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

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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,177 ✭✭✭Be right back


    https://www.skynews.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity-life/family-guy-takes-down-harry-and-meghan-in-latest-episode/video/fa169a37b9d45320170af189af1c86b3...



  • Registered Users Posts: 11,300 ✭✭✭✭jm08


    Murdock must be really panicked at this stage about impending court cases. Family Guy (Fox) /Sky Aus are owned by him.

    He seems to be in a spot of trouble, so any cheap shot is worth it. https://bylineinvestigates.com/2023/10/23/confessions-of-a-news-of-the-world-reporter-news-of-the-world-fixed-prince-harry-false-drug-tests/

    Amazing how this story isn't reported elsewhere in the British media!



  • Registered Users Posts: 17,031 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject




  • Registered Users Posts: 6,177 ✭✭✭Be right back


    I don't watch either but will make an exception for this!



  • Registered Users Posts: 575 ✭✭✭maik3n


    Nowhere near I'm afraid.

    It was just the bit highlighted in the skynewsAU video earlier.

    It was a rather gentle milquetoast ribbing.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 11,300 ✭✭✭✭jm08


    So, Father of the Year, King Charles withdrew agreed financial support for their trial year in Canada £700K and security (despite Harry being at the same security risk level as the monarch) to pressure Harry from taking legal proceedings against one of William's aids who was leaking personal information about H&M to Dan Wootton for payment. Charles hoped that this would prevent H&M leaving as they would be too worried about security, and so remain under his control (as he would have control of the purse strings).

    They say, this is the reason that Harry wrote 'Spare'.

    https://bylinetimes.com/2023/10/25/exploding-megxit-how-dan-wootton-and-a-cash-for-leaks-scandal-split-the-monarchy/



  • Administrators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,947 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Neyite


    It's to be noted that it's the US media leading in taking the piss out of them now not the British tabloids. Their plan of a rival royal court in the US has well and truly flopped.



  • Registered Users Posts: 11,300 ✭✭✭✭jm08


    Would this be the Murdock owned US media by any chance such as Page Six, Fox, New York Post, Family Guy (owned by Fox) for example? Basically all the right wing owned US media?



  • Registered Users Posts: 575 ✭✭✭maik3n


    Hmmzz, i'm not sure what US media you are following, lol.

    This Family Guy story is the first mention of H&M (since South Park) that I have really seen in a while. I would have to agree though, in so far as that they have not manged to break America yet.

    Coming back to the UK, I think you will find that the Daily Mail are still churning out stories almost daily about H&M.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭Multipass


    So in revenge Harry wrote about his frozen todger. That showed them 😂



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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭valoren


    Can the Byline story be shared via archive? Would like to read it.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,744 ✭✭✭Karppi


    I've tried to post an archive doc before and been told off. The byline story is a bad rehash of old falsehoods. This was published at the time, setting out what actually happened

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/harry-charles-finances-royal-palace/2021/06/24/675411b0-d4ca-11eb-b39f-05a2d776b1f4_story.html



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭valoren


    £3.60. What am I buying? Full time security like? 😄

    From the blurb it doesn't seem promising e.g. now it becomes H&M had to prematurely sign commercial deals because Pa cut off his multi millionaire son whereas they literally said at the time that their plan was to become financially independent i.e. via signing commercial deals. Eventually. Because everyone has that luxury/opportunity.

    Feels like gaslighting from the high level reading.



  • Registered Users Posts: 11,300 ✭✭✭✭jm08


    'Prince Charles’s office, Clarence House, published in its annual accounts that Charles paid his sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, and their families, a sum of $6.3 million. The annual report covers the period from April 1, 2020, to March 31, 2021. It’s not broken down by family.


    That article is just a press release from the Firm.

    And we do know that is factual that their security was pulled by Charles and that the tabloids were informed by someone (Harry says that it could only be Charles or William who knew) where they actually were staying in Canada. You would want to be fairly desparate situation to phone up someone you had never met and ask for help which is what Meghan did by phoning Tyler Perry who did rescue them.



  • Registered Users Posts: 17,031 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Remember Harry belligerent telling Oprah that his father cut him off financially?

    A grown man in his 30s, married with one child and Meghan was pregnant with their second after they'd left of their own accord because they wanted to be financially independent.

    Weren't they so lucky to be given what they so desperately wanted?



  • Registered Users Posts: 11,300 ✭✭✭✭jm08


    No, its quite serious actually. The partner of one of Prince Wiliam's aid was selling info on the Sussex's to The Sun. The admin staff in the The Sun got nervous about this (worried that the same thing would happen to them as happened to he News of the World and a whistleblower reported it. The Met Police couldn't do anything about it (which was basically bribing a public official) because they couldn't get access to Royal Property. The Palace decided to investigate (Simon Case, now head of the Civil Service) who dismissed the claim as the person involved claimed that althought they had met Dan Wootton who was paying these sums, they didn't know him personally which was discovered to be a lie as Bylinetimes produced a photo of the couple at an intimate party (20 people in a posh hotel at a party organised and paid for by Dan Wootton). Wootton put the photo up on instagram by the way 🙄

    Harry sent formal 'letters before action' detailing the claims about Wootton and the palace to News UK.

    Charles ( right hand man Lord Peel) but pressure on Harry to alter the legal papers (removing the name William's assistant who was leaking to his partner who was getting paid by Wooton).

    When Harry wouldn't do that, they were cut off by Charles - Charles siding with the Wiliam's assistant against his own son).

    Now, who would want a father like that, who knowing that there are very credible death threats against his son and grandson, would just cut them off and side with one of Wiliam's employee.

    The employee has since left the employment of the Palace!



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭valoren


    Prince Harry and Meghan were forced out of the Sandringham Agreement to continue in public service from Canada when his father pulled the plug on funding.

    Just on this. The first bullet point. Who knows that to be the case? Harry and Meghan would know for sure. Perhaps they are involved in this piece? Indirectly presumably feeding a gaslighting narrative.

    His case is coming up in January after all. Anonymous whistle blowers might not be enough.

    I'd still be aligning with the narrative that they both liked what they saw they were worth on paper (i.e. a lot) and moved to cash in on that with a move to the states. Restrictions were put in place by the Queen (they'd have to work at financial independence instead of exploiting the Firms brand for quick and easy money). Sussex Royal branded merch etc.

    We're still seeing this epic tantrum/clapback playing out nearly four years later.



  • Registered Users Posts: 11,300 ✭✭✭✭jm08


    The relevance to the court case is that the Sun (Dan Wootton) was bribing public officials (Palace staff) for information. The payments were being made to the Aide's partner. Harry was pursuing a legal case against Wootton and The Sun and named the Aide in the legal papers. Charles wanted Harry to withdraw his name because he didn't want the world to get an airing of William & Charles' dirty laundry. Harry knows for a fact that the Palace / staff were leaking information about H & M to Wootton/The Sun as Harry caught them out (a la Colleen Rooney). Harry had hand written a letter to Charles (with no copies to anyone else) where he offered to give up his titles. Charles was the only person who knew of this offer and Wootton was the only one to publish that piece of information. (Wootton was the person who broke the Megxit story).

    The implication for the palace is that palace staff will be called as witnesses in the court case. And Charles does not want that to happen.

    The Sandringham Agreement with the Quen was published in a statement initially (which included that there would be a transition period where their security would be taken care of and that they would be given €700K to help them find their feet). That was pulled by Charles (nasty overriding his mother's wishes). We know for a fact that the security was pulled and that H&M had to go begging for help from Tyler Perry. That doesn't look like that was a planned moved because 'they liked what they saw they were worth on paper' because the picture would not have been very rosy at the start of the pandemic when they had to flee their rented house in Canada because their security was withdrawn and the paps were banging on the doors.



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,177 ✭✭✭Be right back


    https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/royals/savage-meghan-and-harry-mocking-exposes-brutal-truth/news-story/832b098dced771b5fb3ca53a684c2c4e..



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭valoren


    The Byline article co-written by Dan Evans who was Harrys witness in the hacking trial? There is no bias going on there at all, at all.

    I particularly like the narrative that this was all Charles desperately trying to trip up Harry and Meghan because they were going to outshine him when they left. It’s going on four years now and I don’t buy why Chuck needed worrying or scheming about undermining them. They’ve been generally shunned in Hollywood. With that in mind I wonder where the narrative is coming from. I see Omid Scobie (he who covertly collaborated with H&M) has another book coming out and perhaps this article is drummed up for both the promotion of that as well as getting a narrative into the public ahead of Harrys court case. Judging by his trial for the phone hacking then he’ll need any help he can get. Even if it’s from convicted phone hackers turned whistleblowers and anonymous staff.

    I think the Family Guy skit was pretty tame and nowhere near the roasting they got from the ultra conservative (lol) Murdoch-not-controlled South Park. I don’t think the pointed satire from Matt and Trey had any effect though as H&M were back in NY a few weeks ago for a mental health summit. Thankfully no near catastrophic car chases this time. Meghan was in full word salad flow e.g. “being a mom is the most important thing to except being wife to this one”. They were staying at a hotel which was approx. 200 yards from where the event was being held. They could have simply walked there since there was no crowds but instead they went around a city block in a cavalcade of SUVs announcing their arrival and beautifully illustrating the satire from South Park. Act like the big shots you think you are if you like but clearly there is a delusion going on there big time. (e.g. 6th in line to the throne and family having the same level of security threat as the monarch? Lol).



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  • Registered Users Posts: 11,300 ✭✭✭✭jm08


    Seriously, you think that it is a negative that this guy Dan Evans is prepared to be a witness in a court of law for Harry (and many others who were hacked by The Sun and other tabloids)?

    Do you think that Harry is paying him to do that or something because if he is, both Harry and his lawyers would be in very serious trouble with the Courts.

    Even Piers Morgan and Dan Wootton know to keep themselves out of court and hide behind their newspapers lawyers because they will have to tell the truth, unlike what they do in the newspaper articles.

    Omid Scobie testified as to what he saw Piers Morgan up to in a court of law. That takes guts as a journalist because it might make it very difficult for him to get work for having testified against a newspaper employer.

    Family Guy etc. is irrelevant and the rest of what you say.

    Do you not find it interesting that Harry wrote to Charles offering to give up all his titles (published by Dan Wootton) - hardly the actions of a 'big shot' action clinging onto his position as a member of the Royal Family.

    And just to be clear, there were credible death threats against Harry and Archie from white supremists (according to the Met Police), some of whom has since been put in prison.



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭valoren


    However the bias is pretty stark. Convicted phone hacker says in court on behalf of Prince Harry that phone hacking happened. Stop the Press. 2012 called and wants its headline back. Prince Harry armed with multiple examples in court can’t conclusively prove that he was hacked because the stories could have stemmed from other sources beyond phone hacking and just because thinking such stories came from hacking doesn’t mean they did . Judge says “Dude, it’s 2023, that was 20 plus years ago so why didn't you sue when people were getting convicted for such crimes? Ok, I'll be fair, you can go to trial for the stuff like them paying people 50 quid for tip offs so they could snap you falling out of night clubs”. 

    Remember the only royals who are officially confirmed in court records as having secretly/covertly worked with a journalist (Omid Scobie) was Harry and Meghan via their aide Jason Knauf. As elephants in the room go then that’s a sizeable one and one which Byline blankly ignores. Perhaps we’ll see these allegations gain something as credible in court this January. Who knows.



  • Registered Users Posts: 11,300 ✭✭✭✭jm08


    Convicted phone hacker who served time in prison and who thinks its wrong that the people behind the phone hacking and other dubious methods of obtaining information like Piers Morgan and Dan Wootoon got off scot free? If he has the evidence, he has the evidence. The judge will decide, but bearing in mind that the newspapers main defence is that it happened over six years ago, seems to me to be an admission of guilt.

    Do you think they were guilty of phone hacking and obtaining information illegally? A yes or no answer will suffice.

    Harry has proof that his Aide (Christian Jones) was leaking private information to Dan Wootton through Jones' partner who received payment from Wootton of £3,000. We know about the payment because a Sun staff member who worked in the Sun's accounts blew the whistle on him. You cant pay public officials for information (thats corruption). Christian Jones is a public official. When it was investigated by Palace (and the Met Police) - Harry reported it to the police. The Palace (Simon Case, Williams Aide and now Head of Civil Service) investigated what happened and cleared Chrisian Jones from wrongdoing because Jones claimed that although he had met Dan Wootton, he didn't know him. That was a lie. And Bylinetimes produced the evidence to prove it was a lie (a photo taken at a small party of Dan Wootton's closest friends on Instagram - Jones was in a group photo of 4 or 5 with Dan Wootton, which was on Instagram - so no dodgy stuff getting the photo evidence that he had lied by Bylinetimes).

    Wootton is in trouble as well as Christian Jones! Custodial could be on the way.

    Harry handwrote a letter to Prince Charles where he offered to return the Titles. He didn't tell anyone else about this, so the leak did come from the Palace.

    As for the co-operation with Omid Scobie - the judge ruled that this information was irrelevant to the court case. Meghan apologised to the court for forgetting that she had consented to Knauf speaking to Omid Scobie and that is the last she heard about it. She didnt speak to Omid herself.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,744 ✭✭✭Karppi


    Harry handwrote a letter to Prince Charles where he offered to return the Titles. He didn't tell anyone else about this, so the leak did come from the Palace.

    Of course, if Harry had mentioned it to Meghan, she’d have likely forgotten about it anyway. She has form in that regard. Not that she’d have leaked it, of course

    When is Omid Scobie’s book due out? It must be soon. The prep work is underway, clearly



  • Registered Users Posts: 11,300 ✭✭✭✭jm08


    Why would Meghan tell/leak to Dan Wootton who absolutely hates her and Harry anything? Omid Scobie didn't break that particular story - Wootton did. You do realise that Harry and Meghan are sueing most of the British tabloids, so would hardly be leaking anything to them anyway as it could be used against them in court🙄



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,744 ✭✭✭Karppi


    Maybe you really have no understanding of how tortuous H&M’s minds are.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭valoren


    I'm not on a jury to decide anyones guilt. The prospect of perjury sure does prompt people to make admissions. Irrelevant to the court case? Yes and minimise away but proof, for me, that they are hypocrites i.e. My family/staff briefed press against us, we have no proof of this but feel sure it happened so it must have but when we do things like that (with proof) it's a-ok because we have to get our truth out there somehow.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 11,300 ✭✭✭✭jm08


    Its ok to brief the press. Millions of organisations, presidents, charities, politicians, kings etc. brief the press. Harry briefs the press about Invictus or whatever. That is all above board.

    What is wrong is for the the RF/their staff to brief private information to the press without the consent of those involved. For instance, that Jones chap leaked about who Archie's godparents were when they knew that H&M wanted to keep that private. Or leaking information about Megxit when they were only discussing it.

    They have proof now that they were leaking private information (re the handwritten letter Harry wrote to his father in which he offered to return his titles. The people who knew about that were Harry (possibly Meghan) and Prince Charles (and possibly some of Charles staff). Of all of those, who do you think would have told Dan Wootton so that he could publish it

    Please do answer this question (and by the way, I'm still waiting for an answer on whether you think the tabloids were phone hacking and obtaining private information illegally or whether they are innocent of all that illegal stuff

    As for your comment about perjury. What happened in the privacy court case was that Jason Knauf said that Meghan briefed the press (or got her staff to do so). The judge said that this was irrelevant to this particular case. Meghan apologised to the court because she had forgotten that she knew that Knauf was going to meet with Scobie to discuss the book. She said she didnt know what was said in that meeting as she didnt hear back from Knauf about it.

    Christoper Jones lied about his connection to Dan Wootton (and there is photo evidence of his friendship on Wootton's Instagram Account. The Sun (ordered by Wootton) made payments to Jones' partner. There is a money/paper trail. That is illegal. The Sun, Wootton & Jones are snookered but it really isn't good for the Firm as it is now public knowledge that they are (like all the British politicians in the pocket of the press barons.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭valoren


    And you believe that? Knauf never told me what he said even though I gave him detailed notes to throw my family under the bus covertly? Let it all come out in the case since you think it's an open and shut case then. It will be interesting to follow. At least Harry has some evidence this time.

    I answered. I'm not on any jury and the people you mention are not on trial. Thinking someone is guilty because you don't like them and innocent because you like them isn't healthy at all. I need to read up about Wooten/Jones as not overly familiar with them. I think this whole Byline business isn't gaining any real traction at all and given the bias involved and likely promo/publicity going on then maybe that's the reason why.



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