Here was a curious little royal item which broke yesterday: apparently, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have trademarked the word HEADFIT in the UK. What is Headfit (I’m not going caps-lock on the name)? Headfit is apparently keenspeak for software, likely a mobile mental health app. Sounds like a great issue, right?
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have trademarked the word “HEADFIT”, and patent information on the Intellectual Property Office website – shared on Twitter – suggests that it might be a mobile app. Listed as “software as service and given the name and the Cambridges’ demonstrable mental health campaigning, it appears that the royal couple might be looking to launch a mobile app dedicated to the cause.
The new guidance gives helpful tips on how to look after your own wellbeing, alongside advice for parents and carers on children’s mental health during the shutdown. Tips include staying in touch with family and friends via video calls and social media, as well as establishing a regular routine and a healthy sleep pattern or starting a new hobby.
On the matter, William and Kate said: “The last few weeks have been anxious and unsettling for everyone. We have to take time to support each other and find ways to look after our mental health. It is great to see the mental health sector working together with the NHS to help people keep on top of their mental wellbeing. By pulling together and taking simple steps each day, we can all be better prepared for the times ahead.”
So the story is that William and Kate were quietly working on something and have already put together a successful trademark application and presumably they’re hard at work on what will be a major, game-changing app, right? What’s curious about all of this is this tiny little item dated October 2, 2019.
HRH The Duke of Sussex, @HelliwellHelen & David Wiseman introduce HeadFIT: innovational mental fitness video signposting website to assist the management of good mental health. Launch anticipated early 2020. Great panel too! @KensingtonRoyal @DMS_MilMed @DMS_DG @DMS_SurgGen pic.twitter.com/PWXLZsBf0c
— Head of Research & Clinical Innovation (@DMSResearch) October 2, 2019
So it was something Prince Harry launched in October of last year, and it was (apparently) something he had put together with the Ministry of Defense. Harry’s focus was the creation of Headfit as some kind of mental health resource for veterans and soldiers and handed out through the MoD. Something tells me it was his brainchild. It was also something he did through Heads Together, the joint mental health project he and the Cambridges used for all of their mental-health related causes. So when Harry exited the royal family, did he leave behind Headfit? And now William and Kate are trademarking it and claiming it as their own? Or is this all just some misreported mixup? Allegedly, Harry did not really exit Heads Together, so it IS possible (?) that Heads Together as an organization decided to trademark (on Harry’s behalf) and somehow, Will and Kate are just getting the credit? I don’t know. Either than the Single White Keens are only getting started.
From The Royal Foundation annual report… “Spearheaded by The Duke of Sussex, TRF is working with the Ministry of Defence to produce educational resources that will be delivered across Defence from the end of 2019.”
Harry handed over a completed project to Heads Together. pic.twitter.com/Rk5XnMQhkY
— Royal Suitor (@royal_suitor) April 9, 2020
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, WENN and Backgrid.
William is a terrible human being. There is no redeeming quality about him. He is going to make a terrible king. To do this to his own brother is cruel.
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For William to do this is so cruel. He will be a terrible king . One certainty I this project will fade away like their previous ventures something Charles must be aware of. When William becomes king all that Charles built will be destroyed.
I never realized Harry has always been the brains of the Harry, William and Kate trio. Harry thinks of something, researches and builds it up then William and Kate slap their names on it.
This is the thing with the ‘Its Kate’s idea’ BS.
Brainstorming to come up with a name for the joined mental health foundation to be put up, the 3 of them (Harry, William, Kate) decided to pick the name Kate came up with. That was the sole Kate’s contribution, just the NAMING, not the ideal, not the concept, not the projects and not the courses chosen. That all ORIGINATED with Harry’s ideas for the injured people in the military. His experience in military service was the basis for his idea for his first mental health initiative. That was the starting point for other royals’ to get involve into mental health.
Harry has been consistent in his support for the military since 2012; the Endeavor Fund, Invictus, Apple project with Oprah, Headfit, etc. And he has many plans coming up about mental health. Whether William steals Headfit, or that Harry has been forced by the queen to drop it because it is a collaboration with the military and the queen has taken his royal military appointments off of him, so William saw an opportunity to run away with this project, we will still hear more about other mental health initiative from Harry. He has already announced that Invictus and Endeavor are going to work closer together. So good luck with this one to William. We know it will be an epic failure, because He nore Kate have the commitment and the ideals to bring it to fruition.
Kate is just as bad. The way she looked at M &H in that church on their final event as “royals”, and at their wedding she looked down most of the time. She seems so smug to me.
Kate came up with the name Heads Together so obviously she is a super genius. 😐
Kate has long had a rep for being very ‘grand’, even back when she was his beck and call girl. The status that comes with William is everything to Kate – they are clearly pulling rank within the family.
And she is just as nasty as he is – lets not forget how she cussed out Princess B in FRONT of paps at a charity roller disco event.
I remember when she and Jecca went to a society wedding (this before her engagement to William) she showed up in the style of outfit Jecca usually wore. Strange.
Digital, where’d you see she “cussed her down”. From all the reports I read, she just didn’t bother to tell Bea the roller event was “dressed in 80s skater “glittery” gear”, and Bea wasn’t “dressed” like the others, which made Bea run into the bathroom, crying.
I’d be interested to read another version if you have it!
Kate is a “Karen.”
It makes it very hard to root for her and it explains her popularity amongst both traditionalists and white feminists.
One of the bartenders at the event told the RRs about Kate swearing out seven-years-younger Bea at the bar. Katie N may have been one of the RRs who was covering the event from the inside and witnessed it herself. Just another one of the many, many Kate stories that were wiped clean after the engagement announcement.
Thank you, Nota. I didn’t know that. Kind of frames how she’s behaved towards them (and others). Like Maya Angelou said: “When someone shows you who they are the first time, believe them”.
You would have thought Kate coming from a commoner background and the media and royal family accepted it, she would hsve made attempt with Meghan, but no WK acted like they were so much better, I bet when George brings home girlfriend KATE will make sure she’s no commoner. She’s a snob through and through, she thinks only she should be made an exception for.
Once kathy saw how beautiful and smart Meghan is, it was over. kathy and billy boy are both so jealous it is killing them. i only want the best for Meghan and Harry and that sweet baby boy. billy boy is going to be a terrible future future King. his sorry excuse for a wife is going to do what she does best, NOTHING.
So good luck with this one to William. We know it will be an epic failure, because he nore Kate have the commitment and the ideals to bring it to fruition.
@Sally said:
“Once kathy saw how beautiful and smart Meghan is, it was over. kathy and billy boy are both so jealous it is killing them… billy boy is going to be a terrible future future King. his sorry excuse for a wife is going to do what she does best, NOTHING.”
^^ Exactly right @Sally! I would add ‘kathy’s’ mommy carole to that equation as well. In fact neither the lamebridges nor the middletons even waited to meet Meghan or get to know her. Those jealous snobs were hating on Harry’s soul mate as soon as they heard he was dating an American WOC Hollywood actress. Meghan is so NOT who they wanted for Harry. Meghan is their worst nightmare! They apparently were hoping Harry would marry the ‘make your own girlfriend’ kit that kathy gave him for Xmas. 😝
Or at the very least some younger, malleable doormat type who might fade into the woodwork. The thing is: Harry wasn’t interested in doormats. Plus most girls, especially those in the aristo set, may have been willing to be chummy and/or have flings with the Wales bros, but none were interested in the royal baggage that came with them. Everyone knows what happened to Diana!
And let’s get real, once any girl got to know who William really is, they weren’t interested in becoming babysitters or ‘faithful’ royal wives looking on complacently while wandering Wills did the rosebush trimming. Jecca Craig was probably more friends with Wills than anything else, and she seemingly catered to his sensitive side. Wills also had more going for himself on the looks side back then. Isabella Calthorpe (a Diana lookalike) totally weren’t interested and let Wills know pretty quick. So Waity Katie was rewarded for waiting because she was the only one thirsty enough to become Wills’ handmaiden for the rest of her life.
In Harry’s case, he’s just more sexy and fun-loving, and he has more of a true, caring heart that isn’t about being selfish. Still, in his younger days, I’m sure Harry was a wild, needy handful to deal with. Chelsy and Harry had a young, immature love and they grew up together during a time when they were both trying to find themselves. But Chelsy was smart enough to know the royal gilded cage was NOT for her, no matter Katie trying to convince her to marry Harry because for the middletons, Chelsy was a known, young quantity.
Cressida’s half-sister is Isabella Calthorpe, who likely advised Cress to enjoy herself, but to think twice before marrying into the royal firm. In any case, the Cress/Harry relationship seems like more of a hanging buddy situation. Cress went back to her old boyfriend who she’d probably never gotten over anyway. It was Eugenie who tried to set up Cress with Harry in the first place.
As it turns out, the friends who knew Harry best, had the better match-up in mind. Meghan and Harry are the real deal. They know they are! Just as Harry said in the engagement interview. 😍 So with the union of M&H, the lamebridges’ masks got pulled… As well, a lot of other dirty undersides of the royal firm are now revealed. So for me there’s no going back to believing in the faux p.r. images the royal firm desperately tries to push down our throats.
@songbirds thrive, for the upteenth time,Harry never proposed to neither Cressy nor Chelsy, so we will never know what they would have said has he proposed. What we do know however, is that despite their claims of wanting to do with the RF, they continuously and repeatedly broke up and got back together multiple times, and never when their relationships were good, did the girls ever voice displeasure about the gilded cage. It seems none of them wanted to get married at the time TBH. And Cressida getting back with her ex post break up with Harry is not something positive about her, it just means she is the kind of person that needs a man to define her IMVHO. Harry and Meghan met at the right time when they both were matured and were ready to settle down. It’s that simple.
It is just foolish to marry into the British Royal Family. In order to survive you’d have to cut yourself down to size, crush your soul and if you’re married to a less senior royal, then you’d have to play a strategic game of brown-nosing to those of higher rank (Sophie has done this successfully) – if you can stomach it. Meghan couldn’t and wouldn’t do that to herself – and luckily her husband chose his marriage before his toxic family and the rigid institution it is embedded in. Compared to other European RF’s, this situation seem specific to the BRF and it has to do with their family dynamic as well as a rigid bureaucracy with too much power and an unwillingness to change.
There is a peculiar sort of dysfunction in the BRF where family pull rank on each other based on the rigid hierarchy that is the Line of Succession – and you cannot really have a healthy family dynamic when various members constantly say that they are better and more important than their brothers/sisters/sons/spouses, etc because of their place in the Line of Succession. It produces emotionally stunted people. Because of that they expect popularity to follow the hierarchy of rank. Except that isn’t how popular appeal works. It doesn’t respect rank and thus we get jealousy and resentment between family members one generation after each other. Then you see how they clandestinely work to sabotage each other instead of using all assets on behalf of “The Firm”. No actual firm could survive generations of this kind of behaviour but the BRF is ensured existence because the institution is old, entrenched in British society and it is too much of a legal bother to abolish it. I find it hilarious that they call themselves The Firm because none of them have the faintest idea of how you actually keep a real firm alive for generations – and you don’t do that by sabotaging your employees for being successful. That way you only sabotage yourself.
I feel sorry for George, Charlotte and Louis in that respect because who’d want to marry into this shit show? Who’d want to marry into this family after what happened to Diana, to Meghan? Maybe it will have been forgotten after 20 years, and maybe it won’t. I really depends whether the BRF will be able to alter both its family dynamic (not much hope there with Will and Kate in charge) and its way of doing business (that will be interesting to see because Liz’s longevity is IMO a major reason as to why the institution functions as if it is still in the last century).
I agree that the Queen’s longevity is a large part of the messed up family dynamic. No one should be curtseying anyone in private.
@BabsOrig said:
“@songbirds thrive, for the upteenth time,Harry never proposed to neither Cressy nor Chelsy, so we will never know what they would have said has he proposed. What we do know however, is that despite their claims of wanting to do with the RF, they continuously and repeatedly broke up and got back together multiple times, and never when their relationships were good, did the girls ever voice displeasure about the gilded cage. It seems none of them wanted to get married at the time TBH. And Cressida getting back with her ex post break up with Harry is not something positive about her, it just means she is the kind of person that needs a man to define her IMVHO. Harry and Meghan met at the right time when they both were matured and were ready to settle down. It’s that simple.”
I’m not sure how you know for sure that Harry didn’t ask Chelsy to marry him. I didn’t say he asked either Chelsy or Cressida to marry him, btw. I said they both were ultimately uninterested. And they weren’t interested in a lifetime commitment for a variety of reasons. Part of it had to do with them both being young and wanting to have careers. I even suspicion that Cressida felt dating Harry might help her acting career opportunities. And it probably did, but whether or not she was good enough to then back up those opportunities is another question.
Cressida, IMO, was likely just a ‘hanging buddy.’ Neither Cressida nor Chelsy were interested in putting up with the pap coverage and other royal baggage. That was the main kicker that’s often been mentioned. Sure, Harry may never have asked either of these ladies to marry him. I certainly don’t think he asked Cressida, as I don’t think they were that close. Chelsy is a different story. They may have talked about it, whether or not he ever formally proposed to her. How would we definitively know one way or the other? The other thing about Chelsy is that her head was not turned by the idea of royalty. She comes from a rich family and already enjoyed/enjoys a jet-set lifestyle. And she’s made a career now as a jewelry designer.
I don’t see any reason to try and act as if Harry wasn’t interested in Chelsy and that he never considered marrying her. They were in love, but it was a young, immature love. In retrospect, it’s a good thing they both moved on. I don’t think Harry was ever seriously romantic about Cressida. It was the media who had them married off as soon as it was revealed they were dating.
Also, it’s neither positive nor negative that Cressida went back to her old boyfriend. To me, that simply means she was dating Harry on the rebound, and was not over the old boyfriend.
William probably makes that sour face a lot. I think though he always had this issue of being mean.
From the time William was a very young child, I always thought he was petulant and unpleasant in his behavior. Harry was quite the opposite–sunny and cheerful. Sometimes an adult’s personality is simply how he was born. If and when he does ascend to the throne, I will think of him as William the Terrible. (I had a body-part in mind in place of “terrible,” but couldn’t decide between the front and rear parts.)
He earned his childhood nicknames, Billy the Basher and Wills (for being petulant, willful, stubborn). He hasn’t grown out of those names or that behavior.
I agree, nota. Sometimes people really haven’t got it in them to grow and transform themselves by learning and evolving. In William’s case, that’s very unfortunate. And if he ever ascends the throne, it will be England’s misfortune.
@Tessa said:
“William probably makes that sour face a lot. I think though he always had this issue of being mean.”
It’s probably more complicated than that. But there were certainly differences in personality that their mother recognized. I remember that time in Spain when older Wills seemed jealous and disgruntled when toddler Harry happily tried to pick up a puppy that was almost as big as he was. 😄 😋
Losing their mother was difficult for both of ’em, and likely arrested both of their emotional and character developments. In truth, Diana also leaned too much on William when he was a pre-teen and a teenager, so who knows the damaging aspect of that. Maybe Diana might have made a difference in repairing that and in guiding William to a better place emotionally had she lived. But there’s no way to know if she could have prevented Wm’s petty, selfish side from surfacing in his adulthood.
Harry is very lucky to have had the more easygoing personality that allowed him to deal with the burdens of being the ignored, yet put-upon spare, always taking the fall for both of their misdeeds and shortcomings.
What a relief that Harry grew up in the military and came into his own through meeting Prince Seeiso in Botswana (Sentebale resulted); and through meeting the Obamas in D.C. (Invictus resulted). Also, Harry had a good mentor in Mark Dyer (his second father), and Tiggy Legge-Bourke served as a mother figure for him. These are likely the crucial people who helped Harry find his way to worthwhile maturity. And also Chelsy and her family along the way helped with Harry’s emotional needs.
Harry gives Wills some credit for telling him to get counseling. But at the same time, Wills still always looked down on Harry as the errant younger brother to compete with, and to take for granted. Once Meghan entered the picture, those days of taking Harry and his popularity and his ‘third wheel’ status for granted, were over.
I don’t think Diana relied on Wills too much. For one thing he was away at school for much of the year. I think Diana did have an inkling of the real William. There was an episode where William told his parents he did not want them to go to Parents picnic at Eton. He asked Tiggy who did not have the sense IMO to turn him down and tell him to go with his parents. Diana even prepared a picnic lunch for herself and William and then William told her she was not going. He showed great arrogance and he should have been called out about it by the Queen. It shows he has some meanness in him. WIlliam also just sat back and played the Golden Prince while Harry took the heat. William did not have to apologize for commandeering a military copter to land it on Kate’s parent’s lawn nor take it to a stag party. Harry would have been raked over the coals for doing what William did.
I thought it was always “those who can’t do, teach”, I guess the new saying is “those who can’t do, steal”……….. LOL
At least they will have A PROJECT! everything else has basically failed at this point!
The biggest mistake harry made was working with his brother and forming a foundation with him. I think harry worked on it when he was still part of the royal foundation, it remained with the foundation when they separated. I actually believe harry gave released ownership to them that’s why they were able to trademark it .Same like give it a shout, it was clear that it was the sussexes initiative but the cambridge as usual took credit for it.
Harry who came up with clever ideas like santable, invictus, endeavour fund etc will come up with lots of equally great ideas, so the cambridge can have this. They need it
The biggest mistake Harry made was being born second.
I would think that Harry will do more global initiatives since he will be working from California or, even, ones more connected with American servicemen. I would think a soldier is a soldier is a soldier. As long as Harry helps he wont care the nationality.
I know this will be unpopular but it makes more sense for the Cambridges to deal with most UK based issues.
@DarlingDiana ~ which he wouldn’t have had to do if he’d become a part-time working royal, like ALL the others who are fairly distant to the throne. It’s becoming more and more obvious who the driving force behind the need to “get them away from here” is, eh
It’s strange. Harry trademarked Headfit in January this year. January,17th, if I’m correct. That is after he left for Canada, after the Sandringham Agreement with the queen. So, for William to trademark it in April, is very remarkable. He didn’t wait long to pretend this is his and Kate’s work/project.
@Osty said:
“The biggest mistake harry made was working with his brother and forming a foundation with him.”
I wouldn’t call it ‘a mistake’ by Harry @Osty. In fact, Harry had started Sentebale with Prince Seeiso in 2006. As with everything, William kinda was being supportive in an older brother way. But still looking at Harry as the errant younger brother who needed help. I’m sure there is caring involved too. But there’s no way Wills anticipated Harry’s initiatives and popularity outshining his lazy a$$.
So either starting the Royal Foundation was a way for William to take some credit and to keep tabs on what Harry was doing, or it was more likely a genuine effort in the beginning to help raise money for Harry’s charity, Sentebale. The RF was formed in 2009, when the brothers were still young and unmarried. It doesn’t seem that much thought was given to how the RF might change over the years once they were both adults and Harry got married.
Also, Wm was supposedly in charge of overseeing the administration functioning of the RF, and as it turns out that became an unholy mess. A Harry biographer said that Harry planned to move on and separate from the RF once he got married, obviously taking his own initiatives with him. But obviously, none of this had been fully thought out or planned out carefully. Sooo, this is the mess Meghan walked into when she fell in love with Prince Harry.
I believe it was Wills who convinced Harry that sticking with the RF was the way to go for all four of them. Wills knew neither he nor Kate had any ‘chickens roasting in the oven’ as far as ideas or ongoing substantive projects under the RF! And at that point, Meghan likely was unaware of the management problems with the RF. In the beginning, Meg seemed to be just trying to fit in and trying to find her place, so both M&H were accommodating, and they got burned by the Lamebridges.
As the 2018 audit of the RF revealed in 2019: Harry’s and Meghan’s projects: Sentebale, Invictus, Hubb Community Cookbook were the only substantial efforts that had brought in the most funding. Wills had also at the end of 2018, grabbed onto the Shout initiative, that had been spearheaded by M&H.
So this a project he lost in the divorce I’m guessing. This sounds really great and it sounds like something he’d been working on for a while. I don’t expect the Cambridges to do much with it seeing as they don’t do much with anything, including Heads Together and that’s a shame.
The biggest mistake harry did was to work with william . I hope he has learnt his lesson. And as you said they wouldn’t be able to do much with it cos they wouldn’t understand the why he came out with this, the how he wants to do it and where he wants it to get to .
I guess Harry has learned not to trust his brother. Perhaps a long time ago.
@Osty said:
“The biggest mistake harry did was to work with william . I hope he has learnt his lesson.”
Again @Osty, I would NOT characterize this as a ‘mistake’ by Harry. None of us get to choose the families we are born into, or the siblings we have. Plus, in the beginning, when the RF was first formed, neither of the brothers were married. It just wasn’t well thought out in terms of the future direction. It was formed chiefly to help Harry raise money for Sentebale. Dad Prince Charles had discouraged Harry from forming the charity at a young age, but Harry pushed forward with his ideas with Prince Seeiso. And that’s a good thing!
In the beginning, Wills may have been just wanting to help, or maybe part of it was piggybacking on Harry and trying to have some of the credit rub off on him. None of us observing from the outside would have known that at the time though. As I’ve said, a lot of dirty undersides of the royal firm and some rotten personalities have been revealed since Meghan the Marvelous met and married the ‘errant’ prince. NOT a fairytale!
It’s sad to think that Harry might have succumbed to drink and a bad marriage if Meghan had not come along when she did. More and more, I think it’s clear that Meghan rescued not only Harry. She rescued the entire royal firm. They’ve all been feeding off of her fresh approach to being royal and actually engaging with real people in the modern age.
Of course Harry already had his own ideas and initiatives because he was more outward-looking and more like his mother. But he was still trapped inside the ancient institution due to love and respect for his grandmother and by force of habit and duty. The military saved him and helped him feel more like a normal person. And Meghan encouraged him to be himself proudly and independently.
IOW, Harry has grown emotionally to not be dependent and needy, but to stand his ground on his own two feet. Meghan and Harry do not have a relationship based on mutual emotional dependency. It’s based upon pure love, similar purposeful interests, compassion for others, knowledge of self, and the ability to be independent of each other at the same time they are a solid, loving, supportive unit.
Meghan encouraged Harry by example to live a healthier lifestyle too. He stopped drinking and smoking, which has likely added years to his life. Meghan also gave him a son and a family, something he’d always yearned for. Perhaps his mother, Diana, has also been an angel in his life, guiding him toward redemption.
Nothing has been ‘a mistake.’ It’s just about learning how to navigate and to deal with the challenges your life clobbers you with, I guess. It is what it is.
Well, they can just hire people who’ve worked with the Sussexes and know what it means to sustain a living, breathing, healthy initiative to continue to job, while the stand by, taking the credit, having contributed almost nothing in its creation.
Despicable couple.
You know, S808, I think you’re right. The classy —- or shall we say, kingly —— thing to do would be for the Cambridge’s to thank Harry for his major contribution to the formation of the project as they roll it out. However, I’ll bet they will be like, “Harry who?” These 2 are beyond pathetic.
I agree with you – though I’ll bet they won’t ever get around to rolling it out 😉
Of course he started it and the Cambridges got it in the separation.
Hey, remember all that fuss and anger at the Sussexes registering a trademark?
Yup.
But again no one cares about the Cambridges.
Hopefully this will be a proof for Harry that he made the best choice when he left this family.
William is a sad low life so is his doormat
How many people will use this app?? Again it’s ok for cambridges to steal other people idea and trademark ?? Where is the outrage for making money off this??
“Rules” and “Protocol” only apply to members of the royal family who marry a biracial American who puts the family to shame and outshines them. Otherwise, members of the royal family are free to steal business ideas, patent it as their own and make money off of it, have all the affairs they want, rape young girls, etc., without any consequences.
yup that seems to be it, exactly right. Sinful
What else is new? the lazy Cambridges taking credit for Harry’s work but this time they patented the idea as their own creation. I just can’t with them.
Yeah, the Cambridge’s just keep proving that Harry and Meghan weren’t the problem.
This PROVES that the Cambridges were jelly haters of the Sussex’s are have been behind not only the press smear campaign but them being driven out of the RF.
Cain and Unable have been pulling rank within the family – its high time Chuck pulled rank with these 2 twits. The Queen won’t.
There’s an excellent article about Charles’ “absence of leadership” and hence the whole royal family are in chaos…there’s NO LEADERSHIP IN THE FAMILY. It’s a very good article. Sorry I don’t know how to link
Unfortunately, I don’t think Charles will do anything except maybe realize how absolutely awful W&K truly are. He won’t become involved and will surely not say a word. As for TQ, she obviously doesn’t care and she has proven herself to be petty.
I also want a real journalist to cover the story about the cookbook funds being diverted to the foundation. There have been rumblings of this but no one has covered it. Clearly this outright steal confirms that there was a lot of shady business going on behind the scenes with the foundation so instead of covering shallow bs, let’s go for a real story.
Maybe the New York Times reporter that did that brilliant deep dive into the Cambridges shady instagram activities?
@Nic919 – I want to read that story too.
I understood from somewhere H&M caught that funds -re-routing and were able to rescue those funds and ensure they specifically went to the HUB kitchen. It might have been whilst Harry was (finally) with his grannie and she (finally) understood a smidgen of what was happening to their initiatives.
I think it’s pretty unfair to Harry as his brother is pretty much taking a completed or near completed project and putting their names on it.
I understand if Harry couldn’t take this project with him as it’s partnership with the ministry of defence but the Cambridges are still using Harry to promote it. The HeadsTogether website has put Harry’s name on the Ministry of Defence partnership page and use a video of him to promote it. If the Cambridges want a project to be theirs they shouldn’t be using Harry to promote it.
What they should have done is released a statement like “This project was started by The Duke of Sussex and has been handed over to TRH The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. TRH appreciate the work and effort put into it by The Duke and will endeavour to ensure it is a success. TRH and The Duke/HRH are in full communication with each other about the project and wish to see it succeed.” It would have been a more “better” transition and maybe even put some of the feud rumours to rest
@Sofia: I agree with everything you said. But sadly, neither Cambridges are smart or compassionate enough to approach this in the mature and respectful manner. They’re too jealous, petty and spiteful to ever show proper respect towards the Sussexes. And we get this as the final result with them claiming Harry’s project as their own!
But not to worry, karma will visit these 2 soon enough! Harry and Meghan may have a bumpy start with their new beginning, but during their journey, they will produce many successful projects together. Of that I am certain!
Sofia, I agree with you.
Giving Harry credit would stick in Cain’s craw.
Cain and Unable will get what is coming to them. A lot of people have picked up on this and are going after the Cambridge’s for it.
Lazy, useless bunch.
@Truth and @Flying Fish: William could actually use that for PR.
Give Harry the credit and release a statement saying the brothers are in full communication. They can keep it vague whether they talk in general or just this.
Then release a bunch of PR articles from William’s side over how he’s the one who made the first move to talk to Harry and is therefore the bigger man and “better” than Harry. And do the usual “Harry is so grateful to William that he’s taking over the project!” And blah blah
Would it be true? Maybe not no. Would any of us believe it? No. But to the casual royal watcher it would seem like a huge step has been made and it would seem a little less shady than it currently does (William stole a project)
Harry should release a statement wishing them well, and end with stating he knows William will make it the success it should be. No pressure.
This really isn’t any different than what happened with Heads Together though. Harry had already started working on it and developed the concept and then twit and twat threw their names on it and posed with a headband.
➕💯 Sofia, that sort of statement is beyond these two it seems.
W&K also kept the Endeavour Fund info on their new solo website, may still be on there. So Harry made it clear in a speech that he’s taking EF and merging it with InvictusGames. Maybe he didn’t anticipate they’d steal this project he’s been publicly associated with for six months?
The MoD wanted a working Royal to promote it NOW. The work does the MoD not Harry or whoever else. It’s only about representing.
So why would the lamebridges trade mark it, If the MoD wanted only a royal face?
The MoD has consistently shown support of Harry, including after his exit from the working royal family. The MoD would want Harry to continue as the driving force behind this.
I think the MOD does support Harry. I don’t think that will stop. I think the MOD is working with the available royals and that is the Cambridges. Harry’s stepping back was not in jest. The time he gives these UK based initiatives will naturally be much less than before.
Given the response from the Marines and the ongoing success of InvictusGames? MoD and other military entities will continue to work with Harry.
Nice try but there would not be a trademark application made by the Cambridges if this belonged to the government because the government would have ownership of the program. Since that is not the case, it was a wholly independent project that could have been transferred to Harry or anyone else really. The royals don’t work on government policy remember?
Harry only gave back honorary military titles which have nothing to do with this project and anyone could have worked on it. It’s not a military patronage or a title like colonel in chief.
So the Cambridges basically pushed Harry out, took credit for his work and are now trademarking something they never worked on.
For someone they claim is not smart, Harry some how turn his ideas into working models.
William and Kate was taking credit for Harry’s work for years, so why not trademark it.
Then they tried to do the same with the cookbook, but Meghan is not Harry and said no way is this money going into the Foundation for other charities, William huffed and puffed to no avail.
Then he and Unable, started a campaign of leaking stories to the tabloids.
We are honestly probably going to keep seeing this. Harry had to forfeit so much to be able to leave “cleanly” only for TQ to go back and muddy up that clean line by yanking more and more stuff from them. I bet these things were taken last minute too – like M&H probably wanted to use some of their projects and when “sources” leaked to the Palace that they were going to use them TQ yanked them away and gave them to the Cambridges.
It’s going to be a weird rat race. Both the Sussex’s and the Cambridges are all talking about the same thing, environmentalism and mental health. Which are both great talking points! But I think that this is what is going to cause more dog-chasing-its-tail.
It’s only a race because the Cambridges made it into one. Harry and Meghan will continue to mind their own business and the causes they support will be better for it.
Precisely.
Agree. Because of their senior position in the Royal family, the Cambridge’s will not be able to work the way the Sussexes do. They can’t market or monetize it, go deep in projects or collaborate with other stakeholders in the same way, because that is not their job. They can’t do TED talks, or book tours or tv deals. That’s not their role since they are being paid for by the taxpayers. I have no idea what they plan to do with this project whose trademark they stole or squatted on, but they have to stay in their specific lane and royal duties. The Sussexes never tried to do the Cambridge’s job, and they should stop trying to get in on theirs. It makes zero sense.
It’s pretty petty, but for the sake of those it’ll help, I would rather it survive. Just a shame it won’t be run by an actual veteran.
William is an actual Veteran. This isn’t in defense of William and before we start arguing about different branches or duties, please remember that all services employ a wide range of positions.
Cain is a great name for him.
Wasn’t he a part time helicopter pilot who had to get one specially made because he needed a co-pilot and co pilots aren’t a thing with the aircraft he was supposed to be flying? And didn’t he use taxpayer dollars to touch down at his girlfriend’s house? Never heard any vet talk about his “service” the same way they have about Harry’s, maybe using the gig as an excuse to fly shiny new toys is part of it
William is not a vet. He did train in the army but never served in a war conflict. “A veteran (from Latin vetus, meaning “old”) is a person who has had long service or experience in a particular occupation or field. A military veteran is a person who has served and is no longer serving in a military” (wikipedia), Willim fits none of these definitions nor does he fit the definition of a vet “a person who has had long experience in a particular field”.
@Melissa, William never went to war. He was safely tucked away in Blighty. His medals are bogus. Please don’t insult veterans, by labelling William as one. It is dishonourable of them not to have atleast recognized Harry, the brains behind Headfit, but sneakly and brazenly claim it as a brand new idea. For a couple who are next in line after Charles, they sure suffer from inferiority complex. Well, H&M, have a plethora of ideas, we can’t wait!
Who knew that merely stating that William is a Veteran – which he is – would get me labeled an ass kisser, told to return to Tumblr , implied that I am somehow disrespecting “real” Veterans etc.
It seems in the rush to hate this dude it doesn’t matter who gets run over.
There is enough to complain about without downplaying his service – that IS disrespectful to those behind the lines, reservists etc. who aren’t filling roles you deem worthy.
Melissa, would you explain to me his service, please? I’ve googled, gone to their websites and cannot find the specific service you mention that qualifies him as a Veteran? This is not snark. I WANT to think more positively of William. I watched him grow up, along side my blonde, blue-eyed boy. I never paid much attention to little Harry as I never had a second child and did not identify with him at all…but William is the same age as my boy, so I watched them reach certain milestones together; they are wrapped together in my mind. I want very much to think well of him, and would be delighted to know many are mistaken about him being a vet. Thanks for clarifying you comments!
@ Prayer Warrior – may I suggest then a search string of “Prince William Military service” it will give you the information that you ‘want’ to find and think positively of. Per my very cursory google search he spent 7.5 years in the RAF. I am sure the particulars are equally available though perhaps without the gossip or assumption slant.
He is in FACT a veteran of the armed services. Whether or not the kind posters here find him worthy of that title is not my call.
I have seen that he did not attend “real boot camp” which is true, because Officers do not in the UK, nor do they here in the US where I reside, they attend a cadet program or OCS as we call it here.
I have also seen that he was not “in harms way” or “on the front lines” as a reason to diminish his service. I can attest personally that the vast majority of military veterans are not, in fact, on the front lines, they are in support roles, supply chains, mechanics, shop keepers, cooks etc. Should we also diminish the service of those individuals because we hate this one?
As I have said previously, there are many things to knock Duke Whatshispuss about – but to diminish his military service as nonexistant or irrelevant diminishes the contribution that so many of us have made and continue to make.
Hope that helps your desire to want to think better of him.
William did not serve on the front lines. But he will wear many medals.
Serving on the front lines is not a requirement to be a veteran. The VAST majority of veterans never see actual combat but the work they all do is important and necessary. I get that William is not popular here but he IS a veteran, he DID serve his country. We should not discount the sacrifice and work of ALL members of the military, past or present, combat experience or not.
Getting off soapbox now.
Look at cambridges asskisser coming here. Go back to tumblr to ass kiss bald and oatmeal.
William and Charles had the royal version of military service which is not real. William didn’t do real boot camp and he barely did his RAF work. He almost got booted out but Charles had to intervene. It’s part of why he left RAF and went to the curated copilot job in the EEAA, which he barely did there as well.
It is offensive that they have all these medals and never truly served. They are not veterans in any real sense of the word and it is offensive to pretend that they are.
I have relatives who are veterans and served on front lines and they put William to shame.
I have relatives who are veterans and served on front lines and they put William to shame.
@Whatsupdoc, both William and Charles trained in the army but quit soon as they graduated. They both lack the experience nor the service in a war conflict that would make them fit the definition of a vet. They both pretty much got out soon as they graduated from cadet and that was it.
Charles trained with the Royal Air Force then joined the Navy as a helo pilot. He served in the Royal Navy from 1971-6. He took his military pension (£7,000) and founded The Prince’s Trust when he was 28.
A military veteran is someone who has served in the military, which William has. Harry is what is called a war veteran because he served in war. Under British law a military vet is anyone who has served at least ONE day in the military (armedforcescovenant.gov.uk)
I looked up WIlliam’s military career to see if I was wrong and it appears that I was right. He did have a literal military career so he IS a veteran. He trained with the Navy and RAF, was originally supposed to be in for 3 years but extended his time. (“William’s Navy posting revealed”. BBC News. 31 May 2008.; Prince William awarded RAF wings”. BBC News. 11 April 2008. Retrieved 2 July 2008.)
My father was a Lt., same rank as William was. My dad served for 4 years but his ships were never called into combat. My grandfather was not called to Korea, they needed him in the States so he never saw war. My father is a veteran and my grandfather is a veteran.
Also, Aria, this statement was not necessary: “Look at cambridges asskisser coming here. Go back to tumblr to ass kiss bald and oatmeal.”
Saying that William is a veteran because he was in the military is not me asskissing. I’m not a part of that tumblr crowd. I don’t stan WK, in fact there isn’t a single famous person I stan for and if there were it definitely wouldn’t be any duke, duchess, prince, princess, or monarch. So can we please keep it civil? I think discussions and debates are best when there are many different perspectives and everyone respects that. Like would what I’m saying cost me points in a school debate? If so then I should probably go back and reword my point.
WHATSUPDOC sorry my bad. There are so many Kate stan coming here . I thought you are one of them. My bad. But william never worked full time as veteran . He always did part time ones. People are offended because William didnt traditionally served as harry or even like Andy. Charles and william only got jobs in military beacuse of heir to throne. William never committed to anything fully.
@whatsupdoc….THANK YOU! That was a great explanation and I appreciate it SO much. And now I understand better why some consider him a veteran (by law) and others don’t (service, actual time on the front line). I understand and appreciate now both sides of the comment. Again, I WANT to like William. I USED to like William. It’s just all the half-truths, indignation, misdirections, less than stellar live performances have made it hard to like him as an adult…..and some days, that’s just like my son! Love him, some days don’t like him much. Fair enough…
So much misinformation here – Officers do not attend boot camp for starters, so yea, he didn’t do boot camp.
He IS a Veteran — it is not ‘considered’ it is not ‘by law’ the man is a veteran. We don’t have to like him, but that does not diminish the fact that he IS a Veteran of the Armed Services of the UK.
He was not ‘part time’ as a member of the RAF — this is available online.
Calling him a Veteran does NOT diminish the contribution of other veterans — quite the opposite, insisting that he was not or was less than or was not in harm’s way actually DIMINISHES the contribution of those in support roles or behind the lines that actually keep the military running.
I am sad that I have spent my day defending this entitled well born mediocre human being because it is somehow OK to use someone’s military service or lack there of as an insult.
Signed: AMS3
Unfortunately, I don’t think Charles will do anything except maybe realize how absolutely awful W&K truly are. He won’t become involved and will surely not say a word. As for TQ, she obviously doesn’t care and she has proven herself to be petty.
Unfortunately, like everything that W&K sponsor or are patrons of, this will unfortunately fall by the wayside as they have NO interest in doing any actual work. This will fail as all of the their other programs do. They have not interest in actually working, they just want the fanfare and the credit for doing nothing.
Sadly, they’ll continue to get away with things like this. People weirdly underestimate the power of the institution behind the Cambridges. The Sussexes have great potential, but they’re starting from scratch and are attempting to carve out something new. They’ve left the family, time to let the comparisons go.
America is a great place to start from scratch. You have to put in the work and these two can work, and they’re already two steps up on the ladder.
YES! We are a country of startups and reinvention. There’s no doubt in my mind that Harry and Meghan will thrive here.
Wow. I am speechless.
The Cambridges saw the writing on the wall when prince Harry came back early March. At the Endeavor Fund, the Duke of Sussex stated that from there forward, the Endeavor Fund was being incorporated into the Invictus Games. Remember, at that time, the Royal Foundation was still claiming the Endeavor Fund as part and project of them and them only. I believe that, plans to exit the Endeavor Fund from the Royal Foundation was a sign to the Cambridges that prince Harry intended to take all his projects with him, so they decided to move fast and steal the HeadFit project for themselves. I believe that in patenting Harry’s project Willileaks is in a way daring Harry to sue him or something. My hope is Harry will just leave them do whatever, knowing fully well that without him, this project is dead in the water. Same as Heads together, that thing died the day the Sussexes divorced the Cambridges. The entire Royal Foundation hinges on Harry’s work, and regardless of how much the Cambridges steal from the Sussexes, the Cambridges lack what it takes to make a success out of anything.
I doubt Harry sues and honestly I don’t think he should. I’d call it wash and let it go. It’s a shame it probably won’t amount to anything cause I think he’d been working on it since 2017. With any luck, the MoD takes the reigns to get this off the ground.
I believe the Endeavour Fund also brings in a lot of money, esp to the Royal Foundation. Given the badly the Royal Foundation was being managed financially AND that the auditors raised concerns about how the money was being spent will have the Cambridge’s sh!tting it over how their ‘projects’ are going to be funded. They don’t have the Hub Cookbook money either any more to mooch from.
Prince Harry was able to take all of his privately funded projects with him. He couldn’t take Headfit with him because it was in partnership with the ministry of defense. Harry no longer works for or represents the government. It was given to the Cambridges simply because that is what made the most sense. They could have shared credit better, but they aren’t exactly stealing it.
If an idea comes from an individual then that idea belongs to that person. In this case it belongs to harry and mod but cambridges never acknowledge Harry’s work what made them stealing of his idea. Some one in the above said harry dont have to worry about because this is will dead soon beacuse cambridges never had consistency with their work. After harry back off we never heard headstogther , the same way keen Kate charity took nose dive. This app thing will be left off and cambridges will chase off whatever Sussex did.
It might not be stealing, but it’s still dishonest.
If the Cambridges have trademarked the project then it wasn’t linked to the M of D because they wouldn’t be allowed to be the sole trademark holders. I’ve seen this talking point as a defence but the mere trademark application shows it wasn’t linked to the government and it was transferable. That it went to the Cambridges who have now taken all credit for it is pretty inexcusable.
Exactly, Nic919.
@Ainsley, yes they are stealing Harry’s idea, what are you talking about?
I mean… what else were they supposed to do? The Royal Foundation staff worked on the project with/for Harry and the MoD via Heads Together, so—in my opinion—those people deserve to see their project through. Were they supposed to hand it off to Harry when he might not have the staff and funds in his non-profit to maintain it/finish it? Or pass it off completely to the MoD who also might not have the staff for it? Pause all progress until Harry is ready? Or cancel it entirely?
There’s a lot we don’t know here, including whether or not they’ll credit Harry or explain his involvement when it launches, what the legal hurdles would be for the foundation to suddenly not provide funds earmarked for this project, or if the terms of their agreement with the MoD allows for the MoD to work with a foundation and not a non-profit, etc. And, frankly, for all we know, Harry chose to walk away from this project or was only the face of it. If he’s really annoyed about everything, I’m sure we’ll get a leak from a friend about it.
Anyway, not sure when the foundation filed the trademark, but if it was in recent days, it may be tied to whatever they’re trying to do to support the mental health of first responders and NHS employees—so maybe the scope of the project has expanded and they’ve moved its launch up?
This talking point is incorrect. Anything that can be trademarked by the Cambridges is by definition not a government project and thus transferable to anyone.
Regardless of whether or not Harry agreed to this, the Cambridges still went and trademarked something they never worked on and have yet to give any credit to Harry for setting this up. This looks bad on them and is par for the course and their usual modus operendi or taking credit for things they never worked on.
Per this tweet, The Royal Foundation (versus Harry himself) is a key stakeholder in MindFit and likely providing at least part of its funding: https://twitter.com/DMSResearch/status/1179656972595073025 The trademark was applied for under the (reworked) name of the foundation, not the Cambridges themselves, just like the foundation previously registered trademarks for Coach Core, the Endeavor Fund, etc.
My guess is that they held off on registering the trademark until they were closer to launch. For comparison’s sake, they applied for the Heads Together trademarks in April 2016 and launched it in May 2016. They registered Earthshot Prize in October 2019 and launched it in December 2019. Coach Core was registered after its July 2012 launch in December 2012.
Harry gets credit for this work on the Royal Foundation’s website–but again note that the MoD partnership is with the Royal Foundation, not with Harry himself: https://royalfoundation.com/programme/mod-partnership/
They haven’t even officially launched whatever MindFIT is yet–that’s why I think it’s premature to assume that there won’t be some indication of Harry’s involvement in the project’s roll-out.
It is all credited to Harry. Their own annual report states it is ‘spearheaded by the Duke of Sussex’. He made the connections, he did the work, he launched the project with the MoD back in October. W&K had NOTHING to do with any of it. This is W&K stealing outright, but keep trying to defend them.
@Lexa said:
“The trademark was applied for under the (reworked) name of the foundation, not the Cambridges themselves … Harry gets credit for this work on the Royal Foundation’s website–but again note that the MoD partnership is with the Royal Foundation, not with Harry himself …”
The Royal Foundation IS the Cambridges though at this juncture! Since Harry was working with the MoD on this project since 2017, in order for it to continue, it had to continue under the RF because Harry & Meghan didn’t have their own foundation set up yet, and they still don’t. In October 2019, Harry likely still hoped that the part-time royal model could work and that his initiatives under RF would eventually go under his new organization.
Or else, it’s possible that Harry agreed for HeadFit to continue as is under the RF, maybe even as part of the ‘step down’ negotiations. There’s no way for us to know.
Obviously, HeadFit started out being funded under the RF and once Harry & Meg began the process of splitting with the RF, some projects they’d created were still entangled with the RF. That doesn’t mean Harry is happy about losing these initiatives. At some point, he may have decided to cut his losses.
IMO, part of Harry’s obvious pique during the 2019 Trooping the Colour is because Wills had just grabbed the Shout initiative and forced the Cambridge name on the project along with M&H being tagged at the rear. This at a time when Meghan was on maternity leave and all of the negotiations on how the Sussexes would separate their initiatives from the RF had not been worked out yet.
@Lexa said:
“They haven’t even officially launched whatever MindFIT is yet–that’s why I think it’s premature to assume that there won’t be some indication of Harry’s involvement in the project’s roll-out.”
Again, no matter any credit given on the RF website to Harry for any of the projects he generated under the RF, it is still W&K taking full credit and getting the overall spotlight stature for initiatives and ideas they had nothing to do with creating or developing.
@Lexa said:
“They registered Earthshot Prize in October 2019 and launched it in December 2019…”
This idea simply looks like William’s answer to Harry’s Travalyst. The difference is that Wm surely didn’t come up with the idea on his own steam nor for the right reasons. Plus, this contest while possibly worthwhile, is at bottom about Wm handing out prizes to other people who are experts doing all the important and meaningful work. As usual, Wm wants to bask in others’ glow. He has no original ideas of his own.
I think it’s important to understand that it’s the Royal Foundation split which is at the heart of the brothers’ personal rift. Harry finally put his foot down on W&K catching a ride on his coattails. But there were a number of Harry’s initiatives that got lost to the RF in the process.
W&K never wanted Harry to take anything with him, and they also didn’t want him to outright leave. They just wanted him to stay in the background, creating ideas that they could piggyback on. They continue to be hopping mad and incandescent with rage at Meghan for existing and for encouraging Harry to assert his manhood and his independence.
Don’t try to sugarcoat the fact that W&K were giving M&H a hell of a hard time in that gilded cage, especially when M&H put up a fight for their own staff and split the RF to start their own foundation. W&K wanted M&H to ‘dim their light,’ to not fight back, to remain silent, and to willingly submit to being used and abused.
I’m pretty freaking sure we all know how much credit William will give Harry. His name will not cross William’s lips. If you doubt, I offer you one CW church service for proof.
For what it’s worth, Harry is credited for his work on the partnership between the Royal Foundation and MoD on the Royal Foundation’s site: https://royalfoundation.com/programme/mod-partnership/
Harry is the driving force and the only one who has worked on it. It is his project, which W&K are now openly stealing.
@lexa
you make too much sense for the usual posters here.
You’re ignoring the sense that Nic919 has stated. They cannot trademark something that is owned by government. This grab was fueled by W&K’s ego, jealous, and fear of what Harry and Meghan have-and-will accomplish.
NOTASUGARHERE you dont know keen cambridges stans have selective amenisa it involves their lord saviour. They will happy forget mean girl Kate behaviour in common wealth but they dont forget Meghan breaking imaginary protocol. They also magically ignored William trimming rose bush .
@ MrsBump
Nice to see you show your clear disdain for “the usual posters here” so openly for once. ✊
Logic and the actual law on trademarks apparently doesn’t apply when it comes to camb stans.
@Bella Dupont
“for once” ?
i really need to post more often 🙂
@NotASugar
and you ignoring what Lexa has so plainly stated. The actual work was done by the royal foundation people regardless of who the figure head is and they went ahead and trademarked their Project
Who knows why Harry didn’t take this particular project with him ? Maybe it didn’t fit in within his new charity portfolio, maybe he felt the project should remain with those who looked after it since the beginning.
This is all just speculation.
The ‘actual work’, as per usual, was done by Harry. Never by W&K, but they’ll steal and take credit for anything.
@ Mrsbump, @Lexa : exactly. LOL.
@Mrs. Bump said:
“@lexa, you make too much sense for the usual posters here.”
But it’s your and @Lexa’s ‘rose-coloured glasses’ sense @Mrs. Bump, which only helps to embiggen and enable the Cambridges. You choose to see what you want to see and what you’re able to see. Nothing in life is that simple or cut-and-dried in any case. There’s a lot of unworkable, unwieldy parts to the puzzle of the British royal family.
The ancient royal institution has a lot of layers and quite frankly, most of those layers aren’t pretty. The dirty undersides are alarming, distressing and saddening. So in that sense and with that understanding, I do get why the royal traditionalists and Cambridge apologists like yourselves, are bending over backwards to make excuses for Cain & Unable. It is what it is.
That’s a whole lot of speculation to try to justify trademarking something that Harry originally launched less than six months ago. And since they have provided no statement about it, it still stands that they are taking credit for something Harry originated without explaining why they have done so. Why didn’t Harry trademark it when he launched it? It clearly wasn’t necessary to do so back in October.
@Lexa said:
“There’s a lot we don’t know here, including whether or not they’ll credit Harry or explain his involvement when it launches…”
Come on @Lexa, W&K ain’t really giving Harry full credit! So what that Harry’s involvement is somewhat cited on the RF website. How many people are looking at that? Meanwhile, to the larger public, W&K are the embiggened ones. What are you not recognizing about the fact the Lamebridges trademarked HeadFit!?
Most garden variety royal observers know nothing about this or about anything that’s really been going on behind-the-scenes. Therefore, the general public the Lamebridges are trying to fool and to bamboozle will be fooled and bamboozled. Plus, most royal traditionalists really want to be fooled. They want to believe in what they’ve been seeing all along behind rose-coloured glasses. They don’t want the fantasy to end.
Wills has always benefited hugely from the goodwill many people worldwide felt toward Diana. While, as it turns out, it’s actually Harry who embodies the best of his mother’s spirit, and who is carrying on his mother’s legacy. With Meghan by his side, that’s even more true, more up-front, and more resonant. 😍 👍
Like I said, masks have been snatched off the faux p.r. images of the royals, and there’s no going back. The rest of the royals right now are just trying to keep up with the Sussexes. However else do ya think why both the Queen and the Lambridges have poached former Sussex staffers!? 😜
Also suddenly both Charles and Cam are waxing poetic about women’s empowerment and domestic violence. Whilst Cam may have been associated with the charities and patronages she’s advocating for, she’s only recently been speaking out in a more hands-on, vocal, public way. And that’s because she learned from Meghan’s example how that high profile sincerity-in-action can make a difference in the popular imagination, publicity-wise.
Charles has always had a sensitive side and he’s done a lot of great work, but he too is learning how to promote his work more effectively, via Meghan’s dedicated, up-to-date style and approach.
This is the nail in the coffin for all those fake stories that KeenKate came up with heads together. Its pretty clear now that if they can do this despite harry launching this independent charity just like shout or endavour fund then they must’ve claimed stuff they had NO INPUT on in the past.
The cambridges stans & bots are raging on Twitter trying to excuse this shameless take over because royal foundation gave seed money!!! If that’s the case why doesnt it claim shout or endavour fund too??!
The irony that this will be probably Re-launched around the same time as invictus games is back on, further highlighting who’s REALLY behind it. These two losers will regret the day they chased away harry. There’s no innovative bond in their body! All they do is take credit for other people’s efforts and hard work. Thankfully we have screenshots and articles to document harry’s work and I’m sure Sussexsquad will share it when keenbridges want to claim this.
lol bitter cambridges stans have too much time in their hands now that Sussexroyal has their comments muted. It must annoy you to see a neutral site like this that is not attacking Meghan. Stick to your tumblr and Twitter hole with your fellow rabid trolls.
P.S: you cant rewrite facts however you want to excuse the cambridge’s shameless act. This was already launched just like shout charity.
The MOD could’ve taken over this as it’s a military linked service but these two losers couldn’t resist claiming another person’s hard work.
Thank you. So many keen cambridges stans are coming here and attacking Meghan and defending whatever shady things cambridges do.
@aria
The irony is that I haven’t seen the Keen stans running up and down this post insulting anyone. You are the one doing that. Are you implying that divergent views are not welcome here? I have been reading this site for years since the days of Sixer and it’s news to me that respectful opinions however different are not tolerated here. And before you accuse me of being racist, I am a black African woman.
@ linda
Insulting? How is calling them keen insulting?
And the other poster dis not say that they are insulting, but attacking.
On twitter I just saw a Duchess of C fan calling a person arguing points with her “i****ot” and “sheep”.
Rather aggressive, and then try to change the narrative, on that thread there was someone trying to convince people that the dan glutton source was a friend of the sussexes, yeah, right, we see right through you, keen source.
@Ennie
I think you misunderstood my post. I didn’t say referring to them as “keen” is insulting. I was also referring to the conversation on this post and not Twitter.
@Linda said:
“Are you implying that divergent views are not welcome here?”
Divergent views??? Don’t you mean Megxit-hating, troll-hating views somewhat prettied up to try and make polite sense?
There’s nothing wrong with having traditionalist, Cain & Unable apologist viewpoints. But you may as well own up to it, and stop acting as if you are the only polite, sensible ones on the block.
This is practically the only major forum site on the Internet I’ve found that tells even a modium of the real truth about Meghan & Harry, with clear eyes regarding the petty subterfuges on the part of the Cambridges. Everywhere else prefers to slam M&H in the interest of upholding W&K as the Future Future ‘Keen’ rulers who must be bowed down to.
@Linda said:
“And before you accuse me of being racist, I am a black African woman…”
So what! Cain & Unable enablers come in all stripes, all backgrounds, all ethnicities. Meghan-haters and trolls are not exclusive to one particular gender or ethnic group either!
In the same respect, not everyone who support the Sussexes happen to be from one particular group, background, or skin colour either!
It would be a good thing if everyone, including you, could try to stop lumping all people of color together as having one, monolithic viewpoint. Obviously, we don’t!
It says alot about their character, to kick the underdog when she’s down
Yup. I see some newer names trying to gloss things over and a few of the usual suspects trying to brush off anything that shows these two for the clowns they truly are.
We’ll just keep calling out the trolls, Beach Dreams. They aren’t welcome here.
This is really shady, especially after that Archewell leak. Maybe what the Cambridge’s are doing is legal, but it’s certainly unethical. What they do with it is another matter, because they don’t have much work ethic,focus or follow through. Who knows what happened here but I bet it was not discussed, especially since Harry just launched this in the fall. It’s so blatant why the Sussexes left and I’d say the main reason was William and Kate, with their press minions not far behind. The thing is the Sussexes do like to work, are working right now but they really will need to run a super tight ship because the royal family is gunning for them and looking to undermine everything they do. However, how the royals work is very different from how the rest of us do, so By the way, Disney+ exceeded expectations on subscribers, 50 mil+, and gave Wall Street a boost. This after the Elephants doc. Just saying
!L4frimaire “especially after that Archewell leak” ooo I hadn’t added it up. I like your points and think your comments fair…and your Disney info beautifully factual!!! You made me smile. William makes it hard to admire and respect him. Charles turned himself around to a great degree IMO) he was 28 when he started Prince’s Trust and that has made a HUGE difference. My nephew has benefited from it. Yes, his treatment of Diana is and was dreadful. I’ve done some pretty dreadful things in my day, too. He fulfilled the expectations of the Crown and his father. Both he and Diana were victims of The Crown. But somehow “duty above all else” hasn’t resonated with William, so he’s half-assed in, half-assed out and altogether doing ass-shat stupid stuff. It’s so sad, but we all know there comes a time in every person’s life where they have to stop blaming and start taking responsibility. William is not there yet, and that’s truly pathetic…..
Thank you, Prayer Warrior and L4Frimaire, for your factual and reasoned posts. You make good sense and excellent points.
It has to be beyond simply difficult for Harry to see the underhandedness and downright theft of his ideas that his brother is capable of–it has to be painful in the same way (but of course to a lesser degree) that his mother’s death-by-papparazzi was painful, knowing as we all do that Diana was only out in the world trying to find a new life for herself because of Charles’ betrayal of her with Camilla.
Thanks @L4Frimaire for sharing that about the boost in Disney+ subscribers after the Elephant film release with Meghan’s outstanding, well-received narration. I’m not surprised.
Frankly, everything M&H touch turns to gold. It’s amazing to me how they continue to carry themselves with grace & dignity throughout all of this OTT, disgusting abuse from so many quarters! Surely they don’t allow themselves to get too upset or attached to any of it, or to view themselves as victims. They must just see it, recognize it for what it is, and simply decide with the help of friends and advisors how to deal with what must be dealt with, pray about the rest, let it roll off their backs and keep moving forward.
Busy, creative, engaged and truly caring people don’t really have time to suffer fools. The fresh, innocent beauty and growth of their son Archie, happily must be taking up most of their time, energy, thoughts and plans. I’m sure the prayers and support of many people of goodwill around the world also helps to sustain them. May a divine circle of protection, love and guidance always remain around the Sussexes! 👼
Much easier and faster to take over other’s projects than to spend Other 8 years trying to figure out a survey instead of taking actions.
These two bumbling sourpuss cannot start their own projects. They are always hijacking from what H&M already started.
^^ Exactly @Gingerbee! I don’t understand why it isn’t clear to all the Lamebridge apologists how Cain & Unable have no creativity, much less any real desire to take on a productive work load. W&K are the ones who want the easy, carefree lifestyle, while also wishing to hog all of the credit and the spotlight, just because they think they’re entitled as Future Future Keen king & queen.
I actually feel sorry for Great Britain. And my respect for QE-II has taken a nosedive as well. She has no real power and apparently she never learned how to wield any effective influence. She apparently follows along with whatever the latest palace p.r. embiggeners and enablers suggest is best. Plus, Pip being old and worn out physically and mentally has left her with no solid back-up support.
Over the years, the Queen never dealt directly with any family squabbles. She couldn’t be bothered. Philip is the one who ruled the family with an iron fist. And it wasn’t a benevolent fist, and he wasn’t always right or fair either. In any case, those days are gone.
As far as Prince Charles, he never got along with either of his parents. He survived by being taken under the wing of the Queen Mother and Lord Mountbatten, who both steered him away from Camilla, which was detrimental in more ways than one. Charles didn’t have enough backbone to rebel then. And he still doesn’t have the strong backbone to put William in his place.
Charles has likely been worried over the years about p.r. and about his sons being more popular with the public. Charles also listens to his own p.r. staff and palace courtiers. But the lot of them should be chucked out because they are too old-fashioned and rigid in their thinking. They don’t give good advice.
The entire royal firm didn’t value the Sussexes and didn’t defend Meghan against the media hoards. For that the royal firm and the monarchy deserve to come to an end. But it probably won’t for the time being. It’s a tenacious, vicious old institution. More than anything, it just needs to remove its tentacles completely from the Sussexes’ necks. You didn’t appreciate them. You didn’t protect them. Let them go! Let them be!
The sad irony is that – this is a set pattern of behaviour by the lazy Cambridges. They are the weakest link in the BRF. The one sided battle rages on as the Sussexes stepped aside the only fighting team collect the spoils. I suppose why actual work if one can pretend to do so even if one is only fooling oneself? Should one gets caught (as in this instance) just create a bot on social media to offer an alternate version of the truth.
It’s hard for me to imagine the Keens doing anything on Harry’s behalf or for his benefit, so, I’m going to go with taking credit for his work, as usual. It would hardly be the first time that they’ve slapped their name in someone else’s work, I’ll frankly be shocked to see the day that they actually present work fully formed from their own ideas and efforts.
In the meantime, Harry and Meghan are doing nothing.
You mean nothing we know of, yet.
At least Harry and Meghan have a proven record of getting a project across the goal line to get results that actually benefit the people & organizations they support.
He moved twice within a few months, rerouted his whole life and work and finances, set up a new charity, had a baby, did a South African tour and a farewell tour, all in 6 months all the while the entire UK through garbage at him, can you give the guy just a moment to get organized things are moving a little slower all with the pandemic and all!
Also, Harry is now a private citizen, he doesn’t take money from the public, therefore he doesn’t have to answer to no one, do you understand that. I know Kim K is trashed, but she makes her OWN money, she doesn’t take from the govt’s public funds (That is decided by the country how much goes to health sector, policing, schools, road repairs, governemtn employees, welfare) so no one has the right to know what she spends her money on, when she works and when she doesn’t, she pays her taxes like everyone elese and if she chooses to blows 1 million dollars on fillers and surgery to look like a clown, it’s her business as she is A PRIVATE CITIZEN, she makes her own money she can spend it whatever way she wants, no complaints allowed.
As long as the Sussexes insist on pursuing a public role in Hollywood and announcing all the grandiose plans, they will be judged.
Unlike Britian with BRF, in the West, gov’t funds is reserved for ONLY the people of the lowest income, say, single mother that can’t support her kid and herself, or the child of drug addicts who spent his youth bouncing from foster home to foster home abused, not topping up an extravagant billion dollar lifestyle of people who sit on golden thrones.
Judge away but you will be quickly knocked down, this Califorinia resident, now a newly PRIVATE CITIZEN has more integrity in his pinkie finger than the whole BRF combined.
Trolls like Sceptic think Hollywood is nothing but award shows. Film cast and crew put more hours of work in one day than the royal family does in a week.
@Anonymous Oh I know, just wanted to set her straight about harassing private citizens like Harry and Meghan.
@yinyang. I’m sure she’s not being a hypocrite and is shunning all fruits of evil Hollywood’s grandiose plans while self isolating.
Reading comprehension seems to escape some people….in case you didn’t understand their statement, they are taking a break for the next few months while this pandemic is on as it isn’t the time to launch any new projects. However, since leaving the BRF Harry’s still managed to give a speech to a major financial corporation and Meghan visited 2 Canadian charities and her very successful Elephant documentary was just released last week (Disney garnered Disney 50+ million subscribers which they were not expecting to get so soon)…so yeah they are doing nothing.
BTW they don’t steal or sabotage other people’s projects. Their work, past, present and in the future will speak themselves.
Aren’t doing anything but setting up their new global charity organization. I know, it hurts the W&K stans so much to know Harry and Meghan are out from under their abusive control.
@Sceptic,
In the meantime (and on topic), the Keens are, as usual, feigning “work” and acting like they care about anyone or -thing but themselves. They haven’t been consistently active (or dedicated) to one notable cause nor have they produced one measurable achievement in social welfare during the past 10 years, so save your unwarranted derision towards the Sussexes for the echo chambers on Tumblr and the royal gossip sites.
And the taxpayer funded Cambridges did a zoom call and a phone call over the last few weeks. Wow. Impressive work ethic. Sophie has gone to a food bank to work, Eugenie has helped deliver food to hospital and the FFK and FFQ have done less than the minimum. They remain pathetic and using the tired whataboutism does not erase their laziness.
@Sceptic said:
“In the meantime, Harry and Meghan are doing nothing.”
You wish, apparently! 😂 Just as everyone thought or hoped Meghan was ‘doing nothing’ but putting up her feet and relaxing at Frogmore Cottage during her maternity leave. 🤣 😛
Meghan and Harry have done more of substance and impact in two years of marriage (not even counting before they met) than the Lambridges will be able to accomplish in their lifetimes!
@sceptic, Do you need them to do something for you? Fill a void or something, lol?
Funny how the big 5 questions got nowhere yet they’re already stealing another project to trademark. It’s an insidious competition. And where’s the outrage? I thought we were in lockdown from a pandemic and timing was sensitive 🙄! Oh I forgot timing is only essential when it’s HnM. Harry and meghan are really up against some bigger powers tbh. This isn’t normal, a witch hunt on a global scale hell bent on destroying them. But I’m not surprised William and kate appears to be opportunistic brats who leech on others and suck the blood out of them. Then take credit for any work others have done. Diana must be rolling in her grave on what baldy william has turned out to be. Who needs Enemies when you have a conniving Insufferable jealous twat of a brother like William.
This^^^. William seems like a really damaged person to me. His ambition is totally misdirected toward others he sees as rivals, instead of focusing on his birthright and ceremonial responsibilities in a truly productive way. Even now, the tabloids are asking where’s Harry, what’s he doing for U.K.? I seem to recall they offered to help support the firm on a junior, part time basis, and were told absolutely not. At the same time they’re terrified of what they’ll do and say, or how much they can potentially make. The Sussexes are keeping their own council and that’s all they need to do.
The sad thing is, it is clear they have most of the British Media in their pockets. The Cambridges are rarely criticised. However, I say, no situation is permanent. The chickens will surely come home to roost.
You have to pick your battles, even when you’re a prince, and I’m sure Harry just said “take it” so he could move on with his life. The Royal Foundation seems to have been resting on Harry’s shoulders (for all the talk about him not being smart) and now he’s gone. In a few years, we’ll see what the Cambridges are actually made of, when there is no more residual projects of Harry’s to pick up.
You Americans care alot more about the royal family than us Brits do. You guys don’t need to worry about Harry and Megs. They will still get their millions from the taxpayer and Charles.
They wont get from taxpayer . They will get from duchy private money.
@Sara This is official Queen’s document stating “Harry and Meghan have made clear that they do not want to be reliant on public funds in their new lives.” Stop spreading lies. Why don’t you go preach this to the FK and FFK, where this actually applies…oh that’s right, you don’t have a problem with funding royals, just harrassing private citizens like Harry and Meghan! Sycophant.
All these spy’s in here 👀
Spies?
Thanks for that correction.
All the spies in here.
There, that’s better now.
I honestly believe the reason the Cambridges hate Megan and Harry so much is what they have is true love (always wanna say “twu wuv”). The Cambridges look at them and think, “We don’t have that, we never have, likely never will.” It must’ve been very hard to watch them so madly in love and truly happy when your own marriage is so very different. I feel some sympathy for them, but not much. I wish they would step up. They are so lame and LAZY! Be more like Charles, Wills! He has definitely grown in my estimation since the Diana days. I’m so glad Megan and Harry are free from all this bs!
It certainly looks as if jealousy of their obvious love for each other, and of the immense amount of drive, talent and charisma Meghan brought to the family, has tainted their relationship with Willnot and Catty. That jealousy is being played out by the Cambridges’ constant efforts to undermine, belittle and literally steal from the Sussexes. However I believe revenge is a dish best served cold and once this pandemic settles down we’re going to see Meghan and Harry back in the saddle and doing great things, things that will render the so-called “work” the Cambridges are doing as laughable now that they can’t ride on the Sussex coattails anymore.
The thing is the Cambridge’s don’t really need to work, at all. They can show up in garters, sashes , uniforms, tiaras and gowns, and the public will think they’ve earned that tax money they get. I don’t know why they’re even trying so hard to look like they’re “ working”. Like who’s going to criticize them or do anything about it? William could blow $2mil at a casino in MonteCarlo, and they’ll find a way to excuse it. But as soon as Harry and Meghan sign a money making deal that they actually work for, all hell will break loose.