Harry And Meghan Not Returning As Working Members Of The Royal Family …

[naomi24]

…and will return their honorary military appointments and Royal patronages.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56127673

I wonder if they will have to relinquish the Sussex title too? I hope so.

[andy-hughes]

naomi - // t’s fair to say that famous people who court publicity - something Harry and Meghan do incessantly - get publicity - and the more controversial they are the more publicity they will attract. Just as they can’t be royal when it suits them, neither can they be famous when it suits them. Had they chosen to disappear into relative oblivion and enjoy the privacy they claim they seek they could have done it.... but they didn't. //

I would not suggest that anyone who is famous would think it possible to turn off that fame like a tap when it suits them.

But that is not the same as having their privacy invaded, and this is the point I am making - being famous does not automatically mean that you give up your right to the private livevs enjoyed by everyone, famous or not.

[Togo]

//I would not suggest that anyone who is famous would think it possible to turn off that fame like a tap when it suits them.//

Would you suggest that they learn when to shut up?

[andy-hughes]

Togo - // //I would not suggest that anyone who is famous would think it possible to turn off that fame like a tap when it suits them.//

Would you suggest that they learn when to shut up? //

No - because everyone has a choice about whether or not to pay them a moment's notice.

My issue is where famous people have no choice, and that is the concept of press invasion, which is not the same as being famous, or courting publicity.

Let me offer you a hypothetical example of what I mean -

Professor Hugebrain finds a cure for the common cold, and as such, gives a ton of media interviews around the world, in effect becoming 'famous' as a byproduct of his life's work.

Then, at the weekend, a tabloid splashes all over the front page that away from work, in his private life, the professor likes to dress in women's clothing and call himself Mandy.

Can it possibly be justified that because the professor is now 'famous', that his hitherto intimate private life is now fodder for a prurient media to point and laugh at, and invite the world to join in?

I suggest that it is not.

That is what press invasion means - and I think it is seriously wrong that we as a society fund it and encourage it, because if we didn't, it would not exist.

[Togo]

:))

[naomi24]

It's a hard life. :o)

[andy-hughes]

naomi - // It's a hard life. :o) //

You can scoff - safe in the knowledge that it will never be a problem for you.

[naomi24]

:o)

[Peter Pedant]

Prof Hugebrayne - I cant think of any prime scientist who is famous enough that his bedroom exploits merit publicity....

Feynman ( who?) was courting his second wife whilst the first was dying in hospital from TB.

Prof Hugebeayne did exist at the salisbury unit. They closed it and he had to get a job like the rest of us. Anyone remember his name? Obit here - a life lived of marital innocence
https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140673605667220.pdf

There is a Nobel Prize winner ( I mean christ more than a few are mad - really foo foo I mean) who is doing time for child molesting
Anyone remember? Gadjusek, BSE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Carleton_Gajdusek

Oliver Sacks - if you read his autobiog - on p 164 says that he agreed not to see any adolescent patients in neuro following allegations they had made about him. oo er what was he doing then?

so in conclusion I suggest Prof HugeBrayne is a completely different set than the publicity shy couple who told 7 billion people in the strictes confidence that one of them was pregnant ( by the other)

[Peter Pedant]

oh one of Dom Cummings chums - Neil Ferguson - got involved in Lockdwon comings and goings

anyone remember the athletic fella cycled across London in the strictest lock down not to test his vision
but to bonk one of his colleagues wives - dirty little sad!

he is back - his computer progz worked apparently

[andy-hughes]

Peter, it was a hypothetical construct to illustrate a point, not worth all that time and analysis.

[weecalf]

The Royal family have a saying that goes something like Don’t complain and never explain .So we will never know what happened .So let those that care care ,and those that don’t let’s not bothers our selves with it .

[andy-hughes]

Weecalf, that does not address the point I raised, perhaps you didn't mean it to.