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Harry’s ‘pop’ at Charles

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Bluebellwould Mon 06-Dec-21 11:46:10

Harry has apparently had another pop at his dad this time regarding the payment for honours debacle. Harry seems to keep on attacking Charles and I wondered if there might be a particular reason for this. In all of the multitudinous reports on their estrangement I haven’t seen anyone wondering if H is doing this because he believes/knows Charles is not his dad. I am not suggesting that is true but it may be his ‘truth’ as others have put it. Perhaps it would go some way to explain his seeming lack of belonging. Just musing on a grey day, please feel free to wade in or not as the case maybe.

nahsma Tue 07-Dec-21 16:31:14

Anniebach

You can start a thread on Andrew nahsma

Anniebach I was merely trying to point out a possible causal relationship between H&M's behaviour and a desire in some quarters to direct our view away from P Andrew to something slightly more wholesome. So no need for new thread, thanks!

maddyone Tue 07-Dec-21 16:32:35

Somebody better tell his Grandma that Harry needs to shut up.

grin I bet she wishes he’d be quiet too.
Just a thought, do you think his Grandma reads Gransnet? Maybe she’s contributing to this very thread. So which one of you is Queen Elizabeth 11?

Alegrias1 Tue 07-Dec-21 16:32:44

Josianne

^He didn't say anything about just walking out of a job, he said leave a job that makes you unhappy.^
Alegrias If you read what I said twice, it was walk away from a job and not just walk out. Please do not twist prepositions.

I would like to take this opportunity to apologise for not reading every single post intently and phrasing all of my own posts with forensic accuracy, just in case any person reading them thinks I must be referring to them personally.

Please take this post as a promise that if ever I want to refer to a specific poster or their posts, I will most definitely use their name to avoid any instances of people feeling that I am getting at them personally when I am not.

(Its always been that way of course, but there seems to have been an outbreak of perceptions of victimhood.)

lemongrove Tue 07-Dec-21 16:49:33

Alegrias .....arguing the hind leg off a donkey comes to mind with your posts.As you find any thread which criticises Harry or Meghan distasteful, why put yourself in this position?
There is no hatred for either of them, and where Harry is concerned more disappointment with the way he has behaved and is still behaving, as there was such a fund of goodwill for him and his wife here at one time....all dissipated now.

Josianne Tue 07-Dec-21 16:59:45

Alegrias1

Josianne

He didn't say anything about just walking out of a job, he said leave a job that makes you unhappy.
Alegrias If you read what I said twice, it was walk away from a job and not just walk out. Please do not twist prepositions.

I would like to take this opportunity to apologise for not reading every single post intently and phrasing all of my own posts with forensic accuracy, just in case any person reading them thinks I must be referring to them personally.

Please take this post as a promise that if ever I want to refer to a specific poster or their posts, I will most definitely use their name to avoid any instances of people feeling that I am getting at them personally when I am not.

(Its always been that way of course, but there seems to have been an outbreak of perceptions of victimhood.)

That's good Alegrias. And nothing to do with perceptions of victimhood, just posters remembering verbatim what they have said or trying to re phrase it in such a way that nothing goes misunderstood. We have several masters at this on GN so it must be rubbing off on others, not in a bad way.

Josianne Tue 07-Dec-21 17:02:38

Oh by the way, I do remember offering the Meghan book to any GN etter who asked. Obviously the overwhelming lack of response shows that most posters really couldn't really give a monkeys.

trisher Tue 07-Dec-21 17:13:07

If it isn't hatred please can someone explain to me what never finding anything positive in anything someone says or does can possibly be construed as? Why it's acceptable to blame him for leaving what is obviously a seriously dysfunctional family and then speaking out about how he feels? The only reason anyone could want to see someone suffer and keep quiet about it I can envisage is that you dislike them. Otherwise you would judge their statements dispassionately and at least realise that there is some truth in what is said and acknowledge that they have done and are doing some good. Anything else is bias and hatred.

Thanks for speaking up about my personal life Alegrias1. It amuses me that people feel they can cross examine me. My personal life is just that. But anyone who has read things I have posted would know I've been on my own for many years and never been kept. I've listened to my gut instinct quite a few times and it never let me down. That and being prepared to do any job as a filler if I needed to keep me and my kids. The alternative would have been me having a breakdown and not only being unable to work but to function as a parent and I wasn't risking that.

Anniebach Tue 07-Dec-21 17:37:42

Ditto trisher I too took filler jobs. But I was a kept woman for
8 years.

Josianne Tue 07-Dec-21 17:39:28

I can't speak for anyone else trisher but here are a few positives that I know I have stated about H & M on GN:
1. I admire their desire to keep their children out of the media and to fiercely protect them from any public criticism. (I even reported an unkind comment about Archie's squint eye).
2. I applaud Harry's setting up of the Invictus Games.

I don't even blame Harry for leaving his as you describe it dysfunctional family, just the way in which he did it and continues to turn the knife.
No hatred, no animosity.

maddyone Tue 07-Dec-21 17:40:01

No, I’m sorry trisher, disliking what someone does is not hatred. Harry is not hated, well not in any of the posts I’ve read anyway, but posters don’t like what Harry has done. Remember the instruction to dislike the sin, not the sinner. Please don’t misconstrue what I’m saying, I’m not saying Harry is a sinner, I’m saying it’s not hatred of Harry, it’s dislike of what he does.

Hatred is a very strong word, an emotive word, and is best used sparingly in my opinion.

Josianne Tue 07-Dec-21 17:41:05

Cross post maddyone. In agreement.

maddyone Tue 07-Dec-21 17:43:01

Josianne smile

Anniebach Tue 07-Dec-21 17:45:43

I hate wasps and snow, that’s as far as hate goes for me.

Calistemon Tue 07-Dec-21 18:09:13

TerriBull

Alegrias1

I'm sorry to read that GSM, seriously. I'm sorry that you had to go through that.

So I would have thought you might have had more sympathy for other people in the same situation.

Isn't there a certain well known and well liked Duchess who left her "job" of being a well known and highly visible Royal because of her MH issues? But then she wasn't living off benefits so I suppose that's OK. She'd managed to get herself married to a rich man so she was allowed to have MH issues and do something to fix them.

The Duchess of Kent is well liked because she behaves with dignity. She appears to come across as a very private person who, correct me if I'm wrong, hasn't made any MH issues she may have or had public. I believe she's working as a music teacher in a school and pours herself into that. I don't imagine we can expect to see her being interviewed by a high profile broadcaster giving a moany interview about how harshly life has treated her.

Yes, she is a beautiful woman, inside and out.

Her husband (age 86) continues to work despite his age and health; Prince Harry was supposed to take over some of his duties. The Duke of Kent does understand the meaning of the word duty.

Calistemon Tue 07-Dec-21 18:13:49

Josianne

Oh by the way, I do remember offering the Meghan book to any GN etter who asked. Obviously the overwhelming lack of response shows that most posters really couldn't really give a monkeys.

I thought of asking, Josianne, but gave the dog something else to chew instead.
Thank you anyway.

Calistemon Tue 07-Dec-21 18:18:24

maddyone

No, I’m sorry trisher, disliking what someone does is not hatred. Harry is not hated, well not in any of the posts I’ve read anyway, but posters don’t like what Harry has done. Remember the instruction to dislike the sin, not the sinner. Please don’t misconstrue what I’m saying, I’m not saying Harry is a sinner, I’m saying it’s not hatred of Harry, it’s dislike of what he does.

Hatred is a very strong word, an emotive word, and is best used sparingly in my opinion.

It's a bit worrying if the difference is not apparent. It's rather worrying that the assumption must be that anyone hates someone because of their actions.

Hatred is not a word I would use about a person even though I may not like/really dislike/hate/abhor what they do.

Harry and Meghan come into the first category.

Calistemon Tue 07-Dec-21 18:19:36

Anniebach

I hate wasps and snow, that’s as far as hate goes for me.

I hate my feet.

Bossyrossy Tue 07-Dec-21 18:22:35

I’m sure the royal family would have done a DNA test on Harry by now.

Anniebach Tue 07-Dec-21 18:26:50

At the funeral of Diana there was a Spencer cousin to Harry,
they were so very much alike. He is a Spencer

trisher Tue 07-Dec-21 18:33:06

Sorry definition of dislike-feel distaste for or hostility towards
Hostility is a synonym for hatred.
www.thesaurus.com/browse/hostility

Germanshepherdsmum Tue 07-Dec-21 18:36:20

FGS trisher, you can’t equate disliking to hatred.

Forsythia Tue 07-Dec-21 18:36:20

Bossyrossy

I’m sure the royal family would have done a DNA test on Harry by now.

And if they have would we know about it or the results of it. Something is eating him and jealousy of his brother is at the root of it.

Calistemon Tue 07-Dec-21 18:36:39

Strong words.
Hate and hatred are the words you used trisher

I just feel disappointed after the glorious wedding and promises and rather astonished at their attention-seeking actions since they left to avoid all the publicity.

Germanshepherdsmum Tue 07-Dec-21 18:39:21

Because he’s the spare Forsythia.

Calistemon Tue 07-Dec-21 18:42:48

Disappointed:
disappointed. adjective. unhappy because something that you hoped for or expected did not happen or because someone or something was not as good as you expected.

Astonished:
Astonished, startled, surprised, bemused, bewildered, puzzled