So much going on in the world of the Sussexes! Removal of patronages, upcoming interview with Oprah, and Prince Philip's admission to hospital. Here's a new post to discuss.
Deadlines for responses have passed. Will they show? Won't they show? And, rumors of demands for money to cross hands to make appearances (new level of pay to play). Such drama. You would think this was a soap opera where every episode ends with a crazy cliff hanger story plot to drive the next installment. Sadly, I don't expect it to change any time soon either. No. For them, there appears to be way too much energy left in the will they, won't they to end it now even though everyone else is pretty much tired of it. Hardly something one can point to and claim that they are trying to reconcile with those who feel distressed about what was printed. Just noticed something: remember that talk of trying to reach out and reconcile after the book, etc.? It seems to have drifted away, hasn't it? Hmm. Interesting. I wonder if that is recognized as a total lost cause or just delayed into the summer (or fall) campaign (c...
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But I get equally excited whenever I see fresh posts by all of you. We give so much fun and richness to one another as we parse this mystery from all angles and perspectives. The brilliance here has made workdays and churning computers and lockdown and rough days survivable, at least for me.
This board is a wonderful place to snark, debate, learn and share findings.
Huge thanks to Nutty and charade and abbyh for making it possible. We are like a big platoon inching ever closer to VE Day 2.
Maybe this is their new strategy. He won’t listen to anyone. Maybe he will listen to his friends in the press. Nothing more humiliating, honestly.
Thanks for the link. That article was published when he was 3rd in line for the throne too. Really dumb, Harry.
"the Queen herself on the last day of 2012 issued Letters Patent that allowed all children of the Prince of Wales to be titled Prince or Princess, and be styled HRH — not just the eldest son. So I guess Harry has only been rolling in HRH clover for 8 years?"
Why do you think Harry has only been HRH for 8yrs?
As the son of PoW he has been HRH from birth as per Letters patent 1917..
The amendment in 2012 was about William's children.
If not for this amendment in 2012, only George would have been automatically HRH Prince while Charlotte, Louis and any other children would be Lord / Lady.
"To me, much of the speculation everyone does on all the Harry and Meghan sites are fanfiction. That's a big part of the fun!
Since we really don't know 100% what is really going on..."
True, but there are somethings that can be predicted accurately based upon historic behaviour and patterns without needing to go so wildly off the reservation.
As an example, it's easy to predict Harry and Meghan's behaviour gping forward after what has been revealed in the past 2yrs. It wasn't easy to do the same 4yrs ago.
With rare exceptions of course.
We are surprised by Harry's behaviour now because he had a huge royal PR nachine determined to obsfucate and create a false image.
And yet, his true character leaked out from time to time. Eg there is a famous article from 2005 that discusses his behaviour around the Nazi incident and general attitude.
@AnT has just posted his rather rude 2013 interview about the media and loose lipped comments about the Army.
When he quit tye army in 2015, a military journalist wrote an article, largely ignored, about his poor Army discipline and behaviour that had forced his resignation as the army stopped putting up with his nonsense.
Then there is his interview in 2016 in which he displayed so many bad traits, but is best described as Harry thinks he is a literal magical Prince ie 'magical' being the operative word.
What about a quickly forgotten article from last year in which the father of a friend admitted that friendship with Harry was a one sided affair where any friends were at his beck and call as he wished, but it was never reciprocated and they were all required to entertain him at tgeir own expense rather like a medieval monarch.
When you read all these and more, you see that his current behaviour isn't really an aberration. He simply doesn't have the PR to obsfucate as they did before.
Speculation and truth are apples and oranges.
Stating facts is good but so is speculating for fun.