"Stepping down" is actually = has to step down.

His official severing of ties with the Royal Family means he is not allowed to "continue with the responsibilities and duties that come with a life of public service".

Everything he is "stepping down from", will be taken up by another Royal - who do you fancy to spearhead the World Cup??

Quote: PopTart "She's hardly a gold digger. She was earning half a million a year before she met him. As long as they are happy I don't see why anyone else, especially the paper need to get involved. They don't earn any money from tax payers. He's done a massive amount for charities that no one used to care about. He's done his time in the forces. He's married a beautiful actress who seems to draw a lot of racist comments. Personally I back them to do whatever they want.'" Easy to see why he’s had enough. They hounded his mum, and now his wife. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/el ... ards-royal

Quote: PopTart "She's hardly a gold digger. She was earning half a million a year before she met him. As long as they are happy I don't see why anyone else, especially the paper need to get involved. They don't earn any money from tax payers. He's done a massive amount for charities that no one used to care about. He's done his time in the forces. He's married a beautiful actress who seems to draw a lot of racist comments. Personally I back them to do whatever they want.'" Easy to see why he’s had enough. They hounded his mum, and now his wife. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/el ... ards-royal

Do you remember where he was when England were in a World Cup Final against Australia, a major event in the calendar and a potentially historic win for the team that he reckoned he was a patron of?

I'll tell you. Not at the World Cup Final, that's where. And in fact I recall he was at Twickers, watching his real buddies.

He took the gig but he never had any belief in it. If he had, he'd have been at the final.

As for the pair of them, they're going to hit a reality bump when George hits his teens and all the talk is about who is Queen will be and they'll be royal nobodies. People used to care about Andy and Fergie, until William grew up.

No one into sport will care about rugby league just because Harry has a photo-op every four years. But there are many high profile sports people who speak very highly of rugby league and would be happy to big it up. Tony Adams. Roy Keane. Ryan Giggs. Wayne Rooney. A fair few boxers.

Well said PT. Amazing how many posters on here think they know what’s going on in Harry and (especially) Meghan’s heads and the motives behind their actions.

Well said PT. Amazing how many posters on here think they know what’s going on in Harry and (especially) Meghan’s heads and the motives behind their actions.

Regardless of what you think of him/his relationships etc it’s not a positive story for the game unless we can replace him with someone of a similar profile, which will be a real challenge.

Maybe Harry could have helped secure the next TV deal

I don't think he was ever RL material, he's clearly shown in the past where his loyalties lie.
I used to think that of the two, him rather than William, was closest to the people. I was wrong, for me William is that person.
Harry could have gone on to a great relationship with the British public, especially the younger end, but he's chosen to turn his back on that and build his future elsewhere.
I hold no grudges but I think it right that he was stripped of all his military titles, and I don't know how this works, but does he retain the title of 'Prince?' Surely that can't be right if he's dumped his royal duties and his country to live elsewhere?

But Andrew gets to keep his.

My view is that nothing immediate will change in rl but these little things just keep chipping away at us , Elstone and now Harry , whatever your views they are a dam sight more recognisable than even our best Rl stars to the wider public and is another kick in the guts to get us recognised in the main stream . From there money will flow into the game instead of the trickle we see now , and all the problems that brings

Let's just be clear. He has lost his honorary titles in the forces so they can be given to another royal who will attend the particular events.
He was in the army for 10 years getting to Captain rank. That isn't taken away.
He's still patron of the Invictus games as he did that off his own back.
He still trekked across the Arctic to raise money for injured soldiers.
Anyone who suited up in the military and did tours in war zones deserves my respect.

He didn't dump his royal duties they were taken off him.
However they have still supported the organisations of which they used to be patrons, just without title and funding from taxpayer.

A Prince is the son of the Queen. I'm pretty sure that hasn't changed. It's the honorary titles that have been handed back, like Duke of somewhere.

Isn't that blood line a bit debatable?

Yep, which tells you all you need to know.

Hysteria whipped up by the press and it wont change anything for the man on the street.
Quite a bold thing to do, walking away from most of his privilege's but, he aint going to be short of cash.

He looks like his mums side of the family.
Big deal.

Isn't this the couple the left the royal family and escaped to the Americas because they were fed up of the publicity? Npw they.ve signed up to do a two hour interview with Oprah Winfrey.
No loss whatsoever to Rugby League. Our game is a game of the working classes and someone of that ilk should be chosen to represent us.