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EVERY WEEK, WE bring you a round-up of the best longreads of the past seven days in Sitdown Sunday.
And now, every weeknight, we bring you an evening longread to enjoy which will help you to escape the news cycle.
We’ll be keeping an eye on new longreads and digging back into the archives for some classics.
Here’s a piece from April 2020 about the beginning of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s fractured relationship with the British Royal Family.
(The New Yorker, approx 32 mins reading time)
Although the photograph suggested nuptial bliss, it marked the conclusion of a whirlwind divorce—the abrupt separation of the Duke and Duchess from the United Kingdom and its monarchy. The event was the couple’s first public appearance in the U.K. since announcing, in January, via Instagram, that they were relinquishing their roles as “ ‘senior’ members of the Royal Family” and would henceforth be spending much of their time in North America, where they hoped to “carve out a progressive new role within this institution.”
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The only Royles I care about are Jim and Barbera
@Kieran Cronin: Bit unfair on Denise and Anthony Kieran, what did they do wrong?
@Kieran Cronin: Get that will ya Barb !!
@Seamus Kelly: my ar*e
@Seamus Kelly: my ars*
@Seamus Kelly: BarBeara….. Please!!!!!
To be fair Harry seems like the kind of fella you would go for a pint with and have the crack ,but she has him running, she’s calling the shots. It’s all about her and she is the victim.
@Conor Noonan: you haven’t been paying attention then
@Conor Noonan: did you watch it or do you just believe what the British tabloids chose to tell you?
I think they’re great. The best kind of Mavericks. They seem like a strong unit that didn’t want to be a part of an institution that is clearly unhealthy and toxic. The British press may have just given away the only hope the royal family had of moving into the modern era.
@2thFairy: There’s a line in Withnail and I (that won’t be accepted here) that sums up their course of action. Bear in mind that this interview was given for payment and to raise a profile using the only thing they have to trade. I very much doubt that it’ll prove to be worth it.
@Alan McArdle: There was no payment!
@Alan McArdle: What line Alan? Gone on holiday by mistake? Who says it?
@Colette Kearns: ppc??
@Alan McArdle: You didn’t pay attention, there was no payment.
@Alan McArdle: there was no payment.
This media stunt by the 2 of them will backfire and they will be the losers in the long run….the English and the Welsh love their royals and the red tops will turn on Harry and Megan…. watch megan’s body language and remember she is an actor …also remember fighting with family seems to be a hobby of hers…she portrays herself as a victim always
@Kevin50: you mean the gutter red tops will continue to thrash her daily and the brain dead will lap it up and spout their rhetoric for them? She said it herself, she left her house while pregnant twice in four months yet there was daily stories in the rags painting her in a negative light.
Two irrelevant dots on the landscape.
As an actress she should have watched Blackadder.
The truth which will be buried by the institution.
@Liam Dempsey: always has been and always will be. Unfortunately. Diana Francis Spencer RIP.
@Paul Gorry: “Frances “
The most thing that I took from the Oprah interview, is what a completely toxic institution the British Royal family is. It’s not the individual members that are toxic but the firm they work for. They dare not set a foot wrong, say a wrong word, for fear of the tabloid media who have the power to destroy them. It would be healthier for all of them if they did what Harry did, but they all appear to be trapped, afraid to move for fear of upsetting the goose that is laying the golden egg. I think we are witnessing the slow disintegration of a dysfunctional family and institution. The British Royal family should start retraining for new careers before the liquidators move in.
Only watched this because the Mrs had it on
Seriously
1 If any harm comes to Harry, Megan or their children by a terrorist the Royal family will never live down withdrawing their security.
Jokingly
2 Now that they are outside the Royal circle, Crossmaglen would probably be the safest place for them to settle down.
@Michael Flanagan: The best gag there was you were only watching it because your Mrs had it on.
She’s some mover! We want privacy but air your dirty linen on international tv!!!
@JongaFe: There is a massive difference between the constant intrusion and harassment of the paparazzi and giving an interview on your own terms. A bit like the difference in being force fed and eating your own food.
The part of the documentary that stuck with me most was Oprah’s inability to pronounce Meghan Markle’s name. Unbelievably grating. MAAAAYGAN.
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