UK United Kingdom Royal Family / Royal Families Drama General Thread - formerly "Prince Harry and Meghan to step back as senior royals"

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have announced they will step back as "senior" royals and work to become financially independent.

In a statement, Prince Harry and Meghan also said they plan to split their time between the UK and North America.

The BBC understands no other royal - including the Queen or Prince William - was consulted before the statement and Buckingham Palace is "disappointed".

Senior royals are understood to be "hurt" by the announcement.

In their unexpected statement on Wednesday, also posted on their Instagram page, the couple said they made the decision "after many months of reflection and internal discussions".

"We intend to step back as 'senior' members of the Royal Family and work to become financially independent, while continuing to fully support Her Majesty The Queen."

They said they plan to balance their time between the UK and North America while "continuing to honour our duty to the Queen, the Commonwealth, and our patronages".

"This geographic balance will enable us to raise our son with an appreciation for the royal tradition into which he was born, while also providing our family with the space to focus on the next chapter, including the launch of our new charitable entity."

A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said discussions with the duke and duchess on their decision to step back were "at an early stage", adding: "We understand their desire to take a different approach, but these are complicated issues that will take time to work through."

The couple's announcement on Wednesday comes two months after the Duke of York withdrew from public life after a BBC interview about his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in August.

Harry and Meghan to step back as senior royals

No other royals were consulted before the couple's announcement, the BBC understands.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[OttoWest]

He’s a fool.

I wonder if he’ll ever realize that with this book, he’s become the laughingstock of the world.

 

[Moths]

She isn’t just “a person w 100k insta followers” tho.

Hey I dont use insta or anything but 100k sounds like an insanely small count for being someone being part if the royal fucking family Im pretty sure there are teen thots with more followers. Is she that repulsive personalitywise that people just dont care what she thinks or are follower counts more reflective (read bot resistant) on insta compared to twitter?

 

[Mackerel Fish Stew]

"Prince Harry's Frostnipped Todger" would make a great Farms username. Also the level of oversharing here reminds me a lot of the Angry Video Game Nerd's autobiography where he admits to shitting and pissing himself throughout most of school, except this one was actually edited so Harry has no excuse.

 

[PotatoSalad4711]

Of all the things I thought I would read today, “frostnipped todger” was not on the list. Yikes. Don’t most men know to wear thermal underwear or something else to protect the beans and franks?

Anyways, I’m not sure what that bit about Camilla is suppose to accomplish. Most people are okay with her now, except those that continue to worship Saint Diana. It seems like most of this book is just going to be “well duh” moments. So far nothing that I wouldn’t see out of a normal family, just Harold playing victim.

 

[Frostnipped Todger]

"Prince Harry's Frostnipped Todger" would make a great Farms username.

Apparently it's too long (the name, not the todger).

 

[neverendingmidi]

Apparently it's too long (the name, not the todger).

Hmmm... maybe substitute "frosty"?

 

[Sarcastic sockpuppet]

I learned so many things about harry today, and it was aaall against my will.
Besides the usual main character syndrome and the lack of a healthy family growing up, he must have some kind of cluster B. How can he think any of this is gonna make him look better.

It's entertaining to see people turning against him and his wife. They really fumbled the bag.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

Well, Harry did need a good asskicking to make him open his eyes about Meghan. I support William on this.

Harry’s given name is Henry, not Harold. It’s not even one of his middle names; he’s Henry Charles Albert David. Seems a weird thing to call one’s brother during a heated argument that totally actually really happened.

It could have been a mistake by the ghostwriter or William call him that to annoy him in private (something that I found no evidence of have happened before.)

Like yeah, she did have some legitimate complaints, but she magnified and exaggerated everything in her mind to be so much worse than it was, ascribing malicious intent to everyone and thinking everyone was out to get her.

She also had some real mental issues. Harry has no reason to complain because he's a fucking rich white male noble who's been raised as a king without any further obligation aside from not dying in case his brother died or turned out infertile. He's a prince who wants us plebs to buy his stupid book.

 

[Screamer_2]

Way to go Harry, at 17 years old banging an old lady.

On an unrelated matter, Andrew is a Pedo for banging a 17 year old.

 

[BoobWhiskers]

He doesn’t have the responsibility of being king, he’s still top of the tree, almost and he could have lived an amazing life with any bit of well bred aristocratic skirt he wanted.

Apparently any well bred aristocratic skirt can have a bit of him, more like.

Still can't get over how crass it is to have him tell us self-owns about his sex life and fun facts about his dick. He's acting like more of a yacht girl than his wife, which is impressive considering.

How long until he stages some sort of costume malfunction for the tabloids, because that's about the level of class he seems to be aiming for.

 

[Gunter Hatherer]

He's acting like more of a yacht girl than his wife ...

Well one of them had to convert, and it wasn't her ...

 

[Fareal]

It is a great tradition of the English crown that young upstart relatives be defeated in battle by the successful heir. I applaud the respect William has shown to the tradition by beating the arse off his limp, frozen dicked retard younger sibling.

ffs, openly admitting you use a psychic to talk to your dead mum. Jesus H Christ man, have some dignity.

 

[Thumb Butler]

Can't wait for the whole English language book to leak so I can pirate it. Is this the lolcow book of the year?

 

[Toshiba]

So going thousands of miles away to blow up 25 people in a morally ambiguous, not to say bullshit, war, doesn't inspire any self reflection but a few glib remarks by his dad or some imagined microagressions and he is completely melting down.

 

[PetuniaBlueOrchid]

Writers earn more or less, only 8% of each book sold.
Harry for being an illiterate cry baby, had to hire a ghoshwriter, meaning he had to split that low amount.

I don't see how his book will reach millions of sold copies.
How does he expect to make a living of that?

He's really whoring himself out for 15 minutes of fame.

 

[DumbDude43]

Writers earn more or less, only 8% of each book sold.
Harry for being an illiterate cry baby, had to hire a ghoshwriter, meaning he had to split that low amount.

I don't see how his book will reach millions of sold copies.
How does he expect to make a living of that?

He's really whoring himself out for 15 minutes of fame.

he's still a fucking royal, money isn't and will never be a concern for him
when he writes books, he does it purely because he wants people to hear what he has to say, not for money. it's an attention and ego thing.

 

[Clovis]

I can only guess the ghostwriter wants to sabotage him. Or is as tone-deaf and self obsessed as him and meghan and has no idea how it all comes across to real people. Every time I look up there's another story from it all but calculated to make him look ever more of a ridiculous loser. Imagine how much tardwrangling his poor handlers must have had to do if this is what he comes out with when left to his own devices...well, OK Meghan's devices.

And now the Taliban have joined the pile on. Id love to see him respond to this particular misstep, wonderhow he'll blame the paps/his family?

Redirect Notice

Oh and the forces want him to stop embarrassing them, too.

Harry has turned against military - ex-army officer - BBC News

In his book, Harry says killing 25 Taliban fighters was like removing chess pieces from a board.

www.bbc.co.uk

If he were my younger brother I'd be booking the flight to go deck him again, clearly the last time wasn't enough.

 

[Thumb Butler]

Actually, it's both. People pay these people massive amounts of money to bitch on tape ("exclusive interview"). The world is mad.

 

[Executive Petrel]

How cute, he is trying to regain his masculinity.

 

[Beating_Women]

My Liege

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