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

 

[PuffyGroundCloud]

Sounds like a science fiction story I once read.

Prince Harry says he was bred to offer spare organs to heir William

Prince Harry bitterly believes he was only bred to offer literal spare parts for his brother in case the heir apparent ever needed new organs.

nypost.com

Holy shit he went to deep end
Should’ve nominated Harold for Lolcow of the Year
Next one maybe?

 

[LordofTendons]

This fucking book.

Eventually, somehow, we made our way back to Monica’s. That is, Courteney’s. It was night. I walked down some stairs to her beachfront and stood with my toes in the ocean, watching the lacy surf come forward, recede, come forward, for what felt like ages. I looked from the water to the sky, back and forth. Then I stared directly at the moon. It was speaking to me. Like the bin and the toilet. What was it saying? That the year ahead would be good. Good how? Something big. Really? Big. Not more of the same? No, something special. Really, Moon? Promise. Please don’t lie to me. I was nearly the age Pa had been when he’d got married, and he’d been considered a tragically late bloomer. At thirty-two he’d been ridiculed for his inability or unwillingness to find a partner. I was staring thirty-two in the face. Something has to change. Please? It will. I opened my mouth to the sky, to the moon. To the future. Aaaah.

 

[Constellationzero]

Sounds like a science fiction story I once read.

Prince Harry says he was bred to offer spare organs to heir William

Prince Harry bitterly believes he was only bred to offer literal spare parts for his brother in case the heir apparent ever needed new organs.

nypost.com

Megan told him this.

Now the LAUGHABLE part is that he listened and did not put this nigress whore in check (as the Lord thy God intends) and smack the shitskin outta her.

 

[Ceiling Kitten]

Sounds like a science fiction story I once read.

Prince Harry says he was bred to offer spare organs to heir William

Prince Harry bitterly believes he was only bred to offer literal spare parts for his brother in case the heir apparent ever needed new organs.

nypost.com

More like that absolutely insufferable book by Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper. I hated every single character on it, especially the whiny protagonist who almost made me want to have her cut open to give her fucking kidneys to her sister.

 

[Gunter Hatherer]

Holy shit he went to deep end

Megan told him this.

Or both -- Meghan is playing can you top this trolling, and Harry believes anything she says.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

This fucking book.

Literal lunacy

 

[Sarcastic sockpuppet]

Harry related news at some point in the mid-2000: Sold by magazines as the world's most eligible bachelor. A Prince who will not have to actually attend so many boring charity events ! Kinda handsome! Super rich! Hair is hanging on! Life of the party!

Harry related news in the year 2023: All about that time he put ointment on his frozen willy while thinking about his mom.

 

[Mariposa2.0 LTE]

Holy shit he went to deep end
Should’ve nominated Harold for Lolcow of the Year
Next one maybe?

I'm sure he was bred over in Afghanistan but I'm pressing x to doubt this story. I don't believe this is Harry's doing. I genuinely believe Marlke is pretending she's mother of drag queens (got). She's exploiting Harry's Ginger stepchild syndrome to make a play for the nickel throne. Not realizing, it doesn't work that way.

 

[Clovis]

Harry branded 'disrespectful' towards women 'during ski trip with younger girl'

PRINCE Harry spouted lewd banter about younger women and made a crude joke involving a shot glass during a wild skiing weekend, a source has revealed. A former pal accused the Duke of Sussex of bei…

www.google.com

Either The Sun is just cashing in on the UK's wave of anti-harold sentiment, someone from his past wanted to get paid, or they genuinely want to call him out as a hypocrite.
Thing is, no one really minded him being a dumb upper-class party dude.
It's the woke lecturing now he's suddenly become enlightened that makes him unlikeable. No planted stories needed.

 

[Johnny Salami]

My sister just bought the audio book using my Amazon account. I'm tempted to listen to it but don't really care enough. Can't believe an Amerimutt made him into a degenerate

 

[TheBigTakeover]

This fucking book.

 

[WonderWino]

Sounds like a science fiction story I once read.

Prince Harry says he was bred to offer spare organs to heir William

Prince Harry bitterly believes he was only bred to offer literal spare parts for his brother in case the heir apparent ever needed new organs.

nypost.com

If that story doesn't lead to somebody creating a windsor rimworld mod involving harvesting organs from high up royalty titled pawns to grant special abilities to the implantee i'm going to be very disappointed

and since its rimworld, you just know somebody is going to do it

 

[HarveyMCR]

Or both -- Meghan is playing can you top this trolling, and Harry believes anything she says.

I choose to believe she lurks here and is a master troll

 

[Gunter Hatherer]

I choose to believe she lurks here and is a master troll

Naah. Why troll us, when she can troll the mainstream media on both sides of the Atlantic?

 

[Sarcastic sockpuppet]

Can't believe an Amerimutt made him into a degenerate

 

[Manat]

Anyone think MM tried to live "the American teenager that's actually a long lost princesse that with her casualness and fun Americaness wil pull the sticks from those anglos butts and they will all see the wrong of their ways and convert to her superior humane very fun ways and love her" movie plot?

She claims to not have known that he is a prince when she met him, does not recognise Philip, meets the queen in jeans, doesn't know about curtsey, meets kate barefoot and in ripped jeans, asks for personal shit like the libgloss, etc.

All of this sound like a cheap plot of a teenage wish fulfilment movie only the results does not align with that.

 

[OttoWest]

Excerpt from early on in the Harry/Meghan courtship:

Surely in the whole summer we could find one small spot of time. She shook her head. She was doing the full Eat Pray Love.
“Eat what now?”
“The book?”
“Ah. Sorry. Not really big on books.”
I felt intimidated. She was so the
opposite of me. She read. She was cultured.

 

[FatalTater]

She claims to not have known that he is a prince when she met him, does not recognise Philip, meets the queen in jeans, doesn't know about curtsey, meets kate barefoot and in ripped jeans, asks for personal shit like the libgloss, etc.

This is some of the stuff that really doesn't sit right with me. I could understand not recognizing people, even not knowing right away that Harry was Prince Harry, but the clothing thing? The royal family doesn't dress formally every minute of their lives, why was Meghan trying to seem like Cinderella? By the time she met them she had enough of her own money to buy nicer things than ripped jeans, she wore jeans as a personal choice. She wasn't a poor little mite looking up from the gutter.

 

[Manwithn0n0men]

Sounds like a science fiction story I once read.

Prince Harry says he was bred to offer spare organs to heir William

Prince Harry bitterly believes he was only bred to offer literal spare parts for his brother in case the heir apparent ever needed new organs.

nypost.com

ohnoitsretarded.jpg

This is some of the stuff that really doesn't sit right with me. I could understand not recognizing people, even not knowing right away that Harry was Prince Harry, but the clothing thing? The royal family doesn't dress formally every minute of their lives, why was Meghan trying to seem like Cinderella? By the time she met them she had enough of her own money to buy nicer things than ripped jeans, she wore jeans as a personal choice. She wasn't a poor little mite looking up from the gutter.

She thinks Americans are retarded....so she has to sell a dumb story

Harry branded 'disrespectful' towards women 'during ski trip with younger girl'

PRINCE Harry spouted lewd banter about younger women and made a crude joke involving a shot glass during a wild skiing weekend, a source has revealed. A former pal accused the Duke of Sussex of bei…

www.google.com

Either The Sun is just cashing in on the UK's wave of anti-harold sentiment, someone from his past wanted to get paid, or they genuinely want to call him out as a hypocrite.
Thing is, no one really minded him being a dumb upper-class party dude.
It's the woke lecturing now he's suddenly become enlightened that makes him unlikeable. No planted stories needed.

And this is why the Family isnt talking about this.

Harry is shooting himself in the face.

And thats all he has.

Anyone who's not a narcissistic harpy piece of garbage would have advised him not to do any of this.

But his wife doesn't let him talk to those sorts of people

Why, in God's name, do we need his already incredibly Freudian obsession with his mother applied to an already cringeworthy story like this? Literally nobody ever wanted to hear about Ten Degrees of Kevin Bacon between your dead mom's lips and your frostbite dick.

I'm not sure which is worse, if Harry directed this or if Meghan did.

More importantly:

Did he have a book editor?

An editor should have said no

 

[The Taco Santo!]

I've never wanted another Jacobite uprising as much as I do now. Fuck these German pretenders, there's a legitimate Stuart claimant in Franz, Duke of Bavaria. Sure, he's another Kraut, but maybe he'd bring back mass capital punishment in a very big way.