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Canadian Paparazzi

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Caramac Wed 22-Jan-20 17:26:07

AIBU to be weary already and unsurprised that Harry and Meghan are threatening legal action against the Canadian Paparazzi?
They should be able to live a more peaceful life but were they really so naive as to think they would be left in peace at this stage?
Maybe they’re just putting a stick in the sand but I think there needs to be a sea change in journalism before any real respect for individuals is shown.

notanan2 Thu 23-Jan-20 16:43:14

Di was well known for refusing to use the private/secure VIP entrances of high end stores and denanding her driver wait conspicuously out front, then she would come out in dark glasses with her head down pretending to shield herself from the press.

Anniebach Thu 23-Jan-20 16:39:55

Yes notanan like mother like son. The mother had hot lines
to some reporters .

Anniebach Thu 23-Jan-20 16:38:05

True Elegran an innocent photograph of a child having fun
with her family.

notanan2 Thu 23-Jan-20 16:31:26

Could it be it was a set up so they could rant it was the papps

Like mother like son

suziewoozie Thu 23-Jan-20 16:11:49

PS photos to follow

Elegran Thu 23-Jan-20 16:11:21

I thought that old "Nazi salute" photo was of them laughing at Uncle fooling around and aping a public foreign figure, not of a mother "teaching her daughter to do a Nazi salute". Lilibet was well-known to be a good mimic, wasn't she?

Would photos of an average family dressed up as ghouls and witches and splashed with fake blood for Hallowe'en be evidence that they are into Satanic sacrificial rituals?

suziewoozie Thu 23-Jan-20 16:11:20

I expect they’re busy having great sex after two weeks apart merlot

Anniebach Thu 23-Jan-20 15:57:20

Could it be it was a set up so they could rant it was the papps
threaten to sue, in the hope it would deter papps, which it
certaintly will not.

merlotgran Thu 23-Jan-20 15:55:42

Well, it's all gone quiet since Harry arrived so maybe he's locked Meghan in a cupboard.

stella1949 Thu 23-Jan-20 15:54:14

The mansion they are staying in, has huge grounds which are bigger than the average park - plenty big enough to take the dogs for a walk in. so why did MM need to be driven to another park, just to take this walk? The whole thing seems fishy to me.

Anniebach Thu 23-Jan-20 15:53:12

So Paddyanne knows a mother was teaching a child the Nazi
Salute from a photograph of a child .

So we can say Harry is a Nazi because of a fancy dress he wore?

timetogo2016 Thu 23-Jan-20 15:43:24

Couldn`t have put it better myself PaddyAnne.
Nice one.

montydoo Thu 23-Jan-20 15:11:30

@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.

grannypiper Thu 23-Jan-20 13:35:24

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

SirChenjin Thu 23-Jan-20 12:53:05

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

JenniferEccles Thu 23-Jan-20 12:27:40

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.

sodapop Thu 23-Jan-20 12:27:05

Posting on instagram etc SirChenjin

paddyanne Thu 23-Jan-20 12:02:10

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 .

Fennel Thu 23-Jan-20 11:49:02

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?

montydoo Thu 23-Jan-20 11:10:18

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 Thu 23-Jan-20 10:59:29

Why were they refused entry?

Fennel Thu 23-Jan-20 10:56:56

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.

Anniebach Thu 23-Jan-20 09:02:38

Any publicity is better than no publicity.

GrannyLaine Thu 23-Jan-20 09:00:20

This about sums it up I think:

SirChenjin Thu 23-Jan-20 08:50:06

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

What’s she up to??!