Nott Cogg - 'frat house'

[50shadesofneigh]

The father-of-two wrote: 'I was excited to welcome Meg to my home, but also embarrassed. Nott Cott was no palace. Nott Cott was palace adjacent - that was the best you could say for it.'
As he watched Meghan walk up the garden path to his home, Prince Harry says he was 'relieved' that she 'gave no indication of disillusionment'.
However, that changed when the duchess stepped inside the cottage - where the ceilings are 'dolls' house low'.
He added: 'Then she said something about a frat house.'
Prince Harry says he had never noticed how 'shabby' the furniture in his home was before - with the then Suits actress appearing particularly unimpressed with his beanbag chair which matched his brown sofa.
After Meghan moved in, Prince Harry recalls how the couple purchased some Ikea lights and ordered a second-hand settee from sofa.com, which they'd bought with his future wife's credit card.

Is this petulant and ungrateful spun for a laugh?

I’m believing the other actual person involved and what she said at the time.

It's also full of things that he made up. He's not a reliable narrator

@StatisticallyChallenged have you honestly read the whole book or just snippets on MN and Twitter?

I keep reading people on here saying he must be lying because what he says is different to something they read in the paper. It is a weird world we live in if we are convinced that a journalist knows more about someone’s life than the person concerned.

Poor poor me, I have to take my stunning girlfriend back to my free, high value home and where there’s <vomits in mouth> furniture from Ikea. What if she dumps me?!

Does this guy pay for anything ? his entitlement is breath taking

I keep reading people on here saying he must be lying because what he says is different to something they read in the paper.

People are saying he’s lying because the lack of veracity of some of his stories is easily checked and there’s proof out there that either he’s lying or his memory is faulty. There’s also the small matter of stories varying between the book, the Oprah interview, the Netflix series and the four promotional interviews so he’s saying different things at different times.

I am about a hundred pages in at the moment. I honestly have never seen less accountability and more moaning. Not one thing has been his fault to date. Sniping, constantly harping on about others, there’s not been a single example of him being nice to another person so far and I think he’s gotten to age 20ish. It’s in shockingly bad taste. As is his pass agg ‘I was so embarrassed by the frat house look’. Let’s face it, loads of men (and many women) would live in squalor-adjacent homes if left to their own devices. It was his decision not to pay an interior designer to give the place a spruce up before Meghan moved in. He dgaf. He makes out he does retrospectively because his wife - very understandably - said this place is a tip - a brown beanbag ffs! Most men are happy to make a home out of where they live when they settle down and particularly when a partner moves in. Two multi millionaires crying about having to decorate their own home is beyond crass and tone deaf. It’s been published in at least one book that harry isn’t flash with the cash and has been described as tight, a truly unappealing trait in any one.

Harry reminds me of the Little Britain sketch with Maggie Blackamoor where she vomits at the idea that lesbians made some jam. Harry and Meg are practically vomiting with disgust at Nott Cott. Utterly pathetic.

Did the story about him being alone at Eton when the QM died end "and then i woke up and it was all a dream" by any chance?

Just looking for the missing context which makes that not bollocks 😂

Lol! He has what he clearly thinks is an amazing device to dispel doubt about the knowing inaccuracies of what he is saying by claiming PTSD-esque memory lapse and loss, so intermittently he remembers to put in a timely ‘I think’ in to the middle of an anecdote randomly because you see his memories can’t be trusted… you nearly feel sorry for him because he is stunted at 13 hence this get out of jail card he has come up with. The only thing he never forgets or doubts for one minute though is that it’s all someone else’s fault.

On another thread a poster said Netflix had to record some portions of the interview again as they didn’t tally with the book. That there are still so many inconsistencies despite amendments is testament that what H claims to have happened may not be what actually transpired.

"Whatever the cause, my memory is my memory, it does what it does, gathers and curates as it sees fit, and there's just as much truth in what I remember and how I remember it as there is in so-called objective facts."

Clearly he believes his memories should be taken as truth even though they're not true. So if he remembers he was at Eton, then he was, despite the fact he was in Klosters.

Interesting. I have not taken it as complaining.

My take is that it's another example of how shit everything was until he met Meghan. He is very clearly overawed by her.

She's very much credited by him as helping him see the light on many things and it appears this extended to his choice in furniture.

That said I can see why embellishing anecdotes with descriptions like '"low ceilings" "Oprah surprised" "frat house" could seem like you are saying it was shit. It evidently wasn't but no not a suite at Buck palace.

That said if they all lived like Louis XIV I can't help but wonder if it would now be a narrative of "how overly grand and cold like the family themselves" "how uncomfortable the sofa from Victoria's reign was' how not homely - so you can't win really!

Ultimately, you can tell your story but can't control people's reaction to it.

"Ultimately, you can tell your story but can't control people's reaction to it."

Exactly - you can't! But that does not seem to have occurred to Prince Harry; or anyone else involved in the writing of it. This the most striking piece of naïvety.

"I don't like the press, they twist everything! I'll publish my own account. That'll sort it!" Seems like Prince Harry has never come across the concept of newspaper book reviews for a kick off!

“Whatever the cause, my memory is my memory, it does what it does, gathers and curates as it sees fit, and there's just as much truth in what I remember and how I remember it as there is in so-called objective facts."

What utter horse shit. So-called objective facts? Let’s see which one stands up in court, because my memory serves that I too am Prince Harry and demand his wealth immediately. He is an imposter. I am the real Harry.

No, I'm Spartacus I mean Harry 🤴

Agree, I thought this after they did the OW programme, and that's before you get the podcasts, Netflix series and book

I think its completely understandable that they wanted to get away from the tabloid press, paps and not want to be the subject of gossip columns and magazines.

It's also not unreasonable they wanted to give their account and correct certain stories that had been printed.
But while they can choose sympathetic interviewers, produce their own series or podcasts and write a book, once it's out in public, anyone and everyone can have an opinion on it, good bad and ugly.
The same British press that he despises have been given plenty of material to work with, without anyone briefing or leaking. They will be critiquing, reporting on, and regurgitating the book for weeks!

Moehringer has also tweeted another quote

Harry and Meghan are jealous of Kate and William's home. First, Kate and William have been married a long time and it takes time to create and furnish a home style to your liking. Plus, they most probably have to receive VIPs, heads of state, so you can't expect them to look like the pages of Ikea.

Harry could have decorated his Notts Cottage. He has the money. As for Meghan, it is rude to go into someone else's home and pass judgement on. the furnishings.

HAVE HAZ AND MEG FORGOTTEN ABOUT ALL THE CHARITY WORK THEY DO IN AFRICA, WITH ORPHANS THE HOMELESS ETC...Meghan giving food to homeless people in L A and yet complains...

There is a news story in China the other day about a guy who took his girlfriend to meet his parents in a rural part of China. They served her food that they usually ate. She complained about the food and dumped him. He was a lucky guy.

Harry writes about himself as a 30 year old man child - pays no heed to what he’s wearing and shops in bulk at TK Max’s with a simple “does it fit?” criteria, isn’t bothered about his surroundings, doesn’t cook for himself and just eats takeaways al the time. I have known many in my time. We already know his friends are boorish and he tells us himself he has no interest in history, literature or the arts. Just the army, polo and partying by the sounds of it. What on earth did Meghan see in him?

What on earth did Meghan see in him?

How does it go? "What first attracted you to the millionaire Prince?"

For the 100th time I wish we could see how things were if there were parallel universes ..,,

Wren architecture is well, it's Wren, it's priceless. As an art historian, Kate would really have appreciated it. Meghan would be less likely to understand how it was special. If you look at the houses she lived in since she was born then it was a matter of size for her, as usual.
It is beyond absurd to even begin to compare it to a rental in suburban Toronto.

She knew that she was coming into a grand family from a common background so declaring the cottage inferior/shouting down staff/ throwing toddler tantrums on the ground were all queenie ways of trying to disguise her complex and retain alpha control.

M&H have vastly difference experiences of money and what it means to have money. Some very wealthy people who grew up with vast wealth, are not massively flash to the degree that they can sometimes be construed as frugal or even tight-fisted. However, some who grew up more modestly and then come into money, they like to celebrate the fact they have money. For some, this means a flashy huge house and other visible signs of wealth.

I'm not at all surprised M wasn't impressed with NC any more than H was quite happy to live how he was living. It was only when H viewed it through M's eyes, he started to feel disgruntled and hard done by.