Royal drama
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There’s a few onion headlines here ..
“People getting paid lots for a few photos seems to make them a bit crazy” … says man getting paid 100mill for a few pics, texts, videos, interviews.
“I never once thought about race” says woman who has mentioned race at every opportunity, including to Oprah.
“She doesn’t have a father, it’s very sad” says man whose wife has a father.
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...i had not realised that this is a series...not just a one off special
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Broadcaster Meshel Laurie noted the irony of Meghan and Harry complaining about press intrusion while selling details of their private lives to the highest bidder.
'If Meg wanted privacy, she should've stayed on Suits because I'd never heard of her or it before,' she wrote on Instagram.
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@MiketheSnow said in Royal drama:
Broadcaster Meshel Laurie noted the irony of Meghan and Harry complaining about press intrusion while selling details of their private lives to the highest bidder.
'If Meg wanted privacy, she should've stayed on Suits because I'd never heard of her or it before,' she wrote on Instagram.
Protecting Privacy where "Privacy" was always a euphemism for "Commercial Value".
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Aussie columnist Joe Hildebrand* doesn't miss.
- I know there are some who don't like him, but more often than not I agree with him ... including on this ...
Harry and Meghan’s Netflix show was ‘indulgent horses**t’
Long before Harry and Meghan released their self-produced documentary series I was planning to write a column saying they were probably everything that was wrong with humanity.
But before rushing to judgment I thought I should at least watch the first episode on Thursday night.
Having done so, I have now changed my position. They are definitely everything that is wrong with humanity.
In a lifetime spent consuming and producing literally every form of media known to man, I have never seen such jaw-dropping, gobsmacking, breathtaking, stomach-turning, self-indulgent horseshit ever placed on the public record.
And the fact that they themselves placed it on the public record only speaks even more innumerable volumes to their infinite and unworldly capacity for self-love and self-pity, both bound together in an unbreakable helix that spirals heroically up the anus of the 21st century.
This is, by any measure, a remarkable feat. So let’s just take a moment to savour everything so nauseating about Harry and Meghan’s crusade for … well, Harry and Meghan.
But let’s not be unkind. After all, right at the beginning of the documentary Harry and Meghan said it wasn’t just about them. In fact it was much bigger than them.
The only problem was that even after a soul-consuming 60 minutes, in which time not only stopped but threatened to asphyxiate anyone but Oprah, they hadn’t actually articulated who else it was about.
But perhaps this is also unkind. Harry did complain about the repeated photography of his parents and children, so perhaps these vague others were simply his own lineage.
This seems a strange take for someone seemingly repelled by the concept of heredity but I’m just a poor boy from the suburbs so what would I know about the pressures of being a break-glass monarch – as the upcoming memoir Spare will no doubt document in harrowing detail.
It is also true that Harry’s mother Diana was photographed a lot, one of the burdens of marrying into the most famous family on the planet.
And who could not be scarred by the documentary footage of Diana politely asking if a photographer could stop taking photos of her family on a skiing trip and the photographer politely asking if he could take one more before he went on his way.
There are children in Ethiopia who will never know such suffering. We can only hope they are counting their blessings tonight.
And of course we know that Diana was hounded to death by the media. It wasn’t like she just got into a car with a drunk driver and wasn’t wearing a seatbelt.
Harry also complains about the tabloid media documenting or – quelle horreur! – exaggerating his various misadventures. Like, say, getting pissed, dressing up as a Nazi and playing nude pool.
Frankly he seemed like more fun back then. More to the point, this is nothing that every two-bit Hollywood actor, reality star, TV host or Instagram influencer hasn’t had to deal with every other day. Maybe “H” can ask Andrew O’Keefe for some tips on crisis management.
But of course it’s unfair that Harry was simply born into this role and never had the chance to choose for himself the life that he would lead.
Good point. After all, reality TV stars seek their fame and influencers seek their, er, influence. These lowborn scabs deserve everything they get for chasing a dollar, right?
Meanwhile our film and television performers are just doing their jobs and shouldn’t have to be photographed while off duty – except on the red carpet of course. Let the art do the talking, I say!
But even then, they have chosen their profession. If fame is the curse of their talent then that is surely more just than the fate that has befallen poor Harry, whose only curse was to be born to a stratospherically high-profile and wealthy family.
The only minor caveat to this is that is that Prince Harry decided to marry a Hollywood actress, who is apparently outraged that the media devotes more attention to her choice of husband than her body of work in Suits.
And so when will this symphony of suffering end? When will Harry and Meghan finally be free of the oppressive public gaze?
One way to pursue such freedom might be to buy a remote farm in Canada or perhaps live in a village in Botswana, where we are earnestly told Harry felt most at home.
Or they could just rent out a San Fran flat or a Soho loft and peer into each other’s eyes over ever-escalating wellness juices. Both options would be very on brand.
But the best way to avoid media attention would surely be to buy a giant mansion in California and commission a TV series by the planet’s biggest streaming service in order to broadcast to the world how upset you are about media attention.
And yet it seems even that hasn’t worked. Honestly, what more do they have to do to finally get some privacy?
More importantly, at what other moment in history, in what possible universe and in what deranged culture and ideology, could two such people ever be considered victims?
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More Piers.
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@booboo said in Royal drama:
@Kruse said in Royal drama:
@booboo He misses a fair bit. Obviously a twat.
But - gets a fair bit right before he starts looking for his word-count.Do share.
It's difficult to pick out specific examples. And there's no way I'm reading through it again.
But the whole "feel" of the piece seemed deliberately/overly aggressive. Some contradictory comments. Some leaps in logic. etc etc.
But - it's an opinion piece, and he had a certain word-count to get to, so... I can see how it ended up where it did.
And I was very loathe to even comment on it - as I'm VERY much not a fan or even apologist for these delusional self-absorbed ex-royal fluffybunnies. And certainly don't want to get into a debate supporting/defending a viewpoint I don't hold.
Just that piece... I certainly never want to read anything by that person ever again. -
@Frank said in Royal drama:
I will.
Harry said he was "absolutely terrified" when William started shouting at a private family dinner. What a pussy.This from a bloke who tells us how proud he was to see combat in Afghanistan.... Something's def. not right here.
I don't go ra-ra on the Royals, but can't help contrast these two dollar-grabbers with the likes of Sophie Wessex, who quietly visits places like The Congo to support real-life victims of rape, sexual violence and exploitation in the civil war there, rather than wank on about social justice in podcasts and on Netflix
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@Bones said in Royal drama:
@MajorRage as soon as I see either of their names in a headline it's swiped away. Can't be arsed with the conniving, lying, cowardly turds.
Personally, I think you're being a wee bit too kind.
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@sparky said in Royal drama:
William and Catherine. Harry and Meghan. Who said what to whom? Who cried and why? Who whined? Who spoke indirectly to the press?
I couldn't give a s##t about any of it.
It's all pretty simple if you ask me.
Harry & Meghan wanted out. Cool. It's the path I would take too.
Harry & Meghan have realised that in order to be part of the A-list celebrity crowd which they clearly crave, they need a colossal income. Only way to do that ... sell their story and take as much advantage as you can of certain aspects.
It's all so transparent. The only real conclusion one can make is that a huge amount of Americans are even dumber than everybody already thought they were. Quite the achievement.
At least their supporters here are pretty much so open that they are only doing on race-baiting grounds.
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@Bones said in Royal drama:
@MajorRage as soon as I see either of their names in a headline it's swiped away. Can't be arsed with the conniving, lying, cowardly turds.
How do you know they are lying? I couldn't give a flying about the saga, but one thing I have learnt is we never know what goes on behind closed doors. And the Royal Family is one big closed door.
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@Crazy-Horse said in Royal drama:
@Bones said in Royal drama:
@MajorRage as soon as I see either of their names in a headline it's swiped away. Can't be arsed with the conniving, lying, cowardly turds.
How do you know they are lying? I couldn't give a flying about the saga, but one thing I have learnt is we never know what goes on behind closed doors. And the Royal Family is one big closed door.
I've think they've been caught plenty of times to gave earned that epithet, despite any grains of truth that may be scattered in.