Harry resigns from Sentebale, the charity he founded!

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14536443/prince-Harry-resigns-charity-cofounder-leadership-row.html

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The Times

https://archive.ph/GWUac

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Oh my god they are soooo pathetic 😆

I think the point is that these families are private

Exactly. They won't generally be seen at public events because they have no public role. And no-one needs to know whether they're invited to Sandringham or Balmoral as private guests at family parties.

I might discount anything Harry says, but Prince Seeiso is a different matter. It's his country, he's an educated man who's had roles in government and diplomacy. I imagine he would have very carefully considered before making any public statement.

Wasn't Lynda Chalker Minister for Overseas Development at one point?

Excellent suggestive appraisal of the situation Weepixie

The Royal family is a rich seam to mine for examples of racism and colonialism. A 2,000 year-old monarchy whose most senior member is head of state of the nation that built the biggest empire the world has ever known is absolutely bound to be laden with examples. So, low hanging fruit and easy money through an opportunity that came about at a point in human history when the zeitgeist was favourable. Not terribly honourable, unless the aim was to bring about change rather than to gossip.

Beautifully put especially the bit about William’s super human strength 💪

@Serenster If it only left a "little" mark - then clearly the lipgloss wan't worth handing over in the first place

Or have I misunderstood 😂

Must get it from Charles!!! Who we were informed ripped a sink off the wall in fury!!!

It’s the “sausage-related microaggression” that had me collapsed on the floor in tears. Of laughter.

Well. You're absolutely right, both about the content and the aims.
What about the USA, what about the treatment of the Native Americans? The USA has a very rich history of colonialism. As does Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Portugal, the Medieval Islamic Empire, the Vikings, Romans, Greeks etc
So many countries tarnished with the odious trade in human exploitation.
As you say, low fruit, for personal gain.

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I imagine him ripping his clothing and turning green!

It might have been a financially successful move in the short term, but at what cost? They have burnt not just their relationship with the royal family but have also cut themselves off from the elite and become mere celebrities. Like most celebrities, they burn bright briefly and they have to be astute with their cash to make it last or grow it by some other means. There are plenty of ex-celebs who made a fortune then squandered it entirely.

I make a deliberate point of addressing cards to 'Mary and John Smith'. Always have. It irritates me because most of the cards I receive will be signed off "from John and Mary". Fuck that, I bought the cards and I am the one writing them! I've always signed off, "Mary, John, children"!!

Pretty much what I replied at the time!! 🤣🤣

The problem with ‘mining’ family history in this way is Harry cannot divorce himself from his ancestors on the way he can from his living relatives. If he were to say ‘Victoria oversaw this atrocity, isn’t the RF bad’ then he is included in that as are any financial assets he has.

Absolutely, @PippistrelleBat , and by that reasoning, Archie and Lilibet.

It may be more that you didn’t recognise them (and they don’t really have a pubic profile) than they are shut out?

You're very likely right, @Serenster, and I honestly didn't know such as Sophie's dad spent Christmas at Sandringham so gladly put my hands up to mistakes on that one

They have burnt not just their relationship with the royal family but have also cut themselves off from the elite and become mere celebrities

I think that's a very valid point, @PippistrelleBat, especially about "the elite" who'll often ally themselves with whoever has the higher status

Should there ever be a reconciliation they'd probably follow the RF's lead, but I can't imagine things would ever be quite the same with the rest of the allies Harry once had

Had Has been born brighter, he could have buried himself in an Oxbridge college, or at Berkeley, and written revisionist histories of empires (British, Portuguese, French, Italian, Dutch), colonisation (including the founding fathers and their swiping of lands from native Americans, the British in Australia and New Zealand and their seizure of Aboriginal and Maori land), and contemporaneous understandings of race, gender and equity (or lack thereof). In this scenario, his speaking circuit would have been the lecture hall rather than the high-end hotel and he would have made a respectable contribution to the sum of human knowledge. Here endeth my flight of fancy ✈

Academics, even American ones, don’t get paid enough.

It’s the same in farming families as well usually the eldest son Inherits the farm and the rest of the siblings don’t, and often with family businesses in general the eldest or the child most involved in the business will take over, it’s ridiculous for posters to spin that Harry is somehow unique in his position of being a spare and therefore in a “dysfunctional” or “toxic” family, it happens throughout the whole of society, he isn’t special.

It's not even limited to aristos. There are thousands of farming families around the country where one child inherits. The others might work for/with them, but many will end up having spent their youth serving the farm to needing a new skillset.

My dad was one of six - it was actually the youngest son who took the farm on after he quit his nautical engineering career.

ETA: My family were actually scrupulous in division of assets though - they split the profits of the farm to support their disabled sister, the brother doing the majority of the work, then only the remainder going to other siblings.

Haha, snap!

The whole thing, bar maybe the set up photos, could have been avoided if Meghan had kept her father onside. The more she closed him out, the more bitter he became, and more and more vocal. I don't recall him saying anything about money but I didn't follow it closely so I don't know.

It's beyond bizarre that Harry never met his wife's father. Wasn't it rumoured that the Queen wanted them to go to see Thomas to settle the whole thing down?

I think he became increasingly embittered and he was vengeful then, which to an extent you can understand. His pampered princess baby girl, who he'd brought up single handedly for years had cut him off without so much as a backward glance. Meghan was happy enough to set up photo opportunities. Why was it such a crime that he did the same?

She didn't want him to meet Harry, and she certainly didn't want him at the wedding.