PR disasters thread 32

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Yet another new thread for more Sussex shenanigans!

Of course he is allowed to be worried about his kids, but if he is that worried he would not be throwing his kids squarely into the very public discourse by using their school drop off / pickup as some kind of emotional extortion. He knows the majority of the British public are against him getting tax payer funded security, yet he is trying to further stoke up the controversy with all his contentious claims and pronouncements.

Going by everything he has said over the years and in his last statement, he is very clear his kids are not safe at all in the UK, yet he seems to be bent on using them to expose whatever he, rightly or wrongly, believes is a vulnerability in his security detail.

I agree with this.

What the DM have to' lose' is that Harry is probably likely to go for them about any story he can, to reclaim the moral high ground and money.

We have already seen the correction re the story of the Sussexes telling the Horners they were coming to live in the UK, that happened on Friday.

I mean, if we’re going to talk about British slavery money, let’s have a look at the Spencers, shall we? Harry’s sainted inheritance from his apotheotic mother, part of which was her own ‘Spencer inheritance money’, was made originally on the back of the slave trade.

No aristocratic family is immune from these claims today, including the Spencers. Where are Harry’s plans for reparations?

Harry: I can't foresee a world where I will bring my children back to the UK

Harry: I will give RAVEC two weeks' notice that I'm moving back permanently

BBC interview https://archive.is/UIOGX

Telegraph https://archive.is/h0M2n

Sometimes you just have to go with what people say and do.

@DandyAF I'm quite surprised the DM got the Geri lunch story so wrong. Inter alia , one thing that came out of the ANL case to me was just how very good the DM's legal sources were.

I wondered where you were! - I had hoped it was on holiday. Sorry you’ve got such a crappy disease to deal with, Jeff. Welcome back.

No

He will not be able to reclaim the moral high ground after a DM reporter outed him as being her direct source for a major story in 2025.

Yes, I was surprised at that - though it wasn't one of the usual royal reporters.

Perhaps it was another planted story by Harry and Meghan. If they’d leak such an important private meeting as the “peace summit” then cry foul when their own info got published, what would stop them from leaking a false story so they could rebut it?

I honestly hope that you are right about the DM and the moral high ground. But I am not entirely convinced that that organisation knows the meaning of the term!

Harry’s case and others may have been completely dismissed but morally, we all know I hope that the DM is a deeply misogynistic, sensationalist and divisive news outlet.

And I’m sorry but I have to disagree that the stories would have dried up if H&M had said nothing.

If H and M had come back to UK and their dc had attended a Cotswold school without any prior announcement and various press agreements in place; I think that news would have been all around the country by nine am on the first day of term.

We have some things in common Hostamenice689, I’m no fan of any of the royal family and you said that Meghan’s actions were impulsive, unwise, naive and rash, when I proposed that discussing family issues on Oprah was taking things too far. However I think it’s also unfair to blame everyone but themselves for their failures. Harry thinks £5million per year security is a drop in the ocean when the government are letting dangerous criminals out on to the streets because apparently we don’t have enough prison spaces. £5 million would fund approximately 100 police officers for a year. He wants £26 million in government money to fund the Invictus games but has hardly raised any money himself then expects the games to go ahead when he’s arguing that he is a security risk himself which would endanger hundreds of people not just himself. They just don’t read the room. It would be really great if people didn’t have to criticise their actions but if they keep on doing stupid things and demanding more and more of our money and adulation I don’t think that’s going to happen.

Thats most kind of you autumn , I’m ok now but I doubt anyone would have noticed my absence anyway and especially not with all the excitement of recent ham activities!! , clearly I chose the wrong time to be ill! 😁

Yes that’s a weird one. The DM still does get things wrong (I’m talking generally) and it chances certain things.

But this was such a strange story to get wrong, because since it’s the Sussexes and the Horners, both of whom have been litigious, you’d think they’d double-check.

I wonder if it was an entirely different family that HAM visited, so there was a lunch, but just not with the Horners.

Welcome back @jeffgoldblum . I hope you are feeling better. You have returned to more Sussex drama.....

The news that they were back and their children were in school would have been out, certainly. Any information about the children's whereabouts or their school would not (at least from mainstream organisations).

The main risk to the children, as far as photographs are concerned, will be passers-by and the internet.
We all know that there are photographs of the Wales family online that are never shown on UK media sites.

Yes….white pill story not getting the attention it deserves either!

I am not sure what qualifies as “sticking to the subject of the thread” any more tbh, especially on the 32nd edition, but at the risk of breaking guidelines…

I couldn’t agree with you more about the Spencers and other aristocrats but do you not think that national public institutions have even more of a responsibility to make reparations than private families?

If rumours are true, it was the horners who insisted the story was removed and told the Sussex’s it needed to happen.

She has annoyed many Americans, too. Please don't think she represents my country. We don't think Harry represents the average UK citizen 😁.

Edited for typo.

No and some people will happily stick fingers in ears and pretend not to hear when Charlotte Griffiths is mentioned at all. They go poof!

I want to know what happens if Invictus can't raise the additional funds it "needs" (to pay for M's demand for several floors of a 5* hotel as well as all the other freebies). They didn't clap back on THAT story, I noticed...

If he's worried about them, why has he brought them to the place he said last year he couldn't possibly bring them because it was unsafe, to live? I'm genuinely baffled as to why he'd do that if he really believes his children are at risk, when there's been no change as yet to their security.

Thank you.

Many thanks bemused! , yep ! It’s all to play for and the stakes are high! 😁