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

I have no interest in it, but will probably watch anyway as the papers are going to be full of it - and I would rather make my own decisions.

It will have been totally scripted anyway - Oprah will have been told what to ask by Meghan, and answers will have been well prepared in what H & M think are appropriate responses. Their American hangers-on will think it is wonderful of course. The Royal Family will be too polite to say what they might privately think.

If the RF have any sense, they won’t watch. They should treat it with the contempt it deserves.

Thanks for all your responses which pretty much mirror my friends and family in that most blokes are totally uninterested and the women are dived into will and won’t!

I’m hoping against hope that Oprah asks the difficult questions rather than give them an easy ride like Bashir did with Diana whose questions didn’t include follow-ups to her answers.

No I won't be watching it. It is just a family disagreement which in a lower-middle class setting would be a non-event to everyone else.

A younger member, after reaching the age when he is expected to settle down, decides that he doesn't want to join the family firm but to strike out on his own. His wife doesn't want to join it either, unless she can be on the management board, preferably with a casting vote.

On being told that they will start at the bottom like everyone else and conform to company policy, they flounce out and announce their intention of starting afresh in another country. However, they mean to use one of the parent company's marketing labels for their new firm - which doesn't go down well. An employee leaving, say, IBM, wouldn't be allowed to use marketing material from IBM. That is business etiquette.

An opportunity to join a major TV show to talk about how badly-done-by they are gives the wife the opportunity to use her professional skills at eloquently portraying emotion (which she may or may not be feeling at that moment) and use past traumas. This is to contrast that (deliberately?) with the older "stiff-upper-lip, do it formally and don't fall apart" traditions of the more senior members of the firm so as to emphasise her point that she is modern, open, put-upon and "right" and they are hidebound, cold and "wrong".

I daresay it will give her career a helping hand to spend a while on a high-viewing site discussing how she took on the world's most famous establishment, but I think I'll give it a miss.

Some good points well made Elegran.
Pantglas, looks as though Orlin is the only curious male.

Well put, Elegran.

Mr. S. is going to watch it, well if he can stay awake long enough.

Who really wants to watch two ungrateful, self centered,
selfish individuals telling everyone who will listen to them that
the R.F are living in the dark ages and they have made sure that M and H are not welcome in the family. Most of these
Royal interviews do them more harm than good and this one does not seem to bode well for them. They need to leave quietly it seems M.M. has had her fifteen minutes of fame so game over.

This has been a really interesting (and fortunately non-confrontational thread) Pantglas which I’ve enjoyed reading and piqued my interest in Oprah herself.

Thank you for posting it.

I loved your comment Elegran.

The clips I've seen seem to be full of West Coast psychobabble. Don't think I could sit through 2 hours of it.

Elegran and WW2, good posts. I sincerely hope this is the swan song and they can disappear over the horizon to their perfect life. Alas, I think it will be one of those series where it all goes on just that little bit too long for the rest of us to stomach.

It would be nice wouldn’t it if M&H could get their angst out there once and for all, on a huge platform, then ride off into the sunset to enjoy a quiet, private life, happy together with each other and their children. Perhaps then we could all get to draw a line in the sand.
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How wonderful that would be Urmston and the happy ending would be that we never hear of them again. How lovely.
Unfortunately I think it’s unlikely.

Yes, I plan to watch.

Unfortunately only in a parallel universe with no Spotify or Netflix. But at least we have the choice not to stream them.

seacliff

I don't approve of it but will probably watch, but not sure if I can take 2 hours of her 'poor me" comments. Yes the special Diana smudged eye make up. All so false and staged.

Even worse, it replaces Forgotten.

My listing shows Forgotten is on.
H+M are on at 10.45pm - 12.30

Brilliant, Elegran!!

Ailidh

Brilliant, Elegran!!

Although that said, if she really didn't know she was supposed to curtsey to the Queen, then Harry didn't prepare her very well to join the firm.

Ailidh

Ailidh

Brilliant, Elegran!!

Although that said, if she really didn't know she was supposed to curtsey to the Queen, then Harry didn't prepare her very well to join the firm.

She doesn’t appear to have understood much about her expected role.

It seems to have been exactly the self-centred whinge-fest I feared it might be, sadly. Taking offence at small things. Don’t most people wonder what a new child will look like like? I know I wondered whether my children would have red hair like my mother-in-law (they didn’t).

Harry got it really wrong with Meghan all the allegations are unsupportable, because the RF are not likely to respond, they will be very angry. If Meghan felt “unsupported” Harry could have made sure that she was, he had the authority to do that. If a staff member did say offensive remarks, Harry could have had them removed, if I had heard that sort of comment, their feet would not touch the ground.

How much is true and how much is distorted I have no idea, I’m sure the anti monarchists will lap it up. Oprah added to the dramatization, all carefully scripted to do as much damage as possible.

Yep - no doubt we’re going to have to put up with a load of foaming at the mouth from the Mail, the Express and their readers (including my MIL) so I may as well watch and make up my own mind.

Plus the Andrew interview was fascinating. Not just in a horrific way - but also for the glimpse it gave into the arrogance and entitlement of the man and the institution. Hoping to get more glimpses into the culture of the RF

Taking offence at small things. Surely you are joking.

No.
I'm absolutely sick and tired and bored to tears of it already.
I've just stocked up on Audible books to see me through the next week.

(One of which happens to be The Husband Hunters which is about the daughters of the New York rich marrying into English society in the 1870s, which seems pertinent.)

I have got an insatiable appetite for celebrity guff and armchair psychology, so if I'm anything to go by, I don't think that there is much longevity in this.

And she's having a daughter. Now that child really will be Meghan's golden egg and the gift that keeps on giving. I always predicted that Meghan would stick with Harry until she had a girl; 'Diana's Granddaughter'.

I must add that I do feel sorry for Meghan.
And I don't know how she manages to put up with Harry. He seems a gormless fool. He must drive her mad.