Harry to give an interview to discuss Charles's illness

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I just read an article in the DM about this. I really honestly couldn't believe he would do this. I just hope it isn't true. Just how could he. Privacy????.

If this is an inbred rat face, where can I get one?

https://www.tatler.com/gallery/princess-anne-in-pictures

I'm sure your own face is just as fabulous @Mymilkshakebringsallthepapstomycar , however I think the problem has become that due to the amount of cosmetic procedures now ( nose , chin and veneers etc ..) people have lost track of what actual natural beauty looks like !

Aw Jeff, ta v much, I am the most beautiful middle aged woman in my household, that's for sure 😂

You are right, beauty standards are depressingly homogenous these days.

Prince Andrew and Edward look nothing like Charles and Anne

You've heard of genes, right? and how family resemblances can come out years later? (William looks very much like George V's elder brother). Two of my cousins are red headed, their brother is dark haired, dark eyed and if you didn't know he's English you'd assume his parents were Spanish or Italian. And yet facially he looks just like my uncle.

Although I reckon we can deduce your agenda from the 'inbred rat face' comment and the ignorance over the Mountbatten name.

I think the worst thing about the Harry situation, is that he has broken the fine line of the tacky, USA talentless celeb industry and reality TV, with a British institution, that is part of our unwritten constitution, where the monarch who is the head of state has to sign any Parliamentary Statutes before they're passed.

His wife who was just in a cable TV soap opera, filmed in Canada to save money, only had the opportunity of things like Oprah interviews and and Ne tflix deals because of marrying Harry. She had more famous people at the wedding who she hardly knew, then family members or people she knew well. Almost as if she was planning on using the royal wedding to be in with them and get TV deals.

Then they act like hypocrites saying they want privacy, while using their royal titles to have attention and make money. Also the way they preach about the environment while living in a mansion with many bathrooms, and claim to need money, while living in an expensive area to be near famous people.

Also royal staff have to sign privacy documents, but then Harry writes his own book giving away personal details of his family, like it's a soap opera.

It's interesting how some people get really angry at any criticisms of the royal family, and you can tell they wouldn't even be willing to look at other sides of the story than what they're told to think. Usually using insults as a response than any facts.
Often the same types who say anybody is just jealous if others criticise talentless celebs, as they like whoever celeb magazines tell them to. Usually the reason others are supposed to be jealous of talentless celebs is because they're rich, when they're only rich because many are brainwashed by the media to care about talentless trash, who make a living selling dumb interviews about their designer handbag they can't pronounce the name of, and their lifestyle is often faked by their promoter to get on TV shows. Like when Kerry K appeared on Through the Keyhole in a mansion rented for the show. They're often a dumb magazine interview of selling their children into the celeb industry to use for their own attention from bankruptcy. Plus if they don't need to sell their children into the talentlss celeb industry, it means they're doing it as think it's a good idea, and magazines try to brainwash young people into seeing those types as role models.

Well anyway, I think Meghan and Harry are more in with that talentless celeb culture now than royalty.

LilyPAnderson
I think you've hit the nail on the head about some figures in celebrity worlds.

There's a lot of very wealthy, very well known, and highly successful people who the public know very little about other than their professional self that the show the world.

Then there's others, of mixed success, who the public know a lot about. They're the ones sharing lots on their social media pages, the ones inviting Hello/OK magazine into their homes, the ones who court the media and invite the media in, do the "come and know the real us" sort of shows, they're always airing their side of various disputes in public because it keeps the cash flowing.

It's not surprising that the gossip mags and tabloids are generally full of the lives of footballers' wives, reality TV people, and soap stars, and not "Read more in our exclusive tell-all interview - what do George and Amal do for date night?/The Obamas share their real thoughts about each others parents".

Spectre8 · 27/02/2024 00:34
How do you know he has to pay for her expensive tastes? 🤔

I know because she never earned the kind of money she would have needed to live the lifestyle she currently does, private jets, Montecito et al, and never had lived prior to meeting one Henry Windsor. You don't need to be a genius to work out who has made her elevated status what it is!!

She is only of interest to the general public too because of who she is married to. Most people had never heard of Meghan Markle, Suits or The Tig before they got together!

You're scraping the bottom of the barrel now!

Clawedfoot73 · 29/02/2024 11:36

Sorry but I think the comment in relation to Meghan’s father dying;

I can say, though, that I believe any outward display of grief will be performative

I think that IS plain nasty. Like anyone who has a complicated relationship with their parents, I imagine she will experience a mix of feelings when it happens. To imply she won’t experience any genuine grief is horrible and unintelligent.

Well it's a pretty cold person who can totally turn their back on their own father, and for what - getting inappropriately personal in the media? Pot kettle?!

There doesn't seem to have been animosity between MM and her father prior to her relationship with Harry. She lived with him for years, when Doria was wherever, he paid for her expensive education. She haunted TV studios with him. Yeah, he did a couple of stupid things, posing getting measured for a suit etc - but that was the point when Harry and Meghan should have stepped in, and their courtiers, with advice and support, but instead, they chose to abandon him. Which in turn led to his becoming increasingly desperate and bitter, and the whole situation fed off itself.

If Meghan had reached out to her father, a lot of this could have been avoided. Instead, she 'cancelled' him, which she appears to have done to a lot of people.

She knows all about his ill health. She presumably knows he could die at any time. Yet she still stubbornly refuses to reconcile with him. I'm afraid I am not convinced that any grief would be genuine. He doesn't suit her new life, and that's the fact of the matter.

@Runnerinthenight i agree and it’s worth remembering that when the issues with TM started , the late Queen urged Meghan and Harry to fly over and visit him to sort things out and bring him under the protection of the RF . Meghan refused.
I have always found it strange that Harry never met TM before the wedding.

You end your post Runnerinthenight with “that’s the fact of the matter” and yet it contains so much conjecture.

You can’t possibly know what their father-daughter relationship was like before by looking at a few photos. Or whether H&M offered to visit him or not. Or whether H&M’s actions led directly to him being “bitter” and “desperate”. To believe all that is to follow Piers Morgan’s rhetoric about TM being a weak innocent victim which all the facts about him contradict.

The facts are: TM is an Emmy winning former lighting engineer and director who has gone bankrupt twice. Someone who was awarded a restraining order by a judge.

We know that instead of supporting his daughter at a time when she most needed discretion, he went out of his way to embarrass and upset her.

We know for a fact that he staged photos for money. He wasn’t tricked; he has many contacts in the lighting and photographic industry.

We know that he sold a personal letter of hers to the paper for money.

We know he gave interviews about her for money.

We know that in one of those interviews he said, “she owes me” or words to that effect.

Whether he had a heart attack for sure is unclear but we know the timing of it was suspicious and he was seen out buying junk food very soon afterwards.

He was not present at his daughter’s wedding in contrast to Doria who behaved impeccably with incredible dignity.

What loving father behaves in this way? Even if a father felt he had a legitimate cause for grievance with his daughter, no loving genuine person would do the things he has done.

My bit of conjecture is that he is a seriously nasty man.

so TM staged photos for money / exposure ?
The apple didn’t fall far from the tree did it !

You think it’s acceptable to behave in a way that embarrasses your adult child on the occasion of their wedding?

I don't think it's acceptable for any family members to embarrass and was their dirty laundry in public , no .

‘My bit of conjecture is that he is a seriously nasty man.’

Because he sold out to the papers? Just like his daughter sold out to Oprah and Omid and The Cut? Does that mean, using your word, she’s a seriously nasty woman like her dad? As they have so much in common you’d think they’d find it easy to get over themselves.

Do you think it’s acceptable she embarrassed her dad by openly excluding him in the run up to the wedding in front of the whole world?

Yes, SheriffofRottingham I was thinking that Meghan and Harry don’t come out particularly well either when you consider what they have done against that list of apparently unforgiveable acts.

Do you make a habit of replying on other people’s behalf Jeffgoldblum?

I was asking a specific question of a specific poster.

This.

It’s the double standard that’s being called my dear Claw, I wouldn’t really call Meghan a seriously nasty woman btw, I was making a point based off your post.

I thought we can all join in on an open forum? Do you make a habit of dictating who can and can’t reply?

You ask a question on a public discussion board, it’s likely to get answered. You don’t get to police who answers it though.

Even you can’t accuse H&M of having a restraining order awarded against them Serenster.

That’s probably the only one that’s exclusively on Thomas Markle, yes. Mind you he’s not been demonstrated to have lied to the court, so I think the point is probably moot.

Exactly. Those in glass houses and all that.

Highly amusing that royalists on here are making the point about this being an “an open discussion” forum while all crowding in to defend one another!