The Telegraph.co.uk has announced new details about Prince Harry's project Travalyst.
From behind the paywall:
"The Duke of Sussex is to launch an online scoring system to show travellers how eco-friendly their flights are, as he embarks on the first major project of his new working life.
The Duke, who will return to the UK from Canada next week for the event, will share details of a prototype scheme to “bring more transparency around carbon emissions for individual flights” and make holidays as environmentally-friendly as possible.
The Travalyst project, which he unveiled in the summer, will be the first of several engagements in his 12-day visit to the UK, which will include a recording session with musician Jon Bon Jovi.
In a social media post yesterday, in which the Sussexes’ team mocked up a text conversation with Bon Jovi, Prince Harry hinted he would be joining in the singing on a single to benefit the Invictus Games Choir on February 28th.
The Telegraph has learned the Duke will also be travelling to Edinburgh during his trip home, for a day of work with his Travalyst project.
Testing out plans for a scoring system
It will see him welcome around 100 people from the tourist and travel industry in Scotland to a working summit to test out plans for scoring systems across the three themes of accommodation, aviation and travel experiences.
“It’s not telling consumers and people what they should and shouldn’t be doing,” a source said of the project. “We want to create an industry where people’s choices will automatically be better for the planet."
The Duke himself has received painful criticism over the last year for his own flights, and will continue to travel between the UK and North America in the coming months as the Sussexes split their time across continents.
In September, he answered critics over his use of private jets, saying the “unique circumstances” of his family’s safety made it sometimes essential and promising to "balance out the impact that I have" by offsetting the CO2.
"In my mind it's the right thing to do,” he said. “We need to make it cool. It can't just be a ticking-the-box exercise.”
An interesting project - and Duchess Meghan's name is not mentioned at all.
What do you think of Harry's idea?
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I've noted before and I'll say it again . . Meg is a lousy failure as an American, a Briton-by-marriage, a feminist, a humanitarian, an eco-warrior and oh, yeah, a black woman. She's counterfeit at all these things she supposedly is. Not forgetting 'loving mother who gave birth 'naturally' and in record time.'
The above are my personal opinions shared for entertainment purposes only. They seem plausible to me but of course there aren't any receipts. Meg can't have it be known that her husband can't even stand to look at her never mind procreate with her.
Like, Amal's private jet, for example.
February 19th of last year, MM and Amal flew to NYC for the lavish 'top secret' baby shower at the Mark which was so secret it was splashed all over every media outlet in the world after MM made sure that the papps were on hand to see all her celebrity besties arriving and peons of the hotel unloading all the free swag she was giving them, including luxury suitcases worth $250 apiece from Away.
It was floated at the time that Meg was in town not only to celebrate but to look at an apartment to use as a Stateside bolt hole, and that her pals Serena Williams and Amal were putting the lease in their names to hide it from the RF. (Which would totally have worked since nobody at the Palace ever reads the Internet!) Pundits were giddy with the possibility that this meant she was planning to leave Harry just months into the marriage.
What if that baby shower was just a blind for the actual mission: to pick up a newborn?
If 'Archie' were a surrogate baby born in February rather than May, that would jibe with him being older than has been advertised, and would also explain why a heavily 'pregnant' woman would have been compelled to take a transatlantic flight for such a frivolous reason. Why should the shower have had to take place in NYC, when none of the attendees were based in Manhattan? It would have been a short flight for the Toronto based 'friends' like JM and MA . . in that case, why not have it in Toronto, Meg's second home in North America? Or better still from a maternal health standpoint--have the well-heeled guests come to Meg and have the shower in absolute privacy at the Clooneys' lovely place in Oxfordshire?
Because maybe . . .the baby was in NYC and was ready for pick-up?
Don't know. But the New York jaunt at that time was so very odd. A luxe London shower would have been just as nice or better, without the traveling. There seems to have been a specific reason why Meg had to be in NYC that weekend.
"It seems to be a problem that others have encountered - it seems to be some sort of argument between Google Chrome and my other browser."
Me too! Chrome is so messed up I can't use it any more. Good to know its not just me!
https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1247048/the-queen-news-MI5-visit-queen-elizabeth-II-royal-latest
The Queen issued a heartfelt statement after she met staff members at the MI5. The monarch, who carried out an unannounced visit to the headquarters of the UK's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency at Thames House today, praised the organisation's ability for its commitment to its own motto.
The Queen's statement read: "I would like to take my visit here today as an opportunity to thank you all for the tireless work you do to keep our country safe.
"I am always struck by the remarkable resolve with which you carry out your vital role.
"There will no doubt continue to be significant threats and challenges ahead.
"But on each of my visits to MI5, I have been impressed by the way that you have adapted to the changing threats to our nation.
"Whether responding to the threats from the Nazis or the Cold War, domestic terrorism or the cyber sphere, you have always demonstrated the utmost commitment to your motto: 'Regnum Defende'.
"Because of the nature of your work, it is without public recognition, so it is on behalf of the country that I say to you all, thank you."
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Re: Andrew and the FBI. I don't disagree that the FBI wouldn't be requesting an interview if they didn't have reasonable grounds to do so, but so far it doesn't appear to be mandatory. I do agree that Andrew's refusal to co-operate with them comes across as suspicious; but at the same time, if he was legally bound to attend interview I'm sure it would be made crystal clear and we'd be seeing the FBI or the lawyers taking proper legal steps to make it happen, instead of lawyers resorting to organising a bus with a "wanted poster" on it to drive around outside his elderly mother's house.
Also, has anyone else wondered whether Maxwell is actually in hiding or whether something may have "happened" to her? I honestly don't know either way, but it did briefly cross my mind at one point after she went AWOL.
It appears M also targeted Beatrice and Eugenia by announcing her pregnancy at one's wedding and now attacking them for other unsupported reasons.
I can see wanting to distance yourself from Andrew and Fergie but this behavior towards the girls is uncalled for.
My opinion is M early on deciding to cause dissension in the family for God knows what reason.
I will also repeat my concern that M&H's treatment of TQ borders on emotional abuse of an elderly person for reasons of financial gain.
The fact they can't see this is very disturbing.
The United States State Department, Secret Service, and New York Police Department were ordered to give M full protection while she was at her baby shower. There was so much anger, and several million dollars spent, that all information, including the remarks of her “international police force” were quickly leaked out, including her stupidity in ordering USA protection officers to take her out the back door of her hotel, a la Diana at the Ritz Paris, to show how popular she was. The contempt towards M was barely concealed. I sincerely doubt that HAMS will have any more “diplomatic” millions of dollars spent on them from American taxpayers anymore. I am afraid that the British will “have to” pay for Harry and Archie’s RPOs. Diana refused RPO protection, even turned her back on the Queen’s pleas for free RPOs, as she, Diana, thought they would spy on her after her divorce. She would be alive today if she had RPOs. The Queen will never allow Harry to go unprotected. No more Dianas. However, no American bucks for the two if they live in the USA.
I have been sick with the flu (even with a flu shot months ago) and thus have not kept up much with reading. Nuttie, I think you asked me about Harry and his troubles whilst training in America. I can go into detail, but let us just say it was an open secret, and I personally heard the story from an American soldier who was literally speechless for a minute before he carefully told me what he endured with Harry. Harry, he said, is an officer in his own mind, and not a gentleman. The American soldier was bored to death hearing Harry brag how he and William could speed on their bikes everywhere back home, can do anything they want, and his head of the military, his grandmother, would cover up everything if anything happened. Sorry, Harry!!! You are not in the Emerald City, and there is no Wizard of Oz here!
Much more.
>>>@Hikari..There is a sensible explaination for why she wanted her party in NYC. Paparazzi. It is well known the British news outlets and paps have an understanding with the RF to respect their privacy. If she or her team called the paps in the UK, they may not have responded or tattled on her publicity attempts. US media has no such understanding or agreement with the RF. They will scream freedom of the press and run wild like wolves.<<<
Meg and I have vastly differing definitions of the word 'sensible', but I concur that papp attention was what Meg wanted, in addition to whatever clandestine purposes brought her there. It was her "Royal Kartrashian Does the Big Apple!" tour. Meg sported another of her many looks that weekend, including, on one memorable occasion, trying to hide her perfectly flat stomach behind a giant handbag. Whoops, Megsie, left your fetus back in the hotel room, it appeared. The shots we have of her in that ball cap, she looks like Keira Knightley to me. At the Brit fashion awards she was in full on Julia Roberts mode.
Well . . if it were *only* for papp attention, why did it have to be *that* particular weekend? She barely got home to London when HM dispatched H&M to Morocco a few days later. Surely the papp walk/shower would have been better timed if that was the only objective . . perhaps to coincide with a Christmas visit with Doria (haha) when she would have been less advanced in pregnancy and there would have been another plausible reason for her visit to the United States?
It’s too bad Harry is buying into all this rubbish, spewed by a woman who never loved him and never will. He is just a useful object to her, and so is Archie. I hope Harry eventually regrets he ever heard the name Meghan Markle.
information only, the arrangement that UK newspapers have with the RF is that they (the newspapers) will not purchase or publish photo's taken by free lance paps or agencies of the RF. This of course did not bode well for MM who lives to be papped to the extent of setting up her own photoshoots with agencies like Backgrid and Splash.
He didn’t publicly state they would wait a while.
Yep, Harry has been a rank hypocrite long before he joined forces with MM. Because he keeps yammering on about the hated press who killed his mother and give him continual PTSD flashbacks and Just Won't Leave Him Alone, deeply spiritual, private man that he is . . .(koff) . . and then he goes and marries the hugest camera hound in the world. Because she promised him that they would be bigger than the Royal family! Bigger than William and Kate! Bigger than Brangelina!!
Like his wife, Harry wants to be a STAR!!!! Like her, he thinks being a Star entails just being himself and getting his picture taken, nothing else required.
If he were not complicit in this plan for media domination, he wouldn't have turned his back on his family so absolutely.
Bea and Edo must be sweating bullets, with the prospect of having their wedding Harkled. They are damned if they do and damned if they don't--invite the duplicitous Dumbarkles. If Meg doesn't get an invite, she'll complain (loudly) that the racist bullies in the RF are shunning her (even though she shunned them first!). But if the Dumbarses attend, they will ruin the bridal couple's day by any and all means at their disposal. Meg will turn up in something horrible and then stage a 'fainting fit' . .either due to the 'stress' of the racist hatred she's experiencing or because she's "Pregnant Again!" She will try to seize a microphone at the reception and go on a tirade, or Haz will.
Harry used to be close to his York cousins but after all the pointed digs at them in 'the update' plus the antics at Eugenie's wedding, safe to say that's over with. I wouldn't put it past Meg to turn up and demand entry to the wedding even without an invitation. She has banked on their good breeding and unwillingness to cause scenes over her gauche behavior for years now.
Here's a thought . . .HM could dispatch Lord Geidt to personally hand-deliver H&M's wedding invitation . .just to ensure it doesn't get lost in the Royal Air Mail. Then he will stand over Meg and watch as she regretfully declines to attend, citing 'conflicts', all in her best calligraphy, which he will personally hand-deliver back to the bride and groom, along with any snaps of the growing Archie which the proud mom and dad care to share with Archie's great-grandparents.
Ha, that's a good one--I crack myself up.
Well, they sure didn't.
Harry's behavior is not in concert with a man who was enthusiastically behind this rush to early procreation. For a man who now has everything in his life he said he ever wanted--a wife, child, global profile and 'freedom' from his onerous family, Harry is miserable.
Having a baby before his first wedding anniversary was probably a bit 'nearer' than was comfortable. Anyway, that is *one* interview . .that is not the only place he spoke about having a family.
The implication is heavy that Madame is behind this.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellievhall/royal-divorces-and-royal-leaks-to-the-press
Yep.
Doubt she is swilling "Tig" with takeupt sandwiches. Homeless folks can't afford such things.
I have been thinking a lot about Harry's role in this most recent mess while working my way through more than 800 comments on this thread alone.
There are a few points that strike me: as several posters have mentioned, the Harkles' statement seems to be Meg's brainchild. I seriously doubt Harry was even aware she was going to post it until it was too late. I think Meghan was furiously typing away after a few bottles of Tig wine, yak wig flying, and did not even consult Harry about posting it. Harry does not strike me as being malicious towards his grandmother and cousins, even while under control of a narcissistic individual.
This simply seems to be another way in which Megs is creating a distance between Harry and his family: after the estrangement with his brother and sister in law, and then the distancing from his grandparents and father, it is now his cousins turn.
Harry must feel absolutely hopeless. He no longer has any friends or family to turn to, he has lost all goodwill from the public, he only has Meghan. If he fights her madness (and that includes the fake pregnancy) he has no one. Even though he may be suffering from Stockholm syndrome, I think his pride will not (yet) permit him to divorce her or to ask his family for forgiveness. I also agree with Hikari that Harry will not last another five years. In the photos where he is out buying sandwiches he is so painfully thin.
Totally agree.
Where, for example is that incredibly expensive wardrobe? Did she resell/return the pieces? Did she ever pay for them to begin with? Are there pieces she claimed that never existed? What about travel expenses,and living expenses. What about wedding gifts? Did they take anything that should stay with the Crown?
They are both incredibly twisty, we know this happened.
https://www.ibtimes.com/meghan-markle-heartbreak-duchess-son-archie-great-security-risk-wont-travel-anywhere-2927819
https://en.brinkwire.com/news/meghan-markle-heartbreak-duchess-son-archie-at-great-security-risk-wont-travel-anywhere/
That DNA test better happen soon if the British taxpayers are going to pay for that child the rest of his life
Get it all out there, I say! This drip drop of crisis is too messy. rip off the bandage, live with the consequences, and everyone back to work
I would have been great at PR, right? Lol
What kind of rhymes with rich keeps a baby from his grandfather, great grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins? Has there ever, ever, been a picture of PC with said baby outside of the questionable Christening photo? Has there ever, ever, been a picture with that baby and the Queen (in the same shot) outside of the questionable reveal to the world baby announcement (we happened to bump into the Queen and Duke????).
For that matter, is there any picture of Doria holding the baby? Feeding the baby? Playing with the baby?
>>>Harry must feel absolutely hopeless. He no longer has any friends or family to turn to, he has lost all goodwill from the public, he only has Meghan. If he fights her madness (and that includes the fake pregnancy) he has no one. Even though he may be suffering from Stockholm syndrome, I think his pride will not (yet) permit him to divorce her or to ask his family for forgiveness. I also agree with Hikari that Harry will not last another five years. In the photos where he is out buying sandwiches he is so painfully thin.<<<
I don't of course have any proof that this couple isn't living together. They may be living together *now* in their mutual (self-selected) exile, in separate wings of the oligarch's mansion, but I don't believe they have had a normal domestic union, ever. Because if Harry were on the premises with her every day, sharing meals and other intimacies, wouldn't he know what she was up to? I agree with you that the SM postings and statements on their IG and PR leaks are (mostly) all her. He might chime in with something about Travalyst or Invictus--something he's personally involved with--such as the ill-advised 'Santa Harry' or video with Ed Sheeran . . his contributions are not well-judged, but they tend to be more pithy and video-based than MM's gobs of word salad. I don't think Harry is supervising her SM usage or even present as she hammers these things out. He doesn't have any reason to be resentful of his York cousins--he knows better than anyone how much Andy wanted full working royal status for his daughters and was publicly denied it, how both York girls work paid jobs, have security funded privately through their father and have *personal*, not royal patronages. They turn up at Trooping and Royal Ascot as members of the extended family, not as senior royals. Harry knows this. His wife is the one with grievances, because she wants what Bea and Eugenie have--freedom to steer their own courses, earn money, be hailed as humanitarians & get to attend all the 'sexy' Royal events with none of the drudge ones.
But Charles does not fund the York girls, and they do not make demands of the Crown. They are HRHs because they are born princesses and Meg is not, and that really sticks in her craw Also, they do not publicly insult their grandmother. These are the differences that Meg just can't wrap her greedy mind around.
Harry has thrown his lot in with Megs, but however that went down, it was under some duress. As time has gone on, he's gotten more and more enmeshed in this insanity, and the situation they find themselves in is not what he signed up for initially. He wanted 'freedom' to pick and choose what he would do, but not the severing of all ties. I think at the start, he agreed to this marriage as a joint convenience. He got to be a Duke like his brother and put an end to the speculations about his romantic life and its disappointments. Sounds like Harry as much as Megs wanted the Windsor Wedding Show to validate that he was as important as William and as worthy of a Big Fuss made on Television to the tune of 42 million dollars. Because why otherwise would a groom be arsed about which tiara his bride was going to wear?
I think he wanted a significantly diluted version of the Sussex manifesto, while maintaining the ties to the family which he did not find onerous, like his military appointments and his sporting patronages, with the freedom to come and go as he pleased to America or wherever. Making some handy pocket money for being a celebrity the way he couldn't at home . . but I don't believe napalming his relationships with every member of his family was his initial intent. Back when the idea of the independent Sussex court was floated--and rejected--over a year ago, I suppose Harry felt that his wish would be granted due to HM's favoritism of him and it wouldn't turn into this huge scandal and mess.
He doesn't know who or where he is, or how this damage is going to linger forever, and that's his tragedy.
He is really thin these days. Stress? Loss of appetite because he's doing drugs? . . Megsy is such a foodie chef who lives to cook . . why is her gaunt-looking husband having to go out and buy sub sandwiches? Why isn't she feeding him up?
'Cause Megsy doesn't cook and Harry certainly can't find his own way around a kitchen. He's used to opening the fridge and having it fully stocked with food by invisible minions.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8043393/FBI-raids-Peter-Nygards-company-HQ-amid-sex-trafficking-probe.html
The king of roofies with his mitts on Eugenie in one of the photos
Woke and Joke are tarnishing all the people who "believe" in the woke movement.
Lawrence Fox does not, and eloquently explained his departure from Twitter
after all the bullying and voiced his concern on speaking the truth May have detrimental effects on his ability to support his family.
This is how Woke and Joke are bringing us all together.
They are hypocrites of the highest order.
She isn't going you know...no matter how much they pretend.
She has demonstrated what a coward she is.
Dropped the "we're leaving" bomb, then left her husband to clean up the mess.
I think that displays the contempt and resentment she feels. It's very telling she was photographed 3 times before Harry joined her.
Now there are rumors that they won't bring Archie to the UK for his "security".
Ken Wharfe is beginning to sound as deranged as his former employer's daughter in law.
As for the comments that the British tax-payer will continue paying for security no matter where they are; the level of security necessary is determined by the Home Secretary and if Boris wants his party to continue in power he had better arrange for it to be cut back to that offered to the junior members of the family that is only when on official engagements representing Her Majesty not when swanning around Canada and the US pretending that they really are celebrities.
Are these different people?!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ERpZobHXUAELFu3.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ERpZobFWAAAN5Ll.jpg
(source: https://dcboston.tumblr.com/post/610964139082465280/these-two-photos-of-harry-dont-have-the-same )
Only a short while ago his environmental campaigns were taken seriously and respected. Now comments are devastating.
Predominant ones are "What is your own score Harry" "Hypocrite" and "Stop lecturing us"
I would have felt sorry for him if not for his unbelievable arrogance and stupidity that brought it all upon him.
I only sorry for genuine environmental initiatives that could have benefited from his involvement before he sold himself to the woke crowd.
Sad to say it is not only the environmental issues that could have benefitted, Invictus are taking a hit as well, Australia yesterday
Chris Jackson who was promoting Invictus in The Hague had to turn off the comments, none were complimentary towards PH. A few sad they were sorry for the competitors but the whole set up was now tainted as PH and MM were going to be there and they would only use it as PR for themselves. PH does not look well. Stress does not agree with most people.
Yes I've been thinking this a lot the last couple of days. I totally see Meghan shut away in a study in that mansion tap-tapping and drinking while Harry snores in front of the TV many rooms away.
That's what makes this so unpredictable from now on. She'll become more and more extreme as her options close down and criticism increases to deafening levels. Just imagine, many of us will have had a drink or three in the evening and done things we regretted later (like going crazy on Amazon ahem) but when Meghan does it the whole world is watching and waiting to pounce. She may find that a measure of her own importance, but it's actually a total disaster waiting to happen. For her.
I noticed on the Mail today that people are commenting who never commented before. Who say they didn't care about H&M or pay much attention before, but this public bullying of the Queen is changing everything for them. Meghan is playing fast and loose with incredibly deeply-rooted feelings many British people didn't know they had until she came along.
Then, if H&M sabotage Bea's wedding, that is another deep-seated affront to the British public, as we will all identify with how we would feel if someone deliberately sabotaged a precious family event. They already spoiled Eugenie's wedding AND their 'own' (?) baby's introduction to his country and his christening. If we see the royal family as a protective forest around Harry, like in a fairy tale, Meghan first poisons the tree roots, then gets out her axe.
There's a photo of Harry I kept seeing in recent days and his eyes were black, dead pools just like hers. Reflecting nothing and giving nothing. The photo actually frightened me, as Meghan's eyes frighten me.
This seems overly dramatic, but I have an increasingly bad feeling about this. As if we are witnessing a tragedy in two parts. First a mother. Then her son.
I agree. Yesterday I was looking at the pics of Invictus athletes and thinking that these extraordinary people deserve every bit of support. Whoever came up with the idea of Invictus is a genius. We all know by now it wasn't Harry. It was tailor made to improve his image. The athletes do not deserve all the kerfuffle Harry brings with him today.
Another bit that is driving me nuts is claims about Archie and his supposed "vulnerability to security threat". They really think people are idiots. What they do is dividing security agents between themselves and the child they leave behind, thus weakening it and increasing the costs. This arrangements also means whoever is minding the kid is requiring security too!
Meg is clinging to this 'my child is a security risk!' with both claws so that she can get out of having to show the normal photos the public would expect to see of a happy, healthy normally developing little boy. The photos of the Camb kids are tightly managed, but we get to see all the significant milestones--birthdays, Christmas, summer activities with other Royals, weddings, candid shots in the backyard or Mummy's garden. First day of school, etc.
If Meg feels that Archie is a Defcon 5 security threat . . why was she all too happy to gambol with 'him' in 'a public park in Vancouver', while multitasking by holding two dog leashes with dispirited dogs on the ends and being attended by two lackluster PPOs who were trailing behind her while on their phones, and most certainly not armed?
That lackadaisical outing seemed like the recipe for a terrorist snatch-n-grab of the child, if that's what she's 'afraid' of. Yet she smiled the whole time and didn't act at all like she was under threat.
Meg most likely does not have any baby to show, and so this 'tight security' around him is a perfect excuse for Archie's non-appearance. She's gonna milk that for as long as she can.
Yet again the person who created the Invictus Games here in the UK was ELF after going with PH to the Warrior Games in USA.
He believed that it would be an ideal vehicle for PH going forward, rather like the Prince's Trust for PC and he is the person who did all the leg work and look at the thanks he got.
As far as "Archie" is concerned, she cannot produced the child as she does not have him, I believe surrogate pregnancy with the sperm donor under question?? and MM did/said something (we all know what she is) and the legal mother refused the handover, that is why we have had dolls, photoshops and rent-a-baby. Now will be every excuse under the sun for non appearance.
Goodness, I said it once and will say again - your avatar is brilliant!!! Every time I look at it I burst out laughing. Captured every essence of the matter!
Horrified to see how the Queen is being treated, directly or indirectly by the Harkles.
Anyway, about bodyguards. For now, if one forgets who pays for a bodyguard, what does this bodyguard do? Where do they sleep, how far away? When do they eat, have bathroom breaks, when do they communicate with their families? They must have family, right? A wife, girlfriend, sister, brother, parents, extended family? Yes.If no, is that not dangerous? Surely loners who have no family life are not necessarily better than those who do, and vice versa?
If one is a bodyguard, and one has no immediate family , then how does that work? Does it mean if you have nobody to care for , then you will protect another with your life? And if you die, nobody benefits from your estate. So your death benefits are unclaimed?
If one is a bodyguard and you have a family, how does that work? Bodyguards are mostly men, does that mean , you leave your own wife, girlfriend, children unprotected in order to be paid to protect another persons life? And if as above, you pass on, are your family willing to accept the reasons why your employment resulted in death?
There is something not quite right here. Fifteen staff members lost their jobs. What rights and protection did they have under Workers Rights? If there were any. Who oversees this?
And the Bodyguards or Police Officers, what rights and protection do they have, whilst protecting ? who oversees this?
There seems to be infringements happening in so many instances, its amazing that the watchdogs are not speaking out.
>>Anyone who ends a marriage by fedexing the ring back is conflict adverse.<<
Meg is a coward. IMO she is Conflict Forward and Consequence Adverse.
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Bob Iger has stepped down as Disney's CEO, except for the fact that the new CEO reports directly to Bob Iger and Iger continues to "direct the Company’s content creation." It seems like he's still the CEO but without the title, no?
>>>The last thing I would do as a mother if I was concerned about the security of my baby would be to leave him by himself in a mansion (the location of which has been posted all over the internet) and announce to the world I would be leaving him there by himself while I jetted off to the UK and my husband was already in Edinburgh. There is no baby. There is simply no other explanation.<<<
Yes, so very true. Why isn't Child Protective Services worried about such routine abandonment of a high-profile infant?
March is going to be very telling. Will we see the soon-to-be former Sussexes as a family, including Archie?
My money's on "Hell, no." Archie will be 'back on Vancouver Island in the remote Shining mansion on a peninsula with his nanny and 6 RPOs for 'security reasons'.
Meghan won't dare show her face. After 'they leave the UK' we will get deluged with photos of her 'secret' 'personal charity' visits. She will need time to Photoshop these, so they can't drop immediately on the day of her 'visit'.
I think Rachel's con is nearing its conclusion vis. Archie. Until now she's had the layers of protection afforded by being a Royal. But if they move to Malibu and she tries to court celeb friends there, don't we think it's going to come out that 'Archie' is never, ever seen, ever, taking the healthy air and sunshine on the beach, or just being pushed in a stroller anywhere? Never taking part in any playdates with other celebrity kids?
Meg wants to be best friends with all these high profile people while at the same time keeping everything about her daily life 'secret'. She's raising Archie like Blanket Jackson . . so her celeb besties would say . . and we know how well MJ's children have turned out with that bizarre childhood.
It's easier to hide an infant away with his 'nannies' and keep him secluded because 'he's too young to travel'. But Archie is nearly a toddler and at some point will have to start school. Somebody somewhere is going to let slip that there IS no Archie. Let the papps camp out on Jessica Mulroney's doorstep in Malibu and howl for Meg to 'Show us Archie!'
Can't wait for that day.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=5383706668355704&id=164305410295882
Thomas Markle ... so true what he has said:
Dumped him, his family Doria's family, Harry's family ...
BTW My favourite tarot reader has done another reading for the Harkles' trip to the UK but has not shared it ... just snippets.
Meghan is going to be very secretive.
The marriage is done and this is just about the last few engagements ... almost like a business agreement.
For both, the trip is about hustling for the future outside the BRF.
>>>Yet again the person who created the Invictus Games here in the UK was ELF after going with PH to the Warrior Games in USA.
He believed that it would be an ideal vehicle for PH going forward, rather like the Prince's Trust for PC and he is the person who did all the leg work and look at the thanks he got.<<<
Yeah, ELF is another person Hazardous sh*t all over. I have always read that Harry took credit for creating the British version of the Warrior Games. Here, it was his courtier all along who was the brains behind the idea.
I am not surprised. Sadly. The interior of Haz's head must be such a lonely place, any individual thoughts die swiftly of boredom, with no other company.
So Harry's private secretary invented a charity to give Harry something to do. I believe other minds also came up with Sentabale.
Harry really is an idiot. He can't even do the figurehead role properly, leaving hundreds of disappointed and disillusioned organizers and athletes in the wake of his departure.
His reception in The Hague will be chilly, I imagine. If he turns up at all.
Meanwhile, HM should knight ELF for his services to the realm. He did his best to turn a frog into a Prince.
Blimey, Harry has to sell Markle to the new chap at Disney too. And he tried so hard the first time around
Sorry, who is EFL who created Invictus?
T.S. Eliot comes to mind:
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us-if at all-not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.
Harry looks terrible. He's like one of the Walking Dead. For Realz.
Edward Lane Fox, Harry's former private secretary.
I like your avatar, too.
This is ELF who Hikari is referring to. The man who put together the Invictus games:
Prince Harry's private secretary Ed Lane Fox leaves after ...
https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/952031/Prince-harry-meghan-markle-news-harry...
Apr 27, 2018 · Kensington Palace confirmed the news saying Mr Lane Fox will leave after five years of service and the Queen's outgoing assistant private secretary Samantha Cohen will fill in as interim private secretary. As Prince Harry's right hand man, Edward Lane Fox has watched him turn...
Did you see the article about the Cambridges' engagement? They both must be feeling the stress of having an estranged beloved brother back in the country with the wrecking ball wife to follow.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8043087/Kate-Middleton-looks-resplendent-XX-joins-Prince-William-No-l-Coward-Theatre.html
Going off on a tangent: Just after her marriage, Meghan had shiny neat hair (no straggly ends and hair with a shine and a bounce to it). Why did it deteriorate so much?
Thank you! Looks like the really good team that created Harry's shining image is gone. No wonder his facade is crumbling! Harry believed it was all due to his own stellar performance and talent no doubt.
Thanks to your posts I always learn something new. It never crossed my mind that the person behind Invictus success was actually a modest private secretary. It must have been a hard job to glorify Harry after his Nazi stunt and drunken naked ramble in Las Vegas.
Great minds? Lol
@Fairy crocodile
I wish I could have this put on tee shirts, distributed to a crowd of thousands and we all stand silently at her next appearance.
Ha!
Sometimes I worry I'm taking this all a little too seriously
😉
Don't be shocked if the alliterate former actress has some kind of excuse for not traveling overseas for the next couple of weeks as she was scheduled to do."
4 options IMO:
1 - she attends events (private and royal duties), she is all smiles : highly possible option after the backlash with the Firm.
2 - she shows up but she only attends to "secret" visits (no royal correspondent, only members of her team including a photographer : she controls her narrative, she doesn't meet the BRF) : she will monetize or use these events in the next few weeks/months on her iG to raise her "humanitarian" profile : credible option
3 - she says she doesn't feel well and it would not be safe to travel (= teaser = she is pregnant).
If she isn't pregnant, she could say after that she suffered a miscarriage (pity party II) : credible option.
4 - she stays in North America while Harry is in the UK and her pals tell People magazine she doesn't want to come back to the UK : I don't think it is an option for her.
Oh my!! I just visualized a chain of grumpy silent people holding hands wearing identical T shirts with your Avatar in front of her next venue, a flashmob!
DM would die in convulsions and sugars will have an apoplectic seizure. Camilla will laugh so hard she will choke on her brandy!
Disney is a MASSIVE conglomerate. He is not "CEO-light", or CEO under another name. There are multiple different business divisions, and he's stepping down to focus on one of them. Good for him. (His book is a great and easy read. Highly recommended.)
On a Harkle note, dang, I saw the pics of Harry in Edinburgh. He looks soul dead. A poster said earlier (on this page?) that we are seeing Part Two of a tragedy--first his mother and now him. I do think Harry's demise is a total tragedy. Since he apparently isn't blessed with a strong intellect and he's the "spare", dropping down the next-in-line chain routinely, he had created an absolutely perfect role for himself with Invictus.
I agree that we now have to ascribe some blame for his condition on him, but I do think he was fully Markled initially. I don't think he realized the cunning and rapidity with which his wife would isolate him from friends, family, country, and any work he's ever known.
For ANY possibility of recovery for him, Harry will have to "grow a pair" and, incredibly painful as it will be, publicly state he was Markled and that he was as hoodwinked as the rest of us were (initially). It is SO embarrassing to do, to admit you got conned, but it's the only way to extricate himself from this mess. I don't know what legal action he'd face, because there are so many facets to her con and I don't know what he'd be on the hook for as well as her.
I speak from experience having to admit you were conned. I got conned by a felon (and likely narcissist) and it took me YEARS to admit it. To my family, I had to admit it when he went to prison. To the outside world (friends and work) I even hid that information. It is so, SO embarrassing to be intelligent and be so totally conned. However, my ex is now dead, having pulled the same con on another woman before he died, and I assure you all the world is a better place without him in it.
But back to Harry. I don't think Harry possesses the inner resources to step up like that, and I fear that we are seeing him already heading down a slippery slope into despair, drug addiction, and (too soon) death. If Harry is alive in 5 years and in any sort of good health, I'll be amazed.
As for Archie, I think a living child exists, as we saw him in South Africa, and to me, he looks a little bit like both MM and Harry. But I doubt he's with his biological parents now. They are so clearly messed up, I hope he isn't with them.
This is beyond a Shakespearean tragedy for me as real people are involved. The Sussexes treatment of Her Majesty is jaw dropping. I can only hope that MM drops Harry soon, because the only way he'll get better is without her in his life.
@Hikari that Elliott piece always gives me the shivers, but never as much as in this context
And great idea on a knighthood for ELF
There's a pic out there of some type of sporting event and Harry is throwing a FIT, arms crossed, pouting...it just says it all about Harry. William is a few seats over chatting with friends. A woman (Kate?) Is on one side of Harry and a man is on the other. Both trying to talk Harry off the ledge. I think now that must be ELF. I never can find that photo when I want it.
What a task he must have had!
I'll bet we could get Camilla to finance that mob!
https://gifer.com/en/7D4R
I loved it, a true Harry
Going off on a tangent: Just after her marriage, Meghan had shiny neat hair (no straggly ends and hair with a shine and a bounce to it). Why did it deteriorate so much?
@Sandie: I have some guesses why her hair looks scraggly:
1) Since last November, she might not have seen a hair stylist.
2) She needs new weaves and extensions.
3) She has been relaxing her natural hair, which is one of the visible signs of her black ethnicity, since she was about 14 or 15 years old. Hair relaxation treatments, no matter what type of treatment, are hard on your hair.
Because she’s been at it for decades, her natural hair is likely not in good shape, so what’s left of it looks bad, even with extensions and weaves.
A good friend of mine who is black and a hair stylist says it’s as if Meghan has repeatedly been putting her hair in deep fryer for all these years, but instead of oil, it’s harsh chemicals. It is basically so fried by the chemicals that it probably breaks quite easily (black hair is often dry, which doesn’t help) and has lost its body. She also says the tension created by using weaves and extensions for a long time can also cause a type of alopecia (hair loss) from the tension created by the pulling of the weave on your scalp and remaining hair.
She says Meghan’s nice hair in the outdoor engagement photo call with Harry when she was wearing the white coat and the heels that fit so badly mostly isn’t her hair. Says she had a ton of extensions and possibly weaves in it. All her hairdresser friends were chuckling about it.
I feel anger at Harry for going along with this insanity, for hurting his family and country, and for not being honest.
You reminded me of the laughing boy holding little kids, teasing his grandparents, and playing to the crowd with real charm.
If we lose him, it will be a true loss. Of his potential, if nothing else.
I hope he can break free. Or that she throws him back and his family can catch him. His eyes are so lost and sad.
That's it!! thanks!
I've bookmarked it for easy access...lol
Only through 2021...then he is out.
Noticed Clooney “Nespresso” being investigated for using child labour to pick coffee beans.
Poor Georgie, Markled!!
That being said, I have to wonder if one day, in the near future, the morning papers will announce PH had died of an overdose. I'm not wishing it or saying it will happen, just wondering if that's the road he's headed down (like so many other famous people).
He's just looking really unhealthy these days.
She should shave it all off, use products designed for her type of hair (in my country, a man became a multi millionaire developing just such a product range and it is good stuff), wear wigs until her natural hair grows back and then go for all the natural hairstyles (which are fabulous) for her kind of hair. Geez even a coconut or olive oil treatment once a week would work wonders. Could Megsy just not be bothered?
She does seem stuck way in the past. In her high school days she had the exact same hairstyle when she put her hair up ... tendrils hanging on either side of her face. She seems to be stuck on that image of long straight hair and it does not suit her and increasingly will not as she gets older.
Diane looked her most fabulous post divorce when she went for a short and sleek hairstyle.
A revamp for her hairstyle would completely revamp her image and I think would help a lot in selling herself (as she now has to do).
As for Harry I was totally unaware of his singing talents. Is this try to follow in his mom's steps going to be another flop?
https://twitter.com/danwootton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1232392512905629696&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fs9e.github.io%2Fiframe%2F2%2Ftwitter.min.html%231232392512905629696
Wow ... and I think it is just going to get worse, which will make the Harkles depressed but Megsy will be more defiant (and spread more rumours/stories about fabulous deals and becoming a billionaire, which ironically hurts their claim for taxpayer-funded elite protection) and Harry will become more bitter about everyone and everything.
Thanks for the Dan Wooten tweets which led me to the Twitter snowflakes who are bagging, pun intended, my beloved
“Yorkshire Tea” sacrilege!!
He is papping himself now
“He is papping himself now”. Hahaha
Is that a polite way of saying he’s scared!!!
https://twitter.com/dukeofcelts/status/1232432306649829376?s=09
Jason Momoa has nothing to worry about.
He is scared "hatless"!
The allure of so much press coverage is probably just too much fuel to resist lapping up for Mayhem.
Perhaps she will be mean and wear an outfit to suggest that she’s preggers again, whether she is or not, to draw the attention spotlight away from Bea and Edo on THEIR special day to hog it for herself as she did at Eugenie’s wedding.p
If they do accept the invitation and turn up it will be because Megsy desperately needs publicity and won't be able to turn down a chance of getting on the front pages.
George Clooney is not just Nespresso ambassador he’s also on their Sustainability Advisory board, rank hypocrisy.
Maybe his Human Rights lawyer wife can advise these poor kids.
If I were advising the queen, I would recommend arranging for lots of friendly, single women to cross paths with Harry ( assuming he is straight/bi and into girls, single men if not). Best option, he decides to stay in England a while longer. Triangulation works both ways.
Alternatively, cozy photos if Harry and his new "friend" may push Markle over the edge. Harry can be independent in England too.
Seems the royal family are hoping the marriage doesn't last the year.
Harry the lad back in England away from MM's spell.... a narrative that may help his image.
Best of all would be Harry and Archie visiting Grandma. Palace security must be adequate for the wee one... assuming he exists.
http://workingactress.weebly.com/home/previous/4
I'm not sure that it is her. Mesgy uses far more word salad and is much more pretentious (but maybe the latter were characteristics she acquired). Also, she does not claim to be a native of LA ...
Also she uses the term "lawyer" instead of "solicitor." Meghan writes in a contrived, less flowing manner than this writer does. I don't think 'tis she...
I also don't think it is her, but whoever it is, is confused about if they are American or British.
Did not want to remain Papless
So he's papping himself
Showing Royal flash by phoning up Splash
As he goes for the cash
Making it hand over fist
From his Sussex Travalyst (Sustainable Tourism)
https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/meghan-markles-actress-blog-before-she-was-famous.1137063/
Until then, a piece from behind The Times paywall:
Infantile Harry and Meghan have let down the Queen
The Sussexes embrace every worthy cause but have no understanding of duty or respect
Melanie Phillips
Tuesday February 25 2020, 12.01am GMT, The Times
When the Duke and Duchess of Sussex agreed the terms on which they would relinquish their royal duties, few surely thought this would be an end to the matter. The ultimatum they had previously laid down, which meant milking the royal brand while undertaking few of the responsibilities involved, indicated they would hardly take kindly to being told they couldn’t publicly use their HRH titles.
When they were told last Friday that in addition they could no longer use their brand name “SussexRoyal”, a renewed hissy fit was on the cards; and so it proved just a few hours later. The statement the couple put up on their website was petty, bitter and spiteful. It was also supremely disrespectful to the Queen.
In a remarkable eruption of arrogance, they suggested that a ban on using the word “royal” was unenforceable abroad since there was “not any jurisdiction by the monarchy or Cabinet Office over the use of the word ‘royal’ overseas”. In other words, they were doing the Queen a big favour by agreeing to drop it. Having thus condescended to the monarch from their apparently more elevated position, they saw fit to remind everyone that Prince Harry remained sixth in line to the throne.
Moreover, although they would no longer “actively use” their HRH titles, as had been agreed, they would nevertheless retain their HRH prefix, “thereby formally remaining known as His Royal Highness The Duke of Sussex and Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Sussex”. What on earth does this mean? That they won’t describe themselves as HRH but everyone else must do so?
Then they complained that they were being treated differently from other royals, sniffing: “While there is precedent for other titled members of the royal family to seek employment outside of the institution, for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex a 12-month review period has been put in place.”
What? They are being treated differently because they have behaved differently. No other royal has tried to exploit their position by ripping off the monarchy to promote and market their endeavours while disdaining even the most minimal relationship with the public demanded of the immediate royal family.
As for the 12-month review period, this has left the door open for them to take their place as regular members of the royal Firm. What’s obviously got up their noses, however, is that it’s also a period of probation. Perhaps less clear to them is that if they continue to disrespect the title royal highness, they may find they lose that too.
Remarkably, they display zero acknowledgment of the need to take responsibility for a crisis that is entirely of their own making. Instead, they are doubling down on their sense of grievance at being self-professed victims of those towards whom they have behaved so badly.
Their behaviour provides a ghastly illustration of the signature characteristic of the social justice warrior: coupling the most lofty goals for the human race with a total absence of care, duty or respect towards actual people.
(continued)
In similar fashion, MeToo feminists busily demonising powerful western men are silent over the exploitation and abuse of women in the developing world. “Anti-racists” who denounce white society as bigoted refuse to acknowledge the horrific murder rate of young black men by other young black men.
Transgender activists who vilify anyone who dares assert the facts of biology condone the terrible harm being done to some children who are undergoing potentially life-changing treatment before they are old enough to make decisions for themselves. And so on.
Prince Harry, however, has done real good with his Invictus Games, which enable wounded, sick or disabled military personnel to achieve purpose, achievement and recognition through this sporting event. It’s more than sad that he has been diverted from his work in improving the lives of those to whom the nation owes such a debt into shallow and self-referential virtue-signalling on issues such as having fewer children to save the planet.
In their infantile temper tantrums, though, we surely see two people who have been left so wrecked by their upbringing that they are unable to function as mature adults. However furious with them the public may be, there should surely be space for some pity.
Over Prince Harry, moreover, hovers a whiff of tragedy. Although the spare to Prince William’s heir, he had a royal role in which he was strikingly successful but which he has abandoned. Already psychologically vulnerable, he is now in danger of being torn apart between his love for his wife and child and the role into which he was born, threatening to undermine still further his own sense of himself.
And of course the person to whom the most sympathy is due is the Queen. In her 94th year and after decades of selfless and exemplary service to her nation, she faces a double onslaught with the capacity to inflict harm on the monarchy: a son mired in an ever-deepening scandal around the sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, and a grandson in a still-accelerating existential crisis.
The monarchy effectively holds a mirror up to the nation by reflecting through its own behaviour an image which makes the country feel good about itself.
The royal dysfunctional family was surely never part of the job description.
I think monarchies are very useful national symbols and that the Queen, while imperfect, has done her best in various difficult situations.
I also don't think that anyone "deserves" unhappiness.
I honestly think they (RF) are playing very smart right now... pretending they are the weak, that they are been offended by Meghan, but they probably arranged everything to look like that. I don't believe that they didn't know all of this things were coming, they are always ahead of everything...
The plan was: lets make it look like we are victims. But actually it was all orchestrated.
Still, its working well, because I also dislike Meghan and Harry...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8045921/Prince-Harry-today-launch-eco-friendly-Travalyst-firm.html
There's already a new Instagram post too.
Then my thoughts shift to his brother and grandparents. How sad they must be.
However, I do take comfort ( can't believe how much time I spend thinking of this )
in the fact that the extended family is large and seems close knit.
My guess is they will survive this.
It is Harry who will suffer the most, especially if his grandparents die without any meaningful reconciliation.
I refuse to follow links within these adverts and do my own separate search later if it's something I'm actually interested in, so I don't know where the advert would have taken me if I'd followed it. I haven't yet found anything online with that name other than a poorly written Facebook group created in 2016 that appears to be about football, or possibly a football magazine, I'm not entirely sure (typing in the amazingfoot.net url listed on the group's page tells me the site doesn't exist), and a twitter hashtag so I think it's probably one of those "troll" adverts that use pictures of random celebrities to pique curiosity.
I just find it curious that until now, I've never seen any royal family related ads, H&M or otherwise, and I'm playing games quite a lot (killing time waiting for appointments, on the bus, if I can't sleep and don't have the concentration for reading). I've seen ones involving random celebrities a fair bit, but this is the first time I've seen H&M. I guess that this is another reminder that the RF "protection" covers much more than getting papped.
Welcome back to your snark~ 😂😂
It is tradition.
Maybe the person behind the "Working Actress" blog is a Third Culture Kid.
They're probably just as confused as to whether they're British or American as you.
It would be perfectly natural for a Third Culture Kid to become an actor. They're called "cultural chameleons" because they adapt to any culture to the point of potentially offending others (like if they hang around Aussies, they'll start picking up an Aussie accent and offending the Aussie because the Aussie will think they're mocking Aussies or trying to fake an Aussie accent when the TCK is only doing it unconsciously).
I knew a Swedish man who worked at the UN when I was an intern. His dad was a businessman in Belgium or swiss or something. He has a soft RP accent (probably was shipped to boarding school in England when he was small). I swear if it weren't for his Scandinavian name everyone would just think he's British.
I'm a Third Culture Kid & I talk/write funny like that too. I spell with UK English spelling because that's the ESL they teach in Indonesian school, but I sound rather American... but then I can't pronounce "propaganda" in any accent but an Indonesian accent (with the flat R and the high A's) and I say Hitchcock with a silent H and a French I (eechcock) LMAO. 😂😂
If that blog isn't Meghan trying to pass off as a British blogger, I imagine the blogger has that neutral accent they used to have in old black and white films... I think it's called trans-atlantic or mid-atlantic or something.
But if that is Meghan... FFS Meghan.
As for Just Plain Hairy and his useless, waste of energy Travalyst, they cannot be more out of touch and hypocritical. It's infuriating when there are so many struggling just to pay for the basics and literally just keep a roof over their head. If someone can do a vacation, they are grateful just to be able to get away to anywhere(or even stay home) for a couple of days. What really could have changed lives and helped the environment: an org to make dwellings more energy efficient/weatherised. But that wouldn't bring in the big bucks for H&M to grift for their ridiculous lifestyle. Heaven forbid. Sorry, can't stand those two at all. They couldn't be more fake.
I'm ducking out for a bit, thanks to computer problems around Google Chrome. Husband's afraid it might be something to do with MM - I think it's technical rather than her but it might reassure him.
Has anyone had difficulties that can be ascribed to her?
Are you saying MM is controlling the internet and Google Chrome and your computer? Am I understanding your comment correctly? not being snarky, just...confused
@Britannia, it was shouted as HMTQ was walking up the steps to the throne, while her back was turned to the HoL. I've been through a few different preceding years to refresh my memory and nothing is shouted at all during that point in any other State Opening. It's normally completely silent while HMTQ is in the process of being seated.
The incident in question, Oct 2019. The male voice earlier on as HMTQ is about to enter sounds more like "make way for Black Rod" than the female voice shouting while she's being seated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA2SJoOgRSQ
Previous years:
2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ITa5TDb7zM
2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVRGeQjrfL0
2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xfhx5HH5_M
2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iKAKoigl4Y
2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0UcjSHd7mo
2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deDt17Vrlrc
The last one we've had, Dec 2019 (16:00 onwards to skip to that bit)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mo6xvGIcgE
While it seems unlikely that @wildboar's computer problems are caused by MM...
I am 99% certain that my husband has continuing computer problems related to his inflammatory behavior on Facebook and youtube.
It can happen.
No joke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzJLbOKo8IU
The announcement is heard at 0:14.
The Serjeant-at-Arms is basically telling the MPs to get out of the way and do not attempt to impede the Usher of the Black Rod. At one point, the MPS slam the great doors in the Usher's face, whereupon the door is hammered upon by the Usher of the Black Rod.
@Britannia said:
>>>If the female had shouted "Get Rid of Markle" it would be headline news EVERYWHERE.<<<
When this was addressed here, approximately %50 or more of posters commented they thought they heard "Get rid of Markle". As to why it wasn't headline news, well simply because the media would have been bashed terribly for it and added to the claim they were racist. Besides it was one person not a bunch of boos. Some people also thought they saw Camillia stifle a smile when it happened.
Maybe that yell is one of the reasons why the MP's wrote that letter in support of Markle?
I admit that when I first watched it, I too thought (Hoped?) it was anti-Markle yell.
Let's see if they stay!
It depends on which version you are watching. The BBC one doesn't have the get rid yell; a couple of unedited ones do. I very definitely heard the yell with it's pronounced long "a" in "Markle", clearly differed to the short "o" in "rod". Camilla's reaction also convinced me she heard it too.
It was indeed ‘make way for Black Rod’. This has been analysed and re-analysed on another of Nutty’s blog post. 🤗
There were two versions of the clip on YouTube and timings and visuals were completely different from each other, (I watched the live version of it as it was airing) the second version was trying to make it sound like something it wasn’t. It would have indeed made headline news if were true, sadly it isn’t.
https://twitter.com/i/events/1232655206329929731
Thank you :)
As I said, I do wish it was anti Mme Markle.
I'm in bits.
I wonder if the contagion will be addressed?
No, I don't think I'm that paranoid, although they do say `just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not getting at you.' It's more my OH that's getting jumpy.
That said, MM & her helpers have a track record of hacking & doxxing though (she's quite a doxy, really) and we don't know who else, with high-level skills, might be in it with her - so I thought I'd check with y'all.
Hi Meghan! Are you there? I do hope you're OK.
Iger has stepped down as head of Disney. Quick, Meghan - rethink.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8047051/Meghan-says-Harry-picked-restrictions-payback.html
Does she have a deathwish? Or is she THAT deluded? Has she had a frontal lobe injury?
I have more questions than answers at the minute.
Harry looks better in today's photos. He really is a rapid cycler. Though he reminds me of the Aaron Eckhart character in "Love Happens" . . a profoundly grieving man who has lost his wife, depressive and dark on the inside, and we see his inner angst in quiet moments when nobody is watching. But he's a self-created 'self-help guru' in the midst of a speaking tour to promote his new book, in which he claims to have all the answers for emotional health. In a quite incredible scene from AE, we see this sad sack in the hallway, waiting to go into the auditorium . . we feel his sadness and his sense of the futility of life; the self-loathing at his own hypocrisy. We see him mentally steeling himself as his name is announced . . and then he strides forward and bursts through the doors, 100% 'ON' . .toothy smile, fist-bumping and all. A showman's facade.
This is what I think when I see Harry's schizophrenic expressions and energy levels. From the depths of despair to mountaintop high in minutes, depending on who's watching. Does Haz have the capacity for this level of studied deception, or is he so childlike he can be easily distracted and made ebullient again with attention and shiny objects? It's like he's plugged in when he's in front of a crowd and running on a nearly dead battery when he's not the center of attention. He and Megsy have that in common.
I really do not understand Harry or his level of investment/complicity in all of this. I wonder if he understands himself.
Just call me Harry - ha! It reminds me of 'Just call me Dave" another posh toff who wanted to "act" like an everyday person. It didn't work for Dave and it won't work for Harry (btw for non-Brits Dave is in reference to our former PM).
While Harry is shilling for his travel company Charles and Camilla are going on full steam ahead. A Royal tour next month.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8046253/Prince-Charles-Duchess-Cornwall-51-engagements-NINE-days.html
I think the Cambridges are off on an official visit to Ireland next week as well.
The firm is working and representing the UK, as " Just call me Harry" once did.
There's not enough popcorn in the world to satisfy demand at this point.
Also--check out the tweet on TCD from a Sussex stan who translates the Sussex 'update' manifesto into "American". (Ghetto Ebonics American, dat is. Dat not the way I's talk)
This person is allegedly on Team #YASQUEENMEG . .but I read it as satire. As satire, it's hysterically funny. If one reads it *straight* it's proof that Meg's most rabid sugars need to be shipped off to Alcatraz and left there, 'cause dey cray-cray. It's really disturbing, but Meg has blown the lid off the numbers of truly delusional and mentally disturbed people who roam the Internet. Who knew that so many Twitter/Insta followers of the Yak Hair Plastic Princess wish horrific *deaths* upon *three children* so their Woke Leader can be Queen of the World? It defies rational understanding.
At a guess - all three!
>>>Iger has stepped down as head of Disney. Quick, Meghan - rethink.<<<
Not according to posters here again reporting accurately that is not the case . Iger just has a different position.
@tatty said… "Bob Iger is going from CEO to Executive Chairman at Disney. He isn’t out at Disney."
The Earl of Dumbarse's quip to 'Just call me Harry' The Earl of Dumbarse's quip to 'Just call me Harry'.....
Hikari you are putting in extra effort today to be funny-clever with your word twists and turns. You have me laughing.
Disney has five or six major divisions. He is stepping down from being the ultimate Disney head, to head up one of those divisions. Sheesh, he is 70 and deserves to cut back a bit. Just to head up one Disney division means managing the equivalent of a major corporation, being responsible for billions of dollars and thousands of personnel.
Disney is getting too large and too dominant. Especially by buying up most of Murdoch's Fox last year. What did they pay? Something around 50-60 billion. The Murdoch family kept ownership of Fox News and I think that is about it.
OK I checked. Disney paid 71 billion....
Disney’s $71.3 billion purchase of the film and TV assets held by 21st Century Fox — the company behind everything from the Alien movies to The Simpsons — is one of the biggest media mergers ever.
Disney/Fox merger: what Disney owns now - Vox
From the Article:
'She said she and Harry will continue to rise above jealousy and pettiness and focus on the good they are creating and on being the best parents to Archie.
'She said she will continue to champion Harry because out of everyone, he has the most integrity and the most loyalty.'
Meghan also believes the Queen was 'under pressure to make those demands about the name change', because Harry is the Queen's 'favorite and others just can't deal with it.'
This lady has some pretty big balls. She's gone certifiable. That's the only explanation.
Meg is nothing more than a Yak hair wig wearing, phony nosey, flipper teeth, 'magic boobies' dumppy dress wearing, Tig swilling, lying, crying ex-royal in honorary name only.
She's no lady, just a fun-time trick who got to Harry too quick when there was a better pick. The Firm will make her burn before her next turn which will be a fix if they don't get a hit before the two-bit actress makes them pay, as she may, because she plays fast and loose, and their goose is cooked only for her to live another day.
Bur Harry boy is being coy and he knows no joy being Meg's pretty toy. He can be mean if not King, to her Queen and it doesn't mean he's so keen to this thing but let it go but not the 'snow' cause you know there is nothing better than 'blow', But here we go the show is set to so and we don't know how it is going to go.
Sorry to say. we have no answers but that's for another day.
She certainly is determined to have the last word.... Let's see how the family responds.
I've said it before-- Remove the funding--remove the titles. Let them disappear into obscurity.
I hope Papa Charles stops writing those checks. Let them live off Harry's trust fund. If they aren't royal, they won't need much, right??
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EXCLUSIVE: 'If anyone should be insulted, it's us!' Meghan says she and Harry are being 'picked on' and the restrictions put on them are 'payback' for wanting to be independent but they will 'rise above pettiness'
Meghan Markle told her close friends that she believes that she and Prince Harry are being treated unfairly, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal
'She feels like they are being picked on and that the restrictions put on them are payback for wanting to be independent,' an insider said
Meghan grumbled to her inner circle last week over the Queen banning the couple from using the word 'royal' in their 'branding'
The two later issued an extraordinary statement seemingly complaining the palace was treating them differently to other royal family members
'Meghan said if anyone should feel insulted, it should be them. To insinuate they were somehow abusing their privileges is absurd,' the friend added
She also believes the Queen was 'under pressure to make those demands' because Harry is the Queen's 'favorite and others just can't deal with it'
Harry is now back in the UK for his last round of engagements as a working royal, and the insider said Meghan has no qualms about being in the UK
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8047051/Meghan-says-Harry-picked-restrictions-payback.html
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Cripes, Airy Fairy Land , United Kingdom, less than a minute ago
The queen has seen it all before. She will deal with this and get on with other things as she has always done with impeccable dignity. Harry is happy not being royal but the plan has backfired on Meghan. Divide and conquer isn't working for Meghan . Harry will be ok because this is what he genuinely wants. He is a trouper after all which was the making of him as a soldier. Meghan didn't bank on losing all the kudos she had for all of 5 minutes. She sees it all slipping away and Harry will wonder what her problem is . This is a game of chess . I think the queen Will call check mate when Meghan loses every opportunity by her own undoing. She will be outwitted by our very clever Queen who will do this with love, charm , dignity.....and "kindness".
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Fluffytop, Lancashire, United Kingdom, less than a minute ago
Who the hell does she think she is??? This madam needs to learn about respect for the Queen as Harry's grandmother and also our country. How underhanded is she making sure her ' sources ' leak these nasty & spiteful remarks? As we say in this country "If you've got something to say, tell it to my face". Only cowards & bitchy backstabbers get other people to do their dirty work. Time she was taken down a peg or two.
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I really can't believe the gall of her!
LOL @ the rest of the family being jealous of them. She's truly like a high school mean girl "they're all just JEALOUS!"
From here on out I'm going to sit back with my bag of popcorn and coke ot wine, depending on time of day.
It's a freak show.
M is projecting, it is she who is jealous of everyone else in the BRF.
Wikipedia has a useful list of the key traits of a someone with NPD:
1. Grandiosity with expectations of superior treatment from other people
2. Continually demeaning, bullying and belittling others
3. Exploiting others to achieve personal gain
4. Lack of empathy for the negative impact they have on the feelings, wishes, and needs of other people
5. Fixation on fantasies of power, success, intelligence, attractiveness, etc.
6. Self-perception of being unique, superior, and associated with high-status people and institutions
7. Need for continual admiration from others
8. Sense of entitlement to special treatment and to obedience from others
9. Intense envy of others, and the belief that others are equally envious of them
>>>Wow! All I can say is Wow!
She certainly is determined to have the last word.... Let's see how the family responds.<<<
You comment multiplied a hundred fold. It appears one of Meg's biggest weaknesses is getting the last word, indeed doing so in a very disturbing manner. Hopefully she continues this behavior because eventually more and more people will see her for what she is and big name 'movers and shakers' won't want to have their projects/interests associated with such a despicable person and by extension, Harry. I hope she keeps on opening her mouth and putting her monster size 11 foot into it. In fact Meg (if you're reading here), stuff both of your whopper feet into that large obnoxious maw of yours!
The Duchess of Kent stepped down from royal duties but kept her titles. She has not and still does not use that title to commercialise or promote herself, but has stepped out of the limelight completely. I am not sure if she still has RPOs, but since she does not go out much, it would hardly be a huge team. The Duke of Kent is still a full-time working royal, albeit quite a low key one.
Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice have titles and jobs, plus they will occasionally join a working member of the BRF for appearances. But, the jobs they do are real jobs and do not use their titles for any kind of promotion. Their spouse and soon-to-be spouse have independent careers that are not connected to the royal family (despite what people say about Edo, he had a successful career before he hitched up with Beatrice). They do use their royal status to draw attention to charities and organisations they are involved with as patrons. They do not receive public funding at all and pay rent for living on Crown property.
Peter and Zara Phillips do use their proximity to the Queen to promote themselves and get sweet deals to make money, but they do not have titles, receive no taxpayer funding in any way, live on private property and do not do any official appearances for the Queen. They have been criticised for the self promotion work they do but there are no titles nor funding that can be taken from them.
Princess Michael of Kent does not receive any taxpayer funding in any way, her and her husband do no official appearances for the Queen, and they pay rent (rumour has it that the Queen pays it for them) for living on Crown property. She has used HRH in her work, which was interior design for the elite and is now, and has been for a while, writing books (historical and historical fiction, which are well researched and sell quite well).
I have no idea what Megsy has been fantasising about but it seems like a rival court as the most woke and famous and wealthy and beloved royals ever seems about right. I think her and Harry want to be Zara and Peter Phillips but with the titles, the RPOs, the freebie Crown property (complete silence about paying back that money), the image-promoting official appearances, and, of course, 100 times more successful and woke.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/prince-harry-trying-travalyst-sustainable-21580502
By the way, sustainable tourism has been a 'thing' in Africa for decades: use tourism to preserve and protect wildlife and the environment AND provide an economic benefit to the community. Harry is looking like an amateur flailing in the breeze. Essentially he is promoting an initiative that commercialises environmental concerns (how can we promote air travel and increasing tourism when the world is screaming about carbon footprint).
@unknown--love your rant rap--so creative, @Hikari--love all your analogies to books and movies and @Ozmanda--so happy for you re your new job!
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