Ham pr disasters 53! …..how low will they go? …we all hope not that low!

[jeffgoldblum]

Well we have had the attempted upstaging of the Welsh senate …..now the Oman state visit….we all hope that whatever advisors that they still have will not allow any thing to interfere with Aberfan! 🤞

I meant to post this on the previous thread about Harry’s potential inheritance from Charles….

I think there’s more to it than just tax planning - although that’s v important - and that’s control. The monarch controls the family through money. And that’s why Harry made such a terrible mistake falling out with William.

Anne, Edward and Andrew appear rich perhaps by our standards but their lifestyles all depend on funding from Charles. Even Andrew with all his dodgy dealings doesn’t have enough money to maintain his lifestyle on his own. He had very little income from any sources which was why Fergie got such a paltry divorce settlement. If Andrew had had guaranteed access to family trusts she wld have got a lot more. It’s all discretionary and the monarch holds that control. A lot of the value comes in the form of free/subsidised housing and staff. Anne is unusual in that she was gifted her estate outright by the Queen. As we know, it turned out Charles didn’t even own Highgrove. Harry and Meghan messed up giving up their Windsor home which was effectively a grace and favour home.

Diana and W&H won’t have got much if anything from her family because that all went to her brother Charles and is all tied up in trusts. I believe W&H got a token £1k or so.

Charles is not going to leave Harry a substantial legacy that would either go to Meghan in the case of divorce or be used by the 2 of them to set up a rival court. It’s just not going to happen. If they hadn’t fallen out, they would have lived out their days receiving an annual discretionary income from the monarch and additional funds from the sovereign grant/foreign office for carrying out official duties but no lump sum.

Petty gossip it might be, but which one is on the landing page of every news website right now? With the exception of The Times, Harry's interview has usurped the state visit. Once again he's reduced his family to a Sidebar of Shame talking point.

Perhaps he was just talking in general terms😁

The interview by Harry in today’s press - you could be forgiven for thinking it had been deliberately set up to come out today.

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Give it a few hours and we'll have Kate and Camilla looking stunning in their finest jewels and gowns.

Competing for fleeting tabloid headlines is a losers' game. Perfect for the Sussexes.

He's stitched himself up. Could there be a greater contrast than the stories and pictures emerging today?

Indeed!! Let’s not forget this was featured in hello ! And where did they get it ? , ham are predictable and their clapbacks are even more so!

Tonight; a state banquet.
That must eat them up, knowing that they could have been there, Meghan in a priceless tiara. Utter fools.

I can’t help thinking that there is a stench of eau de panic lingering around Harry today.

Love it! 😂😂

Just had a thought – if reconciling with family is so important to them, why isn't Meghan making peace with her dad? Posing in a cheap suit for a few tabloid pics is surely more forgivable than a sibling physically attacking you and pushing you into a dog bowl and your SIL making a racist comment about your baby?*

*Not that I believe for a second C did that.

And thanks for the new thread @jeffgoldblum !

Yes he’s clearly referring to reconciliation with another family and another brother standing in his way….purely coincidence that he’s on the outs with his own family!

Because when they do something horrible, it's fine. Someone else?.not fine.

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If Harry and Meghan had to be invited to anything because they were ‘family’, I’d be seating Mr Markle right next to them.

And I’d be making sure that there were no aunty feathers or pesky candles in the way of their faces.

Sent you a PM!

I'm just looking at the pictures, William and Catherine looking so attractive and dignified. Nothing like that pair in Nottingham, it's like a different world. Chalk and cheese.

I totally agree with this post, but wonder if there will ever be a time when W feels compelled to offer a reconciliation due to public pressure or something? I mean if they were just anonymous aristocracy I imagine W wouldn’t speak a word to him ever again, and who could blame him, but if public mood shifts in favour of a brother reunion, will they do an Oasis?

Yes.

Returning to Salt Island was clearly a move born of desperation. It was all so different way back then when they thought they were going to become California A listers. But their arrogance, laziness and sheer lack of any marketable talent put paid to that.

Now two months in to their Great Return, it's clearer than ever that there is no way back for them. Still no official security, 'engagements' on an industrial estate, and Harry's family keeping a very clear wall between them. Tonight's State Dinner in Windsor is just going to emphasise how far they have fallen.

So what's next? Everything has failed and they're back doing a pound shop version of the life they flounced out of. What options do they have left to them?

No Harry has wet himself. Again

My money’s on Meghan.