Seems like this place is much less interested in Harry than the mainstream media. Got to say I'm quite enjoying it. I guess this is what happens when someone at the top of a nationwide cult tries to escape. How long before he has an 'accident' I wonder?
With the "25 taliban" comment no accident will be required I fear.
Probably reflects the majority who don't seem as obsessed about it as the media but then he has had a go at the media and won so he is not going to be getting any more popular with them.
Be interested in book sales as he has done great marketing for the book.
I had the same thought about the stw disinterest this morning. I'm not that interested myself, just think it's so sad that a family is having it's personal issues aired in the public. I can't see how it is good for anybody and least of all Harry, Meghan and their kids.
How long before he has an ‘accident’ I wonder?
He did have a 'tumble' into a dog bowl! 🙂
As for what he's said so far - it's just normal he said, she said family arguing.
For someone who wants to live more anonymously he's doing a cracking job.....
I dont think the press coverage is required, IMO they killed his mother, he's served his country in the army on the front line and unless there is a real tragedy wont be king. Let him live his life.
just think it’s so sad that a family is having it’s personal issues aired in the public.
It's not really a family though is it? Families don't have a whole load of advisors and hangers on spreading shite in the papers against other members do they? Harry's only crime is that he wants to escape the cult he was born into. Good luck to him.
And that 25 taliban issue. As a bed-wetting anti-war liberal it's a good thing IMO. Reminds everyone that armies and air forces are designed for killing people, and they do exactly that.
I dont think the press coverage is required, IMO they killed his mother, he’s served his country in the army on the front line and unless there is a real tragedy wont be king. Let him live his life.
This. Can't believe how hard the right-wing grifters are going after him.
There was a good Guardian article yesterday. About how a lot of sibling rivalry/infighting etc is (on some level) about favouritism, parental love, and all that. Sometimes there's something in it; often, there's nothing really there, it's just the perception of some young people.
But with Harry and William it's real, and explicit, and the whole world knows it: William is the important one. The whole monarchy, the entire British constitution, is set up to protect him and groom him for his impending kinghood. Harry was just plan B in case William didn't have kids. And now he's got kids, so Harry is basically pointless.
That's got to be pretty hard to come to terms with!
Harry’s only crime is that he wants to escape the cult he was born into. Good luck to him.
He could have done that nice and quietly.
I've not spoken to my brother in 12 years. I don't constantly go round his house to remind him why we've not spoken or that he's a ****!
I cant believe he admitted to being chinned by an raf officer 🤣
I've little interest in it but it seems unavoidable
What does absolutely baffle me is the state of near apoplexy that him and his other half drive the usual right wing commentators into
I had the same thought about the stw disinterest this morning. I’m not that interested myself, just think it’s so sad that a family is having it’s personal issues aired in the public. I can’t see how it is good for anybody and least of all Harry, Meghan and their kids.
My view too, also fair point that selling your story is not stepping out of the limelight.
I genuinely never read anything about the royal family at all as I just find it totally boring and its a mystery to me why they still exist but I don't really care either way. Seeing a headline about Harry taking coke and fighting his brother though did sort of breach the threshold and I thought yeah I'm gonna spend 5mins reading that. Though neither of those things in and of themselves are in any way interesting or unusual.
As someone who would like to see a republic I should be enjoying it. But conversely I think the royalist public will be doubling down and backing them up and curiously forgiving the obvious flaws much more readily.
It's still bizarre behaviour - it feels like self destruction of the highest order. Not sure how the long term game works out positively for him playing these moves.
I think the whole thing is bizarre - He made a massive point about having to leave the country for the sake of his, and his wife's mental health, yet since then he's been whoring himself out to any media outlet who'd listen.
I think he'll come to regret some of these revelations down the line - and confessing to killing 25 Taliban fighters has just painted a huge target on his back and made him global target No1 for Islamic nut-jobs.
One way or another, there won't be a happy ending to this saga..
He has taken an interesting career path that seems to be handsomely rewarded. He also seems to be somewhat unstable. Loss of a parent at a young age, particularly in his circumstances, will have been devastating (you don't really get over it IMHO). And yes I think his behaviour looks self-destructive.
My view too, also fair point that selling your story is not stepping out of the limelight.
^^This
He could have quietly left via the backdoor and just gotten on with his life.
Rather than creating all of this attention.
For someone who wanted a quieter life, less press intrusion and to reconcile with his father and brother, I don’t think Netflix, tv interviews, press leaks and a book is the way to go about it! 🤔
He's just a completely screwed up individual from a completely dysfunctional family, living a fairly normal dysfunctional life. Unfortunately as he happens to be a royal, it's very hard to avoid hearing about it....
When the first thing item on BBC Six Music news, which normally does not include tabloid items, is Harry and Meghan, I fear it is being used to deflect the news away from the govt.
Another example of how BBC news is becoming the pawn of the government.
Apparantly ( I only saw the headline) he has been conversing with his mum via some sort of "woman with powers"
I do feel sorry for the whole lot as individuals. Such clearly damaged people many of them are
I bet the royal family are just glad that Harry has taken "uncle Andrew" out of the press...
With a bit of luck they'll self destruct and the general public's bizarre adoration for them might fall and we can get rid of the lot of them....
I bet the royal family are just glad that Harry has taken “uncle Andrew” out of the press…
The Royal paedo....
"He’s just a completely screwed up individual from a completely dysfunctional family, living a fairly normal dysfunctional life. Unfortunately as he happens to be a royal, it’s very hard to avoid hearing about it…."
Exactly - its basically a rich Shameless
Unfortunately, I agree with @freeagent. Whilst I couldn't give a stuff about the royals, I don't wish them harm and I think with the taliban comment he has really burnt his bridges almost everywhere. Can't see a good outcome here.
When the first thing item on BBC Six Music news, which normally does not include tabloid items, is Harry and Meghan, I fear it is being used to deflect the news away from the govt.
Another example of how BBC news is becoming the pawn of the government.
Or reflects the dumbing down of "news" to the lowest common denominator.
Which may also suit the government, so I'm not sure I'm disagreeing with you.
Whilst I couldn’t give a stuff about the royals
I genuinely couldn't give a monkeys about any of them, but it is almost impossible not to stand and stare as they tear themselves apart....
If we sacked them all and reclaimed the money it would easily pay for improvements to Hospitals, Trains, Royal Mail etc.....
What I don't get is that, first with the Royal paedo and then with Harry, these people have highly paid and supposedly highly skilled advisors and PR people on their payroll.
So how do they end up catastrophically misjudging situations to such a huge degree
Surely there are loads of issues with both of them where anyone sentient would say to them 'whatever you do, don't do that!'
So how do they end up catastrophically misjudging situations to such a huge degree
They're Royals, hence brought up to believe they are know better than everyone...
No one ever stop and laughs in their face and goes 'you know what Andrew, you're full of shit'....
Thanks to modern media everyone can see them for what they really are, which is normal messed up people living normal messed up lives.
He's following in his mother's footsteps. The saint like Diana became a very savvy media player as her advisors kicked in. What was telling was the Private Eye edition after her death.
They printed all the early edition words from the mainstream Sundays that were outraged by her behaviour running off with a playboy but they changed their tune totally by the following printing.
If she hadn't died she may have ended up being judged/remembered considerably more harshly. Her death wiped the slate clean.
I dunno, if you take a step back and look at it objectively, he did stay quiet, outside of Charity work and Invictus you rarely heard/saw what they thought beyond the expected speaches at charity events.
Then a load of "royal correspondents" came out swinging for them, and they wouldn't have done that if it had risked their previous royal correspondent gravy train Buckingham Palace press passes.
The fact that once he's outside the system he's done a couple of interviews and ghost produce/written a doc and book essentially giving his side of all those stories isn't really surprising.
The fact he's made over a hundred million from all this circus kinda dents any future charity work he does unless he's dipping his hand in his own pockets. But that's a separate issue.
I'd be looking for another job, ASAP, if I was one of his security team. I'm sure friends of :"the chess pieces he removed from the board" are pretty skilled with IEDs etc.
Lol at firestarter.
If you weren't already pretty screwed up by losing your mum at 12, having to walk behind her coffin for a television audience of billions, and doing two full tours in Afghanistan where you watched friends and foes being ripped apart, then watching powerlessly as the biggest section of the UK media cast vile slurs at you and your wife for years on end, often at the behest of your own supposed family and their hangers-on, ought to finish the job.
This book sounds like a massive lashing out exercise from start to finish. He's just shoving everything out there like lancing a boil. Ill-advised, probably, and won't work, but can't see it as being unprovoked.
Listing the number of people that he machine gunned from his helicopter does seem like a risky strategy that I hope doesn't bring retribution down on him and his family.
But other than that I do wish that the whole sorry lot of them would piss off, and when they have got to where they have pissed off to piss of a little bit more.
Can't be doing with Kate especially. I bet she's a right cow.
Can’t be doing with Kate especially. I bet she’s a right cow.
I suspect she's just a normal everyday screwed up person like everyone else...
https://twitter.com/garius/status/1610935428298805248?s=20&t=JxecLPxaUh_fQUwIuDsOuA
can't wait for season 2.
It's time the whole Royal Family thing was put out to pasture.
If they were beagles, there's no way what is being done would get past the ethics committee. Just stop it already.
The Express and DM would be up in arms as it is a handy source of clickbait revenue for them, but for the rest of us it would be a huge relief.
Conversely though, I'm not sure that 'I killed 25' is worse than 'I killed some Afghans, didn't count'. Was he keeping score or just actually staying conscious of how many lives he ended? He an Apache Gunner, and before that he called in airstrikes on enemy positions, so it's inevitable he killed people, and he has been quoted publicly for years saying this.
The 'taking pieces off a chessboard' thing seems more like a comment on how his training removed human feelings from his job.
The only thing I’ve taken any notice of is that allegedly this rift with his brother started when he found out he was boffing the next door neighbour
I think he should do a single, bit of an eminem vibe to it.
I wonder what his real dad thinks of it all.
I think the whole thing is bizarre – He made a massive point about having to leave the country for the sake of his, and his wife’s mental health, yet since then he’s been whoring himself out to any media outlet who’d listen.
A lot of people rightly saying this.
H&M have the opportunity to tell their side of the story for a ton of money right now, and hopefully they'll be salting most of it away for the future. Their value to the media is entirely based on stuff that happened in the past, so once they've shared that, they won't have this kind of earning potential again.
Can’t be doing with Kate especially. I bet she’s a right cow.
She's already been taken down a peg or two last year.
Afghanistan thing is old news rehashed for a new audience...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jan/21/prince-harry-afghanistan
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jan/22/afghanistan-taliban-response-prince-harry
