Queen's Platinum Jubilee:2-5 June 2022 : Four-day bank holiday

[Zizu]

Apart from 2 or 3 acts…I think it’s been brilliant. :cheer2:


It got better later on although I missed the opening .. ( Queen? )


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[Zizu]

Why on earth didn’t they have Queen closing the show ??


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[Denver]

See you all for the Oak Jubilee in 10 years

[Cherie]

The light show was fabulous...the corgi :love:

I really enjoyed it ..Rod was terrible though..

[Cherie]

It got better later on although I missed the opening .. ( Queen? )


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They were fab...should have closed the show although the Queen tapping out we will rock you with a spoon was a nice touch

[thesheriff443]

The light show was fabulous...the corgi :love:

I really enjoyed it ..Rod was terrible though..

Yes I agree rod was really bad and Andrew loyd webber, I was thinking car crash

[Zizu]

The light show was fabulous...the corgi :love:

I really enjoyed it ..Rod was terrible though..


He was wasn’t he !!

I was tremendously disappointed with a few other voices as well .. George Ezra included ..


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[thesheriff443]

We’re was Ed Sheran or James blunt

[rusticgal]

The light show was fabulous...the corgi :love:

I really enjoyed it ..Rod was terrible though..


He was…Queen, Diversity, Andrew Lloyd Webber and the musicals and Andrea Bocelli were the best…
Duran Duran were pretty rubbish…

But overall I thought it was great…and Paddington Bear with the Queen was a really nice touch.

[thesheriff443]

We’re was Ed Sheran or James blunt

[Zizu]

We’re was Ed Sheran or James blunt


Sheran failed the quality control standard

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[thesheriff443]

Sheran failed the quality control standard

:)


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But if we look at the voices of those sing there was clearly room for improvement James bay Eric Clapton sting all could of give better performances

[Zizu]

But if we look at the voices of those sing there was clearly room for improvement James bay Eric Clapton sting all could of give better performances


True enough


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[Nicky91]

amazing concert last night :love:

Elton's Your Song so beautiful

Sam Ryder's Space Man performance, wow also lovely choreo additions, and at the end it sounded like ''up in space, ma'am''



Diana Ross, well it now makes me wonder if she wrote Thank You last year especially for this jubilee :think: because it fits perfectly anyway


Sir Rod :lovedup: with sweet caroline, he made that his own and i loved that, also with the football umbrella's


Duran Duran with Nile Rodgers :dance: was Simon's daughter Amber among the catwalk models i wonder, because i happen to know she is a model :think:


the queen with paddington bear was too cute :love: :love:



Sigala & ella eyre came here for love with the drones was so touching, me and my mom had goosebumps when we saw the projection of the corgi (my mom said like ''i think she'll love that a lot'') and the projections of her purse, and the teapot, teacup


whoever organized this party, massive respect for such a stunning show

[jet]

We thoroughly enjoyed the concert, it was spectacular! :cheer2:

[Zizu]

I thought little Rod was dreadful .. like a lot of old singers his voice has gone .. plus he absolutely murdered Sweet Caroline !!


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[Zizu]

I thought there were an awful lot of bum notes last night as well ..

I was surprised how poor George Ezra was LIVE as well . ..


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[rusticgal]

We thoroughly enjoyed the concert, it was spectacular! :cheer2:


Were you there Jet?

[Kazanne]

The best part for me was the paddington Bear sketch and The David Attenborough section, the light show was excellent, I guess its harder to sing live out in the open, but did like Andrea Bocelli,also the Phantom of the Opera pair,but poor sweet Caroline,lol, but he is 77 so kudos for him still rocking.

[bots]

i watched the first 15 minutes of the concert and that was as much as i could take. I thought it was very poor

[arista]

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[arista]

The Queen has walked out on the Balcony
at Buckingham Palace, again.

For a short time.

[Beso]

i watched the first 15 minutes of the concert and that was as much as i could take. I thought it was very poor

Good job it wasnt organised for you then or someone would be sacked.

[ThomasC]

I didn't watch any of it.

[arista]

I didn't watch any of it.


Nothing wrong with that, at all.
TC.

[GoldHeart]

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[hijaxers]

Just watching the concert but i have just watched the pageant in full and loved every moment, such amazing colours and the costumes were best ever. i was wowed by how many people from all over world took part. Excellent.

[rusticgal]

The Queen has walked out on the Balcony
at Buckingham Palace, again.

For a short time.


Awww…she looked lovely. She looked a bit emotional at one point…made me a bit emosh…

I think it’s been a great celebration overall. People really embraced the occasion where I live. The rain stayed away. I think the working Royals have done themselves proud…and George and Charlotte have been so well behaved with Louis giving us some entertainment.

[jet]

Were you there Jet?

I wish! No, most of the family went down to our local, where they put on a big garden party - good food and drink, a ginormous TV screen and a fireworks finale. Lovely warm evening too - it was brilliant. :cheer2:
I’ve recorded the pageant to watch tonight. Looking forward to it.

The whole thing has been so enjoyable, so lovely to see people celebrating, coming together and having fun! The Queen must be thrilled that it all went so well. It was a fantastic tribute to a great lady.
And I loved seeing the Cambridge children - little Louis stole the show a few times, he's a little imp. :hee:

[Beso]

I had to walk through a street party in the poshest part in town, with my fish supper to get home today.

It's a one street road, wide enough for one car at a time so it is one way only. Its has about 20 houses on it.

Both ends of the road had road closes council signs blocking the way for cars.

I felt so embarrassed and awkward, I checked the local councils rd closures page...

And guess what!!!! Its not what you know..:fist::fist:

It's who you bloody know...


Fish was minging as well.:bawling:

[Beso]

One end of the street is my avi, sorry for the bluriness but I had a fish supper in one hand.

[Jordan.]

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Poor Louis bored of out his mind. Should have let him spend the day with his fun uncle Harry.

[Jordan.]

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[GoldHeart]

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Poor Louis bored of out his mind. Should have let him spend the day with his fun uncle Harry.

And his cousins Archie & Lilibet , he might have had more fun then .

[Jordan.]

And his cousins Archie & Lilibet , he might have had more fun then .

He seems full of character, they're probably worried he'd want to get on the plane with them as well :joker:

[GoldHeart]

He seems full of character, they're probably worried he'd want to get on the plane with them as well :joker:

Maybe Louis will grow up to be another rebel like Harry :D, much to Kate & William's disappointment .

[jet]

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Poor Louis bored of out his mind. Should have let him spend the day with his fun uncle Harry.

What four year old would be happy spending the day with a total stranger? :facepalm:

[jet]

I loved watching Louis sitting on his Grandpa's knee and chattering away to him. Charles looked so proud and was beaming from ear to ear. :love:

[Jordan.]

A shame Charles didn't show his other grandchildren much love, even on one's birthday.

[jet]

I can honestly say that I haven’t enjoyed anything as much for some time as I did todays Jubilee Pageant. I especially loved The Time of Our Lives section - a journey through the seven decades of the Queen’s time on the throne. But the whole parade was spectacular and there were so many stars and celebrities passing by we couldn’t keep up. I would defy anyone to watch it and not be entertained, Royalist or not.

Then after Ed Sherran sang, out she came onto the balcony again looking lovely in green with Charles and Camilla and William and Kate and their children and deafening cheers erupted from the packed Mall crowd.

What a fantastic end to her Jubilee Celebrations. The whole thing has been a great success and could not have gone any better, giving us memories (and recordings!) to treasure forever. :cheer2:

[thesheriff443]

Maybe Louis will grow up to be another rebel like Harry :D, much to Kate & William's disappointment .

Using a child to have a dog at his parents over a man that has a the brain of a child is sad and desperate.

Harry is no rebel, he is a hypocrite of the highest level.

[Jordan.]

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[bots]

he is a normal little boy, what is the problem? :laugh:

I really like the way their kids have such strong characters, charlotte is a hoot :laugh:

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[Cherie]

he is a normal little boy, what is the problem? :laugh:

I really like the way their kids have such strong characters, charlotte is a hoot :laugh:

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[bots]

you can see that the queen was very touched by the size of the crowds at the finale

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Just Brilliant....I think it all played out brilliantly. I think William, Kate and their children made a huge impact over the weekend.

[jet]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1621536/Harry-Meghan-jet-home-California-Jubilee-relations

A GRIM-FACED Prince Harry was back in California with his family yesterday after they flew home before the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations were even finished.

A private jet which brought them across the Atlantic last week, left Farnborough Airport in Hampshire at 1.30pm on Sunday, just over an hour before the grand finale of the Queen’s celebrations, the Jubilee Pageant, began in central London.

It is not clear who paid for the estimated £160,000 cost of the executive jet, which sat at Farnborough from when the Sussexes arrived there last Wednesday until their departure.......
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The TV coverage scarcely mentioned them during the Jubilee celebrations and they failed to turn up at the Guildhall after Trooping the Colour - and imagine not staying for the finale. They probably went off home in a huff. :laugh:

[Glenn.]

Or they wanted to get back to their home…

[Jordan.]

We can all look a little GRIM-FACED at times

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[jet]

Or they wanted to get back to their home…

With their tails between their legs...:hehe:

[jet]

We can all look a little GRIM-FACED at times

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Look at little Louis - I think he's just been given a telling - off and Charlotte is thinking "Wait 'til I get you home!" :laugh:

[GoldHeart]

Look at little Louis - I think he's just been given a telling - off and Charlotte is thinking "Wait 'til I get you home!" :laugh:

The nanny they hired will probably look after him

[Beso]

And his cousins Archie & Lilibet , he might have had more fun then .

Did you expect the wee dude to jump on a plane and fly 4000 miles to spend the day with a load of strangers in america....

That's abuse, and probably forced child labour...

Nasty!!!

[user104658]

We can all look a little GRIM-FACED at times

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Louis has been MVP of this jubilee, not playing ball whatsoever. I reckon he’ll grow up to be a fan of Uncle Harry.

[GoldHeart]

Did you expect the wee dude to jump on a plane and fly 4000 miles to spend the day with a load of strangers in america....

That's abuse, and probably forced child labour...

Nasty!!!

Yes that's right,I expected a 4 year old to board a plane by himself .. with his cute little rucksack .

Pretty sure his second mother could take him aka the nanny :hee:.

[Beso]

Yes that's right,I expected a 4 year old to board a plane by himself .. with his cute little rucksack .

Pretty sure his second mother could take him aka the nanny :hee:.

Just out of curiosity...who's looking after harry and Meghan's kids while they have been away half way across the world?

[user104658]

Just out of curiosity...who's looking after harry and Meghan's kids while they have been away half way across the world?

The older one is watching the smaller one.

[Beso]

The older one is watching the smaller one.

Ahh, not the excuse to have a pathetic dig type nanny then?

Got a quick question for you Ts
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[user104658]

Ahh, not the excuse to have a pathetic dig type nanny then?

Got a quick question for you Ts
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The suspense is killing me!

[rusticgal]

Just out of curiosity...who's looking after harry and Meghan's kids while they have been away half way across the world?


Harry and Meghan would have bought their Nanny with them...

[Kazanne]

I thought all the children behaved really well Louis was a joy,typical 4 year old,all lovely children.I liked the whole thing.

And how gorgeous is Lillibet
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[jet]

The Times on Harry and Meghan's Jubilee visit - posting the article as you can't read unless you have a subscription.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/william-and-harry-brothers-at-arms-length-lsvll2qb7

Prince William and Prince Harry: Brothers At Arms Length
Monday June 6th

In the end, after all the sound and fury of the past two years, the
return of the royal drama queens was notable for its lack of drama. Some at the Palace feared that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would use the Queen’s jubilee as a brand-building exercise, with “friends” giving breathless updates to People magazine and Netflix camera crews falling over the corgis.
True, it would have made marvellous telly if William had thumped Harry for being beastly on Oprah, or if baby Lilibet had been wheeled round Windsor wearing a Disney princess outfit and a coronet, but still. The weekend was all about the Queen, and for once the Sussexes appeared to have got the memo.
Meghan pasted on her Mona Lisa game face and Harry wisely refrained from talking, because it never ends well when he talks, especially for his closest family. Remember that recent chat on American TV during the Invictus Games? The one when he said he’d just visited the Queen, for the first time in God knows how long, to make sure she was “protected” and had the “right people around her”? That must have gone down a storm with all the people who are actually around her all the time: the Prince of Wales, say, or Prince William.

However, this weekend the message projected loud and clear was that the royal ship, with the Queen at the helm, is sailing serenely on. Megxit? What Megxit?

On Thursday, June 2, they arrived quietly on a private jet at Farnborough airport in Hampshire. They were picked up by royal protection officers and driven to Frogmore Cottage, where hopefully someone will have made up the beds, put the heating on and stocked up on spaghetti hoops for the kids’ tea. From there they were driven the short distance to Windsor Castle to introduce Lilibet, who turned one on June 4, to the Queen, whose feelings about their public appropriation of her private pet name we will never know unless she
too goes on Oprah. Cue Omid Scobie, the Sussexes’ cheerleader, who absolutely definitely didn’t have a hotline to Team Sussex for his book until it turned out that actually, oops, he did.
Anyway, he duly popped up last week to inform a grateful nation that the Sussexes wanted to keep a low profile on their trip, but that introducing Lilibet to the Queen was one of their goals. “Those moments with Lilibet are very much private between them and the Queen, and of course we know how much she’s been looking forward to it,” he added, nicely highlighting the discretion for which the Sussexes are famous while casually breaching the Queen’s confidence.

Having flown 5,000 miles around the world to help the Queen to celebrate, they appear to have attended only two events. The first, on June 2, was Trooping the Colour. They watched it largely out of sight in a room overlooking Horse Guards Parade.
The second appearance was on June 3, at the service of thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral, where they were cheered by some members of the crowd, booed by others and seated in Siberia. The last time they attended a church service with the royal family — the infamously glacial Commonwealth service at Westminster Abbey in March 2020, just before Megxit — they proceeded up the aisle with Prince Charles and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

Fast forward to Friday, and by the time Charles, Camilla, William and Kate arrived and took their seats at the front, Harry and Meghan had been twiddling their thumbs for nearly 20 minutes. They were seated on the other side of the aisle, squashed in halfway along a pew next to Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, who chatted to them amiably, and directly behind the Earl and Countess of Wessex, who did not. Ever the diplomat, the Queen is said to have insisted that they get their own car to St Paul’s instead of piling into a coach with all the other also - rans.

On the downside, from a brand-building point of view, they weren’t invited to a lunch at Buckingham Palace after Trooping the Colour. On the plus side, they were invited to a lunch at Guildhall after the service at St Paul’s, but didn’t go. Were they worried that only Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, and Zara and Mike Tindall would speak to them?

The Queen has always stressed that Harry and Meghan remain “much loved members of the family”, but it’s a description that appears not to resonate with some of them, including Prince William. While the Sussexes are reported to have had a private meeting with Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall at Clarence House, no such encounter is thought to have taken place with the Cambridges.
They swept straight past them, without so much as a glance, and were long gone by the time Harry got up from his pew. It was thought possible that the Sussexes would attend the Platinum Party at the Palace on Saturday, but they didn’t. Did Prince William, said to still be furious about the Oprah interview, veto it?
Protocol dictated that Harry could be kept safely out of thumping distance at St Paul’s. No such protocol would have protected him at the Palace concert, where the royals were all seated together behind the Cambridges. Word was put out that the Sussexes were celebrating Lilibet’s birthday privately at Frogmore, but unless a one-year-old’s party turned into an all-night rave, they could plausibly have hitched a ride up the M4 to sing Sweet Caroline, if anyone had wanted them to. They were missing also from the royal box at the Platinum Jubilee Pageant yesterday.

Scobie told the BBC that the brothers’ relationship was not back on track. One school of thought says that since it has been two years, they should get over it. The other argues that you can’t blame Prince William for worrying that any private conversation he has with Harry will end up on Oprah. When or if we will see the Sussexes back in the UK, let alone whether we’ll see William and Harry joshing as they used to, only time will tell.
Harry’s book is due out in the autumn, so it’s entirely possible that he’ll pop over then, flog a few copies and ruin the royal Christmas.
Will they still be much loved members of the family when Charles is in charge? This trip seemed to carry the faintest whiff of Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson, of a slide into irrelevance.

As they pack up the travel cot at Frogmore and head back to their life of moneyed leisure in California, they might congratulate themselves that they didn’t have to spend a damp, cold Sunday at a jubilee street party in Newport Pagnell. The Queen has spent her life doing just that, and she still radiates enthusiasm and has a twinkle in her eye. Harry and Meghan? Not so much. That may be something for them to think about next time the Netflix director shouts: “Action!”

[Cherie]

The Times on Harry and Meghan's Jubilee visit - posting the article as you can't read unless you have a subscription.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/william-and-harry-brothers-at-arms-length-lsvll2qb7

Prince William and Prince Harry: Brothers At Arms Length
Monday June 6th

In the end, after all the sound and fury of the past two years, the
return of the royal drama queens was notable for its lack of drama. Some at the Palace feared that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would use the Queen’s jubilee as a brand-building exercise, with “friends” giving breathless updates to People magazine and Netflix camera crews falling over the corgis.
True, it would have made marvellous telly if William had thumped Harry for being beastly on Oprah, or if baby Lilibet had been wheeled round Windsor wearing a Disney princess outfit and a coronet, but still. The weekend was all about the Queen, and for once the Sussexes appeared to have got the memo.
Meghan pasted on her Mona Lisa game face and Harry wisely refrained from talking, because it never ends well when he talks, especially for his closest family. Remember that recent chat on American TV during the Invictus Games? The one when he said he’d just visited the Queen, for the first time in God knows how long, to make sure she was “protected” and had the “right people around her”? That must have gone down a storm with all the people who are actually around her all the time: the Prince of Wales, say, or Prince William.

However, this weekend the message projected loud and clear was that the royal ship, with the Queen at the helm, is sailing serenely on. Megxit? What Megxit?

On Thursday, June 2, they arrived quietly on a private jet at Farnborough airport in Hampshire. They were picked up by royal protection officers and driven to Frogmore Cottage, where hopefully someone will have made up the beds, put the heating on and stocked up on spaghetti hoops for the kids’ tea. From there they were driven the short distance to Windsor Castle to introduce Lilibet, who turned one on June 4, to the Queen, whose feelings about their public appropriation of her private pet name we will never know unless she
too goes on Oprah. Cue Omid Scobie, the Sussexes’ cheerleader, who absolutely definitely didn’t have a hotline to Team Sussex for his book until it turned out that actually, oops, he did.
Anyway, he duly popped up last week to inform a grateful nation that the Sussexes wanted to keep a low profile on their trip, but that introducing Lilibet to the Queen was one of their goals. “Those moments with Lilibet are very much private between them and the Queen, and of course we know how much she’s been looking forward to it,” he added, nicely highlighting the discretion for which the Sussexes are famous while casually breaching the Queen’s confidence.

Having flown 5,000 miles around the world to help the Queen to celebrate, they appear to have attended only two events. The first, on June 2, was Trooping the Colour. They watched it largely out of sight in a room overlooking Horse Guards Parade.
The second appearance was on June 3, at the service of thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral, where they were cheered by some members of the crowd, booed by others and seated in Siberia. The last time they attended a church service with the royal family — the infamously glacial Commonwealth service at Westminster Abbey in March 2020, just before Megxit — they proceeded up the aisle with Prince Charles and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

Fast forward to Friday, and by the time Charles, Camilla, William and Kate arrived and took their seats at the front, Harry and Meghan had been twiddling their thumbs for nearly 20 minutes. They were seated on the other side of the aisle, squashed in halfway along a pew next to Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, who chatted to them amiably, and directly behind the Earl and Countess of Wessex, who did not. Ever the diplomat, the Queen is said to have insisted that they get their own car to St Paul’s instead of piling into a coach with all the other also - rans.

On the downside, from a brand-building point of view, they weren’t invited to a lunch at Buckingham Palace after Trooping the Colour. On the plus side, they were invited to a lunch at Guildhall after the service at St Paul’s, but didn’t go. Were they worried that only Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, and Zara and Mike Tindall would speak to them?

The Queen has always stressed that Harry and Meghan remain “much loved members of the family”, but it’s a description that appears not to resonate with some of them, including Prince William. While the Sussexes are reported to have had a private meeting with Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall at Clarence House, no such encounter is thought to have taken place with the Cambridges.
They swept straight past them, without so much as a glance, and were long gone by the time Harry got up from his pew. It was thought possible that the Sussexes would attend the Platinum Party at the Palace on Saturday, but they didn’t. Did Prince William, said to still be furious about the Oprah interview, veto it?
Protocol dictated that Harry could be kept safely out of thumping distance at St Paul’s. No such protocol would have protected him at the Palace concert, where the royals were all seated together behind the Cambridges. Word was put out that the Sussexes were celebrating Lilibet’s birthday privately at Frogmore, but unless a one-year-old’s party turned into an all-night rave, they could plausibly have hitched a ride up the M4 to sing Sweet Caroline, if anyone had wanted them to. They were missing also from the royal box at the Platinum Jubilee Pageant yesterday.

Scobie told the BBC that the brothers’ relationship was not back on track. One school of thought says that since it has been two years, they should get over it. The other argues that you can’t blame Prince William for worrying that any private conversation he has with Harry will end up on Oprah. When or if we will see the Sussexes back in the UK, let alone whether we’ll see William and Harry joshing as they used to, only time will tell.
Harry’s book is due out in the autumn, so it’s entirely possible that he’ll pop over then, flog a few copies and ruin the royal Christmas.
Will they still be much loved members of the family when Charles is in charge? This trip seemed to carry the faintest whiff of Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson, of a slide into irrelevance.

As they pack up the travel cot at Frogmore and head back to their life of moneyed leisure in California, they might congratulate themselves that they didn’t have to spend a damp, cold Sunday at a jubilee street party in Newport Pagnell. The Queen has spent her life doing just that, and she still radiates enthusiasm and has a twinkle in her eye. Harry and Meghan? Not so much. That may be something for them to think about next time the Netflix director shouts: “Action!”

Summed up nicely...

[rusticgal]

Summed up nicely...

Summed up perfectly imo.

Harry did not look at all happy from the little we saw of him, whilst Meghan had a fixed smile throughout. It’s all very sad really…Harry must have felt so undermined and undervalued…but he has no one to blame but himself. The Royal family gave him no ammunition and kept him and his wife at arms length…and who can blame them.

[thesheriff443]

I believe they came over with the kids to meet the queen and make sure Harry and the kids get left a share of her millions when she sadly dies.

[bots]

they are becoming more and more like edward and mrs simpson as time goes by. It will be interesting if we get a ... they treated us like crap interview over the coming weeks or whether they can actually keep their mouths shut and accept that it was their choice to leave the royal inner sanctum

[user104658]

"We expected them to cause drama and had our pens twitching to write about that, but they didn't cause any drama at all, so here's an article about how awful they are anyway."

[Beso]

I believe they came over with the kids to meet the queen and make sure Harry and the kids get left a share of her millions when she sadly dies.

I think they called them "the babysitters" at the family meeting.

[thesheriff443]

"We expected them to cause drama and had our pens twitching to write about that, but they didn't cause any drama at all, so here's an article about how awful they are anyway."

They got put in there place, watching from a side window with the kids.

[user104658]

They got put in there place, watching from a side window with the kids.

Well so long as they were tarred and feathered for the appeasement of the unwashed masses, I guess that's all that matters these days. There are witches out there sheriff - and we must make sure they get BURNED by gum! :fist:

[thesheriff443]

Well so long as they were tarred and feathered for the appeasement of the unwashed masses, I guess that's all that matters these days. There are witches out there sheriff - and we must make sure they get BURNED by gum! :fist:

That’s a dramatic post, they got what they asked for.

[bots]

if my take on H&M is correct, they will be sitting in Cal feeding each other bigger and bigger conspiracies of what happened at the jubilee, and it will boil over on some interview

[jet]

They got put in there place, watching from a side window with the kids.

Indeed.
Meghan tried her best when they first arrived in the UK by winding down the tinted window of their heavily protected vehicle Windsor - bound to wave and hope for a photo opportunity, despite all the suing and hooha by Harry about their security. :eek:
It seems the telling off she got and the boos and the Palace minders making sure it was the Queen’s time, not theirs, clipped their wings good and proper.

And I wouldn’t have had the balls to go to social occasions like the Guildhall dinner and the Concert with a family I’d trashed and lied about publicly either, so I’m not surprised that they didn’t turn up.
I’d have been too proud not to stay for the duration though; not flounce off a day early in a grim faced huff.

[Jordan.]

"We expected them to cause drama and had our pens twitching to write about that, but they didn't cause any drama at all, so here's an article about how awful they are anyway."

Summed up perfectly.

[rusticgal]

if my take on H&M is correct, they will be sitting in Cal feeding each other bigger and bigger conspiracies of what happened at the jubilee, and it will boil over on some interview


You can just see it now....like Jet said their wings were well and truly clipped on this visit...
Lets wait and see what they have to say....:laugh:

[arista]

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[arista]

BBC Text :
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Queen to miss the Highland games,
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