I’ll park the fact that no one criticised that particular post though or reported it, whereas if it had been made about Catherine or Sophie, it would have quite rightly been reported several times over.
I take your point that this RAVEC hearing is procedural but my overall point is that every single negative post on this site adds to all of the disproportionate negative comment and anti H & M rhetoric globally, all of which make Harry and his wife a target for nutters.
The level and number of threats that Harry receives is pertinent to questions about the level of security he will receive on future visits, and I imagine on whether he can make them incognito, or at the last minute, without the press finding out. .
i was listening to a podcast featuring Iain Dale on my commute to work this morning. He was reading out hate mail that he had received and reported to the police. It was from a woman who said something along the lines that she was looking forward to seeing him dying and seeing his dog die, and the letter included his mobile phone number.
Now if a British broadcaster and journalist who isn’t at the centre of a media storm, receives that level of malicious hate mail, you can imagine the nature of threats that are being directed at Harry and Meghan right now, stirred up by the tabloid press.
And the tabloid press are never going to leave Harry alone given that he has challenged them in court, so the threat isn’t going to diminish.
And evidence for them is already in the public domain;
Channel Four spoke to the outgoing Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner Neil Basu, who was the former head of counter-terrorism, who said Meghan in particular faced many credible threats against her life while he was in charge of royal protection.
"If you'd seen the stuff that was written and you were receiving it — the kind of rhetoric that's online, if you don't know what I know, you would feel under threat all of the time,"
When asked by Channel 4's Cathy Newman whether he was convinced there was a "genuine" threat on the Duchess of Sussex's life on more than one occasion, Basu replied, "We had teams investigating it. People have been prosecuted for those threats."
Most posters on Mumsnet seem to think that Harry is exaggerating his and his wife and children’s need for protection of the highest level and know better than a police commissioner of thirty years standing!