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Harry no tiene nada que objetar. Tuvo la mejor de las vidas, todos los derechos sin las responsabilidades del hermano, se le perdonó absolutamente todo bajo la imagen del pobre niño que caminaba detrás del féretro de su madre (anda que ...), se le dio apoyo en sus iniciativas como Sentebale e Invictus, recibieron a MeMa con los brazos abiertos...todo esto el ciudadano británico lo tiene más que claro. El cuento de hadas vendió portadas en todo el mundo. Racismo? en RU y en todos lados. Pero en este caso, atribuir las críticas a lo que ha dicho y hecho esta mujer (que por otra parte es más blanca que negra) a racismo es mirarse el ombligo.pero dentro del circulo familiar, realmente tiene algo que objetar Harry? le dieron la boda de primer nivel como a su hermano, le redecoraron el nido conyugal... Charles llevó a la novia al altar... que haya comentarios racistas en tabloide era de esperarse, como para anunciar que renuncia a su familia?
Diana murio en un accidente de transito y por negligencia de su seguridad no por los medios. Yo la adoraba pero no se me ocurriría jamas santificarla.Solo leo hasta donde dices imagen inmaculada de Diana. Nadie piensa en Diana de Gales como inmaculada. Nadie la queria inmaculada, la queriamos exactamente como era, humanitaria, triste, alegre, bella. Diana no tuvo porque morir, murio por la brutalidad del sistema.
Diana murió porque el chofer era inglés y conducía un coche con el volante en el lado izquierdo. Algo a lo que no estaba tan acostumbrado. Diana murió por una asistencia sanitaria que prima el "stop and go". Diana no murió por culpa del sistema. Se sirvió del él al máximo.Solo leo hasta donde dices imagen inmaculada de Diana. Nadie piensa en Diana de Gales como inmaculada. Nadie la queria inmaculada, la queriamos exactamente como era, humanitaria, triste, alegre, bella. Diana no tuvo porque morir, murio por la brutalidad del sistema.
Es que esto último ni Putin lo haceY en el colmo de su comportamiento infantiloide dicen que van a limitar el acceso a los medios que ellos consideren "creíbles y objetivos"...vale decir, a los que no tengan opinión contraria o los cuestionen...
¿Quién es Sophie? Y Freddy?Sophie,la mujer de Freddy, volvió a trabajar de actriz? Trabaja actualmente en la tv ?
No senora, Diana murio en un tunel perseguido por paparazzi. Fue la causa sina qua non. Esto que dices es un mentira burda. Y luego insultas su memoria, de donde nace tanto odio?Diana murio en un accidente de transito y por negligencia de su seguridad no por los medios. Yo la adoraba pero no se me ocurriría jamas santificarla.
Muchos chicos pierden sus madres de manera tragica y no por eso van por la vida de victimas y de petulantes como el colorado y la petarda que se consiguio como mujer.
Muchos chicos pierden sus madres de manera tragica y no por eso van por la vida de victimas y de petulantes
Es que Putin hasta ahora no había tenido el impagable ejemplo...Es que esto último ni Putin lo hace
Perdona, Diana murió en un penoso accidente de tráficoSolo leo hasta donde dices imagen inmaculada de Diana. Nadie piensa en Diana de Gales como inmaculada. Nadie la queria inmaculada, la queriamos exactamente como era, humanitaria, triste, alegre, bella. Diana no tuvo porque morir, murio por la brutalidad del sistema.
Es que esto último ni Putin lo hace
Uff. Hay gente que ya no sabe lo que escribir en sus artículos. Meghan no está acostumbrada a no tener voz. Bueno yo no sé qué credibilidad se le puede dar a las palabras de esta señora pero en serio hay gente que le paga por esto? Cualquiera de nosotr@s sabe que si vas a formar parte de una familia real tu quedas anulado como persona. Ojo, no estoy dando credibilidad a la historia pero mañana me encuentro con Letizia, imaginemos, y se queja de que es muy difícil y dura su vida y yo lo ultimo que hago como contribuyente es darle la razón y una palmadita en la espalda.I said to Meghan: 'Why don't you just jack it all in?' I didn't expect an answer
SaveWhen Bryony Gordon met Prince Harry for the recording of his revelatory podcast interview two years ago CREDIT: ANDREW CROWLEY/TMG
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9 JANUARY 2020 • 9:30PM
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Frogmore Cottage is not quite the lavish pit of taxpayers money that the tabloids would have you believe. It’s nice, of course, a great deal more than most British people could ever imagine living in, but it is by no means extravagant or palatial.
It is the kind of home you see a thousand times over in the pages of Country Life or on estate agent marketing material. There is a sofa by the popular high street furniture store, Loaf.
A lovely, but not substantial kitchen. A downstairs loo with a candle in it. Dogs running around merrily. It’s the kind of modern home you might see many times over scrolling through Instagram.
But when I visited towards the end of last year, there was a sense in some parts of the media that the duke and duchess of Sussex were sitting in sumptuous robes, throwing tax payers money into an expensive wood burning stove, setting fire to the world they claimed to care so much about in the process. (For the record: there were no wood burning stoves or robes; they were dressed in the casual weekend get up of jeans, sweat pants, and jumpers, and kindly offered tea).
Frogmore Cottage, Windsor Great Park the home which was gifted to Harry and Meghan by Her Majesty the Queen CREDIT: N/A/FLICKR
Any perspective regarding the couple had long disappeared into a strange vacuum of hysteria that seemed to have appeared as a way to distract ourselves from the endless tedium of Brexit.
It didn't matter that the Crown had needed to renovate the decaying Frogmore anyway, or that Harry and Meghan had paid for all the fixtures and fittings themselves - the cottage, and its £2.4 million building costs, had become one of many quick and easy ways for some to go to town on the couple.
They had just returned from South Africa, where they had filmed their interviews with Tom Bradby. Prince Andrew was yet to do his own infamous interview with Emily Maitlis, but the matter of his already known association with a convicted sex offender seemed to bother people less than the matter of the Sussexes associations with ‘woke’ celebrities and campaigners.
The couple seemed subdued and sad. They lacked the energy or sparkle I had seen in them previously. All the hope that Prince Harry had expressed when we spoke about his mental health in 2017 appeared to have evaporated. Then he had been lauded for his openness and honesty; fast forward to October 2019 and that same openness and honesty was now being used against him.
Though he never said as much, it felt to me that the Prince was living out the trauma he had experienced as a 12 year old - walking behind his mother’s coffin on global television - again and again and again.
Prince Charles, Earl Spencer, Prince Harry and Prince William walking slowly behind the funeral cortege of Diana, the Princess of Wales CREDIT: ADAM BUTLER/PA/WIRE
In our interview in 2017 he had spoken candidly of the panic attacks that he had long experienced whenever he appeared at a public engagement. But if he thought then that he had beaten this mental torture, he now seemed to be realising that he had spoken too soon.
It is hard to imagine being in his situation, but not at all difficult to see how he might now want to protect his immediate family from the same fate; how all the money and privilege in the world will never make up for the fact your mother died pursued by paparazzi.
Some have described Harry as “petulant”; the words I would use are passionate and fiercely protective. He is a kind person, a soft and warm man, and it is hard to square the open and honest person I have met with the portrait of the sullen prince that is so often painted in the press.
“Why don’t you just jack it all in?” I said to Meghan, after she had told me about the unexpected issues she had experienced in her new position: the loneliness; the sudden muting of her voice; the giving up of everything she knew for love, only to be, as she saw it, hounded and pilloried.
These were, of course, exactly the things that some cynics had said would happen when she married into the firm, but in her defence there was also an optimism that times had changed, that it was no longer 1981 and the establishment was now ready to be dragged into the 21st Century.
I wasn't expecting an answer to my question about jacking it all in; it was more of a statement of what I would do if put in a similar position. But the look on her face suggested that she had thought about it too. So it didn’t surprise me when the Duke and Duchess made their announcement late on Wednesday afternoon.
Putting the timing of their announcement and the way in which they delivered it to other members of the royal family to one side, their intention to ‘step back’ can only be positive, a move that will enable a young family to live their lives properly, while still flying the flag for Britain.
Okay, the delivery may not have been perfect, but constitutionally the decision barely makes any difference to the firm at all, given that Prince Harry is currently sixth in line to the throne. What’s more, it is entirely in keeping with his father’s intentions to have a slimmed down version of the monarchy that is more Swedish in style.
While some have chosen to interpret the news as the couple wanting to enjoy a lavish lifestyle without any of the scrutiny, a more accurate reading of the situation is that they want to be able to express their views and pursue their campaigning passions without coming under constant fire for doing so.
Currently, their positions prohibit them from letting even the most anodyne of their opinions known, something that Prince Harry may be used to but that his wife, who has been speaking out about injustice since she was a child, has struggled to adapt to. Like it or not, the Duchess has a clear, passionate and articulate voice - and crucially, one that empowers people who typically find it hard to be heard.
This ‘wokeness’ may seem annoyingly American to British traditionalists, but in the grand scheme of things it is hardly the worst quality for a royal to have - indeed, put next to the behaviour of Harry’s uncle, it is positively refreshing. It is puzzling, then, to hear Nicholas Witchell state that he has never known Buckingham Palace to have been so “disappointed” with other members of the royal family. Given recent events with Prince Andrew - and not so recent ones at that - how can this be true?
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, opening the new Luminary Bakery in Camden which provides opportunities for women who have violence, poverty, the prison system & homelessness CREDIT: RII SCHROER/TMG
Shortly after my visit to Frogmore, I went with Meghan to a social enterprise in north London to meet women who had been the victim of trafficking and domestic violence, women who had been able to rebuild their lives through baking. Here, talking to these women, Meghan came alive.
She opened them up and allowed them to talk freely about deeply disturbing experiences that had long been a source of shame for them. It was moving and powerful to watch, and it seemed to me to be exactly the kind of thing a modern royal should be doing. It is, I imagine, exactly the kind of thing she will continue to do.
Will that much change in the long run, other than the public funding piece? The world has always known Harry to be a wildcard.
Deviating from the norm has long been his style; to many, it is all part of his appeal. Is this next chapter in his story really such a shock, then? I don’t think so. Indeed, in many ways, this is classic Harry.
When you really think about it, it is vintage Harry. Indeed, stepping back from the royal family so he can forge his own path might just be the most predictable thing he has done in years.