King Charles III

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Will he?

I am no gambler but I can’t see it myself. Not unless he wants to show his support of his son. Would KC be that generous to his ‘darling boy’? If he did it will definitely upset some anti Harry royalists/daily mail readers/ right wing Americans. Can’t have Harry receiving the King surely….he is supposed to be beyond the pale these days.

William is reported as being ‘baffled’. Baffled? More like blazingly angry about it if true. I guess Will’s thought he could act like a ‘cuckoo’ and get Harry out now and forever. Maybe, the ‘bullying’ trait reported over the years by many, many people regarding him is still there.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/style/king-charles-discussions-visit-prince-130106673.html

Oh my goodness. For the first time in a long time, this makes me feel a bit sorry for Meghan. Even though it’s definitely a bed she’s helped make for herself. Looking after a man child must be exhausting and it’s not at all attractive.
He has been behaving like a 12 year old so it makes sense.

It’s bowing and scraping on the bingo card. Kowtowing isn’t a particularly pleasant phrase as kowtowing was a sign of respect to the Chinese Emperor dating back to the Qin dynasty and it was Europeans in the late 18th century who, on visiting China and seeing this practice (touching the ground with forehead) who found it distasteful and then the term became used as a submissive term in English when in China it was form of deep respect.

I’m afraid I don’t share your sympathy. Marriage is a partnership and should be mutually supportive. She should be encouraging him to move forward with his wonderful life, not wallow in his mummy cult, while she fuels it by channelling Diana’s instructions through her yoga sessions.

Do you know him personally???

You can be a Republican but still endlessly interested in the royal family as history, soap opera and sociology.

If something irritated me, I'd have the good sense to avoid it.

We know nothing about their real lives either father or sons. We only hear and read what we are fed, and make up the rest in our heads.

The drama is created by the media and gossip columns and for some it is addictive and then comes the speculation, spite, envy and judgment.

For all we know they could be getting along ok, at a distance, like many a family who left behind their loved ones on emigration to places like Australia, in this case it's California.

I'd like to think that's the case anyway, and highly suspect that under the surface of endless speculation and media stirring, it is. They just don't want us to know too much about it. Let's face it, the minute any of them open their mouths about anything a hundred spins are put on their utterances and the cycle of polarised venom ensues.

And yes, I know H wrote his book. So what? Life went on and nothing much came of it in the end, apart from him earning a wedge of loot. Showing that we are suckers for the inside story, but how do we know what's true or not and what is poetic license?

We know the relationship is strained because Harry again using the vehicle that is Invictus told us so on American tv You don’t need to tell family you love them or want to reunify if everything is fine.

I don’t agree. Despite publicly angling for an invitation to Sandringham , they weren’t there . No invitation to Trooping of The Colour , No front row for the Coronation .
Only heard about Catherine’s cancer when she made her statement.
Not the signs of a harmonious family . I

Spot on !

The family members and others whose privacy he so happily invaded might disagree with you that 'nothing much came of it'.

I think people leaving the UK in the say 1880s (like some of my family) to go to the US or Australia knew the chances of seeing their loved ones again were slim. It must have been so hard.

Not so very, very rich people in the 21st century who can be somewhere in a few hours. I don't see why the older man having cancer treatment and still trying to function as a HoS should make the running, all the other factors in this apart.

Surely that is just what we are TOLD. I don't think anyone in the RF made a statement on the matter, but if they did I missed it. Is there a statement from H about desperately looking for invites to these things? Maybe there is something out there and if so I'll eat humble pie and acknowledge it. For all we know they might not have been bothered with all that hullabaloo and really who could blame them, it's all a bit of a panto anyway to me! Ten minutes on stage, full costume/uniform and make up, bow (wave) to the audience, exit stage left, all that stuff. I personally get weary of it all TBH.

Again, I'm guessing that a lot of the drama is manufactured by all forms of media.

Well I listened to the audiobook version. It was just ok and I'm really being honest here, I didn't finish it completely and I don't recall anything of any major WTF moments in the book.

They all have their faults, and let's face it, they are not your typical nuclear family by any stretch of the imagination. We don't have a clue what goes on behind their closed doors, and probably never will. H's attempt to reveal all in the book was useless in that regard, I was livid with him ha ha. See? Even I got sucked in but am none the wiser now either!

And Charles and Catherine being named as racists. Nothing much to worry about there.

But maybe they are? If not, let them sue for slander. All's fair in love and war. But I forgot, there is dignity in silence Amiright? Course I am.

This is a great thread for letting off RF steam. On Thursday we'll be getting the vino and snacks out + the Red Bull to stay awake all night for the election results.

Next!

OK, sugar.

Stevia please. Not sugar 😘

@hastalava it was widely reported by “sources close to the Sussexes “ that they only found out about Catherine’s cancer when she made her statement . Knowing H and M they would have corrected that had it not been true . Roya Nikkhah tends to have her finger on the pulse with this stuff and she quoted “ a close source”.

OK thanks for that. But until it comes out of their mouths directly I'm afraid I'm a member of Cynic Central. I wonder why H+M didn't state this themselves, and more's to the point, (even though they had more on their minds I accept that) why didn't W+K say they refused to tell them.

Fault on both sides unfortunately, if any of the reports are true that is. And once again where did all this come from anyway? Oh yes, the media, not Kensington Palace PR or Mount Montecito either. Gossip and speculation again, but I suppose it sells and gets clicks.

But the ‘republicans’ always have so much sympathy for the Duke and Duchess and fight their corner so I can’t take them seriously, no sympathy or understanding for any other family members so I find them completely disingenuous, their agenda is clear. I have only come across a couple of proper republicans on these threads and I respect their posts and point of view, the others, not so much.

any republican argument that favours Harry or used to ridicule the hierarchy doesn’t hold water whilst Harry remains in the line is succession. Just as any argument that paints Harry as a racism guru doesnt

I see your posts @hastalava are just a very long winded way of spouting the old trope “but we don’t know” used by regular stalwarts of these threads to try and shut posters down, FYI it’s been tried many times before and it doesn’t work.

True.