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Old 04.01.2023, 13:31
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Not you personally, but I think you highlight a good point that the constant supply of furiously funny headlines across the clickbait press are basically the only thing keeping the story afloat. In the UK especially, the whole drama is a useful smoke-and-mirrors tactic to distract from the government.
I‘m also on another forum where the thread on H&M was closed due to emotional outbursts by certain posters. To me, they‘ve become a topic much like Trump was in the States: divisive-driven.
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I‘m also on another forum where the thread on H&M was closed due to emotional outbursts by certain posters. To me, they‘ve become a topic much like Trump was in the States: divisive-driven.
It was something the same with Diana back in the day. The tabloids were churning out pages and pages of print scrutinising her every move, every piece of jewellery and every facial expression. Endless columnists questioning her motives, then when she went public with Dodi Fayed it just exploded - the "crazy, unstable self-obsessed" woman who tried to bring down the monarchy, abandoned the heir to the throne and her kids.

When she was killed, that same press did a total about-turn and elevated her to pseudo sainthood. Tabloid campaigns for a state funeral and the like.
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Old 04.01.2023, 14:48
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Re: [Prince] Harry and Meghan

I just wish H and M would go away and shut up now, they're ridiculous. Everything they do is about money, then again poor guy had to use his inheritance from Diana to support his wife (although some insiders have said the Montecito pile is owned by a conglomerate including Netflix, the Mountbatten Windsors merely live in the guest house and the main one is used for PR purposes). Be interesting to see what happens when Meghan eventually bins him off though
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Old 04.01.2023, 14:50
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Be interesting to see what happens when Meghan eventually bins him off though
He goes crying back to Daddy, and then Meghan gets to sell rights to more tell all stories. It's all part of the plan...
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Re: [Prince] Harry and Meghan

Oh wow, Harry is out to ruin William https://amp.theguardian.com/books/20...han-spare-book
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Oh wow, Harry is out to ruin William https://amp.theguardian.com/books/20...han-spare-book
Harry is ruining himself, every time they tell a story they drop a new bigger claim. The Netflix thing had it they had a shouting match, now its a push, next it will be he was put in stocks and whipped on the backside.

The prince who cried wolf.
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Harry is ruining himself, every time they tell a story they drop a new bigger claim. The Netflix thing had it they had a shouting match, now its a push, next it will be he was put in stocks and whipped on the backside.

The prince who cried wolf.
I'm guessing they are both now in the grip of the blokes with the cheque books realising they are sitting on a goldmine. They've trotted out a few token celebs lamenting how shocking it all is and should all now die down but media wheel is now grinding out story after story.

I had quite a lot of sympathy for them in the aftermath of their departure to the US but it just needed them to tell their side of the story and leave it at that. I feel that in years to come they will deeply regret how it snowballed.
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Oh wow, Harry is out to ruin William https://amp.theguardian.com/books/20...han-spare-book
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"When William left again, his brother writes, he “turned and called back: ‘You don’t need to tell Meg about this.’

“‘You mean that you attacked me?’

“‘I didn’t attack you, Harold.’”

Harry says he didn’t immediately tell his wife – but did call his therapist."
Harold? His name's Henry. Wonder if the therapy is helping or hindering in all this.
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Harold? His name's Henry. Wonder if the therapy is helping or hindering in all this.
Further on in the article I read it seems they have pet names for each other. Must be a royal thing. Lilibet was the name used by Philip for the Queen and apparently Charles calls Camilla "Gladys".
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Re: [Prince] Harry and Meghan

Seems odd that he had a therapist, but wasn't able to get mental health support for his wife.

Prince Harry says William and Kate told him to wear infamous Nazi fancy dress costume
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Seems odd that he had a therapist, but wasn't able to get mental health support for his wife.

Prince Harry says William and Kate told him to wear infamous Nazi fancy dress costume
I’ve been saying that for years. Harry openly said he had therapy before he even met Meghan - makes no sense.
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How can you establish a relationship with someone who uses every incident as an anecdote for a future book, interview or documentary ?

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How can you establish a relationship with someone who uses every incident as an anecdote for a future book, interview or book?
Start all your chat up lines with "Once upon a time..."?
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The must be now, the biggest man-made hole in the world if not universe !
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Further on in the article I read it seems they have pet names for each other. Must be a royal thing. Lilibet was the name used by Philip for the Queen and apparently Charles calls Camilla "Gladys".
For me the most shocking thing to have been revealed from all of this is that they all call William Willy :

Looking forward to King Willy!
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Shock news! Siblings fight!
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Oh, do grow up Harry. You are acting like a spoiled brat. I too was bullied by my elder brother, decades ago, and I survived.
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Is this going to take a turn down legal street now? Did the future king assault his brother or has Harold just libelled William?
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Shock news! Siblings fight!

Fight, my brother and i were so bad, he has his Lego in red & white, mine was in blue and yellow !!


We still fought like cat and dog, the air rifles lasted less than 3 days before they were confiscated after i got a dart in my arse.
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Fight, my brother and i were so bad, he has his Lego in red & white, mine was in blue and yellow !!


We still fought like cat and dog, the air rifles lasted less than 3 days before they were confiscated after i got a dart in my arse.
If you've not had a sibling fight which has ended up in the tabloid press, you're not even trying...
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