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Harry and RAVEC - claims he was trapped by RF

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smilesy · 11/04/2025 19:04

Okay. So first of all thanks to everyone on the last thread for a really civilised discussion about Harry and his security. The Telegraph has an exclusive article where Harry claims that his security was removed to “trap” him in the RF. I’m really sorry but for some reason I am unable to archive Telegraph articles at the moment. Could anyone help?

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smilesy · 15/04/2025 16:17

IcedPurple · 15/04/2025 16:10

I think the judge said they won't issue a judgement until after Easter.

Let's hope it gets thrown out and Harry gets handed the eye watering bill for the expenses the taxpayer incurred in defending this stupid 'case'.

Oh right. I knew it was something to do with Easter, but had it in my head it was before 😆

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IcedPurple · 15/04/2025 16:22

smilesy · 15/04/2025 16:17

Oh right. I knew it was something to do with Easter, but had it in my head it was before 😆

As I recall, 'not before Easter' was the phrase used.

Assuming the appeal is rejected, this is the end of the line legally for Harry, isn't it?

Hence his threats to 'reveal all'. He's such an adolescent twerp.

Lunde · 15/04/2025 16:26

Mylovelygreendress · 15/04/2025 14:03

Was the mercy dash not due to Harry attending some award ceremony later in the week and it would have looked bad if he hadn’t seen his father ? He probably expected to be given more than 20 minutes !

The timing is suspicious

  • 6 Feb 2024 - London - Harry flies in for "mercy dash" for short visit with Charles (15-40 mins depending on source)
  • 9 Feb 2024 . London - Harry's barrister announces that a settlement has been reached with Daily Mirror (so perhaps he also had legal meetings when he was in UK that explains the timing of his visit)
  • 9 Feb 2024 - Las Vegas - Harry presents NFL award (but doesn't mention dear old dad)
  • 16 Feb 2024 - Vancouver - Harry gives interview to Good Morning America about dashing to the UK to visit his poor cancer stricken father. He talked about how much he loves his family and wanted to "spend time" (15 minutes?) with his dad and he thought the "family unit" would come together and be strong (seems to be angling for a return to royal privileges life)
Lifestooshort71 · 15/04/2025 16:31

Let's hope it gets thrown out and Harry gets handed the eye watering bill for the expenses the taxpayer incurred in defending this stupid 'case'.

Hopefully there's absolutely no way on this earth that H could spin this being thrown out into a success?? Or even strop a glimmer of 'I'm the victim in all this'?

Lunde · 15/04/2025 16:37

notimagain · 15/04/2025 14:22

If I recall the "dash" correctly Harry arrived at LHR ...just for info VIPs arriving there can easily (though possibly for a price) avoid going anywhere where they are likely to be mobbed, Met police not required

For example:

www.heathrowvip.com/s/faqs

Although he arrived and left via the VIP terminal - he was definitely in a 4 car motorcade with 2 marked Met police cars and 2 Range Rovers of the type that the royal protection officers use when he left Heathrow. I saw a video posted online from outside Heathrow.

The video is embedded in this article and they go through the red traffic lights on police flashing blue lights
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13051227/Prince-Harry-arrives-London-King-Charles-cancer.html

Prince Harry arrives in London to be at his father King Charles' side

The Duke of Sussex is believed to have touched down on a British Airways flight to London Heathrow - but Meghan, Archie and Lilibet have stayed at home in California.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13051227/Prince-Harry-arrives-London-King-Charles-cancer.html

NewAgeNewMe · 15/04/2025 16:39

notimagain · 15/04/2025 14:22

If I recall the "dash" correctly Harry arrived at LHR ...just for info VIPs arriving there can easily (though possibly for a price) avoid going anywhere where they are likely to be mobbed, Met police not required

For example:

www.heathrowvip.com/s/faqs

Don’t think you’d get me on the plane. Sounds idyllic but not very likely for likes of me.

smilesy · 15/04/2025 16:42

Lunde · 15/04/2025 16:37

Although he arrived and left via the VIP terminal - he was definitely in a 4 car motorcade with 2 marked Met police cars and 2 Range Rovers of the type that the royal protection officers use when he left Heathrow. I saw a video posted online from outside Heathrow.

The video is embedded in this article and they go through the red traffic lights on police flashing blue lights
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13051227/Prince-Harry-arrives-London-King-Charles-cancer.html

Wasn’t that to make sure he got there before the King left for Sandringham? Quite why he couldn’t have waited a day or so and gone to Sandringham for a proper visit, who knows? Although, I seem to recall that he had to go to some function or another in the States the next day 🤷‍♀️

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Puzzledandpissedoff · 15/04/2025 16:43

I honestly didn't know that Harry's "mercy dash" visit was announced before he actually came, @Lunde; somehow I missed that and thought the media only found out once he arrived

So much for wanting them to lay off; if he'd really been doing it for dad's sake you'd have thought that at least could have been kept private, but as ever discretion seems to be an unknown quality to him Hmm

Snorlaxo · 15/04/2025 16:51

If he didn’t announce the visit (at least after the fact) then there’d be lots of “cruel Harry” jibes online and on SM.

Lunde · 15/04/2025 16:52

Puzzledandpissedoff · 15/04/2025 16:43

I honestly didn't know that Harry's "mercy dash" visit was announced before he actually came, @Lunde; somehow I missed that and thought the media only found out once he arrived

So much for wanting them to lay off; if he'd really been doing it for dad's sake you'd have thought that at least could have been kept private, but as ever discretion seems to be an unknown quality to him Hmm

I think it was announced the day before he travelled. So he definitely wanted the news out there and the press at the airport and Clarence House. Harry manages to slip in and out of the UK on a regular basis for court cases and we never know and he even slipped off to the Ukraine last week.

Catherine managed to get in and out of hospital and back for check ups without being seen at all

Puzzledandpissedoff · 15/04/2025 17:04

Lunde · 15/04/2025 16:52

I think it was announced the day before he travelled. So he definitely wanted the news out there and the press at the airport and Clarence House. Harry manages to slip in and out of the UK on a regular basis for court cases and we never know and he even slipped off to the Ukraine last week.

Catherine managed to get in and out of hospital and back for check ups without being seen at all

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Exactly, Lunde

And yes, @Snorlaxo, without doubt some would have called Harry cruel if he hadn't visited, but then some would do well to remember it's perfectly possible to arrange something without blasting it all over the place, or even (if he had to) to make some mention of the visit only afterwards

IcedPurple · 15/04/2025 17:10

The British press have an agreement not to photograph the royals "off duty". It's not adhered to 100% of the time, but for the most part it is. Occasionally you might see a 'candid' snap of a royal out and about, but certainly they are never 'swarmed' by 'paparazzi'. Harry is trying to evoke the long gone Diana era as part of his victimhood spiel.

MayaKovskaya · 15/04/2025 17:28

IcedPurple · 15/04/2025 17:10

The British press have an agreement not to photograph the royals "off duty". It's not adhered to 100% of the time, but for the most part it is. Occasionally you might see a 'candid' snap of a royal out and about, but certainly they are never 'swarmed' by 'paparazzi'. Harry is trying to evoke the long gone Diana era as part of his victimhood spiel.

He is and it's nonsense. Like in the ludicrous "The Cut" interview, when Meghan claimed she was a better parent for educating her children in the USA, because - she claimed - in the UK there would be swarms of paparazzi harassing Archie and Lilibet.
Ridiculous.

notimagain · 15/04/2025 17:45

Lunde · 15/04/2025 16:37

Although he arrived and left via the VIP terminal - he was definitely in a 4 car motorcade with 2 marked Met police cars and 2 Range Rovers of the type that the royal protection officers use when he left Heathrow. I saw a video posted online from outside Heathrow.

The video is embedded in this article and they go through the red traffic lights on police flashing blue lights
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13051227/Prince-Harry-arrives-London-King-Charles-cancer.html

Yes, sorry I agree with what you say there, I didn't make my point properly..(in fact I'm.not sure what it was now..🤔).

I suppose it was that those that don't want to be papped or mobbed going through LHR can do it without needing the Met, in fact you'd often see well known faces wandering through the terminals not even bothering to use the special services available.

TBH on the rare occasion there is a minor fuss and the press are waiting I rather expect the celb does the the tipping off...

MrsLeonFarrell · 15/04/2025 18:22

Lunde · 15/04/2025 16:52

I think it was announced the day before he travelled. So he definitely wanted the news out there and the press at the airport and Clarence House. Harry manages to slip in and out of the UK on a regular basis for court cases and we never know and he even slipped off to the Ukraine last week.

Catherine managed to get in and out of hospital and back for check ups without being seen at all

Edited

I'm pretty sure at least some people knew where and when Catherine was being treated but they respected her privacy. Plus of course there is no guarantee the media wouldn't have had a backlash from the public if they had printed photos of her during treatment.

IdaGlossop · 15/04/2025 18:35

BasiliskStare · 15/04/2025 14:52

Bit late to the Rory party but apparently Rory has donated all his US Master winnings from the w/e ($4.5m) and previously his winnings from the Players' Championship this March ($4,2m) to Mencap.

So I don't think he really is M's type 🙊

He's showing up and doing good 😇

IdaGlossop · 15/04/2025 18:40

Puzzledandpissedoff · 15/04/2025 08:18

I'm distinctly unbothered about lipgloss, avocados, nail polish and the rest, Mylovelygreendress, but completely agree that W&C will have had the measure of Meghan - W because he's used to being part of an institution which protects itself above all else and C because of her very stable upbringing

IME such people can spot an unprincipled chancer a mile off, and do all they can to dodge involvement - hence no doubt the "failing to rise to the bait" which is working so well for them

However tempting it is to blast off, sometimes the best approach can be a dignified silence, but unfortunately H&M don't seem to have learned this

Now of us have met Meghan in person but the way she comes across on screen suggests that she would be very forceful from the first moment, seeking always to dominate eg by wanting to chair meetings rather than learn from them. We know Harry's friends thought she was a nightmare. W & C could probably see from the word go that she was trouble.

Weepixie · 15/04/2025 18:40

IcedPurple · 15/04/2025 17:10

The British press have an agreement not to photograph the royals "off duty". It's not adhered to 100% of the time, but for the most part it is. Occasionally you might see a 'candid' snap of a royal out and about, but certainly they are never 'swarmed' by 'paparazzi'. Harry is trying to evoke the long gone Diana era as part of his victimhood spiel.

There’s a picture of Catherine out shopping in Nottinghill (I think it was) during the late afternoon this past winter. Someone had obviously taken it and sold it to the press but she was just wandering along in her DM’s doing some window shopping before she went into a shop selling eyewear. Her security must have been close to hand but she was to all intents and purposes just out having a wander round the shops.

MayaKovskaya · 15/04/2025 18:40

IdaGlossop · 15/04/2025 18:35

He's showing up and doing good 😇

Decent man.

Serenster · 15/04/2025 18:48

MayaKovskaya · 15/04/2025 17:28

He is and it's nonsense. Like in the ludicrous "The Cut" interview, when Meghan claimed she was a better parent for educating her children in the USA, because - she claimed - in the UK there would be swarms of paparazzi harassing Archie and Lilibet.
Ridiculous.

This is something Meghan’s fans seem very resistant to realising - that the British press won’t publish papped photos of the children, and generally not photos of the adults either, unless they were very clearly in a public place (like shopping in Notting Hill).

So, no, William and Kate did not set up a papparazzi to take photos of them and their family skiing in Courcheval to ensure they got the British press attention’s focussed back on them because they were jealous of the attention Meghan and Harry were getting (as the squad claims). As the photos won’t be (and haven’t been) published in the UK, that would be an utterly pointless exercise. Critical thinking is not often evident among Meghan and Harry’s supporters, though.

Mylovelygreendress · 15/04/2025 19:09

If the Sussexes are “ living their best life” ( according to their supporters) why is H so keen to have contact with the cruel racist family who caused him and his wife so much distress ?

Profhilodisaster · 15/04/2025 19:18

Mylovelygreendress · 15/04/2025 19:05

Looks like Harry has been moaning ( again) to his favourite tabloid.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

These reports must come from Harry otherwise wouldn't he be moaning about people leaking info about him to the press?

Profhilodisaster · 15/04/2025 19:41

As a toddler, my daughter used to have tantrums, she'd lay on the floor kicking and screaming, if I walked away, she'd get up , walk over to where I was , lay down and carry on with the tantrum. This is how I see Harry.

HiRen · 15/04/2025 19:47

MrsLeonFarrell · 15/04/2025 18:22

I'm pretty sure at least some people knew where and when Catherine was being treated but they respected her privacy. Plus of course there is no guarantee the media wouldn't have had a backlash from the public if they had printed photos of her during treatment.

There is also the cruel memory of the nurse who committed suicide following Catherine's treatment at the hospital she worked at. I don't remember how/what/why, perhaps it was the leaking of information (or I think even the pranking of the leaking of information)? In any event, I remember she was apparently a really decent woman, mom and experienced professional, who felt so tragically guilty over a breach of Catherine's privacy that she took the ultimate step. I think the media will be well aware of this.

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