Royal drama
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@canefan I think he will be stoked. While they are still connected, and family, getting away from the official side of things must feel like freedom. To choose what they want to promote or support via their profile.
Man, the queen is just a straight out boss. She's handled this messy situation of public and family drama pretty bloody well from where I'm sitting. Bet she dropped the hammer behind the scenes though 😁
Wonder if Canda will be ok to have them now...
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@Paekakboyz said in Royal drama:
Bet she dropped the hammer behind the scenes though
Prince Philip was more than little miffed (royal talk for seriously pissed off), I heard somewhere.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Royal drama:
Laurence Fox's response when asked about the next Labour leader was epic. He thought for a few seconds and nominated Sir Keir Starmer as someone who could take on Boris.
Labour’s Shami Chakrabarti then asked him "what about the women candidates". She soon wished she hadn't...
Fox replied "It's not about the women.....jeepers creepers" (banging his head on the desk in exasperation and looking at Chakribati)...."OK, sorry, Let me rewind... any of the women then, is that better?.....after all It's really, really important what gender or sex you are. rather that what policies you have or how you approach politics"
It was fucking glorious.
The luvvies are triggered and they only make themselves look even more ridiculous . "Disgrace to industry"? ffs the industry is full of perverts and virtue signalling liars, hard to think of any way they be more of a disgrace
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And that article is bullshit imo. Cannot see Harry sitting there feeling sorry for himself and being isolated and reliant on Meghans friends etc. Dude is one of the most people friendly (ex) royal family members.
For all the cries of modern life etc so many of these commentators are showing some nasty old school worldviews. Bet the non-royals have a list of the less supportive folks, headed up with ol Piers!
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@Paekakboyz said in Royal drama:
And that article is bullshit imo. Cannot see Harry sitting there feeling sorry for himself and being isolated and reliant on Meghans friends etc. Dude is one of the most people friendly (ex) royal family members.
For all the cries of modern life etc so many of these commentators are showing some nasty old school worldviews. Bet the non-royals have a list of the less supportive folks, headed up with ol Piers!
That article was an interest take, and a bit of a swing at/challenge to Megs.
Watching from the outside we've all assumed she's the diva driving the whole thing (Me-Me-Meghan). This writer is putting it out there that there's two people in the relationship and they'll need to be mutually supportive, with the underlying implication that it's unlikely. What Meghan wants ...
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Looks like Brenda has played hard-ball. Harry & Megs can no longer use HRH and are paying back the £2.4m for the cottage renovation.
Sounds reasonable to me.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Royal drama:
Looks like Brenda has played hard-ball. Harry & Megs can no longer use HRH and are paying back the £2.4m for the cottage renovation.
Sounds reasonable to me.
You can't use HR if not a representative of the monarch, so that one was obviously coming. Queenie can't take back her gift of the cottage so the reno cost repayment is a clever (and cheap) way to keep them secure when in the UK. The cottage is in the grounds of the house, which in turn is deep within the protected lands at Windsor. No paps or plebs are getting in there easily and that lessens the need for extensive and expensive private security. A cheap trade off.
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@canefan said in Royal drama:
So I assume they will have to pay for any personal security out of their own pocket?
think that is one of the issues, whether he has 'stepped' away from his Royal duties or not, he is and always will be a British Royal, and as such, a target for some.
So there will always be security needs to protect him
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@taniwharugby said in Royal drama:
@canefan said in Royal drama:
So I assume they will have to pay for any personal security out of their own pocket?
think that is one of the issues, whether he has 'stepped' away from his Royal duties or not, he is and always will be a British Royal, and as such, a target for some.
So there will always be security needs to protect him
So who pays will be a bone of contention I'm sure. The Canadian taxpayer might not be thrilled about incurring costs associated with him living in Canada long term
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@taniwharugby said in Royal drama:
@canefan just come out of the commonwealth coffers, it's all good.
So does that mean they'll still have to do some commonwealth work?
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It’s not actually confirmed anywhere that they will live in Canada is it?
Quite happy for Harry, honestly. He lost his Mum (indirectly the press were at fault) and it wouldn’t have taken much to fear it happening again to his new family.
I live in the UK for my wife, so although his situation is completely different (wait. Major Rage isn’t a royaI hear you gasp), it would still be hypocritical of me to hold any other view.
I don’t agree with how it was done, but that’s not really my business. The furore it’s caused has been a long time coming. People are so bored of woke. Amazing that it took this to kick it all off.
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@canefan said in Royal drama:
So I assume they will have to pay for any personal security out of their own pocket?
The authorities will have to pay to keep him safe. Actually have no problems with this as I think it's the same as former PM's, the likes of Nigel Farage, Corbyn or even retired Army chiefs
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Yeah. The whole thing seems to have been settled sensibly.
Earlier there seemed lots of talk from the MM & Harry camp that they wanted to be part-time Royals/have their cake and eat it which seemed to be getting up people's noses.
Hopefully that's been put to bed and they can get on with their lives
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Harry and Meghan messed up their announcement big time. If they had said they were retiring from being active Senior Royals, but not from being loyal family to those who are, they would have had a lot more good will.
I know nothing of the merits of Canada as a place to bring up kids but I hope young Archie has a happy and healthy childhood.