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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

Jabberwok Mon 20-Apr-20 10:40:29

Prince William has a his own private fortune left to him by his mother, which was from her private family money! This is where his undisclosed contribution came from! Apart from royal duties he is not funded by the tax payer, but by his father from the Dutchy of Cornwall.

oscaro11 Mon 20-Apr-20 10:22:41

She’s probably worried about what will come out this week in her court case.
Also, the set up recent photos were taken by the same photographer who photographed her father getting measured for his suit for the wedding. What a coincidence.....not!

Anniebach Mon 20-Apr-20 10:17:30

So funny, it’s reported in the Mail.

Anniebach Mon 20-Apr-20 10:12:24

They look forward to working with journalists and media
.organisations - all over the world !

Eglantine21 Mon 20-Apr-20 10:12:06

All publicity is good publicity ?

merlotgran Mon 20-Apr-20 10:09:52

This is just another one of their announcements about a non announcement.

'We're not talking to tabloids' just means. 'We'll make sure there's something for the tabloids to talk about.' hmm

eazybee Mon 20-Apr-20 09:51:55

What they mean is, they want to control their publicity so that they can profit from it financially.

Harry has not yet realised that his only asset in whatever future he is pursuing is his royal birth. He is not yet aware that the Great British Public is generally unimpressed by his recent actions. As a man of limited ability with very little common sense he resembles a P.G. Wodehouse character, but is rapidly shedding the charm.

merlotgran Mon 20-Apr-20 09:51:36

but they did look good and that's what upsets the GNers.

Airbrushed Hollywood Perfection.

trisher Mon 20-Apr-20 09:48:39

Just to correct the usual inaccuracies posted by Annie the photographer -Samir Hussein who took the umbrella photograph spoke to the press officer, not security. It really is delusional to think that they wouldn't walk somewhere to enable photographs to be taken or to assume that it is possible to stage a photograph like that in a few seconds or even minutes. It was just a chance photograph but they did look good and that's what upsets the GNers.

Calendargirl Mon 20-Apr-20 09:23:07

It was on the radio news this morning that H&M are banning some of the British press from reporting on them, or some such, as they are not portraying them accurately.

The Sun, Mirror, Express and Mail were the naughty ones.

Anniebach Mon 20-Apr-20 08:38:11

Bridgeit it wasn’t a link, trisher posted in full what the
photograph had said, you will find it among posts from
Saturday.

Your questions will have to be asked of trisher.

Anniebach Mon 20-Apr-20 08:30:55

Scroll down this link, the BBC gives the letter in full

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52349573

NotSpaghetti Mon 20-Apr-20 08:17:54

Bridgeit if you follow the link you will no doubt find out. Usually two sources are required for news but if you are “tipped off” about, say, an appearance somewhere or other, you send a photographer and get a photo, logically you have “proved” the tip.

The amazing thing I think is the new items in the news today that they will “no longer co-operate” with the UK tabloids. Who would have thought it. You can’t really stop working with the tabloids unless you had previously been doing so.

maddyone Sun 19-Apr-20 23:21:58

Good for Professor Karol Sikora.
How dare Harry, or for that matter anyone at all, make such an ignorant statement.

Chestnut Sun 19-Apr-20 23:10:10

It seems Harry has put his foot in it again:
'Prince Harry has sparked fury by claiming the UK's Covid-19 crisis is not as bad as the public are being told. In an interview with the Declassifed podcast, the 35-year-old said that things here are 'better than we are led to believe through ­certain corners of the media'. But his comments were branded 'outrageous' by expert Professor Karol Sikora, who asked: 'What are his qualifications for making these comments — other than deserting his country in its hour of need?'

Bridgeit Sun 19-Apr-20 22:51:27

A link , a link to what,? a sentence taken from what .? a speech, an article written by someone else ?

Bridgeit Sun 19-Apr-20 22:49:46

Thanks Annie, but does it come with a verifiable original source who , where & when .?

Anniebach Sun 19-Apr-20 22:39:15

A link was posted means a poster posted a link

Roni Sun 19-Apr-20 22:28:39

The Duke & Duchess of Cambridge are a wealthy couple. They live off the taxpayers money which funds their lavish lifestyle.
So, the 'undisclosed sum paid to NHS' is the least they can do!

Bridgeit Sun 19-Apr-20 22:27:39

What does a link was posted mean please ?

Anniebach Sun 19-Apr-20 22:14:51

A link was posted yesterday, they were attending the Mansion
House, a photographer who took a great photograph said he had been talking to their security , they got out of their car
ten metres from the Mansion House and walked.

The photographs of them delivering food, the dog walking, no
security stepping in.

Bridgeit Sun 19-Apr-20 21:52:42

How do you know this Annie?

Anniebach Sun 19-Apr-20 21:48:22

But they are tipping the media the wink, I don’t think people
are rushing to buy newspapers if they are in them. I do think
they think so, they need media coverage , that’s what is so sad about it, Harry making speeches and talking rubbish.

Bridgeit Sun 19-Apr-20 20:59:30

Maddyone , it is the media , they are making money out of it& we don’t have to read or hear about it if we don’t want to.

Bridgeit Sun 19-Apr-20 20:58:22

That’s the point Annie, it isn’t about who gives up what.
It’s a journey that can pan out any which way, if a person chooses a course & it goes wrong, they will have had the pleasure & the pain, if they choose not to follow the course that they believe in then they will be unhappy anyway & right away.