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Monday - will you watch....and why?

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Pantglas2 Sat 06-Mar-21 21:00:12

Obviously, the Oprah interview with the Sussexes.

I will because I want to hear it straight from the source rather than media spin/interpretation so that I can comment later on what I saw and heard, when discussions start up as they surely will.

However, I don’t think they should be doing an interview at all (I felt the same about Diana and Charles interviews) these things end up backfiring against them.

Lucca Mon 08-Mar-21 15:47:39

Anniebach

Nigel Farage supports the Sussex’s ,

www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1400064/nigel-farage-meghan-markle-prince-harry-megxit-queen-royal-news

Really ?

Tea3 Mon 08-Mar-21 15:48:28

I think there is someone pulling Megan’s strings with the aim of destabilising the royal family.

Callistemon Mon 08-Mar-21 15:48:55

Peasblossom

You mean we didn’t need to pay all that money after all?

So who wanted the big wedding? The Queens other grandchildren have had less expensive, less published weddings.

Can we get a refund?

Alegrias1 Mon 08-Mar-21 15:49:32

Then there's this....

LauraNorder Mon 08-Mar-21 15:52:43

Nigel Farage would support Rasputin if it meant a headline for him.

Ilovecheese Mon 08-Mar-21 15:54:14

So where did the idea that Nigel Farage supports the Sussexes come from?

Calendargirl Mon 08-Mar-21 15:54:59

I shall be so interested to hear about the private wedding 3 days before the ‘world’ one.

Who was there, did they all wear their glad rags, who officiated, did they exchange rings.....?

Anniebach Mon 08-Mar-21 15:57:48

It’s all so sad, Harry cash supply was cut off, if he stayed in this country could he not have claimed unemployment benefit?

LauraNorder Mon 08-Mar-21 15:59:14

Rushed in with my Farage comment. Seems he doesn’t support the Sussexes.
Stand by the fact that he’ll say anything for a headline.

varian Mon 08-Mar-21 16:00:38

Did the Archbishop not confirm Meghan as a member of the CofE at that time? Possibly there was a wedding rehearsal.

If there had been a legal wedding there would have to have been two witnesses.

Anniebach Mon 08-Mar-21 16:03:06

Ooooooops , apologies I misread what he said

Smileless2012 Mon 08-Mar-21 16:04:37

There was no private wedding, their couldn't have been. For it to have been legal C of E rules say that two witnesses must be at a wedding, that two people who are married cannot marry each other again and that the public must have unrestricted access during any marriage ceremony, to allow for valid objections.

It isn't known if the Arch Bishop can override these rules but seems highly unlikely he would and then go along with the charade that took place 3 days later.

Grandma70s Mon 08-Mar-21 16:04:56

I don’t want to watch it. I suspect it will be very boring and/or make me angry, but if I don’t I can’t have an informed opinion.

Nezumi65 Mon 08-Mar-21 16:05:16

a) he’s 3 years old than him - hardly an older woman
b) plenty of us did not feel the need to speculate on the colour of Archie’s skin hmm

Nezumi65 Mon 08-Mar-21 16:05:33

She’s

Callistemon Mon 08-Mar-21 16:06:03

Bridgeit

News Flash, just announced that Prince Harry has clarified that neither the Queen or Prince Philip were the ones who made the/a comment about what colour his & Meghans’s baby might be.

I wonder just how much more damage limitation Harry will be forced to do over the next few weeks?

He has really cut himself off from his family by this airing of dirty linen worldwide.
And, if he finds he was just a 'useful idiot' in years to come, he may find himself very lonely indeed.

Smileless2012 Mon 08-Mar-21 16:06:24

The Arch Bishop needs to make a statement to either verify this claim or refute it.

LauraNorder Mon 08-Mar-21 16:18:07

Nezumi65, I agree that ‘plenty of us did not feel the need to speculate on the colour of Archies skin’. However the family may have felt the need to warn H & M of possible gutter press and social media trolling should their child have a dark skin.
She was probably warned that she’d be picked on for what she wore, whether she wore tights and whether her bun was tidy.
The whole thing could have been a warning of what they may expect in order to prepare them and therefore protect them.
I hope that is the case. I sincerely hope that no member of our royal family is racist.
The context is important.

tickingbird Mon 08-Mar-21 16:19:01

I don’t think there was a wedding 3 days earlier. Must have been a rehearsal. If that is the case, how much more embroidering of the truth did they do in their hatchet job interview?

LauraNorder Mon 08-Mar-21 16:21:39

Re the matter of Archie’s skin. When questioned about it by Oprah, Harry said he was uncomfortable with the conversation. He did not say he was shocked or horrified, which makes me think it was not a racist conversation until it was relayed to Meghan who perhaps took it to be so.

Smileless2012 Mon 08-Mar-21 16:24:59

"how much more embroidering of the truth did they do" indeed tickingbird

Gannygangan Mon 08-Mar-21 16:30:46

tickingbird

I don’t think there was a wedding 3 days earlier. Must have been a rehearsal. If that is the case, how much more embroidering of the truth did they do in their hatchet job interview?

There wasn't a wedding 3 days earlier. She may well have had a rehearsal of sorts in the garden with the Archbishop but she wasn't married.

Why she said that with such glee, I'll never know. Maybe she thinks we are unaware of how our life events are registered. Needed a spot of research doing.

I think it's very sad. I feel sorry for the Queen.

Calendargirl Mon 08-Mar-21 16:34:11

I think before long Justin Welby will have to be brought into the debate to ascertain the facts about the ‘double’ wedding.

Yes, I’m sure it was a rehearsal, but a bit worrying if H&M didn’t realise that.

shock

Callistemon Mon 08-Mar-21 16:37:32

The more I hear, the more I think this whole story owes more to imagination than fact.

H1954 Mon 08-Mar-21 16:38:20

No, definitely not! M is manipulating the situation just like she has from the start!
I've seen snippets in the news, allegedly she didn't realise that she would have to curtesy to the Queen!