t happen though ) he’d not retaliate despite “being a trained fighter”. 🙄 It doesn’t make Harry weak for not hitting back, it makes him a better person.

Exam results do not determine intelligence, imo. Lots of people go to pieces on the day of their exam, or they flourish later in life. I don’t think Prince Harry is dim, he always comes across really well to me.

FrappuccinoLight · 09/01/2023 08:37

😂😂

FrappuccinoLight · 09/01/2023 08:38

Bigbadfish · 08/01/2023 22:42

Well he wasn't raised on the Gurnos Estate was he?
I'd be rather alarmed after the pure breeding, countless amount of money spent on his upbringing and education if he wasn't able to string coherent sentences together.

😂😂

AzureOrchid · 09/01/2023 08:41

WerkinMum · 08/01/2023 22:46

Meghan's words are coming out of his mouth.

This 100%

Butitsnotfunnyisititsserious · 09/01/2023 08:41

BlueKaftan · 09/01/2023 08:27

You lot are nasty. What’s wrong? Are you taking this personally? It’s his life and he has every right to set the record straight.

And he's inviting people to comment on it.

FrappuccinoLight · 09/01/2023 08:45

He is totally under his wife’s thumb. I felt like every sentence he spoke was her words or crafted in a way that he felt would gain her approval. I agree with the existance in many of us of ‘unconscious bias’ but the way he spoke about it over and over again felt like he’d been lectured to about it at breakfast over and over again, not to mention using it to defend his awful decisions in his 20s. I wonder would his wife had hooked up with him had she actually seen those awful fancy dress costume photos earlier on.

50shadesofneigh · 09/01/2023 08:46

Prince Harry thinks he is writing and starring in a fairytale.

The one where he calls out the ''wicked stepmother'' and the royals ''getting into bed with the devil'' (actual quote from the interview), when along comes blameless, flawless, the young stallion Prince Harold to lance it all.

Thereupon: ''I genuinely believe, and I hope, that reconciliation between my family and us will have a ripple effect across the entire world'' actual quote from the interview.

Twerp.

Cath667 · 09/01/2023 08:46

QueenOfHiraeth · 09/01/2023 00:15

I wish he could refer to Meghan by name instead of "my wife", I don't know why it irritates me so much but it does.
I think he came across well but he was talking about his chosen topics to a tame journalist with pre-approved questions

It's very interesting. My friend who is married to a narcissist (who has alienated him from his family) also uses 'my wife' constantly. It's noticeable. It's like he has been conditioned to say it, almost like he has to keep demonstrating how lucky he is to be married to her. She's above him in the hierarchy. It's hard to explain but it's weird.

FrappuccinoLight · 09/01/2023 08:46

ElizabethBest · 09/01/2023 08:35

I knew him at school (Socials, plays etc). Unless he’s had a brain transplant, he is most definitely not intelligent. The thing that shocks me about all this though, is that he was always unfailingly nice. This bizarre series of attacks on absolutely everyone and everything is not the way he was at all, although I didn’t know him well.

As I said, it’s his mouth moving and his wife talking…

50shadesofneigh · 09/01/2023 08:49

Nothing is EVER his fault.

I am not racist, I have unconscious bias.

I am correcting stories told about me. But I let the story about the witchhunt for the racist in the royal family stand and I even went so far as to clarify a couple of people who it was not.

What I need is a private, unrecorded family meeting where everyone takes the knee and apologises to me, and nothing should ever be published about that meeting or the outcome of that meeting, and I will then be happy. - AS IF!!!!!!

BellatrixLestrangesHeatedCurlers · 09/01/2023 08:50

It suited the media narrative to have William as the smart dashing helicopter pilot and Harry as the goofy kid brother. Neither of them got any decent A-levels. Just because someone isn't academic it doesn't mean they can't be articulate in conversation.

daemonologie · 09/01/2023 08:51

He should just be honest and say that he's incredibly jealous of his father and brother. He doesn't love his father or he wouldn't try to stain the beginning of his reign in this way. How many times does he expect his brother and father to turn the other cheek? If they have any dignity they will write him off completely. His behaviour is shameful. He has no dignity and the people round him should have advised him to back off. He doesn't sound articulate or intelligent. He'll end up bankrupt and divorced at this rate.

daemonologie · 09/01/2023 08:52

50shadesofneigh · 09/01/2023 08:46

Prince Harry thinks he is writing and starring in a fairytale.

The one where he calls out the ''wicked stepmother'' and the royals ''getting into bed with the devil'' (actual quote from the interview), when along comes blameless, flawless, the young stallion Prince Harold to lance it all.

Thereupon: ''I genuinely believe, and I hope, that reconciliation between my family and us will have a ripple effect across the entire world'' actual quote from the interview.

Twerp.

😂

Orangefir · 09/01/2023 08:53

TheFairyCaravan · 09/01/2023 08:37

If DS2 attacked DS1 (wouldn’t happen though ) he’d not retaliate despite “being a trained fighter”. 🙄 It doesn’t make Harry weak for not hitting back, it makes him a better person.

Exam results do not determine intelligence, imo. Lots of people go to pieces on the day of their exam, or they flourish later in life. I don’t think Prince Harry is dim, he always comes across really well to me.

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No doesn’t make Harry weak but does turn him into a victim, which suits his narrative perfectly

You seem to forget that he was at the most prestigious independent school, probably in the world. His tutors included people like Rory Stewart. Vast resources will have been put into his education by Eton, as it was their reputation on the line. All those resources, opportunities wasted. He wasn’t a hard worker who flunked an exam. He is someone that wasn’t academic and wasn’t interested in his education.
You’re correct that exam results don’t reflect someone’s intellect but what does, is someone throwing away opportunities that simply don’t exist for most British pupils, not understanding how valuable this resource was. That demonstrates someone unable to make assess and good judgements, which is a sign of intelligence

BellatrixLestrangesHeatedCurlers · 09/01/2023 08:53

FrappuccinoLight · 09/01/2023 08:45

He is totally under his wife’s thumb. I felt like every sentence he spoke was her words or crafted in a way that he felt would gain her approval. I agree with the existance in many of us of ‘unconscious bias’ but the way he spoke about it over and over again felt like he’d been lectured to about it at breakfast over and over again, not to mention using it to defend his awful decisions in his 20s. I wonder would his wife had hooked up with him had she actually seen those awful fancy dress costume photos earlier on.

Ahh yes this old chestnut lmao. None of you cared about Harry before marriage but suddenly it's we must rescue him from the mean narcissist who is puppeteering him! It's more likely that he has had extensive therapy - he speaks in therapy tropes (good for him). It is incredibly American. Which is fitting, as... he lives in America.

Heatherjayne1972 · 09/01/2023 08:54

This was a ‘sales pitch’ for his book

both him and the interviewer would have been aware of the questions and the answers.

It’s all scripted

SpringsRightAroundTheCorner · 09/01/2023 08:56

He went to Eton and left with barely a pass, I mean come on. He can string a sentence together and sounds posh, doesn't make him intelligent.

Butitsnotfunnyisititsserious · 09/01/2023 08:57

daemonologie · 09/01/2023 08:51

He should just be honest and say that he's incredibly jealous of his father and brother. He doesn't love his father or he wouldn't try to stain the beginning of his reign in this way. How many times does he expect his brother and father to turn the other cheek? If they have any dignity they will write him off completely. His behaviour is shameful. He has no dignity and the people round him should have advised him to back off. He doesn't sound articulate or intelligent. He'll end up bankrupt and divorced at this rate.

The jealousy is crystal clear.

TrashyPanda · 09/01/2023 08:57

50shadesofneigh · 09/01/2023 08:49

Nothing is EVER his fault.

I am not racist, I have unconscious bias.

I am correcting stories told about me. But I let the story about the witchhunt for the racist in the royal family stand and I even went so far as to clarify a couple of people who it was not.

What I need is a private, unrecorded family meeting where everyone takes the knee and apologises to me, and nothing should ever be published about that meeting or the outcome of that meeting, and I will then be happy. - AS IF!!!!!!

Exactly.

this silly witch-hunt just shows how dim he is. No sense of responsibility.

for decades, the BP press office crafted this image of Harry as “a good lad”. Left to his own devices, he’s shown himself as a spoilt, petty, immature twit.

NCOfCourse12345 · 09/01/2023 09:00

Don't think he's completely low intelligence, but there is large range of intelligence that can possess verbosity and clean gasp of English.

I get the emotional anger on the loose and being given a large microphone unfortunately like some very angry people on social media parroting out therapyspeak but I still can't get over that tawdry over-dramatic Oprah racism-implying scene and Oprah gasping, without further clarification.

That completely ruined credibility and it seems like he's doubling down with "unconscious bias" when there was an opportunity for crisp clarification. So every time I root for Harry "come on, make it right or at least articulate it better!" - just keep getting disappointed...come on....

Morestrangethings · 09/01/2023 09:03

snapdragon12 · 09/01/2023 08:00

even if every word he spoke was truth, it's still despicable to speak it in this way. I'm sure William has his truth and I'm sure Camilla and Charles have their truths. I bet Kate has her truth too. Families fall out. They don't blab to the press about it.

No, but the RF members do get ‘unnamed sources’ to do it. So in effect they are blabbing but doing it covertly. This is what I’ve learned from the documentary & interviews

In fact, after watching the Anderson Cooper interview I’m darn sure I prefer Harry’s way.

When people comment about Harry’s family not trusting him again, it’s easily forgotten that goes both ways. What will RF members feed to the media and will it be even true (not being true is another criticism aimed at Harry)?

As I’ve said, I just then watched the Anderson Cooper interview and Harry is smart and articulate. I have said this before on mn. I watched a number of episodes of ‘The me you cannot see’ about mental health issues and his intelligence was obvious then.