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Spectre8 · 13/07/2025 09:21

This board...why won't Meghan and Harrg just go live quietly and shut up. Today...why have they gone quiet...

So yeah they will never do anything right by some odds you, they go quiet and you still complain, they dont and you have a field day about it too.

Mylovelygreendress · 13/07/2025 09:23

Vespanest · 13/07/2025 09:13

I can't see a problem with Invictus, I'm sure Charles can turn up, wish the troops well. If he can handle a second state dinner with Trump he can handle a couple of hour with Harry. Camilla will probably sit this one out. I very much doubt Harry would want William and Catherine especially if Catherine got a Wimbledon type reaction. The other senior royal would be fine. I do think that Charles whilst may hope for a family reunion he must also be acutely aware of the dangers of anything that damages his relationship with William and the damage he could cause to the monarchy. Strangely I think William and Catherine could live the dream away from the monarchy.

Invictus 27 is at the same time as Camilla’s 80th birthday celebrations. Good excuse for Charles not to attend.

Not2identifying · 13/07/2025 09:25

@spectre8 we're not a hive mind. I'm one of the people who said M has been quieter than I'd expect given that I think the wine represents a real way forward for her but I haven't said they should just shut up. I have, in the past (not recently) said that I felt the path to true happiness, for H especially, is a quiet, peaceful life.

DrowningInSyrup · 13/07/2025 09:27

Ohpleeeease · 13/07/2025 09:07

Well to be fair it is mainly the crazy ones who pop on to the thread to complain about it.

Don't let it upset you.

Mylovelygreendress · 13/07/2025 09:29

I notice that the photographer for this secret summit in a discreet building was Steve Burton . Unless there is another one , Steve is based in NY . What luck he happened to be passing !
If the meeting happened on Wednesday, why wait until Saturday to drop the photos ?
Anyway, it’s already dropped off the MOS headline which is now about Sophie .

IcedPurple · 13/07/2025 09:29

Ohpleeeease · 13/07/2025 08:26

Charles is riding on a wave of goodwill inherited from the late Queen. He has done a good job so far, he may be complacent about what he can get past the public. In the words of Julia Roberts, Big mistake. Big. Huge.

I don't think Charles is the pushover some say he is. I'm sure on some level he would love to be reconciled with his son but he knows Harry and his wife cannot be trusted. People were saying he'd invite Harry back as soon as he became King but instead in his very first speech he wished Harry well 'in his life overseas'. I don't see any prospect of an official 'reconciliation'.

MummyJ12 · 13/07/2025 09:30

The meeting was on Wednesday but has only been leaked after the Princess of Wales’ appearance at Wimbledon yesterday. She received such a warm reception and a standing ovation. I know who I would bet my money on who leaked this and it isn’t the RF. Also interesting timing after yesterday’s story of the disclosure ruling which makes Harry and his legal counsel look very dodgy indeed.

The fact that this meeting was held where it was is also interesting. @BemusedAmerican could be bang on the money. This meeting could have very well been a test of trust. They’ve certainly blown that if so!

AtIusvue · 13/07/2025 09:31

Ohpleeeease · 13/07/2025 09:03

I just honestly can't imagine having that much inherited wealth and not be able to make it work financially. It really does take a monumental amount of effort to stuff it up. If indeed it's the case that they're having to dig down the back of the sofa now. It's supposition only on here.

Well, for a start they could downsize from their ridiculously oversized faux palace to a perfectly respectable property appropriate to their position and income.

Harry doesn’t need a UK “team” (even if it is just one person). They don’t need any kind of “team” actually. He just needs a financial adviser to manage his wealth so they get a decent return, a PA to organise him a bit and people to do the garden.

Meghan could stop fannying about with flower sprinkles, emailing her kids and looking at pictures of them from another room and just be a SAHM for a bit.

Yeh, we don’t know what but there’s def something up. Meg just keeps posting stock images, which could have been taken at anytime in the last year.

10 days ago she put up this pic on her As ever insta. It’s clearly from the same photoshoot she had for People or images she gave to People for a March weekly cover. So we know the image is at least 4 months old but I suspect it’s older.

She isn’t putting up anything new and hasn’t really for the last 4 weeks. Something is def up at home.

Talks for reconciliation
Talks for reconciliation
AtIusvue · 13/07/2025 09:32

Sorry meant to quote @ThePoshUns

OlympicWomen · 13/07/2025 09:33

Maybe they've just run out of ideas? They're probably thinking, what comes after selling gossip, privacy and pancake mix?

Weepixie · 13/07/2025 09:33

@MummyJ12
Also interesting timing after yesterday’s story of the disclosure ruling which makes Harry and his legal counsel look very dodgy indeed

Hi there, what story was that pls?

AtIusvue · 13/07/2025 09:38

Also the very generic photos and inane, saccharine messages she’s putting on her insta- it might not even be Meg.

It’s all just old photos and generic fridge magnet quotes. She’s messaging the nano influencers who are promoting As ever products, but who is to say that it’s her?

Megs and Harry have gone AWOL.

HonoriaBulstrode · 13/07/2025 09:40

There have been rumblings about a Spare 2 (Still Spare) and maybe the rep is suggesting that a generous stipend from Charles might put Harry’s latest truths on the back burner…

It won't be 'latest ', truth or otherwise. It's more than five years since they 'found freedom'. Anything he has to say will be very old news.

I can't see a problem with Invictus, I'm sure Charles can turn up, wish the troops

Invictus isn't Harry's personal property, to be used for his own PR, much as he and M seem to think otherwise. The movement is in danger of being discredited, due to them making it all about them.

Neither are the King's public engagements planned around what H wants.

OlympicWomen · 13/07/2025 09:42

Exactly, @HonoriaBulstrode . Harry's a celebrity acting like a Head of State.

MummyJ12 · 13/07/2025 09:42

@Weepixie
Harry’s legal team are being made to disclose details of payments (or other influences) to witnesses in the case against Associated.

I am satisfied that documents, held by the claimants, that can support a case that a witness has been paid or offered other inducement for their evidence (whether directly or indirectly) should be disclosed. That is because there is a real prospect that Associated will be able to rely upon this evidence to attack the credibility of such witnesses.”

(There is a thread on this that was started yesterday.)

AtIusvue · 13/07/2025 09:44

I’m starting to see split/divorce rumours too

Not sure it’s that. I think Harry is fed up of Cali celeb fake life. Why would any man, who had to escape his racist family to flee to the other side of the world…:want reconciliation with them?

He can’t even see how ridiculous he looks.

Spectre8 · 13/07/2025 09:45

AtIusvue · 13/07/2025 09:31

Yeh, we don’t know what but there’s def something up. Meg just keeps posting stock images, which could have been taken at anytime in the last year.

10 days ago she put up this pic on her As ever insta. It’s clearly from the same photoshoot she had for People or images she gave to People for a March weekly cover. So we know the image is at least 4 months old but I suspect it’s older.

She isn’t putting up anything new and hasn’t really for the last 4 weeks. Something is def up at home.

And when Kate was taking pictures from the nature video or her past, why didn't you say the same? Did you question if something is up with her at her home? No of course you didn't

OlympicWomen · 13/07/2025 09:46

@Spectre8 ? Something was wrong - Kate was being treated for cancer.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 13/07/2025 09:47

Mylovelygreendress · 13/07/2025 06:26

I wonder if there are also reconciliation talks with Thomas Markle ? Somehow I doubt it ..

Thomas Markle isn't in a position to provide ££££, Mylovelygreendress Wink

If any of this is true at all - and it wouldn't be the first time a kite got flown to gauge public reaction - I'm surprised it's all being made about Harry when he happens to be marrried with a family

If Meghan was prepared to come back herself, or allow the DCs to live here, I'd be absolutely amazed ... so what would happen then?

AtIusvue · 13/07/2025 09:48

Spectre8 · 13/07/2025 09:45

And when Kate was taking pictures from the nature video or her past, why didn't you say the same? Did you question if something is up with her at her home? No of course you didn't

Why is Meg putting up old stock photos on her insta?

She used the same photos from her People cover ….which is from March!

Why isn’t she doing videos or new photos to promote her wine that sold out? She’s gone AWOL.

I’ve told you why I think she’s not putting anything out herself……that’s she’s having to deal with Harry.

MummyJ12 · 13/07/2025 09:51

Absolutely @OlympicWomen and @AtIusvue Some posters have short memories.
Everything Catherine put out during her cancer treatment was scrutinised and picked apart by people. Even Chris Ship questioned the flowers in one of the photos or videos. It even lead to the kill notice of the Mother’s Day photo.

OlympicWomen · 13/07/2025 09:58

It was absolutely appalling, @MummyJ12 . The threads on here were vile, and William and Kate were subject to extreme levels of scrutiny.

KassandraOfSparta · 13/07/2025 09:59

On a personal level, I think anyone would want to see an increasingly elderly man (Charles is 76) having at least a cordial relationship with his children and grandchildren. That is probably a separate issue from two brothers having a relationship with each other. Whether Charles can get past the awful things Harry said in his book and they both said/inferred in their Oprah interview is a matter for Charles.

From a "Royal Family" point of view, Harry has made his point very clear - he does not want any part of life as a working royal. He's burned his bridges and even before the move to the USA, it was always obvious that Charles and William preferred the idea of a slimmed down monarchy and that as William's children grew up, married and potentially had children of their own, Harry and his children would become as irrelevant as Beatrice and Eugenie are now. I also think the strength of feeling against him from the British public would not make any return easy.

onehorserace · 13/07/2025 10:00

IcedPurple · 13/07/2025 09:29

I don't think Charles is the pushover some say he is. I'm sure on some level he would love to be reconciled with his son but he knows Harry and his wife cannot be trusted. People were saying he'd invite Harry back as soon as he became King but instead in his very first speech he wished Harry well 'in his life overseas'. I don't see any prospect of an official 'reconciliation'.

Harry attacked one of the people Charles loves the most and that is Camilla. I very much doubt he is a pushover. Charles can see the future of the monarchy and that is William and Catherine.

FancyBiscuitsLevel · 13/07/2025 10:01

I wondered at the timing, and if that suggests Charles /the Palace had a hand in leaking this and then requesting it was sat on until the weekend.

Charles gets to let William know he’s being more welcoming to Harry without having to have an awkward conversation with William about it.

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