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OneHeartySnail · 10/05/2024 16:09

To continue the discussion.

I thought the comparison with the Duke snd Duchess of Windsor (last post on the previous thread) was interesting.

A visit to a dodgy regime, (Nazi Germany) because they would call Wallis HRH and make it a quasi-royal tour.

Of course, at that point Nazi Germany had a dodgy human rights record, but it was before the horrors of the Holocaust.

Let's face it, with the security and human rights issues there is no way the IG could happen in Nigeria. So that is sn excuse.

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Pollipops1 · 10/05/2024 17:34

@IcedPurple I generally am intrigued why people care where they visit or what invites they get? Why does it trigger people?

jeffgoldblum · 10/05/2024 17:35

Triggered!!!🤣🤣🤣👍

IcedPurple · 10/05/2024 17:35

Pollipops1 · 10/05/2024 17:33

The Nigerian military has an appalling human rights record, as do others recently welcomed to the cozy 'Invictus family'.

is the Quasi Royal element? Getting cosy up to dodgy regimes? That’s a fair point.

Working royals are public servants and act on the instructions of the government.

Harry and Meghan Found Freedom to sell jam and shill for corporate coaching apps, so are not obliged to have anything to do with dodgy regimes. Unless, of course, they want to.

IsoldeWagner · 10/05/2024 17:35

jeffgoldblum · 10/05/2024 17:35

Triggered!!!🤣🤣🤣👍

Drink!

IcedPurple · 10/05/2024 17:35

jeffgoldblum · 10/05/2024 17:35

Triggered!!!🤣🤣🤣👍

Intrigued!

BigWillyLittleTodger · 10/05/2024 17:35

Pollipops1 · 10/05/2024 17:34

@IcedPurple I generally am intrigued why people care where they visit or what invites they get? Why does it trigger people?

Why do you care that other people care? Why does it trigger you?

RisingSunn · 10/05/2024 17:35

IcedPurple · 10/05/2024 17:29

I missed the 'wounded veterans' but do we know how they got their injuries?

The Nigerian military has an appalling human rights record, as do others recently welcomed to the cozy 'Invictus family'.

As for her 'ancestral roots', probably the majority of her ancestry is in North West Europe. Shall we expect some pseudo royal visits there too?

Are you insinuating the soldiers that shared their stories about their injuries are lying because they serve in Nigeria?

Being detached from your ancestry due to slave trade is a different journey to migration etc…I would hope you realise that.

Goodness.

IsoldeWagner · 10/05/2024 17:36

IcedPurple · 10/05/2024 17:35

Working royals are public servants and act on the instructions of the government.

Harry and Meghan Found Freedom to sell jam and shill for corporate coaching apps, so are not obliged to have anything to do with dodgy regimes. Unless, of course, they want to.

Let me think 🤔....they want to.

jeffgoldblum · 10/05/2024 17:36

🍷

Overtheatlantic · 10/05/2024 17:36

They both looked so happy and healthy. It was lovely to see how much they were welcomed and how much the students loved meeting them. Her dress was perfect for the occasion, but then she always gets it right.

jeffgoldblum · 10/05/2024 17:37

🤣

IcedPurple · 10/05/2024 17:38

RisingSunn · 10/05/2024 17:35

Are you insinuating the soldiers that shared their stories about their injuries are lying because they serve in Nigeria?

Being detached from your ancestry due to slave trade is a different journey to migration etc…I would hope you realise that.

Goodness.

I'm saying the Nigerian military has a terrible human rights record so people who claim to be 'humanitarians' shouldn't be getting involved with them.

And how much of her 'ancestry' is Meghan going to 'connect' with on a weekend trip, with cameras in tow?

Pollipops1 · 10/05/2024 17:40

Why do you care that other people care? Why does it trigger you?

Why do you think I’m triggered? Because I asked a question? I am interested in what upsets people so much because I genuinely don’t understand? In general I find the whole relationship between the RF & some of the public quite intriguing. The whole speculation/pressure re Catherine was insane for example.

MacavitytheMystery · 10/05/2024 17:40

AnnieSF · 10/05/2024 17:06

My pet hate - the seal clapping . Harry has it now too.

Meghans face just looks so different these days. She has very heavy brows there and her features and face shape have really changed. It’s odd.

AliceOlive · 10/05/2024 17:40

Who is upset? Is anyone upset?

Pollipops1 · 10/05/2024 17:40

I'm saying the Nigerian military has a terrible human rights record so people who claim to be 'humanitarians' shouldn't be getting involved with them.

that’s celebs & royals for you though, hypocrites!

IsoldeWagner · 10/05/2024 17:41

RisingSunn · 10/05/2024 17:24

Not odd at all. I just mistakenly referred to someone else’s point when replying yours.

I was asking what the issue is with her visit?
Have they broken any rules/laws? (I am not an avid RF follower).

I don't think they've broken any laws, but I'm not familiar with Nigerian jurisprudence.

IcedPurple · 10/05/2024 17:41

I am interested in what upsets people so much because I genuinely don’t understand?

Faux naivete?

Bingo!

GlitchStitch · 10/05/2024 17:41

I'm interested to know where the 43% Nigerian claim comes from. As far as I am aware Nigerian is a nationality but not an ethnicity in of itself, as the population is made up of many different ethnic groups. Does anyone know how this was tested or proven?

jeffgoldblum · 10/05/2024 17:41

AliceOlive · 10/05/2024 17:40

Who is upset? Is anyone upset?

Nope ! I'm finding it all very entertaining! 🤣

IsoldeWagner · 10/05/2024 17:43

jeffgoldblum · 10/05/2024 17:41

Nope ! I'm finding it all very entertaining! 🤣

Me too 🤣

Pollipops1 · 10/05/2024 17:44

Working royals are public servants and act on the instructions of the government.

lol

Harry and Meghan Found Freedom to sell jam and shill for corporate coaching apps, so are not obliged to have anything to do with dodgy regimes. Unless, of course, they want to.

Maybe they just want to?

AliceOlive · 10/05/2024 17:45

IsoldeWagner · 10/05/2024 17:43

Me too 🤣

It is! It’s the posters here that make it so. Not the RF at all. That’s why I always want an off topic thread but no, we can’t have nice non-controversial things.

BigWillyLittleTodger · 10/05/2024 17:45

MacavitytheMystery · 10/05/2024 17:40

Meghans face just looks so different these days. She has very heavy brows there and her features and face shape have really changed. It’s odd.

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I so agree she looks completely different, when she married Harry her face was really lovely, now she looks so different, she always had a very pretty delicate looking face she now looks quite hard and more angular.

RisingSunn · 10/05/2024 17:45

Pollipops1 · 10/05/2024 17:26

The overdone bronzer is always a feature when she’s pushing that she’s a “woman of colour”. She could have bronzed the rest of the exposed flesh to match… or, y’know, not tried so hard to darken it.

Wow!

You couldn’t make this stuff up! 😳

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