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

 

[Cyclonus]

Calling it now: its only a matter of time until Sparkles turns Harry republican and he starts whining about how he was born into a cult.

 

[AN/ALR56]

He's a embarrassment, he should be whacked just like his mother, imho.

 

[Swole McPole]

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.

I've no idea where you're getting the idea that they're all Celts. On Elizabeth's side, they're all German, on Philip's side they're Greek.

When did you last see a ginger Greek?

I don't think there's a drop of Celtic in them.

House of Windsor - Wikipedia

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[Krokodil Overdose]

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.

Beyond even that, personal assistants are, well, personal. Her literal job is being Kate's dogsbody, so Meg should understand that anything she did for anyone other than Kate should be considered a personal favor and explicitly outside the domain of her duties. I realize Meg 's not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but has she ever interrupted a waiter who was taking an order at another table?

...scratch that, she just might have.

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

That's not good when you consider his overhead. If they wanted some privacy for reelz, they should move to a ranch in Wyoming or something.

 

[RA-5C Vigilante]

I've no idea where you're getting the idea that they're all Celts. On Elizabeth's side, they're all German, on Philip's side they're Greek.

When did you last see a ginger Greek?

I don't think there's a drop of Celtic in them.

House of Windsor - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

There is also barely a drop of Greek in that bloodline either, because the Greek Royals were all Danish.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

Let me know where to put this if necessary - it doesn't feel like this deserves a whole thread, but it seems too tangential to the 25 kills thread to put there. There seems to be more general book talk here so maybe it fits, but the discussion here is maybe a little too serious for this?

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The BBC Pidgin upped the comedic value of the dogbowl ptsd by translating the fight

"E set down [a glass of] water, call me anoda name, then come at me. All dis happen so fast. So very fast.

"E grab me by di collar, rip my necklace, and e knock me to di floor.

"I land on di dog bowl, wey crack under my back, di pieces cut into me. I lie for there for a moment, dazed, then get up to my feet and tell am to get out."

 

[WonderWino]

I've no idea where you're getting the idea that they're all Celts. On Elizabeth's side, they're all German, on Philip's side they're Greek.

When did you last see a ginger Greek?

I don't think there's a drop of Celtic in them.

House of Windsor - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I think he was trying to imply harry isn't actually charles' son but was from some celtic guy diana was fucking on the side, hence the red hair

There is also barely a drop of Greek in that bloodline either, because the Greek Royals were all Danish.

Which is ironic considering the current royal family is largely german-danish and not related to the any of the royals further back than the last few hundred years. Yet the founders of the current monarchy were themselves largely from denmark and norway originally and just larping as norman french. The british like to brag about how the monarchy is a thousand years old, and it is, but they usually leave the part about it not being an unbroken family line out of that bragging

Its shit like this and idiot monarchs like charles that will eventually lead to the abolition of the monarchy. Probably not in our lifetime but doesn't really serve a practical purpose anymore beyond tourism and its continued existence up to this point has been predicated on them all keeping their mouths shut and sticking to ceremonial stuff, which has been getting eroded for the last couple decades. If they start acting like idiot activists and trying to push the government to do stupid shit people are going to start re-evaluating if its more trouble than its worth keeping around

 

[neverendingmidi]

Beyond even that, personal assistants are, well, personal. Her literal job is being Kate's dogsbody, so Meg should understand that anything she did for anyone other than Kate should be considered a personal favor and explicitly outside the domain of her duties. I realize Meg 's not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but has she ever interrupted a waiter who was taking an order at another table?

...scratch that, she just might have.

I wonder what the PAs on the sets she worked on thought of her? Would she have made demands of a PA for the headliner? She probably sucked up to anybody with more power than her, and shit on anybody she considered below her.

Which might be why she threw a fit in this instance. She was a PRINCESS dammit! She has the rank now over ALL the peons! Which means any worthless scut who was a servant was supposed to serve her, who cares if they're Kate's or not, a servant is a servant!

 

[DumbDude43]

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

with the way things seem to be goiing, probably on celebrity big brother

 

[Tasty Tatty]

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.

Doesn't need to be crazy, only out of protocol. These people follow very strict guidelines in their public presentations and private lives, so she could have even asked something that is normal for us, but not for them. Top of my head, even asking her to take her pic would be against royal protocol for several reasons.

ETA: I was wrong about the celtic ancestry, will check that later, lol.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

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".

I don’t get what people see in them. They’re drama queens. Especially his wife.

 

[teriyakiburns]

ETA: I was wrong about the celtic ancestry, will check that later, lol.

Lots of Danes have red hair.

 

[BlueSpark]

He's a embarrassment, he should be whacked just like his mother, imho.

I wonder if William looks at the BPD Arab-fucker that his brother married and thinks "now I know why they killed my mother"

 

[kazuhiro]

Calling it now: its only a matter of time until Sparkles turns Harry republican and he starts whining about how he was born into a cult.

Bingo. From a new excerpt in The Sun on Sunday today:

But he does recall happy memories of growing up with William and them blasting partridges on a shoot in Spain.

Harry added: “But now I saw that even our finest moments, and my best memories, somehow involved death.

"Our lives were built on death, our brightest days shadowed by it. Looking back, I didn't see spots of time, but dances with death.”

He described Windsor Castle as a “tomb, the walls filled with ancestors” and Tower of London “held together with the blood of animals” adding, “maybe we were a death cult".

William lunged at brother after Philip’s funeral and used secret code phrase about Diana, claims Harry (archive)

 

[Procopius]

I've no idea where you're getting the idea that they're all Celts. On Elizabeth's side, they're all German, on Philip's side they're Greek.

Phil'ss grandfather, King George, was a Danish prince, who got the job as King of Greece precisely because he was a Danish prince. Just like the US talks about "bringing democracy" nowadays, back in the 19th century, when the Ottoman Empire was falling apart, the Great Powers decided that what the newly emerging Balkan countries really needed was a King. George may have shagged some of the locals, but he married a Russian woman, one of the Romanov's, even if not quite a Princess. Phil's dad, Andrew, George's fourth son, was a distant spare. His mum was a great-grandaughter of Queen Victoria, and was born in Windsor Castle. In other words, Phil never had a drop of Greek blood in him.

 

[teriyakiburns]

William lunged at brother after Philip’s funeral and used secret code phrase about Diana, claims Harry (archive)

"I swear on me mum, harold! I do!"

What is this, an episode of Eastenders?

“It was so shocking, so egregious, that even after Meg and I demolished their lie with a 25-page, evidence-filled report to human resources, I was going to have trouble simply shrugging that one off.”

HE WENT TO HR. Jesus christ. They demolished the haters with facts and logic! This is entirely Meghan writing fanfic now.

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

All these family trees look like greek to me.

 

[PetuniaBlueOrchid]

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.

There's no doubt meghan exaggerate everything.
However, she seems insanely upset and angry about how she was treated in UK.
When she should be glad they let her enter barefoot and dirtied the floor.
She's jealous sick that Kate and William get the big real estates and they got a smaller cottage nearby.

For some reasons she believes her status is equal, if not above Kate, and everyone should be impressed at her pathetic career:

They've been bitching non-stop since then.

The part about Ikea is just surreal:
Them whining for having to buy ikea furnitures when so many people are struggling to just eat and when Harry inherited millions, is just so uncanny. They are completely disconnected from reality.

It's not Kate and William's fault if Meghan and Harry spend their money like two idiots.

 

[Gunter Hatherer]

They are completely disconnected from reality.

It just hit me. Harry is a poor little rich boy.

 

[OttoWest]

Calling it now: its only a matter of time until Sparkles turns Harry republican and he starts whining about how he was born into a cult.

Too late.

Excerpt from Spare:

”Our lives were built on death, our brightest days shadowed by it. Looking back, I didn't see spots of time, but dances with death.” He described Windsor Castle as a “tomb, the walls filled with ancestors” and Tower of London “held together with the blood of animals” adding, “maybe we were a death cult”.

ETA ninja’d by @kazuhiro