Breaking: H & M in Car Chase

The paparazzi agency is the same one Meghan contacts when she wants photos of her out hiking or whatever….

Incidentally I think there are four in that marriage. Doria seems to be a permanent fixture.

Cold

Glorianny

Amazing how many inaccuracies are being posted on this thread. So let's get things clear. The chase took place before the taxi driver was involved. High speed was not mentioned until the Mayor of New York brought it in. M&H had to transfer from their limo to a taxi in order to shake off the paps. One of the agencies who buy photos from the paps claims the paps were not dangerous In those famous words "Well they would wouldn't they".
They were certainly pursued and they had to use a taxi to escape. But of course they deserve all they get don't they.
Of course the increased activity of the paps might be related to the fact that H&M have been doing exactly what GN demanded, staying out of the news, which only makes photos of them more valuable. Can't win can they?

But this is the taxi that the paps photographed them in because the driver has given interviews standing next to his cab and it is the same taxi number

But it still makes absolutely no sense why they would transfer from a secure vehicle in a convoy to hail an insecure taxi? Why not wear seat belts? Why not enter/leave through a back or underground carpark entrance? Why walk in and out from the street? ... all of these are very basic body guarding issues

Surely most reliable security companies would have a VIP car service on speed dial and arrange to meet up to transfer vehicles ... or use a nearby hotel by going in the front door and out the back

It was these sort of cat and mouse games were what led to the death of Diana when she left a secure suite at the Ritz and called back an offduty (drunk) driver.

I've read that NYPD is requesting Harry's mobile phone footage so hopefully this will give more clarity

They had driven round in high security vehicles in convoy for some time. They were unable to shake the paps. They went to a police station. The police blocked the road and put them in a taxi, presumably in the hope that one taxi in NY looks just like another. The police cars drove off in another direction presumably to draw away some of the paps. A few still followed them.

I’m stuck on the M6 going north for a family event tomorrow and certainly not being pursued by anyone, so thank you ladies for entertaining me for ten minutes reading this thread. Ooops, we’re moving, catch up later.

As an aside, doesn't Doria always look great!

They are neither of them very important, have little to offer except their connection to royalty and that is waning. So why would journalists suddenly start pursuing them now?

I sincerely hope this episode wasn't a stunt and I don't think they would stoop so low, but someone in their train might just think it would vindicate H's determination to have extra security provided, at someone else's expense.

I think she should tell him straight that it doesn't work with 3 in the marriage, the 3rd being Diana.
That he needs to move on. That there are 4 people in that family and that each one is important and has needs.
And give himself a long break from all the public engagements, interviews and book writing because it isn't helping anyone of them.

I think I could live a very quiet, happy, reclusive life on $60 million or so.

how might she support him going forward
She’d put him on a plane to Heathrow.

How might she support him best, going forward?

He probably wanted to support his wife but perhaps he should have stayed at home and Meghan could have gone with her Mum.

Staying out of the limelight, leading a quiet ordinary life is the only way forward because then the press, the paparazzi, will lose interest in them.

And yes, they have to earn a living unless they can live on investments of course, but fame brings its downsides and there must be other opportunities away from centre stage, cameras.

“I think being part of this family, in this role and this job, every single time I see a camera, every single time I hear a click, every single time I see a flash, it takes me straight back.

“So in that respect, it’s the worst reminder of her life as opposed to the best,” he told Bradby.
edition.cnn.com/2019/10/18/europe/harry-camera-flash-gbr-scli-intl/index.html

news.sky.com/story/prince-harry-and-meghan-involved-in-near-catastrophic-car-chase-12882989
Perhaps he should be telling his wife that this kind of lifestyle is injurious to his mental health?

How might she support him best, going forward?

Harry taking advice ?

Juliet27

🤣🤣 Meryl

Or Vision Express!

(Groan)

Cos they might be in even more trouble if they run feral! 😁

Why do they need advisors anyway?

Sorry that should be to Callistemon

🤣🤣 Meryl

The entire Woman of Whatever message disappears when you and your husband create a drama about nothing.
They need help from better advisors.

The use of seatbelts does seem to be low down on the list of safety measures for "important" people...
I don't understand it at all.

nanna8

If you are travelling at approximately 20-25 k per hour you maybe don’t actually need seatbelts I suppose. It must have been one of those freaky no traffic days in New York.

Yes, you do. You don't know what other drivers may do and Harry wasn't even driving, he was a passenger too.

Not sure about the law in all the USA but certainly it is compulsory in NY.

If someone's parents had been killed in a car crash because she wasn't wearing a seatbelt then I thought fastening your seatbelt would have been the first thing you would do and you'd ensure your loved ones do the same.

Their security escorts and the police could have called a halt to this "chase" at any time.

It just doesn't add up.

maddyone

I’d think you must be mad. Why would you want to start filming an old granny?
Because I’m not even a quarter as pretty as Meghan.

But are you a Woman of Vision, maddyone
They might if you'd just won an award 🏅

MerylStreep

^how would you feel if a bloke in casual clothes turned up outside your car in the streets of NewYork and started filming you^
If it was me I’d be flattered. But it’s Meghan. That’s her oxygen.
Action, camera, smile 😄

I'd ask him if he needed to go to Specsavers 😁

Like it or not the paparazzi will follow celebrities - if Harry didn't want the address of his friend's residence to be known then they should have stayed in a hotel.

Going from their SUV to a taxi in an attempt to shake-off the press was a silly decision by the security team, evidenced by the return to the SUV.

All a bit of a fiasco - which could have turned disastrous given they had no idea how responsible a driver the cabbie was. A good job he wasn't the type to be up for a chase.

Prince Harry has a deep seated problem with the press, why doesn’t he go out of his way to avoid them?

Exactly.
They could have moved to the US, and lived a quiet life somewhere.

how would you feel if a bloke in casual clothes turned up outside your car in the streets of NewYork and started filming you
If it was me I’d be flattered. But it’s Meghan. That’s her oxygen.
Action, camera, smile 😄