What a Stupid, Stupid Boy (Prince Harry)

hollydolly said:
she's so full of nonsense.. exagerating the time she spent there.. they only lived in Frogmore Cottage for 11 months before moving to the US...and after spending £2.4 Million of Taxpayers money renovating Frogmore into a 4 bedroom home with a Nursery.., which originally had been a ten bedroom home

it's not the tiny home they make it out to be...

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when they moved to the states we, the British Public were up in arms about them using Taxpayers money to renovate a property they were about to rent out to line their own pockets, so The palace insisted Harry pay the Money back...
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That's Frogmore House which she would've loved.

Frogmore Cottage is much smaller. This pic is before they renovated it. It now has privacy hedges and fences so the view in post renovation pics isn't as clear. Still not slumming by any stretch of the imagination.

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The picture posters are seeing at post # 222 in
misleading.
That is Frogmore House not Frogmore Cottage

Not everyone who lives in Britain knows Britain!!
 

AnnieA said:
That's Frogmore House which she would've loved.

Frogmore Cottage is much smaller. This pic is before they renovated it. It now has privacy hedges and fences and the view in post renovation pics isn't as clear. Still not slumming by any stretch of the imagination.

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Yes, that looks more like the photos I have seen. I thought it was a lovely cottage.
 
Chet said:
I watched Harry (formerly known as Prince) on 60 Minutes and I'm glad I did. Hearing his story from his mouth was ten times better than reading about it. After 80 years on this planet you get to read people pretty well, and I found him to be genuine, and left with the feeling of him having legitimate gripes with how he and Meghan were treated, and why he left that atmosphere that they were subjected to in the U.K.
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Thank you for an intelligent post.
 
Nemo2 said:
I'm also 80, but perhaps I move my lips, and run my fingers under the words, when I read. I don't watch Harry & Migraine, but unfortunately it's almost impossible not to be impacted by their histrionic soap opera.

What I see, (perhaps I should get a Covid mask and wear it over my eyes), is a narcissistic predator, with a handful of magic beans, who latched on to a titled, wealthy, spoiled doofus with a Golden Goose who she's held in thrall and manipulated since their first meeting.

But hey.....
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Hate to admit⬆️..but I 'absolutely' AGREE!!😉
 
The Duke of Sussex has paid back the cost of refurbishing Frogmore Cottage near Windsor Castle.

The cost, estimated at £2.4m in 2018-19, was covered by taxpayers through the Sovereign Grant, but the duke and duchess said they would repay it when they stepped back from royal duties.

Prince Harry's spokesman said he had paid the bill in full by making a contribution to the grant.

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The British taxpayer did not pay for the refurbishment of Frogmore Cottage!
 
I don't think Harry is all that stupid. Look at all the money he is racking in on TV appearances and now the book. Perhaps the "stupid" people are those watching his Netflix show and spending their hard earned money buying his book. Harry is laughing all the way to the bank about those "stupid" peasants. He knows there is a "sucker born every minute."
 
Sunny said:
One columnist in today's paper did make an interesting observation: Harry keeps complaining that the media have intruded into his family's privacy, etc. and hounded his mother literally to death. But then, what are he and Meghan doing, publicly airing all their dirty linen over and over again?
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When a new book or movie is coming out, the writer or the actors will appear on radio or TV plugging it. That is why Harry is doing what he's doing, and I'm sure 60 Minutes went to him and not the opposite.
 
Chet said:
When a new book or movie is coming out, the writer or the actors will appear on radio or TV plugging it. That is why Harry is doing what he's doing, and I'm sure 60 Minutes went to him and not the opposite.
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The publisher arranges appearances. It's usually part of the contract that authors have to do the publicity rounds.
 
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The publisher of Prince Harry's memoir says sales have exceeded its "most bullish expectations". Transworld Penguin Random House said Spare was its fastest-selling non-fiction book with sales so far topping 400,000 copies.
That includes hardback, audiobook and ebook downloads.

Some bookshops in the UK opened hours early overnight on Tuesday in anticipation of strong sales, with industry experts predicting that Spare could be one of the best-selling pre-order titles of the past decade.

People queued for midnight shop openings, waiting outside WH Smith in London's Victoria station to be among the first to buy a copy.

US retailer Barnes and Noble said the pre-publication leaking of details from the book had "only heightened the frenzy".

Barnes & Noble, the world's largest bookseller, showed on Tuesday that Spare had beaten heavyweight titles such as The Stolen Heir by Holly Black, former US first lady Michelle Obama's autobiography The Light We Carry and 2022 book of the year Lessons in Chemistry to take the top spot on the retailer's Top 100 list in the US.

It also topped Amazon's bestseller list in the US and UK.

The memoir had already ranked first on many bestseller lists ahead of its release date.
 
Packerjohn said:
I don't think Harry is all that stupid. Look at all the money he is racking in on TV appearances and now the book. Perhaps the "stupid" people are those watching his Netflix show and spending their hard earned money buying his book. Harry is laughing all the way to the bank about those "stupid" peasants. He knows there is a "sucker born every minute."
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I think your overall premise is correct, it's just your aim that's slightly off.......try pointing over to one side, just slightly.
 
hollydolly said:
10 bedrooms before they ripped it apart with OUR money...
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I don't think they ripped it apart. It was ten rooms but divided into five units to house Royal staff members. Royal staff are known for being poorly paid and I doubt if the staff accommodation is that great. I think it reasonable that it would be renovated to a higher standard prior to becoming a Royal residence.

As I understand the system, it would not have been H&M who applied for the (taxpayer funded) Sovereign Grant, that is an annual grant paid to the monarch to support the cost of things like maintenance of Royal residences and workspaces so, it would have been the Queen who awarded the grant. H&M are leaseholders and paid for the fixtures and fittings. The cottage is owned by the Crown Estates.

Morally I think it was right to expect H&M to repay the cost of the renovations as they renewed the lease and obviously planned to keep hold of the property but, I don't think they actually did anything wrong in this respect.
 
Trish said:
I don't think they ripped it apart. It was ten rooms but divided into five units to house Royal staff members. Royal staff are known for being poorly paid and I doubt if the staff accommodation is that great. I think it reasonable that it would be renovated to a higher standard prior to becoming a Royal residence.

As I understand the system, it would not have been H&M who applied for the (taxpayer funded) Sovereign Grant, that is an annual grant paid to the monarch to support the cost of things like maintenance of Royal residences and workspaces so, it would have been the Queen who awarded the grant. H&M are leaseholders and paid for the fixtures and fittings. The cottage is owned by the Crown Estates.

Morally I think it was right to expect H&M to repay the cost of the renovations as they renewed the lease and obviously planned to keep hold of the property but, I don't think they actually did anything wrong.
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I didn't say they did anything wrong. I said the UK taxpayer paid for the renovation which included a nursery, and 10 rooms became 4.. and they were only there for 11 months... and the Crown rightly asked for the money to be repaid when it was clear they were going to live overseas..
 
I'm beginning to think he's deranged..

Earlier today Harry ddenied talking to Oprah Winfrey about any kind of Racism in the Royal family.. esily disporved when the media showed the interview with Oprah.. and NOW Harry...says this

....has furiously slammed down accusations that he 'boasted' about killing 25 Taliban fighters in his explosive memoir Spare - while accusing his critics of 'spinning' his words and spouting 'lies' about the revelation, which he says have put his family 'in danger'.

The 38-year-old vehemently defended his decision to share the information as he sat down for an interview with The Late Show host Stephen Colbert - a pre-taped chat that was recorded on Monday night and is due to be aired in full this evening.

In a teaser clip for what will no doubt be another bombshell TV tell-all, Harry hit back at accusations that he 'undermined his own security' by writing about his Taliban kills, while blaming his critics for spreading 'dangerous lies' and 'spinning his words'.

'I think one of... the most dangerous lies that they have told is that I somehow boasted about the number of people I have killed in Afghanistan,' he told Colbert.

'I would say that if I heard anybody else, anyone, boasting about that kind of thing, I would be angry. But it's a lie.

He added: 'My words are not dangerous, but the spin of my words are very dangerous to my family.'

The Duke of Sussex faced serious criticism from politicians and senior former military members alike after leaked excerpts from his book - which were published after the book was accidentally released early in Spain - revealed his recollections of killing Taliban members while he was serving as an Apache helicopter pilot.

After the excerpts were published last week, former British Army commander Colonel Richard Kemp described Harry's comments as 'ill-judged' warned that his admissions could cause pro-Taliban sympathizers to be 'provoked to attempt revenge' against him and possibly 'incite some people to attempt an attack on British soldiers anywhere in the world'.

Meanwhile, former Royal Marine commando Ben McBean suggested the Duke had broken an 'unwritten rule' with his revelation.

However, Harry insisted to Colbert that it was not his words that were in any way dangerous - but rather the 'spin' that his critics have put on them, with the Duke saying it is 'a choice they have made', which has put his family in danger.

He went on to insist that that the 'reason' he chose to write about his kill count was to 'reduce the number of suicides' among military veterans.

'I made a choice to share it because, having spent nearly two decades working with veterans all around the world, I think the most important thing is to be honest and to give space to others to share their experiences without any shame,' he said - while receiving applause from the audience, which included several veterans.
 
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