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

 

[Geraldine]

Some blacks support her but many don't.

Marrying a rich White dude does not endear her to African American women.
Except Oprah class rich ones.

 

[Faceless Whore]

Meghan gatecrashed Jamaica for a film premiere. She apparently expected to be treated as a VIP at this event, but was instead seated in the popcorn strewn 8th row with the slovenly denim wearing black peasants.

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Harry is APPALLED, APPALLED I SAY!

He later stormed off:

Princess Pissy asked to speak to the manager:


The gossip vine claims it was an intentional ruse by Lauren Sanchez to get Markle out of Hollywood. Also Meghan was supposedly marooned without a ride back LOL:


You know, Meghan has been mainly antagonizing white people all this time, and watching this makes me desperately long for a Blaq Kween arc where she starts barging into black society and demanding to be treated like royalty by them. I don't expect it to happen, but one of my lolcow wishes has almost come true so why not. Nothing she's done will make me laugh harder than watching her get BTFOd by the black community for being an obnoxious cunt. If that happens I'll almost love her.


In other news M&H apparently have a new PR rep who's already threatened to quit:

Given how many employees have ragequit at this point I don't even know where they're managing to get new ones from anymore. My guess is they rescued some poor gal from the sex trade and promised her freedom in exchange for defending Meghan's honor against the evil racist Internet niggerphobes.


Finally this is months old but it's so good and I don't recall it being mentioned so I'm sharing it.
Here's Meghan absolutely despising Harry "this one":

He used to be "my husband", now he's been downgraded to just "this one". My goodness what could poor Harry possibly have done to earn the ire of his saintly wife??? (Obviously: Being too much of a spare to give her the British throne.)

 

[Vesperus]

He used to be "my husband", now he's been downgraded to just "this one".

In the immortal words of The Bard:

Some are born irrelevant, some achieve irrelevance, and some have irrelevance thrust upon them.

Jesus fuck. Imagine having all the opportunities this ginger retard did and still fucking it all up.

I like the picture where it looks like she's chocking an impotent ginger faggot, though. This is why you carry a big memory card and burst-shoot.

 

[Cheesegirl78]

Don't know how real this is, but the noise in parts of the internet are giving the reason for Catherine's recent hospital stay and long recovery:
She allegedly has Crohns disease, and all of the stress from Harry and Megan, along the added duties from being Princess of Wales, has caused her to have part of her bowel removed/a colonostomy performed.

I don't know how true this is, just some gossip I hope isn't true.
If it is, it makes me loathe H&M even more.

 

[Faceless Whore]

SMM are pointing out that Harry may have kicked the hornet's nest with all this suing the press:
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Looks like the journos are digging in. They may not have been at war with the press before, but they definitely are now.

Just what IS going on behind the scenes at Archewell? Inside mass exodus from Harry and Meghan's production company as yet another exec leaves couple's employ​

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This article has a LONG list of people who have left Archewell:

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Harry's Africa charity rangers 'raped and beat tribespeople': Rainforest families claim years of abuse at the hands of guards who work for conservation body which has Prince as a director - and beg him to intervene​

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Awkward moment Prince Harry and Meghan Markle appear to hesitate as they're shown to their seats several rows back at glitzy One Love: Bob Marley screening in Jamaica​

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Eyeing up a new streaming deal? As Harry and Meghan are pictured with Paramount TV boss in Jamaica, PR experts say couple will be trying to land their 'next ratings winner' - despite network's Comedy Central airing THAT South Park episode​

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Revealed: The inside story of how Harry spun himself into a fight with the MoS ... and a £750,000 legal bill​

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Meghan Markle accepted pair of £1990 diamond earrings from Dragons' Den hopefuls - after Prince Harry revealed she 'kept gifts but shared them out' in Kensington Palace​

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[Vesperus]

Counting on my fingers, I have put up 5 homeless drug addicts over the years.

None of them have caused as much damage to my family as Harry has to his. In fact, all of them together have caused less damage to my family than Harry has to his. And one of them stole my TV.

That's actually kind of impressive.

 

[Absolutego]

Counting on my fingers, I have put up 5 homeless drug addicts over the years.

None of them have caused as much damage to my family as Harry has to his. In fact, all of them together have caused less damage to my family than Harry has to his. And one of them stole my TV.

That's actually kind of impressive.

I mean his mom and dad almost dismantled the entire monarchy, he's got a ways to go before catching up to that

 

[Vesperus]

I mean his mom and dad almost dismantled the entire monarchy, he's got a ways to go before catching up to that

I assume you mean presumptive grandparents.

His mom got wrapped around a lamppost and his official dad is not remotely ginger (unlike his mom's ex bodyguard).

 

[teriyakiburns]

His mom got wrapped around a lamppost and his official dad is not remotely ginger (unlike his mom's ex bodyguard).

Neh, she wasn't fucking him until after Harry was born. The ginger is inherited from the old Duke of Edinburgh's side of the family, alongside the inability to know when to close his mouth. It's a recessive gene, you see. He's also got the Windsor teef and nose.

 

[CowPox]

She looked way overdressed for whatever occasion that was, also felt like they just finished a showing of Avengers or Transformers or some such in that theater. I love watching nigger big shots get humiliated etc.

 

[Absolutego]

I assume you mean presumptive grandparents.

His mom got wrapped around a lamppost and his official dad is not remotely ginger (unlike his mom's ex bodyguard).

Look at a picture of Philip back when he was Greek royalty instead of British and tell me there isn't ginger in that bloodline despite Chuck apparently getting all the bad genes himself.

 

[Vesperus]

Ok, I'm outvoted.
Can we have Hereward the Wake back?

 

[WonderWino]

Don't know how real this is, but the noise in parts of the internet are giving the reason for Catherine's recent hospital stay and long recovery:
She allegedly has Crohns disease, and all of the stress from Harry and Megan, along the added duties from being Princess of Wales, has caused her to have part of her bowel removed/a colonostomy performed.

I don't know how true this is, just some gossip I hope isn't true.
If it is, it makes me loathe H&M even more.

If this ends up being true and she ends up with a colostomy bag I look forward to the day princess hoodrat pisses her off one time too many and ends up having kate nail her right in the face with a full colostomy bag on live tv at some event and have the bag smash open and cover her in shit, causing her to go full psycho hoodrat and scream racist shit at kate and the royal family

It would be the biggest scandal in the royal family in decades, we'd never hear the end of it and the hoodrat would never live it down

I can just imagine what the front page of every gossip rag on the planet would look like the next day. People could piss her off for the rest of her life just by calling her a shit head

 

[Tasty Tatty]

alongside the inability to know when to close his mouth.

At least Phillip was funny.

 

[LemonCake]

Don't know how real this is, but the noise in parts of the internet are giving the reason for Catherine's recent hospital stay and long recovery:
She allegedly has Crohns disease, and all of the stress from Harry and Megan, along the added duties from being Princess of Wales, has caused her to have part of her bowel removed/a colonostomy performed.

I don't know how true this is, just some gossip I hope isn't true.
If it is, it makes me loathe H&M even more.

My conspiracy theory was an intestinal blockage from the cotton ball diet or some such, Crohn's would suck though
I'd also completely forgotten that Charles had been in hospital for prostate treatment, until I saw an article today

 

[Geraldine]

Looks like the journos are digging in. They may not have been at war with the press before, but they definitely are now.

That's one way to ensure continued publicity, so it's a win for Meghan.
No publicity at all is what would kill her.

 

[Cheesegirl78]

My conspiracy theory was an intestinal blockage from the cotton ball diet or some such, Crohn's would suck though
I'd also completely forgotten that Charles had been in hospital for prostate treatment, until I saw an article today

I don't think Catherine is on any type of diet, she's always been an athletic person and has a figure to match.
The stresses of being the PoW, her father in law being ill, living in a fishbowl, and putting up with the hateful attacks from H&M is enough to bring anyone to their knees.

 

[Kel1 shi1]

At least Phillip was funny.

and based.

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

Don't know how real this is, but the noise in parts of the internet are giving the reason for Catherine's recent hospital stay and long recovery:
She allegedly has Crohns disease, and all of the stress from Harry and Megan, along the added duties from being Princess of Wales, has caused her to have part of her bowel removed/a colonostomy performed.

I don't know how true this is, just some gossip I hope isn't true.
If it is, it makes me loathe H&M even more.

I'll add to the gossip with something I've heard that you can presume is bullshit
but just maybe there's an "I told you so" 5 years down the line.

It's common knowledge now in royal circles that Will is having an affair.

 

[PuffyGroundCloud]

I'll add to the gossip with something I've heard that you can presume is bullshit
but just maybe there's an "I told you so" 5 years down the line.

It's common knowledge now in royal circles that Will is having an affair.

I thought it was an old news?