Canadian Paparazzi

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Its asking me to login merlot. I think I'll lever it if you don't mind.

Part of the article in question. Apologies for the long cut n paste but if the article is behind a firewall I only know this way!
On Monday, a pap photographer, who had followed Meghan from the house, took surreptitious photos while hiding in the bushes. These photos have been published online and by a number of UK newspapers, with no consideration of how they were obtained. This type of continual harassment and the ignoring of numerous legal notices asking them to stop obviously raises serious safety and security concerns and is causing them considerable distress .”
The incident will raise questions about the couple’s decision to quit the UK due to the “bullying” British tabloids when they were rarely pursued by paparazzi photographers due to a long-standing agreement between the palace and editors following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales
Now no longer members of the Royal family, the couple are being treated as “celebrities” in North America – which one paparazzo said was “like the Wild West compared to Britain ”.
It will also raise questions over the couple’s publicly funded security, which is under review
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Monday’s photographs, and others of the Duchess boarding a sea plane and then driving to the airport, were released by Backgrid picture agency and Splash News .

I've copied and pasted the relevant bit.

As the couple’s lawyers, Schillings, were busy issuing legal warnings to the British newspapers which ran the paparazzi pictures of Meghan and Archie walking the dogs down a woodland trail, American broadcasters were happily reporting on the story. All while illustrating their packages criticising the ‘intrusive’ UK press with the very images and footage the couple have complained about.

This poses two problems for Harry and Meghan. It not only opens them to accusations of double standards, but leaves them even more exposed than they were in Windsor. The paparazzi and major US networks are already treating the Sussexes the same as other celebrities. They might still be called Duke and Duchess, but from a media perspective they are now fair game, without the palace to protect them.

Let’s not forget that these paparazzi are from LA-based picture agencies – not British. And they show no sign of downing tools, despite the couple’s complaints about being ‘stalked’ and ‘besieged’. The bigger the market in America, the greater the need for pictures – which is going to make it even more difficult for Harry and Meghan to balance their desire for privacy with their need for publicity.

We need to scale down our royals, who should act more low key like the Scandinavians. They seem to be able to lead fairly 'normal' lives. Why not our lot?

Like Mum like Son...

In the UK there are informal agreements between the press and the Royal family, that, for example, they will be given opportunities to take photos of the royal children when they start school etc, if they refuse to buy papped photographs, it is generally supported and while it doesn't completely stop, the papping, it does reduces the problem.

In Canada there are no such protocol. H&M and child are at the mercy of the papps and the British papers can buy the photos. Perhaps H&M should have thought it through.

I imagine that the British press will be only too happy to buy the pictures given the battle lines that H&M have drawn

No need to send photographers from the UK to Canada, they can buy them.

It was the same with Diana.

We are certainly getting our money’s worth out of the royals lately aren’t we?

First there was Randy Andy and his paedo friend and now we have these two thoroughly entertaining us with their absconding exploits, along with suing the British and now Canadian press. Brilliant!

This is more like it isn’t it?

So much more interesting than just seeing them cutting a ribbon or visiting some worthy cause!

You may have gone H and M but you continue to entertain us !

Nothing like stirring the pot to keep people interested is there. MM is hardly keeping a low profile is she with social media posts etc.

I agree Fennel I thought Archie looked large in that sling.

Nasty nasty nasty

MM is hardly keeping a low profile is she with social media posts etc

What’s she up to??!

This about sums it up I think:

Any publicity is better than no publicity.

I've got 2 cousins in Canada and one lives with his wife very near where H&M are staying. Evidently H&M were refused entry in a restaurant, the same one my cousins went to for a New Year meal.
My other cousin lives near Toronto and she says the papers etc are full of H&M - most Canadians don't mind them settling there.
Both cousins have been there for 50+ years.

Why were they refused entry?

Wish he'd never married her, it was too quick, from her press interviews, she was warned about the British press, her family are an embarrassment, who advised him, I can see the sadness in his face, he does not want to inflict the horror of the press on his family - but this is now inevitable. He needs his family, and she needed the protection of the Palace.

SirChenjin - I don't know, my cousin didn't say and I assumed it would be in one of the media reports.
Just guessing - all the security bods would put off regular customers?

HER family are an embarrassment? His are just as much of an embarrassment as far as I can see.Uncles ..(plural) involved with peadophiles a mother who was manipulative and adulterous and a dad who had a long affair while married to said mother.Theres a hell of a lot of other "skeletons" in the german royals cupboard ...change of name to avoid people remembering they ARE german during WW1 and WW11 even as Old lizziewas teaching her daughters...the present queen how to do a Nazi salute...its on camera ..available to see.Now I'd be far more embarrassed by these shennanigans than Mr Markle and his rather more "normal" issues .

Posting on instagram etc SirChenjin

I think the restaurant refused to allow them in because of all the security requirements.

They would have had their other customers to consider of course.

I thought they were living a quiet, private life away from the glare of publicity sodapop?

If a photographer followed Meghan and Archie ( + the security) from where she is staying, why did her security not notice and why havent they been sacked ? And why was she smiling like a loon if she was walking along a woodland trail with nobody else in site ? Anyone who believes she didnt know the Paparazzi were there must be very naive

@paddyanne lets agree to disagree - they are all an embarrassment - just different classes of embarrassment - just we are paying for the royal goings-on - and have to tolerate the trailer trash Markles.