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

 

[Slimy Time]

Plus, let's look at Meghan's comparator in the role, her sister in law HRH Kate.

Kate as the wife of the second in line to the throne, and therefore future Queen and wife and mother of future Kings, has three jobs.

1 - Breed more royals
2 - Never ever fucking embarrass the Family and especially the Queen in any way whatsoever
3 - Look pretty and act personable in public

Kate is really fucking good at her job. She has produced three kids who are good looking and well mannered in public, she is extremely well dressed (but not TOO expensively), is received with apparent delight at all her public engagements, and she and her family are smart fucking people and never ever put a toe out of line. Kate being smart cancelled the Cambridges' arrangements to go on the big Middleton family holiday in the Caribbean over the festive period in order "to support the Queen", i.e. to close the ranks of the Family around the elderly lady with a very elderly husband in hospital and son who ought to be in the jail. Kate understands her role.

Meghan mouthed off continually about "shaping her role" and "bringing her own stamp". Girl, the accepted parameters of the role of royal bride in the British monarchy were set before America was even fucking colonised. There was no room for deviation. You were supposed to stay thin, get pregnant, and keep your damned mouth shut. In return, you would not get to be the Queen because you were marrying the spare. This is essentially not a great offer, and this is why both Chelsey Davy and Cressida Bonas dumped Harry and ran for the hills.

This isn't about racism. This is about Meghan being shit at her job, same way Fergie was. At least Fergie was a good laugh, Meghan is a po faced bint.

As I said above, you are either built for the role of being the spouse of a royal, or you are not, and therefore an idiot. Kate is probably definitely lining herself up to be a big influence in the Royal family, if she isn't already. She ticks all the boxes you mentioned, she clearly shows strength/a strong will, especially when put next to her husband, and will be a big influence in family matters if she isn't already. I can imagine her pushing William to do certain things behind closed doors.

Markle just shits the bed, apparently under some misguided belief that marrying a royal would revive her status from a C-List celebrity to S rank with the ability to do and or say what she wanted (like a princess would). Not the case. She got the 6th in line to the throne. The spare of fucking spares and all the burdens and irritations that came with it. This isn't the 1700's where you can do what you want as a royal, rather it's the opposite. You are told what to do, how to do it, what to eat, what events to attend to, when you can take a shit and so on. She's made a mess, is breaking all the royal rules, she has Harry, an idiot, wrapped around her finger and burning bridges to try to satisfy her, and now she's essentially trying to divorce herself from the family and taking her idiot husband with her.

 

[Sissy Galvez]

I think she wants to get back into acting and away from the royal family/UK Tabloids. They’ve brutalized her over a lot of petty shit.

Where is the shit about her running instagram scams coming from? Everyone wealthy or with 100k followers gets free shit from brands. Bonus points if you have a fraction of that and you’re black for diversity. You think half the influencers make enough money to travel every month and buy Gucci left and right?

How is she greedy? The royal family is worth a trillion bucks, they don’t need to go out on their own unless they’re trying to get away from the incessant racism of the British press.

 

[A Welsh Cake]

Very interesting indeed, but these isn’t the people I’m interested in unless they also go to Pizza Express in Woking.

 

[DocHoliday1977]

I'm not surprised that low rent kiwi farmers want to jump on Prince Harry and Meghan for no reason.
It was their idea to take a step back and they are parents and need to provide a safe environment for their child.
But trust ignorant kiwi farmers to jump on anyone except for cursed gimp, Harvey Weinstein who thinks he's allowed to rape anyone he wants. That piece of shit has earned a bullet but, let's hate on Prince Harry and his wife who he clearly loves.
I despise Katd Middleton.

 

[Disheveled Human]

To me its quite simple, No Blacks Allowed.

 

[Yaniv’s Hairy Balls]

I think she wants to get back into acting and away from the royal family/UK Tabloids. They’ve brutalized her over a lot of petty shit.

Where is the shit about her running instagram scams coming from? Everyone wealthy or with 100k followers gets free shit from brands. Bonus points if you have a fraction of that and you’re black for diversity. You think half the influencers make enough money to travel every month and buy Gucci left and right?

How is she greedy? The royal family is worth a trillion bucks, they don’t need to go out on their own unless they’re trying to get away from the incessant racism of the British press.

She isn’t just “a person w 100k insta followers” tho. She is part of the royal family and strictly forbidden from receiving this stuff and engaging in the behaviors that she has with marketing and social media posting for brands. She’s greedy af bc she continues to virtue signal while lapping it up in a life of luxury (paid for by the common slobs) of private jets and luxury SUVs. She’s wasteful and the woke of Hollywood elite and it’s not a good look.
There may be racism in the British press, I don’t know enough to say one way or another, but she’s joined a millennia old tradition and has concerned herself with how to change it to suit her and her interests and her wallet.
I don’t have shit for the monarchy, I’m an American and I don’t really get down in that shit, but I do know that if you enter into a millennia old tradition and proceed to change it through greed and disregard of the people who pay your salary (ie the tax payers and the press/tabloids- bc theyre basically the groups who have the most vested interest in them) then you will piss people off. Complain about the tabloids all you want but the monarchy is toothless politically (as they should be) and rely on good press to keep up appearances.

 

[DocHoliday1977]

She isn’t just “a person w 100k insta followers” tho. She is part of the royal family and strictly forbidden from receiving this stuff and engaging in the behaviors that she has with marketing and social media posting for brands. She’s greedy af bc she continues to virtue signal while lapping it up in a life of luxury (paid for by the common slobs) of private jets and luxury SUVs. She’s wasteful and the woke of Hollywood elite and it’s not a good look.
There may be racism in the British press, I don’t know enough to say one way or another, but she’s joined a millennia old tradition and has concerned herself with how to change it to suit her and her interests and her wallet.
I don’t have shit for the monarchy, I’m an American and I don’t really get down in that shit, but I do know that if you enter into a millennia old tradition and proceed to change it through greed and disregard of the people who pay your salary (ie the tax payers and the press/tabloids- bc theyre basically the groups who have the most vested interest in them) then you will piss people off. Complain about the tabloids all you want but the monarchy is toothless politically (as they should be) and rely on good press to keep up appearances.

Name how she is greedy. I want specifics.

 

[Sissy Galvez]

I can’t even find any articles on the h&m Instagram stuff. It’s pretty common for the media to go crazy on whatever they’re wearing. Are they supposed to go out in burqas or burlap sacks?

 

[Yaniv’s Hairy Balls]

Name how she is greedy. I want specifics.

1. Accepting hundreds of thousands from the tax payers a year and still insta whoring
2. Using tax payer funded security when she could pay for her own, then snubbing the traditions that bring the tax payers into their lives (all of this was told to her before she ever married in the family, this is an expectation of an HRH). It costs millions a year for her “privacy” when she could’ve just not married a royal.
3. A $200,000+ Baby shower w her a list celeb friends (that she used to insta whore) when all was already provided by the tax payers/the crown/family (if she wanted the tradition bc afaik a baby shower isn’t in British tradition, why she have hosted one for needy families and babies/orphans?)
4. Using her child to dress him up in clothes and instawhore and shout out the brand (free clothes, exposure for them)
4. Throwing hissy fits and mistreating the royal staff for not getting her way over priceless decades old (centuries?) jewelry

This has all been posted in this thread. It’s greedy af to live if state welfare beyond what most ppl could ever imagine and insta whore on the side.
Edit- autocorrect
Links:
Pricy emotional workout bullshit
Boosting her friends’ businesses
Stupid hat her kid wore
Tiara bullshit
Stage managed birth, went against protocol to have a better reception
Using private jets
There’s more if you want. Google has it all.

 

[Caesare]

this was only a matter of time. remember their weeding? remember when the priest would not shut up about diversity is our strength and we our one step closer in killing racism? this is fucking hilarious!

It's particularly hilarious and horrifying because she is as white as he is. You wouldn't know she had any black ancestry if they didn't bring it up when mentioning her.

 

[LordofTendons]

Kiwi Farms should start a go fund me for their Highnesses to help them become financially independent God knows they need the money more than Null does.

 

[DocHoliday1977]

1. Shes only been a royal for 2 years and had her own money.
2. Designers ASKED HER to support their brands. And gives free things to wear. They did when she was SINGLE.
3. Same with her son. And they don't over post and expose their child like William and Kate. This one of the reason they want to be AWAY from the limelight as normal citizens.
4. The royal reporters made those "hissy fits" up, probably at other narcissistic royals request. ( they don't want the world to know they are toxic so they point witch fingers at Meghan first)

You sound jealous "af".

Kiwi Farms should start a go fund me for their Highnesses to help them become financially independent God knows they need the money more than Null does.

Oh so Harry is impoverished at 21 million?

 

[LordofTendons]

1. Shes only been a royal for 2 years and had her own money.
2. Designers ASKED HER to support their brands. And gives free things to wear. They did when she was SINGLE.
3. Same with her son. And they don't over post and expose their child like William and Kate. This one of the reason they want to be AWAY from the limelight as normal citizens.
4. The royal reporters made those "hissy fits" up, probably at other narcissistic royals request. ( they don't want the world to know they are toxic so they point witch fingers at Meghan first)

You sound jealous "af".

1. She wanted MORE money, and they've been royals a lot longer than she has. They know a lot more about what they're doing than she does.
2. She's not single any more and she can't act like it.
3. For people who want to be away from the spotlight they sure instawhore and show up for documentaries a lot.
4. No one made up that stupid letter to her father, the documentary, the instawhoring, that disaster of a wedding, the climate lecturing, or any of the other stupid shit these two do.

Oh so Harry is impoverished at 21 million?

It's called sarcasm, you god-damned idiot.

 

[Caesare]

I'm not surprised that low rent kiwi farmers

lol you're in that number too, spaz.

2. Designers ASKED HER to support their brands. And gives free things to wear. They did when she was SINGLE

I'm sure this unknown broad was getting all sorts of endorsements when she was single. Sure, seems plausible.

 

[DocHoliday1977]

1. She wanted MORE money, and they've been royals a lot longer than she has. They know a lot more about what they're doing than she does.
2. She's not single any more and she can't act like it.
3. For people who want to be away from the spotlight they sure instawhore and show up for documentaries a lot.
4. No one made up that stupid letter to her father, the documentary, the instawhoring, that disaster of a wedding, the climate lecturing, or any of the other stupid shit these two do.

It's called sarcasm, you god-damned idiot.

1. Prove she asked for more money.
2. Married for 2 years, not long enough to draw A SIGNIFICANT ROYAL INCOME.
3. Again after 2 years THEY ARE LEAVING.
4. You're lying about the last part unless you had something to do with shaming her and that is illegal.
5. They support causes on their Instagram, not just posting family and they can post whatever they want to, you cursed damn scag.

lol you're in that number too, spaz.

Nope. I'm above you all. Please call me a narcissist.

 

[Sissy Galvez]

I don’t think people understand what “instagram whoring” is. They posted pictures of their family, that’s it. The tabloids blew up a story to say “Archie was wearing XX by so and so”. Meghan didn’t say anything or tag the brand in a post.

Where you’re getting they’re greedy over that is confusing.

 

[LetThemEatCake]

1. Shes only been a royal for 2 years and had her own money.
2. Designers ASKED HER to support their brands. And gives free things to wear. They did when she was SINGLE.
3. Same with her son. And they don't over post and expose their child like William and Kate. This one of the reason they want to be AWAY from the limelight as normal citizens.
4. The royal reporters made those "hissy fits" up, probably at other narcissistic royals request. ( they don't want the world to know they are toxic so they point witch fingers at Meghan first)

You sound jealous "af".

You cannot be a Royal and a 'normal citizen'. You are either one or the other. Normal citizens do not receive millions via the royal purse, for starters. Millions, for the record. You accept the funding and status that comes with royalty, it also comes with rules, lots of them, and duty. How the fuck do William and Kate 'overexpose' their children, btw? They put out a few official portraits and pics per year in line with royal tradition and the press plays nicely with them and doesn't stalk and pap them. They're not tagging them on Instagram in some companies baby clothes to make a buck, are they?

Nobody is jealous of Megan Markle. On any level. They're appalled by her. She's a rank social climber with limited social intelligence (if she had any she wouldn't be getting BTFO'd out of the UK after two short years of marriage) who lines her pockets against the rules of the institution she willingly joined, as outlined thoroughly already in this thread. She's self-important and does stupid shit, graceless shit and tone deaf shit. like her Vogue nonsense.

 

[Yaniv’s Hairy Balls]

1. Shes only been a royal for 2 years and had her own money.
2. Designers ASKED HER to support their brands. And gives free things to wear. They did when she was SINGLE.
3. Same with her son. And they don't over post and expose their child like William and Kate. This one of the reason they want to be AWAY from the limelight as normal citizens.
4. The royal reporters made those "hissy fits" up, probably at other narcissistic royals request. ( they don't want the world to know they are toxic so they point witch fingers at Meghan first)

You sound jealous "af".

I guess you’re responding to me? It’s easier to see if you tag me as I don’t wanna sit in the thread.
1. This proves my point. They spend untold amounts a year on her security when she has her own money. it doesn’t matter i she’s been royal for 2 or 20, it’s still costly. Pay for your own shit.
2. It doesn’t matter who asked her to promote them. The point is she shouldn’t be doing it and she must certainly shouldn’t be turning a profit when she does it. When she associates with someone the whole royal family gets involved: see Prince Andrew, Prince Charles and Camilla, see Fergue and the toe licking debacle.
3. I said nothing about her sons exposure to the spotlight here, it was about her extravagant baby shower where she pockets over $200,000 in a list goodies and the whored it out on social media as opposed to doing it for charity. As long as the tax payers are spending literal millions in their safety I don’t think treating them as something more than a pestilence is too much to ask.
4. Name how the made it up. I want specifics.

why so salty bc ppl don’t like Meghan Merkle?

 

[DocHoliday1977]

You cannot be a Royal and a 'normal citizen'. You are either one or the other. Normal citizens do not receive millions via the royal purse, for starters. Millions, for the record. You accept the funding and status that comes with royalty, it also comes with rules, lots of them, and duty. How the fuck do William and Kate 'overexpose' their children, btw? They put out a few official portraits and pics per year and the press plays nicely with them and doesn't stalk and pap them. They're not tagging them on Instagram in some companies baby clothes to make a buck, are they?

Nobody is jealous of Megan Markle. On any level. They're appalled by her. She's a rank social climber with limited social intelligence (if she had any she wouldn't be getting BTFO'd out of the UK after two short years of marriage) who lines her pockets against the rules of the institution she willingly joined, as outlined thoroughly already in this thread. She's self-important and does stupid shit, graceless shit and tone deaf shit. like her Vogue nonsense.

Tell it to the devil on your way to hell.

Let me break down something to you. Everyone, in ludington royals, take dumps.

But let me also say that no one has to like her. Not at all.But dont think that none of us can't see you and others for your immature, pathetic, disgusting insecurities. You're weak. Pathetically weak. Do royals get therapy? Maybe they should try it out. If at least to stop obsessing over Meghan and Harry's little family that isn't in any paranoid schizophrenics way.
I'm appalled with you all and this kiwi farms. I hate you all. I dont think about ar all ever. You should try it sometime.

 

[LordofTendons]

1. Prove she asked for more money.
2. Married for 2 years, not long enough to draw A SIGNIFICANT ROYAL INCOME.
3. Again after 2 years THEY ARE LEAVING.
4. You're lying about the last part unless you had something to do with shaming her and that is illegal.
5. They support causes on their Instagram, not just posting family and they can post whatever they want to, you cursed damn scag.

1. I said she wanted more money, not that she asked for it. She's instawhoring and that's proof enough.
2. That has nothing to do with her being married and not being able to act like she's single. She could be married for 24 hours or 24 years and she's still be married and unable to act like she's single.
3. Yes, they are leaving after a dramatic announcement in the worldwide press telling everyone where they are going.
4. Shaming someone is not illegal and they did lecture people about the climate change shit.
5. Of course they can post whatever they want. And they can face the consequences, including being BTFO'd.