Harry and Megan car chase

[CaptainKirk]

Only read the bare bones of this story but I always end up wondering why it becomes a chase, rather than a drive?
If Diana and Dodi had got in their car and driven home safely in Paris they would have been followed and some pictures would have been taken and then they would have arrived at their destination and would still be here today.
The accident happened because they tried to outpace motorcycles in a city centre, which is surely impossible?? Having a driver who may have been drinking didn't help either of course.

If you don't start racing, the danger disappears.

H and M say they were involved in a "near catastrophic chase" apparently. Surely, if they just drive home at normal speeds there is no danger at all?
Celebrities throughout history have had to put up with their pictures being taken against their will. It goes with the territory. Just smile and wave and go about your day. The photographers might even get bored. Turning it into "dramatic car chases" is just what they want and leads to good pictures.
It also probably helps their narrative of being hounded and persecuted. There are far bigger stars in the US who don't seem to get involved in dramatic car chases.

[Woodleyclaret]

Total fake news another nonsense from the Ginger Winger desperately craving attention
To pinch his Mums tragic end is beyond belief in his quest for attention.

[CoolClaret]

If you stop talking about them they'll go away

(same with all other 'celebs')

[Quickenthetempo]

Aren't they demanding more security in America at the taxpayers cost?

A near death car chase would only help their cause.

Or they could just sit in the back of the car with blacked out windows and no photographer will get any pictures.

[gtclaret]

The taxi driver whose car they were in has said that although they were followed, there was no high speed chase, it would not have been possible in the streets of New York. H&M just keep lying.

[Wokingclaret]

Growing very tired of Harry

[dermotdermot]

I think everyone is.

[yTib]

Aren't they demanding more security in America at the taxpayers cost?

quite the opposite. harry is actually trying to have his own security team and lose the british protection and this is being resisted by the palace.

[Lord Beamish]

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown in the sea…

[Rileybobs]

The thing I love most about Prince Harry and Princess Meghan is how much they occupy people's headspace.

[Burnley1989]

When someone wants privacy and to step away from the limelight, you just do it.

An example is someone like Peter Kay, nobody heard a whisper from him for years because he wanted his privacy and he was a huge star at the time.
(Granted not on Harrys level but still)

[Lancasterclaret]

my interest is limited, but have any of you lot ever considered why they are attacked all the time by the Uk media?

Its not even joining the dots, its just a simple open your eyes and see what is actually happening

[agreenwood]

I quite like em. They trigger a right load of nobheads.

[Commy]

What speed would be a high speed chase in New York? I thought traffic was at a standstill most of the time.

[Billy Balfour]

People getting all worked up about people who have no impact on their daily life. And if indeed you somehow allow this trashy tabloid fodder to impact your humble existence, then you clearly have some problems going on.

[Clarets4me]

When someone wants privacy and to step away from the limelight, you just do it. An example is someone like Peter Kay, nobody heard a whisper from him for years because he wanted his privacy and he was a huge star at the time. (Granted not on Harrys level but still)

Except more people want to see Peter Kay ...

[LoveCurryPies]

How come there is no video footage? Has anyone seen any on social media or the news? Surely people on the streets would have filmed it on their mobiles.

[helmclaret]

I don’t know why people have such strong views on them?

It is amusing watching people get so worked up about them though.

[helmclaret]

Aren't they demanding more security in America at the taxpayers cost?

A near death car chase would only help their cause.

Or they could just sit in the back of the car with blacked out windows and no photographer will get any pictures.

The total opposite. But it’s another thing for you to get worked up about!

[Bordeauxclaret]

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday- get wound up about them wanting to media attention.
Thursday, Friday - get wound up about them wanting to get away from the media.

[Quickenthetempo]

The total opposite. But it’s another thing for you to get worked up about!

Strange response.

Why would I get worked up about them?

You must have missed my question mark in the post, under your rage, about people supposedly raging at some attention seekers.

[CaptainKirk]

Just logged back in and see there are a few responses.
It wasn't meant as a dig at H & M (not this time anyway).
My main point was not really about Harry but rather about "car chases".
It is only a chase if the first vehicle makes it one. Go drive normally and everyone walks away fine.

[Big Vinny K]

Anybody who can wind up Piers Morgan as much as H & M seem to do are alright in my book.

[Rowls]

my interest is limited, but have any of you lot ever considered why they are attacked all the time by the Uk media?

Its not even joining the dots, its just a simple open your eyes and see what is actually happening

What do you mean by this?

Meghan and Harry fell out with William and Kate and the royal household. Harry's also fallen out with the King and called the Queen consort "an wicked stepmother".

The press (and this is normally individual journalists) pick a side based on who they believe is to blame for the fallout. The vast majority, but not all of them, have sided with Willam & Kate. What else is there to it than that?

[HahaYeah]

The poor Markles.

Will there ever be an end to their suffering?

[Lancasterclaret]

What do you mean by this?

Meghan and Harry fell out with William and Kate and the royal household. Harry's also fallen out with the King and called the Queen consort "an wicked stepmother".

The press (and this is normally individual journalists) pick a side based on who they believe is to blame for the fallout. The vast majority, but not all of them, have sided with Willam & Kate. What else is there to it than that?

I look at it two ways

1) Bread and circuses

2) The current court case (plus lots of calls for Levinson II)

[Claret Till I Die]

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[Lancasterclaret]

And to be fair Rowls, you are correct as well that people are genuinely interested in it because its the Royals (not my position!)

[Rowls]

And to be fair Rowls, you are correct as well that people are genuinely interested in it because its the Royals (not my position!)

I do my best not to click on anything to do with Harry and Meghan but there's the imp inside us all.

[Lancasterclaret]

I do my best not to click on anything to do with Harry and Meghan but there's the imp inside us all.

I just turn it off whenever I hear it

I'm not anti-royal by any means, but I am just not interested in who married to who, and who doesn't like who, and why it matters

[Jimmymaccer]

I just think the poor lad can’t see he’ll eventually be Meghans Spare……….

[Beryl66]

I just think the poor lad can’t see he’ll eventually be Meghans Spare……….

Eventually?

[AlargeClaret]

Harry’s a decent fella ,but seems to have been sucked into a vacuous celebrity style worldwind , partly of his own making and at the same time seemingly totally and utterly cuckolded by his mrs .

[Cirrus_Minor]

Believing in the royal family is a bit like believing in fairies. Once you stop they cease to exist. Then all of this will also cease.

[JohnMcGreal]

Harry’s a decent fella ,but seems to have been sucked into a vacuous celebrity style worldwind , partly of his own making and at the same time seemingly totally and utterly cuckolded by his mrs .

Sucked into? He was born into a vacuous celebrity style worldwind (sic).

[Boss Hogg]

Nothing will have happened or they’ll have staged it. All pursuing the attention they claim they don’t want. It’s getting a bit desperate and tiresome.

[Nonayforever]

Why would the papparzzi chase a couple who spend all of their time trying to be in the media eye ?

[Taffy on the wing]

There's a very funny South Park episode about H & M ......they have them sussed.

[775claret]

How come there is no video footage? Has anyone seen any on social media or the news? Surely people on the streets would have filmed it on their mobiles.

They were going too fast

[davideyresleftear]

People’s hatred of Harry is weird, from the scale of it you’d think he’d been diddling kids on a rich friend’s private island or something.

[AlargeClaret]

Sucked into? He was born into a vacuous celebrity style worldwind (sic).

Perhaps , but ludicrous chat shows , publicists , a 2 bit actress, dramatised tv documentaries etc etc when he wanted “ away from it all “ I personally thought they were both gonna go to ground and ease their way back in but ultimately it’s their life .

[AlargeClaret]

It’s quite amusing seeing all the resident lefties, for whom H used to be an absolute whipping post , racist / toff/utter knobhead /Not Charles’s son / Nazi /thick inbred et al who now appear to be worshipping him as some kind of demigod.

[TheFamilyCat]

It’s quite amusing seeing all the resident lefties, for whom H used to be an absolute whipping post , racist / toff/utter knobhead /Not Charles’s son / Nazi /thick inbred et al who now appear to be worshipping him as some kind of demigod.

It'd be even funnier if that was actually happening.

[Nori1958]

I just turn it off whenever I hear it

I'm not anti-royal by any means, but I am just not interested in who married to who, and who doesn't like who, and why it matters

Dont comment then, i tend not to in things iam not interested in

[Pickles]

Boggling to me how anyone's arsed at all really. Huge opinions made of people based on second, third, fourth, fifth hand (if lucky) scraps of rumours from the media. Hear people gossiping about it as if it's their own family. Proper, proper odd. But then I suppose everyone needs a distraction. We're all on here after all...

[beddie]

What’s disappointing to me is that the BBC think it’s worthy of broadcasting. I really wish we didn’t have to hear anything about them.

[bfcjg]

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[Damo]

They are equally supported and hated by the brainless morons on either side of a terribly pointless political debate.
You only have to look at the people on this thread and the likes they garner to see how polarised people can be when they have nothing better to get upset about.

[Caballo]

They are equally supported and hated by the brainless morons on either side of a terribly pointless political debate.
You only have to look at the people on this thread and the likes they garner to see how polarised people can be when they have nothing better to get upset about.

Sadly, it's become the modus operandi on here, playing the man, not the ball.

[Billy Balfour]

There are more triggers on this thread than a military shooting range. Amazing what some people get wilfully upset about.