
Harry's main gripe seems fundamentally to be that Charles cut him off. So once again there are inconsistencies here. |
Except it wasn't unequal. William and Catherine lived in the same 100 year old creaky home for a few years before Harry (and later Meghan) moved into it. It was already furnished. Harry and Meghan both have money, (much of Harry's a paycheck from his father) and could have bought furniture from anywhere - no need to go to Ikea at all. There was nothing unfair. And you are happy to believe unfounded rumours about William but feel anything about Harry is twisted and unfair? |
I feel like only people from functional families can read this that way. CLEARLY money is used as a coercive weapon in the family. ALL of them use it against one another. Which is why the financial independence that M/H have sought and acquired is so INCREDIBLY threatening. |
I don't think the rumors about William are unfounded. I think its pretty clear they were squashed. And I do not think Harry is perfect of blameless. But I do think he is telling the truth of his perceptions. |
They are unfounded because there is no evidence, only rumours. Believing rumours doesn't make them founded! Most people tell their perception but someone should let him know that being so upset that your brother had the bigger room when you were kids or what your sister in law wouldn't share lip gloss with your wife aren't things you need to write a book about in mid life. His truth is that he is a perpetual victim and so everything is written from that perspective. It doesn't make any of it factual or truthful, just how he sees it. |
I don't get why this was so hard for her to understand. Joe Biden is more important than Kamala Harris because hierarchy - hierarchy in politics. Meryl Streep is more important than Meghan Markle because hierarchy - hierarchy in Hollywood. But its even more black and white in the BRF. Why did she think people curtsied to the Queen? Because she was a sweet little old lady? It blows my mind that it never occurred to her that she would be curtsying to her FIL and BIL one day. |
But Meghan HAD been offered advice and mentorship on the Windsor way, and she declined. It's not like she was thrown into it headfirst, she chose to dive in despite warnings. Don't you think it's a special kind of arrogance to think you already know all there is to be known, and you know better? |
Andrew was the Queen’s son. Harry was only the grandson. Peter Phillips had to hawk his wedding pictures to tabloids because his family declined to pay for a grand wedding. |
Some of Harry's girlfriends were able to figure out in their early twenties while dating him what life in the RF would be like and decide to not go for it. Meghan was older, wiser, and had just as many resources as her disposal. She planned to do things her way so she had no need for any insights from the RF. |
You are alone in that. |
The lap of luxury at Princess Anne's house:
![]() Meghan thought she was special. Maybe Disney princess movies really did fry our Millennial brains..... |
I just don't believe that someone like Meghan - who friendly reporters describe as very thoughtful, always planning, researching, reading and preparing - came to the BRF as tabula rasa. Chances are, she either thought none of that applied to her, or that she'd be invited to revolutionize the place. |
She was thrown in headfirst! This happened over months! Kate went through literal YEARS of blowups, trainings, retreats, breakups, reconciliations, more blowups etc before she was married in. Acting like something that took Kate YEARS to learn was something she could fully understand after a few months, with a MUCH larger press spotlight (Kate went through this before the 24/7 news cycle) is just unfair. |
I think of myself as pretty knowledgeable just from following them a lot in the last few years and I still fully believe that if thrust into the actual situation I would flounder and make mistakes and be confused/overwhelm and depending on what my fear mechanism is that would display in that moment (fight/flight/freeze) would make decisions that some large percentage of people would think were horrible. Because thinking about it in the abstract and living it are two VERY different things. |
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I doubt comparatively Andrew gets a fraction of what his brother gets, and what he does have was "earned" over time precisely because he stayed in the fold and fulfilled his duties, such as they were. The media coverage of him being a PEDOPHILE disappeared real quickly didn't it? And still he and his ex wife live on royal property. What the heck does the divorcee Fergie do for the royal family to justify maintianing living off the tax payer dollar on royal property? |