Anonymous wrote:We are just speculating. We don't know what they are getting in return. I'm sure royal firm knows that if its unjust in their eyes, it'll make a chapter or episode in a book or a podcast.

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Anonymous wrote:Interjecting here - do you truly think Prince Charles and Camilla "planted" bad stories about William and Harry?

According to book: There are office systems, their staff, and yes, Harry indicated numerous times in which they were the only ones to know something. Secondly, she apparently was using his issues as a way to deflect her bad press. Stuff only Charles and she knew.

I have not read the book yet (still a ways down my library hold shelf) but this had to have stung when it happened. Just absolutely horrible.

Those who actually have read the book: now that it’s been a few weeks at least, do you still like the book? Sometimes when I finish a book I love it or hate it and then a few weeks later I feel differently about it.

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Anonymous wrote:Interjecting here - do you truly think Prince Charles and Camilla "planted" bad stories about William and Harry?

According to book: There are office systems, their staff, and yes, Harry indicated numerous times in which they were the only ones to know something. Secondly, she apparently was using his issues as a way to deflect her bad press. Stuff only Charles and she knew.

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Anonymous wrote:They are kicking Andrew and Fergie out of his giant house and giving him Frogmore.

Charles already said he is streamlining. This is it. Probably doing all the hard stuff so William doesn't have to.

Charles is doing all the hard stuff because the British government is making him substantially cut back the Sovereign Grant. Frogmore Cottage is part of the Crown Estates, and the Queen gave H&M a two year lease on the cottage as a wedding present. When they moved to Canada and then California, they took most of their stuff from the cottage. They had renewed the lease but Charles (pressured by the gov.uk) did not allow them to renew the lease. But he did let them extend their occupancy from March 31 (when they should have vacated) to June 30. Not sure what the fuss is since they haven't lived there and landlords are permitted to terminate leases. It is not an "eviction," which would be done if a tenant had violated lease terms, but a simple termination of the lease. NBD.

Well, one reason for the fuss is that they put a lot of money into the property— presumably based on their understanding with the Queen that this would be their home indefinitely, similar to the arrangements held by other family members. It’s funny that one of the few British Royal families actually paying market rate for their house is having their lease terminated — if the issue is related to money / the Sovereign Grant.

Anonymous wrote:Why do UK have the BRF and why do the taxpayer support them? Such a racist and stupid family.

Anonymous wrote:https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/courteney-cox-prince-harry-mushrooms-b2290924.html?amp

This was 2016. This dude is so immature.

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Anonymous wrote:They are kicking Andrew and Fergie out of his giant house and giving him Frogmore.

Charles already said he is streamlining. This is it. Probably doing all the hard stuff so William doesn't have to.

Charles is doing all the hard stuff because the British government is making him substantially cut back the Sovereign Grant. Frogmore Cottage is part of the Crown Estates, and the Queen gave H&M a two year lease on the cottage as a wedding present. When they moved to Canada and then California, they took most of their stuff from the cottage. They had renewed the lease but Charles (pressured by the gov.uk) did not allow them to renew the lease. But he did let them extend their occupancy from March 31 (when they should have vacated) to June 30. Not sure what the fuss is since they haven't lived there and landlords are permitted to terminate leases. It is not an "eviction," which would be done if a tenant had violated lease terms, but a simple termination of the lease. NBD.

Anonymous wrote:They are kicking Andrew and Fergie out of his giant house and giving him Frogmore.

Charles already said he is streamlining. This is it. Probably doing all the hard stuff so William doesn't have to.

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Anonymous wrote:Finished listening to this today. A few thoughts that linger:

1. I cannot believe so much money / so many military resources were spent on him AFTER he had to be pulled from Afghanistan for opsec reasons.

That they gave him months of one-on-one instruction from one of the world's top instructord to teach him how to fly Apaches (equipment which, as he notes, cost hundreds of millions of dollars) just seems like a stupid move when he'd already been forced to abort one deployment for security reasons.

And then, shortly after this massive investment in him, he decides to leave the military! Why? Very unclear, but the way he put it, it sounds like he hit a wall or got bored or something. He says he "knows it was time to move on" or something like that.

What a HUGE waste of resources. Basically, because he's a prince he got to spent months and waste insane amounts of money to acquire a skill he ultimately decided not to use, which someone else could have been learning in his place, had he been honest with himself and others. (Because, again -- the instruction was ONE ON ON, and the instructors available are few and far between.)

That section alone hugely soured my view of him.

In general, my main takeaway was: this guy is evidently incapable of self-reflection. Otherwise, he never would have chosen to share so many ancedotes that cast him as spoiled, self-indulgent, and above all, self-pitying. He always finds a way to shift the blame to someone else. Quite a skill!

Harry could not pass the exam to move to major. He had intense help and every advantage but failed several times. I think this is a shame, because he probably would have had a much better life had he been able to remain in the military. William was also a helicopter pilot in the RAF for about 8 years doing search and rescue missions. He could have easily risen in rank like his Grandfather, but he left to do royal work.

Was that in the book? I don’t remember reading that he failed that exam.

I don’t remember reading that, either so I think it’s false. I do remember reading that he got out of the military because “the firm” didn’t want him to stay in so that he wouldn’t outrank William.

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Anonymous wrote:Finished listening to this today. A few thoughts that linger:

1. I cannot believe so much money / so many military resources were spent on him AFTER he had to be pulled from Afghanistan for opsec reasons.

That they gave him months of one-on-one instruction from one of the world's top instructord to teach him how to fly Apaches (equipment which, as he notes, cost hundreds of millions of dollars) just seems like a stupid move when he'd already been forced to abort one deployment for security reasons.

And then, shortly after this massive investment in him, he decides to leave the military! Why? Very unclear, but the way he put it, it sounds like he hit a wall or got bored or something. He says he "knows it was time to move on" or something like that.

What a HUGE waste of resources. Basically, because he's a prince he got to spent months and waste insane amounts of money to acquire a skill he ultimately decided not to use, which someone else could have been learning in his place, had he been honest with himself and others. (Because, again -- the instruction was ONE ON ON, and the instructors available are few and far between.)

That section alone hugely soured my view of him.

In general, my main takeaway was: this guy is evidently incapable of self-reflection. Otherwise, he never would have chosen to share so many ancedotes that cast him as spoiled, self-indulgent, and above all, self-pitying. He always finds a way to shift the blame to someone else. Quite a skill!

Harry could not pass the exam to move to major. He had intense help and every advantage but failed several times. I think this is a shame, because he probably would have had a much better life had he been able to remain in the military. William was also a helicopter pilot in the RAF for about 8 years doing search and rescue missions. He could have easily risen in rank like his Grandfather, but he left to do royal work.

Was that in the book? I don’t remember reading that he failed that exam.

I don’t remember reading that, either so I think it’s false. I do remember reading that he got out of the military because “the firm” didn’t want him to stay in so that he wouldn’t outrank William.

Of course that isn't in the book. I don't know if it's true or not but that poster or someone else has said that before, earlier than the release of the book.

https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/prince-harry-flies-high-after-failing-his-pilot-s-theory-test-6815511.html

Yes, anything not deposited directly out of the polo horse’s rectum shan’t be trusted.

I’m sure failing a theory test was totally meaningless, and Hero Harry merely wanted to not refer to his superior military-ing so much because poor William would suffer from low self-esteem next to his brilliant brother. Makes sense to me.