I have said before but they (royals) knew she had passed before getting on planes. Most of London knew by 3pm. I have heard from several sources through my work (financial sector) as various meetings etc were either planned or cancelled immediately.
Didn’t she die around 4:30PM though? Which can easily mean it was clear she won’t make it at 3PM.
RE: TV numbers. There has been all day coverage on tv in various nations (and not all Commonwealth), sometimes with several tv separate stations, plus livestreams by national tv station players online. They had their own commentators and such. Depending how those numbers are accumulated you can easily get the 5bn. If you count every original(don’t know the korrekt English term) click on such coverage with a 30sec frame to stay on the site for example.
The RF sometimes hates, sometimes utilities leaks. Which, interestingly, is the same game H&M are playing. Their circle of friends is leakier than a sponge. And while I think it was fair game to step back and say, that they would have preferred a different (fka still royal but less senior position) set up, that they found living in the royal sphere as it is too hard and they had ambitions for things that just weren’t a go as royals, maybe even that they need some healthy distance to maintain a relationship with the family or that the royal business puts a strain on family relations, or other more emotional stuff- what they said though was putting all the blame on others, starting the rather undignified “who is the racist” game (which they immediately had to correct to not PP or HMTQ), spouting stuff that was quickly proven completely BS (
three days earlier is just a
crappy mocking phrase as
can’t sweat nowadays) and all in all an over privileged couple complaining they were so hard done by. They looked so bad. A husband that started a mental health campaign in 2016 that was completely helpless and ashamed with his wife’s suffering (I mean not that problems were to be expected with such a quick and massive life change????)? The delusion of comparing them to the hype and death of his mother? Whining they had to pay for their own security and living accommodations (maybe a 10 bedroom villa would have fit the bill better then)? That was real PP
maybe have to stop playing polo tit- that didn’t go down well either. In retrospect it has never worked if one of them sat down for such an interview.
And people hadn’t forgotten that they never actually intended to step back from royal life. They would have happily continued to suffer the racism, mean family, the mental health struggles if they had gotten their own version of things. Just look at the several updates they had to make to their exit statement. The hypocrisy is astonishing. They bargained hard and lost and threw a fit afterwards. Sore losers for sure.