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Harry and RAVEC #2

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Baital · 18/04/2025 15:37

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IdaGlossop · 02/05/2025 15:56

TheMeasure · 02/05/2025 14:17

Hoo-fucking-ray!
Now maybe he’ll stop wasting everyone’s time and find something constructive to do.

Dream on, @TheMeasure Once a victim, always a victim 🥲

IdaGlossop · 02/05/2025 15:57

MrsLeonFarrell · 02/05/2025 14:18

Very unlikely I would say.

As H has lost, he has to pay his and the Home Office's costs.

RandyRedHumpback · 02/05/2025 15:59

Choux · 02/05/2025 15:45

If he were able to stay at Windsor castle or Buck Pal then the security needed would be just for the journey from the airport and when not in the residence. But with the family estrangement he has to stay in a hotel so thinks he’s more exposed. But actually, if the family aren’t wanting to see them (the 4 of them) he doesn’t have much reason to bring the kids anyway. Perhaps he thought short trips without Meghan would be possible if he could get the security. But I am not sure she would allow that anyway.

i wonder if the case was also a stepping stone for him to try and elevate them to IPP status so they could cut their annual security bill. Living in a country with guns and Harry’s level of paranoia, their security bill must be sky high.

He was offered Palace accommodation when he came to visit his father last January. He turned it down as "unsafe" and chose to stay in a hotel instead.

jeffgoldblum · 02/05/2025 15:59

And as it was previously brought up by another poster as proof of something!
I can tell you that the majority of comments if not all are in favour of this ruling .

MrsLeonFarrell · 02/05/2025 16:03

IdaGlossop · 02/05/2025 15:57

As H has lost, he has to pay his and the Home Office's costs.

Good.

IdaGlossop · 02/05/2025 16:03

Puzzledandpissedoff · 02/05/2025 14:23

Don't you just love these elegantly phrased slapdowns ...

Logically, though, what's Harry lost except the response he wanted to his endless tantrums? He quite rightly still get security in the UK, decided by those who understand these things and in a manner which suits the circumstances

Sounds fair enough to me, but then it always did and nobody's ever been able to explain why it wasn't good enough - not even Harry's more avid fans

One thing he has lost is money, now he has to pay his and the Home Office's costs. £1m down the drain. I'd love to know of his legal team advised him against appealing. It's hard to construct an argument around the notion that bespoke means worse.

Choux · 02/05/2025 16:05

So Harry can attend the Super Bowl in the middle of Los Angeles or the Formula One in Texas or fly to Las Vegas for a Katy Perry concert in a packed casino but cannot stay at Buckingham Palace because of “security concerns”??? Unbelievable!

Vespanest · 02/05/2025 16:07

At least the next invictus will not have any conspiracies about Harry and meghans expenses. The children were used as an emotional tool, Harry now has the ultimate reality that his children will never form relationships with the majority of the royal family, unless they do so independently as adults. For all Harry's tantrums I did believe him when he said he wanted reconciliation.

Profhilodisaster · 02/05/2025 16:07

Thedom · 02/05/2025 15:49

Will People now have ’sources’ disclosing some of the ‘shocking’ things Harry supposedly heard during the closed door hearings.

Ooh yes , good point

CigarettesAndLoveBites · 02/05/2025 16:09

How can palace accommodation be unsafe but a hotel fine?

Firealarm1414 · 02/05/2025 16:10

CigarettesAndLoveBites · 02/05/2025 16:09

How can palace accommodation be unsafe but a hotel fine?

Because harrys a twat lol

GiveMeSpanakopita · 02/05/2025 16:14

Master of the Rolls Sir Geoffrey Ross:

"...having studied the detail, I could not say that the Duke's sense of grievance translated into a legal argument".

Lol love it love it, truly no one does slapdowns as stylishly as posh English dudes.

Profhilodisaster · 02/05/2025 16:23

SnoozingFox · 02/05/2025 15:51

Does he really WANT to bring his wife and children to the UK? What for? He is no longer a working royal. He has cut contact with his dad and his brother. He's hardly going to pop in for one of the kids' birthdays. His children will be educated in California. His wife has no interest in being here at all.

One would think that he does want to bring them here otherwise what's the point of the case .
Although , as others have stated, it's got nothing to do with security or his family not being safe in the uk , it's all about his feelings and being wronged.

Vespanest · 02/05/2025 16:23

I know there is the argument of removing titles for the using of HRH, but it's this that angers me the most. A prince bringing the home office, the judiciary and the head of state into disrepute. Accusations of corruption between the royal family and senior civil servants and he does it on the world stage, whilst still expecting to be called Sir or Prince Harry. I also doubt others will be allowed to follow into military service now. He wanted to join, he wanted to serve on the front line and then uses it to claim he needs extra security, but let's forget about bragging about killing "chess pieces". I think Prince grievance suits him

IdaGlossop · 02/05/2025 16:26

IdaGlossop · 02/05/2025 16:03

One thing he has lost is money, now he has to pay his and the Home Office's costs. £1m down the drain. I'd love to know of his legal team advised him against appealing. It's hard to construct an argument around the notion that bespoke means worse.

Update: costs now at £1.5m. The £1m was the estimate at the time of last month's appeal hearing.

Profhilodisaster · 02/05/2025 16:27

Oh god , he's going to make himself look even more of a twat . Someone take the shovel away from him.

RandyRedHumpback · 02/05/2025 16:32

Oh dear god! The immediate clapback interview! But hang on, how long has this BBC interview been lined up? Must have been arranged in the last couple of days since he knew the outcome in the embargoed judgment. Hopefully he didn't spill the beans to the BBC before today.

I'm guessing BBC 6 o'clock new, in an eerie reminder of Catherine's cancer video this time last year and basically all major royal news. He's gone to the BBC, the UK state broadcaster, rather than his mate, Tom Bradby at ITV or one of his friendly US networks. That in itself is a message.

IdaGlossop · 02/05/2025 16:33

Profhilodisaster · 02/05/2025 16:27

Oh god , he's going to make himself look even more of a twat . Someone take the shovel away from him.

What is the new head of comms doing? (My guess is giving advice and being ignored whilst trying to wrestle the shovel from his hands.) This might be H's Prince Andrew / Emily Maitlis moment, the fount of dipstick phrases that will forever haunt him.

CathyorClaire · 02/05/2025 16:34

i wonder if the case was also a stepping stone for him to try and elevate them to IPP status so they could cut their annual security bill.

I think it's always been about this. Apart from the much coveted 24/7 free security I believe (happy to be corrected) there are also other benefits associated including immunity from prosecution and visa clauses which would have had the effect of shutting down the inconvenient questions arising over the type of visa he has and his drug use in relation to it.

Anyway. Great result. Time to cough up, Henry 😁

Shetlands · 02/05/2025 16:35

If Harry hadn't estranged himself from his father and brother, his children would be able to stay with their grandfather and uncle when visiting the UK and share their security, despite Harry preferring the safety of a hotel to Buckingham Palace. Instead, his immaturity, selfishness and petulance have resulted in a deep family rift, which is unlikely to heal.

Meanwhile, he doesn't work for the British Royal Family anymore so generates no revenue or value for the UK but expects the UK taxpayer to fund his security. Most people in this country are struggling with the rising cost of living, an NHS in crisis and crumbling public services. We do not have the resources to support self-indulgent princes who don't even live here.

Harry is so focused on himself that when he couldn't have his own way, he just flounced off in a tantrum with his gormless wife, whose contribution to the world involves swanning around a Californian mansion grinning inanely, while a camera crew records her transferring stuff from one plastic bag to another. They deserve each other and we're better off without them.

MrsLeonFarrell · 02/05/2025 16:37

Vespanest · 02/05/2025 16:07

At least the next invictus will not have any conspiracies about Harry and meghans expenses. The children were used as an emotional tool, Harry now has the ultimate reality that his children will never form relationships with the majority of the royal family, unless they do so independently as adults. For all Harry's tantrums I did believe him when he said he wanted reconciliation.

I believe he wants reconciliation as well but, at the same time, he seems to have no understanding of how much hurt his books and interviews have caused his family. He looks at everything through the lens of his own version of reality, as he said in his book to him truth means how he feels. He is strangely lacking in empathy.

StClabberts · 02/05/2025 16:37

Popcorn time!

MrsLeonFarrell · 02/05/2025 16:38

Oh dear. I really really hope he isn't about to have his Andrew moment. I also hope his lawyers have sat him down and explained what he can and can't say.

IcedPurple · 02/05/2025 16:38

IdaGlossop · 02/05/2025 16:26

Update: costs now at £1.5m. The £1m was the estimate at the time of last month's appeal hearing.

Even if he manages to wiggle out of some of it, this 'case' is going to cost him well into the hundreds of grand.

That's one expensive failed ego trip.

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