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presumably trying not to vomit?
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I WAS SUMMONED TO Buckingham Palace. A lunch with Granny and Pa.
The invitation was contained in a terse email from the Bee, and the tone wasn’t: Would you mind popping around? It was more: Get your arse over here. I threw on a suit, jumped into the car.
The Bee and the Wasp were the first faces I saw when I walked into the room. An ambush. I thought this was to be a family lunch. Apparently not. Alone, without my staff, without Meg, I was confronted directly about my legal action.
My father said it was massively damaging to the reputation of the family.
How so?
It makes our relationship with the media complicated.
Complicated. There’s a word.
Anything you do affects the whole family.
One could say the same about all your actions and decisions. They affect us as well.
Like, for instance, wining and dining the same editors and journalists who’ve been attacking me and my wife…
The Bee or the Wasp jumped in to remind me: One has to have a relationship with the press…Sir, we’ve talked about this before!
A relationship yes. But not a sordid affair. I tried a new tack.
Everyone in this family has sued the press, including Granny. Why’s this any different?
Chirping crickets. Silence. There was some more wrangling, and then I said:
We had no other option. And we wouldn’t have had to do it if you’d all protected us. And protected the monarchy in the process. You’re doing a
disservice to yourselves by not protecting my wife.
I looked around the table. Stony faces.
Was it incomprehension? Cognitive dissonance? A long-term mission at play? Or…did they really not know? Were they so deep inside a bubble inside a bubble that they really hadn’t fully appreciated how bad things were?
-For instance, Tatler magazine quoting an old Etonian saying I’d married Meg because “foreigners” like her are “easier” than girls “with the right background.”
-Or the Daily Mail saying Meg was “upwardly mobile,” because she’d gone from “slaves to royalty” in just 150 years.
-Or the social media posts about her being a “yacht girl” and an “escort,” or calling her a “gold-digger,” and “a bleep,” and “a witch,” and “a slut,” and the N-word—repeatedly.
Some of those posts were in the comments section on the pages of all three Palaces’ social media accounts—and still hadn’t been expunged.
-Or the tweet that said: “Dear Duchess, I’m not saying that I hate you but I hope your next period happens in a shark tank.”
- Or the revelation of racist texts from Jo Marney, girlfriend of UKIP leader Henry Bolton, including one saying that my “black American” fiancée would “taint” the Royal Family, setting the stage for “a black king,” and another averring that Ms. Marney would never have sex with “a Negro.” “This is Britain, not Africa.”
-Or the Mail complaining that Meg couldn’t keep her hands off her baby bump, that she was rubbing it and rubbing it as if she were a succubus.
Things had got so out of hand, seventy-two women in Parliament, from both main parties, had condemned the “colonial undertones” of all newspaper coverage of The Duchess of Sussex.
None of these things had merited one comment, public or private, from my family.
I knew how they rationalized it all, saying it was no different from what Camilla got. Or Kate.
But it was different.
One study looked closely at four hundred vile tweets about Meg. Employing a team of data specialists and computer analysts the study found that this avalanche of hate was wildly atypical, light-years from anything directed at Camilla or Kate. A tweet calling Meg “the queen of monkey island” had no historical precedent or equivalent. And this wasn’t about hurt feelings or bruised egos. Hate had physical effects. There was a ton of science showing how unhealthy it is to be publicly hated and mocked. Meanwhile, the wider societal effects were even scarier.
Certain kinds of people are more susceptible to such hate, and incited by it. Hence the package of suspicious white powder that had been sent to our office, with a disgusting racist note attached.
I looked at Granny, looked around the room, reminded them that Meg and I had been coping with a wholly unique situation, and doing it all by ourselves.
Our dedicated staff was too small, too young, grossly underfunded.
The Bee and the Wasp harrumphed and said we should’ve let it be known that we were under-resourced. Let it be known?
I said I’d begged them repeatedly, all of them, and one of our top aides had sent in pleas as well—multiple times.
Granny looked directly at the Bee and the Wasp: Is this true?
The Bee looked her right in the eye, and, with the Wasp nodding vigorously in assent, said: Your Majesty, we never received any of these requests for support.
Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex
The invitation was contained in a terse email from the Bee, and the tone wasn’t: Would you mind popping around? It was more: Get your arse over here. I threw on a suit, jumped into the car.
The Bee and the Wasp were the first faces I saw when I walked into the room. An ambush. I thought this was to be a family lunch. Apparently not. Alone, without my staff, without Meg, I was confronted directly about my legal action.
My father said it was massively damaging to the reputation of the family.
How so?
It makes our relationship with the media complicated.
Complicated. There’s a word.
Anything you do affects the whole family.
One could say the same about all your actions and decisions. They affect us as well.
Like, for instance, wining and dining the same editors and journalists who’ve been attacking me and my wife…
The Bee or the Wasp jumped in to remind me: One has to have a relationship with the press…Sir, we’ve talked about this before!
A relationship yes. But not a sordid affair. I tried a new tack.
Everyone in this family has sued the press, including Granny. Why’s this any different?
Chirping crickets. Silence. There was some more wrangling, and then I said:
We had no other option. And we wouldn’t have had to do it if you’d all protected us. And protected the monarchy in the process. You’re doing a
disservice to yourselves by not protecting my wife.
I looked around the table. Stony faces.
Was it incomprehension? Cognitive dissonance? A long-term mission at play? Or…did they really not know? Were they so deep inside a bubble inside a bubble that they really hadn’t fully appreciated how bad things were?
-For instance, Tatler magazine quoting an old Etonian saying I’d married Meg because “foreigners” like her are “easier” than girls “with the right background.”
-Or the Daily Mail saying Meg was “upwardly mobile,” because she’d gone from “slaves to royalty” in just 150 years.
-Or the social media posts about her being a “yacht girl” and an “escort,” or calling her a “gold-digger,” and “a bleep,” and “a witch,” and “a slut,” and the N-word—repeatedly.
Some of those posts were in the comments section on the pages of all three Palaces’ social media accounts—and still hadn’t been expunged.
-Or the tweet that said: “Dear Duchess, I’m not saying that I hate you but I hope your next period happens in a shark tank.”
- Or the revelation of racist texts from Jo Marney, girlfriend of UKIP leader Henry Bolton, including one saying that my “black American” fiancée would “taint” the Royal Family, setting the stage for “a black king,” and another averring that Ms. Marney would never have sex with “a Negro.” “This is Britain, not Africa.”
-Or the Mail complaining that Meg couldn’t keep her hands off her baby bump, that she was rubbing it and rubbing it as if she were a succubus.
Things had got so out of hand, seventy-two women in Parliament, from both main parties, had condemned the “colonial undertones” of all newspaper coverage of The Duchess of Sussex.
None of these things had merited one comment, public or private, from my family.
I knew how they rationalized it all, saying it was no different from what Camilla got. Or Kate.
But it was different.
One study looked closely at four hundred vile tweets about Meg. Employing a team of data specialists and computer analysts the study found that this avalanche of hate was wildly atypical, light-years from anything directed at Camilla or Kate. A tweet calling Meg “the queen of monkey island” had no historical precedent or equivalent. And this wasn’t about hurt feelings or bruised egos. Hate had physical effects. There was a ton of science showing how unhealthy it is to be publicly hated and mocked. Meanwhile, the wider societal effects were even scarier.
Certain kinds of people are more susceptible to such hate, and incited by it. Hence the package of suspicious white powder that had been sent to our office, with a disgusting racist note attached.
I looked at Granny, looked around the room, reminded them that Meg and I had been coping with a wholly unique situation, and doing it all by ourselves.
Our dedicated staff was too small, too young, grossly underfunded.
The Bee and the Wasp harrumphed and said we should’ve let it be known that we were under-resourced. Let it be known?
I said I’d begged them repeatedly, all of them, and one of our top aides had sent in pleas as well—multiple times.
Granny looked directly at the Bee and the Wasp: Is this true?
The Bee looked her right in the eye, and, with the Wasp nodding vigorously in assent, said: Your Majesty, we never received any of these requests for support.
Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex
Same in my book groups but I don't have the energy to argue with themMy 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'
She laughs like a hyena at anything that one.What’s with Lorraine laughing at the sham royal introduction trumpets that were on Stephen Colbert last night and then he joked they were for Tom Hank’s like it’s still disrespectful and she’s laughs like it’s a funny jokeShe honestly drives me mad can’t hide that she’s a Harry and meg fan
After the parody of Colbert, perhaps Hawwwy was headed to SNL to take part in another parody "dick in a box". There is no gloc, its his frostbitten manhood.
Struggling to keep up but enjoying reading everything you are all saying. This book really is all because the family, the ‘institution’ and the media didn’t think Meghan was as amazing or as likeable as Harry thinks she is. Sorry that people were made to feel uncomfortable by crass comments she probably made or pointed, inappropriate questions she may have asked across the dinner table, god forbid some don’t see her as the Oscar winner clearly Harry thinks she should be. Also sounds like the fakest birth story I’ve ever heard!!
I was watching the Kardashian documentary and they legitimately have paps hounding them, Britney did… but I’ve never seen pap pics of Megan other than those clearly staged ones and mainly in America. There is a desperate need on Harry’s part to blame everything and anything on the ‘press’ and anyone else. It’s getting so old now- fed up of reading all this moaning. Kate and wills come across as 19th century villains in a melodrama with all this ‘Harold’ and ‘willy’.
I was watching the Kardashian documentary and they legitimately have paps hounding them, Britney did… but I’ve never seen pap pics of Megan other than those clearly staged ones and mainly in America. There is a desperate need on Harry’s part to blame everything and anything on the ‘press’ and anyone else. It’s getting so old now- fed up of reading all this moaning. Kate and wills come across as 19th century villains in a melodrama with all this ‘Harold’ and ‘willy’.
I'm as always as a deaf person at a wedding as we say in my. native tongue, wanted to ask if you have the book, or if any one has a... copy to spare. if not, tell me because i have.
Who says ‘excellent penmanship’???
You’d more say ‘lovely handwriting’ wouldn’t you? He sounds like he’s stuck in a bloody Charles Dickens novel.
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.
Harold still doesn't get it - no one, absolutely no one, ever took advantage of HMTQ. What a tool this man-child is.
Wait, why is Harold so happy about this tour? This was when they feared for Sprog's life when
Is Harold suggesting it wasn't as serious as 43 made out in her podcast to take attention from Serena Williams? SURELY NOT!
All of the royals I suspect have had various threats made against them and thwarted by the security services/their protection officers. Not that it makes it right, but why didn't Harry explain these elements to Meghan when they first got together? He saw the hounding Kate got, it must have been terrifying for her; did he speak out then? Did he think the world revolves around him so Meghan would be spared? If he knows how the Palace media machine works, why did he think they would break their ethos and correct superficial articles?
I'm not justifying their actions at all, I think the media are largely a disgrace and intrusion is disgusting, but this was the world he had grown up in (and she wasn't exactly a naieve new to 'showbiz' woman). Why didn't he do more to protect her? If he is truly reflecting then why he needs to shine that mirror back at himself.
I'm not justifying their actions at all, I think the media are largely a disgrace and intrusion is disgusting, but this was the world he had grown up in (and she wasn't exactly a naieve new to 'showbiz' woman). Why didn't he do more to protect her? If he is truly reflecting then why he needs to shine that mirror back at himself.
He isnt right in the head is he. Everything is always someone else’s fault & he feels like the world should idolise Meghan like he does. He is coming across as such a bitter entitled idiot, it honestly makes my blood boil. He needs to get in the real world and have real problems not these ones that all made up in his head. The way that book is written is awful, so over the top in every single little detail…it’s like Meghan is surrounding with tweeting birds, Bambi and cute bunnies like a Disney princess while the rest of the RF are the villains surrounded by fire & black smoke! And no offensive to anyone but the way he refers to his mum as mummy gives the ick 
I don’t know about anyone else but I don’t give a toss what colour Meghan is, she could be green and red with blue stripes for all I care, it's her, as an individual I don’t like.
If you know her type you recognise her type and many do but…….…many don’t.
She ambushed a weak man with incipient mental problems and a notable position and has manipulated him until he doesn’t know which way is up. Sadly this circus has still got a lot of mileage in it and there’ll be no let-up in the crap for years to come.
If you know her type you recognise her type and many do but…….…many don’t.
She ambushed a weak man with incipient mental problems and a notable position and has manipulated him until he doesn’t know which way is up. Sadly this circus has still got a lot of mileage in it and there’ll be no let-up in the crap for years to come.
Harry points to the glass, asking "Can I have a drink" before divulging the revolting details of the frozen todger incident 
I know violence is not the answer.But I really want to talk to him with my fist.Stephen Colbert asks "Would you like a cocktail before we begin?" and Harry enthusiastically responds
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He is loving it isn’t he?All the attention, the faux fawning.He actually believes these people think he is great.He can’t see that they are just humouring him.Anything to get that exclusive interview.
I suspect Meghan is now considering Plan B.The divorce, and how much money she can rinse out of the RF.
Thanks for the new thread and title. 
He's lucky the RF's advisors weren't abrasive people like Alistair Campbell or Dominic Cummings. I doubt either would have even given him the time of day. They might even have done a "William" on him.
What's coming across is confirmation of what we all suspected. Haz is completely self-obsessed and utterly paranoid and even more so than we could have imagined. He also appears to have absolutely no idea that the working RF members are basically part of the Government. Hence advisors, spin-doctors, private secretaries and so forth. And of course TQ, Charles and William were prioritised as current/future Heads of State.
The staff are there to work, to manage, to liaise, to organise. Same as their counterparts in Westminster do for the PM and the Cabinet. Not to act as Harold's personal PR whenever he wants to clap back at literally anything and everything that offends his sensibilities, or makes Smeg collapse on the floor in a snivelling heap for the 100th time. Imagine if the Government responded to every little thing, however trivial, written about them?
Haz is so utterly immature, it's embarrassing. He really thinks the UK and the RF revolve around him and his needs.
And I suspect him spinning the Taliban stuff on Colbert is him trying to save his Invictus position. Will be interesting to see if the MoD continue to support it.
The Fly is definitely Simon Case.
He's lucky the RF's advisors weren't abrasive people like Alistair Campbell or Dominic Cummings. I doubt either would have even given him the time of day. They might even have done a "William" on him.
What's coming across is confirmation of what we all suspected. Haz is completely self-obsessed and utterly paranoid and even more so than we could have imagined. He also appears to have absolutely no idea that the working RF members are basically part of the Government. Hence advisors, spin-doctors, private secretaries and so forth. And of course TQ, Charles and William were prioritised as current/future Heads of State.
The staff are there to work, to manage, to liaise, to organise. Same as their counterparts in Westminster do for the PM and the Cabinet. Not to act as Harold's personal PR whenever he wants to clap back at literally anything and everything that offends his sensibilities, or makes Smeg collapse on the floor in a snivelling heap for the 100th time. Imagine if the Government responded to every little thing, however trivial, written about them?
Haz is so utterly immature, it's embarrassing. He really thinks the UK and the RF revolve around him and his needs.
And I suspect him spinning the Taliban stuff on Colbert is him trying to save his Invictus position. Will be interesting to see if the MoD continue to support it.
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Anna, you are doing God’s work here, even though I did initially think that these posts were your very clever, humorous interpretations of Harold’s story. I’m still gob-smacked in both what this book contains and the way it’s written. I couldn’t cringe more if I tried. I bet even the folk he acknowledged in the book are mortified to have been thanked by this utter cretin.
If it’s true (and if not where the hell was Doria all that time?) how did TW get it wiped from the net? This must’ve been done before or as soon as she met Harry but she was a nothing at that point so where did she get the power you’d need to get that to happen? Confused.
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