Reply to Prince Harry’s book

Forum Index » The DCUM Book Club

Reply to "Prince Harry’s book"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m mostly through Spare on audible and I am really enjoying it. Harry seemed ready to speak [b]his truth[/b] and I am impressed by his ability to process all the trauma in his life. It also lays out a clear case for the shenanigans happening between the press office and the press. It wasn’t necessarily that Camilla was calling reporters but does seem like a wink wink agreement to deflect with stories of other people. Her recent lunch with Morgan and Clarkson are definitely suspect though… my one criticism (other than not really caring for the military parts) is that he doesn’t do much reflecting on how privileged he is. He has moments of clarity - in Africa, in Afghanistan, but he has more growth ahead to fully embrace that two things can be true. He can have a truly hard and traumatic childhood AND be completely lucky to have as much privilege as he does. Given the growth he describes in his book to date I have no doubt he will get there and Meghan will likely be a big champion of his work there. [/quote]

Exactly. "His" truth is not necessarily "the" truth.[/quote]

Harry and Meghan do have their fan clubs and I suppose they are entitled to them. But here's there reality: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/harry-and-meghans-popularity-in-the-us-plummets-according-to-new-poll/GOM5ATZKONBN7KZG5FBZ75AZFA/

I can link to plenty of articles and polls talking about people souring on the couple and Harry in general. And it is because there is a distinction between making a brouhaha about stepping aside for privacy and then spending the next few years putting yourself repeatedly in the limelight where you whine and moan and spill the beans on petty family frustrations. That's not stepping back for privacy, which if they had done from the get go, would have wide sweeping support. I do think Harry clearly has trauma from his mother's early death and how she died but he really needs to get over it and get on with life like his brother did. [/quote]

As long as you’re linking, please link to a source for either Harry or Meghan mentioning “stepping aside for privacy”.  
As to “souring” and “support” and your poll, I don’t see the point.  Neither Harry Nor Meghan is running some sort of popularity contest, and poll results without information about exactly how those results were obtained don’t really mean anything. If there’s a link to the actual data, though — the questions that were asked, the population that was sampled … — that might be interesting. Since your link doesn’t provide any of that, it’s neither useful nor enlightening in any way.

In the end, Harry’s book continues to sell well, and continues to be meaningful to multiple audiences.  I’m not sure what else matters here.  Random people “souring” won’t impact the Sussex family, and doesn’t really provide much of substance to discuss — particularly if it’s not related in some way to the book that’s the topic of this thread.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics