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A lack of humour and self reflection is not helping.

Harry does seem to have made remembrance his hill to die on, if you will excuse the metaphor. I think it is because it is the one occasion where he can claim to have some relevance. It’s also, apart from Trooping the Colour, the occasion when the Royal Men get to put on uniform and look “royal” as it were. It’s a shame remembrance seemed less important to Harry when he went galavanting off to a Disney premiere instead of a memorial to the Marines murdered at Deal barracks

Exactly completely agree, she has told enough lies & inaccuracies on camera to reveal exactly what she is.
My nana used always use that phrase @Well1mBack 😊
Harry never taught Meghan to old royal mantra "never complain, never explain ", he missed that brief himself also!

Wow - I don’t believe it but what a revelation if true!
If only there was a ‘Flippin’ Nora’ emoji …..

What I am mulling over, though, is why Harry felt the need to show his face in Brackley yesterday.

Love him or hate him like any average citizen he was perfectly.entitled to rock up at the Brackley ceremony, and as a veteran he was perfectly entitled to wear those decorations in the.manner he wore them. I don't think anyone should be questioning his right to do that.

.. can't think it was for any other reason than a cack-handed attempt to regain some public approbation, especially with the professional photographer on hand.

That's more a valid question....he could have attended without the need for any of the press Corp to be forewarned or be present.

The “Duchess” was photoshop. This is lifted from the genuine page. But the HRH was written by them.

I think his time in the Army was when Harry felt most at ease in the world, and, however he has behaved since and whatever choices he has made, I don't doubt his sincerity in wanting to pay his respects. He knew soldiers who were killed and badly injured.

I would be surprised if there's a repeat of the Disney premiere/Kardashian party thing instead of Remembrance activity - those very much have M's fingerprints on them to me.

I don’t have a soft spot for KC - I don’t find him physically attractive now or when he was young. He’s doing a pretty good job as king and he waited long enough.
He’s obviously got a petulant temper at times but I like his sense of humour and his speech in the USA was delivered brilliantly even though he probably didn’t write a word of it.
He certainly appears to be more intelligent as the years have passed but he got a place at Cambridge with quite low grades because he was Prince Charles. I’m afraid I do hold that against him/his family 🤣 I just hope some working class kid with excellent grades didn’t lose out that year.
I hope he doesn’t leave William with the job of stripping titles/removing line of succession etc as imo it would be unfair.

I see TMs has been remanded to house arrest in his memory care facility. I doubt it will ever get to trial.

It is being assumed that H brought the press with him. Maybe he did but equally there were three pro photographers at our small town parade yesterday that I saw and we're not in the Midlands.

If H had arrived at our parade people would have been keen to shake his hand, not everyone is as engaged in HaM as we are here. He would also I'm sure have been invited to march with the RBL at the front of the parade as any veteran attending would I imagine that same invitation was extended to H at Brackley.

Re poppies all year, what tosh, I have poppies on the zips of my coats all year around. Remembrance and support of veterans and their families is a year round activity. For those who mourn a life lost or altered forever everyday is Remembrance Day. Nothing performative at all.

I also wear a non official crocheted Poppy I've had for years, made by a group of ladies who donated all proceeds to the RBL. I still contribute, I just expect nothing in return. I also have a drawer full of pin badges from much earlier years, my dad (veteran and RBL member) liked to collect them. We don't need any more, I hate waste and I lose the paper poppies before I leave the house!

I doubt a working class or any other kid "lost out" on a place, I suspect it was an additional place because he was the Prince of Wales.

https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-15506543/Kim-Kardashian-Prince-Harry-Meghan-Markle-Instagram.html

'Kim Kardashian says Harry and Meghan asked for removal of party photos when they 'realised it was Remembrance Day' '

Weird cos Harry was wearing a poppy in the photos of him at that party.

The Chairman of RBL quote is ok (particularly calling H Duchess of Sussex) except for his fawning last sentence - he should be hauled off to The Tower of London.

I've just been catching up with Celebitchy's Royal 'coverage ', including Prince Harry's appearance yesterday. Below the line, I find a particularly ridiculous conspiracy theory: the appearance is part of the palace's bring back Harry plan, there is war looming in Europe, William is not up to the job, so William is going to be exiled using Kate's 'disappearance' as the reason, Harry is going to be installed as regent.

Yep, that all makes sense.

I’m not convinced but I do hope so.

I'm convinced but only because I've read it from more than one source.

He should have found his tongue and refused to go to the Disney premiere instead then. I have little
sympathy with him there. And he knew he was at a party wearing a poppy presumably. Unless he was really shitfaced. In which case I still have little sympathy

It's absolutely bonkers, isn't it? There's all this stupid gossip about KC being completely frail and having a terrible temper - oh and William has a terrible temper as well! So they need Harry!
No-one mention the R word. That got batshit.

I think we need to lobby MN for the return of the laughter emoji.

Would you rather the future King received a poorer education?

That is a very meaningful, private act of remembrance that I can fully understand.

My gripe was about people possibly just pulling out the poppy brooch cos its November while not supporting the relevant charities; and life-size silhouettes of Tommies at the side of the road i. e. in public all year long

I’ve never read that anywhere and Charles was much derided at the time.
He didn’t get the grades for Cambridge and so should have gone elsewhere - probably a polytechnic based on his grades.
Perhaps if he’d gone to ‘academic’ Eton (and not the school he hated in Scotland) he would have got higher grades.

🤣

They were less stringent back in the day, it didn’t entirely depend on grades.
Toby Young got into Oxford with BBC grades, probably because of who his father was.

Let the due process take its course and only then will there be a verdict. You will have not seen all the evidence for the prosecution and the defence.

The subject matter is awful, but even those charged with the worst crimes must be proven guilty and are presumed innocent until a guilty verdict is given.

The situation was that a Cambridge education was thought to be a good plan for the then PoW. I don't know what grades he got. However, he went to Cambridge to further his education which I consider to be a good thing. What tremendous propaganda it would have been if his place had been at the expense of Roger from Wigan. That would have been utilised for the last 60 years, and certainly on these threads.