Climate change: significant issue
Impeachment: significant issue
Cost of college tuition: significant issue and relevant to CC
Harry & Megan: sorry; I do not understand why anyone is using a single brain cell on it
Well, you must have wasted a few yourself to read the thread and post on it! 
@AboutTheSame – precisely because it’s not much of an issue! I personally have Significant Issue Fatigue.
It’s a heck of a lot easier to think of solutions for Harry & Megan than of solutions to climate change, impeachment or the cost of college tuition.
And it’s a lot more fun.
And I so regret it. Thank you for pointing out one of my many human foibles. 
I think a lot of us have amused ourselves talking about it, but not all of us care deeply about it outside of this forum.
No reason for Canada to pay for security. Canada didn’t ask the couple to move there. If the Sussex couple wants to be private, they can pay for their own security like other private celebs do. They can afford it.
I find it odd that people are concerned about Queen Elizabeth’s ability to spend time with her great grandchild, Archie, if his parents choose to divide their time between Great Britain and Canada. Isn’t this the same Queen E who left her own very young children to go on a 6 month tour of the Commonwealth?
Of all the issues concerning the parties involved in these changes, I don’t think this one is a priority for Her Majesty.
AboutTheSame: Harry and Meghan: just a bit older than my kids and also making significant long term work/life/family decisions. How it all works out for them is up in the air. Probably they really have no bad options. They will be fine.
I try my best NOT to tell my own what to do. Worrying about the children of others is a useful distraction in avoiding giving advice to my own.
My own will be fine, too. Even if they take a different path than I would have chosen for them. So far all their decisions have been better than I would have ever anticipated. My advice, if I’d given it, would have been wrong.
adding: To me this is a continuation of the grandparent thread… we can worry about Archie!! We can worry how available he will be to HIS grandparents/great grandparents. 
Well, we already know that he’s not available to one of his grandparents! 
@alh : “Worrying about the children of others is a useful distraction in avoiding giving advice to my own.” Sorry. I just don’t accept that. But I will stop now, since my views are obviously tangential [to say the least] to this thread. Have fun, y’awl.
I’ll never understand why people come on discussion threads (or comments online anywhere) to say that they don’t care about the thing being discussed. I mean, just walk on by. No need to sound the “I don’t care” alarm.
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Something that bugged me very much - the Queen did not attend Archie’s Christening. Prior commitment. How can that be?? There is no way it was scheduled without getting approval from the palace, so it could have been scheduled around her commitments.
I think the Queen can see as much of Harry and Meghan as she wants to - they will be in England quite often, I’m sure.
P.S. Saw Meghan’s Dad on T.V. - should be voted the most horrible parent of the year. Disgusting.
The Christening was originally scheduled for several days prior, however, in order to accommodate Prince Charles’ calendar, it got moved - which meant the Queen had a conflict. She also did not attend Prince Louis’ Christening btw
@AboutTheSame , if you feel like that, than what are you doing on this thread? But since you are, you must already know it’s because life is serious, not only our own lives but the world at large.
That’s why we talk about makeup, fashion, TV shows…and the royal family. A diversion.
Let’s move on please.
I got interested in them during the buildup to their wedding. I’ve been trying to ignore these recent developments because I find them upsetting and do not trust most of what is printed. I plan to check back into it in a few years. I really hope they figure it out.
My guess is they announced prematurely not for purpose of “blindsiding” [those with whom IMO they were already in discussions], or because they thought the deal as they outlined it was final, but rather because the press was about to come out with it.
Otherwise they would have waited.
It occurred to me that they may have been reticent to have Archie back there, initially, because of ambiguity about whether the Queen could invoke the "Grand Opinion for the Prerogative Concerning the Royal Family " and mess with their plans for him. Maybe not though.
Interesting article saying that wealth advisers believe their lifestyle raises red flags.
“Chief among them: Reports that the couple are looking to buy a mansion in Vancouver on the market for $36 million Canadian dollars ($27 million U.S.), already dubbed a “Megha-Mansion” by the British press.”
This might account for all of their net worth. They are trying to maintain a lifestyle that they may not be able to afford.
@abasket Thanks for suggesting the NY Times podcast. It was interesting! One major point was that the UK citizens who are angry at Harry and Meghan are the same ones who voted for Brexit. The people who say “They should do what’s best for them and Archie” are the people who voted against Brexit.
All our questions will be answered next Wednesday on an ABC special ‘H&M and the Crown.’
I highly highly doubt that.