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

 

[AnotherPleb]

brb, changing my username.

i have never found a better custom title.

 

[George Floyd Sneed]

I'm wondering if Megan is setting him up for the eventual divorce.
"See how mentally unstable he is? I tried with him, I really did, but he's not willing to work with me! So I need full custody and ten million a year in child support!"

I suspect the continually scheming Meghan knows that she needs to stick with Harry or else she will lose access to all her new A-list friends like Oprah, Beyoncé, and the Obamas. As long as Harry is still useful to her, she’ll stick with him. I think she will keep using Harry as a shield because she has thoroughly and permanently trashed her reputation. Harry is seen as a misguided simp, which is bad but not as bad as her radioactive reputation. I also suspect she’s banking on the royal family ensuring Harry will never go truly broke. She will keep embarrassing “Harold” for the foreseeable future.

 

[AnotherPleb]

I suspect the continually scheming Meghan knows that she needs to stick with Harry or else she will lose access to all her new A-list friends like Oprah, Beyoncé, and the Obamas. As long as Harry is still useful to her, she’ll stick with him. I think she will keep using Harry as a shield because she has thoroughly and permanently trashed her reputation. Harry is seen as a misguided simp, which is bad but not as bad as her radioactive reputation. I also suspect she’s banking on the royal family ensuring Harry will never go truly broke. She will keep embarrassing “Harold” for the foreseeable future.

She doesn't realize that if the plan to use the Royal Family as an infinite money exploit actually works there's no reason for the royal family not to ice the bitch when she gets too expensive. That or she's counting on ruining Harry so much that the BRF has to kill her and him at the same time. She's a narcissistic thundercunt, and as such she never wants Harry to know the companionship of anyone other than her.

 

[PotatoSalad4711]

I'm wondering if Megan is setting him up for the eventual divorce.
"See how mentally unstable he is? I tried with him, I really did, but he's not willing to work with me! So I need full custody and ten million a year in child support!"

I’ve long suspected as much. Would not surprise me at all.

I suspect the continually scheming Meghan knows that she needs to stick with Harry or else she will lose access to all her new A-list friends like Oprah, Beyoncé, and the Obamas. As long as Harry is still useful to her, she’ll stick with him. I think she will keep using Harry as a shield because she has thoroughly and permanently trashed her reputation. Harry is seen as a misguided simp, which is bad but not as bad as her radioactive reputation. I also suspect she’s banking on the royal family ensuring Harry will never go truly broke. She will keep embarrassing “Harold” for the foreseeable future.

That’s the thing. Just how long will she draw this out? I think her little A-list buddies are going to stick around. A black mother who had to flee her husband to protect her children from the institution and ingrained racism…that shit is gold. Depends on which side of the toast Sparkles sees her bread buttered on (and it could change quickly).

 

[Gunter Hatherer]

If this was written by the Ghost Writer.....was it him fucking with Harry and Harry being too dumb to realize ...

... or Meghan fucking with Harry (and the ghost writer does what he's told).

I'm wondering if Megan is setting him up for the eventual divorce.

I wouldn't go that far, but for certain she has an exit strategy.

 

[George Floyd Sneed]

I’ve long suspected as much. Would not surprise me at all.


That’s the thing. Just how long will she draw this out? I think her little A-list buddies are going to stick around. A black mother who had to flee her husband to protect her children from the institution and ingrained racism…that shit is gold. Depends on which side of the toast Sparkles sees her bread buttered on (and it could change quickly).

Her ultimate endgame is hoping she can break the rules and sashay herself up to the front of the line to be queen. She thinks she can handwave away hundreds of years of rules and protocol if she accuses enough people of being a racist. The moment she realizes it’s hopeless is when she will dump Harry. Her new A list friends will fade away when her antics no longer get headlines. Her friends have enough friends already and then alienating the royal family appeals to them at first but as people get over it, so they will her. I suspect Spare is another attempt to keep their name in the papers for at least a little while longer.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

But given the Ghostwriter doesn't know material facts about Harry's life

This was probably all made up

Which is better

Allegedly, this is the one:

The book definately has its moments of funny. But mostly its just incredibly sad. The game of kick the retard isn't so funny anymore because the retard is just that pathetic. The only thing this book makes me sympathetic to are the americans who dumped all that good tea into the harbor.

Yes, in other context and situation, it'd be fun and relatable.

"BTW, me, a Prince of England, was going to the wedding of my brother, the future King, and my penis was frozen."

If he was trying to humor us, it could be interpreted as even rich people and nobility have these moments of silly. You'd laugh, but also thing "omg, that's awful, poor Harry."

Instead, he's trying to play the "feel sorry for me" card, which doesn't work because he wants us plebs to feel sorry for him, the Prince.

 

[RACISM]

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Allegedly, this is the one:
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Yes, in other context and situation, it'd be fun and relatable.

"BTW, me, a Prince of England, was going to the wedding of my brother, the future King, and my penis was frozen."

If he was trying to humor us, it could be interpreted as even rich people and nobility have these moments of silly. You'd laugh, but also thing "omg, that's awful, poor Harry."

Instead, he's trying to play the "feel sorry for me" card, which doesn't work because he wants us plebs to feel sorry for him, the Prince.

Imagine being this poor bastard, and having to write shit like this, where Harry calls out the bad writing of others.

Before trying to move on with my life I took one last look at the article. Of all the things that surprised me about it, the truly flabbergasting thing was the absolutely shitty writing. I was a poor student, a dreadful writer, and yet I had enough education to recognize that this right here was a master class in illiteracy.
To take one example: After explaining that I’d been grievously injured, that I was nearly at death’s door, the article went on to caution breathlessly that the exact nature of my injury couldn’t be revealed because the Royal Family had forbidden the editors to do so. (As if my family had any control over these ghouls.) “To reassure you, we can say that Harry’s injuries are NOT serious. But the accident was considered grave enough for him to be taken to hospital. But we believe you are entitled to know if an heir to the throne is
involved in any accident, however small, if it results in injury.”
The two “buts” in a row, the smug self-regard, the lack of coherence and absence of any real point, the hysterical nothingness of it all. This dog’s dinner of a paragraph was said to be edited—or, more likely, written—by a young journalist whose name I scanned and then quickly forgot.
I didn’t think I’d ever run across it, or him, again. The way he wrote? I couldn’t imagine he’d be a working journalist much longer.

 

[batigol]

Just to think he went to Eaton one of the most renowned schools in the whole of the UK or perhaps even Europe; and the guy has writing skills of a college drop out.

Harold is a renown thicko. He managed two A levels, a "B" in Art and a "D" in geography (you can get those grades by turning up to the classes and spelling your name correctly on the assignments). Then went straight into Sandhurst and would have failed out if he wasn't a Royal.

 

[RACISM]

Harold is a renown thicko. He managed two A levels, a "B" in Art and a "D" in geography (you can get those grades by turning up to the classes and spelling your name correctly on the assignments). Then went straight into Sandhurst and would have failed out if he wasn't a Royal.

Harry has an answer to this. The reason he is thick is because his mother died.

Things might have been different if I’d achieved good grades. But I didn’t and everyone knew it. My reports were in the public domain. The whole Commonwealth was aware of my academic struggles, which were largely due to being overmatched at Eton.
But no one ever discussed the other probable cause.
Mummy.

Baaawwwwwwww

Study, concentration, requires an alliance with the mind, and in my teen years I was waging all-out war with mine. I was forever fending off its darkest thoughts, its basest fears—its fondest memories. (The fonder the memory, the deeper the ache.) I’d found strategies for doing this, some healthy, some not, but all quite effective, and whenever they were unavailable—for instance, when I was forced to sit quietly with a book—I freaked out. Naturally, I avoided such situations.
At all costs, I avoided sitting quietly with a book.

At all costs, he avoided sitting quietly with a book, or anything else using the prefrontal cortex. His mother dying had killed his brain you see.

 

[mister fireworks]

Someone up thread already said it but I have to add my vote of confidence. This guy is going scorched earth on his family and theres no amount of trickery or voodoo that his mutt bride could've done to bamboozle him into it. He does seem like kind of a retard, but it dont take much brainpower to come up with funny ways to humiliate the British Royal family. He married her because he wanted to inflict her on them.

Marrying a a d list actress (lol who the fuck has watched "suits") who sucked and fucked her way to the middle was step 1 in what appears to be a frankly impressive 100 step plan to make his family and the institution of the british monarchy pop their monocles and suffer. Lots of good speculation in the thread about his motivations, but it could be just about anything. Imagine being in that awful family lol. The diana stuff probably started it, but I'm sure he had a list of grievances a mile high before he even got shipped out to do, war crimes? Unless he was a sniper, how does he even know his precise body count? It wold be hard if they were in firefights with multiple soldiers shooting. Maybe its different in the UK, but all the guys I know who fought in iraq never discuss how many they killed, in fact I figured it was an unwritten rule not to do that, lest you come off as a liar or a sociopath.

He should convert to Islam next.

 

[BIG BILL HELL'S]

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[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

I'm wondering if Megan is setting him up for the eventual divorce.
"See how mentally unstable he is? I tried with him, I really did, but he's not willing to work with me! So I need full custody and ten million a year in child support!"

If this was her plan, moving to the US was a brilliant move. Diana had no chance of getting custody of the Royal kids in the UK, and even though Archie and Lillypad are way down the list the Firm would have a lot more leverage to shove them in a castle with a nanny and say Harry had custody if they divorced there.

In the US, especially CA, the odds are stacked in her favor. And the child support for "grandchildren of The King" would be $$$$

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Harry troon arc when?
I can see it now, front cover of some magazine, a still bearded Harry squeezed into one of his dead mothers dresses draped in a half Union Jack half tranny flag with a tiara on for good measure. Massive title stating ‘I have to be true to my truth’.

When you failed fucking your mother and making your wife your mother, you must become your own mother.

 

[mold]

If this was her plan, moving to the US was a brilliant move. Diana had no chance of getting custody of the Royal kids in the UK, and even though Archie and Lillypad are way down the list the Firm would have a lot more leverage to shove them in a castle with a nanny and say Harry had custody if they divorced there.

You might be on to something. Diana was married to the direct heir to the throne and the mother of the next in line, so no shit she couldn't have gotten custody. She didn't have it to begin with. The *Queen* had the equivalent of legal custody over William and Harry even when Charles and Di were still married.

The law (technically a perogative but who cares) that covers this is unclear about whether the sovereign's control extends to great-grandchildren and this may explain the move to CA while the Queen was alive. Now that Arthur and Lilibet are grandchildren of the reigning monarch, not greatgrandchildren, it's possible that Charles is the legal boss of them, but I sincerely doubt American courts would care.

 

[Cheesegirl78]

If this was her plan, moving to the US was a brilliant move. Diana had no chance of getting custody of the Royal kids in the UK, and even though Archie and Lillypad are way down the list the Firm would have a lot more leverage to shove them in a castle with a nanny and say Harry had custody if they divorced there.

In the US, especially CA, the odds are stacked in her favor. And the child support for "grandchildren of The King" would be $$$$

And she would NEVER send the children to the UK to see their father and cousins, Harry would always have to fly to the US to see them. She would have that written into the custody agreement.
Or it would cost him millions (paid in advance, of course) to let his children visit him and the rest of the family in the UK.

I've known women who did that very thing, if dad wanted to see the kids, he had to fly from Florida to California, rent a hotel for the week, and pay for everything on top of the regular child support.
We women can be bitches a lot of the time, makes me ashamed. That's not good for the kids.

 

[AspieNextDoor]

Apparently Harry asked some ghost-writer to help him write the book.

Who Is Prince Harry's Ghostwriter, J.R. Moehringer?

The American novelist also helped Andre Agassi write his autobiography. Here's everything you need to know about Moeringer.

www.yahoo.com

Could the horrendous style of Spare be explained as an elaborate troll on his part? :thunk:

EDIT: Ninja'd

 

[Pill Cosby]

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WHAT
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He probably does the same when her boyfriend comes over to stay.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Do yourself a favour and grab the ebook from the link posted earlier, it is fucking hilarious.

Do yourself a favour and grab the audio book. It's read by Harold himself! You get to hear him actually reading this cringe aloud.

 

[Weeby Catto]

Apparently Harry asked some ghost-writer to help him write the book.

Who Is Prince Harry's Ghostwriter, J.R. Moehringer?

The American novelist also helped Andre Agassi write his autobiography. Here's everything you need to know about Moeringer.

www.yahoo.com

Could the horrendous style of Spare be explained as an elaborate troll on his part? :thunk:

EDIT: Ninja'd

absolutely no trolling. Cmon, somebody writes about you, it's ur minimum duty to know read what he's written, besides, Harold confirmed it in the interview, and read the audio book himself.

You better believe he is that retarded.