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Harry's off to Botswana and Meghan is on her third engagement already today.
LaRae
LaRae
desmond tutu is truly great - his smile is a million watts! a delight to see him.
with respect to archie, finally they are getting him out and about! after restrictions on the birth being private, on his hermetic introduction in windsor (kate presented her 3 kids surrounded by whoever wanted to come to be part of the ocassion) and his parents insisting on a private christening, it was about time. he looks like a good mix of both harry and meghan.
it bugs me that meghan always greets people before harry - did they not teach her about protocol and precedence? it is almost as if harry married her because he wants less attention on him, as she is happy to take the spotlight. i also agree that i don't share their love for hugging and kissing everyone - they are royals, not celebrities.
i have to admit i was expecting more from this tour - somehow it seems very low key and nothing like the grand tours of W&K. maybe there is a reason for it, perhaps the need for a PR campaign to improve H&M's profile following their recent criticism, or a will to put more emphasis on W&K by the Royal house.
desmond tutu is truly great - his smile is a million watts! a delight to see him.
with respect to archie, finally they are getting him out and about! after restrictions on the birth being private, on his hermetic introduction in windsor (kate presented her 3 kids surrounded by whoever wanted to come to be part of the ocassion) and his parents insisting on a private christening, it was about time. he looks like a good mix of both harry and meghan.
it bugs me that meghan always greets people before harry - did they not teach her about protocol and precedence? it is almost as if harry married her because he wants less attention on him, as she is happy to take the spotlight. i also agree that i don't share their love for hugging and kissing everyone - they are royals, not celebrities.
i have to admit i was expecting more from this tour - somehow it seems very low key and nothing like the grand tours of W&K. maybe there is a reason for it, perhaps the need for a PR campaign to improve H&M's profile following their recent criticism, or a will to put more emphasis on W&K by the Royal house.
Their tour of Australasia and the Pacific was pretty grand and Morocco for such a flying visit. I'm not sure it had anything to do with W&K, Charles has done low key tours before. I'm not sure the criticism would have been enough to scale down the tour if the FCO needed it to be a huge, grand thing, it was mostly petty not hugely scandalous.
It pretty much seems like a "working visit" tour than a big official tour, with an emphasis on their interests and connections.
Yes, I agree. This seems to be going on (and was kind of announced at their engagement and stressed by Meghan with her wedding dress); and I think it is a very smart division of work (and one that H&M thoroughly enjoy as well) - although I expected a larger number of activities to be officially tied to some Commonwealth initiative.This is just my guess but I imagine that when the Queen appointed Harry as the Commonwealth Youth Ambassador and both Harry and Meghan as president and vice-president of The Queen's Commonwealth Trust and appointing Meghan as patron of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the seeds were planted then on how to familiarize the Sussex couple with their Commonwealth nations. Africa is a great starting point for their incentives and involvement in the African Commonwealth nations.
I'm happy its a working visit. They're getting the ball rolling and getting to know the area and the people. I think we're going to be seeing a lot more of these kind of working visits whereas the FCO could most likely deem the more official visits representing the monarch, herself (or Charles when the time comes), to the actual heirs to the throne.
Its here we're seeing an even bigger split in roles between William and Harry as William and Kate prepares more for William's role as heir to the throne and eventually monarch whereas Harry and Meghan become more and more involved in the needs and the incentives and work for the Commonwealth nations.
Its a perfect plan in my eyes and doesn't "lessen" the importance of the Sussexes but actually gives them an very important role in preserving and supporting the Commonwealth nations which is very dear to HM, The Queen's heart.
Its here we're seeing an even bigger split in roles between William and Harry as William and Kate prepares more for William's role as heir to the throne and eventually monarch whereas Harry and Meghan become more and more involved in the needs and the incentives and work for the Commonwealth nations.
i have to admit i was expecting more from this tour - somehow it seems very low key and nothing like the grand tours of W&K. maybe there is a reason for it, perhaps the need for a PR campaign to improve H&M's profile following their recent criticism, or a will to put more emphasis on W&K by the Royal house.
As is often readily pointed out when a knockdown is wished to be made, William and Catherine are the future King and Queen so it makes sense that their tours would be more grand in scale. I think they are hitting the correct note with this tour and being respectful of the challenges facing Africa at this time.