Can someone explain why Harry and Meghan are Humanitarians of the year ?

[Mylovelygreendress]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15178897/prince-harry-meghan-markle-award-new-york.html

I have never believed this is about safety ( remember him wandering around ringing doorbells?) it’s about having what William has .

I just looked it up and it seems not, PullTheBricksDown
Some diplomatic passport holders will also be IPPs - though it doesn't follow automatically - but diplomatic immunity and IPP status appear to be completely different processes:

What IPP status means
Automatic state-funded security:
Individuals with this status are entitled to security from the host country and their own government, regardless of where they travel.

International protection:
The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons mandates that signatory states prevent attacks on the person, freedom, or dignity of such individuals.

Who is included:
Typically includes Heads of State, heads of government, ministers for foreign affairs, and other high-ranking officials or representatives of international organizations, along with members of their families who accompany them.

Role-based, not passport-based:
Holding a diplomatic passport does not automatically confer IPP status. The status is tied to the person's official role and the purpose of their visit, not the type of passport.

IPP status vs. diplomatic immunity
IPP status is about security:
It is a designation focused on physical protection from harm while traveling abroad.

Diplomatic immunity is about legal protection:
It provides immunity from the criminal and civil jurisdiction of the host country for official acts.

Different legal frameworks:
IPP status is governed by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, while diplomatic immunity is established through separate agreements like the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.

Waiver is key for immunity:
Diplomatic immunity can be waived, but only by the sending state, not by the individual diplomat themselves

Thank you for that Telegraph link @bluegreygreen .

What an ocean going entitled bumptious twit is Harry ? Does it ever occur to him with his innate skills and talents where he would be without his accident of birth. Be grateful , not use it to want more is my advice.

I feel rather better for having said that 😂Give me a by on that would everyone. &T this evening for me . Have had much more important things to worry about than H but actually that outburst has made me feel better.

Did any of you see this article from Richard Eden (DM royal diarist)? He thinks there is a move to bring Harry back (against William’s wishes) called Operation Thaw.

https://archive.ph/73COv

I don’t really understand this “lobbying” Harry is doing, can Keir Starmer just overule the British courts and award him security, IPP status etc.?

That is pretty much word for word the current script the Sussex Squad are currently going with. It inevitably makes it's way over here too.

They really are having to scrape the bottom now.

No, but classic Harry, he not only thinks he's above the courts, he thinks he should be personally attended to by the PM.
What else has Starmer got to do?

I think he just wants to keep stirring the pot in the hope that Daddykins will swing it for him. Such is his ignorance of how things work.

Yes, I saw that one @Indianrollerbird

The most interesting part - that the Duchess of Sussex will be returning before the end of the year ‘bearing humble pie’ - presumably for someone else to eat?

With flower sprinkles ?

We do need that laughing emoji!

Why on earth would the RF want Harry back other than reconnecting as a family ?
He cannot be trusted and there is no way Meghan would be welcomed.

I've commented on how weak the notoriously conflict averse C3 looks when it comes to dealing decisively with his increasingly boorish son along with his eternally boorish brother.

The answer seems always to have been that grey-rocking the former is working while the latter has been punished enough with the loss of his royal role and is 'Entitled' (!) to attend private family events.

Both take the piss endlessly.

He had absolutely no idea of how the UK monarchy worked and he was brought up with it! He was shocked that the RF was a hierarchy!
Nothing would surprise me about his level of ignorance.

Because some wise guy thinks this is the best way to get publicity for this award. Which is probably right. Whether or not its good publicity is another question.

He is so full of puffed up self importance and entitlement. He really is the new Prince Andrew.

Isn't he just!

Probably the only thing he could do to shut him up would be to start funding him again

No royal has ever been left on their uppers and Harold won't be the first.

It's hard to believe the funding has ever stopped.

The Vintage Read has a contact who has told her that Operation Thaw is being rolled out to allow Harry to do events in the UK in the run up to Invictus. Yvette Cooper is apparently one of the main drivers of this, which is why Harry was able to go to Ukraine at the same time as her a few weeks ago.

You can perhaps see how this might benefit Labour. Labour run Birmingham council has presided over a complete mess. There are council elections in Birmingham in May 2026. Harry usually does a “1 year to go” series of events for Invictus, and Spring 2026, 1 year before the Birmingham games, would coincide with the run up to council elections. Those elections are going to be a mid term indictment on the Labour government - unless Labour can turn things around and get the public on side public. The electorate of Birmingham is ethically diverse and may well have many voters sympathetic to Meghan and Harry and their racism claims. Labour bringing H&M back might be a vote winner for them.

Yvette Cooper is also married to Ed Balls, Piers Morgan’s replacement on GMB, and it’s pretty clear that H&M have a hotline to the head of ITV and Chris Ship, ITN’s royal editor. I wonder if some sort of back channelling is going on.

The Behaviour Panel’s Scott Rouse on the award ceremony body language:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kt6DieuiZaA

Birmingham is on its uppers I thought, and they keep being lumbered with the Commonwealth Games too . Plus the whole issue of Harry and his family it seems an odd choice to hold the Invictus games there.

There is an argument that what he really still wants is IPP status, which would protect him from any consequences if he has been careless around legal requirements for his charities.

I agree entirely.

Cost us £26m to bid for it.

I'd love a breakdown on where that went.

I can’t remember the guy’s name now, but it was a Tory MP, ex military, who lobbied for Invictus in Brum and secured £27m of taxpayers’ money to cover it. Despite the central govt funding, Birmingham will probably take some kind of additional financial hit that is not guaranteed to be off set by attendee revenues. The MP was a friend of Harry.

I can’t remember the guy’s name now

Johnny Mercer 😡