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Kate's 'resentment' : Princess was denied a final goodbye with the Queen

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RYGO · 17/04/2023 12:53

"Kate's 'resentment' : Princess was denied a final goodbye with the Queen because she had to stay away from Balmoral to ensure Harry's wife couldn't come, royal author claims"

Kate 'resents' not having final moment to say goodbye to Queen | Daily Mail Online

According to book from Robert Jobson. Charles doesn't come of good in this book....

Kate 'resents' not having final moment to say goodbye to Queen

Kate, 41, remained in Windsor to look after her children while the immediate family headed to be at the late monarch's bedside - says Robert Jobson in new book, Our King.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11981061/Kate-resents-not-having-final-moment-say-goodbye-Queen.html

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Viviennemary · 18/04/2023 11:02

Apparently Sarah got herself into £4m worth of debt which is a lot of money now but was even more over 20 years ago. She wanted to live like a royal. With secretaries and other staff. So goodness knows what Meghan and Harry's living expenses are. They must be astronomical.

Saschka · 18/04/2023 11:03

purpledalmation · 18/04/2023 10:57

Harry's own word's says the family didn't want her there. The RF know how bad it would have looked if Kate went and she didn't, so kate lost out on supporting her DH, and William lost out on her support. I can see some reason for resentment. Same sort of resentment I'd feel in her shoes. Not life changing but confirming a dislike they both feel for each other.

None of that is Meghan’s fault though is it? Nobody is claiming she was involved in the discussions or demanded to be there. Just that if Kate was allowed to go, it would look bad to ban Meghan.

IF Kate has any resentment (and I suspect she doesn’t), surely it should be aimed at KC for being too wet to tell Harry straight that his wife wasn’t welcome and deal with the fall out, or apparently too terrified of Meghan to sit in the same room as her for ten minutes.

If this was AIBU, Charles would be being told to find some backbone and be honest, not to create a “rule” that granddaughters in law couldn’t go, and hide behind that.

Nobody is coming out of this story looking good, I have to say.

purpledalmation · 18/04/2023 11:03

gettingoldisshit · 18/04/2023 11:01

Yes because Harry is well known to be a bastion of truth and not in any way prone to twisting the narrative to make himself/Megan look like the victims!

Apparently Charles stopped taking Harry's calls because he was swearing at him and demanding money. All I can say is C has more patience with poor behaviour in a child than I would have.

gettingoldisshit · 18/04/2023 11:03

@malapast or that kate and harry actually got along really well until megan came along, which gives even more weight to the theory that megan causes most of the problems?

mixedrecycling · 18/04/2023 11:03

Whaeanui · 18/04/2023 10:40

This is the part of the book Harry talks about it. Following from visiting his mothers grave and taking Meghan for the first time days before. I had a similar experience when my DH took me to his mothers grave for the first time, whom he had lost as a child also. It’s very emotional.
This whole ‘he was having a tantrum’ narrative is in your own minds. His father was rude about it, he told him that was unacceptable to speak that way, his father apologised and said they didn’t want lots of people around. Harry said, that’s all you needed to say. Simple. Both the media and the so-called royal fans are the ones that made this into a bigger thing than it was. Harry spoke of it only after many column inches. This family can’t even find a way to mourn while dealing with awkward family relationships without this ridiculous picking over by the public to turn into some giant story for your entertainment. May I remind you, somebody died. Their mother and grandmother.

Well, I see it a different way.

Charles tries to explain that the way they have been attacking the family has the consequence that the family doesn't want them there, but can tolerate Harry to try and keep the peace.

Harry says that this is disrespectful to Meghan.

Charles stops trying to communicate genuine feelings and falls back on a polite excuse which keeps Harry and Meghan happy.

Harry and Meghan see that as a victory for their 'truth'.

Rather than taking on board that their family have been hurt by their behaviour, just as they have been hurt by their family's behaviour. And that their family has as much right to go NC/LC as they do.

gettingoldisshit · 18/04/2023 11:06

@purpledalmation Charles's " indulgence" of his son is probably a big part of the reason that Harry is such an entitled pain in the arse.

purpledalmation · 18/04/2023 11:08

@Saschka according to harry's book Charles did tell him she wasn't welcome, hence the hissy fit and delay in making the flight. Charles has shown backbone in refusing harrys calls and demands for money. he financed him for his first year in LA but then stopped. Everyone is in a difficult position as far as i can see. Harry wants to support his wife, but won't accept her divisiveness, kate wanted to support william but was prevented, charles wanted close family with his mother, but ended up in yet another row with harry and his demands. Impossible situation

purpledalmation · 18/04/2023 11:10

gettingoldisshit · 18/04/2023 11:06

@purpledalmation Charles's " indulgence" of his son is probably a big part of the reason that Harry is such an entitled pain in the arse.

I think its not unusual is it, for a divorced parent to be a bit disney, and for a bereaved exH to be even more so? But, yes Harry has always been a spoilt brat judging him on his own words.

Whaeanui · 18/04/2023 11:13

Annoying that the press are putting yet another shitty spin on it all
This from someone repeating the same press spin all over the thread 😂 the hypocrisy

LadyMuckingabout · 18/04/2023 11:14

Why on any planet would Harry think it appropriate for Meghan to go to Balmoral? It’s one bit that I see as absolutely awful behaviour from Harry, no excuses. And repeating the episode in Spare as if he were in the right! The man has no thought for others, not even at a time like this.

Moreover, around this time Omid Scobie was tweeting away so quite understandably the rf did not want a hotline to him from the Queen’s deathbed.

Boudicasbeard · 18/04/2023 11:14

Such a lot of hype for an obviously planted PR story to make the PoW look petty. Look at the wording of the piece. The use of ‘resentment’ is a tell.

Only the latest in a long string of articles being used to paint the POW as a pouting, controlling bully.

Very suspicious.

Whaeanui · 18/04/2023 11:17

It’s insane that so many people have their own versions of what happened in someone else’s family, based on nothing else but tabloid gossip, and yet the same people are so certain Harry himself is telling lies. It’s insane.

So the OP @RYGO hasn’t come back yet?

I just can’t quite understand why everyone came to a previous thread on a similar style tabloid article and berated the OP, created argument after argument on it so it got pulled and then within minutes this is started by @RYGO and you’re all ok with it 🤷🏽‍♀️ is it because this one was started by a regular who is anti-Meghan?

Whaeanui · 18/04/2023 11:18

@Boudicasbeard exactly

Whaeanui · 18/04/2023 11:19

Why on any planet would Harry think it appropriate for Meghan to go to Balmoral Fpt support for himself? Why is that unusual. I went with my DH to his grandfathers home while he was dying, everyone came to my grandmothers… what is so weird about it?

Boudicasbeard · 18/04/2023 11:19

If you read the article carefully the bit about resentment is the writer focusing and reframing something that was said by the book’s author in an interview with another media outlets. So a story about an interview about a story. About as far from an original source as you can get so highly likely to be not true.

gettingoldisshit · 18/04/2023 11:23

Whaeanui · 18/04/2023 11:19

Why on any planet would Harry think it appropriate for Meghan to go to Balmoral Fpt support for himself? Why is that unusual. I went with my DH to his grandfathers home while he was dying, everyone came to my grandmothers… what is so weird about it?

Because of the hurt that both M &H have caused that family!!! They really couldn't ban H from attending because he is actually a family member but M isn't and therefore could be banned! Its a deathbed not a sideshow

purpledalmation · 18/04/2023 11:25

gettingoldisshit · 18/04/2023 11:23

Because of the hurt that both M &H have caused that family!!! They really couldn't ban H from attending because he is actually a family member but M isn't and therefore could be banned! Its a deathbed not a sideshow

Oh, H&M would have made it a sideshow on Netflix

Whaeanui · 18/04/2023 11:26

*So a story about an interview about a story. About as far from an original source as you can get so highly likely to be not true. Oh really @Boudicasbeard that is silly then isn’t it? For everyone here to have such strong opinions based on this silliness.

purpledalmation · 18/04/2023 11:30

But an original source is Harry's book and its clear his wife wasn't welcome. It isnt too far a stretch of the imagination to believe kate didn't want to go to support william who was very close to his grandma? And felt put out that she wasn't allowed to go because of the sil stuff?

LadyMuckingabout · 18/04/2023 11:31

We have been through this endless times… because presumably, @Whaeanui , you had not gone on Oprah slagging off your dh’s family.

Saschka · 18/04/2023 11:36

gettingoldisshit · 18/04/2023 11:23

Because of the hurt that both M &H have caused that family!!! They really couldn't ban H from attending because he is actually a family member but M isn't and therefore could be banned! Its a deathbed not a sideshow

Of course they could ban Harry, and if they decided not to, his wife also coming along is a likely consequence of that decision.

Don’t you have any family members who don’t get on with the rest of the family? We do, and we know that if we invite Aunty Barbara, her husband (Racist Uncle Billy) will likely come too. If we invite Aunty Elaine on my dad’s side, she will tell her brother, violent thieving Uncle Andrew, and he’ll gatecrash even if told directly not to come (the rest of my family are lovely! It’s a big family).

We either put up with both, or don’t invite either of them.

Whaeanui · 18/04/2023 11:37

@LadyMuckingabout even if I had, it wouldn’t change. As a parent, it wouldn’t change how I treated my kids when my parents are dying either. I’m the parent.

Whaeanui · 18/04/2023 11:39

violent thieving Uncle Andrew

Or in this case, lying creepy friends-with-pedophiles and traffickers and accused of sex crimes Uncle Andrew except EVERYONE in the royal family is oh so happy to cosy up with him ( the girlfriend not so much but she does get to live in a mansion paid for by them/us ).

purpledalmation · 18/04/2023 11:40

'kate 'did' want to go'

multitasking lol

Saschka · 18/04/2023 11:41

purpledalmation · 18/04/2023 11:30

But an original source is Harry's book and its clear his wife wasn't welcome. It isnt too far a stretch of the imagination to believe kate didn't want to go to support william who was very close to his grandma? And felt put out that she wasn't allowed to go because of the sil stuff?

If that was me, it would not be my SIL I was put out with. Because KC could have said no to either of H&M coming, and just dealt with the consequences. Or he could have let them both come, interacted briefly, then parked them in a drawing room away from the rest of the family.

If this is meant to be an anti-Meghan piece, it is falling wide of the mark.