Prince Harry

[HEPZIBAH]

There seems to be so much attention being paid, in the UK and indeed around the world, to Prince Harry's book and televised interviews. It's hard to avoid the whole debacle, (that's one of the words I use for this whole issue), because even if you avoid reading about it in the papers or see snippets on the news, you are bombarded with it, or Meghan stuff, whenever you switch the computer on.
I'm curious, is it causing such a stir in Luxor? I can imagine that ex-pat Brits may discuss it, but is it a topic of discussion and debate amongst others - Egyptians or other nationalities?

[Chris]

No, it isn't

[HEPZIBAH]

If it isn't you have a lot to be thankful for. :-)

[Teddyboy]

Only on Saturday, this was a topic of conversation brought up by the toilet attendant at the rest stop on the way from Hurghada. I was actually quite taken aback! The bloke was sorry for the King.

[HEPZIBAH]

The bloke was sorry for the King.

With what little I have seen, heard, and read, - mostly internet headers before I headed off to something more interesting - I think I am somewhere between feeling sorry for the King and wanting to point out to him that you reap what you sow. That's when I'm not playing see-saw and trying to understand both ends of the whole miserably rotten plank.
(No, I'm not calling the King, or Prince Harry, a plank... but if the cap fits... )

[Teddyboy]

"I am somewhere between feeling sorry for the King and wanting to point out to him that you reap what you sow."

I'm sure that many of us feel the same, Hepzibah. But perhaps we would do better by imagining walking in his shoes? Royals, along with the much vaunted celebrities (Kardashians etc?) live, and are brought up, in entirely different circumstances to most of us.

[HEPZIBAH]

"I am somewhere between feeling sorry for the King and wanting to point out to him that you reap what you sow."

I'm sure that many of us feel the same, Hepzibah. But perhaps we would do better by imagining walking in his shoes? Royals, along with the much vaunted celebrities (Kardashians etc?) live, and are brought up, in entirely different circumstances to most of us.

I don't always like the walk my own shoes are taking but there is no way I'd want to be in their shoes (especially if it's anything like my imagination).

Maybe some of the reaction of the general public is because so many of us have grown up with them all pretty much - but definitely not all and always - towing the line, living by the rules - albeit the rules of royalty which most of us cannot comprehend. Unlike 'celebrities' (oh how I hate that word) royals have, rightly or wrongly, normally kept a dignified silence - at least in public. In our lifetime we have seen a great change in these ways. We have seen the rise in B, C, and even D list celebrities with their ever move photographed, photoshopped, and published far and wide (...ad nauseum). This culture and lifestyle is envied by many and seen as a form of freedom, and this is partially what we are witnessing now with the young buck Harry.

I'm rambling. I could ramble on further. I will spare you... for now. :-)

[Teddyboy]

Many of us in my generation would echo those words, Hepzibah. (And we're also prone to rambling on, and on, and on!) Never mind.