Harry knocking on random doors in London

[PrettyFlyforaMaiTai]

What a strange story! I’ve seen it being reported that Harry was wandering around a road in London, knocking on (at least 3) doors whilst looking for a friend 🤔🤣

How would you not know which house your friend lived at?

www.thesun.co.uk/news/34882882/prince-harry-wrong-door-camera/

Harry would be devastated if people stopped talking about him. As would Meghan.

The rest of his head.

I wouldn't call that press freedom. It's malicious - especially given the context. It is also cruel given that Harry seems more paranoid about past traumas than he is about the way he is portrayed. Imo he is more obsessed with avenging the death of his mother. Can you imagine him receiving the news of his mother's death when he was a child and thinking that it was caused by press intrusion? In his mind she was killed because she lost the protection of HRH title. I get that many on here and in the UK hate him and see everything he does in a negative light - in line with his press portrayal, and I think I get why but I also understand why this is a battle he wants/needs to win.

Prince Harry is showing "average joe?" hehaviour? 😂That's funny. So average Joes are princes who go to court, says their lives are at risk without armed cops paid for by the tax payer, and then wander the streets knocking on random doors, staying at friends' homes and, against security protocols, and have Deliveroo sent to the front door. All this despite fearing for their lives. I've never met one joe like that.

I thought they repsond to pretty much everything - so when they don't people assumption is it true.

So even if they don't sue they will put out some sort of correction via friends or public statement.

It's why many celebs and RF in partiular don't tend to correct but ignore most stuff in papers.

The only reason this has any traction though is because it fits with the self important coupled with the complete incompetence vibe he's been cultivating last few years - and fact he just very publicly sued and lost to UK goverment in courts for more security.

I'm sure there are rules in UK press about using clearly photoshopped images - wasn't Princess of Wales demonized for touching up family shots - so I image it will come out if that what has happened.

Well, William reckons he goes out and gets an Indian or has it delivered so he can watch a match with his mates. When he said that on a radio show he very much seemed to be positioning himself as an Average Joe. I don't blame him I'm sure there are aspects of his life that are pretty average.

TBH I think it not vitriol as such- mainly ridicule with an undercurrent of contempt at their behaviour.

I'm not sure what the parallel here is. I don't think William has said he fears for his life, gone to court for additional security and then walked the street knocking on random doors.

Your post reminds me that all any of us has to go on are press reports. When it comes to celebs or royal family we have no way of sorting what's real from what is fabricated. We're all forced to drink the media cool-aid. The older I get the more I realise that the press is so powerful that it can often manipulate us into believing almost anything.

No.
People don't like him because of the "press portrayal" (sic). We're more intelligent than that. My opinion of Harry is based on his own words and actions. The Oprah interview, the Netflix series, Spare, all the subsequent interviews for various outlets, his behaviour over security, his BBC interview.
He has proved to be cruel, malicious, deceitful, greedy and arrogant. He wants the UK taxpayer to fund limitless top level security, on his whim.
I know his mother died when he was young. She had another son, if you recall. Does he act like this? If Harry had any intelligence he'd know the cause of his mother's death, and work on closure. Stop excusing a multimillionaire middle aged prince of behaving badly.

The other son doesn't have to act like that because from the day he was born he was anointed as the heir to the throne and was treated differently to the "spare."

Yes. The Spare got the advantages. All the privilege, wealth and opportunities. None of the stress of the big job on the horizon.
Harry complained about getting the smaller bedroom in whatever palace or castle he lived in.
He has had far more wealth, opportunity and status than most people. It's still not enough. He still violated his family's privacy...for money.
What a greedy man.

I read a lot of it as vitriol. Remember what Clarkson said? That took ridicule to another level. No matter what I personally feel about MM I remember feeling so sad for her when that "comedian" compared her newborn to a monkey and put a picture of a chimp in clothes on sm. As a black person I would have been crushed by that. I would have felt as though a whole country was against me. I would have found that terrifying.

I don't know why people admire and support Harry just because he's royal. Excusing him like he's still 12, or living in a foster home with no chance in life. Then again I don't get this blind support of royalty. Each to their own.

Some of the posts on this thread really show how unhinged some of the H&M haters are 🤣

It's the constant hypocrisy that winds people up. Here he is merrily marching up and down a residential street ringing rando doorbells to find his mate like he hasn't got a care in the world, at the same time he was taking the Govt to court at a cost of millions to tax payers because he wanted 24/7 armed security to feel safe in the UK. And it's the latest in a long line of contradictory behaviour from the pair of them, over privacy, the use of HRH, throwing family under bus but wanting reconciliation etc. He's a white male of untold privilege but he behaves like big man baby who just needs to grow the fuck up.

Edited to add: I'm no Royalist either, wouldn't miss them at all if they never showed their faces in public again. But I am a tax payer who is bloody annoyed at how much his petulant court action has cost us.

You are sadly scarily close to truth about some in that wider circle.

An obvious example of manipulation was what happend with Pricess of Wales and her cancer diagnosis - the pressure and speculation being driven up behind the scenes was quite something.

The idea Harry being entitled and bit dim for me comes from his own ghost written autoboiography and the teacher who later went to tribual and it came out well before Meghanand leaving -she'd basically been told to do his A-level art work for him. He went to one of the best school in counrty and got very meh qualifications.

His cheaky chappied personona was very convincing but now looks like a very careful palace pr run campaign.

All that happend is he got wrong door three times - which is a bit OTT - but he still sells papers and they don't like him and generally the public don't either in UK looking at polls - so he's dug his own hole here and now he stuck.

What you say about privilege is true - and relative: The money he has made is nothing compared to the wealth of the royal family. We don't know the half of it. And we are not allowed to ever find out. "Greedy" Harry is thrown to the wolves while the rest of the rf gets to accumulate even more wealth and we plebs are to accept and applaud this, even though it happens at our expense, because we can expend all our anger and resentment on Harry.

Many would call my start in life underprivileged. Personally, I have never called anyone privileged because they have more money than me. The traumas of childhood are real and some people never get over them - and they can happen to anyone. One of the most neglected people I know comes from a very wealthy background.A working class woman like me doesn't truly understand Harry and William's world. Harry is entitled to claim ill treatment within the boundaries of his (incredibly wealthy) world. When you compare him to, say, a person like me or others with less, you are not comparing like with like. And if we are talking about the advantages of aristocracy (the only real advantage and privilege) you have to talk about the whole lot of them. Look at Andrew's barefaced entitled behaviour.

The real threat that Harry poses is that for a moment he was so popular that he had the potential to destabilise the status quo. That was nipped in the bud pronto.

I personally think Harry ought to have all the security he's after.

If anything profoundly negative DOES unfortunately occur to either him, his wife or children it will reflect very badly on we the British people. I admittedly do not know all the details - anyone feel free to correct me - but my understanding was he had it before he got married and then when he left the country, it was taken away. It does seem somewhat of a bid to send a message of 'you cannot have that and this' I can't imagine if he had married more appropriately and agreeably and had relocated under a cloud of goodwill to somewhere like Botswana that his top level security would have been taken away.

Now imagine a scenario where something happens solely to Harry and Meghan goes on the publicity touring warpath. She's already proven herself to be litigious. Just imagine anything happens and all the anti-royal Meghan stans out there. It would very bad for the Monarchy indeed, especially as we draw closer to America with their Republican sentiments.

Talk about saving money but are the Royals as a whole value for money in any real respect? Some would say they could sell off a few of the empty properties they have hanging around just to start with and they'd still not be trimming back. So I hardly think the money is the true concern. I think that's a smokescreen argument.

The fall out from Diana was bad enough. After the racism claims and the Andrew debacle, one more major scandal and that it could well be the end of the Royals.

I think paying for his security is a small price for him to shut up and go away and get on with it, and averting future problems.

We do pay for his bloody security!
How many more times does this need to be said??

Your post made me suddenly realise that we could end up being ruled by King Trump (shudders).

That's fine, @bluesinthenight . We'll just need to agree to disagree. I think my issue is Harry's constant litany of complaints about his life of misfortune. I think, by any standard, he's had many opportunities to have a fulfilling and enriching life. It is his choice not to.
Harry's popularity was promoted by the t
RF, because he worked in that institution.
He has subsequently made up lies about his treatment. His lies vary, and contradict each other. He can't even remember his stories accurately.
Anyway. He lies to remain in the headlines, to be controversial and to maintain his victimhood. And he lies for money.
He could live a better life.

I think paying for his security is a small price for him to shut up and go away and get on with it, and averting future problems.

He still has security - he just has to book it 28 days in advance because we don't have trained people hanging round doing nothing.

Plus we don't want to grant IPP status and that means US taxpapers will have to pay for his secuirty.

He getting what many senior royals who still do royal engagement get. He wants more than that though as he doesn't want to pay. I wouldn't want to pay but I'd have looked at situation and worked out how I could manage and afford it before I jumped and chose a very high profile lifestyle.

Not everyone reads up on Harry or follows tabloid royal news.

I assume he is dissatisfied with the security he currently has and wants a certain tier of security he currently doesn't have. Or wants that security applied more broadly? Or what was the point of the case?