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Social media support from Meg's celebrity friends - or are they friends?

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?

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?

Comments

SwishyFishy said…
@gabes. I dont' think you're ugly for saying that. I think it's something that could and should be looked at, particularly given the UK's colonial past and dominance over indigenous peoples. The British (and other countries, like Spain) often did use the women of these countries/cultures for sexual conquest. I got the feeling that Harry took a sort of perverse pleasure in bring a WOC into the royal family. I can't put my finger on why I feel it. It's an anomaly, as Harry has always dated blue eyed blonds. He went in the opposite direction of past behavior. It does feel like, to a certain degree, he is trying to give the finger to his family. Despite all his privilege, he is a very angry person inside. Meghan has tapped into all his faults and puffed him up to where he can't hide them anymore, he blindly revels in them.
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SwishyFishy said…
Elle, I so agree with you about the "pedophile" term. It's everywhere now. Pedophile is a term for people who have a sexual attraction to children under 12. Hebephile is a term for people who have an attraction to pre-teen and early teen children. Ephebophile is people attracted to adolescents ages 15-19. Epstein (and Prince Andrew) and many men, to be honest, are ephebohiles. It would not surprise me if Epstein was also a hebephile, based on the account that someone procured 12 year old triplets for his pleasure. Loathsome asshole.
Anonymous said…
Well, Swishy, I guess it depends on how we are defining "ghosted". By ghosting, I mean that I just quietly let the friendship go as does my friend. It wasn't like one of us was calling or texting with no response and the other cruelly withholding communications. And it is certainly not done to BFFs, although I have ended friendships with BFFs, I do it directly and with reason given. SO when I say we've all ghosted, I mean that we've all parted ways quietly and without explanation. And to clarify, no, I'm not cruel, but I also do not have faux friendships.

Jdubya said…
https://pagesix.com/2019/08/21/prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-may-relocate-to-africa/

have you seen this?
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Anonymous said…
Oh, good! I guess the comments are >200, so wonkiness has begun.

IDK the actual source of the photo. Someone on Twitter replied to one of Royal Reporter's tweets with it. If you've got a twitter account, it came from here: https://twitter.com/julesverne12345.

The whole thing is just bizarre.
Anonymous said…
I guess it is possible that the numbers were photoshopped, but that would require a lot of work for IDK? A story about ??? It makes no sense that someone would want to photoshop in the numbers. But even if the numbers were photoshopped in, a plane with those numbers still took off from Farnborough and still landed in Cosne-Cours sur Loire per Planefinder which has been pretty accurate in the past, and really, how many PJs are leaving Farnborough at the same time as the Dumbartons?
Anonymous said…
I have to ask: does anyone remember this much subterfuge from any other RF member anywhere ever? This seems like a whole lot of lying and secrecy and it seems directly stirred up by the markle.
Anonymous said…
Whoa. That one is worth reading!
Aquagirl said…
@JenS: The person who checked the flight checked the wrong date: 8/18. They actually went to Elton’s on 8/14. I rechecked the flight, and it did indeed go to Nice on that date.
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Aquagirl said…
My comment ended up about 10 comments up. The person who checked the flight checked the wrong date: 8/18. I rechecked it for 8/14, the correct date and the flight did indeed go to Nice.
Anonymous said…
I thought the dates were 8/14 and 8/17 and when I first checked 8/17, it didn't go to Nice, and now it keeps freezing. IDK. This whole situation is beyond bizarre, but at least if they did go to Nice it is less bizarre. Still, I had to see Elton in that horrid outfit and I didn't deserve that lol.
bootsy said…
Bit embarassing for Megan. Here's Vogue saying why you might see a Royal on a commercial flight! https://www.vogue.com/article/how-the-british-royal-family-does-air-travel
bootsy said…
https://www.vogue.com/article/how-the-british-royal-family-does-air-travel MM's favourite magazine tells us that the Royal Family often fly commercial. Oops!
Unknown said…
Hi

Those two nannies will never be able to use MM as a reference, since she has SO publicly shamed them. Wonder if they will be able to find employment again?
Lady Muck said…
I'm in Ibiza and the guy who owns the house where I'm working said Harry & Meghan are staying at [name's] house - his friend owns the villa where they're staying and he thought they were still there as his friend wasn't in residence. I said is that a rumour or are they definitely there and he said he was pretty sure they still were. This was last Saturday.
QueenWhitby said…
The plane did go to Nice, someone posted the flight records in the comments. BUT....and this is a big but, it was Aug 14th returning Aug 17th. The big question is, why were the photos released a week after the fact? If they were pap pix they would have been released right away wouldn’t you think? The release of those photos was calculated, why?
Lady Muck said…
They're still (or were at the weekend) in Ibiza. I'm here at the moment and the guy who owns the house I'm working in this week said they were staying at his friend's house, which is why he thought his friend wasn't in residence. I interrupted and asked if they were really here or was that just a rumour and he said no he was sure they were here - that was on Saturday.
abbyh said…
That is quite the article. Blunt.

Talking blunt, there is a new DM about how MM is "rising above the controversy and focusing on her fashion". The comments (just under 500) are blood in the street.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7382799/Meghan-Markle-riding-private-jet-storm-royal-sources-claim.html
Hikari said…
Punkinseed,

Maybe it's just May 19th that's cursed? :p

My parents were married on May 5th (Kentucky Derby day), and they were together for 41 years until my Dad passed away.

The Queen and Philip were married in bleak November . . . I'm sure she would admit that it hasn't been 'only joys', far from it . . but she still has her Prince after 72 years. If Philip makes it to this year's anniversary, they will have been married longer than my dad was alive. How many couples can claim that? These two are made of some tough stuff.
SwampWoman said…
Interesting that Daily Mail has an article on William, Kate, and children flying on a budget commercial flight to Scotland. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7383133/Prince-William-wife-Kate-Middleton-children-seen-boarding-budget-flight-Scotland.html

Rather funny, doncha think, after all those 'celebrities' said that all the selfie seekers would be a public safety hazard or some such! Hellooooooo, Lord G?
SwampWoman said…
Lady Muck have you heard whether is it just them, or nanny, baby, private secretary, etc.?
SwampWoman said…
Maybe they got such a hefty severance fee and hush money that they will not need to work again for awhile. Seriously, I would think that not tolerating MMs antics would be a plus for the staff being fired left and right.
Anonymous said…
In the comments here or on TCD? And good question re timing. That whole thing is wonky. And now the Cambridges flying to Balmoral on commercial. I do wish they wouldn't travel together, however.
Anonymous said…
So, wait, they're in Ibiza which would mean they weren't in Nice and Sir John is still lying? Am I the only one who thinks this is merde of the bat madness? Unhinged to a spectacular degree kind of merde of the bat?
MeliticusBee said…
So is Gayle King represented by the same group? She is a real gusher when it comes to MM. The butt kissing (normally I would say something much, much nastier) and fawning comments over MM and her super duper fantastic spectacular thoughtful wonderful beautiful sensitive kind and intelligent nature.... from Gayle on the CBS This Morning show - disgusting.

Almost as if MM used some of those demonstrable writing skills on Gayle's teleprompter.
MaLissa said…
@Lilalee I think it's the SussexRoyal that's been copyrighted and not Sussex. I mean, its the name of a place and I'm sure those folks in Sussex - who want them to be relieved of the title would probably riot if they copyrighted Sussex - the place.
Ozmanda said…
Can someone give me the tag number of the plane? I want to do a tracking of the entire trip as I am wondering if this mystical plane trip had any stop overs (drug/kid pickup)
Anonymous said…
EUW9253 / SE-RFL Let us know, svp.
Kimberley said…
Jens, I didn't think it was them in the pics. Someone pointed out in the DM that she is wearing flats, whereas she normally wears heels. Whoever it is is purposefully wearing that hat she's worn in umpteen photos.
More interesting though, is that the man in the photos - who is supposed to be Harry - has a man bun! Harry doesn't have enough hair to have one of those does he?
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