CDAN's Enty must not have much free time. In addition to publishing a dozen short pieces on his website seven days a week, he also puts out roughly five podcasts per week.
(You can subscribe to Enty's podcast via Patreon for $5 plus tax per month.)
Anyway, Enty admits his Royal sources are not particularly good - that he can only get exclusives when something related to the Royals happens in his home town of Los Angeles, New York City, and occasionally Toronto, where he has sources in the entertainment industry.
His one big scoop was that someone representing the Royal Family has been looking at California real estate.
Nevertheless, he answered a reader's question about Meg in a podcast released late Wednesday or very early Thursday Los Angeles time. This is what he said.
Does she pass the child off to the nannies and things like that?
I think that she....seems like a good mom. I think that she's very happy when she has the opportunity to pass Archie off to a nanny.
There's nannies 24 hours a day, and they've taken some trips without Archie.
So, you know, I don't have enough of an insight on that. You know, the people that I get the Meghan Markle stuff from, it doesn't seem to pop up whether she's a good mom.
As to the cokehead, I mean, yeah, she love the cocaine. (sic)
She wants to be the next GOOP the next Gwnyth Paltrow. I've talked about that in the blinds.
You know, I was the first to mention that there were people representing the Royal Family - you know, who has a huge real estate empire.
I don't think people quite realize that. I mean, the Queen is the largest landowner in Canada for goodness sakes.
I think that she would much prefer to be in Bel Air so she would be closer for parties and events and things like that.
I'm really convinced that she wants to have some kind of lifestyle brand, some kind of clothing line.
However she can make a buck, she's going to make a buck.
I am never going to fault somebody for trying to make a buck.
So, you know, if she comes out to LA, she will go full-on.
I also don't see how Harry can live in Los Angeles. He has too many obligations, too many charities, too many things he has to do.
You know, like it or not, mostly he and William are the face of the Royal Family. So he has to do a lot of things and he's not going to be able to do those if he's living in Los Angeles.
I guess it would be a little more appropriate if he's living someplace in Canada, you know it is part of the Commonwealth, you could kind of rationalize it a little bit I guess.
But the whole Los Angeles thing would just be for her, and I think she really craves that attention, and the focus on her.
You know, so, that would be some interesting news. It was an abrupt "we're not going to take any more bets" kind of thing. You know that people who know go into these places and they make a bet, and I guess that maybe somebody made multiple bets or made a large bet and it was pulled off the board.
Enty then went on to discuss an unrelated TV celebrity.
Cue the Fresh Prince of Bel Air jokes.
"In Kensington Palace, born and raised....the polo grounds are where I spent most of my days..."
(You can subscribe to Enty's podcast via Patreon for $5 plus tax per month.)
Anyway, Enty admits his Royal sources are not particularly good - that he can only get exclusives when something related to the Royals happens in his home town of Los Angeles, New York City, and occasionally Toronto, where he has sources in the entertainment industry.
His one big scoop was that someone representing the Royal Family has been looking at California real estate.
Nevertheless, he answered a reader's question about Meg in a podcast released late Wednesday or very early Thursday Los Angeles time. This is what he said.
Transcript of Enty's comments on Meg and Harry
Somebody asked about Meghan Markle and what kind of mom she is and then somebody asked, is she a cokehead.Does she pass the child off to the nannies and things like that?
I think that she....seems like a good mom. I think that she's very happy when she has the opportunity to pass Archie off to a nanny.
There's nannies 24 hours a day, and they've taken some trips without Archie.
So, you know, I don't have enough of an insight on that. You know, the people that I get the Meghan Markle stuff from, it doesn't seem to pop up whether she's a good mom.
As to the cokehead, I mean, yeah, she love the cocaine. (sic)
Marketing opportunity
I don't know, it's just - it kind of always feels like she's using this as some kind of marketing opportunity.She wants to be the next GOOP the next Gwnyth Paltrow. I've talked about that in the blinds.
You know, I was the first to mention that there were people representing the Royal Family - you know, who has a huge real estate empire.
I don't think people quite realize that. I mean, the Queen is the largest landowner in Canada for goodness sakes.
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
So there's, you know, a real estate empire, and they reached out, and they were looking at houses, first in Bel Air, then in Malibu, then back to Bel Air.I think that she would much prefer to be in Bel Air so she would be closer for parties and events and things like that.
I'm really convinced that she wants to have some kind of lifestyle brand, some kind of clothing line.
However she can make a buck, she's going to make a buck.
I am never going to fault somebody for trying to make a buck.
She thought protocol didn't apply
You know, it just seems - what she wants - maybe she thought it would be something different, maybe she thought she would be able to do it, the whole Royal protocol thing doesn't really apply to me because I'm American, I can talk Harry into anything.So, you know, if she comes out to LA, she will go full-on.
I also don't see how Harry can live in Los Angeles. He has too many obligations, too many charities, too many things he has to do.
You know, like it or not, mostly he and William are the face of the Royal Family. So he has to do a lot of things and he's not going to be able to do those if he's living in Los Angeles.
I guess it would be a little more appropriate if he's living someplace in Canada, you know it is part of the Commonwealth, you could kind of rationalize it a little bit I guess.
But the whole Los Angeles thing would just be for her, and I think she really craves that attention, and the focus on her.
A big gap with Kate
She would have a big gap between her and Kate. Did you notice also that the bookies in England have stopped taking bets on whether Kate will have a fourth child?You know, so, that would be some interesting news. It was an abrupt "we're not going to take any more bets" kind of thing. You know that people who know go into these places and they make a bet, and I guess that maybe somebody made multiple bets or made a large bet and it was pulled off the board.
Enty then went on to discuss an unrelated TV celebrity.
New information?
The only thing I personally thought was new here was the Sussexes' interest in living in Bel Air.Cue the Fresh Prince of Bel Air jokes.
"In Kensington Palace, born and raised....the polo grounds are where I spent most of my days..."
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All of her projects & events center around HER.
She doesn't get tired of reading about herself or looking at pictures of herself daily, so perhaps she assumes the rest of us don't.
Now Harry & MM are being pushed down my throat like the Kardashians. At least the Kardashians hawk ridiculous products to pay their own way.
It is very unusual behavior for a new mom.
Just like it made no sense when she flew, at least 7 months pregnant by her own admission, for a lavish baby shower when she was already married into the most affluent family in the world.
It made no sense when she left said baby to watch a tennis match in the States. That is not what a caring and concerned mother does with their young infant.
Too bad that Epstein is being investigated deeper and Mommy has to protect her. I can't wait until MM feels some enforcement.
I agree about the long term play for California, New York if she could swing it but more likely LA (for the weather and comfort of knowing it)
I don't see Harry doing well in that kind of environment even if there were a lot of work arounds for his Royal commitments. I don't see him doing the city thing well. When I think of him, it is in Africa, or hunting with Granny and the rest of the family up in Balmoral country. I think he could be in LA for a while but my guess is he'd be restless in time.
Not just because he misses the wild country, his family and everything he's ever really known, I don't see the marriage holding together all that much once she comes back into the place she calls her own. If we think she's out of control, just watch for the show when she comes back with some payback to the place where she felt rejected by long ago and far away. I don't see her as being kind and nice to people she has some history with.
It's an urban legend that the Queen is the owner of the majority of the land, which is uninhabited. If she did, she would be a trillionaire.
I think she's staying in the BRF just long enough to boost her royal image (!) and then she'll be off to La La land. That's why she's never made the effort to integrate with the BRF. If anything, her intransigence with them will boost her later image, as she wants to be seen as a strong independent woman. Her sugars won't look further than that. They don't understand why she's offending many people by damaging the BRF and our country and traditions, and if they did they wouldn't care.
So yes, she wants to be the new Gwynie. Gwynie is another who is loved or loathed, and she probably just pities those who loathe her as sad little people not worth her attention. Meghan also seemed to take that attitude when she and Harry were booed at the remembrance event last year. As we've seen, Meghan is incapable of being original. She's just copying Gwynie, but it's like a bad copy of a bad copy of a polarising celebrity.
If we view her royal life so far as just a launch-pad for something else, everything falls into place. Remember she had a Sayonara Zara party? Well her next Sayonara party will be to Harry, the BRF and the UK. Who knows where Archie fits in. She's palpably irritated coping with the real baby as he just doesn't get the need for good camera angles and will insist on dribbling. She may find him too much bother, and anyway the Queen may finally stir herself and take custody.
A further point about the dribbling. Does this indicate Archie is beginning to start teething? If so, this would be around the 6 months stage. 6 to 10 months. Hmmmmm..... Interesting .....
Also, I see another secret engagement of MM has been posted about on IG. Hair,.make up, happy saint expression all on point. At least she is not wearing a belt with that dress. Small mercies! And talking about her dresses, she seems to have worn a new dress for every one of her secret engagements. Whatever happened to appearing relatable and poor?!
Is she loved? That must be mostly in California. Most everybody I know rolls their eyes and mutters "idiot" whenever she is mentioned.
NYC or LA would provide the perfect background for this.
There was finally an intelligent comment on CB today by a user named HS, who appeared to work in PR or at least be familiar with it. I'm surprised the comments are still posted.
Not by anybody that I know. Truth be told, I’ve never understood the appeal. The only thing that Goop has going for her is nepotism.
"I know you love Meghan and usually do a good job in defending her. But as a publicist, I can tell you that it is HIGHLY likely that Sunshine Sachs (whom I’ve worked with and know them to be top-notch) would give her these pointers and work with her on crafting a very particular type of image during her tour. It’s not to say that she innately is not a good person or wouldn’t have thought of these things herself. But. She is a public figure and a former Hollywood celeb – she knows how the game is played.
"I think you can acknowledge the racism and targeting she gets from the (British) press, that she might very well be a wonderfully kind and genuine person, and that she’s hired a PR team to manage her image and construct a narrative that she controls. All three of these things can – and do – coexist."
A stan responds:
"As a publicist, can you please explain to me how the constant press mention of this tour being an image rehab exercise and to get good PR is good PR? If I were a casual reader, this would have the opposite effect on me."
HS responds:
"Sure. Well the first thing to remember that it’s media that’s constantly bringing up imaging, not her PR team. It’s also important to note that you can’t control what media says, and once it became public knowledge that she hired Sunshine Sachs (for her foundation or otherwise), that prompts the media to question why. A publicist’s job is to create and/or direct the narrative. The narrative out there from the media is that Meghan needs brand imaging. Her PR team is helping her craft her image, but are doing it so it comes off as natural and as “Meg” as possible. So is it “good PR” that people keep talking about brand imaging? No. But is that convo already happening and out in the ether and is her PR team trying to direct the flow of the convo? Yes yes and YES. As they say in PR, all press is good press *shrug*"
"Will you state facts?
Why would she need a PR firm to handle her image?
So the PR firm is lying, when they said they were hired for fun raising in the US.
There is nothing different that Meghan is doing on this tour, that she has not done on tours before.
She delivered a baby five months ago, and is repeating outfits, greeting people as she normally does.
You guys keep repeating the same thing, she maybe kind ????"
HS responds:
"… because she’s a public figure and every successful public figure has brand and image consultants (i.e. PR).
I’m not sure what “facts” you’re asking for aside from my expert knowledge (of which you can either take or leave) but I assure you, if you’re not a part of the media world, you won’t understand the nuanced way things are done. Like, for example, saying they’re doing PR for the foundation but also lumping in some side branding/imaging for Meghan. It happens more often than you realize and I wouldn’t be surprised if it was happening here.
As for what she’s done on previous tours vs. now – she has done some things differently and that’s just a fact. She has recycled outfits way more in just this short tour than she has anytime else. She’s never been without her engagement/wedding ring – this tour she is. She’s been known to wear designer brands – this tour she went more high street.
Look, read my original statement one more time, particularly the last bit. Meghan is (or seems like bc no one here knows her, let’s be real) a nice person. THAT IS NOT WHAT THE BRAND IMAGING IS ON – it is on how to AMPLIFY that and her generous nature that comes across as natural. The fact that you, and a lot of others quite frankly, can’t see that and insist that she’s just this amazing person just proves how well her team is doing. As long as the general public opinion stays favorable towards Meghan (which it seems to be), then her PR is doing a great job."
These people are going to be heartbroken when the marriage goes south, or at least briefly heartbroken.
Then they'll blame Harry, just like they blamed Brad Pitt when he finally got fed up with Angelina Jolie.
Someone on yesterday’s thread asked where Markle is getting the money to pay for the PR firm. Sunshine Sachs has been very careful to state that it is working for the foundation (as quoted in the New York Post the other day). That’s where the money is and that’s how the Harkles are paying for SS, in other words Bob Iger’s $3 million, IMO. At the Lion King premiere, she managed to diss(ignore) him in her rush to kiss Beyonce, force Harry to ask Iger for a job for her, and them squander Iger’s money on a hopeless image rehab for herself. Chutzpah. LOL. The Duchess of Chutzpah. She’s mastered Foundation shenanigans.
Thanks for reprinting that the insights of the PR person from Celebitchy. And @Mischi is probably dead on right about why Kaiser left it off.
As for CDAN. I do think she will land in NY just because it will be easier for her or them to hop back across the pond to the UK by private jet.
Further as you know, CDAN blinds have alleged every time she has made a solo trip back to North America she has lined up the coke fest.
It may be, in the end, that the only thing that will stop her, just like her soulmate Al Capone, is the IRS.
A mere lifestyle brand might be now too "below" her. With the Tig, she seemed content to do fashion shoots for the sake of fashion, i.e. for the pure aesthetics much like Gwyneth. Now it seems she's intellectualized and politicized fashion as part of her "women who launch"/ "dressing like you're the CEO means you will become one" message. For an example of the intellectualization of fashion -see her friend's Misha Nonoo's recent and completely unironic post about how it was such an honour how her Boyfriend Tank made it to the breakfast talks on women's empowerment and equality, as if the shirt somehow had any role to play.
Let's say she decamps to the U.S., with her delusional belief that she will be GOOP 2.0. As much as I despise Gwyneth Paltrow and her scam business, she stays on message, dresses well, and does not appear with three quarts of lash glue weighing down her eye lids. In short, she is a professional hustler of a sort. Meghan is none of those things. In order to promote a certain life style, you have to emulate that life style. You are a walking advertisement. This is why all her PR fails. She cannot stay on script because her ego demands that SHE write the script. Who is going to follow whatever lifestyle crap concept she puts together when she's appears bedraggled, appearing as if she's partied all night with last night's high still in evidence, cleavage exposed, and wearing inappropriate clothes because she's merching her ass off? The thing about GOOP is that it is superbly curated. I think the entire site and Paltrow's persona a bunch of first-class malarky, but she doesn't make unforced errors. Meghan doesn't have the discipline to pull off something similar.
https://imgur.com/a/zSJMRng
She won the marriage lottery (in terms of status, not saying Haz is a grand prize as a husband or human being, but there are many worse), and was made a Princess of the United Kingdom. There was a place in the history books for her, and a unique role. Catherine has her unique role as the future Queen, but Meghan could have been the American Duchess, the bridge between two allied countries. Biographies could have been written about her, and she could have become an admired, aspirational figure for women from all walks of life. She was in a privileged, nearly one of a kind role . . one that has its drawbacks and demands, but would have given her unprecedented (for an American) access to the heart of the British monarchy. There is so much she could have learned and become, to be an asset to her adopted country and the one she came from. If she'd stayed even the tiniest bit true to her own PR, in time she would have gained enough trust from the RF to even do the transatlantic Duchess thing--so far as she was supporting British interests, not Meghan's Interests. Story books would have been written about this real biracial American princess. That is a powerful narrative.
She's thrown it all away to hob-nob with celebrities at parties. Even her desire to be GOOP 2.0 is derivative. There are hundreds, if not thousands of Instagram influencers merching away and going to Hollywood parties. There was only going to be one Duchess of Sussex . . but she has demeaned and cheapened everything about 'her brand'. She needed it all *NOW", with no learning curve even attempted. The word 'Pig' is thrown around a lot to describe people, but it really fits her. Not talking about her new amplified size . . but rather her innate inability to stay away from rolling in the nearest, easiest trough full of swill. She was offered a life of filet mignon (or vegan equivalent), but opted instead to grab the nearest bag of pork rinds
She's mentally ill, but nothing is going to be done about her until something really bad happens to Harry or the baby. Until then the RF is just going to take it on the chin and cluck behind closed doors about how she's violating their code of noblesse oblige . . how dare she.
Meghan's brand only has cachet as long as she appears to be backed by the RF. Were she to go back to L.A. without her grifted title, what will she be? She's only gotten that much older and fatter since she was doing the rounds on the Hollywood yachts. But if the RF publicly repudiates her and takes the title, the money and her right to reside in the UK . . she's still going to have the racism chip to play, not to mention this baby. They can try it but she's going to bog the RF down in litigation played out in the court of public opinion for *years* She'll get Gloria Allred to represent her in any divorce/custody action and turn Archie into another Elian Gonzalez. Given the opaque circumstances of his birth, actually proving he's a British citizen could get messy. Meg will get as messy as she has to . . she thrives on it. That's why she's not going away quietly. She may end up putting ER and PP into their graves, if she doesn't wind up doing the same for two people even closer to her.
So sorry that you went through such hell in your marriage to the diabolitical narcissist. Interesting about the hair loss: Harry is losing all his hair too.
That would be an excellent start. While ER is working on making that happen, she and her advisors need to codify a way to prohibit Smeg from generating more income off her Royal title. This is precisely what Sarah Ferguson was doing, not so publicly, which got her kicked out of the RF and sent to Coventry for years. Fergie achieved some post-divorce success as a celebrity in the United States, as Weight Watchers spokeswoman and the author of a number of well-received children's books and other projects. For a while there, about 10 years ago, she was a sought-after American talk show guest. But Fergie ran through what money she had amassed on her own initiative and by 2010 was back to her old tricks. She was banned from her nephew's wedding in 2011 for attempting to sell access to Andrew for cash.
Fergie is bad with money and also guilty of bad fashion, and 'common' behavior that infuriated Prince Philip, and he's a bad enemy to have. Smegs would never have joined this family, I don't think, if all this went down even 10 years ago. Palace aides would have locked Harry in a room with his grandfather and at the end of the session, a chastened Harry would have emerged and given Smegs the boot. Alas, PP is not guiding things any more. Despite the continuing animosity with PP, Sarah has maintained a more cordial relationship with the Queen by knowing to stay away until she is sent for . . and she also has a more likable personality than Smegs by far. A narc like Smegs is really devoid of personality as such; all she's got are the relentless negative traits which drive her on.
She won't stop until her credibility is entirely destroyed. Given all her frothing stans in this #MeToo-Everything-is-Racist-or-Sexist-or some kind of -ist Holdin' a Sister Down culture we are living in, this process is going to take far longer than we'd like. It should have happened by now and hasn't. The Smegster is just getting more and more brazen. This seemingly limitless PR has to come to an end sometime. Without being propped up by a sycophantic press and paid-off Hollywood friends, Smeg doesn't have any qualities on her own merits that would make her worth anybody's time.
I see three possible ways for Meg to shoot herself in the foot so definitively that she is made persona non grata:
1. Harry makes an attempt on his own life, perhaps succeeding.
2. Something bad happens to the baby while supposedly in her care.
3. She runs for American political office and is shown to be the humiliating fraud that she is and becomes fodder for the late night shows. If her history and word salad performance wouldn't be enough to discredit her, there's the very powerful financial fraud angle which she will not be able to refrain from engaging in.
All of these scenarios would result in criminal investigations which will be far more invasive than anything the RF has subjected her to. I continue to marvel as to how a grifter and known drug user and professional prostitute ever passed her background checks from the British security services. Let her ply her trade in the U.S. again and let the FBI and the CIA have a crack. She's already on the IRS's radar for tax evasion. She lost. Shortly after that is when she relocated to the U.K. and started making noise about wanting a wealthy British man.
Heaven forbid anything happen to Archie, but it might take a dead or critically injured baby for the PTB to see her for what she is--a monster. Harry's suicide would probably garner her sympathy from her stans and allow her to play out her Jackie Kennedy fantasy.
There is no redeeming feature in this person. Not enough people seem to realize this yet.
Re “This is how dumb and short-sighted this cow really is . . .”
Suppose a) as Skippy alleges Smirkles blackmailed the RF into this marriage or b) she never loved Harry so she always knew the marriage had a sell-by date? That would mean she always planned to “hit the ground running” in her plan to generate as much PR and money as she possibly could in the short period she had. This included of course popping out a little moneymaker like Archie.
She never intended yo be his wife and join the family.
It was all get in, go big, get out, go home.
Meghan is the Perfect Storm, and the RF is not equipped to deal with her.
Oh, I agree that it's patently obvious by now that Smegs had her own agenda from the get-go and she's doggedly stuck to it. For somebody who plotted for 20 years to put herself into the path of a Royal, from her own lips (the Diana veneration; the Palace stalking at 15, etc., she shows herself capable of long-range strategizing. And yet, having worked for half her teen years and her entire adult grifting life to get where she is now, she didn't bother to bide her time at all and insisted on accelerating her plan for world domination into just one year, give or take. If she hadn't been quite so thirsty and grabby and obvious, willing to play a longer con, she could have gotten even more. That's why I consider her short-sighted. Long cons always pay out better.
I hope this all resolves itself soon.
I read an article about Sarah Ferguson many years ago in Vanity Fair and I remember the sailors on the Royal Yacht Britannia saying that she was just horrid to the crew during her honeymoon. A real pig. She thought she was better than them, and told them so.
If someone threw a piping hot teapot at me I would classify that as dangerous behavior. What gets thrown next? A Victorinox chefs blade? If her behavior during the visit to Oz is anything to go by, I would say she can most assuredly be considered dangerous. Remember,what Meghan wants, Meghan gets.
That's just what I was going to say! How long does that rope have to be?
I agree with some of the earlier comments that Meghan, after possibly years of planning, is now trashing her moment in the sun by being far too slapdash and sloppy with her image. If you compare her appearance, and especially grooming, with celebrities at any level she comes out badly. I hate to allege drug use when I have no firm evidence but I can't think of another reason for falling apart this carelessly when she had all to play for. 'Had' not 'has' as it's too late to repair her image now, no matter how many PR firms she employs. Everyone I know has given up on her. Comments online show the same. From reports here it looks like interest outside the UK is minimal. Even if she discovered a supportive country to go to, she'd trash it all within hours of arrival.
Seems so odd that she got this far, and the answer to that mystery is 'Harry'. Only someone like Harry would let someone like Meghan into the fold. The BRF should have set minders on him 24/7, with authority for limitless intervention. They should have treated him like a late-stage Judy Garland and dragged him off that plane every time he tried to get to Canada. Oh for those blissful days when only Harry and a small cable TV audience knew about Meghan Markle.
Of course they did! What else does she have to talk about?
I have had nearly my fill of this vague, soft-language word salad. On one hand, how disrespectful to marry someone and then start demanding everyone in their family change (nevermind that she doesn't get specific). How rude to Harry and his family to go on record and tell the press that your own "heart's desires" (sounds like a Disney movie) will always come first. As a steel magnolia I married into a firmly Yankee family, and they would kick me to the curb if I treated them so callously and rightly so.
On the other hand, it doesn't appear that she wants to change anything, except to elevate her own lifestyle and shove the Sussex brand down our throats. Someone from their fancy PR team needs to talk to them about overexposure.
From your lips to God's ears, Clarissa.
I want to believe that BP has this all in hand, but this is getting to be a very, VEDDY long rope they are giving her. Given the general smacked bum faces all around at the Corpse Bride wedding in May 2018, something was afoot then. We civilians who were just excited for another Royal wedding couldn't see it. I thought that Harry's curiously flat demeanor was down to nerves at the momentousness of the occasion. Didn't he bite his lip and say 'You look amazing!' And here, stupid me, I thought it was real. I wonder if we will ever know how a two-bit American prostitute blackmailed a Prince of the realm into marriage . . .but as Haz now must know, it's never a good start to a marriage when your Granny tries to pay off the bride to go far, far away. Haz's level of complicity in this would also be interesting to get a handle on. 'The advisers' seemed to be powerless to put a stop to this wedding before it got off the ground and it just hasn't gotten any easier for them in the last 18 months.
Now there's an innocent baby involved in this morass. Let's do see what the advisers come up with for her exit. I hope it's good after we've had to wait so long. The Cojones-in-Chief of the RF, Prince Philip, is no longer the power behind the throne he once was and his lack is felt keenly. I suppose running her over in his car is, while tempting, not the best solution. Plus, we don't even know where she's living these days.
>>>They should have treated him like a late-stage Judy Garland and dragged him off that plane every time he tried to get to Canada. Oh for those blissful days when only Harry and a small cable TV audience knew about Meghan Markle.<<<
Late-stage Judy Garland indeed! Haz should never be left to his own recognizance. We see what happens.
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I love how he always says the Queen is the biggest landowner in Canada. IDK why that always cracks me up! LOL.
Thanks Hikari!
Have you all seen the story doing the rounds on how Meghan arranged for Doria's outfit at the wedding to be made by Oscar de la Renta? What struck me is the way their designer Fernando Garcia described her initial phone call:
"She called me directly. I had no idea she was able to do that or had my number - and gave me a 15 minute speech about why it was important to her.
"'I assumed it was her own wedding dress but at the end she said: 'And would you be interested about making this dream come true for my mother?'."
Reports say the account isn't meant to be critical. But the implication from this is that she was expecting at the very least a heavy discount.
The story from the sugars that drives me truly crazy is that Meghan had $5-7M in her own right. No independently wealthy woman would be that shameless for her own wedding, to dress her own mother. That's a line coming from the worst kind of salesperson. Explains so much. Shamelessness at that level blind-sides most people. By the time they've picked their jaw off the floor she's made the deal and - bam! - she's off to find another victim.
There has long been talk about one of the boys (Harry or William) becoming Governor General of one of the Commonwealth countries ... for a while, New Zealand was top of the list and everyone knows how much Harry loves NZ. Meghan traveled there with Trevor and said she liked it too, but it would be too 'small pond' for them.
The constant narrative in recent days about this tour being a great success is wishful thinking, methinks. It'll be interesting to see how long it takes for their next invitation to visit (and from whom).
Another very important thing re Rach and CA - they love pretty humans, and markle is neither. She is at her apex of glory. She was never likable, she was never talented, she was never sought after, and she never will be any of those things. Lipstick/pig.
And a question: If Archie was to the manor and body born, why no royal title? We all know that Rach would never have made that choice, so why no title?
Australia is even more of an issue as the anti-Royalist sentiment is probably the highest of all Commonwealth countries.
New Zealand has a female PM who gave birth while in office. Do you really think they want an upper class twit Pom as their GG?
I doubt any of the African countries would even think of it, and even the Caribbean nations are long into their post-colonial stage.
That leaves the British Antarctic Territory. I heard it has nice cozy nights in winter and long days in summer. And the wildlife is to die for...
Both H&M need therapy, together or separately.
My stepdaughter did not gain much weight during her first pregnancy. In particular, she gained very little weight in her face. Then, about two months after the baby was born, she very inexplicably and quickly gained almost 30 pounds. Especially since she was breastfeeding, this seemed so odd. Her doctors ran a wide range of tests and could only tell her that something “hormonal” had caused the sudden weight gain. About three months after that, the weight started to come off.
I had never heard of this pattern of post-baby weight gain before. And, now it is also happening to a neighbor. So, it does seem to be a “thing.”
Meghan did not seem to gain much weight before Archie was born and then, suddenly, immediately after his birth, she looked as is she had gained 30 plus pounds. But, hormonal weight gain should have occurred about two months after the baby was born. Why the time discrepancy?
I’ve never been completely comfortable with the moonbump/surrogate theory — despite the evidence that something weird was going on with Meghan’s bump. I couldn’t imagine the Royal Family knowingly going along with a completely fake pregnancy. For example, it was difficult to imagine the Queen and PP posing so happily with Meghan, Harry and Archie at Windsor if the pregnancy had been a complete sham. The Queen would have distanced herself from that potential scandal.
However, what if Meghan was pregnant before her wedding? Harry and Meghan gave each other such a knowing look when the archbishop mentioned children during the ceremony. Several stories at the time speculated that she was already pregnant based on that look between them, the loose wedding dress, etc.
Also, in an interview with Mike Tindall before his wedding to Zara, he stated that he didn’t need to be married before they became pregnant. However, his mother made it crystal clear to him that the Queen absolutely would mind and that a pre-wedding pregnancy was out of the question.
Add those bits and pieces together and look at timing — it seems possible Archie could have been born even before the baby shower. Perhaps Meghan wore a moonbump after Archie’s birth to make it seem as if she was still pregnant and the baby was conceived after the wedding. That could explain why she didn’t look pregnant leaving the hotel after her shower, along with all the late pregnancy bump shifts, being able to squat, etc. Also, that could explain why Meghan seemed to drop out of sight before her official maternity leave started. It could also explain the odd wording of the birth announcement and why no one saw Meghan coming or going from the hospital for the delivery. The real delivery had happened weeks earlier. It could also explain why we never saw the couple at Frogmore. The early baby would have to have been kept under wraps someplace else — perhaps in Sophie’s care.
If the above is accurate, the entire weird pregnancy looks a little less sinister, particularly to the Royal Family. This could mean they would have less to object to in Meghan and are not yet ready to take serious action against her. They may still be trying to smooth things out with her, especially if Harry still wants the marriage to work. If he is unwell, the family will not want to stress him further at this time.
I do believe that Meghan will eventually leave or be pushed out — but not for quite a bit of time yet.
So if the con wasn’t the short one as I suggested then let’s consider why she had to cut the long con short. She was making an effort at first. Fascinators and all. But then something happened and she gave up and became vindictive (or her true colors came out). Some theories:
—the rest of the Royal Family caught onto her quickly and made life difficult for her (TOC ostracism comes to mind).
—the Archie debacle blew up in her and Harry’s faces, causing her and Harry to fight non stop.
—Harry found out about her past or even (gasp) that she had yachted with his uncle, causing him to hate her.
—All of the above.
Maybe it started as the short con, then she liked Ruyal Life and had Harry totally under her control so it became the long con and then she had to abort and go back to the short con for of any of the reasons above.
Because all her behavior seems to point to someone who wants out now.
? about the idea she was pregnant before the wedding:
How can we explain away the it was a boy but the baby shower was all pinks?
(I really like how people think, write and comment). Thanks Nutty for having us.
The Enty comment that struck me most was the one about how much Meghan allegedly likes to use cocaine.
That comment reminded me of an Enty blind item on CDAN just as MM arrived in NY for the US Open weekend. It was about a drug dealer who caters to the elites, hinting that Meghan was expected to be one of his best customers.
It struck me because it’s not at all out of the realm to reason that a serious drug or alcohol abuse problem or both at some point in the future could be her downfall.
If a person really likes blow, then they are probably doing a lot of it, especially if they have access to the kind of money Meghan can get now. If a person is doing a lot of it, they have a high chance of already being an addict or dancing very close to that line.
People with narcissistic personality disorder have VERY high rates of drug and alcohol abuse.
In addition to her alleged affinity for cocaine, I saw a post she made to The Tig when she still had it as the year moved from 2016 to 2017.
One of her New Year’s resolutions for 2017 was to cut back on her alcohol consumption. To name her lifestyle blog after her favorite $150 wine, it sort of goes without saying that she likely enjoys having much more than just a glass of wine now and then, especially because she was reeling in Harry at the time, who drank quite a bit and also did his share of drugs.
Given Harry’s role in their relationship as her primary enabler and a source of narcissistic fuel, plus his incidents with alcohol and drugs combined with the money they have, they also have the ability to have people cover for them and possibly be the go-fers who obtain the drugs.
This could make the current Meghan dumpster fire into a major catastrophe, either during her marriage to Harry or later on for her if they spilt up and her fame takes a nosedive, especially if she loses her title.
As the Queen's Representative (the role of the Governor General), I think Harry would be very well received here ... well, as much as anyone else. Yes, GGs are normally people who have accomplished great things, but the fact he is a real Prince has its own appeal. (But there are of course many Kiwis who would like our country to become a republic).
I agree the Archie timeline and his apparent older age is odd. Harry's comment about babies changing so much in the first 2 weeks when Archie was supposedly about 2 days old was odd too.
But a little over a week before debuting a maternity coat at Eugenie's wedding, Meghan wore a tight leather skirt with a tucked in blouse to an event in Sussex. https://people.com/royals/meghan-markle-hugo-boss-skirt-shop-sale/amp/
No way was she nearly 5 months along in that leather skirt!
Imho this flurry of activity is a major attempt at a money grab. Either BP and CH have cut off the pipeline already, or they have made it clear that the cutoff is imminent. I just hope that BP and CH also will take suitable measures to prevent the Ducks from monetizing based on royal styles or titles. And not to forget poor tyke Archie: I'm still dreaming for him to find a nest with Mike and Zara!