The Royal Family #35

thegirlscout · Jan 17, 2023

Anna2020 said:

I mean this has just made crystal clear that Iran has sympathies and links with terrorist organisations. So any country who is still supporting them and has diplomatic missions there would be well advised to leave.

Boring Monday said:
box. A nice desk job somewhere well away from things that go bang, where he could he could be given all manner of important make-work would have done.

From what I was told he was given the option of a desk job because he couldn’t pass his exams but wanted to be at the front line still so packed it in all together. He didn’t want to be seen as a fake ‘toy solider’ but I don’t think he would have been able to do much more on the front lines anyway.

Em_gardener · Jan 17, 2023

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thegirlscout said:
I mean this has just made crystal clear that Iran has sympathies and links with terrorist organisations. So any country who is still supporting them and has diplomatic missions there would be well advised to leave.

From what I was told he was given the option of a desk job because he couldn’t pass his exams but wanted to be at the front line still so packed it in all together. He didn’t want to be seen as a fake ‘toy solider’ but I don’t think he would have been able to do much more on the front lines anyway.

The Iranian regime is terrible and they'll jump on anything they can. I wish Harry hadn't made it so easy for them though. What he wrote was a gift for anyone looking to deflect attention or stir up trouble.

F1Grid · Jan 17, 2023

LoopyLou47 said:
It sounds like he wants to reform the Monarchy in a way that doesn't have primogeniture, because it means he's a 'spare' ( so not a monarchy at all!) and one where they don't have to enter into any devil's pacts with the press. So either a completely deferential press who collude to keep their secrets hidden. Of course, the press couldn't care less about any of them and only pretend to do do if it benefits their sales/ clicks. If the Royals didn't throw them bones, it would be open season on all their behaviour, which possibly could bring them down.

What's funny is that if the person who becomes King was based on anything other than primogeniture, it still wouldn't be Harry.

Harry's thick and over-emotional - no amount of 'King lessons' would fix that. If we had to pick who'd be King between the two, it'd always be William.

bubbadabut · Jan 18, 2023

Em_gardener said:
I'm going to share this and completely lower the tone.
I feel like Harry has sunk so low now. This is so embarrassing for him. I don't even like him and I feel sorry for him after watching it.

Whoever wrote that should have been credited - they're a literary genius. It knocks spots off "The Bench".

Boring Monday said:
To be fair, he didn’t need to pass exams … he had full access to the military uniform dressing up box. A nice desk job somewhere well away from things that go bang, where he could he could be given all manner of important make-work would have done.

That could've worked. As long as his desk was bigger than his superior's. And not from IKEA.

LoopyLou47 · Jan 18, 2023

thegirlscout said:
I mean this has just made crystal clear that Iran has sympathies and links with terrorist organisations. So any country who is still supporting them and has diplomatic missions there would be well advised to leave.

From what I was told he was given the option of a desk job because he couldn’t pass his exams but wanted to be at the front line still so packed it in all together. He didn’t want to be seen as a fake ‘toy solider’ but I don’t think he would have been able to do much more on the front lines anyway.

His entire family are ' fake soldier boys' with their dressy up chest full of medals! He wanted the same after he had left!

Eirawen · Jan 18, 2023

NomDePlume said:
Harry needs to reform himself before he concerns himself with reforming anyone else in the family.

He could have stayed in the military but is simply too dim to pass the relevant exams to advance himself. Perhaps a good thing. Judging by his reasoning skills, he would hardly be suitable to plan military strategies.

From his book, it seems he thought he might co-reign with William one day or at the very least be king of the Commonwealth.

I think these weird ideas come into his head when he's taking drugs and he then starts believing his fantasies. He seems feeble minded and no doubt as he worsens with age Meghan will leave him which will lead to more drugs and fantasies and shrinks.

LoopyLou47 said:
His entire family are ' fake soldier boys' with their dressy up chest full of medals! He wanted the same after he had left!

Seeing them in their medals is really annoying you should only get medals for true bravery. They bring the value of the medals down.

hehehe · Jan 18, 2023

Em_gardener said:
I'm going to share this and completely lower the tone. I feel like Harry has sunk so low now. This is so embarrassing for him. I don't even like him and I feel sorry for him after watching it.

It would be most harrowing for Meghan to see how their "brand" is trawling the gutter now, after she spent 6 years polishing their victim halo only to become the girl who cried wolf. Harry is as thick as two short planks, he'll never get it.
I fear that once the divorce kicks off and he tries to put it all on her, I might find myself on Team Meghan.

Nuttynana · Jan 18, 2023

elliebee27 said:
This - silver spoons make people entitled. Nobody said no to them, ever; everyone cleaned up their messes or hid them; no consequences.

Diana flitted in and out of their life like a butterfly, I think that probably messes you up too.

An old Etonian twat married to the flaccid,rich,bored old Man's paid for escort.

If shit were brains this fucker would be constipated.

Deluded,deranged,damaged,duplicitous dipshit.

Lets have a collection for a holiday for him, I hear Kabul is nice this time of year!!

elliebee27 · Jan 18, 2023

Eirawen said:
I think these weird ideas come into his head when he's taking drugs and he then starts believing his fantasies. He seems feeble minded and no doubt as he worsens with age Meghan will leave him which will lead to more drugs and fantasies and shrinks.

Seeing them in their medals is really annoying you should only get medals for true bravery. They bring the value of the medals down.

Aren't their medals commemorative medals (excepting Harry's Afghanistan one and Andrew's Falklands one)? Everyone serving receives them don't they? For Jubilees and whatnot.

Boring Monday · Jan 18, 2023

elliebee27 said:
Aren't their medals commemorative medals (excepting Harry's Afghanistan one and Andrew's Falklands one)? Everyone serving receives them don't they? For Jubilees and whatnot.

I don’t know how far down the household they go, but Peter Philips wears the commemorative medals for golden, diamond and platinum jubilee, Edward‘s son James has the Diamond and Platinum, Mike has the Diamond and Platinum. Even Eduardo and Jack have the Platinum commemorative medal. But for Zara, Beatrice, Eugenie and Louise nothing. Why would the blood granddaughter’s merit anything shiney to pin on their coat? <huff. Mumble>

thegirlscout · Jan 18, 2023

Nuttynana said:
An old Etonian twat married to the flaccid,rich,bored old Man's paid for escort.

If shit were brains this fucker would be constipated.

Deluded,deranged,damaged,duplicitous dipshit.

Lets have a collection for a holiday for him, I hear Kabul is nice this time of year!!

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Jen667 · Jan 18, 2023

Nuttynana said:
An old Etonian twat married to the flaccid,rich,bored old Man's paid for escort.

If shit were brains this fucker would be constipated.

Deluded,deranged,damaged,duplicitous dipshit.

Lets have a collection for a holiday for him, I hear Kabul is nice this time of year!!

No, but come on....you're amongst friends here. Tell us how you really feel.

Yorkie99 · Jan 18, 2023

hannah123 said:
I don’t know why it’s annoyed me that the BRF have only sent Anne to Constantine’s funeral but it has a bit. Every other family has sent the King and Queen, even if Charles and Camilla didn’t want to go, I think they have a France trip very soon, why couldn’t William and Kate go? He was Williams godfather and Williams the heir, sending Anne and Williams cousin just feels a bit disrespectful when the same countries would never do the same in return. It reminded me yesterday my sister asked if I was going to read Prince Harrys book and said William and Kate come across as jobsworths, she might be just about the first person to ever think that about them, cause even with a clear calendar he still sends someone in his place.

Anne was closest to Philip, and was given his mother's tiara, so it seemed appropriate to me that she attended as the relative closest to that side of the family. William's cousin was a goddaughter. Also, there hasn't been a royal family in Greece since they were deposed in 1973 and stripped of their titles in 1974 so it seems reasonable for attendees to be there in a personal rather than official capacity. William may not have been close to his godfather.

Boring Monday said:
Princess Anne wasn’t his goddaughter?

Gabriella was.

BlinkyBill · Jan 18, 2023

wishiniwasskinny said:
He has commented about how he feels the issues with how “spares” are treated (palace leaks about stories related to him to distract from other royals) needs to stop with him and this is why he’s speaking out. I think he commented on how he wants to save his brothers children from it. His whole Schtick re this is that he just wants to raise the issues

Who are the 'spares' he is referring to? Anne & Edward seem fairly content in their roles, and presumably Andrew as an 'envoy' before his fall from grace. Oh - just himself then. There is no evidence that William's younger 2 are being brought up in an unfair way and their press coverage is within pre-agreed parameters. H is peed off that the press published stories about his capers - Vegas for example - when he came back to a huge ticking off about his behaviour.
He is quite happy to court the press for publicity for his good deeds, but doesn't like it when he gets caught out.

Multi-21 · Jan 18, 2023

Kaye is clearly in the DM good books at the moment, getting called thrifty for wearing a £1,600 outfit for the second time.

LoopyLou47 · Jan 18, 2023

Multi-21 said:
Kaye is clearly in the DM good books at the moment, getting called thrifty for wearing a £1,600 outfit for the second time.

She's been in their good books for a long time, because they can play her off against Meghan.

Jen667 · Jan 18, 2023

LoopyLou47 said:
She's been in their good books for a long time, because they can play her off against Meghan.

Helped by Harry who does a great deal of that himself in Spare

Great_Kate · Jan 18, 2023

Em_gardener said:
I'm going to share this and completely lower the tone.
I feel like Harry has sunk so low now. This is so embarrassing for him. I don't even like him and I feel sorry for him after watching it.

It’s bad when the fake mocking rhymes have a nicer flow than the children’s book they actually wrote…….
I agree that Kate is still cashing in on good headlines because the tabloids need her against M. It won’t last though. I think she would already get more criticism again if H&M wouldn’t f**k up their pr like they do. They are a gift that keeps on giving.

Hard pass on the adult cousins by the way. I doubt any of the for are any less entitled than H&W. Peter has exploited his royAl connections for money quite a bit. Zara is quite good at riding so she seems to be the only with putting really any effort into something. The rest lives happiness of their names and connections. Jury is still out on Louise and James. I think Sophie having some normal life experiences and Edward being a bit of an odd egg (completely positive though- interested in stuff that wasn’t the norm royal, harshly mocked quite a bit….) could be an asset to raising them to more self sufficient, even though they too will enjoy the cushion of relationships and money.

LoopyLou47 · Jan 18, 2023

Jen667 said:
Helped by Harry who does a great deal of that himself in Spare

Yes definitely helped by Harry!

thegirlscout · Jan 18, 2023

Great_Kate said:
I agree that Kate is still cashing in on good headlines because the tabloids need her against M. It won’t last though.

The headlines always pit women against women and since Meghan is ‘gone’ from Royal life who can they pit Kate against? Camilla isn’t as popular, maybe Sophie thought it wouldn’t have the same impact as pitting two women of the same age range against each other. So I think her ‘good fortune’ will last for a long time.

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