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

 

[OrionBalls]

tard wrangling spare princes has been a long standing royal job.

Why do they allow their second sons to act like slothful idiots? Andrew is the exact same. Edward seems to mostly stay out of shit, though. And everyone loves Anne. So is it just the one retard/generation?

 

[Judge Holden]

Also I mentioned this before but it bears repeating how singularly fucking retarded it is that Harry and Meghan as well as their online hype team of bitter cat ladies and shaniquas are so insistent on the idea that the Royal Family has the absolute power to silence negative press and social media coverage, but simply chose not to exercise this power to protect the two which is proof that they were and are actively encouraging it, out of fear or jealousy or both.

This is the same Royal Family that is scapegoated and blamed and conspiracy theorized about as much as the fucking Jews, the main target of every foreign nationalist crybaby bellyaching over everything from Agincourt to 1776 to the Irish Potato Famine, and the one that has been the target of every tabloid and respectable newspaper in the UK (and indeed outside the UK) since these tabloids and newspapers began. Apparently they was supposed to magically stop all negative coverage and opinion of Harry and Meghan despite having not once been able to use this power to protect itself, and thus their failure to wave the royal magic wand and make everyone love the pair is proof of a malign conspiracy against the two.

 

[Hitman One]

Why do they allow their second sons to act like slothful idiots? Andrew is the exact same. Edward seems to mostly stay out of shit, though. And everyone loves Anne. So is it just the one retard/generation?

Anne is based and she is the best Queen we will never have. I hope she outlives her brother as I think she would be good for William as King.

Eddie is kind of boring, which is good, as he's reliable and so is his wife - Kate likes Sophie which means she will always have a role because she is the third most powerful person in the Royal family now.

Andrew should be blackbagged, put on an RAF jet, flown to Andrews Air Force Base and handed to the FBI to answer questions about Epstein and Maxwell. Charlie won't do that to his brother but I absolutely think that William would without hesitation. He's a nice man, but he's an iron fist in a velvet glove.

 

[obsdj]

Kate likes Sophie which means she will always have a role because she is the third most powerful person in the Royal family now.

Don't forget about the influence of Camilla, the manipulative Hag Queen. I'm guessing too that she will be "Queen Dowager" when Charles kicks the bucket. She'll try to hold on to as much power as she can, likely has been whispering in Charles' ear to make sure he makes his wishes official before he dies.

 

[Sean Andalou]

Sadly he's the kind of stupid that doesn't realise how stupid he is, nor how entitled he is. Well of course I can sit down with putin and, like, ask him why he's a bad person.

I say old boy, why are you so evil?

Indeed. What Markle, and most Americans, failed to realise is that being a member of the Royal family does not mean that you can do as you please.

I think you underestimate most of us.
But the type you are picturing really does exist and Meghan is far from alone.

I see Harry in a way is a model immigrant.
No not hardworking, but definitely he has assimilated American culture.
Too bad the flavor of American culture is the movie star variety.

Harry and Meghan as well as their online hype team of bitter cat ladies

Nailed it!

 

[Otterly]

Why do they allow their second sons to act like slothful idiots? Andrew is the exact same. Edward seems to mostly stay out of shit, though. And everyone loves Anne. So is it just the one retard/generation?

I presume you’ve seen Blackadder III? The entire series uses Prince George as a joke.
Yes there seems to be roughly one per generation, all the way back to Edward I…

 

[Hitman One]

Don't forget about the influence of Camilla, the manipulative Hag Queen. I'm guessing too that she will be "Queen Dowager" when Charles kicks the bucket. She'll try to hold on to as much power as she can, likely has been whispering in Charles' ear to make sure he makes his wishes official before he dies.

Regardless of anyone's thoughts on Camilla, there is simply no constitutional role for the spouse of a dead monarch and to create one is something that only Parliament could do.

 

[OrangeJuliusEvola]

This non-Brit wonders, is it possible to actually opt out of the whole working royal thing and do a real job and remain respectable and in the family's good graces? Like say, become a college professor, horse farmer or architect and just buckle down and do that in a professional manner and only have to show up for the big events like Remembrance Day and the like? Granted, Harry doesn't have the brains nor work ethic to do any real work, but say he did, but actually just didn't like being a public figure, instead of being a spoiled child who wanted the perks without the work?

 

[Hitman One]

I think you underestimate most of us.
But the type you are picturing really does exist and Meghan is far from alone.

I didn't mean it as a slight, sorry if it came across that way. I would never expect an American, or any foreigner, to really understand the weirdness of the Royal family and the way they interact with the British public. This has been the system, with a brief intermission many centuries ago, in this country for much longer than the USA has existed. Markle clearly isn't an idiot, but even the stupidest British chav slag would have had a better chance of succeeding if they were parachuted into Buck House at random.

 

[gobbles]

This non-Brit wonders, is it possible to actually opt out of the whole working royal thing and do a real job and remain respectable and in the family's good graces?

My impression is that’s what Andrew’s daughters and Anne’s daughter have all done.

Beatrice was working in New York; Eugenie did art auction stuff. Zara married a professional rugby player. All the women seem to have kept their heads down and, at minimum, pretended to work.

Honestly, I bet the family would be thrilled if Harry became a hobby farmer provided he simply stopped talking and didn’t directly trade on his royal status.

 

[Free the Pedos]

This non-Brit wonders, is it possible to actually opt out of the whole working royal thing and do a real job and remain respectable and in the family's good graces? Like say, become a college professor, horse farmer or architect and just buckle down and do that in a professional manner and only have to show up for the big events like Remembrance Day and the like

Apparently this is what the British Royal family and other royal families in Europe are angling for, because they don’t have the money to support so many full time royals. It’s one of the reasons they were so open to Meghan. I get the sense that Harry is very listless and would never take the initiative to pick a career, though, unless someone else placed him there.

 

[Kosher Dill]

This non-Brit wonders, is it possible to actually opt out of the whole working royal thing and do a real job and remain respectable and in the family's good graces?

I suspect the royals would have been mostly fine with it if Harry actually did get a job and live a respectable life. But he essentially demanded to keep all the fun parts of royalty - titles, ribbons, patronages, taxpayer funding - without all the hassles like actually having to work, dealing somehow-or-other with the press, and subordinating yourself to tradition. I can only imagine the other senior royals were - as it was once famously put - not amused.

 

[Cloudby Skytoucher]

Why do they allow their second sons to act like slothful idiots? Andrew is the exact same. Edward seems to mostly stay out of shit, though. And everyone loves Anne. So is it just the one retard/generation?

Not even the first time there's been a red-headed indulgent wastrel second-son named Henry in the British royal family who was absolutely determined to wreck all his advantages for the sake of some mid cooze. Luckily this one isn't getting anywhere close to a crown.

 

[AssignedEva]

I get the sense that Harry is very listless and would never take the initiative to pick a career, though, unless someone else placed him there.

He did seem to like being in the army, and a lot of squaddies who served with him seem to have a good impression that he'd muck in and do his fair share. The problem was him being a Prince painted a massive target on the battalion, so he got yoinked out of it after a decade.

Posh "spare" going off to be an officer was a stalwart of the upper classes, especially when they were thick and needed to be wrangled while feeling they were achieving something. Harry's perhaps a bit out of time, he'd have probably been fine as a Prince in the 19th century.

This non-Brit wonders, is it possible to actually opt out of the whole working royal thing and do a real job and remain respectable and in the family's good graces?

Problem is, the sample size is too small. "Contemporary" royalty can only be understood as the descendents of Queen Elizabeth. The only way a royal could have gone off and been an architect or something is if both the Queen and her advisors approved of it, but she wouldn't have. A counterfactual Prince or Princess could have shifted the dynamic in a way that's hard to predict.

Less relevant now she's dead. I'm sure if one of William's children wanted to go into architecture he'd let them, if only because Diana injected some humanity into royal parenting.

 

[Frostnipped Todger]

Honestly, I bet the family would be thrilled if Harry became a hobby farmer provided he simply stopped talking and didn’t directly trade on his royal status.

After listening to the first half of "Spare" (I couldn't listen tothe Mehgan part), he'd be best off working as a jackaroo in Australia. He seemed to have a real affection for the work and he was out of the public eye.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

Trump made me LOL with his comments about Harry and Megan yesterday.

When Trump was asked about deporting Harry.

I don’t want to do that,” he said. “I’ll leave him alone. He’s got enough problems with his wife. She’s terrible.”

I think William is a great young man,” he said.

Trump in turn has described Harry as “whipped” by Markle. “I think poor Harry is being led around by the nose.”

Trump decided to call up the Post to inject himself into Royal drama gossip and shit talk Meeeegan.

 

[Flan Handler]

Trump made me LOL with his comments about Harry and Megan yesterday.

When Trump was asked about deporting Harry.



Trump decided to call up the Post to inject himself into Royal drama gossip and shit talk Meeeegan.

I wonder what kind of hamfisted, poorly thought out, cringeworthy stunt Meghan and her flunkies are going to cook up to offset this fatality:


We are truly in the Golden Age.

 

[obsdj]

I wonder what kind of hamfisted, poorly thought out, cringeworthy stunt Meghan and her flunkies are going to cook up to offset this fatality:

Well the release of her stupid cringe Netflix show was postponed to next month. It was supposed to come out last month, but the optics of showing that BS while the devastating fires were still ongoing would have been a death sentence. She can try to lay low for the next few weeks and hope that nobody else comes out with any humiliating bangers, I guess. But from what we've seen of clips of the show, the best she can probably hope for is that nobody watches.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

"We aren't stuck with him, he's stuck here with her."

Trump, you fabulous son of a bitch, hahaha.

 

[OrionBalls]

This video from the Invictus Games is making the rounds, right now: Meghan Moves Wheelchaired Athlete From Team Canada Out Of The Way. So, isn't this technically assault? That athlete looks very confused and a little distressed to be suddenly moving under someone else's power.