Duchess Meghan has returned to the UK, and has been spotted outside a hotel ahead of her appearance at the Endeavor Fund Awards this evening.
Let's discuss as she and Harry make their appearance before a crowd of injured service men and women who have taken on extreme sporting challenges.
How will they greet the runaway Captain General of the Royal Marines and his spouse?
Meg's outside-the-hotel style - a wrap coat and open back shoes with no stockings, despite the raw British weather - is not encouraging.
Meg also went rather heavy on the facial bronzer; her hands and bare feet don't match her face.
Let's discuss as she and Harry make their appearance before a crowd of injured service men and women who have taken on extreme sporting challenges.
How will they greet the runaway Captain General of the Royal Marines and his spouse?
Look your best, Meg
If I were Meghan, I'd make sure my look was on point tonight. It's one of her highest-profile ways to advertise for future work in Hollywood or on the talk show circuit.Meg's outside-the-hotel style - a wrap coat and open back shoes with no stockings, despite the raw British weather - is not encouraging.
Meg also went rather heavy on the facial bronzer; her hands and bare feet don't match her face.
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Aside from this, Megsy looks very good for her UK swan song. Been doing her Pilates faithfully? Via Checkbook Charles she acquired a huge collection of overcoats suitable for the UK weather. When the duo land in Malibu they will be usable 10 days a year. Malibu has a negligible winter.
She does appear to have lost a lot of weight since January... face is angular again. Teeth seem to have grown and are blindingly white. Smirking, as usual.
In the story in the Sun, Harry is also beaming at the cameras; I thought that he hated photographers.
Yep, Megsy has been spending the months away losing that extra weight. I think she is going to go down in a blaze of glory and spare no expenses with dress, jewellery, accessories, make up tonight.
They are probably going to different appointments, but Megsy wants to establish herself as independently wealthy and the most famous person in the world. Her first appearance back in the UK had to be solo, glamorous and ooze wealth (the hotel, the man holding the umbrella and one assumes a car waiting to whisk her off to whatever appointment she has). Her hair has just had a treatment and Daniel has been on hand for the make up (Megsy does not get that kind of look when she does her own make up).
Maybe Megsy refuses to stay at Frogmore (too many reminders of her deep stress and unhappiness .... trembling lower lip and doe eyes for dramatic effect).
My blood pressure is rising just looking at them.
They are both shameless.
So she has a luxury home - renovated at taxpayers' expense - just down the road, but she has to stay in a hotel costing 8K a night? Presumably her security people are staying there too, at similar expense?
My first thought was that she was merching the hotel - like she did at the New York 'baby shower' - but The Goring is known as a favourite of royal guests (it's where Kate stayed the night before her wedding) so I'm not sure they'd go there. Then again, the hotel's name is prominently displayed in the photos so it's possible. And I'm willing to bet she's merching at least some of her clothes, and the position of her hand and the way her hair is 'artfully' draped over one shoulder leads me to belive she's merching the jewellery too. Because of course she is.
What we can be sure about is that these are arranged pics. Not only are both she and Haz grinning widely (whatever happened to Harry's trauma at hearing camera clicks?) but as we've said before, the paps have an agreement not to photograph 'off-duty' royals in the UK. Yet here we are.
This is what she came back for. The merching, the ultra-posh hotels, the pap walks. Not to do her 'royal' duty. She's a disagrace. They both are. Can't wait for them to be de-royalled.
Those two are just so full of shit. Sorry, I don't know how it more politely.
Well if true that's slightly less awful but still, she could easily have arranged to come and go without being photographed had she so wished. The Goring is very used to high profile guests and will no doubt pride themselves on ensuring their privacy, like all exclusive hotels do. But no, she had to stride out the front door, paps at the ready. It's New York all over again, just over a year on.
"The Goring might want the H$M publicity, I never heard of Goring before."
No but... correct me if I'm wrong.... I'm guessing you're not in the market for an 8K a night hotel? The select group of people who can afford such places will likely have heard of it. And since The Goring is known as a royal favourite, they hardly need the association with a tarnished ex-royal.
So I don't think The Goring is paying her. I reckon she just wanted to be photographed walking out of a luxury hotel merching her clothes. She's so tacky and so transparent.
I do wonder where they are staying, I doubt it's Frogmore since I thought all the staff had been let go or moved elsewhere.
Going OT. Stay safe everyone, from C-19, tornadoes, whatever. @SwampWoman & @JocelynsBellinis, have to agree with you that the 'authorities' aren't offering much useful guidance. It seems to be pretty much everyone for him or herself.
@Hikari, a positive attitude can help ward off illness, but don't take anything for granted. We don't want you to get too sick to post!. Just kidding, but you are in an at-risk position, dealing with the public & handling books which have been who knows where. Do you get gloves for handling the books? I would think that this is a good idea even when no dangerous viruses are around, for your sake & the books!
@Ava C. It was so cool of you to volunteer at that historic site. It sounds very interesting. I always love the re-enactors at historical sites like Colonial Williamsburg & so forth.
@ WizardWench. Great comment on why the BRF isn't obsolete. Civilization is about adaptation & progress, but it's also about culture & tradition. The BRF helps embody those things for Great Britain, showing the nation where they've been as well as where they are now.
@Sandie, SwampWoman, thanks for all of your great info on C-19. A healthy immune system is probably the best protection. I can't help but think if the international community weren't so scared of China, that the Chinese gov't could have been forced to have given the world the head's up earlier, & told us more about how this virus spread.
@Elle, you really are in a C-19 hotspot. I believe Washington state has had the most fatalities in the US so far. I refer you to Fairy Crocodile's great vodka comment. One of my best friends lives in Seattle near her doctor daughter & her doctor spouse. If this weren't the scary internet, I'd put you in touch. LOL. but seriously, take care.
@WildboarBattleMaid, I concur with the poster who also loves All Creatures Great & Small. Love your posts on life in Britain before 'Cool Brittannia' or whatever it is now.
Can't chat with everyone, I've been OT too long, & am taking up blog space. Stay safe & healthy everyone!
She does look better but what does she have against tights/pantyhose? It's freezing here. Is it because they'll always wrinkle? Can you get them for super-thin legs? Not a problem I've ever had.
And yet another belted coat?
Meghan’s back in Britain! Duchess of Sussex is seen in London for first time since Megxit as she and Prince Harry enjoy lunch at the Goring Hotel – the Queen’s favourite restaurant
Her Majesty visits the five-star luxury hotel annually - which is located next to Buckingham Palace and boasts exclusive dining rooms and is frequented by royals and celebrities alike.
Meghan wore a camel coat and £615 Aquazzura black heels and smiled as she left the London hotel, where rooms cost up to £8,400 a night.
Her husband Prince Harry was also spotted leaving the hotel just moments earlier as a member of the concierge team held an umbrella over his head in the rain.
It is understood the couple were at the hotel for a private lunch but will not be staying there. Instead they will be residing at their Windsor home, Frogmore Cottage, tonight while back in the UK.
I wear tights in winter, but have not worn stockings for about 15-20 years. Of course, I wouldn't wear backless shoes outdoors in the winter, either, unless going to a formal evening event.
Yeah, someone should follow their car after they leave their last event to see if that's true. haha.
Some enjoyed Caitlin Moran's article about Liz Taylor, so here's my favourite extracts from her take on W&K's wedding day, which was an uncomplicatedly happy royal day in the days before we knew they could be otherwise.
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... the eve of the Royal Wedding had all the novelty of the day you move house – displacing all your usual objects and routines, and ending up with a supper of sardines and marmalade in the front garden, using only tablespoons. Odd conversations happened. On Thursday’s episode of political show 'This Week', for instance, Richard Madeley claimed that the next day would see the marriage ‘consummated’ at Westminster Abbey – an event inexplicably left out of The Times’ souvenir fourteen-page order of service.
Later in the show, presenter Andrew Neill asked him if he, Madeley, would ‘get rid of Charles, and make William king?’ Madeley replied, ‘Well if he was gaga, obviously,’ with the kind of breezy certainty that suggested that, should our heir apparent actually ‘go gaga’, Madeley would step up to the plate and finish Charles off with a spade, as if he were an old badger knocked down by a car.
[...] On the BBC, Kate Middleton had finally emerged from the Goring in a white-out of flashbulbs. Even though we could not really see her, womankind had noticed one thing and was punching the air: the dress was sleeved! Yes! Finally the reign of evil sleevelessness is OVER! GOD BLESS YOU, MIDDLETON! FASHION WILL NOW ALLOWS US TO HIDE OUR UPPER ARMS AGAIN, AS GOD INTENDED. Were the BBC to have a Body Dysmorphia-O-Meter, it would have registered an instant 40 per cent drop across the nation. Our future Queen’s biggest legacy had begun. [...]
This wedding [...] feels like it’s been imagined by a much younger and more confident generation: these glossy-haired girls and flush-cheeked, slightly awkward boys; this confederacy of tight-knit brothers and sisters and cousins. There is a sense of freedom, simplicity, camaraderie and fun here that one imagines Prince Charles watching from the pews in a slightly bittersweet way. These young royals seem to have a much better handle on being royal than their parents ever did.
Who would not enjoy this day?
[...] As the new Duke and Duchess of Cambridge drove off in their Aston Martin to the reception – where they apparently danced to ‘You’re the One That I Want’ from Grease, and Prince Harry began his best man’s speech with ‘Pippa – call me’, before stage-diving off a windowsill into the crowd – you were given pause to reflect that – audience of two billion aside – they had given themselves just the wedding that they wanted. And they had given us the wedding we wanted, too: heartfelt, worthy of a global audience, with David Beckham in it, and over early enough for everyone to get to the pub by 2pm.
Happy birthday!
I have noted that she loses weight every time she leaves the UK. Gets puffy - jets off to North America....
I imagine that accessing it is a lot easier in the US and Canada - than in the UK...
Many predicted that MM would not dare show her face again in Blighty but I was quite sure she would show up - particularly for those "secret" visits she so loves.
I predict MM will lap up the attention, we know she loves it good or bad.
The next few days will be interesting. I'm curious how the interactions with the Cambridges go, I rather suspect that Charles & possibly the Queen will ensure that they present a happy & united front. Whilst I understand they want to keep an open door for H, it does seem a bit galling that W & K, who have been stepped up and more for the firm, have to placate H & MM.
Plus - IMO, in the US - hose are kind of out in general. Used to be able to buy them everywhere (even the grocery store) but I can't remember the last time I saw any.
When I was a kid, my mom would save the "leggs egg" - and we would get a couple of giant easter eggs with socks and underwear inside them as part of our easter basket (that way everyone had new panties for sunday service)
Seriously - I needed some hose for a school project for one of my kids and had to order some.
MM looks nice, but so do poisonous snakes.
That's because it was.
Kate gets her hosiery absolutely right and she's right to do so. We expect them to keep higher standards. It's like a DM reader this week who complained that Kate didn't dress like women her age. I replied that she's not any woman her age, she's a ROYAL woman her age. A distinction Meghan never understood.
Do any of y’all know how to get tomato and egg out of white cashmere?
And while waiting for the countdown to begin for the grand appearance ...
Cory has arrived ... I noticed the name and wondered who the heck Cory is and why is he/she getting so much attention in the media. That is what my people are calling the coronavirus and the twitter feeds are hilarious. A group of about 10 went to Italy on a package holiday. Returned 1 March (about 300 people on the plane) and then got a connecting flight to home in another province (about 100 people on that plane). Man starts feeling very ill (fever, coughing, shortness of breath, aching body) and goes to the doctor 3 March. Hello Cory! It's a long way away from me, but who knows how many people the infected man spread it to and where those people have travelled in the three days. So much for government assurances that everyone arriving in the country would be checked at the point of entry!
He's onto her. He's a person who's been dealing with the rich, royal and famous for years, and knows a camera hungry wannabe when he sees one.
So the photographers just happened to be waiting for them outside this particular hotel at this particular time? And managed to get very clear, unobstructed shots of both Harry and Meghan, despite the presumed presence of their taxpayer funded security?
These two make me cross.
are you asking for a friend who got egged and had rotten tomatoes thrown at you...
and if so - are you asking for Meghan?
Personally - I would try hydrogen peroxide followed by a careful toothbrush scrub from the back with concentrated dawn liquid....but I don't have any cashmere.
I highly doubt they have repaid the Frog Cottage money. We're talking over £2 million, and these two don't have that sort of cash laying around.
Plus, in the Mexit statement it said they had expressed their 'wish' to repay the money, not that they had pledged to actually repay it. Since this was the type of statement which will have gone through numerous drafts and with every word carefully considered, you can be certain that the choice of the word 'wish' was signficant.
(Bows deeply to the Swamp Woman)
In my experience a bit of pure alcohol inside is the best remedy against high cholesterol, stress, high blood pressure, poor appetite, depression and about a thousand other conditions.
The Simpsons had been too stupid to watch for 20+ years, but early on one of Homer's oft repeated sayings:
"Beer, the cause of all problems and also the cure"
I was thinking today that when one gets home we should rub our hands all over with rubbing alcohol. You only need an ounce or less to do this. Keep a bottle at the office too. I bet hydrogen peroxide kills it too. Vinegar anyone? I have lots of the white vinegar at home.
And when out, don't touch your fingers to your face especially eyes and lips.
I read the Corona virus stays alive on surfaces for 72 hours and especially for 48 hours.
Harry is shameless. Are they on drugs? I can't imagine any decent human being not feeling pangs of discomfort at what they have wrought without chemical aids.
It would make a change for them to deign to stay there for this short jaunt of what, 4 nights? I'm convinced neither of them ever actually lived there. Harry wanted to hang onto it as his 'official' address in the UK so he could still claim a foothold there. No word on what they are doing to fill his Councillor of State position. To me, it's beyond ridiculous if he is retained as a Councillor of State. Having taken a internationally visible dump all over his grandmother, his duties and his country, his HRH should be removed--not just benched--removed, along with his place in the succession. He wants out? Let's go all the way, then.
So, pains are taken to point out that this is 'the Queen's favorite restaurant' they ate at. That doesn't earn any brownie points, you Toxic Two. What would earn brownie points is having lunch with the Queen--not at the luxury hotel 'next door'. Unless that is a subtly coded message that they are categorically NOT welcome at BP for lunch or any other time.
Thank goodness they didn't stay overnight at the hotel, since each would have likely demanded their own suite, doubling that tab to over 16,000 pounds.
Thanks also, DM, for identifying Harry as Meghan's husband for us. We may have forgotten that factoid since, like, yesterday.
>>>In a sartorial aside, Duchess Catherine rocked a white Reiss overcoat that she has owned and appeared in periodically since her engagement back in 2010. She looked fabulous in it as she has on all the other occasions. This is why Catherine is thought of so warmly--despite growing up the daughter of a multimillionaire and now the future Queen, she gladly recycles her (very nice) outfits (which have hardly been worn threadbare). Meg doesn't get this. Flaunting her 600+ pound shoes at this time is as tone deaf as we'd expect from her.
Haven't looked at the pictures. Not sure if I can stomach it. I think they are likely both high and that's what gets them through life with their manic-looking grins.
>>>@Hikari, a positive attitude can help ward off illness, but don't take anything for granted. We don't want you to get too sick to post!. Just kidding, but you are in an at-risk position, dealing with the public & handling books which have been who knows where. Do you get gloves for handling the books? I would think that this is a good idea even when no dangerous viruses are around, for your sake & the books!<<<
Thank you for your concern. Along with positive attitude ("I won't get sick, I won't get sick, I won't, I won't, I won't!) . . I am practicing good hand-washing and sanitizing everything I touch that's communal. I've been taking Vitamin C supplements and trying to eat a lot of fruit, and get enough sleep. I pride myself on rarely getting ill, even in this germ factory I work in. I average one cold every 1-2 years, and if I ever had respiratory flu, it was as a kid and I don't really remember. Throwing up is not part of the coronavirus, which is good, 'cause frankly, I'd rather run a fever than vomit.
I see a lot of people every day but by and large, our community is comprised of people that rarely if ever leave town. Very few people here travel much, and not a whole ton of frequent flyers. About a month ago, two students came back to an Ohio university after having been in China and it was thought they'd tested positive for the virus, but I've heard nothing about them since, or any new infections at their college, so what they had was either so very mild that it didn't last long, or they had another bug altogether. They do not seem to be included any longer in the Ohio patient numbers for coronavirus.
Port Columbus Internat'l Airport is 2 hours from here and it is a major Midwestern hub. I'd say the destination I hear about most for people flying out of C'bus from my town is Las Vegas. I'm sure Vegas is majorly concerned right now. If infection shows up here, my money's on it being imported from Vegas. Otherwise, travel from here to Asia or Europe is pretty minimal. Given Ohio's size and location, our viral load is very low. Tiny states like Rhode Island had cases before we did.
With active cases in the Netherlands, I wonder what this means for the Invictus Games in The Hague in May. Things are looking dicey for the Tokyo Games this summer. The IOC must be beside themselves because a decision will have to be made soon. My heart goes out to all the athletes who are watching their dream potentially slip away, and all the spectators who'd made their travel and hotel reservations. Last fall, an acquaintance who heads up the Sister Cities organization here asked me if I wanted to join her group she was getting together to go to Tokyo. I said I'd think about it, but really have no intention of going. Expense aside, coronavirus or no, Tokyo in August might as well be the epicenter of hell. I speak from experience, having visited the capital on numerous occasions in the summer. I can't imagine many millions more people descending on Tokyo than already live there. I suppose that Tokyo already had a lot of infrastructure owing to having previously hosted, but it amazed me that they were awarded the Games again. Picturesque it ain't, and the logistics are going to be a nightmare of epic proportions.
The Japanese are a hardy people, who have weathered legions of earthquakes, fires, mudslides, volcanoes, tsunamis, nuclear meltdowns and atomic bombs in their history. I'm sure that many there would prefer to 'gaman suru!' (The Japanese equivalent of "Keep Calm and Keep Buggering On") . . but as host country, they will also be cognizant of the optics of having thousands of people get sick if the Games go forward. 4 months from now, athletes will start arriving to train--who knows what the virus will be doing? A call will have to be made sooner.
All in all, I'm glad I didn't agree to go. Saved myself a lot of headache!
"the pap shot of MM exiting the Goring Hotel to her car looks like it could have been posed."
That's because it was.
Megsy or her PR must have notified The Sun. Their staff photographer is credited, he took the exclusive pix that the DM does not have. Not as of now. Though it seems the DM does get photos later on after The Sun releases them, Presumably for a payment. iirc - The DM and The Sun are owned by the same entity.
Yep! Walking eagles, the pair of them.
I bet she chose the Goring just to spoil it for Kate -
`Anything you can do I do be-dder - I can do anything be-dder than you'
No you can't!
(crescendo)
Yes I can! Yes, I can! Yes I CAN! (rises to a shriek as the sewer inspection covers open and the Dead drag her down to Hell.
Curtain falls on stunned chorus doormen, taxi drivers and bobbies. Nobody dares to say anything.
Curtain rises again as chorus recovers, realises what has happened and erupts into a mass of cheering, chirpy Cockney costermongers, led by a rejuvenated Dick van Dyke, having a right knees-up with elderly dowagers, Mary Poppins, Eliza Doolittle, Prof Higgins, Holmes & Watson and an entire troop of the Royal Horse Artillery, horses and all, together with a gun-carriage and coffin they'd hopefully brought along, just in case...
Grand finale, with sounds of a mighty gun salute from RHA in Hyde Park, to an ecstatic audience who haven't expressed themselves so vigorously since VE Day!
(Acknowledgements to Annie Oakley also Peter Sellars' production of Don Giovanni)
Interesting point about The Sun. Kind of makes a nonsense of the Harkles' war on the paps. For those who aren't familiar with such matters, The Sun is notorious as the tackiest, sleaziest, nastiest tabloid of the lot. Granted, as a Liver Bird I might be biased, but not that much! So if the Harkles are granting 'exclusives' to them, that's just more proof that their whole war on the media has nothing to do with 'bullying' and everything to do with a demand for positive coverage only. Even if it is from The Scum.
They're appalling.
Agree completely. This is an 'in your face' to the queen. Like you say there are any number of exclusive London hotels they could have chosen for their 'lunch', but they just so happened to pick the one famous for its association with the royals, where Kate spent the night before her wedding? And the paps just happened to be there?
Can these two please just go away?
"I think they are likely both high and that's what gets them through life with their manic-looking grins."
Well put
And for anyone who doesn't know...cocaine is way, way more fun than adderall.
Meghan is wearing a dress from the failing Victoria Beckham line and I hate to say it but she looks really good.
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11106576/meghan-markle-returns-uk-megxit/
I still can't stand to look at her staring down the camera.
So that's my 'something nice' for the evening! Credit where it's due, if she had dressed like this all along we'd have had much less to talk about!
We already have a winner with 4 across..Hollywood body, revenge dress, over the top PDA, crazy eyes.
This is a look for a high-profile working lunch.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8079797/Prince-Harry-Meghan-Markle-arrive-joint-engagement-Megxit.html
I will say this - she looks fantastic. She has lost any of her weird strategic weight that she'd gained and (oddly) it appears to me she got those new implants taken out?? She had implants, presumably acquired during her NYC tennis trip - she had implants when she was in South Africa and when she wore that maroon leather skirt and V-neck sweater.
Now, in that excellent blue sheath dress, it appears she has gone back to her wedding figure and had them removed again. Ever since Suits she'd had her Deal Or No Deal implants removed until she picked up a post-pregnancy pair to swish through SA with them cuddled up to her chin.
Thoughts?
She does look great. Her hair is WAY too long, that's like some Lindsay Lohan hair and I disapprove.
Seems like Meghan realises that this is her last opportunity to put herself in the shop window as a royal, and is going all out to convince directors, donors, sponsors etc that she's got 'it'. I dread to think what she's going to roll out on the family events. No way she will tolerate being outshone by Kate.
My guess is that she's finally listening to advice. And not advice from pretend stylists like Jessica, but from people who actually know what they're talking about for once. And it shows.
Richard Palmer covered the event well ...
I took another look, she still has them 100%, they are fairly smushed under that sheath dress.
I have modest implants myself and sheath dresses are not always cut to accommodate, so I have to size up and take in the waist/skirt.
That said, I now want to order about 23 of those dresses in various colors and live my life in them, I'm really gaga for such (simple, fitted) dresses.
Now I am a little worried, I got an Amazon package from Seattle on Tuesday 😳
She's still not Kate standard tonight though. I'll never forget the white Grace Kelly-style dress Kate wore to last year's BAFTAs. That was at the height of WTF is going on with Meghan's wardrobe and Kate gave a lesson in how to slay as a royal at a big event.
Sorry, Hilary Mantel, but it's not abominably racist to question Meghan Markle's behaviour
To echo a tweet I posted on Monday, is Hilary Mantel able to promote a book without making highly controversial and conveniently headline-grabbing remarks about modern-day royals?
While I think we can all agree that the Wolf Hall trilogy is a work of genius, I'm confused as to why being an expert on Thomas Cromwell makes Mantel an authority on royalty in general.
Having previously criticised the Duchess of Cambridge's "perfect plastic smile", the 67-year-old novelist now says the Duchess of Sussex is the victim of "abominable racism" and anyone who thinks otherwise should "check their privilege".
Any racism is abominable, which according to the dictionary definition means "repugnantly hateful; detestable; loathsome". But I find the suggestion that anyone who has questioned the Duchess (and Duke's) behaviour in recent months is abominably racist rather misguided.
Has anti-Americanism and even misogyny been at play here? Certainly, but I am yet to witness any hostility towards the couple because of the colour of Meghan Markle's skin outside the virtual sewer that is social media. Perhaps there is unconscious bias at play, but in that case we would all have to reluctantly conclude, like the famous Avenue Q song, that "everyone's a little bit racist".
Mantel's claim that "I think almost all of us would have bet that if she left, she'd have to leave alone" also didn't make much sense. It seems to be fuelling the rather sexist myth that this was all the Duchess's doing. Prince Harry is a grown adult who knows his own mind. Every decision the couple have made they have announced together.
"None of us know the details of how this is going to work out," added Mantel, having clearly not read the Sussexes' 1,000-word website update spelling out exactly how they think it is going to work out.
Mantel is right to say that Meghan was a "smiling face in a dull institution" who "cheered the nation up no end". But I find it odd that she was not able to apply the same description to Kate, which begs the somewhat troubling and controversial question – is the Duchess of Cambridge a victim of Mantel's "privilege"?
In her 2013 lecture at the British Museum, Mantel described the royal, who at the time was pregnant with Prince George, as someone with no personality whose only purpose was to breed.
Comparing her to the late Princess of Wales, she added: "She appears precision-made, machine-made: so different from Diana, whose human awkwardness and emotional incontinence showed in her every gesture."
There is a great irony here. The press constantly stands accused of being racist, unfairly comparing royal women and providing endless commentary on their looks. And yet I cannot ever remember a journalist daring to describe a Duchess as "painfully thin as anyone could wish, without quirks, without oddities, without the risk of the emergence of character".
A spokesman for Mantel later explained that the author was speaking about royal women as victims of their predicament. Yet what we have witnessed in recent months is two royal women taking control of their own destiny – one inside the institution, the other outside.
Don't both approaches suggest a strength of character? And isn't the suggestion otherwise rather abominable?
ENDS
I really wish somebody would get a pic of the crowds waiting for the various royals as they make their entrances and exits. Meghan’s face leaving the Goring would suggest throngs of adoring followers as she casts her eyes down modestly.
Regarding her appearance tonight, she is absolutely lovely but dear god that is such a basic look. Also, we will now be treated to her and Harry beaming at each other and smiling maniacally at the merest hint of a camera, to assure the world how wonderful it all is and how madly in love they are. Until the divorce papers are filed.
Richard Palmer has a video snippet of her talking in word salad about "sense of strength" , complete with jazz hands.
The fake hair looks bad from the back.
Does she want back in?
Basically I'm tired of famous people offering their opinions on anything other than their own area of expertise (I'm looking at you Meghan!) That's why Jurgen Klopp's comments yesterday were so refreshing. And speaking of such matters, our girl seemed to be spewing more of her word salads to some unfortunate guests at tonight's events, while Harry looked on tensely. But hey, at least she looked good while doing it!
Yep. And little or no hand-holding either.
If she'd dressed and behaved like this from the start we'd have had so much less reason to criticise her. That, combined with her making a point of having her pic taken outside the most 'royal' hotel in London, makes it look like she's trying to out-royal the royals, but she always slips up on the details.
The twosome are so lucky that it was raining, and thus they were protected by seeing the taxpayers who fund their lives. However, they were happy to be photographed! All those smiles! For what?
And yes, from now on I will be drinking on March 31 to celebrate the Fall of the Royal Pain in the A**
If I was not living in the middle of a woodland in the middle of nowhere in the Middle of the Midlands I would make a huge poster "Bye Rachel, bye Harry, good riddance" and go to wish them a happy forever away from UK.
Royal feud: How Kate Middleton will make sure Meghan Markle reunion goes smoothly
....my first thought was "a taser?" lol
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Had a rather weird announcement on my local BBC news this evening. They've been planning a 3-peak sofa challenge in aid of the sport relief charity for months now (possibly had the wheels in motion even since last year's challenge as they do one each year) and more or less on the eve of the challenge starting, they read out a statement saying it's been postponed.
A couple of things struck me as odd. They made it clear that they were reading out a "statement from the BBC" (if it was a team decision I'd imagine they wouldn't have needed to specify where the statement came from), and the reason given is they can't spare a film crew to film the challenge and they don't want the viewers to miss out on seeing them doing it, which I thought was rather strange considering how far in advance this was probably organised, why would a film crew pull out at the last minute? At the end of the statement the male host made a bit of an odd, almost passive-aggressive, comment of "we can't give you any further information at this time" - surely what they've given us is enough of an explanation without hinting that there's more?
I may not have got all of that word for word, I've been mulling it over for the last hour or so and just going round in circles wondering whether there's something going on or if I'm just applying H&M level analysis to something that's probably not as suspicious as it sounds lol
Is there anyone with media connections who can give an insight into what this statement could be about? My tin-foil-hat theory is they're possibly gathering staff together for something and don't want a film crew traipsing up and down some hills when they might be needed closer to home, but I'm not truly convinced it's going to be anything like that. It could be something as simple as some of the crew are currently self isolating, but wouldn't they just be able to draft in replacements, and/or let us know if that was the case? It was just weird and I'm curious.
She has zero judgement.
And on the Adderall vs cocaine front - I don't think she would have had as much trouble getting an Adderall prescription as she would have getting a decent supply of coke in the UK. In the UK - it's not like she can just call a friend or drive to get it herself which she can do in NA. Remember her "Pilates instructor"...uh, yeah - sure.
It makes no sense. Someone who truly cares for you will not cut you off from your entire family and friends.
Celt News had a great video yesterday reviewing how MM's "security" demands go way back to 2016 when she allegedly would call Toronto police claiming she was being stalked and hounded by the press. No evidence was ever found to support this.
I am also on board for thinking she's found a better stylist for her position, and it scares the bejesus out of me, for the same reason mentioned above; I'm afraid she has changed her mind about stepping down.
And I will defend her hosiery aversion by saying I doubt she's ever worn them, as they haven't been worn regularly in the Los Angeles in years, maybe even in her lifetime, in her social circles. NOT defending her defying the Queen, mind you, just that it may not be anything she's even had to wear before.
I live in the Netherlands and the number of Corona virus cases has doubled overnight to over 80, including one in my home town, which is scary.
On the Dutch evening news tonight it was mentioned that it is up in the air whether the Invictus Games in The Hague and the Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam will take place.
I am with you on the hosiery thought. The only social circles in the U.S. that I know of that still routinely wear them is the Women's prayer breakfast at the Methodist Church.
I think she didn't see the value of "when in Rome" and figured it didn't matter and so what. She bucked the Queen over a lot of things but this was a failure to understand "you aren't in Kansas anymore". Still Trash IMO.
To me, the color looked good on her and she looked put together in ways she has not in the past.
Gabe's Human - late that cleaning party but Oxy Clean is supposed to do well with tomato. Don't know about cashmere part but like everything else, they say to test in a small spot.
There is a way implants sit/work that cannot be achieved with a push-up bra. Specifically the fullness behind the mid-to-upper pectoral. She has previously worn rather bad bras under snug dresses before. In the current dress, since there is no style for cleavage, a push-up bra would not be necessary but perhaps a padded bra (which I suspect Kate often wears) would - however, the upper pectoral area is quite full - that's an implant.
I absolutely agree! I cringe with embarrassment FOR them.
I agree with you all that MM looks nice in her evening outfit, but it doesn't seem appropriate for the event. The zipper all the way down the back is too obvious, and long sleeves would make more sense. She must have been cold walking in the rain! I would have thought she would have worn some jewelry; she doesn't look very royal, but more like a businesswoman.
The articles even say "rooms UP TO $X000 per night" so that's some journalistic misdirection for clicks.
It amuses me that she does look amazing. As we all watch this chess game, I'm enjoying the fact she's shown up looking like a million bucks, if anything I find it very funny.
Also notice - IF THERE WAS A BABY - she had two choices: press attention for baby OR press attention for looking amazing.
I know which one I'd prefer, which is why I don't have a baby ha ha! She's rotten and there is no baby.
Yeah, I'm going to be making a lot of sales presentations in the near future and that's why I'm so starry-eyed over the idea of a crayon-box of those sheath dresses. Would make life so easy and I'm lucky enough to have the figure for them.
It's a sharp-ass business person dress. Everybody online HAS been saying she should dress like she did on Suits so she would be less of a mess - perhaps she took that to heart.
Let's see, exiting the Goring she's doing a riff on 'Audrey Hepburn'/London Holiday with her coy smile, head ducking and whimsical strappy shoes with the thin straps across the top of her foot. Except Audrey's clothes were always impeccably fitted, and Megsie is once again being swamped by her voluminous wool overcoat.
Just how many camel overcoats does this wench own? However many there are, she looks ghastly in all of them. I don't have a BFF who's a stylist, so Meg will not believe me when I say, honey, camel is NOT your color. Please stop wearing camel, beige or any variations on the poop family. Cf. Pitstain Gate, and those lovely pictures we will have to enjoy forever and ever.
The elderly gent holding the umbrella needs to be his own international meme, and someone has no doubt already obliged. Priceless!
My expectations for the evening were rather higher. As a brunch outfit in Malibu, this would be a treat. The color is lovely but the style is all wrong. Again, Meg. I don't see any visible weight loss. She looked pretty thin during the papp walk with 'Archie' a month ago. The problem is, this dress is vacuum-packed so tight on her that she looks bulgy. It's too short for the occasion and just highlights that she has no definable figure as such. She looks pretty wide. Something looser and flowy would disguise a thick middle. She's changed her shoes, and I can't tell if they are black or the really dark navy blue ones she wore before. She really needed a bit of a statement necklace to break up the boring line of the dress. Compared to how she's looked before, this wasn't bad. For a daytime engagement it would have been fine. Her wig is under control for once, but this long, scraped back ponytail makes her look rather like she's in a Bollywood musical--"Meghan's Magic Monsoon" . . particularly that shot of her and Haz walking arm in arm through the raindrops. Then of course she gives us the coy over the shoulder look to show off her bum Pippa-style, just like the sexy-girl number in those musicals. The hair looks like it has a lot of product in it . . wonder if it left grease marks down her back.
Harry has his same old blue suit and light blue tie on. I think the dude has max four outfits, two for 'work'. Very few clothes for a Royal with his kind of money. Haz has other uses for his wardrobe allowance.
The Claw is in force, pawing Haz as usual.
I give this look a B-minus. At least she doesn't look like a waiter at the Olive Garden this year.
and long sleeves would make more sense. She must have been cold walking in the rain!
I have moments when I am very sensitive to cold. It drives me crazy when I am walking around with shirt, sweater, hat, gloves and someone else has on shorts. I don't get how they aren't cold but they aren't. So maybe with all the excitement of what ever she has planned to have happen, she's not feeling the cold?
That said, there are a small % of people who LOVE cocaine more than anyone else and these people usually become daily addicts - this is really it's own problem and not necessarily the same thing as being somebody who "does cocaine." Just want to put that out there - plenty of recreational users.
I find cocaine EXHAUSTING. Sure it's fun but it's been a long time now and in general, I'd really rather not. The comedown sucks. The longer you're up the blacker it is.
Adderall? I take it pretty regularly and live my life.
It's a really different thing. Yes they are both uppers but... well who knows, she has that website to manage right? Cocaine just seems really messy to me compared to adderall.
Her makeup is too overwhelming.
Could you point me to the DM article where they're being booed? I can't find it and would love to hear it.
@Ian's Girl,
I agree that the dress doesn't fit her correctly. It's too tight in some places and too loose in others, It bags at the waist (too long waisted for her), and is so tight around the hips that it pulls the fabric. She had to pull it down after sitting because it is too tight in the hips. It is a day dress, not made for evening occasions. The length of the sleeves is too casual. The hairstyle is pure Kardashian, and it looks so fake. An updo or low chignon would make the dress appear more evening appropriate, and accessories should have been worn to make it look more formal, but you cant just turn a day dress into an evening dress and make it work. The dress looks like any dress for middle management office wear, except for the tightness factor. These are mistakes that Kate would not make.
As for hosiery, she is still a royal for a bit longer, and royal women are to wear hosiery under the guidelines set out by HMTQ.
Her makeup is just OK, a bit overdone when you compare it to the other royal women, especially Kate. She would never wear that much makeup, even for evening events. This is Hollywood makeup, not royal makeup.
If this is her "revenge" look, it failed, IMO.
I have done both - and frankly, will never do coke again for those reasons you stated but have done ok with Adderall.
I could be wrong about her but she doesn't seem like an Adderall kinda gal.
With Hollywood not taking her phone calls, her inability to merch, and finding that there aren't scads of people clamoring to hear her word salad (never mind the realization that Harry is bankable but SHE is not) is a bit of a wake-up all for Markle. Not that she would attribute that to her raging narcissism. But, hey, reality is a bitch, eh, Meghan?
I think this is a trial run for both the Queen and them. If they are booed at every place they appear, it will prove to Her Majesty that the barn door has been closed on these two jerks. If the response by the public is more or less neutral, then I believe she will let them back in, albeit under close watch with limited duties.
Personally, I feel this is a huge mistake. I believe that Markle is a malignant narc. No good will come if they are let back in. I agree with Sirstinxalot. I think both of them are beyond toxic. He's as guilty as she is. He's spoiled, petulant, petty, and beyond immature. At this point, I think he may be as clinical as she is. He's found the one person who endorses his toxic personality and is using her as much a she is using him to get back at the family for all the perceived slights he's "suffered" under all these years.
Markle will bide her time, and then she will start undermining the Family again with her antics. Wearing hose or not wearing hose is the LEAST of Her Majesty's worries.
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For two years, this woman deliberately dressed like shit on each and every occasion, to spite the Royal Family. I told you that she would transform like nothing you´ve seen while hiding in Canada. And there you go. She lost a shit ton of weight(although there´s still a pooch/bump… she either can´t shed that, or it´s her deliberate FU to everyone and her trying to get preggo rumors going). The hair is neat, the make up well done, the teeth freshly bleached to be whiter than white. The jewelry, all of a sudden, is appropriate, classy and fits with the overall look. The blue dress is finally one that is almost perfectly fitted to her body. The shoes are the right size, and except for the raindrops on the suede, they are clean. And she´s lapping it up with that full lock on-glance to the camera and that beaming smile.
She´s shitting on all of Britain with the greatest gusto, after disrespecting all the royal traditions, etiquette and protocol for 2 years, not putting any effort into her grooming and dressing, and after riling all the taxpayers up with her demands over the Sussex Royal shit and paid for protection for life.
I told you… she´d come out “looking better than ever”. Her sugars are going to go wild and see this as proof that she was right to leave, and that it was the “horrible BRF” who forced those “terrible, old fashioned granny clothes” on her.
The neutrals and those who know next to nothing about the real deal behind the scenes will say “Oh well, indeed, she looks so much happier, more relaxed and better!”
The woman who could not be bothered to clean her crusty, muddy Manolos and comb her damn weave when she was representing on a global stage as “royal”, now steps out in her best look since probably ever. Run that broad off UK soil for all eternity, for God´s sake. We´ve all had enough with this Narc.
Face is oily. Why must her face always be orange? The pony tail is stringy, should've had a bit of a curl.
Looking at the pics here:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8079797/Prince-Harry-Meghan-Markle-arrive-joint-engagement-Megxit.html
I don't have any experience with either cocaine or Adderall, but look at the rapid-fire speech she's doing. She's talking way too fast, and I think she's under the influence of something.
The only thing that I do know is that Adderall is very common in Hollywood circles for weight loss. She would have no problem getting some illegally or getting a prescription for it.
It's only been what - 2 weeks? - since that petty, butthurt public response to the deprivation of the 'royal' moniker. And today's posing at the Goring hotel was basically a f**k off to the royals, and a very public one at that. Also, if they were looking for a way back in, they surely wouldn't have left Archie in Canada.
No, I think they - or at least she - realises that this is her last chance to cash in on the prestige of royalty and wants to look and - sort of - act the part for once. She wants to banish the memory of sweaty pits and raggy hair and present a more polished, 'royal' image. Also a degree of 'revenge dressing' though if she thinks she comes anywhere close to Diana's famous black dress at the Serpentine Gallery, well, she's not even in the same league. Not to mention that only in the minds of her petty, obsessive sugars does she actually have anything to be gaining 'revenge' for.
I guess Meg was going for 'Diane Keaton' last year rather than 'Olive Garden Waiter'. This year's effort was better. Still, she's had four months to plot and plan her 'comeback' look and today we see what she came up with. Not much, is what. That color in an evening gown would have been more of a knockout.
Catherine is in zero danger of ever being overshadowed by Meg, regardless of what the latter thinks.
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Strictly For the Megsy deprived... Loads of fresh photos and videos here. In her blue-green dress
Maybe they will stop running them so often now that she's given them some new ones.
Totally agree that this is more of a daytime look. And while I still think she looks better than her usual, I'm removing points for back zipper and stupid hair. Still a solid B+ from me, but down from A-.
I am also incredibly tired of our Harry in blue suits. William also wears them a lot, but unlike Harry, he gives the impression of having more than just the one. Now I come to think about it, do the Royal Fellas actually do black suits often? Perhaps they save them for formal occasions and mourning?
@Hunter, you will never go wrong with a selection of sheaths in your most flattering colors. And please God, never change, because your comments slay me.
He hair is tidy, the dress fits (I think it is made that way, with an overlap), tasteful jewelry, wish she had remembered the stockings.
But that look she gives everyone: is it her eyes or the grin that makes it just a little....feral?
And.....she is a half-step behind Harry in all those pictures!!
She is also wearing ballet pink nail polish that the Queen favours. Has anyone else ever noticed how ugly her hands are? Double jointed, wrinkly fingers.
Celt News had a great video yesterday reviewing how MM's "security" demands go way back to 2016 when she allegedly would call Toronto police claiming she was being stalked and hounded by the press. No evidence was ever found to support this.
Celt news videos (youtube) are so well done. I will take a look at this stalking one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LKBxAw5HBA
Meghan has now reduced me to looking at close-ups of her posterior in search of her butt pads. What is the world coming to?
Meg stands out because she overdoes her foundation, I think. Can't decide if it's because she wants to look darker, or she wants to downplay her freckles (which would be a shame) or maybe she thinks she has an uneven complexion, which seems to be a thing WoC are sensitive about; at least my friends are. They obsess about what they see as major flaws that I can not even see in broad daylight.
Re: Smirkle, I find that she overdoes it on the blush, bronzer and highlighter. The high beam highlighter especially looks very "you tube influencer".
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Markles eyes shows grief. Yes. That's why there is so much make up, to cover up her grief. Despite that huge smile , and what the world has been talking about , Markle looks to be in a lot of pain.
Those umbrella moments. Beautiful for social media photos. In fact almost all royal photos have umbrella pictures. Markle just asked for them to be exaggerated so that the effect is amazing. This woman is something else. I hope my comments get printed in history books. This effect was over the top.
That figure hugging dress, with that zipper, well it looked like high class hooker to me. Nothing duchessy or princessy about that. In fact ,when she bent down to sign that book, she totally knew all the men behind her would be eyeing her backside. Which they did.
When you have a flat butt like Markle, you need the pads to make a sheath fit in a form fitting way.
I have the same body as Markle... short waisted, no butt, long skinny legs. When you're young you can somehow manage, but she will find it more and more difficult to dress as she ages .
@PaisleyGirl hahaha "what is the world coming to!"
@Louise Yes! So tired of the "professional victim!"
MM's constant touching of JH is typical of narcs, I understand. It's a form of control. The "influential adversary" narcissist married to my daughter keeps his grubby hands all over her. We don't get to see her often, because of his control, but when we do, he is constantly pawing at her to spite us. I can't understand why she doesn't shrug it off, because it's demeaning in public.
In the same way, it is poor manners for MM to keep her hands on Harry, even if she is a controller, and Harry should stop it. People don't want to see that, it excludes, it's offensive, it's in bad taste, and it prevents one from connecting with others in the room. Beyond which, I'm sure it's not appropriate for royalty. Harry knows better.
You all described the outfit very well. I was feeling kind of badly for criticizing it so harshly, but she is still serving and being paid for by the British people. She is supposed to honor them, not to mention honoring the servicemen and servicewomen at this event. The outfit is designed for her own attention. She gets attention, but her motivation is inappropriate, along with the outfit. She could have made a much better presentation; it's hard for me to understand why, with all the time and expense available to her, she doesn't.
Youtube has absolutely ruined makeup for me. Why all these young women thought it was a good idea to start using techniques invented for stage work and drag queens is beyond me.
I was thinking...the green dress and ponytail are looks Kate was admired for this week. Is there any other mirroring with Kate today? The Goring, yes. Narcs love to mirror.
Meg stands out because she overdoes her foundation,
Agree the makeup is too heavy and shiny.
Haven't look close enough to see if the dress is too tight but do notice that in a group picture she really stands out. I wonder if she knew what other's would be wearing and choose this color for that purpose.
Kate always seems to blend in with her clothes.
"I have modest implants myself and sheath dresses are not always cut to accommodate, so I have to size up and take in the waist/skirt.
That said, I now want to order about 23 of those dresses in various colors and live my life in them, I'm really gaga for such (simple, fitted) dresses."
Really? Just really...TMI :(
I's rather read some kind comments encouraging someone here than about your intimate body parts and dress desires. Ugh!
Sparkles needs to fire her plastic surgeon, and do something about those extensions. Also if that dress was any tighter we would be seeing things only seen on her sex tapes.
The photos of the two of them released was clearly taken by someone who has herb ritts envy, The Lighting "bouncing" off the rain giving them a glow is reminiscent of a early new kids on the block video clip (don't ask how I know).
Ok I am done. Sort of :)
As for Catherine’s makeup. I have no problem with it and was even thinking she could go with a smidge of more color on her lips and cheeks.
Meg ‘s makeup always look greasy, overdone and cheap......just trying TOO hard and only coming off looking slutty. I have a feeling JH likes her slutty look!!!!!!!!
And what do you know....after almost 3 years she caught on that HE is the royal therefore he should he half a step ahead of her!!!!!! DERRRRRRRRR!!!!!🤪
It is the couple's first official public appearance in Britain following the Megxit crisis and prepares to step down as a senior royal.
Body language guru Judi James claimed the couple appeared 'like-minded' and 'mutually-adoring' at the event, explaining they displayed signs they are as in love than ever as they showed off their 'honeymoon style' affection.
Judi revealed how the couple used matching body language to 'announce' that they remain a 'like-minded' and loved-up couple.
She told FEMAIL: 'Running the gauntlet of rain, cheers and a few boos, Harry and Meghan used a dazzling display of eye-gazing, mirrored pinging smiles and loving, intimate touch rituals to announce the fact that they are still a very like-minded and mutually-adoring couple.'
She went on to say that the Duke of Sussex seemed particularly excited at the event and overjoyed to have Meghan 'on his arm'.
Judi went on: 'There was a new gloss to their simple but co-ordinated styling that hinted they’d upped their game in terms of A-list impact but Harry’s reddened, rounded cheeks and the gleam in his eyes suggested he was still excited to be arriving back with his wife on his arm.'
Judi explained: 'Their pose to camera as they walked into the venue probably defined their message best.
'Gazing into one another’s eyes they both performed twinned smiles that were wide enough to ensure we got the message in terms of their mutual happiness.'
Meanwhile, once the couple were seated inside, Prince Harry could be seen affectionately holding his wife as they sat together.
Judi revealed: 'Sitting together later Harry stretched one arm out across Meghan’s lap to hold her hand in that ‘on-going honeymoon’ style they were always known for.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8079797/Prince-Harry-Meghan-Markle-arrive-joint-engagement-Megxit.html
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The perfect match! Meghan Markle wows in a £950 electric turquoise figure-hugging Victorian Beckham dress as Prince Harry sticks to the colour theme with a blue tie at the Endeavour Awards
Meghan Markle, 38, wowed in Victoria Beckham dress at the Endeavour Awards
Complimented stylish turquoise outfit with a pair of Manolo Blahnik heels
Prince Harry, 35, made sure to match his radiant wife and donned a blue tie
It is the Sussexes' first joint official engagement since announcing step down
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8079539/Meghan-Markle-wows-turquoise-makes-post-Megxit-appearance.html
As for their honeymoon style pda. People who truly love one another show their affection in a natural way....as an extension of the on going love they feel for each other. They are confident and comfortable with each other and their bond so they don’t feel that they have to prove they love each other by overt displays of pda.
JH and Meg make sure they shove their love for each other down our throats and never as much as they did today!!!!!!
That was revolting and makes my stomach turn. I had skipped the text on the DM - but ick.
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You are super rude.
but this word salad:
"rather read some KIND comments encouraging someone here than about your intimate body parts and dress desires"
is highly amusing....kind of like using a sharpie on a banana
If she lightened up on eyeshadow and liner, I think she could look exhausted again and then the press would go crazy that the last remaining prop to the BRF was beginning to crumble. She just has that kind of face. She also needs to play up her eyes as she has a relatively thin mouth, and because it's easier to carry off a day of public activities with your eyes done rather than your mouth (I'm from the generation that believes you never do both at the same time. Unless you're Dita von Teese, who I love BTW).
NKOTB!! When i saw the front shot of H&M under the umbrella in the rain, I thought it was a cool shot and they both look good there even though i can’t really stand to look at either of them anymore!!
l like the color of the dress, I said on this blog a year ago that she needs to stick with jewel tones in blue, green, and purple. She used to wear them prior to the wedding and then suddenly stopped and wore all those frumpy outfits. Her makeup is definitely overdone. The eye makeup is too heavy, even for night.
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Where might one see that video?
Meghan is at her happiest: photographers, a cheering crowd, perfect framing under the umbrella in the rain, an event where she is the star of the show (some people got awards? really? who?), everything arranged for her, a platform to talk and talk and talk, guaranteed major coverage in the media ... she really is that shallow.
I do think the dress is too tight, it would look classier if it was not jibbered up around her waist and spray painted on. I can see her underwear from the front in some pics.
I agree Catherine’s eye make up is often too heavy. I wonder if she is doing the heavy black eyeliner or someone else is. Brown is the complementary color to blue, but the heavy dark eye make up sometimes ages her. Given her very low body fat and thinness of face, and the amount of smiling she does professionally, she is in danger of aging rapidly, and a heavy dark eye make up does not help this. Her sister Pippa has a naturally round her face in form, and I think the years are going to be kinder to her. They say the mark of a skillful Make up is to look like you’re not wearing any, so let her make up would certainly suit both of them. But Catherine is never garish. Meg is addicted to bronzer and fake eyelashes, so her tutorial is keeping up with the Kardashians. If she hadn’t behave like this over the last year and a half, I would say that today’s clothing was decent For what she was expected to do. But we know all the water under the bridge. This woman has no intrinsic taste level, which I understand is common with narcissists; their aesthetic judgment is severely compromised Because they have no ability to judge themselves objectively. They think everything they do is fantastic.
In the US, a serviceman would say to another military person, "I've got your six," meaning your back or behind you, referring to a clock, where 12 is in front of you and six is behind you.
Is that the same in GB military parlance? Anybody here know?
From a fellow stress flop-sweater: Megs, Certain-Dri is your friend! It works!
Now, if I can figure out on my own what styles and colors I looked good in and am not an actress or public figure, what the hell was her problem?
About that whole PDA between FKAP Harry and his narc, they're working really hard to sell to the public that the emotion is real, but I ain't buying it.
I do like that Bollywood song Chaiyya Chaiyya. I had to take a break and watch SRK.
Black, gray and camel are in with the younger set right now, and MM is trying to appeal to that age group, which is more easily influenced by others. Those colors are big in NYC, but not as much as in LA.
Basically, MM is a fashion victim. She wears what the mags, blogs and influencers say is in right now, rather than what looks good on her. I agree that jewel tones look great on her, but that's not what young women in their 20s are wearing right now. The wrap coats, dark colors and especially the burgundy sweater with the leather skirt look horrible on her.
Of course, she may just be wearing anything she can get for free or being paid to merch.
According to the “color book”. I consulted back when that first became a big thing, I was defined as a true winter.....deep gem tones for winter wear and the same colors in an icy shade for summer. I was to NEVER wear the color yellow. Low and behold........any time I wore something yellow I would get great compliments. (sorry unknown).
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I have noted that she loses weight every time she leaves the UK. Gets puffy - jets off to North America....
I imagine that accessing it is a lot easier in the US and Canada - than in the UK...
@MeliticusBee:
Enty at Crazy Days and Nights had a blind when Meghan jetted off the the US Open in NYC last September. It said that a drug dealer who sells to famous and wealthy people had been alerted to have a large supply of his best merchandise on hand for a special person flying in who had not been able to partake of his wares for quite some time.
That fits with Meghan not being able to drink or do drugs during her pregnancy and while nursing, i doubt she nursed Archie for more than three or four months after the birth. Let’s face it, I highly doubt royals get any look other than a wave by customs officers as they pass back into the country, so Meghan would have been able to bring back lots of nose candy to get her and Harry through the holidays and the Megxit bombshell.
I agree that she feels that she can wear anything and look great, but nobody can do that can they?
There is a shade of yellow for everybody, from the lightest pastel to the brightest daffodil yellow. That color book craze turned a lot of people off of some colors that would look great on them. I don't usually wear raspberry colors for blush or lips, but when I wear my daffodil yellow rain coat, raspberry balances it out. I do avoid pastels (except for baby blue) or ivory. I love the sophistication of ivory, but white looks better on me.
@Mimi: The way they are holding hands when they are sitting down is not about affection but about control and dominance. He surrenders his hand to her, in her space, and she takes possession of it, with both hands. Harry really is whipped!
I expect we'll see a lot of what Meghan and Harry are known for, performative PDA. It us common in relationships with narcissists like Meghan.
Constant performative PDA like that from Meghan and Harry, consisting mostly of Meghan pawing or putting a death grip on Harry, is a sign of insecurity, possessiveness, and a need for approval. Performative PDA is not genuine affection. It can be a sign of defensive possessiveness and control by an insecure partner to mark their territory.
It can also be an effort to convince others that a weak or troubled relationship is stable. When PDA is unbalanced, one partner is often trying to stimulate or reinforce an uncertain relationship.
Expect non-stop total performative PDA mixed in with a hearty helping of shit-eating grins from these two.
Narcissists feel that no matter what their life is really like, they MUST project an image of the perfect life. Meghan is so predictable that the phase “perfect life” is used in her self-description on her Thislittlepetal Twitter account that I believe is still active. During this trip, she is trying to control the narrative that she and Harry are happy and successful.
But then, because she’s so profoundly narcissistic, if she was being walked down a prison corridor to the electric chair, she’d still be grinning away as she faced the family of her victim and the prison officials before they threw the switch. That smile would be there!
Has anyone seen the video where Harry was supposed to greet someone, then Meghan touched his back and he gave way for her to greet this lady first? I feel Harry's sense of self-worth is through validation from Meghan. That is not a healthy relationship when Harry's self-esteem and self-worth is dependent on Meghan.
"In our world homage must be paid by all those we come into contact with and repeatedly by those who are closest to us. A failure to do so, however slight, will result in the issuing of a criticism against us. The outcome is the ignition of our fury with us lashing out, doling out a silent treatment or withdrawing."
Meg's behavior blows our minds, because our brains don't function like hers.
Has anyone seen the video where Harry was supposed to greet someone, then Meghan touched his back and he gave way for her to greet this lady first? I feel Harry's sense of self-worth is through validation from Meghan. That is not a healthy relationship when Harry's self-esteem and self-worth is dependent on Meghan.
@R_O: By this time, most of Harry’s former personality has been emptied and replaced by Meghan. He’s just a shell of his former self who is likely trying to please her. He’s been eviscerated.
Relationships with a narcissist are very similar to when a person gets sucked into a cult, except it is a cult with just two members.
See: Psychology Today: What Awful Marriages & Cults Have in Common, and FairyTaleShadows.com:
Narcissistic abuse syndrome is like being in a cult
I have seen more pictures of M tonight, those that were not photoshopped. Her dress is ill-fitting, showing a paunchy tomach, and a fake tear end. Too tight fitting. Her tip of her nose has been shaved and is shorter than it was months ago.
https://keepingupwiththebananadramas.tumblr.com/page/2
and watch the video from a TV show called "The Reel". it is incredible and well done and very true. 5 women of "color" talking about H&M
I think skin and hair tones are more crucial than eye color in determining one’s Season. If it were based solely on eyecolor, it would be a lot easier. I have medium brown eyes and hair, but I am certainly not an Autumn. I avoid anything too earthy or muddy, as they make me look sallow. Pastels also wash me out. I liked the color of Meghan’s dress, But that’s all I liked about it. It was too tight and the silhouette was all wrong for the occasion. Meg is built like I am; search form fitting attire is not a friend to a boxy shape. This would’ve been the time to bring out one of her long coats. She must of been freezing in raw early March and what was essentially a summer dress. Can’t wait to see what she tries out for the Commonwealth day service. Let’s hope she three thought the pillbox hat. In retrospect I’m wondering if the chain print from last year with some kind of subliminal hint.
I think skin and hair tones are more crucial than eye color in determining one’s Season. If it were based solely on eyecolor, it would be a lot easier. I have medium brown eyes and hair, but I am certainly not an Autumn. I avoid anything too earthy or muddy, as they make me look sallow. Pastels also wash me out. I liked the color of Meghan’s dress, But that’s all I liked about it. It was too tight and the silhouette was all wrong for the occasion. Meg is built like I am; search form fitting attire is not a friend to a boxy shape. This would’ve been the time to bring out one of her long coats. She must of been freezing in raw early March and what was essentially a summer dress. Can’t wait to see what she tries out for the Commonwealth day service. Let’s hope she three thought the pillbox hat. In retrospect I’m wondering if the chain print from last year with some kind of subliminal hint.
Has anyone seen the video where Harry was supposed to greet someone, then Meghan touched his back and he gave way for her to greet this lady first? I feel Harry's sense of self-worth is through validation from Meghan. That is not a healthy relationship when Harry's self-esteem and self-worth is dependent on Meghan.
Came here to see if others had noticed it..it was so cringey I couldn't watch anymore. At the beginning of the video also, Harry waited until she came, greeted others then Harry proceeded!!!
Try wearing red with khaki. Especially around your face, like with a scarf. It my work for you.
That chain print dress was just a bad knock off of Hermes famous chain print.
"Has anyone seen the video where Harry was supposed to greet someone, then Meghan touched his back and he gave way for her to greet this lady first? I feel Harry's sense of self-worth is through validation from Meghan."
I interpreted Harry's behaviour as submissive. At this point this is a guy who walks on eggshells lest he waken the abusive beast.
The gray suit that Just Harry wears is an awful color on him. It washes him out, but I think MM talked him into it because he blends into the background and she takes the spotlight. He should wear blues and some greens.