Obviously I respect your differing opinions Ohpleeeease.
It’s perhaps best if we agree to disagree?
I think how the leak emerged at a very critical moment is extremely suspicious and an important question to ask. And I frankly don’t understand how many people are not asking about it!
I disagree that BP have always remained silent in the past. For sure, they like to give the appearance they do. But in reality they frequently “speak” through friends or make their views known through sympathetic third parties in other ways. I think a lot of hurt and distress is caused by their methods of operating actually.
As for outsiders not being treated the same, as blood family; of course, that is bound to happen to an extent but marrying in involves a job too, even they call it The Firm, and there need to be transparent professional standards that apply both ways surely, whether you have just joined as an outsider or not. And these should be subject to external review.
I think we all put a lot of trust in the RF in handling their own staff, finances, internal enquiries, but when matters have come come to light in the past, BP and the RF have not always shown to be operating correctly, in fact they have covered up alleged criminality, so why does everyone just happily accept their side of things without questioning further?
Jason Knauf hasn’t remained that discreet about his time working with M&H; he may not have been particularly direct, but he has appeared on quite a few interviews defending the RF and I wouldn’t exactly call him objective. In fact, his 60 minute Australian interview I found to be a highly strategic choice. And he is American so will have good PR contacts there presumably? Once H&M’s reputation.was sullied in Oz, UK, and USA, the main English-speaking nations, they were essentially cancelled.
What is curious is that normally, if a member, or ex member. of the RF’s staff breaks cover, and gives interviews, say a butler or a spokesperson, they are cut off by the Palace immediately and quite ruthlessly. But in this instance, JK was given a job and an award. Does no one else find this strange? Seriously?
The RF control how their image is spun by asking people to sign NDAs, by making deals about press access, eg Andrew, Giuffre and ABC, using stories about different members of the family as leverage, leaking stories through friends and favoured broadcasters, who are then rewarded through awards, or gifts. Didn’t King Charles buy Fawcett a house in Highgate? Basically they can throw money at an issue to make it go away! Allegedly £12 million to avoid a court case in Andrew’s case.
Why are you all so prepared to believe them so uncritically?
We wouldn’t accept these standards from other public bodies that are meant to serve us. Nor would they be allowed to investigate themselves.