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dazh - Are you having a bad day?
But to be specific – are you saying they have literally slagged her off for being black (as an example from your list)?
I’d say this headline, from an equally delightful author, tells you all you need to know.
That wording was very deliberately chosen.
As for my opinion, you play the hand you are dealt in life. I’d be scarpering too, in their situation.
Interested in the "Diana was hounded to death by the press". I seem to remember her being killed in a car crash, in a car with a drunk driver at the wheel. yes , they were being followed by paps - but she/ Fayad's hardly hid away from the press, did they.
I have no doubt they could keep the location of where they were secret. Many celebs do.
Harry blames the press for Diana's death - I would blame those who sanctioned the drunk driver to drive the car. And at speed.
And those who chose not to wear a seat belt ....
Drunk driver with a penchant for speed (both varieties).
TBH , they have every right to withdraw and do what they want. But they need to surrender titles and funding. You can't be half royal. If that is their choice , the good luck to them. It is not a constitutional crisis.
But please , lets move away for Meghan being a delicate wallflower who didn't chose this. She is a product of the media industry, and actor , who has achieve fame - and is used to being in the media. She chose it.
Harry didn't - so I feel more sorry for him. But he needs a honest look at the past. I can see why he wants to run away. I don't think that he is intellectually equipped to enjoy playing the game.
TBH, I don't think they needed to make a big announcement ( if the are genuine, just fade away). Looks like a flounce to me.
Biggest flounce ever......
2 over privileged kids give the old folks the finger & it’s front page news?
I couldn’t really GAF but, seriously, it’s about time the Royals did one..
HRH & his wife have a personal net worth in the region of £15m - pay your way Harry & maybe a few of the others will get caught up in the following cull..
I think the daily mail lot are gutted because Harry used to dress up as a nazi at parties and now he's all politically correct
It's the closet racists worst nightmare !
But they need to surrender titles and funding.
The titles are meaningless to anyone with half a brain, whether they have HRH in front of their names is a load irrelevant deferential bollox. Funding on the other hand, to my knowledge they don't get any. Yes the house was done up, but do they own that or are they just squatting?
I'm looking forward to the book deal and fly on the wall documentary. I kind of hope they will turn into fearless campaigners agains the UK press. The whole thing, from the royal family to the sycophantic press needs blowing apart. Think I'll be dissappointed though.
Hypocrisy of the press on this is quite amusing
https://twitter.com/JimMFelton/status/1215206952755716096?s=19
The whole Royal Family thing just seems like so much BS these days.
I don't know that I really get any benefit from the taxes I pay for its upkeep.
"Tourism". For sure.
I don’t know that I really get any benefit from the taxes I pay for its upkeep.
“Tourism”. For sure.
Versailles gets more vistors than Bucks Palace
Jus' sayin'
Should sell a few tickets
(Image post fail but noticed "people often ask: is the guillotine painful?". I'd have thought you might feel a bit sore the next day.)
For commercial reasons it would make sense to off each one in a different location. Maybe by a different method too. Imagine the tourist attraction benefits - reenactments, an open top bus route to all the venues with the grim reaper as a guide. If they truly cared about the nation's welfare they would be offering up their services.
Apparently most of their income comes not from the public purse but from his father - just how many jobs must the poor bloke be holding down to finance that!
What was Sarah Vine's "niggling worry" then?
(Also, whoTF is Sarah Vine, some sort of Poundland Hopkins?)
Oh christ, she's Mrs Gove. Colour me shocked.
"Attention-seeking woman seeks fame on the back of her husband" complains Daily Mail columnist whose Twitter handle is WestminsterWAG.
Apparently most of their income comes not from the public purse but from his father – just how many jobs must the poor bloke be holding down to finance that!
I think that's a pretty vague interpretation. Chaz benefits from a £5m pa income from the Duchy of Cornwall. He is entitled to that as the eldest son of the King/Queen. It's that income that he uses to support his (and Hewitt's) lad. So whilst it is not the public purse as in from taxation, come the revolution I think the state would have a pretty reasonable case for nabbing it back and the profits going into the public purse. Essentially the Duchy is a load of land and a bunch of employed people working hard to make a profit which is snaffled away for Chaz and co to live a privileged lifestyle. I'm sure he turns up once in a while and talks to a few plants but the real management and grat is done by comentent, sentient non-inbreds.
It really annoys me that they have what’s called a “break” a break from what? They are on a holiday. A permanent holiday compared to the rest of us!
It really annoys me that they have what’s called a “break” a break from what? They are on a holiday. A permanent holiday compared to the rest of us!
I love those holidays where everyday I wake up to talk of being beheaded, my parentage and sexist comments about my wife.
Good on them I say. If you understand how he has grown up in the full view of the press and seen it contribute to the death of his mother you would see his reasoning.
The issue will be what happens if it doesn't work for them financially and he tries to go back to being a frontline royal, will he just walk back in or assume a lesser role?
I think that’s a pretty vague interpretation. Chaz benefits from a £5m pa income from the Duchy of Cornwall.
Sorry I thought that they actually meant his father when they they said that rather than the bloke who was given a few million acres to live off and makes biscuits. I had visions of poor old James doing cleaning jobs, working in a bar, putting a couple of shifts in a week in a fast food joint all on zero hour contacts.
What with Brexit looming, Iran USA debacle, Australian bush fires I am really finding it hard to give a sh!t about these 2.
I don’t know that I really get any benefit from the taxes I pay for its upkeep.
I'm no royalist, but it costs you just over £1 a year to fund the royal family. I'm sure this country wastes far more than £1.24 per person on worse crap than the royal family
She obviously doesnt fancy a life of smiling from ear to ear, in some daft tribal outfit of a far off outpost of the commonwealth, playing a bongo drum listening to Nicholas wichell talking shite to ITN cameras about her.
I was pissing myself at some royal correspondent on the beebs reaction to it, he was absolutely ****in raging, on the verge of tears! (Johnny diamond mibbe?)
What a sad bastard.
+1
If anything this episode has been the icing on the brexit cake in terms of highlighting how many utterly deluded, stuck in the past, sad weirdos there are.
The same people will make jokes about North Korea and their glorious leader whilst acting like this on tv.
She might be moving back to the US to start her ascent to the presidency. You heard it here first.
This made me smile. And, in these days, could almost be credible and true. I’d like it to be true.
Anyway, as a republican, can I please join with all right minded royalists, and say… f the D* M***!
https://twitter.com/janeygodley/status/1215649373448757249?s=21
https://twitter.com/mrjamesob/status/1215551923304194048?s=21
There’s some really bad casual sexism on this thread.
But on topic for the express, mail etc. And it’s royalist readership I can see why they are lashing out with rage, grief and confusion. To have just spent the last few years fighting, and winning tbf, the Brexit culture wars for sovereignty and to find out it’s all for nought as a key part of the institution go ‘actually it’s a load of bollocks mate we’re off’. It must be like when Dillon went electric or Campbell moved to Arsenal.
Ta - that answers my question further up about what the nasty press has actually been saying. To a sane audience it is the author/editor that is made to look an arse....but we are talking about DM dribblers here who might actually be swayed so I can see why I might be a bit miffed in their shoes.
edit - sexism? TBH honest not bothered to look back and whilst some of us have been arguably distasteful about offing the whole lot of em, I don't recall sexism, casual or otherwise, being the main theme. Care to share?
this episode has been the icing on the brexit cake
Completely unrelated in everyone else's eyes, though.
Or are you saying 'foreign woman wants to go home' is exactly what Farage was after?
Unrelated? If only.
I just hope they see it through. Tell Charlie they don’t need his money and drop the whole royal / Sussex thing. Would be a half arsed STW style flounce if they don’t.
I think the press treatment of both of them and Meghan in particular has been pretty horrific. I'm not sure it even counts as casually racist. It's outright racist in all but actually screaming "but she's a ***".
I have nothing but contempt for the D* M*** and the other Tory tabloids, if anyone should get the guillotine it's them.
I'm not sure they've handled it in the most dignified way but all power to them and their desire to lead a life away from the poisonous parasitic press.
should scoot off to france like his great grand uncle did. send the dm into apoplectic rage 🙂 I miss the days when royal princes used to poison their brothers and lock their kids up in the tower for their own saftey and have them butchered when no one was looking.
You do have to ask yourself why does Sarah Vine hate the beautiful princess Meghan Markle so much?
Is it because she's , * and married to THAT?
Many of the loudest monarchists only like the monarchy when they're doing exactly what they think they're supposed to. Anyone surprised by that should just think back to Diana's death and the way people turned on the queen for not queening to order.
why does Sarah Vine hate the beautiful princess Meghan Markle so much?
Sarah Vine is the perfect example of a right winger "grifter" I'd imagine she probably has no real opinion either way, but like many in the right wing press can turn her loose moral outlook on life into cash because she has the ability to string a sentence together.
My sister is a ridiculous royalist, she also works for the DM. It's been rather interesting watching her intial love for these to evolve I to the DM line of dislike, for absolutely no reason. The mind baffles, but she has become way more self-involved and absorbed of late. I absolutely blame that paper, the people she works with and the honking culture I imagine it has.
A former work colleagues son was at Sandhurst with him and clarified that Harry was none too bright.
Interesting, considering Harry was a forward fire controller, then weapons/navigation officer on an AH-64 Apache gunship, I wonder just what sort of job a person would have if they were just average.
Or is the ‘former work colleague’ just miffed because he couldn’t be part of Harry’s gang...?
Did you not read the OP?! He’s a drip and she’s a shocker*, thats all the reason you need!
*Not really sure what this means
You’ll have to ask that odious little shit Piers Morgan, whose writings in the Daily Heil have been driving a lot of this media crap.
And doesn't this whole storm in a teacup tell us everything that's wrong with the institution of royalty?
A grown man, an ex officer, is expected to ask his granny's permission to go overseas and not take pocket money from her, and the BritNats are in uproar.
I dont know why when I try to post a link at the minute it takes me to an RSPB advert, but if you havent seen it go onto youtube and search 'Stewart Lee Princess Diana' Comedy Gold.
It would be good to have a referendum as per Clive Lewis but I can only see it going one way. All the Brexity old tory types but but out voting while all the younger people who are largely indifferent would not bother voting.
Many of the loudest monarchists only like the monarchy when they’re doing exactly what they think they’re supposed to. Anyone surprised by that should just think back to Diana’s death and the way people turned on the queen for not queening to order.
Yep and let's not forget that 'The Peoples Princess' had been public enemy No1 before she died. After leaving Charles, giving interviews and generally annoying the Royals can anyone remember what the icing on the cake was?
I remember at the time thinking Di was a dick and a publicity seeker (possibly due to my intake of nonsense tabloids on reflection?) so although sorry for any loss of life it didn't really register with me. The way virtually everyone else seemed to about-turn shocked me and taught me a valuable lesson.
I think what these two are doing is hilarious and the ultimate troll to the bullies who sought to make money out of trying to destroy another person. I'm no royalist and wouldn't raise more than a shrug if the rug was pulled but watching Harry and Meghan flick a massive V has got me hoping for the best for them.
Who are Harry & Meghan ?
Ok, of course I know who they are but can honestly say I’ve not one care in the world having not followed what they get up too.
I wish them well, just as I’d wish anyone well who is seeking a positive change for their family.