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Interesting article - Harry the trauma exhibitionist.

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RosesandLilac Mon 04-Sept-23 08:29:16

meron152.substack.com/p/prince-harry-the-trauma-exhibitionist
I came across this article posted on MN.
It strikes me as very perceptive as Harry yet again drags up his mother’s death at the Invictus Games.
It’s so inappropriate and disrespectful to those thousands of injured servicemen and their relatives that an over-privileged, extremely wealthy individual constantly turns the subject to himself.

Glorianny Sat 09-Sept-23 23:08:25

The Wiki entry only refers to a member of the royal family. It was Charleshttps://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/local-news/letter-extracts-between-prince-charles-1835764

Glorianny Sat 09-Sept-23 23:09:39

woops forgetting spaces www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/local-news/letter-extracts-between-prince-charles-1835764

WellsRose Sat 09-Sept-23 23:13:56

And of course there's Lauren Van De Post as well as Lord Mountbatte and the Kincora Boys home.

Callistemon21 Sat 09-Sept-23 23:24:04

*In the meantime, if anyone is interested in The Invictus Games, here is a link*:

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/invictus-games-on-bbc-iplayer-red-button#:~:text=Audiences%20can%20watch%20the%20Invictus,catch%20up%20on%20BBC%20iPlayer.

WellsRose Sat 09-Sept-23 23:26:44

Callistemon21

*In the meantime, if anyone is interested in The Invictus Games, here is a link*:

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/invictus-games-on-bbc-iplayer-red-button#:~:text=Audiences%20can%20watch%20the%20Invictus,catch%20up%20on%20BBC%20iPlayer.

Yes I enjoyed The Opening Ceremony.

Foxygloves Sat 09-Sept-23 23:33:48

WellsRose

And of course there's Lauren Van De Post as well as Lord Mountbatte and the Kincora Boys home.

Not Lauren!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=YHAJ4VFStUE
Laurens van der Post
(Sir Laurens Jan van der Post, CBE was a South African Afrikaner writer, farmer, soldier, educator, journalist, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer and conservationist )
Why him?
Lord Mountbatten
Any other names of people loosely or vaguely connected to the Royal Family you’d like to lob into the argument why it was fine for a Harry to make such a thing of his “victim hood” in the Heart of Invictus series?
Maybe a corgi or two?
John Brown?
William Tallon (Backstairs Billy) ?

WellsRose Sat 09-Sept-23 23:52:31

LAuren Can Dr Post was a friend of Charles. This was in an article about hi m

One was Sir Laurens van der Post (1906-96). Storyteller, J.D.F. Jones's biography of this erstwhile guru, informs us that his numerous sexual liasons were conducted with little apparent regard for the feelings of the women concerned. More than once, it seems, an unwanted pregnancy was the signal for Laurens to decamp hurriedly and disappear. But the most startling episode of the kind occurred when, at the age of 43, he seduced and made pregnant a 14-year-old South African girl who had been placed in his care. This event, which would have ruined Laurens if it had become known in his lifetime, was not revealed until after his death.

Lord Mountbattwn
villagemagazine.ie/a-kincora-boy-abused-by-mountbatten-committed-suicide-a-few-months-late/

Anniebach Sun 10-Sept-23 01:13:51

I feel so sorry for Charles, the number of people he knows through his charity work and people he met because he was prince of Wales,

I had a friendship with a man for several years, my young daughters attended a youth club he ran , a lovely person and good friend. I was so upset when I learned a few years after he left the town where I was living and where he once lived he was charged with offences involving illegal sexual acts.

Anniebach Sun 10-Sept-23 01:17:45

Thank you Callistemon , Harry is such a different person without Megan clutching his hand

Foxygloves Sun 10-Sept-23 03:18:21

LAuren Can Dr Post (sic) was a friend of Charles. This was in an article about him

And this has precisely what to do with Harry/Heart of Invictus?

WellsRose Sun 10-Sept-23 05:51:22

Foxygloves

^LAuren Can Dr Post (sic) was a friend of Charles. This was in an article about him^

And this has precisely what to do with Harry/Heart of Invictus?

Someone asked to expand on corruption in tje Royal Family and I answered.

Anniebach Sun 10-Sept-23 05:59:06

No corruption just muck raking

WellsRose Sun 10-Sept-23 06:33:41

Anniebach

No corruption just muck raking

Holding public servants to account is not muck raking.?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/13/prince-andrew-epstein-sexual-abuse-investigation

www.insider.com/rules-and-laws-that-british-royals-are-allowed-to-break-2020-6

www.insider.com/prince-charles-history-with-pedophile-priest-peter-ball-2020-1

www.ladbible.com/entertainment/letters-show-jimmy-savile-gave-advice-to-the-royal-family-20220406

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/16/prince-charles-could-be-called-as-witness-in-cash-for-honours-investigation

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/07/british-royal-family-wealth-finances-cost-of-the-crown-summary

WellsRose Sun 10-Sept-23 06:34:36

Anniebach

Thank you Callistemon , Harry is such a different person without Megan clutching his hand

Now this is Muck raking.

Jaberwok Sun 10-Sept-23 08:53:56

No, it's the truth, simple as that, Harry does seem much more relaxed without his wife. At the time, Prince Charles couldn't possibly been aware of either Peter Ball or Laurens van der Post when he knew them personally. As for Earl Mountbatten, so many rumours swirled around him and Edwina, it's impossible to separate rumour from truth.

Anniebach Sun 10-Sept-23 09:17:17

Going from very much liked to very much disliked since his marriage and certainly has become a liar

WellsRose Sun 10-Sept-23 09:34:19

Jaberwok

No, it's the truth, simple as that, Harry does seem much more relaxed without his wife. At the time, Prince Charles couldn't possibly been aware of either Peter Ball or Laurens van der Post when he knew them personally. As for Earl Mountbatten, so many rumours swirled around him and Edwina, it's impossible to separate rumour from truth.

Charles wrote to Peter Ball AFTER he accepted a cautioned even bought a house for him to live! One of the Kinross boys has launched a legal battle. Why would do he that if it wasn't true? Why has the Home Office tried to stop Mountbtten's diary being published under the freedom of information act?

Do you spend all your time looking at photos of Harry to see if he looks happy and relaxed then?

WellsRose Sun 10-Sept-23 09:39:47

Anniebach

Going from very much liked to very much disliked since his marriage and certainly has become a liar

Liked and disliked by whom? If it is true he is a liar, how.is.that.because of his marriage?

eazybee Sun 10-Sept-23 09:49:44

Harry has opened the Invictus Games in Germany and made speeches focusing on the competitors without any reference to his personal traumas.
Perhaps the muck-raking , which has nothing to do with Harry , could stop?

Germanshepherdsmum Sun 10-Sept-23 09:52:42

You are indeed muck raking WR. This thread is about Harry, not the people (some dead) you have chosen to bring into it.

H is the son of a woman who lied and has married a woman who lies.

Anniebach Sun 10-Sept-23 09:57:13

Yes, he didn’t speak of his mothers death or the alleged neglect of his family, a speech which wasn’t ‘all about Harry’

WellsRose Sun 10-Sept-23 10:06:25

Anniebach

Yes, he didn’t speak of his mothers death or the alleged neglect of his family, a speech which wasn’t ‘all about Harry’

He talked about his mum in 2017 in a show called Diana.

WellsRose Sun 10-Sept-23 10:11:34

Germanshepherdsmum

You are indeed muck raking WR. This thread is about Harry, not the people (some dead) you have chosen to bring into it.

H is the son of a woman who lied and has married a woman who lies.

Haha plenty of people have brought up in Diana who is also dead. Why is this different? The hypocrisy is so obvious.

I repeat I was asked about the corruption in the Royal family and I answered.

WellsRose Sun 10-Sept-23 10:13:52

Edward and Wallis are dead as well but they have also been brought up.

Germanshepherdsmum Sun 10-Sept-23 10:28:43

You brought up the allegations of corruption WR.