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The royal family

Sentebale #4

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glitterturd · 01/04/2025 15:41

Harry

Sentebale #4
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PullTheBricksDown · 02/04/2025 09:13

vera99 · 02/04/2025 08:50

But they need to sing for their suppers—both are accustomed to privileged lives. Harry from birth, Meghan through talent and strategic choices, including marrying well. Given their dependence on the oxygen of publicity, silence was never really an option.

Charles, relatively speaking, is as rich as Croesus and could probably have bought their silence long ago. But he didn’t—or wouldn’t—and here we are. The long hand of infidelity stretches from the grave to the present, and there’s no escaping that.

Could even Charles afford the amount they need, or think they need, for their security? That is a colossal bill. Even the King would struggle to take that from private funds without it getting out, and he knows that would cause a huge furore.

Their wisest choice would be getting proper jobs. Meghan has at least gone back to something vaguely like 'what she knows'. Given that Harry seemed to be happiest in the army, he might have found that honest labour would be far more satisfying than pretending to have expertise he doesn't. I can see him running some kind of fitness programme for kids Joe Wicks style. But instead, here we are.

RandyRedHumpback · 02/04/2025 09:13

Weepixie · 02/04/2025 09:04

Yes! It sounds exactly as you’ve said - a boys will be boys mentality. I couldn’t quite put my finger on how it was coming across till I read your post.

Funny how the same poster has invoked Trump to try to have a poke from the moral high ground. Wasn't his "grab them by the p" hot mic moment blamed on "locker room talk". She's using the same type of excuse for the same type of man.

TheNeedyKhakiPanda · 02/04/2025 09:14

Meghan and talent in the same sentence? She's only where she is now because of who she married.

glitterturd · 02/04/2025 09:15

Weepixie · 02/04/2025 09:04

Yes! It sounds exactly as you’ve said - a boys will be boys mentality. I couldn’t quite put my finger on how it was coming across till I read your post.

Yes it's all just " banter, mate" ....🙄

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JSMill · 02/04/2025 09:15

SC has indeed stuck to the facts and remained calm and dignified throughout this. However I am absolutely shocked at the open racism directed towards her through mouthpieces of H and how the media uncritically repeated the claims.

binkie163 · 02/04/2025 09:15

I bet Gwyneth wishes she hadn't rushed out her funny little skit on Instagram! Talk about bad timing to come out in support of this shit show.

RandyRedHumpback · 02/04/2025 09:17

vera99 · 02/04/2025 08:50

But they need to sing for their suppers—both are accustomed to privileged lives. Harry from birth, Meghan through talent and strategic choices, including marrying well. Given their dependence on the oxygen of publicity, silence was never really an option.

Charles, relatively speaking, is as rich as Croesus and could probably have bought their silence long ago. But he didn’t—or wouldn’t—and here we are. The long hand of infidelity stretches from the grave to the present, and there’s no escaping that.

You obviously have a very dim view of the talents of your mischievous favourite and his wife. And I agree with you. There should - for people with talent - have been more choices than either blabbing a load of petty family grievances whilst retaining as much of the privilege of that family as a selling point(and in Meghan's case, basically taking something she never earned, the title) or being bought off by Charles. I'm sure a strong woman like Meghan who has always talked on and on about using her voice wouldn't want a silencing pay off from an old, rich man, would she?

They had huge, lucrative opportunities to make money through behind the camera endeavours like producing, and writing/talking about something other than their own egos and grievances. But they are talentless, so they blew it. They blew it because they have nothing of interest to say about anything other than their own manufactured victimhood, and nobody is buying that tired old horse that's been thoroughly flogged and is very 2020. That failing is all on them. Nobody can say they weren't given a chance. They are now reduced to flogging jam and pancake mix on a scripted reality TV show.

PullTheBricksDown · 02/04/2025 09:19

Lunde · 01/04/2025 22:10

TBH Charles should have never sent Harry to Eton given his limited intellectual abilities. Another school would have been a better option and given Harry the opportunity to grow up without relying on William to take care of him.

This is one of those things though which only emerges through hindsight. Imagine making the decision at the time, in the wake of Charles and Diana's separation, and then her death, to send Harry to a different, less elite school apart from his brother? It would have been seen as harsh, intellectual snobbery, cruelly removing Harry from his main support. No way it could have been done, even though now, almost 30 years later, some upsides to it can be seen.

Weepixie · 02/04/2025 09:20

vera99 · 02/04/2025 08:39

Turned a new leaf - promises made and kept !

I thought it was the case people couldn't dock puppet anymore so it’s not as if you have changed your spots in any honourable sense

glitterturd · 02/04/2025 09:21

Harry is beginning to strike me as a bit of a closet wannabe Andrew Tate with others doing his dirty work for him.

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Bruisername · 02/04/2025 09:23

Didn’t Harry have to stay back a year before he moved to Eton?

tattychicken · 02/04/2025 09:25

Can you imagine that story in Spare though? Smaller bedroom, fewer sausages and a different school? Poor H...

glitterturd · 02/04/2025 09:30

It's Harry's recent behaviour which is most shocking. He's a grown man hiding behind the skirts of Meghan currently and his mates.

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Mountainfrog · 02/04/2025 09:32

It’s all a bit wolf hall if you think about it

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 02/04/2025 09:32

binkie163 · 02/04/2025 09:15

I bet Gwyneth wishes she hadn't rushed out her funny little skit on Instagram! Talk about bad timing to come out in support of this shit show.

I sense another conscious uncoupling coming on...

CoffeeCantata · 02/04/2025 09:35

But they need to sing for their suppers—both are accustomed to privileged lives. Harry from birth, Meghan through talent and strategic choices, including marrying well. Given their dependence on the oxygen of publicity, silence was never really an option.

What talent do you discern in Meghan? Her acting is awful and she's made a hash of nearly all her public appearances as a royal-adjacent person.

Her father was a Hollywood lighting engineer and gave her an entree into that dodgy world.

Her uncle got her an internship in Argentina for about 5 mins which she's blown up to give the impression she was deputy ambassador and speaks Spanish like a native (she most certainly doesn't).

Her partners and husbands have been very helpful and convenient, and she clearly thought she'd won the jackpot with Harry. Possibly she's run into the buffers now.

I see a theme here - Meghan is an attractive woman and has learned how to use men to 'elevate' her status. That is her talent as far as I'm concerned!

binkie163 · 02/04/2025 09:40

@RandyRedHumpback
Meghan who has always talked on and on about using her voice wouldn't want a silencing pay off from an old, rich man, would she?

Unless it's Gordon Getty 😂😂😂 the family had to get a restraining order to pry her claws off him.

CoffeeCantata · 02/04/2025 09:41

PullTheBricksDown · Today 09:19

Lunde · Yesterday 22:10

TBH Charles should have never sent Harry to Eton given his limited intellectual abilities. Another school would have been a better option and given Harry the opportunity to grow up without relying on William to take care of him.
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This is one of those things though which only emerges through hindsight. Imagine making the decision at the time, in the wake of Charles and Diana's separation, and then her death, to send Harry to a different, less elite school apart from his brother? It would have been seen as harsh, intellectual snobbery, cruelly removing Harry from his main support. No way it could have been done, even though now, almost 30 years later, some upsides to it can be seen.

It's great with hindsight - as I know from my own children and their schooling. For the RF, sending the boys to Eton would have been a way of making their youth more normal (in upper class circles) than previous generations. And they probably thought that Harry needed to be with William - though that didn't work out too well. (But so many siblings I know didn't want to be associated with each other at school - a sad situation, but very normal and not usually a cause of trauma!). And with Windsor castle (and Granny) just over the bridge, you can see why the RF thought it was the best option.

But I agree that Harry couldn't make use of what Eton had to offer. Despite the jibes of it being the world's most exclusive comprehensive school, the pupils there are very academic and the masters' expectations would be in line with that, so unintellectual Harry was never going to thrive.

BunnyLake · 02/04/2025 09:47

PullTheBricksDown · 02/04/2025 09:19

This is one of those things though which only emerges through hindsight. Imagine making the decision at the time, in the wake of Charles and Diana's separation, and then her death, to send Harry to a different, less elite school apart from his brother? It would have been seen as harsh, intellectual snobbery, cruelly removing Harry from his main support. No way it could have been done, even though now, almost 30 years later, some upsides to it can be seen.

Yes, the reality in the moment is they would never have separated the brothers at that time. My sister also told me to never mix with her and her friends. It’s not that unusual and I haven’t been holding a grudge about it (even though, had I had a younger sister, I would never have said that). She was also a lot more academically bright than me (though luckily I was a lot more emotionally intelligent).

I don’t get the impression though he was sitting in a corner friendless. He had friends and seemed to revel in taunting people there.

Ohpleeeease · 02/04/2025 09:48

Gwyneth’s gesture towards Meghan was generous and confirmed her stance on women supporting other women.

It certainly suited Meghan (if not Harry) to move away from the narrative of the two of them being joined at the bottom.

RandyRedHumpback · 02/04/2025 09:50

Weepixie · 02/04/2025 09:20

I thought it was the case people couldn't dock puppet anymore so it’s not as if you have changed your spots in any honourable sense

She was also not banned for the sock puppetry, which is frankly outrageous when she admitted she did it deliberately.

JSMill · 02/04/2025 09:55

Ohpleeeease · 02/04/2025 09:48

Gwyneth’s gesture towards Meghan was generous and confirmed her stance on women supporting other women.

It certainly suited Meghan (if not Harry) to move away from the narrative of the two of them being joined at the bottom.

I’m pretty sure GP did it for her own benefit as she was looking like a mean girl. I am sure M was thrilled but I don’t think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Ohpleeeease · 02/04/2025 09:55

RandyRedHumpback · 02/04/2025 09:50

She was also not banned for the sock puppetry, which is frankly outrageous when she admitted she did it deliberately.

I for one am pleased you can’t post under different names on the same thread.
I don't want to post everything under the same name as sometimes it’s necessary to share personal information and there are people here who love the advance search function.

I’ve accidentally posted under my wrong name then had to sit on my hands for the rest of the thread. Much better this way.

SatinBall · 02/04/2025 09:58

binkie163 · 02/04/2025 09:07

And therein lies the problem. When boys will be boys and those difficult women won't just ruffle their pretty little fringe, do a tinkly laugh and defer to those misogynistic twats. Shame on women who keep that subservient thinking going. Christ makes you wonder why the suffragettes bothered.

Often it's self declared feminist who act like this around their sons and husbands.

Ohpleeeease · 02/04/2025 10:02

JSMill · 02/04/2025 09:55

I’m pretty sure GP did it for her own benefit as she was looking like a mean girl. I am sure M was thrilled but I don’t think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Hadn’t thought of it like that but yes, it makes sense. I do think she genuinely believes in supporting other women though and let’s face it, Meghan Markle is no threat to her. She can afford to look magnanimous.

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