Harry and Meghan #299 Spare The book that makes Twilight look like Tolstoy

[Anna2020]

I HELPED MEG INTO THE BOAT. It wobbled, but I quick-stepped to the middle, got it righted in time.
As she found a seat in the stern, I took up the oars. They didn’t work. We’re stuck. The thick mud of the shallows had us in its grip.
Uncle Charles came down to the water’s edge, gave us a little shove. We waved to him, and to my two aunts.
Bye. See you in a bit.
Gliding across the pond, I gazed around at Althorp’s rolling fields and ancient trees, the thousands of green acres where my mother grew up, and where, though things weren’t perfect, she’d known some peace.
Minutes later we reached the island and gingerly stepped onto the shore.
I led Meg up the path, around a hedge, through the labyrinth. There it was, looming: the grayish white oval stone.
No visit to this place was ever easy, but this one… Twenty-fifth anniversary. And Meg’s first time. At long last I was bringing the girl of my dreams home to meet mum.
We hesitated, hugging, and then I went first. I placed flowers on the grave.
Meg gave me a moment, and I spoke to my mother in my head, told her I missed her, asked her for guidance and clarity.
Feeling that Meg might also want a moment, I went around the hedge, scanned the pond.
When I came back, Meg was kneeling, eyes shut, palms against the stone. I asked, as we walked back to the boat, what she’d prayed for. Clarity, she said. And guidance.

Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex.

 

[Weeder]

My FB book groups are in meltdown. At the moment the fans are posting 'Can't wait to read this', usually followed by 'Why is everyone so mean' . Then flames erupt. I'm shocked at how many appear to be supporting Harry.

 

[Wackie Jeaver]

Something came up that I wasn’t aware of. Her voice was strange.

No flies on Granny...

 

[Maggiemaynot]

From Jane Moore, pointing out just a few of his contradictions.

 

[Dooley Doo]

Deep down, I feared that each man felt himself to be the One True Monarch, that each was taking advantage of a Queen in her nineties, enjoying his influential position while merely appearing to serve.

Harold still doesn't get it - no one, absolutely no one, ever took advantage of HMTQ. What a tool this man-child is.

Would HMQ have been under doctors for the bone cancer by then. This would explain why she needed more support from her staff to deal with everything.

They are so self centred that they can't think if HMQ was suffering from the cancer. PP was not well either but Smeg said he was in hospital to stop the release of the Orca interview.

Me me me, I I I, us us us.

 

[Chita]

When Smegz does her book, I bet she will say there were 3 of us in this marriage. Her, H and Diana's ghost

Her book is probably already written.
She finished it three days before she finished Harry's.

 

[Anna2020]

WE FOUND A PLACE.
Priced at a steep discount.
Just up the coast, outside Santa Barbara.
Lots of room, large gardens, a climbing frame—even a pond with koi carp.
The koi were stressed, the estate agent warned. So are we. We’ll all get along famously.
No, the agent explained, the koi need very particular care. You’ll have to hire a koi guy.
Uh-huh. And where does one find a koi guy? The agent wasn’t sure.
We laughed. First-world problems.
We took a tour. The place was a dream.
We asked Tyler to look at it too, and he said: Buy it.
So we pulled together a down-payment, took out a mortgage, and in July 2020 we moved in.
The move itself required only a couple of hours.
Everything we owned fitted into thirteen suitcases.
That first night we had a quiet drink in celebration, roasted a chicken, went to bed early.
All was well, we said.
And yet Meg was still under loads of stress. There was a pressing issue with her legal case against the tabloids. The Mail was up to its usual tricks.
Their first crack at offering a defense had been patently ridiculous, so now they were trying a new defense, which was even more ridiculous.
They were arguing that they’d printed Meg’s letter to her father because of a story in People magazine, which quoted a handful of Meg’s friends—anonymously.
The tabloids argued that Meg had orchestrated these quotes, used her friends as de facto spokespeople, and thus the Mail had every right to publish her letter to her father.
More, they now wanted the names of Meg’s previously anonymous friends read into the official court record—to destroy them.
Meg was determined to do everything in her power to prevent that.
She’d been staying up late, night after night, trying to work out how to save these people, and now, on our first morning in the new house, she reported abdominal pains.
And bleeding.
Then she collapsed to the floor.
We raced to the local hospital.
When the doctor walked into the room, I didn’t hear one word she said, I just watched her face, her body language.
I already knew.
We both did.
There had been so much blood.
Still, hearing the words was a blow.
Meg grabbed me, I held her, we both wept.
In my life I’ve felt totally helpless only four times. In the back of the car while Mummy and Willy and I were being chased by paps. In the Apache above Afghanistan, unable to get clearance to do my duty. At Nott Cott when my pregnant wife was planning to take her life. And now.
We left the hospital with our unborn child. A tiny package. We went to a place, a secret place only we knew. Under a spreading banyan tree, while Meg wept, I dug a hole with my hands and set the tiny package softly in the ground.

Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex.

 

[Kezzle1]

So reading from the excerpts posted on here and watching a few you tube vids it appears he has gazed into the eyes and felt a connection to an:
Elephant
Leopard
Lioness
Fox

And spoken to the moon, a bin and a toilet....

Another thread title suggestion

Harry and Meghan #300 Delusions of Sanity

 

[lollipop_panda]

fully fell asleep on the tube this morning thanks to listening to his droning on. thanks for the nice nap H

Is it a cure for insomnia? I have terrible insomnia so i might consider buying it now

 

[VC10]

I like King Charles III and The Queen Consort.
So full of fun and jolly.

 

[WestSideIsDaBest]

So.
archie has a “charity” / the family business named after him
He got the royal christening.
He got photos with the queen
He’s got pages and pages devoted to him in the book about pregnancy, birth, development etc.

Lillibet?

Cannot wait for her book

 

[Sunlifeover50]

I grabbed a dustpan and swept up the pieces, all the while thinking: This is weird.[/I]

Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex

Welcome to our world Harold

 

[MeInMidAmerica]

A strong feminist who papped herself for years, is constantly collapsing in corners from achieving her dream of having photographers take her picture?

Where are these pictures?

When she is in her car, surrounded by a pack of paps, tailgating her, cutting her off as she drives, flashbulbs blinding her, her very life in danger…she is still able to maneuver the car while have a long cell phone conversation with Harold? ! The woman should be in the Indy 500!

Harold admits people were unhappy working for his Angel, yet he assumes all the negative ‘briefing’ had to come from his family. As if others in her saintly presence could not have carried tales.

One can only imagine how many times these two called the family demanding anything not effusive with praise be immediately retracted by their offices. ‘Seals sing with her, Mummy sends messages adoring yet, don’t you understand!!!!” Make it stop!“

Did they ever really break up, or has that been erased from the Greatest Love Story of ALL TIME?

 

[peradetlic]

Another shameless steal, picture says it all...

BTW, this site we mentioned yesterday, has section with daily newspaper both Uk &USA. Guess who wasn't mentioned on front pages of US papers?

 

[LadyMuck]

Haha

 

[Yorkie99]

THE HOUSE WAS XANADU.
High ceilings, priceless art, beautiful swimming pool. Palatial, but above all, ultra-safe.
Better yet, it came with security, paid for by Tyler.
We spent those last days of March 2020 exploring, unpacking. Trying to get our bearings.
Halls, wardrobes, bedrooms, there seemed no end of spaces to discover, and niches for Archie to hide. Meg introduced him to everything.
Look at this statue!
Look at this fountain!
Look at these hummingbirds in the garden!
In the front hall was a painting he found especially interesting. He started every day locked on to it. A scene from ancient Rome. We asked each other why. No clue.
Within a week Tyler’s house felt like home.
Archie took his first steps in the garden a couple of months later, at the height of the global pandemic lockdown.
We clapped, hugged him, cheered.
I thought, for a moment, how nice it would be to share the news with Grandpa or Uncle Willy.
Not long after those first steps Archie went marching up to his favorite painting in the front hall. He stared at it, made a gurgle of recognition. Meg leaned in for a closer look. She noticed, for the first time, a nameplate on the frame. Goddess of the hunt. Diana.
When we told Tyler, he said he hadn’t known.
He’d forgotten the painting was even there.
He said: Gives me chills. Us too.

Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex

The painting thing. OMFG.

 

[elliebee27]

He was really mad that they wouldn't go out of their way to sue and ruin everyone's lives because not everyone liked Meghan and people have freedom of speech on the internet to say abhorrent things if they so choose. Everyone else goes through the same treatment. It was no different. Camilla had the worst of it. Remember KP's kindness mantra on Instagram? They wouldn't have done that for anyone but they did it for Meghan, it was them trying to protect her but he wanted lawsuit after lawsuit and statement after statement, feeding the beast!!

 

[thenorthremembers]

They’ve got the right idea

 

[horseybox1982]

Im behind because I’ve been at work, not sure if this has been posted….

Im just like, what the fuck?

 

[ChipDex]

Can’t stay here, we said.
And, yet…? Brief as it was, that taste of freedom had got us thinking.
What if life could be like that…all the time? What if we could spend at least part of each year somewhere far away, still doing work for the Queen, but beyond the reach of the press? Free. Free from the British press, free from the drama, free from the lies. But also free from the supposed “public interest” that was used to justify the frenzied coverage of us.
The question was…where?
We talked about New Zealand. We talked about South Africa. Half the year in Cape Town maybe? That could work. Away from the drama, but closer to my conservation work—and to eighteen other Commonwealth countries.
I’d run the idea by Granny once before. She’d even signed off on it. And I’d run it by Pa, at Clarence House, the Wasp present. He told me to put it in writing, which I’d done immediately. Within a few days it was in all the papers and caused a huge stink. So now, at the end of December 2019, when I was chatting with Pa on the phone, saying we were more serious than ever about spending part of the year away from Britain,
I wasn’t having it when he said that I must write it down.
Yeah, um, did that once before, Pa. And our plan immediately got leaked and scuppered.
I can’t help you if you don’t put it in writing, darling boy.
These things have to go through government.
For the love of…
So. In the first days of January 2020, I sent him a watermarked letter broadly outlining the idea, with bullet points, and many details.
Throughout the exchanges that followed, all marked PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL, I hammered the essential theme: we were prepared to make any sacrifice necessary to find some peace and safety, including relinquishing our Sussex titles.
I rang to get his thoughts. He wouldn’t come to the phone.
I soon received a long email from him saying we’d have to sit down and discuss the whole thing in person. He’d like us to come back as soon as possible. You’re in luck, Pa! We’re coming back to Britain in the next few days—to see Granny.
So…when can we meet?
Not before the end of January.
What?
That’s more than a month away.
I’m in Scotland. I can’t get there before then.
I really hope and trust that we will be able to have further conversations without this getting into the public domain and it becoming a circus, I wrote. He responded with what felt like an ominous threat: You’ll be disobeying orders from the monarch and myself if you persist in this course of action before we have a chance to sit down.

Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex.

This bit.

.
These things have to go through government.
For the love of…

Fucking hell, he's got no idea at all, has he?

Of course it's got to go through the Government, at the very least the FCO. And Charles would naturally need a written plan. He can't just ring up the Foreign Secretary, say "Hey, mate, Harold fancies living in X. Sort it out will ya?"

Even a member of the RF can't just up sticks and head off to the Commonwealth for a semi-permanent move because they want to.

Security.

Status of RF members other than the Monarch. It differs in some of the Realms.

What if the chosen country didn't want them there?

Smeg wasn't a UK citizen either. So there may have been additional visa implications for her.

I'm not surprised he thinks the advisors thought he was stupid. Whatever gave them that idea?