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Harry and Meghans Aussie extravaganza 2.

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jeffgoldblum · 14/04/2026 16:01

Hope Avid doesn’t mind ! The last one finished unexpectedly and it’s only day 1!

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ShamedBySiri · 15/04/2026 20:25

Excellent post @StrawberryWasp

Noseyoldcow · 15/04/2026 20:36

corblimeyguvnr · 15/04/2026 14:12

But not Lili ? Diana's replica ?

I’m old, and thus I don’t hold much truck with therapy. Like many of my generation, I’m of the “just get on with it” mindset. But fuck my old boots, those kids really ARE going to need it, aren’t they?

CathyorClaire · 15/04/2026 20:41

Until there was specific action around Andrew there was little to be gained in a commercial sense for regurgitating what we already knew.

I'll take a de-railing slapped wrist for this but Andrew Lownie's book was an absolute masterclass in collating and ordering a lot of what was already out there then leading on to one of the most spectacular and gratifying bonfires of the vanities we've ever seen.

While I think the Harolds have been far more astute in hiding their trail and mainstream journos have so far been mostly stymied in revealing what any digging may have uncovered I don't doubt we'll see a book.

I hope it's soon.

IAmATorturedPoet · 15/04/2026 20:43

NautilusLionfish · 15/04/2026 20:12

no point reall. if i must....then

that its curious who Masterchef AU gets, esp the non chef guests.

I wonder if she will make roast chicken to remind us thats its what "my husband cooked the day he proposed" or her famous lemon cake. I wonder what flower sprinkles she will use and how much of her merch will feature.

in any case, kudos to them : they keep trying

Roast chicken? Lemon Cake? - you do know it’s not junior Masterchef?

Anyhow, I doubt very much she’s cooking anything at all, she is a judge isn’t she? She will just chuck out a load of word salad.

Great post @StrawberryWasp

IcedPurple · 15/04/2026 20:46

StrawberryWasp · 15/04/2026 20:22

The way H talks about his children is quite disturbing. Children are not upgrades, they are unique individual human beings in the same way every child who ever existed is. Each generation isn't an upgrade on the last one. What would that mean?: they are more intelligent? more moral? more creative? happier?

This view reveals an underlying belief in the constant progress of humans beings being improved upon, rather than the belief in an essential consistent human nature. This itself is quite dangerous, but quite prevalent and it's leading to ideas such as transhumanism and eugenic approaches to foetus selection.

Totally dim H though thinks his upgrade is being brought about by his amazing parenting due to his therapy.

The fact that he thinks that guarantees to me that he's actually being a shit parent ,caught up in the hubris that because he's found the new shiny way to be great he can make his children great. A terribly destructive idea for children

This approach to parenting is currently rife and he's bought into it. The current generation of parents do seem to believe they are better parents than their parents were and so their kids are going to be just great. In reality this totally ignores the data that the kids are now more unhappy, more medicated, more fearful and less engaged in life than any othergeneration.

This therapeutic ,self absorbed, self congratulatory, parenting as a self validation tool, is making children miserable and ill.

Yes it's good that we no longer smoke around children, make them wear seatbelts and don't leave them outside pubs with a packet of crisps for hours, but we've also isolated them, removed opportunity for free unsupervised play with friends, pressurised them to achieve academically, scheduled all their free time (so they can go to clubs and be upgraded) and removed them from wider family structure and isolated them from grandparents.

In fact one of the key factors in childhood resilience is a wide family network around you. Particularly relationships with grandparents and an older generation. It provides children not only with more people to love them, but crucially forms their identity, and opens up new learning social and general experience and knowledge. This is true even if the grandparents are a bit shit (not true if their abusive).

So H is actually engaging in a key parenting approach which actively harms his children, while congratulating himself on what a fantastic parent he is, and how his children will be 'upgraded' because of it.

It's a vile way to view children

I don't buy into any of the conspiracy theories about the children, but the weird way that both Harry and Meghan talk about their kids makes me suspect that they don't spend a whole lot of time with them. They certainly seem happy to put entire oceans between themselves and their children, and have done since they were babies.

StrawberryWasp · 15/04/2026 20:56

More weirdness about parenting.
https://x.com/fashionistaera/status/2044415591507984573?s=20

Harry has to be told in therapy that kids pick up on feelings?
And when Harry comes home from 'work' and holds Archie, he cries??

WTF? That's a weird weird dynamic.

Firstly how many people have jobs more stressful than whatever Harry's job is and yet they manage to navigate parenting without therapeutic advice??

Secondly how weird that Archie cries when Harry holds him just because Harry had a bad day. There's something wrong there I'm afraid.

I have a few theories which would explain this but I'm going to resist speculation.

What I will say is it sounds like H&M have been getting family therapy or parenting advice for issues at home.

All does not sound rosey.

Hanz (@fashionistaera) on X

“When I go to work”? I’m sorry… where exactly are u going to work? Do u actually have a job? “Archie picked up on my stress”? What stress? The only “work” u do is give word-salad speeches & trash ur fam. Maybe Archie picking up on the stress of be...

https://x.com/fashionistaera/status/2044415591507984573?s=20

Indianrollerbird · 15/04/2026 20:56

StrawberryWasp · 15/04/2026 20:22

The way H talks about his children is quite disturbing. Children are not upgrades, they are unique individual human beings in the same way every child who ever existed is. Each generation isn't an upgrade on the last one. What would that mean?: they are more intelligent? more moral? more creative? happier?

This view reveals an underlying belief in the constant progress of humans beings being improved upon, rather than the belief in an essential consistent human nature. This itself is quite dangerous, but quite prevalent and it's leading to ideas such as transhumanism and eugenic approaches to foetus selection.

Totally dim H though thinks his upgrade is being brought about by his amazing parenting due to his therapy.

The fact that he thinks that guarantees to me that he's actually being a shit parent ,caught up in the hubris that because he's found the new shiny way to be great he can make his children great. A terribly destructive idea for children

This approach to parenting is currently rife and he's bought into it. The current generation of parents do seem to believe they are better parents than their parents were and so their kids are going to be just great. In reality this totally ignores the data that the kids are now more unhappy, more medicated, more fearful and less engaged in life than any othergeneration.

This therapeutic ,self absorbed, self congratulatory, parenting as a self validation tool, is making children miserable and ill.

Yes it's good that we no longer smoke around children, make them wear seatbelts and don't leave them outside pubs with a packet of crisps for hours, but we've also isolated them, removed opportunity for free unsupervised play with friends, pressurised them to achieve academically, scheduled all their free time (so they can go to clubs and be upgraded) and removed them from wider family structure and isolated them from grandparents.

In fact one of the key factors in childhood resilience is a wide family network around you. Particularly relationships with grandparents and an older generation. It provides children not only with more people to love them, but crucially forms their identity, and opens up new learning social and general experience and knowledge. This is true even if the grandparents are a bit shit (not true if their abusive).

So H is actually engaging in a key parenting approach which actively harms his children, while congratulating himself on what a fantastic parent he is, and how his children will be 'upgraded' because of it.

It's a vile way to view children

This is a great post! 👏

skullbabe · 15/04/2026 20:58

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IAmATorturedPoet · 15/04/2026 21:03

On the subject of therapy, there is such a thing as too much therapy. The therapist becomes a crutch you depend on, you get stuck in a cycle of over analysing and repeating the same past wounds/issues and won’t/cant allow yourself to process and gain coping skills to be able to move on.

corblimeyguvnr · 15/04/2026 21:09

StrawberryWasp · 15/04/2026 20:56

More weirdness about parenting.
https://x.com/fashionistaera/status/2044415591507984573?s=20

Harry has to be told in therapy that kids pick up on feelings?
And when Harry comes home from 'work' and holds Archie, he cries??

WTF? That's a weird weird dynamic.

Firstly how many people have jobs more stressful than whatever Harry's job is and yet they manage to navigate parenting without therapeutic advice??

Secondly how weird that Archie cries when Harry holds him just because Harry had a bad day. There's something wrong there I'm afraid.

I have a few theories which would explain this but I'm going to resist speculation.

What I will say is it sounds like H&M have been getting family therapy or parenting advice for issues at home.

All does not sound rosey.

He said he works from home and the children were always bursting into meetings 🙄

corblimeyguvnr · 15/04/2026 21:12

StrawberryWasp · 15/04/2026 20:22

The way H talks about his children is quite disturbing. Children are not upgrades, they are unique individual human beings in the same way every child who ever existed is. Each generation isn't an upgrade on the last one. What would that mean?: they are more intelligent? more moral? more creative? happier?

This view reveals an underlying belief in the constant progress of humans beings being improved upon, rather than the belief in an essential consistent human nature. This itself is quite dangerous, but quite prevalent and it's leading to ideas such as transhumanism and eugenic approaches to foetus selection.

Totally dim H though thinks his upgrade is being brought about by his amazing parenting due to his therapy.

The fact that he thinks that guarantees to me that he's actually being a shit parent ,caught up in the hubris that because he's found the new shiny way to be great he can make his children great. A terribly destructive idea for children

This approach to parenting is currently rife and he's bought into it. The current generation of parents do seem to believe they are better parents than their parents were and so their kids are going to be just great. In reality this totally ignores the data that the kids are now more unhappy, more medicated, more fearful and less engaged in life than any othergeneration.

This therapeutic ,self absorbed, self congratulatory, parenting as a self validation tool, is making children miserable and ill.

Yes it's good that we no longer smoke around children, make them wear seatbelts and don't leave them outside pubs with a packet of crisps for hours, but we've also isolated them, removed opportunity for free unsupervised play with friends, pressurised them to achieve academically, scheduled all their free time (so they can go to clubs and be upgraded) and removed them from wider family structure and isolated them from grandparents.

In fact one of the key factors in childhood resilience is a wide family network around you. Particularly relationships with grandparents and an older generation. It provides children not only with more people to love them, but crucially forms their identity, and opens up new learning social and general experience and knowledge. This is true even if the grandparents are a bit shit (not true if their abusive).

So H is actually engaging in a key parenting approach which actively harms his children, while congratulating himself on what a fantastic parent he is, and how his children will be 'upgraded' because of it.

It's a vile way to view children

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Great post. The more Harry is let loose the more we see how warped his mind is.

Starryfifty · 15/04/2026 21:14

corblimeyguvnr · 15/04/2026 21:09

He said he works from home and the children were always bursting into meetings 🙄

Working as what exactly??

jeffgoldblum · 15/04/2026 21:16

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Oh excellent! Hello what an extremely old blast from the past ! , your chums sadly are missing.
anything constructive to add to the thread apart from lofty moralism at posters who don’t know you?

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IcedPurple · 15/04/2026 21:16

corblimeyguvnr · 15/04/2026 21:09

He said he works from home and the children were always bursting into meetings 🙄

We all know Harry does very little by way of 'work', whether at home or anywhere else.

The way he talks about the kids is almost a fantasy. Didn't he say something in an Invictus related interview about how he explained to Archie the importance of 'invisiible disabilities'? When Archie was what, 3 years old?

I really don't think there's a lot of hands on parenting going on in Montecito Manor.

Mylovelygreendress · 15/04/2026 21:18

corblimeyguvnr · 15/04/2026 21:09

He said he works from home and the children were always bursting into meetings 🙄

Where are the Nannies ?

TheAutumnCrow · 15/04/2026 21:18

Starryfifty · 15/04/2026 21:14

Working as what exactly??

I think he has ideas about interviewing the Pope about hot chocolate or something

jeffgoldblum · 15/04/2026 21:18

CathyorClaire · 15/04/2026 20:41

Until there was specific action around Andrew there was little to be gained in a commercial sense for regurgitating what we already knew.

I'll take a de-railing slapped wrist for this but Andrew Lownie's book was an absolute masterclass in collating and ordering a lot of what was already out there then leading on to one of the most spectacular and gratifying bonfires of the vanities we've ever seen.

While I think the Harolds have been far more astute in hiding their trail and mainstream journos have so far been mostly stymied in revealing what any digging may have uncovered I don't doubt we'll see a book.

I hope it's soon.

I’ll allow it! 😉🤣

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whattheflipz · 15/04/2026 21:22

Well now I won't be watching that episode of MC au :(
thanks not a royal Meghan for ruining that 😭

whattheflipz · 15/04/2026 21:24

Stupid headline on one of au channels yesterday was
'King & queen of the children' for hospital visit
I messaged them saying it's a fake royal tour make it stop 🛑

Noseyoldcow · 15/04/2026 21:34

Wow. I said downthread that I don’t hold much truck with therapy, and Harry is living proof that I am right. But poor Archie, aged what? 6 ish? sitting on Dads lap, crying because the old man’s had a hard day (really? Try proper working for a living, like the rest of us you Muppet) is surely going to have problems. Mind you, Archie in tears may not actually be true. MIght just be his Dads truth, eh?

Starryfifty · 15/04/2026 21:36

corblimeyguvnr · 15/04/2026 21:09

He said he works from home and the children were always bursting into meetings 🙄

Who cries?? Him or Archie?? Or both? Absolutely absurd either way. I'm certainly in no position to comment on one's mental health but PH sounds unhinged

Mylovelygreendress · 15/04/2026 21:40

Noseyoldcow · 15/04/2026 21:34

Wow. I said downthread that I don’t hold much truck with therapy, and Harry is living proof that I am right. But poor Archie, aged what? 6 ish? sitting on Dads lap, crying because the old man’s had a hard day (really? Try proper working for a living, like the rest of us you Muppet) is surely going to have problems. Mind you, Archie in tears may not actually be true. MIght just be his Dads truth, eh?

Stuff like this makes me worry about those children .

Thedom · 15/04/2026 21:41

Didn’t Meghan report something similar about Archie worrying she works too hard?

Sounds like the little kids are being indoctrinated to believe their absences are because they have to work. If Harry and Meghan are not lying about the worries of their kids (always a possibility) then seems to be a very sad and dysfunctional life for their son and daughter.

Starryfifty · 15/04/2026 21:41

I remember when my kids were that little. I hated to be away from them. These two spend a lot of time away from their very young children

DirtyGertyy · 15/04/2026 21:52

This is hilarious:

“Take the Duchess of Sussex. This Easter weekend, the public was treated to a double outing of Prince Archie and Princess Lillibet via Meghan’s Instagram account. In each tasteful video, the children are filmed from behind. We get glimpses of hair and legs but no eyes or smiles.

Clearly, the Sussexes would not be so crass as to use their children to sell stuff, although Meghan’s jam-making and flower-sprinkling are monetised through her Netflix show and product sales. Frolicking children help build a brand. Pictures of faceless children tell us not just that she is a mother to healthy, happy children, but that she knows all about the importance of online privacy.”

Clearly doesnt apply to other people’s very ill and vulnerable children.

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