Megan and Harry again!

Alegrias We all have out own opinions and and we are all entitled to post them. You also told me to stop using the term ‘girly’. I reiterate what I said to you yesterday regarding addressing others in a certain way but not appreciating similar in return.

It’s strange as you’ve already mentioned you have no interest in this but hey, we’re all entitled to change our minds. This will probably die out in favour of strange goings on in Holyrood anyway!

I can honestly say that if I didn't come on Gransnet I would have had no idea what M&H were doing. It might have registered that they were having another baby. I might have noticed the announcement about them not coming back to the UK as Royals. They're not on the news every night, they are rarely in the more serious papers, I don't seek out their podcasts or watch any US programs that they might or might not be appearing on.

So can't we just ignore them if we don't like what they are saying? If you think they are seeking out publicity, just ignore them, that would do their plans the most harm, wouldn't it?

Apologies in advance if anyone thinks I'm telling you what to do....

One man’s gutter press is another’s respected journalist though trisher. Seems it depends on whether it’s favourable or not,

And yet here I am again. Crossed posts tickingbird

Why should the ones who are interested in them ignore them?

Oh dear, I have to defend myself. Well I don't have to, but I will. On a whole other thread, remembering that we are not meant to mention other threads, I pointed out your use of sexist put-downs and suggested you stop using them.

You don’t have to do anything Alegrias but you seem to feel you have to. Your interpretation of my use of the term ‘girly’ is just that. Nothing sexist intended. Also it was singular not plural. However your condescending, patronising post directed at me when I mentioned Andrew Neil’s piece in the mail was rude and uncalled for. Yet again, do as you would be done by. It’s really very simple.

The sooner the interview is over the better, then a brief flurry when the child is born, and then hopefully, the rest is silence.

I'm going to disagree with the point that they are not in the news very often and that some os us 'go looking' ( for want of a better description).

I work on my computer most of the day, hence being on and off here so frequently, and I have the TV or Radio on in the background for a bit of 'noise'. I can't remember more than a couple of days going by without mention of M&H on some programme or other - and the people on the programmes are saying exactly the same things as people say here, only no one is trying to put them down for it.

They are clearly of significant public and media interest, and hard to ignore. So unless I sit here wearing a tin foil hat counting the flowers on the rug for entertainment I personally cannot avoid them.

I also like hearing other peoples opinions and expressing my own, and if there's any harm in that then someone needs to tell GN to shut the site down, because it's what everyone here does about every topic.

eazybee

The sooner the interview is over the better, then a brief flurry when the child is born, and then hopefully, the rest is silence.

Such optimism...

NellG
There’s no way my husband stayed at home, or could have stayed at home, even when I did suffer from morning sickness. But I think you might have misunderstood what I meant, I was making the point that if Harry was performing some royal duties when Meghan was pregnant, it’s not really a reason as was suggested (not by you) that this was a good reason for them to decide that royal life was not for them. There may be a lot of other very valid reasons, but her husband performing some royal duties during her pregnancy is really not a good reason. Everyone’s husband has to go to work during their wives pregnancies. And ordinary people work many more hours than Harry did, or indeed any of our royals do (but that might be a separate thread.)

NellG
You’re right, it is hard to avoid picking up on clips about H+M. I put on SkyNews this morning, and there was Harry with the other fellow, who is so significant to me that I can’t even remember his name. Anyway I turned off the television because I didn’t want to watch, I’m not interested in Harry’s interview. I don’t care what he’s doing in America. I just want him and Meghan to live privately and stop being in the news every other day. They said they wanted to live privately. I wish they would.

Well said maddyone My thoughts exactly. I do wish they would shut up for five minutes.

maddyone

NellG
There’s no way my husband stayed at home, or could have stayed at home, even when I did suffer from morning sickness. But I think you might have misunderstood what I meant, I was making the point that if Harry was performing some royal duties when Meghan was pregnant, it’s not really a reason as was suggested (not by you) that this was a good reason for them to decide that royal life was not for them. There may be a lot of other very valid reasons, but her husband performing some royal duties during her pregnancy is really not a good reason. Everyone’s husband has to go to work during their wives pregnancies. And ordinary people work many more hours than Harry did, or indeed any of our royals do (but that might be a separate thread.)

Ah, sorry - wrong end of the stick and probably the wrong poster! My apologies. It wasn't intended as a critique of you or your opinion, I was just trying to even the playing field with those who compare Harry to William and saying that Williams reasons for not working during her pregnancies might be more to do with Kate's health than anything else. As I recall she was hospitalised a few times.

I should have posted it as a separate comment and not linked to your post. Sorry.

But there are 28 pages of people talking about them. (And this is just one of so many threads!)

Believe it or not I take zero interest other than on here! I don't think I have ever gone out of my way to watch, read, follow them. They are just in my face all the time it seems. I think the only royals I'd actually 'investigate' out of an independent interest are Anne and Her maj.

I don't even own a souvenir tea towel or jubilee mug, and never have.

Me neither.
I'm just intrigued by how involved people get.
If it was a friends son, for example, would they still be fuming on her behalf 3 years later?

NellG

You are right; there is something in the DT most days; usually several somethings.

Crocodile

It must be very disheartening for Harry to read, if he does.
I'm not surprised he has removed himself from the uk.
As for the other stuff, well, they've gotta earn a crust.

Crocodile?
Shoes? Rock? Tears?

That's what I'm wondering too. How much longer can the protagonists keep this going without changing the script?

grandmajet

Crocodile

See, now here's the thing. I know that this was allegedly Archie's first word.

Here's how I know it - I was sitting here this morning drinking a coffee, contemplating my day and having a quick scowl at Jeremy Vine when one of his panellists mentioned it - boom, I now know that snippet of information.

I didn't go looking.

And now you all know it...

Don't mention it, no problem, you're welcome ? Hahaha

I like your style NellG! Are you a new poster on GN? From MN? Or have I just missed you before now. I like a sense of humour

NellG

They have shifted their allegiance to the US, fair enough, I don't see that we can beef about them emigrating. But I do think they are being naive if they think the US press and media is any kinder that that in the UK. If they think they can 'manage' their image any better there than they could here then they are either stupid or arrogant. The minute the US public tires of them they will just be thrown to a much bigger pack of wolves.

Which is why the mental health angle and protecting the family doesn't add up - if Harry believes being in the public eye is 'better' over there then he has fallen deep into the proverbial crock of shit. Which begs the question of who was holding it out to him?

I agree with this 100%.