luckylexie
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Sophie Stink Eye Stan
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Post by luckylexie on May 9, 2024 12:14:22 GMT -4
I always forget about the Spencers. Jane's husband was one of QEII's closest advisers as her private secretary. Earl Spencer's kids show up to the opening of an envelope these days so maybe they didn't show up to this since their father was going to be there. I agree their family has some weird dynamics going on. Yeah, they seem to be pretty dysfunctional! As mentioned up thread, I also know Earl Spencer didn’t attend the wedding of one of his daughters. I think she married a quite older man? And she had a spread in some fashion mag.
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Post by OnyxRose on May 9, 2024 13:28:30 GMT -4
I always forget about the Spencers. Jane's husband was one of QEII's closest advisers as her private secretary. Earl Spencer's kids show up to the opening of an envelope these days so maybe they didn't show up to this since their father was going to be there. I agree their family has some weird dynamics going on. Yeah, they seem to be pretty dysfunctional! As mentioned up thread, I also know Earl Spencer didn’t attend the wedding of one of his daughters. I think she married a quite older man? And she had a spread in some fashion mag. He didn’t attend the wedding of his other daughter either.
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Post by Ladybug on May 9, 2024 14:10:16 GMT -4
Harry's a jerk and I'm fine with the royal family paying him dust. The last time he met with his father and brother at his grandfather's funeral, it ended up the opening chapter of his book. He owes his entire family an apology; they should not participate in his events until they get one. It doesn't matter if it's a "good cause" like Invictus, no one should be expected to support a person who's abused them and violated their privacy numerous times. And isn't that what Harry claims the royal family did to him? Why would he want them there or leak to the press that he invited them and they declined? Oh, right, so he can continue to play the victim.
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Post by canuckcutie on May 9, 2024 16:37:51 GMT -4
Yeah Charles Spencer showing up isn’t a huge flex on the royals when he’s got terrible relationships with his own children.
The Invictus budget has tripled from 2018 to 2023. I have to wonder how much of that budget is going towards Harry & Meghan’s expenses - private jets, hotel suites, designer clothes, security costs. I have to wonder at what point the governments funding these games with tax payer dollars may start to realize that the Sussexes motives for pushing Invictus every 5 minutes aren’t exactly altruistic. Right now Invictus seems a way to do their pretend Royal tours and pad their bank account.
When Harry was in BC for the most recent Invictus event, he met with indigenous leaders and discussed the “Crown’s commitment to Canada’s indigenous people”. Seemed to be very shaky ground for Harry to be on, fronting as though he’s able to negotiate on behalf of Canada or the Crown. I expect more of the same in Nigeria - fronting like he has more power than he does. So I think frankly Charles needs to keep Harry at arms length and make it clear that Harry isn’t out there representing the family because I can see this all blowing up badly in the near future.
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Tiana
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Post by Tiana on May 9, 2024 20:37:22 GMT -4
I have to assume people are just trying to stir shit up because there is no way anyone could actually think his family should or would attend an event designed purely for self promotion. After everything that Harry has done I don’t think they should ever speak to him again let alone play his game and give him any more opportunity to sell them out to the highest bidder.
It is so blatantly obvious. Harry and Meghan have a script that they stick to when it comes to using his family for attention. They use Invictus as a way to be treated like Royalty. Remember when they popped in to see the Queen in the lead up to the games at The Hague? Within 24 hours, Harry was giving an interview saying he was making sure the Queen had good people around her. He used that visit to promote himself as still close to the Queen and within the fold, which lended legitimacy to his profile. When Charles announced his cancer diagnosis and he caused a circus by flying in for 20 minutes? A week later, he was in Whistler for Invictus and once AGAIN gave an interview about family illnesses “paving the way to healing family rifts.” Once again, using meetings with the monarch for publicity.
This trip to Nigeria is no different. It’s a “charity trip” the Invictus and Nigeria taxpayers are bankrolling, including the costs of security and accommodations. The whole event yesterday was staged for publicity. When has anyone ever heard of a 10th anniversary religious service for a sporting event - that for the record was held on a day that has no meaning to the event which was launched March 6 and held in September 2014.? Then to hold it on the same day as an annual BP event whose date was announced months ago, at a time when his father and sister in law have both been fighting cancer and then pretend faux outrage when they don’t come and take part in the staged photo ops that Harry can then use to try to bolster his flagging connection to the family to try and keep his market value up.
The costs of the games has ballooned and fundraising is down. And instead of yesterday it being about veterans, it’s about what poor Harry’s family did or didn’t do for him. I’m glad the royals didn’t play his game. Harry would’ve used their presence to add legitimacy to his trip to Nigeria and pretended he was some sort of emissary of the King, like he did promising help with reconciliation to First Nation leaders.
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Post by canuckcutie on May 9, 2024 22:40:14 GMT -4
Harry couldn’t be bothered to promote the Netflix series. That was the perfect opportunity to promote Invictus and the athletes. The series sank like a stone. And somehow Charles is the asshole for not doing more to bring attention to Invictus?
I don’t remember Charles showing up to promote Earthshot or Homewards, William’s causes, so why should Harry get special treatment? Harry gets infantilized because people love to think of him as a child or a perpetual victim so that enables him to keep acting as he does. He’s never going to grow up and take responsibility when people keep making excuses for him.
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Post by Sunnyhorse on May 9, 2024 23:49:00 GMT -4
When Harry was in BC for the most recent Invictus event, he met with indigenous leaders and discussed the “Crown’s commitment to Canada’s indigenous people”. Seemed to be very shaky ground for Harry to be on, fronting as though he’s able to negotiate on behalf of Canada or the Crown. I expect more of the same in Nigeria - fronting like he has more power than he does. So I think frankly Charles needs to keep Harry at arms length and make it clear that Harry isn’t out there representing the family because I can see this all blowing up badly in the near future. Especially because, as we have seen, Harry doesn’t have a lick of sense regarding the groups he lends his name to, if what we have learned about that conservation group’s tactics and Harry’s blasé response are any indication.
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hellsbells
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Post by hellsbells on May 10, 2024 5:26:15 GMT -4
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cancan
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Post by cancan on May 10, 2024 8:57:02 GMT -4
That is a wildly inappropriate dress for a school visit, particularly in Nigeria. (Not that I'm surprised.)
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Post by Ladybug on May 10, 2024 9:17:06 GMT -4
That is a wildly inappropriate dress for a school visit, particularly in Nigeria. (Not that I'm surprised.) It's also way too long and puddling on the ground. You can guarantee that there will be no tough questions for Harry on this trip like, "What do you have to say about the Africa Parks scandal?" because not a single British journalist is covering the trip. It was not announced in time for the royal rota to obtain visas for Nigeria. But don't worry, the hard-hitting news outlet People magazine sent their "chief foreign correspondent" (eyeroll) Simon Perry to tag along with the Sussexes. This is what they wanted from the rota all along: total and complete control of the narrative. "Your purpose is to make us look good, not to hold us accountable as public figures in a free and democratic constitutional monarchy." Well, they get to do that with the celeb-friendly PR tool People magazine.
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