‘Spare’ by Prince Harry

Quokka You forget that before his marriage - and during his engagement and the early days of his marriage, almost everyone liked and admired Prince Harry. his military service, where, unlike Prince Andrew he was liked by those who served with him.

All but a few, felt that his marriage to a mixed race woman, with out intending, represented the multicultural society we are and now the Royal Family was joining it.

In fact everything in the garden was rosy, Until the behaviour of Prince Harry and his wife changed. he decided to cease to be a working royal, he wanted to live in the USA, we were sorry to see him go, but most of us shrugged our shoulders, then he and his wife started whingeing, endlessly whinging, about everything. Lack of money as they signed million dollar contract after million dollar contract. There families, despite families on both sides doing all they could to build bridges - and then they decided to make their living by telling their truths, mostly doubtful and frequently shown to be false.

Can you not see why the utterly disillusioned British people, or most of them, are fed up with the pair of them?

Quokka

Like all young(ish) people striving to make a living he needs to earn a living. So that argument doesn’t hold water.

He especially needs to make money to pay for security for his family. The security he would not need had he not been born a royal. Surely people are aware that this security was withdrawn by his father?

Yes, there is bitterness on both sides. I just wonder exactly why William and Charles seem to have turned against a younger brother and son rather than giving him support to plough his own furrow. Who is hurting who?

It has been suggested for years that our royal family needs pruning. This would have been an ideal opportunity to do that…after all he is The Spare. Fifth in line?

Umm, inheriting millions isn’t exactly striving to make a living

Nor being given further millions to buy a palatial house. I wish I’d had that kind of non-support.

Like all young(ish) people striving to make a living he needs to earn a living. So that argument doesn’t hold water.

He especially needs to make money to pay for security for his family. The security he would not need had he not been born a royal. Surely people are aware that this security was withdrawn by his father?

Yes, there is bitterness on both sides. I just wonder exactly why William and Charles seem to have turned against a younger brother and son rather than giving him support to plough his own furrow. Who is hurting who?

It has been suggested for years that our royal family needs pruning. This would have been an ideal opportunity to do that…after all he is The Spare. Fifth in line?

Well his dad was Prince of Wales and that was because his mother was our dear late Queen. Isn’t it wonderful

God bless him.

We're lucky to have him.



Why is he Prince of Wales again? Because of his dad, I think.

The Prince of Wales doesn’t get to turn up at things and get paid because of who his dad is. It’s because of who he is! He’s the Prince of Wales!

The Prince of Wales isn't paid a salary; he has an inheritance and income which comes with duties and responsibilities to pay other people, as well as privileges.And public engagements do not constitute all his work.

I wonder is Prince William (now of course the Prince of Wales) exploiting his family connections to make money? After all he is paid very generously for turning up at things-110 engagements, for 106 days in 2021- because of who his dad is.

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With reviews!

Well I’m not going to read it Callistemon, but I’m sure I’ll be able to rely on Gransnetters to fill in the blanks for me

eazybee

Harry served in the armed forces for eight years and he started the Invictus games. Well done.

He is not forging his own path now, he is exploiting his royal connections to make money.
And Hamlet's final decision, after much agonizing, didn't exactly have a successful outcome.

Love this comment eazybee.

GrammarGrandma

I can't read 17 pages of comment on Prince Harry! The first page is enough to convince me how much many Gransnetters dislike him and his wife. Almost as if they knew them.

Not every post about Harry is negative, GrammarGrandma

Quokka of course it is never right, but it's not the media they are attacking. They used the media to attack Harry's family.

Of course, the new book might be full of love and fond reminiscences about their families. We won't know unless we read it 🙂

GrammarGrandma

I can't read 17 pages of comment on Prince Harry! The first page is enough to convince me how much many Gransnetters dislike him and his wife. Almost as if they knew them.

I think my opinion of them is mostly derived from what they have said themselves and chosen to put into the public domain.

They haven’t come over well as people to me.

One of my relatives trained with Harry and liked him in that environment. That’s the extent of my personal knowledge.

Harry served in the armed forces for eight years and he started the Invictus games. Well done.

He is not forging his own path now, he is exploiting his royal connections to make money.
And Hamlet's final decision, after much agonizing, didn't exactly have a successful outcome.

I can't read 17 pages of comment on Prince Harry! The first page is enough to convince me how much many Gransnetters dislike him and his wife. Almost as if they knew them.

Agree Interested

They are major tax thieves (legally as their assets are in the Cayman Islands) as was found by the revelations of the Panama papers. The other Royal Families in Europe have cheaper, quieter lives. Let Harry and Meghan work for a living and feel a sense of self worth

lemsip

*Well done Harry for speaking out rather than suffer ‘the slings and arrows’ in silence.*
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his wife is the one firing the slings and arrows

And the racism from the right wing media that followed Meghan around while in the U.K.? That was of course fine?

Quokka

Well done Harry for getting out and forging a life for yourself and for choosing a strong woman as your wife, not some Stepford type.

Well done Harry for speaking out rather than suffer ‘the slings and arrows’ in silence.

Well done Harry for serving your country and for setting up the Invicta Games.

Free free to tear this to pieces if you don’t think that all this takes courage.

To forge your own path always requires courage.

To do it without destroying others requires wisdom and compassion.

I don’t deny his courage.

Royal watcher seems to be making a good living out of this!

here she comes

Well done Harry for speaking out rather than suffer ‘the slings and arrows’ in silence.
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his wife is the one firing the slings and arrows

lemsip

Prince Harry 'will return to Britain to promote his bombshell memoir Spare' as royal watcher claims King Charles could strip him and Meghan of their titles if they go 'fully rogue' in the book

Charles can't strip them of their titles. There is no legal way for him to do that.

For a Republican, I know a surprising amount about the Royals. Maybe that's why I'm a Republican.

M0nica

Someone has suggested the book should be called 'Spare Us'

Thanks Iam64.

Prince Harry 'will return to Britain to promote his bombshell memoir Spare' as royal watcher claims King Charles could strip him and Meghan of their titles if they go 'fully rogue' in the book