Harry and Meghan - OP updated with Threadbanned Users 4/5/21

Harry won't be next in line, he's stepped down.

He doesn't want to king. If he doesn't want to the future Duke of York (official spare), why the hell would he want to be King? Just because you are a certain number in the pecking order doesn't mean you have to take the crown if a series of unfortunate accidents and incidents somehow see you shuffled to the top of the pile. A reigning Monarch abdicated in the 1930s so the then Duke of York took his place. I don't think the current Duke of York would be deemed acceptable though, despite the title essentially meaning you are the official spare. Not sure if it would then pass onto his little brother or his horse faced daughter. Anyway, it is highly unlikely to ever happen.

He would have to abdicate if he doesn't want it. You would presume that not wanting to be a working Royal implies he doesn't want the job of Head of State. Would it be a constitutional crisis? Depending on who's around following the series of unfortunate events that would wipe out all the Cambridges, surely it would go to Uncle Sleaze Bag or failing that, Princess Horse Face? Or would Little Brother and his line come first? There's certainly enough first cousins around if all the Queen's offspring are gone. Isn't that the point of having a hierarchy of heirs?

Eeee, I thought you disregarded royalty, so quite a strange appreciation of Harry in that matter from you then. I thought they were all clowns in your eyes...

The Queen's actual children don't enjoy the type or level of security Harry is cribbing about. So even if he were to be granted it (which just isn't going to happen), it isn't forever anyway and is temporary.

There's also the fact that he doesn't actually live in the UK anymore. He left and has spent the bones of maybe 3 weeks in the UK since leaving. He has been living as a private citizen, without any form of police protection, in a country with a much higher crime rate than the UK. In all that time, I can't recall any incident which would validate his security concerns. When he is in the UK on royal properties or at official royal events, he has been covered by high level security. The Home Office have said that he's been granted the special privilege of having his security needs reassessed on a regular basis. If he was being rational and in touch with reality then he would accept his circumstances and situation simply doesn't warrant the security he feels he's entitled to. I think he would the type who is obsessed with his image and the climb down from what he was used to was a major blow to his ego i.e. from motorcades while on duty to VW van transfers from and back to the airport for when he comes back for intermittent second row gigs. Mike Tindall reportedly called him a bellend. That seems accurate. Harry is an entitled bellend.

He was born into the risk. Yes, him and the rest of them. Do they or did they have cases regarding security with the Home Office? Only him. Met police is not for private sale. Fact. His offer to pay is thus (knowingly) baseless and, to my mind, a PR tactic. Fact. He's no longer a working Royal. Fact. If he was and was US based in that working capacity he would have some semblance of a case for getting IPP status i.e. an RPO like what his mother was offered. But he isn't. He stepped down. He is a private citizen now. It had security consequences. When Canada pulled the plug on paying for security then that was the shove to move to the US. From what I can see he is a guy who had want for nothing but then reality (i.e. private security is expensive) hit him and, with it having to come out of his own póca, he is clamoring to reduce those expenses by manipulating public sentiment and his wealthy family with his born into the risk guff. The UK is racist but I want them to pay for my security and offer nothing in return. I get you staunchly defend him but from what I can see he really is an entitled bellend. I don't know the guy but if there is any shred of veracity to Tindall's remark then he would be in a better position to make a comment about his character. From following the case and their antics then I would sway towards Tindall actually saying something so derogatory.

But if they have yet to reach their majority in the unlikely event the throne becomes vacant then someone old enough needs to be Regent. ..

Not many turned up..

She probably got a copy straight from the presses! After all, she was glad M didn't go to the funeral. If that's true, you wonder who leaked it. Couldn't imagine her staff would do it without her permission!

Well yes!!

I assume you mean "deeply" understands. Well I disagree and here is my evidence:

1. He didnt understand highly the impact of racial slurs on people when well into adulthood he was calling arab people and people from pakistan by commonly used racial slurs. He also assured the press that his then girlfriend from Zimbabwe was not that sort of African. and that is only what was caught on camera. Imagine the stuff we didnt hear. plus the nazi uniform episode. Plenty of evidence that adult Harry does not understand highly, or he doesnt care.

2. Mental health issues. By their own words, Harry was unable to get mental health treatment for his suicidal wife. Despite himself attending mental health services during that time and being in a charity with his brother to help people access mental health services. Harry by her own words told her to go upstairs and get ready for a public event which was by her account extremly stresful and she put on a show of being ok even though she was very much not ok, by her own words. So he does not understand highly nor it would seem have any empathy to people suffering from extreme mental stress.

3. Environmental issues which he touched on in his speach.........Private jets, multiple, frequently, sometimes to go short distances, 16 bathrooms, multiple gas guzzling SUVs........need I go on. Either highly understanding and not caring......or simply not really getting it.