The website of clothing retailer H&M is currently featuring an image of Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor wearing H&M clothes.
"A Royal Baby First," says the ad copy. "Archie Mountbatten Windsor wears H&M Baby."
It certainly is a first for the Royal Family, who are generally not celebrity endorsers. In addition to Archie, Prince Harry appears prominently in the photos.
But it's also certainly a first for Most Reverend Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a brave man who helped broker the peaceful transition to a post-apartheid South Africa and won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts.
Is that what the Sussexes' meeting with Desmond Tutu was about? To sell some baby clothes?
And did the elderly Archbishop know this was what he was participating in? Did he get a cut? Or was his family merching out their 87-year-old-patriarch for a payday?
As Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols used to say, "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"
"A Royal Baby First," says the ad copy. "Archie Mountbatten Windsor wears H&M Baby."
It certainly is a first for the Royal Family, who are generally not celebrity endorsers. In addition to Archie, Prince Harry appears prominently in the photos.
But it's also certainly a first for Most Reverend Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a brave man who helped broker the peaceful transition to a post-apartheid South Africa and won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts.
Is that what the Sussexes' meeting with Desmond Tutu was about? To sell some baby clothes?
And did the elderly Archbishop know this was what he was participating in? Did he get a cut? Or was his family merching out their 87-year-old-patriarch for a payday?
H&M sent the stylist
No wonder Harry looked unusually well-groomed in the photos. H&M must have dressed him, and made sure Meg's hair was done properly as well.As Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols used to say, "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"
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One is that a nice chunk of it is paid - so they aren't leaving unless the money stops
The other is that a lot of IG is about being a bigger influencer than the person next to you. Getting gifts, money and being the coolest of the coolest is what it is all about. So, most of them aren't going to see anything wrong with this. And, they are unlikely to know the rules the BRF follows.
Praying for the long game/chess match. It feels like this has been going on for a lot longer than it has been.
I’m not surprised either, but I have to wonder if, as a working royal, exploitation of this type is approved. I also wonder if Harry was aware she did it while he was away in Botswana.
Just incredibly tacky and greedy behavior, but narcissists can never get enough money.
I imagine this is as a gauntlet tossed.
"And it seems to me you lived your lies
Like a candle in the wind
Always knowing who to cling to when the papps moved in
We didn't want to know you,
But Haz was just a kid;
His candle has burned out
Long before your merching ever did . . "
@AbbyH: of course, a lot of it is paid. And IG numbers mean nothing to me. But they mean a lot to Rach. And the point isn't that the IG numbers aren't dropping, it's that they aren't growing. At all. Most people don't unfollow for this. But the push to break the internet fell flat, and they can't match the IG numbers of the Cambridges (a big goal, I guess). Archie was the big play and no doubt his loving mother thought this would drive numbers up, and nothing. THAT is the point. It has nothing to do with "influencers". It has everything to do with the fact that there is no flocking to the Dumbartons.
It has been going on a long time. But looking back, think of how far the Dumbartons have fallen from grace, prestige, honor, popularity without the BRF doing anything but watching and waiting. Maybe facilitating a bit behind the scenes to walk Rach and the Mr. into the trap.
IMO the deep state is crazy ass merde, but whatevs. The difference is still quite clear.
HOWEVER, and I will give you this one, the same people who applaud Markle cannot simultaneously attack Donald for grifting in office. Grifting from others in office or in appointed position is always, always skeezy. Taxpayers supporting you, you can't grift on the side. Period. Now, Bye Felicia :)