Because The British Royal Family

[Harold Jones]

 

I'm still trying to work out why I care. I don't care much but it's like a sore tooth I can't leave it alone. I regularly read the Daily Mail online (I know I know) and have always scrolled past the the section of stories related to the royals, but this one just keeps grabbing my attention. I think it's the spectacle of a family whose rule has survived wars, plagues, financial meltdowns and natural disasters getting blown apart by Kardashian/Paltrow wannabe influencer.

It could be genetic. AncestryDNA said I was like 3% Senegalese and I absolutely love music centered on rhythm.

 

Can't be that, anyone who has seen me at spin class knows that I have less rhythm than Navon Johnson.

[Stargrunt6]

Well I was thinking you were more of the colonizer concerned about royal affairs.

 

 

LOL Ivanhoe, dude ask anyone here who has met me I'm about 50% of tank net's melanin content.

[Ivanhoe]

Well I was thinking you were more of the colonizer concerned about royal affairs.

 

 

LOL Ivanhoe, dude ask anyone here who has met me I'm about 50% of tank net's melanin content.

 

I know, thus irony.

 

Though some of us notional anglos have some rather complex family trees. One of my grandparents had some ? marks in the family tree; she hid her ancestry for decades. I'm going to assume she was ashamed of her Swedish side.

 

I used to work with a guy who was possibly the whitest American I've ever worked with. He made Icelanders look ethnic. Turns out his mom was half-black, half-Hispanic.

[R011]

 

 

Funnily enough, I suspect Charles was probably not in the mood to make things easy. For one thing he has been leading the charge for a slimmed down monarchy (largely on cost grounds) and this if anything is advantageous to him by reducing expenditure on the others.

 

Yeah, you have to remember, she was able to observe the aftermath of the Edward VIII abdication crisis. She knows how to make it work.

Wut? Her Majesty was 10 at the time, doubt she has a huge recollection of the crisis...

Ten is old enough to be aware and recall what's happening in a sensitive family matter, and the aftermath lasted decades.

[DB]

 

 

Funnily enough, I suspect Charles was probably not in the mood to make things easy. For one thing he has been leading the charge for a slimmed down monarchy (largely on cost grounds) and this if anything is advantageous to him by reducing expenditure on the others.

 

Yeah, you have to remember, she was able to observe the aftermath of the Edward VIII abdication crisis. She knows how to make it work.

Wut? Her Majesty was 10 at the time, doubt she has a huge recollection of the crisis...

That she grew up with a father who had been thrust into the role, and which likely shortened his life may well have had a significant impact on her view of the time.

[rmgill]

Well I was thinking you were more of the colonizer concerned about royal affairs.

 

 

LOL Ivanhoe, dude ask anyone here who has met me I'm about 50% of tank net's melanin content.

 

Stay away from the cans!

[Harold Jones]

I wonder what the plan is for when they become people who used to be famous royals? She gained fame by dating a prince and he was famous because he was a prince. Absent the titles, they are just another attractive couple on instagram.

[Jeff]

I wonder what the plan is for when they become people who used to be famous royals? She gained fame by dating a prince and he was famous because he was a prince. Absent the titles, they are just another attractive couple on instagram.

 

The Kardashians have shown that anything is marketable if you're willing to sell yourself badly enough. It will be interesting to see Harry realize that there is a big difference between press coverage because you're a royal and press coverage because you're the third wheel in an endless stream of narcissistic red carpet events. I hope he enjoys being Mr. Markle for the rest of his life. He'll be shilling Sussex Royal schlock on late night infomercials if that's what she demands.

[Murph]

 

I wonder what the plan is for when they become people who used to be famous royals? She gained fame by dating a prince and he was famous because he was a prince. Absent the titles, they are just another attractive couple on instagram.

 

The Kardashians have shown that anything is marketable if you're willing to sell yourself badly enough. It will be interesting to see Harry realize that there is a big difference between press coverage because you're a royal and press coverage because you're the third wheel in an endless stream of narcissistic red carpet events. I hope he enjoys being Mr. Markle for the rest of his life. He'll be shilling Sussex Royal schlock on late night infomercials if that's what she demands.

 

I think she will dump him when he is no longer "monetizable" or somehow is seen as advancing HER career.

[BillB]

 

 

I wonder what the plan is for when they become people who used to be famous royals? She gained fame by dating a prince and he was famous because he was a prince. Absent the titles, they are just another attractive couple on instagram.

 

The Kardashians have shown that anything is marketable if you're willing to sell yourself badly enough. It will be interesting to see Harry realize that there is a big difference between press coverage because you're a royal and press coverage because you're the third wheel in an endless stream of narcissistic red carpet events. I hope he enjoys being Mr. Markle for the rest of his life. He'll be shilling Sussex Royal schlock on late night infomercials if that's what she demands.

 

I think she will dump him when he is no longer "monetizable" or somehow is seen as advancing HER career.

 

That's my take on it too, FWIW.

 

BillB

[Murph]

Boo Hoo, the former Royal now known as Mr. Megan Markle is upset at the press photographing them. https://www.dailywire.com/news/harry-and-meghan-already-find-snag-in-canadian-living-take-legal-action

[DougRichards]

I wonder what the plan is for when they become people who used to be famous royals? She gained fame by dating a prince and he was famous because he was a prince. Absent the titles, they are just another attractive couple on instagram.

 

another moderately attractive couple on Instagram.

 

He may get a few $$ from writing a book or two, one trading on being Dianna's son, another on his military experiences, but it won't be huge amounts.

[DKTanker]

I think she will dump him when he is no longer "monetizable" or somehow is seen as advancing HER career.

 

She essentially had no career. Her greatest claim to fame was as eye candy love interest for one of the protagonists on a TV series relatively few people watched.

[Jeff]

Boo Hoo, the former Royal now known as Mr. Megan Markle is upset at the press photographing them. https://www.dailywire.com/news/harry-and-meghan-already-find-snag-in-canadian-living-take-legal-action

 

Welcome to real life.

[Stuart Galbraith]

Well he went to Afganistan twice. I think he has a fairly good grasp of reality.

[Harold Jones]

Well he went to Afganistan twice. I think he has a fairly good grasp of reality.

As many have stated, he has no grasp of what celebrities who aren't royals have to put up with from the press. There are a lot of written and unwritten rules that no longer apply to he and his family. A big one is that when his family is out in public they are fair game for photographers.

[Jeff]

Well he went to Afganistan twice. I think he has a fairly good grasp of reality.

 

Yes, because serving in Afghanistan prepares someone for every aspect of life. You seem to go out of your way to make ignorant comments at times. I think Harold has made the point well on the lesson Harry is going to learn that I was speaking to. I feel for the guy, I think he's a very decent man, her type seeks out decent, honorable men to use, the white knight types. She'll use that decency as a tool to make him do what she wants. The sad thing is that her issues mean that she'll do all this without realizing it herself. His only recourse is to get as far away from her as he can but decency and the child will mean that he'll have to go through all kinds of hell before he realizes it. In fact, he probably never will until she decides she's done with him, several times. Google Borderline Personality Disorder for some sad information on what he's likely in for. No, I'm not a mental health professional but I have a lot of experience with BPD.

[Stuart Galbraith]

The guy came home from Afghanistan in a C17 with a guy mutilated for life, and it made a lasting impression. He has spent most of the past 10 years drawing attention to and helping those servicemen. Before that he was open about battles with his mental health, mostly dating from being dragged in front of a ravenous media to bury his mother. Yes, he lives in reality, and I suspect not a nice one for all his privilege.

 

Harry has flaws, but he has lived and he knows reality. Lets not take dislike of his Mrs (and I share many of the concerns) into character assasination. It's no better than what our media has been doing to the Royal family for decades.

 

 

I respect your opinion Jeff, always. Kindly show the same respect. I may be many things, but ignorant I'm not.

[Murph]

I’m offended by the disrespect shown his grandmother more than anything else. Despite the fact that she is all about herself and no one else. I like(d) Harry since he and William both seem “real” compared to Charles.

[Nobu]

Harry was a witness at age 11 to the difference between how royals and non-royals are treated by the press, in the form of his mother before and after she lost her royal titles.

 

He knows what the press is capable of.

[Stuart Galbraith]

There was a tabloid story over here about Harry being photographed buck naked by a female friend in a Las Vegas hotel. The media all circle jerked themselves into a stupour at getting Harry in a situation where he was disgracing himself again. ARRSE even made a joke about it, 'Army officer in naked hotel room shocker'. The basic joke was, it was what any other army officer deploying to a combat zone, as he was about to do, would be doing. Letting off steam. And suddenly the Murdoch media that had congratulated themselves on getting a scoop, suddenly looked rather bit tawdry and grubby, which is about Murdoch's natural level.

 

Thats the kind of crap he has had to deal with. Even when he is doing the right thing, the media have been always chipping away at him. For my money, Megan is getting all the blame for this. I think she is just the excuse why he is leaving the Royal Family, not the reason. He was heading this way for a very long time.

 

All that said, the criticisms about how he has treated his family, and the criticisms of his wife are valid. Im afraid as a marriage, if you want an example, this is probably going to end up the way of Sir Paul McCartney's second marriage, for much the same reasons. I guess we shall see.

[bojan]

He can always give away all his possessions and money and get a job in some factory. Media would forget him in the 6 months.

[Panzermann]

He can always give away all his possessions and money and get a job in some factory. Media would forget him in the 6 months.

 

He has several officers patents for army, navy air force, so he could rejoin the forces at least.

[Panzermann]

I’m offended by the disrespect shown his grandmother more than anything else. Despite the fact that she is all about herself and no one else.

Which "she"? QE2? Meghan?

 

and agree on the disrespect to his grandmother and family in general to break it to them this way.

 

 

I like(d) Harry since he and William both seem “real” compared to Charles.

 

Charles always came across as a quirky uncle with weird hobbies. Well, he has been king-in-waiting all his life and chances are he might even never become one.

Edited January 25, 2020 by Panzermann

[Stuart Galbraith]

He can always give away all his possessions and money and get a job in some factory. Media would forget him in the 6 months.

There is that.