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

 

[Cheesegirl78]

Let Anne be regent, let Anne be regent...

 

[mindlessobserver]

Because Harry isn't domiciled in the United Kingdom, he isn't eligible to become Regent. More than likely, it will be either the Princess Royal or Prince Edward if such a event came to pass that both The King and the Prince of Wales were both dead/incapacitated.

It would not be hard at all for Harry to move back. Keep in mind too, this hypothetical presupposes that William really did cave his Wifes skull in. If that is the case he is quite literally the only Royal who could conceivably be Regent, since every single one of them BUT Harry have to be in on it.

 

[DumbDude43]

since every single one of them BUT Harry have to be in on it.

don't they all live apart from each other, in different castles and mansions that are spread out all across the country?

 

[obsdj]

It would not be hard at all for Harry to move back.

Only if he offs his own whore wife (remember her?) first.

 

[mindlessobserver]

don't they all live apart from each other, in different castles and mansions that are spread out all across the country?

Sure, but Harry is the most senior of the bunch who literally put an ocean and Continent between his affairs and the rest. He's been publicly shunned. So if it comes out that there was some sort of effort to cover up Shenanigans, he really is the only one (other then the children) who could actually claim with a straight face to have not known anything about it, or had anything to do with it.

In other news, gossip rags are saying Catherine's staffers have not been allowed to see her in weeks.

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a60186817/kate-middleton-shroud-of-secrecy-concerning/

I think the most fascinating thing about this is how its the United States gossip media that is going absolutely bonkers on this.

 

[The Gene Genie]

It would not be hard at all for Harry to move back. Keep in mind too, this hypothetical presupposes that William really did cave his Wifes skull in. If that is the case he is quite literally the only Royal who could conceivably be Regent, since every single one of them BUT Harry have to be in on it.

That is a massive presupposition and an outlandish hypothetical. The likelihood of that being the case is so slim you'd need a microscope to see it.

 

[mindlessobserver]

That is a massive presupposition and an outlandish hypothetical. The likelihood of that being the case is so slim you'd need a microscope to see it.

Sure, but at this point its coming up in the White House briefing room. The Press Secretary became very evasive, so clearly the US Government knows through its own channels something is up. Because it felt the need to not outright deny there is issue and instead wish her a "speedy recovery".

So something is going on, and the Royal Family is not being very forthright about it. Its actually rather fascinating how the Mutts seem more interested in her situation then the Bongs.

 

[Frostnipped Todger]

I think the UK would become a Republic before Henry IX becomes a reality.

 

[mindlessobserver]

THE KATESPIRACY
Something is rotten in the Kingdom of England

A slow moving train wreck is threatening to engulf the Isle of Britain. In February it was revealed that the King, Charles III, had been diagnosed with Cancer,(a) rumored to be Pancreatic (but not confirmed) (a). Or denied it should be noted. Pancreatic Cancer is essentially a death sentence, with an average 5 year survival rate of just 12% according to American Cancer Society, and this factors in young people who contract it. Charles is no spring chicken by any stretch of the word who can withstand intense chemotherapy and surgeries in incredibly sensitive areas of the body. His odds of surviving the year if he has Pancreatic Cancer are negligible.

Since his Diagnosis, the King has retired from public life and has not been seen publicly, with his one and only recent appearance being done by Video.
The King did not look well.



Which means the focus inevitably turned to the succession. His oldest son, William is the Prince of Wales and will assume the throne upon his Fathers death. But William has a problem.

You see, his wife has not been seen. Not since Christmas last year, according a timeline compiled by Time Magazine (a)

last known picture of the Princess of Wales, taken December 25, 2023.

It must be stressed that this was before the Kings cancer diagnosis. On January 17 of 2024, the Royal Palace announced that the Princess was in hospital for "planned abdominal surgery"(a). This announcement came an entire MONTH after her last known appearance.

Two weeks later, Kensington Palace announced (a) the Princess was making "good recovery" on Instagram, would be home "soon". It has now been almost two months since this announcement, and there has been no further updates on the princesses health, or her whereabouts.



Instead, rumors began to swirl. Why precisely did she need "abdominal surgery" anyway? While the Palace had been forthright about King Charles having cancer, there has been no report on what ailment afflicted the future Queen that required surgery and subsequent hospitalization. Rumors have spiraled from a Bungled routine procedure, all the way to Prince William finding her in bed with another man and shooting her and her lover with a Shotgun.

Either way, the blood was now in the water and it was up to the royal family to calm the plebes down. They did so by releasing this photograph on the Princesses own twitter account.


Immediately internet Autists smelled a rat, and went to work. SPOILER, the Picture is fake.




Royal Family confirmed not human. Do not have 5 fingers.

Reuters issued a formal death sentence to the photograph.


In response, the Princess' twitter claimed that she was just "playing around with photo editing". (a)



Users on X, the website formerly known as Twitter had their own hot takes.


At this point, bedlam set in. The press in the UK, burned badly due to the death of Princess Diana circled the wagons and went radio silent. But over in Amerimutt land shit started to blow up.

It got so bad that on March 12th, reporters asked the White House Press Secretary if the President of the United States knew anything. Jean-Pierre immediately went evasive and was clearly fumbling for an answer that was not an outright lie, and did not deny anything. Instead she confirmed that the Princess is very much "unwell" by wishing her a speedy recovery.

And so the question stands. Where is the Princess of Wales? Why has there been such a cone of silence around this situation? Does William actually have something to do with the situation? Is that why there has been such desperation to try and bury this? And if so, what does this mean for the UK's succession?

 

[Dandelions]

 

[Tasty Tatty]

I really, REALLY doubt William beat his wife, come on. The most likely scenario is that her surgery didn't go well and she isn't yet fully recovered. Think about it, there is really not a real reason for them to hide this information, as it's not at all something that would put them under a bad light. Even the most common surgeries can go wrong and kill a person. It's not common, but it happens. Seriously, they only need one press release saying they're sad to inform the Princess's recovery wasn't successful and she passed away peacefully. There.

Now, with that being said, and because we truly live in clown world, it does look like either Satan is coming to collect his payments or Meghan was the one who made a deal with him to move all pieces to become Queen.

"Tatty, don't you mean 'for Harry to become King?"

I said what I said.

 

[Slav Power]

Dankula commented on this two days ago.

He did ask a good question. If this isn't edited, why won't they release the unedited photos? That would clear up all the conspiracy theories.

 

[Gintoki's Sweet Tooth]

The most likely scenario is that her surgery didn't go well and she isn't yet fully recovered. Think about it, there is really not a real reason for them to hide this information, as it's not at all something that would put them under a bad light

Right, so if it's no big deal why be so evasive about it?

Edit so I don't double post: I don't know if this has been posted yet, but it looks like the photo they used of Kate was lifted directly from her Vogue cover from like 2016



Link to tweet

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

It’s ficking obvious. She’s been possessed by the spirit of Queen Elizabeth and they don’t know what to do.

 

[Merry]

It’s ficking obvious. She’s been possessed by the spirit of Queen Elizabeth and they don’t know what to do.

This is just like the plot of Dune Messiah

 

[Tasty Tatty]

Right, so if it's no big deal why be so evasive about it?

Three good reasons:

1. She and/or her family (that'd be William) don't want people to see her in her current state, which might not be well if she hasn't fully recovered from her surgery. People who are recovering from surgeries related to the digestive system tend to drop a lot of weight and look like cancer patients. It might be shocking for the public (and her own kids) that she looks like this and she doesn't want to be exposed to that. Personally, I think this is something I would respect, royal or not.

2. Considering Charles' sick too, they don't want to make a big fuzz of having two members of the family being sick of similar things at the same time, so it's better they say "Kate's well, but still recovering" rather than show that she's still not 100% well and might look like she has also cancer. Or Kate herself has asked to keep her out of the spotlight to respect Charles' own condition.

3.

She’s been possessed by the spirit of Queen Elizabeth and they don’t know what to do.

 

[D_Tractor]

This, if William literally beat his wife into a Coma, how on earth could he become King?

The prince of Nepal killed the entire royal family (except one other prince) and was coronated king on his deathbed.

 

[Cheesegirl78]

I worked with a woman years ago, she had a hysterectomy which did not go well, she got some kind of bizarre infection, had to be readmitted to the hospital for more surgery, and so on. She ended up missing six months of work.

Perhaps something like this happened to Catherine, and she isn't ready to tell the world that she had major surgery on her reproductive organs?
Or the RF wants to keep her illness/recovery secret so the Monticeito Grifters don't try to make a buck off of it?

 

[ye's Official KF Burner]

The schizoposting all over social media about this has been the best.
I genuinely hope Kate is okay because her kids need her but I think it's pretty crazy that a lot of predictions that came out when Liz was on her death bed are turning out to be true.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

She had abdominal surgery so she may have a colostomy bag. Combined with what Tatty mentioned she probably looks ghastly and that's enough reason to shy away from the cameras. Kate will be, soon enough, Queen since Charlie is dying soon so she doesn't want a bunch of images of her looking like death incarnate.

I've heard rumors her mental health wasn't the best with so there's that. Again, rumors. But the idea Wills clobbered her to death is literal fodder for old blue haired ladies reading trashy gossip rags in the Boca Raton old folks home.