Countessmeout
Imperial Majesty
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Yep. They weren’t blinded about Harry and Meghan wanting to leave - they knew that, they were blindsided about Harry and Meghan announcing it now when a decision hadn’t even been made yet.
This was still in the early stages, so I wouldn’t expect BP to have a draft ready. Hard to draft a statement when they are still trying to work through and figure this all out.
It seems the BRF was “disappointed” in the Sussexes decision to release a statement (from the BBC link posted in a previous post).
I’m shocked that the Sussexes released a statement before informing the Queen and Prince Charles and before anything had even been decided.
My point is a lot of people are taking the disappointment differently.
A lot of posters seem to read it as BP had no idea Harry and Meghan were planning this. That they suddenly made this decision out if left field and announced it to the public without telling the queen or Charles about their plans.
In reality the queen and Charles knew. And plans were in the works. It's simply the timing of the press release that was a shock. Not the actual information.
If Harry plans to keep on supporting the queen, she knew he was planning this. But things like security and funding takes time, and the plan was seemingly to wait until all pieces were in place.
It seems security will be like the wessexes, security only paid when they are on duty doing events.