H&M are currently doing a ‘Royal’ walkabout thing in Nottingham.

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A crowd has turned out to see them. It’s currently being covered live on Sky News. Why on earth would anyone do this?

They aren’t working royals. They are just a pair of chancers who have scuttled back to Britain with their tails between their legs because they have died on their arses in the US. And now people are tugging their forelocks to them here.

People really are absolute fucking morons.

I kowtow to no one! , it’s demeaning and for women holds a particularly negative message….i can understand if it’s culturally relevant but I still think it’s definitely not appropriate for women to do it to their partners…it’s supposed to be equal.
as for royalty…no not in this day and age…..and definitely not to faux royals.

No, I don’t mean that easy route. “We are all imperfect”.

I mean occasionally acknowledging specific things. For example, many here pointed out that Charlotte Griffiths wrote an article saying Harry and Meghan leaked an important event then blamed the leak on palace staff. The article had some other shocking accusations, also.

Not one of the posters that defend them would acknowledge the allegations or even the article. It was almost comical because each time it came up, folks would either change the subject or disappear.

No one could just say, “Gosh and golly, that’s awful if true and really makes some of what people say about them often leaking more understandable.”

You said it ! , I replied! , are you now saying that you don’t? , then why did you state you did?

I assume you are referring to the white pill that Harry put in her mouth?
yes very strange that , that is brushed under the carpet!!

Beautifully written that said I need to wipe the dripping sarcasm off my screen. But not as beautifully written as Hilary Mantle's piece way back when for the LRB when effectively she shined the light on the whole damn crumbling edifice.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/n04/hilary-mantel/royal-bodies?

Zara doesn't carry out royal engagements on her own or with her husband. That's what Harry and Meghan are doing. Which is totally out of order. And HAM have also been sending a list to the press of their public engagements.

Although not the US, Canada, and Australia.

No, that’s not something I expect them to acknowledge at all. I’d faint.

But this was recent, tangible and easy to go back and see as it unfolded. Unlike the white pill, one could probably come up with a defense for the leak (but not the blaming of staff.)

But no, the name Charlotte Griffiths to a supporter of the pair is like garlic to a vampire.

She's referring to a story published by journalist Charlotte Griffiths, an editor-at-large at the Mail on Sunday, about an alleged encounter with Prince Harry in 2011.
Griffiths claimed that, during a country-house shooting weekend, Harry put a small white pill on her tongue and said something along the lines of, “Now I know I can trust you.” She said she discreetly removed it afterwards and believed it was probably paracetamol, rather than anything more sinister.

Well she was very much “in” , and feted for the support she gave them….then came the court case …..now she’s “out” and spilling the considerable beans she accumulated over a decade of close contact! , I imagine that there is considerable concern about what she might reveal……so no longer feted and best ignored by the royalists!

Ah so the rules have changed! It's fine being half in and out as long as you only do engage with "working" royals.

I don't think harry and Meghan should have been half in and out. But neither do I think Zara and mike should be.

CG famously embarrassed Harry by sharing his text messages including “miss our movie snuggles xxx” - after he had lied in court about being friends with her.

I think when Pa had "tampongate" we can forgive him careless sweets-nothings said in private.

I think you have misunderstood the idiom I used there. "To have no time for someone/something" means you disapprove of it, or dislike it. I have not said I have no actual time to spend on a thread like this.

And yes, I am very well aware that I am a consumer of the Meghan and Harry media circus. It’s one of many things I am a consumer of - in the modern world, it is hard to avoid entirely.

I get it 👍🏼. That's why I dislike Meghan's Trad Wife shtick. All the flower petals and being in the kitchen, and fashion and clinging on to her man.
Also having a coronet on her notepaper and being addressed by her title?
Disappointing, really.

People haven’t forgiven or forgotten in respect of Charles though, have they? As your post just now demonstrates.

You certainly do have a lot of time as you post alot abou them. Most people who say they don't have time dor things, their actions show they don't but your action days the opposite..some would say its hypcrocrisy

Tampongate!
Did anyone have that on the bingo card?

You are missing the whole point!!, it was revealed because he lied and said he wasn’t friends with her , hardly knew her and definitely wouldn’t have contacted her……I don’t recall Charles ever saying in court that Camilla was a complete stranger? Do you?

Yeah, I'm going to say that's not great, Harry sounds awful. Plus - paracetamol isn't always safe!
God what an appalling man.

She is the cat’s mother. I’m not sure if you meant Jeff or me.

The allegation that they leaked and blamed the palace is in the same article. Along with the point that they have a WhatsApp group for tipping off the media and paparazzi.

For me it’s good evidence that they routinely do this and have done for a long time.

No, it's just dredging it up because the whole Charlotte G thing is so horrible.

Especially as she marketed her self as being a progressive feminist!!! ……

It’s the boring and dull …tit for tat defence often used when there is little else!

And now it’s the time for the snark.

This is what HaMsupporters do. It’s in their rule book. When someone mentions valid criticism of HaM, they have a list of things they bring up instead to distract and justify.

As if having one’s private conversation, (which had been purposefully twisted for decades now) leaked to the world is worthy of derision, and makes any public backstabbing thing your own son does eternally acceptable.