Prince Harry

[Looby]

People really need to watch it if they’re interested enough to read/post about it because it doesn’t bear much resemblance to the reports.

Also, for the cringe Beyoncé moment.

 

[tommers]

It's impressive that despite the fact no one is remotely interested in this nonsense, this thread has 87 pages to Wagatha Christie's measly 49.

wait till the dramatisation.

 

[moochedit]

Write a dialogue where a member of staff on board their flight to the US tells Harry and Meghan how much he appreciates what they have done for the country


Staff Member: Good morning, Harry and Meghan. I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate everything you have done for our country. Your work to raise awareness about important issues and to support various charitable causes has been truly inspiring.
Harry: Thank you so much. It means a lot to hear that from someone who is out there doing their part to make the world a better place.
Meghan: Yes, we are grateful for the support and encouragement we have received from so many people. We are passionate about using our platform to make a positive difference in the world, and we will continue to do our best to do just that.
Staff Member: I have no doubt that you will continue to make a positive impact. Thank you again for all that you do.
Harry: Thank you. We really appreciate your kind words.
Meghan: It's our pleasure. Thank you for all that you do as well.
Staff Member: It's been an honor to serve on this flight and to have the opportunity to meet you both. Have a safe and enjoyable trip to the United States.
Harry: Thank you, we will. Take care.
Meghan: Bye for now.

just checking but did you make that up or was it actually in the netflix show?

 

[frogwoman]

just checking but did you make that up or was it actually in the netflix show?

It was reported on the netflix show but I wrote a chatpgt dialogue lol

 

[Petcha]

What's really weird about these two is how they film every moment of their lives. I mean who has cameras set up in their car to capture these 'intimate' moments. And all around the house to watch moments like them receiving text messages from Wills etc...

They've shot their load now though. And there wasn't much there. No actual evidence of anything sadly.

 

[Tanya1982]

Don’t they have a swan each that holds it for them?

That’s a magical post. It deserves some special emoji of its own. A swan with fireworks exploding behind it perhaps.

 

[Tanya1982]

What's really weird about these two is how they film every moment of their lives. I mean who has cameras set up in their car to capture these 'intimate' moments. And all around the house to watch moments like them receiving text messages from Wills etc...

They've shot their load now though. And there wasn't much there. No actual evidence of anything sadly.

It is a bit strange, but to be fair, lots of people do that now. I’ve had to tell my son to stop filming himself walking/skateboarding down the street before. It’s just what people do with social media. It used to be that people would take pictures of their lunch and post that up, and we all thought that was quite strange. It doesn’t seem like a great departure from this newish norm to discover that some people now film themselves reading text messages.

If you’ve ever used a dating website of any kind, you’ll have encountered the almost ubiquitous toilet photograph, where someone is clearly taking a selfie in the bathroom mirror - often with the lavatory itself on show behind them (minus points for those who don’t put the seat down before they press ‘snap’). It used to be that nobody would dream of taking camera equipment with them into the loo, let alone actually using it while they were in there.

 

[Storm Fox]

Tunnocks wafers are sadly underrated south of the border

Not by me. Tunnocks helped get me and the Storm Vixen through lockdown. We managed to buy retail boxes of 48.

In fact, lunch today is a Higgidy non-sausage sausage roll and a Tunnocks.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Not sure it’s weird filming yourself when you’re actually trying to make money doing it.

 

[Petcha]

Not sure it’s weird filming yourself when you’re actually trying to make money doing it.

They seem to have started doing it a long time ago. Before their mega Netflix deal.

 

[ruffneck23]

They seem to have started doing it a long time ago. Before their mega Netflix deal.

Keeping the receipts I suppose.

 

[AverageJoe]

They seem to have started doing it a long time ago. Before their mega Netflix deal.

What, you mean like they were almost planning this all along?

#sarcasticface

(I'm agreeing with you btw)

 

[Petcha]

What, you mean like they were almost planning this all along?

#sarcasticface

(I'm agreeing with you btw)

Ha, yeh i get that. It's pretty shameless on their part. But Charles did threaten to remove their allowance of £5m a year so I guess they had to make ends meet somehow.

It's a total 50/50 on who to back here. Which particular set of parasites. Watching them do this to each other though is kinda fun.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

I need to watch this I think. They are entitled twats being handsomely paid to whine about their privileged existences but you can see the same reaction of the media circling the wagons around the status quo as we are seeing with the unions.
As much as I despise these whinging pricks there is a significance in it happening at this point in time that I want to investigate.

 

[D'wards]

Harry said William shouted at him and he was terrified when he said he was leaving.
This gadge flew apaches, probably blew countless taliban to pieces and likely faced enemy fire.
Plus how did he cope in army training if he is scared of people shouting at him?

I smell a rat

 

[two sheds]

I can never remember which is Harry and which is William

 

[Aladdin]

...the mental image of William screaming at Harry....for pathetic reasons...during a "summit to decide his future".

Harry must have a lot more to tell.
I guess the book will have more shite about the royals and their hangers on and media buddies.

What's really weird about these two is how they film every moment of their lives. I mean who has cameras set up in their car to capture these 'intimate' moments. And all around the house to watch moments like them receiving text messages from Wills etc...

They've shot their load now though. And there wasn't much there. No actual evidence of anything sadly.

I found the bit showing up the half sister for the conniving bitch she really is was good.
It's pretty clear that the media are manipulating stuff and the royals feed them stuff ...

Isn't it amazing how Andrew's nonceyness is suddenly of no interest to the media?
But getting Meghan on the front page with a bit of racist hate tossed in is deemed in the national interest

 

[Raheem]

Harry said William shouted at him and he was terrified when he said he was leaving.
This gadge flew apaches, probably blew countless taliban to pieces and likely faced enemy fire.
Plus how did he cope in army training if he is scared of people shouting at him?

I smell a rat

Suspect military training for HRHs will be atypical.

 

[Pickman's model]

I can never remember which is Harry and which is William

Harry is major hewitt's son, William is the whiny president of the fa

 

[Raheem]

I can never remember which is Harry and which is William

Harry always stands on the left when they introduce the bush-tucker trials.

 

[8ball]

I need to watch this I think. They are entitled twats being handsomely paid to whine about their privileged existences but you can see the same reaction of the media circling the wagons around the status quo as we are seeing with the unions.
As much as I despise these whinging pricks there is a significance in it happening at this point in time that I want to investigate.

Eloquently put, but I can’t see myself giving a flying fuck unless I am really bored out of my skull over Christmas and someone else is watching it.

 

[Hollis]

Episode 3 goes heavy on Britain's a racist country etc.. which I'm sure it is... but it seems strange this being played out to an American audience. Also slightly disconnected from the rest of the show, a bit like a school lecture on the British Empire being mixed in with a load of gossipy stuff.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Eloquently put, but I can’t see myself giving a flying fuck unless I am really bored out of my skull over Christmas and someone else is watching it.

Yeah but then one of my FB friends wrote:

Pleasantly surprised that the Harry and Megan Netflix documentary series doesn’t shy away from talking candidly about how Britain managed the transition from direct colonial rule and the role of the Royal family in providing ideological legitimacy to the process with the Queen as the head of the Commonwealth.
Just watched episodes 2 and 3 which really get into the issues of structural racism and imperialism.
The story isn’t told by Harry and Megan themselves, though Harry does reflect critically and memorably about how his own perspective of the Commonwealth was partial. He does mention the culture war in Britain which developed during the 2010s, but this is unsurprisingly not described as a means of advancing the class war by the rich and powerful in Britain, “divide and rule”.
The documentary’s focus on the history of the Royal family and the Empire gives some indication as to the material basis of structural racism and how it is manifested in institutional racism.
Afua Hirsh is a talking head in the series and explicitly mentions the “capitalist” interest in maintaining a relationship between Britain’s ruling class and the newly independent states. She describes the Commonweath as Empire 2.0.
David Olusoga is featured and talks about how the abolition of slavery resulted in the slave-owners being compensated through public funds. Slavery ended, but not with the financial ruin of those engaged in this horrific exploitation, but a bailout.
The documentary relates how people from the former colonies were encouraged to move to Britain in the postwar period as the Empire formally came to an end. It was only then that large numbers of people from the periphery were brought into the core.
These are features of Britain’s past - and present - which Markle’s entry into the Royal family could have helped the institution navigate and illuminate.
But the attitudes of racial superiority evidently still exist amongst Britain’s ruling class - even if there is no longer an Empire directly ruling millions of people of colour, it is not yet commonly viewed in their minds as a shameful part of history which they must repudiate if they wish to go on ruling and sustaining their wealth.
So there are immediate institutional barriers to any reckoning with Empire, the attitudes of Britain’s ruling class and the institutions through which the world is mediated to it. Olusoga points out that there’s a disproportionate absense of black people in newsrooms, citing a figure of 0.2% of journalists as compared to 3.5% of the general population.
The marriage of a British prince to a mixed race American could have been something of a public relations coup for the British ruling class internationally - what better way to demonstrate that the institution of Royalty was capable of reform to the voters of countries which have the monarch as their head of state? What better way to promote the “special relationship” between Britain and America?
The Queen’s passing is already leading more former British colonies to consider an elected head of state. Some diversity within the Royal family would have been a means of making the case for the status quo.
It’s an obvious problem with Britain’s constitutional order that it is so dependent upon customary relations between elites: the unwritten contract between ”the rota” of royal correspondents from the major newspapers, and the Royal family, seems to be based upon everything being fair game except a critical reflection on the Royalty, it’s the past role in Empire and its status as a central feature of Britain’s current constitutional order.
This has imposed a limitation on the “international monarchy” becoming/remaining truly international. In America, which is the real audience for the Netflix documentary, the failure to incorporate some diversity will come to symbolise the backwardness of Britain’s ruling class.
This will be particularly felt amongst the majority of the US ruling class which does not look to feature explicit racial bias and isolationism in its offer to the general public and the world, they will look upon Britain as something of an unreliable partner given its departure from the EU and inability to make at least a show of inclusivity at the top.
Quite early on in his relationship with Meghan Markle, Harry issued a press release condemning the prejudicial undertones in newspaper stories about his partner - but this was not taken as advice by the media barons as to the kind of deal he wanted.
There was obviously an appetite for the anti-Markle media output. It must have seemed more immediately profitable to go on publishing news stories with quite obvious racist and xenophobic framing than to back off from this stuff.
It’s not going to be the case that this whole story leads to an immediate loss of legitimacy for Royalty as an institution. Increasingly people are going to be confronted by their own passive support for the Royal family being associated with bigotry - “I think we should keep the royals - but I’m not a racist!”
It will add to the sense among a broader layer of people that there’s just something weirdly dysfunctional about our ruling class. And in time that may contribute to a common sense even in Britain that their rule must end.

And I felt being a cool refusenik was a bit of a cop out.

 

[Petcha]

Episode 3 goes heavy on Britain's a racist country etc.. which I'm sure it is... but it seems strange this being played out to an American audience. Also slightly disconnected from the rest of the show, a bit like a school lecture on the British Empire being mixed in with a load of gossipy stuff.

I've lived all over the world, including the US. And the UK is the least racist country I've lived in. I appreciate that's a low bar, but it is. I genuinely have no fucking idea what they're on about claiming the entire country is racist. It's bizarre. Particularly considering her husband enjoys cosplay as Goebbels.

edit, should add, im as mixed race as Her Highness. But that's not immediately obvious, just as in her case.

 

[Wilf]

I can never remember which is Harry and which is William

I know, I'm the same. With me royals are like that Sherlock Holmes thing about not learning a sonnet as it would nudge a chemical formula out of his brain. As soon as I remember these 2, I forget which one the brother who isn't Charles and isn't the nonce is - I'm struggling now (though to be fair, he's always 'the other one'). Sheesh, still trying to think of his name, maybe I can get there another way... bullied by his dad... tried to have a job making tea in the theatre... Edward! I got there!

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

It's a total 50/50 on who to back here. Which particular set of parasites.

Nah, just like the football final on Sunday, I want both sides to lose.

 

[two sheds]

I know, I'm the same. With me royals are like that Sherlock Holmes thing about not learning a sonnet as it would nudge a chemical formula out of his brain. As soon as I remember these 2, I forget which one the brother who isn't Charles and isn't the nonce is - I'm struggling now (though to be fair, he's always 'the other one'). Sheesh, still trying to think of his name, maybe I can get there another way... bullied by his dad... tried to have a job making tea in the theatre... Edward! I got there!

That's the one - decided he was going to forget the earth went round the sun or something like.

And nope - no idea which one Edward is still.

 

[Wilf]

That's the one - decided he was going to forget the earth went round the sun or something like.

And nope - no idea which one Edward is still.

He's the Duke of Cambridge, it's all coming back to me! In fact if the City of York manage to denoncify their Duke thing, young Eddie might get an upgrade.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

He's the Duke of Cambridge, it's all coming back to me! In fact if the City of York manage to denoncify their Duke thing, young Eddie might get an upgrade.

Edward’s an Earl, lives next door to the Beefeater in Bagshot.

 

[Wilf]

Edward’s an Earl, lives next door to the Beefeater in Bagshot.

Fuck, 'royals and their several names' is definitely not going to be my Mastermind Specialist Round! Have to revert to Plan B: 'dossing about and eating crisps'.