The past 24 hours have seen an unusual outpouring of support for The Duke and Duchess of Sussex from an unusual range of celebrities.
The American singer P!nk, who to my knowledge has never had any previous connection with Meghan and Harry, sent out this Tweet early Tuesday European time.
The Tweet was unusual for several reasons. First of all, it was longwinded compared to many of P!nk's other Tweets, which are usually just a few words or emojis.
Secondly, it garnered 18.6 thousand likes in less than 4 hours - four hours which began around 6am Tuesday Central European Time, or 9pm California time on a Monday night. (Does P!nk maybe have a lot of Sussex crossover fans in Australian and Asia?)
Finally, it garnered 18.6 thousand likes very quickly. P!nk's last Tweet to get that many likes, a well-rendered fan art drawing, has been up for 9 days.
What's going on here? Is it a sudden and unexpected organic show of crossover support by fans of P!nk, whose politics lean left like Meghan's?
Or is it this a poorly-executived fraud from P!nk's PR people?
Who is corralling all these random celebrities to speak out for the Sussexes? What favors are the Sussexes trading to get these supportive posts? Why now?
And why don't any of the posts mention Archificial?
The American singer P!nk, who to my knowledge has never had any previous connection with Meghan and Harry, sent out this Tweet early Tuesday European time.
The Tweet was unusual for several reasons. First of all, it was longwinded compared to many of P!nk's other Tweets, which are usually just a few words or emojis.
Secondly, it garnered 18.6 thousand likes in less than 4 hours - four hours which began around 6am Tuesday Central European Time, or 9pm California time on a Monday night. (Does P!nk maybe have a lot of Sussex crossover fans in Australian and Asia?)
Finally, it garnered 18.6 thousand likes very quickly. P!nk's last Tweet to get that many likes, a well-rendered fan art drawing, has been up for 9 days.
What's going on here? Is it a sudden and unexpected organic show of crossover support by fans of P!nk, whose politics lean left like Meghan's?
Or is it this a poorly-executived fraud from P!nk's PR people?
After Ellen, Elton John
The P!nk tweet followed a previous outpouring of support from Elton John, who said he'd invited Meghan and Harry to his estate in the South of France and paid their private jet fare there, and from Ellen DeGeneres, who posted on Instagram to say that she and her wife had met the Sussexes and were charmed by their concern for animal welfare.Who is corralling all these random celebrities to speak out for the Sussexes? What favors are the Sussexes trading to get these supportive posts? Why now?
And why don't any of the posts mention Archificial?
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I swear, if some people got their heads out of their asses the fresh air would kill them.
First Oprah. Then Ellen. And the pop stars. Next we'll be seeing them at the Oscars. And Metgala!
One could even venture a wild guess and say they want to pull off and Al Gore, make a documentary on climate change, and gun for Nobel Peace Prize for Harry. (This is a wild speculation, but something tells me this could very well happen in the next two years)
Most wouldn't know that truth about them, not k kw ow how things work in the BRF/aristocracy/ England. Maybe the PR people are pulling some strings to get this going, reaching out to their contacts etc. We know a celebrity, esp well established stars wouldn't make a random move without consulting their managers/PR advisors.
But being politically outspoken is in right now, and the Sussexs have clearly made this political in a way.
The idea of Royalty always rests on shaky ground because it is rooted in the idea that simply belonging to a certain family means you are designated to be a higher status human who should be respected, followed, looked up to and listened to. Simply because you are part of a family. That works quite well for many when this illusion is based on people who you can fool yourself into thinking they are better than yourself.
But until 2 years ago MM was a pretty actress appearing in a show that most people didn't watch. And in just 2 years we are somehow supposed to see MM as a person who must be looked up to, followed and respected because....what? She married Harry? She has pricked the artifice that is the Royal Family because her swift transformation into a Royal stretches the credibility on which it is based.
Kate had years of image making by the Press in order to maintain the illusion of being worthy to look up to and to follow. MM has appeared out of nowhere, and even worse is acting more like an old style Royal (looking down on others while living the high life) whilst she has done nothing to command such respect from others.
I think that this is the fundamental problem with MM. She simply isn't believable as being 'better than us' because only 2 years ago she was a divorced ageing actress with a dodgy family , with just one job on one Tv show. And all of a sudden we are supposed to bow and scrape and see her as someone to look up to and respect? Whilst at the same time being the most condescending hypocrite?
Oh dear.
I have said before though that MM might get away with it. We live in celeb culture now, and the same way that cr*p movies get away with being cr*p by claiming misogyny/racism on legitimate complaints, then MM might appeal to enough based on the followers of that line of thinking.
Time will tell!
I think time is already telling. Really, she showed her true colors to the entire watching world during the engagement interview, and they'd been engaged for all of five minutes. That is the length of time which Murkle can pretend to be the persona she has created for herself via paid PR and relentless self-promotion on SM. At the time of that cringe-inducing interview, in which she claimed that due to her Americanness and being so busy doing humanitarian work in Third World nations (which consisted in the main of being paid to pose for 'woke' looking photos with native children) that she had no idea who Harry was before their meet . . I chalked up her constant talking over Harry and clutching at him and the drivel she was spouting to nerves and her desire to make a good impression as she was about to join the world's oldest constitutional monarchy.
Well. We've all seen by now that any benefit of the doubt was misplaced. As soon as that ring was on her finger, she reverted to her true self, not that she was ever far away from it. I'm trying to imagine what demographic who isn't already in the tank for her would find either of the Harkles remotely appealing now after the summer sh*tshow of hypocrisy and fakery we've endured. I suppose most of the people who didn't already have her number prior to the 'Archie Mountbatten-Windsor Birth Tableau' were willing to accept her 'glowing new mum' story at face value. Some people even think that all the photos of Archie which we have (a paltry number) are actually unretouched in any way, God bless them.
But after the circus of events kicking off with Trooping the Colour in June up til now, I find it hard to believe that scads of new celebrities are rushing to Meg's banner *now*. A year ago, sure. Maybe even six months ago. But why have celebs as diverse as Sir Elton John, P!nk and Ellen de Generes coming out of the woodwork to embrace Megster at the height of her dipsomaniacal and very public F*ups?
I love this word . . Dipsomania means alcoholism, which is probably apt for someone so very fond of the Tig, but so much other stuff about this couple is 'dipso.' For Harry, I'd keep the 'dip' and add the English word for Elle's favorite expression. The 'maniac' part is all Megs.
The enduring mystery remains why the BRF have allowed things to get to this pass, and why they remain so silent while the Suxxits rampage merrily all over the globe leaving their non-carbon neutral footprints and thumbprints everywhere. The Suxxits + Andy's deep doo-doo with the Epstein mess has to equal a new Annus Horribilus for QEII to top the last one in 1992.
In 1992, Charles and Di split up and Windsor Castle, the Queen's favorite, had a devastating fire. I wonder if she looks back on those days with nostalgia. She imagined it would never get worse than 1992. She was wrong.
Most of the newspapers have managed to get hold of the former head of Greenpeace, who said carbon offsetting is nonsense.
Pubic opinion is on edge at the moment, lots of families in the UK are struggling, and swanning about on private jets, then getting celebs to defend you is a poor look.
Clueless.
So much for Meg's humanitarian heart for Africa. Or Harry's for that matter. Haz turns up in Lesotho once a year or so to pet elephants, his sole charitable contribution, apart from playing polo matches in front of wealthy donors.
If Her Majesty actually lets them go to Africa and represent her this way, She will demonstrate that she's lost her marbles well and truly. Better to ship them off to Los Angeles where they can mingle with all those celebrities so eager to sing their praises on Twitter. I'm sure Ellen & Portia will be more than happy to put them up for a month or two, and after that they can shove off to P!nk and Cory's house before their next all-expenses paid private jet holiday at Elton & David's place.
Currently, yeah, she presents as woke royal but there is an ever growing wake of crazy/not right/good blips following her that (we are aware of) but most are not. And who do you get after people like the Clooney's, Bey, O and Serena? Sure there are lots of A listers but ... I suspect they might talk to each other. They certainly have gatekeeper/handlers who look at situations/people before opening for a reach out. At some point, the doors close more than they open even if the connection is me with a royal.
P!nk? hmm, maybe Sara L has been working on this from her political connections?
*@Hikari, that one is for you :) LOL on "For Harry, I'd keep the 'dip' and add the English word for Elle's favorite expression."
I agree Suzanne that the celebs are the bullies as they have a pulpit to preach from. We the masses only voice are the social media outlets and when we call out hypocrisy, over spending and tax payer spending we are called the bullies! It’s an unfair medium!
Thanks for the thoughtful reply.
Whilst I agree with your points, I wonder whether the average person is as well informed as you! How many people would have seen their engagement interview and her assertion that she 'had no idea who he was.' To be honest I didn't see it myself until a few months ago. It's not people like us that MM has to win over, it's the more casual observers who will only see the headlines and not the more detailed stuff,. Those are the people she is appealing to, along with the offense brigade who she mobilises whenever any deserved critiscism comes her way (it's because she's mixed race/a woman/not English/etcetc).
I'm on your side. I would really like the British public to see her for what she is but I'm not as confident as you that they will. This is the country where 6 million people watched Love Island...
Look at the backlash that Harry and Meghan have triggered. Elton John had the same reaction. While it's true that Elton is an odious person who has been accused of sexual harassment of his staff, his pronouncements were not well received.
In today's Daily Mail, there's an article about 150 CEOs saying that their goal is to improve the world, not make money. They sense that the tide has turned.
Meghan and Harry and their PR teams haven't, however. They still think that people give credence to the celebrity pronouncements the way they used to. If they were so "woke", they would understand that things are changing quickly, but they aren't.
Back in the day no one in the family went against the Queen. Diana learned that early on. The Queen and PP were to be feared. I think now that they are on with age Harry is pushing the envelope big time. He is backing on Charles support at the risk of both the Queen and William. But William is key in all of this. He is the future. He will more likely have a longer reign than Charles. Even if Charles reigns to his 90’s their is George, Charlotte and Louis to come in right behind. My point is they are alienating the wrong people if they want support. I’m sorry, I’m going on a babbling rant here. Lol. They just infuriate me so much that they created this mess so quickly. At least it was quite a few years before the Charles/Diana and Andrew/Fergie dramas. Their was a fairytale period for both of them.
Harry and Meghan are trying to ride this wave, but the tide has turned. LOL
They generally settle for celebrities with the cringe factor, like Elton John. (P!nk is an outlier, I think - she has an audience, it's just not Meg's audience.)
The rapper 50 Cent would be a good choice. He hasn't had a hit in decades and nobody respects him.
Mel Gibson? Kristen Stuart? Cuba Gooding Jr.? Rita Ora? Jaden Smith?
All people who the Sussexes would probably be better off without, although they'd be too tin-eared to realize that.
Alec Baldwin? James Charles? Hilary Clinton?
I was sideeyeing Elton John trying to take the blame for the private jet. I can only imagine he wants to project some sort of connection to Diana still and since William isn't here to play games then Harry and the Social Climber will do.
I just can't imagine what Ellen gains from this.
As for Pink I hope the check cleared before she posted that tweet. It read more like one of MMs posts then her own.
This is just a mess. Eventually they will run out of A/B list stars to pay for support. At that point it'll have to be the Instagram Influencers and Reality Show stars.
I completely agree that the most interesting thing in all this is the fact that no one seems to be doing anything to stop what is going on. We have all assumed that there is some sort of control mechanism, a plan, a way of being called to account if you stray too far from the party line.
Instead what we're seeing is a total vacuum where MM and Harry can do what they want, make the Royal family look bad, and there is nothing to stop them!
If you think about it, what mechanism could there be? The Queen/Prince Charles/Prince William call a meeting say to stop being an idiot. Don't do this this and this, do that instead.
And Harry and MM say "nope sorry we're doing this this and this instead." What's stopping them-PR leaks? Realistically there is no way of stopping them at all!
Charles takes a lot of flak for being more Woodstock Generation in personality than taking after his hard-as-nails Greatest Generation parents. Chas *is* the Woodstock Generation, having come of age in 1969. Had he been born to a pipefitter and a hairdresser and been called 'Charlie' at his local comprehensive, he may well have embraced the whole hippie lifestyle, look and philosophy. As the Crown Prince of Great Britain, he could not follow his inclinations in all areas, but I actually consider Chas to be something of a Renaissance man within his family. The first heir to graduate university, his interests are wide-ranging. Botany and painting watercolours are his chief delights (besides daily cocktail hour with Camilla that to appearances starts shortly after 12pm) . . but I think he knows a bit about chemistry and enough about welding to have made that pun based on his daughter-in-law's much-discussed blog.
Someone on the same thread also commented that tungsten is a hard, unyielding substance, but its greatest strength is also its greatest weakness--rings made of tungsten are prone to shattering when hit at the right pressure points due to their inflexibility and complete lack of give.
I think Chas was aware of these properties of tungsten when he christened Megs with the nickname. He was with the Dumbartons for part of the Oceania tour, and it was he that had to tell Meg in no uncertain terms that she absolutely was NOT getting a tiara Fed Ex'ed to Tonga from London for a dinner. The fact that this nickname of Tungsten then found its way into the media is the BRF equivalent of throwing down the gauntlet, to my thinking.
Inaction? Or proof that Harry has been disowned completely? One does not comment on what does not exist, be it Archie or a non-existent relationship with the son who reminds Charles too uncomfortably of his erratic and glory-seeking mother? Harry has torched all the bridges within his family and is too careless to see what his future is going to be like when Smegs leaves him . . after she and he have drained the trust fund left for Haz by Diana.
Shades of the Duke of Windsor, who at least retained his wife, the source of his banishment, until his death. Megsie isn't going to stick around that long.
The Royals who do the most for the Firm show themselves the least, do you notice that? Between them, Anne, Charles and Camilla do the lion's share of all Royal appearances, and yet they are hardly heard from or seen in the media. Compare this reticence, which given that Chas is going to ascend in less than two years, is notable--you'd think the heir would be more visible--with the incessant saturation of media coverage for Royals who do sod-all for the Firm except set charges to blow it up bit by bit . . .the Suxxits . . now Andrew.
It really makes me wonder what the future holds.
The Queen lost her advantage way back in November 2017 when she approved the engagement & forced Eugenie to postpone her wedding for 5 months to make way for the Dumbartons. Though perhaps when it was pointed out to Eugenie that May 19th marks the historical anniversary of Anne Boleyn's beheading, and Gene agreed the parallels were so delicious, the date should go to the Dum-Dums. After only three years as Henry's Queen, a position she and her family schemed for 10 years and kicked off the Protestant Reformation to achieve, Anne lost her position and her head when she failed abjectly to live up to her own PR and her red-headed prince with a very short attention span and more ego than self-restraint or spirituality grew bored with her. And he another 'Henry', forsooth! And anyway, October weddings are lovely, too, and we will always have the video of Eugenie looking radiant in the emerald tiara!
Still, HM never should have approved this wedding, particularly if Smegs was strong-arming her by crying another phantom pregnancy in order to lock Harry down into matrimony. Until the birth of Louis, Harry needed the sovereign's permission to marry. ER could have, and should have withheld that permission. Megsy wanted to play the race card? My feeling is, if the race card is the only weapon she's got, let her lob it. So what? This is a woman who denied her own black heritage altogether . . and we've got it in writing on her call sheets. Meg identified as white and dated/married only white men. Bought herself white hair. She only rediscovered her black roots in occasional paid pieces for fashion magazines & oh, yeah, circa 2017 when she moved in with Harry and realized that being biracial was her ace in the hole for Teflon protection.
So what? Her Majesty has weathered far worse than being called racist on Twitter by dimwits. Like losing her beloved father at 25 years old. Or Suez, the IRA and the fallout from Diana's death. Duck, water. Instead, they seem to have caved in to Meg's threats and now they are paying the price.
Also, and this is speculation , but Pink is supposedly friend with Ellen. So maybe that's why she chimed in. Using the network of a supposed friend is what the Sussexs are now aiming for. And I'm Hollywood, Ellen seems to be friends with most people, her brand is friendly, approachable, relatable, goofy, sensitive. So why not tap into that?!
a) If she's pregnant, then by all means, We must get you married ASAP! Due to the bride's delicate condition, it will be a small, private affair at a registry office. I suggest Gretna Green. Your PPOs can be the witnesses and We will let you have Balmoral for a month for a nice quiet honeymoon."
How urgently preggers do we suppose Megs would have been when presented with this? I suspect the next day, she would have 'lost the baby'.
b) "Oh, you had a miscarriage last night? How sad for you, dear. Well, life must go on, mustn't it? Here's the deal: no church wedding unless you two delay it by a full year and attend premarital counseling every week. I will be receiving written reports from the Archbishop as to your attendance and progress. If neither of these are satisfactory, no wedding. The registry office offer still holds. If you balk at these conditions, it's registry office or nothing. I will not move Eugenie's wedding . . take it or leave it."
How long do we suppose it would have taken Megs to 'leave it'? Deprived of her Princess Bride fantasy immediately, and forced to fulfill uncomfortable conditions in which aspects of her past would come to light before she could rush her Dimbulb DumWit to the altar, she'd have F*ed off and tried to make a go of it with some reality show contestant or footballer . . somebody with the dosh to buy her jewelry but without so many strings attached.
What a terrible pity that QEII, once a figure of fear and awe within her family didn't play hardball when it mattered.
Oh, by the way, I don't know if y'all saw this but Cressida Bonas is engaged to another bloke named Harry. I hope our Earl of DumbasF*ck is eating out what's left of his heart. Cressie is really lovely and would have made a regal Duchess, seeing as she grew up in aristocratic circles and knows how to comport herself. She must have loved Harry once, which is more than I can say for Meg-dusa.
How does HM control the Suxxits? 1. Revoke any funding from the Crown, including grace and favor housing. They are not living in Fraudmore and can continue to not live there permanently. 2. Revoke the Sussex title. Issue a statement that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have expressed their wish to live as private citizens and focus on their philanthropic work apart from the Crown. Harry will live off the money his mother left him and they can go live wherever they like and merch what they like and see how many celebrity friends they can collect/hold onto as free agents. They can do exactly as they like, according to their expressed wishes, but as private celebrities, not as representatives of the Crown. Fauxchie has not been officially recognized by anyone at BP or the Royal family as a legitimate heir to the succession or even as a living child so it doesn't matter where he goes.
This is the cost of their freedom to pursue that carbon-neutral Hollywood celeb lifestyle.
But she's a mother!!! cry the sugars. What of Archie????
Well, let Meghan produce Archie, in broad daylight, and show him to us both awake and alive, as a real child and we will go from there. She can't, because she doesn't have a baby. Moot point.
I used to post there myself, but I didn't expect, when it began, that this story would be endless and I have no more energy. I imagine that this is the case for many posters.
Maybe the plan is to wear down the critics.
People in general aren't bullying MM & PH although some are angry and rightly so.
Others are offering constructive criticism or showing them that what they say and do are in complete juxtaposition
It is becoming more and more obvious that if you don't agree with the Sussex's then you are branded a bully or worse still a racist.
I think a clever celebrity would stay out of this self inflicted mess because lets face it, they also are all guilty of living excessive lifestyles using huge amounts of carbon much like MM & PH
The end is near , i can hear the death rattle
I wouldn't underestimate the damage that Camilla could do to Tungsten with a blowtorch. The first thing to go will be the weave.
My (torch) burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!
--with apologies to E. St. Vincent Millay
Smegs is definitely in Camilla's 'Foes' column. Cam has read Chas the riot act about being forced to share a carriage with the gate-crasher at TOC. Bet that won't be happening again.
No doubt Chas's knowledge of welding is more theoretical than practical . . I'm sure they didn't have welding class at Gordonstoun . . but as somebody with a keen interest in sustainable architecture, Charles has probably encountered a little bit about the subject. He may have even toured a manufacturing facility in goggles and hat.
As I write this, it's 8pm in Scotland, and Chas is tucking into a hearty supper after a full day of deer-stalking, I suppose. Trying not to think about welding or hard metals or anything to do with his progeny and the disaster Harry has brought upon the family. After din dins, he and Camilla will share a fifth of Glenfiddich and then it's off to bed to rest up for tomorrow's day on the moors, fleeing the spectre of what awaits him when he gets back to London.
Nothing is done in the entertainment industry without an expectation of compensation of some sort. Question is, are the celebs being paid outright or do they expect a bit of polish to their image, buzz, access to new a networking circle, and ultimately lucrative deals? The odd celeb out here is P!nk. Out of nowhere, she comments. What's in it for her?
The other thing that occurred to me, is that all these jet-setting celebrities probably don't think anything is wrong with it. In their minds, they aren't polluting as much as the evil corporations. Purchase a few carbon offsets here, a few carbon offsets there, and it's all good in their minds.
Another thing... it's a rallying cry to let every jet-setting celebrity off the hook. If Smeg & Mr. Smeg aren't held accountable, then no one should be held accountable... unless you're one of the little people, then you should change your lifestyle to save the planet.
The quote from Desmond Tutu is the worst. Are they so blatantly un-self-aware? Is there something else going on? Do they suffer from delusions of grandeur and consider themselves some sort of saviors to which doing little things doesn't apply?
I do not see any way that QEII could have refused to allow a grown man to marry. The blow back from that would have been horrible. Putting foot down and forbidding works when someone is a child (sometimes), but it would have been deadly. At the point he decided he was marrying this trollop, the BRF was stuck and needed to go with slow-acting poison. Forbidding adults to marry and otherwise keeping true love apart would not play well regardless, but throw in racism and you've got toxic stew. That is why this is taking so long.
2. Is there something else going on? So many possibilities. Joint drug psychosis? Congenital stupidity? Could be anything with these two.
3. Do they suffer from delusions of grandeur and consider themselves some sort of saviors to which doing little things doesn't apply? Yep. Harry wasn't this bad before he hooked up with her, but her malignancy feeds all his worst and weakest traits of character.
I have a vision of Hazza as Professor Quirrel, the weak wizard whose every move and thought was governed by Voldemort growing in the back of his head. If I had any artistic talent, I would draw it, but maybe one of you can run with that and post it on Tumblr. Meg is the Voldemort parasite sucking Harry's will and pulling his strings.
Haz was weak on his own, but aimless and mostly just a harmless douche. Combined with the brains behind the Sussex outfit, he's morphed into a real toxic butthole. There's no coming back from this; it's gone too far. If he's been disowned by Charles and William both, he may as well forget about ever patching things up.
Monarchy is not celebrity. Monarchy is survival and continuity of lineage. For someone supposedly so well educated, she doesn't appear to have bothered with history books.
Now, if they were trotting out real photos of a real Archie, and he had some kind of deformity, or people were just mocking him for being an ugly baby, then by all means, let's have a conversation about bullying. First, show us the real baby.
However, she was under no obligation to foot the bill for an obscenely expensive Royal Wedding Event in such haste for a bride who was not even her subject and an only hastily confirmed (yeah, like that really took) member of the Anglican Church. Denying Meghan's Wedding of Dreams would have had nothing to do with racism and everything to do with a few other very pressing factors: the couple was hardly well established, having dated long distance for about a year or less (depends on whether we consider them to be broken up between December 2016 or before and sometime after the Inskip wedding) . .and even more to the point, the bride was a divorcee. Elizabeth was forced by rules of the church to deny her own son and heir an Anglican church wedding the second time because he had been divorced. Yet somehow the iron-clad rule that did not bend for the heir to the Crown was waived for Tungsten. Nor did ER attend Charles's second wedding, but there she was, front row center for her grandson's sham nuptials to a divorced and used-up American showgirl/playmate.
Talk about a double standard. The spectre of 'racism' sure is powerful for a monarch who is the living embodiment of subjugation of colonial peoples, isn't it?
Harry may come before Eugenie in the pecking order, but HM created bad feeling unnecessarily by forcing Eugenie and Jack to vacate the date they had been planning for what, over a year? As I suggested also, if Harry's fiancee was claiming that she was pregnant, all the more reason for a speedy and very modest wedding that need not have interfered with Eugenie's plans.
I guess I have far less patience than you for the 'slow acting poison' route. Is Elizabeth Regina the Sovereign of Great Britain and thus in charge of calling all the shots or is she only some timorous little old granny afraid to say 'no' to her appallingly behaved grandson and his demanding American wh*re? It was generous of her to give Harry a wedding at all considering how he's behaved his whole life. He's not *entitled* to anything--Granny is the Ultimate candy machine that decides what he and his bint get, from tiaras to wedding venues to any of it. What's happened to the Elizabeth unafraid to take an unpopular stand because she was following the dictates of her conscience? She *is* Brittania . . but how diminished Brittania has become, if a snotty American nobody can tell the Queen how to run her business.
True love . . that's a good one! I know that's the narrative they were spinning, but the whole world now knows that before their six month anniversary they were sleeping apart and not speaking. True love didn't last very long.
ER wouldn't have been forbidding the marriage of two hearts if she'd declined to move Eugenie's wedding or declined to spend so much money and pomp on the joining of two very minor royals. Harry's nuptials should have been more in keeping with those of Edward and Sophie, given that the bride was not even a subject. Marriage and a huge show wedding are really two separate entities--one is a spiritual estate and the other courts personal attention, TV exposure, carriage rides and mountains of wedding gifts and face time for Hollywood stars.
All of these racism claims and the tears and the drama and the lies and the massive overspending and the negative press over hypocrisy and carbon footprints and phantom babies and phantom renovations could have been entirely avoided if Her Majesty had just made it a bit more arduous for Megster to get a clawhold into the family, is my point. She laid down and let Harry and Meghan have everything all their own way, at the expense of everyone else and she's got to live with the consequences.
Is Harry really a grown man? Chronologically, he is, but mentally, emotionally and in every way else that matters, he's a petulant child holding his entire family emotionally hostage. He needs to be committed along with his capricious evil spouse.
I don't believe the BRF is 'stuck' except by their own ineptitude.
Work, either privately, or relentlessly for charity/good causes. Smile for pictures, turn up to important events, and damn well conduct yourself with some dignity. British public opinion is fickle, and once the tide has turned against you, that's it.
The film 'The Queen' fairly accurately depicts the events of August 1997, as I remember them. The public were furious that the royals had not conducted themselves appropriately around the mourning period for Diana, and suddenly opinion polls were showing an uptick in support for a Republic. It has taken years to rebuild public trust, and now this Kardashian wannabe is going to unravel it all, unless someone gets a grip.
I put my hand up to being guilty as charged over being an American, so I suppose an American approach would be my default setting--however, is a direct request in *any* circumstance to be deemed too American and therefore too gauche to be within the purview of the Royals? People all over the world regardless of nationality are clamoring for a proper look at Archie. Apart from one picture of extremely dubious provenance, there has been zero public acknowledgement from the Queen that she has a new great grandbaby. The certainty that the RF is actively colluding with Meghan and Harry to cover up malfeasance/fraud relating to this baby is impossible to ignore any longer.
The Sussexes do not return value on investment. I wouldn't have thought expecting them to adhere to the standards of behavior for being Royals and penalizing them for non-compliance would be considered 'too American' in the context--this is a very British way. The Queen is acting very like an overindulgent and possibly deaf dumb and blind American grandparent in not reigning in the Harkles. Very unlike herself, in fact.
It's time to make Harry and his unfortunate choice in spouse either put up or ship out. Play cricket according to the rules of the game or they're benched. The alternative is subsidizing those two tossers for life . . if they are sent to Africa and behave this badly, there's going to be a revolt. It seems mascochistic of ER to expect any proper behavior or useful work out of this couple. Cutting them loose is giving them their hearts' desire . . at least so they say.
I don't know if you and I are going to live long enough to see the results of the slow-acting poison. Look how long Margaret lived despite her debauched lifestyle. This could take decades to sort out. At least the length of King Charles's reign, however long that may be. I don't think I've got the stamina, quite frankly.
Attempting to procure a black market baby after carrying a plastic doll around in public to defraud the entire world . . if these are big enough items to qualify as poison enough . . what will be? There's already footage of her tossing salad for Epstein's cronies out there . . will that be enough? Doubtful. If she was hired to entertain on Epstein's yachts, she is guilty of prostitution, but she was over 21 and just one of any number of other 'entertainers'. She wasn't highly placed enough in that world to have any power and in fact could claim that she was victimized, too.
Short of video showing her smothering Archie or Harry in their sleep . . I feel we are doomed to endure this woman until their money runs out and that could be a long, long time.
This is a shame, though, because I liked Pink and her songs until now. Afraid I can't respect her any more after this. As for Ellen, I dismissed her years ago as in any way relevant to how I choose to spend my entertainment time.
I still like Sir Elton's songs, but some of the warm glow I felt toward him after watching Rocketman has dissipated and he's back to being the histrionic Queen of victimology again. I thought he had made progress, but a leopard(print) really can't change his spots in his 70s. At least he has a tenuous connection to Harry through Diana. I have no clue what the other ladies get out of being on #TeamMeghan. #TeamMeghan is only good for Meghan and everyone else gets trampled.
I know that it's done all the time by other celebrities, but I just wonder if they would be more trouble on a commercial flight then it's worth. He is still a member of a royal family, any very well-known member of the Royal Family. I honestly would not be able to pick Princess Anne out of a lineup, but I know who Harry is. It just seems like that would be a security nightmare. Just my two cents.
Thoughts?
It's been 22 years to the month that QEII got her first taste of what it was like to be criticized harshly by her people, and to have her hands-off, emotionally reticent governing style questioned and deemed not only insufficient, but damaging.
Well, Lilibet, it's happening again. As a 93-year-old, she doesn't have the stomach for another go-round . . .but if she does not act, it's only going to get worse, and maybe this time the people will win their call for a Republic. There is even less deference and patience with the meritocracy of monarchy than there was in 1997.
The cure this time is the same as the last time: a painful but antiseptic frank address directly to the people, admitting that mistakes were made, the mood of the people was misjudged and for that hearty apologies are offered.
I actually understood and sympathized with Elizabeth's desire to hunker down at Balmoral and shield her grandsons from the full brunt of their terrible loss.
This current crisis is very different, though, as it relates directly to frauds and lies being perpetuated by two of their own (leaving Andrew out of the discussion for now). Once again, it is August, and the Queen and other senior royals are in hiding up at Balmoral, appearing to be completely oblivious to the gathering storm.
We just want to see Archie and know what the f*ck is going on with Fraudmore, to name two items. We don't even demand the Queen's mea culpa in person on the television . . .just a cogent statement of what we are not being told about the future of the Sussexes.
Andrew is a whole other ball of wax. I predict that maybe the Queen and Philip will never come back from Balmoral and will just have a joint Viking funeral up there when the time comes. I can't blame them, but someone has to mind the store. Chas, you're on deck, man.
The Queen often takes the train to Sandringham, and she's the actual Monarch ( I assume she's in the First Class Coach, but this is on a normal bookable service.
The public fund Royal Protection Officers, there's no need for this pretence, they could cope with flying on normal airlines, they are choosing not to.
https://phantom.brighton-hove.gov.uk/mgEPetitionDisplay.aspx?ID=639&TPID=29537362&
Well, there's always the Dumbarton title. Wonder if the tiny village of Dumbarton has a cottage going spare for the Harkles. I suppose they would insist on taking over the Lord Mayor's house, though there may be a house for the Earl of Dumbarton that has more to recommend it than FrogCott. If the Earl of Dumba$$ paid a visit there, he would know these things.
If they were in fact broken up for 6 months before reconnecting (most unwillingly on Haz's part, based on the pictures) at Skippy Inskip's wedding in Jamaica, then their actual relationship is a lot shorter than claimed. There's the Botswana vacation and however many times each flew back and forth over the Pond. Might have only been 10-12 meetings or less before she moved into NottCott. True to form, she was out of a job and looking for free lodging.
What is this mystical power the Meg has over men? Maybe she's born with it . . . maybe it's . . . demonic possession? Mesmerism? Beats me. It defies logic altogether. She's beastly.
and continues to use the playbook she used with Clinton's Election Campaign.
Use celebrities to spout RIGHT THINK and call anyone deplorable, racist, homophobic, and sexist who doesn't agree with your abhorrent behavior. It's not working Sarah.
It didn't work with Homicidal Hillary and it's not going to work with the Cow Dung named Meghan Markle and her Ginger Pee-on.
Andrew was indulged the most, being Mummy's favorite after a 10 year stretch between babies & it showed. It's fashionable to dump on Charles for being a weakling, but actually surviving his emotionally deprived childhood and brutal schooling without turning into a sociopath is commendable. If anything Chas suffers from feeling too much--he nurtures living things and there's never been any hint that he abuses animals or has any sexual depravities.
Apart from his attraction to Camilla and his desire to be her tampon . . . but that qualifies more as extremely awkward phone sex, not as perversion as such.
I was really disappointed to learn that Harry is abusive to his polo ponies and one of them died. The others he just bloodies up with his spurs.
I used to like Harry, but I can say that is definitively no longer true. I'm edging toward hatred, actually.
Obviously some airline travel is unavoidable as Royals, but the sheer hypocrisy of taking no less than four private airjet flights within a week of giving a 'barefoot' speech on environmental responsibility is what rankles.
On the few occasions I have heard Harry speak, he seemed comfortable and in command of himself, but it was only in snippets, like when he sang a few bars at 'Hamilton' and charmed the crowd. I think it's the longer stints in front of a mike that he can't handle so well, and his intellectual deficiencies leak out more. Because it's like he's memorizing lines she's giving him to say but there is no connection to the reality he is living.
He's not the only celebrity hypocrite, of course, but he is not just another actor . . he is in a position to really command some respect for his causes, but he's pissing it all away by consorting with the wrong people . . starting with his wife.
For someone who is legendarily stubborn, Haz is also easily led. It's easier to let someone else do all the thinking and just go where he's told to go. With a good woman at his side, how different his path might now be . . but he's made his disastrous choice and we see how that's going.
Perhaps this is what PC meant.
Her husband, who told Jane Goodall that everybody who was not fortunate enough to be born non-Caucasian and therefore 'woke' from the womb was guilty of 'unconscious bias'. What a strange conversation to have with the world's leading primatetologist. Wouldn't the whole point of interviewing Jane Goodall be to talk to her about her work with chimpanzees and her conservation efforts in Africa? Instead she was reduced to agreeing with Harry's semi-comprehensible mushy granola indictment that she, as an 80 year old white lady and former English rose is an unconscious racist. Dr. Goodall indulged this nonsense by being a good sport about it all.
One of the lesser known facts about Hero Harry, the Captain Prince of Afghanistan was that the whole cover story for the end of his Army career was a smokescreen. 'The press' was blamed for releasing the location of Harry's unit and jeopardizing his security and that of the whole unit. Actually Haz and his CO had come to a mutual parting of the ways over Haz's insubordinate ways, and Harry voluntarily quit. A dishonorable discharge wouldn't do for a Wales. One of the items in his file of shame: the time he called a squadmate 'a Paki' during a verbal altercation. That is as offensive to Pakistani people as the N word is to American blacks.
So Meghan's married herself a racist but it's OK because he's got money and his granny is an important person. Question is, is Harry consciously claiming that little exercise in bias or was he unconscious at the time? The person he insulted was wide awake.
@Hikari: "I guess I have far less patience than you for the 'slow acting poison' route. Is Elizabeth Regina the Sovereign of Great Britain and thus in charge of calling all the shots or is she only some timorous little old granny afraid to say 'no' to her appallingly behaved grandson and his demanding American wh*re? It was generous of her to give Harry a wedding at all considering how he's behaved his whole life. He's not *entitled* to anything--Granny is the Ultimate candy machine that decides what he and his bint get, from tiaras to wedding venues to any of it. What's happened to the Elizabeth unafraid to take an unpopular stand because she was following the dictates of her conscience? She *is* Brittania . . but how diminished Brittania has become, if a snotty American nobody can tell the Queen how to run her business."
True, and I don't have much patience with it either, but I have been round and round it, and I can't find a better option and I've not seen anyone present one, so I'm sticking with slow-acting poison. Of course, ER *could* do all of those things, but power and grace require slow-acting poison. There will not be a public b!shslapping IMO.
1) For me, Harry and Smirkle have become EuroTrash. They are far more "celebrity" than "Royal" at this point.
2) No way, no how will Her Majesty abdicate in favor of anyone when she turns 95. She will wear the crown and do her duty until her dying breath. Charles may be receiving the boxes now, in addition to Her Maj, and he may well take on more official engagements, but she absolutely will NOT abdicate the throne. I'd bet a LOT of money on that. She made a vow to the people of Great Britain during her famous radio broadcast when she was young. She sees being Queen as a sacred and God-given duty. She will never voluntarily give that up.
3) Yes, William has flown commercial and he has flown coach. The one example everyone shares is when he flew coach for a friend's wedding--maybe Dallas to Memphis? I think it was Guy Pelly's wedding, when he married Liz, the daughter to the heir of the Motel 6 fortune. Yes, William flew coach, but it's only because on that short of a flight there is only one class of service. So let's not bow down too far for his correctness. Coach class was his only option, if he was going to fly commercial.
That's all for now. I love reading your blog, Nutty, and I greatly enjoy all the comments!
As I wrote in a previous post somewhere, to catch a thief, a liar, a cheater, or worse, they must commit their crimes and then be caught, not vice versa. Markle must well and truly ruin herself in order for the BRF to act. I do not see another way. Of course, I could be wrong.
I do believe escape routes are being cut off. You even suggested that the Dumbartons might be chic-rich homeless. There is some rabid anti-Dumbarton hate building. The BRF is not defending or acknowledging them. But I do not see that HM is going to go to the DM and confess all. It is just not going to happen.
So, while I do not disagree with you re the awfulness of the Sussex-Dumbartons, I do not think there will be a public wielding of power from BP. I could be wrong, of course, and your points are well made and taken, but convincing me accomplishes nothing.
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Meanwhile her other “friends” such as Priyanka and Jessica appear to have been Markled.
As for Chas, I love that he loves the little red squirrels and lets them come into his house. I'm actually surprised he has the heart for hunting.
I was thinking about this a little more:
Is it possible that the Sussex-Dumbartons have already been cut off and that is why no one is living at FC and that is why they're scrambling to different places? Is it possible that when Chas dumped the disastrous duo, they were given notice and time to "decide to leave the BRF and go to LA" instead of receiving a public dumping? This would actually explain a lot of this madness.
So I've cut down to a minimum of Meghan news, and at some point I may only be left with the Nutty blog and some random CDAN posts if I don't see some karmic retribution or RF action any time soon. I used to think the Queen was playing the long game, waiting Meghan out in the expectation that give her enough rope and she will hang herself (no "unconscious bias" intended in that comment, it's just a metaphor). However, as the Sussex's go from one PR disaster to the next, one more movie premiere while abandoning duties that have meaning, like the memorial at Deal for fallen soldiers, one more gas guzzling vacation after vacation...there isn't anyone stopping them or admonishing them. The press is getting snarky, but it's not getting real, i.e. asking the pertinent questions and giving us the facts that are left to be put together by common folk on the internet (the christening time stamp photos, links between celebrities and agencies, merching, etc.). The Queen seems more and more like what she is; a very elderly, doddering old lady at the end of her life, who is too tired to care and has passed down the reigns (and the money) to her insecure, ineffective son, who seems ambivalent about doing anything for fear of alienating his ne'er-do-well, insipid dimwit of a child and his calculating, greedy wife. Honestly, it sounds like a modern day Grimms fairy tale. You can't make this shit up.
I feel like everyone is just tip toeing around the powder keg, waiting for someone to light the fuse, but the people who have the match (the press, the RF, Meghan's family, past husbands, friends and coworkers) are too damn lazy or afraid to get up and blow this charade apart and show the public what we've known all along. These idiots are two of the most despicable, fake, narcissistic, bloviating blowhards in the public arena today. I feel so bad that the UK taxpayers are fitting the bill for such complete and utter crap. They deserve better.
And she's lecturing us about being kind and inclusive?
She's also a member of PETA who often speaks out about veganism, and yet she is defending roasted chicken loving, lambskin skirt wearing Meghan. Hypocrisy runs deep within her. It's a shame. I really liked her for being outspoken and different at one point. Looks like she sold out hard.
As for Kate, I haven't seen the OTT stuff re her, but I don't doubt that it exists. I do respect how she handles herself. The kids seem happy and are adorable, and I would drink too many crack babies with her given the chance.
I'm 60/40 on the ghosting thing. Sometimes friendships end. I don't know the circumstances re Kate and the dragon boats, but I do know that she seems to have a good track record of maintaining relationships, at least from the little bit I know. I'm sure we've all ghosted people at one point or another, but not with the same manipulate-use-and-then-step-over-the-body regularity of the markle.
-- I concur.
I think their PR/social media teams thought this would be an easy win - "only racists don't like Meghan" - and were surprised to find that there were larger issues in play.
I doubt any more celebrities will be eager to grant Meghan favors anytime soon.
Also, on a related note, I see that a lot of European papers are writing about "flying shame", a concept that originated in Sweden - the idea that it is shameful to fly on an airplane purely for pleasure. Apparently it is so widespread in Sweden that the number of departures from Swedish airports dropped 11% this summer.
So far I haven't seen this concept connected to Harry and Meghan, but it's only a matter of time before some journalist puts the two together.
Ummm, last time I checked Harry is white, and calling them hypocrites has nothing to do with melanin.
I'm 100% certain that the press know most, if not all, of what is happening behind the scenes. It must be excruciating for someone whose career is based on investigative journalism to have to churn out BP approved content. When the dam finally breaks, it's going to be torrential, I'm sure of it.
Her replies are full of people telling her she's an idiot/naming a Royal that was sitting in front of them on budget airline flights.
Good to know that the general public travelling from Kings Cross to King's Lynn are 'unsafe' because the Queen uses that train regularly.
Do any of you think there is a correlation between H&M’s most recent f-ups and the fact that HM is on holiday at Balmoral and thus isn’t seeing their antics first hand? I know she must be aware of some of their shenanigans by word of mouth but is biding her time and soothing her nerves with Glenfiddich until she returns in the fall. They seem to have waited until the cat was away to really pour on their ratty tricks. Three trips abroad by PJ, accepting EJ’s free hospitality, obviously fake PR... . This is a lot in a short space of time even for them. It reminds me of teenagers throwing a party while mom and dad are away. It looks to me like the press has removed their kid gloves and more is coming out every day. Their is a petition circulating to have the Sussex title stripped from them that now has enough signatures to go in front of the council in October. I do think they are pretty much homeless and getting by on reduced funding. While we’re finding it finger clinchingly frustrating watching the latest BS, I think all hell is going to break loose when HM returns.
I saw the story about Chas and the squirrels. I'm sure he would personally breathe on every plant in his gardens at Highgrove to try and offset the damage his son, the Earl of Dumba$$ and Tungsten are doing with their private jet-setting. Chas was talking about environmental issues 40 years ago before it was trendy, and he stuck to his guns despite being an object of merciless ridicule from his father.
I have developed more respect for Charles in the 22 years since that awful Summer of Diana. It's trying to make up for having judged him too harshly during his marriage to her. Diana had a lot of qualities in common with Meg; not as blatant, but there. Saint Diana she was not. I do think Diana was at heart a good person, and a loving mother, but she did have her issues. Borderline Personality Disorder has a lot in common with NPD. For someone raised as Charles had been, stiff upper lip and all that, living with her must have been a nightmare, but he gave it a go for 10 years.
Meg doesn't have a single good quality that I can detect. If Harry was really fooled by her love-bombing nonsense, he's a dolt. The other option is that he knew exactly what he was getting himself into . . . aiming Meg like a weapon at his family as revenge for perceived slights and to damage William and his father the most. He probably told himself he could handle it, and that He'd Really Show Them! and become more famous and beloved and rich than the Queen. That's what Meg was filling his head with.
It didn't take long . . a few months or weeks before he started having profound buyers' remorse. He seems prepared to double down and pretend that he's a joyful new dad and he made an excellent choice in wife.
Whatever. Haz can p*ss off as far as I'm concerned. Oh, how we wish they would.
@JL.
I have new respect for Edward as well. If Harry and Meg were really sincere about helping the family and doing good within their roles, they should be looking to Ed and Sophie about how to conduct themselves. Sophie's life is about to get considerably less pleasant if she's really been appointed Meghan's 'mentor'. But she is a great favorite with the Queen and has her ear. So Sophie's negative reports might actually carry some weight.
I wonder how long it will take before investor led revolts to overthrow the CEOs, the boards start appearing on the shareholder ballots?
And, I'm with you. I'm counting on that to not be eating cat food in my old age.
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Married when the year is new, he'll be loving, kind & true,
When February birds do mate, You wed nor dread your fate.
If you wed when March winds blow, joy and sorrow both you'll know.
Marry in April when you can, Joy for Maiden & for Man.
Marry in the month of May, and you'll surely rue the day.
Marry when June roses grow, over land and sea you'll go.
Those who in July do wed, must labour for their daily bread.
Whoever wed in August be, many a change is sure to see.
Marry in September's shrine, your living will be rich and fine.
If in October you do marry, love will come but riches tarry.
If you wed in bleak November, only joys will come, remember.
When December snows fall fast, marry and true love will last.
Even the day of Saturday is seen as a bad luck day to wed in old english/irish tradition.
Maybe this is me looking for answers in the great beyond, but so far this adage is delivering :-)
When I hear of people calling others racist any more I think of Rachael Dolezall and wonder if she is racist.
I saw someone from the DM call the Sussex's 'Woke & Broke'
I thought it summed them up nicely
Now I always have a little laugh now when i see the word 'woke'
https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1168107/Royal-feud-Meghan-Markle-Prince-Harry-Kate-Middleton-royal-rift-news
then, an article about how Kate turned down first class travel
https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1168275/kate-middleton-news-meghan-markle-prince-harry-prince-william-royal-family-spt
I read somewhere she was having career problems and she hooked up with a therapist or someone like that, perhaps a life coach and they gave her advice and Markle stated that ever since she followed the advice she was becoming more & more successful. I always wondered what the advice was. After observing her for the past 2 yrs or so I finally figured out what the advice was. Its this : " You are always number 1 . You are the center of attention and if not make it so. Do ANYTHING to get what you want, claw, climb, trample on others because nobody matters but you. Ignore others advice and guidance only you know best even if your husbands grandmother is HM Q GB & the isles.
Hurt people, leave them behind, disown them as they are only the rungs of the ladder you are climbing to get everything you want , these people are disposable, after all its only you that matters . " I could be wrong about what the therapist or coach said but this sure has been her behavior as I and many others see it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7380717/Meghan-Markle-visibly-excited-makes-surprise-appearance-Smart-Works-charity-photoshoot.html
If, however, you'd prefer one of my favorite classics, the one where the Dumbartons are scarfed by all the Senior Royals, The Charlatan Duchess has it playing now.
I'm seeing the same thing with "pedophile" and "money laundering" -- two really awful crimes that have a devastating impact. Pedophile, attraction to pre-adolescent children, is even more demonic than the later stages, yet people continue to use it as a panacea to all behavior related to underage humans. There is a meaningful difference IMO.
Money-laundering takes much more skill and ability than regular fraud/theft/embezzlement, and the reason that this is important is because of the way it is linked to global criminal elements (international drug and human trafficking, for example) and the devastating impact it has on our economy (and the global one). FINCEN estimates $300 billion annually for the US - and that is all related to serious crime. It's not just a way to avoid taxes -- in fact, launderers are more than happy to pay some taxes on the money they get into the system because that legitimizes the funds. It's not just a way to grift the in-laws by charging them for clothes you didn't wear. It's a serious crime because of its sources/uses.
The use of the word 'racism' as a panacea to all that ails us also hurts more than it helps, and the meaning has been so diluted and the application of it used in such eye-rolling situations that those of us who are far from racist are even becoming annoyed -- and that means alienating the groups you need for support.
1) in the plane photos you can see the traces of her black bra under the white shirt. I think if she had a good dresser, she would not have been wearing that pairing. You don't see any of that royal generation showing off their undergarments any more than you see them not wearing stockings to a meet and greet. It's not a finished look. Not royal. (personal peeve, sorry).
2) Someone pointed out in the comments about the little girl giggles and how they seem inappropriate. I get that this is to try to spin people into thinking she is approachable, wonderful, look at her and take your mind off the private plane criticism.
It is too little. too late, and will never be enough to even start to change the minds of the angry people. She's too far gone to be able to come back (unless she like went into a convent and stayed there forever).
The DM doesn't seem to watching the comments as I saw one which talked about how badly she treated people on the tour and that they believed what happened backstage at this event was not different. Or that it wasn't a big surprize at all but a carefully managed fluff.
Topic change: Elle, I love your Southern observations. Those Yellow Dogs came to my mind as well as all the dis that come from being truly polite as Mama taught. Good laugh.
Since she married Harry, the British subjects' anger towards the royals has quickened and is waxing faster and hotter every day. I've read the DM for years and I can tell by the temperature of the UK commenters that they are angrier than they were at the queen when Diana died.
One can only hope that MI5 along with LG are on top of all Meg's doings and are prepared to prevent and take action.
I also wonder if Chas. hasn't reduced Meg's and Harry's allowance and that's why they are blatantly marching and taking freebies from their celeb friends. NarcMeg's uses blowback as way of getting back at people, even Chas. for reducing their $$ or cutting them off. They are doing Trade Outs to support their new "foundation." They get away with all of this because hey, what's Grandma or Dad going to do about it? Complain to the press? Yell at them? What? What's the punishment for behaving so badly?
https://the-charlatan-duchess.tumblr.com/
There's a vid on dailyexpress UK today. The commentator warns the douche and douchess that nothing is "free" and it's very un royal to accept freebies from anyone. He added with the caveat that those who give them anything expect something in return, sooner or later.... so ya. More Trade Outs and Quid Pro Quo. (Trade Outs is a term from advertising in publishing. Eg. the publisher is given free rooms from the hotel the publication is advertising.
Off Topic, and boy do I hate even thinking about Andrew, but here goes: Why now? Why has all of the information about Epstein and Andrew surfaced so meteorically? Who pulled the lever on this decade old exposure and why now?
If that's the same plane, they are so very busted. I checked the shots published in DM from the article the other day, but it either doesn't show the plane's numbers. It does show a photo of a plane, but the cutline states it's a plane similar to the one the douches used.
If this is true, and the Dumbartons stood silently while Sir John lied and covered for them, I cannot imagine the outrage. Add to that, BP released a statement about that trip. So, either they lied to BP *or* BP knew and let it happen anyway (two possible reasons: 1) still covering for the Dumbartons or 2) allowed this so that the Dumbartons could be set up to fail globally - and that would actually be very smart (and if 2 is the case, then probably Lord G himself dropped that photo lol.)
Prince Harry, who is the late Princess Diana's son ICYMI, might have called Sir John for a favor, and after seeing the awful, awful racist bullying, Sir John agreed to step in. It would even be better if markle or someone powerful "advised" a solution to this outrageous hypocrisy and then dropped the photo.
If Swampwoman is right (and very well might be), then wouldn't this just be the best way in the world to out a surrogacy? No one needed to lift a royal digit. Nope, it would have all been thru a lie, another lie, a photo, and a third party's research. Sadly, Lord G would not be shining a light and we wouldn't see his thumbprints, but I would bow to the elegance of it.
We could all act surprised then, BRF included "Oh, my, but that wasn't Fauxrchie with the puffy legs and little red tufts!" "We were so over-the-moon with excitement." "Kate is heartbroken that all those motherly texts they'd shared were for a Fauxrchie!" "What about the private wing and the cake?" I can crank out the stories from here. Hey, Nutty, want to start a post where we all get to drop our own PR stories lol? I could see some humor in that one.
The plane pics were released from a PR firm, and someone on Tumblr used the plane's ID (painted on the tail) to trace the flight, which was owned by a Swedish cargo transport company and did not go anywhere near Nice or EJ's mansion. It's likely not even Megs in those pics, but someone did a poor job of coordinating the clothing/underthings. If this is how the wardrobe person thinks Megs dresses, that's sad (but also funny, b/c everyone knows she has no taste).
I agree that the SmartWorks video will not help, though. Everything she does backfires, and it's all been too much, too fast, for the public to come around now. Maybe with years of image rehab acting like Anne or Kate... but we all know that will never happen. She's too volatile and reactive, too focused on meeeeeee, all the time.
Too much face/head covered for both and we aren't hearing about her clothing (that I know of).
I will say this about the walking out of the plane (or any staircase). You look down but there is a part where you scan more at the horizon level to keep yourself orientated for depth before you start. And that more raised face, friends, would have been "the shot" that really would have sold. They have those rapid fire cameras. Where is or why isn't it there?
And the whole carry the baby thing is ... not leaving your hands free to do much else. It's a safety issue and aren't they supposed to have the new nanny with them to handle all these transitions?
Nothing makes sense.
Almost everyone who has defended Cringe & Ginge is represented by CAA. Oftentimes they are told that they have to make a statement (they use their roster of clients to support each other.) There may be a few exceptions to this, but this is how it generally works. I think it’s quite sleazy, but I am not involved in that world, nor do I want to be. I think in this instance, the major problem is that there is so much distaste for the Sussexes that those who speak out in their support will lose fans. I was a Pink fan, and I’ve always liked Elton’s music, but I will never support either of them again. Same with Clooney (although he sort of lost me with the fake Amal marriage.) Degeneres & Oprah are just nasty, and I have no interest in anything that they say or do. Basically, I think that anyone who supports the Sussex shitshow is a hypocritical fool, and they can count on losing me as a fan if I ever was one.