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Are Harry, Meghan, Archie and Lili coming back home?

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NotMyPage · 07/03/2024 18:59

It would be nice to have them back and getting along with the rest of the family, what do people think? They'd have to apologise and try to move forward in a positive way. With Charles being unwell and elderly, and the Wales kids too young to serve as working royals, the Sussex's may be needed. Trump may win the election, which could have a negative impact on them and Archie will start school soon, a great time to relocate home?? Apparently Meghan is looking for PR agencies to help her improve her image. Would the Uk welcome them?

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Kjones27 · 09/03/2024 10:46

Ratsoffasinkingsauage · 09/03/2024 10:42

I won’t stop pointing out double standards. How you can all think you are doing the right thing is really beyond me. Stop minimising the hurt caused by such deeply insensitive comments. The ridicule and snipping is awful. You are doing exactly what you accuse other of doing to Meghan. How can you not see that?

I'm not going to say anything nasty to you as you obviously seem to be suffering deeply over losing a baby.

I will just gently point out to you again, that you're not the only one that this has happened to.

I hope you feel better in the future

Pushtart · 09/03/2024 10:46

Ratsoffasinkingsauage · 09/03/2024 10:42

I won’t stop pointing out double standards. How you can all think you are doing the right thing is really beyond me. Stop minimising the hurt caused by such deeply insensitive comments. The ridicule and snipping is awful. You are doing exactly what you accuse other of doing to Meghan. How can you not see that?

I am politely asking you don't make the discussion personal. Disagreeing with opinions is normal on a discussion forum, making sweeping statements about other posters and the kind of people they are, is not actually allowed. So try and discuss without attacking us please.

Kjones27 · 09/03/2024 10:47

Janiie · 09/03/2024 10:46

Well no. Friends are friends and family are relatives. You can of course be very close to friends and nc with family but that doesn't change the definition.

I've heard a lot of people say that they are closer to their friends. Good friends can be great.

skullbabe · 09/03/2024 10:47

Meghan shares something said to them about having a second child. Meghan then talks about this in context about the realisation of the importance of helping the first child with the adjustment of having a second child in the family. People would know that if they listened to what Meghan actually said - not through the negativity filter where Meghan talking about that is anti women.

Salemforcuddles · 09/03/2024 10:49

Good friends are great, I couldn't be without mine. Haven't H n M lost a few friends along the way?

skullbabe · 09/03/2024 10:50

No more than most

Salemforcuddles · 09/03/2024 10:51

Not really, a lot of us keep the same friends for years

Kjones27 · 09/03/2024 10:52

Salemforcuddles · 09/03/2024 10:51

Not really, a lot of us keep the same friends for years

I would disagree. What about when we change jobs.

People usually change jobs every couple of years. And people make friends at new jobs.

Salemforcuddles · 09/03/2024 10:54

No one said you couldn't make new friends. I was talking about losing long term friends which seems to have happened here. I would agree H n M seemed to have made some new friends , Tyler Perry, Oprah, Serena Williams to name but a few

Roussette · 09/03/2024 10:55

@Serenster

I can't speak for others but I have never dehumanised the members of the RF you speak of.

Pushtart · 09/03/2024 10:55

Salemforcuddles · 09/03/2024 10:51

Not really, a lot of us keep the same friends for years

and they have. Her best friend is her co star.

Salemforcuddles · 09/03/2024 10:56

They have also lost a number of friends, no?

Salemforcuddles · 09/03/2024 10:56

No Rousette, you haven't

Enko · 09/03/2024 10:57

skullbabe · 09/03/2024 00:04

I agree. I thought she was warm about Kate

And yet so many people will insist she attacked her . It’s so bizarre.

Is it bizarre or is it that people read it differently? I did see the interview and no I didn't think it came across as warm towards Kate. I didn't think it came across as anti Kate either but I found it self-indulgent. She said something like.
"I can't imagine what it's like (being called waity katie) but it's not the same." To me that is contradictory. As if you can't imagine what it is like then how can you know if it is similar/the same.

I know people will now come saying waity katie is not racist and no it is not. However, we all react differently. Some people have stronger reactions to one thing than others. So to me Meghan in that part of the interview didn't acknowledge this could have been traumatising for Kate and could have left her with a lot of issues. We don't know this as Kate has not commented. We due to this also do not know if this was more traumatising than what Meghan experienced. So to me the it's not the same makes it self-indulgent and not warm towards Kate. (Again I also do not think it was negative against Kate)

Unlike many on here I am not pro or against Meghan. I dont care for the fact she lied. (And she did) however I absolutely believe that she found it hard and was not supported. I blame Harry way more. I also think her American culture made it more difficult. The British struggle with this and Meghan was given no guidance there. The example here with her speaking of the first meeting with William and Kate. Harry should have warned her. They are not huggy types and perhaps jeans with a hole in and no socks are not yet quite appropriate. The fact that W and K are not huggy is no less right or wrong than the fact M is. Its about respecting each others boundaries. So if H had awareness and warned M this situation would not have occurred. M would not have gone for a big hug but perhaps an air kiss and their introduction would have gone smoother.

I also will say Camilla was FAR more hated than Meghan is. And frankly some of the headlines about Sarah at the time of the divorce were awful. I am old enough to remember this.

Sarah has spoken about the Duchess of Pork headline and she has got a lot of feelings around this.

I work in retirement the women there despise Sarah blame her for the "fall of the monarchy" they have far less to say about Meghan.

Kjones27 · 09/03/2024 10:58

I like kate. I just think that kate is seen by the British press as more acceptable.

She is demure, gentle, doesn't speak out.

Of course the obsession with snobbery and money was aimed at her too

I remember papers reporting the horror of her mum being just an air hostess.

Roussette · 09/03/2024 10:59

Pushtart · 09/03/2024 10:40

It doesn't suggest that though, it's how you choose to interpret her words about her family after she lost a child.

Because all your are doing is revealing the deeply toxic dark heart of misogyny in Sussex fandom.

This comment is too personal to ignore, please stop with this. It's unpleasant and unfair to do to other posters who simply have a different opinion.

Thank you.

There's been some posts on here that are beyond rude and unpleasant

Pushtart · 09/03/2024 10:59

It's the danger element of racism. I can't be bothered explaining that to people but I don't think anyone threatened to kill Kate for waiting around for William. Racism is a different level of danger, and thats why its included in hate crime laws.

Salemforcuddles · 09/03/2024 11:00

Never mind Uncke Gary is sorting everything out on CBB 😱

MissElli · 09/03/2024 11:00

TheCraicDealer · 08/03/2024 15:08

Why does everyone say, “Why would they want to come back?” when all reports indicate that they have very high outgoings and no substantial deals or projects on the horizon to meet them? Harry said himself in the Oprah interview that he was forced into making commercial deals in order to pay for security and other overheads. Now they’ve run out of gossip and their content creation wasn’t exactly met with cheers of “more, more!” from Netflix/Spotify, what else can they do to earn the level of income they need to keep the lights on? And their costs are only going to increase with school/uni costs, ringfencing provision/inheritance for their children, etc. I wonder if their advisors must be like Mr Shepherd in Persuasion, telling them that their only option is to retrench.

Coming back (even part time, a few months a year) may not be what M&H want to do, but there’s no doubt that if they returned to the UK they could reduce their housing and security costs substantially. A place somewhere on the Windsor estate would solve both issues. Plus being back in the Royal fold would return some of that shine and glamour that is, ultimately, what many people and companies found attractive in them back in 2020 when they left and were hot property. Of course there will always be the issue of them making their own money and I wonder if they now think they can reattempt a version of “half in, half out” with Charles, who’s much more likely to be swayed than QEII would have been.

There must also be a sense of “now or never”, given KC’s cancer diagnosis, however good his prognosis is. He’s in his mid 70’s already and Harry must know by now that there’s no way he’ll be given any favourable treatment from his brother. It would be much more prudent to return now, when his father is in charge, and agree the most advantageous terms possible, than wait and have the door permanently closed when his brother comes to the throne.

The booing and lack of “respect” now offered to them (eg their seating at that premier in Jamaica) recently must also sting a bit. Even Meghan appearing in this upcoming panel- two, three years ago she would have been expected to be the keynote speaker, not one of four women in a panel discussion. They’re no longer shiny and new and interesting, and for all his “just call me Harry”, the fact that people no longer show him automatic deference must be a difficult adjustment for someone used to it from birth. Even the thing about their latest “date night” down in Texas, previously that would have been towards the top of say the DM’s website, now you would have almost missed it it was so far down the page.

I think it would be possible for them to return in some capacity, but they would need to actually listen to and heed advice, avoid controversy and do the boring drudgery for a few years to accomplish it. I just don’t think they have the capacity or desire to do those things long term.

The booing and lack of “respect” now offered to them (eg their seating at that premier in Jamaica) recently must also sting a bit. Even Meghan appearing in this upcoming panel- two, three years ago she would have been expected to be the keynote speaker, not one of four women in a panel discussion.

She bought her way on to that platform by sponsoring that panel session via Archewell.

skullbabe · 09/03/2024 11:00

Not really, a lot of us keep the same friends for years

And many of us don’t

Salemforcuddles · 09/03/2024 11:00

@Pushtart Agreec

Kjones27 · 09/03/2024 11:00

Pushtart · 09/03/2024 10:59

It's the danger element of racism. I can't be bothered explaining that to people but I don't think anyone threatened to kill Kate for waiting around for William. Racism is a different level of danger, and thats why its included in hate crime laws.

Exactly.

Meghan got death threats.

Waity katy is not anywhere near the same

Salemforcuddles · 09/03/2024 11:01

skullbabe · 09/03/2024 11:00

Not really, a lot of us keep the same friends for years

And many of us don’t

Er yes

Kjones27 · 09/03/2024 11:01

Salemforcuddles · 09/03/2024 11:00

Never mind Uncke Gary is sorting everything out on CBB 😱

Uncle Gary just got booted out of CBB!

Pushtart · 09/03/2024 11:02

Kjones27 · 09/03/2024 11:00

Exactly.

Meghan got death threats.

Waity katy is not anywhere near the same

People have actually been imprisoned for racist threats against her so.... I don't want to get drawn into a discussion that minimises racism with anyone though so thats all I shall say on it!

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