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Ham pr disasters 38! Ailing king? Or heartless son?

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jeffgoldblum · 12/09/2026 23:19

Continuing the criticism…still interested, still not bored….

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PleasantGreenPorcupine · Yesterday 15:49

IdaGlossop · Yesterday 15:43

Lots is hypocritical - ecowarriors flying in private jets, living publicly having said you wanted to be private, falling out with people while preaching about kindness.

Fair points!

LlamaDrama20 · Yesterday 15:53

PleasantGreenPorcupine · Yesterday 15:31

No, I'm challenging the claim that Harry will have a role.
He won't.

I suspect our understanding of what I meant by a 'role' is different!

It wouldn't be anything which would give him access to important information or people. No representing UK interests abroad. Not even a royal role or responsibility. So essentially a 'job' to give him purpose and keep him busy and out of trouble. These things can be 'created'.

Perhaps something charity-related to do with military education and training or something?

IAmATorturedPoet · Yesterday 15:55

AustenitesUnite · Yesterday 15:33

It's H's 42nd birthday tomorrow. Do we think M is going to release another video to mark this special event?

I hope she posts a more flattering photo than last year! 😁

bluegreygreen · Yesterday 15:55

Mylovelygreendress · Yesterday 14:58

I think KC is making a mistake . All he has done is show HAM that if they have a tantrum , he will sort it out .

No - it's being framed as 'a Commonwealth member nation had concerns, and the King has responded to those concerns'.

Archive link to Uganda Invictus story https://archive.is/cUZXD

PleasantGreenPorcupine · Yesterday 15:56

LlamaDrama20 · Yesterday 15:53

I suspect our understanding of what I meant by a 'role' is different!

It wouldn't be anything which would give him access to important information or people. No representing UK interests abroad. Not even a royal role or responsibility. So essentially a 'job' to give him purpose and keep him busy and out of trouble. These things can be 'created'.

Perhaps something charity-related to do with military education and training or something?

Oh, I see what you mean. It is different!
I really think that's up to Harry, I don't think the RF should find something for him, but they may well do, out of a sense of kindness.

ImpotentPublicFigure · Yesterday 15:57

Harry could lead the land rover tours on the Balmoral Estate and live on a property on the estate, maybe Glas-Allt-Shiel?

IcedPurple · Yesterday 15:58

bluegreygreen · Yesterday 15:55

No - it's being framed as 'a Commonwealth member nation had concerns, and the King has responded to those concerns'.

Archive link to Uganda Invictus story https://archive.is/cUZXD

Yes. Below is the official statement from the Ugandan military.

Basically, it seems the call was to make it clear that the King has no objection to Uganda attending the IG.

General Muhoozi Kainerugaba Reinstates UPDF Participation in the 2027 Invictus Games

Kampala, Monday September 14, 2026

The Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) and Senior Presidential Advisor for Special Operations, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba has approved UPDF participation in the upcoming Invictus Games next year in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The decision follows a telephone conversation between General Kainerugaba and the Principal Private Secretary to His Majesty The King and Her Majesty The Queen of the United Kingdom, the Right Honourable Sir Clive Alderton K.C.V.O.

In the discussion, Sir Alderton revealed that King Charles III was moved by General Kainerugaba’s sensitive consideration of the King’s opinion on the upcoming Invictus Games organized by Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex. Sir Alderton said King Charles III has no problem with Uganda’s participation in the Invictus Games, and encouraged the CDF to proceed with preparations for UPDF’s participation in the games.

In the telephone conversation, General Kainerugaba appreciated the King’s message and clarity provided by Buckingham Palace on the subject, promising that the UPDF would resume preparations to participate in the upcoming games.
The Invictus Games is an international multi-sport event founded by Prince Harry in 2014 for wounded, injured, and sick service personnel and veterans. Uganda joined the Games this year as the 26th member nation, but the CDF had withdrawn UPDF participation in the upcoming games to preserve Uganda’s close relationship with the British Monarchy after Buckingham Palace had earlier issued a statement indicating that the Invictus Games were a private charity organization.

CHRIS MAGEZI
Colonel
Acting Director Defence Public Information
MODVA/UPDF

noonames · Yesterday 16:00

MrsLeonFarrell · Yesterday 15:23

I expect Sir Clive said something to the effect that the King didn't need Uganda boycotting things on his behalf, maybe even that the Sussexes are really too insignificant for the monarchy to worry about. In diplomatic language of course.

Smooths everything over. Charles looks like the bigger person and diplomat. The Sussexes are outmanouvered if they want to use the whole thing to attack the King.

I imagine Charles doesn't want nutty Ugandans using his own family turmoil to score points off each other. Yet another unwelcome consequence of Harry's idiocy.

bluegreygreen · Yesterday 16:01

IdaGlossop · Yesterday 15:23

I don't know either but he interacts well with children on camera.

Some children; not the child in the wheelchair who might have enjoyed getting some hits in during the balloon sword fight.

PleasantGreenPorcupine · Yesterday 16:04

ImpotentPublicFigure · Yesterday 15:57

Harry could lead the land rover tours on the Balmoral Estate and live on a property on the estate, maybe Glas-Allt-Shiel?

You'd trust him with that? I wouldn't.

PrivateCitizenUgandanAffairs · Yesterday 16:05

I think they've been reading our threads... 😂😂😂

"EXCLUSIVE: Prince Harry Branded 'Too Dim' to Grasp Royal Diplomacy"

"One royal source claimed to Radar: "There is real frustration within royal circles because Harry can sometimes appear too dim to grasp how diplomacy at this level actually operates."

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bluegreygreen · Yesterday 16:06

My2cents1975 · Yesterday 15:24

KC3 has intervened openly in Uganda. There were rumours that calls from BP smoothed over the African Parks situation in Chad as well as the Australia Invictus withdrawal.

KC3 is Exhibit A on why H seemingly fails to learn. H's lived experience is that enough tantruming gets him what he wants and King Pa will rush in to save H from the consequences of his actions.

IMHO, in one move KC3 failed his staff, the veterans who participate in Invictus, and Uganda. Very badly done. And I will say it again, one day H will cause a diplomatic nightmare too big for KC3 the enabler to sweep under the rug. And on that day, I will have zero sympathy for KC3 the enabler.

Enabling Harry, or avoiding a diplomatic issue with a Commonwealth country before the Heads of Government meeting?

Do you have a source for the rumours about the palace being involved in the African Parks issue? It's a story I've tried to keep up to date with and have never seen that anywhere.

Starryfifty · Yesterday 16:07

IAmATorturedPoet · Yesterday 15:55

I hope she posts a more flattering photo than last year! 😁

Maybe another crotch hump photo

Ham pr disasters 38! Ailing king? Or heartless son?
CoffeeCantata · Yesterday 16:09

IcedPurple · Yesterday 15:42

The super rich tend to guard their privacy very highly. The likes of Murdoch would never go near someone as indiscreet and disloyal as Meghan.

Th pre-nup would be the size of a telephone directory!😂

IdaGlossop · Yesterday 16:11

Starryfifty · Yesterday 16:07

Maybe another crotch hump photo

So classy.

IdaGlossop · Yesterday 16:13

HAM are considering legal action in response to the communication issued last week. They think calling them 'private citizens' misrepresents them. (Radar Online) Despite the source, it sounds feasible.

bluegreygreen · Yesterday 16:13

IcedPurple · Yesterday 15:33

I don't think Charles attending the IG was ever in serious consideration. H will be lucky if there is any royal presence at all.

Agree. Charles attended the inaugural event as Prince of Wales. The monarch did not attend.

Invictus is not a royal patronage (royal patronages, as well as honorary military ranks, were returned when Harry stepped back from being a working royal).

TheTwerkingDuchessOfMonteshitshow · Yesterday 16:14

bluegreygreen · Yesterday 15:55

No - it's being framed as 'a Commonwealth member nation had concerns, and the King has responded to those concerns'.

Archive link to Uganda Invictus story https://archive.is/cUZXD

I think he has once again dealt a very good hand.

murasaki · Yesterday 16:15

What would they sue for? It's hardly defamatory. Calling them brainless attention seeking wazzocks, while true, might be seen as such, but since when is private citizen an insult?

JoanChitty · Yesterday 16:15

IdaGlossop · Yesterday 16:11

So classy.

Wasn’t Meghans car number plate ‘Classy girl’? Should have been fined by trading standards . Classy she isn’t!

bluegreygreen · Yesterday 16:19

When a Lownie 2.0 takes on the Invictus games chicanery, BP will now be involved.

I don't think an Invictus investigation would provide the requisite personal motivation for Lownie.

I could be pleasantly surprised.

IdaGlossop · Yesterday 16:21

murasaki · Yesterday 16:15

What would they sue for? It's hardly defamatory. Calling them brainless attention seeking wazzocks, while true, might be seen as such, but since when is private citizen an insult?

More money wasted on a legal case that stands no chance (I say as a non-lawyer). There are two ways of reading 'private citizens': the way the communication uses it ie status not Royal, and colloquially ie 'people leading a quiet life'. The Sussex fools are reading it as the second and being offended when the context is what defines the meaning.

Janiie · Yesterday 16:24

It's easy being a great dad to small dc when you have loads of money and private jets at hand. It's all one long Disney style playtime for them at this stage.

Time will tell when the hamlets are older and start challenging his actions and opinions.

As H&M are both estranged from their dfs I'd bet a tenner sadly history will repeat itself. He's all rictus grins and one liners when everyone is agreeing with him, not so much when they say 'wait, what?'

MrsLeonFarrell · Yesterday 16:25

PrivateCitizenUgandanAffairs · Yesterday 16:05

I think they've been reading our threads... 😂😂😂

"EXCLUSIVE: Prince Harry Branded 'Too Dim' to Grasp Royal Diplomacy"

"One royal source claimed to Radar: "There is real frustration within royal circles because Harry can sometimes appear too dim to grasp how diplomacy at this level actually operates."

radaronline.com/p/prince-harry-too-dim-royal-diplomacy-uk-return/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1789323297

Sometimes?

heatdome · Yesterday 16:27

CoffeeCantata · Yesterday 15:39

I think she'll have to look in the Rupert Murdoch category!

Plenty have before her...

You know it would be interesting to see her with a Murdoch type (though I agree with Iced the lack of discretion wouldn’t be what those types want). Someone who could out-manoeuvre her. There’s similarities between her dispatch of Trevor and Rupert’s of Jerry Hall.

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