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

 

[Manwithn0n0men]

While Meghan was growing up, Thomas Markle worked as the lighting director on Married with Children, for which he was very well paid. Meghan's mom fucked off to who-knows-where after the divorce; he had full custody of Meghan. He paid for private-school education, her tuition and expenses at Northwestern University, and an internship in Argentina, and he admits that he spoiled her to make up for her not having a mom around. He bought her a car, he rented her apartments, and he used his connections to help her get her first roles.

Meghan likes to tell a story about working hard to pay for her own college, and bootstrapping her way through life up until her role in Suits, but the fact is her dad made very good money and paved her way through life. She did work at various jobs in high school and during her college years, but it was to pay for any extras her father wouldn't cover. Her mom (who is black) didn't really show back up until Meghan was an adult, and didn't play a significant role in Meghan's life until it became a huge advantage for her to be seen as a woman of color that she was willing to quit claiming she was white, and show off her black mama.

Meghan had a very privileged existence. She got everything she needed, and more, with the exception of being raised to be a decent human being, rather than a fame- and image-obsessed malignant Narcissist. That shit, you can't buy for your kid.


Meghan represents Meghan, and will stand for whatever gets her the money, power, and prestige she's after. She's a junkie for those things, and, like any junkie, will say and do whatever she has to in order to get her fix, and keep the supply coming. If it suited her purposes to re-brand herself as a black conservative, she'd do it. The only cause that matters is everybody knowing who she is, and being the most important person in the room at any given moment. That's it.

Her Dad got her the very first credit on her IMDB

(an episode of Married with Children)

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.

The rest of the family isn't afflicted....just HAROLD

Harry’s red hair comes from his Spencer side. His auntie Lady Sarah McCorquodale is ginger as fuck and has a fat son who looks like Harry after a month on the Ethan Ralph diet.

Still dying laughing that Charles outright made “not your dad” jokes to him though.

So Harry is pretending like "Taking the piss" isn't a core pillar of British humor?

 

[Zaryiu2]

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

And that kids is yet another reason to avoid gold diggers

 

[Kendall Motor Oil]

She was cultured.

 

[Disc]

Actual quote from the book:

I really, really want to believe this.
But it's too absurd without evidence. Please, please show the page, or something else quoting the excerpt, or a kindle, or something.
I want to believe the Mama's penis paste story.

 

[LordofTendons]

I really, really want to believe this.
But it's too absurd without evidence. Please, please show the page, or something else quoting the excerpt, or a kindle, or something.
I want to believe the Mama's penis paste story.

Here's a screenshot of that page of the book open in Acrobat.

 

[Vesperus]

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.

Let's not half-ass it. The Wake family are still kicking around Northamptonshire, let's roll it back to early 1066.

 

[Manwithn0n0men]

Here's a screenshot of that page of the book open in Acrobat.

.....wat

 

[Niggergante]

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

To be honest he's worth more as just a set of organs at this point.
I mean that he's a little bitch and is a pest to everyone.

 

[Disc]

Here's a screenshot of that page of the book open in Acrobat.

This man is fucking damaged. Who makes a story about soldiers getting to the north pole and contacting him and, in the next fucking paragraph, makes it about his dead mother and his penis simultaneously?!

Thank you, you've made my day.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

lmao "denied he boasted"apparently he learned actions have consequences.

Prince Harry denies he 'boasted' about killing 25 Taliban fighters

Harry, 38, appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night, having pre-taped his interview in New York City on Monday evening.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[FatalTater]

Why doesn't Harry have any friends who should be pulling him aside and telling him not to do the things he's been doing?

 

[The Hoh Rainforest]

Why Harry couldn't be a hero

The prince has followed in his mother's footsteps

unherd.com

HI MARY

 

[PuffyGroundCloud]

Why Harry couldn't be a hero

The prince has followed in his mother's footsteps

unherd.com

HI MARY

I mean... she's not wrong though

 

[Cringemaster Supreme]

Did Kanye West ghostwrite this book?

 

[Kel1 shi1]

Why doesn't Harry have any friends who should be pulling him aside and telling him not to do the things he's been doing?

Did you ever have that one friend in the group who got with an annoying girlfriend? You tolerate her for a bit, just to be polite because he's your friend. But he's so cunt struck he won't listen to any advice that maybe she's not a good person and quite possibly get defensive that the group "Hasn't given her a chance". She starts telling him what he can and can't do and if he brings her along for a group activity she's a complete downer. Her opinion become his opinion too.

Eventually you just cut that friend out because it's not worth the trouble.

 

[PixarsTedKennedy]

I hope Null covers this on the next MATI. I love when he spergs about British people.

 

[naaaaiiiiillllll!!!]

Thank god this was released now instead of December -- this is prime Lolcow Media for the 2023 JULAYs next year.

 

[Bland Crumbs]

Man I wonder if Lizzie's last thought was, "It was not worth the trouble to kill that tart."

 

[W00K #17]

Everyone who cares about these people or follows them with any interest at all is a faggot or a woman.

 

[Maggots on a Train v2]

I think Colbert gave this dickless loser his whole ass 30 minute show tonight to defame his family. I only bothered with about 30 seconds and it was pure cringe in a not funny way.