Cambridges and Sussexes breaking up their Charity work

Elvive, I think Kate is slim of course, but hugely helped by her slender bone structure!

4 of our AC are boys, they are all married.

One DIL has jealousy issues, doesn't acknowledge 2 DIL, and "suffers" then other one.

The boys stay firm friends regardless.

there has been a split between the two young men. This is extremely sad, I feel. I think they were so good together, so supportive of each other, and they need each other.

Yes Tillybelle. It is sad.

The princes did have an incredibly strong bond and although he was called the third wheel once Will married Kate, the threesome really did enjoy each others company and there was no rift. Harry gained a sister.

Meghan has made the difference and I wonder, given time and once the newness of setting up house together and becoming parents has worn off, if Harry will spend time missing what he had before?

Who knows.

It is all speculation and we all move on and have different loyalties once married, but the bond between siblings, if strong (as theirs so wonderfully and obviously was) has been broken, one has to wonder why.

A wedge seems to have been driven between the boys. I wonder if they both miss the closeness they had, right into adulthood? I imagine they do, but know that keeping their distance is the only civilised way to get on now.

Maxdecatt, no. I am pretty sure they also have the same father. Look at the forehead. Both Diana and Hewitt had broad foreheads. Diana had large blue eyes, Hewitt had fairly large hazel eyes. Harry has a narrow forehead and small grey eyes like Charles, and which he could not have got if he was a product of Diana and Hewitt.

I expect the decision to 'do their own charity work' separately is tactical.

Why throw Meghan and Kate together, as it will only lead to comparisons and the media going into frenzy about body language, best dressed, expressions, winners and losers, iciness between them, fall-outs or some such nonsense.

They may have sensibly decided between them to avoid that.

And (after thought)

Meghan probably wants to be the star of her own show.

It can't be an easy task, unless born into it, being a royal.
I believe Kate has adapted very well but then compare her previous life to Meghan's whose life before becoming an HRH was anything like that of her sister in law. Whatever Meghan has achieved in ' life before Prince Harry' has come from Meghan unlike Kate where life you could say was 'handed her on a plate'
This is where there can never be compatibility in what ever these two entirely different persons take on together.

I think Meghan and Kate are probably fairly indifferent about each other. Kate ,William and Harry did seem to have a nice rapport in a slightly " jolly hockey sticks " kind of way.

Shallow comment alert I liked looking at what the Royals were wearing at Ascot. Kate is very thin.

Does anyone agree with the oft expressed view that Wiliam and Henry (to give him his real name) have the same mother, and that is about it. I am open-mided on the issue but think some may have strong opinions.

Oh, P L E A S E leave Meghan alone and S T O P bitching about her!!!

I think they should definitely work separately. There are things Harry could be involved with in a fairly high profile way that William would have to keep a distance from in his role as future king. They're not "the boys" any more, they are adults, family men, and senior royals. We need to recognise them as very different, and separate, individuals.

Toil?? toxic.

I think it has t helped that Meghan is perceived as toil with her dysfunctional family and although she acts as an ambassador for mental health she hasn’t helped the mental health any of her dad and the kind uncle who helped her career at the very beginning.

She is perceived as a ‘user’ of people. Sweet and smiley, yes. Determined - very but dumps people when they are no longer useful to her.

I honestly do not understand all the hate for Meghan. Would it have been the same if Harry had married a random American? Is it the actress thing?

It’s mind boggling. What of hed married a U.K. actress?

No matter what, I do think it’s bizarre to continue to put a woman down for having ambition, and wanting her own space.

I'm sure that at some point Megan will want Harry and Archie to go and live back in the USA. She seems like a duck out of water here. It would be difficult at the moment while the queen rules, because she has custody and probably wouldn't let them go with the baby. But watch this space.

So the U.K. doesn’t need charity / fundraising,

they should move to America , let the Americans keep them .

Rant over. I came to post to say that I liked the media idea that the Sussexes wanted to focus humanitarian/charity/fund-raising work in US and Canada. Sounded sensible.

Thanks for your interesting views. It was on BBC Radio Four that I heard the news that the Cambridges and Sussexes were separating their Charity. The BBC spoke about Meghan not getting on with Kate. This surprised me so much that I thought of asking all of you how you felt about it.

As I said, I don't usually take any notice of the Royal Family and leave them to it. I agree about their privacy. I think I have always cared about the two Princes, as I am sure do many of us, because they are my children's ages and I remember so well that day the news came about the death of their mother. As they grew up they seemed to have such a wonderful strong bond between them which I found very moving.

That is about all I can say as far as my interest goes. Oh - I imagine the logistics of running their Charity must be enormously difficult if they have to liaise about every arrangement, so to organise their own parts independently seems like common sense.

I don't know about the "potty" word but I am horrified if anybody used it in connection with mental health. That would be absolutely crass.

I'm with Carly, a couple and a friend are not the same dynamic as 2 couples.

All this Meghan hate is vile. She's done nothing wrong, and produced a baby - what's the problem? It's generated by journalists, and if a lie is repeated often enough, sadly people believe it.

As for 'whispering in Harry's ear', she's his wife; don't wives encourage husbands in their job?

Harry & Wills aren't Siamese twins! They are their own persons, same name but different agendas and they're grown up married men now - their own wives and families to deal with so they ain't gonna find too much time to down the pub for a pint and a chat!

The media are constructing something out of nothing. Maybe it's to distract us from the bloody Brexit......

They could get a proper job and stop all this pretentious nonsense.

I agree with PP that much of the Kate/Meghan difficulties are down to the press. I can remember very similar speculations about Diana and Fergie.

I feel that the two Duchesses have very different personalities. The three that started the Charity have known each other a long time and most likely had very clear ideas about it. When a 4th is added to mix it changed the dynamics. I guess it was hard to Meghan not to feel like a spare wheel.

The two couples have very different futures mapped out for them and I think it is important for Harry and Meghan to forge their own way. I bet they all hated the ‘fab four’ and will be very careful in the future about managing the media take on them.

Urmston. I also think Kate hates being upstaged be Meghan. Some of her expressions when they're all out together are priceless.

I object to being called ‘potty’ ?

Describing someone with a mental illness as 'potty' is just plain offensive.