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

 

[Gorillion others]

I know that for all practical purposes Harry doesn't count as a royal anymore, but for God's sake have a teaspoon of dignity. The world doesn't need to know that you, a royal prince, were some older lady's booty call. We don't need to know about you getting dick frostbite. Ffs.

Does he not realize that every single one of these anecdotes just makes him look deeply, deeply pathetic? Is he trying to get sympathy by broadcasting to the whole world that he's everyone's bitch?

"Trying?"

 

[Clovis]

She's the one collecting all these memories of Harry, putting them all together,

To the point she's induced some kind of BPD splitting in him: his whole past and all his family are now all entirely negative. He was actually miserable the whole time, all his sins are because of them, they never respected him, he's a massive victim etc etc. Then Meghan came along, rescued and re-educated him and gave him the chance to play out the fantasy of saving her - as a stand in for his mother - from the family and the media.

You could even say it's speeding towards becoming carcrash viewing.

 

[No. 7 cat]

He's not, though. But, let's say he is, Charles' never admitting it, either because he really loves the kid he's raised or because her own pride.

The only confirmation we could have then would come from Harry, and the only way for him to prove it is to have a DNA test, and I dunno why he could do such a thing, unless Meghan is going full speed into really separate him from his family, despite this would make them both lose everything. Is she this stupid? Of course she is.

Given the latest stuff, the retired yacht girl and extra (who combines stupidity with a certain low cunning) could get Harry to do or say anything if it advances her right now celebrity. I'd say Harry might finding ringing his therapist after this won't restore whatever reputation he had. Judging by the stuff Harry wrote or had written (under Meghan's orders), the Duke Franz of Bavaria, if he ever asserted his claim and Parliament endorsed it (the key thing since 1706 or so), if William and Kate said fuck it, a conformed bachelor and a civilly partnered gay man would be a far more masculine and dignified Head of State (given also that the Brits have got their kings from Germany for a long, long time now.

How will the dog bowl ginger ever live this stuff down? Less a 'Spare' and more like tool.

Do tell. I though he had "his own" money. Or do you mean Netflix etc?

Yeah, Netflix, Spotify, that stuff.

 

[PetuniaBlueOrchid]

Nah, Harry's real father is Charles. Not only he looks like him, but he also looks like his grandpa, Charles' father, prince Phillip. The fact that he's a ginger like Diana's lover means nothing because they're all Brits and that's common Celtic trait. That'd be a problem if they were Japanese.

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And yet Harry looks A LOT like James Hewitt too.

Anyway, I'd like to know if Diana took some antidepressants while pregnant with Harry, that would partly explain why he's so retarded.


The whole meeting part with Kate looks so draining for Kate and William. Meghan has no common sense, decency, basic courtesy and respect:

she was 'barefoot' and wearing ripped jeans when she first met Kate.

How does she thinks first meeting with someone important in "ripped jeans and barefoot" is a good idea??

Kate is the future queen of england (and I agree Charles III won't last more than 10 years max), how does she thinks making very stupid/insulting "jokes" to Kate is fun because Meghan "talks like that to her friends" (which I bet she doesn't have many).

The lipgloss part is indeed disgusting, why would anyone share a lipgloss?? During a pandemic?? And with a whore like Meghan.

I'm really sorry I can't do that because I work for Kate

Tom claimed Meghan 'really felt she had been put in her place' and said that, as a 'princess', she had 'assumed that when you ask staff to do something, they are going to do it.'

Tom claimed Meghan went on to row with the member of staff, leaving Kate 'horrified'.

How does she think Kate's staff are her slaves, can be talked down and have to do her desideratum?
I can't believe how stupid and entitled she is.

Harry said he returned home to find Meghan sobbing on the floor of the kitchen, overcome with stress and worry

That part is hilarious. I can totally see Meghan throwing a tantrum like a 4 years old, lying, crying and yelling on the kitchen floor for hours.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I can totally see Meghan throwing a tantrum like a 4 years old, lying, crying and yelling on the kitchen floor for hours.

I bet you a whole shiny coke that she was perfectly fine until she heard the door, at which point she flung herself on the kitchen floor and started bawling like the bad actress she is.

 

[Gorillion others]

And yet Harry looks A LOT like James Hewitt too.

Anyway, I'd like to know if Diana took some antidepressants while pregnant with Harry, that would partly explain why he's so retarded.

Holy-I forgot how much Charles looked like Lizzy drank while she was pregs with him.

 

[Retarded INTP]

I'd like to share that little piece from /tv/

 

[Free the Pedos]

Isn’t anyone else curious about what Megan asked of Kate’s assistant that was so crazy the PA had to turn her down? I assume that if it was something normal like “can I get a cup of coffee/new pair of tights because mine got a hole” the PA would’ve sorted it out somehow. I think it was calculated to be a power move for Megs (“I need you to go buy every hat at Harrod’s so I can try them on”) and the PA rightly shut it down because she works for Kate.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Isn’t anyone else curious about what Megan asked of Kate’s assistant that was so crazy the PA had to turn her down?

I may be misremembering, but wasn't it to do with a tiara that meghan wanted to wear at the wedding? IIRC, she got herself in a strop because she wasn't allowed to just rock up and try it on.

 

[Otterly]

Republic when? I've always been fairly ambivalent on the Royals, I like that we still keep our traditions and a sense of national identity but this is just embarrassing. There's still good. likably people in the Royal family but I just can't stand these people anymore. It's not just this Jeremy Kyle shit either but this has to be the straw that broke the camels back for me.

My only problem is how shit the British republican flag is.
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The problem with a republic is that we won’t get a constitution of inalienable rights we will get president Tony Blair. I used the think certain parts of the British system were an anachronism. Now I think that the House of Lords and the tradition stuff are probably the only thing between us and utter insanity.

Kate ‘demanded’ apology from Meghan for saying she had ‘baby brain’

The Princess of Wales demanded an apology from the Duchess of Sussex after she suggested Kate had “baby brain”, according to Prince Harry’s autobiography.

ca.style.yahoo.com

Unsurprisingly, the ginger shit for brains is stupid enough to publish this little tidbit and think it actually reflects well on him and the hoodrat. The utter lack of self awareness it takes for both of them to sign off on making themselves look like vindictive twits in this obvious of a way is astounding

Man, that royal inbreeding sure does lower the IQ and common sense. Remind me again how the british managed to create the largest empire in history

The baby brain comment was really telling. You can imagine it being said in a very catty and patronising tone. If Kate hasn’t had at least one ‘to the Tower’ joke with William I’d be astounded.
As for sharing lipgloss. Well I wouldn’t share lipgloss with a nun, never mind an ex yacht girl who’s riddled with goodness knows what.
I think this will resonate with a lot of people who have had nice but dim relatives taken advantage of by scheming gold diggers or manipulators and watched once close relatives turn into entirely different people.
The comment further up about BPD splitting hits true as well. Now everything the RF have done is in the Baddie box and Meghan has him isolated. If you saw the sexes reversed there would be talk of domestic abuse.
I wonder where they’ll be ten years down the line?

 

[RACISM]

I wonder where they’ll be ten years down the line?

Sex tape will have been released by then, calling it

 

[Gunter Hatherer]

I wonder where they’ll be ten years down the line?

Slightly more name recognition than Anna Nicole?

 

[LordofTendons]

I may be misremembering, but wasn't it to do with a tiara that meghan wanted to wear at the wedding? IIRC, she got herself in a strop because she wasn't allowed to just rock up and try it on.

Isn’t anyone else curious about what Megan asked of Kate’s assistant that was so crazy the PA had to turn her down? I assume that if it was something normal like “can I get a cup of coffee/new pair of tights because mine got a hole” the PA would’ve sorted it out somehow. I think it was calculated to be a power move for Megs (“I need you to go buy every hat at Harrod’s so I can try them on”) and the PA rightly shut it down because she works for Kate.

I think Harry's book is trying to spin it that the Spencers and the BRF each wanted her to wear one of their tiaras, but that's not the case. My understanding of this is that Meghan initially wanted the Spencer tiara that Diana wore on her wedding day-- not the Spencer Honeysuckle tiara, the one with the hearts. So in Harry's book, Meghan made it sound like Diana's sisters were offering her the Spencer tiara, which isn't theirs to offer. It belongs to Diana's brother, Earl Charles Spencer, who supposedly told Harry not to marry Meghan THREE TIMES.

So Meghan didn't get a Spencer tiara. The other tiara closely associated with Diana is Queen Mary's lover's knot tiara (don't know the actual name of this one, it has the dangling pearls), which I think is owned by the BRF and is on extended loan to Catherine. So Meghan wanted that one and I think that was what Meghan was asking for and didn't get. It's hard to tell because these reports are coming from Spanish translations and what's being reported in the news, plus it may have been mixed with gossip and what's being reported from legit advance copies. I only know gossip as to why the PA might have rejected the request and even that might not be right due to the timeline.

 

[Clovis]

The problem with a republic is that we won’t get a constitution of inalienable rights we will get president Tony Blair. I used the think certain parts of the British system were an anachronism. Now I think that the House of Lords and the tradition stuff are probably the only thing between us and utter insanity.

Today's crop of career politicians will asset-strip any institution of all standards and meaning. They live on a time measured from headline to headline and election to election. The inertia of the 'traditional stuff' isn't useful most of the time but it comes into its own as an anchor to stop shortsighted dipshits ruining everything with half-baked reforms and progressive initiatives.

I wonder where they’ll be ten years down the line?

I give 'em 5 years at most. Based on the cringe on Harold's face when she did that curtsey bow thing. And the fact their relationship/persona/narrative is based on being unhappy victims. They'll have nothing holding them together if they run out of crises. We'll ...the kids, I suppose (maybe they'll do a Brangelina and adopt some poor ethnic ones). But I think they'll split.

Actually, a quick Google says they're worth $60 million.
So why are they choosing to be so miserable? Stop combing through your past looking for grudges to nurture. Go on holiday. Buy a big fuck off yacht (I believe Meghan has some familiarity with them). Some hookers and blow. Or adrenochrome and babies, or whatever the rich do for fun these days, IDK.

 

[Frostnipped Todger]

Sex tape will have been released by then, calling it

Ew. Bro, I haven't even finished my coffee yet.

 

[Manwithn0n0men]

I've never been a simp for any woman to this degree
Harold should be super embarassed for his self snitching

 

[Yaniv’s Hairy Balls]

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?

I have no idea of her follow counts. Tbh I think I was arguing/going back and forth with a sperg at some point during that conversation and was quoting them.

 

[RA-5C Vigilante]

Honestly, i’ll have to make the argument that Harry is doing a great thing for the royal family.

He’s being such an unlikable, pathetic cunt that the average British person would find Charles likable or at least tolerate him more. He has almost single handedly secured his dads throne.

 

[Free the Pedos]

Actually, a quick Google says they're worth $60 million

Apparently he’s only worth 13 or so according to most of the turbo autistic Royal news types.

 

[Commander X]

Imagine being a grown man (or in this case "man") and writing a tattletale book about the time you were a complete pussy to your older brother who was clearly disgusted by you.

"My father and brother don't want anything to do with me nowadays, so I'm going to write a book about how mean they are, that will smooth things over".

No doubt his attention-whore wife has been encouraging him in this latest endeavor. Meghan Markle comes off as transparently self-interested and one of those very controlling wives. She has the airs of one of those wives who get their hooks into a guy and gets him to do things like "I don't want you to see friends you have had since before you even met me anymore" and "give up all of your hobbies".