Typical sloppy reporting by the media. Her statements were always “Prince Philip and I…” not “DoE and I.”
That makes sense. I’m always amazed by bad reporting. Just tonight on NBC news they reported on a guy harassing an Olympian of Asian descent in a park. Nothing about what happened to him, what charges could be brought , whether or not he is being sought, etc. Bad reporting kind of drives me crazy!
Well, what are everyone’s thoughts about the funeral? I would have liked someone to eulogize him, but he didn’t want it, and to list his accomplishments would have taken forever.
I thought the Queen looked so small, so sad and so vulnerable. I thought it was terrible that someone couldn’t have sat with her. The bars are opened, so you know people aren’t social distancing there.
I liked it. The music and readings were just right. I love “Eternal Father Strong to Save” as it has been played at so many Navy functions that we have attended over the years.
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I thought it was in keeping with what he wanted but also would have liked more personal things, like eulogies. I hope the queen will let people help her and support her, the family is there for her. I was so nervous with her walking on her own. Glad to see William and Harry together. All in all, I thought it was lovely and well done.
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I loved the whole service. However, the music was especially lovely, both the bands in the quad and the choir in the chapel.
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Also known as the “Navy Hymn”. The “Last Post” is a much superior piece of bugle music to “Taps” in my opinion.
Is it just me, or does anybody else think that Harry should just shut up with criticizing family in the media if he truly wants to improve his relationship with his family?
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Harry needs to go away and SHUT UP!
Whoever is advising these two, they need to fire them. The only reasoning I can see is if these two are ignoring the advice they have to be getting.
Very tone deaf
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Tone deaf and it borders on cruelty to me at this point . His 95 year old grandmother just lost her husband and she needs this like she needs a hole in the head. If you 're going away because you don’t want that lifestyle, then just go away and raise your family the way you want to then.
Meghan is already estranged from her family except for her mother and Harry could be heading in that direction if he does not watch out. Sad for his children. Talk to your spouse, a close friend , a therapist about how awful your life was. He is now a grown man and parent himself but hasn’t seemed to figure out yet that parents are not perfect and everyone has baggage. Waiting for Archie’s tell all about his parents 30 years down the line!
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I agree. Harry is being very vindictive. My sense is the media coverage is becoming less sympathetic to H/M.
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They need to get off the victim train before their brand suffers.
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One might think it’s in Meghan’s interest to encourage this, assuming she never wants to go back to the UK, since it is ensuring Harry will never be welcomed back in the UK. The British press and public was hostile after the first interview, but now even those who were previously neutral or favorably disposed are now actively hostile.
Take Penny Junor for example (author of a prior biography of Harry):
“Having once been a huge fan of Prince Harry, my admiration is wearing perilously thin. And where once I felt great sympathy for him, struggling to find his way after the traumas in his early life, my sympathy is on the wane too.
Two months ago he and Meghan shocked the world in their lengthy and, in my view, self-serving interview with Oprah Winfrey. Among all the accusations they lobbed at the royal family, backed up with nothing but the vaguest evidence, that of racism by some unnamed member was little short of wicked.
Harry, I thought, might have felt some remorse after that interview. I can understand Meghan having no qualms — she has only been part of the family for three years and is now safely home in California — but I did think that when he saw the fallout Harry might have had the odd sleepless night.
I was clearly wrong, because here he is taking another wrecking ball to his family, blaming his woes — the pain and suffering — on generations of bad parenting. This time it is not just his father who comes in for a kicking, it is the Queen too; Prince Charles was a bad parent because he himself had been badly parented. This is the sort of exploration usually reserved for the therapist’s couch, not for public consumption. Or self-promotion…
He is now 36 years old. It is time he stopped blaming others for his situation and started taking responsibility.
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I also think the brand would be more valuable if Harry retains some mystique.
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I actually think part of Harry and Meghan’s mission is to shed light on how toxic the British monarchy is and that it is archaic and needs to go. It’s utter foolishness at this point. From the outside looking in it seems like a prison. What kind of quality of life do those people have? It’s bizarre and weird that we hold it up to some fairy tale story.
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You could say the same thing about the Vatican, but I expect a lot of Catholics might object.
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I agree. Must be nice to be able to compartmentalize so easily.
I disagree so vehemently with nearly every post in this thread, it’s probably a total waste of my time to even read it. However, the notion of the queen as some poor elderly granny, so terribly sad because her beloved grandson has been spirited away by an evil, conniving wife makes me snort with laughter.
Let’s just say that being estranged from your family is sometimes a very good thing. If I was related to Thomas Markle I would stay as far away from him and his lowlife offspring as possible. As for Harry’s “family”, I’ll just say that they don’t refer to them as “the firm” for nothing. The recent PR/brand management of Bill and Cathy Cambridge has been pretty obvious and it’s clearly working. That bunch has ice water in their veins and they always have.
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They seem to be fine with it. I find it funny that we as Americans spend time analyzing the Royal family. However, in that spirit I find Meghan and Harry completely immature and spiteful. If you don’t want to be a part of the family, as evidenced by their decision to move thousands of miles away, then enjoy your chosen life. Instead they just keep circling back. It’s as if they went away pouting and sulking expecting the family to come begging them to return and instead their bluff was called and now they’re mad because they’re stuck in California outside the family 
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I don’t care whose family you come from, you don’t air your dirty laundry in public. Not if you’re Smith, Jones or Windsor. It’s ironic that Harry who says he wants privacy, is yakking so much publicly.
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That’s certainly one lesson that his parent’s did NOT teach him.
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