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Why cant the press , paparazzi etc leave the royals alone .

I understand where the sussexes are coming from and feel quite sorry for them .Just because their royalty it should not be legal for them to be hounded by the press ,paparazzi etc .They have rights and a right to a private life .We need to bring in laws to stop the constant hounding and jail anyone who stalks them when they are having private time .The only time the press should be allowed is during royal tours visits etc but should not be allowed when they are having private time holidays etc .There should be severe sentences handed down to anyone trying to disrupt their personnal time .
On the flip side, if you are going to take £24 million of tax payers money to redecorate a cottage in Windsor then say you are moving to Canada a month later, the tax payers are well with in their right to throw dung at the Sussexes. If they are going to live off public money, they should expect the wants and needs of the public.
Moonpenny · F
@BoredDarkLord I totally agree with you!
Rhodesianman · 56-60, M
@BoredDarkLord I do agree with what you say and people are right they had been thinking about this for months so shouldnt have made all that expense till they decided one way or the other .Now they have jumped the queen should withdraw their royal privilage and let them go it alone as they want .
Moonpenny · F
@Rhodesianman Regardless of what they want, it's the way they've gone about it.
MartinII · 70-79, M
I don’t agree. There are limits, especially regarding children, which should be, and usually are, respected. But otherwise, if you are a public figure you have to accept that your life is to some extent public. In one sense, I suppose, it is unlucky if you are born into royalty and don’t like it, but in another sense you are born into an extremely privileged position and have to take the rough with the smooth. The one respect in which I do have sympathy for the Duke of Sussex is that his mother died in tragic circumstances when he was young. As to the Duchess, God help us, she has only herself to blame.
akindheart · 61-69, F
Meghan made enemies. She didn't respect long standing traditions. plus the overspending and her air of entitlement. People caught her in lies and felt she had a hidden agenda. now she has really stepped in it. she will get blamed for this whole brexit ....so she didn't help herself. she should have just been a little more compliant
MartinII · 70-79, M
@akindheart Yes, air of entitlement - one of the besetting sins of our age!
akindheart · 61-69, F
@MartinII you can't come into a country and behave the way she did. just her clothing alone was over the top
revenant · F
those people always whine when actually they are courting the paparazzi and when they decided to live a public life
revenant · F
@Rhodesianman comes with the job otherwise they become authoritarians and besides those who really enjoy their privacy always find it in some way
Moonpenny · F
@Rhodesianman Meghan Markle wasn't born into royalty. Far from it. She just bit off more than she could chew.
Rhodesianman · 56-60, M
@revenant No they dont because you always get some idiot with a camera nowadays thanks to mobile phones taking snaps even when their trying to have private time .How many times have pics of celebs on holidays popped up in the media on beaches etc .People seem to think because your rich or celeb or royal your not entitled to a private life which is very wrong .
AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M
Harry has no royal blood. He is not a royal. This is everybody’s way of tacitly acknowledging that.
@AthrillatheHunt He looks like one of Diana’s lovers.
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
I think you have to take into account an awful lot of media mischief-making in the news at the moment.

The whole Iran/U.S.mess. The whole Brexit debacle. And certainly whatever the 'truth' with regard to the Harry/Megan story etc.

As a rule of thumb Buckingham Palace makes no official statements on media spouted stories.
But I wonder if Harry's P.R. people are getting a serious kicking at the moment from all these leaks/statements supposedly eminating from them.
westfield · 70-79, M
Yes, I get that. And yes to limiting media lust and hysteria and intrusiveness
But are they planning to pay back to taxpayers the £24m spent on their house at a time when they were presumably already beginning to formulate this plan?
Some sympathy but limited only I'm afraid
Rhodesianman · 56-60, M
@westfield Yes but if they werent being hounded morning , noon and night everyday of the year , I dont think they would have taken this decision . I would not want to be in their shoes at all .
Harriet03 · 41-45, F
The Royals would be nothing without the press!! 🤷‍♀️
andrewbarclave · 31-35, M
Well because they are backwards family who get everything handed to them with very little effort. I'd class them with the Kardashians/Paris Hilton etc
SW-User
I agree, marrying into the Royal family and being born into it doesn't mean that your whole life is owned by the media
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
Because people with nothing better to do give a shit about the royals. Like you are doing right now. Stop giving a shit.
BlueRain · F
They are entertaining, that’s why.

 
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