Why on earth are people doing this?

eg The Queen and Princess Margaret

Older child - sensible and obeys the rules
Younger child - rules? What rules?

William is more dutiful. Harry cares very little for the boring/tedious/inconvenient bits.

Exactly. They enjoy their status on the celebrity stage far too much to give it all up

I don't really mind if Harry renounces any rights to succession and they both just go off to do their own thing, charitable work, whatever. They have enough private money of their own to live on.

They wont do that. They'll grab the bits that suit them with their greedy hands and shun the bits they cant be bothered with!

Prince William, 37, donned dark glasses as he drove himself and Kate Middleton, 37, into the rear gates of Windsor Castle, where the private ceremony will take place.

Don't most people wear dark glasses when it's sunny?

Kate Middleton? Has she said that she prefers to be called by her maiden name; I do know many women who do for professional reasons.

Its like when Di would decline the private entrances to high profile stores and restaurants and get her driver to pull up RIGHT at the front... then come out in shades with her head down all coy like..

Having given them the benefit of the doubt for a long time - I agree!

I don't really mind if Harry renounces any rights to succession and they both just go off to do their own thing, charitable work, whatever. They have enough private money of their own to live on.

Though looking at it another way, he knows how his mother was hounded by the press

Attention and adoration was VERY important to Di. She would have HATED to be forgotten and irrelevant to the public!

His mother used the press , called them when she wanted press coverage, complained when she didn’t. Harry is doing the same

Harry COULD turn his back on his title and be mostly forgotten like other aristocrats (they are more "minor" now that Will has heirs anyway!). Fend for themselves... nobody would care about them in a few years time. Live normal lives (well what passes for normal as toffs)

But they wont do that! They want to pick'n'chose what parts of being a working royal suits them!

He's his mothers son! Thank god he's never going to be king!

Not really bothered ,but I wonder what the response would be if any pictures issued were not published for lack of support and nobody lined any streets waving flags etc?

How Harry has changed !! He used to be all for the people.

Though looking at it another way, he knows how his mother was hounded by the press and I don't suppose it would be any different for him and Meghan if the press/media weren't given enough rope.

We (the public) are not sufficiently important to them - we’re there when it suits the PR for their various sleb humanitarian causes or to pay for their houses etc, and that is all. Quite why so many are surprised by their behaviour is a mystery to me

Yes Jabberwok it irritates me, I'd be annoyed if people deliberately used my maiden name when addressing me. Maybe we'll be treated to another shot of the baby's foot or the back of his head this time, I think they're deliberately being obstructive, keeping people who give a damn, dangling on a string. You're right JW these two should realise that the RF need the goodwill of the people to keep them in their ivory towers

I think this couple need to realise that the only reason that the RF have survived over the years is their popularity! Whilst guarding their privacy is one thing, deliberately shunning the very people whose good will keeps you in your very privileged position is quite another. Someone really needs to advise them how to walk this fine line and to stop causing offence. Prince Harry should know better!!
Does anyone else find calling the D of C Kate Middleton by the Daily Mail very irritating! Perhaps they're unaware that she gave up that surname on her marriage some 8 years ago!!!

They will release photographs of their choice when they choose to ! They are very important people , in their opinion

It's a shame that people are daft enough to fall for their cat and mouse tactics.

Does anyone really care who the godparents are? Refusing to name them just makes people more curious (if you're that way inclined)

Refusing to allow brief footage of them arriving at the chapel as William and Kate do is selfish. All take and no give.

Their attitude to the public is a disgrace . Suppose they will get more press coverage which will please them