Harry and Meghan
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hstewie said:
hstewie said: There was an interesting interview on LBC yesterday with a journalist who's spent 15 years on royal duty for the Mail of all papers.
I forget her name but she said Harry basically spent 15 years telling her he wished he could simply walk away from it all.
Her view was that whilst meeting Meghan may be the catalyst for this and has given him a reason to do so it's wide of the mark to say it's her "doing".
I still think there's way too much projection going on here and I think some of you would be massively uncomfortable if someone were talking about your wives or mothers in similar terms based off so much smear and innuendo and so little little direct knowledge.
Must be true.I forget her name but she said Harry basically spent 15 years telling her he wished he could simply walk away from it all.
Her view was that whilst meeting Meghan may be the catalyst for this and has given him a reason to do so it's wide of the mark to say it's her "doing".
I still think there's way too much projection going on here and I think some of you would be massively uncomfortable if someone were talking about your wives or mothers in similar terms based off so much smear and innuendo and so little little direct knowledge.
I’m mean spin and lies to turn around public perception never happens does it. It’s not like they have a whole machine trying to limit the damage.
I don’t give a s
t about any of this. But when she lectures me about green stuff meanwhile has taken more flights in one month than I have in twenty years then she can go fk herself. Then when she plays the race card because people notice she can go to Canada and stay there.Unfortunately the press won’t give us a break. We should never hear of them again. She new what she signed up for when she married him. If he’d wanted something else for the last 15 years he could have quietly done it, but he hasn’t he’s kept himself in the limelight spinning his way out of those party pictures or dressing up as a Nazi ohhh look I’m a changed man.
You’d forgotten about that hadn’t you all. See it works.
MC Bodge said:
abzmike said:
Sadly the Mail and others will hound them until their dying day. They now have no Buck House press office to restrict access on pain of removal from official tours etc... they are on their own, and the paps will be all over them 24x7.
Well, if some of the comments on here are anything to go by, there may be enough creepy, obsessive men to fuel a market for stories about them. There are possibly also women who are interested. MC Bodge said:
abzmike said:
Sadly the Mail and others will hound them until their dying day. They now have no Buck House press office to restrict access on pain of removal from official tours etc... they are on their own, and the paps will be all over them 24x7.
Well, if some of the comments on here are anything to go by, there may be enough creepy, obsessive men to fuel a market for stories about them. There are possibly also women who are interested. Pesty said:
Must be true.
I’m mean spin and lies to turn around public perception never happens does it. It’s not like they have a whole machine trying to limit the damage.
I don’t give a st about any of this. But when she lectures me about green stuff meanwhile has taken more flights in one month than I have in twenty years then she can go fk herself. Then when she plays the race card because people notice she can go to Canada and stay there.
Unfortunately the press won’t give us a break. We should never hear of them again. She new what she signed up for when she married him. If he’d wanted something else for the last 15 years he could have quietly done it, but he hasn’t he’s kept himself in the limelight spinning his way out of those party pictures or dressing up as a Nazi ohhh look I’m a changed man.
You’d forgotten about that hadn’t you all. See it works.
You always sound very angry.I’m mean spin and lies to turn around public perception never happens does it. It’s not like they have a whole machine trying to limit the damage.
I don’t give a s
t about any of this. But when she lectures me about green stuff meanwhile has taken more flights in one month than I have in twenty years then she can go fk herself. Then when she plays the race card because people notice she can go to Canada and stay there.Unfortunately the press won’t give us a break. We should never hear of them again. She new what she signed up for when she married him. If he’d wanted something else for the last 15 years he could have quietly done it, but he hasn’t he’s kept himself in the limelight spinning his way out of those party pictures or dressing up as a Nazi ohhh look I’m a changed man.
You’d forgotten about that hadn’t you all. See it works.
Try calming down a bit.
Welshbeef said:
Take off 50%+ tax and the lifestyle these celebs live I’d wager on average many don’t have a massive bank account instead running far leaner than you’d presume.
A person earning £40k lives to that lifestyle pump it up to £100k most change to enjoy the fruits that income yields etc.
As with a lot (see plenty of examples in the UK) - some of these celebs can life a life of glamour and ritz, whilst actually not having a pot to piss in. A person earning £40k lives to that lifestyle pump it up to £100k most change to enjoy the fruits that income yields etc.
People will give many things, both physical and experiential, to people with "fame".
El stovey said:
98elise said:
El stovey said:
cb31 said:
98elise said:
Does she have a lavish lifestyle? Seems she doesn't want the Royal lifestyle, and before Harry she just had her millions of dollars to get by on?
She seems to enjoy travelling the world by private jet, while lecturing us on the environment, living in waterfront mansions and so on. Seems quite lavish to me and having a net worth of 'just' $4M seems to preclude that kind of lifestyle. Now that current $4M will be increasing massively she will be able to afford it, thanks to the Royal family increasing her profile.IIRC The actors in Friends were earning 1m per episode in its final seasons. Obviously that's an extreme case, but it shows how much successful TV shows will pay.
Edited to add....
A quick Google suggests 50k per episode, which is less than I expected! IMDB says she was in 108 episodes so that's 5m. Then there is advertising, endorsements, pubic appearances etc. Based on that 4m net worth sounds reasonable.
Edited by 98elise on Sunday 19th January 10:37
Being a Royal seems to be the complete antithesis of that.
Whats the point of money when you can't spend it doing what you want? The actual job seems pretty crap to me, so the wealth is the only benefit, yet you can't spend it on supercars/coke/hookers etc
cuprabob said:
98elise said:
The actual job seems pretty crap to me, so the wealth is the only benefit, yet you can't spend it on supercars/coke/hookers etc
Prince Andrew disagrees with you 
psi310398 said:
MC Bodge said:
abzmike said:
Sadly the Mail and others will hound them until their dying day. They now have no Buck House press office to restrict access on pain of removal from official tours etc... they are on their own, and the paps will be all over them 24x7.
Well, if some of the comments on here are anything to go by, there may be enough creepy, obsessive men to fuel a market for stories about them. There are possibly also women who are interested. The republicans and neutrals I have encountered in the real world, generally couldn't care less about them.
MC Bodge said:
Well, if some of the comments on here are anything to go by, there may be enough creepy, obsessive men to fuel a market for stories about them. There are possibly also women who are interested.
Sadly that could be true.Angry that he met her.
Angry that they take taxpayers money
Angry that they talk about green issues
Angry that they fly back and forth
Angry that they are HRH
Angry that stop taking taxpayers money
Angry that they live in Canada and maybe fly back and forth to UK less often
Angry that they are not HRH
Angry that they should not use Sussex or Royal
They are likely to continue taking joy in spewing forth their obnoxious views and opinions about something that really makes no difference to their lives - and hence the media may well see that as an opportunity to sell more copies of the hate peddling Mail, Express and the like.
Hopefully their new status may allow them to properly protect their privacy again refute the "it's taxpayers money!" excuse that the turgid media drip out as an excuse for hounding these guys.
You cannot help but notice something of a correlation between Climate apologists/Greta haters, Markle haters, EU haters, Owen Jones haters etc.
DeepEnd said:
You cannot help but notice something of a correlation between Climate apologists/Greta haters, Markle haters, EU haters, Owen Jones haters etc.
I naively thought that after brexit or the election they might cheer up, but apparently reactionaries will always be reactionaries looking for something new to be reactionary about. The Harry and Meg story is prime ham and pineapple for them though, young (foreign looking) woman, benefits, celebrities, wokeness, anti royal, environmental causes, all funded by them the taxpayer!
Just now they kinda look (to some extent) Hollywood but soon Harry's going to look like Prince Edward! Don't want to get personal here but it's fact. I don't think he'll suit the shaved head look, some people do, most don't. Losing HRH and his hair could take him off any 'A' list even if they manage to be on it in the first place. It's a fickle world they are entering.
El stovey said:
I naively thought that after brexit or the election they might cheer up, but apparently reactionaries will always be reactionaries looking for something new to be reactionary about.
The Harry and Meg story is prime ham and pineapple for them though, young (foreign looking) woman, benefits, celebrities, wokeness, anti royal, environmental causes, all funded by them the taxpayer!
Some of us might naively have thought that, two decades into the twenty-first century, citizens of one of the most advanced democracies on earth might have removed their collective tongue from some German aristocrats' arses, and stopped acceding to funding their parasitic lives, but there you go.The Harry and Meg story is prime ham and pineapple for them though, young (foreign looking) woman, benefits, celebrities, wokeness, anti royal, environmental causes, all funded by them the taxpayer!
El stovey said:
I naively thought that after brexit or the election they might cheer up, but apparently reactionaries will always be reactionaries looking for something new to be reactionary about.
The Harry and Meg story is prime ham and pineapple for them though, young (foreign looking) woman, benefits, celebrities, wokeness, anti royal, environmental causes, all funded by them the taxpayer!
Rod Liddle put it best. The Harry and Meg story is prime ham and pineapple for them though, young (foreign looking) woman, benefits, celebrities, wokeness, anti royal, environmental causes, all funded by them the taxpayer!
Liddle said:
If you were pro-Leave, you are likely to be anti-Meghan and Harry, for reasons which have something to do with those outdated concepts of discipline, reserve, dignity, tradition, continuity and duty.
Many of the remainers only care about if one of them can play a card, or if they spout some fashionable bks (which is contradicted by their own private actions). As long as they do that they can parasite off the public as much as they want. I have just seen the news regarding all this and thought such a significant announcement would entirely satisfy the baying mob on PH.
Quite surprised to see that there are a few people who still aren’t happy given the terms of the ‘deal’.
As I said before, Harry has been desperate to get out of the Royal family for at least 15 years, and now he has his wish. It will suit both Harry and all those who are desperate to to slim down the royal family.
Quite surprised to see that there are a few people who still aren’t happy given the terms of the ‘deal’.
As I said before, Harry has been desperate to get out of the Royal family for at least 15 years, and now he has his wish. It will suit both Harry and all those who are desperate to to slim down the royal family.
E30M3ZONE said:
Just now they kinda look (to some extent) Hollywood but soon Harry's going to look like Prince Edward! Don't want to get personal here but it's fact. I don't think he'll suit the shaved head look, some people do, most don't. Losing HRH and his hair could take him off any 'A' list even if they manage to be on it in the first place. It's a fickle world they are entering.
He'll go full 'Uncle Elton' and get a syrup.Gassing Station | News, Politics & Economics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff