Harry’s not Happy with Autumn & Peter’s Hello! deal
Prince Harry was said to be “incensed” last night after candid snaps of him at his cousin’s wedding were splashed all over a celebrity mag.
Harry, 23, had no idea that a photographer at the reception after Peter Phillips’ marriage was from Hello!
He feels “stitched up” after 18 photos of him appeared in the magazine which hit the shelves yesterday – with 58 pages devoted to the wedding of Peter and Canadian Autumn Kelly, both 30.
A senior Royal source said Harry WAS aware that the couple had a deal with Hello! to take pictures.
But it was never made clear that this would include informal shots taken while he and other guests relaxed at the evening bash.
The source said “at no point was approval sought or given” to the photographer for pictures of Harry.
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May 22nd, 2008 06:04
i guess if Harry knows Peter have a deal with Hello magazine for the picture of the wedding and make harry picture there is in that magazine maybe Harry so disappointed with peter of course! and maybe they brotherhood can be doesn’t work again than before! but maybe not like that too, i don’t know. this is just my opinion
May 22nd, 2008 09:46
I don’t believe the story at all. Each day the press comes up with a new person in the RF who is “supposedly” unhappy with HELLO. I think the other press is envious that HELLO got the exclusive. So far they said, The Queen , Pr. Phillp, Pr. William, Pr. Edward, Sophie were all supposedly angry with the deal. I don’t believe it at all. Pr. Harry was clearly happy at the event.
In a few days the press wil tell us, Pr. Charles was “incandesent with rage” at the deal. It sounds like the other press, who did not get the exclusive, trying to make money off the wedding themselves, by spinning stories each day.
May 22nd, 2008 09:50
Hi Joanne M. – I agree totally with your post.
Does anyone know why Harry was not in the bridal party?
May 22nd, 2008 10:20
I got Princess Of Ukraine in our family(my grand*4 mother). I am Jastrzębie-Soroko – after her.
May 22nd, 2008 11:44
Poor Harry he couldv’e been in the Bridal Party.
He was invited in the wedding reception to eat and have fun with a few drinks which is nice to hear.
May 22nd, 2008 12:42
Hi Guys,
It has been suggested that the furore over the Hello photographers was anticipated and William was advised to stay away and thus distance himself from the “nasty” controversy. Thus protecting his future position as a King in waiting.
This must be rubbish !
If that was the case why wasn’t Prince Charles also warned and why would William allow Kate to attend knowing what might happen.
Some reporters show themselves to be completely divorced from reality. They don’t know anything so have to make something up to fill their columns.
Or perhaps a particular reporter needs to cause trouble to justify their well paid prophecies in earlier years.
May 22nd, 2008 22:09
I don’t know Will but, I just checked the Telegraph, The DM, other news and the Hello ! deal is getting worst. The snow ball is much bigger, started by DM rolled it to other papers, or its true and is growing on all sides ?!
May 22nd, 2008 22:13
The DM just won’t let it go, and is spreading the poison ivy to international papers around the world, or the QEII and the rest of the Senior Royals, including both Princes W and H are really mad ?!
May 22nd, 2008 22:58
Will, you are so right. I truly have a feeling that Peter has sat down with his grandmother & grandfather and dicussed this and now has moved on. The media on the other hand is getting carried away with the magazine deal and no one is stopping it. The photos was beautiful and Harry, Chelsy and Kate seemed to be not only enjoying themselves but agreed to have their pictures taken. I just hope that Peter & Autumn are having a wonderful honeymoon. And William & Kate having a great time on vacation. The media need to take a chill pill and drop the deal story.
May 23rd, 2008 00:30
may be because, harry felt that the newly weds were being unfair, bcoz the hello magazines gives also attention to harry, chelsy and kate, they are not part of the deal. they are just maybe a guess.,. this is my opinion only!
May 23rd, 2008 01:07
Morning Claudius,
Lovely to be chatting again and I am still feeling the Jet Lag and I am waking up very early.
Claudius, there just isn’t a vacation. William has clearly shown his position. He MAY still be romancing Kate but in a clear reversal he shows that his platonic friendship with Jessica is more important to him.
This would be a blow to any relationship but to such a public one as his and Kate’s it is nothing more than a public humiliation.
Diana clearly suffered such a humiliation from Charles and William has shown that her influence on him has ceased and has continued the trend and publically humiliated Kate.
Diana would no longer be so proud of him.
William has humiliated Kate publically and as she loves him so deeply she must accept it or be banished, which may well happen. They are now at the water shed and its an act or die situation.
I still remember Charles Spencer’s address at Diana’s funeral when he said that the Spencers would attempt to continue the Diana influence on the two Princes. He failed and they, particularly William also changed in a few short years.
How can any young prospective wife continue to love and honour a husband, who flees, possibly not literally, into the arms of another female friend to sort out his problms. How sad.
Kate is made of very strong fibre and will survive and the recent photographs of her smilling over the past months show just how strong she is.
To keep such a jewel William has to do something and do it quickly but he is so self centered and stubborn that I fear he may havemisread the signs or gone along with his so out of touch advisors
If he loses Kate he will suffer, how he will suffer for years and years and like his father before him will suddenly realize what he has lost.
I hope this problem is sorted out quickly but with the inept advisors appointed to him at CH I am not certain who can advise and help him.
The next few weeks must be critical.
The Wedding fiasco will run and run, the Dailies will not let Hello off the Hook. They were assured by the Palace that it wouldnt happen and it did. The BBC broadcast that the Palace had restricted the Hello photographers but they hadnt. There is a lot at stake, both financially and in market share and that is the holy grail to newspaper publishers.
It would appear that Harry,Chelsy, Kate and others thought that the photographers were official and not the Hello people and it seemed no one informed them of that fact.
Claudius, get out there rooting for Kate and William. Noone does it quite like you.
Cheers old guy.
May 23rd, 2008 01:23
lol, thanks Will. I will always root for them. That’s all we can do.
May 23rd, 2008 02:25
Hi Will – I’m wondering how you have made such an absolute statment that “there is no vacation”. I don’t think most people really know if W&K are in Mustique or not. They may have gone somewhere else but who really knows?
I do agree that alot of Diana’s influence is gone now, but not all of it, although William seems to be more like his father in many ways.
I think maybe Wills is terrified of a real commitment of marriage because of what he saw happen with his parents, Andrew and Fergie, and other members of the family. Those boys must have been traumatized by the divorce, but perhaps William more so. He is much more serious and sensitive while Harry seems to be very carefree, doesn’t get bothered by the same things as his brother and doesn’t mind showing affection in public to Chelsy. But that doesn’t mean Wills is a cold fish either – I feel he’s just more guarded and private like his father and the senior royal.
In any case, I just wish William and Kate the best in their lives, whether or not they do stay together.
May 23rd, 2008 02:51
Hi Jade,
Agreed. It was a definitive statement and I do not definitely know that Kate and William are not on vacation.
However, based on eaarlier reports I do not believe any such holiday was ever arranged.
In the past when venue and details are published several weeks or months before the event it is alway a ‘no go’.
When they go away they travel separately and Kate is usually spotted at the airport as William has long gone and it is only then that venue is disclosed.
How easy would it be for security problems to happen ifall and sundry knew exactly where and when they were gong on holiday.
The other point is that when William goes to Kenya it is always for two or three weeks never a short period. I do think he is involved in many activities there and spends lots of time there.
An additional pointer is that with all the speculation any movement of ‘minor’ personel .ie Jessica, would be monitered and reported.
Any sightings ?
A further pointer was that when the complaint about Kate,Harry and Chelsy photographs it specifically said that Harry had made the points.
William is weak and a ditherer and has obviously boken promises to Kate.
When she went back to him last year there was no way she would have returned unless he made specific promises.
When you hear from several sources that an engagement will happen in a b or there is usually a base to it and I think that the Balmoral trip, with family suport there last year was meant to be the engagement announcement. William botled it once again and since that time with just one or two exceptions relations have ben strained.
They are all little things but over the years have proved true in most cases.
May 23rd, 2008 06:07
Will, I am sorry but as much as I enjoy some of your posts, when you make statements like” William is weak and a ditherer and has obviously boken promises to Kate.” and” William botled it once again and since that time with just one or two exceptions relations have been strained.” you lose credability because these are things that you just could not possibly know, IMO.
The fact is, no one except William and Kate and the higher staff know when and if they will marry. No one knows if PW is is Africa. That story is far fetched at best and has never been confirmed by anyone offically. All they have said is that PW had a previous engagement. He is likely on assignment to which there is a media blackout.
It is one thing to discuss news and events on the internet but it is a whole other thing to fuel rumor driven fictional writings that tend to spread and gain a life of there own.
May 23rd, 2008 06:38
Why does everyone think that Kate LOVES William. Maybe she just LOVES the idea of marrying the future King of England!
May 23rd, 2008 07:49
I think if Kate just wanted to be a princess William would have seen through her by now.
They have been together for 4+ years, if that were the case i’m sure it would have come out already.
May 23rd, 2008 09:33
Sara – maybe that is why he keeps breaking up with her.
He’s not convinced she’s the one.
May 23rd, 2008 09:38
I don’t see William and Jecca’s friendship as a problem and neither does Kate obviously. She has known Jecca from the get go and they even holidayed together in 2005 and 2006. If she felt humiliated or unsure because of William and Jecca’s friendship (who knows how close it really is?), she would have ended it with Wills, IMO. That William confides in Jecca rather than in Kate is your interpretation, Will, based on 1 article from last year which turned out to be false in many other aspects. It’s hardly a fact. I doubt that Jecca whom he meets occasionally is so much more important to him than Kate. And if she is then Kate apparently doesn’t mind.
It is entertaining to speculate though and I’m sure the press will continue to drop hints about a possible Jecca-William-Kate love triangle simply because that sells papers. However, Kate doesn’t strike me as the kind of woman who would turn her eyes from such behaviour nor do I think Jecca’s b/f would accept it.
Yet, if there is something going on all parties are obviously okay with it since they’ve been keeping this up for more than 4 years now and I doubt we’ll ever get the sort of public drama Diana created when she made Charles and Camilla’s affair public. Maybe Kate and Will are swingers.
May 23rd, 2008 09:58
TRIXIE LOL! I agree I doubt there is anything going on with Jecca as Kate hardly seems the type to put up with that type of behavior.
May 23rd, 2008 10:56
Hi Guys,
I’m sure that I have never suggest that William and Jessica these days are anything but friends, but that was not my point.
Platonic friendships are great, but can cause much distress and heart ache.
Believe me, I have seen at least two or three cases of matrimonial disquiet every year or so.
Usually all is well when a marriage is new but problems do occur as and when pregnancy comes along.
I’m not a medical Doctor, but I am aware that hormonal changes in pregnancy change the outlook of the wife towards the platonic friend in what may be considered the strongest marriages.
These friendships should be curtailed very soon after or even before a marriage or the risk of a distressed marriage is greatly increased.
There are obviously exceptions in all cases but I would welcome any input or experience of this or similar circumstance.
May 23rd, 2008 12:13
Hi Guys,
If William is on an assignment with the RAf as suggest by some then I hope he is not on Nimrod Aircraft.
The Oxford Coroner has just declaired that the entire RAF fleet of Nimrod Aircraft are not Airworthy.
I have mentioned my concerns in the past about William’s Helicopter Flights and I do hope that if William is on Assignment due care has been
taken to establish risk.
The number of military Helicopter crashes world wide is very high and William has certainly put in his flight hours in helicopters thus increasing the risk to the 2nd in line to the throne.
If Harry also goes back into a combat zone and William continues to fly helicopters or even Nimrods it only takes one small accident and one slice of bad luck to wipe out the closest to the throne and both still without heirs themselves.
Is it frightening or not ?
May 23rd, 2008 13:51
Lets wait 2 weeks more, I think it takes 4 complete weeks to earn a medal, if by then nothing about PW, then perhaps the media blackout has to do with some Military Op involving him – I’m guessing here.
May 23rd, 2008 19:35
There is an interesting article in – thisislondon.co.uk.
It says, “the trouble is that they suffer from a severe dignity deficit, as well as a keen interest in money”.
Anyone agree?
May 23rd, 2008 19:38
Thisislondon.co.uk – also says, Zara Phillips also was paid by Hello! six years ago to photograph her house in the Cotswolds.
That is where they got the idea to sell the wedding photo’s!
May 23rd, 2008 20:36
and the DM has a very satirical hello ! thing…not nice hmmmmm grumpy
May 23rd, 2008 21:26
it was kind of funny
May 24th, 2008 10:50
The photo’s and captions in the Daily Mail are great!
Especially, the last one. Autumn’s stepmother say’s the royal family is much more trashy than ours!
May 24th, 2008 11:45
Hi Guys,
At least the Hello photographs really showed us how happy Kate Middleton really was and she didn’t have to restrain herself.
I should think her only sad spot was during the romantic slow dances when she had to sit it out although she did seem to be enjoying her dance with Chelsy.
With the smile on her face perhaps she is looking forward to seeing William again when he returns from wherever…..!?…
It all seems a little far fetched but what if William is waiting for her to say Yes !
Who knows ?
May 24th, 2008 12:28
I often wondered the same thing Will, he may just be waiting for her. I have a gut feeling that he won’t have to wait for long. They are just taking their time. Although the media and members of the public is growing un-patient with them but they have to do it when it’s best for them.
May 24th, 2008 13:25
Well if he is deployed somewhere now or they plan to do so later this year it would make sense not to get officially engaged before that. If something happened to him during the deployment, the RF would otherwise be stuck with a fiance. I guess it would be difficult to know what to do with her then. I guess if we still don’t get an official announcement after his military service it’s fair to say that he hasn’t made up his mind but so far I could see why an engagement would not have been announced yet.
May 26th, 2008 09:48
Full 100 page Hello! article available here (images):
http://www.slide.com/r/oA8urea_kj_-BTequH7D4Jzu31qbSF82
or Download here (50mb pdf)
http://rapidshare.de/files/39527048/Autumn_Kelly_Peter_Phillips_Wedding_Hello__Magazine_Images.pdf.html
May 26th, 2008 10:15
AnonymousD472 – thank you for the slide show.
Why are you anonymous?
May 26th, 2008 17:30
ali- thank you for the comment.
Why are you interested in my name?
May 26th, 2008 18:19
anonymous – i asked why you were anonymous.
not, what is your name.