Is this just me? Look at the newspaper headlines for Prince Harry's announcement about stepping down and compare the photos. Look at the massive shadow on the Daily Mail photo and consider how bright the flash must have been to cause that. All the others are shot in fairly natural light. A cynical person might think that suing the Mail on Sunday might have upset them a bit and they're getting petty revenge where they can. They've also interpreted the Palace's statement of 'disappointment' as the queen being furious but I imagine that's just a product of their usual creative take on facts.
I couldn't giveĀ fig about " the Royal Family " but Harry isn't a slave, he has a right to self determination. I wish some of the other parasites would " seek financial independence" too .
The Mail and its readers are doing to them what they did to his mother and look what that lead to ... I really don't blame them for wanting to opt out of a large part of it ... Harry is a very damaged chap and it's not to be wondered at.Ā
After all, if the Royal Family is being slimmed down there really isn't going to be a role for them in a few years' time and by then they'll just be middle aged has-beens like his uncle ... and look what him trying to earn his own money has lead to.Ā
Far better to make their own way as far as they can for most of the time, and turn up now and again for major Royal Family en masse type stuff. Meghan is an adult , she's had her own career and is used to making her own decisions ....... is she really expected to be subsumed into the amorphous sponge that is the Royal Family and lose her identity ... far more realistic and much more healthy for them to find their own way of going on which works for both of them.Ā
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Do you not think they've done it wrongly though? I totally understand wanting to be out of the limelight - personally I couldn't think of anything worse, but he IS Royal (whatever that means) and always will be, so whatever he does will attract press attention. Megan appeared to want the limelight or else you wouldn't become an actor(ress) would you? So maybe just taking a step back and easing out more over time rather than 'cold turkey' would have been a more sensitive step.
The problem for the other Royals is that the limelight is what keeps the Royals going - without it they become a 'non entity' don't they? - so, by breaking the mould Harry is potentially ringing the death knell for the whole Royal family concept (as if Andrew hadn't done enough damage anyway).
Personally, even though I'm not a Roaylist per se, I prefer to have a separate 'head of state' that has a long link to the country and has some heritage/tradition rather than a separately elected post that they have in some other countries - or even worse like America where the President is both a political animal (? or just an animal) and the country's representative. Could you imagine Boris as both PM and head of state? Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo (sorry my keyboard ran out of 'o's)...
I'm not judging their actions I'm just interested in how the Daily Mail are reporting it and targetting them in this instance. Harry and Megan always seem happy enough with crowds and the public but the media seem to cause them the problems. You can see the evidence that some media outlets are seemingly pushing them even to the extent of using over bright camera flashes. Living in another country for at least part of the time seems a sensible move to at least reduce their harrassment by the UK tabloids.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
It does seem that theyāve not gone about things as well as they couldāve ... thereās probably been a load of cultural misunderstandings etc ... I donāt think itās usual in the US to run every life decision past your husbandās very elderly granny ... anyone who expected Meghan to become a carbon copy of Kate must be an idiot ... and goodness knows what havoc the feisty and opinionated Anne wouldāve Ā wreaked if sheād grown up using tāinternet š²
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Nightmare job to have though eh? Stuff the money and fame - give me anonymity and contentment. And would anyone want to be an advisor?
'Royal Advisor wanted. World wide travel - free security, good food (some food tasting may beĀ required), bulletĀ and bomb proof car. Would suit an ex SAS officer with an entry in Debrett's. Must show extended empathetic/sympathetic traits and be able to keep secrets without crossing fingers. Must have a sense of humour (black) and understand Latin. Must have a finger on the public pulse as exhibited through the tabloids...'Ā
@wild edgesĀ Sorry - I wasn't trying to imply you were. But being a 'Royal' means you will be slammed by some part of the press no matter what you do. Be interesting to see what HIGNFY makes of it all.
Edited: Good grief I spelt Debrettes incorrectly (...done it again...) and missed an apostrophe - that's three months in the Tower or the rack.
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After all, if the Royal Family is being slimmed down there really isn't going to be a role for them in a few years' time and by then they'll just be middle aged has-beens like his uncle ... and look what him trying to earn his own money has lead to.Ā
Far better to make their own way as far as they can for most of the time, and turn up now and again for major Royal Family en masse type stuff. Meghan is an adult , she's had her own career and is used to making her own decisions ....... is she really expected to be subsumed into the amorphous sponge that is the Royal Family and lose her identity ... far more realistic and much more healthy for them to find their own way of going on which works for both of them.Ā
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
decision past your husbandās very elderly granny ... anyone who expected Meghan to become a carbon copy of Kate must be an idiot ... and goodness knows what havoc the feisty and opinionated Anne wouldāve Ā wreaked if sheād grown up using tāinternet š²
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.