What does Prince harry mean by this in his speech at the Wellchild Awards?

[Mornusting]

"As you also probably know, she would have been the first person to insist that I still come to be with you all instead of going to her."

He is referring to the Queen.

Is he saying this is why he is not at Balmoral with the rest of the RF? Is this what he means by "going to her"?

cheering plebs Oh dear..

Well, I suppose the cheering plebs might have been distressingly absent on his own account (as in his Aberdeen venture) but I think the extortionately expensive PR might have strummed the guitar on behalf of any who did show up.

Don't you?

Yup!

Alternative place: Dummer

Not if you use Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream though?

There are certain speeches I just don't think people should try to imitate, this is one

JFK 's speech was about the meaning of freedom in the context of the Cold War.

Harry's speech is about the Invictus Games.

He did not try to imitate a speech about freedom and the Cold War.

He used one phrase, as a pun, as many others have done before him.

See Bill Clinton in Cologne in 1999 among many.

In fact, as JFK said himself, his punchy phrase was not original to him but was itself a pun on a famous statement from Cicero: Civis Romanus Sum, I am a Roman, or I am a citizen of Rome.

I get it, you don't like Harry. It's clear on every thread that you don't like him.

But it is silly to take umbrage at a pun on a famous phrase, which is itself a pun on another famous phrase, and that its audience delighted in.

And that's all I have to say about that!

@MrsMaxDeWinter you are quoting from Forrest Gump there 😂

@Mornusting

I am indeed! Always delighted to meet fellow Forrest Gumpers!

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I think Clinton or anyone else using the Ich Bin part of that speech is cringe. You think it isn't, we are allowed to have different opinions although you seem to think only one opinion is allowed. You are wrong though, the JFK and MLK speeches were part of my adolescence and growing political awareness so they are iconic to me. Not sure why that WC speech is in the same group as I wasn't around for that one but it was a brilliant speech.

If I had to pick one it would be the MLK speech but the other two come close.

Yes. On a flight that was already going, with other people maybe James Cleverly or the culture woman or Queen Letizia! I f they had just said 'Sorry William is in the Caribbean on holiday at this time that would be better than the silly 'Oh they're in Sandringham but he still couldn't be bothered to go. They need to put this 'just like you' act to bed before the press get bored with Meghan and Harry, because they will get slated for it.

@Angrycat2768 I read that as Queen Latifah for a minute

That would have been a sight for sore eyes!

It seems he was scared of her running off screaming like his other girlfriends had done. I agree she is his enabler, in a California way. He was the one who was resentful of his family and the press, long before Meghan. Then, while his family were telling him to shut up and put up with it for the money, status and power, she listened to his whining and told him what he wanted to hear. He is the main problem here. Not her. But she has now been treated so appallingly by the press that they have justified his paranoia as well.
He was responsible for preparing her for the Royal Family, and giving her an out, but he didn't do so.

@Angrycat2768 🤣