A certain book

He surely didn't write that himself!!

Of course he didn’t.

Consider his abysmal academic performance despite a phenomenally privileged education.

GrannyGravy13

Just seen this …

Good grief! That’s a bit of a “get out of jail free” card isn’t it?
Like PH remembering being at school and hearing the Queen Mum had died, when there is clear evidence he was skiing at Klosters?

To return to who wrote the book, there has been no secret of the fact that it was “ghost-written” and many reviews credit the writer with a level of style and presentation which way exceed PH’s lamentable performance in his interviews.

Even the ghost writer seems to be saying ‘Don’t blame me!’.

CatsCatsCats

One cheering fact I heard yesterday. Happy Valley viewing ratings beat the interview ratings hands down on Sunday evening.

Quite right too! Happy Valley is superb entertainment - Harry's mewling is self indulgent, boring dross.

Good grief! That’s a bit of a “get out of jail free” card isn’t it?
Like PH remembering being at school and hearing the Queen Mum had died, when there is clear evidence he was skiing at Klosters?

Ahhh, happy days 🙂

Caleo

But, GrannyGravy , that is still primogeniture. It's about the first born and so forth ,not about the sex.

Apologies your reference to a girl sibling has addled my brain.

Anne was the second born however she was fourth inline to the throne before the change in the law. it wasn’t retrospective though.

As for The Wicked Step-mother, neither William nor Harry look particularly unhappy just after Charles has announced his forthcoming marriage to Camilla. William was to be a witness and ring-bearer.
www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/prince-charles-rude-comment-harry-5457467

I think William and Harry were both laughing because Charles had made a rude comment about a reporter.

Norah, not really. It’s self-employed income, rather than PAYE, hence being taxable after expenses, but still income. What complicates matters somewhat in this case is that it’s income earned in multiple tax jurisdictions. Although, if Harry’s tax country is the USA, I believe they have a flat 30% tax withholding on foreign income. He’ll have good accountants, and under the American tax system, he can claim back the cost of them as expenses!

Are you sure your brother pays tax in both countries? It’s possible, but more common (and annoying) to have to file (do a tax return) for both countries, but not to earn enough for double taxation.

One of the more amusing leaked extracts from the book was Meghan's first sight of Nottingham Cottage, it left her aghast at just how humble it was, like a "frat house" allegedly!. Not yet a Duchess but nevertheless ascending to that role magnificently whilst visiting the lowly serf like man cave, that she was expected to live in Harry was embarrassed to take her there so we are told and as we know from Oprah who also visited, again absolutely appalled, a virtual hovel no less! All very amusing from two Californians who seem oblivious to the fact that there's a hell of a lot of people living in tents in the state of California. Nevertheless here he was a Prince no less living in a hobbit hole, albeit in a posh part of London, I rather think that's what they overlooked, oh and the architect, that would be a certain Christopher Wren. As the saying goes less is more and the clue is in the name "cottage" but when one's bathrooms run into dozens I guess it is tantamount to a garden shed maybe!

Hmm. Didn't Willy and Kate live there when they got married? We didn't hear any complaining from them.

She probably thought she should be living in Buckingham Palace from the get go.

I believe they did. And their current home is very modest I believe.

Palace, Princess and Parties, if only!

Has any mention been made of the spacious apartment at KP next to William and Kate’s that was renovated with taxpayers’ money?

The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester vacated it so H&M could live there but they turned it down because, as we now know, they’d already fallen out with the Cambridges.

They then rented somewhere in the Cotswolds while Frogmore Cottage was being renovated as a gift from the Queen.

They have always made it sound as though there was never any attempt to accommodate their needs.🤔

Also the “we had to buy furniture from IKEA on Meg’s credit card”. What nonsense. He was a millionaire several times over from his mum’s will alone plus what they were left by Queen Mum. Plus Meghan’s bank balance from her years in Suits. Who is he kidding?

They then rented somewhere in the Cotswolds while Frogmore Cottage was being renovated as a gift from the Queen.

The taxpayers paid for the £2.4m refurbishment of the ten-bedroomed Frogmore Cottage. However, we, the nasty taxpayers, kicked up a fuss about paying so the Queen or Charles repaid the money.

Then, when Harry and Meghan left, Eugenie and her husband moved in but moved out again very quickly.

It is still Harry and Meghan's to use whenever they might visit the UK; they stayed there last summer. It is believed they pay rent for it.

tickingbird

Also the “we had to buy furniture from IKEA on Meg’s credit card”. What nonsense. He was a millionaire several times over from his mum’s will alone plus what they were left by Queen Mum. Plus Meghan’s bank balance from her years in Suits. Who is he kidding?

Charles was still funding him from his Duchy of Cornwall income in those days as well.

‘Entitled Spare’ would have been more accurate.

It’s that memory playing tricks again. He probably meant they bought furniture on his personal account at Harrods.

Oh how the nation will have laughed at that complaint about
Furniture from Ikea.Poor H&M having to slum it.

Wonder if they had to live on beans on toast as well?

I wonder exactly who H thinks is sympathetic to these "issues".

He really has no idea how some people live, does he. Ahhh diddums, there , there. (not)

If he was hoping for sympathy, he was sorely mistaken.

To be fair, I think it was announced that H&M had repaid the Frogmore renovations themselves.

(Eventually).

Germanshepherdsmum

It’s that memory playing tricks again. He probably meant they bought furniture on his personal account at Harrods.

It's not really the same though! I think once Harry had shown Meg his humble hovel abode, they could have found some freedom with a trip round the North Circular to the nearest Ikea, then once they'd picked up their flat pack and heaved into one of their gas guzzlers vehicles, after enjoying the in house Swedish Meatballs of course, they could have further bonded together putting together their furniture, until of course they find that one inevitable screw missing, always enough to send anyone Spare!