The British Royal Family has been having a dire week, but it’s the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Harry and Meghan, who are trending on Twitter. Why? Because some people have been shocked by the contrasting ways the royals appear to treat different members of “the firm”.
As you will already know, Prince Andrew reached a financial settlement with Virginia Giuffre this week over sexual abuse allegations dating back 20 years. He has always denied the allegations.
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This means the civil case brought against him will be dismissed. In legal documents, the Prince’s team stated he will, “make a substantial donation to Ms. Giuffre’s charity in support of victims’ rights.”
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Most observers presume this will be in addition to Giuffre herself, with speculation ranging between £7-£12million ($9-$16million). The British press is now analyzing just how Prince Andrew will pay that settlement.
Although he’s known to be selling off a luxury Swiss chalet for around £23million, the sale has not been completed yet and it’s not clear what portion of that money will receive.
He’s not known to own many other hugely valuable assets, so will his mom, the Queen, be helping him out? If so, there are demands that she does not pay him any of the money that she receives via the British government and UK taxpayers, but from her personal fortune only.
Then there’s Prince Charles, who is next in line to the throne. Yesterday it emerged that police were launching an investigation into his charity, the Prince’s Foundation.
There have been allegations that some donors may have given large sums of money to the charity in exchange for potential honors (medals, knighthoods, etc) or help to obtain British citizenship. Charles has denied any knowledge of such goings-on, although his former valet has already resigned over the scandal.
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Contrast this with a couple of years when much of the British media were attacking Harry and Meghan for inflicting damage on the monarchy. Just last month, Harry launched a legal bid against the British government to allow him to pay the Metropolitan police to provide private security to his family. The police had previously declined, saying Harry was no longer a working member of the Royal Family and therefore not entitled to it as a private citizen.
Unsurprisingly, many on Twitter have thoughts.
Don’t no one ever say again that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle dragged down the reputation of the Royal Family.
Ever again.— Lorraine King (@lorrainemking) February 15, 2022
Remember how Harry and Meghan were accused of dividing the Royal Family?
If I was going to choose a side right now…— Femi (@Femi_Sorry) February 16, 2022
Hmm pic.twitter.com/eRRWDhR2XL
— Ava-Santina (@AvaSantina) February 15, 2022
Well, we can see why Harry and Meghan wanted out of that truly repulsive family now, can’t we?
— Another Angry Voice (@Angry_Voice) February 15, 2022
They said they can’t pay for Harry and Meghan’s security, but they can pay to protect a nonce.
— Duaine Carma Roberts (@CarmaChords) February 16, 2022
Your regular reminder that Harry and Meghan got excommunicated from the Royal Family for eating avocados and asking politely not to be racially abused https://t.co/raxOuhIYcf
— Sophie Levin (@sophielevin11) February 15, 2022
How can anyone criticise Harry and Meghan not wanting to be associated with the royal family lol, who would want to be? 😂
— Soph (@sxphiehamilton) February 16, 2022
Amazing isn’t it. Buckingham Palace ‘insiders’ so very silent over Prince Andrew. All ‘sources’ very quiet. And yet they were so vocal about Harry and Meghan. This won’t go away.
— Mark Binmore (@MarkBinmore) February 16, 2022
Harry and Meghan continue to thrive in the U.S.A. while the racist Royal family continues to crash & burn. pic.twitter.com/VxaEzogZUl
— Vee Victory (@vee_victory) February 16, 2022
Remember how Harry and Meghan had to become “financially independent” if they wanted to step back from royal life? https://t.co/9pyQB5SKsJ
— Jamie McKelvie (@McKelvie) February 16, 2022
Harry and Meghan did what most of us do, we left home and sorted out our lives on our own two feet. And then there is a £12m payout for a son that never left home or stood on his own two feet.
Family…where would we be without them?🤨— Arnold Böcklin (@Sellsworth1963) February 16, 2022
Harry and Meghan right now lol #PrinceAndrew #PrinceCharles pic.twitter.com/3ptzvVeQju
— Xoxo-Leigh 🛡🛡🛡 (@XoxoLeigh1) February 16, 2022
Cam
hey HATED the fact that a Black woman was joining the family and had their certain papers go after her.
There are examples of British papers praising Kate Middleton for touching her stomach since she was pregnant but attacking Markle for the same thing.
Headlines talking about how great it was that Middleton was eating avocados for morning sickness but attacking Meghan for eating them, etc..
The hilarious thing was, they thought Harry would be just like the rest of them and dump her or sit back and let her get attacked and divorce him. I don’t think it ever occurred to them that he would leave.
The whole idea of a royal family living off the taxpayer, or properties they took is dated and gross.
BarryM
Harry is an ingrate and Meghan is a gold digger.
Cam
@BarryM
What a shock, the same screenames that defend Republican bigots and rac-ists, also defend the Royal family. Hmmmm.
Also, isn’t it interesting that America was founded on getting away from royalty and yet Republicans like you, in addition to supporting bigotry and hate all seem to rush to support dictators and, Royal families and any other anti-American institution.
Ronbo
Cam, please accept that everyone reading these comments already knows that ONLY you are qualified to have an opinion. We can’t think for ourselves without your attacks and condemnation. Without your entitled rule over the comments section, we might accidentally hear an opinion that sucks. OMG the people here can’t be trusted to think for themselves – we are all too evil or stupid, aren’t we?
Yes, everyone else is so very stupid that you must blow up the conversation to circle around to your brilliant knowledge base of everything. Your years and years of study on every subject is well noted. I’m amazed that you KNOW exactly what people are thinking AND their motivations. Are you Miss Cleo reincarnated?
Please use your mind-reading skills to be helpful. When President Obama refused to openly integrate LGBT individuals into the military saying “God is in the mix”, did he reveal that he believes that God hates f*gs? Why would a loving and inclusive God be in the mix to deny our equality?
Inconvenitent questions and inconvenient truths reveal complexity that your “Miss Cleo” act just can’t answer.
Diplomat
Ran dum dum
You do seem to have a way with that str8 jacket, but also breaching your padded cell door, is pure genius.
barryaksarben
Oh barrym you are giving us other barrys a bad name you racist pos. But hey eveyone has your number so it has become a game to see the evil me rise up at every occasion to spout your ignorant racist homophobic crap. I feel like Im in a soap and that you get written out
Jim
Elizabeth Mountbatten hasn’t been given enough scrutiny. Just last year her years of bigoted and racists employment practices was all but ignored.
The “palace” and the British media have been in bed together for years.
SamB
The Royals didn’t like her because she was/is a conniving opportunist who wanted to bring them down when she couldn’t force them to do things her way. Harry will eventually divorce her and come crawling back with his tail between his legs.
Cam
Interesting that the same right wing trolls who support Putin, Support bigots and rac-ists also defend a historically rac-ist organization like the Royal family, AND get enraged at the idea of a Black woman joining that family.
As always, your troll game is sad and weak.
LL
I totally agree!
BarryM
Cam: Meghan is not black, she is biracial, like Barack Obama.
My2CentsWorth
The best, and only logical way to deal with SamB is to not respond to his postings. After being ignored he will go away.
Cam
@BarryM
Funny how all of the trolls trying to defend rac-ists always lead with “Meghan isn’t Black”.
That’s the latest tactic by rac-ists. They claim they cant be racist because apparently nobody is actually Black.
So are you saying the KKK would let Meghan join?
Fahd
It´s all relative. Although Andrew, Charles and all the rest certainly have done plenty to embarrass themselves, the Royal Family, the Queen and the nation, I still would not give Harry and Meghan a pass, nor would I offer them up as a counter example to the rest.
As the Queen has noted, Harry and family will always be part of the family, even if they do not have royal duties, and there’s plenty of cringe worthy stuff with Harry and Meghan – their rejection of a life of duty for a life of crass celebrity, their interview with Oprah (what were they thinking?), Meghan’s treatment of staff and, above all, her long suffering father who paid $750K for her education and then got uninvited from any association with her and her family especially now that he’s on Social Security, their association with the dubious Spotify, and I have a sinking feeling that Harry’s upcoming “memoirs” are going to make things worse.
Harry and Meghan are just a different variation on the same theme (problem).
Maybe it would have been better for the Queen and Prince Philip not to have had children.
Heywood Jablowme
Aren’t they in business with Oprah, as well? To make “documentaries” or something? And Oprah is their neighbor too. Oprah who inflicted Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz on us!
Cam
You said….”their rejection of a life of duty for a life of crass celebrity, ”
I think what you meant was, their rejection of a life of not having to do anything and getting free taxpayer money to continue doing nothing. A life of Duty? LOL!!!! Showing up at a ceremony and posing for a picture once in a while and the British media paints it like it means anything.
Fahd
@Cam
If you go to royal dot uk homepage and look for the page on “the role of the royal family”, you’ll see that they discuss there the official DUTIES of the royal family which do in part include attending official events, and they also discuss how in performing their official duties members of the royal family contribute to the unity of the nation.
Geez, you sound like a republican (small r).
Cam
@Fahd
So a page that THEY write tells us how hard they work.
Let me know any companies that let employees tell their bosses what they did for the last year and how much they should be paid.
There’s no oversite, nobody reports them if they do nothing, and apparently anything less than raping a minor won’t get you in trouble, and even that won’t unless the world’s media turns on you and you get sued.
This is the same B.S. Hollywood celebs used to pull when they would go on talk shows and talk about how HARD they always worked and their 10 hour days. But they wouldn’t let you know that this was actually 3 hours of work and 7 hours of hanging out in their luxury trailers watching TV, eating, or playing video games.
Fahd
@Cam
So, would you do away with the monarchy? The rich and idle, like the poor, have always been with us. Get rid of the czar and wind up with Putin?
barryaksarben
WHY mention Putin when we ended up with trump? At the very least Putin loves his country
cuteguy
All hail the real queen Meghan and her hunky prince. Harry is much better looking now than his balding fugly buck tooth brother William. Just shave your head already William
BarryM
Meghan is neither a Queen, nor is she even a princess. She’s a duchess. Harry a hunk? lol
hassia
@BarryM If we want to get technical, she is also styled HRH Princess Henry of Wales. As is with Princess Michael of Kent, she did not get a duchess title upon marriage, thus, she only holds the title of her husband Prince michael of Kent.
Heywood Jablowme
What is the LGBTQ connection? Why does Queerty run so many stories about the royals? Almost every day lately. If Queerty thinks there is an LGBTQ angle they should say what it is. Yes, a short sentence or two in every single article explaining what the LGBTQ connection is.
BarryM
There is no LGBTQ connection. Queerty just wants to appear politically-correct and woke by idolizing a biracial – and not very good – TV actress.
cuteguy
His mum, the great Diana, often advocated for dying AIDS patients when it wasn’t in fashion to do so. The great Harry is following in her incredible footsteps, especially with philanthropy
Cam
You come in here under all your screenames to always use this same line, then come in under another screename to back yourself up.
Heywood Jablowme
@Cam: So what IS the LGBTQ angle, in your view?
I don’t use other screen names. You have no way proving that anyone here does that. Indeed, there is ONE way to prove it but you don’t want Queerty to do it, because you’re a phony and you’re probably using multiple screen names yourself since you’re so rabidly obsessed with the subject.
Again – what IS the LGBTQ angle, in your view? Queerty never says. If the LGBTQ angle is Diana, who died 25 years ago, that is quite a stre-e-e-e-e-etch.
Lately, Queerty totally ignores a lot of TV shows with gay characters, for instance, apparently because they’re too busy with trivial royal gossip.
Tacapollo
The Gay connection with the Royals? In the words of the late, great, Joan Rivers, “Charles is just waiting for his mother to die so HE can become Queen!” 😀
LL
Nothing wrong has been proven about the central Royal Family, the Queen, Prince Charles, William, and Kate. They’re not swirling down the drain.
On the other hand, Harry and MM have lost all credibility, and have been exposed as liars and attention-seekers. MM, in particular, is a gold-digger and an opportunistic narcissist. They are not fulfilling their contracts, and are about to lose their income sources. Harry and MM are swirling down into their toilet.
Hopefully, Harry will realize the mess he’s gotten himself into, and take his children back to Britain and repair his relationship with his family before MM completely ruins his life.
Kangol2
Are you kidding? William and Kate are out of the woods but Charles has spent years trying to earn back credibility after his hideous treatment of Princess Diana, the divorce, her tragic death, and the leaked comments about wanting to be Camilla’s “tampon,” etc. You do realize that Charles was despised after divorcing Diana, and her death even forced Queen Elizabeth II to change her tactics and acknowledge the public mourning.
Prince Andrew’s public reputation and standing are in shambles because of his Epstein ties to the extent that his own mother stripped away his public titles and he has had to remove himself from official duties. His relationship with with his wife cratered after her affair with an American businessman was revealed, and his brother and mother essentially forced his hand to settle with Giuffre, since a jury trial would have destroyed him and possibly severely damaged the monarchy. ‘
Prince Edward is basically out of the limelight, as is Princess Anne. Prince Harry and his wife Meghan did the right thing by getting the hell out of that morass and heading the US.
BarryM
LL: “…Harry and MM have lost all credibility, and have been exposed as liars and attention-seekers.”
You are correct!
Cam
@LL and @BarryM are the same person.
Ronbo
Cam, the more you make this comment (over and over and over), the more you erupt, the more it lead us to think that you are doing the same thing.
Anyone notice that several of the more opinionated commentors say the same things and use the same phrases as Cam? There isn’t really a way to know if ze is sock-puppeting – unless you can look at IP addresses.
Queerty – you have access to this info, please investigate. The horrors of sock-puppeting must be addressed. Otherwise, we’ll only be able to rely upon common sense!
barryaksarben
BARRYM is that you? William is hiding a mistress that the british press is refusing to talk about and he married way out of his league and Prince Charles is a racist prick who asked out loud what color his OWN grandchild would be? CMON how awful do they have to be for you to be honest about them
Cam
The right wing troll brought out THREE of it’s screenames to defend a family with a rac-ist history that inherited it’s position and lives off the taxpayers for doing nothing.
Yeah, I can see why Republicans would like the Royal family.
Heywood Jablowme
Cam lives in an Anarcho-Syndicalist collective in West Mudshire where the royals are always repressin’ him. ‘Elp, ‘elp, he’s bein’ repressed!
BarryM
Heywood Jablowme:
Cam is just a politically-correct, woke man who has very low self-esteem.
cuteguy
Can you two GQP trolls go back to Faux News site? You’re not welcome here.
Heywood Jablowme
@cuteguy: I don’t use other screen names. I’m a liberal and I post my mostly jokey liberal opinions here often. Cam has even appreciated some of my anti-GQP jokes – perhaps he was on his meds on those days.
Diplomat
Cam
Yeah 3 screen names. I would have to say, to paraphrase LL/Rando/BarryM, “you are correct”.
Michael
Let’s get a few things straight here…
None of us know any of these people, we base our assumptions on good interviews and sound bites, photo opportunities and Harry gets a lot of kudos because of his ‘poor dead mother’
I’m not a die hard royalist and Megan was/is treated appallingly by the British Media especially the print media, Journalists & especially Piers Morgan for simply being a woman of mixed race. The British Royal Family have never commented publicly their feelings. But from most rumours Megan WAS fully accepted in by the senior members of that family.
Harry is a very privileged spoilt man, he has mental health issues he’s publicly spoken off but has a victim mentality and is becoming increasingly bitter and resentful. Yes it’s tragic he lost his mother at a young age, but so do a lot of children they also don’t inherit £20+ million, have nannies and chauffeurs. Other single parent families have to put up with grandparents and friends looking out for them whilst the surviving parent works excessive hours to pay the rent and food and bills. He & Megan want the benefits of being a Royal exploit his birthright for money and still have privacy.
I fully respect their right to a private life but just wish they’d do that, shut up and go private but they can’t stop their yapping and bitching a how hard it is being them… I don’t begrudge their financial status but they’re using their titles and connections to have a very lucrative money earner simply because of who they’re related to.
Finally most of the comments are based on the simplest fact that he is Diana Princess of Wales’s son, I was a huge Diana fan and her loss was unbelievably tragic, sad and I as was like many deeply upset by it. But I wasn’t blind to her faults, she was like you and me and Harry and Megan, Human. Diana was an expert manipulator, using the press to her advantage, till it too found that they could sell just as many copies with salacious stories as favourable ones. At the end of her life there were more and more hostile stories in the U.K tabloids, the harassment of her by paparazzi could have been vastly reduced if she had kept her police protection. Diana was quoted by one of her closest friends say the nothing she hates worse than seeing herself in the paper was NOT seeing herein the papers. A lot of resentment is directed at Camilla, and her role in the dissolution of the marriage.
Again what people fail to realise is only the parties involved in that mess of a marriage know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, the subsequent interviews by Charles and Diana on T.V we’re immensely damaging to them both and the monarchy. Throughout the whole diabolical affair the only one who has kept their dignity is Camilla by refusing to talk about it.
Public figures such as Harry and Megan or film/pop stars trade their privacy for the adulation, the money and the love they feel they need to bolster their fragile egos. In this life you get nothing for free everything has a price even to the very, very wealthy.
If they truly want a quiet life then they could quite easily have one but they keep putting their heads above the ground and are baffled when people take pot shots at them.
Finally regarding Andrew, I fully believe he had sex with Virgina Giuffre, he clearly has had sex with a lot of women and I honestly believe just doesn’t remember this casual encounter… she is a victim and should be given the respect that any survivor of sexual assault warrants. He should be stripped of all titles and go in to obscurity and stay there. He can never be rehabilitated or relaunched anew as he is damaged and is a liability and as most of my countrymen and women feel a sex offender.
Monarchy is bigger than anyone individual, Harry will not win butting against the system, he and Megan have the means to have a very good life away from the constant glare of the publicity they say they hate so much. Sadly like his mother he needs the attention to feel his self worth which has for so many ended tragically.
BarryM
Michael:
“Harry is a very privileged spoilt man, he has mental health issues he’s publicly spoken off but has a victim mentality and is becoming increasingly bitter and resentful…He & Megan want the benefits of being a Royal exploit his birthright for money and still have privacy.”
You hit the nail on the head!
johncp56
Long live these two and their sweet kids, California will take care of them, Dictatorships are out of style,
BarryM
Dictatorships apparently are now in style on the far left. Justin Trudeau in Canada now has a police state due to his invoking martial law.
barryaksarben
There is Barrym spouting his BS. Why mention Putin when Trump was trying to overthrow our government in his own dumbass way. I thank GOD he is so stupid because the GOP is even dumber and if they had a smart president they would have been successful. I LOVE Harry and Meghan for not putting up with racists in his own family
Me2
Harry chose sanity and happiness for him and his wife over the oppressive monarch that killed his mother. Who can blame him.
BarryM
They’ll be divorced within 5 years.
barryaksarben
well, he did learn that from his daddy the long line of kings cheating like his brother
THAT Steve
Anyone else thinking our very prolific troll might actually be Piers Morgan under an alias?
Cam
What is telling about this is that the exact same troll screenames that rabidly attack trangender people, Black people, LGBTQ victims of violence, and defend bigoted Repubicans on this page are defending the Royal family and attacking Meghan.
Tells you all you need to know.
Heywood Jablowme
You are on record here – in print, searchable by Google – that you believe over 40 (!!!) of the screen names here are the same person. So, aside from your mentally ill obsession:
In your view, what IS the LGBTQ angle? Why is Queerty, an American site, so obsessed with royal trivia?
If the LGBTQ angle is supposed to be Diana, who died 25 years ago, that is quite a stre-e-e-e-e-etch. It hardly justifies the almost daily royal bullsh*t here.
Ronbo
Cam is the definition of paranoia with a LOT of arrogance, sus posts and over-the-top outrage.
paranoid /?per??no?d/ adjective
Britannica Dictionary definition of PARANOID
1
medical : of, relating to, or suffering from a mental illness that causes you to falsely believe that people are trying to harm you
paranoid behavior/schizophrenia
a paranoid mental patient
2
[more paranoid; most paranoid] : having or showing an unreasonable feeling that people are trying to harm you, do not like you, etc. : feeling or showing paranoia
I guess I was just being paranoid.
She’s a little paranoid about her job.
It’s nothing more than a paranoid fantasy.
downtoearth
WHY hasn’t CAM been kicked off of this site? Constant attacks. His two favorite accusations if you he doesn’t agree with you:
1. You’re an “obvious troll”.
2. You’re a Republican.
mastik8
Don’t forget, 3. You’re posting under different names.
barryaksarben
I agree with CAM many times. When a troll is so angry that he doesnt switch his screen name before replying kinda gives it away
Diplomat
I have to agree, between Price Charles Camila and Andrew, the royal family is circling the drain. If anyone thinks Charles and Camila are going to be fully accepted as King and Queen eventually, there would have to be a social shift of vicarious enormity to pull that off.
With this new sex abuse settlement, the fact Andrew was previously downgraded by the queen IMO was a left turn unflattering to the united front they historically imbue and combined et al has in turn hurt the Monarchy.
Ginger Tom
Believe me, Harry and Meghan are not popular in the UK. It has nothing at all, nothing whatsoever, to do with Meghan’s race (mixed) and everything to do with her character. Harry’s character is equally questionable and the UK is much better off without them. Nor is Harry being persecuted for being ginger just in case anyone was winding up with that idea.