The Onion has outdone themselves. Magnificent.
What does it matter whether he is surprised?
Anyone else thinking this just sounds like standard wedding stress and drama? All of these so called ‘revelations’ seem like fairly standard family squabbles to me.
When someone begins airing a story like this I almost invariably just assume it’s half bullshit. In my experience, this is a highly accurate estimate. These petty little arguments are the sort I’ve heard whiny little sucky-babies bitch about all my life. Jesus K. Fuck, who doesn’t realize what a shithead they sound like when peddling this crap to disinterested observers?
Honestly, spreading these standard family misunderstandings in the press is just vile. I cannot for the life of me comprehend why an adult would do this. Imagine if you had a colleague at work who, at lunch, just constantly bitched about this sort of thing about his family; what would you think?
For all I know his brother and sister-in-law are two colossal assholes. I have asshole relatives too, and I would never dream of nonstop whining about their behaviour on TV because that is just vulgar and crass beyond any limit of taste and dignity. If they don’t want to be a part of the royal family anymore, everyone should be cool with that, but shut the fuck up and live your life. Whine about your family to your therapist or close friends like a grown man does.
Whatever the lack of wisdom in Brexit, the UK still exists. The UK has made bigger mistakes. The monarch must stay out of political decisions. Interfering would be much worse than Brexit.
Book sales suggest in this case that many are not disinterested. I’m not planning on reading the book, so will not learn whether the squabbles are as trivial as they seem. I think some of this angst is driven by financial considerations.
The press have sometimes been quite critical. It does not matter if this surprises Harry, of course. But it suggests a degree of insincerity on the issues that seems to concern him most.
Does the monarchy stay out of political decisions?
One thing I’d think is
“hearing how easily this persons spills the beans on private conversations when it suits them, I’m not going to tell them anything”
It is also a pretty good rule of thumb that whatever you say about others, people will assume, even if semi-consciously, about you.
That is the feedback that seems to be coming out here “How can we hold out the hand of reconciliation to him if anything we say or write ends up in his next book?”
I was in Waterstones yesterday and there was a large stack of “Harry’s Spare” being remaindered at 50% of face value. I did not buy one.
I suspect that the word you really want is uninterested. Different meaning.
No, book sales were high. But I ain’t reading it.
And hence, many are not uninterested, even among the cohort who, having no discernible stake in the matter, are by definition, disinterested.
Disinterested has TWO meanings: partiality due to a lack of personal stake AND a lack of interest. I meant the second, but since millions live in a monarchy or commonwealth the first half ALSO applies. I am Canadian, with an opinion on our political system. And thank you for your comment.
I read the book. It’s actually quite well written, and interesting. Of course, it cannot be considered in the least impartial, so I will not say how true it is.
I haven’t been reading this thread, but I assumed the bump would be about this week’s South Park.
I agree. It was very interesting. It made me not like any of the royals.
An update: There’s an article by the ghostwriter of Harry’s book in this week’s New Yorker. An interesting perspective:
Interesting article. The opening anecdote was interesting if true. He was being physically tortured during survival training but talking about his mother was so out of bounds they had to stop the exercise. I understand that if he was going through the training as an exercise of let’s let the prince think he’s a soldier but he was actually going into situations where he could have been captured. The Taliban would have started on his mother as a greeting and moved on from there. If that would have cracked him he shouldn’t have been flying Apaches in Afghanistan.
Much more about the ghostwriter, and the art of ghostwriting, than it is about Harry and Meghan.
Yep, and he’s a good writer.