Stepping down and striving to be financially independent (except for security costs and their multi million pound mansion and probably everything else they ever need) and live out thier lives like us peasants
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Stepping down and striving to be financially independent (except for security costs and their multi million pound mansion and probably everything else they ever need) and live out thier lives like us peasants
I think if they want to resign, they should go the whole hog and renounce their titles too.Quote:
Originally Posted by makaveli1875
Seems a delusional move in many ways - not least if they think it will defuse media interest in them.
To be fair, they couldn't get much further away than British Columbia. I think our press would soon get fed up of reporting on them opening the Squamish Loggers Sports, or the Nanaimo Bath Tub race.Quote:
Originally Posted by G B Young
Not much happens in BC, eh?
See, their comments on their website about who they'll talk to in the future will, in my mind, mean that the tabloid/gutter press will hound them relentlessly.Quote:
Originally Posted by G B Young
Apparently this is a big deal. :dunno:
Who?
Aiming to become self sufficient...Bless them, until then they will continue to receive the support they need to keep the lifestyle they are accustomed to
:agree: HRH should throw the R away and go back to being plain HH.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cataplana
Wouldn't it be wonderful if he chose to reveal his plans and thoughts to Emily Maitliss. I don't think he's got much more between his ears than his uncle.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
He wants to go back and live with his dad.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
They want to go to Pizza Express in Woking like normal people.
I’d like to spend my time doing Charity work, but I can’t afford it
How can Harry live on no income, although his wife has money
No surprise. The press tormented his mum and had a hand her death. They’ve been a right shower of ****s about his wife with distinct undercurrents of racism.
Don’t blame him at all.
Let’s get rid of the rest of them now......and Piers Bloody Morgan, Nicolas Witchall and Penny Junor
The same right wing press that have hounded them and called them out for everything are now shocked and appalled -and hounding them- over this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Colr
It’s hilarious.
‘Meghan is going to ruin the royal family’
Well more Meghans are needed.
Although I reckon had she not been subject to the same racist tirade as the likes of Raheem Sterling has then this would bot be happening.
I don’t agree with the monarchy one bit, but I’d like to know the things that these two have done that have made the right wing so angry.
If anyone has any examples I’d love to hear them.
Katie Hopkins and Piers Morgans twitter’s have been a great read today.
Trumpets
That's where I am with it from my limited knowledge of the actual practicalities of the situation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Colr
I've no idea if him and his family being 'financially independent' is viable but I have a respect for his decision. In the months and years before his mother died she was hounded and bullied by the press and a hell of a lot of the public lapped the 'scandal' up. When she died the hypocrites changed their tune. He's seen the way his wife has been treated, appallingly, and seen the nasty undercurrent you have mentioned and seems to have said '**** this'.
He's spoken openly about his struggles with his mental health and dealing with the death of his mother. The perverse system that is the monarchy has seen him increasingly isolated from his own brother as he is prepared for the role he was born into. Harry has got the option of leaving and he seems to be taking it.
Some of the pish being spouted online about how 'she has got her claws into him', 'she's a manipulative one' and 'that one will break his heart given half a chance' just confirms to me he is making a smart decision.
Grown man tells everyone he wants to make his own way in life and stop taking handouts from his mum for day to day living, foreign holidays, vehicles etc etc. Big deal! Hopefully a saving for the taxpayers. 80m spent last year on the civil list, great to see Harry help out now that 3m has been spent from taxpayers money to fix his house up. Although I'm a nationalist I'm by no means a republican but by **** why do we keep so many of this lot. Queen, and next three in line should be on the civil list the rest should be making their own living
It’s like John McGlynn when hearts weren’t paying him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Billy Whizz
The one thing that struck me, watching TV and reading news coverage of all this, is that those who claim to be ‘Royal reporters’ or commentators or opinionists seem to be utterly hideous.
I don’t mean physically (though there is very much a bit of a shared look). It is more the utter, utter resentment they seem to have for him or more especially her. It reminds me of Jenny Bond in the Diana years who seemed to think she was the actual royalty.
I don’t know and don’t particularly care for how this ends up but victimisation is what it is, even if it is someone born into a ‘royal family’ or someone who married into one.
I’m not a massive fan of the Royals but I quite like her maj and have long felt that William and Harry are decent sorts, and that with them around the whole hideously outdated institution might have some sort of a future.
I don’t blame him, in fact I applaud him for taking a long, hard look at the whole s***show and thinking f that.
The whole “I don’t click on links to that rag” thing that goes on I find your be nonsensical in the main, but I will 100% accept that folk close to the Hillsborough tragedy may be against the Sun, or that a grown man who as a child saw his mother hounded then ultimately killed by a rabid press would seek to protect his wife and family when it became clear the same thing was starting to happen to them.
And hand back the cost of their wedding doQuote:
Originally Posted by Cataplana
They're spoilt brats who should realise how lucky they are and shut up.
Be like the Queen - never complain, never explain and keep your trousers on!
I think Meghan has seen first hand how depraved the Royal Family are but she loves Harry and wants to take him away from it all and remove her family from danger, the comments from Harry seem to back this up IMO.
You realise his mum is dead, right?Quote:
Originally Posted by weecounty hibby
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Spot the difference
Is she? can't believe I missed that, would have thought that would be big news!! Yeah, in my rage I meant to type gran.Quote:
Originally Posted by overdrive
I can't decide about this one. I'm very anti monarchy and Harry has always seemed the most likeable of the bunch.
But I think the proof will be in the pudding. If they are serious they will step away completely from anything formal to do with the monarchy and ensure they don't take a single penny of their money.
If they want to keep their wealth but not get involved in any of the duties they can bolt. It would also be have been nice if they'd done this before we spent £2.4m of our taxes on their new cottage.
I wish I could step down from doing bugger all and still get paid. Hope the whole family bugger off over there with them.
Losing their titles and no longer be paid, also paying back money for refurbishment of house.
If they could go ahead and repay the wedding too that will be grand.
It will be more than a grand surely 😉Quote:
Originally Posted by CloudSquall
You can be anti-monarchy and still like the royals. I personally have nothing against any of them, the all seem like a decent enough if slightly weird family (Andrew excepted) but I still think the idea that we have hereditary ruler over us all is absolutely against everything I believe. I would disband it tomorrow. I would be happy enough for them to keep all the wealth they already have and settle into life as a very rich family but they should have no place as head of state. I think it makes us look ridiculous.Quote:
Originally Posted by neil7908
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I think the last few years and in turn the last couple of weeks just proves that the idea Willam and Harry represented a new, reformed and modern Royal Family is and always was a total myth.
It's been morbidly fascinating watching 2 brothers who, on the face of it, seemed genuinely close be ruthlessly dragged apart as one is prepared for his role as the boss of the firm whilst the other becomes increasingly irrelevant as another spare is popped out. There was much commotion when William married a 'commoner' but she has been nicely moulded into the publicly subservient, seen but not heard royal female. He has increasingly been bound by tradition, formality and etiquette; everything his uncle warned about at his mother's funeral. Harry always seems to be just that bit too close to saying what he really thinks about the treatment of his mum, in life and death, as well. His 'dark forces' comment will not have sat well. His wife seems strong willed and opinionated and has obviously been victim of a relentless character assassination by the British press. Whether I like or agree with her is irrelevant, I recognise bullying when I see it.
You have to question how much of the press trashing Harry and Meghan was at the encouragement of the Palace. The firm are ruthless in their dealings with and their control of the press, look at how quickly the furore around Andrew has died down, outcry for a day or 2 and now almost total silence. Yet this hounding of someone higher up the chain went on for a couple of years almost unchallenged.
The whole institution stinks and it will never change. A vipers nest of ruthless, entitled individuals desperate to preserve their status at any cost, the small matter of family won't get in the way.
They're making an awful fuss.
Life won't get any easier for them in the future.
They should realise how fortunate they are and zip it.
I get the impression that it's everyone else that's making the fuss.Quote:
Originally Posted by heretoday
This without a doubt. What folk seem to forget is that they genuinely believe ( certainly the queen does ) that they are appointed by divine providence. That aside, their mindset differs very little from their ancestors when it comes to preserving their wealth, status and influence. Their forebears would go to any lengths to keep their 'birthright' and if anybody thinks the 21st century version is any different they are deluded.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
All the paper stocking the boot in are the ones getting sued. Piers Morgan is connected with most incidents of phone hacking.
Classy post.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cataplana
Clearly because she has money she's not allowed to feel isolated not long after giving birth to her first child when she's living hundreds of miles from her family and her husband is working nights. :rolleyes:
Just an observation that many will relate to. But, I've deleted my post, lest it winds people up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sergio sledge
I'm a republican, but can acknowledge the good work that the royals do. This is a good example of this at a pretty basic level; so many people respect and admire them that this sort of story can help to remove stigma. I think the story is more about what the service in question can do for those who need it, rather than whether or not any one person does need it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cataplana
I'd like the royal family more if they were like the queen and I.