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Has Harry Completely Lost his mind?
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Anonymous
Lol |
Anonymous
LOL. I think Harry will get to your level (i.e., no one cares) pretty quickly if the Royals stay quiet and don't respond. |
Anonymous
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I think that history will look back on him kindly. And I think the British monarchy is terrified. He called their bluff, in a huge way.
He's gonna have critics, of course. But I think they will build a charitable foundation (while making loads of money) and shift into being just happy, rich, famous people. All while William and his Dad are still handcuffed to an outdated institution. Just wait, he's gonna be Louis and Charlotte's favorite relative once their Dad is on the throne. |
Anonymous
“I stole my wife’s drugs while she was in labor!” -Harry, proclaiming from the housetops |
Anonymous
I think history will remember him as a footnote if it remembers him at all. |
Anonymous
By staying quiet they are sending the message "See? This is what we've been up against" as yet another version of Harry's "truth" comes out, which is different from the last truth. I guess "recollections vary" means Harry's own recollection varies depending on which day it is. |
Anonymous
I honestly can't believe how much dreck there is in this book. |
Anonymous
| I feel for Harry. Would you want to bow to your older brother and beg for whatever they feel like giving you? The system has been causing problems for generations - look at Margaret, and Charles’ siblings. They are all stuck in the system, serving “the Crown”, but have no real ability to grow as individuals and pursue their own independent, adult lives. Despite the aura of privilege, I don’t envy them at all. |
Anonymous
+1!!!! I also know someone who needs serious help married to a narcissist. I feel like William, concerned but also so heavily targeted in such an immature way it’s so much work even to maintain any kind of relationship. So that person is left increasingly alone and getting weirder and more paranoid by the day. |
Anonymous
Not really. Most people understand. The great thing about abuse is when the abused (who is clearly dealing with mental illness speaks out) the abusers just say, oh he’s crazy. It’s straight out of the abusers playbook. So if you want to be played by the abusers, just go along with “oh he’s crazy”. It’s why many rape victims can’t come forward. They are raped, they suffer from extreme mental illness and you can’t put them on the stand. Good for him to stand up and take the punches like a champ. |
Anonymous
| I’m team Harry. The royal family is insufferable. Good for Harry and Megan for taking a bad situation and finding some good. It’s about time the truth is being revealed. |
Anonymous
| They need to maintain a relationship so they can continue to supply more dirt. |
Anonymous
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I find it weird to see it play out so publicly, but I do wind up in the camp of: that family is incredibly dysfunctional/toxic, and he sounds like someone grappling with those issues in a relatively healthy way.
I'm from a very dysfunctional family that does not claim to be anointed by god as rulers of an empire, and even despite that difference, I recognize the signs of dysfunction. The difficulties of direct communication of basic needs like affection, the use of a lot of passive-aggressive means of communication or the expectation for family members to just know what certain members (always the people at the top of the family hierarchy, which in the royals is easy to figure out) want or need and give it to them without complaint. There are golden child, scapegoat, and black sheep dynamics. You see a lot of enmeshment with family, especially around decisions like who you will marry and how and when you will have kids, and how they will be raised. Yes, a lot of this is viewed as a normal part of being in the royal family. Does not make it less dysfunctional! Actually makes it worse because it's a self-reinforcing system that can't be change for argued against. In my own dysfunctional family, things actually are better for some of the the more recent generations because we have found ways to set boundaries and make other choices. It does result in some amount of estrangement (not total estrangement, but strained relationships with certain family members), but it is better for our children and has enabled us to make healthier choices for ourselves. In the royal family, setting those boundaries and making healthier choices gets second guessed not just by the family itself (which includes the monarch of the country you belong to) but also by Parliament and the press. That's insane! He does not sound crazy to me. I do think having this play out in public may be something he later regrets. I well understand the desire to actually finally achieve clarity on these issues because I know what it's like to deal with gaslighting and passive aggressive communication your entire life and just want it to end. But the public declarations will likely escalate tensions and can't be taken back. Plus they drag in lots of strangers and that can confuse things. But the actual things he's talking about and saying? Don't sound crazy to me. It sounds healthy. It sounds like he's been brainwashed by dysfunction most of his life and only recently discovered, through is family of choice, what functional, healthy relationships can look like. It takes time to acclimate. |
Anonymous
You mean the Duke and Duchess of Sussex! |
Anonymous
You're living in a bubble. Most people are not understanding. Harry has turned himself into a joke. |