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

“Throughout all these [Invictus] families I see it on a day-to-day basis the strength of the family unit coming together. I think any illness*, any sickness brings families together.”

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* Except my non-Billionaire father in law of course.

Live text reporting on an interview?

I thought he wasn't important.

Because (as already pointed out!) Harry himself said “Throughout all these families I see it on a day-to-day basis the strength of the family unit coming together. I think any illness, any sickness brings families together.”

Harry is, therefore, a Category 5 hypocrite.

I'm pleasantly surprised he didn't go down that path.

Each day, with each utterance and each activity, he is more resembling Prince Mario-Max Schaumburg-Lippe.

Will you just get over P&H calling themselves the Sussexes. Just look at how the Royal family name themselves. Prince Andrew's children are called Yorks, (and not Mountbatten-Windsor), Prince Michael's family are called the Kents (he is Duke of Kent), the Duke of Gloucester's family are called the Gloucesters (think they are first cousins of QEII). The Kents and Gloucesters all have coats of arms and they were engaged in business as well. For example, Prince Michael who had some sort of a consultancy business, retained his HRH and coat of arms despite never been a 'working' (paid)member of the RF (although he did some work).

https://web.archive.org/web/20180328200616/http://www.princemichael.org.uk/

Do you have a problem with all of these retaining all these titles and benefits of being members of the RF?

You need to face up to the fact that no matter what anyone says or wants, Harry will always be a royal (and by extension his wife and children).

To be Royal and to be boring is pretty much the point. They are not celebrities or creative types.

Jeez I wonder what ever happened in the last three years in following this to make me cynical. A head scratcher. The hypocrisy in your post is quite fantastic. Requesting balance when discussing Harry and Meghan. I might ask you to do the same when discussing pretty much everyone else in this who isn't Harry and Meghan (Chuck, Will et al) but that would be futile. To look at this objectively then they are not working royals anymore. They are linked to the family but also the monarchy and such links and its unique selling point were what helped land them those initial commercial deals with Netflix, Spotify etc.

I doubt giving multi million deals to unproven creatives/producers is a solid business move but signing exclusivity with two Royals with stories to tell is. I also think if Harry made it abundantly clear that he was severing ties with his family, didn't want to discuss them, was going to live privately then regardless of his titles and status then none of those deals would have been signed through.

It is not a coincidence that any non-royal related commercial output they have produced (or wish to produce) isn't shifting. Whether they like it or not then that is what their selling point is and I'm sure they are well aware of this. As such it is in their interests to retain that selling point. They don't have to actually kiss and make up with the family but to big up their unique status as royals from a monarchy is beneficial for them. There are no realistic plans to reunify and so to conjure up a narrative (i.e. I'm all for forgiveness and hugs but my brother is having none of it sadly....diddums....where do I sign?) is a good strategy for them. Balanced. See?

he isn't a hypocrit at all.

the fact he said something which will be true in some cases but not all cases does not mean it is possible in his or meghan's case or should happen.

some families have members that are just to toxic to be brought together with other members of the family, by illness or another circumstance.

thomas markle knows what he needs to do if he wants a relationship with his daughter and granchildren.

the princess of sussex will no doubt give fair consideration to rebuilding a relationship with him if she feels she can trust him to treat her good.

at a minimum i would imagine, stop selling stories to the press as a way to use the press to immotionally blackmail princess meghan of sussex.

i did mention this lots though previously, surprised you missed it, in fact i don't think you did but the thread is quite big.

The man he never met even before before the falling out.

Great. So all Princess Meghan of Sussex needs to do is ring up her dad and ask that if he is willing to stop talking to the press about her then she'll be interested in mending their relationship and maybe let him meet his grandson and grandkids. #CompassionInAction

They are not actually renaming themselves - that is their name. A gift from QEII. They are using their given name. What else would they do? - resort back to be the Wales' (which is the name Harry had from birth).

God forbid - thankfully, he can't! He was a "Wales" because he was the son of the then Prince of Wales. He can't go back to being a "Wales", because that's now his brother's family name - hence, Catherine, Princess of Wales etc. I presume that the Coronation triggered H&M's family name to change to Sussex. BTW, their given name isn't their surname. Rename, rebrand, whatever, let them at it. The only thing they want is a connection to the British Royal Family - you know, the one the got a freedom flight away from. Funny old logic, isn't it?

Do you even read my posts?

I literally said the royal connection is inescapable for them, that it is (and has been) their unique selling point in America and their latest rebrand is akin to a reminder about that USP. They are a royal "family" in America and it's for sale since they wanted financial independence. Where exactly are you seeing me in particular having a problem with that?

It can't help matters when he asked his step-mum, Camilla, the present Queen, to step outside the room while he speaks to his father, he would not have dared to say same to his Granny, also a Queen.