Unanswered questions: Who is paying for Nice and Ibiza? And who brought Doria back into the spotlight?
There are plenty of new mysteries surrounding the Harkles over the past week.
First of all, why did they take not one but two luxury vacations in the month of August (so far) - first to Ibiza, then to the South of France - both on private jets?
Even someone with Harry's limited brainpower must see that this type of high-CO2 travel is a bad look for a man desperately worried about climate change.
Could someone be using the Harkles as a rage magnet to take attention off Prince Andrew and his troubles?
Archificial appeared to be precisely the same size he was 5 weeks ago when he made an unplanned appearance at a polo match - a size that was way too big for a 2 month old baby then, and is way too big for a 3 month old baby now.
His face was carefully covered, as it was at the polo match.
NetJets might have calculated that an image that included Archificial would get a lot more coverage than one without, although apparently it wasn't willing to pay enough to show Archie's face.
Actually, did NetJets pay for the entire holiday? If not, who did? Harry really doesn't have this kind of money, unless he's dipping into the principal of the estate his mother Diana left him.
And Meghan hasn't been able to do much merching lately given her maternity leave.
Could they already be making use of the $3 million Disney gave them for the Sussex Foundation?
Mcilwham, who can look forward to many creative misspellings of her name, must be a glutton for punishment. Either that or she has been planted by Lord Geidt and the other former Foreign Service types in the palace to keep an eye on the Harkles.
Good luck to you, Fiona.
You might want to sign up for some calming meditation classes or get a prescription for Xanax before your first day of work with Meghan.
First of all, why did they take not one but two luxury vacations in the month of August (so far) - first to Ibiza, then to the South of France - both on private jets?
Even someone with Harry's limited brainpower must see that this type of high-CO2 travel is a bad look for a man desperately worried about climate change.
Could someone be using the Harkles as a rage magnet to take attention off Prince Andrew and his troubles?
Archificial makes an appearance
Secondly, why did they agree to photographs with their son Archificial when deplaning in France? (Since they disembarked in a restricted part of the airport, the photos must have been planned for and approved.)Archificial appeared to be precisely the same size he was 5 weeks ago when he made an unplanned appearance at a polo match - a size that was way too big for a 2 month old baby then, and is way too big for a 3 month old baby now.
His face was carefully covered, as it was at the polo match.
Who is paying for this holiday?
Could Archie's appearance be part of a merching deal with NetJets, an Uber-like private jet service that flew the Harkles on both of their trips?NetJets might have calculated that an image that included Archificial would get a lot more coverage than one without, although apparently it wasn't willing to pay enough to show Archie's face.
Actually, did NetJets pay for the entire holiday? If not, who did? Harry really doesn't have this kind of money, unless he's dipping into the principal of the estate his mother Diana left him.
And Meghan hasn't been able to do much merching lately given her maternity leave.
Could they already be making use of the $3 million Disney gave them for the Sussex Foundation?
A new private secretary
In addition, it was announced that the Harkles had hired a new private secretary, a foreign service officer named Fiona Mcilwham who reportedly really wanted the job.Mcilwham, who can look forward to many creative misspellings of her name, must be a glutton for punishment. Either that or she has been planted by Lord Geidt and the other former Foreign Service types in the palace to keep an eye on the Harkles.
Good luck to you, Fiona.
You might want to sign up for some calming meditation classes or get a prescription for Xanax before your first day of work with Meghan.
Doria back in the picture
Finally, the Daily Mail ran a piece suggesting that Meghan's mother Doria is now "the real power behind the throne" and the only person the Sussexes will listen to, having alienated the rest of their families.
I have nothing against Doria, and unlike some other Meghan detractors, I don't really think it's fair to discuss her private life before Meghan was involved with the royal family.
Her bankruptcy and possible prison sentence took place when she was an ordinary citizen, and there has been no indication that she currently has financial or legal problems.
Poorly placed for advice
However, if there is one person poorly placed to give advice about the British monarchy and British media, it is a woman who has never lived in Britain and never worked in PR or the media.
Really, Doria has nothing to offer in this case beyond the standard mother's "There, there, dear. It'll be all right. These things tend to work themselves out with time" and other comforting phrases.
Personally, I think Doria and Meghan have very little personal relationship, and that the Daily Mail article is sheer nonsense - but sheer nonsense promoted by whom? Who does it benefit?
Chess pieces
The same questions arise about a piece in the Sunday Times today, suggesting that Meghan and Harry really wanted to live in Windsor Castle, but got a firm "no" from the Queen, who sent them off to Frogmore Cottage.
Even if this is true, it is not exactly breaking news - if it happened at all, it happened at least a year ago. So who handed the tidbit to a reporter right now?
Even if this is true, it is not exactly breaking news - if it happened at all, it happened at least a year ago. So who handed the tidbit to a reporter right now?
Was it the Cambridges' team trying to make the Sussexes look presumptuous?
Or the Sussex team trying to sell the message that they were unwelcome?
Or the Sussex team trying to sell the message that they were unwelcome?
Or some other chess piece entirely? Geidt? Andrew? Charles?
There are so many competing players on the board right now that it's hard to keep track.
There are so many competing players on the board right now that it's hard to keep track.
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Doria back in the mix, to me that is a Sussex thing. Probably start of a storyline to have Harkles needing to be close to Doria, ie look for a house and relocate to LA.
Poor Beatrice was supposed to announce her engagement this month, before the Epstein story broke. Now it's all about defending Daddy, with Edo nowhere to be seen.
Supposedly they're still together, however, and Bea has moved into his home and is acting as a second mom to his toddler, whose own mother travels extensively for business. The mom supposedly given her stamp of approval to Bea as a free babysitter.
And I can only imagine Markle and Harry living in Windsor and having their daily party with fireworks. I don't think the other residents would be amused.
It makes sense that Andrew is behind the PH/MM bad press, however, their bad press seems like no big deal compared to Andrew's. I wonder if it's business as usual for Wills and Kate instead? Wasn't there an article about a recent Cambridge vacation (along with its expense)? It makes sense that their PR would throw so shade at the Markle travels.
The Andrew/Epstein scandal is going to require something much bigger than the over-indulgent, tone-deaf, entitled hipocrisy of PH and MM.
@Unknown, excellent point about Doria and LA!
@Hikari, in case you missed my thanks for the link in the previous comments, "Thank you!"
But it's more likely Sussexs leak, they try to show that Harry is close to Meghan's mom, just like William has a good bond with Middletons, especially when it was an article about William's and Carole's Middleton relationship last month (or in the beginning of August).
As to Randy Andy, wowzers, the pictures are damning. Nutty - did you read the Himmmms four-part blind (on Twitter)? Oh geesh. I realize it was a blind - but wow, the things that were intimated....
I preface with that because I do want to add a point here that most people won't know: in the US, evidence rules during trial *do* allow crimes of moral turpitude to be used as evidence of impeachment against a defendant. There are other jurisdictional requirements, too. I just mention this because of your mention that Doria's past is not relevant, and while I don't discuss it, I do see a discussion elsewhere as not just a character attack but a valid concern. My guess is Lord G will, too.
The courts here consider crimes of moral turpitude as too relevant to character to overlook. If someone has committed fraud, embezzlement, etc. in the past, then their overall honesty, and therefore, their testimony on the stand may be questioned. Sort of the "once a liar and thief, maybe still one" theory. Anyway, I thought that an interesting tidbit to share.
I personally *do* believe people can grow, change, and evolve with really hard work. IME, that usually happens after one or several soul-shattering events and the person has to have had a heart and soul prior (it doesn't work with NPDs and sociopaths because no heart and soul lol). But if I knew someone had been convicted of a crime of moral turpitude in the past, I would try to give them another chance, but they would never have access to anything of value in my life and I'd count the silverware.
It is for these very same reasons that I would not trust the Countess of Dumbarton on any point. Liars lie. It is the only truth we know about liars, and the Countess of Dumbarton is a liar.
To me, it seems as if Andrew and MM got both what they wanted.....he was knocked from the top page and she got to merch......
@Nutty, I want to say from the last post I agree that "Uncle Dickie" is relevant, because those rumors are not new and there seems to be a pattern, Jimmy Savile, Epstein.....very unsettling.
I fully believe a house in LA has always been part of MM´s plan, this Doria leak is laying groundwork.
Apart from Andrew surely having a bone to pick with Harkles, there is also another thing. MM has her PR churn out article after article how she is the Queen´s favourite, all this celebrating MM´s bday in Balmoral with own wing etc. You all know them. Clearly geared towards US market. Now media in UK show up with receipts if you will that this was all rubbish. I think this Windsor story is out to punch a hole in MM´s PR. I am intrigued how long US media will continue to accept and publish MM´s PR articles. Even US media must know Harkles are losing credibility fast. It can´t be easy being Scobie these days..
1. I love that the Dumbartons' new assistant is a Foreign Service Officer who came up thru the Lord G career path. I think that is telling.
2. I guess it is possible that Netjets would be merching, ditto for the villas in Ibiza, but that just feels weird to me. Do the millionaires/billionaires who use Netjets really feel swayed by Dumbartons' choice of travel? And do those who might want to be just like the Dumbartons have the cash for charter? I think that the villa merch is more likely simply because there are probably cheaper ones to be had and Ibiza might appeal, but again, is there anyone who can afford that who hasn't been? It's not like it's some unique location. It's more like one of those tourist traps that Harry Dumbarton lectured about during one of his recent spells of hypocrisy.
3. Doria - the power behind the thrown - FFS, that's just a big 10 on the merde-o-the-bat-bonkers scale. Whoever planted that was drunk.
4. Why would they do this? A sense of entitlement and the belief that the trip would remain private are my first two guesses. Those photos could be very long lens, not taken w/in the private landing area and someone else in the BRF could have tipped off the press re the Dumbartons. It's not like Harry can just disappear without anyone at all knowing. At the very least, their security team would know and relay it.
5. Fauxrchie. WTH.
6. IGI now that Uncle Dickie is relevant and maybe foreshadowing of things to come. If it is true that the British press had the photos of Andrew at Epstein's for years and sat on them, then think of what else has been held quietly.
7. It's all just so odd. OTOH, it feels like the Dumbartons are trolling us. OTOH, it seems like it's more fuel on the already burning rage.
8. As for who is planting it all, I will not limit myself to one choice. I believe it is competing sources with specific agendas, some more coordinated than others.
2. I like that Freudian slip - Doria is the power behind the "thrown" instead of the "throne". It made me laugh out loud. So, thank you for that.
I'm not sure what they are doing, but I lean away from the idea of them trolling us to get to move to LA for a few reasons:
1) if they wanted out of the BRF, I'm guessing the BRF would honor their wishes for privacy and a relo (of course, no titles, no public support, but go and don't let the palace doors hit you on the way out)
2) markle has nothing to gain by leaving the BRF right now b/c her A-list status relies solely on the BRF connection - she really was D-list, no one had heard of her royal skankiness, so do we really believe that the markle on her own will command that interest? Hellsbells, the Clooneys and Oprahs and Beys have been deadly silent already - so they're going to embrace markle when she's skank-walked out of Frogmore Cottage? IDTS.
3) perhaps PH is still in love and perhaps he is just stuck for now, but whatever is true, that marriage will not last, so doesn't markle need to remain in the BRF long enough to mold another bebe in the image of Darren to secure that meal ticket?
As I wrote above, I lean towards competing interests dropping these bits because the storyline is so chaotic. It's like Markle's PR is pedaling as fast as they can to make markle the Most Beautiful and Perfect Duchess Born on THAT Day in 1981. Then, someone(s) come(s) along with receipts to the British media and that perfect BRF bish slap makes markle's big play for the HMTQBFF look foolish and a waste of PR money.
For ex., all the Balmoral snark in those articles: if she'd been invited it would have been her first visit - that's like an acid cocktail with a jauntily placed umbrella to make it look pretty. Thanks to someone (and a big thank you that is!) we know that the Dumbartons were *not* at Balmoral, no private wing, no special cake, etc. And we also know that they had their hypocritical asses planted on a private jet, just the three of them, no friends, no fam, nothing but the three of them, and OMG, can you just imagine the conversation between the two for days on end? Please, something sharp, right to the eye and let's hurry with that...
The Palace can't exactly have the DM do a "That Royal Lying Whore" headline, so this is the way it's done. Although who among us wouldn't buy stacks of a TRLW headline lol. JIC the British press is reading here and wants to make their 2019 sales quota, just one "That Royal Lying Whore" headline and a list of marklies, and I'm in.
The Sussex's are so far from the throne that that is the biggest joke of this century.
I have a feeling that Lord Geidt is worth his weight in gold and publishing all of this negative press about them
I wouldn't even be surprised if under the guise of making them feel special he ordered the private jet for them and cleared out Wimbledon for Markle, knowing both are too dim to realise a backlash, which eventually will be their downfall
There, problem taken care of....perhaps even quicker with the new press secretary.
Archie looks as though he hasn't stirred a peep since the polo match, he is in exactly the same position
He is very, very relaxed, that we can't argue
I’m sure she wants to buy an LA property so this story could help there too.
2) I think the Hazzes are merching for NetJets and possibly the vacation resorts.
3) Edward and Sophia caught terrible press for flying by private plane, right after Nutmegs’ baby shower in N.Y.
So the BRF could be behind the exposure of the Spenderellas’ endless summer vacations to a) distract from the Andrew-Epstein news and also b)as a payback for inconveniencing/causing by misery to many family members: Cambridge’s re affair, Eugenie, wedding overshadowed, Beatrice because they hurt Eugenie, the Wessexes for the media reaming they got a few months ago.
If Fiona considers herself a supermom, Megs will fire her in 6 months for daring to question HRH’s bad choices.
1) She gave permission for their likenesses to be used for a lucrative merching deal with the airline, resort, and maybe a couple of others. If PC has cut their funding, they're going to need all the money, which means *she* will need all the money after the divorce.
2) This is M's paid-for PR. She knows she can't keep churning stories with no images. She wants people to believe she and H are still together and that Archie is real. This is more "happy family" nonsense. Two actors and a doll fake a landing -- not hard to do. The doll is far too big for a three-month old and is in exactly the same position as at the polo. Also, nobody carries a young infant off a plane in arms like that, especially not a royal baby! It's too easy to trip and fall.
I think M is desperate to keep the act going until after the fall Africa tour, and I get the feeling something clandestine is planned for that trip. She may come back with a child that she shows off all over the place, either as Archie or Archie's adopted sib. That will give her more leverage to keep H trapped, and if it doesn't work, she can go the Saint Angelina route (plus it gets her more child maintenance).
3) This one's a bit mad, but stay with me for a moment. M is using this story to throw H under the bus, and it's working. People are howling about his carbon-footprint hypocrisy, especially right after the Google summit debacle and Vogue interview (which it's entirely possible she also wrote/edited). If we're in the run-up to the separation and divorce, she'll be eager to make H look bad and get loads of public sympathy for herself. What's he going to do -- expose the story as a fake?
Or, least likely, maybe they actually went on these trips and M has been dragging the doll around everywhere, like the crazy person she's said to be. If that's the case, I hope Harry can get out as soon as possible.
I agree it the photos from the plane could be faked and MM could have given her permission for likeness and merching. Still - it completely contradicts ALL her churned out PR stories re Balmoral, how special Harkles are to TQ. Is merching worth exposing her prior stories as rubbish? Long term her merching brand will take a nose dive with that strategy. It has already taken a hit.
I also don´t really see the believable push of happy couple with this strategy? They are blowing their carefully curated brand on instagram. It is much too soon after Vogue and Google to successfully merch private jets and villas. It comes off as them avoiding the UK at all cost - not a happy couple. It might be their PR strategy to sell as such, but the optics are not there.
I think it is more likely to be Harkles thrown to the wolves. The more their hypocrisy is exposed the harder it will be to pull up the race card, and more importantly the more exposed they are, the harder it will be for their fans to defend them. And that is really what BRF or Geidt is aiming for IMHO.
She's constantly trying to steal any attention she can from Beatrice and Eugienie. She keeps trying to make Kate appear weak and overly emotional. She wants everyone to believe she is favored over the other females in the family.
Considering that MM doesn't seem to be following any sort of Total advisor maybe she is only listening to her Mother. Which could explain the many missteps.
Also I'm still thinking she's carrying a doll for possible photo opportunities.
Some royal tea for you. Not gonna say how I know it, so don’t bother asking. When #MeghanMarkle was on the Halloween tour last year, she and Harry stayed in separate rooms and fought about the “pregnancy” all the time.
Harry was embarrassed and apologized for her behavior. Apparently #MeghanMarkle and Jessica Mulroney wanted to treat it like a rockstar tour and not a working royal tour.
where she was staying, she wanted the whole house and not just the wing.
I don't think she cares whether people find the "happy family" tosh believable, if that's even occurred to her (you're right; the optics aren't there). She will do it right up until the divorce announcement (or until she runs out of PR money, whichever comes first). I also agree about the "too much too soon" and blowing it on IG, but she doesn't understand that there is such a thing as "too much" as long as she's a *Princess.*
I do hope they get thrown to the wolves, with Geidt is leader of the pack.
And the comment about using an advisor who did not grow up in a similar social experience/not even from the new/adopted country as not the wisest move is spot on. The BRF is about nuance, how things are done and how one should or should not respond.
Her unwillingness to hear something she doesn't want to hear is an added complication to anyone trying to offer her advice.
As to who is paying for all of this, that is a good question. One I have been wondering for a long time with all the highly positive articles about her for so long - where is the money coming from to pay for all of this? There is a part of me which wonders what that amount is so far?
Did anyone else see the covered baby photos and think about Michael Jackson? or was that just me?
And now after all this while, and after all the shenanigans, they have been firmly given the boot. Told to move lock stock barrel to Frog Cott. So the stories are now circulating, with a certain twist to it???
Could also be the reason they are constantly on the move in August, while the actual move and unpacking and setting up house is being done for them by staff, they don't have a place to stay without raising eyebrows (or weren't welcome to stay with family). So they'd rather make a big deal, spin a narrative, and decided to be ambassadors for NetJet or some such deal to sponcer their holiday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWoGfHoonh4
New pics from Nice trip today..and to be honest I think the legal department of The Sun and DM made sure it was/is the real deal to avoid lawsuits. That would have thrown THEIR royal coverage in question, and somehow I think they are better with strategy overall.
Yes, I see your point of MM being fine with any media coverage. This is true up to a point. MM is banking heavily on BRF not commenting on her nonsense PR rubbish. Usually they don´t, they let her churn out very costly rubbish, and then all of a sudden BRF launches a broadside. All MM´s pro PR articles re wedding are mostly forgotten. We do remember tiara gate, Kate crying and scent for St George´s Chapel. When these happen MM does care. A lot. She´s not going to be happy about public knowing TQ declined Harkles living at Windsor.
Since BRF lets media expose yet another private jet trip, Harkles should not be sure RF will play along with a let´s say we did but didn´t visit to Balmoral. RF or Geidt, or both have given green light to media blowing up the Harkles preferred narrative. It comes just as Vogue is still fresh in public´s memory and MM is on record saying it was her own request to edit. Oh, they also just had their insta focus campaign.
Unprompted.
Media drive exposing Harkles provides a bit of hold on a minute to any celebrity wanting to jump to their defense. It becomes proceed at your own risk. MM came for the jet setting A list life style, but A listers are mostly way more media savvy than she is. Well, at least they listen to their team.
Being a MM fan atm must be exhausting. Pro MM reporters Scobie, Nicholl etc will at some point realize that as MM lies to the public, probably RF and herself, she is also lying to them. They are no exception. Question is how long they are going to carry water for her and live with themselves.
People go online to be entertained, to and investigate and share their findings. I'm not sure people go online to be disgusted, which is what Andrew has to offer right now.
Even when Epstein is concerned, people seem to be more interested in putting together the pieces about his death as opposed to reading about his sick lifestyle. There's only so much of that anyone can take.
I have not read the Himmms blind, but I'll check it out.
Read an interesting article the other day saying that while the 20th century was about a clash of ideologies, the 21st century so far has been about a clash of credibility - who can you believe?
A vinyl baby will certainly shake the credibility of the Royal Family and their media defenders, who must know the truth by this point.
Not just Meg selling out . Harry is 100% in it. They are cashing in while they can.
I remember that the cancelled JLo/Ben Affleck wedding at one point considered using up to 3 decoy brides to lure attention away from the actual ceremony.
He could have had the section cleared out and just sat her and her friends in the middle of it, without her being any the wiser. (Particularly since she appeared to be drunk.)
He could have also told the security people to go around saying "no pictures please" to members of the public, knowing that would hit the papers.
If he did, it was genius, because Wimbledon turned a lot of people against her.
And if they were being moved into Frog Cottage, you'd think we'd also hear something via Twitter.
I'm skeptical that they're anywhere near Windsor.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7370779/Prince-William-fears-Harry-Meghans-recent-behaviour-detrimental-royal-family.html
We got 5 stories today... (could have been more)
1. Multiple private flights
2. Staying at Elton John's mansion
3. Damaging the royal family
4. Staying in separate house in Scotland due to "tensions' with the Cambridges.
5. Queen has private tea with William after Charles & Diana split.
All from Andrew or from multiple factions in the royal family? Deflection or knives out?
There was one additional story today - a puff piece about how the Harkles now have the first "all female team" running their affairs.
Personally, I don't care if they have an all Oompa Loompa team. They need someone competent, and Meghan needs to butt out and let the Oompa Loompas do their jobs.
An all Oompa Loompa team would be awesome... all press releases in the form of rhyming song, with a touch of scathing honesty.
MM: I want it NOW!
PH: What Meghan wants, Meghan gets.
I want a ball
I want a party
Pink macaroons and a million balloons and performing baboons and
Give it to me now.
I want the world,
I want the whole world.
I want to lock it all up in my pocket
It's my bar of chocolate
Give it to me now!
I want today
I want tomorrow
I want to wear them like braids in my hair and I don't want to share them
I want a party with roomfuls of laughter
Ten thousand tons of ice cream
And if I don't get the things I am after
I'm going to scream!
I want the works,
I want the whole works!
Presents and prizes and sweets and surprises in all shapes and sizes,
And now!
Don't care how I want it now!
Don't care how I want it now!
Now the floodgates are opening with info coming out of Admiralty House in Australia about the cluster* that the fall tour was. Staffers saying that Meglodon was unbelievably rude and foul-mouthed to the staff, especially the ones that weren't pretty/handsome. When told that it was not acceptable to treat staff members thusly, she retorted "F off, don't you know who I am?"
According to witnesses, the person told to F off by Her Royal Ho-ness was Lady Cosgrove, wife of the Governor General of Australia and therefore, Ho's hostess.
Witnesses also say that Harry and Meglodon slept in separate rooms, and alternated screaming matches about 'the pregnancy' with communicating via intermediaries. This was only 5 months after the wedding.
If relations have been that frosty since only months into their marriage, who can seriously believe that Harry is cohabiting with her, much less having sex with her anymore? If she turns up pregnant for real anytime soon (like now) . . that's going to be an interesting development. Yet, he's still going along with every bizarre scheme of hers to get their faces in the press and turn it into a cash grab. It appears that she's planning on charging for appearance during the upcoming Africa tour, if that's still on.
Yes, Megs is going to go to a Third World Commonwealth collective of nations and collect appearance fees, a la Paris Hilton, when she is ostensibly there on an official Crown tour. Maybe this is an advance hint that the upcoming Dumbarton Debacle in Africa will *not* be an official Crown tour, but that HM is dumping them off on the continent and saying "Don't bother coming home"?
This kind of blatant commercializing was denied to the Duke of Windsor, who complained that he had no means of supplementing his allowance from the Crown; why is it not being denied to the Harkles?
I don't know if the Ibiza trip was real or not, but I'm going with 'fake/doubles' pics on the jet in Nice. It really could not be more blatant with the Panama hat completely over 'her' face. No one in her right mind (which Markle admittedly isn't) would carry an infant like that down steep metal stairs without a carrier/holding on to the railing. If Harry were really there, and Archie were really there, Haz would have carried him if Meg was going to be so reckless with him. Those pics were planted. Had it really been them, and had they been expecting complete privacy upon disembarking, they wouldn't have gone to such ridiculous lengths to obscure their faces and that of Fauxchie.
Meg might have loaned out her favorite hat for the occasion.
Denise Nickerson (the sassy gum-snapping Violet Beauregarde) passed away July 10 after developing complications after an attempted suicide. This lady had a sad life. She was always my favorite of Willy Wonka's 'kids' . . even Charlie, who, let's be honest, was a bit of a pill.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_Nickerson
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Meglodon makes Veruca Salt look like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
Abbyh, I said that about blanket baby Michael Jackson yesterday on a different thread, so no, it's not just you. Like Jackson, all of the hide the baby behavior is contrived and deliberate, rooted in greed, like everything else Markle and Harry do or say. It is all about how to profit.
The Dumbartons do not care about anything or anyone. Their apathy knows know bounds. If they really did care and wanted to project a caring image like Diana did, they wouldn't behave so badly. If women could attend the Bohemian Grove annual get together, Megs would be the first to light the torch and burn the owl image that represents "killing care."
What's most sick about Megs and Haz is they both have themselves fully convinced that they are justified in everything they do or say. The demand to have empty seats and no photos at Wimbledon is a prime example of Meg's previously planned and self approved justification to prove to her "friends" that she's far more important to sit amongst the riff raff.
Remember Gina Cowne's comments about Megs' self importance and her addiction to promoting her "brand", I think while she was still stalking Harry or around the same time. Gina said Megs would call her to change hotels because she didn't like seeing a caged parrot in the hotel lobby. What? What a petty, ridiculous person Megs is. So Gina had to somehow find her another place to stay in a high end hotel that didn't have anything in it that Megs found off her brand like she's somehow Princess and the Pea offended.
She will continue to find ways to justify everything she does and impose and impede on others and for a malignant narcissist with a support group that includes her mother, she has more infinite demands in store until someone with enough power finally refuses to let her justify further.
In a pre engagement article, or around that time, Megs said all she needed to say to convince me that she's a self important imposter. I was so very disappointed because I wanted to like her, and was so impressed by her CV and that finally Harry found happiness. But the slightest thing alerted me to the opposite side of the scale: She said while waiting alone in an airport VIP lounge she was told to move to make room for a group of important Asian VIP's who wanted to sit together. Now I don't know about you, but I'd have happily moved to make way so they could sit together. I do it all the time at restaurants with no problem, and others do as well. Meg said she reluctantly moved without making a fuss but said as she did she thought to herself that this would be the LAST time she would be viewed as a nobody, and would never be asked to move again because she is more important than anyone else. Since then her arrogance hubris has exacerbated exponentially. What a shame.
It surprised me in that I've known a lot of big fish VIP's and have been one myself in a small pond. The last thing I cared about or most of the big fish for that matter was to be selfish, self serving everywhere, about everything all the time.
As for everything else, decoys, dolls, jets, what have you, I'm overwhelmed. This is some mess Megs has created. She couldn't have made more of a mess of this if she'd have just lobbed a bomb at Buckingham palace.
Plus, there's the whole "gift" thing rearing it's chubby little head, too. Whoops.
She's so trashy.
I enjoy your shade on this hot day. :)
Or are you and Nutty being serious? Not sure. There is no way that the 'infant' 'Meghan' is holding as she descends those steep slippery metal jet stairs in espadrilles or whatever she's got on her feet is genuine. It'd be so incredibly dangerous to carry a baby like this without a carrier or using the handrail for support. Plus there's the heavy, oddly inert baby form, with the same melon-sized shiny head and exact body posture we saw at the polo.
She did get ahold of a real baby for the christening and presentation and he's cute. And he is also alive. I don't know where he is, but I'd bet my pension he wasn't in 'Nice' . . how do we know where that NetJet photo was taken? With the Harkles, it might have been at Shepperton Studios. Nor was he in Ibiza or at the polo ground. They are trying to sustain the illusion that they have custody of a baby which they do not. How much longer does Meghan think she can play this out? In another six months or so, Fauxchie should be old enough to be getting ready to walk, given his accelerated growth pattern and general prodigiousness at every milestone. Do they make Reborns in toddler size? And more importantly, just how big of dolts do Hazmat and Murkle think we are?
Do you think they would take a plastic doll to visit Elton John? who is now declaring that he paid for the private jet, so all is ok now with mother earth.
Well who woulda thought that $$$$ could solve the problem?
But to be fair, poor pets needed another break from their eternal break
Nothing about these dimwits sprouting 'save the earth' and then doing the exact opposite
I get a strong feeling that the message was for us peasants, only
Well i for one, just do not want believe Geidt is sitting around doing nothing, he is supposed to be a genius
I for one would like to believe that he cleared out Wimbledon and Megsy didn't have a clue and that he is setting up one disaster after another, like a good game of dominoes
I also think MM wears that panama hat and uses it to signal someone to send a message, could explain why she had it on backwards...lol
Remember her friends at Wimbledon told her 'put on the hat'...why was it so important when the cameras scoped around that she have her hat on?
Just a thought
Looking forward to your next post Nutty, as always
Although, no pressure ; )
To me, real power players don't need to throw their weight around to make it obvious that they are a force to be reckoned with - you see it in their walk, how they hold themselves and how they treat others (usually with kindness and politeness). They can make one aware that they are indeed a real powerful person if you start taking "liberties" (the power is real) but they don't need that to get what they want in most situations.
The wannabe power seekers are insecure and feel a need to hold this "power" over people as a threat to get what they want in day to day actions.
Team Decoy for me. There have been just too many times the press has just happened to be there to be able to snap the right photo for product placement with her. To not see her face would be really out of character but if they were shutting her down, the implied photo might be the trickling off attempt at keeping this still going.
As for the idea she is setting up paid appointments in Africa, I hope that HMTQ/LG is aware of this and will come down hard and fast about it.
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/08/19/16/17421512-7371321-Prince_Harry_who_has_spoken_about_environmental_concerns_in_the_-m-13_1566227202759.jpg
Elton and Diana were friends, but were on the outs when she died. I can't remember what it was about. I think Harry and William have some kind of bond with him because of their mom's friendship with him.
The talk about how the Cambridge family will not stay under the same roof as M&H at Balmoral is not a surprise. Who would want to keep pretending that Archie is real and explain to George and Charlotte why he doesn't move much? Or why Megs won't let anyone hold him.
Elton wants to burnish his Diana credentials and apparently paid for everything.
And also allows Elton to play his 'Goodbye England's Rose' joker when negative press ensues.
Can you imagine being Meg's surrogate? The demands during the pregnancy would be outrageous, over the top crazy non stop day and night.
The surrogate would hold all of the cards.
Non!
There is so much spin around this pair that anything is possible.
After the Lady in Brown appeared at the Commonwealth Day service in March, apart from a brief appearance at NZ House on March 19th, Megs was not seen again in public until May 8th . . . 50 days, or seven weeks. There was a lot of folderol released about her 'home birthing plan', etc. . .but no sightings. When she didn't attend Easter services with the RF, there was feverish speculation that her labor was imminent . . .yet nearly another month (3 weeks to be exact) went by until the Shambolic Suxxit Show kicked off in earnest.
I think the surrogate's baby was in fact born Easter weekend, which is why Megs stayed in seclusion, supposedly home-birthing . . . but immediately after, Megs' plan went askew when the surrogate didn't hand the baby over right away. Or maybe she did . . for a three minute photo call. Perhaps when she did that, she was still undecided, but by law she had 6 weeks to finalize her decision to keep him as his natural and legal mother under British law or allow him to be formally adopted by the Suxxits. Something must have persuaded her that it would be in the baby's best interest to be raised by her, the one who'd suffered through carrying him for 9 months and birthing him, rather than Maleficent and her hapless Boobie who had hired her to grow them a baby. When the agreement was entered into, the surrogate probably didn't realize she'd been hired by a sociopath and an idiot. Lord G. probably sweetened the pot with a big bag of money to ensure that 'The Child Known as Archie' is raised in comfort and lacking for nothing, including all the best educational opportunities. Though . . we've all seen his little face by now, so where he is currently living or if he can remain anonymous is a big mystery. I think it's a given that the surrogate now has the protection of Lord G. and is in a form of witness protection, whereabouts unknown, because otherwise Meg would hurt her or have her hurt in order to take the baby--I feel she's ruthless enough to do that.
We haven't had any more full facial pictures of Archie because Megs and Hazmat have not had access to him since the staged christening which happened some time before July. Megs is well and truly screwed but she's trying frantically to spin out her charade as long as possible.
Remember Casey Anthony? The eerily like Meghan stone cold sociopath who lied and lied smoothly for months on end about a phantom babysitter? Who, even when her back was literally to the wall, took detectives on a tour of 'her workplace' where she swore people could corroborate her alibi . . walked confidently into the offices as if she belonged there; turned out she'd interned at that place for a few weeks years previously and she had no authorization to be anywhere near there. The cops already knew all this, but they followed her around for a good 30 minutes until she was literally cornered in a hallway and finally admitted that it was all a lie.
Elle is right in saying that Meghan will not stop until she literally has no more dodges left, but as long as influential and loaded celebs like Elton John are willing to jump on her crazy train and aid and abet her, her utter humiliation and discrediting is still a ways off.
My feeling is that he will elude prosecution in either American courts (diplomatic immunity extended to the member of the Crown family of an Allied nation . . not forgetting our Special Relationship and all that entails) or a British court, either (prosecuting the son of a reigning monarch, unheard of. . . not forgetting that this is the family which had a member once deeply suspected of being Jack the Ripper--Queen Victoria's grandson Prince Albert Victor--and nothing ever came of those suspicions, even though PAV was widely acknowledged by his contemporaries to be not right in the head and entirely capable of such vicious acts) . . . Even Andy's peccadilloes would pale in comparison to that. I don't think Andy will do any time anywhere, but lesser connected cohorts will.
The strain of the scandal may well hasten the demises of Andy's elderly parents, though. I don't think what remains of Andrew's life is going to be particularly pleasant even if he remains technically free.
OMG. I cannot imagine anyone ever doing something so horrible -- until now. I thought Harry was just stupid in love, but whatever balls he may have had in the military are shriveled up and long lost. He is welcome to whatever mess he is in.
HM should have immediately banned them from the UK. Forever.
The 'Soho House' looking-home was no doubt one of the Soho House locations of which Megsie is so fond. It would be an Easter egg to Soho House members but the general public wouldn't be any the wiser. It certainly wasn't Fraudmore.
I sincerely hope that the continued silence from BP constitutes some sort of longrange game plan and not just that ER has gone dotty and lost the thread like her ancestor George III.
That's why this could get very murky very quickly.
Why would PA be associated with these people? As a second son, he is largely powerless. Maybe this is his way to compensate. Maybe he was recruited/flattered into the lifestyle gradually as a way to undermine the royal family from within. Cui bono?
Epstein didn't just pedo party with royals and politicians. He associated with inventors, engineers, financial wizards. If a person was important enough, they were probably known to him.
For some, power means killing on a mass scale. Stalin is believed to have killed 20 million of his own people, but it might have been up to 60 million. Mao Zedong was responsible for the deaths of 20 to 40 million people in the great leap forward. The people pursuing the "green" agenda do not seem to be at all concerned that half or more of the earth's inhabitants would die under their mandates. Which brings me to:
Why is Google courting Harry? What sort of power are they seeking from this connection? Is this another undermining the royal family move in case Andrew isn't effective in some global quest for power that the players feel that the royal family is blocking? What can the motley collection of Hollyweird people do for a tech giant? What is the real story? (I do not for one second believe that it is about 'saving the environment'. Their carbon footprint (gag) is enormous.) And then, who is behind Markle?
I do not think that Epstein was the HMFIC here.
Hope she's merched enough to pay a forensic accountant to find Harry's money, they don't come cheap.
https://the-charlatan-duchess.tumblr.com/post/187130908655#notes
I always think it's an interesting legal exception - and a valid one.
If you've seen You've Got Mail, then you know Nanny Maureen's words of wisdom: "Never marry a man who lies." I have a very strict rule in my life and that is, if I catch a friend lying to me, I may or may not give one more chance depending on the size and impact of the lie, but almost always, they do get caught again, and then I wish them well and we part ways. Liars and the other moral turpituders just aren't worth it IMO because quite often, they will just turn around and do it again.
Interesting article about Ellen agreeing to do whatever was asked for Hillary.
https://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-ellen-degeneres-party-talking-points-2015-9
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After the party, Clinton responded to Mills and said she spoke with DeGeneres.
"She said she would do whatever we asked and so full speed ahead!" Clinton wrote.
You would have moved/do move because you are a decent and caring human being. Even I (grin) would have moved had I been aware of the situation but it wouldn't have happened to me and probably not to you. I wouldn't have been sitting at the biggest table to demonstrate my importance which it sounds like she must have been doing. (When traveling by myself, I tend to be immersed in a book in a quiet corner and, as my husband likes to point out, not a normal person book but some kind of technical manual.)
It is a terrible shame that a great humanitarian such as herself cannot bother to bestir herself in order to help out her fellow humans. She would have had a much better time if she weren't constantly looking for people that slight her by not realizing her importance (eye roll). It always amazes and amuses me how many humanitarians there are that really hate people.
Holy bloody hell. What kind of sociopathic societal stain thinks that way?
I would have asked them if they wanted me to move (I always figure that, as Queen, I can afford to be gracious.)
Holy bloody hell.
Note to Lord G: Get her, Lord G, get her!
Nutty, I read a comment that the fact that the BRF is remaining silent re the Dumbarton spectacle de merde is a much bigger deal that most people realize. Your thoughts? (I have none on this topic so that's why I'm asking :)
Wouldn't Elton have used the more correct "middle-aged family"?
1 l. passionfruit juice
375 ml vodka
280 ml Chambord
1 punnet of strawberries, hulled
750 ml brut champagne
https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1167734/meghan-markle-news-latest-archie-food-frogmore-cottage-prince-harry
Okay, random things:
1. I don't know much about 3 month old babies, but pretty sure they're not snacking on chicken tacos or pasta and wine. FFS she lies.
2. She is still trying to pass Cory's pasta sauce off as her own. Again. FFS she lies.
3. And she's vegan during the week. Liar, liar, stretch-panel pants* on fire, FFS she lies.
It can't be too soon for that "Lying Royal Whore!" headline I requested from the DM?
Also, I have read other comments saying that Fauxrchie didn't seem to be wearing a diaper and that his shoulders and hips are disproportionate for that reason. I noticed the broad shoulders, so good to see it confirmed. Also, if you watch the video of markle tossing Fauxrchie at polo, pretty much looks like the same size which is odd. You'd think all those chicken tacos and pasta would put a few pounds on him.
* no diss to stretch-panel pants, but you just know she hates that she has to wear them, so I couldn't resist.
Later, at the airport bar,
"Excuse me, miss, but could you ask that middle-aged woman in the stretch-panel pants, you see her there, the one holding the doll and talking to herself, if she could move so my friends and I could all sit together?"
And to the Nuttier who wondered why Mrs. Dumbarton took up the whole big table at the airport bar? Probably that's how she picked up men when she was just an unknown ho, before she became a royal one.
First of all, every person who eats vegan doesn't automatically become healthy/fit. That's the biggest pop culture myth!
Everyone who does yoga , esp hot yoga , doesn't become healthy, fit or even a nice person! What a load of bull. As if your diet and exercise regimen is now a character certificate?! If that's the best thing that can be said about over the years, then that's certainly a red flag!!
Also, the article does say that while she is vegan during the week, she indulges in a big plate of pasta and red wine over the weekend. And has fries for lunch! Like seriously! Day after day, weekend after weekend?! How is that even remotely healthy?
And to be honest, looking at her, you don't see that reflected in her body or skin. She is (used to be) very very skinny, but here was no tone to her arms, neck, back, shoulders. You would see for someone who does so much vinyasa and eats mainly vegetarian.
Kate and Pippa as skinny but you can see their arms and legs are very toned, it shows even when they are fully covered.
Meghan's idea of being healthy is being skinny. Just like her idea of being sophisticated is wearing g black, and having her hair tied in a bun.
.... Just like her idea of famous is having celebrity friends speaking out for her in media, via Instagram.
.... Just like idea of being a good person is judging by the number of celebrity friends she can round up every quearter.
... Just like her idea of being a good mother is squashing your tiny baby's face into your chest so his face isn't visible.
I could obviously go on and on....
I also feel, at this time, no amount of celebrity testimonials are going to help them. They need to issue a statement,.preferable a video statement, justifying their actions, or at least speaking about these issues because the PR debacle is getting out of hand for them. BRF can remain quiet for.now, but soon everything any other royal does, will begin to be judged by HnM standards and then image control would become top priority for the BRF.
The various British papers seem a bit hypocritical when they are jumping all over Andrew for having sex with a 17-year-old girl when he was 30, but they pretty much ignored the Pakistani gang grooming/raping of 11 to 13-year-old English girls who were beaten, threatened, and gang raped.
Very interesting points raised.
An oddball question. If a foreigner to Britain wants to use a surrogate, where do you find information? Do surrogates advertise? On websites? Is there a surrogate database? What qualifications ( as in age,blood group,etc ) does a surrogate need? Does social services get involved, like in nurse/clinic visits?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3652201/PICTURE-EXCLUSIVE-s-flunkey-need-one-Disappointed-Prince-William-stows-bag-flies-Club-Class-home-England-fans-did-remember-wish-happy-birthday.html
And earlier, all the way to the US, to visit Obama in 2014 (albeit, in First class):
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/prince-william/11281773/Duke-of-Cambridge-slums-it-on-commercial-flight-to-Washington.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3832204/amp/Kate-visits-Hague-Rotterdam-solo-trip-without-William.html
As for Kate, that was a lovely scarfing. William is going to need to up his game ;)
I think the comments of looking at the past with today's cultural view of social tolerance is a really important one.
And one I suspect we will never see in print as the social media of SJW's will pound that through the core of the earth and out the other side. Sometimes I think of them as the tail that wags the dog.
It still may not make it somehow ok but things really were looked at differently. I don't see a lot of the young people grasping that (mainly because they didn't live through it like we did). They seem to only be able to grasp what they have lived though as the only possible true reality - there can be no other. And, no other reality is tolerable.
I'll try to find the article and give you the link. It was about the time I think she was still on Suits and shuttling from Toronto to London.
Thomas's Mexican sofa is probably full of las cucharachas, not that Murkle would ever consider it. She doesn't have a father in her own mind.
I work in an urban public library and have the opportunity to observe a lot of mentally ill individuals at close range. People with mental illnesses very often do not inhabit their bodies comfortably. Their coordination is often jerky and another symptom is their body temperatures are wacky. They are very often dressed completely inappropriately for the weather/season, sporting wool hats and coats in August and thin fabrics with no coat in January. Before I knew about Meg's Merching fetish, I wondered if her constantly bizarre out-of-season dressing and poorly fitted clothing reflected this kind of disordered thinking. Somebody in another comment once remarked that narcissists have difficulty judging aesthetics . . .that certainly seems to be Meg's problem, if she actually thinks she looks good in these horribly merched 'fashions'.
That performance at the polo was such a public display of a disordered mind at work, I cannot believe that nobody in the MSM is venturing concern about the Duchess's mental health, even if they accept the blatant fiction that Fauxchie is a real infant. The faces of Catherine and various people that got close to her on that day show varying degrees of puzzlement verging into incredulity/horror.
Catherine cut such a wide berth around Smeaghan and Fauxchie with her kids it's like they had Ebola. This goes beyond personal tensions relating to working together or being next-door neighbors--Kate would've at least greeted her and acknowledged the baby if this scenario had been in any way normal.
For someone who supposedly has a drama degree from a top university, which would have entailed movement classes and stagecraft, not to mention somebody who has studied yoga since she was in junior high and who has been hired as a model and successfully passed at least two professional auditions that we know of . . . she sure moves like a Parkinson's patient off her meds.
How could this woman have snowed anybody for more than 5 minutes at a time? I've never seen such an awkward, grating presentation. She's like a glitchy Replicant, not an actual human, so it's fitting that she's got a Reborn baby.
My God, this world just keeps getting more and more depraved. Maybe that's why the Harkles *had* to be at the Lion King premiere rather than the veterans' memorial concert. Because Jay-Z has that kind of dirt on them . . ?
Plastic flowers can look convincing from a distance as the real thing but as soon as you get close enough to smell or touch, the illusion is shattered.
It's a given that Meg is a clinical Narcissist . . but Narcs generally succeed despite being such superficial people because they are chameleons--skilled actors who can fake the 'right' emotions necessary to manipulate others and be extremely charming in the short term. That's how they suck in the unsuspecting. Then, after they have snared their targets and gleaned what they wanted out of their victims, they let the mask slip and reveal their true selves. Partly for the cruel sport of it all and partly because they just DGAF if they have used that person for whatever they needed them for.
At the beginning of all this, I could believe that Markle was a skillful operator who used all the tricks in her feminine arsenal to snag Harry and she didn't show him her ugly side until after the wedding, reserving her ugly side for disposable minions and her rivals within the Royal family. But the testimony is overwhelming from too many people who have had even the briefest social encounters with her that she is an absolute nightmare from morning to night.
Someone who'd tell the wives of highly placed Commonwealth officials to go F themselves or turn that mouth on the Queen of England have no skillful game face or strategy. She's like a gaping case of Tourette's Syndrome walking freely among us. She's a Replicant, passing for human. How can a Replicant have gotten so very far on the backs of favors done to her by raftloads of influential people? She keeps alienating and ghosting her helpers, but there are always fresh raftloads queuing up to serve her. Why??
I think her university degree is completely bogus . . . she may have applied to the drama program at Northwestern but I can't believe she would have been accepted or allowed to stay in it if we've seen the quality of her acting skills. She wouldn't rate a chorus part in community theatre.
Plastic flowers can look convincing from a distance as the real thing but as soon as you get close enough to smell or touch, the illusion is shattered."
Thank you, @Hikari! That is a compliment coming from the Post of the Year award-winner!
Also, re plastic flowers: they are tacky, cheap, impossible to keep clean, give off toxic gas, and are just the worst version ever made of the real thing. IOW, the definition of Mrs. Dumbarton.
"She wouldn't rate a chorus part in community theatre." True. But what about as an extra in The Hunger Games -- a horrid, obnoxiously dressed citizen of Panem perhaps? Or even in the Divergent?
Side note, Kate dodging her at the polo whilst she was carrying baby Louis when Meghan was bobbing up and down like a mental made my week.
If the staff at Admiralty House Australia are to be believed, the DumWits haven't been sharing a bed since last fall, or 5 months into their marriage. I wonder if Hazza got any sort of honeymoon period with his new bride or if it's been like this since that huge blowout Wedding Spectacle Granny and Charles threw them.
I thought I'd read at the time of Eugenie's marriage that she and Jack were taking over Nott Cott, since it had been vacated for the DumWits' glorious relocation to Fraudmore. Wouldn't that be a kick in the head (again) if Eugenie and Jack were promised Nott Cott, or had already settled in there when the cottage was abruptly pulled from them and reassigned to the Earl of Dumba$$? Since Beatrice and Edo and Woolfy are in the apartment at St. James which Genie shared with her sister before her marriage, I wonder where the Brooksbanks are living now.
We may add Beatrice and Eugenie to the list of relationships which the Earl of Dumba$$ has torched since he allowed Meghan to glom onto him. Diana's boys were always so close to their York cousins, too. This is a real shame.
I wonder if the Earl of Dumba$$ has enough intellectual capability to reflect upon the pathetic situation of being back in his bachelor pad just 15 months after his Wedding of the Century, with his reputation in tatters and alone again due to his own abysmal choices. Most likely not.
And where the F*ck is Archie, Harry?
There's another video of polo today - hard to say what was going on but Kate looked lovely.