And what did she gain by winning? Still lost any relationship with her father, they left the royal family and they didn’t need the money.
Vindication that they’d been treated badly by the media.
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I don’t think anyone disagrees that they were treated harshly by the media - but so have all the other Royals, even the Queen at times. So are politicians, movie stars, criminals, lottery winners…
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But the courts ruled that what the media did was worse and shouldn’t have happened.
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So, just because my dad beat me and his dad beat him it’s OK for me to beat my kid? Some family norms are worth breaking, and I absolutely support them leaving this toxic environment.
To be clear, no one in my family was ever beaten. It was an example.
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I guess they are getting paid a lot for this? That is why they are doing it?
To clarify, Markle won one case against British tabloid Daily Mail, not some broad action against the British media.
Even Harry said on the earlier episodes that the royal family has an arrangement with the press. Harry and Meghan didn’t like it and left, but the cost was high to them in family relationships. Just because they didn’t like the press doesn’t mean the rest of the family has to feel the same way. I think Kate and William make it work. I’m sure they don’t like all the photo ops they are required to do but they figure it out. Kate’s been shown speaking sternly to her kids. She releases the photos she wants to but I’m sure there are other ones that she would prefer weren’t out there.
I didn’t see the problem with the quotes that Meghan gave in South Africa saying the motherhood was hard. It is. Yes, it was news for a day, but then they moved on to another subject.
I think M & H wanted to control the press but they couldn’t. They wanted a lot of publicity for themselves and their causes, but didn’t want anything bad said about them. Impossible. They controlled the Netflix content but can’t control the response to it. They need the response to it.
In the long run, I don’t think they’ll be happy with it all. In 5 years will they have more complaints or will their programs be self supporting? When William is King will Harry wish he was still involved with the family?
Kate is class act. I think if anything good coming out of Charles and Diana’s marriage is William and Kate.
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Well, I do feel more sympathetic towards them after these last episodes. Threw his brother under the bus a couple times. Many families fight, but we not go on our FB pages or Instagram and tattle-tale what they said. I still think that is very short sighted. Yes, I believe Harry and think a little less William, as many probably do. But what was really won for him. Seems more is lost.
I do think it’s absolutely horrible that Charles pulled security. What kind of loving father does that?
His book will be interesting.
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It sounds harsh but actually the British taxpayer funds security within specific guidelines. If Meghan and Harry are no longer working royals etc should their private security be paid by the public? Canada refused and so has the U.S. And let’s not forget that Harry (an adult) is a multimillionaire.
I know that the decision made him angry (and certainly Charles has the money to continue to do so privately but then again so does Harry). Harry complained about this on Oprah but I saw this:
“The Prince of Wales allocated a substantial sum to support them with this transition,” the spokesperson said, adding that the financial support ended in the summer of 2020.
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Prince Charles did not cut Prince Harry off financially after the Duke of Sussex stepped away from royal life last year, it’s been revealed.
Royal accounts, which were made public on Wednesday for the first time, show that Charles paid a 'substantial sum' to Harry in the months following 'Mexit', dipping into a £4.4 million pot he'd set aside to support his two sons and their families.This directly contradicts Harry’s claim during his interview with Oprah Winfrey that his father “literally cut me off financially”.
He even claimed that he and Meghan were forced to live off what “my mother had left me” … (only a whopping £7 million … nothing major).
At a certain point you just can’t have everything you want.
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The documentary claims that they cut the security while in Canada so both of those things can be true. Prince Charles didn’t cut off Harry after he stepped away from royal life (immediately), but he did eventually cut them off.
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I don’t. And it’s unfair to blame Charles.The security that Harry and Meghan had in the UK was provided by the state. In other words, the tax payers. As it stands now only the monarch and consort, and the Prince of Wales and family get round the clock protection. All other royals only get protection when performing official engagements. Harry and Meghan are not performing official engagements and are not living in the UK. So no reason John Q Public should foot the bill.
Now whether Charles should have offered to foot the bill for private security from his own pocket is a different question.
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How can you be sure that he’s telling the truth? It’s a one sided story. Unless we hear the other side, it’s hard to know.
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I agree that the taxpayers shouldn’t foot the bill for them. I think the thing that rubbed them the wrong way is how it all went down.
I agree the taxpayers shouldn’t pay…Charles should have until they got their footing.
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To be fair, he was not a kid just finishing 6th form and moving into his first apartment. In 2020, he was a 36 year old millionaire. He can start paying his own way.
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Gee, if only there were some way we could hear the other side? Like maybe the nonstop anti-Meghan coverage in the British tabloids, or Piers Morgan, or Megan Kelly, or the hundreds of anti-Meghan accounts discussed in the Bot Sentinel report.
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He provided them with 2 million dollars to help with transition (basically from when they left in Jan ending summer 2020.) This isn’t he said/and other he said: royal accounts were turned in showing expenditures.) And again Harry and Meghan are millionaires. And their lifestyle certainly seems lavish … to me.
It’s sorta like asking for your salary to be continued even though you’ve moved on to another job and then being unhappy it wasn’t. (I’m looking at the public continuing to fund Meghan and Harry, not just daddy.)
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We heard the story about how Princess Kate made Duchess Meg cry- that came out as untrue and actually the opposite. Then Prince Harry said he couldn’t contact his father but then the truth came out that Prince Harry changed his number and his dad couldn’t reach him. Then he said he was cut off financially and it comes out that King Charles had been paying for their lifestyle the entire time. So it’s hard to believe a one-sided story.
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I don’t plan to watch it. She appears to be a narcissistic manipulator (as if she would have paid any attention to dull Harry if he wasn’t a “prince”), and he is just spoiled and clueless. What a waste of time.
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