The marching of the Kings californian grandkids

[Thedom]

Wish I could go back and find all those posters who predicted a Kardashian-esqe social media blitz at some point in H&M's future, wonder where are all the posters who we're so affronted by the very idea of that.

People magazine and all, the uber celeb magazine.

I guess needs must with the downfall of her business efforts, \oh look, here are my kids whose privacy we have decided to forego for the greater good of taking the heat off what a crap business woman I am'.

Genuine question: how does covering their faces make a significant difference to anything? The children are being put into the public eye when they don't need to be. The fact that you can only see part of their faces does not change that.

Why can’t they just go to Disney and have a nice time? Why post it all over social media? It can only be for the attention, for the clicks.
Did they not pause for a moment when Princess Lillibet, an actual Princess met a woman dressed up as a cartoon character pretending to be a princess.

I genuinely thought when they stepped back they wanted to retreat to a country house and work in the same way other minor royals have - perhaps running a charity of some sort

Personally I expected nothing more or less than what they've done, @Superhansrantowindsor, but it's worth remembering that the family knew Harry much better than we ever will and will doubtless have done due diligence on his wife

Which may well have been a factor in the decisions they made about the half in/half out the pair wanted ...

Harry and Meghan couldn’t have made it clearer that they were stepping back from being senior royals because they wanted to make money. They told us this themselves.

I think they are their own worst enemies really .They said they wanted a "quiet life " away from the press .However they have obviously needed the oxygen of publicity ,to save them from being another "has been couple " Like many film stars of old .By showing tacky videos of twerking ,they are just pandering to the lowest levels .This is a private thing or should be .I think they underestimated the fact that being semi detached from the Royals .Meant that their real "wealth"is diluted and they become unpopular with the hard working public .KC and KM have both been unwell ,and the public have sympathy for both of them.They conduct themselves well ,and are not showy or self promoting because they dont need to be .

Frogmore Cottage isn’t a palace!

Honestly, I do. If a child is brought up in the same family and as their child, I think it’s unfair to deny them the same inheritance that their siblings are entitled to. I know some people don’t believe in surrogacy (I have my doubts too) but I think it’s unfair to deny them their inheritance based on the decisions of the parents (i include kids born outside marriage in this too).

Last time i checked (although it’s always an ongoing issue) the Marchioness of Bath’s second son, who was born via surrogacy albeit with their parents egg and sperm, is excluded from inheriting the title should something happen to his brother who was ‘born of the body’.

Very true, Serenster, but the half in/half out they hoped for would at least have seen some of their expenses paid for, which may have eased the financial pressures somewhat

Of course we've no way of knowing if Charles is still coughing up, but either way it's not stopped them from continuing to make fools of themselves

No one here vilifies them for not showing the children. The opposite is in fact the case.

The comments regarding Meghan never being pregnant are very few and far between on these threads and aren’t encouraged by genuine posters who can see through troublemakers the moment they arrive here.

And yes, people here do ‘vilify’ them for their hypocrisy when it comes to all the noise they made about giving the children a private life, only for them now to very obviously be leading up to the great unveil that will earn Harry and Meghan the money they can’t earn themselves.

Angry responses? Nope. None of those here either. But I can well understand how the truth you read here may pinch and make you angry for setting yourself up for factual replies from others in response.

Given you got so much in your post wrong - are you sure you're posting in the correct place?

I never said it was. I am challenging the somewhat bizarre claim that to be royal was to be living in a "cold, damp castle".
Odd. A notion perhaps from a regency novel.

I think even some of their harshest critics would be happy with that. The trouble is they won’t drop the royal connection, it’s worth too much money.

I’m not talking about H&M, I’m talking about the romanticised image some people have of the lives of senior working royals like the late Queen, which they imagine non-royals are jealous of.

I don't know anyone who thinks that of any modern monarchy! Who in their right mind thinks they live in cold, damp castles nowadays?!
I think most informed people realise what goes on and how it works.

It is also central to their identity, status, wealth, privilege, raison d'etre.
They are royal, and their children are royal and they will trade on that now and in the future.

Who in their right mind thinks they live in cold, damp castles nowadays?!

Especially after the late Queens one bar electric fire went up for grabs!

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Apparently, Balmoral was toasty because they always had roaring fires going!

Exactly, they are being used whether or not you stick an emoji on the actual faces. Why can’t they just have a nice day out without the whole world being told about it? Because Brand Sussex needs to feed the PR machine. It’s tacky and certainly not done with the kids in mind. Bet there was some freebies thrown in as payment for the PR post. Cheap.

Scobie hasn't disappeared. He's working on a book/TV drama called Royal Spin.

https://people.com/omid-scobie-announces-new-tv-show-royal-connection-royal-spin-book-8673453

And yes, people here do ‘vilify’ them for their hypocrisy when it comes to all the noise they made about giving the children a private life

Particularly when they have very publicly supported bereaved parents from the Parents' Network, making a point of stressing the evils of having children associated with social media.

I wonder if those parents in any way feel like they have been used for the Sussexes' benefit, rather than supported as they would have thought.

Exactly. We are aware these days that cold and damp is not good for the fabric of a historic building, if nothing else. Do people imagine there is no hot and cold running water and no heating in these buildings? What about the artworks that probably need conservation grade climate control? And the private apartments are kept in a very different state to the public parts of a building. Unless it is being suggested that the Royals are forced to live in the dungeons 🤷‍♀️

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They wanted to live in a castle. Windsor Castle. They were told no. That was one of their complaints about unfairness.

🤮 at the idea of Omid Scobie making some vacuous drama to promote his insane bitchy portrayal of the RF.

Quite! If evidence were needed that this is a prestigious, well appointed home...

He's a nasty piece of work. I wonder how he feels about all the stuff he was fed by his Sussex paymasters has turned out to be nonsense?