Harry in UK for funeral

[Viviennemary]

DM is reporting Harry came to the UK for the funeral of his uncle Robert Fellowes. The husband of Diana's sister Lady Jane. Apparently they kept their distance from each other and didn't speak. Looks like William has the Windsor habit of bearing grudges. Don't blame him in this case.

You're right, not doing it again!

The directly quoted comments are quite mild (he says his eyesight wasn't good enough to see them during the service itself but that he shook hands with them both as they left (and Harry wasn't that far behind William, implying that they probably weren't sat next to each other but also weren't that far apart) and says he didn't spot them talking to each other at the event afterwards but that both had lots of people around them the whole time.

Not as provocative as the 'warring brothers confirmed to have not talked' type headlines but still very inappropriate.

I wanted to remind that there are options other than blabbermouth vicars or deliberate leaks

And you're quite right, @EdithWeston; I'm just surprised that the Mail have apparently put a name to their quote if it wasn't him, when the more usual route would be to credit "a member of staff" or whoever

Overall though I agree it wasn't anyone's place to draw attention from what the occasion was supposed to be about. You don't need to be "media savvy" for that but just to have a little common sense

It's possible that the Mail or whoever got a quote from a naive member of staff, and the vicar has stepped in to protect them by going on record.

You sound American.

Say I believe everything I read in the tabloids, without saying I believe everything I read in the tabloids.

H & M appointed a UK-based PR guy earlier this year to liaise with the BM.

But, apparently, we really don't like H& M either. Q2 stats show only A is less popular.

Not necessarily. But I suspect not British or British resident, because of the persistent use of an acronym that isn't used here in that context

All of that information originated in Spare, from Prince Harry (apart from the racism allegation, which was in Dutch Endgame and could have had only one source - the Susssexes). No British paper would have been able to get any of that information past their lawyers, had they somehow got wind of that information and considered publishing it. Harry violated his own privacy, the tabloids just repeated him, much to the delight of his publishers and his accountant.

The Sussexes also had a WhatsApp group with the British tabloids during their Invictus jaunt to Germany. They absolutely were working with the British media.

Harry and Meghan, especially the former, has made it clear verbally and in print that they want nothing to do with the BM and they have moved on.

Just quoting this from earlier as I think it was reported that "BM" tabloid reporters were actually added to the Invictus Whatsapp group, so perhaps relations are thawing between H&M and BM

'The young will drive how history looks at this. It will be through their lens and from what I can see, they adore Harry the world around.'

Have you read any of the recent commentary, especially following their pseudo royal tour of Columbia? Well, obviously not if you think he's adored around the world.

The pair of them are being used as useful idiots. I don't see 'the young' commenting on them, and tbh 'the young' are unlikely to be interested in a pair of middle aged dopes like Harry and Meghan.

British Media (BM) is not a term I've come across in my 60 years as a UK citizen until Harry started banging on about it in his interviews (when he was trying to make out that the racism allegation in the Oprah interview came from them, not Meghan).
Mildly curious to know where @Wantarest coined the term.

I agree. It's interesting how people choose to only look at one side

How rude.

Why can't posters have a different opinion?
I thought this was a discussion forum

It's OK to have a different opinion.

It's not OK to repeat things that can be demonstrably proved a false (not just seen differently, but actually false) and expect that you will not be corrected.

If they back them up - which they invariably don't/can't!

But most of what's posted here is incorrect.

'William was reported to have said Harry was rushing his marriage to him and questioned his choice in Meghan'
I Spare, Harry said William had advised him not to rush things. He didn't say anything about his choice being questioned. As it turns out, William was very perceptive.

'William also stood by when the press made racist remarks about Meghan and said zip all'
As has now been pointed out eleventy billion and one times, William made an unprecedented statement asking the press to stop. Harry hasn't uttered a word about the way Harry and Meghan’s acknowledged supporters have abused and vilified Catherine.

I met and married my DH after a few months, at a similar age... if my brother had told me to hang on, I was being hasty, I would have told him to eff off.

(I'm decades into a marriage. It's rude and insulting to question that)

I didn't use that term!

My apologies that it was not clear that I was responding to the part of your post about differences of opinion.

And how opinion is OK, but repetition of demonstrable untruths is not. Nor is stating opinion as if it were fact (unless you can provide sourcing information)

Thank you @EdithWeston

And would you write about it in a book, and take your revenge on your brother's private concerns by publicly trashing his marriage?

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