Here's a challenge to consider. You have just been hired as a PR consultant to improve Duchess Meghan's image.
You have unlimited funds and the power to do anything - including plan a big confessional interview in which Meg admits her previous mistakes.
What would you do? Which journalists would you involve? Which clothes and hairstyles would you choose?
Which Royal Family members would you select to accompany Meg on a potential apology tour? Where should she go on that tour, what type of organizations should she meet with, and what should she say?
Which Royal Family members would you select to accompany Meg on a potential apology tour? Where should she go on that tour, what type of organizations should she meet with, and what should she say?
The goal is to give Meghan a second chance at impressing the British public and the citizens of the Commonwealth, who are her employers. Impressing the US media and Meghan's pre-existing sugars is secondary.
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2. Meet with your father. Do it secretly, but put out one picture to make it clear it happened
3. Do some grass roots activities, that reflect your real interests - and that aren't done for the picture that's put out - but to get you known as a hard worker
Actions, not words will speak volumes. Look at Sophie, and esp. Anne, the hardest working royal.
All activities solo without Harry on your patronage and personal interests (like Grenville tower) - no pap pictures. All patron activities on the court calendar, your personal interests should be on the downlow.
Also - attend with Harry on his key patronage events that a spouse would attend, like the military respect tour he gave up for the movie premiere.
Give Harry the proper respect - he goes first, not you. Speak when spoken to. Smile.
1. wear British/Commonwealth fashions. Its okay if they are expensive (by plebeian standards) but they shouldn't be at the level of expense she's been wearing for the past 19 months.
2. Proper blow-outs. No instagram messy-pretty strands
3. NO interview. Just set a good work ethic example (Anne, Sophie).
4. Stop with all the secret stuff. If you don't want to announce where you gave birth or who the god-parents are, then just say nothing. I know this is probably controversial, but H & M make it way more obnoxious and annoying by saying "none of your beeswax, we're keeping this SECRET". Your desire to be normal is playing out as a desire to be extra-extra special.
5. And I've said it before and I'll say it again: Stop holding Harry's hand or grabbing his arm at official engagements. Those are work events, not dates.
6. Stop trying to be the "hot girl". Been there, done that. Grow up.
7. Have someone teach you how to accept that celebrity and royal are very different things.
8. Please, please, please listen to the royal courtiers who can teach you some things about etiquette, decorum etc.
Just my opinion: Harry should have married a girl from the Commonwealth. At least we have some passing relationship with the BRF and kind of know what's expected. Autumn Phillips anyone??
Then go home. Go back to California. Hollywood probably won't touch you with a twenty foot producer's private part, but there's always the service industry. Maybe if your mom is willing, teach yoga along with her. Become a private citizen again and try not to hurt anymore people.
Because quite frankly, I think there's no going back to fix her image now. Whether she's mentally ill, some people's opinion, or a classic narcissist, mine, she's gone way too far to ever return.
We are all embarrassed by your antics House Sussex just help yourselves out and LISTEN to guidance.
If only Megs' atomic missteps over the last year were a result of being unformed clay making innocent mistakes out of ignorance & childlike excitement at the headiness of her new position . . . if only she were amenable to instruction and change. She isn't, and ultimately Meg is the only one who can rehabilitate herself, and she thinks she's perfect the way she is.
If she were a normal person desirous of doing better than she has been and if she hired me for my professional advice, this is the start of what I would tell her:
1. A Royal is a celebrity that must not be *seen* to act like a celebrity. You will have the global exposure you always wanted, and people will be eager to see you--as long as you maintain an air of mystery about yourself, and remember who you work for. When you are in public, you are there to promote the monarchy, not yourself. They are your Brand now--you are not a free agent. Dignity, modesty, service. Say these like a mantra. These are the virtues of the British and that goes quadruple for the Royals.
2. You are American by birth, but you're British now. This is what you have chosen. You have a child now who is British. Your employer, and the provider of your privileges is the British people. Accord them the respect they deserve. Do not flaunt your privileges. Spend quietly, and when you do, invest in quality--British made. Wear British designers and patronize British workers/products in other areas of your life. Enthusiastically support your adoptive country and its people, cultures and customs. It's OK to give a nod to your roots every now and then, but your primary focus should always be to promote Britain and the royal family. Eschew your fake Hollywood 'friendships' in favor of making new ones in your adoptive country.
3. Ditch the Duchess entitlement attitude. Treat everyone well, including those who come to see you at appearances and most especially, your staff who work for you. They are not 'minions' . . .they are trained professionals whose purpose is to make 'you' look good and appear more competent than you are able to on your own. You owe them appreciation and respect for what they are doing for you--and not just your beauty team or your private secretary . . your nannies, maids, gardeners, cooks and everyone that contributes to your success and comfort deserves your attitude of gratitude. If you treat your staff well, they will be loyal, and you want loyal staff.
4. Use the immense privileges of your position to make yourself the best version of yourself you can be. Take advice from a professional style and beauty team and trust that they know what they are doing. You owe it to your public, who may have stood in the rain or freezing cold for hours to see you, to look nice and pulled together. It telegraphs that you care. Ditch the ill-fitting, unflattering designer samples. No more merching--it's tacky and common. Have your clothes tailored and hire someone to care for your wardrobe and track what you wear, when. Selective re-wearing of outfits will show that you are not wastefully extravagant and that you appreciate quality craftsmanship.
You have access to the best instructors in any subject you could want. Take advantage of this. Engage a protocol adviser and take as many lessons on Duchess deportment as it takes until you get it. Learn how to eat a formal dinner properly . . while you're at it, learn about proper etiquette for accepting food/drink/gifts while on official engagements. Refusing local delicacies with a face/touching them with your hands and then putting them back on the plate . . or elbowing people out of the way to get to the free swag table at Wimbledon are just two faux pas we never want to see repeated.
Read up on the history of your new family. Take interest in the family holdings and activities. Study another language, take horseback riding lessons, dancing lessons, lessons in the art of making small talk to people you don't know . . You have so much to learn, Rachel. Soak it up like a sponge. Your every day is your new role, and it's a lifetime engagement, so it's worthwhile to learn what will help you best to acclimate and be effective. Right now you are acting like an understudy propelled to the lead who has never bothered to learn her lines or her set blocking, thinking she can improvise. You can't go on like this, and neither can we.
5. Mend fences. Go visit your father and take Harry and the baby. Actions will speak louder than windy letters released to the press. Mend fences with the Cambridges, too, if they will stand for it. William and Kate are either your mightiest allies or your worst enemies, and you have to choose which they will be. William will one day be King and control your finances and your life, so you want him on-side. Right now, Kate could be an invaluable source of advice and friendship to you. She too was a commoner who married in, and the press and her in-laws weren't nice to her for years. She remade her reputation, and you need to be studying her and emulating her example. 'Emulating' means copying in a positive, respectful way that is desirous of learning . . not the nasty competitive stalker kind of imitation you are known for. Note the difference, please.
Request an audience with Harry's grandmother and make apologies for all your bad behavior since you've joined the family. Promise to make amends, and then do it. He's got a lot to answer for, too, but it would show courage and accountability if you don't hide behind him.
6. Plug into your patronages, which the Queen has chosen especially for you. Prove to her that her choices were not misplaced. People have been cancelling their subscriptions to the National Theatre since HM named you patron . . chew that over. It's up to you to turn it around. Go visit there; meet with the directors about utilizing your background to develop a youth theatre program or other ways you can contribute. Attend performances, speak to patrons, be accessible. Learn the nuts and bolts of the theatre. Channel your desire to act into supporting this national institution behind the scenes and nurturing the next generation of theatre talent and theatre goers. Do the same for your other charities.
7. Basically do everything that is asked of you with a cheerful demeanor. No matter how you feel about the job at hand, remember: Dignity, modesty, service. Court only positive tabloid attention by not giving them embarrassing material to print. It's going to take years to undo the mess you've done in one, but please do try.
8. Love your husband, and help him be his best, too. Regardless of what your initial motivations for marrying him were, he is now the father of your child, in whatever way that occurred . . .you have made a family. He waited a long time to get married, and you as his wife should enhance his life, not tear it down. You two get whatever marital counseling, rehab treatment, whatever you need to be healthy for each other and your child. We'd like to believe that the love you display for public view is in fact real . . .so make it real or go away.
1.Fire PR team
2. Stop paying for PR placement thus eliminating the need to run scams for cash for PR.
3. Close SussexRoyal
4. Start going to family/couples therapy with husband.
5. Start listening to royal advisors, stylists, etc.
6. Shut up about getting paid.
7. Stay out of the public eye until you get yourself together.
8. NO MORE LIES.
9. Deal with the baby... surrogate... doll... pregnancy rumors and lies. If Archie is a healthy baby, let PH be seen with him in public.
10. If Archie has a birth defect or health problem (like rumored downs syndrome) be honest about that and begin doing work with the charity. Real work, not banana signing photo ops.
11. Start wearing British brands, perhaps highlighting independent new designers.
12. I wish one Brittish royal would champion British fiberarts aka Shetland sweaters and shawls, designers like Kaffe Fassett and others for Rowan, Alice Starmore... Maybe even knit in public.
13. Shut up about Privacy. Anyone who truly wants privacy doesn't pay to place stories in tabloids. I suspect Harry wants privacy and Meghan wants attention.
If she doesn't want to be a state sponsored royal, carry on with the insanity. Social climb and grift until people tire of the lies and/or the law intervenes.
Let's be honest and say that's exactly what these two-dimensional celebrity hustlers are . . caricatures of human beings. As for Royals, forget it.
Harry might have opted, in his capacity as Captain General of the Royal Marines to attend a memorial concert in honor of fallen warriors on July 14th, rather than wearing bad clothes to a Disney premiere with Beyonce. It was shameful that he was not present.
Priorities, Haz . . .yours are screwed up, and she's never been on your side to begin with. Time to wise up, man.
https://harrymarkle.wordpress.com/2019/07/18/they-dont-make-it-easy-a-royal-pain/
Me-Again Sparke "The Charlatan Duchess" has documents from their new foundation. Lots of them and one of them lists Meghan as Princes of the United Kingdom. i tried to cut & paste it here but it wont work. this should be the address
https://66.media.tumblr.com/551b281b2c0bad29d4a62950526cb70f/fe444097d0ecc430-c7/s1280x1920/3921e291537059c11cad68c9f03190e25aa8cdae.jpg
This was an afternoon concert, at 2:30 pm. Deal is a 2-hour car journey from London. It would have been tight but doable to make both events. In any case, the Deal concert should have been prioritized. PH received the invitation a year ago, and only canceled within the last month, citing a previous engagement. (The pop-culture paparazzi event with Hollywood celebrities which both he and his wife preferred to attend.)
Even notwithstanding Haz's affection for the original Lion King film (back when he was 8), would the Harry of two years ago blown off a military duty for a movie premiere? I would not have thought so.
https://www.dealbandstand.org/rm-concert
In the show, The Crown, (Season 1, Episode 4 beginning about 19:33) in the scene where Queen Mary, Elizabeth II's grandmother, explains to Elizabeth her purpose as queen: Elizabeth asks Queen Mary: "... In your letter you said, 'Loyalty to the ideal you've inherited is your duty above everything else, because the calling comes from the highest source, from God himself.'
Queen Mary: Yes.
Eliz: Do you really believe this?
Queen Mary: Monarchy is God's sacred mission to grace and dignify the earth; to give ordinary people the ideal to strive towards. An example gives their duty nobility and dignity to raise them in their wretched lives. Monarchy is a calling from God. That is why you're crowned in an Abbey and not in a government building; why you're anointed, not appointed. It's an archbishop that puts the crown on your head, not a minister or public servant, which means that you are answerable to God in your duty, NOT THE PUBLIC (emphasis mine).
Now, take a moment and let that sink in. The monarchy's duty is loyalty to God. As subordinates to the monarch, the royal highnesses are required to be loyal to the queen. Anything outside of duty and loyalty to her is a type of treason, rebellion, insubordination.
The only way Meg can redress and redeem herself is to honestly and without question or refusal, learn and follow all of the queen's mandates, rules, traditions, etc. no matter how archaic some things are. And, forget about "modernizing" the monarchy. It's not an option and never has been. Throughout the last 1000 years there have been those like Megs demanding "modernization" when the truth is, it's really about her and those like her refusing to be loyal or do their duty for some selfish, willful reason or rebellious, immature power struggle.
If I was a courtier ordered by the queen to fix the mess they've made, I'd give them both a fish or cut bait option: Either show piety and humility for the past year's blatant disrespect for the monarchy, or abdicate. Tell them both they're either on the bus or off the bus. They can't have it both ways.
A big fat "show me" is in order now. Nothing less will do.
She accused us (Through her PR and pit bullesque sugars) of being racist and xenophobic when people called out the spending, her treatment of her father, the bad ettiquette and bizarre contradictory behaviour. There have been too many witnesses to her poor behaviour on tours or visits for them all to be lies. She came in with the attitude that SHE was bringing our drab, little monarchy into the 21st century and it showed.
Yeah, thanks, Flower, we were just fine with how things were. We like it when the monarchy shows up, cuts a ribbon and smiles. We do not like to hear that people we fund to be glorified mascots (and I love the BRF) are moaning how bad their life is when said moaner blew off an event memorialisng men who lost their lives protecting this country. Duty is the essence of the BRF and if they don't bother with that, prefering star studded, insta-worthy events, then why the hell are we keeping them?
In short, she's pissed off too many people. We've still not forgotten the war, so she's got bob hope.
*Even Arnold J Rimmer is more stalwart than her and Hazza.
Harry could have chosen just about anyone else that would have been more ofa credit to her birth country and her adoptive one in her current role. Nobody expected her to know everything or be mistake-free as a newbie to the Firm. What is mind-blowing is that she absolutely refuses to *try* to fit in and every move is calculated to cause the maximum friction and negative buzz around herself. She wants all the swag and none of the duty. Does she really think if they cut her loose after the divorce that they will continue to fund her lifestyle? She is an utter disaster. There's no cure for what she's got . . .Hazza is going to have to divorce her to save himself.
It was in the NY Post.
Best thing for them now is for Harry to give up his titles and live as a private citizen. I'm not sure Markle is up for that but those are the consequences. I'm all for them living a private life out of the public eye and not being supported by the public purse.
PH and MM, in a public announcement, present their desire to have a child, but being unable for medical reasons, have engaged the services of a surrogate. Their appeal would have been to all the couples unable to conceive, and it would have brought them center stage into many hearts with the intimacy with the masses with the revelation. They could have said that while they desire privacy, they will keep people informed of events. That would have been groundbreaking, and absolutely astounding. PH and MM could have held the masses enthralled with their revelations. MM would have been on the cover of every magazine, in a multitude of languages; and, being interviewed everywhere. However, that would have required humility, honesty, and being just plain, decent human beings. Neither Markle nor PH have that kind of courage or honesty. MM can play games, and drag PH along with her. It's too late for MM to rehabilitate her image.
I think that the official title would be Princess Henry of Wales.
Harry is William's Margaret, it seems, but this animosity toward Megs has been seen in a similar form. Meg is an outsider, though, and better watch it. She won't get the same kind of indulgence a true family member does.
http://www.pastfactory.com/celebrity/the-royal-rebel-princess-margarets-glamorous-life/2/
And the RF seems to be sitting back and taking the blows.
Next is to drop the self serving events and actually go back to the charities to show a semblance of sensitivity.
That polo match was just a spectacle de merde. Far more going on that I can guess, but from the looks of the faces with those with whom she did interact, the situation was somewhere between tense and bat merde cray cray.
so yes, maybe he's the instigator in his lifelong dream of dragging the BRF into the fiery Mount Doom, OR maybe he's just been played and the love drug is wearing off and he's in a really FUBAR situation. I believe the latter, based on his body language and behavior. I certainly could be wrong. But I do not think that this would be happening if it weren't for the markle spell. He's going to have to man up and do something about this, and therein lies the problem I see -- I'm not sure Harry's cojones are equal in size to markle's. It's a sad thing, but most men find it very hard to leave a woman even when they are very, very unhappy....
"Harry is doing his mother's bidding, bringing her into infect the monarchy. A woke SJW Royal Family under King Charles III will usher in the Republic of the United Kingdom. She is Wallis II."
I actually think she's worse than Wallis in a way, as at least Wallis kept her mouth shut. That comment for me is very chilling - I don't want to become a Republic. It would send shockwaves through Britain and the Commonwealth for several generations, as the monarchy is woven into the fabric of who we are as a nation. The RF need to sort these two out and fast.
Their behavior is beginning to reflect badly on the whole royal family, causing them all to lose the respect from their loyal subjects. The hard working royals like Princess Anne, Kate, Wills, the Wessexes, and Charles and Camilla have worked very hard to support the monarchy. They have to be seething and cringing every time the Sussex name is mentioned. If I worked as hard as they have most of their lives and had this pair of idiots destroy my mother's legacy I'd be apoplectic with fury. I think BP is already making Meg's exit contingency plans.
Fill her diary with a year of that stuff and she'll be booking her own flight back to the USA!
I *do* hope the BRF is setting MM up behind the scenes for a fall of amazing proportion while pretending to make jolly so that when the merde hits the fan, the BRF can appear to have embraced mm. My cold, hard heart tells me that something is playing out because under normal conditions, mm would be sucking up to Camilla & Charles (Chas has the pounds and pays the bills), and by failing to wish Camilla a happy birthday, H&M have landed on the bad side of both C&C. Even markle is not so stupid as to diss Camilla without knowing Chas will be a little miffed as well.
If there is any truth to his disappearing for 48 hours and Chelsy hanging around, then I do believe mm is on her way out. I know we are in the minority, but I just don't see him as a seething, festering, bubble-bubble-toil-and-trouble mastermind.
You can’t put lipstick on a pig.
1) To reign in MeAgain and ward off anymore controversy
2) I think a part of it was to combat Meg's PR blitz determined to try to make Kate be the bad one and "jealous" of her(ridiculous to everyone with a brain), if this is true then I would say this is Lord G tactic and pretty smart one.
I would love to see a link to the Theresa May bump if you've got it. I don't recall it.
sigh there is enough true evil already in the world happening and I hate seeing more of it, not less
BTW, I wish PP would have a talk with Harry since Harry was appointed Captain General Royal Marines succeeding PP. It only happened in Dec. 2017, and so far Harry’s already managed to fuck it up after so many years of his grandfather’s service.
Rehabilitation of narcissists is dubious, they are resistant to treatment and incapable of empathy. It’s not gonna happen.
I can only judge others on myself, and I have been the same basic person since childhood. Trying to change my personality would be an exercise in futility. Even giving me large financial incentives wouldn't work because it would be insufficiently motivating for me.
Yes, I do. Without going into details, illness forced this person to take a good look at their life and they really didn't like what they saw.
I think for the average person, however, it would certainly be relatively unheard of ... leopards 'n spots ...
There's no point trying to force that square peg into a round hole.
To be honest I think there has been far too much deceit & controversy when it comes to the Sussex's.
MM especially seems to do her utmost to anger and alienate the British press & citizens
Her last statement 'They make it very hard" was so snide and extremely un-Royal
It shows that she doesn't have the capacity of intelligence or the diplomacy required for this role.
The role of Princess is not to be taken lightly, it is demanding and not at all easy. Even for Diana who was British & came from the upper echelons of society, floundered and made humongous errors of judgement.
The difference is that as opposed to MM, Diana was genuinely compassionate, warm and sincere.
Therefore the people forgave her for her mistakes because they knew she was an emotional being but ultimately came from a good place
She wasn't arrogant, rude, self centered nor did she ever play the diva
She wasn't the Princess with contempt for the peasants
She knew and understood the plights of the common people
Unfortunately MM is the exact opposite of Diana
She is an interloper who has little regard for the country she now represents and it seems she has no intention to learn the 'British ways'
She is married to a Prince, but she isn't a citizen, she has never paid tax in Britain although she is in a spending frenzy with seemingly unlimited access to funds paid by taxes from British citizens
Her excessive spending is repulsive to the average British person
Therefore i see very little forgiveness from the people, for MM.
The only happy ending would be if she quietly packs her bags and heads back to Sunset boulevard, with or without Harry.
It is not that she isn't welcome here, it's that she has never made an effort to 'like' the people she is taking from.
I think her arrogance & self destructive nature, has within a short space of time has burned her bridge, at both ends
Or Harry must do important public functions on his own.
No clawing, pawing,clutching or people grabbing.
Show respectful deference to Harry..ie let him take the leads in
All things.
Dress correctly and respectfully Lay off the navy and black.
Show that you are willing to take on all things British including
Clothes.
Be humble contrite and kind as nobody likes a braggart.
STOP searching and looking for the camera it makes you look
Vain.
Take heed.. don’t bite the hand that feeds you as right now
You are chewing the bloody thing orf..!!
P.s Archie is a little innocent human being,stop using him as. PR
Commodity or a weapon against Harry.
CringeFest.
The Duchess of Windsor was, by most accounts, a great style icon and great fun at a party. Much of the British public were supportive of her and Edward's romance, and thought he should be allowed to marry her. Her only sworn enemy it seems, was the Queen Mother. Wallis was her Kryptonite.
But . . .as much as I dislike Smeaghan for all the wrongs she has done, the fact is that Wallis Simpson actively colluded with Hitler against Britain, along with her dim-witted husband. When he was dating Wallis, Ed was so uninvested in his reign that he'd let her read his Red Boxes and summarize what she thought he should know. Perhaps he couldn't read and this was his cover . . .this is not a brain trust family we are dealing with here, and Hazza is only the latest weak link.
That might not have been so bad if W. had kept her knowledge in-house. Whether Edward knew it or not (I think he did know), Mrs. Simpson was simultaneously sharing her sexual favors with the German Ambassador, and passed off confidential papers to her other lover. After the Windsors were married, they toured German military installations as the special guests of der Furhrer--who attended their wedding and made a speech, as I recall--this was all pre-1939 . . but in 1940, ensconced comfortably in the do-nothing sinecure of Governor of the Bahamas, compliments of King George VI, Ed's advice to Hitler was to keep on with the Blitz and step it up, and the British would fold. His brother was at the time enduring the bombing along with his Queen and children in London.
This puts Smeaghan's indiscretions into perspective. I'm not apologizing for her, but it's just as well that she's too self-absorbed for espionage.
Read it and puke:
https://magazine.trueroyalty.tv/2019/05/24/meghan-markle-inside-the-home-of-a-princess-is-now-live/
It seems like you have to be an Apple subscriber to watch this drivel. Let it be known that in the clip provided in the article, which features many photos of glitzy royal residences, none of them is Fraudmore.
Looks like another outlet Smegs has in her pocket . . .
Send her out to venues that highlight all that makes the British Isles special and unique, from obvious to obscure, showcasing the things that make it attractive from an American/International perpective.
Serving a double purpose, it would definitely help her image and it would help attract the investment the UK is going to need post divorce from the EU.
But.....again, aint gonna happen.
Is that a uniquely British upper-class thing--inviting all of the people you used to sleep with/who may have turned down your proposals of marriage to your wedding(s)? Why would anyone accept, under the circumstances, even if you parted as friends? Doesn't it smack of rubbing your exes' faces in the fact that they aren't up at the altar with you? Sounds like a recipe for drama to me.
In Pippa's case, she had a family tie to this wedding that extended beyond the bridal couple . . .her niece and nephew were in the wedding party, and Kate probably begged her to come in order to have a friendly face there.
Should be interesting if the rumors that Harry has rekindled with Chelsy Davy prove to have any legs to them . . .
Markle's NPD knows no bounds and that is her undoing. If it's not all about her, all the time, she doesn't care and can't care. The Harry we saw at TCC is still there. I think he tries to put a mask over his contempt for her because one gets weary of being pissed off all the time.
What Harry obviously, and others like Charles and Megs supporters don't understand is that narcissists are incapable of compassion, love, empathy. A normal person caught in their snare has a very difficult time realizing that. Meanwhile, Megs has no problem manipulating Harry into believing that he is somehow to blame for anything and everything that goes wrong around them and that he should be the one saying sorry to her because it's all his fault. He's so afraid of losing her "love" and affection that he'll own the blame to keep her happy.
I think the reason we see Harry not caring about his appearance when he's with her is because she's drained him of all sense of self. He's lost his personality and he's depressed and probably medicating himself to cope with her endless harping about how the world is wrong and she's right. How he must be the one to change, not her because she's perfect. He's starting to get weary of her controlling and crazy ways and his contempt for her showed at TCC, but it's going to take a while before he can find himself again, if he can. A lot of people don't. They end up allowing themselves to be gaslighted and blackmailed for the rest of their lives.
Megs can't continue unless she can control Harry's environment full on. She can't allow him to be anywhere away from her for very long if she wants to maintain the isolation she requires to control him. The Polo match is a great example of her fear that Harry will open up and rely on old friends or family to influence him outside of her sphere of control. She showed up at polo with the baby to make a statement, like an ominous warning to him to stay in line or else. Her insecurity is that deep, and she was in such a rush to get there that she forgot that baby might need a hat, his diaper bag, a stroller. More crazy is going to happen soon. Meg's insecurity and NPD won't subside.
Harry was/is emotionally vulnerable, immature, impulsive, hedonistic, and has grievances against his family and his place in the order. The Narc moved in skillfully on her prey. She dressed sexy, she looked sexy (back then) . . .she was Up for It and cooed at him and stroked his ego, along with other parts. He enjoyed partying with her . . but when he tried to bring the party to a close, she wasn't having any of it and hounded/stalked him until he took her back. I think the narrative must have gone something like this: You need me. We are so good together. Nobody has a chemistry like ours. Together, we can change the world! We will be the power couple of the family . . we're sexy! We're fun! People love us! We will eclipse your boring, stodgy brother and his stuck-up wife . . we'll be stars! You will finally have the profile you deserve, but to to it, You. Need. Me.
Who knows, maybe she's got mad skills as a hypnotist that are better than her acting or her calligraphy, because from the outside looking in, it's hard to conceive that she actually convinced him to marry her. I think she was a royal-sized nightmare even before she moved into Nott Cott. The gaslighting would have had to have been extreme to obscure was was lurking in the shadows of her past and her psyche. These tactics are precisely the ones that are used by cult recruiters.
Narcissistic sociopaths are definitely out there, from all walks of society, and my favorite genre of escapist reading, the psychological thriller would hardly exist without this character template. I've met a few people who exhibit these tendencies in my lifetime, but none were so egregious as Smeaghan. I marvel in wonder that someone so blatantly transparent and artless in her cons has gotten this far. Usually a victim gets in deep with them based upon the Narc's suavity and charisma drawing them in. The skillful Narc grooms his/her victims for a significant amount of time before unleashing the true horror of their real personalities/agendas. Smeaghan is lacking utterly in a suave front game--she can't even brush her hair or dress herself properly. She's malignant, but childishly transparent about it. She never had the chops for being a good actress or the diplomatic service because there's no artful deception with her . . it's just straight up thuggishness all the time.
The miracle of Meg is how she's allowed to get away with it, since she doesn't even give her victims the dignity of being able to claim that they were deceived by a consummate actress.
Influential, moneyed people on two continents (at least) aided and abetted her in pulling strings to snag Harry. I feel like MM's 'bagging a royal' was some kind of wager they all made one night over a drinking game, like some kind of twisted fraternity. Does Harry feel it, too, now? The burning question is . . WHY? Why would anyone want to help Smeaghan achieve her goal of world domination? She's so crass and inept at everything she touches. Plus they have to have seen the real Smegs peeking out after spending more than an hour in her company. What's in it for the likes of Markus Anderson, Mischa Nonoo, et. al, to help Markle in any way? She's a disaster . . not their quality of usual social contact at all. She doesn't even know how to spell C-O-U-T-H, much less have any.
If the baby was proved to be genetically Harry's, I think more positive fuss would have been made. The surrogacy was thorny from a constitutional standpoint, but still, a baby of Harry's would have been more family-supported then he has been.
With no laws in place regarding the legitimacy of surrogate pregnancies, either in British or royal law and precedent, if Harry is NOT the paternal donor, then what Smeaghan has done is technically infidelity, and that should be enough to give her the boot. If neither she nor Harry are the genetic contributors and they instead purchased (or attempted to purchase) another woman's baby, the Royal family is under no obligation whatsoever to acknowledge this child. And we could go so far as to say that they really haven't. The birth easel announcement was bogus; the birth certificate is bogus; the portraits of Archie with other BRF family members are digitally manipulated and bogus; the reports of a stream of well-wishers to Fraudmore to see the new parents: bogus. Archie is neither spoken of or seen, unless his 'mother' counts trotting out a wrapped up/obscured doll for viewing as 'seeing him'.
I don't know who the baby(ies) are that posed in the presentation/christening events . . .but I don't believe that Megs was holding a real child at the polo. He was too big, too stiff, too inert and she never held 'him' naturally for one moment. I think someone gave birth to a baby, and she's keeping him. If H. and M. do not have custody, it would have been impossible for Smegs to dash out of the house with Archie on the spur of the moment to go to the polo match. Note the complete dearth of baby items that moms of infants normally travel with for a day out, even a brief outing. Where are all the luxe 'baby gifts' she received from her celebrity friends? No stroller, diaper bag, sunhat; bottle, burp cloth, foofy or toy. Megs does not have any baby stuff because she's not living with a baby. Maybe all the designer celebrity swag is with the birth mother as part of her compensation.
I could be wrong, but I swear I can feel William seething from across the Atlantic.
Much as this would be the best scenario, I can't see her leaving quietly. Rather, expect to see claw marks as she desperately hangs on to her trophy. The only way I can see this ending is like Diana.
I'm trying to master Cockney rhyming slang, but can you help me out? 'She's got Bob Hope' equals . . .Dope? Enough rope? lol
Yes to the first; not to the second, yet, apparently. Seems like there's never going to be enough rope for this loser to hang herself with. The Family is being incredibly tolerant while she makes them look like eejits.
Smeg certainly has Bob Hope's *nose*--that's the first thing I noticed about her, in fact. Now that I know she actually *paid* to make it like that, I can only assume that it was a botched attempt to give herself Julia Roberts' nose. Smeg tried to channel Julia in earlier days--the notorious pop-up appearance at the British Fashion Awards saw her looking very Julia-like . ..above the neck only. She's way too puffy now to pass for Julia Roberts, even fleetingly.
Now, with her fuller face and the scraped back bun, she reminds me a lot of Michelle Kwan at times. No diss is intended to MK, but MM's eyes are looking a lot more Asian lately.
I am not perfect. I have made some whopper-sized mistakes in the romance department. Thankfully, I am a much stronger person than Harry seems to be, and I found my way out pretty quickly and permanently, but it would have been *much* harder if it had been global news every day and I'd drug my family into it and had a child from it (a child from whatever source, real or silicone) -- then, extrication would've been much, much more difficult. But Harry has a family that I do believe will help him if/when he wants out.
Megs could drop that doll off of London Bridge and her flying monkeys would find a way to blame it on everyone but Megs. The enablers are just as nuts as she is, and it appears that Harry is not strong enough, as Hikari points out along with Elle and others here. Normal people, including eccentrics like those in the royal family, want to believe in the best in people and when someone screws up, they want to give benefit of doubt. Narcissists are masters at manipulating and gaslighting to feed on benefit of doubt.
Meg's weakness is her insecurity and paranoia. Her clingy ways with Harry are a sure sign that she has a very shallow level of self confidence. That's what makes her so volatile towards anyone who crosses her. She will not go down gently or fade away. Oh no. She'll do all she can to make the loudest noise possible. Diana's exit was a mere whimper compared to the bang Megs will make when the time comes.
The only reason she's made it this far is because she's been able to rely on her basic acting abilities to pull it off. But acting takes constant ongoing refinement, honing and work. Now that she's away from other actors and isn't using a script, her mask is falling off a lot more and will continue to expose her NPD. It's getting harder and harder for her to be one of the characters she's portrayed.
I agree that when Harry is able to break away his family will be there for him. My hope is that the family has sense enough to have an NPD expert counsel him STAT so he doesn't have to go cold turkey like I did.
This is something that most will not consider in the PH/MM relationship. Soul ties. If you read the first paragraph, it exactly explains the dynamic between PH/MM. Not only does she use the sexual bond, but it explains her multiple "quickie"pre-marriage marriages. I strongly believe that PH/MM were somehow married before Christmas of 2017. That is why HMtQ was willing to let her come to the family gathering. http://www.greatbiblestudy.com/soulties.php
Markle is a whole other kettle of fish. I think she'll be infamous rather than famous when royal historians write about her. Sure she's not a nazi loving rumoured spy with a vagina with 'special abilities' learned in the Orient, but at her very least she represents the worst of contemporary society - shallow, entitled and egocentric.
Someone commented somewhere how wonderful it would be if Will Shakespeare was around to see this play out. What would he have made of Markle?
On a related note, new post at HarryMarkle.
Or.......?
One of the biggest issues with Meghan, I feel, is that she expected a team of dressers, hair stylists and make-up artists to come with the territory. The reality, however, is that she is a minor royal so has nobody. Kate has access to these people but only for special occasions, and only because of her status (in the pecking order).
Meghan appears at most events looking completely inappropriate (ball gowns when others are wearing smart day dress; unpressed garments; ill-fitting garments) - I sometimes do wonder if she receives her outfits at the very last minute and changes en-route to engagements.
Often on TV and film sets we'll have people arrive in a real state (read: just rolled out of bed), as we often have showers, etc., on site and they're going to be dressed and made up for their character anyway; I think this is a habit that Meghan has retained. Even though she played a minor role on Suits (and wouldn't have made anything like the amounts quoted in the press), she still would have had a team of people working on her each day on set, and I think she expected this to continue in her new role.
I think the constant murmurings about her 'guest editing' Vogue and the like are rubbish ... she has no style whatsoever and again, she's wanting to repliKATE to keep up with her in-laws. The reality is, no brand in their right mind would pick her as an ambassador as she's toxic. Her reputation is dire and I suspect the majority of her fans are either bots or paid PR.
I just found out that the reason Harry blew off his appearance for the marine memorial is because Disney donated over $1 million to their Sussex foundation? If that's true, merde is going to do more than hit the fan at BP. It's going to fly from London to Londonderry! And, if what another poster on another site is correct, this isn't the first time Harry has been a no show for a military memorial event! Now I could see it if his diary had a conflict with say, Lion King and a super market grand opening, but to bail on showing respect to fallen soldiers for $ from Disney? Are you kidding me? I sure hope BP has a come to Jesus meeting with these two and soon, very soon. If they pull a stunt like that again, the British public will be storming Frogcot with pikes, pitchforks and torches. I wonder if Frog Cot has an escape tunnel...
Plus, Kate, William and the kids were also invited to Lion King, but because Megs decided to give her mat leave a day off and go, so the Cambridges politely declined the invitation. WTF! I bet George and Charlotte would have loved to see Lion King. What kind of a messed up hooker does that to little kids?
Ann, I don't think the queen arranged for Diana's death. I think the queen's guilt comes from removing Diana's royal security detail. Read what royal security had to say about the Paris crash. Fully explains why she was left with no defenses.
There was an interesting comment on the previous post about the ploy at the polo match. Total manipulation.
Nutty, please stay safe and guarded at all times. I'm sure I don't need to tell you this, but do not under any circumstances give people your contact details even if they seem like the real deal and want to share secret stuff ... this is becoming extremely dangerous. Now Enty is talking of releasing all the names from Bohemian Grove which leaves me feeling very nervous for him.
Exactly, how much is too much? It's gotten really bad now with people saying they are done after QE goes.
The Bob Hope thing is from (AFAIK) a saying we have. "She's got two hopes and Bob Hope's dead.", the other being no hope. This got shortened to "She's got Bob Hope."
And I agree about her eyes. She is very puffed up. I suspect it's either a lot of fillers or she's managed to get up the spout (pregnant) by some miracle. I'm not one to comment much on people's weight (having struggled for many years), but she really does look more pregnant now than she ever did during the moonbump days. The puffiness doesn't look well on her and her eyes were narrow to begin with. She is defo giving of MK vibes.
But nobody has ever said they were on the same flight as her, nobody has noticed her out and about in Windsor. No sightseeing, no nipping into Boots for a forgotten face cream. No walking a borrowed Royal dog.
That's what I find weird. I don't get on with my Mum, she's a difficult woman at the best of times and her visits are short. But she's out and about.