The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #169506   Message #4096812
Posted By: Charmion's brother Andrew
09-Mar-21 - 08:12 AM
Thread Name: BS: OPRAH with Meghan & Harry
Subject: RE: BS: OPRAH with Meghan & Harry
"There is nothing to see here, folks. Move along."

This whole thing is bait for people who cannot operate computers, and clickbait for those who can. I do not click on the links. They point to the foetid offspring of Robin Leech's "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" that polluted the media in the 1980s with the advent of cable news networks. When it comes up in a BBC, CBC, CNN, or MSNBC teaser, I turn to the Weather Network and check out information that I can use.

I can live with Canada being a constitutional monarchy, but Canada's Royal Family is necessarily a more limited set than that supported by the Civil List in the U.K. I was saddened that Megan and Harry found that they could not make life on Vancouver Island work for them, but they would have been private citizens, and the costs of their security requirements could not be imposed on the community there nor on the Canadian public, as they learned after trying to settle in there. (Time spent in reconnaissance would not have been wasted.)

I wish them well and hope they find a modus vivendi--modus non vivendi?--with Harry's relations. When that happens, I doubt I will click on the links then, either.