Harry And Meghan To Step Back

[Bobbisox1]

And go it alone , good for them, they don’t see a future as part as the Royal family

https://news.sky.com/story/harry-and-meghan-to-step-back-as-senior-royals-11904052

[Ellipsis]

This will all blow over, like ... Hurricane Katrina.

[woofgang]

Barmaid "It's now been reported that Harry did discuss this with the Queen and she told him not to do anything until he had discussed with his father and brother. He apparently ignored this."

I suspect that there is some issue between William and Harry (or potentially the two wives). This has been reported previously and speculated on."

I have no comment on what may have gone on between the wives (although we don't all like our in laws, nice as they may be) but I do see that while William sees his future laid out before him...public eye....ceremonial and official occasions...waiting for his father to die....it must grate a little for him that Harry has potentially much more freedom and equally it must grate on Harry to be confined to that same role but in a minor degree without even feeling that he has a duty because he's the heir...
I mean William was a helicopter pilot, so far as any of the RF can he has worked for his living and had a normal(ish) life. I guess all along he was raised to know that it couldn't last and while they were children, Harry was the spare.....now he's not even that.

"There's a way that I must go and I know I have to go away....I have to go away"

[retrocop]

Lol
Just heard on Smooth Radio news (Globals) that the Sussex's have also incurred the wrath of Madame Tussaudes who have made them personas non grata.
Their Royal wax work dummies have been now excluded from the Royalty display.

[Peter Pedant]

// She may need many things from a husband, but a 'meal ticket' is not one of them.//

andy you n I travel in different circles
I have never heard a young lady say - - I have enough money
or as
the Duchess of Windsor said - you cant be too rich or too thin

let us agree on the statement - Princee Mog is a koo kat

[Barmaid]

I think that is a fair point, Woofgang.

[TheDevil]

Reasons for William and Harry to have issues:

-William could feel that Harry abandoned royal duties.
-William may be too pushy on Harry asking for him to do things, maybe even putting the breaks on with his relationship with Meghan.

The pair(Harry and Meghan) dated for less than a year before announcing their engagement to the world and less than two years before they tied the knot. This is fast, for a royal especially is it not?

William made some silly comments, he probably meant it as brotherly advice but do you think Harry, not heir, took it that way from the heir?

Harry is overly protecting of Meghan for some reason so maybe Harry did get miffed at these comments.

Then there is the potential issues between Meghan and Kate.

Anyone remember Meghan was accused of making kate cry?

[Cloverjo]

I’ve just read that they might ‘be forced’ to pay rent on Frogmore Cottage.
I’ve also read that it was a wedding present from the queen.
Which is true?

[TheDevil]

"In October 2019, Prince Harry confessed in the ITV documentary Harry & Meghan: an African Journey that he and Prince William weren't as close as they once were. "Inevitably stuff happens. But we're brothers, we'll always be brothers," "

[TheDevil]

I think the ITV interviews with Harry and Meghan upset William and some of the royals, it's like they hung dirty laundry to dry, in front of the public.

[Peter Pedant]

// personas non grata.//
o mi gard I was gonna say - I have never heard an ex-palace gun man ( OK retro you were in the Police which is Near Enough)
pluralise a Latin phrase correctly

or as St Boris - lover extra-ordinaire - might say - ruat coelum, fiat justicia !

anyway I am still waiting - personae non gratae
but I have to say I have never seen that and in English it may be indeclinable

[zebo]

//in a highly successful American drama series for seven seasons//

Surely it was just some cable thing of which few had heard before she came to prominence. I've heard of Deal or No Deal though!

[Peter Pedant]

// the wrath of Madame Tussaudes//
headline
Mme Tussauds says Non non non non non !

hey this is more fun than that silly old warmonger Qassem Soleiman

[Barmaid]

I'm not sure you can read anything into the speed with which they got engaged and married. We had been dating for less than a year when we got engaged and were married at the 2.5 year mark. Although admittedly we dont live our lives in a goldfish bowl.

[Peter Pedant]

hey it is nice to see for a change
people REALLY thinking about their answers

[Cloverjo]

That’s understandable. They were close after the loss of their mother. Harry was close to Will and Kate as a trio of charity workers and he thought he’d never have his own wife and children. When another woman came along it was bound to create some kind of schism.

My sister and I aren’t that close but I’d still do anything for her.

[TheDevil]

I mean, it doesn't matter to me but maybe it did William, and he commented on it, and it did upset harry.

[Peter Pedant]

// Although admittedly we dont live our lives in a goldfish bowl.//

and ay Mrs ! you work for living innit?
( I am trying to sound like one of your estuarial clients)

[Jackdaw33]

I don't know who the DoC is, but no royal has a birthday tomorrow.

[TheDevil]

- Kate, Duchess of Cambridge - January 9, 1982

It is today.

[Jackdaw33]

Well Kate and I share a birthday, albeit 33 years apart.