Breaking: H & M in Car Chase

good post Saetana, I agree with you

JaneJudge

good post Saetana, I agree with you

So do I.

If nothing was said by them who spoke to their official spokesperson?

I think Harry must have realised when he published the book that he would instantly become top of the paparazzi most wanted list. And USA has far less regulation with them than UK. So I have limited sympathy. But, of course, that doesn't give the press the right to act in an intrusive or dangerous manner. But very mixed information at the moment. Hopefully the truth will out. Tempted to think it's somewhere in the middle.

Good question Anniebach.

But, of course, that doesn't give the press the right to act in an intrusive or dangerous manner 👍 I agree, it is the press who are disgusting

The press have reported the statement from their official spokesperson, how is this intrusive or dangerous?

volver3

Like the rest of you I don't know the details of this and how it happened.

But despite what many of you think, they've never said they want to disappear and to suggest that they bring this on themselves, and should just withdraw from the public eye, is just supporting bullying and possibly even violence.

Do your worst, Grans. Nothing surprises me any more.

This!👍

So Harry is fighting for his rights to personal privacy and for the media to cease their intrusion into his private life. Such a shame he doesn't see fit to extend those rights to his wider family circle, and is in fact himself making a fortune from publicising their "inside story"... or at least his version of it. Hypocrisy on steroids..

His extended family are the royal family so republicans will
applaud and defend him every time he sticks knives in their backs to make money.

I'm always happy to agree that I'm probably a little bit wrong and everyone else is a little bit right in their views. 😄

Do your worst, Grans. Nothing surprises me any more

Nobody needs any permission from you, volver3

Apparently Harry has asked for footage from those involved. Backgrid, the celebrity News Agency, have responded

Backgrid said it had replied with a letter reading: 'In America, as I'm sure you know, property belongs to the owner of it: Third parties cannot just demand it be given to them, as perhaps Kings can do.

'Perhaps you should sit down with your client and advise them that his English rules of royal prerogative to demand that the citizenry hand over their property to the Crown were rejected by this country long ago. We stand by our founding fathers.'

Quite good!

Megan appeared not to be wearing a seat belt - heaven help us. If his mother had worn one she'd be alive today.

Oh dear, have a rattled a few cages? I suppose that's the problem with having a lofty perch...😉

Coming unstuck and falling off said perch is the problem but, then again, you know that feeling

If in their (unenviable) position I think I'd have gone out of the venue via a side/back door, unobtrusively if I'd wanted to be low-profile. I read that they arrived by a side/back door.

And then, chase or no chase, I would have worn a seat belt.

I am, like some on this thread, just surprised.

Saetana

The paps should not have been chasing them in the first place - they happily posed for plenty of photographs at the actual event. They left in an SUV with a security escort, as I understand it, and were pursued by a number of paparazzi, they drove around to try and shake them off but ended up having to take refuge in a police station. They were then put in a taxi in the hope of eluding the paps who were waiting outside, the taxi driver said they seemed scared and nervous. The "chase" did not last two hours, the entire incident including the police station lasted two hours - they left the event around 10pm and finally got to their friends' house after midnight. Nobody said it was a "high speed" chase - the media appear to have created that all by themselves. Given what happened to Harry's mother when being pursued by paparazzi - surely even the most rabid posters on here must understand that he would have been scared and possibly having flashbacks.

I am no particular fan of the Sussexes but something clearly happened here, as confirmed by the NY police, early reports sounded a little hysterical but nothing was actually said by Harry and Meghan personally so could we put the knives away please?

Thanks for this

Again ,if nothing was said by them who told their official spokesperson?

surely even the most rabid posters on here must understand that he would have been scared and possibly having flashbacks
Not sure I like the suggestion that any members might be suffering from rabies although one or two did seem to be foaming at the mouth on their high horse.

well, the site only gets lively when h & m are on it!

Yellowmellow

Such nasty know alls on here

are you casting yourself as a know all as you are on here too!

the 'paps' were paid to follow the, how about that. anything for publicity! everything not as it seems.

I just think it’s a bit sad it was headline UK news and there are 14 pages on here.

varian

Princess Mako of Japan gave up her royal status when she married a commoner and went to live in the USA. As far as I know she and her husband do not seek publicity and are not hounded by the paparazzi. They just get on with their lives quietly, still wealthy and privileged but not in the spotlight. If H&M wanted to lead quiet lives presumably they could do the same.

The former Japanese Ptincess may not be quite as famous as Ptince Harry, but she was always in the spotlight in Japan. The point is that former royals can live in the USA without harassment if they avoid, rather than seek out, publicity.

tickingbird

^Oh dear, have a rattled a few cages? I suppose that's the problem with having a lofty perch...😉^

Coming unstuck and falling off said perch is the problem but, then again, you know that feeling

What's that supposed to mean?

I would like to say that there does seem to be a quite high number of posters who think that the blame isn't with H&M, and who aren't being cowed into silence, while we have the usual suspects sounding off and making bizarre comments.

Is the novelty wearing off, Grans? Are you going to have to find another person to demonise?