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Lip reading the royals

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Viviennemary · 14/03/2026 22:04

I've just watched a programme about the royals private conversations being lip read. I'm surprised they've got away with this as it's quite an invasion of privacy. Why did I watch it. Because there was nothing else on!

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PropitiousJump · 17/03/2026 07:43

Honestyboxy · 17/03/2026 04:12

What came across to me in that dreadful programme full of waffle and obsequiousness , was that if the lip readers were accurate, it is astounding that they have very personal conversations about emotive subjects in full view of the public. Also standing behind or in front of the person they are talking about!
It was astonishing to me that on very important days for the monarchy, concerns about arguments with family members, sore feet and feeling ill seemed to be the chief concerns. They all come across as very self absorbed and whiny. Apart from Kate who seems very aware she’s on show and in public, and Camilla. Both of whom weren’t born into it. I think the born and bred Royals really take no account of the wider picture or take the public much into consideration. They just behave like they’re in their little bubble with all the whiny self absorption that comes with it.

In the one I watched, I'm not convinced they were having deeply personal conversations in public. For the sake of argument, if we accept the transcription was accurate, we had the Royals mostly making the sort of mundane remarks you might expect in the circumstances - about what was going on, the crowds, brief reassurances to one another.

The stuff with Harry and Meghan, and Harry and Eugenie, was meaningless without context. Context was invented to make the comments sound significant, but strip the comments of that invented commentary and Harry and Meghan could have been discussing anything; and the lack of text messages Harry was complaining about with Eugenie could also have been from anyone - it was assumed he was referring to senior royals to make the conversation sound exciting.

Honestyboxy · 17/03/2026 07:57

PropitiousJump · 17/03/2026 07:43

In the one I watched, I'm not convinced they were having deeply personal conversations in public. For the sake of argument, if we accept the transcription was accurate, we had the Royals mostly making the sort of mundane remarks you might expect in the circumstances - about what was going on, the crowds, brief reassurances to one another.

The stuff with Harry and Meghan, and Harry and Eugenie, was meaningless without context. Context was invented to make the comments sound significant, but strip the comments of that invented commentary and Harry and Meghan could have been discussing anything; and the lack of text messages Harry was complaining about with Eugenie could also have been from anyone - it was assumed he was referring to senior royals to make the conversation sound exciting.

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