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

 

[Romulus augustulus]

It made more sense to want them out of the picture when they had real power, but that power is a shadow of it's former self these days.

they haven't had real power for like 300 years at this point.

 

[Second Sun]

I just love the idea that people think Will and Katie are so happy, so perfect a couple that Wills wouldn't be tapping someone outside his marriage to Katie.

Dude is the future King of England (I was hoping the people of England would wise up and get rid of the monarchy before that happened, but whatever...). Royals don't live by the same rules as the rest of us because they don't have to.

It also wouldn't surprise me if this were yet another case of "can't marry the person I really want to because the rules are unabashedly stupid".

Before they got engaged, there were rumours Kate really didn't want to become a royal, so it's not like she's some chick that got assigned to Will that he doesn't actually love. Plus she's beautiful - he would have to be a bigger twat than his dad to cheat on her.

 

[ForTheHoard]

I really don't get why everyone wants the royalty dead. they function as a cultural ambassador, a role model for the people to emulate and a lynchpin to hold the nation together. America had role models like Disney princesses and the Kardashians and have generations of girls that grew up to be horrible women.

Americans see British royalty as the symbolic antithesis of Western liberalism. The only reason they've become loveable as of late is because the British empire collapsed and the monarchy was castrated of any real power. The people raised on Disney and the Kardashians did turn out pretty shit, but that accounts for the last 30 or so years, as Disney didn't used to suck. Monarchies have been shit since before recorded human history. American culture started to turn to shit when a bunch of people got together and said, "We should be more like Europe." Western society has been in a steep decline ever since.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Disney didn't used to suck

yeah they did
they used to suck differently but they mostly always sucked ass, unless you're literally trying to defend Jungle 2 Jungle
back in the day I recall Bruce Campbell used to cite the idea that Hollywood was so creatively bankrupt that there's been so many Herbie the Love Bugs that even HE had been in one

 

[DumbDude43]

yeah they did
they used to suck differently but they mostly always sucked ass, unless you're literally trying to defend Jungle 2 Jungle

disney was good when all they did was movies about mickey mouse or donald duck having a wacky adventure

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

disney was good when all they did was movies about mickey mouse or donald duck having a wacky adventure

yes, the time before the atom bomb was quite nice

 

[Sithis]

yeah they did
they used to suck differently but they mostly always sucked ass, unless you're literally trying to defend Jungle 2 Jungle
back in the day I recall Bruce Campbell used to cite the idea that Hollywood was so creatively bankrupt that there's been so many Herbie the Love Bugs that even HE had been in one

Jungle 2 Jungle was good
Wasn't George of the Jungle also a Disney flick?

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Jungle 2 Jungle was good
Wasn't George of the Jungle also a Disney flick?

George was, and over the past few years I've become increasingly open to the idea of Brendon Fraiser as a Jay Ward lead, but Jungle 2 Jungle was French to start with and then Disney made it.
I could understand defending Marsupilami or maybe some of the other EuroDisney-era "how do you do, fellow frogs" era crap but Jungle 2 Jungle?

 

[Tasty Tatty]

Don't we have a kiwi in UK to simply look outside the window and check the flag? Come on...

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Don't we have a kiwi in UK to simply look outside the window and check the flag? Come on...

too much fog

 

[Sithis]

I could understand defending Marsupilami or maybe some of the other EuroDisney-era "how do you do, fellow frogs" era crap but Jungle 2 Jungle?

I just think it was good compared to modern Disney shit, it had fun comedy and Tim Allen sold it. I'd watch it over the obnoxiousness of movies like Ace Ventura any day. Angels in the Outfield was also a good kids movie from back when Disney pretended to care about their Christian audience.

Also since we are in the royalty thread, I'm still not convinced Kate is still among the living.

 

[Murun Buchstansangur]

More likely to be Charles that is the reason for the flag being at half mast.

 

[Not A Bunny]

I really don't get why everyone wants the royalty dead. they function as a cultural ambassador, a role model for the people to emulate and a lynchpin to hold the nation together. America had role models like Disney princesses and the Kardashians and have generations of girls that grew up to be horrible women.

I didn't say I wanted them dead. Just the institution. It's antiquated and is based off the idea that you have power and influence based off of who you were born to and who you marry.

 

[Flan Handler]

I didn't say I wanted them dead. Just the institution. It's antiquated and is based off the idea that you have power and influence based off of who you were born to and who you marry.

The older I get, the less I see that as inferior to the faceless evil managerial bureaucracy running things now.

 

[Betonhaus]

I didn't say I wanted them dead. Just the institution. It's antiquated and is based off the idea that you have power and influence based off of who you were born to and who you marry.

well its better then becoming influential based off of a sex tape and having a silicone ass. If you tear away the institution something will fill the void, and if it's not religion or a monarchy it could end up being something vile.

 

[Train Operator]

More likely to be Charles that is the reason for the flag being at half mast.

Good lord, if the king of England dies on St Patrick's day the Irish are never going to shut up about this.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

American culture started to turn to shit when a bunch of people got together and said, "We should be more like Europe." Western society has been in a steep decline ever since.

People blame Americans for degeneracy (and it has kind of reached that point) but until Obama's time, Europe and Canada were at the forefront of progressive bullshit, both socially and law.

 

[The Gene Genie]

I didn't say I wanted them dead. Just the institution. It's antiquated and is based off the idea that you have power and influence based off of who you were born to and who you marry.

The only people who actively want and campaign for the Monarchy to be deposed in all of the Commonwealth realms are whinging leftist faggots like Republic. If the Monarchy gets deposed, then thousands of years of Tradition and culture get flushed down the toilet and replaced by the same boring faggot bullshit. All things considered, I'd rather live under an absolutist Monarch than the current rule-by-bureaucrat that we have been subjected to across the Western World. At least those blue-blooded fairies didn't have any pretense as to why they did what they did ("God granted me the right to rule") and more often than not were educated from birth to rule, instead of the current crop of rulers who are just flesh puppets in suits with corpo-Jew hands up their asses.

 

[teriyakiburns]

People blame Americans for degeneracy (and it has kind of reached that point) but until Obama's time, Europe and Canada were at the forefront of progressive bullshit, both socially and law.

Much of the impetus for it came from American institutions and was funded by American money. It is, ultimately, some bastard child of french and German philosophical schools, but it only gained so much traction by retransmission through America's cultural hegemon.

 

[Otterly]

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I'm not a Royalist, but my main issue with deposing the royals is what replaces them.

We’d end up with President for life Blair or some other horror. The royals aren’t perfect but they do keep some of our castles and historical shit in use and they’re a link to history (culturally if not genetically lol) . To replace them would be simply shifting more towards the globohomo blob.
If Kate and wills get crowned fairly young I think they will be popular monarchs and it’ll be a boon for the country.
I can’t see any flags from my place (it’s not exactly central) but if I pass any today I’ll take a look.