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Course: Big questions in societySection: Opinions on Harry and MeghanSubtitles: en

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I like him I think he's done the right

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thing for him and his family

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sweet but very traumatized young man I

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don't care at all a little bit is just

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racism yeah and because she's a woman

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they have the right to put out their

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truth I had hope that you know it would

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improve race relations in the UK she

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talks and called him basically she knows

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she wants something but it's something

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which is impossible I think the whole

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issue of Harry and Megan is distracting

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us from other issues that are currently

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going on I agree um the NHS for example

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at the end of the day yeah I'd have been

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treated unfairly but they go home to a

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nice house nice lives when there's a lot

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more people who were suffering who are

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real and no one's talking about them

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hiya welcome to easy English today I

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want to find out what Brits think of

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle let's go

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give me an opinion you have on Harry and

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Prince Harry

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none whatsoever very spoiled young man I

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kind of feel like he's trying to go

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against it somehow but at the same time

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obviously I think that he's still

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benefiting economically from it probably

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he's trying his best right now right I'm

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gonna make money put food on the table

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yeah you just feel for the guy but I

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feel like he's run away to get away from

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all the Press

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but actively seeked being in it more

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than he ever was

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he went through a lot of very young age

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in the public eye

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um

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I didn't really care either way about

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Meghan Markle I think

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she's probably fine she's probably fine

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got nothing against him originally But

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as time goes on you sort of think he's

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becoming a bit whiny I think the way

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that she's been treated by the media

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means that we can't fairly form an

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opinion about her I mean she's more of a

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celebrity than a princess I don't know I

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think it's kind of cool to have someone

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that is nothing comes from like a royal

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kind of background to have in the in the

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monarchy I think the whole victim

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shaming thing is like terrible oil in

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itself I think if someone speaks out

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then they are a victim and it shouldn't

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be like victim shaming I hate that the

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way that the media treated Kate

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was a lot fairer she's obviously been

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you know treated horribly

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um

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you know and I feel for her but at the

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same time she was getting involved with

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a royal what did she think she was going

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to happen and one of the things that's

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kind of always said is that she's naive

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because she should have known that the

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royal family are a bit racist a bit

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absolutely not okay like that is not an

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excuse I don't think

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somebody who

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chooses to be an actress as their career

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choice

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um is also somebody who wants to live in

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Thailand entirely in the private sphere

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and never be seen by anybody and never

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do any interviews and never be famous

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they went away for peace and quiet and

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they seem to be more in the media now

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than they were over here they're just

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two people

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they didn't choose to be in that family

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he left the public life but now he's

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become more public than he ever was and

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I understand that he probably wants to

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do justice for the way he's been treated

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but at the same time he's making his

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life more difficult in some ways oh he's

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decided to leave fair enough good for

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him and why should we be positive the

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media has massively targeted but I think

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the royal family has a part to play in

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as well they could be speaking up and

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helping and they don't it's a different

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thing to have your privacy invaded I

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think you know they're fully the right

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to

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put out books whatever they want

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especially with all the rumors going

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around about them if they have been

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pressed by monarchy because they are not

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happy about their relationship I will

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run away too the media hate them so much

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and they don't want them to have money

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whatever they're the ones printing the

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story so it makes no sense for you

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that's very true good luck to them if

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they want a good life but uh they simply

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just making money out the media now

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the episode will you lose any sleep

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knowing that Prince Harry is no longer a

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prison not at all do you enjoy having a

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royal family do you think it's a good

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thing I think it probably maybe was a

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good thing but I don't think it's so

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relevant now you're like completely

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anti-royalist yeah

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yeah yeah

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and I feel like after the queen died

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maybe it's a bit of a Dying tradition

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and not so important do you find it

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bizarre that there's a whole media

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frenzy around the royal family yeah I

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definitely do I walked in and my

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girlfriend watching the documentary

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I like you said like she's being

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unfaithful she was really caught at Hook

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Line and singer and she was like oh this

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is terrible I'm just like you're just

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watching rich people talk about rich

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problems right it's like your man's got

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20 million quid and he's like I don't

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care yeah there's a lot bigger problems

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in the world than worrying about who's

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on whose side of them because it's

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really a big distraction from the

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problem what's going on thank you for

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watching this week's episode I'd like to

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hear your thoughts on Prince Harry and

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Meghan Markle and if you enjoyed this

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