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Are you sure, Harry?

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merlotgran Thu 16-Apr-20 16:27:56

Not about your decision to cut and run from your country and family.
Not about bleating that you feel guilty about isolating in a multi-million pound mansion in LA during Lockdown.
Not about suggesting to frazzled parents that they should celebrate the moment, rolling around the floor in hysterics. confused

But....When you made that call asking for money generated by your wedding to be used for feeding children during the pandemic, are you really sure it was the Archbishop of Canterbury who picked up the phone?? grin

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8224495/Prince-Harrys-family-time-LA-home-lockdown.html

merlotgran Fri 17-Apr-20 12:56:11

Meghan's message to the Grenfell Tower Hubb community kitchen volunteers who are cooking meals for Londoners:

'A home-cooked meal from one neighbour to another, when they need it most, is what community is all about.

Yes, We get that she supports the charity and visited it while living in the UK but now we know her messages are coming from her luxury mansion in LA where she no doubt spends her isolation lounging by a pool or playing tennis, they don't quite ring true.

They're just words.

oscaro11 Fri 17-Apr-20 12:58:56

And what about her poor father. Is she checking and asking him if he is ok? ......perhaps nobody has asked him if he is ok.

Sparklefizz Fri 17-Apr-20 13:07:36

A home-cooked meal from one neighbour to another, when they need it most, is what community is all about.

Perhaps M's father would like a home-cooked meal.

NanaPlenty Fri 17-Apr-20 13:12:19

I just feel disappointed that Harry has abandoned his country to go elsewhere - was this driven by Meghan, we will probably never know the truth but for someone who is a member of our Royal Family I think it’s a shame.

Anniebach Fri 17-Apr-20 13:12:30

A positive note, she can’t write on bananas to people in this country now, just hope she didn’t write on any and put them in the deliveries they made.

What does she know about community ? She didn’t want the
community in Kensington Palace,

trisher Fri 17-Apr-20 13:23:23

Chestnut no mixed messages personally I would happily send all the RF to live in LA, where let's face it they really belong, being more like a Disney film than any 21st century reality. So actually by clearing off Harry has started the sort of movement I would like to see. I also fail to understand the absolute hatred expressed on this thread to one over privelged couple who have just decided to live different lives. It seems the only option if you are part of the RF is to stay here, shut up and open hospitals. Maybe some want more than that and I see no reason why they shouldn't change things. As I said I wouldn't want Harry calling me, but nor would I want any of the rest of the RF. And if the lives of parents with severely disabled children are improved or feel better from talking to him well I see no reason to condemn him for doing it.

merlotgran Fri 17-Apr-20 13:35:35

It seems the only option if you are part of the RF is to stay here, shut up and open hospitals

Chelsea Davey and Cressida Bonas decided not to marry into the RF because that's not what they wanted, nor the constant attention despite the privileges. Meghan, however, knew exactly what she wanted and knew how to get it.

Anniebach Fri 17-Apr-20 13:39:09

Hatred ? trisher. I ‘do criticism’ I don’t ‘do hatred ‘, i will leave that to you

Jabberwok Fri 17-Apr-20 13:46:54

Agree Annie. The RF couldn't be further from the glitzy, frothy, vulgar Disney life of tinsel town! Can't see Princess Anne having much in common with these people's shallow lives or yet Prince Phillip, to name but two!!!

trisher Fri 17-Apr-20 13:49:12

Amazing merlotgran were you there when he proposed and they said "No"? Did they immediately confide that they didn't want to join the RF?
Annie A rose by any other name...

merlotgran Fri 17-Apr-20 13:50:34

They?

trisher Fri 17-Apr-20 13:50:41

Jabberwok Oh yes because all the RF are such intellectual giants grin

Roni Fri 17-Apr-20 13:53:34

Harry, had to get away from the constraints of the Royal family. He was the 'spare'& had fallen out with his brother William. Megan is an intelligent lady but she was not given proper respect both by the press or family. To live day in and day out under the shadow of the Royalty and feel miserable would not be have bee easy for the Sussex family. They took a bold step, I wish them all the happiness for future.

maddyone Fri 17-Apr-20 13:59:44

In what way are the lives of parents of disabled children improved by a phone call from Harry?

Anniebach Fri 17-Apr-20 14:07:02

Megan wasn’t given proper respect ? Surely respect is earned
not given accorded to intelligence

Chestnut Fri 17-Apr-20 14:08:35

trisher I also fail to understand the absolute hatred expressed on this thread to one over privelged couple who have just decided to live different lives.
And yet you have expressed an equal amount of 'hatred' (if that's what you call it) for the Royal Family who do far more charitable work than H&M and have served this country all their lives.

oscaro11 Fri 17-Apr-20 14:09:51

Meghan needed Harry to provide her with the riches, profile and platform that she was unable to achieve through years and years of working as an actress and other things. Without him, where would she be now? Harry fell out width his brother when Meghan arrived on the scene, for whatever reasons we do not know, but she certainly exacerbated any feelings he had about being second to his brother. Now, it is all a big game. When Kate and William get publicity, Harry and Meghan who, let us not forget, moved to get away from the paparazzi and publicity And to lead a quiet life, suddenly feel compelled (their word) to mount a publicity campaign in the hope of not only rivalling William and Kate but overshadowing them. It is all exceptionally childish particularly at a time like this.

maddyone Fri 17-Apr-20 14:14:27

I’m afraid I find trisher’s attitude puzzling too. She clearly dislikes the entire royal family enormously and yet applauds H+M. Weird!

Jabberwok Fri 17-Apr-20 14:21:58

Not given respect?!!!! FGS the RF bent over backwards to welcome her and pander to her every whim! That beautiful wedding, gallant P.C, that expensive house, that wonderful honeymoon? The press didn't say a bad word about her, the country by and large welcomed her to their hearts, where do you think those cheering crowds came from?!! MM threw it all back in all our faces even to the point of accusing us of racism and RF as toxic . She's the one who is toxic, she's the one who has shown complete disrespect for the RF and the rest of us! Oh, and while on the subject, perhaps these two low life's could see their way to reimbursing the outstanding tax payers money they've accrued now they don't live here anymore and hopefully never will! If they can't live on their own money of several million pounds, then they truly are a gruesome pair!
Nothing to do with intellect trisher, I was thinking more of not fitting in with tinsel vulgarity!

NotSpaghetti Fri 17-Apr-20 14:23:45

I'm still interested in the "extra profit"...
Does anyone know about this?

Jabberwok Fri 17-Apr-20 14:26:01

'tinsel vulgarity which H & M clearly do'

Shelmiss Fri 17-Apr-20 14:27:24

I found the video a little bit nauseating...and very sycophantic.......oh Harry how funny you are, oh Harry you are wonderful. (Not)

merlotgran Fri 17-Apr-20 14:28:30

I'd like to know a bit about it as well, NotSpaghetti especially as the BBC is funded by licence payers' money.

And why did Harry have to make a big deal about involving the Archbishop of Canterbury?

trisher Fri 17-Apr-20 14:28:40

maddyone look at the video the parents and the childen clearly enjoy talking to him.
I don't dislike any of them . I don't actually know them. I think the RF as a whole is a useless unnecessary anachronism. But I don't as many seem to do on GN imagine I have any personal knowledge or connection with any of them. It never ceases to amaze me the degree of hatred and bile that can be aimed at one young couple. In some cases it almost amounts to psychosis. I really haven't "applauded" Harry just recognised that others seem to appreciate him and that they are entitled to do that without attracting a lot of flak from GNers.

trisher Fri 17-Apr-20 14:30:44

Shelmiss what a disgusting thing to say about the parents of severely disabled children trapped in lockdown, short of PPE and fearing for their children's lives.