Is it okay to put family first? (Response to royal family stuff)

[mamamia2005]

The Daily Mail puts forward some alternative theories:

Harry and Meghan, the inconvenient truth | Daily Mail Online

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Boy, this, from 2019, is dripping with irony, isn’t it, and may help explain some things.

Statement by His Royal Highness
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
01 OCTOBER 2019

As a couple, we believe in media freedom and objective, truthful reporting. We regard it as a cornerstone of democracy and in the current state of the world – on every level – we have never needed responsible media more.

Unfortunately, my wife has become one of the latest victims of a British tabloid press that wages campaigns against individuals with no thought to the consequences – a ruthless campaign that has escalated over the past year, throughout her pregnancy and while raising our newborn son.

There is a human cost to this relentless propaganda, specifically when it is knowingly false and malicious, and though we have continued to put on a brave face – as so many of you can relate to – I cannot begin to describe how painful it has been. Because in today’s digital age, press fabrications are repurposed as truth across the globe. One day’s coverage is no longer tomorrow’s chip-paper.

Up to now, we have been unable to correct the continual misrepresentations - something that these select media outlets have been aware of and have therefore exploited on a daily and sometimes hourly basis.

It is for this reason we are taking legal action, a process that has been many months in the making. The positive coverage of the past week from these same publications exposes the double standards of this specific press pack that has vilified her almost daily for the past nine months; they have been able to create lie after lie at her expense simply because she has not been visible while on maternity leave. She is the same woman she was a year ago on our wedding day, just as she is the same woman you’ve seen on this Africa tour.

For these select media this is a game, and one that we have been unwilling to play from the start. I have been a silent witness to her private suffering for too long. To stand back and do nothing would be contrary to everything we believe in.

This particular legal action hinges on one incident in a long and disturbing pattern of behaviour by British tabloid media. The contents of a private letter were published unlawfully in an intentionally destructive manner to manipulate you, the reader, and further the divisive agenda of the media group in question. In addition to their unlawful publication of this private document, they purposely misled you by strategically omitting select paragraphs, specific sentences, and even singular words to mask the lies they had perpetuated for over a year.

There comes a point when the only thing to do is to stand up to this behaviour, because it destroys people and destroys lives. Put simply, it is bullying, which scares and silences people. We all know this isn’t acceptable, at any level. We won’t and can’t believe in a world where there is no accountability for this.

Though this action may not be the safe one, it is the right one. Because my deepest fear is history repeating itself. I’ve seen what happens when someone I love is commoditised to the point that they are no longer treated or seen as a real person. I lost my mother and now I watch my wife falling victim to the same powerful forces.

We thank you, the public, for your continued support. It is hugely appreciated. Although it may not seem like it, we really need it.

 

[Karin1984]

One day’s coverage is no longer tomorrow’s chip-paper.

Oh the days that Harry still said chips instead of fries...

 

[lovesmurfs]

Why is CBS showing the interview -- again -- in prime time less than a week from the first broadcast? We are not amused! Some of our lives do not revolve around the royal family.

LOL. My dad was so peeved last night -- I think it was MacGyver that was pre-empted.

 

[snappy]

LOL. My dad was so peeved last night -- I think it was MacGyver that was pre-empted.

For a celebrity tellall rerun? It’s a crime, lol

 

[snappy]

Bill Maher opened his show tonight with a mention of the interview. He said, "Meghan and Harry were interviewed by Oprah on CBS, and that makes sense, because when I watched it I sure did see B.S."

Wait, he’s American not British, right?

 

[snappy]

The Daily Mail puts forward some alternative theories:

Harry and Meghan, the inconvenient truth | Daily Mail Online

Hmm, the private little wedding for just the two of them, with no witnesses, 3 days before the wedding for the world, was just the rehearsal? I think I get it now.

 

[lovesmurfs]

For a celebrity tellall rerun? It’s a crime, lol

And apparently they're re-running it again this weekend. You don't want to see a 79-year old man peeved about missing his shows.

 

[snappy]

And apparently they're re-running it again this weekend. You don't want to see a 79-year old man peeved about missing his shows.

It is not fair. What dad wants, dad should get.

 

[PaulaSB12]

The private wedding without witnesses not a wedding to get married you have to have two witnesses. It has to take place in a public place to allow the just cause not to be married to be used if needed so that was a lie. So many proven over little things they admitted helping with finding freedom and yet that book said no one cried. Now I am hearing that the cause of any tears was Charlotte dress not fitting and Meghan calling her fat. the funniest of course is a woman has set up a gofundme to pay Harrys mortgage because he is sulking that he has to pay his why buy such an expensive house then (egos need big buildings)

 

[Karin1984]

Meghan and Harry might have Oprah, The Queen has someone more powerful ;-)



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[Cheburashka]

Wait, he’s American not British, right?

Yes. He's anti-royal, and has spoken out for years that the new generation of senior royals should drop their titles because it's not egalitarian. When Harry & Meghan left last year, he hoped they would do that, but he now sees that they're clinging to every bit of royal status they still have. He called B.S. on Meghan's claim about not Googling Harry. Bill Maher has lived in L.A. for decades, so he's known many a Hollywood starlet and doesn't buy celebrity B.S.

 

[jdb in AZ]

Meghan and Harry might have Oprah, The Queen has someone more powerful ;-)

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I'm going to share this on the funny memes thread.

 

[snappy]

The private wedding without witnesses not a wedding to get married you have to have two witnesses. It has to take place in a public place to allow the just cause not to be married to be used if needed so that was a lie. So many proven over little things they admitted helping with finding freedom and yet that book said no one cried. Now I am hearing that the cause of any tears was Charlotte dress not fitting and Meghan calling her fat. the funniest of course is a woman has set up a gofundme to pay Harrys mortgage because he is sulking that he has to pay his why buy such an expensive house then (egos need big buildings)

Go fund me for Harry’s mortgage? That may be a bridge too far.

And if Meghan called little Charlotte fat, sorry that’s not just wedding jitters. That’s bullying and that might just sound like in character for Meghan.

 

[Tigerlulu]

Go fund me for Harry’s mortgage? That may be a bridge too far.

And if Meghan called little Charlotte fat, sorry that’s not just wedding jitters. That’s bullying and that might just sound like in character for Meghan.

Let someone call my young 3 year old daughter fat. They might make me cry but they’ll sure leave crying as well. Perhaps that happened. And if Kate brought flowers after that, she is a MUCH better person than most of us.

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

The private wedding without witnesses not a wedding to get married you have to have two witnesses. It has to take place in a public place to allow the just cause not to be married to be used if needed so that was a lie. So many proven over little things they admitted helping with finding freedom and yet that book said no one cried. Now I am hearing that the cause of any tears was Charlotte dress not fitting and Meghan calling her fat. the funniest of course is a woman has set up a gofundme to pay Harrys mortgage because he is sulking that he has to pay his why buy such an expensive house then (egos need big buildings)

Is the irony not lost on you that you’re upset with what you believe are lies M&H told, but you’re running and spreading rumors about things that are hearsay? Do you have anything to back up the claim about her calling Charlotte fat?

 

[Cheburashka]

The Daily Mail puts forward some alternative theories:

Harry and Meghan, the inconvenient truth | Daily Mail Online

Theories? They put forward the simple facts. Nice change of pace.

 

[snappy]

Let someone call my young 3 year old daughter fat. They might make me cry but they’ll sure leave crying as well. Perhaps that happened. And if Kate brought flowers after that, she is a MUCH better person than most of us.

Yea I was and still am a fierce momma bear where my kids are concerned. I would have yanked my daughter from the wedding party at that point. Kate is more classy than me.

 

[snappy]

Which organization does Bill Maher work for? They may be getting a call soon.

 

[neverlandsky]

The RF are probably going thank goodness for Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez calling off their engagement Friday afternoon. That news basically buried M&H.