I completely agree that including Harry and his family in Jubilee celebrations will be a mistake. They have attacked and put in bad light the BRF so why suddenly they should be forgiven and accepted back by letting them to assist on formal occasions? FOrgiving and meeting them in private is one thing and allowing them to appear publicly with other members of BRF is another thing.
It is a matter of fact, reality and truth. Should HM and Prince Charles decide to invite them to the balcony they have every right to be there. This jubilee does not just mark the time HM has been Queen but also marks the time that Prince Charles and Princess Anne's life changed forever, more than that, it marks the entire family's time in the spotlight since her Ascention to the Throne. She could not have done it as well as she has without the total support of her late husband and her children and so on.
Harry and Meghan’s appearing at the Invictus Games has guaranteed huge amounts of international publicity for the Games and the competitors. Even here in Melbourne the news media has been on to it each day.
And Invictus is Harry’s own creation. He’s been absolutely devoted to it, and to the maimed and wounded vets who compete in this competition, from the beginning. As dozens of quoted letters from the vets speaking to what it means to them to compete, has shown. I remember reading the letters, all archived in this forum.
People seem to react to snarling media accusations that seem to require no proof whatsoever except a strong anti-Sussex attitude. If they have read about the inception of the Invictus Games they either don't care that it came from what Harry saw and experienced during his time in the Army or they ignore it because it is an inconvenient truth. Not everyone hates the Sussexes as this 2022 Invictus Games has shown. The people most affected by the IA are the veterans and their families and they know that without Harry being "Royal" this would never have been able to get off the ground. It took a vision, a dream and a lot of plain old hard work and for Harry, lots of glad-handing.
On top of this, a Netflix documentary would make the competition more well-known for veterans who don't about the competition along with, more importantly, wealthy businesses who would be encouraged to sponsor the event in the future.
It was always intended that the IA would become self-supporting and grow from that but, an inconvenient Virus caused a very large speed bump. That meant that these games are basically the make or break games and needed to be loud, shiny and in your face for the very reasons HanRach Dominion explained.
I'm inclined to agree. Harry set the Games up, which was a wonderful thing to do, but you don't really expect to go to any event and find the partner of the person in charge making a speech about "He's the father of our two little ones" and how much they love and respect them. I'm sure she does love and respect him, and I'm sure that he's a great dad, but the Invictus Games are about disabled veterans, not the family life of the Sussexes.
The Invictus Games are the end result of raising up wounded veterans and their
families because everyone needs their own support system and the family is the front line. The mental health of Veterans impacts their significant others and it can go either way. Anything that highlights the plight of Veterans and shames governments that really don't want to see injured Vets is a plus. It's not just physical health and achievement but mental health as well.
Totally agree with this. Private citizens do NOT make balcony appearances.
Umm, let's get real here. HM's extended family is, nonetheless, family. Her sister's children and grandchildren are treated like her own, just as her cousins and many others that are not full-time workers but still carry out many engagements in the name of the Queen. Harry is not a private citizen, he is one of the Queen's grandchildren and one of her heir's sons. My advice is to build a bridge and get over it. Decisions about the structure of the BRF are in the purview of HM and Prince Charles.
Just reading so much bile is deeply depressing and I am so very happy that Charles, Camilla and HM got a chance to have a face to face meeting privately and without all the noise and hate (both ways) from the media. It was so nice to read a short statement about what had been and gone and, to find that even Palace staff etc. knew nothing about it leads me to believe that "sources close to" and "people in the know" were not able to supply the requisite plus or minus opinion until waaaaay after the visit was over. Okay, so they are making up for it now
IMHO they are just plain bullying the Queen or, to put it more accurately, they are
trying to bully her.