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Meghan & Harry: WE QUIT

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  • #202
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    mariaalice wrote: »
    I consider the queen a great woman she is head of the UK biggest tourism organisation and works very hard. The rest I am not sure what they do.

    Its a bit selfish of Harry it will land more work on his brother.

    She is the head of State. As a head of State she does what she has to do and has done it well. The working hard bit in relation to waving at people and declaring things open sticks in my craw. That is not hard work. That's the role of of the extended royal family and in no way, shape or form can it be classed as hard work.


  • #203
    w/s/p/c/
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 468 ✭✭w/s/p/c/


    Turned on the TV while making breakfast earlier and caught the last 5 mins of the repeat of last night's Tonight show on Virgin Media. They had a video call with some run of the mill snooty Royalist type. He was saying how Harry has been ruined, he was always a jack the lad, enjoyed a few drinks and always had his chest out and he doesn't do that any more. Yeah pal, its called growing up. He's a married man and a father now. It was followed by that d*ckhead Ivan Yeates calling her a charlatan! Typical West Brit talk.

    Fair play to them, a grown man making the best decision for himself and his family.

    If if found out that my granny plotted the murder of my mother and my uncle was a paedo, I would separate myself from my family too!! :-)


  • #204
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    w/s/p/c/ wrote: »
    Turned on the TV while making breakfast earlier and caught the last 5 mins of the repeat of last night's Tonight show on Virgin Media. They had a video call with some run of the mill snooty Royalist type. He was saying how Harry has been ruined, he was always a jack the lad, enjoyed a few drinks and always had his chest out and he doesn't do that any more. Yeah pal, its called growing up. He's a married man and a father now. It was followed by that d*ckhead Ivan Yeates calling her a charlatan! Typical West Brit talk.

    Fair play to them, a grown man making the best decision for himself and his family.

    If if found out that my granny plotted the murder of my mother and my uncle was a paedo, I would separate myself from my family too!! :-)
    Yeah, I was with you til the bit about the Queen plotting to murder his mother. His mother was a manipulative attention seeker who deliberately courted press attention. She had a public fling with Al Fayed in a deliberate attempt to make another man jealous. She died as a result of being in a speeding car that crashed whilst being pursued by the press she deliberately courted to publicise the fling. The phrase 'hung by your own petard' springs to mind. She was far from the innocent victim she tried to portray herself to be. A serial adulterer with married men who never passed up an opportunity to be photographed doing her great deeds of charity (hugging people ) . If you want a toxic female royal there she is right there.


  • #205
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,550 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    I'm sure auld lizzy is fairly happy Harry has quit. Has anyone mentioned the ( quite obvious) elephant in the room. So it pretty much suits everyone I'm sure this was discussed during talks. The only thing I think ,is that H&M were either so frustrated/ pissed off they just threw a hissy fit before the queen could release a statement


  • #206
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    w/s/p/c/ wrote: »

    If if found out that my granny plotted the murder of my mother and my uncle was a paedo, I would separate myself from my family too!! :-)

    Fair points:D:D


  • #207
    w/s/p/c/
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 468 ✭✭w/s/p/c/


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Yeah, I was with you til the bit about the Queen plotting to murder his mother. His mother was a manipulative attention seeker who deliberately courted press attention. She had a public fling with Al Fayed in a deliberate attempt to make another man jealous. She died as a result of being in a speeding car that crashed whilst being pursued by the press she deliberately courted to publicise the fling. The phrase 'hung by your own petard' springs to mind. She was far from the innocent victim she tried to portray herself to be. A serial adulterer with married men who never passed up an opportunity to be photographed doing her great deeds of charity (hugging people ) . If you want a toxic female royal there she is right there.

    You do realise that comment was tongue in cheek! I am well aware of how Diana died. I am sure if there was any conspiracy that it was a plot against her demise it would have more than likely come out by now.


  • #208
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,031 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Keep in mind that this is all coming after the Prince Andrew scandal and Charles’ talk about downsizing the Royals anyway. After Charles, William & Harry were “the heir and the spare”, but the arrival of William’s sprogs pushed Harry several places down the line of succession. The same thing happened to Anne and Andrew too, and I’m sure the lessons learned there are in Harry’s mind too.

    Death has this much to be said for it:
    You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
    Wherever you happen to be
    They bring it to you—free.

    — Kingsley Amis



  • #209
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    w/s/p/c/ wrote: »
    You do realise that comment was tongue in cheek! I am well aware of how Diana died. I am sure if there was any conspiracy that it was a plot against her demise it would have more than likely come out by now.

    Ah OK. Still, I managed to get a rant in about the 'people's princess ' so no harm done.


  • #210
    strandroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,676 ✭✭✭strandroad


    Good for them I'd say. Harry always seemed to be more free spirited and his choice of wife confirms it, he could have a lady if he wanted to but clearly he didn't.

    He now has a son and the treatment of royal children is atrocious; if he can protect him some he definitely should. How they made the two boys walk behind their mother's coffin holding it together in front of the entire world was terribly sad, and now little George is already wheeled out with William and Charles to keep promoting the family of cheaters and abusers. What kind of conversations about harbouring Andrew Harry was privy to we can only guess. Diana was no saint but as a 20 year old she didn't stand a chance in her marriage, rotten from day one. Even prince Phillip was a complete and unabashed cad back in the day, cheating on the queen right and left in plain sight, photographs and all.

    He is not beholden to them like William is so good luck to him and his family.


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  • #211
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,206 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Load of balls :pac:
    What does it exactly mean? He is minted. He is a royal despite whatever he may say. Even if he loses his money he'll just tap the royal family or his brother / father for some money.

    Doesn't mean a thing.


  • #212
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    Load of balls :pac:
    What does it exactly mean? He is minted. He is a royal despite whatever he may say. Even if he loses his money he'll just tap the royal family or his brother / father for some money.

    Doesn't mean a thing.

    He'll hardly need to tap anybody. She is worth 5 million and he inherited 13 million, with an annual investment profit of 450,000 per annum.


  • #213
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,814 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Vera Hollow Scuba wrote: »
    He'll hardly need to tap anybody. She is worth 5 million and he inherited 13 million, with an annual investment profit of 450,000 per annum.

    I think one of her engagement dresses cost over €60k. If they carry on at that rate. They might.


  • #214
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    ceadaoin. wrote: »
    Seems like Harry, who used to be very close to his brother and sister in law, is now completely estranged from them and the rest of the family. I wonder what really happened.

    Wonder if Wills ever calls him Harry Hewitt to wind him up. :pac::pac:


  • #215
    strandroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,676 ✭✭✭strandroad


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    I think one of her engagement dresses cost over €60k. If they carry on at that rate. They might.

    This stuff is sponsored, like Oscars gowns. If the fashion house is named, the garment is gifted or rented and not bought full price.


  • #216
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    strandroad wrote: »
    This stuff is sponsored, like Oscars gowns. If the fashion house is named, the garment is gifted or rented and not bought full price.

    How can a garment be worth that much money in the first place?


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  • #217
    Winning_Stroke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 224 ✭✭Winning_Stroke


    I used to think Harry was alright but his recent stuff does give the impression that herself is steering the ship now. Ah well, won't be the last lad that happens to.


  • #218
    strandroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,676 ✭✭✭strandroad


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    How can a garment be worth that much money in the first place?

    It's a status symbol, it's showcased on an Oscars actress or a celebrity and therefore marketed to petrodollars or financier milieus who will pay whatever is required.


  • #219
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    strandroad wrote: »
    It's a status symbol, it's showcased on an Oscars actress or a celebrity and therefore marketed to petrodollars or financier milieus who will pay whatever is required.

    It's disgusting.


  • #220
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,206 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Vera Hollow Scuba wrote: »
    He'll hardly need to tap anybody. She is worth 5 million and he inherited 13 million, with an annual investment profit of 450,000 per annum.

    But that's the point. He's minted.
    So what does "leaving" the Royal family mean?


  • #221
    lawred2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,457 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    Load of balls :pac:
    What does it exactly mean? He is minted. He is a royal despite whatever he may say. Even if he loses his money he'll just tap the royal family or his brother / father for some money.

    Doesn't mean a thing.

    I don't get it... Is he no longer a prince? Surely this is just meaningless.


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  • #222
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,699 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    How can a garment be worth that much money in the first place?
    I saw an interview with somebody recently (possibly Guggi) who said they had met Lady Gaga once in a smoking area in LA. The person noticed something strange about her fake eyelashes, but then realised that there was diamonds in them.

    That's how stuff can be worth a lot more than they should...


  • #223
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,865 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    But that's the point. He's minted.
    So what does "leaving" the Royal family mean?

    She can go back to Suits and he can pop on for the odd cameo playing 'English aristocrat in need of lawyer'.


  • #224
    Irish_peppa
    Registered Users Posts: 653 ✭✭✭Irish_peppa


    Surely this is not true lol :rolleyes:

    Prince Harry and Meghan trademarked their Sussex Royal brand on more than 100 items including pencils, socks and bookmarks more than six months ago.


    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7868315/Prince-Harry-Meghan-Markle-trademarked-100-items.html


  • #225
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,965 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Deebles McBeebles wrote: »
    She can go back to Suits and he can pop on for the odd cameo playing 'English aristocrat in need of lawyer'.

    I gave up on Suits, what happened to her character in it? Did she live happily ever after?


  • #226
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    I gave up on Suits, what happened to her character in it? Did she live happily ever after?

    She married a prince in the end...


  • #227
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,965 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Irish_peppa wrote: »
    Surely this is not true lol :rolleyes:

    Prince Harry and Meghan trademarked their Sussex Royal brand on more than 100 items including pencils, socks and bookmarks more than six months ago.


    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7868315/Prince-Harry-Meghan-Markle-trademarked-100-items.html

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=112204602&postcount=200


  • #228
    BailMeOut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,995 ✭✭✭BailMeOut


    Netflix are loving all this.


  • #229
    Stateofyou
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    paw patrol wrote: »
    she seems toxic
    falls out with her friends , ditches her family , makes her husband give up his mates and now his family.

    any critical opinion of her is racist :rolleyes:

    She doesn't fall out with her friends from what I can tell, they are supporting her now? Her own family are incredibly toxic, from the way they have staged photos with the press, revealed personal matters, name called, judged and criticized... go over into the personal issues board here and you'll see many people going through these same issues with family and instead of accusing posters of "ditching families," they are encouraged to mind their mental health and instill what's called a healthy BOUNDARY on their toxic family. Now her father is out commenting on it all once again, he just can't keep his mouth shut.
    And as for Prince Harry, all this suggesting Meghan is "making" him do certain things is a huge insult. Basically saying he has no mind of his own, has no idea what he's doing when he himself has come out hitting hard against the media for treating her the way his mum was treated.
    When it comes down to it, why should Meghan be criticized? But she is and they are, for everything. For falling in love, for marrying, and having the audacity to try and make a difference where they can and live life their way. Sure they know things behind the curtain that no one else is privy to... it all alludes and points to a great amount of harm and they're right to break away from a stuffy, old fashioned and out dated, harmful institution. It sounds like it's not a full break, just a partial break honoring their commitments while honoring their own values and goals. Nothing wrong with that.


  • #230
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,226 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/james-obrien/caller-meghan-dominates-harry-cant-give-example/

    James O'Brien nailing a caller on the issue


  • #231
    Boredstiff666
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,030 ✭✭✭Boredstiff666


    Winning_Stroke wrote: »
    I used to think Harry was alright but his recent stuff does give the impression that herself is steering the ship now. Ah well, won't be the last lad that happens to.

    My Mrs wants to know exactly what you mean by this.:o


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  • #232
    boombang
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭boombang


    I don't really give two hoots about the Royals, but I really enjoying imagining the anti-Megan rage that some of the UK tabloids must be consumed with now.


  • #233
    Boredstiff666
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,030 ✭✭✭Boredstiff666


    boombang wrote: »
    I don't really give two hoots about the Royals, but I really enjoying imagining the anti-Megan rage that some of the UK tabloids must be consumed with now.

    Piers Morgan classic headline in the Daily Mail website. I get the impression he isn't fond of the dynamic duo.


  • #234
    Immortal Starlight
    Registered Users Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭Immortal Starlight


    This announcement doesn't seem to mean much at all really. If they are not giving up their titles and house and money they receive from the taxpayers what's it all about? Is it just that they'll be having one very long holiday every year instead of lots of little ones.


  • #235
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Immortal Starlight wrote: »
    This announcement doesn't seem to mean much at all really. If they are not giving up their titles and house and money they receive from the taxpayers what's it all about? Is it just that they'll be having one very long holiday every year instead of lots of little ones.

    I want to be financially independent, so i'll just hang on to this mountain of money, the mansion(s) of course, and i suppose the 24 hour armed guards, but after that - i'm just one of the boys, ok!


  • #236
    Immortal Starlight
    Registered Users Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭Immortal Starlight


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    I want to be financially independent, so i'll just hang on to this mountain of money, the mansion(s) of course, and i suppose the 24 hour armed guards, but after that - i'm just one of the boys, ok!

    You'd feel a little sorry for them alright though. They've only got £35 million between them so I suppose they need all the taxpayers money they can get.


  • #237
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,784 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    Kate will be a great queen, she's beautiful too.

    She knows what side her bread is buttered on, that's for sure.


  • #238
    sondagefaux
    Registered Users Posts: 1,443 ✭✭✭sondagefaux


    Asitis2019 wrote: »
    Internal communication protocols.

    Got a link?


  • #239
    sondagefaux
    Registered Users Posts: 1,443 ✭✭✭sondagefaux


    Liz and Co should change the name to the Royle Family.


  • #240
    tdf7187
    Registered Users Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭tdf7187


    The obsession of the forelock tugging Irish with the British royals - many of whom aren't even British - is rather strange.


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  • #241
    moritz1234
    Registered Users Posts: 140 ✭✭moritz1234


    Meghan has been a target of the British press because she is:

    1.Black
    2.American
    3.A Woman

    They will now crucify her!


  • #242
    retalivity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,508 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/09/prince-harry-meghan-two-most-spoiled-brats-in-history-pundits-provoked-by-royal-rupture

    The guardian have a roundup of the uk tabloid response to their announcement, its pretty funny/sad/crazy/insane to see some of the op-ed pieces pieces, amd the outright bitterness, hatred and quasi-racism on show. DM had the first 17(!!!) pages devoted to them today!!


  • #243
    astrofool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,885 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    It's disgusting.

    Barring fast fashion, the cost for a lot of these items is often due the to the rarity of the materials, and the time and craftsmanship involved in it's creation, often running to years of someone's life (or spread across multiple people). Some of these items only exist to be admired so the artist can break even on what they sell it for, if a patron was unwilling to pay these amounts for the items, than the artists wouldn't create them, and be doing something much more mundane with their lives (maybe making hospital beds..., which we should all be doing apparently).

    Now, some can effectively trick others into thinking something is worth more than the sum of it's parts and effort to put them together, and in that case, you're paying the excessive amounts for a trick of the mind (e.g. a banana worth $120,000 because no one else had done it).


  • #244
    matthewmurdock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 134 ✭✭matthewmurdock


    They've basically kept everything but the job responsibilities. After they spent millions of taxpayers money funding a wedding and a house already.

    Pretty obvious Meghan is calling the shots here. She wanted to be a princess but now doesn't like it so much. Shes separated him from his family, won't be too long before she gets bored of a prince who she has turned into a frog.

    Divorce within 5 years, guaranteed.


  • #245
    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    I love the way its all her fault, like he a little child with no choices or responsibilities.

    Fair play to them I say, wouldn't really blame them.


  • #246
    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,358 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    MikeSoys wrote: »
    cant see how they will be financially independent without cutting back .. ummm how long will it last?

    They are cutting back - they are giving up 5% of their taxpayer funded income. Coupled with their personal millions its really going to be tough for them


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  • #247
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,226 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    jam_mac_jam wrote: »
    I love the way its all her fault, like he a little child with no choices or responsibilities.

    Fair play to them I say, wouldn't really blame them.

    Yeah people are forgetting he completely cleaned up his act and became a pretty solid guy before he started going out with Meghan. And since they've been married she (his wife) has been relentlessly tormented and lied about in the media (most of which was demonstrably false or exaggerated). Not to mention he's so much further down the line of succession that a nuclear attack on Buckingham Palace on the Queen's birthday might not even be enough to see him on the throne, and that he has no huge reason to stay as a full member of the Royal Family and instead can do as much charitable work or anything else he wants by stepping anyway, while still ultimately retaining being Prince Harry...

    I can't see why he wouldn't have made the choice he has. Why should he, his wife and child have to put up with any of that sh*t if they don't have to?


  • #248
    Thatsthejob
    Registered Users Posts: 30 ✭Thatsthejob


    I logged on here just to see how big the discussion was and I amazed to see so many presumably Irish people bothered about Royals from a foreign country.


  • #249
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Thatsthejob wrote: »
    I logged on here just to see how big the discussion was and I amazed to see so many presumably Irish people bothered about Royals from a foreign country.

    Why did you need to log in to do that?


  • #250
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Thatsthejob wrote: »
    I logged on here just to see how big the discussion was and I amazed to see so many presumably Irish people bothered about Royals from a foreign country.

    That's right, they're foreign, so foreign that they inhabit 1/5th of this island, plus the neighbouring island, so foreign that we speak their language, so foreign that we are addicted to their TV, so foreign because they're so so far away . . . .;)

    I could go on.


  • #251
    Scarinae
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 11,362 ✭✭✭✭Scarinae


    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    Even cnn are giving alerts about this. It seems like it was a solo run by Harry and Meghan and the mood inside buck house is “disappointment”
    I find it interesting that the queen is 'disappointed' about Harry and Meghan going off to do their own thing, but hasn't said anything of the sort about Andrew hanging around and staying with a convicted paedophile


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