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Meghan and Harry Interview (Mod Warning in First Post)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,172 ✭✭✭screamer


    As for Harry being cut off financially, what almost 40 year old capable man is financially dependent on his family, seriously he doesn’t live in the real world ????
    I’ve not depended financially on my family since I was 17. Then I got a job and worked to earn money as we all do. Harry was a working royal so he got paid, when he stopped working he stopped being paid, like any employer. He seems more than a little entitled to be honest.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Nqp15hhu


    Yeah he shouldn’t expect taxpayers money living in a foreign country. Get a grip on reality!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,851 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Skip 5/10 years from now

    Meghan will be shacked up with a Hollywood type/Saudi Prince

    Harry will be miserable and will traipse back to England

    Could happen!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,172 ✭✭✭screamer


    Finally, Charles asked him to put it in writing.... ah yes, don’t we all have to formally tender our resignation when leaving a job!!!! I think Harry has confused his family and his employer and infuriated both. He’s gonna have a full time job now anyways doing Megan’s bidding.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    I guess if you grew up in a 200 room palace, ski holidayed in Kloisters from a toddler and played chopsticks on a solid gold piano in your grannies living room and people knelt to you every time you came into a room you’d have a skewed perspective on ‘entitlement’.

    As for cash cow e200million + land Charles ‘cutting him off’ he already has e20m from his mammy - guess ge might be regretting walking away from a share in that inheritance - especially when Charles who is nearly 70 dies. And lets face it - he’s already had covid as has his next in line brother. BIG timing mistake.

    As for Maggie - I never knew you could be awarded a title of princess and have it advance decided that your sons or daughters wouod not carry that title. I guess she didn’t see that coming either. You’d think with that shrewd advance planning from the queen that she’d cop on now that there’s talk in the air of the HRH being taken off Harry and the Sussex title removed - but no.
    Seems mr self assured and entitled has found his perfect mrs.


    No doubt the tabloids and media will gorge off them for years but as everyone say, it plays badly into their two main mantras of wanting media privacy and wanting to be financially self sufficient!!

    As for her - always the victim - seems she wants the black audience with her new poormouthing over the colour of the baby. I seem to remember someone famous getting axed for posting a pic of a black baby with ginger hair on twitter - and they wern’t the only ones on the planet wondering.

    Not that I care about any of them - but it seems ironic that her main trade on fame is a C list actress part and then marrying a prince who was eligable, wealthy and gormless - not to mention having been thrown over by every girlfriend he ever hd and openly desperate to marry. And now she hs positioned herself to try and poison his relationship with his family, alienated him from his past and all his friends and is seeking to destroy the royal family she was so desperate to marry into. Sad really.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,262 ✭✭✭Kaybaykwah


    screamer wrote: »
    Finally, Charles asked him to put it in writing.... ah yes, don’t we all have to formally tender our resignation when leaving a job!!!! I think Harry has confused his family and his employer and infuriated both. He’s gonna have a full time job now anyways doing Megan’s bidding.


    I find this all a bit roiling, don't you?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 727 ✭✭✭NeuralNetwork


    It’s an utterly bizarre institution when you think about what it is and how it operates.

    The quote that stood out to me was that they took her passport and her keys. That’s screwed up and chimes with what you’re seeing coming out of the UAE rather than a 21st century Western European country.

    The whole thing seems to be about creating a facade of respectability at any cost, be it cover up or bullying and it seems to matter far more than it should and wields strange power and influence.

    I’d suspect it’s driven by a whole system of archaic courtiers running and maintaining it.

    It also just puts the freak show that is the British tabloid media on display for what it is. The royals are a big part of their output.

    It’s the same bullying newspapers that seem to more or less run the U.K. in many political aspects of life too. When you consider the vicious lies that come out day after day whipping up fever around Brexit for example or keeping the tabloid PM in office or destroying whatever political figure has dared to get in the way of whatever agenda they’re in favour of. They also think nothing of ability absolutely destroying minor celebrities.

    I remember living in London and witnessing a very minor tv personality being absolutely hounded by tabloid photographers. I was just having coffee and next thing saw this woman literally cowering and two photographers stalking her, one of them shouting stuff at her to get a reaction. It was over some absolute trash non story about her personal life.

    It can be a very, very strange place.

    The whole concept of a royal family in the 21st century is bizarre, particularly one that’s taken this seriously, but in this case it’s also indulging a national need for some kind of Disney fantasy. There’s also that obsessive following of them which is like a mixture of celebrity fandom crossed with a sort of medieval subservience and ultra patriotism. It’s just weird.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,773 ✭✭✭✭Francie Barrett


    I've no time for any of these royals and have to say I am loving all this dirty washing being aired in public. Perhaps it might go some way to making the British sit up and realise just how toxic their parasitic relationship is to this family of wasters.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,070 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    I've no time for any of these royals and have to say I am loving all this dirty washing being aired in public. Perhaps it might go some way to making the British sit up and realise just how toxic their parasitic relationship is to this family of wasters.

    Unfortunately it's more likely they'll double down on their support for them. They might bump off Prince Philip a bit early for the ideal "dead cat" What hopefully might happen though is progressive countries like Canada and New Zealand sit up and finally cut the ties with the monarchy. Saying that the flag vote in New Zealand a few years ago doesn't really tally with that idea.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,755 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    Whatever one thinks of Meaghan, clearly Harry has been carrying serious issues with himself, the family, the media and the wider institution of the Royal family for well before she was on the scene.

    To blame her is to, like the royal family itself, completely miss the point. Here is a guy that was crying out for help, his family ignored him and told him to 'suck it up' which led him to try to find people that would listen and accept his POV.

    If Meaghan really is as bad as people are making out, then it is fully the fault of his family for driving him away to such an extent.

    They, the Royal family, bear the responsibility for what appears to be a very broken man.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    ‘they’ took her passport and her keys? Keys to what? Frogmore? The wedding Bentley? I never heard of her having a car or appartment of her own in London. Did she expect to keep a key to buckingham palace so she could nip in for an avacado on her way to Harrods?

    & most women have to hand their passports over to get their name changed when they get married and want to travel. What second name is she using now?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,172 ✭✭✭screamer


    ‘they’ took her passport and her keys? Keys to what? Frogmore? The wedding Bentley? I never heard of her having a car or appartment of her own in London. Did she expect to keep a key to buckingham palace so she could nip in for an avacado on her way to Harrods?

    & most women have to hand our passports over to get their name changed when they get married and want to travel. What second name is she using now?

    Indeed so much stuff thrown out there, but no context behind it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,593 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    I found it hilarious that she wanted her son to have a title. So much for equality and being modern.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,977 ✭✭✭ebbsy


    She wanted a few bob and he got his meat and 2 veg.

    But they did not want to do the royal duties ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 727 ✭✭✭NeuralNetwork




    & most women have to hand our passports over to get their name changed when they get married and want to travel. What second name is she using now?

    Really?! That’s news to me.
    I’ve never heard of anyone handing over their passport to anyone other than the passport office to process something.

    The implication she was making was they (“the firm”) didn’t want her travelling back to the US, so took her passport, which would in all likelihood be an American one.

    Most people don’t have a situation where their grandmother in law quite literally is the state.

    The institution itself is just a bizarre concept though. I’d suspect she had a rather rude awakening when she realised it wasn’t about Disney princess lifestyle and involved a lot of extreme formality and ceremonial garbage and being basically nationalised as a public institution for a load of royal obsessives to parse what she had for breakfast.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,593 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    ebbsy wrote: »
    She wanted a few bob and he got his meat and 2 veg.

    But they did not want to do the royal duties ?

    That's what it looks like. Too much work and too boring for them.

    This happened with Edward VIII, he didn't want to do the Royal rubbish. Margaret too hated all of that stuff and spent most of her life on holiday.

    Difficulty is, they want to hold onto the titles and privileges.

    Wonder how much of the Royal Family the Brits will tolerate, particularly after the Queen dies.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,727 ✭✭✭Nozebleed


    tell ye one thing..she's packed on the weight. is that a double chin an all now?


  • Posts: 17,728 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ......................

    As for cash cow e200million + land Charles ‘cutting him off’ he already has e20m from his mammy - guess ge might be regretting walking away from a share in that inheritance - especially when Charles who is nearly 70 dies. And lets face it - he’s already had covid as has his next in line brother. BIG timing mistake.
    ...........

    What does already having Covid have to do with it? :confused:


  • Registered Users Posts: 689 ✭✭✭BettyS


    I found it hilarious that she wanted her son to have a title. So much for equality and being modern.

    Equality or not, why didn’t he receive the title? Look at how Andrew’s daughters all received the title. It may seem trivial, but they are wondering why.

    Nobody will come out well from this. It is sad to see a family so broken.

    That said, no family is worth suicide!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 454 ✭✭Coybig_


    Not too bothered about the Royal Family or their bickering, but as a man watching another man - I sympathise for Harry. Poor fella has been absolutely brainwashed by somebody with more red flags than a communist march, now he is on the other side of the globe in an unfamiliar environment with no allies around him, while she makes it impossible for him to ever reconnect with his family when this all goes t*ts up.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,654 ✭✭✭✭extra gravy


    Fair play to her for talking about her mental health problems, that will resonate with a lot of people. Not an easy thing to do and will of course be dismissed as attention seeking by the usual gob****es here.


  • Posts: 17,728 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    BettyS wrote: »
    ...........
    That said, no family is worth suicide!

    I'd say there's not much truth in her claim tbh ........... perhaps she uttered "I wish I was dead" or something but I doubt she was genuinely suicidal. She's just doing a brezzy on it and trying to cash in on mental health. Very populist nowadays, a must do for anyone serious about a career in the public eye talking sh1t. There's enough red top readers out there who lap it up.........
    Fair play to her for talking about her mental health problems, that will resonate with a lot of people. Not an easy thing to do and will of course be dismissed as attention seeking by the usual gob****es here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,851 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Well watched it and have to say it was a sad show.

    They were given awful abuse in the press in my opinion, but the interview has made me dislike them haha.

    It seemed so pre scripted, lots of implied info with no basis provided. Using tabloid headlines to make other look bad and Meghan a victim (she was to be fair) but not blaming the press really.

    The baby race (maybe a cook made a comment but we will never really know) was a right one. Then the whole they wouldnt keep him safe unless they made him a prince (Hilarious)...

    All in all a lovely sob story and hatchet job, more money in the bank from oprah and the lads future tv deals secured.

    This nails it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,654 ✭✭✭✭extra gravy


    Augeo wrote: »
    I'd say there's not much truth in her claim tbh ........... perhaps she uttered "I wish I was dead" or something but I doubt she was genuinely suicidal. She's just doing a brezzy on it and trying to cash in on mental health. Very populist nowadays, a must do for anyone serious about a career in the public eye talking sh1t. There's enough red top readers out there who lap it up.........

    Did you copy and paste this from the Daily Mail comments section? Not worth responding to.


  • Registered Users Posts: 689 ✭✭✭BettyS


    Did you copy and paste this from the Daily Mail comments section? Not worth responding to.

    TheJournal comments are usually as vitriolic as the DailyMail. Which Irish people actually write those kinds of comments on theJournal?


  • Registered Users Posts: 689 ✭✭✭BettyS


    It is insane how obsessed the US media are with the story. I don’t know if people will just become sick of Harry and Meghan due to overexposure


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 727 ✭✭✭NeuralNetwork


    I suppose a good royal scandal and the family huffing is an excellent distraction from the horrors of COVID and the lunacy of Brexit.

    I’m sure Boris is delighted.


  • Registered Users Posts: 689 ✭✭✭BettyS


    I suppose a good royal scandal and the family huffing is an excellent distraction from the horrors of COVID and the lunacy of Brexit.

    I’m sure Boris is delighted.

    I am sure that the queen is delighted that the Andrew story is also flying under the radar!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,654 ✭✭✭✭extra gravy


    BettyS wrote: »
    TheJournal comments are usually as vitriolic as the DailyMail. Which Irish people actually write those kinds of comments on theJournal?

    Probably the same posters in this thread. You know the ones. "Poor Harry has been brainwashed"/"She's lying about having mental health problems." Sad immature individuals that don't really know much about anything.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 727 ✭✭✭NeuralNetwork


    The Queen will have to really up the ante now and deliver a speech, while wearing an unusual hat to express her annoyance.

    She’ll have royal watchers literally convulsed with intrigue.

    Keep an eye out for her next appearance at the opening of an envelope.

    How many corgies did she have with her? Is she wearing the right broach? So many important questions ...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Honestly thought Harry's contribution would be much more vanilla than this.

    Should be interesting to see how certain pro-Royal UK media outlets put a positive spin on that.

    I didn’t, based on this compilation I watched yesterday which is pretty much all well pre-Meghan. A ‘Harry not holding back’ compilation. It’s why I don’t believe the narrative that Meghan is dragging him around by the nose.

    https://twitter.com/habibty_q/status/1368528254194376706?s=21


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    Augeo wrote: »
    What does already having Covid have to do with it? :confused:

    Em - because - given Harry is currently 6th in line - daddy charles, willers, 3 nephews/nieces - Charles and Willers have been diagnosed with Covid - Willers lives with his kids. Suddenly the possibility of the line being wiped out or considerably shortened is a living reality. Queenie is 90+ and even she can’t live forever. Had he remained and played ball with the incurable and unpredictable covid he could be looking at a far greater chance at the throne & ultimate power & glory - but now he’s run away & messed it all up.

    If his HRH title is taken away he won’t even be in line to inherit apparently - thou I only read this & can’t really figure how it works. Thou it hppened to his uncle.

    The Irish Lord Leinster had a vaguely similar inheritance nightmare - his father used own Leinster House (government buildings) and he ( the son) was 4th or so in line to inherit - and decided it was probably never going to happen. He SOLD his share of whatever inheritance he wouod get for cash upfront to a bookies and went about spending and gambling it. Then - hey presto - World War One and the Spanish Flu wiped the male line above him out within a few short years - he suddenly found himself the new Lord of Leinster - but... had already totally f* it up for
    himself. Nightmare story really.

    In my crystal ball I see megan gnashing her polished veneers. I don’t think he’d be either bothered or able.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭LillySV


    Nozebleed wrote: »
    tell ye one thing..she's packed on the weight. is that a double chin an all now?

    Hahaha, too much avocado so

    I’d say william smiles every day he wakes up beside that fine thing, Katie ! Has the looks, intelligent.. no bull****


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,654 ✭✭✭✭extra gravy


    Nozebleed wrote: »
    tell ye one thing..she's packed on the weight. is that a double chin an all now?
    LillySV wrote: »
    Hahaha, too much avocado so

    I’d say william smiles every day he wakes up beside that fine thing, Katie ! Has the looks, intelligent.. no bull****

    International Women's Day in full swing, fair play to ye.


  • Registered Users Posts: 689 ✭✭✭BettyS


    LillySV wrote: »
    Hahaha, too much avocado so

    I’d say william smiles every day he wakes up beside that fine thing, Katie ! Has the looks, intelligent.. no bull****

    Genuinely, how do you know what Kate and William are really like? On what basis is she intelligent? On what basis is there no bull****? We only see what they want us to see. Remember how people thought what a nice guy David Beckham was and then the emails were leaked, depicting him as an odious man. The royal family is a carefully scripted PR campaign


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Coybig_ wrote: »
    Not too bothered about the Royal Family or their bickering, but as a man watching another man - I sympathise for Harry. Poor fella has been absolutely brainwashed by somebody with more red flags than a communist march, now he is on the other side of the globe in an unfamiliar environment with no allies around him, while she makes it impossible for him to ever reconnect with his family when this all goes t*ts up.

    Look at this mostly pre-Meghan compilation. He’s not really holding back, is he?

    https://twitter.com/habibty_q/status/1368528254194376706?s=21


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,172 ✭✭✭screamer


    BettyS wrote: »
    Genuinely, how do you know what Kate and William are really like? On what basis is she intelligent? On what basis is there no bull****? We only see what they want us to see. Remember how people thought what a nice guy David Beckham was and then the emails were leaked, depicting him as an odious man. The royal family is a carefully scripted PR campaign

    Which is exactly why Megan’s experience could have been a lot different. Some of the royals know how to play the game so that the press don’t hound them, but I think Megan and Harry drew them on themselves, whether through naivety or self promotion. It could have been much different.


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    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    Well seems the US media are all behind them from what I’ve seen. Some of the allegations are serious but why didn’t they name the person they allege was concerned about the skin colour of their son ? Name and shame if you’re that sure of who it was.

    Can the royal family respond to this interview formally ?

    Most likely Prince Philip!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,933 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    There's a claim that jumped out to me so much that I had to go and check the legality of the situation.
    Megan said her and Harry actually got married 3 days before the "Royal Wedding".
    That she rang the Archbishop of Canterbury, and he carried out the ceremony.
    Just the 3 of them in the back garden of Kensington Palace.
    The thing to note there, is "Just the 3 of them"!
    Except, that wouldn't be a legal marriage.
    A legal marriage requires that in addition to the celebrant and the bride and groom that 2 witnesses must also sign the register.

    It's such a simple and easily checked/confirmed piece of info.
    If they can at worst lie, and at best mistake a rehearsal for a wedding?
    How can their recollection be trusted?


    Also the entire someone said what colour is the baby going to be bit?
    Why raise that, if you are not going to tell the whole story?
    Would be as offensive to ask if the baby was going to be ginger?
    Or worse yet, biracial and ginger?
    Rather than throw a racist under the bus?
    They threw the entire family under the bus to preserve the "privacy" that they just obliterated?

    Don't get me wrong!
    I'm bloody delighted to see the UK and Royals in turmoil.
    But the more you look beneath the surface of the claims?

    The more there is a worrying lack of substance IMO.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,755 ✭✭✭✭Leroy42


    Coybig_ wrote: »
    Not too bothered about the Royal Family or their bickering, but as a man watching another man - I sympathise for Harry. Poor fella has been absolutely brainwashed by somebody with more red flags than a communist march, now he is on the other side of the globe in an unfamiliar environment with no allies around him, while she makes it impossible for him to ever reconnect with his family when this all goes t*ts up.

    If you have sympathy for him maybe you should actually pay attention to what he is saying.

    The family is the problem, Meagan is his answer. they are the root of his problems. Far from being brainwashed, she has helped him break free from a family that wanted to brainwash him, wanted to control him, wanted to ignore his feelings.

    He never had allies around him, that is exactly the point he is making. They never cared for him, only the institution.

    Whether he can ever reconnect is, it would seem, very much on them. They need to start to listen to him, take on board what he is saying, and put his wellbeing ahead of their own wishes.


  • Registered Users Posts: 689 ✭✭✭BettyS


    screamer wrote: »
    Which is exactly why Megan’s experience could have been a lot different. Some of the royals know how to play the game so that the press don’t hound them, but I think Megan and Harry drew them on themselves, whether through naivety or self promotion. It could have been much different.

    I agree that their approach to the media was far from ideal!

    I would say that the royal family carefully concoct every story that reaches the media. It all furthers the cause of the royal family.

    Behind it all, from watching events over the years, they don’t seem to be the nicest family. All that privilege and pomp must go to their heads. We are only hearing further bullying allegations now, involving various members (not just Meghan and Harry) of the royal family. Of course these will never come to light


  • Registered Users Posts: 689 ✭✭✭BettyS


    Leroy42 wrote: »
    If you have sympathy for him maybe you should actually pay attention to what he is saying.

    The family is the problem, Meagan is his answer. they are the root of his problems. Far from being brainwashed, she has helped him break free from a family that wanted to brainwash him, wanted to control him, wanted to ignore his feelings.

    He never had allies around him, that is exactly the point he is making. They never cared for him, only the institution.

    Whether he can ever reconnect is, it would seem, very much on them. They need to start to listen to him, take on board what he is saying, and put his wellbeing ahead of their own wishes.

    He wore that Nazi uniform at that party long before he ever met Meghan.

    Imagine if your whole life purpose was to be the spare, the understudy? Nobody really thinks of you as important as your sibling. Your Granny and your brother have all these special sessions together. Harry’s life had no purpose; neither destined to be king nor his own person, a footnote in history. And the one person who most likely thought of him as equal to his brother (his mother) died.

    I think that they are all spoilt and privileged. But I can understand the psychological damage that Harry experienced

    We all need purpose for our lives, whatever that purpose may be. I think lack of purpose is what drives the offspring of the very wealthy into madness


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭LillySV


    Leroy42 wrote: »
    If you have sympathy for him maybe you should actually pay attention to what he is saying.

    The family is the problem, Meagan is his answer. they are the root of his problems. Far from being brainwashed, she has helped him break free from a family that wanted to brainwash him, wanted to control him, wanted to ignore his feelings.

    He never had allies around him, that is exactly the point he is making. They never cared for him, only the institution.

    Whether he can ever reconnect is, it would seem, very much on them. They need to start to listen to him, take on board what he is saying, and put his wellbeing ahead of their own wishes.

    She fell out with her own family and fell out with Harry’s ... now Harry is losing out on his family and a fortune to follow someone who clearly only wants fame and attention.... if she wanted privacy she wouldn’t be on an Oprah show! And once all the royal family fiasco tires out down the line and she can’t milk anymore out of that.. she will divorce Harry and say he wasn’t fully supporting her ... and on to the next fool...

    Harry and Archie are the only ones I feel for here...that soft fool is getting destroyed and destroying some of his sons future wealth also ... to follow a dramatic and bad American actress


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,851 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    I’d say other “minor” members of the royal family the likes of princess anne etc who have kept their head down over the years and got on with the boring public service work must be very annoyed with Meghan and Harry


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,285 ✭✭✭Deeec


    Most likely Prince Philip!

    You are probably right with who said it. Old people have no filter as to what is right and wrong to say ( He is 99 years old). He probably said it but meant no harm. I have a friend who has a mixed race child - her father asked her this question when she was pregnant. He was just curious and she didnt take offence. I think Meg is making an issue out of nothing here.
    If he had said ' hopefully the baby will be a boy' or commented on the babies hair colour would they also have been offended.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 689 ✭✭✭BettyS


    Deeec wrote: »
    You are probably right with who said it. Old people have no filter as to what is right and wrong to say ( He is 99 years old). He probably said it but meant no harm. I have a friend who has a mixed race child - her father asked her this question when she was pregnant. He was just curious and she didnt take offence. I think Meg is making an issue out of nothing here.
    If he had said ' hopefully the baby will be a boy' or commented on the babies hair colour would they also have been offended.

    Googling some of Prince Philip’s quotes from over the years is shocking


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    banie01 wrote: »
    There's a claim that jumped out to me so much that I had to go and check the legality of the situation.
    Megan said her and Harry actually got married 3 days before the "Royal Wedding".
    That she rang the Archbishop of Canterbury, and he carried out the ceremony.
    Just the 3 of them in the back garden of Kensington Palace.
    The thing to note there, is "Just the 3 of them"!
    Except, that wouldn't be a legal marriage.
    A legal marriage requires that in addition to the celebrant and the bride and groom that 2 witnesses must also sign the register.

    It's such a simple and easily checked/confirmed piece of info.
    If they can at worst lie, and at best mistake a rehearsal for a wedding?
    How can their recollection be trusted?

    Yeah, I’m not sure that’s possible. If they were already married by the time of the televised wedding, could they really have gone through the vows again in a second ceremony. Like, is that even legal? And there has to be five people present at a wedding minimum - the couple, a celebrant and two witnesses.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,624 ✭✭✭✭meeeeh


    LillySV wrote: »
    Hahaha, too much avocado so

    I’d say william smiles every day he wakes up beside that fine thing, Katie ! Has the looks, intelligent.. no bull****

    I couldn't care less who is right or wrong in royal saga. But this kind of reply and post you quoted is something posted by people who big themselves up by downgrading others. Maybe some intelligent company would benefit in your case too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 39 MarshmallowPop


    I must say I absolutely despise the idea of the 'Royal Family'. What did these people achieve and do in their lives to be classed as Royal, absolutely nothing that's what. They basically were born into a lineage and that's about it. I really think they are a crowd of rich chavs who have brought nothing but scandal to the country.

    Yes, people say that the Royal Family have brought a lot of revenue through tourism but it's not like tourists get to sit with the Queen for afternoon tea. They only look at buildings from the outside, much like why I would go to Paris or Rome to marvel at the architecture.

    From the perspective of Harry and Meghan, I do think there was a lot of bullying going on, from the tabloids in particular. Meghan could do no right.

    I also think there is a lot of issues going on in the background like who is his real Dad and what really happened his Mum in Paris.

    Imagine thinking that your own flesh and blood deliberately set out to hurt his Mother.

    To be quite frank, I am surprised he survived those Chavs for that long.

    Also, if you really want a good laugh about the 'Royal Family, watch the Windsors on Netflix. It is way a more realistic view of the Royal Pains than the Crown.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭LillySV


    meeeeh wrote: »
    I couldn't care less who is right or wrong in royal saga. But this kind of reply and post you quoted is something posted by people who big themselves up by downgrading others. Maybe some intelligent company would benefit in your case too.

    Who did I downgrade? How can you conclude that I’m not intelligent ? If you don’t like something someone says, do you automatically lash out or try insult someone? Are you in a relationship? Feel for that person if this is a representation of how you handle or process things you don’t like....


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