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The royal family

PR Disasters thread 21

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OctopusFriend · 06/07/2026 15:37

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Lunde · 07/07/2026 16:35

ShamedBySiri · 07/07/2026 15:18

No I meant W&C should make their London base at Buckingham Palace. Leaving KP for the also rans.

But then HAM would be filming and flogging the Diana connection of KP

William and Catherine currently use their apartment for official entertaining and Diana's old apartment is used as their offices. I don't see why W&C should be forced to rattle around in the 775 rooms of BP when the King and Queen refuse to move.

Anyway there are empty apartments at St James' Palace that Harry can use (and have Princess Anne for a neighbour 😂)

TheGospelAccordingToMe · 07/07/2026 16:35

Puzzledandpissedoff · 07/07/2026 16:15

I agree, Passingthrough, but in many ways it's even worse than the latest lost case and the ££££ in costs

Again and again and again he's been made to look like an utter failure, and that won't be easy for someone who was once surrounded by sycophants who'd coo and praise his every action or word

It's not even as if his own wife's prepared to go on record supporting him, so what his future will look like now is anyone's guess

I think we could be witnessing the beginning of the end for HAM.

Aprilfountain · 07/07/2026 16:35

IAmATorturedPoet · 07/07/2026 16:32

What a 🔥 that statement is from PD.

PH is in shock by the looks of him, once he has had time to fully to process this the shock will turn back to anger (his default setting) and we will get a statement or a 'spokesperson' article somewhere. Id be very surprised if he just walked away from this with his tail between his legs.

Yes, I dread to think how he's going to spiral over this, he is not used to being told no!

Puzzledandpissedoff · 07/07/2026 16:44

Hopefully she’s supporting him in private. Doubt it. But I do hope so

So do I, @Recklessismymiddlename - she's his wife after all - but on all precedent it seems highly doubtful

Unfortunately she's married an utter failure, and if she chooses to be associated with that very much longer I'll be most surprised

cheezncrackers · 07/07/2026 16:45

Harry has had a shocking week - and the TIMING of the announcement that he's lost the ANL case - literally minutes before he was due on stage at Chatham House to give a speech! He looks like he's about to throw up.

And if those stories are true about the debt that he and Meghan are already in - fucking hell! He lost his last court case re: security and hasn't paid the costs for that, the DM is saying this latest court case cost £50 million - and that's on top of all the debt he's got in the USA. If they aren't even paying the school fees that speaks volumes IMO. It's one thing to drag your heels over legal costs, quite another to risk your beloved DC's education. It's almost impossible to comprehend how far the two of them have fallen in just six years.

Starryfifty · 07/07/2026 16:46

Puzzledandpissedoff · 07/07/2026 16:44

Hopefully she’s supporting him in private. Doubt it. But I do hope so

So do I, @Recklessismymiddlename - she's his wife after all - but on all precedent it seems highly doubtful

Unfortunately she's married an utter failure, and if she chooses to be associated with that very much longer I'll be most surprised

She's not supporting him. She'd be with him in the UK. She's mercenary.

Recklessismymiddlename · 07/07/2026 16:52

It will all depend on the title. If the title goes, so will she. I’m sure the RF know that. They saw her coming, even if Harry didn’t.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 07/07/2026 16:52

The TIMING of the announcement that he's lost the ANL case - literally minutes before he was due on stage at Chatham House to give a speech!

I've every expectation that, in his febrile mind, that will be another "stitch up", @cheezncrackers; someone who's suggested quite openly that they want him dead is hardly likely to look at it any other way

The only real question is if he'll make a statement saying so. It would be nice to think that, just this once, he'd have the sense to stay silent, but we'll see

cheezncrackers · 07/07/2026 16:54

Yes, I agree @Puzzledandpissedoff It will be 'another establishment stitch up' won't it.

I tell you what too - Harry is becoming a massive liability to Invictus too. He and Meghan apparently cost the organisers a fortune with their travel costs and now all this negative drama YET AGAIN. How long will it be before he gets pushed out of that, I wonder? It happened at Sentebale ...

canklesmctacotits · 07/07/2026 17:00

I think the monetary loss is secondary for Harry (he won’t understand it, he still doesn’t understand affording things, he knows there’s still a lifeline, there are many hoops to jump through still before he’s given a final number and date to pay up and that’s all going to take months and months - it’s not foremost now).

I think for someone who’s lived with the paranoia of being chased by paparazzi, of reading truths/half-truths/mistruths about himself in the paper and being unable to reply while he was a working member of the RF, who truly believes his mother died at the tabloids’ hands, whose wife talked of not handing her child up on a platter to the media or taking them to school in front of a “present of 40” [in her dreams!] (she didn’t mean it, it was a talking point that suited her narrative at the time), for all his belief in protecting children from invasion of privacy, for all the second guessing I’m sure he’s done over decades about whether his friends or family or the MIGS betrayed him by spilling details to the press and concluding that they wouldn’t have and it must have been UIG at play - he’s going to pretty much lose his mind. He will feel like the whole world is colluding in gaslighting him, and he will feel like he doesn’t know what’s real anymore. The drugs won’t help. It’s all going to be too much. I said on another thread that I see rehab in his future and I think that’ll be more the case now. Meghan has already said she’s had enough of all this and wishes he would look forward. She just wants to make money and will have no time for his family drama or this stuff unless and until they’re of use to her and right now it’s looking like quite the opposite. He’s totally, utterly alone to stew in his paranoia. I’d be worried if I were Charles.

BasiliskStare · 07/07/2026 17:01

I suspect M can cope with him losing the case - if he ends up personally liable for £Ms - I think she might be less sanguine. Speculation only obviously.

IcedPurple · 07/07/2026 17:04

BasiliskStare · 07/07/2026 17:01

I suspect M can cope with him losing the case - if he ends up personally liable for £Ms - I think she might be less sanguine. Speculation only obviously.

That's not an 'if' is it?

I mean, he lost the case comprehensively. ANL have spoken of £50 million in costs. There's no way he can't be on the hook for millions, surely? The only question is how many millions.

ETA: While I don't think she personally cares about Harry's British court cases, being married to a serial loser is surely going to sting.

Passingthrough123 · 07/07/2026 17:05

Just seen the footage of barrister David Sherbourne arriving at the Invictus event Harry's at – by the look on his face, he's clearly been summoned to explain what the hell went wrong. Harry will want to appeal but surely that's just throwing good money after bad.

HurrahforHollywood · 07/07/2026 17:07

Puzzledandpissedoff · 07/07/2026 16:44

Hopefully she’s supporting him in private. Doubt it. But I do hope so

So do I, @Recklessismymiddlename - she's his wife after all - but on all precedent it seems highly doubtful

Unfortunately she's married an utter failure, and if she chooses to be associated with that very much longer I'll be most surprised

It's not like she's a huge success, is it? She is a talentless fool just like him.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 07/07/2026 17:11

HurrahforHollywood · 07/07/2026 17:07

It's not like she's a huge success, is it? She is a talentless fool just like him.

Very true, HurrahforHollywood, but she's a talentless fool who likes to keep reinventing herself, and while that doesn't work either I'm not sure she'll feel his general air of failure helps

I tell you what too - Harry is becoming a massive liability to Invictus too

Right idea but possibly wrong tense, @cheezncrackers?
With his and Meghan's manic need for attention at the expense of all else I'd say he's been a liability for quite a while, but for reasons which defeat me they seem to want to hang onto him

Starryfifty · 07/07/2026 17:40

Best option for him would be to completely retire from public life but unfortunately he's addicted to fame and publicity

Mylovelygreendress · 07/07/2026 18:02

Starryfifty · 07/07/2026 17:40

Best option for him would be to completely retire from public life but unfortunately he's addicted to fame and publicity

I think he is addicted to status rather than fame . He is so obviously jealous of William and is desperate to be treated exactly the same as him .
I feel for Archie and Lily . It really can’t be a happy , calm household .

DaisyDooley · 07/07/2026 18:02

At this stage ithink it’s utterly insane to even think that Invictus will go head with Harry and Meghan leading from the front.
Thats IF it even happens.
Its £24 million short.
Harry is going to be very busy liquidating assets in order to pay his share of the court costs. He won’t have time to be raising £24 million for Invictus.
It might be ‘one year to go’ but the £££ surely have to be in place months before.
His’big hitter mates’ won’t be coughing up will they? Elton-hahah. Tyler Perry? Oprah? If they were going to donate they would already have done it.
Boeing pulled out.
Nobody has jumped into their spot.
No decent business will touch them as it will reflect badly on them as HAM are so toxic now and divisive. The ‘Sussex’brand is dead inthe water

Im calling it. Either Invictus won’t happen or if it does it will be without HAM.
They are fucked.
And they thought they would be billionaires.

Starryfifty · 07/07/2026 18:07

DaisyDooley · 07/07/2026 18:02

At this stage ithink it’s utterly insane to even think that Invictus will go head with Harry and Meghan leading from the front.
Thats IF it even happens.
Its £24 million short.
Harry is going to be very busy liquidating assets in order to pay his share of the court costs. He won’t have time to be raising £24 million for Invictus.
It might be ‘one year to go’ but the £££ surely have to be in place months before.
His’big hitter mates’ won’t be coughing up will they? Elton-hahah. Tyler Perry? Oprah? If they were going to donate they would already have done it.
Boeing pulled out.
Nobody has jumped into their spot.
No decent business will touch them as it will reflect badly on them as HAM are so toxic now and divisive. The ‘Sussex’brand is dead inthe water

Im calling it. Either Invictus won’t happen or if it does it will be without HAM.
They are fucked.
And they thought they would be billionaires.

They owe T Perry a few million and no move to pay it back so he won't be helping out. OW will crawl out when they split

Morelovelyandtemperate · 07/07/2026 18:11

Passingthrough123 · 07/07/2026 15:55

I think any discussion about him going bankrupt is premature – apparently the judge capped the costs at £4.5m. The losers won't have a problem finding that amount between themselves.

Who is paying everything above the cost cap? Does the law firm take the hit?

BasiliskStare · 07/07/2026 18:15

IcedPurple · 07/07/2026 17:04

That's not an 'if' is it?

I mean, he lost the case comprehensively. ANL have spoken of £50 million in costs. There's no way he can't be on the hook for millions, surely? The only question is how many millions.

ETA: While I don't think she personally cares about Harry's British court cases, being married to a serial loser is surely going to sting.

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I say "if" because I don't know anything about this 4.5m cap and I don't know about their insurance. I agree it t is going to cost him something though - even those sorts of insurance policies must have an excess and I too have only read about the £50m. He's certainly not getting anything back & I actually like the DM for not rolling over. No, it's not nice for M to be married to a loser , my speculation was the money will get to her more. Her husband has taken up an expensive hobby.

DaisyDooley · 07/07/2026 18:16

Morelovelyandtemperate · 07/07/2026 18:11

Who is paying everything above the cost cap? Does the law firm take the hit?

Ithink @Passingthrough123 must have misread that figure somewhere.
Theres no way costs can be capped at less than 10% of the total.
Legal firms are not known for writing off 90% of their fees.

DaisyDooley · 07/07/2026 18:18

BasiliskStare · 07/07/2026 18:15

I say "if" because I don't know anything about this 4.5m cap and I don't know about their insurance. I agree it t is going to cost him something though - even those sorts of insurance policies must have an excess and I too have only read about the £50m. He's certainly not getting anything back & I actually like the DM for not rolling over. No, it's not nice for M to be married to a loser , my speculation was the money will get to her more. Her husband has taken up an expensive hobby.

I bet she wishes she hadn’t encouraged him to sell his 21st birthday present from his father - a pair of custom made Purdeys.
Shooting would have been infinitely cheaper.

Starryfifty · 07/07/2026 18:21

Mylovelygreendress · 07/07/2026 18:02

I think he is addicted to status rather than fame . He is so obviously jealous of William and is desperate to be treated exactly the same as him .
I feel for Archie and Lily . It really can’t be a happy , calm household .

Yes but he was a senior working royal and fucked it. He was never going to be king. Unless something catastrophic happened. I believe the Queen proposed a year out to try the US out but they refused.

elessar · 07/07/2026 18:22

On the comment that someone made before about Harry not yet paying his costs in the RAVEC case - what happens if he simply doesn’t pay?

I wouldn’t put it beyond him to think he is above such things.

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