Does this mean that Edward should bow to Meghan or her she curtsey to him in this rather bizarre pantomime they've concocted?
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Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Until Debrett's get back to them, they have to do it as a game of hokey cokey. All but one royal has a great laugh about the final round: 'you put your sausage fingers in...'.
Ya put yer sausage fingers in, contested crown out, legitimise the head of state, but are they just a kraut?*
*Xenophobic language to make it rhyme really. They're a class not a nation.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
I'll cautiously allow it.
You know it's a friday night / saturday morning when some of us are chatting 'more freely' ignoring any coming storm.I'll cautiously allow it.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
I think you’ve more than done your bit by reading all of that.
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Watched the first two episodes last night. Take aways are 1. Harry has escaped the empty, soulless and vacuous privilege bubble of the Royal Family where everything is directed by the media by joining the empty, soulless and vacuous California celeb privilege bubble where everything is directed by the media. 2. All of the academics who appear to lend credence to the ‘narrative’ should never work again 3. I can’t keep up with the various chinless posh twats who keep popping up to give us a ‘hot take’ or the hollow eyed Americans who keep doing the same and 4. The tedium is life sapping. Nothing happens. Hours pass and nothing still happens. More hours pass etc
I raised the latter point at home but was told to ‘shut the fuck up’ and stop talking over it…
I raised the latter point at home but was told to ‘shut the fuck up’ and stop talking over it…
ElizabethofYork
Old Crone
It was interesting to see how much the media rules the lives of the royals.
I feel a degree of compassion for Harry. Born into an utterly ridiculous and dysfunctional family, losing his mum at a young age and having every second of his life scrutinised by a judgemental and hypocritical media.
And the amount of hatred Megan has had directed at her is shocking. Are they trying to hound her to suicide?
I feel a degree of compassion for Harry. Born into an utterly ridiculous and dysfunctional family, losing his mum at a young age and having every second of his life scrutinised by a judgemental and hypocritical media.
And the amount of hatred Megan has had directed at her is shocking. Are they trying to hound her to suicide?
The UK is structurally classist in a quite spectacular way, and that makes it structurally racist as a fallout. For example, a 2002 study found that being seen as coming for Brixton would shut kids out from access to all kinds of valued networks, regardless of whether they were black or white. However, this classism contained embedded racism, as the negative characteristics assigned to those seen as being from Brixton (regardless of colour) were mixed up with racist stereotypes of young black men. These negative characteristics also were internalised by the children growing there, and the childrens' limited options for dealing with their internalised self-hate would often lead to behaviours that fed the cycle.
The depiction of Meghan plus Harry with a monkey as their baby... was disgusting racism.
The royals wondering about the skin colour of the first child.... "would it be too dark"... more racism.
The depiction of Megan as from a downandout black neighbourhood with a drug problem...
As for the whole country being racist...they didnt say that. They implied that the press / some royal correspondents were feeding racism
They did sue the Mail....And won.
Sadly I think they've made their family even more vulnerable. They may regret making the series yet.
As for the "royal family "...they all need to get jobs and pay taxes like everyone else. Downsize or whatever. It's a ridiculous institution only serving tourism. Too many feeders in it.
it definitely waa heading that way until they left the UK.
I think she will feel much safer in the US.
I do think the likes of Piers Morgan have a lot to answer for.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
It doesn’t even do that. Ireland is a republic, yet it still has a healthy tourist trade! France beheaded its aristocracy and repurposed their palaces. Tourists still visit them.
Republic crunch the numbers here: Tourism
True...
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
No one in Britain can be made to bow or curtsy to anyone. It may be regarded as a tad boorish not to do so, but there are no consequences for failing to do so.
In the army, you do have to salute officers, but as my training corporal said 'You are saluting the Queen's commission, not the dildo that is under it'.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
Wasn't that Danny Baker, who everyone knows is a cunt and shouldn't have been employed by the BBC anyway (of course football is more important than anything else so that's why).
This isn't a fact though is it?
Yes, they took no responsibility for any part they played in the family feud - Meghan was a perfect human done great and unjustifiable wrongs. Basically they portrayed themselves as grudge-filled preening narcissists.
They really do talk a right load of old nonsense in the army eh?In the army, you do have to salute officers, but as my training corporal said 'You are saluting the Queen's commission, not the dildo that is under it'.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
8ball
Decolonise colons!
That's a bit ungenerous to the vast majority of life long civvies who have never even heard of this site.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
Might sound conspiratorial, but I kind of remember a very sudden switch with regard to media depiction of MM.
It seemed to go:
American actress: ooh, exotic.
Mixed race: well, them Americans and their melting pot. Some fresh genes anyway in case spares are ever needed..
Divorcee: hey, it's the 21st Century.
A little older than Harry: just a little. Be reyt.
Minor lapses of Royal protocol: Well, gonna take some settling in.
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SATAN BITCH FROM HELL GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT!!!
As if someone had just pulled changed a setting on the media console.
Raheem
Well-Known Member
Not condoning ≠ not understanding.
Raheem
Well-Known Member
When they got married and the media was being all nicey-nicey about Markle, I remember that there were a number of BAME talking heads saying "She'll get a few weeks, and then they'll go for her like they've never gone for a royal before."
Exactly who was best able to see it coming says a lot about which of the candidate reasons is the true/leading one, IMO.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
The bit I wonder about is who is it that gives the signal to go from phase 1 to phase 2.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
A key part of my packed lunches at school, and I grew about as far from Scotland as you can get without falling in the sea.
ElizabethofYork
Old Crone
Apparently prince William's press office were pissed off that Harry and Megan were more popular than Will and Mrs Will.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
Yeh...someone probably advised him to post it and then posted it for him...
They claimed it happened in their Oprah interview.
Well...to be fair...what did she actually do that was wrong?
Married a prince?
Expected to be treated with dignity?
Maybe she forgot to shut up put up and walk on eggshells three steps behind the rest of the family.
Or maybe ahe waved too much? Or smiled and hugged too many people? Or actually voiced an opinion or thought that has not been passed by some royal official ?
I think she's done the right thing in prioritising her own mental health and the safety of her family. She got out of there and away from what was clearly toxic shit.
Louis MacNeice
Autumn Journalist
Not in our house!Tunnocks wafers are sadly underrated south of the border
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