Duke of Sussex : "potentially initiate a partial return to the royal fold"

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Duke of Sussex asks former aides to help plot RETURN from his US exile in first stage of 'rehabilitation' strategy: Prince's friends vow to help smooth path back and dub it 'Operation Bring Harry In From The Cold' | Daily Mail Online

After everything he has said and done........

Spare being released in paperback is re-emphasing all the insults he has thrown at his family, it's all being rehashed and becoming fresh again. No fricking olive branch there, don't know how they have managed to spin that one.

If he really wanted to make any effort at reconciliation, he would have written a foreword to apologise for the hurt the book caused his family, admit he was angry and some of what he said was said in anger and not absolutely accurate, regret how his actions and words meant his lovely sister in law and his father were subject to some awful slurs about being racist which was not true in the slightest.

Even if his contract with the publishers didn't allow him to retract, he could always use a statement from 'The office of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex' to walk back some of his awful insults at his family.

But continued silence 'silence is complicit'. Way to go Aitch.

Absolutely, @Thedom . Awful behaviour.
I have no idea why people on here excuse him.

He's pretty much trapped, which is ironic given how he's described his brother's situation. His children are going to grow up in California so unless he wants to be that parent who only sees his kid a few times a year, that's where he will have to stay too. And he has very publicly given up everything for this marriage, so admitting to failure would be a huge humiliation for him. So this is his life now

Absolutely, @IcedPurple
Some might even argue that Meghan's played a blinder, but all these potential complications could have been avoided with just a little thought and planning instead of rushing off in a huff

But that's what Harry chose to do, and as ever actions have consequences

Or she could have been a plain Jane, which would be very difficult growing up as the daughter of one of the most glamorous women in the world.

Plus, Prince Philip had walked behind his beloved sister's coffin when he was just a teenager.

His sister Cecilie, her husband, their two young sons and the child Cecilie was pregnant with at the time all died in an air crash on their way to a family wedding in England. Philip was sixteen at the time. Very sadly, the surviving child, a daughter who had not been on the plane beause she was considered too young to go to the wedding, died a couple of years later of meningitis.

The Crown suggested that Philip was to blame because had convinced Cecilie to fly, even though she disliked flying. Not surprisingly, Philip was reportedly furious.

I know. It's a tragic story, but blaming Philip was outrageous. I have no idea how "The Crown" has got away with misrepresenting royal history to the detriment of the family.
Philip was a boy, at a tough boarding school, losing his favourite sister in the most awful circumstances, and they turned the episode into his fault. Awful.

I think re the funeral the RF were caught between a rock & a hard place.

Perhaps they should have stuck to their guns re a private funeral?

I think they were damned either way.

Can't imagine Charles Spencer keeping his mouth shut if it had been a small non televised affair!

Yes,
her sisters aren’t anything special.

What?! They were both attractive, especially Sarah, who was so vivacious.

I'm guessing the Travelyst thing is much the same - he does a speech for them once a year or something and that's it.

Travalyst is a private company in which Harold has the controlling percentage share. It's been a vehicle giving him a UK address (recently corrected) and historically absorbed a donation of charitable funds sourced from the Royal Foundation presumably now spent yet never openly accounted for nor ever will be.

Farcical.

Does he really want to come back? I thought he was well out of it. He'll be back in court soon enough though to try and bring down Piers and some of the other old hacks...

Not stunners though. Just average.

Perhaps if they'd had Diana's hairdresser, beauty treatments and clothes they could have looked stunning

I think with Diana, it was image and glamour as much as actual looks. Her features were not classically perfect as, for example, the young Elizabeth Taylor or Vivien Leigh.

I would agree. Have a look at her before she was with Charles. Quite a difference.

I said on the other thread that I think William would sit down and talk with H if his marriage failed and he needed/wanted to leave the USA - simply because they are brothers and presumably he loves him. I dint have siblings so I’m not best placed to judge but I’m thinking that there must be a robust bond there. No idea what the outcome of talks would be …but I do think W would be willing to have them, albeit tentatively.

I think that Kate would understand because her own siblings are very important to her. But again, I don’t know that and I certainly don’t know her. His indiscreet behaviour must have felt like a kick in the teeth given how close they were as a trio of young royals…I recall them having a running race before the Olympics in 2012 and they seemed so genuinely joyful and silly and upbeat.

I am not a royalist so I don’t really care about the constitutional side of things and I’d rather not have another one for the taxpayer to pay for, but that’s my feeling about how it might play out in the sad event of H divorce.

She was only a teenager then. She grew more beautiful as she got older and more sophisticated.

I never thought that D was beautiful even as she left her awkward teens and got a bit older. I thought she had immense style and poise, and lovely thick hair. But “beauty” in the early 1990s… I tend to think of people like Catherine Zeta Jones and some of the supermodels not Diana tbh. Not that it matters now.

Hear hear

Lady c is a mad old boot 🤣

They probably don't want him either. Much better to foist him on his dad.

A dramatisation of the conversation the Spencer sisters are having right now.

😂😂

Exactly this. She was a beautiful woman, her sisters have nice faces but were never beautiful.
I once saw Diana in real life, I went to a ballet premiere and her seat was a few rows in front of mine, we all stood while she walked down to it. She would have been about 25 and wore a long black dress had the most amazing luminous skin, she looked fantastic.

Keep thinking of Harry's dramatic face on his Freedom Flight, taking him away from being Trapped. How will he spin it that that was his Truth then but now he wants to come back, cut ribbons and have his profile managed again by the Grey Men?