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26-03-2021, 08:25 AM | #1 | |||
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This is the new official thread for any discussion/news or articles about Prince Harry and/or Meghan.
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26-03-2021, 08:28 AM | #2 | |||
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Good article in todays Mail by Jan Moir - about Harry and his "jobs":
The crux is below Perhaps his first task as Fake News Commissioner will be an investigation into himself, in which he will find himself wanting, and send himself a stern memo. The new positions are just what you might expect from a self-styled global philanthropist who wants to change the world by telling everyone else what to do; positions that are elite, vague, grandiose and — one suspects — largely ornamental. Certainly nothing that involves scholarship, hard toil or personal sacrifice. And everything that involves the exploitation of the royal status and hinterland from which the Prince was so desperate to escape. Commissioner? Impact Officer? The fancy titles are typical of that cloying Californian wellness environment where someone who works in a shop is called a 'retail customer experience ambassador' and a van driver is a 'vehicle operations specialist'. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/a...executive.html |
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26-03-2021, 09:13 AM | #3 | ||
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I would also strongly counter that none of the criticism should really be on the people accepting these roles when they're offered... assigning some sort of moral judgement of "well he should have turned it down!!" is nonsense. As always when people benefit from privilege, the blame isn't really on the people who take the opportunities, it lies with the people offering those opportunities so in this case people should be criticising the organisations he's working with for choosing to hire on profile and not ability, and not him. Though here's one for LT to consider; Mr "the press is what it is because that's what people want " ... These companies have hired Prince Harry to these positions because they think it will be financially advantageous to have his name attached to the brand. They believe this because they believe that that will sell to the people they're trying to sell to. This applies to all "celebrity endorsements" and so, just as with the front pages of the tabloids, do you not just have to accept it for what it is? It's "what people want". Or if it isn't, these organisations will be proven wrong. Last edited by Toy Soldier; 26-03-2021 at 09:19 AM. |
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26-03-2021, 09:18 AM | #4 | |||
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stand out comment from the article for me
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26-03-2021, 09:21 AM | #5 | |||
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Quand il pleut, il pleut
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...(...I’m thinking...)...that those weren't vacant positions as such, but more roles created and titles given because the companies specifically wanted Harry as part of their team and their brand...obviously those are just my own thoughts...
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26-03-2021, 09:23 AM | #6 | ||
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Again while I don't disagree, as above, you can't really place judgement on them for taking advantage of this; Harry has no marketable skills, qualifications or experience beyond "being an ambassador". They have no other realistic avenue to making money than leveraging their marketability. That's all wrapped up in the same thing; maybe he WOULD rather not have been a Senior Royal (or any sort of Royal) and have pursued a different career path - maybe he still can - but as things stand now, he's a 36 year old man and his CV reads "Army" and "Ambassadorial stuff". He can't join the US armed forces so that leaves the latter. The other option is just not having an income... which it seems people would be happier with.
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26-03-2021, 09:26 AM | #7 | |||
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26-03-2021, 09:28 AM | #8 | |||
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The guy who will do Meghan's biog Tom Bower, wrote about her recently:
“Convinced of her own greatness, Meghan thinks she has, for years, been the victim of plots to destroy her destiny. While others shone in leading roles, Meghan had bit parts,” he declared, adding that after she was written out of the television series Suits, she “brilliantly... invented a new script” and “ruthlessly” carried out a carefully planned scheme to ensnare Prince Harry. In his view, Meghan never intended to “sacrifice her Californian lifestyle and serve as a member of the Royal Family in rainy Britain” for long. “Refusing to show son Archie’s face to the camera after his birth and demanding privacy, while constantly speaking to US journalists, confirmed her hypocrisy,” he went on, before comparing her unfavourably with Wallis Simpson (“[unlike] the Duke and Duchess of Windsor... Meghan and Harry clearly do not care about the uproar they are causing”). His final complaint is that “in her selfish manner, she believes that she is entitled to say what she wants to Oprah Winfrey [and] those who criticise her inventions are racist and sexist.” Nobody is going to mistake his biography for a love letter, I imagine. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/no...meghan-markle/ |
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26-03-2021, 09:29 AM | #10 | |||
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In essence I think he is high profile enough to lose the titles and still get the positions
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'put a bit of lippy on and run a brush through your hair, we are alcoholics, not savages' Last edited by Cherie; 26-03-2021 at 09:33 AM. |
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26-03-2021, 09:35 AM | #11 | ||
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26-03-2021, 09:36 AM | #12 | ||
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If you're saying you've reconsidered that stance I'm happy to take that as the explanation . Otherwise this looks an awful lot like hypocrisy . |
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26-03-2021, 09:38 AM | #13 | ||
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They want things to not work out, and for him to have to scurry back to The Family cap-in-hand. That is fairly obvious as the "dream scenario" for many people, here.
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26-03-2021, 09:44 AM | #14 | |||
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...it’s interesting in view of Tom Bower’s methods of earning his 6 figure sum incomes and his upcoming unauthorised ‘bio’...that it’s Harry’s job that’s questionable in any way...
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26-03-2021, 09:54 AM | #15 | |||
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I can’t see any way back for him now
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'put a bit of lippy on and run a brush through your hair, we are alcoholics, not savages' Last edited by Cherie; 26-03-2021 at 09:55 AM. |
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26-03-2021, 09:55 AM | #16 | |||
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i don't blame anyone for trying to make the most of the hand that they were dealt. We all do it. However, where people differ is in their ethical compass. How far an individual will push to maximise their personal gain. From where I am standing, Harry and Meghan have pushed it too far, that's my personal judgement. What I dislike is being lectured to on how I should or should not behave by someone I think has a pretty shoddy ethical compass in the first place.
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26-03-2021, 10:25 AM | #17 | |||
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i have not said they are beyond criticism, i have an issue with people thinking they are some separate entity at odds with society and with silly meaningless terms like toxic media etc |
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26-03-2021, 10:26 AM | #18 | |||
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writing a best selling book is not particularly easy i would imagine, its a bit more than some meet and greets
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26-03-2021, 10:58 AM | #19 | |||
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Oh no, I'm English
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Anti - Using terms like toxic media
Pro - Using the author of toxic pieces https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/jan-m...-article-ever/ Jan Moir’s column questioning the circumstances around the death of Boyzone singer Stephen Gately has now become the most complained about story in the history of the Press Complaints Commission. Quote:
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26-03-2021, 11:05 AM | #20 | ||
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Am also in the 'dont blame people taking advantage of the system, blame the broken system' boat tbh.
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26-03-2021, 11:21 AM | #21 | |||
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Surely everyone can see the comedy hour hypocrisy of Harry's latest "job" in light of the errors, lies and fabrication that went on in the Oprah "interview"?? I am just staggered by the brass neck of it all |
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26-03-2021, 11:36 AM | #22 | ||
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I'm yet to see anyone point any of these "errors, lies and fabrications" other than the one about getting married before the main ceremony which, as I;ve pointed out before, is not the "zinger gotcha!!" that people are desperate for it to be at all.
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26-03-2021, 11:39 AM | #23 | |||
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I absolutely agree. |
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26-03-2021, 11:42 AM | #24 | |||
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Oh no, I'm English
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I never really come across either of them other than on here, so I don't even get the being lectured part. If you don't seek them out, they're pretty unobtrusive.
Nothing more than pantomime villains for the saggy white masses.
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Last edited by The Slim Reaper; 26-03-2021 at 11:44 AM. |
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26-03-2021, 11:50 AM | #25 | |||
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the newspaper headlines that were meant to be from UK were from all over and doctored to dramatise. ITV had to edit them out for later broadcast
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