harry and megan

I do ?

Anniebach

I don’t know Elliane but she didn’t sell them to the press surely.

Definitely not!
And there must be quite a few families who have code names for relatives! We do!

I don’t know Elliane but she didn’t sell them to the press surely.

I'm always fascinated on the Antiques Roadshow when they say private letters are only meaningful to the writers themselves and almost worthless beyond that. Even so we can learn a lot about the author and their times.
Didn't Queen Victoria write horrible letters to one of her daughters?

I am sure some will see the difference between private letters
and a tv interview.

Regardless of what he said in letters he didn’t plunge the knife into the backs of his blood family publicly.

So pleased you have a friend Alegrias

They were private letters , what he called his niece was his choice, he didn’t say it publicly.

Wonder why he and his wife wanted to be buried in the royal
burial ground.

The D0W died in 1972 and the letters were released in 1988.

16 years.

The Duchess sanctioned their release in 1975.

Google is my friend.

Yet, somehow they are in the public domain...because the Duchess allowed them to be published. We can only speculate on what she wanted to achieve by doing so.

Would it have been OK if he had only said those things behind everyone's backs? And we hadn't known, for instance, that he repeatedly referred to Churchill as "Cry Baby" and the Queen as "Shirley Temple"?

Anniebach

Wish we could have a thread discussing the monarchy

. . Seriously??

Interesting, Private letters released 50 years after his death

I assume that those letters were private correspondence Alegrias, not for public scrutiny?

they could have said something earlier, like before the public coughed up a fortune for security

Their faces were already on the tea towels.
They had to go through with it.

Mind you, if they'd called it off, those teatowels would be worth double now.

In the letters, published by the Daily Mail, the duke [of Windsor] refers to some of his relations as “a seedy, worn out bunch of old hags” and says of his dying mother: “I’m afraid her veins have always been as icy cold as they are in death.”

www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-06-20-mn-3553-story.html

Sweetheart.

What makes people publicly speak of their families, not with kindness but with bile, i will never understand this.

* was - apologies should have been were.

I think he would have jumped at the chance if Oprah or similar was around.

Anniebach

Harry is the only the member of the royal family to publicly criticise his blood family, the Duke of Windsor didn’t.

The Duke of W was a bloody Hitler supporting fascist but hey as long as he didn’t go on Oprah ???

Alegrias1

He who must not be named and all his celebrity pals done good:

^The event raised $53.8 million (£38.8 million) for Covax, which is working to to ensure vaccines are shared fairly among all nations, rich and poor. Organisers said it was enough to help purchase almost 10.3 million vaccine doses.^

That is a great result! Surely that’s the important thing.

It is good to learn that the Concert raised millions for COVAX.

Harry is the only the member of the royal family to publicly criticise his blood family, the Duke of Windsor didn’t.

Atqui

Thank you all forTAAT info

Sorry for ignoring you first time around.

Thank you all forTAAT info

Lillie

There are some very genuine posters on these threads.
Then there are those who sound like a stuck record.
It is laughable because the latter keep banging on and on far worse than the posters they want to criticise.
Very ironic.

That’s a pretty rude post imo - who are you saying isn’t genuine and what criteria are you judging them by? I really dislike posts like yours which just generalise and cast nasty aspersions around.

Namsnanny

Ellianne, I can remember him being introduced as Harry at some event or another, and the host(ess) being quite clear that this was the first of many events that he was to be known by just Harry from now on.

Well that died a quick death didn't it?

I do accept there is no financial worth in him (to employers) without his connection to the RF.

So if I can work this out why didn't he?

All set up to feed the publicity mill from the off.
No publicity is bad publicity say the people in the business of advertising, and they should know.
All part of the H&M band wagon.

So are you saying that he shouldn't have been at a fundraising event or that he shouldn't do any fundraising now because he isn't part of the RF?
Are the RF the only people permitted to fundraise?
Should all the money raised for Covax be sent back? Perhaps with an apology- "Some GNers think this money was raised under false pretences Harry is no longer a member of the RF. Although his dad will be King and his granny is the Queen"