If you were Harry ...

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(sorry, this is long..I wrote at 3am when I couldn't sleep - but then fell asleep!! So it worked to get me to sleep at least!! Now not wanting to waste the words I wrote so posting!!!)

If you were Harry .....I mean literally .... Like in the film 'Big'... If you suddenly found yourself waking up as Harry, but with your own personality, what would you do?

This is what I'd do...

Release a statement that says something along the lines of ...

"... Firstly I want to thank the USA and UK. USA for welcoming me, providing me a home for myself and family etc... Also, I owe an enormous debt to the UK. Thank you to every single person living in the UK today for funding my hugely privileged lifestyle, from my schooling at Eton, to my different homes and residence over the years, my holidays and my fame. Without you I would not have had the privileges I have. Thank you from the bottom of my heart...

Myself and Meghan decided to do something a few years ago which we couldn't have known was the right or wrong thing to do. We left the UK, my family, my friends, and the institution of the monarchy itself, in search of a new life. This doesn't mean I no longer love my country. I acknowledge and will forever be indebted to the great people of the UK. I continue to love my country and always will. I also still deeply love my family and respect whole heartedly the institution of the monarchy.

When we left the UK, Meghan and I made many mistakes and continue to do so. I am sorry we haven't always got things right. I'm sorry for those I have hurt. I wish to say sorry to my family and friends for anything I may have said that caused you harm. I also wish to say sorry to others I have hurt, not least friends and partners from my teenage years, the wonderful matron who cared for me at Eton, but about whom i wrote unfair things in my recent book. I'm sorry for my ill thought out words about the Taliban and my kill.count in my recent book, and I am sorry to have let many people down over the last 3 or 4 years, not least my own brother.

As you know, I have a strained relationship with the press. I also remain a deeply traumatised man, in whom many scars form the past still rage on. However, I am learning that my own actions over the last few months/years have been no better than those of the media I despise so much. I also understand that while I have significant parts of my mental health I need to work on, there are many others experiencing far worse.

My wife and I, and our children, have decided to take a step back from the media and public life for the foreseeable future. We have recently sold our Montecito home and have arranged to move to a smaller property, in another part of the USA where we feel we will be happier and out of the line light. Megan and I will not be making any public appearances for the next 5 years. We need to work on ourselves, our relationship, and spend some quality time with our children. You may see my name attached to some of the invictus games work.or other charitable work I will be continuing to be involved in, but I ask please that you don't detract from these causes by drawing attention to myself. I will not be appearing publically.or making any public statements or media appearances as part of this work. Megan intends to return to acting so may be recognisable in the media via her appearance in these series. However, again, we will not otherwise be appearing in the media and Megan will not be making any public appearances to promote her work or for any other reason.

We will, as we have said before, not be working in any royal capacity. This is not because we don't value the family and the institution, but we have decided, essentially, to remove ourselves from the public eye for the next 5 years, and therefore are not going to front or be part of any publicised royal event.

This is the last statement I will make publically for, as I stated, at least 5 years. Thank you for your patience, your support and all the love and support you have shown to me over the years and I apologise again, wholeheartedly, that I have let many down in recent years.

Yours ....

Harry

Trying to imagine a RF member saying “Myself and Meghan” (sorry I didn’t read the rest).

😂😂😂

I would join a group that wanted to abolish the monarchy and appear at lots of their events.
I would arrange to visit all the celebrities I like and try and blag overnight stays at their houses.

😁😁😁!!!

Your insomnia aid is actually typing out on your phone long-winded, imaginary apologies from public figures? What next? David Cameron for Brexit? Boris Johnson for breathing?

The first thing I'd do is issue a heartfelt plea for mumsnetters to KEEP THIS SHIT TO THE ROYALS BOARD

Who needs Psychiatrists 🙄

!!! Oh yeah!!! 🤣Didn't see I'd written that!! I did mean grain and grape!! Thanks for spotting! (Clearly still have the wine on my mind!!! Only 12 hours til DCs in bed and wine and me have a date on the sofa .. ahhhhh 💭🍷)

I think that their problem is paying for the security. Even if they withdrew from public life, they would still have to protect themselves from the media and crazies. This is a huge cost over their lifetime.

I think it was a major miscalculation assuming that their security would continue to be paid for when they moved.

Oooohhhh... Don't tempt me!! Don't tempt me!! Just who to go to next!!! ?? ... Blair is calling ... Or trump! .... I'd quite fancy waking up at the Whitehouse so maybe that's where i'll go tonight!

Sorry!!! 🤣🤣🤣

So you'd wake up as someone else , says some absolute bollocks, force their wife to sell the house she lives in, decide she's going back into acting, when she can be appear in the public and what she can say or do and then hide for at least 5 years.

Controlling much?

I am minded of the advice given by Alex Salmond to Humza Yousaf today:

'They should reach out across the movement and get the independence convention up and running. He should forget every old score he thought he had and try to start from scratch. The baggage he has with him is not something he’ll be able to bear as well as the challenges that lie ahead.'

For Harry, replace 'the independence convention' with 'republicanism'.

Ay?

That’s nice, dear.

At 3 am? I would try to go back to sleep as I always did. I try not to think about my past actions and their consequences at 3am as it never ends goods and usually ends up with me crying and waking my DH. Imagine his horror if he would wake up next to sobbing Harry.

I thought Harry was good when he played Harold in Steptoe & Son but I am puzzled as to why there are some many threads about him. I normally skim over them but I glanced at this one as I thought it might be something to do with the man with the hand puppets and small water pistols, which I always liked. Sadly not

"... Firstly I want to thank the USA for welcoming me, providing me a home for myself and family etc... We had no choice

To every single person living in the UK today funding my hugely privileged lifestyle., I had no control over being born

Myself and Meghan decided to do something a few years ago the right thing to do. We left the UK, my family, my friends, and the institution of the monarchy itself, in search of a better life. This doesn't mean I no longer love my country.

Thanks for buying my book, as with all autobiographies, there's always going to be a bit about daft things we did as teenagers, and losing our virginity to someone we didn't have a proper relationship with.

As you know, I have a strained relationship with the press. I also remain a deeply traumatised man, but the press don't really care about that

My wife and I, and our children, would like to not be in the media so much, but this can't be helped if we attach ourselves to charitable work. We can't stop the constant stories coming from 'Royal sources'

We will, as we have said before, not be working in any royal capacity. This does not mean we won't be seen in royal events. Our family is private so please ignore speculation.

A shame I had to make this statement

F... Off

Harry

You could also do Harry apology pieces on:

Nazi uniform
Strip billiards
Inglorious stallion

I think putting yourself in others shows shows OP is less likely personality disordered.

Not everyone is thinking about themselves all of the time.

What's your aibu?

Aibu to pretend to be someone I don't know and write a load of waffle on their behalf?

WTF have I just read?!! 😂

As someone else with insomnia, this is the kind of weird stuff that I think of at 3am to try and get back to sleep too! You aren't alone!

I agree that hat Meghan could just crack on with the acting career she had before they met. I'm sure there is loads for her to be ambitious for & aim for in that field. Would help ease any perceptions that she married Harry as a stepping stone to bigger things.

... there isn't one because i meant to post in royal family! Not sure how I got here instead!! But I'm quite pleased now I accidentally posted in AIBU because I've enjoyed reading the responses which are always pretty funny, sometimes completely offensive, and sometimes make me think, on AIBU!

He's way too thick to do a degree or masters - massively privileged schooling and so much support surrounding him and he scraped through GCSEs and a couple of flakey A levels ....
MM was never a good actress, she's played her best role recently sidling into the royal family and blowing a hole in it, and in Harry's world too ... not in any way to benefit him either