He is a walking, talking argument against hereditary monarchy.
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Donald R. McClarey
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Too right. He can’t be trusted. His choice.
Don:
In a traditional monarchy, Harry would be in the Tower or at least sent to some backwater colony and told to “shut it”. One can’t imagine George V, for example, taking his sauce.
My favorite G5 quote: “I was afraid of my father, and by God, my sons will be afraid of me.”
George V served 15 years in the Royal Navy, tattoos and all, and would have been happy to continue his service but for the misfortune of the death of his older brother. He could be something of a military martinet with his kids, but always with a heart of gold.
Younger sons have always been insurance, back up plans. It must be a tough thing, mentally.
Yes, he’s insufferable, but at least he’s not the heir. When the heir is insufferable, you get a constitutional crisis instead of endless tabloid fodder.
Harry’s made a clown out of himself, but the bulk of the royal family’s embarrassments over the last 80 years have derived from the conduct of people who married into the family during the last few generations. It’s interesting to contemplate why members of the royal family are attracted to such troublesome people. Wallis Simpson, Anthony Armstrong-Jones, Mark Philips, Diana Spencer, Sarah Ferguson, Meghan Markle.
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Another clown is Andrew. A quondam palace security officer who worked the Buckingham Palace beat ca. 2005 has offered under his own name a description of Andrew’s conduct vis a vis the palace staff. He said the Queen and Prince Philip were perfectly decorous and that he had nothing to report about other members of the family (who came and went). Andrew, in his description, was obnoxious and absurd.
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It’s a reasonable inference that Charles has some sort of metastatic cancer and that his daughter in law has had a bout with ovarian cancer (which is usually a killer in the end). Not happy times for Prince William.
Younger sons have always been insurance, back up plans. It must be a tough thing, mentally.
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When and where and for whom? Did anyone use the phrase ‘heir and spare’ before some writer for the British tabloid press glommed onto it forty years ago?
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I’m a younger son. If I’m not dong all right, it’s not due to my position vis a vis my brother. I cannot imagine what back up plans you fancy my mother and father had.
My favorite G5 quote: “I was afraid of my father, and by God, my sons will be afraid of me.”
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His oldest son could not make a satisfactory decision to save his life and the fourth of his five sons may well have been something of a roué.
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I meant aristocrat younger sons, or someone who would receive a position by virtue of their birth order.
Younger sons in such positions have my sympathy not because of their flaws, but because of losing out to primogeniture. However, in the old takes they often make better fortunes for themselves than they would have received and populated the ranks of the clergy in the Church’s better days.
I meant aristocrat younger sons, or someone who would receive a position by virtue of their birth order.
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It’s his cousin Louis who gets the family property.
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There are fewer than 900 British peers and for the heirs of quite a mess of them, it means inheriting a piece of real estate they haven’t got the wherewithal to maintain.
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Meanwhile, Prince Edward and his family are holed up on a handsome Crown Estate property in Surrey. Don’t know why anyone would want that much house, of course. Prince Edward is also married to his 1st wife and you won’t find his kids on the police blotter. There are advantages to being a younger son.
I’m afraid the rumours of who Harry’s biological father is won’t go away until it’s settled through a test once and for all. That’s another reason Charles has given up on Harry and vice versa. That and also Harry is not needed for the succession of The Crown. William is King-ready and his son George will grow up in a blink of an eye to support and eventually take over.
As a side, before Harry met Markle, he was known to get preferential treatment when on either military training assignments or deployments. He was always spoilt.
“…before Harry met Markle, he was known to get preferential treatment …”
Yah, well, prior to Will and Kate having married and borne a son, Harry was next if anything happened to Will. Technically, Harry was a regular troop. Realistically, …his commander isn’t willingly going to give him overly “hot” missions.
Churchill said: “Have four children. One to replace the mother, one to replace the father, one to increase the population, and one in case of one lost.”
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That’s about the size of it.
As an American, it is very difficult for me to feel sympathy for a man who never has to work another day in his life because of the enormous fortune he was left by his mother. He lives in a 14-million-dollar mansion with his beautiful, healthy wife and children. They do not want for anything and never will.
Americans (and most British, I imagine) have to work every day, sometimes at two jobs, just to make ends meet. We come home to cook a meal for ourselves and our family, help the kids with their homework, wash and iron the laundry, do the housework, and fall into bed for a few hours of rest. And do it again the next day and so on.
We have to pay for our healthcare and medicine, which is by no means cheap for anyone. And house insurance, taxes, automobile expenses, gasoline, and automobile insurance.
Many of us are not only raising children and putting money away for their university expenses but are also caring for and supporting our parents.
We do not demand money from our parents nor our government in order to live. If we need anything, we work for it. We do not complain on public media about our lot in life because that is not what responsible adults do.
We remain loyal to our country and to our Faith because that is the moral, ethical, and decent thing to do. We do not abandon or betray either.
He should have taken a lesson from his great-uncle, Lord Louis Mountbatten, and carved himself a career in the military. Might have also taught him some lessons in self discipline.
He should have taken a lesson from his great-uncle, Lord Louis Mountbatten, and carved himself a career in the military. Might have also taught him some lessons in self discipline.
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He’s a combat veteran who was in the Army for ten years. (His hopeless uncle was in the Navy for 20 years). Not sure why he left the service, but presumably the British Army has an up-or-out system.
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As an American, it is very difficult for me to feel sympathy for a man who never has to work another day in his life because of the enormous fortune he was left by his mother.
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Primogenture is the law in Britain. The family money is for the most part in the hands of his maternal uncle and will be inherited by his cousin Louis. That money is all tied up in trusts and is inalienable, something the Earl Spencer’s former wives discovered when they tried to grab a piece of it on their way out the door. Presumably, he’s a beneficiary of ordinary family trusts which are supervised by persons unknown for the Windsor, Mountbatten, Spencer, and Roche families, but that’s all quite obscure. He should not be receiving any direct disbursements from the Crown Estate income but his relatives may be cutting checks from their portions. Per news reports, Diana prior to 1981 was sharing an apartment in Kensington with two flat-mates and her father was paying her share of the rent; she had a fairly ordinary hourly job at the time.
I’m afraid the rumours of who Harry’s biological father is won’t go away until it’s settled through a test once and for all. That’s another reason Charles has given up on Harry and vice versa.
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Security personnel who are willing to put their name on their remarks have attested that Diana met James Hewitt in 1986. Pretty neat trick of his to have conceived Harry at the end of 1983. Hewitt bears a curious resemblance to Diana’s brother, which tells you what caught her eye. It does not compromise Harry’s paternity.