Reader Comments on an article in The Guardian about Prince Harry and his wife Meghan stepping back from royal duties:
^ Good luck to them.
Extraordinary fuss being made by the tabloid press who have effectively hounded them out of the country.
^ Those that are up in arms about all this are the very same people who hound and hassle them mercilessly. I'd be gone as well.
^ Ms Markle seems to have confused "Royalty" with "celebrity".......
They are two different things. Perhaps she thought that being Royal was an entree to being an "A-List Celebrity"?
Not the first American divorcee to make that mistake.
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^ Bollocks
^ There is no longer any difference between them whatsoever.
^ Yes there is..
Royalty is about duty
Celebrity is about "ME!ME!ME"
^ People want to be entertained. Hence the election of Trump and [Boris] Johnson.
Politics, royalty, business, it's all just performance.
I thought that one of the reasons the Sussexes wanted to
"step back / down / out / call-it-what-you-like"
was because of the constant intrusion of the media into their lives, no doubt started when Harry was a child experiencing his mother's hounding by the press and subsequent violent death.
But whatever they do, it won't be hiding away and getting "normal" jobs. They'll still be celebrities, and making their money from that celebrity. And with celebrity comes press and media focus. There's no having your cake and eating it.
If you want to profit from your celebrity status, you are also signing up for the negative aspects of it, and having your life plastered over the papers, including the bad bits.
Deal with it. Most people don't have such an opportunity to choose which way they make their millions.
^ I don't have millions or even million, but I wouldn't exchange my life for their millions and goldfish lifestyle. I doubt that all the money in the world compensates for being "owned" by the British tabloids.
^ I think they will always be 'celebrities' - aka, being subjected to continuous gutter press hounding and intrusion - whether they welcome that or not. I doubt they will ever be allowed to have a choice about this.
^ I would not want that lifestyle either but it appears that they still want the benefits of celebrity without paying the price of it.
^ They don't need to have a goldfish lifestyle, they could just knuckle down and lead a simple media boring life but they court being in the limelight with their celeb friends, sometimes for good causes but it's their choice otherwise. Now they wish to have it all ways, best of both worlds and all income.
^ Right. With 30 million pounds of my own, and suffering from constant press scrutiny and criticism, I would have been deliriously happy to leave the whole mouldering mess behind. HRHs and all. Just exchanging one puerile circus for another doesn't seem to be the answer.
^ Yes. Kate being as dull as ditchwater example.
Give the media nothing but a smile and a wave. They can get their column inches out of that.
^ I don't think Meghan will escape the tabloids.
Di didn't and she even divorced Charles, dying abroad with photographers in pursuit.
^ The tabloids need their blood.
^ Allegedly Diana was the one courting the tabloids!
^ The UK press won't want to rough it in the Canadian bush.
^ For crying out loud, this nonsense has even infected The Guardian's Jenkins and Jones now!
This national obsession with these irrelevant mannequins is all part of the same snivelling deference that leads to us still electing to PM, in the 21st Century, Old Etonian knobheads.
Cor blimey Sir, spare me a tanner Sir, oh gawd bless you Sir, you're a proper gent Sir!
^ You can't escape it. Went for a coffee with a friend to find a woman holding court and the whole place discussing Harry & Meghan as if they were having a gossip about family friends and actually know anything about them other than media sources. "It's the poor Queen I feel sorry for" said one woman to which there was much tutting and agreement.
My loud FFS got me some really dirty looks.
^ Some evidence, other than the horseshite written in the Daily Heil? You've just imagined there is a story here? Same divide and rule garbage which the billionaire media barons constantly inflict on the public as a diversion. Argue with each other in some manufactured culture war instead of looking at the powerful elite subverting democracy and robbing us blind.
^ Unbelievable that in the C21st this has been accorded more space even in the left leaning Daily Mirror, as well as the rest, than Brexit, the general election, the Labour leadership battle, the seedy, evasive, truth avoiding manoeuvres of Johnson in his private and public life, and Trump's Iranian exploits. I ask you, what other country in the world..... England, a nation of infants.....
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