The controversy over uber-environmentalist Meghan and Harry's private jet flights took another turn Thursday, when the Cambridge family was photographed emerging from a budget airliner on which they travelled to Scotland.
In what is being called a PR masterstroke, the Cambridges demolished the idea that the Sussexes were unable to travel commercial for security reasons.
(Although I'm guessing there was some additional security on that flight; I doubt the Royal Family would trust the lives of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th in line to the throne to some novice pilot who had just finished flight school. Military pilot in the cockpit?)
And drove the nail in a bit deeper that the Sussexes have apparently not been invited to visit the Queen and Prince Philip at Balmoral.
What do you think the Sussexes' response will be?
More testimonials from past-their-prime celebrities and no-name wedding guests, like Idras Elba's latest wife?
Showing another Archificial body part on Instagram?
Or something else entirely?
In what is being called a PR masterstroke, the Cambridges demolished the idea that the Sussexes were unable to travel commercial for security reasons.
(Although I'm guessing there was some additional security on that flight; I doubt the Royal Family would trust the lives of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th in line to the throne to some novice pilot who had just finished flight school. Military pilot in the cockpit?)
Vacationing at home
The Cambridge photo shoot also made clear that it is possible to take one's summer vacation in one's own Kingdom, instead of someone else's kingdom (or republic).And drove the nail in a bit deeper that the Sussexes have apparently not been invited to visit the Queen and Prince Philip at Balmoral.
What do you think the Sussexes' response will be?
More testimonials from past-their-prime celebrities and no-name wedding guests, like Idras Elba's latest wife?
Showing another Archificial body part on Instagram?
Or something else entirely?
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The anger about Meg and Harry reached the general public, so the Cambridges had to capitalize on that before it was eclipsed by other news.
Also, they might have been planning their vacation anyway - it is late August, and I would assume school starts soon. A week later might have meant a week less in Scotland.
A daughter, perhaps jointly named after Doris and Diana, but lovingly referred to as Dodi, for short.
My point is based on the belief that it's important for William and Kate to not be seen as as descending to Harry's and MM's level. They can be clever, do the PR stuff but need to avoid this tit for tat silliness. If William gets bogged down in this then he will also lose a lot of respect by being associated with all this.
Of course, it's difficult to know when that video was shot.
There may have been a larger canvas too - bad news about Andrew, bad news about Meg and Harry, while the Queen and Charles seem to be passive and absent.
Perhaps it was important to have a "good" royal story out there.
The difference being Kate and Wills like Diana herself do everything they can for their children to have a normal upbringing and part of that includes queing for McDonalds and flying with the general public.
I have to say, I do love it as it shows how incredibly foolish the Celebrity Stan Club of the $u$$ex are, making statements that with only a quick Google search would have informed them, were entirely false.
The better story is why haven’t the $u$$ex been invited to Balmoral as well.
I do wonder if some of this whole Private Jet vacations out of the country are a F-U to the family for not making MM's birthday wishes come true, and for not inviting them. Like hey, we're going to take our plastic son out and make some waves to add to the stress.
The cupcakes say "You are enough" "You are loved" "You are strong" "You are worthy" and "Be Kind to Yourself."
Much like the famous bananas.
I am not a therapist, but I would imagine that it would be more helpful to show the person how they are part of a larger community and how they can help others (including animals) and regain their confidence and self-worth that way.
Much more effective than a cupcake that says "You are worthy."
Poor Bea. She's supposedly already living with the guy and taking care of his baby while he works and the child's mother travels for work.
I guess we are dealing with a woman who acts like a small child at that.....
I think it was a "look at us, we are better than them, please love us" move from Cambridges, but if I were in their shoes, I would definitely do something like this. William is a future king, and while monarchy is still depends on UK budget, and huge crisis after leaving EU is coming, you need to prove your credibility. Nothing personal, Sussexes, you put yourselves in this position, well, by yourselves.
What should be the normal and serene repetitions of RF life are perceived by many as "gotcha" attacks. People who sugar/stan for Meghan see this as a racist PR manipulation on the part of Prince William (just look at the comments on a site like Celebitchy, which has thousands of readers). Now I think those commenters are nuts, but they seep into the atmosphere and create a narrative which well-meaning people without the willingness to dive into this craziness can believe. Is Prince William really that petty? Sure, it's possible, but more likely the photographers getting their picture this morning is a natural result of the heightened interest in RF modes of travel due to the behavior of, guess who, H&M themselves.
So William is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. If this flight was booked for ages it looks crazy to cancel in order not to make the Sussexes look bad: "What, they canceled because they think Meghan needs their protection? They think she's that weak? Racists!" If they had arranged other means of transport, the Meghan fans would cry "but why is it okay when the Cambridges do it? Everyone's racist!" If they proceed with these plans which they likely had all along, it is perceived as thumbing their nose at the Sussexes. And what's the response going to be? "They're petty, manipulative, they hate Meghan and Harry and [big surprise] they're racist!" Meghan and Harry's choices to be celebrity-preachers have thus eliminated the possibility of flying under the radar (pun intended) for the Cambridges, and dragged everyone into the spotlight.
I still can't read Meghan. Maybe I don't really want to; it's more fun to like people, and while I don't like her and think she's slightly malicious and emotionally manipulative, I want to think she is this way because she feels an almost pathetic hunger for love and attention. That said, the possibilities I see as most likely are: 1) she's a sad dummy who believes her own hype, in which case I feel sorry for her 2) she's mentally ill and I continue to feel sorry for her 3) she has a personality disorder and she needs to get treatment or 4) she's deliberately working an angle to undermine the RF. Whatever the reason, the outcome is that of 4, whether or not 4 is intentional. She's celebrifying the monarchy innocently or intentionally and everyone's behavior is now seen through that lens. Once the monarchy is just another cringe-inducing celebrity carousel it'll be eliminated. If PW wants to ascend to the throne for his own sake (and I hope he wants to for more than his own sake), he has to convince his father and the Queen to help him gently and quietly usher the Sussexes to the sidelines.
Every day this situation continues, with headlines like this, is a day the monarchy is tarnished. Even the admiring comments about PW undermine the monarchy by dragging it into a tit-for-tat tabloid spectacle. Why can't they see this?!
William and Catherine are the future of the monarchy and can and should take the high road. Only Smeaghan lies awake lies concocting plots for ultimate b!tch factor. The Cambridges will do maximum damage to the Duma$$ duo by simply carrying on with their normal lives and duties with class and dignity and being their smiling and engaging selves. I'd be really disappointed if W. and C. felt the need to stoop to the Duma$$es' low and tacky level.
I am sure it has become imperative in the Lord G. war room that Something Has Got to Be Done and very soon, to neutralize the Gorgon that the Duma$$es have become. Every single outing and utterance from the DipsoDuo just gets worse and worse and more flagrantly greedy and disrespectful to the Queen and the entire institution.
With these rumors of Megs cooking up a second silicone baby already percolating--and Master Fauxchie only 3 months old, the crisis is at the tipping point and it's very real.
If, God forbid, she is either now or manages to soon be, pregnant with her own baby, or obtain another one somehow, what does she propose to do about 'Archie'? It's not like people are just going to entirely forget about that inconvenient little guy if she manages to get her clutches on a real infant she's able to keep.
Irish twins are possible, of course . . but if she presents the world with a new infant before Archie is near upon his first birthday, that timing is going to be hard to explain, unless she claims that the new baby was very, very 'premature'. People are then going to want to see 'both' of her children, so that solves nothing re. the Archie Dilemma.
This woman is never going to stop until she is stopped.
It occurs to me that actually the Duma$$es should be encouraged to take as many small private planes as they like. Cessnas and that class are notoriously prone to crashes which do not befall the larger and sturdier commercial aircraft. Perhaps if Meghan and Harry saw the sobering and very lengthy list of celebrities killed in small plane crashes, it would motivate them to change their mode of travel in a way their faux concern for the environment does not.
You've made the same connection as I have but in a far more detailed and understandable fashion! Yes, William getting bogged down in this either by accident or design is definitely not good.
On a side note I was chatting to my fiance who isn't into this stuff and we both agreed that the most likely outcome of all this is that MM will live abroad/in the US with Harry. It's all being set up very nicely for it (oh the bullying) while it allows both him and her to monetise their royal celeb status in the US and elsewhere far more than they can here.
I do think it is significant that for the second year in a row the Dumbarton's are not invited to Balmoral. I wonder why? ROFL.
I'll add this here as well: the reason that I admire Kate so much is because she was 19-ish when she started dating William. She has been in the media spotlight for all of this time, and of course, she has made some missteps, but I think she still handled it very well, much better than most of us could have at that age. I cannot imagine knowing that everything I said, every place I went, someone was watching. The fact that she has been able to handle it with such grace and learn and grow says much more to me than if she were just picture perfect all of the time. I wish I could behave so well now, and her ability to shrug off the criticism, learn from it, and remain gracious is actually inspiring to me.
When I see the criticism about her, it seems so wrong IMO. I think that there are several reasons the public has grown to appreciate her so much over the past couple of years, not just because of the markle's tawdriness. Kate has behaved with grace in some truly difficult situations. They have a lovely family. She stays out of the limelight and supports the BRF. She doesn't dress like a stripper. Her wardrobe malfunctions were unintentional (versus the markle's unbuttoned blouse and transparent skirt, etc.). Certainly, markle helped to shine a light on Kate's grace, but I think that the public would have grown to admire her anyway.
So, had to say that. I'm certainly not a stan and I never go to Twitter or even DM to comment, but I just wanted to respond with my thoughts after considering a conversation from another post. Now, off to tweak my Crack Baby recipe...
It's not a PR stunt and what else would they have done? There are only a few non-magical ways to get to Balmoral (PJ, commercial flight, drive, maybe train?) so unless they canceled entirely, the Cambridges had to get to Balmoral using some mode of transportation. Obvi, Louis is just too young to travel via Floo Network and the children cannot travel by apparition at their ages, and even if they could, splicing concerns should override that choice. So, the Cambridges flew commercial and the Dumbarton fans are just going to have to stew in their own bitter and deluded juices.
With almost a decade of married life under their belt, the fruit seems to have come through: they're exactly what future monarchs should be in a time dominated by rapid change. They're reliable, quiet, family-oriented, predictable, and homey. I mean this in the nicest way possible as she is absolutely stunning and has never, ever gotten her due. How on earth have people managed to find things to attack her for, considering how unbelievably ridiculous most of her in-laws are? Everyone in the world has projected their own issues on to her (I do it too!), and she continues to float on, carrying her kids about casually but with impeccable taste in clothing, loving her family, laughing gracefully, and offering us something nice and peaceful to read about on our lunch break. No, I don't want to live in a world with a pseudo-aristocracy dominated by Mark Zuckerberg wearing the same darn t-shirt everyday and monitoring every word I type online. William and Kate represent something important, and it would be more tragic to lose the monarchy than most people can imagine, no matter how much we're encouraged to be spiteful online.
It's a shame that, as you point out, it's taken Meghan's Stans to show people how bizarre the hatred of Kate has been, and it's taken Meghan's petty actions ("boastful" Vogue covers, anyone?) to remind us how much Kate has endured and had to keep silent about. She should be celebrated for who she is and not who we're glad she's not, but at least the heat has been taken off her to some degree. Those who hated her before, though, hate her more than ever.
You know, the fact that William didn't want to commit to her always made me roll my eyes, too. They were SO young! I know that works for some people, but for most of us, we need to have fun and mature a bit. I loved my long-term college boyfriend like crazy, but I still dated other guys (no, that did not go over well, but long story...) and when he pseudo-proposed I pseudo-pretended not to hear it because even though I worshiped him and he would have been the right person later, I was not mature enough to marry ANYONE. I don't think that made me a bad person and I don't think it made William one, either. Ultimately, he figured it out and I think they're exactly what you describe and I love them for the reasons you describe. In a world of chaos and tackiness, W&K&Fam represent stability, predictability, and yes, they're homey. Besides, Louis is so adorable they get bonus points just for him!
I just did an internet search to see if Latham resigned. Nothing came up. Wouldn't that be something if it were true?
Also, I think the Wills and Kate story of today was either a master move by LG or the press went ahead and fed the narrative. Maybe a little of each? Both could have occurred unbeknownst to the Cambridges.
I believe that the press was on alert anyway, but I would like to believe Lord G was the tipping point. I also *do not* believe the silence from BP bodes well for the Dumbartons. Now it's hard to tell who is pouring the poison into the brew - just the way I'd want it lol.
Did they resign or bounce to another Sussex Cash Suck?
I really hope someone offers Meghan a huge role in some Avengers movie and Harry can be made a UN goodwill ambassador, the RF can celebrate their "accomplishments," strip them of their titles and holdings, and send them off to LA. It'd be irritating for those of us who think Meghan faked her pregnancy and don't like her sugars, but it's a toxic climate these days and the last thing anyone needs is more grist for the outrage mill.
TOO funny that you "pseudo-pretended not to hear." It sounds like something out of a cute sitcom!
The tide is turning and it pains me to see Harry learn so brutally that you reap what you sow, but it is a painful lesson we all must learn.
Stay tuned y’all because I think the Megdusa has just literally booked her PJ flight out of the House of Windsor.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7383609/Meghan-Markle-shines-spotlight-sustainable-grassroots-bakery.html
Like Stuart Smalley "Gosh Darnit you are good enough" from SNL but with cupcakes.
Holy crap, how pathetic.
Kaiser always goes on and on about how lazy W & K are, forgetting that Charles is the Heir Apparent not William and it is by QEII express wishes that William and Kate focus on their children and Family life, instead of full time Royal Engagements.
HMTQ has often stated that her time in Malta with her young children, before she became Queen are some of her happiest memories and that she wanted that for as long as possible for the Cambridge’s.
I hope I'm not late for the Southern GTFO party. Let me offer some sweet tea and a small parcel of cookies to help her on her way.
(there, there, left hand to throat. sigh. such excitement). walking away smiling while wearing my heels and pearls.
That meme of Sally Field at the Oscars that was mentioned recently was spot on. Only, in MM's case most people really dis-like her. Someone like MM cannot handle the massive disapprobation she has received. She must believe that everybody loves her.
I am wondering if, in addition to the Narcissistic Personality Disorder, we may be seeing Multiple Personality Disorder, too? Perhaps she is creating/manifesting multiple personalities to protect her fragile psyche and handle the stress. That's how she is able to blow off the criticisms and move on to the next self aggrandizing project.
Consider the Personality disconnects we have witnessed: the Trollop/the Tempestuous Tantrum Thrower/the Tumultuous Toddler, who thinks nothing of gatecrashing and the childish behavior n inappropriate touching. Which was the latest savoir faire (not) dished up for the public re: the charity photo shoot. OMG! The uncomfortable looks on those women's faces! Couldn't wait to get away from those clingy hands!
You're right, I think that the reaction of some of their fans attempting to absolve Harry/MM of the blatant hypocrisy of the private jet travel issue shows that they have enough useful idiots to really harm the Royal Family. Like you say, their move abroad is a matter of 'when' and not 'if'.
Question for you, if MM did take acting roles/paid roles would she have to relinquish her titles? And the same with Harry in any roving ambassador work if any part of it touched on a more partisan political viewpoint? I don't know what the rules/etiquette is for this. I can't imagine MM could keep a title if doing commercial work...
@AbbyH - and I said ever-so-sweetly, "I do hope the "Duchess" knows how we feel about her, don't you?"
I wonder why the Sucx Foundation is taking such a long time to register as a non profit?
Watching this royal soap cack makes me no longer miss All My Children as much.
Let's face it: Unless Smegs uses an embryo she and Haz had already put together last year while the 'love bombing' phase was still in operation, that's the only way she's going to have his baby. Flying together in a posh tin can to Elton John's house was the closest in proximity they've been while allegedly in private. I don't think he can bear the sight of her for one extraneous minute when cameras aren't snapping away. All indications are they they are living apart, and I'm d@mn sure he doesn't want to see that naked anymore. He's not doing any husbandly duties by the Toxic Trollop anymore, if he ever did. This might have been a business/beard arrangement from the off. I don't think Haz is gay, actually. But he looked well over her at the Inskip wedding and that was more than a year before the marriage. Maybe in the time honored aristocratic tradition it's been separate bedrooms from Day i.
Releasing the private plane stuff on M & H certainly helped with PA press but it kind took on a life of its own in terms of igniting anger towards them.
What do I think the response will be?
Um, napalm? And fairly soon. She understands the basics of a long game ... except when angry (exhibit A: Polo visit).
I'm also thinking that some of the mental health issue comments might be in play. There is a part of me which thinks that may be the ultimate showstopper for her.
Elle:
we smile, glance over and catch each other's side eye
Southern charm slices thin cuts but with a smile and a sweet tea on tea on the side.
"I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!"
If I ever need help in taking someone out, I'm gonna hire myself a Southern woman to do the job. The body will never be found. It will have been dissolved in a vat of sweet tea with lemon and that gumbo fed to the gators. All while impeccably accessorized and not a hair out of place. :p
I respect you Southern ladies a lot . . seems like in the South you adhere to time-honored traditions of court intrigue which we have dispensed with in the North since we are always in such a big fat hurry. The long slow drip of revenge, like molasses, is an art form down South.
Which is why I hope you'll forgive one disagreement with your above. Namely, Smeagan categorically does not understand the basics of a long game. She's too impulsive, too impatient, too immature. Like a greedy child, she requires instant gratification. She uses a bludgeon, not a stiletto. I suspect that at least half of the drivel pouring forth from her Sussex Royal account and various items she insists that her paid sugar outlets print about her and her activities are dreamt up while she's three sheets to the wind or high on something. They seem like really good ideas at 3AM while sipping the Tig out of Harry's skull, but in the cold light of day, they are shown for the nonsensical crap they are and are immediately contradicted by another PR release that says the opposite.
A need for incessant drama around oneself is a hallmark of the Narcissist. They do not feel alive unless they are creating confusion, chaos and a trail of wounded, bleeding, crying victims.
The whole Archie Experiment is, I'd say, proof positive that Meghan is incapable of thinking in terms of a long game. She is completely reactionary and makes these big splashy very public actions and statements without thinking the consequences through. She can't really think that far ahead--all she sees is the attention she's going to get immediately for whatever her latest prank is.
Harry sat through his cousin's wedding looking like a condemned man. He didn't want this. Megs ignored him entirely and carried on. But immediately afterwards, they're on a plane to Australia and Smegs realizes, belatedly that she's just announced to the whole world that she's into her second trimester of pregnancy and now she can't be seen ordering alcoholic drinks for the entire length of the tour. D@mn, she hadn't thought of that; it was hard enough passing up the champers at Gene's 'do, especially since she felt like validating herself so much with a little toast.
So the only alternative was to send Harry off to meet the native peoples by himself while she stayed behind in their luxury suite emptying the mini bar while claiming 'morning sickness'. He could always be blamed for the empty mini bar.
So confident was Smegs of her invincibility, she didn't even bother to make Bump look convincing most of the time. Did she ever give a moment's thought to what might possibly go wrong with her scheme? That the surrogate might miscarry? That she might decide to keep the baby? I don't think she could've. A more forward-thinking person would have considered these things and decided it was too risky.
She may be gearing up to do it again. Really, I don't see evidence that she's capable of learning from her mistakes. For that to happen, she'd have to have the capacity for acknowledging that she could be wrong, and that is not something her psyche can entertain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h19s7m4aSc
That Moroccan reporter summed it up: She's repugnant.
As long as money talks and she can pay for media exposure, she's never going away.
I sometimes worry that Harry, complicit as he is right now, is going to crack one of these days and hurt himself in despondency. Or somebody goes postal on both of them. This is really getting bad.
no baby or infant items have ever been seen delivered to Frogmore Cottage by journalists who are watching it like hawks.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/08/by-royal-disappointment-meghan-and-harrys-behaviour-is-undermining-the-monarchy/
I am so sorry that this whole mess is happening. Harry was great when he was the third wheel with the Cambridges, fun, contributing, hardworking royal. Now its just misstep after misstep with his wife. I really hope that he and William can mend fences because I dont like where this is heading....
Oh, and the other thing I forgot: my guess is that there will be some sort of announcement from her at the next wedding. Something which will flip a lot of focus, talk and cameras again towards her.
https://66.media.tumblr.com/d44c3334ea05e1b65bc717c25b5fa8c9/b45806643443b959-07/s1280x1920/e99966cff622d0b487d824435cfdbb9e9ff663c8.png
There is one really bad thing about having Southern manners when others don't know the rules. Best example I can give you: the lunch invitation. If I am talking to my friends, for example, and we're planning the fun lunch and someone we loathe walks up (Satan's Bride, we'll call her), we cannot say "You can't sit with us at lunch." Oh, no, we cannot say that. The Southerner in me feels the need to offer the invitation to Satan's Bride even though we'd all rather stab our own eyes out with plastic utensils rather than have lunch with Satan's Bride. All goes well in the South, because Satan's Bride knows that it is a fake invitation and her line is "you know how much I'd love to go, but I just can't, but thank you so much for asking!". What that really means is "I'd rather die than be seen with you bishes and you'd rather stab your own eyes out with plastic utensils rather than have lunch with me, but at least we all have nice manners, though I hope you all choke."
Just be warned, there is some unfortunate blowback of good Southern manners. Be careful what you wish for. But if you *do* need to do anyone in, we can probably come up with a pleasant option for you or at least help you decide how to accessorize :)
@KayeC, I am with you on that. I was appalled that she would behave that way. I could never behave myself well enough to marry into the BRF, but that is exactly why I would never do it. It's just so ticky-tacky-poor-breeding petty that she thought she was going to go in and "revolutionize" the BRF. That's like going to someone's house and rearranging the furniture, but on a much more offensive scale. Who made her the arbiter of good taste and behavior? That was so offensive to me and then Oprah getting all proud about it? Puh-lease-effing-puh-lease. I just could not and I just cannot.
Tradition is why we love some things. Markle isn't modern, she's just uncouth and there is a world of difference between the two. SMH.
Altogether different note: if you missed the video of Charlotte smoothing her hair a la Kate, you missed the best part of all of this mess.
Let's see, $3M for Frogmore that's 15% right there.
Another $1M for the former(?) prostitute's clothes, that's 5%
So, 20% and that didn't even require me to do any research, so you know it's more than that.
".I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and dog gone it people like me."
And quite rightfully so. Ever since she has been hired, the madness has only increased. We know that most of these PR nightmare ideas probably come from MM directly, but Sara had been hired for a purpose. And she seems to have failed at that. And after the week they have had, PR wise, some major overhauling had to happen.
Not that the sacking is going to change much in terms of public perception. The tide has turned, and unless they actually turn over a new leaf, hold a press conference, allow a photo of with the baby and somewhat explain why the past months have been a huge misunderstanding, their situation won't change much.
In my opinion, it seems like the Cambridge's already had their holiday plans made and just went ahead with it. Yes the optics of it all look good and maybe even a tad bit deliberate. But you can't blame them for it.
It's not like Will sits in mansion seething and scheming of ways to harm the Sussexes. It's like that someone from their team said you might be photographed at the airport today, and he said ok fine, doesn't matter. It didn't even have to be orchestrated, and that's the best part of it. They could have known, or not know, it doesn't matter either ways. The Cambridge's didn't have to go out of their way.
Also, after the numerous slander stories that apparently the Sussexes have put out against the Cambridge family, it's all fair game now. And all they are doing is showing the world how normal and down to earth they are, without dragging anyone else down.
A perfect Mic-drop , must say.
MM sure does love her food messages, doesn't she!
I don’t think this was a spur of the moment thing, so it’s not as petty as everyone seems to be assuming. Just really fortunate/unfortunate timing (depending on your view).
I agree, the Luminery bakery and their products are good, but now there is just too much hype around it. They have always employeed these women, so the social angle of their story is known. It's a good cause. But then again, so many places, for years have done the same. And it's not like it's the best bakery in all of London, although their products and services are good, but not the bestestest.
Also, the message on the cupcakes.... That seems to be only for the purpose of this photoshoot. Because frankly, noone like their cupcakes with inspiration messages on them! Even if they are depressed, or down on their luck or facing the worst of humanity and luck... You would want to know and believe that you are awesome/beautiful/the times will change....but you don't what that written on your cupcake. That's condescending to say the least.
Also, at this point it's beginning to seem like she is promoting the charities/businesses that we're highlighted in Vogue. So just more publicity for the Vogue issue... She has a lot of other charities to support, even if she has been on a mat leave there are still other patronages which she seems to have forgotten about. There are Harry's causes and patronages which are not being highlighted on their Ig page. Now it just seems like all she cares about is giving people a fashion makeover (again, condescending) and eating cake. If this doesn't draw parallels to Marie Antoinette, then what else will.
Now all that remains is the next IG story showing her eating these said banana cupcakes/publishing the recipe/making them, squashing rip bananas herself.....and secrectly putting her hopefilled, buttercream slathered banana cupcakes cakes in a box of 6 ...an suspecting client opening the box and the perfect tear roll caught on camera as MM jumps out from behind the counter with a Booooo!
(With her crazy hair, organic British Made linen shirt, 12 inch heels, flashing her bleached veneer manic smile)
So, if you ever get tired of pearls, pretty dresses and high heels on a daily basis, you can come join me attired tastelessly in blue jeans and muddy boots in the shade on the porch sipping my sweet tea which may or may not have a little (or a lot) of moonshine (home-brewed tax free unaged whiskey) added. My dear sweet husband would tell you that alcohol does not pass my lips but I have had an enormous amount of sweet tea.
Make no mistake, there are dresses and high heels in the closet for weddings and funerals, but my daughter has borrowed my pearls and never returned them. Hmmm. She's also borrowed all of my turquoise and never returned it, either. She said something about the emeralds, but I told her that I intended to be buried in those. She said that she'd be at that cemetery the next day with a shovel.
If the BRF can't discredit Smegs enough to pry her out of their midst, perhaps the Inland Revenue and the IRS will be more ruthless in doing so. That's how they got Capone.
I love your next IG ideas about the Cac Cakes (Cac is gaelic word for crap/merde, pronounced Kack). "Let them eat cac!"
All this Southern Belle with Swampwoman and Elle and racial talk of late, including the new hire news today for the Suxxex PR has me thinking about the book, "The Help". Maybe we can encourage Megs to add sweet potato pie to her baking repertoire.
It's like Meg's PR gave the poor women a shovel to dig a deeper hole for themselves as she hovers above it as they dig, while being offered bananas and inspirational cupcakes with phrases like, "Keep digging!"
LOL . . too funny!
Maybe you could revise your statement to: "I intend to be laid out with my emeralds, so that everyone can see me appropriately accessorized for my meeting with my Maker. After everybody goes home, you can have the emeralds but you're going to have to pry them off my cold, dead body, so have at it."
I think it's a shame for beautiful jewelry to go into the ground. Worms have no use for emeralds. Although that doesn't explain Smeagan's pathological attachment to them . . get it, 'cause she's the wormiest see you en tea that ever came down the pike. She wears green all the time, probably because Kate looks so great in it. Smegs does not look good in green or anything else she wears, frankly.
I was born and raised in the Midwest and unlike the brash Northeast or the laid back WC with its hippie aesthetic, there are deep pockets of the Midwest that are quite Southern-like. Maybe not so much now, but anybody raised pre-1990 would have been trained to change the sheets weekly; change out the home decor for all major seasons/holidays, always wear pantihose to church and never wear white shoes after Labor Day. My mother was very proper and wouldn't say 'poo' if her mouth was full of it. Midwesterners are also known for our proclivity to apologize as a social lubricant.
I would be disqualified for membership in the Southern belles club owing to the fact that I hate sweet tea and pecan pie and am only marginally more fond of barbecue. Sorry! But I have read 'Gone With the Wind', which is a lot better than the movie. And I had a roommate freshman year at college from Baltimore (outer ring South) . . because she called every type of carbonated beverage Coke.
Scene: freshman dorm, 2nd day of freshman week at a small college in PA
T: I'm going to the vending machine. What kind of Coke do you want?
Me: . . Uh . . .Diet?
I think she called the water fountain a bubbler as well, if memory serves. Otherwise she dressed preppy and wore a lot of turtlenecks. With pearls and Ralph Lauren perfume. More a corduroys girl though, than dresses.
That is the creepiest F-in thing I have ever read. Who does she think she is, the Emperor of Edo Japan? Back in the 17th and 18th centuries, peasants could be summarily beheaded for daring to look a nobleman in the eye. That's why the Japanese people to this day find direct eye contact with superiors nearly impossible to sustain.
Well, this is a Napoleon complex plain and simple. Also, she doesn't want people looking into her eyes and seeing the batshit merde within. Insofar as MM can be self-conscious, she's had it pointed out to her in the past that there's something wrong with her eyes . . that that are cold, dead, manic, what have you.
It's because in the word of Roman Castavet in Rosemary's Baby, she's got her Father's eyes, innit, and I'm not speaking of Thomas Markle. Her *real* Father.
It was also opined that, with the USA election season upcoming, SL would be back in the states. Although, I do not see why that might preclude her being on the SF board. Aren't CEO's of businesses on charity boards all the time without a conflict of interest. My best guess is a lack of funds and funny business are the real reasons for the resignations. Revolving door Megs; changes her staff as often as she changes her personalities.
Harry must be dipping into his trust fund. I see no other way for them to afford a California-priced house.
And yeah, once Harry got a good look at what was under the hood, I seriously doubt he is interested in taking that for another drive around the block. Even his body language at Skippy's wedding indicates he is being put upon and not liking it.
However, now that we know she was stalking rich Brits waaay before the Faux Fairy Tale story, if he had unprotected sex, samples could have been gathered as far back as before the breakup.
Chalk this up to a vivid imagination, but once a sample(s) was procured (in the truest sense of the word), not only could it be used for faux pregnancy, or IVF that was stored, but in terms of blackmail, one could be threatened that that sample would be used as (planted) evidence to implicate the subject in a heinous offense or perversion. Strictly hypothetical and does not apply to any person living or dead.
But if it was a surrogate referral, why would Harry and Meghan have to be there in person?
I just hope they're not trying to pick up a real baby to fill the role of "Archie".
Adopting a newborn is one thing, but taking an increasingly older baby away from whatever family he has known is disturbing.
Campbell may have realized along the way that the Sussex Foundation wasn't going to be a real charity, but a slush fund for Meg, and stepped back to protect her own career. She's a young woman who could have a big future ahead of her.
Slush funds wouldn't really bother Sara Latham, who was probably hired in part because of her experience at the Clinton Foundation.
I have (fortunately) seen very few parents of newborns who are as disinterested as Harry and Meghan seem to be.
Harry's always going off on dumb trips, and she's using her "maternity leave" to do a lot of projects that have nothing to do with babies and a lot to do with the world of fashion and celebrities.
Also, the Internet is forever. Many of us have had difficult moments and been able to work our way back into a better place.
Those women appear to be in their 30s and 40s - if they're in a managerial or public role a decade or so from now, do they really want it online that they were so poor they had to wear a charity suit to an interview?
She is speed crashing through all the money making spawns that she has observed that have made other celebrity women wealth: clothing lines, perfume, shoes, books, appearances for hire, charitable foundations, etc., all in one fell swoop bc she is greedy and she senses that time is short for her before she is kicked to the curb.
Fell is the operative word, as in dire, devious, false, poisonous, bc she does not have the star power nor the creative contacts to achieve what the other women did. Association with her is the death knell and final affirmation that one is a failure and a has been in their field of celebrity. She will go down in history as a small footnote delineating a never was and never will be.
The first nanny was fired within a week for 'being unprofessional'. Let's just say 'unprofessional' is Meg-code for: "'So nosy she discovered the hiding place for my drugs while she was scrubbing the floor with her toothbrush." Or something like that.
And as for this "laid-back WC with its hippie aesthetic".... hahahaha no, we're just more casual. Few of us are anything near hippie. I mean, the millenials are all flannel and drinking out of jars, but I mean normal people. I'd say it's more like "preppy and wore a lot of turtlenecks. With pearls and Ralph Lauren perfume. More a corduroys girl though, than dresses." And I actually do keep a tray of perfume in my fridge and yes, I do have a bottle of vintage Ralph.
Also, these are not disqualifiers: sweet tea, pecan pie, and barbecue. That's a lot of TX thrown in there. I do not drink sweet tea, do love pecan pie, and never on BBQ (vegetarian). So, see, you can still be invited to lunch.
I also lived in the Midwest right out of the South. It's a very different kind of rules and proper. Much more practical and sensible and down-to-earth. Also, unfriendly (sorry, nice, but not friendly like in the South). It's Lutheran vs. Episcopalian, and you would have to read "Being Dead is No Excuse" to appreciate that statement lol.
Of course, I think all of us are trained to change the sheets weekly. When I said "change the linens", I meant that I have full sets of seasonal linens. So, for example, the light summer linens will go away soon (Labor Day weekend) and Fall will come out, then at some point, I will get into the holiday spirit and change everything again (no, not red and green figural lol), then in January, I will do straight up winter because it will be cold up here, and then Spring! Late February / early March means the floral comes out! True, over a comforter, but floral all the same. That makes it thru spring, and then April-ish I change to heavy summer, and then July-ish, light summer. So, you can see why my friends' eyes rolled back in their heads. The same is true for kitchen and dining. I remember the first time my friends in the midwest saw me doing this and were shocked that a person had to change shower curtains for the season lol. Bit obsessive, and I'm the casual one in the fam. However, in the bathroom, though I might change some things, I pretty much use plain linen which is all seasons (gotta be practical lol).
Rumor on twitter is that SL is back onboard with HRC, bc HRC is expecting to enter the 2020 Dem race either for the POTUS or VP slot.
That said, unlike Meghan, Doria could probably get people to buy what she's wearing. She's been well-styled and looks graceful.
Actually, I'm surprised Oprah and Gayle haven't made more use of her. She seems like an obvious feature for Oprah's magazine - looking fabulous at 65, or however old she is.
And now Markle is doing clothing lines and selling her underwear on Meghan's Mirror while yelling at the Governor General's wife to fuck off. Is this how low we've descended? To "modernize" the monarchy?
Okay, that is the point where I would have to raise my hand and say,
"You know what honey, I won't look you in the eyes, but not because I'm following your rules and sure as hell not as a matter of respect. I won't look you in the eyes because then you'd see the contempt I feel for you. You are an uncouth former yacht whore. You are trashy, tacky, vainglorious, insipid, manipulative, unkind, and wholly unoriginal, and I'd go on, but I don't want to be rude.
You are in this position because of time you spent on your back, knees, and stomach with some truly unsavory men, and you've done nothing of consequence and you have a vacuous mind and toxic heart and no soul.
So, I'm happy not to cast my gaze upon you for the same reasons that HMTQ refused to look at you during the Investiture Celebration for Charles -- you are unworthy and I have nothing but contempt and disdain for your skankiness (I think that's the "modern" word for "cheap whore", right?).
And then, I would happily follow her rules (and hopefully, be thrown out of that farce altogether because I just could not, would not!).
History has a way of repeating itself, i.e.,Edward and Wallace. The PTB back in the day were recruiting them in an effort to propagandize to undermine the British way of life and demoralize the populous to gain their surrender.
This current scenario is beginning to appear to be a rinse/repeat of the prior generation. The solution for the Windsors in the 30's was demotion and isolation. What worked then will work now for the survival of the monarchy and the UK. However, time is of the essence.
If PH draws back from what is planned for him, there may still be salvation for him. The more firmly mired he becomes in the machinations, the more difficult that will be. I truly do hope he is staying at NottCott and may be coming back under his brother's influence bc of proximity alone...and, please God, let there be orders at the gate that she cannot set foot on the premises.
My guess would be that Markle wants to sign her own checks and can do. I hope that Lord G is onto that...
She was definitely high. She acted just as hysterical and hunching over and manic as she did during the baseball game that she crashed. She's probably convinced of her own sublime acting skill in being able to hide the signs of her drug use, but impaired people always think they are not as obvious as they in fact are. I think it's just a super diva b!tch move on her part. Because she can, in short. Forbidding any but preselected people to touch you or even look you in the face is at odds with being a warm and caring humanitarian, innit.
I wonder how the women were preselected for the honor of getting a hug from Her Royal Ho-ness? What criteria were used? Another clusterf* compliments of the Duma$$ Diva.
Her ineptitude with social interactions and appropriate body language/boundaries/eye contact (though if you're a camera she has zero problem making contact with you) does sound like autism traits, but I'd rule out ASD for a few reasons. 1. ASD people have great difficulty in telling lies. Their impulse is always to tell the truth, because they lack the layers of awareness that other kids pick up on that deception can be used for personal gain or sport. 2. Related to #1, ASD people derive great comfort from a system of rules and procedures--it helps them navigate their often incomprehensible world. If they are taught something is a rule, they will cling to that rule like a life preserver and get very upset when rules are changed or broken. They need the stability of rules to function and wouldn't dream of purposely breaking them so cavalierly as Smegs does. 3. The things that motivate Smegs are not of interest to ASD people, generally . . Money, status, fame, designer fashions, constantly having her picture taken and being talked about and envied . . all of these things are funneled through the lens of being looked at by others. Smeg does not feel she exists unless she is the subject of all eyes and lips. This would be hell for an ASD person. In the main they are retiring by nature . . don't like crowds or noise or being put on the spot, giving speeches, etc. Their nervous systems can't take that kind of stress. They have active interior lives and what other people think of them or if they are dressed fashionably is if very little, if any concern. If they take pride in their style, it's going to be resolutely *theirs* and not some designer label worn in the fashion magazines. Their locus is internal, not external. They are not wired up to impress people with litanies of fake accomplishments. None of this is our Megsie.
Her narcissism would create many of the same behaviors that mimic ASD. I just don't think of ASD folks as materialistic, vain and self-promotional as a rule. All of those are seeking approval/status from others.
I really do think it's going to be the shenanigans around Archie that are going to bring her down, not the private jets or the jewelry or the merching or editing stupid magazines. If she tries the surrogate stunt again, she really is insane because the RF is onto her this time.
Upon his return to London, a public reconciliation with his brother. He needs regular appointments with a therapist, too, to get to the bottom of why he has these self-destructive tendencies.
I have a family member who has an autistic young adult and I just spent most of 2 weeks with them (and have spent chunks of time with them in the past) with tight quarters.
Kid is fairly high functioning - meaning you can have conversations but certain topics go on for longer and are repeated multiple times a day. There is a tiny amount of residual flapping. Doesn't like crowds is true (I was kicked out of the living room and I was the only other person in there). Most meals are not at our table (more of breeze by or when there are fewer sitting there).
I'm Lutheran. I suppose Episcopalian potlucks are super fancy with matching seasonal potholders and not so much reliance on cream of mushroom soup.
I've known lots of Midwestern women totally into seasonal decorating/linen changes and wall art, too. That's why the LTD catalog was invented. I purchased several seasonal shower curtains but can't actually muster the energy to get up on the step ladder and change that out. The one up now is probably 7, 8 years old and it's getting very gnarly by now.
With the current minimalist craze that much home decor is passe now . . but I suppose the South is resisting being Marie Kondo'ed? No tiny houses?
I do like iced tea, with mint or lemon. I just can't do sugar because it alters the taste into a flat tea soda. Make me a mint julep and I'll be your friend for life. But I look like hell in pastels, and hats. I do have a string of very nice faux pearls that I got as a high school graduation gift. And I adore pecans--just not in a pie. I prefer mine straight out of the bag or else in chocolate chip cookies.
As for Ms. Latham, the fact that she was able to work for Hillary Clinton tells me a lot of things about her character, and none of that is good. Let's just say that no morals and a lot of flexibility about legality (and lack thereof) would be required of an insider.
It would be very interesting if HRC were intended to run again. HRC's health was not up to the rigors of campaigning last time, and she's older now. Then there's the painting that Epstein had hanging in his house in New York of Bill dressed in Hillary's blue gown with the red eff me pumps on his feet lounging in a chair.
Interesting times. Smegs might be officially done before the end of the year.
I'm not explaining it very well, but I just googled LTD catalog and that's not what I mean. If you walked into my apt, you would never look at it and see a season - it's definitely understated - but I'm sorry, I'm not going to have aqua floral on my bed in January whereas many of my friends DGI. But it's nothing like that obvious stuff that screams HALLOWEEN, for example, though I do know some who do that. I am definitely not one of them.
I like my tea that same way. No sugar. And I even know how to make an emergency mint julep (college Derby Day), so now we are friends for life. And no worry re pastels. I don't wear them either and many prefer jewel tones. But let's not get into the pearls lol as that's an entire blog post by itself :)
Tiny houses are quite the thing here, and I'd love to have one personally. I am actually doing early Swedish death cleaning and sharing things with my young friends who are just starting out because really, I do not now and will never need three sets of crystal glasses. Ditto for china. And while the minimalist craze has happened, people still have to eat and drink and I like to remind them that they may as well eat and drink out of nice things that will last a lifetime and not require constant replacement for trendiness. I'm raising them up right lol.
It may take more than a year for PH to heal his battered psyche, but I can envision a restoration/reconciliation in his future.
Even if the plebs in horrorwood grinch about how MM was treated, nobody is listening. The US public is turning its back on the so called celebrities. They ruined themselves with getting into politics and hypocritical pontificating on life styles. Gee, does that sound familiar!
Besides, they will be scattering like hens from a swooping hawk from the impact of investigations into illegal/ immoral behavior a la the Epstein Files.
@Hikari: "That's true . . . but Smegs has really lost her looks since she 'gave birth'. She's just so unappealing on every level.
People have sex every day with those whom haven't kept their looks. It's called marriage lol (not dissing marriage, just saying it isn't based on hotness, and lost of people having sex aren't particularly attractive)
"But then, I'm not a guy. Having sex with someone who inspires contempt and loathing is a compartmentalization I can't wrap my head around."
I'm not either. My point in this is that in LTRs and marriages, sometimes you love the person without liking them very much at times and you still have sex. Sometimes you like them and don't love them, and you still have sex. Sometimes you don't like and/or love them and you don't have sex. The point is that LTRs and marriages are cycles, most aren't even-keel feelings and most people still have sex in the marriage. Some do not. Some cheat for extra sex. Some are getting plenty of sex and still cheat. I personally cannot stay in relationships like that because contempt/loathing pretty much kill any desire I have to remain. That same is not true for everyone, and I have seen some really contemptuous/loathing/passionate relationships continue far past the healthy 'use by' date. People are different, and just because Mrs. Dumbarton isn't as attractive as pre-baby, this does not mean PH stopped having sex with her.
Your remarks above cover a wide range of scenarios in marriage . . . a wide range of the normal, that is. At the beginning of this sh*tshow, I was willing to accept that Harry was genuinely in love with this person known as Markle. I now must use the term 'person' rather loosely because she seems entirely lacking in any sort of basic humanity which is common to us here when we talk about relationships and motivations for relationships. I thought Harry sincere because he seemingly had very little to gain, status wise, from marrying her. The only thing she was offering was love and companionship, which he was hungry for . . .or at least, we had all been under that impression.
That he was sexually attracted to her at one time and she knew how to play that to her advantage is obvious. What's not so obvious any more is the level of true feeling which exists between them and if there was ever anything they shared besides tossed salads and getting high. They want us to believe that that share a baby and a fairy tale life together and anyone with eyes and the will to see can tell that that's BS. It seems Hazza can fake a smile just as well (better) than his creepy grasping wife when the cameras are on. But he's not a happy, fulfilled man. He's unraveling before our eyes. There's no love there. I doubt there ever was love there, certainly not on her side. He may have been infatuated for a while . . until it wore off, which was well before April of 2017, yet, here we all all, dissecting a marriage that never should have occurred.
It's really true what they they: there is no accounting for taste. Guess Haz really likes that tossed salad and is willing to put up with *ANYTHING* to get it. That's some salad.
Sure, people want HER to go back to LA or anywhere but UK post haste, but I doubt they want Harry to leave with her as much.
If they did make such a move, that would expedite the divorce as Harry would likely refuse to sign on to join Megs in her cheesy $ making schemes with say, reality shows. Harry thinks the press is an intrusion in his life now. Imagine how long he'd last in a reality show with cams and such following their every move all day?
Looping back to his recent interview with Jane Goodall, considering MM had editorial control of what he said, do you think it is possible that she wrote what she wanted him to appear to say? She, being of course, a good puppet master or maybe that is what she thinks he should have said.
FWIW, I have written in the past that I thought that IF she did go reality show like RHW of something, it would be a financial disaster for her. In those shows, and others like them, you need all this money to maintain your lifestyle so there really isn't a for when I get kicked to the curb and replaced by the next person who looks like they would be a good replacement for me financial plan other than the bank of (dad, my ex, my current husband, someone I think might help me). (or at least that is my opinion of what I have read what this episode or that is about - overlooking the cat fight between A and B or was that C and D?) but then again, I was catching some tabloids*).
*still don't think I'm wrong here about this even if it is tabloids.
You're right about RHW, too, about the "actors" and how they struggle to stay relevant and survive the endless upkeep on their homes and lifestyle. It's a total money pit for everyone so far except maybe Betheny Frankel and Andy Cohen.
One has to have a very clean past, too, or truth will out. Look at what happened to Teresa Guidice. I don't think Meg's past would be kept hidden as she's burned so many bridges, plus, her financials with this "foundation" and the IRS would blow her out of the water. She'd be exposed faster than Martha Stewart. Imagine that! Megs, from palace to prison for fund raising fraud. Ouch!
That anniversary is coming up fast and furious. Didn't think of that emotional play while all the rest of the family is where? And when optics?
I feel I've been played.
I don't know how much trashy clothes, jewelry, hair, and plastic surgery costs, but it is probably a lot, and they probably aren't investing their reality earnings in index funds.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7388591/EDEN-CONFIDENTIAL-Meghan-make-emotional-pilgrimage-Princess-Dianas-burial-place.html#reader-comments
"Emotional?" Shouldn't that read overly dramatic fake tears for the camera? Or will it be a "private" visit: Diane's grave, Smeg, and the photographer?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7388877/Flybe-bosses-flew-aircraft-123-miles-pick-Prince-William-Kate.html