Vocal Voices

Stories are coming out, said to be from Kensington Palace, that both but Harry, especially, is struggling with the pressure of marriage, being a father and his lifestyle. This is quite sad news, but it will be no surprise to many married couples with young children. Starting a family is bloody hard work no matter who you are.

Maybe Harry and Megan should go have a quiet word with Uncle Edward and Aunt Sophie for tips on how to drift into the background and have a private life while still remaining 'Royal'. If I remember correctly Edward and Sophie had a bit of a hard time in the beginning and almost split up, partly because Sophie was also a commoner and found it hard to adjust to the Royal lifestyle. Harry and Megan are not that dissimilar in that respect

Let them go off and fade from the limelight for a bit. It might not be a bad idea for them to get off the Windsor Estate and go to run one of the Queen's farms where they can bring a family up surrounded by more normal people during their day to day lives. They could still do their charity work and the Royal stuff as required. What they must not do is ignore what might be minor mental health problems now in the hope they will go away.

My heart bleeds for them -NOT !
Richer than most people can dream of.
No worry of paying bills or if they can afford to feed the kids/mortgage /rent.
Travel when they want where they want for as long as they like.

Couple of snowflakes

Will NEVER know what it means to struggle bringing up a family without servants and nannies












O

The Queen's rule of thumb in these matters is apparently, to never complain, never explain. It has served her well over many years and is a good example to follow. I do just wonder if the American way of 'letting it all hang out' has perhaps influenced Harry a little bit. Hopefully he won't appear on the Oprah Show.

I do think both boys had a lot to deal with at a young age with the death of their mother and the State funeral that followed. Harry, perhaps more so with the unwarranted press speculation over the years regarding his 'possible' father, and that has bound to have had an effect on his mental health. As Harry himself admitted, he thought he had conquered his issues but they have surfaced again.

They need to count their blessings as they are much more fortunate than most of us, and striking a balance between keeping the Press on side and ensuring the Press doesn't become over-intrusive would perhaps be a good place to start and a useful strategy.

Even so, a rift between two brothers is the saddest thing. I hope they can manage to heal it.

A very gracious and charitable post, Frank

There is an alternative view in some quarters, however, that we have two rich, over-privileged wannabe A-listers who (a) quite pointedly don't want to play the game [Archie christening, etc] (b) ignore advice (c) claim taxpayers money to do up their residence (allegedly a £5K bath, anyone?) (d) pointedly tell their neighbours to MTOB (e) give gratuitous and unwanted climate change lectures to the hoi-polloi [q.v. Thunberg] while travelling thousands of miles by plane (f) want 6 months paid leave from what are hardly onerous duties and (g) expect us to feel sorry for them.

Diana, it's said, was pretty stubborn and manipulative, and it seems to run in the family.

My own view is that I think they'd be better off going to America, where the press (according to the Duchess) are nowhere near as intrusive, and living whatever life they want to live with their rich mates over there.

I agree with you Frank. Mental health issues are painful, no matter how rich or poor you are.

Kaz wrote:I agree with you Frank. Mental health issues are painful, no matter how rich or poor you are.

Completely agree Kaz. Having lost a parent at 13 myself, and often suffering mental health issues as a result, I can empathise with the prince. MH manifests itself in so many different ways and for different reasons.

Kaz wrote:I agree with you Frank. Mental health issues are painful, no matter how rich or poor you are.

Totally agree

BUT... I also agree that they need to chose their lifestyle; quiet and out of the lime light and potentially 'lose' stardom status or keep that status and reap the benefits that come with it (because there are benefits to being publicly famous) and then put up with the negatives that come with it. You can't have it both ways