Open Post: Cambridge tour to Pakistan, Archie's lack of attachment, and the Sussex Foundation's new hire
Here's a fresh post to discuss the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's ongoing tour of Pakistan, various theories about Archie's lack of attachment to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, and the Sussex Foundation's latest hire - Kirsty Young, a former radio presenter who is married to Nick Jones, the founder of Soho House.
Please be kind to each other! As some of you have noted, I'm not a professional moderator; I'm a writer operating this nonprofit blog purely for fun. A lot of the time I would like to have spent writing I've spent deleting comments in which people are sniping at each other. That's not fun at all.
There are only two rules at this blog: you must be willing to seriously discuss this case, and you may not use vicious language about the Sussexes or about each other.
Also, you are more than welcome to discuss possible surrogate situations regarding Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor.
Thank you!
Please be kind to each other! As some of you have noted, I'm not a professional moderator; I'm a writer operating this nonprofit blog purely for fun. A lot of the time I would like to have spent writing I've spent deleting comments in which people are sniping at each other. That's not fun at all.
There are only two rules at this blog: you must be willing to seriously discuss this case, and you may not use vicious language about the Sussexes or about each other.
Also, you are more than welcome to discuss possible surrogate situations regarding Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor.
Thank you!
Comments
A few dozen comments ago, people were sharing when their opinion of Meg changed
so I wanted to pipe up, if I may. I’d hoped Harry had followed his brother’s example and married well - he really seemed to like Kate and be happy for William when he married her. Remember the nudge and grin where he said “wait till you see her” as he stood next to Wills at the altar? I literally loved him for it.
I remember when the rumors broke that Harry and Meg were dating. “someone” noticed they had the same beaded African bracelet in some random IG photos. I remember thinking that’s an excruciatingly small detail to notice. I could see people watching Harry that closely, but watching Meghan that closely and noticing the SAME beaded bracelet? And drawing the conclusion that they were an item instead, say, she happened to buy the same bracelet... it just seemed off.
Then there was the engagement photo shoot. I was so excited to see the photos and her dress was just inappropriate for the setting. She was wearing a sheer, black formal gown that was wholly inappropriate for a day time photo shoot. But worse - it didn’t match the formality of Harry’s suit. She was far too dressed up for the occasion. And to make my other eyebrow raise, there were tons of articles about how much more loving and natural their photos were than the Cambridges’ engagement photos. Now I understand that was Markle PR chicanery but at the time I started to think I was in a parallel universe where I’m the only one who doesn’t pick up on the hidden meaning of matching African beaded bracelets and where inappropriate ball gowns for a future duchess are just fine.
The final straw for me was the wedding day and Meg HAPPENED to see her old teacher front and center as she rode in the carriage after the ceremony. The odds of her teacher grabbing that spot and Meg seeing her - AND recognizing her - as the carriage rolled by just finally broke my BS meter. I was out of “wellllll mayyyyybe....” explanations. She was clearly fabricating so much of her experiences.
So by the time the moonbump appeared and a “friend” of Meg’s was quoted as saying that she “sailed through pregnancy” (the pregnancy that miraculously happened at 37, despite what was probably a lengthy stint on her back on every casting couch she could find), I went from bemused skepticism to outright contempt. She’s a horror show of a human. Her downfall is she refuses to be vulnerable and flawed. She can’t say “I don’t want my photo taken on the steps of the hospital after I give birth because I anticipate looking perfectly awful, big ups to Kate to looking flawless after each baby,” she has to dig at Kate and make it about feminism.
So that’s how the Harkles lost me. God save King William and Queen Catherine! Long may they rein!
Elle, Reine des Abeilles
I miss her too
I think she is either mentally ill or put on a “poor me” act to gain more sympathy.
Nutty did a post (with comments) about the clothing. One speculation was that she was getting samples of the next season which was why the colors never seem to match the current season.
Btw, I live in the states and have never heard of her before Harry. I did not follow BRF before MM. I just think her behaviors are very bizarre.
I think she might be at her blog using language that no proper Southern lady is supposed to say, let alone utter out loud.(grin) Plus, she has an actual paying job and is a productive member of society, and we all know how real life can interfere in a good gossip session.
I think I've seen everybody else in the room tonight before except Vanessa V? Join the party.
Oh, snap. If any of the Sussex trolls are here, the red whine and the white whine are back in the dark corner.
Now, I need to look at the Cambridge clothing selections today.
Just a quick comment on something that csught my eye,from Town and Country Magazine online........
A foundation spokesman said today: “I can confirm that Kirsty Young will be joining Professor Stefan Allesch-Taylor, Steven Cooper and Karen Blackett OBE as a trustee of Sussex Royal. She has therefore been added to the filing of the CLG.”
He added that Sussex Royal is formally due to launch in 2020, and “we are looking forward to sharing more details in the coming months.”
A Company Limited by Guarantee without a Share capital (CLG), is usually used in circumstances that require a separate legal entity and corporate protection in organisations such as charities, trade associations, societies, sports clubs and social clubs. This company type is appropriate for non-profit companies or NGO’s (non-governmental organisations). They can also be used for property management purposes in the servicing and maintenance of residential associations. The legal title of a CLG must end in the suffix “Company Limited by Guarantee” or ”CLG”. However, there are some exemptions – a company can apply for removal of the suffix when its objects are in the promotion of commerce, art, science, education, religion, charity or any other prescribed object.
There are no shareholders or share capital in this type of company. Instead of shareholders, they are required to appoint member/s, who guarantee to contribute 1 euro to the company in the event of its winding up (subject to the Company Constitution).
A CLG (Company Limited by Guarentee) is a type of registration used for company charities in Australia. CLGs are registered by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). I don't know if a CLG it is the same in the UK but I would think so.
Here's to you, Mimi!
I don't remember where I saw it but I'm sure I read an article yesterday listing lots of countries Australia and NZ amongst them where the Foundation is registered, so I would assume this company is being registered in many countries.
I really know nothing about company law but it seems to me that this 'Foundation' is a company first and a charity second or it is the charity arm of a company. Meghan and Harry are listed as directors (ie company directors) while everyone else seems to be a principle or a trustee. There were four directors to start with, then two of them resigned less than 8 weeks after the company/foundation was formed, leaving just Megs and Harry as directors. Kate and William are simply listed as principles in their Foundation.
It could be perfectly legit but it could also be a switch and bait, a way to siphon off money to the directors or whom ever they wish to give money too. I don't know enough about company law to make a judgement on this, it just seems somewhat fishy to me.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/prince-harry-reveals-teased-after-13533604
Harry said: "I used to get taken the mickey out of at school for just picking up rubbish" reports the Express.
This is a twofer... bullying and environmentalism!
"Before you know it, somebody [says], 'What are you doing?' I've literally done this because I am programmed to do it because my father did it. And actually, we should all be doing it."
If all Harry suffered was some teasing about picking up rubbish, he was lucky. Other boys in British boarding schools suffered much worse.
A little more digging has resulted in the fact that a CLG registered in select foreign countries and the USA is fast tracked into becoming a recognised 501(c)(3) organization (IRS tax free organization)
Normally the process could take a year or more with the IRS doing lots of checks on the company, especially if it is a new company/foundation. This 501(c)(3) status also makes it very easy for US citizens/companies to donate to the foundation and collect an immediate tax exemption and for certain 'expenses' of employees of the company to be regarded as tax free and not a perk in the US.
These expenses can be inflated directors salaries, first class travel, private jets,expensive hotel stays, extravagant dinners/parties/galas......all classed as necessary fund raising expenses.
The outrageous expenses of amfAR (the aids charity) come to mind and all perfectly legit in relation to foundation 'expenses'.
"This is a twofer... bullying and environmentalism!"
It just never ends, does it? Surprised he didn't find a way to bring the media and his poor wife into it, but I guess that's for the next round.
And for a man who since the day he was born has had a whole army of staff to literally pick up after him, his finger wagging is a bit much. But it's always a bit much with these two.
"If all Harry suffered was some teasing about picking up rubbish, he was lucky. Other boys in British boarding schools suffered much worse"
Yp. And who hasn't been teased at school? This isn't just about Harry but I'm sick of celebrities moaning about how they were 'bullied' at school. Yeah, we all were - for being fat, or thin, or ginger, or spotty, or whatever - and most of us got over it.
Also curious about the nebulous reports of missing funds elsewhere. Shady. MM sure isn't up to the wazoo in haute culture anymore. Has she been reined in? Cut off? Or will it just be another "poor me" scenario?
Did you see PC has an itv doc coming out on the 24th about farming in the duchy? More one upmanship by the dastardly duo?
Pineapple rum?! Oh my!
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/17/asia/prince-william-pakistan-royal-tour-analysis-gbr-intl/index.html
And, there are leaks about the content of the documentary which will be airing on Sunday about the South African tour of the Sussexes. It seems they will be spinning a story about how difficult their lives are. I think this is going to backfire big time and will be another mark in the loss column for the Sussexes. How many more will they be allowed because let's face it, they are dragging the BRF down with them.
I don't think I can watch the documentary, even if I have wine on hand. I will wait to read about it on the usual twitter and blogger sites!
The next series of shots shows her alone in the back seat, adjusting her wig and making an interesting moue, a bit like she looked on the TOC balcony . . the last time she got a public telling off from her Boo. No sign of Harry. In the front seat are two RPOs who both look extremely grim, since they have had to listen the the preceding whatever it was. Interesting.
Current intel floating around on Meg's domicile is that it's Soho House Somerset.
I wanted to confirm the site for you all so you could go look for yourself, but lo and behold, those pictures have completely disappeared and are nowhere to be found on either site. Hastily taken down, I guess, for reasons unknown.
Scuttlebutt is that Haz's bizarre 'breakdown' was prompted by being blindsided by not seeing his prepared speech on the teleprompter and/or the expectation by Megs that he was going to play along with the Blow Up the Cambridges Tour with his announcement from the stage that he was going to be a father *again*. Haz refused to read his lines and an argument ensued in the car.
This is what Harkle watchers are saying.
Oh look in the DM another positive M article. This time about how the makeup artist did her wedding day.
I think the idea of we might be interested is long past the best by date.
"I wanted to confirm the site for you all so you could go look for yourself, but lo and behold, those pictures have completely disappeared and are nowhere to be found on either site. Hastily taken down, I guess, for reasons unknown."
Do you mean this site?
https://meghan-markle.org/gallery/displayimage.php?album=859&pid=96378#top_display_media
I forevermore am going to see the soundtrack of her life as "Dame tu Cosita". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzG4uDgje3M
Read this comment on the DM regarding Harry's "crying spell." Someone commented that Meghan wrote the speech and that Harry hadn't even bothered to look it over before that evening...and then when he got to that business about their first child he couldn't prevent himself from cracking up. And then of course had to "cry" to cover it up.
Makes a lot of sense to me.
I think the idea of we might be interested is long past the best by date.
I do not think that I would want to take credit for her wedding day makeup. If somebody accused me (excuse me, wanted to give me the credit) for it, I would deny it.
No, the pictures I saw were taken on the street at night of the two Harkles inside the vehicle through the window. They were not the clearest in quality as they were shot through the windscreen at some distance away, but it is definitely them and two RPOs in the front.
@SwampWoman
I understand what you mean about the provenance of the photos, although they did seem genuinely to be of Wednesday's event. Rach is in the righthand center of the back seat, all the better to see herself in the rearview mirror, where she's futzing with her hair as per usual. The camel coat over the shoulders and the neckline of the green dress are clearly visible, as is the paucity of hair on the side of Hazza's head facing the camera. This time last year, or this time two years ago, when we first saw the green dress, he had a lot more in the follicle department.
These two stage photo ops all the time, of course, but I doubt the appearance, at the least of a heated argument/estrangement on the heels of Harry's stage appearance just prior would have been helpful to their desired optics. Whatever was said, Harry is at first in the car, and then out, his seat taken by an RPO, with another one in the front driving. It sure did not look like a happy vehicle, in sharp contrast to the beaming smiles all 'round when Wills and Kate were in the tuk tuk. Oh, the irony!
Since the photos have vanished within 12 hours or so of being posted--I saw them last night around 10pm but have no idea how long they'd been up or when exactly they were removed, it seems that someone was feeling the heat of posting unauthorized pictures and took them down herself, or was compelled to take them down. I'm thinking the latter, because there are still tons of unflattering photos of Meg squeezed into the way-too-tight-now green dress, with a strange vertical lump on her backside that netizens are joking is her vestigial tail.
It's true that speculation is all we've got, but there's a lot of photographic support on other occasions that Haz and Meg have had a lot of glum/tense looking car rides together since they married. I really believe that despite their public displays, he really can't bear to be with her a single minute longer than necessary in enclosed spaces.
This woman has certainly shown us how she lives to upstage other people's major life events with her petty drama, kicking off with the Bump Burlesque at Eugenie's wedding. Then she trots out this green number that she wore 2 years ago when she was very slender, only now she isn't . . also appears to be wearing buttpads again so as to resemble Marilyn Monroe with a vestigial tail from the back view--in the same shade that Catherine just wore so successfully in Pakistan on the same day. Meg always intended emerald green to be 'her' color, but since being shot down by HM over the coveted emerald tiara has only worn one other dress in this color when she was aping one of Diana's maternity looks.
Reasserting her claim on emerald green (which Catherine wears far, far better) in the dress she considers her iconic look (misguidedly so) to announce that she's pregnant again in a highly public event precisely when Catherine is getting wonderful press for her tour deportment--this is a classic Meg scheme.
The Pakistan tour photos are really lovely. I noted several occasions (at least three) in which Catherine lightly touches her stomach. Whether she's pregnant and throwing subtle shade at Her Wokeness (I do not attribute this level of pettiness to anybody by Meg, personally), or just touching her stomach the way any of us do time to time without thinking too much about it . . It made me smile. Kate is looking slim and lovely in the ethnic fashions of Pakistan . . but a new Cambridge baby wold cheer the world at such a fraught time.
I cannot underatand why an investigative journalist is not running with this Sussex Foundation rollup to being a global piggy bank for the Harkles as well as probable money-laundering outfit. The actions surrounding the foundation do suggest that Harry and MeMe are preparing for their exit. Perpetually grumpy Harry appears to be sick-to-death with royal life.
If they are not exiting in 2020 with their foundation, then why is Buckingham palace permitting the grifting?
If they are exiting, will anyone care about two very unpleasant phonies? Even if the probably narrative is all about their “love story”?
>>>Hikari wrote something to the effect that "Harry has trouble with the lies he is forced to tell."
I have a hard time imagining how or why Harry is being forced to lie. There have been lots of theories, such as that he is gay, a drug user, has a child, is a love child--and I can't imagine in 2019 that any of those would be insurmountable as far as his public image. What he is doing NOW will be insurmountable. The only thing I can think of that would be truly blackmail worthy is if Rachel has evidence that the RF took out Diana.<<<
In the context of that Well Child speech, the lies I had in mind were relating to Archie specifically . . how was this baby conceived, is he their genetic son, do they have custody of/are raising him . . and why all the weirdness and cloak of secrecy surrounding this baby if there is nothing out of the ordinary to hide . . and why their staged interactions with him we have been permitted to see look so very stiff, unnatural, forced and odd.
I am so very worried about this little boy and his emotional development at the hands of two narc parents, you see. Above all, Archie is my primary concern, and what his future will hold if his first few months of life have been like this.
*****
As to other potential lies . . .relating to sexual identity, drug use, other illegal activities all leading to blackmail, who can say? With the recent appointment of the wife of the Soho House founder to run the Sussex Fauxndation, I need no further proof that 'all roads lead to Soho House'. If Meg has backers, they are within this organization of celebrity luminati with their fingers in any number of fiscal enterprises. And now they have an agent inside the Royal Family. Hmm.
At the time of the wedding, I, along with millions worldwide swallowed that Lifetime movie narrative: Lonely bachelor prince with a traumatic childhood and many romantic disappointments finally finds love and happiness with an exotic American showgirl who also happens to be a fantastically kind global humanitarian. What a good match!
This storybook version is the one they are pushing but it never happened. What did happen is that Meg hired some big gun PR firms to arrange introductions to people who could put her into Harry's path, which he blundered right into, but any initial carnal attraction he felt toward her easy charms was swiftly exploited into forcing him into a binding contract that guaranteed perks for Meg's powerful celebrity friends. We are seeing the bills coming due now.
Ask yourself . . why is a two-bit cable actress from Compton with dubious academic credentials and no discernible skill, who used to jiggle her fake boobs in front of Howie Mandel with a suitcase now receiving glowing character references from the likes of Hillary Clinton? Why does a former high ranking Clinton staffer now work for Meghan in helping the Sussexes set up a bogus charity modeled on the Clinton Foundation?
I don't know what Harry's getting out of all this. We can see with our own eyes what this 'marriage' is doing to him physically and mentally. If it's blackmail, it's something really bad. Not just recreational drug use or hook-ups with dudes. Really bad. Jeffrey Epstein bad. What a cesspool it all is. And to think how it might have been if Haz had just stayed off skanky yachts and been worthy of a nice British girl like Cressida.
Haz has tanked his life. It's in the toilet. I think he realizes this now, which is why he is now having visible breakdowns in public and telling journalists that he can't get out of bed. It's only going to get worse I fear.
On that site that I posted, below the large photo is a set of photos which you can click on, including the one of H and M in the car and also Sparkles fiddling with her hair.
I am not on Tumblr and still learning to navigate it, but it seems that anybody who follows the page can submit things to post. LadyGreyhound is a frequent contributor to the Charlatan Duchess page, which is where I think I saw the photos initially. TCD seems to have removed them from her page as of today, but they are pretty instructive as to Haz's mood for the evening. It's really interesting that he never displays any personal warmth or touchy-feely stuff toward her in candid snaps of unguarded, private moments. At those times, he barely looks at her and sits as far away as possible. So the 180 when in public view is really notable.
Disrespectful of the suffering parents in the audience.
Those two are so disrespectful.
As mentioned above, I think a large part is that everyone wanted Harry to marry a pure English rose and instead he married her. Instant hate.
Most pics of royals in cars have them looking stone faced and sitting apart. No one says anything when it’s the Queen but with these two, people look and hope for loaded situations.
This reminds me that Yankee Wally needs to be very careful about who she is suing. She states things that never happened and it seems she had been shut down by YouTube several times at least since 2012 that I have found.
HATE is a very strong word and one I rarely use.
I DISLIKE Meghan Markle.
It has nothing to do with colour, or the fact that she is an American.
It is because I have witnessed her shoddy behaviour too many times to mention.
For me, the first real stirrings of concern about Meghan fitting in (or even wanting to fit in) came with her bare- shouldered outfit at the Trooping. There are decades-worth of photos (easily found by Meghan or by her "stylist") showing the RF with the Queen at that important morning event. No woman has ever appeared on the balcony at that event strapless or bare-shouldered. One of the York sisters wore a sleeveless dress once but it looked like a traditional day dress overall. Meghan's didn't.
Kate, to me, looks entirely too Victorian and matronly on a lot of her outfits, but she always looks good and proper. She will be queen one day, so I guess she is going for the puritanical look. Plus, she is thin as a rail so she can wear anything well, even the choices I don’t care for.
you have to watch this! apparently, they did not arrive to the Well Child ceremony together, and Meghan wasn't even supposed to be there!
and people who were at the ceremony were saying that Meghan was acting like a warden.
And I and many others listened to the tapes and heard it, so We think it happened. I believe the tapes differ due to where the recording device was in the audience.
As for people (Yankee Wally or others) being shut down, well that can happen for a variety of reasons and it does not have to be a legitimate reason. The internet service provider determines (like an authoritarian regime) what they want to do and they have the only say in it. Look at what happened with doxing people who were outspoken against Meghan, their personal lives were damaged because they expressed negative opinions. .I have seen you express negative opinions against contributors here yet you are allowed free speech.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U5y-0JXA54U
Also Murky Meg and 2Taz on YouTube have now received threats just like Yankee Wally.
Just to be clear, are you accusing people of racism because of her mixed ethnicity or hatred of Americans due to her country of origin?
I had no idea of her mixed ethnicity, nor do I care. If people want to hate on Americans, that is their prerogative. Personally, I think it is because people have figured out she is a skank.
I think people were just happy for them. It was when they started hearing and seeing things which set off their "what was that all about" or "that doesn't make sense" behaviors which started to turn the tide against her.
I think also it is easy to fall into a well it must be racism or something but when you look at what the comments are, race is not a factor in the majority of comments (I suspect that there can and were some which were as there are racists still around and view things from that lens). We are talking about the majority of what the dislike stemmed from, not the extreme few.
It was because she wasn't following protol about how to dress (stockings*, dresses) or following rank as to where you can and cannot stand).
Or it was because there was always all this drama associated with anything she did. Whether it was maternity clothes, bumps, truthfulness about when the birth happened, pictures. It was upstaging people like her husband at different events or the award/wreath laying ceremony - events when she was not expected.
I think (think) people want and expect their princesses to behave in what they think of as pincessey fashion (proper protocol, attire, keeping the public in the loop of baby when) and that started some teeth on edge. I think people were expecting an honest here's what's happening in our life (expected baby around, we've left for the hospital) and are saying: wait - why did SA get film of a baby and we didn't? Or all these celebs talking about how they got to see/hold/feed a baby and we didn't?
Spending money like it was water from the tap and you don't pay the water bill started rubbing others the wrong way. People are having real financial hardships and then the articles about needing heated yoga room or copper bath tubs or similar started grating more.
Or the vanity projects which seem to be not keeping HM in the loop. People are starting get protective of her - as she is looking noticeable more frail. If they start linking MM and decline of the Queen's health, there will be more knashing.
Or maybe some of it started with all the celebs around her suddenly and that is a very different culture to how the BRF is viewed.
*stockings - there are dozens of brands and come in almost a million shades. You just have to spend time looking and trying things on. And, what works in one season might not match as well in another.
Once you lose some of your support, one either steps back and regroups, learns how not to make the same mistakes or you double down. She comes off as doubling down.
Nutty, thinking of you, hope you are well and it is just a work crunch.
I will justify my choice for an English rose, because I thought Diana was one. and a beautiful example inside and out. Instead the BRF got a common garden weed, an invasive weed that threatens to take over the garden patch with negativity, disrespect and overbearing behaviour toward Harry and even her own? son it seems.
I am the one who said that the person who possibly heckled Her Majesty:
“I'd like to add that the person actually sounded to me like it was Yankee Wally (crazy I know).”
I did not mean to open up a can of worms or implicate already beleaguered Yankee Wally.
Please note the parenthetical clause, which you apparently missed.
Mainly what I was referencing was an accent, which could be anyone from a region.
The main thrust of my post, which is located on this thread at
October 16, 2019 at 10:55 am is that IF the Queen was heckled, I thought it to be incredibly rude and disrespectful.
I actualy think this sound bite is just like the photos of the blue dress or shoes that go viral with half the viewers swearing it is one color while the other half swearing it is another.
Have you actually LOOKED at her legs before repeating that argument? There are a lot of shades in pale-legged panty hose.
It had seemed obvious for some time to me that Harry was into women of color.
How wonderful, I thought, that times have changed and that doesn’t matter anymore.
Then who she is emerged.
This is a matter of character.
I think ignoring her character because she is biracial is also a problem.
Anyway look at lovely Princess Angela of Liechtenstein. (PS Meghan stole her wedding dress design.) An American
-Panamanian, she has behaved perfectly in accordance with royal protocol.
If she was a member of the UK Royal Family, I’d say she qualifies as an English Rose.
Similarly Autumn Philips has conducted herself very well upon her marriage into the RF.
Why hasn’t Meghan been able to?
Ps. It doesn't appear if Meghan has done anything to fit in with the BRF
When you think about it, there is a uniform of sorts for everybody at every level of society. As a construction worker, I fit in with my fellow construction workers in the work shirt, blue jeans, work boots, company baseball cap and tool belt with tools. When I went to trade association meetings as the business owner, it could be business casual with khaki pants and polo shirt and nice shoes. The people at the board meetings of agricultural enterprises dress differently than the people on the boards of historical society meetings who dress differently than the board members of various artistic pursuits. (I should know, I've been on all of the above.) Then location needs to be factored in: People in places like Arizona or Florida are more accepting of people in resort wear/business casual at meetings than the folks in New York City would be. When I lived in Texas, a white shirt, white cowboy hat and blue jeans were acceptable anywhere.
As a person in an industry in California where appearance is EVERYTHING, she should certainly know how to dress well. Her appearance is inexplicable to me. I do not know if she is on drugs or mentally unstable, but something is definitely off about her.
How interesting. I would not think that it showed anything other than they wanted to know if anybody else heard the same thing and could vouch for it. I do not know of any autists that would make an inference like that.
I, too, was one of the millions who watched the wedding from start to finish full of hope and promise. But now my heart is shattered into a millions pieces patiently awaiting her comeuppance and downfall.
I personally think H&M are very shallow and dull. There won’t be so much public interest if they are on their own. MM is getting old and unattractive. PH is balding and moody. Nobody would give them a second look if they are not part of RF.
Time to cut them loose and give everyone a break.
I thought all his adult life he dated blondes (before Markle). What women of color are you referring to?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2019/10/17/duke-sussex-says-camera-clicks-flashes-remind-princess-dianas/
@Tatty, your accusations that people don't like her because she is ethnic and not an English Rose...so what about the black women who don't like her? Are they racist against her white side? Also what do you make of the fact that Markle self-identified as Caucasian for her entire professional life, was in a white sorority, had all white friends, married three white men, etc. It wasn't until she had the chance to be The Duchess of Wokness that she started claiming her black half.
Having more melanin in your skin tone doesn't make you immune from criticism. Equality means you get treated the same as everyone else, with the same expectations for behavior. Equality means no special treatment.
He needs help. Professional help. I am angry that he is not receiving the treatment he needs. It is cruel to allow him to continue this way.
Maybe he should move to Malibu. Seriously.
Someone asked why Archie was shown more in South Africa. Did you ask why the Queen made her pledge (age 21?) to the commonwealth while in South Africa? Harry has spoken of Africa as his second home and it is part of the commonwealth. Perhaps that was enough for him.
It is deeply unfortunate that she is an American, because it's hard for British onlookers to distinguish how much of Meg's brashness, lack of couth, DGAF attitude, slovenliness and blatant disrespect for the Queen and the traditions of the Royal family can or should be chalked up to her nationality and how much of it is 100% Meg. Americans had a fundamental schism with British values way back and formed our own nation through a bloody conflict. But after the dust settled and the dead were buried, England and her runaway Colonies realized that we need one another. We have rebuilt trust and trade into our Special Relationship which is now threatened by two narcissists--one in the Oval Office and one ostensibly in Frogmore Cottage. Even though the majority of American women are NOT in Meg's corner and are appalled by her behavior, it's totally understandable that Britons would take away an unfavorable impression about all American women and how they behave based on the antics of the faux Duchess of Sussex.
And this after the whole Duchess of Windsor affair. I really can't blame the Britons for viewing all American women as vulgar slags and hos considering the 'role models' which appear on our TV and now as a part of their own Royal family.
Harry should not have married *any* American woman, but looked within his own nation and the Commonwealth for his bride. If he wanted a woman of color, there are many lovely exotic flowers in his own garden from which to choose. Regardless of her skin color, what mattered was her character, her dignity, her belief in the monarchy and her willingness to support it with humility and her whole heart. The role called, at minimum, for a British citizen or a lady from the Commonwealth with ties to and affection for, the monarchy. Just like James Bond should always be British, no matter if he's white or brown, the role of a Duchess of the United Kingdom and wife calls for a British citizen, and not an anti monarchist.
Harry chose very poorly . . or had the choice made for him. This Harkle Transatlantic experiment has been an epic disaster and it ain't over yet. The family will rue this marriage for a very long time to come, unless she is discredited and removed fairly quickly. Even so, I can't imagine how Harry will even begin to rebuild his reputation or his relationship with his family.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7585221/Prince-Harry-gives-searingly-open-interview-festering-wound-death-left-life.html
Africa is a continent; South Africa is the southern-most country in Africa. Us Africans get really annoyed when foreigners (especially Westerners) make this mistake.
1. If Harry speaks of Africa as his second home, he is a fool. It is a BIG continent with many regions and countries within those regions, most of which he has not visited. Egypt and Lesotho are both countries in Africa, but are very different.
2. To not sound like an ignorant bigoted Westerner, you should have written South Africa, not 'it' in the third sentence.
Nope, showing Archie in South Africa on a visit to Tutu was PR. South Africa had nothing to do with the decision; Tutu had everything to do with the decision to display the child.
Nope, the Queen did not 'choose' to make an iconic speech in South Africa. She happened to be there (while on a long tour with her family) on her 21st birthday.
I haven't read the article in DM yet, but, whenever I hear a door slam with a very loud BANG it makes me jump and flashback to the time I was in jail in the mid 80's for 40 days. Anyone who has been locked up for so much as a week has the same flashback. The difference is however, is that Harry is riding that experience to help define himself and use it to gain sympathy. I don't let a loud bang define me. Harry needs to quit the pity party and get some real help.
“I wanted to try and answer a more specific question for myself — what is the essence of Africa? Why is it that so many visitors feel Africa gets under our skin and into our soul?,” he pondered.”
“Prince Harry shared some of his own personal experience with the crowd, noting: “Ever since I came to this continent as a young boy, trying to cope with something I can never possibly describe, Africa has held me in an embrace that I will never forget, and I feel incredibly fortunate for that.”
“And every time I come here, I know that I’m not alone. I always feel — wherever I am on this continent — that the community around me provides a life that is enriching, and is rooted in the simplest things — connection, connections with others, and the natural environment,” he noted.
Prince Harry also is taking the experience with him as a parent to Archie, noting, “And as I raise my own son, I want to make sure that what I’ve learned here — the value of the natural world, the value of community and friendship — is something that I can pass on to him.”
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/prince-harry-explains-africa-is-my-second-home-for-this-touching-reason.html/
And, it seems, he rose to the challenge. In his gracious a letter of thanks, Sir Tommy Lascelles (known as a rather crusty old todger) wrote: “I have been reading drafts for many years now. But I cannot recall one that has so completely satisfied me and left me feeling that not one single should be altered. Moreover, dusty cynic that I am, it moved me greatly. It has the trumpeting ring of the other Elizabeth Tilbury’s speech, combined with the immortal simplicity of Queen Victoria’s ‘I will be good’”.
https://www.thearticle.com/how-my-great-grandfather-came-to-write-the-defining-speech-of-queen-elizabeths-reign
The queen didn’t even write the speech
Oh how I think it would have been so wonderful for Harry to have met a poor black African woman with exotic looks to marry and make a real Disney Princess story come true for him and they could emigrate to Nigeria, Kenya, Malawi, wherever and do good works there where he feels so at home.
Instead, he grabs hold of the exact opposite of that and lives the high life and whines about it. He wouldn't even let his son be exposed to the nice Mom's group that met with his 'Caucasian'WOC' (depending on year/purpose) wife. What hypocrites on so many levels.
Here in the US we have a saying "Wait till the chickens come home to roost". He may eventually wish he had found a nice lady from Africa, a genuinely decent, loving, loyal, helpmate to live an honest, productive, honorable life filled with good deeds his Mummy would be proud of if she were alive.
As for him being upset about flashbulbs causing him distress, it would be understandable if he had PTSD from something happening to him but it was Diana's trauma and he doesn't have firsthand observations so he is making this up in his mind. He needs serious help. I have gone thru 4 totaled car wrecks, a shipwreck in the ocean, rapes, a doctor on drugs who almost killed me on the operating table, an assault that was close to an attempted murder and I don;t have any PSTD and I hardly talked but a few times about one of those incidents to a psychologist. I don't think I am particularly strong but I think Harry needs professional help if he is truly suffering as he exclaims.
At the time of the 2017 interview he said he felt he was in a good place. But if he reacts to every camera flash and seems to claim he has for years, obviously he needed more therapy than he got. (I do realize new issues can crop up.)
Still, I wonder why he seeks out cameras at times? His wedding didn't have to be the public production it was including the carriage ride, he doesn't have to speak at Google climate events, he didn't have to attend the Lion King premiere....
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/16/prince-harry-sought-counselling-death-mother-led-two-years-total/
I also wonder who else, aside from Prince Andrew and Sarah, in the royal family are members.
What he said just doesn't ring true. If every time sees or hears the click of a camera, he's reminded of his mother, he needs professional help. For multiple reasons, first he wasn't there that night. Second, she died because her driver was drunk. Third, she would likely have survived if she was wearing a seatbelt. Forth, he goes no to marry someone who craves the spotlight. Fifth, he's served time in the military where there are a lot of things that go click and then flash.
The entire Africa being his second home thing just sounds like he's pandering. Did he spend years on end there, or a few weeks here and there? Before anyone gets bent out of shape, yes, I know South Africa is a country on the African continent. I've been to South Africa, lived on Madagascar. Has he mentioned a particular country?
https://www.today.com/news/it-s-always-there-prince-harry-says-he-gets-flashbacks-t89586
I know! Let's all join! Surely with our 6 degrees of separation going, we could find two members to let us!
I also read that Botswana has always been his go to place to take his girl friends for quite awhile, so taking Megs was not like an exclusively meaningful choice to bring just her. He took most all of them there.
@punkinseed...
Bwahahaha... he's the guy who gives every girlfriend the same gift, because the first one said she liked it. I'm sure Smeg thought it was special. Hahahahahah!
he's probably wondering why everyone is so concerned about him because he honestly doesn't realize how bad off he is and has been for some time. He might talk the talk a bit, but he's obviously all hat and no cattle. Instead, he blames it on flashbulbs or his mom's passing, or the press, or those blue meanies bashing his wife and she's feeding that.
Soho House has a very firm anti slavery and human trafficking policy. It might be a good idea for them to investigate Megs as she's got Harry shackled for sure and the sickest part is he has been conned so much he doesn't know it.
Tune into “Harry & Meghan: An African Journey," hosted by "Good Morning America" co-anchor Robin Roberts, on Wednesday, Oct. 23, at 10 p.m. ET, on the ABC Television Network.
I am willing to watch it too (might be drinking some fun bubbles).
When is it on in the States?
Great. thanks, I can even tape it (we cut the cord about a year ago) and replay it to check my notes and stuff.
And, it's a good night that I don't have anything which conflicts.
It will have to be somebody with a stronger constitution than I possess. I tend to avoid things that may give me projectile vomiting.
Prince Charles recently met with the Pope. I wonder if he was there to ask one of the most powerful men outside of the elite cabal that the Clooneys, SoHo, Soros, Clintons, et al et ux et vir, which includes Megs, their minion, was for help in how to rid his family and the monarchy from such powerful entanglements and survive. Or perhaps, the very reason Charles has done nothing to thwart Harry and Megs from their new foundation that is outside of the scope of BP's rules, is because the monarchy is a forced passive supporter of the whole scheme. After all, if the privy purse doesn't have to fund the Sussexs because their foundation can foot all of their bills, then yay, more $ for Charles' schemes, the Cambridge family and so on. Ha ha. A win win? It would be nice if BP would use that savings and pay their staff a lot more $ too.
I think we may have been ahead of the curve on the cord cutting maybe 15 years ago when we got so very tired of having so many channels and every one of them insulting our intelligence with their programming. I can't say that I've missed it at all. I'd rather watch real people carve wood or knit shawls or grow tomatoes on YouTube (and other internet channels). I watch Indian ladies doing beautiful embroidery work. I watch Vietnamese workers make beautiful Bonsai pots. The world is my classroom.
We did that 5 years ago but sadly, my husband and I had to sell our condo and move in with my MIL, quit my job and be a full time care giver (a 3 bedroom house - she's not allowed to live alone anymore and she couldn't afford to move into an assisted living facility). So we're back to having cable TV which is expensive. I won't be watching it because I need to clean the kitchen that night - you know, stove, oven, sinks, floors, rearrange the cabinets, etc., ad infinitum. It'll be more productive than watching that shit show.
Here she is with JT: https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/actor-meghan-markle-shares-instagram-photo-with-canada-s-pm-1.3167105
http://frankmag.ca/2016/03/all-thumbs-parvenu-jessica-mulroney/
I understand, really I do! I've done the caregiver thing with my mother in her struggle with cancer. Husband had quite a few medical problems during this time as well when he was bedridden. Try not to be Wonder Woman and carry everybody's burden. Make caring for yourself a priority (but you probably will not, like I did not). My in laws are in wheelchairs and living in their own home out in the middle of nowhere. Assisted living facilities are between $3,000 and $4,000 per month. Husband is retiring at the end of the year to try to take care of them while I work toward replenishing my retirement account to retire about 10 years later than I had planned.
Anyone able to sit through the documentary should receive some sort of special award.
It isn't a bad thing to admit defeat, so I shall do just that and say I would rather eat my own head. I will sift through the various comments on blogs and twitter the next day.
Take a look at Youtube, the UK State Opening of Paliament 2019, I think it's the Telegraph newspaper coverage so maybe google their name & you'll find it - around 46.30 into filming - just as the Queen & Prince Charles enter the chamber - a wpman can be heard shouting "Get rid of Markle"!! Camilla can be seen on the right hand side of the screen, laughing! I've not seen this reported in the media AT ALL!! Other's in the Comments section on Youtube hesrd it too though so it's out there lol.
What a contrast with Will's whiny younger brother. He needs to retire from public life, and quickly.
To see a tall alpha male interacting with this little girl on her level was so touching. Let's hope that she survives and is able show this photo to her own children.
The girl's father said 'I call her my princess and now she's going to meet a real princess.' And that's what she got. A REAL princess dressing and behaving the way people expect a princess to behave. Not slumming it in sloppy clothes and mouthing inanities about herself. The contrast simply could not be starker. The Cambridge tour has been pure perfection. The Sussexes, by contrast, have used Africa and its people as a backdrop for their pity party. They are a disgrace and it's not even funny anymore.
Miggy, you have a stronger constitution than I. Do report your conclusions and impressions, please. Periodically snorting wine through the nose while watching is probably bad for the sinuses so take care.
Never mind that Harry never seemed to much mind the press before - in fact William was seen as 'prince petulant' with a hatred for the media. In fact, he was happy enough to ham it up for them, happy to have a televised wedding complete with carriage ride, happy to do an interview when Archie was born (the first royal ever to do so I beleive) and so on and so forth. Not to mention marrying a woman for whom publicity is like oxygen! I can't beleive anyone is actually daft enough to buy into any of this. The country is going through a period of turmoil and uncertainty, yet people are supposed to feel sorry for one of the most privileged couples on earth?
Look, I understand that the criticism and mocking must be difficult. But she brought it on herself with that pregnancy announcement at Eugenie's wedding, belly cupping, haute couture wardrobe to visit Smart Works and a pet sanctuary, Wimbledon, fake friends in People Magazine, secret godparents and especially the constant ME, ME, ME, look at ME, admire ME, love ME.
And whenever she was criticized, she just doubled down.
I'm surprised at how cross I am about all this! Like I said above, it's not even funny anymore - well, OK sometimes it is! But trying to overshadow the Cambridge's hugely succesful tour? And for no good reason other than to whine about how 'hard' your astonishingly privileged life is? These two are just appalling.
Whatever happened to 'Never complain, never explain'?
- she kept a copy of the letter she sent her father. who does that? when you send a letter to someone very close, do you keep a copy of what you wrote?
- she says that certain sections were omitted from the letter which portray her in a favourable light, like how she enumerates the good things her father has done for her.
I don't think she has much of a leg to stand on, because the MOS ran the story past their legal team before they published. There can be two letters however. One she sent her father, and one she kept as a copy which wasn't the same as the one she supposedly sent her father.
Never complain, never explain was the "old" monarchy. Meghan arrived to "hit the ground running" in order to "modernize" the Monarchy, where the motto is "We will do whatever the hell we want and you dare not criticize us"
This documentary makes no sense, given that the couple was receiving mostly good reviews during the Africa trip. Why complain when things are going well for you?
They aren’t moderated now, and there’s almost 2k comments. I don’t think I found one single positive comment from the ones I saw.
I really do not know how they - or at least she - can be taken seriously as royals after this. What are they contributing to the monarchy or the country? They seem to forget that they are public servants. The public is not there to pander to them or fret over their largely self-inflicted 'problems'. Especially at a time of national turmoil. This is a massive strategic error. How can anyone look forward to Meghan visiting an old folk's home or disadvantaged youths' centre when all she can do is whine about how tough it is being a duchess?
They really are drinking their own Kool Aid.
RMM knew what she was getting when she married a high profile public figure. She THOUGHT she would be revered and loved, but just doesn't understand why people are being so mean to her! Has she SEEN what she's done over the last year? My GOD, to say that no one asked if "SHE" was ok....why would any one care to ask? I understand that it's the polite thing to do, but it's also polite not to ask if you truly do not care for the answer. She has made it abundantly clear that she doesn't care about the UK or her people, so why would they ask? She alienated most of the RF with her antics, so why would THEY ask? In America, we have other more important things to discuss....like, um...anything. So, yeah... :)
I find it hard to have any sympathy for her or Harry. For a long time, I too tried to find reasons for Harry's actions, and I simply cannot fathom why he would turn on his family the way he has. It's very disappointing and I firmly believe his mother would highly disapprove of his actions as it also hurts his brother.
Finally, I've read through all nearly 600 comments and am so disappointed with the direction this blog has taken with some posters. I have thoroughly enjoyed this blog (THANKS NUTTY) and don't care for the constant back and forth, or the snark. I've been a victim of it myself for merely having an opinion or misunderstanding a comment. I may join SwampWoman and others for the wine or even something stronger, if this continues.....or even if it doesn't. :)
And frankly, I don't believe that people did not ask how she was doing in the early days. But since she was resistant to advice, they just backed off.
I agree with another poster who said this upcoming victim binge documentary is going to be their Panorama interview.
The UK commenters are furious that she has the gall to play the poor me cards after stalking and bagging Harry for months. She wanted all of this scrutiny, craves it in fact. She isn't the type to ever be overwhelmed by anything. What's she going to do now? Claim "stalker's remorse" because the only people who support or like her are bought off humans like JM, or paid for bots.
I'm still on for watching but sometimes the phrase: This is a job for alcohol. (chard and fun bubbles - will be stocking up on the grocery run today). I will try to keep from snorting it but sometimes reality bites.
When I found Philo which allows me to tape some of the cable shows I was loth to give up, I could finally cut the cord. No sports and about $16 a month.
I think the pity party documentary will be a big blow up in their faces. It will contrast (only lacking loud security alarms sounding) the differences between the two trips of the brothers. Pitch perfect versus anything but.
The I made a copy of my letter defense. Hmmm, isn't that interesting to claim that it would be unfair for only favorable parts to be omitted and only unfavorable parts printed. To prove her case, (damages for being good?) the whole letter would need to be submitted. Is it the same letter or not and so on.
She may or may not win the legal battle but people will remember that she does not tolerate criticism and this may lead to more mistakes as no one can advise her (as they would know better than she how to behave).
Sigh. I remember that HM finally had enough and thought it best for all to for them to divorce. Perhaps she will need to make a similar hard decision. Perhaps the cogs have already started (cutting off money) and this puff movie (doesn't sound like it meets my internal definition of real documentary) is their last attempt to draw public opinion to rally behind them?
I do think that an intense intimate relationship does bring underlying problems to the fore and that this is what is happening to Harry. He has lost the stabilising influences and wise guidance he used to have from family and well-chosen courtiers and is now in free fall. Meghan is not the sort of person who can help him recover from this breakdown he is having because she is the catalyst and enabler.
The Harkles: "we are so unhappy, poor us..."
Harry and Megs have no where left to go with this.
And yes Iknow material privilige doesnt' mean you can't suffer in other ways but... what exactly is her problem? Weren't we told only a few weeks ago that she doesn't read her press? I notice that she is extremely vague on the details of all these horrors she is facing and of course the sycophantic interviwer doesn't press her. Like I said, I don't know how anyone can take her seriously next time (when is the next time come to think of it? I've not seen any upcoming events for her) she goes to some charity for underprivileged people and pretends to care about them.
If the Panorama interview was the last straw for the queen regarding Diana, what effect will this absurdity have? Will the Sussex freak show be allowed to rumble on without consequence? Sadly I fear it will.
oh MEGHAN. This is so her pattern. When she started dating Harry, she was being pursued by the media and he had to release a statement telling the press to back off. When has she ever been thankful or gracious for her tremendous good fortune?
You know who I might think to ask if they were OK?
- A working mom whose husband has cancer
- A military mom who is raising 2 small children by herself while her husband is deployed
- A single mom who has to choose weekly between her medicine, utilities and food
or ANYONE else who hasn't demanded privacy when people showed interest in her family. Maybe the lawsuit scared some folks off?
The interview does indeed seem extremely melodramatic, the expressions! Ufff! And she's trying to cry. I've seriously never seen such blatant display of a victim mentality ever before. This interview convinces me that Harry's hammy performance the other day was for this exact purpose. The rewears, the bad makeup, the bad clothes, every single thing they are being called out on/made fun of is to drive home the victim narrative. They want to be bullied so they can pretend to be rising above the drama.
Someone above has pointed out that BRF should have helped her out more, vetted her before agreeing to the marriage. I've been of the opinion that BRF too was blind sided. She seemed good on paper, she is a master networker so probably came with flowing references so to say, and while the pap shots were red flags to us and her acting creds not prise worthy, it wasn't something the BRF could have been bothereduch about. Someone can appear to be perfectly fine and charming IRL, so they probably bought her goody two shoes act. Not to say that the BRF too was probably very keen on the match since it would be a mater stroke I'm positive PR for Harry, to rebukid his and the firm's image. So they probably had their hopes pinned in her. Noone would have guessed two years back that this would be such a collosal mess, that she would actually be like this. Her character and her imfluence oh Harry has slowly been unvieled and unfortunately for BRF this gamble not only did not pay off, it made things so much worse for them.
One good thimg is this train wreck would become very very hard for the BRF to ignore post the documentary. They are directly accusing the media and public, calling them out for causing pain, ruining their newly wed married life, making the pregnancy difficult, so they are infact also accusing the BRF of not being a good support system. Which is definitely not a pleasant picture to paint.
I actually very much doubt that the royals were keen on Harry marrying Meghan, if for no other reason than that he - and they - barely knew her. They were married within less than 2 years of meeting one another, and given that they lived on seperate continents, spent no more than a few days at a time in one another's company. It was basically an extended holiday romance. Also there were rumours that Harry and Will's falling out started because William warned him not to marry her, at least not without getting to know her properly. And her family were obviously another ticking time bomb.
So I'd say that the royals felt they had no choice but to go along with it, and because Harry really isn't that important, they weren't that bothered. However, had they known just how big a disaster she'd turn out to be - and so quickly - I'm sure they'd have tried harder to dissuade him.
I think that something stronger may be necessary for some of the political discussions going on no matter where you are located or which side you support.
If the duo is looking for sympathy, they're not going to get it from about 95% of the people who actually know who they are. I find it laughable that ABC picked this up, since ABC's news group is receiving some heavy backlash for their own failures this week.
For those of you that do not know, ABC News used footage from Knob Creek Gun Range in Kentucky and said it was footage of Turkey invading the Kurds. Knob Creek Gun Range's Facebook page is marked safe from invasion from Turkey, BTW.
I still cannot believe she did that interview....and her acting was pathetic! I simply can't understand how she was on Suits for so long.
Seriously, though, as many commenters above have stated, I think this documentary will get the ball rolling for a definitive response from the Family, a response we will not really see immediately, but later as either a) a move to California/NY for these two; b) divorce. As much as Harry whines and carries on about privacy and the stressors of being a Royal, it's all he has ever known and there is NO WAY he'd be able to function outside of it. Meghan just hasn't figured it out yet. I'm convinced she is under the illusion Harry will choose her and he will follow her along with all the Royal benefits (money, title, etc.) But when it comes to sh*t vs shove, dear Harry is going to choose his Royal Family, albeit reluctantly and with anger.
This "whine-mentary" is the absolutely the beginning of the end. And I'm here for every second of it... pass the popcorn with extra butter and salt!
"As much as Harry whines and carries on about privacy and the stressors of being a Royal, it's all he has ever known and there is NO WAY he'd be able to function outside of it."
Oh, I agree completely. Harry, however, is both stupid and spoiled - a lethal combination - so I'm not sure if he's aware just how enormously privileged he is and how that is down to one thing and one thing only, the fact that he was born into the royal family. He seems to have come up with the worldview that the media - or at least the British media - is responsible for all his woes, and that once they are neutered, all will be sunny in the Sussex gardens. So I think he might be tempted to move to Los Angeles, thinking that that willl be his way to escape the evil British press and become the star he beleives he deserves to be. Little does that fool know that once his royal protection were gone, the media - and the American media would be at least as bad as the british - will se no reason to hold back and he'd wishing for the 'harassment' he has now. Then he'll come back to the fold, cap in hand, with Meghan starring in her own reality show back in LA.
Why is it taking so long to finally implode though? What did the UK ever do to deserve B****t (whichever side you're on) and H&M at the same time? Dragging on and on and on and it doesn't matter how angry you are, there's something even worse coming along tomorrow. I think all UK cities should be set up with gigantic padded rooms so we can throw ourselves around harmlessly. Or free sumo-wrestler suits so we can throw other people around harmlessly. Even better, custard-pie extravaganzas! We may as well enjoy ourselves while waiting for H&M to self-destruct.
you are indeed right with "he might be tempted to move to Los Angeles, thinking that that willl be his way to escape the evil British press and become the star he beleives he deserves to be".
Makes me think of that old saying, something to effect: "wherever you may go or how far you go, there you are". Can't out run your problems or issues; they always show up before you do.
So, sadly, I agree with your sentiment about Harry's lack of intelligence and his lifelong overindulgence. He probably really believes if he can go somewhere else all will be "sunny in Sussex gardens"!
"Miggy, you have a stronger constitution than I. Do report your conclusions and impressions, please. Periodically snorting wine through the nose while watching is probably bad for the sinuses so take care."
Have no fear...
1) No wine will be supped for the duration of the doc as I don't want to choke!
2) I shall sit firmly on hands to restrain myself from chucking missiles at the screen!
3) All windows will be firmly closed so that neighbours don't hear me swearing!
Will try to take notes if I can stay calm enough. ;-)
@Unknown
"Anyone able to sit through the documentary should receive some sort of special award."
If I make it to then end, I'll reward myself with a double G&T! :)
I highly doubt the royals thought Meghan looked good on paper or were blindsided . She was a B-list actress for heavens sake, and that was a non starter on its own. I’m sure Harry had them over a barrel, we only have to look at his behaviour to see how he can behave (in public), imagine him in private. The fallout of them not sanctioning the marriage would have made them look bad. They couldn’t say no because she was a divorcee either, not after allowing Prince Charles to marry his longtime mistress.