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#3025989 24-Jan-2023 07:58

johno1234:

France has a crushing, monolithic bureaucracy and is unable to modernise or avoid stonewalling factions from unions to farmers. They are big and powerful enough to get away with it. Witness the current issue they have with retirement age. Currently it is 62. They really should up that as people live and can be productive so much longer and the population is aging with a higher proportion of aged people. However the unions simply will not allow it. If the duly elected government attempts to do this, the unions will simply shut the country down. Farmers likewise, will prevent any modernisation of their protected agricultural sector.

Germany seems to be a bit more sane than most, but look at their self inflicted renewable energy conundrum - finding themselves dependent on Russian oil and gas for crying out loud.

OK, but what does that have or not have to do with their presidential system?

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#3026854 25-Jan-2023 09:21

So...back to Prince Harry.

The furore seems to have died down, so has his tactic of getting this out there and shocking the world, to then have a quieter life with the money he makes, been successful?

Or are we going to see more statements made, along with counter-claims and denials etc?

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#3026860 25-Jan-2023 09:32

I did see something about a followup book, and something about Meghan wanting to write (or has already written) her own memoir too.

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#3026935 25-Jan-2023 11:41

I'm not a huge fan of the royal family. They live a life of luxury and privilege for no reason other than the happy accident of being born to it. They seem to have the same failings as the rest of us mere mortals - worse in the case of Andrew - and I'm sure over the generations there have been numerous dodgy things going on that we don't even suspect, thanks to The Firm covering them up.

That said, I have absolutely no desire to read tabloid gossip from low-life paparazzi about the late queen, her children, their spouses, their non-spouses, and their bad behaviour.

And that said, I have even less desire (if it's possible to have less than none) to read the same gossip from a member of said Firm, particularly Harry's American-style expose "poor me, they won't let me love who I love, it's all everyone else's fault, and it's just like mummy all over again" drivel.

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#3026943 25-Jan-2023 12:20

Handsomedan:

So...back to Prince Harry.

The furore seems to have died down, so has his tactic of getting this out there and shocking the world, to then have a quieter life with the money he makes, been successful?

Or are we going to see more statements made, along with counter-claims and denials etc?

They have what looks like a very expensive lifestyle - private jets, staff, multimillion dollar home(s), exclusive vacations, personal security and so on. That's a permanent high level expenses load. They're going to have to keep churning out the dollars to sustain it. My expectation will be a slow decline in income and status until they end up shilling junk on TV shopping channels.

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#3026979 25-Jan-2023 14:16

andrew027:

read the same gossip from a member of said Firm, particularly Harry's American-style expose "poor me, they won't let me love who I love, it's all everyone else's fault, and it's just like mummy all over again" drivel.

They're only important because they pretend to be important and everyone else likes the lie. There's no reason why they couldn't live in much the same way as the Dutch or Norwegian or [whatever European country] royal family, without the need for bodyguards and all the hooplah and paparazzi. Yet, despite whining endlessly about how bad their lives are, the UK royals put up with all kinds of BS to maintain the facade... the paparazzi, being told who they can marry, where they can live, whether they can have a beard, what colour clothes to wear, which supermarkets to open. I conclude that they need the publicity to justify their extravagant lifestyles and absence of actual work. Of course, the media, and the whole industry of royal commentators and sycophants and insiders and leakers, love them because it sells lots of newsprint and clicks. I wouldn't be surprised if the Harry/William "rift" is purely window-dressing for the purposes of maintaining interest.

I had thought that Harry & Megan's move to America and "the split" was an indication that they were turning their backs on the whole stupid mess. But no, the book, and the interviews to promote it, shows that it's just more of the same, piled higher and deeper.

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#3027075 25-Jan-2023 17:09

Another (quite scathing?) review:

https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/25-01-2023/spare-by-prince-harry-more-coronation-street-than-succession

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#3040838 23-Feb-2023 12:09

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#3040842 23-Feb-2023 12:12

I doubt they will care. Should do a survey, list the members of The Royal family who work for a living, pay their own costs of living and are innovative

I can only think of two so far :-)

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#3055228 27-Mar-2023 12:06

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/royals/300839794/another-prince-harry-book-spare-us-gives-his-memoir-the-parody-treatment

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#3055346 27-Mar-2023 13:43

Uncle Andrew is said to be preparing a book as the original spare

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertainment/2023/03/prince-andrew-reportedly-in-talks-for-tell-all-memoir-following-harry-s-book-success.amp.html

So heartbreaking that beastly Charles telling him to move out at the age of 63 and cutting his gin and tonic allowance.

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#3055414 27-Mar-2023 14:56

Who would want to read anything he had to say though? At least Prince Harry doesn't really have "the slime factor", as described in that article.

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#3055415 27-Mar-2023 15:06

gzt: Uncle Andrew is said to be preparing a book as the original spare

So heartbreaking that beastly Charles telling him to move out at the age of 63 and cutting his gin and tonic allowance.

That's not fair! He only inherited the habit from his grandmother, who lived pleasurably to be 102 years old. Still 39 years to go! 😉

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#3055961 28-Mar-2023 21:08

gzt: Uncle Andrew is said to be preparing a book as the original spare

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertainment/2023/03/prince-andrew-reportedly-in-talks-for-tell-all-memoir-following-harry-s-book-success.amp.html

So heartbreaking that beastly Charles telling him to move out at the age of 63 and cutting his gin and tonic allowance.

Imagine 50 years of right royal secrets being spilt.

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#3056004 29-Mar-2023 08:39

gzt: Uncle Andrew is said to be preparing a book as the original spare

Working title: "Spaedo"

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