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Meghan Markle spent years telling the world how terribly she was treated by the Royal Family. The curtsy. The nude pantyhose that made her feel “inauthentic”. Being told to wear neutral nail polish. Having to follow royal protocol. Being expected to learn royal etiquette, including how to sit and cross her legs. The formality, the restrictions, the clothes, the rules. Apparently, all of it was an unbearable assault on her identity.
Yet she says she had been made aware of deeply disturbing allegations about her own father, serious enough that she wanted him kept away from her children.
Think about that contrast.
She had endless words for the stockings, the curtsy, the institution and every perceived indignity of royal life. She turned those experiences into interviews, documentaries sold for millions.
But somehow, the most serious family matter imaginable is now part of a very different conversation.
After all those years of telling us what was unacceptable, perhaps we should ask why her outrage was so exhaustively documented when it came to royal protocol, but the standards she applies to everything else seem to be an entirely different matter.
The Queen’s curtsy was apparently an injustice worth telling the world about. What a remarkable set of priorities.
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“Someone like me, if you’re sitting back staying quiet, keeping low, the stories don’t stop,” he says. He has been “really criticized for telling my story,” he complains, adding: “everybody else is allowed to tell their version of my story, but God forbid I should be able to tell the other side of it. Just by telling my own story, it takes away a lot of power from other people.”
~Harry Mountbatten Windsor, GQ~
Oh, Harry. Here we go again with the victim narrative. 🙄
You complain that “everybody else is allowed to tell their version of my story.”
I’m sorry, H, but when exactly have Prince William, Princess Catherine, or King Charles publicly told YOUR story? Last I checked, they’ve remained remarkably silent while you and your wife have spent years airing your grievances for the entire world to hear.
And if you’re referring to the press, Harry, that’s literally their job! They report on the interviews, accusations, revelations and endless drama YOU and your wife willingly put into the public domain.
You wrote an entire memoir, sat for countless interviews and participated in a Netflix docuseries airing your family’s private affairs. Yet somehow, when the press reports on YOUR words, you’re the victim?
The problem isn’t that others are telling your story, Harry. It’s that you and your wife have skin as thin as cellophane and cannot tolerate anyone questioning your version of events.
You don’t want to control your story. You want to control the narrative, the criticism AND everyone else’s right to respond.
That’s not telling your truth. That’s demanding the last word. Spare me!
#FormerRoyals
📸 Photo Credit GQ Magazine
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Tonight 9pm BBC two😎😎😎
"We like sitting quietly and reading. Occasionally, when I'm deep in a book, I'll hear him roaring with laughter about something."
Queen Camilla discusses her passion to get people reading and gives some insight into the reading habits of her and her husband, The King.
📺 The Book That Changed My Life | Her Majesty The Queen joins four remarkable people to share the stories of books that shaped them. Watch on BBC Two and #iPlayer, 14 October from 9pm.
What live in dangerous times The hatred & abhorrant acts between nations serves no purpose. Why should someone's way of life or religion be a problem because it differs from yours ? I weep for our world and fear times may become even darker, and there will be no turning back.
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I asked GROK how Churchill would've handled H&M. REMOVE TITLES!
"Churchill would treat the monarchy as a sacred, enduring institution that must be defended above personal grievances, family scores, or commercial self-interest"
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King Charles and Queen Camilla meet well-wishers during a community block party and potluck in Front Royal, Virginia today.
📹 maxfostercnn
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CONFIRMED: King and Queen State Visit USA is going ahead
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Palace spokesperson: ‘Following discussions on both sides of the Atlantic through the day, and acting on advice of Government, we can confirm the State Visit by Their Majesties will proceed as planned.
The King and Queen are most grateful to all those who have worked at pace to ensure this remains the case and are looking forward to the Visit getting underway tomorrow.
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🪴The Princess Royal has officially opened The Queen Elizabeth II Garden in The Regent’s Park, London.
The space commemorates the life and service of Queen Elizabeth II - and today would have been Her late Majesty’s 100th birthday.
During the visit, The Princess met gardeners and designers involved with the project, before unveiling a plaque to mark the garden’s official opening.
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🇬🇧 Queen Elizabeth II at 100
— Day #20/21
Our Platinum Queen. In 2022, Her Majesty reached the milestone of her 70th Anniversary of Accession. This was a historic achievement in many ways — one that no monarch in British history had ever reached. As we touched upon in yesterday’s post, this was not something Her Majesty personally desired; for her Accession came about as a result of the death of her father so young.
The reign of Queen Elizabeth II can almost certainly be characterised by the sense of stability she provided. Amidst the pandemic, in 2020, the figure to whom people looked to as a source of solace was none other than Her Majesty herself. The situation had reached a critical point — one grave enough to warrant a special address to the nation.
From Windsor Castle — just as she had done 82 years earlier, when she was 14 years old — Her Majesty spoke to her people, offering reassurance that things would take a turn for the better, & that we would, indeed, “meet again.”
Following the pandemic, The Queen suffered the most painful loss of her reign in losing her “strength & stay”, Prince Philip. The late Duke of Edinburgh had been ill for a while with Her Majesty deeply worried the entire period & various episodes. Sadly, The Queen was not at his side the moment he died on 9 April, 2021 at Windsor. It has since emerged that The Queen was upset the Duke had left, as he so often did in life, without saying goodbye.
The Queen carried on with duties as much as possible. By this point, it was her body catching up to her age. Although she was as competent as ever, she needed a stick to walk & started to slow her usual daily engagements — she had already given up overseas travel in 2015.
In the summer of 2022, having privately marked the 70th Anniversary of her Accession in February, Her Majesty received congratulations from the nation & the world through several days of celebrations & commemorations. After the separation of the pandemic, the Platinum Party at the Palace served as an opportunity for everyone to gather together, throughout the country, once again & to pay tribute to Her Majesty.
On this occasion, Her Majesty appeared on the Balcony of Buckingham Palace for what would be her final appearance. The Queen’s health continued to gradually decline over that summer.
For today’s ‘Queen Elizabeth II at 100’ is Her Majesty with Paddington Bear for tea marking The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
In his words, “Thank you, for everything.”
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Unsurprisingly, Harry and Meghan's quasi-royal Australian tour is turning out to be as stomach-churningly controversial as everyone expected it to be.
Not only have they coralled some 70 sick children, parents and carers in an atrium for a photo op despite the threat of infection to youngsters with the suppressed immune systems that are an inevitable part of cancer treatment, but she has posted her wardrobe online for her admirers, with the purpose of obtaining a kickback for her when they buy what she's been wearing.
Harry baldly asserts that they're a part of the Royal Family so hint hint it's a proper royal tour, despite the clear breaches of the Lord Chamberlain's regulations governing the Royal Family and commercial activities.
The Australian public are up in arms. A petition has garnered tens of thousands of signatures protesting at the way the visit is being handled by the authorities.
Meanwhile Harry and Meghan trip (trip being the operative word) with rictuslike determination on their avaricious way as they try to rustle up sufficient commercial interest via column inches to keep their tacky, grifting show on the road.
It's really time for the Lord Chamberlain's regulations to have the force of law. Until they do, Harry and Meghan will continue to make mugs of the institution they claim to revile while doing their utmost to remind everyone they're a part of, while showing us in ever clearer terms what mugs they really are.
Yet the irony remains that amidst the repellence there is an element of genuine entertainment that is also allied to how instructive it is when ruthless advocates of the merits of drug usage perform upon the platforms which are displays for their wares.
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VIDEO: KC on the decks 🕺🏼
King Charles celebrated a partnership between @KingsTrust and The Elba Hope Foundation, founded by Idris and Sabrina Elba, which launched Creative Futures in Manchester.
🎥 @DuncanCStone for @itvnews
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The whole country wishes you'd fuck off.
Your image and nauseating voice have no place at Christmas celebrations, you cast a sinister and depressing shadow on festivities reminding us of the mess we're in at a time when we're trying to make merry and forget.
#KeirStarmer
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The closing of the live version of "Sultans of Swing" is one of the most memorable moments in Dire Straits' history.
Recorded on "A Night in London" (1996), this performance features an instrumental ending of about three minutes that does not appear on the studio recording, and that's precisely where the magic happens.
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🚨BREAKING: Google has exposed that they received a series of requests from the OFCOM regulator to censor content that they considered "hate speech"
Google disagrees it's hate speech, and has declared Labour a threat to free speech
This is highly concerning.
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Watch as Susan Hall destroys dodgy Pakistani mayor Sadiq Khan, telling him to "pack your bags".
As she questions him about hate marches taking over OUR capital straight after the bondi beach islamic massacre.
He says that's fine, instead taking a swipe at ME, calling me a "racist", and our UTK events as "far right".
Susan exposes the parasite for what he is.
Get Ant Middleton in to sort out the city.
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King Charles attends church every Sunday. If you do not attend church regularly yourself—yet only embrace the commercialised version of Christmas in Dec—then your criticisms of him are hypocritical. If you don't go to church on Sundays, you should practice what you preach!
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NEW: King Charles announces he can reduce his cancer treatment in the new year.
He was speaking in a video message on #su2c on Channel 4.
“Today I am able to share with you the good news that thanks to early diagnosis, effective intervention and adherence to ‘doctors’ orders’, my own
schedule of cancer treatment can be reduced in the New Year. This milestone is both a personal blessing and a testimony to the remarkable advances that have been made in cancer care in recent years”.
