Harry & Meghan #344 Muppets!

[Chita]

Congrats @jonathanlynch on the title.




On the last thread we marveled at the British expertise in making events like the coronation and concert go like clockwork.
We worried about the King & Queen being over tired or ill.
We werent keen on Catherine and Sophie's cloaks but we decided we liked the floral head dresses even though we prefer tiaras.
We were divided in opinion about Katy Perry's frock.
We loved the whole weekend.
We shared info about our snacks and we all loved the coronation Colin the Caterpillar cakes from Marks & Spencer.
We [well, me] are pissed off that we didnt get a good look at the foreign Royals in the Abbey.
We adored Louis and all the other kids.
We felt proud and emotional when William pledged his oath.
We lusted after Johnny Thompson.
We werent keen on Eugenie and we reiterated that we don't trust her.
We bitched about Harry and his wife.
We were very impressed by Penny Mordaunt's sword holding prowess.
But most of all WE LOVED PRINCESS ANNE AND HER RED PLUME.




Old thread here -

Harry & Meghan #343 He looked like a bag of sh!te, suit creased and high as a kite

Thanks to @AmIbeingTreasonable for the winning title. Well... The harridan showed her ghastly grin. She was papped with SkidMarcus and some one i'm not bovvered to correctly name. They were... drum rolls... on a hike. yep. not at the star studded birthday of the century. on a hike. on a paved...

tattle.life

 

[Maggiemaynot]

I think we should take a moment to compare and contrast. This is the Duke of Kent. He is 87 years old and was at the late Queen’s coronation in 1953 and at Charles coronation in 2023.
He has lived a life of quiet and devoted service to the Crown for over seventy years.
You can tell that at his latest engagements he has been struggling and for some reason my heart breaks when I see it.
A more dignified man I have yet to come across.
Then you have a silly bint like Smeg trying to tell us that service is universal. Not for you it isn’t you self serving cow. And her husband making a clown of himself at solemn occasions.
Don’t you feel even the tiniest bit of shame Harold, Duke of Sussex?
Be more Duke of Kent.

 

[LadyMuck]

 

[Libbylulu]

Scoobie going after the Wales’ children is the lowest of the low. These gorgeous children have been a credit to their parents and to the King over the weekend. This smacks of jealousy from the Markles camp - shame on them! Disgusting

 

[CELESTE CROCKETT]

Dan says H has a privileged life and wants to blame someone for all his issues. He can't or won't take responsibility for anything so blames his family and the media

My best friends husband died in bed one night aged 40 from a brain haemorrhage. Being a nurse like me she dragged him onto the floor & did CPR whilst waiting 4 the ambulance. Their 2 sons 11 and 9 stood at the bedroom door watching.
They had a really rough few years, emotionally & financially the school was great but counselling for the boys was by winstons wish the charity. Theyre now in their 20s and lovely lads.
They didnt have the support Harry had, or the access to the best therapy, or the best schools, the finances, they didnt have the extra worries other kids have. I am NOT negating Harrys grief but he really needs to stop looking back and whining and blaming everyone. He ought to be grateful he has the life he does. No work, transatlantic travel, famous friends, therapy and money.
But you know what? He seems much more miserable than my best friends boys

 

[Wackie Jeaver]

Have we seen this? apols if already posted

Response to the Moehringer piece by Hilary Rose in the Times:

So now we know. If we are to believe Prince Harry’s ghostwriter, JR Moehringer, the five-year ginger whinge fest is because people thought he was a bit thick and his mum died. So to be clear, the Oprah interview, the hours of Netflix, the 400-page book, the endless swipes and grotesque indiscretions and freelance royal nonsense, it isn’t about making millions and building Brand Harry. It definitely isn’t because he’s one of those people who want to have the last word, all the time, everywhere. It isn’t because he’s spent too much time staring at his navel while the rest of us go to work. No, the whinge fest was because people “belittled his intellectual capabilities” and his mum died. Thirty years and living happily ever after in California evidently isn’t enough to get over it and move on.
Moehringer's account in The New Yorker of how he tackled the writing of Spare gives us an insight into quite how tedious it would have been if Harry had written it himself. This is a grown man whose specialist subject is apparently Moana “and his favourite scene is when Heihei the silly chicken gets lost at sea”. What Harry wants isn’t to tell the truth, as Moehringer claims, it’s revenge. Think about it: slagging off his family is a funny way of proving how clever he is and it definitely won’t bring his mum back.

“Even at the most peripheral moments of his life, his central tragedy intrudes,” Moehringer writes about Diana’s death. Harry wanted Spare to be “a rebuttal to every lie ever published about him . . . he dreams of endless retractions”. For the love of God, man, don’t read it! Lots of people have grim childhoods with divorced or dead parents. Very few of them have the privileges Harry had.

And besides, he doesn’t want to rebut all the “lies”. He wants to edit out his own lack of judgment in playing strip billiards with strangers in Vegas, or wearing a Nazi uniform to a fancy dress party. Spare, Moehringer writes, was “Harry’s comeback” but he at first “wasn’t sure how much he wanted to say”. He seems to have got over that pretty well. There were tears in his eyes at the publication party, apparently because it felt incredible to have the “truth” out there. There were probably tears in his father’s eyes as well, and his grandmother would have turned in her grave, but hey-ho, eh?

“The way he’d been treated by both strangers and intimates was grotesque,” Moehringer writes, but Harry’s self-obsession is epic. We’ve all been let down and traduced. That’s life. He’s also being a tad disingenuous when he adds that a memoir is “a particular series of events chosen because they have the greatest resonance for the widest range of people”. Come on. Not many people will resonate with being thumped by a prince in a palace and smashing a dog bowl.

But what I find odd is this. Harry goes on and on about the living hell that is being royal, the sheer unrelenting intolerable awfulness of it, but William and Kate seem to live very nice lives. By and large, nobody bothers them when they’re not on duty. Contrary to what Meghan once claimed, there are no banks of paparazzi waiting in the bushes of rural Berkshire to ambush them on their way to school every day. They brush up well for high days and holidays, then they go back to normal life. They spent the weekend in robes and jewels and on Tuesday they took the kids to school. They stand on the touchline at sports matches. They go on nice holidays. They dress up for film premieres and wear jewels and tiaras but, for the most part, they spend their days bringing up their children and doing interesting things with interesting people, talking about subjects that interest them.


“Telling is how we cement details, preserve continuity, stay sane,” Moehringer writes, defending Harry’s score-settling. Oh, please. No, it is not. Most of us don’t have a publishing deal or a slot with Oprah, or a streaming giant paying to “tell our story” and “stay sane”. For most of us, cracking on is how we do it. You should try it, Harry. You might like it. But it won’t sell many books, so I guess you won’t.

 

[Shushex]

thanks for new thread and title!

saw this earlier and was laughing with my sister who's been experiencing this for the last 2 years. meanwhile, all the companies she applied for keep moaning about being short on employees.

 

[BlinkyBill]

Reddit - interesting re Harold's lack of respect as ex-military. Not surprised though.

 

[Amiyaya]

I wonder at what point Hairy will wake up and realise he isn’t the only person to have suffered trauma. I recall the death of Diana very clearly and also the Christmas speech that year in which our late queen delivered the address through undeniable tears. TLQ came under absolute horrific abuse for keeping the boys up in balmoral, which is what they believed was the right thing to do to protect them from a besieged London and a huge outpouring of grief. King Charles looked absolute devastated- she may have been his ex wife but he clearly felt her loss and, more importantly that of his boys, very keenly and deeply.

 

[LadyMuck]

 

[Tootlingalong]

I still firmly believe that H is the reason we don’t see those children, and it’s a hard no because he is so deep into his paranoia he can’t see straight.

Totally agree, he thinks he is in control because only they release the pictures. I believe the first pap shot when he was in the UK and she went for a wander with her doll, minders and dogs and got backgrid papped he will have had a word. In fact by trying to appear better than William and Catherine because they do the expected shots on birthdays they actually create more disdain for themselves. The desperation of the sugars to get more pictures feeds their ego.

Thanks for all the new threads during the coronation you were all brill I spent the best part of the weekend to tipsy to comment But your great tattlers made sure I didn't miss anything

Found this on twitter great take on the whole balcony comment.

 

[Wackie Jeaver]

I have a sneaking love for both Piers Morgan and Jeremy Clarkson... I know they are both probably (actually?) real shits, but I do like someone who has the balls to have the courage of their convictions. And Morgan's Mirror diaries (the first one at least) were hilarious. And I like Clarkson's Farm too.

 

[tobehonest]

This is just beautiful

 

[ElChanguito]

I wonder at what point Hairy will wake up and realise he isn’t the only person to have suffered trauma. I recall the death of Diana very clearly and also the Christmas speech that year in which our late queen delivered the address through undeniable tears. TLQ came under absolute horrific abuse for keeping the boys up in balmoral, which is what they believed was the right thing to do to protect them from a besieged London and a huge outpouring of grief. King Charles looked absolute devastated- she may have been his ex wife but he clearly felt her loss and, more importantly that of his boys, very keenly and deeply.

Off topic but hey ho: I went to school with a boy who was orphaned when he was a baby. He was brought up by an aunt and uncle who were not very nice to him, they made sure they treated him different to their biological kids, made him do his own washing, all very Harry Potter. His growth was stunted due to the trauma of being orphaned and though he was a year older than us he was so small. He didn’t do well at school but somehow overcame it all as he reached adulthood and he is now the editor of a local newspaper. His story is so inspiring but hardly anyone knows it.

TL;DR: Harry isn't the only one to suffer trauma, many kids go through much worse.

 

[LadyMuck]

You know, when I think of it, it's laughable that H is going to court re privacy invaded, yet he told the world that W had been circumcised which was despicable imo

 

[Pom Bear]

Damn I couldn't resist it One more I made x..

 

[LadyMuck]

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[Chita]

Hang on. Did I just see someone say that Sparry is now due BACK in the UK again? WTF? So he literally popped home to babysit the cardboard cutout kids while Smegs did her pap hike but he's already now heading back here?

Mental

If he hadn't aired the dirty laundry [cue Don Henley song..] in public about his unhappiness with his family and hadn't disclosed personal info etc etc he could have had a lovely little holiday with family in the UK with his wife and kids over the weekend and they could have stayed here for the court case. Although I guess there would be no court case if he hadnt turned traitor.

Imagine Archie and Lili getting to know their cousins at that Scout thing yesterday where Louis was shovelling and wheeling a barrow.
They could have had a great time.

 

[kev1974]

Hang on. Did I just see someone say that Sparry is now due BACK in the UK again? WTF? So he literally popped home to babysit the cardboard cutout kids while Smegs did her pap hike but he's already now heading back here?

Mental

 

[Thalia]

So per the ghostwriter a motivation for Harry was to demonstrate that he really wasn’t a “thicko”. So he didn’t excel academically? Who cares. There are various types of intelligence. I am 42. Meghan is 41. Like her, I am not British but English is our mother tongue. I was 16 when Diana died. Even before that I knew who Diana was. She was one of the most famous people in the world and it wasn’t a stretch to at least have a surface level brief about her. Married/Divorced from Charles. Two kids. William and Harry. Her death was a seismic event. I watched the funeral and the coverage. My argument here is that Meghan, particularly since she was active and involved in the world of celebrity, would have known who Diana was and subsequently who Harry was. Now assuming Meghan really told Harry that she genuinely didn’t know who he was and he couldn’t apply the above logic and conclude that she was talking utter shite then he really is a thicko. As if she wasn’t forensically researching him the second she got a sniff of a chance with him. When she met the Queen she thought Prince Andrew was a servant in the Palace. Harrys reaction? Oh she definitely didn’t Google us. Thicko Status: Confirmed…