It's a time-tested parlour game: What is celebrity X doing right this minute?
In the case of celebrity women who are roughly Duchess Meghan's age (Beyoncé, Chrissy Teigen, the Duchess of Cambridge) the answers are pretty easy. Spending time with the kids. Having a wardrobe fitting. Working with trusted staff to plan future projects.
But if you assume that Meg doesn't have custody of her (potentially nonexistent) son Archificial, can't keep staff, has no announced future projects, and certainly doesn't do much wardrobe fitting - what, in fact, does she do all day?
You can only spend so much time writing Word Salad posts for @SussexRoyal Instagram and harassing royal reporters using multiple pseudonyms on Twitter.
What do you think Duchess Meghan's daily routine consists of?
In the case of celebrity women who are roughly Duchess Meghan's age (Beyoncé, Chrissy Teigen, the Duchess of Cambridge) the answers are pretty easy. Spending time with the kids. Having a wardrobe fitting. Working with trusted staff to plan future projects.
But if you assume that Meg doesn't have custody of her (potentially nonexistent) son Archificial, can't keep staff, has no announced future projects, and certainly doesn't do much wardrobe fitting - what, in fact, does she do all day?
You can only spend so much time writing Word Salad posts for @SussexRoyal Instagram and harassing royal reporters using multiple pseudonyms on Twitter.
What do you think Duchess Meghan's daily routine consists of?
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For the English and the Welsh I think the Royal Family are still a strong symbol - although probably less so for the Scots and the people of the Commonwealth.
So I don't see the Windsors needing unemployment checks anytime soon. But they may find their role more closely resembles that of the Scandinavian royals. The Scandi royals have a lot fewer people on the public payrolls than the Windsors do.
The real difference for the Windsors (and for the other royals) is the loss of power of traditional Protestant churches, like the Church of England. You don't hear many people argue these days that God sent Elizabeth to rule Britain.
And if no one believes that's the case, then why the Windsors instead of any other family? What justifies them having so much wealth?
I imagine she also has Google Alerts set up for herself, so that her phone buzzes whenever there is a new article published about her or (perhaps) about Harry.
The sad thing is to spend all that money shopping and still look awful. Better to buy one dress and have it exquisitely tailored than three of the wrong size and squish into them like a sausage.
When Ari Onassis put Jackie on an allowance, she would shop non stop, buying blouses in every color and on and on. Then she'd return, return return and get the cash.
She's likely bored by now so spends a lot of time planning her next attention seeking project that tops her "surprise" polo appearance, or her "surprise" appearance at the fashion awards. I wonder if or when she'll realize that people are starting to be surprised if she doesn't show up at their event.
1. Rosé all day.
2. Running the Meyhive from her dozens of fake accounts and telling them who to get banned from Twitter.
3. Writing fake PR about herself.
4. Fake charities.
5. Photoshopping fake pics for IG.
6. Buying more bots.
7. Writing fake PR to make W&K look bad.
8. Fake foundation.
9. Sucking up to celebs she can use and then ghost.
10. More rosé, along with roast chicken b/c she's also a fake vegan.
The fake list:
1. Goat yoga with Archificial in the floating-floor studio.
2. Gong bathing.
3. Vegan avo toast and lemon water for brekkie. (It's actually pink water, but who will know?).
4. Sniffing the vegan eucalyptus paint to make sure it's pure.
5. Designing a fashion line of hemp-and-banana-fiber workwear, manufactured by woke, multi-ethnic, empowered workers, whose profits will go to benefit the MM Foundation for ME.
6. The besties (Serena, Amal, Bey, Jess, and Marcus) drop by for a spot of organic elderflower, mint, and psilocybin tea.
7. Chicken tacos with Michelle and Ed.
8. £500 vegan breathing class (today's agenda: learning to breathe through one's nose).
9. Deciding which lucky charities will be gifted with a hand-calligraphed picture of M in a tiara, along with a special leather-bound journal in which to record their thoughts of gratitude (which will later be collected and published on IG).
10. £1000 evening spa treatment with essential oils, salt crystal lamps, Himalayan singing shot glasses, and all-you-can-drink rosé.
Uncomfortable reading for several Royal households, I imagine.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6002995/Thomas-Markle-says-daughter-Meghan-got-wilful-streak-mother-Doria.html
As someone above pointed out, she probably spends most her time online, either shopping or IG looking up the latest fashion trends. I'm quite sure she'll soon come up her own version of the French tuck.
She just couldn't stay low... Urghhh *eyeroll*
- Making lists of things to plagiarise.
- Trolling on twitter
- Making up nasty stories about Kate
- Practicing her facial expressions in the mirror (for 'realness' when attempting to be sympathetic to the unwashed and so that Wills knows she will do ANYTHING to be his queen.)
- Applying bronzer for when she whips out the R card
- Reading Tumblr
- Putting out stupid, unbelieveable PR that insults the collective intelligence of the Commonwealth. (And TBH, most of the rest of the world)
- Pissing and moaning to Hazmat that the 'unconciously bias' peasants STILL don't think she's the second coming, even though she puts out above mentioned PR telling them so.
- Waiting up to post on Insta for the US crowd that adores her (see teenage girls)
- Scratching her muff (as witnessed at the LK premier, saw it on twitter!)
I could go on.....
Andrew is named by two of the accusers, so we'll see how that plays out. There are more documents to come, in a larger unsealing, apparently.
https://twitter.com/klasfeldreports?lang=en
When she realizes he is nowhere to be found, she then logs onto Instagram to check and see what the cool Instagram Mom’s are posting about, making notes about what to post the next time she has to edit a stolen picture to try and prove Archie is rea.
After that she checks to see if her pro-Meghan, anti-Kate articles she’s had sent out have been posted and starts to outline more ridiculous ideas to show the family likes her more.
She’s hungry now, she goes to the kitchen looking for Avocado so she can make some toast but finds none. She leaves a stern note to the staff that she has requested Avocado every day, and none have been purchased. It is in a stack of other notes for the staff that haven’t been picked up yet—since she has no actual staff who sticks around.
She quickly sends Harry a text storm of her complaints and demands. He doesn’t reply back.
Time for twitter!
She makes herself some mint tea, sits and looks for the latest messages she can RT about her disgust for American Politicians, how wonderful her life with her husband and new baby are. Then she starts checking in on her Haters, looking for people who are out to get her.
A visitor has arrived! An official from the Royal Family is here to remind her that she has rules to follow. Meghan doesn’t give a damn, starts insisting that she and Harry are bringing forward a new era, a new Royal family. She rushes up the stairs, when she has returned she is carrying a plastic doll. “I am the mother of the seventh in line to the throne! You can not tell me how to behave.”
“That’s not a real baby, where is Master Archie?”
“This is Master Archie.” She pushed the plastic doll in the officials face. “This is the future King of England!” her voice a high pitched screech and squawk.
She continues to charge forward towards the official until they’re out the door.
She carelessly tosses the doll onto a couch before returning to her laptop, to discover the positive press that Taylor Swift is getting for the US September issue of Vogue.
Expletives fly from her mouth, cries of racism flow as she tosses plastic fake plants around. The staff that does come by once a week already having replaced the expensive breakables weeks before. She then picks up her phone and starts to bombard Harry with texts.
This continues until Harry shows up to check on her. She cries about how unfair the world treats her, that it’s just not fair. She’s an exceptional person, she’s the change the world needs. How can anyone deny her?
She pushed the fake doll into Harry’s arms. “This is our son, this is Archie. He will be King!”
“William will be King, then George.”
“No, Archie. King Archie! My beautiful baby boy will be King.”
Harry sighs, knowing he can’t convince her otherwise. As he tries to formulate something to say to calm her down, her phone goes off with an alert.
The rumors are swirling that Beatrice will become engaged soon. Meghan again begins a storm of words about how dare someone steal the spotlight from them, their son, the perfect life they lead.
Another alert comes up, adorable pictures of Princess Charlotte sticking her tongue out at the crowd.
More words about how unfair it is that Charlotte is considered adorable while Meghan childish.
“Charlotte is 4 years old.” Harry reminds her carefully before he sees the shift in her eyes before she picks up a framed photo of herself that she pitches across the room.
He carefully cradles the doll in his arm, “It’s Archie’s bedtime. Let me put him down. You’ve had a very difficult day without the Nanny.”
She waves him off as he goes up the stairs with the doll. She sits on the couch plotting to get the attention back on her.
Harry watches from the door way, wondering which exit will be best.
doesn't like her is racist
2) Take edgy & artful (10 years ago) photos of Archie's feet, top of head, hand, etc that will
be published on SM, in b+w of course, when William & Kate's kids get too much media
attention.
3) Make new recording of her repeating, "what Meghan wants, Meghan gets" over & over,
to be played while Harry is sleeping for subliminal suggestion. The previous 75
recordings are beginning to warp from over play.
4) Send staff members out to buy up issues of the Sept Vogue. But if sales are
still weak, by all means it's due to racism, and it's all Ed Enniful's fault anyway. Oh, and
must remember to block his number in the event the shit hits the fan.
5) Try to think of new ways to accuse non-stans of racism. Unconscious bias was great;
very Gwyneth. Mmm, wonder if Gwyneth would like to be friends...
6) Buy more SM bots. Key words & phrases that are to be used liberally are: beautiful,
humanitarian, brilliant, A-list actress, so much better than Kate, my princess, Earth
mother
7) Scour BRF calendar to determine what events can be crashed, then buy new outfits
8) Start a rumor that Dole is going to start to include inspiration messages on their
bananas thanks to her influence
9) Remind BRF that dumbass Harry spilled the tea, so I am here to stay.
I don't think W+K are any better than H+M, entitlement-wise. They also spend tons, take a lot of holidays (esp before kids), and only look engaged at the "fun" events. It's only the comparison that is making them look good at the moment. But if MM is responsible for leaking William's affair with Rose (which I believe it's true) that is really awful of her. That's between W+K and Rose & her spouse, and I have no doubt that all parties involved were aware of what was going on.
My gut feeling is that Charles has a stealth plan for getting MM out of the BRF. I have no doubt that Harry has told her where the bodies are buried, so to speak, and the family knows this. But he will also have to tread carefully because Harry is his son, and I am sure that he would rather gouge his own eyes out than hurt him. And add to it that some people still believe the Diana good, Charles bad narrative, and still think of Harry & William as the young boys walking behind her casket. As heart-wrenching as that was, and W+H will carry that with them always, they are both well into their 30s, married, & with families, but continue to play the Diana card almost 22 years later. Charles knows he can't compete, but William has the Diana advantage, so Charles could use him to implement any plans with minimum public outcry. I think he would agree to it - I have no doubt that MM leaked his affair to the press, he know this, and knows that MM will not hesitate to leak other info. And he has got to be scared to death that she will not hesitate to involve his kids, which could easily impact their safety, especially as they grow older.
Duchess Deportment lessons: American girls who did not grow up within titled nobility and spend years at finishing schools need to learn things like, how to walk like an aristocrat; how to talk posh; how not to make an idiot of oneself at a 12-course state dinner. How to properly navigate etiquette of precedence. Who goes first; who defers to whom. Proper modes of address, in person, in correspondence and Instagram. When it is and is not appropriate to shake hands or use first names. Social dancing. How to wear gloves. (Leather ones in June are NO.) How to wear hats. Ladylike responses to wardrobe malfunctions in public. How to respectfully treat staff.
For someone who ostensibly has practiced yoga since she was a young girl, it's amazing how graceful Megatroid isn't. Her posture is awful. (Check out the B&W dress at the old people's home with her neck hunched and stretched toward a lady like a Brontosaurus foraging for plants. Really most unattractive. This is why Megs was never very successful as a model or actress . . she just looks ungainly all the time. Unusual in a (formerly) slender woman who claimed to have had stage training, but there it is.
Poise like Kate's takes years of practice and it doesn't hurt to have money because practicing deportment under Duchess-like conditions gets expensive.
Which leads me to:
Horseback riding lessons. I could make a pun here and say that Meg's had plenty of experience in the saddle, but hers is not the kind she needs now. She has joined a horsey family that is all about country pursuits. Most of the family are all accomplished riders. I have a repugnance for the aristocratic fetish for slaughtering animals in the guise of fun, but if she's going to forgo the hunt, she should at least be basically proficient in horse riding. Diana's fear of horses and refusal to join into any of the rustic pursuits these folks live for made her outlier status all the more distinct, and it'll be the same for Smegs.
The RF has access to the best instruction in any field . . she should take every lesson she can.
Languages. As ambassadress to the Commonwealth, she should have conversational fluency in French and Spanish, at a minimum. While she's at it, she should have remedial instruction in the basics of English composition and the difference between 'cramped cursive handwriting with ostentatious flourishes' and 'calligraphy'. An awful cod Brit faux accent should be avoided but she could at least learn the expressions and spellings of her adopted nation. She doesn't have to be so relentlessly in-your-face American all the time. Pretending to be selectively mute could only help her cause.
Doria seemed to be the exception with he classy demeanor at the wedding but who knows? Maybe she's the actress in the family. At this point, nothing surprises me where any of them are concerned.
I'm sure Harry Markle's got her own dolly and attempted injunctions. She's on a roll! In her third post this week, she eviscerates Meghan's September issue, including this observation from MeGain Heroine and feminist icon, Gloria Steinem:
>>>I did like the archive photo of Gloria Steinem by Horst, and while she has done much for the image of feminism, don’t believe all that you read. A friend of mine is a cousin of hers and worked as her PA for a short time, and let us just say her actions back then did not mirror the feminist rhetoric that was proclaimed.
Sounds JUST like somebody else we know . . .
https://harrymarkle.wordpress.com/2019/08/09/vogue-september-2019-a-k-a-the-tig-summer-special-review/
The thing is, to have Meghan's advantages, we'd have to have Meghan's man. That would be a deal breaker for me. I'm going to keep my big, hairy, politically incorrect manly man mechanical genius whose favorite destinations used to be a bookstore and the library. (Now we both mostly do Kindle for instant gratification but we still like to go to the bookstore.)
Bring along cameras as she visits the Lakes District for the first time, or Liverpool, or Hadrian's Wall.
If she'd had some humility and humor, she could have asked simple but important questions about what each landmark meant for the country's history. The British people might have been charmed by her interest in their country, which had just become her country.
Of course, Meg is Meg and isn't interested in anything but herself, so that wasn't going to happen.
Oh well. Maybe Harry's next wife.
1.Drinking the Tig in*between vodka slammers
2.Snorting lines in-between practicing her next 'How to be your fabulous self & a feminist' speech in the mirrored room
3.Practicing her calligraphy on the banana tree growing in her new garden
4. Checking where Harry is on the tracking device she had installed in the part of his missing brain
5. Trying on tiaras and deciding which one will look best and steal the limelight at Bea's wedding
6. Hiring a Nanny that works well with plastic
Although I disagree with William and Catherine also being entitled. Catherine's parents paid for her very expensive wedding dress and also for their latest family vacation in Mustique. Their priority is on raising their children but Catherine always looks up for it, no matter the engagement. In fact, I find this her most endearing quality.
I don't get why Doria has been framed as the upstanding parent at all. All she's ever done is kept her mouth shut, and her movements are hollow and wooden.
Thomas is more the immature attention seeker who acts like a spoiled baby and refuses to compromise when things don't go his way. Kind of like Megs and Harry.
I think the Obamas made a generally good impression on British citizens when they visited, but they have not been in the White House for 3 years and are therefore not relevant to British readers. They are only marginally more relevant to American readers. Was there no prominent British woman that Meg could have selected to email 6 vapid questions to? Maybe she did and they all refused. Why not Sophie Wessex, Meghan's new aunt-by-marriage who is also a mother, and whose parenting of younger children within the royal family is more relevant.
Meg could be living such an interesting life, but she's blown that chance.
On the upside, she seems to be a dimwit who has conflated monarchy with celebrity. The whole point of monarchy is survival, no matter what. If you are a problem, then you will be out. European monarchies have survived all manner of scandals in recent years. All have survived. Ruthlessness is hard wired.
She'll overplay her hand at some point, and will exit the stage.
I hope Archie doesn't start to look and act like Chucky ; )
Meghan is not representative of American women as a whole. I'm sorry your experiences with the two Americans who grifted their way into the Royal family have been so negative, but believe me when I say that American woman (non-sugary ones) are as appalled by her behavior as you are. More . . because she's making us look so bad, both as a country and as a gender.
We revile her.
My late grandmother used to scoff at the mention of Wallis Simpson's name, and I clearly recall when she died in the 1980s, my granny losing her temper at the news report 'that AWFUL woman'.
The issue that MM has is that public opinion in the UK is very fickle, and once the tide has turned, there is no way back. This feels very much like Andrew and Fergie - he had a lot of public goodwill from his time in the military, she seemed a likeable and bubbly character, had a work history behind her. It unravelled pretty quickly and she became more and more desperate for the public to love her, so the more overexposed she became, the worse things got. She lasted ten years, I don't expect MM to manage even half of that.
"Works well with plastic".
You win the internet, Lottie, well done!
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Sun correspondent Dan Wootton said this yesterday in a video interview:
"(Harry) will sit in that publicly funded mansion - because it’s not a cottage, it’s a £2.4million mansion refurbished by us on taxpayers money - he’ll watch the TV coverage and he’ll flick through the newspapers and look at all of those articles online about him, cursing his staff.
"Rather than actually addressing the fact that much of the negativity towards the couple is coming from within the Royal Family.
“The Royal Family and staff of the Royal Family are the ones that are very often leaking these stories to the press.”
Top candidates, from my point of view: Prince Andrew plus William's press secretary Christian Jones and Lord Geidt's BP team.
Longshot candidate: Camilla.
If you have a spare 10mins i recommend it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgifLecajEU
The issue with Archie being real is the most confusing as I really do not believe the Queen would have posed with a doll like that. I think Meghan may have had a surrogate and could have fooled the RF until they were stuck going along with this farce but to actually pose with the baby? I just can't see the Queen do that. She would have had to notice, and look at Doria looking at the baby.
To bring a doll out in public at the polo seems just too risky.
To involve the head of the church in faking a Christening seems too far out there. There must be a real baby, hers or not.
Can she just be 'borrowing' a baby for these photos? I guess if the doll looks like a sleeping baby they could have fooled the Queen and Phillip for a few minutes but the Aunts as well?
Would Harry do that to his family?
Something is strange for sure, the only way I see them going along is if she is mentally ill, has had a breakdown and they are trying to deal with it behind the scenes. Those around her at the polo seemed tense and she was talking to herself at the TTC.
Her PR antics backfiring over and over and not having the British think she is the next Diana has destroyed her ego.
She may think because of some new star status she can come back to the USA and be a star but that will never happen. The most she can hope for is a reality show where she is just a part of a cast. A few interviews with Oprah and Gale.
Movie roles will not open up because she is not A list material, at all. She never was, and is too old and boring. Far too much ruthless competition and much younger beautiful women who are A list. Creative women not copy cats.
If politics is her angle, forget that. What does she offer as a politician? Just support of a few PC issues? She has never said anything original. She has never done the actual work Jolie has, who she will copy.
Just like she flopped as a royal she will flop coming back to America.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7344181/Billionaire-Jeffrey-Epstein-dies-suicide-inside-Manhattan-jail-cell.html
Bit off topic, but....
What was his relation to Markle?
As I've said before, all roads eventually lead back to Soho House.
@torontopaper1·2h
Don't get distracted by the media noises. Look for the connections and the silent powerful helpers. There you find answers.
@torontopaper1·2h
Focus on the media mogul named in the little black book and the connection of his family to our darling.
@torontopaper1 ·2h
Don't focus on the death. Focus on the inheritance.
Don't focus on the man. Focus on the book.
I like your list of candidates - like you, I don't imagine it's p.Will or p.Kate directly, but could totally see it being p.A or royal-associated staff/PR folks.
In my wildest fantasies, HRH QE smiles quietly and gives the barest of nods to indicate the go-ahead, when told of the planned content before it's published.
https://gawker.com/here-is-pedophile-billionaire-jeffrey-epsteins-little-b-1681383992
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1508273-jeffrey-epsteins-little-black-book-redacted.html
/Now, I need my Hercule Poirot stick on mustache....
Meanwhile, Megs is far too quiet lately. She must be stirring her pot, how does that go from the witches in MacBeth? "... bubble, bubble toil and trouble..."
Hilarious and so true.
Still, Ghislane Maxwell will be standing trial unless she also has an 'accident'.
I suspect Camilla is a prime leaker.
Remember Piers Morgan talking about his lunches with Camilla on his morning show?
I'm sure that Camilla gives him all the juice.
Also, Camilla's relative, I believe it's her niece but not sure,
is the Editor of Tatler.
Interestingly, the UK press was only very lightly reporting any connection between Prince Andrew and Epstein. That is now no longer the case. Headline on BBC1 News and the front pages of all the newspapers tomorrow.
I feel for the women who thought that they would FINALLY be heard and hopefully get justice.
After reading some of the Epstein articles today, does anyone know if his and Ghiseleane Maxwell's victims can tell all. Is the NDA still binding now that he's dead? Or do they have to continue honoring the NDA's if the agreements are tied to his estate? I think that's possible as when say, you owe a person money and he or she dies. The debt isn't cancelled as you'd still have to pay it back because you'd owe the deceased's estate.
Spouse can be compelled to testify, but then defence lawyer can argue that they are an unreliable witness, so it is complex.
Robert Maxwell was Murdoch's main rival back in the day - running big selling daily newspapers with opposing political views.
'He was saying there are many holiday destinations that because of Instagram and other things are getting trampled by people taking selfies, and these places... are overwhelmed with tourism,' 'The principal argument he was making was the need to actually expand people's interest in places that are not so obviously 'selfie-ised'. It should be a goal to expand where people go for tourism, so these very few places with an enormous concentration of tourists would get some relief.'
What an activist. What a solution.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/national-enquirer-american-media-inc/1112758896
Not that I necessarily consider the Enquirer to be the source for the absolute truth, but where there is smoke. . .
@Punkinseed, I agree. She's been too quiet. She probably obtained the tongue of dog from one of her rescue dogs and is muttering about what the hell is a howlet's wing.
I wonder where she's been staying because there haven't been any sightings that I know of.
One could ask why there are no photos published from members of the public, but the same thing goes for Kate and William. I think that the British public has grown up to just not do that sort of thing.
(Facepalm) He really IS an idiot, isn't he? Give it a rest, rich boy. Get back to me when you work your way across the Atlantic on a container or tanker ship but you have to have actual skills to do that.
Maybe Prince Harry could star in his own version of "Dirty Jobs" in the UK. It would probably be a big hit as people tune in weekly to watch him clean whatever portable toilets are called in the UK, roadkill removal, mucking out the polo pony stables, emptying the garbage after fancy dinner parties, etc.
As far as what Megs is doing all day? My guess is she's knocking herself out copying quotes and writing plagiarized and sophomoric speeches for Haz.
You know what's very odd? Although they demand privacy for the baby, such as photos and milestones, notice that they never ever talk about the baby? They don't talk about losing sleep, teething, baby's first giggle, nothing. It's like he does not exist at all. New parents just don't go a moment without bragging about this or that, or how crazy they are about their baby. Neither of them appear to be bonded at all with this infant. It's very off, abnormal.
Something very odd about the whole situation.
"However if the Sussex and Cambridge visits do coincide, the expert claims that it will be easy to avoid each other.
He claims William and Kate will most likely reside in a three-bedroom former gameskeeper's cottage on site while Meghan and Harry will stay in a smaller cottage on the estate with baby Archie."
I think that this maternity leave is going to be a long one.
It would be amusing if she did do a runner, though.
More soberly, perhaps PP has a feeling that this will be his last summer to visit Balmoral. I was hoping that at age 98, and more than 20 years since Sarah shamed the family, PP'd be willing to bury the hatchet with his former daughter-in-law, but Fergie hightailed it out of there right quick.
I think this is media stirring. Maybe they are taking a page out of MM's playbook and announcing something that they 'hope' will happen. Perhaps Megs has tipped them off that she's planning to take Kate out at Balmoral with a staged 'accident', which also claims Meg's husband, leaving the way open for Megatron to marry William and become the future Queen of England.
I do think this is how what passes for her mind works.
If anything should happen to that sweet baby, whoever he is--because excepting the bizarre IG photo, the polo and the presentation, which remain hazy, we did see a real baby the other times--apart from a very tardy announcement to the fact that 'Archie' is with his biological mother and will remain there . . .and by 'happen', I mean announcements of his tragic death from SIDS, so his 'mother' can channel Jackie Kennedy in her own mind . . well, let's just say Epstein's end would be too good for her.
There is a very real possibility that what the media has gotten wind of was prompted from a 'rehearsal' for Philip's funeral . . just dotting the is and crossing the ts for the eventual day. They do do that . .practice dying. Philip coordinated his wife's coronation, so I imagine he wants his own send-off, and hers, to be well-organized.
The funeral could be for Megs, if somebody's planning to relieve the citizens of GB of that particular tax burden and didn't feel like keeping it a surprise.
What crazy times we live in.
The main media outlets would be alerted if death was imminent/has already happened, they have reporting ready for deaths of all the main royals, and it would likely involve temporary suspension of some normal TV broadcasting.
The BBC and ITV, plus Sky (main UK TV channels) also need to get the big name newsreaders in to make the announcement, and then present the rolling coverage (and it is summer, so lots of them are off on holidays or on side projects).
The TV channels also need to secure their serious presenters to cover the funeral.
Parliament is not sitting, as it is in summer recess, and if it is the Queen's passing, then it will need to be recalled.
There are plans in place for all the major royals, but if someone younger goes unexpectedly (like Diana in 97), this is what causes difficulties in making arrangements.
Could just be a rehearsal which has turned into a rumour, but I've a feeling it might be the D of E.
Outside bet is Charles, who was definitely in Scotland last week - people do speculate that he has high blood pressure/heart problems. If he has gone suddenly, then it would explain the sudden rumour of a 'Bridge' event.
That would be a much bigger deal than Philip, as he is heir to the throne. It would be a massive shock to the nation, too. Plus there would need to be big plans made for William's investiture as Prince of Wales.
Senior royals have a plan in place for their funeral, public mourning, protocols etc.The plans have a 'codename', and the UK broadcasters and politicians know what these are e.g. the Queen's death is 'Operation London Bridge', the D of E is Forth Bridge, Charles is Menai Bridge...
Richard Palmer from the Daily Express denied he had heard anything earlier today on Twitter, said he thought that it was a rumour based on updated guidance sent out recently to public bodies re. etiquette for royal deaths/public mourning periods e.g. flags flying at half mast etc.
Liz always looks in very good health when seen out in public, and I fervently hope that it is not her. It would be a massive blow to the national psyche for us in the UK. She is still highly respected (unlike Charles).
If it is Charles, then things will change rapidly for William and Catherine in terms of 'normal life'. William and George will have to start to travel separately for security reasons - it would very disruptive to their family, and I hope they have more private time whilst the children are young.
My friend who is a journo on a national paper has heard nothing, I just texted them!
Chalk this one up to hysterical rumour, unless we hear otherwise.
More merching?
The Harry Markle bump articles are interesting - she is trying to camophague the lask of bump for sure. Things that make you go hmmmmmm.
Hmmm...
(Her drink of choice at Boujis - passionfruit, vodka, and bubbly!)
I'm pretty sure that the senior royals are very, very jumpy and upset right now over the Andrew accusations. It would not surprise me to hear that he's been being blackmailed by not just the Epstein slave debacle, but other behavior he'd rather keep hidden as well.
I don't think Epstein's clients shopped exclusively at his "stores" so there's more reveals coming.
What the RF cannot afford is for any reputational damage to The Queen, and William/Catherine. They have spent years rebuilding public confidence after the events of the 1990s. Charles has never been fully forgiven, and remains unpopular.
It will be very interesting to see how this plays out. The UK press are reporting any allegations against `Andrew fully since the release of the court papers, and the Epstein death, so if there was a D notice in place, it has been lifted or deemed unworkable.
It seems to me that she made the decision that it was more profitable to earn money on her back rather than work at McDonald's.
For the record, however: I find it offensive, contemptible, deplorable, disgusting, cringe-worthy, pathetic, and I've no sympathy for his pathetic ego and tiny penis, but I do not consider it shocking, nor do I consider that to be pedophilia nor does the DSM.
Pedophilia is a sexual attraction by someone at least 16 or at least 5 years older than the prepubescent child (approx 13 years or younger.) There is even a different category for the 11-15 yo fixation (hebephilia).
So while I think that what any of those men did with a 16-17 year old is contemptible, it's not as grotesque to me as it would be with a toddler or a 4 year old or an 8 year old, etc. I think that labeling everything under 18 as pedophilia minimizes the term in the same way that using money-laundering for any kind of financial fraud minimizes that crime, ditto for racist - not everything deplorable breaks into the outrageous categories, and I personally feel it's important to differentiate.
As for what a young girl decides is a good choice, I'm not going to argue about it. Our prefrontal cortex and decision-making skills are not fully developed until mid-20s, so I can't condemn a girl to whoredom at 16 or 17 - I don't think she could make an adult decision at that age. Maybe she had an awful family, no role models, and was raised with dysfunction that led to this, but at 16-17, it was the adults in the room who are responsible, not the girl IMO.
prints today that the 'list of demands' for the Fraudmore neighbors were a 'spoof' handed round by one of said neighbors for a 'joke'.
Sure . . . and the Harkle's parenting so far has been COMPLETELY NORMAL.
When issuing their first non-denial denial about this list of demands, the Harkles at first put out that it wasn't them, but rather a well-intentioned member of staff at Windsor, which is a bit curious, since H. and M. have a notoriously difficult time keeping staff . . but presumably, that staff member had put their hand up to being the source of the manifesto.
Now, suddenly, it's one of the neighbors having a larf at the Sussexes' expense.
Which is it now, Harkles? And by the way, how old is Archie again, and where are you keeping him, because he doesn't seem to occupy a whole gob of your time. Harry was soo anxious to become a father and yet, hasn't been at home since his son was born. Curious.
The list of thou shalt nots does have the air of a spoof . . I mean, who seriously would go up to the Sussexes and beg to babysit Archie? However, Meg's writing style is spoofy when she's going for 'serious, high-minded international humanitarian' so who can tell? If the Harkles hadn't made themselves such a target for ridicule by being unrelenting arschboles ever since they got engaged, there never would have been a list like this, no matter where it came from.
Neither of them get it: Become as you pretend to be and there will be no need for fake PR or all this secrecy . . . Good PR flows naturally from good deeds, and so does the goodwill of the people. Harkle and Farkle are trying to buy the image that they are not and desperately hide what they are. What kind of a life is this, and how long can it go on?
Secondly, have you read Lainey today? she is trying to compare Epstein being invited to some birthday parties for the RF like Andrew, Anne, etc to Meghan's over the top baby shower in NYC! So Meghan is definitely going to try to use the Epstein scandal for her own use.
Except, Meghan, you don't change people's opinions about something by comparing them to another event. People formulate first impressions quickly when they read, see or hear about something. The subconscious mind is implicated, and logical comparisons afterwards don't change these. It is best to keep your behaviour reasonable and remember the dictum "You don't get another opportunity to make a first impression" . Sales people know this and use it to influence people. You just aren't that smart if you are trying to influence people by going against the ways that the human mind works and that are available in any two bit sales manual.
If we accept maturity as prefrontal cortex maturation, I have read studies indicating that a man's prefrontal cortexes mature on average 11 years later than a woman's. From experiences with my own family (younger brothers, sigh), I firmly believe this.
My disgust with PA has less to do with having sex with a 17-year-old female (and where were her parent(s) when she was off on those six-week jaunts, BTW) than with him getting caught up in an obvious honey pot operation. Very poor judgement either way. I can't help but wondering about the quid pro quo for Bill and Hillary Clinton's visits. Then we segue over to the Google field trip complete with driving Maseratis and being helicoptered and yachted everywhere. This is obviously not about the environment. Google is buying influence.
We as a society have conflicting positions (no, pun not intended) when it comes to sex. Twenty three year old females that engage in consensual sex with 15-year-old boys are mostly slapped on the wrist and lose their teacher's licenses for having consensual sex with their male (or female) students, while a male teacher of the same age is sent to prison. This offends me. A serial predator is a serial predator.
Adolescent females can have access to birth control and, in some states, abortions without parental consent because we are told that they are old enough to make the decision for themselves. If their boyfriend is older than 18 and the girl lives in an 18-year-old age of consent state, he can go to prison because it is statutory rape and she was not capable of making the decision for herself due to her age. Which is it? Is she capable or not? (They had to make exceptions to statutory rape here when the boyfriend/girlfriend were close in age because so many young men were/are labeled as sexual predators for life.)
Perhaps in the future we will measure everybody's prefrontal cortex function before they are labeled as adults. I suspect many people will never have that functioning adult label. (Will they be free-ranged nonfunctional adults foisted on the unsuspecting public, or will they have their own special enclaves? How will Hollywood and political parents game the system for their children?) I think we have all run across that/those person(s) at work or in family that have a long history of spectacularly bad decision making. My gracious, think of the can of worms that would be opened if a particular demographic achieved the functional prefrontal cortex at a later age or a significant number never achieved it at all.
Do you think PH has a mature prefrontal cortex? How about MM? How about MM's family members?
As the historical age of consent that I posted above shows, historically there was no such concept as adolescence. You were a child until the age of 10 to 14 (depending on country) then BAM, you were an adult and expected to function as one. While I do not expect a 10-year-old child to function as an adult, I do expect an 18-year-old adult to be capable of completing an assigned task without an emotional support phone.
I no longer feel I can hold her solely responsible for the spectacular free fall from a cliff which Harry's reputation has been since he married her. She is a domineering personality, but he got into this charade for his own reasons, which still remain elusive. He's spent almost 35 years as a member of the royal family, and should be managing better than this.
It leaves me wondering about the extent of his intellectual difficulties & whether he hasn't had some sort of psychotic break. I think Markle is operating much as she has always done, in far lesser echelons of show business. Now that she's got a worldwide stage and access to more wealth and celebrity than she ever had before, she's drunk on the perceived power of it all. Not a stunning reaction from someone with her batch of internal drivers.
Harry has become a person I do not recognize at all. Given that his behavior and choice to bring this Megatroid virus into his family has cost him the primary relationship of his life with his only brother speaks volumes. Harry is blowing every positive relationship and every last little bit of goodwill he still enjoyed into smithereens. This is the real tragedy here.
I have a young teen, or almost adult (17) female child/relative, and men like this make me sick! They prey on these girls and boys (mostly from unhappy homes or difficult families) because they do not have the life experience to discern the predator's motives. Add the excitement of being initially showered with gifts, celebrities and an otherwise unattainable lifestyle and they could be easily manipulated. I am not saying ALL young women and men are like this, but predators prey on the ones who are. My niece is 17 and I would be horrified (as would her father) if she started seeing a man in his 30s! What could they possibly have in common, especially since 17yo are typically still in high school.
Dogs are loyal and honest, amiable and kind, cautious and prudent. Due to having a strong sense of loyalty and sincerity, Dogs will do everything for the person who they think is most important.
As Dogs are not good at communication, it is difficult for them to convey their thoughts to others. Therefore, Dogs tend to leave others with the impression that they have a stubborn personality.
When thrown into doubt, Dogs think the world is evil and complicated. Then they criticize sharply when making comments, and infer that all things are according to their pessimistic point of view.
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Quite a mix here. Amiable and kind, yet critical and pessimistic, too. Maybe amiable and kind in the closest relationships and critical and pessimistic when those relationships are threatened.
Such as when one's brother brings home a woman who makes no bones about wanting to destroy one's way of life and family from the inside . . .
An amiable, kind, yet cautious and prudent personality who keeps his own counsel and is inherently distrustful of outside influences that will prove to be negative sounds like a good mix of characteristics for a King. Also, William's large, open face with a frequent smile and large teeth reminds me of a Dog. In the best possible way--I am, and have always been, a Dog lover.
People born in a year of the Rooster are very observant. Hardworking, resourceful, courageous, and talented, ****Roosters are very confident in themselves.*****
Roosters are always active, amusing, and popular within a crowd. Roosters are *talkative, outspoken*, frank, open, honest, and loyal individuals. ****They like to be the center of attention***** and always appear attractive and beautiful.
Roosters are happiest when they are surrounded by others, whether at a party or just a social gathering. They enjoy the spotlight and will exhibit their charm on any occasion.
****Roosters expect others to listen to them while they speak, and can become agitated if they don't. Vain and boastful, Roosters like to brag about themselves and their accomplishments.*****
****Their behavior of continually seeking the unwavering attention of others annoys people around them at times.****
Wow, couldn't have been bettah!
Note: The Rooster's very worst possible match is with the Rat. No wonder the Harkle-Farkle show isn't working out, hey! Though if you add clinical NPD to any Sign it's going to skew the negative traits that much more to the worse.
I think historically, puberty (12-13), (for example a bar and bat mitzvahs) was the age a child was considered old enough to know right from wrong and be responsible for their actions. This would include taking part in adult activities in the household and/or trade your family was in. But now, laws (in the US anyway) require or disallow these for today's youth (school, age to work, drink, smoke, marry, etc). So it is very hard to compare youth from the past with the youth of the US today. Maybe that is why the youth today cannot seem to handle adulthood......they've been treated like children for too long, with no responsibility for actions and now cannot seem to accept the consequences.
I could go on but that is a conversation for another time and place.