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2020-01-11 Britain

Trump feels ‘sad' for Queen Elizabeth in wake of Megxit scandal

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

Cut it out, Dron66046.

Besides it's not like they'll stop taking the allowance, the security or the titles. All they're doing is publicly burning a 'white privilege card' to join the global woke cult, maybe launch Meghan's fashion line and film career. Now Harry can be known for 'the great man that he is, not because of some crown his family gave him.' Yeah, that's probably how the conversation went. Anyway, ZFG for British royalty.

Posted by Dron66046 2020-01-11 05:53|| 2020-01-11 05:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Anything that devalues the concept of monarchy, I'm in favor of it. That said, I agree with DJT wholeheartedly, Queen Elizabeth deserves better.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-01-11 06:16|| 2020-01-11 06:16|| Front Page Top

#3 [twiddles thumbs, grins sheepishly]

Posted by Dron66046 2020-01-11 06:27|| 2020-01-11 06:27|| Front Page Top

#4 #2 Why? IMO, having a separate titular head of state frees the PM to focus on being chief executive?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-11 06:31|| 2020-01-11 06:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Surprised? What has been surprising is that the late old Queen Mum and Elizabeth have been the sane ones in a inbred sea of crazy aristocracy. They are the exception to the rule, not the standard.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-01-11 07:01|| 2020-01-11 07:01|| Front Page Top

#6 No royalist I, but the Queen is quite the individual. She is in a position thrust upon her father and subsequently her and has demonstrated enormous devotion to duty over a hyper visible life. To this day she gets a daily briefing from the PM, something she has done since well before my birth.

Posted by Cesare 2020-01-11 08:41|| 2020-01-11 08:41|| Front Page Top

#7 An anti nation establisment is a cancer upon its country and needs to be crushed. Hopefully queeny understands her families easy gig depends on this

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-01-11 11:00|| 2020-01-11 11:00|| Front Page Top

#8 QE-2 is the only one of that lot with any brains or dignity.

As for Harry, a pity that he couldn't stay in the military, where he clearly fit in and was thriving.

Posted by Lex 2020-01-11 11:05|| 2020-01-11 11:05|| Front Page Top

#9 Noblesse oblige is such an outdated concept, eh? Being a "wastrel" is timeless, though.

Posted by magpie 2020-01-11 11:20|| 2020-01-11 11:20|| Front Page Top

#10

Posted by Frank G 2020-01-11 11:33|| 2020-01-11 11:33|| Front Page Top

#11 Maybe someone can post this image? tia,
L.

https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/princeharryandduchessmeghanmarkle-1-1.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1236&h=820&crop=1

Posted by Lex 2020-01-11 11:37|| 2020-01-11 11:37|| Front Page Top

#12

Posted by Frank G 2020-01-11 11:44|| 2020-01-11 11:44|| Front Page Top

#13 LOL, B. Juuuust a bit quicker :-)

IMA gett'n slower in my old age

Posted by Frank G 2020-01-11 11:45|| 2020-01-11 11:45|| Front Page Top

#14 Being a "wastrel" is timeless, though.

We have our own. We call them Trust Fund Babies.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-01-11 12:06|| 2020-01-11 12:06|| Front Page Top

#15 Get a haircut
Get a real job

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-01-11 12:18|| 2020-01-11 12:18|| Front Page Top

#16 Maybe its a simple problem of genetics. Harry just doesn't look anything like Charles and who knows what's in Meghan's background.

Posted by warthogswife 2020-01-11 12:53|| 2020-01-11 12:53|| Front Page Top

#17 Maybe its a simple problem of genetics. Harry just doesn't look anything like Charles and who knows what's in Meghan's background.

Posted by warthogswife 2020-01-11 13:28|| 2020-01-11 13:28|| Front Page Top

#18 who knows what's in Meghan's background.

I wonder if being a crazy, American B-list actress has a genetic component. I can see that it might - take some genes for beauty, mix in a little schizophrenia, a big dollop of attention-whore and a touch of cat-lady and BLAM!, there you go!

I feel bad for Queenie too. It's hard having nutty children.

Posted by SteveS 2020-01-11 14:02|| 2020-01-11 14:02|| Front Page Top

#19 Blame the Queen's Consort. He's the one wot brought in the bad genes behavior and karma to her family. Her father was a hero and a true gent.

Posted by Lex 2020-01-11 14:08|| 2020-01-11 14:08|| Front Page Top

#20 I just read that Meghan has flown to Canada, with the baby, and without Harry. Weird.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2020-01-11 14:11|| 2020-01-11 14:11|| Front Page Top

#21 The first thing I noticed about every photo op of them was her eyes always always shifting to the center of the press corps grouping and moving to face it when possible. The second thing was she was always talking, often leading the conversation. When I heard the first use of the term racism to explain their frustration with the traditional Brit press co stage I was clear. She wants to be a woke celeb and ride the royal title to coverage of her predictable blathering. Harry should ha e kept flying helicopters. Now he’s just another footnote in royal clowns in obscurity, Windsor edition.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-01-11 14:47|| 2020-01-11 14:47|| Front Page Top

#22

Posted by James 2020-01-11 15:03|| https://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2020-01-11 15:03|| Front Page Top

#23 #21 She wants to be a woke celeb and ride the royal title to ...

...million$$$$ in Woke Celeb sponsorships & other payoffs

Posted by Lex 2020-01-11 15:18|| 2020-01-11 15:18|| Front Page Top

#24 Her father was a hero and a true gent.

Yes, but her uncle was a playboy who flirted with Hitler.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-01-11 15:18|| 2020-01-11 15:18|| Front Page Top

#25 The queen recently announced a mass pruning of titles and “grace and favour” privileges of those further from the direct line of descent, long overdue in my opinion. I honestly don’t blame Harry for seeking independence, now that he no longer needs to be available as the back-up to his brother — and if his wife becomes the primary income until he figures out what to do next, so what?

This could easily be fixed if his mother let him go back to active military, though I suppose his duchess wouldn’t be keen on that unless it lead to glamorous foreign assignments — governor of Bermuda and that kind of thing.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-01-11 16:43|| 2020-01-11 16:43|| Front Page Top

#26 Gov. of Bermuda, hah ... wonder if there'll be another royal order not to curtesy to the North American bride?

Posted by Lex 2020-01-11 16:53|| 2020-01-11 16:53|| Front Page Top

#27 Meghan is already going her bit to refresh her resuméhavi g done a Disney voice over recently, but it looks like this was a negotiating tactic, as Prince Charles and the queen work to finalize details for a negotiation that’s dragged on for some time. Link

Posted by trailing wife 2020-01-11 17:00|| 2020-01-11 17:00|| Front Page Top

#28 Alastair Cooke on the Duke of Windsor: "He was at his best when the going was good."

Posted by Lex 2020-01-11 17:12|| 2020-01-11 17:12|| Front Page Top

#29 Yee-double-ouch, #28 Lex. :-D

Posted by Barbara 2020-01-11 17:17|| 2020-01-11 17:17|| Front Page Top

#30 ...if his wife becomes the primary income until he figures out what to do next, so what?

Recalls a time in the latter half of the 19th Century when nouveau riche Americans were known to marry some European with a title and usually no real money.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-01-11 19:39|| 2020-01-11 19:39|| Front Page Top

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