Lady Glenconner: John Kerry said that Americans ‘all feel very sorry for’ Prince Harry

Late last year and early this year, Lady Anne Glenconner promoted her second book, and her interviews got a lot of coverage in the royal media. Lady Glenconner was Princess Margaret’s lady-in-waiting, and she has/had a lot of affection for Anne, QEII, Prince Philip and that whole generation of royals. While Lady Anne has pleasant things to say about King Charles, her whole vibe was rather judgmental towards the younger royals, especially (you guessed it) Prince Harry and Meghan. In one interview, Lady Anne suggested that Meghan was disappointed by the lack of glamour in royal life: “One’s own wedding was fantastic, but next day you’re back to normal. I don’t know whether she thought it was going to be all very grand.” Well, Lady Anne appeared on Gyles Brandreth’s podcast, Rosebud, and man, did she have a story.

Speaking on the Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth podcast, Lady Glenconner said: ‘I think the thing about Meghan was, she had no idea what was expected of her really. I think she just thought it was sort of like being another actress, you know. Riding around in a golden coach and everything like that. And actually, being a member of the Royal Family – a lot of it is extremely boring.’

Lady Glenconner said members of the Royal Family are expected to meet thousands of people and to say something interesting and nice to each person.

Discussing the King’s Coronation, Lady Glenconner said she sat next to American politician John Kerry, 79.

The socialite, born Anne Tennant, said she asked him: ‘What do you think in America about Harry and Meghan?’.

She continued: ‘He said “We all feel very, very sorry for Harry. I think I can just leave it at that.”‘

[From The Daily Mail]

Not this ancient biddy getting John Kerry canceled! Oh my god!! So, the first thing I did was look through the photo agencies to see if John Kerry actually attended the coronation. There are no photos of him (that I could find), but he was there – he tweeted some sh-t about how privileged he felt getting to witness the coronation in person. Kerry is President Biden’s Special Envoy for Climate, and considering Biden skipped the coronation, I assume Kerry was part of the small American delegation, which also included First Lady Jill Biden (who was shuffled off, rows and rows behind the action). All of which to say, it’s possible that Kerry did speak to Lady Anne and it’s even possible he said exactly this. Maybe Kerry is not a fan of the Duchess of Sussex. Go ahead, Sussex Squad – cancel his ass!!

As for the substance of Lady Anne’s repetitive bullsh-t about how Meghan thought she would be riding in carriages all the time – literally, all Meghan wanted to do is be with the man she loves and do charity work. That’s all. Meghan was living in dilapidated shacks and crummy government housing, all because she loved the f–k out of Harry. Meghan didn’t have delusions of grandeur and this stupid f–king talking point needs to be retired (as does Lady Anne).

Update: The Daily Beast got the State Dept to issue a statement in reaction to Lady Anne’s story, omfg. The spokesperson said: “Secretary Kerry does not remember being asked that question, but as a father in the public eye himself, he has nothing but empathy for people working through a family matter who all deserve privacy and compassion.”

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  1. Talia says:

    I think that’s very tactful of him (and typical diplomat / politician doublespeak). He knew she’d take it to mean Meghan but it could well have meant ‘for the way he’s been treated by the RF’.

    • theRobinsons says:

      Get ’em Kaiser. Consider it done. He should’ve shut his mouth and spoke about the weather.

      • Jan90067 says:

        I took it as, he feels sorry for Harry’s situation with his family, for the unwillingness of BRF to apologize for their part in driving out the Sussexes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        Until Kaiser mentioned the *other* possible take, that Kerry “pitied” Harry, that didn’t even occur to me.

      • StillDouchesOfCambridge says:

        I dont find it shady for someone to say they feel sorry for Harry. I’m team Harry and I feel sorry for him becuase he has a sht family and his sht family is treating his wonderful wife meghan like sht. so yeah, I agree with kerry.

    • Laura D says:

      As millions (including Jill Biden) had read Spare by the time of the Conanation I took it that he meant the way the RF had treated Harry. I think it was Lady Anne who wanted his comment to be about Meghan.

      • Flowerlake says:

        John Kerry has a military background.
        He could very much feel sympathy for Harry based on that alone.

        Also, we don’t even know if he said anything or if she made it all or part of it up.

        If he said: “We feel very sorry for them” then he technically said he felt sorry for Harry too, but she can easily omit that and still then technically speak the truth, while obscuring the actual intention.

        Just an example of one in many ways his comment (if he made any) could have been distorted. I hope nobody actually takes her word at face value.

      • Isabella says:

        it sounds made up to me. Especially the very, very, very. Don’t buy it.

      • Flowerlake says:

        @Isabella. Same.

        Also, I am not American, but I feel for the Americans having to deal with this shit.
        The British media seem to simultaneously think they’re better than Americans but also desperately seek American approval for their media war against Harry and Meghan.

        They bitched when Biden did not show up because he had better things to do, but then start using something another American representative’s words for this crazy purpose. That is, if like Isabella suggested, Kerry indeed said anything at all, because he apparently can’t even remember this.

        So, this is what Americans get when they still give a token of respect to the UK’s traditions and worship of the monarchy.

      • Agreateckoning says:

        @Flowerlake, I’m on team Lady Glenconner was paid for a made-up conversation.

        ‘What do you think in America about Harry and Meghan?’ loling at myself or if Glenconner miscued her line. I’m reading it as, “When you’re in America what do you think about Harry & Meghan?”. Like, it would be different what he thought about H&M in a different country. Kerry is a diplomat, veteran and politically tied. He would not answer this question.

        They were seated together. JK was wearing a military uniform I believe. The BM was yapping once again about Harry being forbidden to wear his military uniform. I could see a Not much a Lady Glenconner asking a military man how Americans feel about Harry not being able to wear a military uniform while the non combat experience royals wore their flummery. (that’s actually giving too much credit to the 91 year old royalist’s intellectual capabilities).

        I’m taking this as conversations that never happened for a $1000.

    • Lizzie says:

      I took the comment to mean he felt sorry for the way the rf treated Harry.

      • Ginger says:

        That’s how I take it as well. Of course Lady Ann takes it a different way. Blame Meghan as usual.

      • Kc says:

        Yes! This was my read on it too. I think the BP, of course read their own derangement into it

      • [insert_catchy_name] says:

        Yeah, I mean, how else can you interpret it?

        No way would a seasoned diplomat imply he feels bad for a prince ending up with a bi-racial American woman to some random British biddy at a state event.

      • Eating Popcorn says:

        I read the comment the exact same way, especially since he said, we can just leave it there; not needing to take a dig at Charles during his coronation.

      • Lux says:

        It can mean a multitude of things, but it’s ridiculous to cancel someone over this “non-comment”…let’s not make like derangers here.

      • MrsH says:

        American here. I took his comment to mean he felt sorry for Harry having to deal with the crap from his family and the toxic British crap. If he actually added “and let’s just leave it at that” who can blame him as I’m sure gossiping (about an American no less) was probably not something he wanted to do.

    • Rebecca says:

      This is how I took the comment, too. I thought he was diplomatically saying felt sorry for Harry for the ish his family put him through. But of course the anti-Meghan cotangent, including this woman who has profited from her connection to the BRF/Princess Margaret, would spin the comment in a way that fits her anti-Harry/Meghan narrative.

    • bisynaptic says:

      He’d better clarify, before the Squad comes for him!

    • FC says:

      Right? Kerry’s a vanilla, seasoned diplomat. He’s not throwing shade about a prince’s marriage while attending a coronation.

      • alexc says:

        +1000

      • MissMarirose says:

        This right here. It’s crazy to think he’d say something shady in a situation like this. He was attending the coronation as part of his job for heaven’s sake.

      • Christine says:

        This.

        He’s from a time when politicians were mostly polite to each other, at least in public, there is no way in hell he went to Chuck’s hat party and bad mouthed an immigrant living in the United States.

        None.

        Vanilla is the perfect descriptor for John Kerry, FC.

    • Angie says:

      Agreed. Diplomatically double speak – v likely he feels sorry for him bc of his crappy family but can’t say so & the old bay & the Fail put their spin on it.

    • SussexWatcher says:

      Exactly this, Talia (and others) who think Kerry meant the way Harry was treated by his own family or even going back to the loss of Diana.

      And the very fact she said she’d ‘leave it there’ makes me think there was more to his comment (if he did even say anything at all). She’s a shit-stirrer.

    • Slush says:

      “He knew she’d take it to mean Meghan”

      That is a huge leap. How do you have any idea what he knew about a person he sat next to at an event? Did he read all her articles?

      Come on now. Not everyone is as informed about Meghan, specifically, as we are on this blog.

      • Ace says:

        It doesn’t take much knowledge to guess an old English lady present at Chuck’s coronation is going to be a racist anti-Meghan piece of shit. Kerry is smart enough to be aware of that.

      • Talia says:

        The coronation had a strict seating chart. If John Kerry wasn’t extensively briefed on the people he was sitting next to, his staff are completely incompetent (I don’t think they are at all incompetent).

      • CaptainCrunch says:

        I visit the blog regularly and had no idea who the hell this women was or care.
        I know it hard to believe, but the average American doesn’t give a 💩 about any of this, daily fail articles, royal experts and any of the crap we get up in arms about.

        He most likely, like most American, took it as he left because of the media abuse and felt sorry for him like any other average person. No one cares about squads, good royal bad royal or any of that other crap.

      • Slush says:

        Y’all lol. Please. I need you to be for real now.

    • caitlinsmom says:

      This exactly. Based on the clarification issued by the State Department, IF he said it, He didn’t mean it how she took it.

    • Wendy says:

      That’s exactly how I took what he said too. Like he’s on H & M’s side

    • FHMom says:

      He said nothing wrong. There are lots of reasons to feel sorry for Harry.

      • AC says:

        @flowerlake exactly what you said.
        As an American, I know what he means. And it’s what many Americans have been noticing for a while but aren’t really saying(although some are vocal about it ). HM have been treated badly by the British press and BRF.
        We all see the condescending tones that Meghan had to endure while living in the UK for being an American and for being bi-racial.
        Look at the support HM has, wherever they go here in the US they have been treated warmly(Laker game, Kevin Costner’s event, USGP in Austin, Beyoncé concert etc, last visit to NYC for mental awareness day).
        When WK visited the US hardly anyone cared, they even got booed at a basketball game in Boston . The mayor canceled on W in NYC. I think even John Kerry Canceled on them in Boston I believe.

      • aftershocks says:

        @FHMom: “There are lots of reasons to feel sorry for Harry.”

        Exactly. 💯 And none of those reasons have to do with the beautiful woman Harry married. Meghan is Harry’s soulmate, his saving grace, and the best part of this former lost prince finally finding freedom. H&M escaped the gilded cage together, with little Archie, Guy, and Pula. And now, with Lili, Mia, and the rescue chickens added to their sweet family, they are thriving in lovely, leak-free Montecito! Hoorah!!! 🥳 🤜🏻🤛🏽 💗

    • MissF says:

      That’s exactly how I interpreted the statement, absolutely not a slight against Megan, but the insipid Royal Family. John Kerry is a career politician and was a phenomenal Secretary of State. The likelihood of him engaging in some bitchy sniping at a Coronation is akin to Waity speaking coherently and not looking like she needs in patient psychiatric care. I say this as a Canadian who is a big fan of John Kerry.

    • MoxyLady007 says:

      Whoa whoa whoa.

      I read that as completely meaning – we all feel sorry for him because he has a dog sh!t family and he and his wife had to flee for their lives and freedom. Americans love an underdog, they love people who work hard, they love love and they love success against the odds stories. All of which H&M are.

    • DK says:

      Honestly, that’s how I read the headline: that Americans feel sorry for Harry bc of all the racist, heir-hierarchy BS they put H&M through.

      Since generally Americans see the monarchy as outdated and unnecessary, all this in-fighting & back-stabbing looks absurd from an American standpoint. We’d feel sorry for anyone on the bullied side of all this ridiculousness.

    • Kelsey says:

      That’s how I read it. I didn’t pick up a slight towards Meghan at all, read to me as if like you said, he was sorry for how his family treated him.

    • Leesa says:

      Totally agree with the interpretation that he could have meant he’s sorry he has such a terrible family,

    • Cara says:

      Americans feel sorry for how Harry has been treated by the royal family his entire life. Leave it to some old upper crust hag to be too stupid to get it. Is empathy uniquely American?? I’m fu-king sick of the blue blooded British perspective. No brains. No hearts. Not one clue.

    • CherryBerry says:

      I took it to mean he was sorry for what Harry was going through with his family.

      I could see them twisting it in a way to imply that the US doesn’t care for them either.

  2. Shawna says:

    That comment can go another way, though. By being very sorry for Harry, Kerry might’ve met that he feels sorry for all the anguish that Harry had been through before coming to the US. He might’ve left Megan out of it because he didn’t think in English person would be interested in a US diplomat commiserating with a fellow US citizen. If he could manage to say something that the woman could misinterpret in a way that would flatter her worldview, while not actually lying, then that’s all the better for his diplomacy skills.

    • EasternViolet says:

      agreed… Kerry could very well feel sorry for Harry on the way his family treated him… leaving it at that would prevent Kerry from critiquing the King at his own party outright.

  3. SarahCS says:

    Without additional context the Harry comment could equally mean “we feel so sorry that he was hounded from the country of his birth by his own family who hate his wife”.

    Or have I missed something?

    As for the Meghan bashing, it’s more if the same that we’ve heard 1000’s of times before and contrary to all the evidence of what she actually did while she was ‘in’ the family.

    • ML says:

      This was my reaction to Kerry’s comments as well. I honestly don’t remember him as a scumbucket D—if anyone knows otherwise, feel free to update me. Most (all of the?) people who are anti Meghan in the US that I know are Rs.

      • SussexWatcher says:

        ML – Kerry is a good and decent person and was a great Senator (for decades!) for my state. His own military service was slandered to hell and back by Bush and Rove so I find it very unlikely that he would participate in the degradation of a veteran who has done so much for other vets (or any veteran at all!). Especially in that setting. The whole story makes no sense.

      • ML says:

        Thank you, SussexWatcher! I’m glad my memory of Kerry was correct☺️

      • Kelsey says:

        99% of US politicians can lick my butt, but Kerry’s pretty decent overall.

    • It may be that this is covering for a certain king. So let’s see if we can sling some 💩 to cover with an American diplomat. Twitter has been commenting on this comment.

    • Becks1 says:

      If he said this particular comment at all, that’s what I think he meant – that he felt sorry for harry because of how he was treated by the British press and his family. I dont think he meant that he felt sorry for Harry because he was married to Meghan. I mean, for all most of us know, Harry and John Kerry may have met (it feels like Harry’s met everyone sometimes, lol) and he liked Harry.

      And of course its completely possible that he never said this at all and Lady GC is full of BS.

      • Gilda says:

        If he said it, I think he meant people in the US feel bad for Harry because of how he’s been treated by his family and the press. It makes no sense for Kerry to have been gossiping about Megan with this broad.

    • Moira's Rose's Garden says:

      @SussexWatcher Co-signing everything you said. Unlike the RF, John Kerry is not a fool and has a really good grasp of reality. With his decades in the public eye and his intelligence, there’s no way that comment was about Madame Duchess, but more about how the RF & Press treated Harry.

      Sidenote: He’s a solid, decent man who showed up unexpectedly to one of my son’s classes when he was an undergrad at Harvard. My son detected no bs or bad vibes (and he’s usually the first to notice something off about a person). Or maybe it’s because they were both wearing similar bomber jackets. 🤷🏽‍♀️

    • Agreatreckoning says:

      Just laughing that Lady Glenconner chose to bash Meghan as an actress as if it’s an easy occupation. Meanwhile, a number of English actors & actresses attended the Big Hat day. LOFL I see you false Dames, Dench, Smith(though this kills me-not literally obviously). Guess what Dames? Lady Glenconner doesn’t see what you’ve done throughout your acting career as actual work and yet, you’ve been given bullshite honors. English acting ladies-Lady Glenconner has ABSOLUTELY minimized your long days and work.

      Lady Glenconner just gave a big FU to every UK actor/actress.imo That should be the story.

  4. seaflower says:

    I thought Kerry meant they felt sorry for H with what the royals and media put him and M through.

    • Whyforthelove says:

      Agreed! I can say I feel sorry for the child Harry was and the abuse he was subjected to. But I feel like he is doing pretty great now. This is a pathetic old lady wanting to twist something to get Meghan’s name in her article.

      • aftershocks says:

        ^^ Exactly. Who, of a certain age group, can forget the images emblazoned into our memory banks of that sad, 12-year-old boy, with head downcast, bravely walking behind his mother’s coffin?! 😢 Who can forget that white envelope, with the handwritten word, ‘MUMMY,’ in black marker, sitting atop the flag-covered coffin of Diana, the most hunted, beloved, betrayed, and lovingly compassionate woman the world has ever known? 💙💔🪻🩰 That was the handwriting of young, bereaved, inconsolable Harry.

        And now, with the publication of ‘Spare,’ the entire world knows the stark details of that little boy’s suffering. It was much worse than we could have imagined. Of course, America feels sorry for Harry. So does the world. 🌎 Which is a huge reason why, when Harry met and married, Rachel Meghan Markle, the love of his life, so many of us were so very happy for him! 🌈 What an enormous shame that so many of Harry’s royal relatives were NOT happy for him.

        More than likely, the above reflections are some semblance of the further comments that former soldier and diplomat, John Kerry, left unsaid (if indeed he said anything at all to nosy, gossip-prone, Glenconner). 🙄

  5. BlueSky says:

    He could have meant he felt sorry for Harry in relation to his family and what he’s been through? She is trying to spin it like JK speaks for all of us and implying he’s talking about Meghan.
    They have to keep pushing this gold digger narrative because they have nothing else.
    Again I am tired of the BM infantilizing Harry. Harry is a war veteran with agency. I think if was up to Meghan they would have stayed and tried to make it work.

  6. Well that comment could mean that we feel sorry for him because his Royal Cult Klan is horrible to him which would be a true statement. Lady knows nothing then decided to interpret it her negative way. He may have been trying to be diplomatic. Or Lady knows nothing made the comment up. I pick the latter.

  7. Boxy Lady says:

    I mean, I’m American and I feel sorry for Harry too. Because his family is absolutely shitty.

  8. AstralBlue says:

    I read it as he felt sorry for all his family and the press had put Harry through. But then again, I’m biased, so what do I know.

  9. equality says:

    She thought it would be like acting-all glamor? I’m not in the industry, but even I know acting isn’t all glamor. There are bound to be boring chunks of time when you are waiting for your part. And it is an actual job where you are expected to be on set at certain times, often there are long hours and you have to be able to take orders. Sickening that they feel for PH, but no mention of Meghan, which implies that they feel for him being trapped by the woman.

    • Brassy Rebel says:

      If she thinks that working on movie and tv sets is so “glamorous”, she’s the one who’s delusional.

    • MsIam says:

      Meghan thought it would be all glamour but it was the KP staff who only worked, what 9 to noon or whatever it was? Meghan was the one who thought a day’s work was to be a whole ass day. Meghan and Harry were the ones “bothering” the staff by being there every day instead of once a month like that other couple. Sure right, Lady Karen, its all Meghan’s fault for thinking things would be glamorous.

    • Debbie says:

      She’s accusing Meghan the workhorse of expecting all glamour, all the time? Is she forgetting that this is the same Meghan who was asked to do less, and be less than her counterpart? The same woman who was raked over the coals for being up early, working and sending her staff an email at 3 a.m. for when they got up? The one who started working in England and forming her own relationships with different charities even before she married Harry? That Meghan? If they are going to castigate Meghan about her time as a working royal, I wish they’d at least be consistent with their narratives.

  10. Amy Bee says:

    If Meghan had delusions of grandeur she would not have married Harry. He wasn’t living a lavish lifestyle and was dependent on his father for money. What I don’t get is these aristos and Royal hangers on like Gyles Brandeth obsession with Harry and Meghan. They can’t stop talking about them.

  11. Miranda says:

    I actually think it sounds more ambiguous? It could just mean that he thinks Americans feel sorry for how Harry has been treated by his family, which is the opinion of most people I know. The “let’s just leave it at that” makes it seem like he knew what she wanted to hear (that we all think Meghan is an uppity bitch), but didn’t agree and wanted to be diplomatic because, you know, that’s his job. She still heard what she wanted to hear, because these people can never accept that the rest of the world is not so beholden to their precious monarchy and all its pretensions.

  12. LovelyRita says:

    Anytime someone says “I’ll just leave it at that” there’s a strong possibility it means there’s more to be said but you won’t like it. If he was on her side, he could have said WAY more to indicate this, and he didn’t.

    • Naye In VA says:

      It’s so fxing irritating that they keep saying “I think Megan thought” when she literally spent several hours saying exactly wtf she thought and how she acted upon those thoughts.

    • MsIam says:

      @Lovelyrita he knows these old frogs are a bunch of gossips and anything he said would get right back to crocmilla and chuck. So Kerry shut her down with the quickness. Unfortunately for him, she ran to the press as well.

    • Nerd says:

      That’s exactly how I read it. As you said usually when someone says they will leave it at that, they know that what they are about to say might upset who they are talking to so they stop talking to avoid conflict. He is a politician and would know not to say something that would be taken the wrong way and this wasn’t his country or event to have an opinion that might not agree with those around him. She is bias and wanted his words to sound like an attack on Meghan. She obviously doesn’t know anything about Meghan who was buying her own clothes and helping to furnish their shack of a home. They dated privately for six months with no glamour or flashy dates. Her jewelry collection is gold without flashy colorful stones. A glamorous lifestyle isn’t who Meghan.

  13. Tessa says:

    The nerve of this woman. She just does not get it. Did she see the nasty stories about Meghan in the media which has been. Going on for years now. And the photos of Kate taking threatening step to Meghan. She is in total denial.

  14. Tessa says:

    She is just like piers who asked a presidential candidate what he thought about harry and Meghan

    • Debbie says:

      Whaaa? Did this happen recently? In 2023, “the year of our Lord, Beyonce”? Can Piers Morgan say “fixated”?

  15. Roo says:

    She says that while Meghan did so much work and had successful fundraising projects for her charities, and WanK can barely be bothered to show up. 🙄

    Shut up, you stuffy old bat!

  16. Lizzie says:

    Uh huh, sure thing. Certainly a well educated, hard working, well travelled self made millionaire would think she was going to ride in a gold carriage everyday.

    • Cassie says:

      Just another ugly, jealous old bag trying to promote her book .

    • SURE says:

      Did M ever ride in a gold carriage?

    • equality says:

      She had already seen the housing PH had been provided, but this b- thinks M expected glamor?

    • SussexWatcher says:

      Once again this seems like projection of a certain gopher-wigletted, button-obsessed, soon-to-be divorced, separation cottage living, first wife. Someone who wants all the glamour and none of the work? Someone who thought they’d be chauffeured around in gold carriages and helicopters? Sounds like someone we know, whose name rhymes with Late.

  17. Mslove says:

    Oh please. John Kerry is a gold digger & clout chaser. He was probably kissing Lady Anne’s butt.

    • SURE says:

      Maybe, but: “In her account, Kerry …….. did not say why he felt sorry for Harry, but a spokesperson for Kerry refuted any suggestion that he was commenting on Harry and Meghan’s marriage.

      A spokesperson for the State Department said: “Secretary Kerry does not remember being asked that
      question, but as a father in the public eye himself, he has nothing but empathy for people working
      through a family matter who all deserve privacy and compassion.” (The Daily Beast)

    • Debbie says:

      If John Kerry were wise, he would have just put out a statement saying, “Recollections may vary” about that exchange and left it at that. Everybody would know what happened.

      • May says:

        LOL, @debbie, that was my first thought: “recollections may vary.”. Everyone needs to make sure now that there is at least another person in the room when conversing with this woman!

  18. MoBiMo says:

    This is Lady Anne Glenconner, whose first book presented her violent and abusive husband as just an eccentric aristo who she was responsible for “soothing”. It was such a sad and disturbing window into English “upper class” values. She would have no understanding whatsoever of what makes a woman like Meghan tick, and I suspect she would view Harry’s “betrayal” of the BRF as unforgiveable. Pathetic!

    • BayTampaBay says:

      “The socialite, born Anne Tennant, said she asked him: ‘What do you think in America about Harry and Meghan?’.”

      The British journalist are so stupid! She was NOT born Anne Tennant. She was born Anne Coke (daughter of the 5th Earl of Leicester) and married Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner becoming Anne Tennant, Baroness Glenconner.

      The very stupid British Journalist cannot even get British lineage and British titles correct.

      • Taytanish says:

        No offence of course, but this what about “this is not even how Anne should be correctly called by said journalist” is irrelevant IMVHO? Born Tennant or Coke or whatever, she still a racist biddy trying to twist Secretary Kerry’s words (to mean what the guy never meant) to fit her own racist narrative, regardless of how her names should be written. Anything concerning what her names are really are, is really not important, again MVHO.

      • BayTampaBay says:

        @Taytanish – I was making fun of the ignorant British media who are totally ignorant of the correct use of British titles. I was making fun of the British media that do not seem to employ fact-checkers or proofreaders. LOL!

        I was in NO way taking for “the racist biddy trying to twist Secretary Kerry’s words”.

    • Talia says:

      This. I know she’s awful but her connection to the RF is pretty much all she has.

      She married a violent, abusive man who took her to a brothel on their honeymoon (she declined to participate), beat her unconscious multiple times, caused her permanent injury (deafness in one ear) and left everything he owned to a young male member of staff when he died.

      She tried to leave him after the initial honeymoon beatings and her mother made her go back on the basis she’d made her bed and now she had to lie in it (bearing in mind her family had encouraged the ‘suitable’ marriage).

      She clings to her connection to the RF with both hands and did so throughout her violent marriage, plus her (unpaid) role as Margaret’s lady in waiting gave her a scandal free way to avoid her husband.

      • India says:

        What a dreadful woman still snuffling up to the BRF. Maybe all the violent beatings from her monster husband caused a little brain damage. But then I believe that all those who cow tow to the hideous BRF are deranged.

      • LivingDesert says:

        I remember reading her first book and gaped at how she managed to present life as married to her husband along the lines of “stiff upper lip & no complaints”. Truly horrifying.

    • WaterDragon says:

      Per “The Crown”, this is the same woman who introduced Margaret to Roddy LLewelyn and who provided cover on Mustique (along with her creepy husband) for Margaret to conduct her affair with Roddy. British elite family values at their best. lol.

  19. bisynaptic says:

    “And actually, being a member of the Royal Family – a lot of it is extremely boring.“
    —interesting that she doesn’t say which parts. Is it the parts where they make public appearances and meet people? Is she quiet-part-out-loud saying that meeting the Uk public is boring? Do the people know that?

    • Bad Janet says:

      💯 Noteable! And Meghan DOESN’T find that part boring. She went out of her way to meet people and to learn about them (such as at the refugee center, for the families whose flats burned).

      It drove them up a wall when Diana normalized connecting with the people, and the same thing happened when Meghan did it. They drove them out because they couldn’t stand the idea of that becoming the standard for the RF. The royals want to LOOK like they connect with the people, not actually do it; they find it boring, and a chore, and probably distasteful to rub shoulders with the plebes. It could NOT be more clear. The “lady’s” statement says so much more than she intends for it to.

  20. Tessa says:

    Kerry should not presume he speaks for all americans.

    • Taytanish says:

      Did he though? I’m not even sure why I’m commenting here but I don’t believe Secretary Kerry meant anything negative towards the Sussexes, that is IF AT ALL he ever spoke to this woman about the Sussexes.

    • kirk says:

      Why are you taking her word that any supposed verbal exchange even happened? IF any verbal exchange even happened, why are you taking her word as to Kerry’s response?

  21. Beverley says:

    Let’s call a spade a spade. This is more Old White Lady speak for “Americans hate her Black ass too.” Britons really want to dog signal how Meghan should have stayed in her own lane and avoided marrying Harry, because – as old white ladies often indicate – they don’t want Black women to have love or any other joy in life. How dare biracial Meghan take their dashing ginger prince?!? They’ll never forgive her for that. And they like to think that Americans also resent Meghan for forgetting her “place”.

    • Lizzie says:

      John Kerry has lived a pretty big life and this old bag asks him what people think about H& M? She is a small minded old hag. Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and weak minds discuss people

  22. Bad Janet says:

    I’m not interpreting this as being sorry for Harry exclusively. It didn’t even occur to me. There is not enough context to say WHAT he meant – does he feel “sorry for Harry” because Meghan is a terrible person? Or sorry for H&M because their family is terrible? It’s perfect politician speak. It says whatever you want it to say. He is no dummy. He knew he would be asked his opinion by someone and had to give a quote that didn’t actually mean anything, if he was going to continue to have a working relationship with the UK.

    The idea that Meghan was chasing glitz and glamour is so stupid and played out. “A lot of the royal work is boring” – has the lady EVER read about a TV set and how making a TV show works? Come on. Her first extensive time with Harry was in an African tent. NOTHING supports these dumb delusions.

    • equality says:

      They were camping and they were living in the fixer-upper house that was PH’s “royal” lodging. I don’t think his life looked that glamorous.

  23. sevenblue says:

    On one of LBC radio shows, while discussing H&M’s leaving UK, a caller, an old woman, said that “Meghan stole our Prince” and I howled. Honestly, I just assume most old white women over there think the same. They look at Harry as an entertainment to watch through the tabloids. He isn’t a free person, who has the right to pursue his own happiness. He is a toy that can be stolen. No need to take this type of people seriously.

  24. Brassy Rebel says:

    Warning to any American traveling in Britain for any reason. You will be asked this question if you happen to run into an aristo or aristo wannabe.

  25. Jais says:

    This lady is going around shit-talking Harry’s wife. May karma have her book tank.

  26. ABritGuest says:

    John Kerry’s spokesperson has come out & said that he doesn’t recall the question but as a father in the public eye himself he had empathy for people working through a family matter who all deserve privacy & compassion.

    I hope this administration is learning how indiscreet the palace & their fans are between Camilla leaking to the fail about Biden farting in front of her & their requests that Jill doesn’t go to invictus.

    It’s pathetic that royal family groupies have to constantly ask about Americans especially about Harry & Meghan. The insecurity jumps out.

    And this lady has been spinning this golden carriage story for ages. Meanwhile having known people in production an actors job isn’t actually 100% glamour with extremely long hours on shoots & lots of tedious waiting time. Plus when Meghan got to the uk & before she married she was meeting charities privately & volunteering with the Hubb Community kitchen & SmartWorks so idea she thought the royal family was all about golden carriages or was interested in that solely is obviously completely untrue.

    • SussexWatcher says:

      It really just goes to show how utterly insignificant the Leftover Royals are (including their king!). When every story has to reference the stars who fled that cult years ago, you know the rest of the royals are boring and worthless (to their charities and the rest of the world). The Leftover Royals should just be happy with their salty little island and go about their business because the more they (and their minions) show their Meghan and Harry obsession to the world, the more pathetic they look.

    • LadyE says:

      The fact that the State Department had to respond to this should, in any normal world, send up huge red flags for the UK government. I really hope they are paying attention. The entire concept of a constitutional monarchy is that the monarch is the head of state, nominally the King (not so much the RF itself, different issue) represents the government in an official capacity in foreign relations. This kind of behavior is risking causing an actual diplomatic incident that very well could end up with other governments refusing to engage with King Charles as *Head of State* because of the out of control behavior of the British tabloids and their fake “experts” who are nothing more than people who gossip about personal matters. In literally no other situation are government diplomats and officials harassed about their views on personal family matters of their government counterparts or elected officials. I think other governments are going to start declining to have anything to do with the RF and KC himself because of the offensive and DISHONEST bs that these gossips spew all over, which will ultimately show the unsuitability of having this family as the *head of state*. KC can still be the King ofc and the UK can still have a monarchy, but you can’t have a constitutional monarchy in any real sense with this kind of irresponsible behavior happening.

    • MrsCope says:

      What a waste of important people’s time (having to release a statement to distance yourself from the nonsense). Also, they (these haters) continue to show their complete misunderstanding of the acting industry. You call her a B-List actress (and sometimes lower level), and then say she was expecting the same level of fame and luxury. Not everyone is Jennifer Anniston and Reese Witherspoon. What level of fame and luxury did you think she was enjoying?? And the outside forces did a lot to make her miserable before she even married Harry. They both said, all she expected was to be protected and defended.

    • B says:

      But the utter tackiness of talking about how being an actor is about riding around in a golden coach, while the American actors are all on strike and so many running out of money to pay rent and there are food pantries started up to help the actors etc.

      How tone deaf!?!

      And we can’t start up with that the BRF is immune to Hollywood bc it’s American, bc wow was there some BRF sucking up for Tom Cruise

  27. Nic919 says:

    Ok the update from. The state department cracks me up. Kerry could tell this old bag wanted him to bash them but he said something vague enough to satisfy her but not really say anything. Unlike her he’s been doing diplomacy so it’s not the first time he’s interacted with racist bags like her.

  28. Harper says:

    Meghan did more substantive work while being a royal than the current MIA Wales have every done in their short history of being “working royals.” Then there were the royal tours she fit in while being pregnant and then toting around an infant. But because Meghan didn’t put up with verbal or physical abuse, she isn’t viewed as having that stiff upper lip that Glenconner takes pride in having, which she had to develop to survive her own ghastly life. This is a bitter bitter lady who stuck around and let herself be abused, and when she saw Meghan say nope, not doing it, it made her regret her own choices and the wasted years being a punching bag. Thus the ongoing hate…. this lady never shuts up about Meghan.

  29. This Glencomer person dislikes someone she has never met for (check notes…) something she imagines that they are thinking.

    I am just going to call this out as racism

    • Talia says:

      Or jealousy. I don’t think she has any understanding of a man who would make the effort Harry has for Meghan.

      Her (now deceased) husband wouldn’t cross the street for her (unless he was chasing her to assault her again).

  30. Slush says:

    I took it to mean he feels sorry that Harry was chased from his home country and is very publicly not on speaking terms with most of his family.

    The last thing I assumed that was about was Meghan.

  31. Maxine Branch says:

    I interpret Kerry’s statement as being sorry for what Harry has been through nothing more. Kerry is pro military and a proud veteran. And Kerry can only speak for himself. Of course those gutter gossipers will always try to spend whatever they can as a dart towards Meghan. As a fellow American, I can say I am very proud of them both and happy they have found a safe home in America.

  32. girl_ninja says:

    “Maybe Kerry is not a fan of the Duchess of Sussex. Go ahead, Sussex Squad – cancel his ass!!”
    This is a reach. You might as well cancel me too, because I feel very sorry for what Harry has been put through as well. His father an brother used and abused him and he finally escaped. He and Meghan happy and in love but that doesn’t erase the pain they’ve gone through.

    And I won’t cancel a man who’s done nothing but serve his country and tried to save us from George Bush 2.

  33. Bettyrose says:

    Oooh I sat next to John Kerry once. Well a table over at a restaurant. I didn’t speak to him because what in the world would I say? But several people did and I could hear them gushing about their admiration for him. Anyway I cannot imagine he intended to say something petty or insert himself into the gossip sphere. And when do I ever get to talk about John Kerry?

    • girl_ninja says:

      Cool story. He does seem like a good guy and he knows what it’s like to be attacked for wanting to do good.

    • Just wasting time says:

      BettyRose, have sat near him for two Christmas Eve “midnight” masses (different years) at a Catholic Church in a western ski resort town. He seems to know the words to some Christmas carols. That’s all I got…😂

  34. yellowy says:

    Anne Glenconner is a vile old trout who is using Meghan’s name to flog her latest piece of chip paper.

    She disgusts me why constantly insisting that Meghan feared hard work and thought royalty would be riding in a golden carriage. There is zero evidence that Meghan is lazy and entitled.

    One of the few appearances Meghan wanted to back out of was in Africa when a smoke alarm went off near Archie. She was depressed, had experienced suicidal ideation and daily vicious attacks in the press. Anyone would feel not up to the task. And I honestly think that Kensington Palace and the behind stairs gossips like Anne use her suffering in incidents like this as a cudgel to beat her.

    Seriously, fuck this racist old bitch. I don’t blame John Kerry in the slightest. As said above, he is a seasoned diplomat. I doubt he would be so indiscreet as to say he feels very, very sorry for Harry. That he feels for him, yes. She probably fantasised that up.

    • Kkat says:

      It was a fire in the nursery not a smoke alarm that went off, a fire. he would most likely have died had his nanny not decided to take him with her to get her snack.

      M and H were at an event while it happened, she did not want to go to the next one immediately after because her kid almost died. She was forced to go anyway

      So it wasn’t that she didn’t “feel up to it” she was worried her baby would be murdered

      And lets be real, with all we know now that was absolutely an attempt on his life

  35. aquarius64 says:

    Previously a US ambassador was asked what Americans think about Harry and Meghan and the ambassador kept it down the middle too. Tin foil tiara: the US State Department made a quiet but official complaint to the FO about how Meghan, a US citizen, was treated by the BRF. BP launched a bullying investigation with American Meghan being accused of mistreating British citizens employed by KP and due process was denied to her. Since William is in charge of KP, the buck stops with him. I can see No. 10 and other British government officials holding the Windsors responsible for damaging diplomatic relations between the US and UK. It could be another reason for William’s need to “win over” America.

  36. MsIam says:

    I believe John Kerry feels sorry for Harry and what he’s going through with the royals and not sorry for the king or the rest of the mafia. Otherwise he could have said “Americans feel sorry for the family and hope they reconcile”. Nothing to do with Meghan and their marriage. But I also believe that Kerry feels sorry for what Harry is being put through with the right wing press and the conservative mob in general. As the former secretary of state, I’m sure he was aware of that whole attempt to get Harry deported by that fascist “think tank”.

  37. honeychild says:

    JK could have very well said that but she took it to mean what she wanted it to. Sometimes it’s not what is said but how it’s received. And she received it in the ugliest way possible. Also, hell, I feel sorry for Harry, too. His family on the Salty Isle sux. Majorly.

  38. Lau says:

    “Lady Glenconner said members of the Royal Family are expected to meet thousands of people and to say something interesting and nice to each person.” Sure, Jan.

    • equality says:

      Nice? Like “Don’t give up your day job.” (Sophie) “Beware the blackamoors.” (Queen mother) “If you are near there (music) no wonder you are deaf.” (Phil) ‘I think this person is probably the most stupid person in world sport.’ (Anne)

  39. Reggie says:

    BS. I don’t believe it for a second.

  40. Blackapinay says:

    “Lady Glenconner said members of the Royal Family are expected to meet thousands of people and to say something interesting and nice…”

    The Wailses are struggling with this.

    And the old hag is as bad as Levin & Lady C

  41. phlyfiremama says:

    I took the comment to mean he feels sorry for all of the BS H&M have had fling at them by the BRF, but he was on diplomat mode and didn’t want to openly criticize the royal goons.

    • L4Frimaire says:

      Notice how she only cares about Harry’s feelings and assuming Meghan is the cause of any unhappiness. These people still dismiss and disrespect her which is why they’ll never trust these awful people ever again.

  42. MaryContrary says:

    How tacky is this woman for relaying a private conversation to the press?! I thought the aristocracy is a higher class of people with impeccable manners that we should all try and emulate? My goodness-the Queen would be horrified that her “friend” is making indiscreet and petty comments about her family. So low brow and common.

    • May says:

      Seriously. The Royals will complain about Harry relaying private conversations but the Royals send out their minions all the time to do the very same. The Queen included.

  43. sevenblue says:

    Wasn’t Kerry gonna attend to Will’s award show in USA, then cancelled it just after the racist “where are you really from?” argument in palace made public? It is interesting now that the royal mouthpieces are trying to create trouble for him. Is it payback for cancelling or making a point that even if he cancelled on them, he is still on royal’s side?

  44. L4Frimaire says:

    It’s funny how Kerry shut this down because he knows exactly what it’s like to be smeared in the press with harmful lies. Remember the Swiftboat ads? These old aristo types can’t seem to keep their mouth shut about US dignitaries or Harry and Meghan. This Glenconner woman was left with nothing by her philandering husband but she’s worried about Harry’s wife? We know why too. It’s obvious who hasn’t moved on and it’s not the ones living in Montecito.

  45. QuiteContrary says:

    John Kerry saw his own wife Teresa subjected to harsh media criticism — he isn’t going to throw Meghan under the bus that some racist old aristocrat was attempting to drive.

  46. Jaded says:

    The one thing that comes to mind is that Harry and Meghan were living in a basically run -down shack (Nott Cott) that they tried to fix up, Meghan bought a sofa from “Sofas-r-Us” online, and knuckled down to do good work and Lady “Hagatha” Glenconner is accusing her of wanting all glamour all the time? Sit down and shut up you bitter old hag.

  47. tamsin says:

    I think this Glenconner woman has joined the club of hags who are racist bitchy traffickers in lies and exploitation of Harry and Meghan. It is getting to be quite a gang, and I’m including all the trolls here too.

    • Just wasting time says:

      BettyRose, have sat near him for two Christmas midnight masses (different years) at a Catholic Church in a western ski resort town. He seems to know the words to some Christmas carols. That’s all I got…😂

  48. Haylie says:

    I guarantee every working abd even non-working actress in the world works 1000x harder than any lazy British royal or aristo. Who do they think they are fooling?

  49. J McGraw says:

    John Kerry is a veteran. If he said that Americans feel sorry for Harry, he meant they feel terribly about how he’s been treated—and I bet he included Meghan in that as well.

    This idea that Meghan “wasn’t up for the drudgery” is just BS and always has been. She worked harder than any of those soft posh royals, she just wasn’t up for being treated like garbage.

  50. AC says:

    I think many Americans do have empathy for HM. And they saw how M was treated over there and saw the condescending tones for her being a bi-racial American. The condescending tones doesn’t sit well.
    Most Americans don’t talk about HM much here (as the British tabloids do) but people know. And the fact the British tabloids keep talking about HM in a negative way, just proves more and more the point that HM were treated like sh$&t over there in the UK.

  51. Talia says:

    Fascinating that your take away is that he meant America doesn’t like Meghan, my reaction to this comment was that Kerry meant Americans felt bad over how the RF is treating him.

  52. LisaE says:

    No need for canceling Kerry. My immediate reaction to his comment was that he was interpreting that there was great empathy for Harry by the American people that had everything to do with how he was treated as an exile.

  53. AOC says:

    As on old (76yr) white woman, I think that ‘lady’ Glenconner has been hit by her husband too often and has memory issues. I don’t believe that John Kerry either said or implied what she said he did. He is too much of a diplomat to do so.
    Furthermore, Meghan was a breath of fresh air in that family and they will rue the day that they hounded her out with their racism. Harry is lucky to have her and I believe he knows it and we should all be thankful he has her standing by him.

  54. Libra says:

    Bottom line; he does not remember being asked this question. She is lying.

  55. tamsin says:

    Working royal is an oxymoron. Being born royal means you don’t have to train for a profession or succeed in business or in any way earn a living as the rest of the world must. The royals make up “work” in order to justify your existence, but the existence of a royal family means they are a burden on the people who must support them. If they work in order to help their fellow man that is a good thing and at least makes them useful. Harry created two foundations that give people measurable help. Charles did with his Prince’s Trust which he established when he was young. The late Queen at least served as a symbol of unity. Glenconner and her views have become a relic, but unfortunately she doesn’t realize it. The fact that Kerry had the State Department craft a response tells me that Glenconner is twisting something here. Like many others who feel they can tell us what Meghan thinks or is, she cannot, and is completely mistaken due to her ignorance by not looking at the facts and her own classism and prejudice.

  56. Mrs.Krabapple says:

    Another vote for “feeling sorry” refers to how the british royal family and tabloids treated Harry, if Kerry even said that at all. The real diplomacy here is in Kerry’s more recent response of trying not to call Glenconner a liar, and not insult the royal family as they deserve to be.

    • Unblinkered says:

      Agree
      Anne Glenconner was once in the heart of ‘things royal’ as close to Princess Margaret, but that ended twenty years ago and she’s been pretty much dark side of the moon since. Recently she’s let slip that she’s seen W&K on Mustique often, and it sounds as though Carol debtor Middleton has buttered her up no end from the embarrassing nonsense she spouts about the Middletons.
      She’s been taken advantage of by them, I’d say she’s to be ignored……..

  57. Mel says:

    I think John Kerry meant that we feel sorry for Harry for having to put up with his ridiculous family and the way they’ve behaved towards him and his wife and this woman is so thirsty for relevance that she twisted it to fit her narrative.

  58. Steph says:

    Why would he get cancelled for this comment? Do we not all wish both Harry and Meghan had loving dads? I do feel sorry for Harry having a POS as a father.

  59. Saucy&Sassy says:

    Spare was released almost 4 months before the Hat Party. The Netflix Docuseries was released before that. IF he answered the question as posed, I think he should teach a master class on diplomacy. Most people do feel sorry for the way the bm and brf treated them, and they feel sorry for Harry because of the way he was raised.

    Personally, I doubt there are many people who have read Spare that will ever get the image out of their minds of a 12 year old boy who being told his Mother was dead wasn’t hugged. That’s an image that will on forever.

    Yes, Americans feel sorry for Harry. They also feel sorry for Meghan and everything that she has gone through because of the bm and brf. Kerry is smart enough to know that ANYTHING he said would most likely be twisted, and I don’t think he wanted to say anything about Meghan that the bm could use. Now, this old bat and the bm just look absurd.

    As an American, I can say that I am really annoyed that the State Department has to put out any statement like this. They actually have a job to do that doesn’t include crap like this. I suggest the UK government get its sh!t together.

    • AC says:

      I was going to comment about the State Dept as I 100% agree with you. I voted for Kerry in the 2004 election and I admire him too.
      I think many Americans inc myself knows what Kerry meant(if he did say it). In either case , a lot of us here in the US do have empathy for both HM esp on how the BRF and even tabloids are treating them.
      I don’t think it was necessary for the State Dept to put a statement out there to confirm what Kerry said or not say months ago that’s related to gossip. But It’s interesting, and I’ve also commented this a few weeks ago, as they’re like putting this country in the middle.

  60. Lee says:

    Oh I like Anne Glenconner she wrote a great book about her experiences, lots of misfortune, quite interesting, I don’t expect her to have a different perspective on H and M than the one she does, she’s a royalist from a different era.

    • Saucy&Sassy says:

      Lee, she should stick with what she knnows. Twisting the words of Kerry was deliberate and completely unnecessary. She gets her 15 minutes of fame, though.

  61. Feebee says:

    I’m surprised by the take that this was negative. I took it as a sign of support. Esp with the ‘we’ll leave it at that’. As like we feel for what you bastards have put Harry through and I’m not saying anything else about him to your busy bodying, gossipy ass.

  62. NotSoSocialB says:

    I took it to mean all the shit Harry has been through regarding being stripped of his military attachments, evicted from his home, ostracized by his family of origin, physically assaulted by his brother, and the BRF institutions nearly driving his pregnant biracial wife to suicide, but crazy me.
    Whatever do I know 🤨

  63. kirk says:

    Didn’t realize the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate was associated with the State Dept. OTOH maybe it’s not and somebody at State just decided to issue statement on behalf of the former Secretary that sounded perfectly diplomatic and entirely factual.

    Is there reason to doubt the veracity of a 91-yr old bitter biddy (with doubtful hearing acuity) who’s on PR tour to sell Vol. 2 of warmed over tales (including honeymoon at the whorehouse)? Duh.
    Personally, my preferred reading (and listening) material is Caroline Elkins’ “Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire.”

  64. roooth says:

    Another old hag who has NEVER known Meghan and certainly doesn’t know Harry is pretending she knows all about them. It’s such bullshit. She just knows she won’t get attention unless she uses Harry & Meghan

  65. Lily says:

    Most Americans don’t pay any attention to the royals in Montecito or in London.

    • AC says:

      True. I think though since HM lives here, Americans know them more than any of the BRF in the UK.

  66. CherryBerry says:

    I’m not sure how true this, but I read a story stating that Jill Biden does NOT like Camilla because allegedly Camilla was telling all of her aristo friends about an incident involving President Biden. Supposedly when KC and C met Biden (I don’t recall at what event), Biden passed gas and Camilla started talking about it to the uppercrust, about what a disgusting old man he was ( im sure it wasn’t intentional, if true, and more to do with his age). Jill Biden being seated so far back was interesting and made me wonder if there was any truth to that article I read, and that Camilla having heard she wasn’t liked, placed her back there.

  67. Johannes Bols says:

    He doesn’t speak for me. I’m American and I find just harry to be a wadded up Kleenex tossed out of the Jubilee Line.