Harry & Megan drop HRH Titles

Don't spoil the fun Luckygirl. Am sure there's still oodles of juice to be squeezed out of this dried lemon of a subject still.

One thing puzzles me.

It has been said that Harry is still classed as a working royal until the Spring, so surely he would have had some royal engagements to perform between now and then.

Couldn’t they have stayed here until then?

Sparkii
Time for yet another name change

I have just read - they released photographs of a visit to a dog
rescue two weeks ago , as Kate starts a nationwide campaign
to improve understanding of early childhood.

Thank you Sparkle

Nobody is talking on the video clip other than one of the security men talking into his phone.

Talking to securitymen is not done it distracts them from their job.

M is trying to steal Kate's thunder again with the latest clash of photos. M's photos at the dog rescue centre were taken 2 weeks ago. Why release them today?

Luckygirl, not talking about the paparazzi shots on the dog walk. Talking about Meghan releasing pics of a charity visit she made 2 weeks ago, releasing the pics the same day that Kate did an appearance at a charity. People have been wondering if Meghan held them back for 2 weeks waiting for a day she could clash with Kate lol. I was saying if the actual intended photos and visits were coordinated, they could be timed not to clash. I think you've not been understanding my posts, or maybe skim-reading which is fairly understandable with these long threads

Luckygirl it’s unfair to use ‘evil person’, no one has said they
are evil. In my opinion they are playing the media and this
troubles me, Diana played the media with horrific results.

All those weeks they were together in Canada, not one
photograph, suddenly- a baby, two dogs, two security guards
and beaming at no one ? It does cause suspiciousness for some.

eye contact with the camera lens....

Surely, if you had two blokes walking behind you, you'd chat to them. Would be unnatural not to.

She’s walking and smiling. How is that even behaviour to draw any conclusions from? She may have been talking to Archie or the dogs. It’s taken on such a long lens she may have been talking to someone out of the camera shot.

do you never smile then apart from when there is a camera around

Maybe - but I doubt I'd look as beatific.

I don't believe it was just random smiling. Meghan is an actress and knows how to project her expressions.

There is a difference between making time connections between events and assuming that one lot of pics etc. are from some evil person who is trying to upstage someone - it could just as easily be the other way round! You do not know!

And in the absence of knowledge it is absolutely unacceptable to make assumptions and use those to denigrate someone.

Surely in your everyday life you do not pick up some negative rumour about someone and spread it and embellish it just for the hell of it. I cannot believe that Gransnetters would do this. But in this case it is seen as OK.

As Maw said, It's a public park so any celeb is at risk of being photographed. It doesn't have to be a pap taking the pics.

The Cambridges ride their bikes in Sandringham woods and are often spotted by walkers but nobody has felt the need to send pics to the DM because they respect their privacy.

Meghan's privacy might have been respected had she not courted criticism in recent months. They are hot news now.

merlotgran do you never smile then apart from when there is a camera around?

Same for me merlot , it is their actions and interviews which
cause me to doubt them.

Your assumption is based on nothing more than a dislike of someone you have never met and know nothing about.

No! My assumption is based on the way she is behaving.

There has been several ‘timed to compete’

William and Kate arrive in Pakistan , meet the PM and visit
the cancer hospital he founded in memory of his mother .

M & H give a tv interview about his grief and her ‘they didn’t
ask if I was OK’, plus their announcement they would sue the
Mail.

William’s first time host of an official banquet at Bucking Palace, same evening Harry makes a speech to camera of his
heartbreak that he didn’t get all he wanted.

Photographs in the press next morning ? Not the official banquet but Megan walking in a public place with baby, two
dogs, two bodyguards and smiling to , in my opinion, camera.
Followed by announcement they would make an official complaint.

With a nanny and other staff was there need to walk the baby and two dogs at the same time?

How can they coordinate press releases when they did not release the pics?

It is beyond belief that people are clamouring to castigate and denigrate one of PC's DILs on no evidence, whilst at the same time praising his other DIL and assuming her good motives.

The psychology of this campaign to slur MM is really terrifying. It would seem that anything goes.

Indeed I do not know this woman and cannot read her mind! Which is why I do not claim to know what she is thinking - and certainly have no desire to impute negative implications about things I know nothing about!!!

If they want to be normal and earn their own money why don’t they drop the Duke and Duchesses titles, or maybe they won’t feel so bankable without those.
No normal people have titles so they don’t want to be as normal as us after all.

I am certain that despite their insistence of wanting to escape the media, H and M will not want to be forgotten.

I suspect we will see many selected pictures of, particularly M visiting many worthy causes.

Instead of threatening legal action on the very first day of their new life together they should have taken the 'accept and move on' approach.
All they have done is attract more attention

I agree Merlot - I believe this was a public park and “celebrities “ sometimes have to put up with the public in a public place.
If H &M could learn to “accept and move on”, they might stand a better chance of getting the media on side, the way the RF did when William was at St Andrews

What is of more concern is the fact that if that had been a long range weapon, the police protection would have been ineffectual.

I agree, annsixty. Nothing will convince me Meghan didn't know a camera was there

Why? It’s clearly taken with a long lens. If they really pre-arranged it would they be risking their warning (& subsequent disclosure).

Your assumption is based on nothing more than a dislike of someone you have never met and know nothing about.