When is a royal tour, not a royal tour?

Calendargirl

Judging by the coverage on the 6 o clock news, Meghan still has to have Harry virtually handcuffed to her as they wander round.

In case he makes a run for it.

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And, how does she know?

She knows in the same way that she knows that she was secretly married to Harry 3 days before the actual wedding even though the claim was thoroughly denounced by any family members and officials And she knows that a member of the royal family made racist comments about their unborn child even though Harry subsequently retracted the claim And she knows that the royal family took away her passport and wouldn't return it even though she travelled overseas several times during that period But she definitely didn't know that Harry was a Prince when she went on a blind date with him even though she had Googled both him and William And she most definitely didn't know anything whatsoever about the royal family even though there are photos of her, as a young teenager, standing outside Buckingham Palace with a friend

I wish she’d change the record.
No wonder Netflix and Spotify have had enough.

I think she'd have some way to go to equal the trolling and abuse J K Rowling gets. She gets rape and death threats in abundance.

Nobody should be trolled, but some of her statements do remind me of Trump's, he always has to be 'the most'. I don't doubt she is trolled, it's something people in the public eye sometimes have to deal with and none of them should have to.

And, how does she know?

Meghan has announced that ‘for 10 years she was the most trolled person in the world, but she’s ‘still here’.

Ah, that's what I heard on the car radio today only I thought it was scrolled not trolled

Is that an achievement?

Do we care?
Not a jot.

Agree, just ignore articles and posts about them if you don't like them.

If you don't like them, perhaps ignore all the hype

Equally, one could ignore threads for the same reason.

They are tv celebrities, you may like them, I don’t,

This thread makes me wonder if I have done the right thing coming back to Gransnet.

On the one hand I normally enjoy the differing views expressed about topical subjects, and I find the advice and experiences on the Health forum very valuable, but this pile-on seems unreasonably unpleasant. Kinder comments excepted, of course.

What happens if the King reconciles with his son and they are encouraged to return to the UK, in whatever capacity?

Remember there are two children here. The amount of weird hatred being stirred up could easily lead to danger or tragedy in public situations.

We don't have to share their views or values, or even be supporters of the Royal Family which appears to many of us as an expensive, outdated, quirky establishment. We have to recognise, however, that they are human beings like our own sons and daughters

If you don't like them, perhaps ignore all the hype, especially in newspapers who like to post one side as saintly and angelic and the other side as wrong in all things. It's rarely like that - even for the famous and wealthy - but it sells papers.

I also can't understand why it bothers some people so much that other countries and organisations make them welcome. I think I do understand, though, why they stay away from the UK as a family.

Basgetti

absent

Its not just young people who think that the Royal Family has outlived it's function.

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Yes, bring it on, let's have a Presidential system!
I hear Trump wants to take over the UK, Europe as well as the USA!

Brilliant 👏👏👏
Can't wait.

H&M are not working Royals so they are just celebs now anyway. .

Your post did make me laugh Cardamom . Maybe being known as the 'most' for something is better than nothing .

Allira

^You'd like to think that, if someone has experienced poor mental health and emotional fragility, they might have some empathy and recognition for how others ought to be treated. But apparently not.^

No, unfortunately it can mean they are introspective and can only think of themselves and their feelings, not of others.

In other words they’re a totally self absorbed pair.

Well, she had to be "the most" at something Calendargirl and, as it's never going to be the most popular/authentic/honest/genuine/talented/liked........ that pretty much just leaves "trolled". So be it.

Meghan has announced that ‘for 10 years she was the most trolled person in the world, but she’s ‘still here’.

Of course she is.

merlotgran

I don’t think Harry is doing Archie any favours by publicly declaring that he felt a disconnection between them while Meghan was pregnant, struggled with fatherhood and needed to ‘cleanse’ himself of his past.

Poor kid, having such a self obsessed father and a mother who encourages it.

I seem to remember that pre Meghan, Harry made no secret of the fact that he couldn’t wait to have children of his own. 🤔

Everybody needs and deserves a private life. I am surprised that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex did the Australian publicity voluntarily, unless they earned badly -needed money from it. I wonder how hard up the couple are.

Calendargirl

In answer to the question in the title…..

When it’s carried out by H&M, who are no longer working royals, only when it suits.

Great play on words there, Calendargirl, made me laugh, anyway…

absent

Its not just young people who think that the Royal Family has outlived it's function.

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I was surprised they received such a welcome, tbh...I thought most Australians didn't care about royalty fake or real.
But, hey ho, the constant photos and stories provide lots of distraction and entertainment for me.

When visiting hospitals does one want to see the patients or have patients brought to foyer to see visitors

Presumably those who turned out to see them did so because they wanted to and enjoyed it. I see no problem.

Its not just young people who think that the Royal Family has outlived it's function.

He is a traitor to his country, his regiment, his family.
All titles + LofS need to go!

HAM . Harry and Meggy the brand.
They will do anything to turn a shilling. They even put Fergie and Beckhams in the shade.

I lived in Australia in the late Seventies for a short while.When Pom and Royalty Bashing was mandatory and daily fayre.

The country has changed radically since then. But it still has little Culture and is very isolated.

However, we now live in the Digital Celeb Age. Especially for younger people. Where being famous is the be all and end all of the World.

The most interesting Celebs
to come from down under were Dame Edna Everidge and Les Patterson.
(Not forgetting Germaine Greer and Clive James)

Let the ex royals get on with showing themselves up with their silly Court Jester antics.

I'm just waiting for them to do a camp fire presentation near Ayres Rock where they sing Tie me Kangaroo Down Sport and Waltzing Mathilda holding wobble boards.

Dame Edna would have loved sending them up. What a pair of Royal Chavs.

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Seeing children with cancer beaming makes me care less about H&M's motives and just happy to see the joy they brought those kids.