The Firm

[Bostonhibby]

…a lunch that Jeremy Clarkson also attended, according to the Mail. I wonder if Milly Dowlers hacked phone came up in conversation.Alex Jones couldn't make it as he couldn't raise the fare after his court case and Jimmy Saville was dead at the time, so just the three of them by the sound of it.Very cosy.

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[hibsbollah]

It's just so childish.

Meghan Markle stated any public event was stressful because no one could wear the same colour as the Queen (which she said she understood) but what made it difficult was you were supposed to avoid wearing the same colour as other senior royals as well. Looking at pictures of the royals over the years this looks a fairly accurate claim.

The other night at some Christmas event Kate turns up in burgundy, William has a burgundy tie, one of their kids is in a burgundy dress, Zara is in burgundy, Mike Tindall has a burgundy tie etc etc. I wouldn't expect that level of pettiness from my 5 year old daughter. It does show they are well rattled though.

Yes, it is childish, but it’s also beyond that. It’s the very very top of the British royal family, conspiring with some of the most toxic writers in British journalism, to attack your own (suicide risk) daughter in law with language that might even get you kicked off Twitter if you used it on that platform. Regardless of what your views are of the Suffolks, it’s brutal brutal stuff. We knew some of this stuff of course, but by shoving a stick at it Netflix has done the world a favour.

[OldEast]

Yes, it is childish, but it’s also beyond that. It’s the very very top of the British royal family, conspiring with some of the most toxic writers in British journalism, to attack your own (suicide risk) daughter in law with language that might even get you kicked off Twitter if you used it on that platform. Regardless of what your views are of the Suffolks, it’s brutal brutal stuff. We knew some of this stuff of course, but by shoving a stick at it Netflix has done the world a favour.

Not just a suicide risk. She is quite rightly scared someone might kill her. There's enough nutters out there. The whole situation is an absolute disgrace. I absolutely defend free speech but would jail Morgan and Clarkson for being *****.

[ronaldo7]

Yes, it is childish, but it’s also beyond that. It’s the very very top of the British royal family, conspiring with some of the most toxic writers in British journalism, to attack your own (suicide risk) daughter in law with language that might even get you kicked off Twitter if you used it on that platform. Regardless of what your views are of the Suffolks, it’s brutal brutal stuff. We knew some of this stuff of course, but by shoving a stick at it Netflix has done the world a favour.

I'm not into the Royals, and would ban them to the Caymans without their bags of cash if I could, but decided to watch the Netflix docuseries.

The first three episodes were just setting out how they met, the boy meets girl stuff just before it all became official and the **** hit the fan.

The last three were the meat on the bone, and the meat has turned putrid. The press and institution are in each other's pockets currently skidding through the London sewers.

They made the correct decision to get as far away from that bunch as possible. Offices of each prince briefing trash on the other. The racism runs right through the Royal family, from top to bottom.

We're now getting the fall out from it all with Clarkson and co getting in on the act.

She's well out of it.

[Ozyhibby]

I'm not into the Royals, and would ban them to the Caymans without their bags of cash if I could, but decided to watch the Netflix docuseries.

The first three episodes were just setting out how they met, the boy meets girl stuff just before it all became official and the **** hit the fan.

The last three were the meat on the bone, and the meat has turned putrid. The press and institution are in each other's pockets currently skidding through the London sewers.

They made the correct decision to get as far away from that bunch as possible. Offices of each prince briefing trash on the other. The racism runs right through the Royal family, from top to bottom.

We're now getting the fall out from it all with Clarkson and co getting in on the act.

She's well out of it.

Clarkson and Morgan are showing that the King is a lot less subtle than the old Queen at getting the dirt placed in the press. I think there will be more and more of these horror stories to come.


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[Ozyhibby]

Alex Jones couldn't make it as he couldn't raise the fare after his court case and Jimmy Saville was dead at the time, so just the three of them by the sound of it.Very cosy.

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Gary Glitter about to be released from jail though so they can look forward to a catch up.


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[Bostonhibby]

Gary Glitter about to be released from jail though so they can look forward to a catch up.


Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkWill he want to be in their gang though?

Some pretty unsavoury characters.

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[McSwanky]

Nice to see Andrew is back in the fold again judging by today's pictures. Forgive and forget, eh? [emoji849]

[Glory Lurker]

I'll see your Tories don't understand or care about struggling people and raise you the Royal Family

[Bostonhibby]

Nice to see Andrew is back in the fold again judging by today's pictures. Forgive and forget, eh? [emoji849]Adulterer who accepts bags of cash from dubious Arab regimes and had Jimmy Saville as a close friend and adviser welcomes deviant back into the fold?

Now he's got his face on the bank note we will probably see more of the real character.

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[grunt]

I'll see your Tories don't understand or care about struggling people and raise you the Royal Family
The difference being that it's the Tories (the Govt's) job to look after struggling people.

[superfurryhibby]

I often wonder how some of these younger huns who base their entire political viewpoint on their football team face up to their fathers and grandfathers.

Guys from working class schemes in Glasgow voting Tory and singing God Save the King because it's staunch. Red Clydeside, the formative years of the Labour movement and the west coast trade unions contained huge numbers of Rangers fans and people from Rangers supporting families. Being a rabid far right weirdo and viewing it as the default position because of the football team you support is a relatively new phenomenon among them.

Don’t underestimate the historical pedigree of Glasgow’s support for the right wing . The Weedge were voting in Tory Mp’s well into the Thatcher years and the Scottish Protestant League had electoral,success there too. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25530138.

[hibsbollah]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/05/prince-harry-diana-new-book-autobiography-spare

Very interesting how The Guardian is presenting this ‘exclusive’, looks very like they’ve decided to present him as a ‘fruitcake’ if you want to use a tabloid term, reads like a tabloid article. Looks like a bit of a takedown to me, probably not what Harry intended. Be interesting to see what the real red tops do with it.

[Pretty Boy]

There's no way I'm believing Harry's story that William decked him in an altercation.

I can well believe the future king could be a bit of a brat who lashes out when he doesn't get his own way. Daddy let's the mask slip from time to time too. Just look at the pair of them though. If they had a fight I'd put my life savings on Harry kicking **** out of him without even breaking sweat.

[JimBHibees]

There's no way I'm believing Harry's story that William decked him in an altercation.

I can well believe the future king could be a bit of a brat who lashes out when he doesn't get his own way. Daddy let's the mask slip from time to time too. Just look at the pair of them though. If they had a fight I'd put my life savings on Harry kicking **** out of him without even breaking sweat.

Tend to agree probably didnt want to hit back as no doubt that would have been lthe story leaked out. Embarrassing behaviour imo

[neil7908]

There's no way I'm believing Harry's story that William decked him in an altercation.

I can well believe the future king could be a bit of a brat who lashes out when he doesn't get his own way. Daddy let's the mask slip from time to time too. Just look at the pair of them though. If they had a fight I'd put my life savings on Harry kicking **** out of him without even breaking sweat.

I dunno. I would be a weird thing for him to completely lie about. Like everything, there is probably a bit of grey in his account versus Williams (if we ever hear it).

But being in Williams position, you probably never get told no or have anyone really stand up to you. Being born into that family will surely give you a huge God complex so I wouldn't be surprised if he lashed out when challenged.

[Bostonhibby]

There's no way I'm believing Harry's story that William decked him in an altercation.

I can well believe the future king could be a bit of a brat who lashes out when he doesn't get his own way. Daddy let's the mask slip from time to time too. Just look at the pair of them though. If they had a fight I'd put my life savings on Harry kicking **** out of him without even breaking sweat.[emoji106]
Just can't get this image out my head now
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MZfasru1i9I

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[stu in nottingham]

I loved the 'Willy' and 'Harold'references. :wink: I reckon it's hard not to imagine what the outcome might be of a fight and would agree that 'Harold' would kick Prince Pegger's evidently already battered ass for him. William would probably be all right hand and I reckon there'd be a decent ginger jab and uppercut providing KO in favour of 'Spare'.

I actually have no problem in believing any of it either. It happens in plenty of families and see no reason why these two would necessarily be an exception to that. William has become an increasingly sullen, moody figure and I think, like his father, the job will be too much for him to deal with without issues and cracks appearing (if you get my drift). Neither of them have that calmness that the auld bird did.

[Colr]

I loved the 'Willy' and 'Harold'references. :wink: I reckon it's hard not to imagine what the outcome might be of a fight and would agree that 'Harold' would kick Prince Pegger's evidently already battered ass for him. William would probably be all right hand and I reckon there'd be a decent ginger jab and uppercut providing KO in favour of 'Spare'.

I actually have no problem in believing any of it either. It happens in plenty of families and see no reason why these two would necessarily be an exception to that. William has become an increasingly sullen, moody figure and I think, like his father, the job will be too much for him to deal with without issues and cracks appearing (if you get my drift). Neither of them have that calmness that the auld bird did.

What a bunch of fannies. Between the Government and the Royals Britain is an international laughing stock.

[Bostonhibby]

What a bunch of fannies. Between the Government and the Royals Britain is an international laughing stock.International?

I think there are life forms on other galaxies having a laugh at us as well.

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[heretoday]

What a bunch of fannies. Between the Government and the Royals Britain is an international laughing stock.

It's box office. Don't fight it.

[AugustaHibs]

For a couple who want ‘privacy’ and ‘peace’ they do not half talk a power of ***** don’t they.

Both attention seeking Fannies

[He's here!]

For a couple who want ‘privacy’ and ‘peace’ they do not half talk a power of ***** don’t they.

Both attention seeking Fannies

Indeed. Pure, undiluted narcissism.

I've ignored most of this nonsense but the headlines it's commandeering are absurd given the amount of genuinely newsworthy issues blighting the world. However, I just caught a snippet on the news...Harry saying he shot dead 25 Taliban fighters during his tours of Afghanistan yet he can't handle his brother giving him a shove?! And as for asking a spiritualist to summon up the spirit of Diana, who allegedly told him he's living the life she wanted...the guy would seem to still be wrestling with mental health issues.

[hibsbollah]

Indeed. Pure, undiluted narcissism.

I've ignored most of this nonsense but the headlines it's commandeering are absurd given the amount of genuinely newsworthy issues blighting the world. However, I just caught a snippet on the news...Harry saying he shot dead 25 Taliban fighters during his tours of Afghanistan yet he can't handle his brother giving him a shove?! And as for asking a spiritualist to summon up the spirit of Diana, who allegedly told him he's living the life she wanted...the guy would seem to still be wrestling with mental health issues.

Much less comfortable than the reality he’s confronting you with; that his family are a handful of bullying racist toffs who coordinate their PR expertly with the lowest dregs of the British journalistic ‘community’.

Much safer for all the useful idiots to believe he’s just mad.

[He's here!]

Much less comfortable than the reality he’s confronting you with; that his family are a handful of bullying racist toffs who coordinate their PR expertly with the lowest dregs of the British journalistic ‘community’.

Much safer for all the useful idiots to believe he’s just mad.

You can buy into their 'truth' or you can see them for what they are. A couple of already super wealthy self-obsessives milking their dubious 'royal' celebrity for all it's worth. She's the manipulator with the media savvy. He's the gullible stooge.

[hibsbollah]

You can buy into their 'truth' or you can see them for what they are. A couple of already super wealthy self-obsessives milking their dubious 'royal' celebrity for all it's worth. She's the manipulator with the media savvy. He's the gullible stooge.

Yep that’s the line, perfectly repeated.

[Kato]

Much less comfortable than the reality he’s confronting you with; that his family are a handful of bullying racist toffs who coordinate their PR expertly with the lowest dregs of the British journalistic ‘community’.

Much safer for all the useful idiots to believe he’s just mad.Diana Spencer was "mad".

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[McSwanky]

You can buy into their 'truth' or you can see them for what they are. A couple of already super wealthy self-obsessives milking their dubious 'royal' celebrity for all it's worth. She's the manipulator with the media savvy. He's the gullible stooge.You are Dan Wootton and I claim my five pounds.

[AgentDaleCooper]

Yep that’s the line, perfectly repeated.

Tbf, all sides are more or less correct. Harry and Meghan are narcissistic, hypocritical **** bags, the royal family are privilaged, racist **** bags, and the tabloid media are parasitic, destructive **** bags. They are all in it for themselves, and we'd be better off without the lot of them.

[Just_Jimmy]

International?

I think there are life forms on other galaxies having a laugh at us as well.

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[Iain G]

Much less comfortable than the reality he’s confronting you with; that his family are a handful of bullying racist toffs who coordinate their PR expertly with the lowest dregs of the British journalistic ‘community’.

Much safer for all the useful idiots to believe he’s just mad.

Is it being presented as Madness?

Am only seeing bits of this "news" but it does seem like a misguided thing to do, he says he just wants his father and brother back, but releasing this book and doing a number of interviews that clearly pile further pressure on his relationship with his family seems misguided and contrary to rebuilding his relationships.

These two things seem very much opposites.

Is he getting bad advice, decided to sell his soul for the money on offer or does he need some actual proper help and support? I feel this won't end well for him.

[neil7908]

Is it being presented as Madness?

Am only seeing bits of this "news" but it does seem like a misguided thing to do, he says he just wants his father and brother back, but releasing this book and doing a number of interviews that clearly pile further pressure on his relationship with his family seems misguided and contrary to rebuilding his relationships.

These two things seem very much opposites.

Is he getting bad advice, decided to sell his soul for the money on offer or does he need some actual proper help and support? I feel this won't end well for him.

I think he's felt like there was no other choice. He has been attacked in private by his family (based on his claims) and savaged left, right and centre by the press.

He only has a few options to tell his side of the story and set the record straight. It may well backfire but he's also talked a lot about the game the Royal Family play - planting stories with their favourite bits of the press to keep them onside.

I still find it astonishing that Prince Andrew is floating about just going about his business, without a care in the world. Clearly the tactic works.

[Kato]

I still find it astonishing that Prince Andrew is floating about just going about his business, without a care in the world. Clearly the tactic works.

Come on. Vilifying a black woman and a ginger bloke is way more important than taking a pedophile to task. To them.

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[JeMeSouviens]

Tbf, all sides are more or less correct. Harry and Meghan are narcissistic, hypocritical **** bags, the royal family are privilaged, racist **** bags, and the tabloid media are parasitic, destructive **** bags. They are all in it for themselves, and we'd be better off without the lot of them.

:agree: :top marks

[McSwanky]

Tbf, all sides are more or less correct. Harry and Meghan are narcissistic, hypocritical **** bags, the royal family are privilaged, racist **** bags, and the tabloid media are parasitic, destructive **** bags. They are all in it for themselves, and we'd be better off without the lot of them.

Spot on. :top marks

[marinello59]

I’m hoping Harry calls out Wills on YouTube for a cage fight. Only way to settle this. Necklaces and dog bowls will be optional.

[Scorrie]

Tbf, all sides are more or less correct. Harry and Meghan are narcissistic, hypocritical **** bags, the royal family are privilaged, racist **** bags, and the tabloid media are parasitic, destructive **** bags. They are all in it for themselves, and we'd be better off without the lot of them.

👏👏👏

[He's here!]

Is it being presented as Madness?

Am only seeing bits of this "news" but it does seem like a misguided thing to do, he says he just wants his father and brother back, but releasing this book and doing a number of interviews that clearly pile further pressure on his relationship with his family seems misguided and contrary to rebuilding his relationships.

These two things seem very much opposites.

Is he getting bad advice, decided to sell his soul for the money on offer or does he need some actual proper help and support? I feel this won't end well for him.

He's certainly doing himself no favours with the stuff about killing 25 members of the Taliban 'like pieces on a chessboard'.

Folk want to believe the self-pitying guff he and Meghan are coming out with because they like to see the Royals take flak. For a couple who claim to despise the media they're doing their best to keep themselves in the headlines. The reason? Because for all they maintain they've been badly treated by the Royal Family, it's that family which is continuing provide their meal ticket. What other interest would anyone have in them?

[hibsbollah]

He's certainly doing himself no favours with the stuff about killing 25 members of the Taliban 'like pieces on a chessboard'.

Folk want to believe the self-pitying guff he and Meghan are coming out with because they like to see the Royals take flak. For a couple who claim to despise the media they're doing their best to keep themselves in the headlines. The reason? Because for all they maintain they've been badly treated by the Royal Family, it's that family which is continuing provide their meal ticket. What other interest would anyone have in them?

None of what you’ve just said stands up to any scrutiny. They have paparazzi camped on their doorstep every day since they left the UK, the recent documentary showed that very well. Personally I couldn’t live with that degree of invasion of privacy, in that respect alone I do sympathize with all of The Firm in a limited way. So there IS huge interest in them, whatever they would have done that would have been the case.

I’d also be interested if you judge all people with mental health problems and suicidal risk as ‘self pitying’, I think it’s very interesting that despite an apparent reduction in the stigma of talking about mental health in society, particularly men’s mental health, there is an idea that people like Meghan Markle are somehow fair game , and there is plenty of misogyny and racism in that nasty pot as well.

My mother in law is very much yourself, seems to have this irrational but pretty fevered dislike of the pair of them, particularly Meghan, the source of which I always struggle to pin down, there seems to be no evidence for any reason to dislike her apart from years and years of non specific but pernicious gossip in the press that I suppose drips down after awhile. What has she specifically said or done that you find objectionable? Previously I found her pleasant and a bit dull,now I find her fascinating because of her vilification.

On to Harry, the parade of ex military nobs coming on the news today to criticise him for the Taliban comments, the Taliban themselves being quoted :faf: what an actual joke,spare me… and ‘Royal watchers’ sticking the boot in…It’s all so deeply predictable. The press and the palace working together to control a weird outdated establishment narrative, it’s exactly what the Netflix documentary contended and has been proved completely correct.

[Pretty Boy]

I think a situation like this really shows up the 'it's ok not to be ok' or 'be kind' stuff for what it is. Mindless parroting of slogans with no thought as to what they actually mean. The hilarity and cruel comments because Harry has a therapist on social media shows that up. He may be privileged but he's also clearly dealing with unresolved grief and trauma. Travelling to Paris to retrace his mother's final journey is not normal behaviour. Far easier to dismiss is as 'attention seeking', 'whinging' or 'self pity'. I can't even begin to imagine how I would have dealt with losing my mother at 12 years old, I simply don't believe the whole event becoming a tawdry peep show in which millions of others tried to claim your grief for their own made it any easier.

On the same note the royals just aren't a normal family. I think among the 'gentry' the whole family environment is different. Nannies and tutors involved in an upbringing from a young age, packed of to boarding school and a lifetime of being paraded about for the public to fawn over. With the Windsors there is the added issue that from the day Harry was born him and his brother were on totally different paths and there was always going to be a strain put on that relationship.

Nothing he is saying is unreported before. Many years ago the Guardian ran a story about the Queen Mother inviting William to afternoon tea every Friday, at these teas she would teach him etiquette and how to be a King. As Harry got older and his mother suggested perhaps he should also go along the response from the 'nations grandmother' was 'why? He'll never be King'. The suggestion was that she believed her daughters knew their place when their father became King so why shouldn't Harry. Given Margaret's legendary drug and alcohol usage maybe she wasn't as adjusted as her mother believed. When William was a bit further away from the throne the press were less controlled in reporting about him. His temper was said to be legendary and he was known to have a network of friends who would take the blame for his misdemeanours. He's let the mask slip once or twice in public, just like his dad. Neither are as good as this appearance is everything lark as the Queen was.

Marrying into that family isn't easy either. Prince Philip struggled with it. He went from a military career to spending the rest of his life walking half a step behind his wife. His 'only man in Britain not to give his children his own surname' comment suggests he struggled in other areas too. Edward's wife has admitted she found it difficult to give up her own successful career to be a full time waver. There's an in built misogyny where woman are concerned in that regard. 'Pushy', 'demanding', 'headstrong', 'narcissist' etc etc are all terms used to describe strong women who make their opinions held, even moreso when they are women of colour. Meghan Markle had a career of her own prior to marriage but you wouldn't know it from reading the reports about her. Her own career is either rubbished; a 'second rate actress' or we are told she 'couldn't wait to get her claws' into a Prince. Diana and Fergie got the same treatment however many decades ago. They were 'uncouth'and ' lacked refinement'. There was a 'Princess Pushy' too albeit I can't remember who that actually refered to. It shouldn't be forgotten the press and royals drove the former into a full on mental health crisis with talk of suicidal thoughts as well. There's a pattern here.

The argument goes that if Harry wants peace he should shut up, it's also said we are only hearing one side of the story. On the former if I felt wronged and felt there had been a systematic bullying campaign against my wife that had driven her to consider suicide then I would want my voice heard. If many of the same people or institutions had done similar to my mother then I'd be even more determined to be heard. On the second point we have heard the other side of the story repeatedly for years. That's the very point Harry is making.

I stand by my previous take on the whole situation. Even royalists deep down know the royal family, as individuals and as an institution, are ****ing weird. Having someone at the very heart of it point that out scares them.

[Kato]

He's certainly doing himself no favours with the stuff about killing 25 members of the Taliban 'like pieces on a chessboard'.

Folk want to believe the self-pitying guff he and Meghan are coming out with because they like to see the Royals take flak. For a couple who claim to despise the media they're doing their best to keep themselves in the headlines. The reason? Because for all they maintain they've been badly treated by the Royal Family, it's that family which is continuing provide their meal ticket. What other interest would anyone have in them?So everything Harry and Meghan is saying is lies and everything the Royal Family is saying (via their proxies in the media) is true.

Is this what you believe?

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[Kato]

I think a situation like this really shows up the 'it's ok not to be ok' or 'be kind' stuff for what it is. Mindless parroting of slogans with no thought as to what they actually mean. The hilarity and cruel comments because Harry has a therapist on social media shows that up. He may be privileged but he's also clearly dealing with unresolved grief and trauma. Travelling to Paris to retrace his mother's final journey is not normal behaviour. Far easier to dismiss is as 'attention seeking', 'whinging' or 'self pity'. I can't even begin to imagine how I would have dealt with losing my mother at 12 years old, I simply don't believe the whole event becoming a tawdry peep show in which millions of others tried to claim your grief for their own made it any easier.

On the same note the royals just aren't a normal family. I think among the 'gentry' the whole family environment is different. Nannies and tutors involved in an upbringing from a young age, packed of to boarding school and a lifetime of being paraded about for the public to fawn over. With the Windsors there is the added issue that from the day Harry was born him and his brother were on totally different paths and there was always going to be a strain put on that relationship.

Nothing he is saying is unreported before. Many years ago the Guardian ran a story about the Queen Mother inviting William to afternoon tea every Friday, at these teas she would teach him etiquette and how to be a King. As Harry got older and his mother suggested perhaps he should also go along the response from the 'nations grandmother' was 'why? He'll never be King'. The suggestion was that she believed her daughters knew their place when their father became King so why shouldn't Harry. Given Margaret's legendary drug and alcohol usage maybe she wasn't as adjusted as her mother believed. When William was a bit further away from the throne the press were less controlled in reporting about him. His temper was said to be legendary and he was known to have a network of friends who would take the blame for his misdemeanours. He's let the mask slip once or twice in public, just like his dad. Neither are as good as this appearance is everything lark as the Queen was.

Marrying into that family isn't easy either. Prince Philip struggled with it. He went from a military career to spending the rest of his life walking half a step behind his wife. His 'only man in Britain not to give his children his own surname' comment suggests he struggled in other areas too. Edward's wife has admitted she found it difficult to give up her own successful career to be a full time waver. There's an in built misogyny where woman are concerned in that regard. 'Pushy', 'demanding', 'headstrong', 'narcissist' etc etc are all terms used to describe strong women who make their opinions held, even moreso when they are women of colour. Meghan Markle had a career of her own prior to marriage but you wouldn't know it from reading the reports about her. Her own career is either rubbished; a 'second rate actress' or we are told she 'couldn't wait to get her claws' into a Prince. Diana and Fergie got the same treatment however many decades ago. They were 'uncouth'and ' lacked refinement'. There was a 'Princess Pushy' too albeit I can't remember who that actually refered to. It shouldn't be forgotten the press and royals drove the former into a full on mental health crisis with talk of suicidal thoughts as well. There's a pattern here.

The argument goes that if Harry wants peace he should shut up, it's also said we are only hearing one side of the story. On the former if I felt wronged and felt there had been a systematic bullying campaign against my wife that had driven her to consider suicide then I would want my voice heard. If many of the same people or institutions had done similar to my mother then I'd be even more determined to be heard. On the second point we have heard the other side of the story repeatedly for years. That's the very point Harry is making.

I stand by my previous take on the whole situation. Even royalists deep down know the royal family, as individuals and as an institution, are ****ing weird. Having someone at the very heart of it point that out scares them.In Niddrie, back in the day the whole thing would have been solved with their Mums having a pagger in the street. Finished off with either a life long feud or convivial drinks in the Marischal Arms. I know Harry/pow's mum was knocked off but Meghan and Kate ma's still look like they could have a banjo at each other.

No metal hat involved in Niddrie though, it complicates matters.

Some people are hexed into being obsessed with it along with the humans accidently born into the family that is allowed to wear it. The fixation is abrasive to their critical faculties when the subject, of being a subject, arises.

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[Stairway 2 7]

I think Ash Sarkar makes a good point. Harry and meghan want a progressive modern royal family. That's not on, it needs totally disbanded. Superiority from birth is mental and needs to end

https://mobile.twitter.com/ayocaesar/status/1603311278524715008

[Glory Lurker]

Bollah, PB. Fantastic stuff. Take a bow.

[Bristolhibby]

There's no way I'm believing Harry's story that William decked him in an altercation.

I can well believe the future king could be a bit of a brat who lashes out when he doesn't get his own way. Daddy let's the mask slip from time to time too. Just look at the pair of them though. If they had a fight I'd put my life savings on Harry kicking **** out of him without even breaking sweat.

William is a big ******* though. 6 foot 3 or something. There’s also the natural inclination to dominate your younger brother, or at least not get shown up.

J

[heretoday]

There are far more important things to worry about than the internal machinations of the Royal Family.

It will all be forgotten in a fairly short space of time. That is what happens.

[Keith_M]

Am I the only person that's just enjoying watching them getting tore into each other and still despises the lot of them?

[Bostonhibby]

Am I the only person that's just enjoying watching them getting tore into each other and still despises the lot of them?Nope, count me in.



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[Ozyhibby]

Am I the only person that's just enjoying watching them getting tore into each other and still despises the lot of them?

I’ll have a bit of that although the whole episode is making me quite like Meghan Markle.[emoji106]


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[Keith_M]

I’ll have a bit of that although the whole episode is making me quite like Meghan Markle.[emoji106]


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Yeah, as the 'enemy within', she's done a fantastic job of helping to expose them for what they really are.

:aok:

[He's here!]

None of what you’ve just said stands up to any scrutiny. They have paparazzi camped on their doorstep every day since they left the UK, the recent documentary showed that very well. Personally I couldn’t live with that degree of invasion of privacy, in that respect alone I do sympathize with all of The Firm in a limited way. So there IS huge interest in them, whatever they would have done that would have been the case.

I’d also be interested if you judge all people with mental health problems and suicidal risk as ‘self pitying’, I think it’s very interesting that despite an apparent reduction in the stigma of talking about mental health in society, particularly men’s mental health, there is an idea that people like Meghan Markle are somehow fair game , and there is plenty of misogyny and racism in that nasty pot as well.

My mother in law is very much yourself, seems to have this irrational but pretty fevered dislike of the pair of them, particularly Meghan, the source of which I always struggle to pin down, there seems to be no evidence for any reason to dislike her apart from years and years of non specific but pernicious gossip in the press that I suppose drips down after awhile. What has she specifically said or done that you find objectionable? Previously I found her pleasant and a bit dull,now I find her fascinating because of her vilification.

On to Harry, the parade of ex military nobs coming on the news today to criticise him for the Taliban comments, the Taliban themselves being quoted :faf: what an actual joke,spare me… and ‘Royal watchers’ sticking the boot in…It’s all so deeply predictable. The press and the palace working together to control a weird outdated establishment narrative, it’s exactly what the Netflix documentary contended and has been proved completely correct.

What scrutiny? Your own? If so, then very little I say on this forum will ever stand up to that :wink:

Where have I said I judge all people with mental health issues as self-pitying? I don't doubt or demean Harry's own issues, which he expressed eloquently and IMHO quite admirably a few years back. However, you can be self-pitying whether or not you suffer from such issues and his seemingly bottomless well of grievance is little more than mud-slinging. I thought the toe-curling Oprah interview (or at least the snippets I saw of it) was bad enough but this latest gift to the world's media is close to comical. I guess in the current grim news climate a big dollop of royal soap opera is a welcome diversion for many.

I didn't watch the 'documentary' incidentally, but the fact it was made by their own production company with no input from the royal family doesn't exactly lend it any sort of objectivity. I did read that a number of the pics portraying mobs of paparazzi were taken from events completely unrelated to Harry and Meghan, while even footage sanctioned by the couple was utilised in a way that indicated an invasion of privacy. Hard to take that seriously.

[MKHIBEE]

I think a situation like this really shows up the 'it's ok not to be ok' or 'be kind' stuff for what it is. Mindless parroting of slogans with no thought as to what they actually mean. The hilarity and cruel comments because Harry has a therapist on social media shows that up. He may be privileged but he's also clearly dealing with unresolved grief and trauma. Travelling to Paris to retrace his mother's final journey is not normal behaviour. Far easier to dismiss is as 'attention seeking', 'whinging' or 'self pity'. I can't even begin to imagine how I would have dealt with losing my mother at 12 years old, I simply don't believe the whole event becoming a tawdry peep show in which millions of others tried to claim your grief for their own made it any easier.

On the same note the royals just aren't a normal family. I think among the 'gentry' the whole family environment is different. Nannies and tutors involved in an upbringing from a young age, packed of to boarding school and a lifetime of being paraded about for the public to fawn over. With the Windsors there is the added issue that from the day Harry was born him and his brother were on totally different paths and there was always going to be a strain put on that relationship.

Nothing he is saying is unreported before. Many years ago the Guardian ran a story about the Queen Mother inviting William to afternoon tea every Friday, at these teas she would teach him etiquette and how to be a King. As Harry got older and his mother suggested perhaps he should also go along the response from the 'nations grandmother' was 'why? He'll never be King'. The suggestion was that she believed her daughters knew their place when their father became King so why shouldn't Harry. Given Margaret's legendary drug and alcohol usage maybe she wasn't as adjusted as her mother believed. When William was a bit further away from the throne the press were less controlled in reporting about him. His temper was said to be legendary and he was known to have a network of friends who would take the blame for his misdemeanours. He's let the mask slip once or twice in public, just like his dad. Neither are as good as this appearance is everything lark as the Queen was.

Marrying into that family isn't easy either. Prince Philip struggled with it. He went from a military career to spending the rest of his life walking half a step behind his wife. His 'only man in Britain not to give his children his own surname' comment suggests he struggled in other areas too. Edward's wife has admitted she found it difficult to give up her own successful career to be a full time waver. There's an in built misogyny where woman are concerned in that regard. 'Pushy', 'demanding', 'headstrong', 'narcissist' etc etc are all terms used to describe strong women who make their opinions held, even moreso when they are women of colour. Meghan Markle had a career of her own prior to marriage but you wouldn't know it from reading the reports about her. Her own career is either rubbished; a 'second rate actress' or we are told she 'couldn't wait to get her claws' into a Prince. Diana and Fergie got the same treatment however many decades ago. They were 'uncouth'and ' lacked refinement'. There was a 'Princess Pushy' too albeit I can't remember who that actually refered to. It shouldn't be forgotten the press and royals drove the former into a full on mental health crisis with talk of suicidal thoughts as well. There's a pattern here.

The argument goes that if Harry wants peace he should shut up, it's also said we are only hearing one side of the story. On the former if I felt wronged and felt there had been a systematic bullying campaign against my wife that had driven her to consider suicide then I would want my voice heard. If many of the same people or institutions had done similar to my mother then I'd be even more determined to be heard. On the second point we have heard the other side of the story repeatedly for years. That's the very point Harry is making.

I stand by my previous take on the whole situation. Even royalists deep down know the royal family, as individuals and as an institution, are ****ing weird. Having someone at the very heart of it point that out scares them.

That is one of the most sensible and empathetic posts I have read on the subject. A very accurate and interesting read on the issue in my opinion.

[He's here!]

So everything Harry and Meghan is saying is lies and everything the Royal Family is saying (via their proxies in the media) is true.

Is this what you believe?

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Have I said that?

I'm just pointing out that there's an eagerness from those who like to see the Royal Family under fire to accept everything Harry and Meghan say as gospel. Just because it's 'their truth' doesn't make it the truth. I was under the impression the royals haven't actually said anything in relation to the latest allegations. Arguably the best course of action rather than engage in an endless tit-for-tat spat.

[Hibbyradge]

Have I said that?

I'm just pointing out that there's an eagerness from those who like to see the Royal Family under fire to accept everything Harry and Meghan say as gospel. Just because it's 'their truth' doesn't make it the truth. I was under the impression the royals haven't actually said anything in relation to the latest allegations. Arguably the best course of action rather than engage in an endless tit-for-tat spat.

Or you could say that they haven't denied the allegations.

[Kato]

Have I said that?

I'm just pointing out that there's an eagerness from those who like to see the Royal Family under fire to accept everything Harry and Meghan say as gospel. Just because it's 'their truth' doesn't make it the truth. I was under the impression the royals haven't actually said anything in relation to the latest allegations. Arguably the best course of action rather than engage in an endless tit-for-tat spat.The royals have said plenty through their proxies.

So which parts of H&Ms story do you think might be true? Or is it all lies?

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[hibsbollah]

What scrutiny? Your own? If so, then very little I say on this forum will ever stand up to that :wink:

Where have I said I judge all people with mental health issues as self-pitying? I don't doubt or demean Harry's own issues, which he expressed eloquently and IMHO quite admirably a few years back. However, you can be self-pitying whether or not you suffer from such issues and his seemingly bottomless well of grievance is little more than mud-slinging. I thought the toe-curling Oprah interview (or at least the snippets I saw of it) was bad enough but this latest gift to the world's media is close to comical. I guess in the current grim news climate a big dollop of royal soap opera is a welcome diversion for many.

I didn't watch the 'documentary' incidentally, but the fact it was made by their own production company with no input from the royal family doesn't exactly lend it any sort of objectivity. I did read that a number of the pics portraying mobs of paparazzi were taken from events completely unrelated to Harry and Meghan, while even footage sanctioned by the couple was utilised in a way that indicated an invasion of privacy. Hard to take that seriously.

You’re misinformed. Watch the documentary, and you will see that regardless of who the production company is, the mobs of paparazzi are very real and are ubiquitous whether he’s trying to go to school as a primary school kid 30 years ago, and now, whether they live in a secret location in western Canada or in the Hollywood hills in a gated community. The documentary also shows very clearly how the ‘never complain never explain’ relationship with the press, where if they allow access they are left alone in their most private moments, was routinely ignored by the paps, the footage of Fiana was actually gruesome to watch. Ironically lots the documentary provides lots for people who support the royals, in terms of how the individuals are treated, so you’re just wrong to think that it’s just for anti monarchists. You could have a modern progressive (mixed race even?) Royal family more similar to the Dutch or Scandinavian model and disband the ludicrous pantomime that we have today in the UK, with less expense and less power over our democratic process,but that’s never discussed.

It sounds like you’re getting all your information from the same sources that have been shown (or put under scrutiny, if you like) to be complicit in making what in other countries we would call state propaganda.

[James310]

I have never seen so many people who don't care about the Royal family write so much about the Royal family.

[hibsbollah]

I have never seen so many people who don't care about the Royal family write so much about the Royal family.

It shines an interesting light on how our state is run that we wouldn’t see otherwise.

[Smartie]

I have never seen so many people who don't care about the Royal family write so much about the Royal family.

It is quite a curious phenomenon.

I don't care about the Royal Family, when the queen's hearse passed just along the road from where I was I didn't have the slightest desire to walk a few hundred yards and see it let alone stand in line for many hours.

Yet when I came in from work a few weeks ago and my partner was watching the Harry and Meghan documentary I sat down to watch it with her and was engrossed within minutes.

So on one level I'm not interested in the Royal Family - but I am interested in the concepts of privilege, the British class system, press intrusion, justice and injustice, sibling rivalry and family dynamics, constitutional politics and who we choose to rule over us, male pattern baldness and all sorts of other things that are wrapped up in the Royal story, so sometimes it just sort of draws me in.

[Kato]

I have never seen so many people who don't care about the Royal family write so much about the Royal family.Where have you been? The Daily Express newsroom?

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[Kato]

It is quite a curious phenomenon.

I don't care about the Royal Family, when the queen's hearse passed just along the road from where I was I didn't have the slightest desire to walk a few hundred yards and see it let alone stand in line for many hours.

Yet when I came in from work a few weeks ago and my partner was watching the Harry and Meghan documentary I sat down to watch it with her and was engrossed within minutes.

So on one level I'm not interested in the Royal Family - but I am interested in the concepts of privilege, the British class system, press intrusion, justice and injustice, sibling rivalry and family dynamics, constitutional politics and who we choose to rule over us, male pattern baldness and all sorts of other things that are wrapped up in the Royal story, so sometimes it just sort of draws me in.Well said.

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[He's here!]

The royals have said plenty through their proxies.

So which parts of H&Ms story do you think might be true? Or is it all lies?

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What have the royals said through their (alleged) proxies?

Like anyone else on here I'm only giving my opinion. I don't know any more than you what might be true and what isn't. I don't imagine it's all lies (Harry's recollection of being driven numerous times through the tunnel where his mother died jumps out as a heartfelt, upsetting and understandable truth) but much of it strikes me as simply airing his dirty laundry.

[He's here!]

You’re misinformed. Watch the documentary, and you will see that regardless of who the production company is, the mobs of paparazzi are very real and are ubiquitous whether he’s trying to go to school as a primary school kid 30 years ago, and now, whether they live in a secret location in western Canada or in the Hollywood hills in a gated community. The documentary also shows very clearly how the ‘never complain never explain’ relationship with the press, where if they allow access they are left alone in their most private moments, was routinely ignored by the paps, the footage of Fiana was actually gruesome to watch. Ironically lots the documentary provides lots for people who support the royals, in terms of how the individuals are treated, so you’re just wrong to think that it’s just for anti monarchists. You could have a modern progressive (mixed race even?) Royal family more similar to the Dutch or Scandinavian model and disband the ludicrous pantomime that we have today in the UK, with less expense and less power over our democratic process,but that’s never discussed.

It sounds like you’re getting all your information from the same sources that have been shown (or put under scrutiny, if you like) to be complicit in making what in other countries we would call state propaganda.

What's misinformed about this?

Harry and Meghan: Netflix to escape censure over using ‘fake’ paparazzi photos and misleading images (inews.co.uk) (https://inews.co.uk/news/harry-and-meghan-netflix-documentary-fake-paperazzi-photos-misleading-images-2014972)

I don't disagree a more modern version of the Royal Family would make sense, but I get the impression we'll see that steadily evolve in the wake of the Queen's passing. There are several examples of royals around the world marrying so-called 'commoners' and quietly leaving their royal trappings behind to enjoy a less intrusive way of life. If Harry and Meghan were truly seeking 'freedom' they wouldn't consistently go out of their way to invite the paparazzi into their lives.

[cabbageandribs1875]

https://scontent.fman1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/324237183_558601989220649_1993008623055799993_n.jp g?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=Q16tGOMNSJcAX9q0tmB&tn=oRK5qAGe-9s67qfL&_nc_ht=scontent.fman1-2.fna&oh=00_AfDVV7tpV03KEKnsmLlAIaC6812j242gnsQ33hPynaem bw&oe=63BEF205

[Kato]

What's misinformed about this?

Harry and Meghan: Netflix to escape censure over using ‘fake’ paparazzi photos and misleading images (inews.co.uk) (https://inews.co.uk/news/harry-and-meghan-netflix-documentary-fake-paperazzi-photos-misleading-images-2014972)

I don't disagree a more modern version of the Royal Family would make sense, but I get the impression we'll see that steadily evolve in the wake of the Queen's passing. There are several examples of royals around the world marrying so-called 'commoners' and quietly leaving their royal trappings behind to enjoy a less intrusive way of life. If Harry and Meghan were truly seeking 'freedom' they wouldn't consistently go out of their way to invite the paparazzi into their lives.Steadily evolve over the course of the next 300 years.

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[Glory Lurker]

If anyone thinks the Firm and the UK state haven't mobilised, they need their heads looked. The media has been bad enough already, but the English Sunday Express front page takes the biscuit*.

* - as ours might, just not seen it yet.

[JimBHibees]

If anyone thinks the Firm and the UK state haven't mobilised, they need their heads looked. The media has been bad enough already, but the English Sunday Express front page takes the biscuit*.

* - as ours might, just not seen it yet.

Walked into our local supermarket yesterday and every newspaper front page I could see had a headline ripping Spare ranging from criticism of him indicating the number of deaths in Afghan to some story about him missing a drug test when in the forces. In better times he would have been portrayed as a war hero now all the same outlets who have helped to get this country into the biggest mess it has ever been in my lifetime pile on to protect the establishment. Despicable imo.

[marinello59]

Walked into our local supermarket yesterday and every newspaper front page I could see had a headline ripping Spare ranging from criticism of him indicating the number of deaths in Afghan to some story about him missing a drug test when in the forces. In better times he would have been portrayed as a war hero now all the same outlets who have helped to get this country into the biggest mess it has ever been in my lifetime pile on to protect the establishment. Despicable imo.

Newspapers using lurid headlines to sell newspapers. He gave them a few, it would be crazy to wave easy money like that away. None of this protects the establishment, Harry is still a part of it , he’s weakened the whole creaking structure from within.

[hibsbollah]

Walked into our local supermarket yesterday and every newspaper front page I could see had a headline ripping Spare ranging from criticism of him indicating the number of deaths in Afghan to some story about him missing a drug test when in the forces. In better times he would have been portrayed as a war hero now all the same outlets who have helped to get this country into the biggest mess it has ever been in my lifetime pile on to protect the establishment. Despicable imo.

The UK has the worst newspapers in the democratic world. It’s just embarrassing.

[Stairway 2 7]

Pretty much no one young buys newspapers, it's a dying medium. That has positives and negatives. Positive being the nation won't be able to be brainwashed on mass as easily now, as hardly anyone still reading them.

The bad is getting news from social media is very dangerous. Not just because the lack of standards followed, but also algorithms. Facebook filters similar articles to you. So someone who goes down say anti vax of rascim can be bombarded with pish and people agreeing with said rubbish. Facebook is complicit

[Scorrie]

There are far more important things to worry about than the internal machinations of the Royal Family.

It will all be forgotten in a fairly short space of time. That is what happens.

To an extent I agree, but my taxes help fund them and to be honest, I’d rather pay for NHS etc rather than the lifestyle of 17th century system remnants from which our class system and power comes from. This is now the time for a serious discussion about the monarchy and the form it takes. Will it happen? I won’t hold my breath

[hibsbollah]

Pretty much no one young buys newspapers, it's a dying medium. That has positives and negatives. Positive being the nation won't be able to be brainwashed on mass as easily now, as hardly anyone still reading them.

The bad is getting news from social media is very dangerous. Not just because the lack of standards followed, but also algorithms. Facebook filters similar articles to you. So someone who goes down say anti vax of rascim can be bombarded with pish and people agreeing with said rubbish. Facebook is complicit

Lots of people young and old are influenced by ‘newspapers’ whether they read them online (look at the Mail Onlines eyeballs, it’s astronomical) or old school Sunday papers in front of the Sunday breakfast, it really doesn’t matter. And they inform the national debate, it seeps into chat shows, what’s trending on social media, it’s all intertwined. The new Head of Comms for the Sussex’s warned his chops by increasing CNBCs YouTube audience by 600%, that’s why they employed him, but the Firm don’t get favourable coverage unless they keep tickling the backs of the billionaire newspaper owners as well. A lot of them are owned by the same huge corporations so the distinction is a semantic one.

https://www.tatler.com/article/who-is-lee-thompson-prince-william-kate-kensington-palace-new-pr-head

[Stairway 2 7]

Lots of people young and old are influenced by ‘newspapers’ whether they read them online (look at the Mail Onlines eyeballs, it’s astronomical) or old school Sunday papers in front of the Sunday breakfast, it really doesn’t matter. And they inform the national debate, it seeps into chat shows, what’s trending on social media, it’s all intertwined. The new Head of Comms for the Sussex’s warned his chops by increasing CNBCs YouTube audience by 600%, that’s why they employed him, but the Firm don’t get favourable coverage unless they keep tickling the backs of the billionaire newspaper owners as well. A lot of them are owned by the same huge corporations so the distinction is a semantic one.

https://www.tatler.com/article/who-is-lee-thompson-prince-william-kate-kensington-palace-new-pr-head

The old media is getting less powerful by the year. The daily mail website gets 3 millions different viewers a day. Each of Joe rogan , ksi or piers Morgan tweets get seen more than that. They obviously are massively influential but it's dying.

Unfortunately Joe Rogan, Andrew tate and Alex Jones have access to the under 30s thoughts , that the paper media companies could only dream of

[Moulin Yarns]

https://news.stv.tv/entertainment/scottish-actor-alan-cumming-returns-obe-over-toxicity-of-british-empire-and-role-of-the-monarchy


Not sure which thread to put this.

[Kato]

https://news.stv.tv/entertainment/scottish-actor-alan-cumming-returns-obe-over-toxicity-of-british-empire-and-role-of-the-monarchy


Not sure which thread to put this.Good on him. The ruling classes cultural hegemony beguiles so many celebs into appearing like ardent supporters of an outdated, and weird, hierarchy by simply getting the wearer of the metal hat to wave a tin trinket at them. They go all gooey-eyed when, within themselves for many, they know its all balderdash.

Bowie knew the score.

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[Stairway 2 7]

Get them to f###. Poverty porn from billionaires to be

https://mobile.twitter.com/theroyaleditor/status/1618573967962345473

@theroyaleditor
The Prince and Princess today visited Windsor Foodshare, a foodbank supporting residents in the Windsor area. This charity operates out of a Baptist church in Dedworth and has experienced a significant increase in demand in recent years. 🎥 ⁦
@RE_DailyMail
⁩ for royal rota

[JimBHibees]

Get them to f###. Poverty porn from billionaires to be

https://mobile.twitter.com/theroyaleditor/status/1618573967962345473

@theroyaleditor
The Prince and Princess today visited Windsor Foodshare, a foodbank supporting residents in the Windsor area. This charity operates out of a Baptist church in Dedworth and has experienced a significant increase in demand in recent years. 🎥 ⁦
@RE_DailyMail
⁩ for royal rota

Genuinely despicable that.

[stu in nottingham]

Get them to f###. Poverty porn from billionaires to be

https://mobile.twitter.com/theroyaleditor/status/1618573967962345473

@theroyaleditor
The Prince and Princess today visited Windsor Foodshare, a foodbank supporting residents in the Windsor area. This charity operates out of a Baptist church in Dedworth and has experienced a significant increase in demand in recent years. 🎥 ⁦
@RE_DailyMail
⁩ for royal rota

Bast**ds, using people in need to promote themselves and their profile. They have no shame.

[Glory Lurker]

Main story on tomorrow's Telegraph's front page is the establishment in action. I expect she's got other arguments but this is the one we hear about.

Not linking, but Sky front pages has it.

[Mr Grieves]

Main story on tomorrow's Telegraph's front page is the establishment in action. I expect she's got other arguments but this is the one we hear about.

Not linking, but Sky front pages has it.

That's some completely unhinged **** that's worse than the worst from the the tabloids

[Ozyhibby]

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[Bostonhibby]

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Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkThat's it then, all been a giant mistake, Handy Andy for King and Maxwell for Consort.

Jeez, do they really want us to swallow this crap.

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[Stairway 2 7]

I think Andrews lawyers are arguing that it's impossible to have sex in a bath, sheltered lives. Are they going to put a picture of a car next and say see too small for sex

[Kato]

I think Andrews lawyers are arguing that it's impossible to have sex in a bath, sheltered lives. Are they going to put a picture of a car next and say see too small for sexIt's incontrovertible evidence, if you are a simpleton.

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[Bristolhibby]

It's incontrovertible evidence, if you are a simpleton.

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He must have had the horn.

[Bostonhibby]

I think Andrews lawyers are arguing that it's impossible to have sex in a bath, sheltered lives. Are they going to put a picture of a car next and say see too small for sexThey'd have more credibility if they went for the WTF does he need a bath for, he doesn't sweat defence.

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[Ozyhibby]

https://twitter.com/auranjackson/status/1618372739332706308?s=46&t=fzgi2V5gr3H19WqHFV0sBA


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[Kato]

I think Andrews lawyers are arguing that it's impossible to have sex in a bath, sheltered lives. Are they going to put a picture of a car next and say see too small for sexJust read the whole article.

In some alternate timeline lawyers are wheeling the bath into the court room and enacting to the jury how it's impossible to have sex in it.

I suppose then they'd move on to their big "gotcha" moment, ie "one does not perspire" and its handcuffs off and cheers in the courtroom.

I reckon the establishment in this country believe the whole populace button up the back due to the chunky proportion who actually do.

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[Pretty Boy]

The royal family and the infatuation with it is ****ing weird. A national newspaper publishing that picture and the fact a significant number of people will consider it case closed is scary.

Andrew is less ostracised than Harry. The former socialised with paedos and child traffickers and paid off someone who accused him of sexual assault. The latter said some members of his family bullied him a bit.

[JimBHibees]

The royal family and the infatuation with it is ****ing weird. A national newspaper publishing that picture and the fact a significant number of people will consider it case closed is scary.

Andrew is less ostracised than Harry. The former socialised with paedos and child traffickers and paid off someone who accused him of sexual assault. The latter said some members of his family bullied him a bit.

Your second paragraph says it all

[cabbageandribs1875]

well done Australia

KING Charles III’s image will not feature on Australia’s new five dollar banknote.
The decision has been made following a consultation with the Australian government with the banknote’s current portrait of Queen Elizabeth set to be replaced with a design honouring indigenous Australians.
It is intended to pay tribute to “the culture and history of the First Australians”, the Reserve Bank said in a statement.
“The Bank will consult with First Australians in designing the $5 banknote”, the statement continued.
Writing on social media, Lidia Thorpe, who serves as deputy leader of the Australian Greens (https://www.thenational.scot/politics/scottish-greens/) in the Senate, said: “This is a massive win for the grassroots, First Nations people who have been fighting to decolonise this country.

[ronaldo7]

well done Australia

KING Charles III’s image will not feature on Australia’s new five dollar banknote.
The decision has been made following a consultation with the Australian government with the banknote’s current portrait of Queen Elizabeth set to be replaced with a design honouring indigenous Australians.
It is intended to pay tribute to “the culture and history of the First Australians”, the Reserve Bank said in a statement.
“The Bank will consult with First Australians in designing the $5 banknote”, the statement continued.
Writing on social media, Lidia Thorpe, who serves as deputy leader of the Australian Greens (https://www.thenational.scot/politics/scottish-greens/) in the Senate, said: “This is a massive win for the grassroots, First Nations people who have been fighting to decolonise this country.


Fantastic.

[Bristolhibby]

well done Australia

KING Charles III’s image will not feature on Australia’s new five dollar banknote.
The decision has been made following a consultation with the Australian government with the banknote’s current portrait of Queen Elizabeth set to be replaced with a design honouring indigenous Australians.
It is intended to pay tribute to “the culture and history of the First Australians”, the Reserve Bank said in a statement.
“The Bank will consult with First Australians in designing the $5 banknote”, the statement continued.
Writing on social media, Lidia Thorpe, who serves as deputy leader of the Australian Greens (https://www.thenational.scot/politics/scottish-greens/) in the Senate, said: “This is a massive win for the grassroots, First Nations people who have been fighting to decolonise this country.


Great news.

J

[Kato]

Chuck and his wife/bit on the side to get brand new thrones when they give him a shot on the metal hat for the first time.

Just think, if wasn't for those damn Scottish NHS waiting times we could have given them bigger, better, blingier thrones.


https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/royals/king-charles-camilla-brand-new-29136265?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

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[Bostonhibby]

Chuck and his wife/bit on the side to get brand new thrones when they give him a shot on the metal hat for the first time.

Just think, if wasn't for those damn Scottish NHS waiting times we could have given them bigger, better, blingier thrones.


https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/royals/king-charles-camilla-brand-new-29136265?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

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Or will they just try and sneak the paedo prince further into the limelight again by using him in this important role?

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[marinello59]

Anybody else watch South Park’s take on Harry And Meghan tonight? Savage.

[Glory Lurker]

Anybody else watch South Park’s take on Harry And Meghan tonight? Savage.

Is it on catch up anywhere?

[marinello59]

Is it on catch up anywhere?

Comedy Central.
Season 26, Episode 2, The Worldwide Privacy Tour.

[Glory Lurker]

Comedy Central.
Season 26, Episode 2, The Worldwide Privacy Tour.

Grrrrr! I'll need to upgrade apparently. I'll just have to imagine...

Sweet!

[cabbageandribs1875]

Fantastic.


Great news.

J


and another...



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[Glory Lurker]

I hope there's loads of folk in Australia agreeing with Hugh Jackman. If they really want to be a grown up country they'd also get The UJ off their flag (and you, New Zealand).

[cabbageandribs1875]

I hope there's loads of folk in Australia agreeing with Hugh Jackman. If they really want to be a grown up country they'd also get The UJ off their flag (and you, New Zealand).


and Fiji :boo hoo:

[Glory Lurker]

and Fiji :boo hoo:

And Hawaii. I mean, what are they thinking?

[cabbageandribs1875]

And Hawaii. I mean, what are they thinking?


they can't play Rugby so they don't count

[heretoday]

I think Andrews lawyers are arguing that it's impossible to have sex in a bath, sheltered lives. Are they going to put a picture of a car next and say see too small for sex

Well, if it's Micras or Minis they have a point.
But in a Bentley you're batting a thousand.

[overdrive]

Well, if it's Micras or Minis they have a point.
But in a Bentley you're batting a thousand.

Definitely possible in a Micra… so I’m told!

[He's here!]

https://www.facebook.com/reel/778093219813427?s=yWDuG2&fs=e

Apologies if already posted.

[Santa Cruz]

Reading about different Local Authorities doing their own thing for the Coronation. Shetland aren't recognising the Public Holiday as want schools to remain open. Borders are using £35k of unspent covid recovery funds on Coronation style parties :confused: It's either a national public holiday or it's not and Borders Council need to sort their priorities out.

[Kato]

Reading about different Local Authorities doing their own thing for the Coronation. Shetland aren't recognising the Public Holiday as want schools to remain open. Borders are using £35k of unspent covid recovery funds on Coronation style parties :confused: It's either a national public holiday or it's not and Borders Council need to sort their priorities out.Borders should hand over the £35k and add it to the £7million being spent on new thrones, bling them up a bit.

Yes, thrones. 21st Century and we are financing two brand new thrones. Even the word is as archaic is they come.

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[Stairway 2 7]

Borders should hand over the £35k and add it to the £7million being spent on new thrones, bling them up a bit.

Yes, thrones. 21st Century and we are financing two brand new thrones. Even the word is as archaic is they come.

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£7 million for the thrones or the shin dig? Surely pay themselves for their doo

[Kato]

£7 million for the thrones or the shin dig? Surely pay themselves for their doo7mil for thrones.

I could knock up a new guillotine for quarter of a mil, save £££££££££££s.

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[hibsbollah]

Kicked out off their gaff for a nonce.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/01/duke-and-duchess-of-sussex-are-asked-to-vacate-their-uk-home

[JimBHibees]

Kicked out off their gaff for a nonce.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/01/duke-and-duchess-of-sussex-are-asked-to-vacate-their-uk-home

Where do you start with that. Incredible

[hibsbollah]

Where do you start with that. Incredible

I don’t know either :dunno:

Even if you treat the recent Netflix documentary with healthy degrees of scepticism, it’s surely clear to everyone that the various (competing) royal households have well staffed and active PR teams who have very close links with the media and can control the narrative that is produced for us all to consume.

It seems like in this case the Firms PR people have made the assessment that Harry is more toxic to the people they care about influencing than Andrew is. Regardless of how it all works on the family level it’s just baffling in terms of the messaging.

[Bostonhibby]

I don’t know either :dunno:

Even if you treat the recent Netflix documentary with healthy degrees of scepticism, it’s surely clear to everyone that the various (competing) royal households have well staffed and active PR teams who have very close links with the media and can control the narrative that is produced for us all to consume.

It seems like in this case the Firms PR people have made the assessment that Harry is more toxic to the people they care about influencing than Andrew is. Regardless of how it all works on the family level it’s just baffling in terms of the messaging.I'm guessing they regard Handy Andy as more capable of rehabilitation-at least to the standards required of the Firm-than the other two, so giving him a house is probably seen as another step back into the fold.

Hopefully another nail in the coffin as the messaging ain't great.

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[Pretty Boy]

I don’t know either :dunno:

Even if you treat the recent Netflix documentary with healthy degrees of scepticism, it’s surely clear to everyone that the various (competing) royal households have well staffed and active PR teams who have very close links with the media and can control the narrative that is produced for us all to consume.

It seems like in this case the Firms PR people have made the assessment that Harry is more toxic to the people they care about influencing than Andrew is. Regardless of how it all works on the family level it’s just baffling in terms of the messaging.

I think the official line is that this is also a punishment for the nonce.

He's having his 'allowance' cut and can no longer afford to staff and maintain his 31 room gaffe so is being downsized to a mere 10 rooms.

Inhumane so it is.

[Kato]

Looks like the concert for Chucks Metal Hat Party will be headlined by Right Said Fred and Black Lace.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/king-charles-coronation-big-stars-not-performing-adele-harry-styles-1234688981/

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[Hibrandenburg]

“One is too sexy for one’s hat”.

[Hibby70]

Rolf Harris and Gary Glitter are joint headliners I heard.

[cabbageandribs1875]

never heard of her but i have nothing but respect for her, along with several other artists that have declined invitations

after a quick google, Jewel Kilcher, daughter of Atz of the last frontier fame, not a happy childhood for her

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[Curried]

How can I get involved with the Coronation?

Well, get yourselves listed on the HM Government website below.

Looks like there are some right proper knees-up in most places outside Scotland.

https://coronation.gov.uk/events/

[Pretty Boy]

How can I get involved with the Coronation?

Well, get yourselves listed on the HM Government website below.

Looks like there are some right proper knees-up in most places outside Scotland.

https://coronation.gov.uk/events/

No events found in my postcode area.

Yas!

[TrumpIsAPeado]

How can I get involved with the Coronation?

Have you been cold and hungry lately? Well then, you're involved.

[Glory Lurker]

No events found in my postcode area.

Yas!

No events in Scotland at all! There will be by the time it comes around, I expect, but so far it's all good!

[stu in nottingham]

There are very few in large swathes of England and Wales also. There isn't a single one within thirty miles of where I live.

[hibsbollah]

There are very few in large swathes of England and Wales also. There isn't a single one within thirty miles of where I live.

There’s one just south of Penrith which is my nearest. Haud me back :agree:

[ErinGoBraghHFC]

There’s one just south of Penrith which is my nearest. Haud me back :agree:

I think the one in Penrith and the one just outside Strabane are pretty much equidistant from me, surprised (not a bad one mind) there’s not one planned around my way tbh


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[grunt]

No events in Scotland at all! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fqd-eFhXsAEXQAO?format=jpg&name=medium

[DaveF]

No events in Scotland at all! There will be by the time it comes around, I expect, but so far it's all good!

There should be a few in the borders given their council set aside 35k of unused COVID support cash for parties. If not, someone has quietly banked it.

[Stairway 2 7]

Charlie's trip to France cancelled due to the riots, must have feared the guillotine. Some of the videos from Paris are wild

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheNewsAgents/status/1639206928474599425

[hibsbollah]

Charlie's trip to France cancelled due to the riots, must have feared the guillotine. Some of the videos from Paris are wild

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheNewsAgents/status/1639206928474599425

It’s very close to an actual insurgency in most major cities, almost 500 police injured in a SINGLE DAY, which gets some getting-head-around. A quarter of a million on the streets in Marseille yesterday, and even in the sleepy conservative regional town where I go regularly, the town hall was attacked and the roads blocked.

The like their direct democracy do the French, especially when the president is forcing through laws without the support of parliament.

[Betty Boop]

It’s very close to an actual insurgency in most major cities, almost 500 police injured in a SINGLE DAY, which gets some getting-head-around. A quarter of a million on the streets in Marseille yesterday, and even in the sleepy conservative regional town where I go regularly, the town hall was attacked and the roads blocked.

The like their direct democracy do the French, especially when the president is forcing through laws without the support of parliament.
Right and left, rural and urban marching together such a sight to behold.

[Smartie]

Charlie's trip to France cancelled due to the riots, must have feared the guillotine. Some of the videos from Paris are wild

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheNewsAgents/status/1639206928474599425

I respect that.

The government in the UK have done enough in recent years to expect at least similar.

[hibby rae]

Charlie's trip to France cancelled due to the riots, must have feared the guillotine. Some of the videos from Paris are wild

https://mobile.twitter.com/TheNewsAgents/status/1639206928474599425

".......In the back of an old Ford Cortina, you're on your way, to the guillotine" :singing::singing:

[wookie70]

I respect that.

The government in the UK have done enough in recent years to expect at least similar.

I think the Government in the UK have been adding something to the water. The UK population is subservient to the point of self-harm. So jealous of the French. They have the spirit that the UK lost in the 80s and are unlikely to ever get back.

[hibsbollah]

I think the Government in the UK have been adding something to the water. The UK population is subservient to the point of self-harm. So jealous of the French. They have the spirit that the UK lost in the 80s and are unlikely to ever get back.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2023/03/24/french-police-caught-on-tape-during-protest-arrest-i-can-tell-you-we-have-broken-elbows-and-faces_6020542_7.html

Widespread reports of police brutality and complaints from the Council of Europe, in news thats will surprise banlieue residents not at all.

[J-C]

I think the Government in the UK have been adding something to the water. The UK population is subservient to the point of self-harm. So jealous of the French. They have the spirit that the UK lost in the 80s and are unlikely to ever get back.


The French don't muck about do they, had enough of their royalty, revolution and off with their heads. We here in Britain just have a wee greet about things like this and take to twitter or message boards. There should be thousands of people demonstrating outside parliament wanting Johnson booted out and the rest o them the same for their handling of Covid and the billions either wasted or going to their mates on crap PPE but no we'll all just have a moan on FB or on here and wait and see what happens.

[Kato]

King Charles III - six monthly probationary report.

Hospital Opening - no where near as good as his Ma. Really must try harder.

Ship Launching - way behind schedule, Charles shows little interest in this subject, needs to get his navy in line. There's war in Europe and he hasn't built or launched one ship.

Visits to Institutions - visits made but little traction eg Pathè News hasn't featured him once in their newsreels.

Waving - adequate, could grimace less. Smile a tad world weary.

Christmas message - top notch, kept it condescending, trite and hypocritical.

Providing An Heir - pass marks - has an heir and a spare (oops). Exceptianal broadening of an, up till now, shallow gene pool.


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[Bostonhibby]

King Charles III - six monthly probationary report.

Hospital Opening - no where near as good as his Ma. Really must try harder.

Ship Launching - way behind schedule, Charles shows little interest in this subject, needs to get his navy in line. There's war in Europe and he hasn't built or launched one ship.

Visits to Institutions - visits made but little traction eg Pathè News hasn't featured him once in their newsreels.

Waving - adequate, could grimace less. Smile a tad world weary.

Christmas message - top notch, kept it condescending, trite and hypocritical.

Providing An Heir - pass marks - has an heir and a spare (oops). Exceptianal broadening of an, up till now, shallow gene pool.


Sent from my SM-A528B using TapatalkHe's been to Germany, and it seemed to go spiffingly according to the BBC. Getting back to his "roots".

Wonder if he is on performance related pay.

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[Chorley Hibee]

No cost of living crisis for some.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-interactive/2023/apr/05/revealed-royals-took-more-than-1bn-income-from-controversial-estates-king-charles-queen-duchies-cornwall-lancaster?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

[hibsbollah]

No cost of living crisis for some.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-interactive/2023/apr/05/revealed-royals-took-more-than-1bn-income-from-controversial-estates-king-charles-queen-duchies-cornwall-lancaster?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Chip below the surface and it’s basically the Calabrian mafia we’re talking about :greengrin

[cabbageandribs1875]

York earlier today

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[overdrive]

York earlier today

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Surprised the police weren't wading in arresting them, given their ridiculous reaction to anti-monarchy protesters last year.

[Kato]

Saturday’s Daily MAIL: “Kate found walkabout with Harry and Meghan ‘one of the hardest things she’s ever had to do’ “. #TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/9kPlUtD5mr


Get that. Walking about with some fractious inlaws is "one of the hardest things she’s ever had to do".

Seems a bit hard. Maybe even some gallows humour to yourself if things are particularly off. But one of the hardest things ever had to do?

It shows their whole business hangs around appearences, official hierarchy/petty pecking orders and nowt much else of any actual substance.

I might even pick up The Mail over the weekend just for the lols.

She should learn a song - The Seekers "The Carnival Is Over" or a Mary Hopkin number. Cheer everyone up including herself.

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[Stairway 2 7]

Walking with Harry, Meghan, Kate, William or any of that lot does sound ******g tedious to be fair.

[Kato]

Walking with Harry, Meghan, Kate, William or any of that lot does sound ******g tedious to be fair.Let's be fair and say its tedious.

"The hardest thing I've ever had to do".

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[WeeRussell]

Let's be fair and say its tedious.

"The hardest thing I've ever had to do".

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And people say nurses have it tough.

[Glory Lurker]

God's sake, just get rid of the lot of them.

[overdrive]

And people say nurses have it tough.

Wonder what her parents think. Middle class folk that have worked hard to build their business, for their daughter to think walking with her brother in law is the world’s biggest hardship.

Time to get rid of these leeches.

[Stairway 2 7]

Let's be fair and say its tedious.

"The hardest thing I've ever had to do".

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But it probably is for these cants what have they ever had to do, a 12 hour hard shift at work, choosing between food or gas, a walk with someone your not that fond of. Absolute parasites, get the guillotines oot

[Bostonhibby]

Walking with Harry, Meghan, Kate, William or any of that lot does sound ******g tedious to be fair.I can't believe they haven't got someone to do walking about for them.

Maybe the flunky who squeezes out Charlie's toothpaste could be up for a bit of job sharing?

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[Kato]

Killing them off is so 18th century.

Do they have an NI? Do they get a P60? "Your Royal P45 is in your Royal Mail."

Useless though. The lot of them.

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[Bostonhibby]

Killing them off is so 18th century.

Do they have an NI? Do they get a P60? "Your Royal P45 is in your Royal Mail."

Useless though. The lot of them.

Sent from my SM-A528B using TapatalkWhat's wrong with a bit of rebellion against freeloaders? Never did the French any harm.

I can't make my mind up between a guillotine and a Trebuchet, otherwise all systems are go.

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[Kato]

[emoji599] | NEW: Taxpayers will pay £8m for schools, police stations and councils to receive a FREE portrait of King Charles to hang up

https://t.co/o8t8udifTG


Kim Jong-Cha.



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[Stairway 2 7]

Fair play channel 4

https://mobile.twitter.com/MetroUK/status/1648024975603843072

@MetroUK
Prince Andrew's documentary will be aired on Channel 4 during King Charles’ coronation.

The documentary will delve into the scandal surrounding Prince Andrew

[SickBoy32]

[emoji599] | NEW: Taxpayers will pay £8m for schools, police stations and councils to receive a FREE portrait of King Charles to hang up

https://t.co/o8t8udifTG


Kim Jong-Cha.



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That is ****ing frightening

Get these rats in the bin asap

[Bostonhibby]

That is ****ing frightening

Get these rats in the bin asapMaybe the "patriots" will hang the pictures the wrong way up, like a good many of them do with their beloved union Jacks round here.

Always brightens up my day seeing one.

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[JeMeSouviens]

[emoji599] | NEW: Taxpayers will pay £8m for schools, police stations and councils to receive a FREE portrait of King Charles to hang up

https://t.co/o8t8udifTG


Kim Jong-Cha.



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The Huns will be spewing if they don't get one for their dressing room. :na na:

[Keith_M]

The Huns will be spewing if they don't get one for their dressing room. :na na:


I've got one on my wall.


It hangs on top of the dartboard

:wink:

[cabbageandribs1875]

i'm sure they will be devastated at this Proclaimers removed from King's coronation playlist - BBC News (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65366133) :cheers:

[Bostonhibby]

i'm sure they will be devastated at this Proclaimers removed from King's coronation playlist - BBC News (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65366133) :cheers:Gary Glitter being asked to step into fill the gap? Handy Andy on drums [emoji6]

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[Glory Lurker]

Chuck must be gutted he can't involve Saville in a royal train send off.

[ronaldo7]

Slowly but surely, Republicans on the rise.

A new poll has found that most Canadians don’t want their country to remain a constitutional monarchy and oppose recognising Charles as King.

[cabbageandribs1875]

well done Oz, Australia will Skip The Coronation.
There are "no official celebrations planned in Australia.
Instead, the Australian Monarchist League has.. screenings of the coronation at cinemas & clubs. Street parties are out, amid fears they will be hijacked by republican protesters."


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[cabbageandribs1875]

Gary Glitter being asked to step into fill the gap? Handy Andy on drums [emoji6]

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he will need to arrange a day release then :wink:

[Bostonhibby]

he will need to arrange a day release then :wink:If other deviants can duck the odd day, or even decade here and there due to connections and patronage all things are possible.

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[ronaldo7]

Police Scotland spent more than £15 million on the funeral of Elizabeth 1st (Scotland)

[Steven79]

Police Scotland spent more than £15 million on the funeral of Elizabeth 1st (Scotland)Value for money!

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[weecounty hibby]

Future King accepted substantial sum of money from news International in secret. Quite the look for the dodgy *******s. In the meantime the King (net worth in the billions) insists on his subjects paying for his triumphalist coronation and painting for all public buildings so he can look down on us!! Honestly how folk in 2023 can look at the monarchy and still bend the knee and doff their caps believing them to be their bettters is sickening.

[Steven79]

Future King accepted substantial sum of money from news International in secret. Quite the look for the dodgy *******s. In the meantime the King (net worth in the billions) insists on his subjects paying for his triumphalist coronation and painting for all public buildings so he can look down on us!! Honestly how folk in 2023 can look at the monarchy and still bend the knee and doff their caps believing them to be their bettters is sickening.Years of brainwashing...

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[ronaldo7]

Years of brainwashing...

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And yet the cult will be out salivating the adulterers next month, with the full media circus in tow.

[Steven79]

And yet the cult will be out salivating the adulterers next month, with the full media circus in tow.Thank god Hibs are playing that day so I get to avoid it.

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[TrumpIsAPeado]

Police Scotland spent more than £15 million on the funeral of Elizabeth 1st (Scotland)

A huge chunk of that will have been for the green vests they bussed up from the south when the buses were suddenly cancelled and the roads closed forcing people to walk for miles to get back home.

They were no doubt included in the reported attendance figures.

[Ozyhibby]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/26/prince-andrew-held-investments-in-shell-company-set-up-to-keep-holdings-secret?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1682493231


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[Kato]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/26/prince-andrew-held-investments-in-shell-company-set-up-to-keep-holdings-secret?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1682493231


Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkThe Royal family hiding how rich they are.

Remind why it is these people are put on a pedestal and why we are all supposed to kow-tow to them?

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[Stairway 2 7]

Bizarre ceremony for a bit of stone that our overlords have sat on for hundreds of years, being sent to London for the next literal erse to sit on.

https://twitter.com/STVNews/status/1651843199613259777

[Kato]

Bizarre ceremony for a bit of stone that our overlords have sat on for hundreds of years, being sent to London for the next literal erse to sit on.

https://twitter.com/STVNews/status/1651843199613259777They have to invent a ceremony and create a hullabaloo to make it seem important, when it's just a big stane.

If the research around the big stane is to be believed what they have there is the plug for a cess pit.

Contemporary, pre Eddie the 1st descriptions of the actual big stane say it was marble and had intricate carvings around the outside.

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[Billy Whizz]

The Royal family hiding how rich they are.

Remind why it is these people are put on a pedestal and why we are all supposed to kow-tow to them?

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Wonder if they are getting royalties for this. At least 2 brands now off my weekly shop

[danhibees1875]

Wonder if they are getting royalties for this. At least 2 brands now off my weekly shop

Just wait until Hibs tweet their congratulations on Monday. :greengrin

[Glory Lurker]

Wonder if they are getting royalties for this. At least 2 brands now off my weekly shop

I thought this about the jubilee - it's a state event so if anyone is going to monetise it, it should be the state. Should be like the world cup, Olympics and that - if you want to use it to promote your brand you'll need to pay up to be an official partner. Proceeds to go to funding benefits.

[Kato]

Wonder if they are getting royalties for this. At least 2 brands now off my weekly shopCoronation Street is keeping its mouth shut.

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[Stairway 2 7]

Bonnie Prince Bob gets a video for his coronation song

https://twitter.com/VoteBPB/status/1652023949448888345

[Hibby70]

Bonnie Prince Bob gets a video for his coronation song

https://twitter.com/VoteBPB/status/1652023949448888345

Whether you are a royalist or a republican I'm sure we can all agree that it's one catchy tune and is destined for number 1 in the hit parade. 😂

[Bostonhibby]

Whether you are a royalist or a republican I'm sure we can all agree that it's one catchy tune and is destined for number 1 in the hit parade. [emoji23]Should at least make it onto Charlie's special list, he is all for inclusivity and being everyone's ruler after all?

Failing that is it too late for Eurovision?


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[overdrive]

Whether you are a royalist or a republican I'm sure we can all agree that it's one catchy tune and is destined for number 1 in the hit parade. 😂

Not sure it would make TOTP… the nonces they liked to get to present it wouldn’t be too fond of the anti-nonce lyrics or him ripping into their best mate.

[JimBHibees]

The Royal family hiding how rich they are.

Remind why it is these people are put on a pedestal and why we are all supposed to kow-tow to them?

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No surprise in any of this or that no real coverage of it is allowed in this sham country we are in.

[cabbageandribs1875]

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[DaveF]

Bonnie Prince Bob gets a video for his coronation song

https://twitter.com/VoteBPB/status/1652023949448888345

That is brilliant 👍

[overdrive]

Where are the main protests against the monarchy on coronation weekend in Edinburgh? I’m guessing outside Holyrood but is there a March? I know I’m probably in a minority of one on here in that I’m pro-union but very much anti-monarchy. I hate the ****bags more than anything.

[TrumpIsAPeado]

Where are the main protests against the monarchy on coronation weekend in Edinburgh? I’m guessing outside Holyrood but is there a March? I know I’m probably in a minority of one on here in that I’m pro-union but very much anti-monarchy. I hate the ****bags more than anything.

The UK wouldn't have formed without the monarchy. Pretty much everything you likely despise the monarchy for served as the values in which the UK was built upon.

[connerg]

Where are the main protests against the monarchy on coronation weekend in Edinburgh? I’m guessing outside Holyrood but is there a March? I know I’m probably in a minority of one on here in that I’m pro-union but very much anti-monarchy. I hate the ****bags more than anything.

There are protests organised for Calton Hill. Don't take the union flag.

[DaveF]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65435426

Everyone can play along at home and confirm their place as a subject of Chas and his gang.

[Pretty Boy]

Surely no one is going to sit at home shouting 'may the king live forever' at the TV.

Even an ardent royalist must accept that is just a bit too mental.

[Lendo]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65435426

Everyone can play along at home and confirm their place as a subject of Chas and his gang.

I think I would enjoy being a fly on the wall in the Louden during it.

[Hiber-nation]

When is this pish on anyway?

[Bostonhibby]

Surely no one is going to sit at home shouting 'may the king live forever' at the TV.

Even an ardent royalist must accept that is just a bit too mental.There's some early signs around here that if some are asked to do it, or told to do it, it won't be too much of a leap from the odd, servile things they are already doing or planning.[emoji2957]

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[danhibees1875]

When is this pish on anyway?

Next Monday (8th) I think (that's the holiday anyway!) - not sure if there's more than just 1 day to it though. Presumably that's the crescendo of the forthcoming media frenzie of the next week.

I'll probably largely avoid any news leading up to the whole thing as the invariable chatter about x being there or not and who they're with captures the headlines but will endeavour to watch some of the "big day". Much like the Queen's Jubilee, death, and funeral it's a bit of the history (this one less so, as the magnitude of this week will be replicated again within most of our lifetimes unlike all the bits around the Queen last year) of our times.

[Smartie]

I’m finding it harder and harder to keep my opinions to myself whilst surrounded by people who appear to lap up this pish.

Whether it’s the queen or Diana dying or now this, I just don’t get it from people who have families of their own to love, mourn or fawn over if they so choose.

Bonnie Prince Bob’s got the right idea.

[Hiber-nation]

Next Monday (8th) I think (that's the holiday anyway!) - not sure if there's more than just 1 day to it though. Presumably that's the crescendo of the forthcoming media frenzie of the next week.

I'll probably largely avoid any news leading up to the whole thing as the invariable chatter about x being there or not and who they're with captures the headlines but will endeavour to watch some of the "big day". Much like the Queen's Jubilee, death, and funeral it's a bit of the history (this one less so, as the magnitude of this week will be replicated again within most of our lifetimes unlike all the bits around the Queen last year) of our times.

OK, as long as the football is on that's fine. Excuse my ignorance but I've been avoiding the whole fiasco other than the odd contemptible stare at the UJ bunting on sale in Tesco.

[JimBHibees]

A huge chunk of that will have been for the green vests they bussed up from the south when the buses were suddenly cancelled and the roads closed forcing people to walk for miles to get back home.

They were no doubt included in the reported attendance figures.

What is this about! Green vests?

[Glory Lurker]

Surely no one is going to sit at home shouting 'may the king live forever' at the TV.

Even an ardent royalist must accept that is just a bit too mental.

If this doesn't have people questioning their support for the monarchy then nothing will.

[Kato]

Surely no one is going to sit at home shouting 'may the king live forever' at the TV.

Even an ardent royalist must accept that is just a bit too mental.https://twitter.com/Femi_Sorry/status/1652598071740575744?t=XUydyynuhqaaQ2TLRD0JeA&s=19


It's a great opportunity to show allegiance and display our British values according to this lying gaslighting MP.

Kids will be able to forget those hunger pangs and adults can have a breezy few hours while the worries of paying the bills go on the back burner.

They are doing us a favour spending 250mil on this inflated panto.

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[TrumpIsAPeado]

What is this about! Green vests?

Those hi-vis vests. There were thousands of them lining the sides of the roads that had been closed off. Spoke to a bunch of them as I was walking all the way back to the West of Edinburgh from the centre of town, due to the busses being abruptly cancelled. A lot of Newcastle and Belfast accents.

[Kato]

https://i.redd.it/vn2h9ixru8va1.jpg

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[stu in nottingham]

Maybe it's the company I keep but I'm not sensing any enthusiasm at all for the Coronation here. Neighbours have done the street party thing a couple of times in the past but nothing doing this time. Nothing much in the local rag etc. Apart from anything, I just don't think Charlie boy is that popular in general.

[Skol]

I am quite glad I have other plans in the morning next Saturday and hibs are playing in the afternoon and so will miss all of the nonsense.

I don’t understand all of the people getting all excited over this.

[TrumpIsAPeado]

I don’t understand all of the people getting all excited over this.

They had their own clubs game moved to the Sunday so they could celebrate their tax money being pished up a wall.

[Pretty Boy]

Maybe it's the company I keep but I'm not sensing any enthusiasm at all for the Coronation here. Neighbours have done the street party thing a couple of times in the past but nothing doing this time. Nothing much in the local rag etc. Apart from anything, I just don't think Charlie boy is that popular in general.

I'm convinced a lot of the support for the monarchy in recent years was largely driven by affection for the Queen. I'm no royalist but I wasn't really motivated to get stuck in after her death and the subsequent funeral. Truth be told I felt a bit melancholy; not on any personal level but it felt a bit like a real link to a past generation and between generations had gone. A lot of people I encountered felt the same (or they were just humouring me). For many the Queen was just a constant in our lives, whether we supported her and the monarchy or not.

A coronation feels like it's a lot more appropriate a time to really criticise and question the role of an unelected head of state. It's both a symbolic and very real transfer of power and wealth to someone based solely on the blood that runs through his veins. Charles just doesn't enjoy the same goodwill that the Queen had and I think many who were previously on the fence will feel far more comfortable questioning him than they would his predecessor.

[Skol]

I'm convinced a lot of the support for the monarchy in recent years was largely driven by affection for the Queen. I'm no royalist but I wasn't really motivated to get stuck in after her death and the subsequent funeral. Truth be told I felt a bit melancholy; not on any personal level but it felt a bit like a real link to a past generation and between generations had gone. A lot of people I encountered felt the same (or they were just humouring me). For many the Queen was just a constant in our lives, whether we supported her and the monarchy or not.

A coronation feels like it's a lot more appropriate a time to really criticise and question the role of an unelected head of state. It's both a symbolic and very real transfer of power and wealth to someone based solely on the blood that runs through his veins. Charles just doesn't enjoy the same goodwill that the Queen had and I think many who were previously on the fence will feel far more comfortable questioning him than they would his predecessor.

This explains how I feel quite well also. I wasn’t comfortable with protests at the time of the funeral and felt that was inappropriate. However now is the time if there are to be protests.

[silverhibee]

Surely no one is going to sit at home shouting 'may the king live forever' at the TV.

Even an ardent royalist must accept that is just a bit too mental.

I’ll bet there will be a few huns posting videos of them doing just this, weirdo’s.

[Billy Whizz]

I’ll bet there will be a few huns posting videos of them doing just this, weirdo’s.

Maybe we can alll do it collectively at ER that afternoon, as we’ll all be at the game😂

[Steven79]

Maybe we can alll do it collectively at ER that afternoon, as we’ll all be at the game[emoji23]Could open up the ground early and have it on the screens. [emoji1787]

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[Glory Lurker]

Is it in the morning? That's a pity. Not that I'll even think about watching it but I liked the thought that I'd be on my usual football routine when it was on.

[cabbageandribs1875]

just like his mothers funeral i won't be watching a single minute of it but i hope the billionaire with the funny hat gets a good cheer :rolleyes:

(3) polo5 on Twitter: "Welcome to Absurdistan 2023 https://t.co/qn5AhToO8p" / Twitter (https://twitter.com/poloandsons/status/1652445197769342979)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fu6p6q5XwAEhRtQ?format=jpg&name=large

[Kato]

just like his mothers funeral i won't be watching a single minute of it but i hope the billionaire with the funny hat gets a good cheer :rolleyes:

(3) polo5 on Twitter: "Welcome to Absurdistan 2023 https://t.co/qn5AhToO8p" / Twitter (https://twitter.com/poloandsons/status/1652445197769342979)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fu6p6q5XwAEhRtQ?format=jpg&name=largeThis is going against ancient British traditions. At no point has "everyone" been happy with the monarchy, ever. The great lineage of dissent and piss-taking is in danger if the press have their way and get "everyone" cheering for him.

Anti-British if you ask me and unpatriotic.

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[Bostonhibby]

just like his mothers funeral i won't be watching a single minute of it but i hope the billionaire with the funny hat gets a good cheer :rolleyes:

(3) polo5 on Twitter: "Welcome to Absurdistan 2023 https://t.co/qn5AhToO8p" / Twitter (https://twitter.com/poloandsons/status/1652445197769342979)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fu6p6q5XwAEhRtQ?format=jpg&name=largeIs this the British branch of the Moonies?

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[Bristolhibby]

I’m finding it harder and harder to keep my opinions to myself whilst surrounded by people who appear to lap up this pish.

Whether it’s the queen or Diana dying or now this, I just don’t get it from people who have families of their own to love, mourn or fawn over if they so choose.

Bonnie Prince Bob’s got the right idea.

My street down here in rural Wiltshire, is going full on Loyalist Belfast from tomorrow.

Union Jack bunting going up.

I don’t mind the meeting up for beers, but this fawning over Charles is a nonsense.

Swearing allegiance, well they can stick that where the sun don’t shine.

[Steven79]

My street down here in rural Wiltshire, is going full on Loyalist Belfast from tomorrow.

Union Jack bunting going up.

I don’t mind the meeting up for beers, but this fawning over Charles is a nonsense.

Swearing allegiance, well they can stick that where the sun don’t shine.Times like this I'm so glad that I no longer live in Bradford....

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[cabbageandribs1875]

i agree with the lessers here :agree::greengrin

(3) Wee Indy-Iza on Twitter: "Only in Glasgow ! 😹😹😹😹 https://t.co/uewm5pqbTM" / Twitter (https://twitter.com/WeeIzabella/status/1652749326991360001)

[hibsbollah]

I am quite glad I have other plans in the morning next Saturday and hibs are playing in the afternoon and so will miss all of the nonsense.

I don’t understand all of the people getting all excited over this.

I’m in Dublin for four days over the coronation.
Excited to be doing the whole tourist thing, seeing The Boss at the RDS and hopefully not hearing or seeing a peep about the whole disgusting spectacle in London.

[JimBHibees]

Those hi-vis vests. There were thousands of them lining the sides of the roads that had been closed off. Spoke to a bunch of them as I was walking all the way back to the West of Edinburgh from the centre of town, due to the busses being abruptly cancelled. A lot of Newcastle and Belfast accents.

Never heard about that. A bit odd

[ronaldo7]

Never heard about that. A bit odd

Police Scotland couldn't cope with the amount of officers needed. This is used throughout the UK when major events are occurring.

[overdrive]

just like his mothers funeral i won't be watching a single minute of it but i hope the billionaire with the funny hat gets a good cheer :rolleyes:

(3) polo5 on Twitter: "Welcome to Absurdistan 2023 https://t.co/qn5AhToO8p" / Twitter (https://twitter.com/poloandsons/status/1652445197769342979)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fu6p6q5XwAEhRtQ?format=jpg&name=large

He looks like he's wearing more makeup than Camilla in that photo.

[Bostonhibby]

He looks like he's wearing more makeup than Camilla in that photo.Is Camilla the one with the sticky out ears?

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[Ozyhibby]

Tesco would never say but it would be interesting to know how sales of tat for it compared between Scotland and England? A bit of me thinks we would sell a lot less but then I do think we have some of the UK’s most ardent supporters of the monarchy here as well.


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[Steven79]

Tesco would never say but it would be interesting to know how sales of tat for it compared between Scotland and England? A bit of me thinks we would sell a lot less but then I do think we have some of the UK’s most ardent supporters of the monarchy here as well.


Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkTo be fair it's the only thing the Huns have to celebrate this year...

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[Smartie]

https://twitter.com/buntyhoven/status/1652576594928566274?cxt=HHwWhIC8jYnqkO8tAAAA

I'm with Toast.

[cabbageandribs1875]

article from 2020 but it will still be a wee shame another of his paedophile friends won't be there, no doubt down in hell with Saville et al, horrible family

Friendship with Prince Charles made paedophile bishop Peter Ball 'impregnable' | Anglicanism | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/14/friendship-with-prince-charles-made-paedophile-bishop-peter-ball-impregnable)

[Kato]

To be fair it's the only thing the Huns have to celebrate this year...

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[Pretty Boy]

Tesco would never say but it would be interesting to know how sales of tat for it compared between Scotland and England? A bit of me thinks we would sell a lot less but then I do think we have some of the UK’s most ardent supporters of the monarchy here as well.


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Is there a lot of coronation tat in the bigger Tesco stores?

The nearest one to me is pretty small and there's only one end aisle. The Asda next to me is huge but they don't seem to have a lot either. They have chucked it in among the usual summer seasonal stuff so it probably makes it look a bit more substantial than it is. I think they know there isn't a great demand for it.

My father in law lives smack bang in the middle of one of the biggest brexit voting constituencies in the whole of the UK, a real rural Tory heartland. His village had a big event for the jubilee but have nothing formal planned for the coronation and he said the whole thing just feels very subdued and understated. He's not into it anyway so it might just be passing him by but I was down visiting just before the jubilee and you couldn't miss the posters advertising the party and in a village with only about 100 people if something was going on this weekend he'd know about it.

I daresay there will be a lot of people who will use Saturday as an excuse to crack open a few beers or whatever and the usual 'royal super fans' will be out in force but I reckon most people, including some who actually attend an event or watch on TV out of curiosity, aren't really all that bothered about it.

[Ozyhibby]

Is there a lot of coronation tat in the bigger Tesco stores?

The nearest one to me is pretty small and there's only one end aisle. The Asda next to me is huge but they don't seem to have a lot either. They have chucked it in among the usual summer seasonal stuff so it probably makes it look a bit more substantial than it is. I think they know there isn't a great demand for it.

My father in law lives smack bang in the middle of one of the biggest brexit voting constituencies in the whole of the UK, a real rural Tory heartland. His village had a big event for the jubilee but have nothing formal planned for the coronation and he said the whole thing just feels very subdued and understated. He's not into it anyway so it might just be passing him by but I was down visiting just before the jubilee and you couldn't miss the posters advertising the party and in a village with only about 100 people if something was going on this weekend he'd know about it.

I daresay there will be a lot of people who will use Saturday as an excuse to crack open a few beers or whatever and the usual 'royal super fans' will be out in force but I reckon most people, including some who actually attend an event or watch on TV out of curiosity, aren't really all that bothered about it.

I live next to the big one at Corstorphine and there are two isles of it. Most of the stuff in it is stuff they normally sell anyway. It’s a bit like the back to school isles they have. It’s not a major thing. Would be curios to know if it does as well here as in England though.


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[connerg]

article from 2020 but it will still be a wee shame another of his paedophile friends won't be there, no doubt down in hell with Saville et al, horrible family

Friendship with Prince Charles made paedophile bishop Peter Ball 'impregnable' | Anglicanism | The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/14/friendship-with-prince-charles-made-paedophile-bishop-peter-ball-impregnable)

That is truly disturbing. How long has it been going on and what else have they covered up. or tried to?

[Berwickhibby]

Appears to me that paedophilia is rife within religion.

[TrumpIsAPeado]

https://i.ibb.co/TLcjDbF/Sure.jpg
https://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/yeah_sure_jon_hamm.gif

[Bristolhibby]

Appears to me that paedophilia is rife within religion.

And that’s just the ones that have been fought in modern times. With the internet, 24 hour news, etc.

Imagine how many nonsey types have been attracted to the cloth over the years? Those guys were like Gods back in the day. Conduits to God. The Power they held.

J

[JimBHibees]

https://i.ibb.co/TLcjDbF/Sure.jpg
https://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/yeah_sure_jon_hamm.gif

Saw that in the local supermarket with the mail in pride of place for everyone to see. Propaganda nothing less.

[TrumpIsAPeado]

Saw that in the local supermarket with the mail in pride of place for everyone to see. Propaganda nothing less.

Surely not with well respected, intellectual political heavyweights such as Nadine Dorries on their front page?

[JimBHibees]

Surely not with well respected, intellectual political heavyweights such as Nadine Dorries on their front page?

Yep she would be the first opinion I would read for advice on family problems :greengrin

[Jones28]

Frankie Boyle's Farewell to the Monarchy is a fascinating insight in to the history of the Monarchy.

And is savagely funny.

[He's here!]

Is there a lot of coronation tat in the bigger Tesco stores?

The nearest one to me is pretty small and there's only one end aisle. The Asda next to me is huge but they don't seem to have a lot either. They have chucked it in among the usual summer seasonal stuff so it probably makes it look a bit more substantial than it is. I think they know there isn't a great demand for it.

My father in law lives smack bang in the middle of one of the biggest brexit voting constituencies in the whole of the UK, a real rural Tory heartland. His village had a big event for the jubilee but have nothing formal planned for the coronation and he said the whole thing just feels very subdued and understated. He's not into it anyway so it might just be passing him by but I was down visiting just before the jubilee and you couldn't miss the posters advertising the party and in a village with only about 100 people if something was going on this weekend he'd know about it.

I daresay there will be a lot of people who will use Saturday as an excuse to crack open a few beers or whatever and the usual 'royal super fans' will be out in force but I reckon most people, including some who actually attend an event or watch on TV out of curiosity, aren't really all that bothered about it.

I'll probably watch it and I'm delighted to have the Monday holiday, but I was really struck by how much more it means south of the border when I drove back from deepest Yorkshire yesterday, taking a more scenic route to reach the M6/A74 and avoid the grind of the A1. Every town and village I drove through was bedecked with flags and bunting hanging from virtually every building along the main thoroughfares. Most seemed to actually have flagpoles attached to them for just such a purpose.

[cabbageandribs1875]

what a damn shame so it is

https://scontent.fman1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/344758434_2079783452413200_2512611191981804274_n.j pg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=7TzJaK0bG8UAX8MtNBc&_nc_ht=scontent.fman1-2.fna&oh=00_AfBjWOhwOkbuOO4o8ddLc8LJsQbi3cDZT42eN1kWxaR-zA&oe=64570F45


It is with great sadness that we must cancel our Coronation celebration event. We clearly misjudged the level of response from the public. Sincere apologies to those who have already bought tickets. Refunds may be obtained from the Pavilion booking office.

[Kato]

what a damn shame so it is

https://scontent.fman1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/344758434_2079783452413200_2512611191981804274_n.j pg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=7TzJaK0bG8UAX8MtNBc&_nc_ht=scontent.fman1-2.fna&oh=00_AfBjWOhwOkbuOO4o8ddLc8LJsQbi3cDZT42eN1kWxaR-zA&oe=64570F45


It is with great sadness that we must cancel our Coronation celebration event. We clearly misjudged the level of response from the public. Sincere apologies to those who have already bought tickets. Refunds may be obtained from the Pavilion booking office.What a riddy, their curtains will be shut for months.

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[cabbageandribs1875]

this is the one that tried to convince everyone prince(choke) Andrew was a wonderful man and wouldn't have done those naughty things he was accused of, oh AND it wasn't him in the photo with Virginia Giuffre, it was air-brushed in

Lady Victoria Hervey: ALL protesters should be jailed 'pre-coronation' | The National (https://www.thenational.scot/news/23494799.lady-victoria-hervey-protesters-jailed-pre-coronation/?ref=eb)

PRINCE Andrew’s ex-girlfriend has said she would put “all those protesting” against the monarchy “in jail pre-coronation” – then release them once the celebrations are over.
Lady Victoria Hervey, who is a socialite, aristocrat, and former “it girl” who dated the Duke of York in the 1990s, made the comment while discussing the risk of protesters at the coronation this week on GB News.

[TrumpIsAPeado]

what a damn shame so it is

https://scontent.fman1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/344758434_2079783452413200_2512611191981804274_n.j pg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=7TzJaK0bG8UAX8MtNBc&_nc_ht=scontent.fman1-2.fna&oh=00_AfBjWOhwOkbuOO4o8ddLc8LJsQbi3cDZT42eN1kWxaR-zA&oe=64570F45


It is with great sadness that we must cancel our Coronation celebration event. We clearly misjudged the level of response from the public. Sincere apologies to those who have already bought tickets. Refunds may be obtained from the Pavilion booking office.

£17.50 a ticket? They missed a trick there. A minor 60p discount would have seen them selling tickets like hot cakes. :cb

[ErinGoBraghHFC]

this is the one that tried to convince everyone prince(choke) Andrew was a wonderful man and wouldn't have done those naughty things he was accused of, oh AND it wasn't him in the photo with Virginia Giuffre, it was air-brushed in

Lady Victoria Hervey: ALL protesters should be jailed 'pre-coronation' | The National (https://www.thenational.scot/news/23494799.lady-victoria-hervey-protesters-jailed-pre-coronation/?ref=eb)

PRINCE Andrew’s ex-girlfriend has said she would put “all those protesting” against the monarchy “in jail pre-coronation” – then release them once the celebrations are over.
Lady Victoria Hervey, who is a socialite, aristocrat, and former “it girl” who dated the Duke of York in the 1990s, made the comment while discussing the risk of protesters at the coronation this week on GB News.

If that isn’t an advertisement for rounding them and the aristocracy up and redistributing their wealth I don’t know what is, what a frightening opinion for someone to voice. I’d wager she’s not the only one in that particular demographic to think that either, they really do believe they’re better than us.


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[TrumpIsAPeado]

At least somebody is having fun with the whole coronation thing. :greengrin


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvenj0z8okY

[Kato]

If that isn’t an advertisement for rounding them and the aristocracy up and redistributing their wealth I don’t know what is, what a frightening opinion for someone to voice. I’d wager she’s not the only one in that particular demographic to think that either, they really do believe they’re better than us.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk"She replied: “You look like a nice enough man, but my feelings when I was asked about this was if it was like illegal immigrants going against the crown, then I would just tell them to leave and go and live in Russia or China or in a communist country where there is no sovereign, where there is no royal family.”


I don't swallow this at all. She's a smart person and one who never known a days hard graft in her whole time on the planet. She's merely cottoned on to the fasc grift and is sounding off - "available for opinions". She'll never be off that channel now. Haven't watched GBNews for a while but that is where I will tune in for the metal hat party build up. Hilarious.

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[Kato]

If that isn’t an advertisement for rounding them and the aristocracy up and redistributing their wealth I don’t know what is, what a frightening opinion for someone to voice. I’d wager she’s not the only one in that particular demographic to think that either, they really do believe they’re better than us.


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(whatever it is that a Lord or Duke actually does.

"Hard days Duking, mate?"


"Aye, cream crackered - ahm right doom the pub as soon as a've Duked this last batch." ) ??

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£17.50 a ticket? They missed a trick there. A minor 60p discount would have seen them selling tickets like hot cakes. :cb

:hilarious i'm sure that's been thought of in Belfast and Harthill/Airdrie/Whitburn


If that isn’t an advertisement for rounding them and the aristocracy up and redistributing their wealth I don’t know what is, what a frightening opinion for someone to voice. I’d wager she’s not the only one in that particular demographic to think that either, they really do believe they’re better than us.


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people using foodbanks usually feel they have something in common with them when bullet heid william and wee sweet kate do their wee PR stunts helping out with the penniless, they never think of chucking their royal subjects a tenner now and then though

if only the UK media wasn't 80% Tory-owned and state TV Tory-run

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the beach at Scarborough today apparently, quite artistic

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