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The Sussexes have left the building: What now?

After yesterday's hostility-fest at the Commonwealth Day services at Westminster Abbey, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have completed their activities as senior members of the British Royal Family.

Some reports suggest that they have already left for Canada, where their infant son Archie has been waiting for them for more than a week.

It seems impossible, however, that this is the end of the Sussex story - and in fact, they will still officially be His Royal Highness and Her Royal Highness until the end of March.

What do you think will happen during the next three weeks? Will the Sussexes be silent?


Comments


It seems that giving H & MM the red carpet send off was not enough. The Royal Family, the public and the media gave them good to gushing coverage overall.

Nothing will ever be enough for those two and I have a feeling things are going to get uglier. Much uglier. They or rather she will not go quietly.
KCM1212 said…
@Animal Lover

His Royal Highness has long been rumored to have also inherited from the late Diana, Princess of Wales a love of media attention, an inability to distinguish between the words “public” and “private”, and a need to seek validation from the press, as well as harboring a desire to control his own media image, by leaking to select papers stories concerning his private life.

YE gads!! That is amazing stuff!
KCM1212 said…
@Genia

The attempt to gain gravitas by virtue of being in a feud with someone of higher stature. This is exactly what Meghan is now doing with Kate. She is now actively pursuing a public feud with not just the RF but specifically with Kate. To her, this is a win-win situation in that she garners media coverage and she ensures that the press is there to cover her en masse whenever she jets back to the UK to attend family functions.

You have nailed it!
punkinseed said…
Genia, Well said. Kate is a genuinely nice person, has as much if not more compassion and empathy than Diana did and comes across as normal, caring, loving and intelligent. Her ways are not about envy, jealousy or hatred and I venture to guess that when Megs makes a nasty, cutting remark to her face or behind her back that she's taken aback. Kate's mind just doesn't think in that direction. It's hard to respond to such shocking attacks, and fortunately for Kate, she has sense enough to not respond to it in any way. Kate is also wise enough to know that the best way to react at such vacuous volleys from dingbat Meg is to punish her with kindness. That's why we saw Kate with Megs at the tennis matches. It must be a huge relief for Kate that Megs moved overseas.
Now that/if Megs is going to use the press to sling mud at Kate, et al, that's going to cause more attention for Megs, but not in a good way because the one who stirs the merde stinks the most. Charities and Hollywood, no matter how crazy the latter can be at times, would view Megs as too stupid, negative, self destructive and diva ultra. That gets too expensive and the last thing investors do is invest in stupid. She really doesn't have much of a story to tell unless she wants to tell the truth, and not her version of the "truth" but the real facts about Archie. Aside from that, it's pretty clear that she and the producers would be sued a zillion times over if she pursued a false narrative about the RF. Fact finders would destroy her as well. Nobody likes a liar or a cheat, and all due diligence would be used to expose her if she continues using the press and her friends to trash others.
Shaggy said…
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punkinseed said…
KCM, when is the next offical RF function that Megs and harry would attend? When you say jets back to UK I got the picture in my head of Hitler's Blitz dropping bombs on UK.
xxxxx said…
The BRF can act now and cut off all Duchy payments that Charles sends them, plus the BRF tells the Metropolitan Police to stop sending protection officers to Canada. Move now before Megsy's book comes out! She is already doing a mini-tell all in the DM today via her PR leaking to the DM.
I say nuke 'em now, same as China took very drastic measures in Wuhan that are working.
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Unknown said…
Lurking... duck one... I got signed out of google and can't get back in for some reason... working the problem.


Being pranked can be forgiven, however some of the comments are beyond the pale. In moments when around those we trust, who we think are of like minds, we are all more likely to be much more forthcoming with our deeply held beliefs and opinions. Here he slights everyone over 35 or 36 as old and out of touch. (I guess this also includes Smegs.) He slags off Trump, Johnson, & Corbin. If you voted for Trump, or any of the MP's that won bring Johnson to power, or are a Corbinite, you are one of those sick people. So not on the right, but also not a leftist? He certainly isn't in the middle. He's a true believer of parts of the woke agenda and in true elitist hypocrisy, not those things that impact his life. He and his family get to travel, fleece the taxpayers, have ginormous carbon footprints while the plebs are taxed back into the stone age of living in the cold dark.

One thing that was odd. He makes a comment of people who take flights on weekends as if everyone is flitting about, going somewhere every weekend. I don't know anyone flies weekly, let alone more than 2 or 3 times a year. He is SO out of touch. The vast majority of people don't fly at all!

And about being in the military making him much more in touch. PULEEZE... he had minders protecting him the entire time.
KCM1212 said…
@punkinseed

I was quoting Genia there but I love your imagery.
Patriot me wants this mess to be over with the two of them, and the other part is watching in horrified fascination.

Harry is supposed to be back for the London Marathon, right? Provided its not cancelled. Megs won't be back until her court date, and not then if she can slither out of it.




NeutralObserver said…
Poor Megs. She's lost a quite a lot of weight, but she's still a bit of a heifer. Better hit the gym to get that MCU super hero role.

At least she takes our minds off of Coronavirus anxieties.
Lurking said…
Yay! I think I'm back!


Lest anyone forget... April 15 is right around the corner and all those gift's aren't going to pay their own taxes! Flights on private jets, clothing, vacations, extended stays in Russian oligarch's homes... there is a lifetime limit of $11.5 million for a married couple. How close do you think HAMS are to the limit?
Vince said…
@Hikari

Love your riff on the Great Woke Princess and you're right, she's no Eliza Doolittle from My Fair Lady. Thanks to you and others for clarifying my memory on that tale and helping me realize it was not Mary Poppins I was thinking about.



@Unknown

lol. I actually have watched Mary Poppins several times. I just could not recall My Fair Lady and so I put down Mary Popping knowing that others would help me figure out the story I was really looking for



And just so I'm clear about how I feel on Meg -- it doesn't matter to me what her background is. She could have been from the lowest of the low situations, and it doesn't matter to me that she was a yachter.

The problem, for me, is how she acts right now. I compare her with Eliza Doolitle because Eliza is so raw and commoner-like at the start of the play. But she gets beyond all that and learns what will work best for her moving forward.

Meg never wanted to learn protocol and wanted to do everything her way. And that includes trying to be the hot girl, 40 year old ingenue in tight clothes that show undergarment lines while staring down cameras. It's just...gross. And I say that as a healthy straight male who appreciates women.

Basically, Meg's vibe is wrong. I've made this comparison before but will do it again. The singer Fergie, from Black Eyed Peas, only has one speed as a performer on stage. And that is to be the writhing, grinding, in-the-mood lady who we all supposedly desire. It just gets old after awhile if that's all you present.

To me, Meg comes off like Singer Fergie. One speed, zero class and just boring rather than supposedly hot. I far prefer Kate's public persona and manner than Meg's.
punkinseed said…
Thank you KCM and apologies to Genia for transposing your comment.
Unknown, Yes. Harry is out of it like so many aristocrats were in the months before WW2. I'm thinking of Christopher Reeve's character in the movie "Remains of the Day" when Reeves explained to the aristocrats at the dinner party how behind the times and out of touch they all were with the real, modern world. Harry is clueless about and never will be able to grasp what it's like for most of us who live closer to the ground. What's even more infuriating is he is too thick or stubborn to so much as honestly educate himself on any of his causes. It's all fake and people see right through it.
Megs has trained him to be such a victim of all and sundry that I doubt he'll ever be able to understand anything real. He's like a boiled frog and toil and trouble Megs keeps that cauldron going.
NeutralObserver said…
@Punkinseed, Your comment is so correct. If you're a huge talent, or if you sell a lot of tickets, or can produce high ratings, Hollywood will put up with you. If you're difficult & not talented, or popular, Hollywood will be dead to you. I think a lot of people in the entertainment business can maintain long careers by simply showing up, doing their job, & being easy to work with.

Megs is such a disaster. Being a royal shouldn't have been very difficult for a seasoned actor. Observing royal protocol isn't much different from hitting your mark on a tv or movie set, or a stage. Megs' need to be the center of attention undermines her own agenda. The RF is well rid of Hegs & Megs.
punkinseed said…
NeutralObserver. Thanks. I agree that Hollywood has enough gracious talent to keep the $ coming in.
I tend to compare Megs with Princess Grace Kelley. What a polar opposite. Grace did pull off being royal and regal as a seasoned and successful actress. Not only did her talent make it seamless for her, but Grace wasn't an attention seeking Narcissistic biotch to begin with like Megs. That's why Megs is such a hateful disaster and as you say, undermines her own agenda and on top of it, screams victimhood of racism or other bias when anyone ever tells her NO!
You all need to see this, a body language expert on H&M...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6iYvRviQ9k
Lurking said…
Smeg steps BETWEEN chairs so she can get right behind William & Kate, cutting off Edward & Sophie in the processional out of Westminster Abbey.

https://twitter.com/simonsonpress/status/1237422148928626688

punkinseed said…
A Narc's Daughter, wow, I watched it. Thank you for posting the link. Very eye opening. Narcs are very insecure, that's true. There's something else she said that nailed it:: starting at 4:42 where she says: "...you have to have a common enemy for couples like this to survive..." SO TRUE! For now, who is their Common Enemy? 1. Wills and Kate; 2. The RF; 3. Meg's family... the list is sooo long, and changes all the time. It's like Whack a Mole.
Not part of the body language, but What's so sick is the standing ovation was not for either of them, but for someone else and they thought it was for them. Ish. Notice they didn't applaud for the person who was getting the ovation? It's easy to tell the applause wasn't for them if they'd have had sense enough to look around and see that the audience was not looking their way, but towards the stage as they applauded.
punkinseed said…
I just watched Danja Zone's most recent. Lordy! I guess that documentary really trashes UK and the royals.
DesignDoctor said…
@A Narc's Daughter
Excellent body language video and commentary! Thanks for posting the link.
@punkinseed - Doesn't Harry tell her how to behave or what to expect? She's worthless arm candy, and even fails at that. She knows she's a failure and that's the reason for the insecurity. It doesn't look that difficult! She's one of those people that can't do anything right.
Lurking said…
Smeg has left the UK. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2020/03/10/prince-harry-stays-uk-work-meghan-flies-back-canada/

So Canada is allowing flights in?
R_O said…
Saw photos of her meeting with people from the Association of Commonwealth Universities at the Buckingham Palace. Her hair is styled neatly and she is dressed appropriately. Why couldn't she have done so the past 2 years? What was she trying to do before? Get people to talk about her untidy hair and ill-fitting clothes so she can convince Harry to leave the UK saying the press is bullying her?

She must have access to unlimited coke in Canada that's why she's slimmer. I noticed her face is slimmer compared to when she lived in the UK.
NeutralObserver said…
@CatEyes, @Sandie, LOL, Dads interested in science & space, relatives & moms who toss interesting & possibly valuable items while tidying up. CatEyes, you're in Texas, Sandie , you're in Africa, I'm in New York. I have to thank Nutty, Megs, & the creators of the World Wide Web for letting me be in touch with ladies who are so far away, but with whom I have quirky little things in common. I'm grateful. So many others here whom I feel connected to.

Have to stay on topic, Harry claims that 'community' is important to him & Megs, but they've ghosted both of their own families. They leave poor little Archie, if he exists, on his own with a hypothetical nanny for weeks on end.

When my first was born I hired a Princess Christian nanny, because my husband & I liked to do things on the spur of the moment , & I didn't want to be tied down. After he was born, I was so besotted by him, my perfectly lovely nanny was superfluous, because I couldn't bear to leave him. Obviously, Megs has no problems leaving Archie. I won't go into the reasons why Megs' claims to have been breastfeeding Archie while traveling all over the place are ridiculous. She is so amazingly brazen in her assumption that the public are all idiots. Some are, but not all, thank heavens.
Lurking, I haven't heard that Canada isn't allowing flights from Europe in. I know that the US isn't, for a month at least.
Lurking said…
Lighthealer....

No flights in from Europe starting Friday at midnight, not sure if that's early Friday morning or late Friday night. Still allowing flights in from UK.
R_O said…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8100719/Meghan-Markle-says-UK-trip-confirmation-Harry-right-choice-parting-ways.html

It is called difference of culture. Brits are not known to hug and prefer to keep feelings to themselves while Americans are more touchy and show emotions. She should have known this even before marrying Harry. There's nothing wrong with respecting each other's differences. Why can't she do that instead of just judging and labeling the British culture as uptight?

Can she blame Kate and William for not approving of their/her choices? She drove a wedge between brothers who were tight and had a loving relationship before.

In the article, she said she wants to raise Archie in a household filled with laughter and joy. Does she not think the royal kids like Prince George, Princess Charlotte, Lady Louise...etc are not having fun as kids and are unhappy?

She's delusional.

These leaks are a contradiction to their claim of wanting privacy. No leaks like these happened until she joined the Royal Family.
Anonymous said…
@Vince ...Meg comes off like Singer Fergie. One speed, zero class and just boring rather than supposedly hot. I far prefer Kate's public persona and manner

Kate is the work of art. Rach is the tramp-stamp that has to be painfully removed years later.


I noticed that the looks Rach is giving HFkap in this piece: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8099705/Meghan-Markle-dons-925-Preen-Thornton-Bregazzi-dress-loved-celebrities.html

are similar to the ones she was giving Kate during the Fab Four Heads Together farce. Harry should be afraid.


I still have to find the blue dress, but Tom Hanks has the coronavirus and I have priorities, so off to see how Tom is doing in Oz.
Crumpet said…
@Fairy Crocodile,

Love your new pic of Harry with his knees up!

@Cat Eyes,

Dunderhead! I think that is my new found adjective.
Today the Blind Gossip website has an item confirming that Markle leaked the false rumor of William’s affair, and saying that she hated Kate because she was so popular. Recommended reading.
Lurking said…
@Everyone... form the Blind Gossip item today,

"Actress managed to take another swipe at SIL as she was walking out the door."

What do you think that swipe was?
CatEyes said…
Here is an explanation on how the pranksters got a hold of Harry:

>>>the hoaxers sent an email to MM’s pr people asking if Harry would speak with Greta. Harry responded on Dec 29 thus giving the hoaxers his personal email addy and then later Harry returned their phone call and also gave them his personal phone number. So this happened in December. And Harry could have been anywhere cause Harry got in touch with them. More being released Saturday.<<<

Posted on Skippy's blog today.
@Lurking
I wish I knew. I wish they had explained.
Sandie said…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6iYvRviQ9k

Unbelievable that she believes this nonsense and that she has handpicked reporters who will write her story without question. Meghan and Harry really have no self-awareness at all and are selfish and self-centred right to the core.
Sandie said…
@Lurking: I think it was calling Kate uptight via a friend who spoke to the media.
Sandie said…
An anon has just confirmed that Harry's family were informed about the hoax phone calls and what Harry had said on Sunday, the day before the Commonwealth event. Harry must have been informed that it was going to be published as well and yet him and Meghan went to that ceremony and brazened it out and continued this narrative of victimhood.

What we saw happening in the Abbey that day was a public ghosting of the Harkles by the BRF, except Edward who either had not got the memo or is just a nice guy.
WalkHumbly said…
@Natural Observer "Harry claims that 'community' is important to him & Megs, but they've ghosted both of their own families. They leave poor little Archie, if he exists, on his own with a hypothetical nanny for weeks on end."

YES! This is so incredibly hypocritical. They're all about "inclusivity" and "community", SO they're completely "separate" from most of the family. It's insane. Have there ever been two less self aware people?

Crumpet said…
@Punkinseed,


When you mentioned Scarlet O"Hara, I thought you were going to mention the dress that she made from the curtains after the war, was it not green?
brown-eyed said…
@pumpkin

Yes! Scarlet mad Mammy make a green dress from curtains. It was a mossy green, as I recall.

Everyone stay healthy and keep posting. I so enjoy this blog. Thank you Nutty for hosting us all.
Ozmanda said…
Another random thought, we should have all done the nutty blog podcast :)
Magatha Mistie said…
The twilight zone has entered the rabbit hole, no coming back from this!

@CatEyes is Pillock on your list? He is an utter pillock, he disgusts me.

The fact he showed his face this last week knowing the hoax call story would emerge,
utterly deplorable.

The Ginga Ninja & his green, no neck “Poison Dwarf” have surely markled themselves.
She the coward, fled, with Harry’s tail between her legs, & is still intent on damaging the RF,
from a distance.
I do hope that the silent “Powers” on both sides of the Atlantic stop them NOW!
Anonymous said…
OMG. Get your sick bags ready!!

https://pagesix.com/2020/03/12/royal-insider-harry-meghan-left-crushed-after-unnecessarily-cruel-megxit/?_ga=2.206229203.1741864040.1583999711-151009764.1581099308
Teasmade said…
@Crumpet, Not only was Scarlet's dress green, but it came with a hat AND a cape!
Portcitygirl said…
https://youtu.be/Mr9l2I4NKfY

The View discussing the trailer trash comment. The comments are all pro HAMS with most suggesting this is the reason they had to leave. The journalist played right into their hands.
Ozmanda said…
@Rebecca - it baffles me how they seem to think they can get sympathy - we know they read al the media reports. They must really be that stupid

Pfff, the Daily Fail also has a headline with MM saying that she and H were " crushed" .
I only read the headline but I hope there is some shade in the article. It beggars belief really, those two ingrates.

What a feminist - running away again and having H face the music alone again.
I would like to know who is going to be paying for their security and when will they pay back the money for Frogmore? Charles needs to step up now. The Canadians should not have to pay for those two ingrats any longer nor the Americans.
Magatha Mistie said…
@Rebecca
Jeeze, vomitious!! Looks like this is the start to an ongoing, ever escalating
onslaught of the RF, & UK. Predictable, but so very previous...
Now, probably for the first time, the Queen must remove her velvet glove.
No more nice, well mannered approaches, lost on ill bred ill mannered wretches.

Enough!

Ava C said…
Kate is being bullied by Meghan in front of the whole world. This reminds me of her earlier reported experiences of bullying in her childhood, as described in a biography of her by Marcia Moody:

*** Although [Kate] had travelled a little, she wasn’t worldly-wise – she had romantic notions and old-fashioned values. Some of the girls there were from big cities and by the age of thirteen were precocious, sleek and somewhat jaded. Kate was therefore an easy target as a goodie-goodie for the harder more mature girls who were all about breaking the rules, challenging authority and establishing dominance. They called her names, stole her books and when she sat down for lunch they would get up and move. Susan Cameron was headmistress when Kate was there and told the Daily Mail, ‘Yes, there would be teasing ... Girls are cliquey by nature and they can be rather cruel ... They can sense those who are slightly weaker or who haven’t shown their strengths yet, and it’s those girls who are likely to end up being picked on or teased. I think it’s fair to say [Kate] was unsettled and not particularly happy.’

[...] Everyone deals with bullying differently, and it can be hard to put a name to it when it is happening, but for others who are experiencing something similar, Kate is a good example of how someone can overcome bullying and blossom. She didn’t flee at the first sign of trouble, she tried to make the best of her situation and stuck with something very difficult, but equally she knew when it was time to make a change. She later lent her support to those who have been through similar experiences when she and William selected the charity Beatbullying to be one of the organizations their wedding donations would benefit from.

[...] [When she started her new school] Kate was not only facing the prospect of being the new girl again in the spring of 1996, but was still affected by the confidence-destroying incidents she had so recently left behind. But she was made of stern stuff. She picked herself up, dusted herself off and dressed in her new uniform ***

If Meghan keeps this up she will destroy any chance she has of literally earning a living, as surely Prince Charles would take a very dim view and reduce or stop the flow of money.

However I'm far more worried about Kate. Being publicly bullied. Supporting a distressed and burdened husband. Three young children she lives for but whose future lives will inevitably be affected by the Sussexes jumping ship, to say nothing of their parents' heavier schedules. Finally, losing the Harry she was close to, not just from sheer geographical distance but because Meghan has trashed any of the good in him and built up the bad.
Magatha Mistie said…
@AvaC
Thank you, I didn’t know that Kate had been bullied so badly at school.
Meg was probably aware of this through Harry?


Unknown said…
@AvaC
Spot on - I said to my husband last night it is like Kate is being bullied What I cant understand is why the RF are not giving her a more obvious show of support I do love the Queen but I can't understand why this is allowed to go on and on....and WHY did she allow W&K's Ireland visit to be so overshadowed....she is meant to have insisted on the timing if their return so I'm sorry but it looks deliberate.....
@catseyes

Wonderful collection of nouns for a poor soul with profound stupidity - life in the UK, however, is so dominated by pol.correctness (a term originating within Marxist circles?) that we daren't use the majority of them in public.

I didn't, though, manage to find the word that now crosses my mind - it comes from Yiddish, begins with an `s', ends with a `k' and its vowel is not an `a, e, i' nor 'o'.

I can also think of d***head, more or less the same meaning.
none said…
@A Narc's Daughter ~ Excellent body language link. At 4:30 - "...have to have a common enemy for couples like this to survive."

And there you have it. In this case the common enemy is the BRF.

I really believe it's too late for Harry to psychologically extract himself from this relationship. Very sad situation for both him and his family.
Magatha Mistie said…
@WildBoar
Schmuck?

I’m thinking the “Coal” issue is also referring to Kate,
her great, great... grandfather was a coal miner.
Also the Queen mother’s family made their money from coal.
xxxxx said…
Thank God and Greyhound (bus) they are gone.....and old US saying. Only problem is the Dumped Dumbarton Gruesomes are not gone. Cut them off 100% because they are terrorists and extortionists. Let them write their dirty little, pathetic book that will embarrassing for two months. Sure they will get on Oprah but they will be toxic to any real Hollywood productions. Ones that can make them money.
Ava C said…
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Ava C said…
@Magatha Mistie - yes and I perhaps didn't make clear it is reported that Kate changed schools because of the effects of the bullying, not because she had got to her final year in one and moved to another. The school she left was Downe House, which is for girls 11-18, so she would normally have stayed there until she went to university
xxxxx said…
"I really believe it's too late for Harry to psychologically extract himself from this relationship. Very sad situation for both him and his family."

H is so weak and stupid and stoned(?), the BRF had better write him off for the next five years. And take full measures against the Gruesome Duo now. Blame Meg the most, she is leading her sheep named Harry.
Hapless gets a heap of blame for stabbing his family in the back. What a loser.
Fairy Crocodile said…
Two Russian pranksters did us a huge service. They removed all shadow of the doubt Harry is stupid and exposed the extent of his ignorance.

If you are a serious organization, will you associate yourself with somebody who wants to help sail penguins from Belarus???
xxxxx said…
Omid Scobie, Bazaar.com’s royal editor at large and a journalist in Harry and Meghan’s inner circle, has revealed how the couple had ultimately felt Megxit “wasn’t necessary,” but they were forced into it after being, “left to fend for themselves against impossible circumstances — even during her pregnancy,” as the British establishment turned its back on the couple.
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/a31405025/meghan-markle-transition-out-of-royal-life/

via Rebecca above. The full Scoobie treatment. Very weepy. Scoobie has gone full toady here.
Ava C said…
A bit OT but something tells me bullying is going to remain on our radar for a while thanks to Meghan ... I was bullied throughout secondary school because I had a 'posh' voice - which I don't, it is just that I was from the south and we moved to the north-east. I was also a 'swot' meaning I liked studying. Whenever I answered a teacher's question I was made to pay for it later, so I stopped participating in classes and kept to myself (I got a First eventually so I turned out OK). I've had lots of painful medical procedures in my life and when doctors and nurses ask how I manage to keep my face expressionless and not show anything, I say it comes from being hurt under my desk at school by my nearest classmates during lessons. My revenge was not to show anything.

So I do feel for Kate on a very personal level. As we've said before, the Queen should remove the titles. This clearly mattered to Harry, that he could say in that hoax call that what has happened to their titles is 'a technicality'. Let the Queen make it more than a technicality.

The Harkles can't be controlled anyway. They are immune to everything, from subtle English froideur to outright bribery and threats to their livelihood. Everyone just has to face up to that, cut them off, and then live with the knowledge they are spreading gossip and lies as they would have done this anyway. It is frustrating to see a widespread misunderstanding of cultural differences in the Kate is cold story, but readers who understand are educating readers who do not. Time is on the side of the angels. Meghan will face being ignored at best and reviled at worst, while Kate, the future queen, becomes ever more valued.
Yet more drafts
@magathamistie - you're spot on! I wasn't sure if the full word was acceptable - the English one is d*ckhead, accompanied by obvious gesture, a favourite of my husband.


Let's hope/pray that the RF decided to bite the bullet - `Publish and be damned!' say I.


Could the Duchess of Cambridge capitalise on the mining background of her ancestor?

Celebrate it! Weaponise him! Visit, say, a mining museum, or Beamish in County Durham?
https://museumsnorthumberland.org.uk/whats-on/the-colliery-experience/
http://www.beamish.org.uk/ focussing on the mining aspects, rather than the shops!

Give a speech about the profound respect due to miners, say how proud she was of her ancestor, doing such a tough and dangerous job? Let MM know she's not ashamed of being connected to it, far from it.

I did my teaching practises in mining communities in the Durham coalfield and it's stood me in good stead politically when I'm attacked by those who have only read the propaganda.

I gather the Marxists at my old university used to try and outdo each other with regard to their plebeian ancestry - it was referred to as being `prolier than thou'.
Sandie said…
I am still shocked that Harry and his wife have attacked his family and the British people and yet present themselves as victims.

Imagine going to your boss and demanding that you get to work at home for half the time, but when working at home you will be working for other companies, and you will keep all your perks and benefits (and they are considerable) but will sacrifice 5% of your salary, and from now on you will not follow the company line but be free to make up your own rules and give press conferences talking about company policy and so on.

That is basically what Harry and Meghan did, and they went public with all these demands before a discussion with the company that employed them.

Those who avidly support and defend the Harkles will find that if they try to operate like that in the real world they are going to end up unemployed (like the Harkles) and unemployable (I think the Harkles will maintain the curiosity factor).

I think they ditched their plans to start a Foundation because they could not get donations. Who goes to all that trouble of appointing people and filing for registration if they have not done the research and do not have a carefully thought-out plan? I wonder what the people they 'employed' and 'appointed' think about all this?
Ava C said…
@Wild Boar Battle-maid - great ideas for using Kate's background. Certainly something to be celebrated, especially as it's widely-shared. It's like an iron backbone running up the whole country, ready to be drawn upon.
Sandie said…
A comment from LSA:

Notice that the Queen's Commonwealth speech was dropped in the press the week before the service? About inclusivity? The palace knew these tapes and headlines were going to drop. The Sun had hold of the Megxit stories for weeks and weeks, so I believe they've sat on these stories (after informing the palace) for just as long.

https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/meghan-markle-unpopular-opinions-thread-pt-2.2215591/page-3156#post-55654632

I agree that when they walked into the Abbey, Harry's family knew what Harry had said in those phone calls - all of it. There may even be more/something else that has not been exposed. Kate is a 'get long with everyone' and have impeccable manners kind of person (unlike Meghan) and it would take something extraordinary for her to almost completely ignore the Sussexes as she did in the Abbey.
Ava C -

bullying - Gosh,yes. It's all come back to me - the nastiness that some girls are capable of, and how they spread malicious lies. My `friend' used to dig her fingernails into the palm of my hand to see if she could make me yelp. I was a girly swot but hated school.

I'm a southerner - went up to NE from 3 years in the Fens, similar but not the same, if you get my drift. I had problems making myself understood from the word go - a bus conductor asked around the lower deck to see if any passengers had a clue as to where I wanted to go... Somebody twigged at last - their pronunciation involved exaggerated diphthongs, mine is rather clipped. They thought I was weird.

A Lancashire lass at my previous university said she hadn't realised that what she thought was `posh speech' was just a regional accent because the social climbers (aka `class traitors') where she came from affected it.

It was being ostracised, and desperate for friends, that contributed to me overlooking the danger signals from narcissists, hence the future entanglements with the blighters.
Sandie said…
@Raspberry Ruffle: 'I’m in the U.K. It can be up to 41 days before it shows, 12 days seems like outdated info. (what I was reading weeks ago) and worryingly complacent. 🙁'

Where does this information come from and on what research is it based? These are the guidelines from the government in the UK (based on research):

The incubation period of COVID-19 is between 2 to 14 days. This means that if a person remains well 14 days after contact with someone with confirmed coronavirus, they have not been infected.

Perhaps your source checked Wikipedia and completely misunderstood the following:

the time from development of symptoms of COVID-19 to death has been shown to range between 6 and 41 days,
Mischief Girl said…
This Omid Scobie story is nauseatingly sycophantic. I had no idea he was so fully bought into MM's narrative. "Inside Duchess Meghan's Emotional Farewell to Royal Life at a Private Engagement".

https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiZGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmhhcnBlcnNiYXphYXIuY29tL2NlbGVicml0eS9sYXRlc3QvYTMxNDA1MDI1L21lZ2hhbi1tYXJrbGUtdHJhbnNpdGlvbi1vdXQtb2Ytcm95YWwtbGlmZS_SAWZodHRwczovL3d3dy5oYXJwZXJzYmF6YWFyLmNvbS9jZWxlYnJpdHkvbGF0ZXN0L2FtcDMxNDA1MDI1L21lZ2hhbi1tYXJrbGUtdHJhbnNpdGlvbi1vdXQtb2Ytcm95YWwtbGlmZS8?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen
punkinseed said…
Crumpet and Brown eyed, I changed my icon to the Carol Burnett Scarlet O'Hara dress from the skit where she put the curtain rods through the sleeves in the green drapes dress. I still laugh when I watch that skit.
gloriosa said…
@ Mischief Girl

Omid Scooby is MM's mouthpiece has been since day one, his father is apparently a big backer of Soho House, and it has long been rumoured that he was/ a special friend of Marcus Anderson of Toronto fame, also rumoured that MM is couch surfing at his as she has outstayed her welcome at Soho House. just what's circulating at present.
Fairy Crocodile said…
@punkinseed

"but What's so sick is the standing ovation was not for either of them, but for someone else and they thought it was for them".

Read the Harry Markle blog post explaining protocol. People present are invited to stand up and greet the Queen or her REPRESENTATIVE. Harry was still representing her at the event. Nothing to do with hot endorsement of him or his useless wife.
The transcript is breath-taking for the amount of psychological projection involved - people being brainwashed by what they read? Yet who turns out the tripe that they want us to believe? They do!

`Pot calling the kettle bl*ck) - another phrase we're not allowed to use!

`Hark who says which!'

I can think of a few more words to describe his mental state but shall withhold them.

As sickening incitement to violence and terrorism.
SwampWoman said…
Totally Off Topic Observations About Coronavirus

SARS 2/COVID 19 has been diagnosed yesterday in my county. My county's case was travel-related (Italy).

The case in the county north of us was to a woman that contracted a respiratory infection, was sick and getting sicker. She went to a doctor's office, was tested neg. for influenza, but wasn't given a test for the Coronavirus because she had no risk factors, hadn't traveled internationally, hadn't had contact with anybody that did. A week later, she presented at a hospital in a county to her north, and was ill enough to be admitted to the hospital where the doctors insisted that she be tested for the novel coronavirus. She tested positive, also yesterday.

A close friend called yesterday. Her husband, an industrial electrician, has been home sick for over a week with a cough and fever. Her son is ill with the same thing as well. We had a heated exchange of opinions because her continuing to work with the elderly could be a death sentence to them. I was not happy.

She tried two different doctor's offices to see if they could be tested for the Coronavirus and both offices said that if they had not traveled internationally or been exposed to somebody that had, they could not have it, just stay home. If they get worse, go to an ER. (Because they don't want it in their offices.)

Sadly, as I said, this woman works taking care of the elderly and those in fragile health. The daughter works as a waitress at a popular seafood restaurant after school (very popular, she averages $100 per 3 or 4 hour shift in tips). They both notified their employers that there was an unidentified respiratory infection at their household involving family members, and both were told that they had to report for work if they didn't have any symptoms. She said that she was taking extra care with the hand washing, etc., and so is the daughter.

If you may be more susceptible to getting the more severe version that ends up in severe distress or death due to age or comorbidities, this may be a good time to withdraw from the public completely. It is out there, folks. Temperatures here have been in the 80s F.





Ava C said…
New Telegraph article by Bryony Gordon. I'm not looking for my handkerchief ...

PART ONE

Behind the scenes, I witnessed the profound sadness of Harry and Meghan's exit

There is half an hour before the woman who will shortly be known as Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, carries out her last private engagement as a working royal, and there is very clearly something in her eye.

We are standing in a room at Buckingham Palace as she prepares to make her way to Westminster Abbey for the Commonwealth service and then onwards to Canada for her new life, and it is time to say goodbye. Tears glisten in those bright friendly eyes that have charmed and endeared so many during recent days. But behind the scenes the Duchess of Sussex is not as buoyant as she has appeared to be in public. In fact, she appears to be quietly devastated.

I had been invited along to the Palace to sit in on a meeting with young scholars from the Commonwealth, but now it is over she comes in for a hug that lasts a little longer than normal, a hold, really, before moving on for a final embrace with two of her staff, both of whom also have something in their eyes. Then she is gone – for how long, nobody knows.

Since Harry and Meghan announced their intention to step back from the royal family in early January, much has been written about ruptures, recriminations and rancour. The truth, as ever, is slightly less sensational than that. The pervading emotion on Monday, as I watched the Duchess carry out her final private engagement, seemed to be profound sadness. Sadness that it had come to this; sadness that they could not make it work and sadness that less than two years since that glittering fairy tale wedding, the first person of colour to join the British royal family was off. How ironic that her final engagement was to be a Commonwealth service that celebrated diversity, uniqueness, and the strength we draw from embracing each other and our differences.

I had been invited to Buckingham Palace to observe Meghan’s meeting with 23 young students and academics who had won scholarships from the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), an organisation the Duchess will continue to be a patron of. These were some of the brightest minds from around the globe, whose work on climate change, health care, sustainability and technological innovation is leading the way in higher education. There were conversations about cancer care in Rwanda, climate research projects in India, and yes, how to prevent the spread of coronavirus throughout the globe (the decision to leave Archie behind in Canada came not out of petty spite, as reported in some areas, but out of concern for his health during the threat of a global pandemic).

Each of the students was unequivocal in their admiration for the Duchess, who was genned up on all of their specialist subjects: this was a woman whose passion for the work she does had never, ever been in doubt, despite reports in some sections of the media that ‘Megxit’ is about a yearning for a glitzier, more Hollywood life. Halima Ali, a lawyer from Kenya who is researching energy and natural resources at Queen Mary University of London, echoed her peers when she said that “for Commonwealth and African countries, to see her, her interest, her participation means a lot to us.”
Ava C said…
PART TWO

The plan that Harry and Meghan have always had has been quite simple, and far less contrived than some would have us believe. It is, say sources close to the couple, a story that needn’t ever have been more complicated than ‘two people fall in love, fly the flag, have a baby, and spend the rest of their lives doing charity work and representing the monarchy.’ But there is a feeling that they have been hung out to dry in the tabloid media. Those who are aware of what has gone on behind the scenes say that she took her role seriously, and was not just prepared but proud to deliver whatever was asked of her.

But on Monday another ending to the fairytale was in motion. Meghan caught a flight out of this country she had tried to adopt as her home, back to the Canada, the country she has temporarily adopted as her new one. Watching from the sidelines, her departure seemed bittersweet and tinged with huge sadness – not for herself, but for her husband, who at the Mountbatten Festival of Music on Saturday wore for perhaps the last time his bright red mess uniform and the two medals he earned for his tours of Afghanistan, in his final outing as Captain General of the Royal Marines.

I imagine it is this that has upset Meghan the most – the idea that her husband, in trying to protect the mental health of his wife, has had to sacrifice the thing he loves most outside his family. The loss of titles and other royal privileges will not, I think, bother the couple at all – they are sacrifices they will readily make for the happiness of their young family – but stepping back from Harry’s ceremonial military appointments has been difficult. His commitment to the military community remains unwavering.

I glimpsed Harry only briefly on Monday, as he swept his wife off for the final public engagement. While not tearful like Meghan, his face seemed etched with sadness. I know the couple only a little, but enough to see the very human toll of life as a modern day royal. How could they stand up and talk about the importance of focusing on mental health, while simultaneously ignoring their own? Their decision to step back as working members of the royal family may not be popular – and I am pretty sure it was not the outcome they had hoped for when they walked down the aisle of St George’s Chapel in Windsor on that bright May Day not even two years ago.

But it is the right one for the mental health of their own little family, and as a final act of public duty, I cannot think of anything more poignant or perfect.

ENDS [About time too. Can't take anymore.]
Ava C said…
No comments allowed naturally, to that nauseating Telegraph article. People will be hopping mad, looking for other avenues to express their frustration with this propaganda. For that's what it is.
Fairy Crocodile said…
@NarcsDaughter

Very good link to the behavioral analyses, thank you.

Harry is fully complacent in what happened.

And I was pleased to see that the "crowd" at their arrival was not a crowd at all and there was as much booing as "cheering".
Mom Mobile said…
@Ava C, I'm so glad you posted that article. Thank you.

I read it earlier this morning and I thought, "What a crock of sh!*t!"

Like seriously? Like we, the public, are so stupid that we're going to read a BS piece in which the author makes ALL the ASSUMPTIONS about how MM is thinking and feeling and feel sorry for her?

Someone needs to tell her and her "friends" to just stop talking! Stop talking! No one wants to hear it!
SirStinxAlot said…
Has it occurred to anyone, Meghan's school girl act may not be an actual at all? I have stated before, Meghan and Harry are reflections of each other. Many posters, journalists, etc have pointed out how immature Harry is over the years. He never "grew up". She and Harry think with a juvenile brain. They have little foresight about the repercussions of their actions. A petty feud with classy Kate is a perfect example. The jealousy is just juvenile. Kate and William will rise above it. It will just reinforce how petty, juvenile, and irrelevant Meghan and Harry are in the RF. Unlike many posters here, I see no benefit to removing their titles. It may appease some antiHAMS but the general public don't really care. They will still be rich, get invited to celebrities parties, travel the world, and be famous just for being born/married.

"Just because you lost me as a friend, doesn't mean you gained me as an enemy. I'm bigger than that, I still wanna see you eat, just not at my table." By Tupac Shakur [5031 X 3354]

Personally, I wish them success in whatever they do. I think they rotten people, but everyone has to eat. I am sure the RF wants them to be successful as well. Jealousy, envy, and bitterness are your own worst enemy. Stay classy.
Fairy Crocodile said…
@Ava C

Yes, that is why I no longer read the Telegraph. They are afraid to let people comment. Very often one look at the comments tells you how far off the mark the journalist was and it makes journos a lot more alert. They continue to lose readers.
Fairy Crocodile said…
✨✨✨Just read a comment from a Russian person:

"Penguins waiting to get to the North Pole. You have to be an idiot to swallow that. I am waiting for another release regarding the flying fish that were refused safe passage over Syria by Syrian authorities and therefore can't fly to Magadan for overwintering".

I must confess I burst out laughing at that.
CookieShark said…
Have Kate's "friends" or Chelsys "friends" ever given stories to the Mail? Not that I remember. And who has friends that speak in packs like this?

Didn't they make the announcement to IG? Harry stayed in the UK for days. She fled to Canada, using Archie as a human shield. She wasn't even there for those talks, but now they were too cruel?

She is vile.
What's Bryony Gordon on?

Are she and I living in a parallel universes?

Hers is one where the papers give Madonna Meghan what-for, tear her to shreds, and the family-she-never-had are vile to her?

Mine is one where even the left-wing press is nauseatingly sycophantic, but even that isn't to the liking of the Megwitch and her Great Expectations, and where some of her in-laws have been forced by her behaviour to employ the Grey Rock technique to cope because No Contact isn't an option.

Had we been brainwashed by the Press, which seems to be dancing to her tune, we'd be fawning all over her. Is she is paying the piper?

The latest is that she left `Archie' behind out of fear of the virus.

Odd, the fear didn't stop her grabbing(assaulting?) an adolescent boy she hadn't met before. Just read what Toronto Papers have said about her `anxiety'.

Megwitch's narcissism is bottomless, there's no end to it.
I read once that Wills tested out new `friends' by dropping a piece of `fake news' into the conversation and then checking if it appears in print, to test the trustworthiness of the contact.
Nutty Flavor said…
The Bryony Gordon article is really something.

Always entertaining with a pro-Meghan piece to see how long it takes before they mention that she is (a little bit) Black.

Bryony held off until the fifth paragraph.
Nutty Flavor said…
The best piece I read today was Richard Kay's article about the fallout from Harry's phonecall with the "fake Greta Thunberg."

Kay has good sources within the Royal Family circles, so it's fair to say that his point of view probably reflects what some of the courtiers are saying.

Quote from the story:

"How on earth could he have been so spectacularly duped?....What the calls certainly reveal is not just his naivety but also the consequences of no longer having Buckingham Palace to support him. The ease with which the fake Greta got through to Harry shows just how exposed the prince in his new life now is to hustlers and fraudsters whose motives may be far more dangerous than mere comedians."
CatEyes said…
@SirStinAlot

>>>Personally, I wish them success in whatever they do. I think they rotten people, but everyone has to eat.<<<

I don't wish them success in their efforts to taunt and bully the Duchess of Cambridge who has done nothing to deserve it. I don't wish them success as they badmouth the Queen and carp about the alleged racism of the UK public. I don't wish them success when they belittle the Duke of Cambridge plan to award prizes for innovative environmental solutions. I don't wish them success as they slander my President, saying he has "blood on his hands" for coal usage which in part help my relatives in the Northeast keep warm and not freeze to death in the bitter winters. I could go on and on recounting their misdeeds but we all know it is not in the past as they are still misbehaving not as two juveniles do, but as methodical parasites who feed on their hosts. Meghan and Harry won't quit but will continue to ravage the BRF with scurrilous attacks, as they don't have any other game, other than Harry's stupidity which luckily usually comes back to bite his stinky arse while lecturing us to do better for the environment.

I wish them to be punished for their wrongs just as I would if did the same things. That is part of their problem they've never had to be held accountable for their actions. They are two entitled prats and continue to act in a despicable manner because they never face the consequences of their behavior. I for one wish they would just STFU and make amends for all they all have done, however I won't hold my breath, I will just do my duty and speak out when I see injustice. Perhaps my comments on this blog won't affect them but I feel loyalty to the good people of the UK who has to support these leeches. And I will write a protest letter to all my political representatives to deny them paid security with my tax dollars.

As for them eating, well they don't need to earn money by lies and slander and irreverent actions towards the BRF family and the country people of Great Britain Commonwealth and America (I am ashamed Meg is an an American, a true 'Ugly American'). Let them earn money in an honorable way lie the vast majority of us little people do. Until then they can 'eat sh*t'
Nutty, Re Richard Kay’s article...

‘"How on earth could he have been so spectacularly duped?....What the calls certainly reveal is not just his naivety but also the consequences of no longer having Buckingham Palace to support him. The ease with which the fake Greta got through to Harry shows just how exposed the prince in his new life now is to hustlers and fraudsters whose motives may be far more dangerous than mere comedians."

It was a great article and yes, the last bit was the best bit, also the article overall shows just how dense Harry truly is! 😳 It didn’t take much for ole Megsy to dupe him either. 🙄
lizzie said…
As others have said, I do think both Harry and Meghan have serious psychological issues. I think they feed off each other's grievances. And I do think they exaggerate and create much of their victim-hood.

But I also think there is reality hidden somewhere is their views--- highly distorted, of course, as it is filtered through their iffy mental states and their spoiled, self-centered personalities.

So I do wonder what underlies (in their minds) their view M didn't receive "support" from the RF during her pregnancy. I am sure M was offered access to the best royal doctors. I strongly suspect she was offered the chance to pull out of the Australia tour at the last minute due to her pregnancy. It certainly appears she had a wide-open checkbook from Charles to acquire a very costly maternity wardrobe. She took maternity leave starting in March (and while she ended up working on Vogue during the leave, I'm pretty sure no one in the RF made her do that!)

I wonder if it all started at Eugenie's wedding. Obviously M meant to grab attention with the maternity style outfit she wore after wearing a form-fitting pencil lambskin skirt with a tucked-in blouse only 9 days before in Sussex. She didn't even look like she might have eaten a big lunch in that skirt!

But she shows up at the wedding in "Madonna" garb. It's been reported M didn't go to the evening reception and Harry went only briefly. Some reports said they had to leave to get ready for their flight to Australia "the next day." But Eugenie got married on a Friday and they flew out on Sunday. So I think that excuse works to explain skipping the weekend "carnival" party but not the Friday evening reception. I wonder if she (and perhaps Harry) really expected the entire wedding celebration to center on them after their big announcement?

I also wonder if they got pissed off "mean old Kate" didn't give M a glitzy baby shower at KP? Or if M&H thought someone else in the family should? Even though baby showers aren't all that traditional in the UK? And apparently M&H have no friends in that "horrible racist" country anyway?

Or was it that talk of her pregnancy wasn't encouraged during family gatherings such as Christmas at Sandringham? Even though TQ apparently doesn't ever utter the word "pregnant?" We certainly know M wasn't at all reticent about mentioning her gravid state to just about everyone. "Over a lunch of chicken tacos with my burgeoning bump..." "I'm feeling very pregnant..." "We're almost there..." "I look very different than last time you saw me..." "Embryonic kicks..." At gatherings of my extended family when someone is expecting we don't constantly talk about it either. Not that it's off-limits but it's usually not a main topic of the day either for a variety of reasons.

What do others think?

The tell- all interview is coming soon and it's going to be ugly.
When? April or May at the latest. I bet MM can't wait.
I predict they are going to smear everyone in the family except the Queen. Scorched earth.
HappyDays said…
A Narc's Daughter said...
You all need to see this, a body language expert on H&M...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6iYvRviQ9k

Hi All, A Narc’s Daughter found this gem. It’s a good analysis of Harry and Mayhem’s body language last week at the military concert at Royal Albert Hall. I think it’s worth watching. It’s a short video.

Nutty Flavor said…
The tell- all interview is coming soon and it's going to be ugly.
When? April or May at the latest. I bet MM can't wait.
I predict they are going to smear everyone in the family except the Queen. Scorched earth


She can only do this once, so she'd better make it good.

The tricky thing is that in such turbulent times, her One Big Moment could easily be overshadowed by another piece of last-minute news. Celebrity dead from Corona Virus? Joe Biden names a VP candidate (possibly a Black woman)? Trump does something dramatic? Beatrice or Kate pregnancy?

Remember how poor Farrah Fawcett died the same day as Michael Jackson. Not much coverage for Farrah.
CatEyes said…
From the Barony article
""The loss of titles and other royal privileges will not, I think, bother the couple at all – they are sacrifices they will readily make for the happiness of their young family.""

And how happy can they be feeling now...
Harry is the laughingstock of the world over the prank call. His environmental credentials have plummeted to zero. Meghan is probably chewing him out but good for being yet again, so utterly stupid. He has to feel her rathe and feel the sting of humiliation she is sure to heap on him. He in turn is probably criticizing her LA team of advisors (and by extension her) for their inept role in this debacle.

And poor little Archie, has to be shut up in a house (and it doesn't matter that it is a million dollar mansion) and have limited interactions with the world around him like the millions of children born to parents who are far less wealthy than the HAAMS. Archie does not get out for walks, does not get acclimated to seeing people other than RPO"s (who may or may not play with him, lol). He has no cousins to laugh and play with. He is like a child of some cult of two. Hidden from the world for his safety...he may need to be protected from his own parents and their strange behavior. If there really is drug use then it is frightening what can be happening to him, even literally the air he breathes. Hopefully Archie has a loving nanny and things will change for the better, sooner than later for the little guy.

Nutty Flavor said…
Speaking of which...

CORONAVIRUS “casts doubt” over Prince Beatrice’s wedding as her Italian fiance’s family may not be able to fly to the UK. The young royal, 31, may have to wait to tie the knot to beau Edo Mapelli Mozzi, 37, as he faces a battle to get his folks a flight over from Italy.

Bea and Edo need to just go to Hackney Town Hall and get it done if they really want to be married. They can "reaffirm their vows" with a fancy party once the pandemic is contained.
CatEyes said…
Sorry typo, Barony, baloney article...I meant Bryony Gordon article.
Hikari said…
CatEyes,

I second your suggestion for what the Sussexes deserve to eat plenty of. I'd urge steaming hot helpings of it on them until it was coming out of their ears.

******

If Harry did rehab in Saanich over the holidays, as the truly bizarre Santa Harry video seems to suggest, the RF should not have permitted him to stay free-range in Canada once he was out. I am not up on the statutes for legally holding an adult on a psychiatric hold--that 72-hour hold for evaluation is called 'involuntary' for a reason. I think the Palace could have made the case that Harry met the criteria. They probably feared what Meg would spin about the fascist RF swooping in and carting away her beloved in a straitjacket because they were determined to squelch his 'free speech' about them.

Not that they would have done this--their reluctance to deal firmly and effectively with Harry's mental state all his life has led to this. The RF actively worked to cover up the extent of his liabilities, and they were very effective at it. (cf. Edward Lane Fox. Can't blame ELF--he was following his brief and he did it brilliantly. But even he finally had enough of the lies. He stayed long enough to watch Harry via Meg undo all his meticulous work at image rehabilitation and split the scene before the wedding.

Now that the Sussexes are free range in the world from now on, the RF has to face the fact that they didn't elude the inevitable charges of racism, snobbery, bullying, emotional coldness, misogyny and whatever else Meg can dream up. They would have been better off to tell this hussy back in 2016 that as far as she was concerned, the bridge was up over the moat and she was never getting in. Never, no matter how many tantrums Harry threw. Doesn't seem like it'd be worse than it is now. Harry still could have gone off and eloped with her but she didn't want that--she wanted the entire Princess roll-out. And she got it.

The most brazen feature is whining about how she wasn't supported during her pregnancy. I know there is a small minority of people that believe she actually gave birth to a baby. The evidence doesn't support that from my viewpoint, but even if it were true, Rachel's behavior was so odd throughout, and the couple was so ferociously self-isolating of themselves from the wedding on (barring top photo ops like balcony appearances and Christmas walks) how could the other family members have more supportive of two people that refused to be part of the family?

Meg's sniping at the Duchess of Cambridge in particular is payback time because Kate did not play along with Meg's script, that called for Kate to fawn all over Meg like the best friend she never had, throw her a lavish baby shower at KP and petition her husband and the Queen and Charles that Meghan was in all ways to be treated co-equally to her, wife of the future King. It wouldn't have mattered if Kate had done these things; she still would have earned Narc rage for being prettier, taller, thinner and whiter than Meg, with better clothes, Diana's engagement ring, three lovely healthy (real) children, a close-knit birth family who are all highly attractive people of Ralph Lauren catalog caliber--something very important to Meg--and having all the wealth, prestige, big house, jewels and respect attendant on being the wife of the guy in line for the top job. Not to mention that she 'stole' Meg's signature color, but would make a bin bag look like couture. All of Catherine's gestures of inclusivity were tossed back in her face because nothing is ever enough for Narcs.
Hikari said…
Apropos of self-isolating from family, that was underway for Harry from his own behavior before Meg ever joined in. Apart from formal balcony appearances and official portraits like for weddings and Charles's 70th, you will note that there are zero more candid snaps of Uncle Harry with his niece and nephews. George and Charlotte predated Meghan in Harry's life . . shouldn't we have seen a few occasions of happy family outings/get-togethers with the Cambridges and Harry, if the brothers and Kate were so close?

Harry turned up at KP intoxicated/under the influence a few too many times for William's comfort and Wills has kept his children away from Harry ever since. At the engagement, Wills joshed about being glad his brother was getting married so he would stop raiding Wills' refrigerator . . a short hop over from NottCott . . but really no mention has ever been made about Uncle Harry's relationship with William's children.

Harry is Megs' enabler, but he is also hers. Their own little toxic circle of two.
xxxxx said…
Right Nutty-
This Corona Virus panic here over will overshadow any duplicitous PR The Malicious Markles Manage to broadcast via a tell-all on Oprah etc. For a few months at least.
For example the NBA cancelled the rest of the season. Harvard and other major universities are telling students, "Don't bother returning after spring break. Your classes will be on line"

Trump is doing a good job on Corona. Our stupid Federal CDC (Centers For Disease Control) super messed up sending out test kits and approved labs where it can be tested. These are expanding greatly right now so the number of discovered Corona cases will shoot up
xxxxx said…
*approving labs where it can be tested*
Animal Lover said…
I think this may be the Harkle's last stand for quite a while.
Coverage of the Coronavirus is the main story including the economic fallout.
The big celebrity news is that Tom Hanks has the virus. He is Much more likable than H&M.
Her stories/press releases are reminiscent of the Kardashians.
They may not like it but is the level of celebrity they warrant.
none said…
@Nutty says

"She can only do this once, so she'd better make it good."

Completely agree. She will blast the BRF via Gayle or Ellen or Oprah. My hope is the BRF stays silent, shutting off Markle's narcisstic supply via this line of attack.

Very few people are going to buy what she's selling. It will burn out quickly and she'll be on to her next hustle.
Dallas Alice said…
I just can’t even *eye roll* https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8104565/Meghan-Markles-farewell-wardrobe-masterclass-revenge-dressing-claims-Vanity-Fair.html
A new meaning for `Archie Bunker'?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/11/disease-dodging-worried-wealthy-jet-off-to-disaster-bunkers
Revenge Dressing?

Dolly Parton summed it up perfectly about looking cheap.
Ian's Girl said…
I think Nutmeg has reached the point where comparing her to the Kardashians is an insult to them. They have never pretended to be anything but self absorbed attention whores, whilst Meghan is a self absorbed attention whore who is trying to pass herself off the exact opposite. I am not ashamed to admit that I think JH would have been better off marrying one of them. At least we'd have seen his child now and then, and they could afford to pay their own security and have a stable home for him. And however outlandish the name would have been, it couldn't be any less royal than Archie.
Scandi Sanskrit said…
God help me if that green outfit was meant to be part of a plot for "revenge" (at that price she lost the plot if you ask me Lmao).

That green dress reminded me of this: https://www.instagram.com/p/B8OtLZpFch-/?igshid=2ui7eeejdswf
Hikari said…
The Bryony Gordon piece just about caused me to lose my breakfast all over my keyboard.

I was only able to skim it, due to the nausea it induced.

Gordon admits, near the very end of her article that she doesn't know either Meg or Harry, except as an assignment. Meg's hug lasted just a little too long, she writes. Everyone in the room 'had something in their eyes', she writes.

Is this all an elaborate shade throwing? How could an experienced journo get it so wrong? Gordon isn't a man, after all, and I expect women to cotton on to Meg's true vile intentions tout suite.

There goes BG's credibility, if she ever had any. In high school and while shopping for colleges, I flirted with the idea of journalism as a career. I knew even then the media lied and spun things . . but this episode with the Harkles has made me think that there is absolutely no such thing as 'journalistic integrity' . . . particularly when the concepts of racism or sexism or divisive partisan politics can be introduced.

I would write the truth as I experienced it . . and be eviscerated for it. Just as well I did not pursue that line.
Jen said…
I am hoping that the more stories she puts out in the press about how she was treated, or negative stuff about Kate, the more people are going to turn against her. There are people who don't like Kate for whatever reason, but I think the vast majority of people do like her. They will see this as an assault on a wife and mother who has done nothing to deserve this. She is not required to befriend Meghan and make sure she is a happy new member of the RF. It is not Kate's job to ensure that Meghan gets guidance, that IMO, was her husband's job. It's also not Kate, TQ, PC or William's job to ask if she's "ok!" Behind the scenes, she probably made it very clear that she knew what she was doing and didn't need help, but of course all we hear is HER side of the story. We'll never hear the RF's side of the story, because that's not what they do....

Meghan is an adult and while most mature adults who leave a family they accuse of being toxic and unfriendly, actually leave and move on with their lives, not this toddler...she has to stomp her feet all the way up the stairs and is in effect slamming her bedroom door for good measure. This will only garner more sympathy for the RF that they had to deal with this child. Eventually, the more things her "friends" say to the press about Kate, and the more negative she gets about the RF, the more this will hurt her. While I will never wish for anyone to be physically hurt, I hope karma bites her and hard. Her vile treatment of this family in the press has been and still is abominable.

Fairy Crocodile said…
@Scandi

We have already come to the conclusion her green cape looks like a bib. If wearing a bib is indeed "Revenge dressing" then sure, she was a valkiria personified.

She also caused me to remember a Darkwing Duck cartoon. "I am the terror that flaps in the night!"
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-press-newsalert-seventh-case-of-covid-19-diagnosed-in-b-c

She can run but she can't hide...
Hikari said…
Meg is going to rue trashing Britain and running away. She's still under the delusion that due to her raised profile now she's going to be welcomed back to America as the huge star she always deserved to be.

But the *only* thing that made Meg special or even remotely exotic or 'a star' was being a (sort of) black, American regular girl who married a Prince. She was a celebrity in Britain due to being the new 'diverse' member of the BRF. Any new royal bride gets a lot of interest, but the only reason Meg was 'extra' was because she was not a lily-white British girl. There are lots of multiracial people in Britain, but Meg was also American, Hollywood . . her mix made her a novelty.

Now that the shine is well off 'arry, and they are out on their bums by their own choice, Meg returns to L.A. where she was not only Not Special before, but rather a good deal below average for her chosen profession. She's had a lot of plastic surgery and still is still sub par by Hollywood standards. She really believes that she's going to have enough cachet as Handbag Windsor's wife Stateside that she's just going to be handed an A-list movie career by default?

I spent 6 years in Japan as an English teacher. During the last three of those years I worked in Japanese public junior high schools. Due to my status as 'an exotic foreigner', I went from being an average looking, unemployed American (hence seeking teaching work on the other side of the world) to being treated like a rock star in the hallways of these schools. Students clamored to escort me places. I got asked nearly daily for my autograph. Everybody wanted their photo taken with me. I was constantly asked to teach coveted private lessons and help prep students for exams. I was a celebrity simply by virtue of being 'different' and having a commodity they wanted: English. Since it was my native language I didn't even have to work to be good at it.

While this level of attention could be intense and wearing for an introvert like myself, the fact is, I realized that I missed it once I returned to my home country and was once back in the ranks of average looking unemployed Americans. My skill set is nothing special in my home country. Meg needs to wake up and get a clue. But she's a Narc, so she can't and won't.
Lt. Nyota Uhura said…
@Hikari said --

"There goes BG's credibility, if she ever had any. In high school and while shopping for colleges, I flirted with the idea of journalism as a career. I knew even then the media lied and spun things . . but this episode with the Harkles has made me think that there is absolutely no such thing as 'journalistic integrity' . . . particularly when the concepts of racism or sexism or divisive partisan politics can be introduced.

I would write the truth as I experienced it . . and be eviscerated for it. Just as well I did not pursue that line."
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I've been a journalist all my adult life, beginning in the Army. When I was at the Defense Information School (in the 80's), we were taught JUST THE FACTS -- who, what, where, when and how. (NOT why -- that is up to the reader to determine.)

After I left the Army, I got jobs at daily newspapers. They all subscribe to the Associated Press (back then, $2,000 per month. No idea what it's up to now). At one, during the W. Bush administration, I started noticing that less and less so-called "facts" were being attributed. The ledes would read "In a stunning setback to President Bush's policies, a man rescued a dog from certain death on Highway 1." That's not that much exaggeration!

I began taking stuff like that out, so it would read "A man rescued a dog etc." Sure enough, the editor dressed me down for it. We had a long talk, which resulted in his having me read an article (can't remember which publication) that said the future of journalism is "interpreting" the news.

The Harkles know this, they were raised on it. Pick and choose which "facts" you want out there, they figure, and get your tame (and expensive) PR people to trot them out.

Thank G-d I work for a niche weekly newspaper devoted to veterans, nowadays. No PC!
Lt. Nyota Uhura said…
@Hikari --

What a coincidence! I was stationed in Tokyo for 2 years, and got the same "rock star" treatment :) -- a fellow soldier and I were latched onto by these teenage boys at one point, and shown all around the city (shown off, too, LOL).

I, too, am average, so it was very flattering and lovely, even though all I was was a "gaijin". I miss those days sometimes :)
Anonymous said…
@Ava C
“The Harkles can't be controlled anyway. They are immune to everything, from subtle English froideur to outright bribery and threats to their livelihood. Everyone just has to face up to that, cut them off, and then live with the knowledge they are spreading gossip and lies as they would have done this anyway.”

Well said. I agree 100%. But the longer this charade goes on the more convinced I am that the Queen and Prince Charles simply do not have it in them to go to the extreme of stripping the titles and cutting all funding. I hope I am wrong.

Hikari said…
Lt. Uhura,

My time in Japan was one of the seminal experiences of my lifetime. My grand adventure that I'm never going to top. The 20-some years since my return have been anticlimactic, to say the least. Being treated special is a boost to the ego, even if it's sometimes annoying because you would prefer to go incognito. Due to my 'hakujin no kao' (whitey face) I was never going to just blend into the crowd and be completely unnoticed. I'm 5'5" with brown hair and eyes, so I could blend a little better than the gaijin who were tall, blond California types.

Marilyn Monroe remains the fantasy ideal of the American woman in Japan, but having blonde hair (kinpatsu) will get one all sorts of additional notice that isn't always good. Blonde Western women are routinely approached and asked 'Ikura desu ka?' ('How much?') I never had that happen to me, but I was once in the company of a more fair haired green eyed friend who was assaulted by a middle aged man who tried to kiss her . . just because she was American and therefore 'easy'. I think he may have been deranged or drunk, though he was a neatly dressed businessman.

Anyhoo . . it'd be fun to swap Japan reminiscences off board sometime.

I was invited last fall to join a group from here going to the Tokyo Olympics. It's out of my budget and having experienced Tokyo in August many times, it was going to be 'no', but I'm glad I didn't have the means to go, considering that everything may well be cancelled.
Hikari said…
P.S. to bring my last comment back to on topic, I meant to say that these experiences I had gave me a small taste of what daily life was like for Harry as a Royal. Being made a fuss of became my norm, even when I didn't want it and wanted to just slide into the background and be treated as a normal person. Being given a lot of special treatment was nice sometimes--I was the guest of honor at many dinners at exclusive sushi restaurants where I was treated to meals that would have cost me my monthly salary on my own. I know we foreign teachers were resented by some Japanese staff because our wage was relatively high compared to what they earned as native professionals, and they didn't get special dinners thrown in their honor. As guest teachers we didn't have the burden of lesson planning or the responsibility of working so many hours. Most of my Japanese co-teachers were very gracious, but some of the older males in particular were not as enthusiastic about working with a gaijin assistant. My presence tended to show up any deficiencies in their English ability, and saving face in front of one's students is everything.

I could be objective about my 'celebrity experience' because I knew it was only temporary . . and I hadn't grown up with it. Being treated special for who he is is all Harry has known. He says he wants to be a regular bloke--with unlimited funds for travel and stays in luxury homes and partying with celebrities. In his warped mind, he thinks he's 'normal' if he mixes with people who aren't royals--so long as they have plenty of money and celeb status. I predict that he is not going to cope at all with his demotion in status. Meg is returning to her (trashy, sordid) roots as a hustling 'Influencer'/superficial 'celebrity, but Hazza is in a whole new frontier. Has this guy ever carried pocket money? Made change? Picked up his own groceries? Run a washing machine? Harry is like Starman, a humanoid looking alien learning to navigate daily life on Earth. We see how it goes when he's allowed free and unfettered access to a phone & email, without gatekeepers. It's not gonna end well.
Nutty Flavor said…
@Rebecca
The longer this charade goes on the more convinced I am that the Queen and Prince Charles simply do not have it in them to go to the extreme of stripping the titles and cutting all funding.

As other posters have said, it is not unimaginable that something very, very bad could happen to Harry, either at his own hand or someone else's.

Anyone who removed his title or cut his funding would be blamed.

Charles was already blamed, at least in part, for the death of Diana because her HRH was taken away. I doubt he has the appetite to take away his son's title now.

William might be willing, but is that guilt something he wants to (or deserves to) live with for the rest of his life?
Lt. Nyota Uhura said…
@Hikari -- Indeed yes, it would be fun to reminisce sometime -- falling out of bed due an earthquake my first morning there, nearly committing the "sin" of speaking to a preppy-looking man who turned out to be a pachinko gangster, all the hysterical plastic food displays in stores -- the authentic sushi -- *sigh* :) Now I've got an insight into your handle and avatar!

Sorry to go so OT, Nutties!
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Back to the Harkles -- two observations --

1) If this latest foofaraw with Harry and the phone calls doesn't prompt HM and/or PC to put the hammer down harder, I don't know what will. HM is playing a dangerous game with her soft-heartedness.

2) Meghan truly has unmitigated gall -- SHE is guilty of the very things she blames the RF for -- is projection a habit of the narcissist? Appears so, to me. Shamelessness comes to mind as well, but I'd already guessed that one.
Nutty Flavor said…
I would be very surprised if MI6 didn't have several scenarios in place for dealing with Harry, particularly since he seems to have gotten himself involved with some Russians.
Lt. Nyota Uhura said…
Nutty Flavor said...
"I would be very surprised if MI6 didn't have several scenarios in place for dealing with Harry, particularly since he seems to have gotten himself involved with some Russians."
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I hadn't thought of that aspect of it -- very good point, Nutty. And I do hope that not only are you right, but that they deal with him sooner rather than later.
SwampWoman said…
Lt. Nyota Uhura said...
Nutty Flavor said...
"I would be very surprised if MI6 didn't have several scenarios in place for dealing with Harry, particularly since he seems to have gotten himself involved with some Russians."
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I hadn't thought of that aspect of it -- very good point, Nutty. And I do hope that not only are you right, but that they deal with him sooner rather than later.



Heh. I read MI6 as MM on my small screen. I really need to stick to larger computer monitors before I nod sagely!
Fairy Crocodile said…
For your entertainment is the link to one of many tarot readings. I found it interesting for two reasons:

It is dated October 2018 and it talks about a huge scandal that will take place during the winter months. This scandal will be a push towards a path that will lead them to the divorce.
Quote: "I think this will all go down, by if not already fully, next fall (Ace of Swords/Justice), maybe even into the winter months (Seven of Cups Rx), specifically when the blinders come off (Seven of Cups Rx) and I keep seeing some legal issues or disputes around this divorce (Ace of Swords/Justice). Some scandal or bad news may come out around it or sometime before that sort of kicks the divorce proceeding in gear, if you get me". She got this one right, didn't she?

Another one is this: "She starts to get volatile and out of control when she doesn’t get what she wants (Eight of Wands Rx). She’ll probably have a blow-up about something at one point. Nothing but arguing and again, conflict/burdens/dispute/issues surrounding this divorce."

The link: https://talkingtarot.tumblr.com/post/179502679428/prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-divorce-reading
Nelo said…
I don't believe these tarot readers. Talking tarot said meghan will attend the met gala and she was so sure of it. Lol. Pls don't believe any of them.
Nutty Flavor said…
I hadn't thought of that aspect of it -- very good point, Nutty. And I do hope that not only are you right, but that they deal with him sooner rather than later.

The most obvious solution would be to pay off Meg - either with money or some kind of TV or movie role - and then swoop Harry up and deposit him in Africa surrounded by elephants and security men and no wifi.

Not sure what they'd do with Archie. Maybe he could live with some member of the extended family, the Tindalls or someone even more distant. The Windsors have relatives in many parts of the Commonwealth and all over Europe.
Nutty Flavor said…
Or he could live with Harry in Africa. Lots of room to run around, lots of kids to play with.
Nutty Flavor said…
"Mom" could visit him every 6 months or so and have some glamorous pictures taken.
Christine said…
@ Hikari-

"Meg's sniping at the Duchess of Cambridge in particular is payback time because Kate did not play along with Meg's script, that called for Kate to fawn all over Meg like the best friend she never had, throw her a lavish baby shower at KP and petition her husband and the Queen and Charles that Meghan was in all ways to be treated co-equally to her, wife of the future King."

This whole post by Hikari is excellent, so true and well written. The description of her jealousy towards Kate is perfect. Even jealous of Kate's family. I don't think Kate could have possibly done anything to ingratiate herself to Meghan. I often thought that Meg was a bit jealous of William himself. She would have so rather had Wills. I disagree about Meghan being not being pregnant as I have stated before. I completely believe Meghan was pregnant with Harry's son. That was priority 1 for her. She used (and still uses) that child to create mania and mystery. Archie is the Golden Goose!

I was wondering what you all thought about Harry's prank call?! I honestly almost peed my pants laughing about it. I did listen to the call and it is completely Harry's voice so I believe that it was him and I believe he was completely fooled by the Russians. Talk about being a naive tool?! I am so curious to know when he found out about the prank. He honestly sounded like the THE biggest idiot on Earth and so conceited. The comments about his family are outrageous! You just have to marvel at how Meghan was able to turn him so completely against his family. The Chunga- Changa stuff and the 50 penguins that need to go to the North Pole was absolutely IT. He must feel like an idiot, if that's possible!
Nutty Flavor said…
I think Harry feels like he's always the family f@@@-up. This is just par for the course.

We've supposedly only heard half of the phone call - there's more to come on Saturday, right before the UK Sunday papers go out.

Has anyone ever figured out if the Russian pranksters were paid, and if so by whom? They're getting a lot of fame out of this, but I haven't heard any discussion of money.

Louise said…
It seems that Smirkle and Mulroney's friend Sophie Trudeau was also in London last week and flew on a government plane. She just returned yesterday

Hmmm. Wonder whether the Smirkles hitched a ride. If the Smirkles had travelled commercial, for sure they would have put out a photo to let us know how "normal" they are.
On the same day as the treacly, vomit-inducing Bryony Gordon commentary discussed earlier in this thread another, more balanced piece was also published int the Telegraph. It is outstanding, IMHO:

A Not So Fond Farewell to Harry and Meghan
By Allison Pearson
March 10

PART 1

They say parting is such sweet sorrow, but, if you ask me, Harry and Meghan’s final appearance as working members of the Royal family seemed distinctly short on sweetness. It wasn’t quite Murder in the Cathedral, more looking daggers in the Abbey.

You didn’t need a doctorate in body language to gather that things are just a teensy bit tense right now among the Windsor clan. The Cambridges could hardly bring themselves to acknowledge the Sussexes. The Wessexes acted as a buffer zone.

Prince Edward made animated small talk with Meghan on his right, while Sophie Wessex on his left pretended to be incredibly interested in the Order of Service. No Order of Service has ever been more fascinating than the one for the Queen’s Commonwealth Service as far as Sophie was concerned. If she needed to memorise every single hymn, and sing it nude, then she would do it rather than make eye contact with that bloody actress.
PART 2

Meghan had arrived dressed as a peapod with matching pillbox hat in jealous green. Like all her glamorous outfits on this “Farewell, Stuffy Royals, Hello Disney Princess!” tour, this one almost seemed designed to make her sister-in-law look frumpy. Kate isn’t frumpy, she just looks Royal, something Meghan never really understood.

Harry’s jacket had a green-silk lining to match his wife’s dress, which was either a nice touch or evidence of rampant control-freakery by She Who Says We Must Live in Canada and Won’t Let Archie Back in His Birthplace in Case He’s Abducted by MI5 and Shut in the Tower Before the Divorce.

Harry seemed pensive and pained by his brother’s curt: “Hello.” He looked as if he’d rather be anywhere else. Afghanistan, perhaps.

At the entrance to the Abbey, Meghan did her “I’m so glowing and compassionate, me” routine with a receiving line of enraptured clergymen when she noticed Prince William come in and hastily scuttled along. No love lost there.

Meghan Markle: inspirational, self-assured, bi-racial humanitarian who has brought joy to lost, motherless boy and sticks up for what she thinks is right? Or fame-hungry, scorch-the-earth people-dumper dragging poor Harry down a dark path? Honestly, your guess is as good as mine. At least there is little doubt what William thinks.

PART 3

You could tell how anxious things were because Buckingham Palace was forced to make a last-minute change to avoid upsetting the swansong couple. Harry and Meghan were supposed to be shown to their seats while the Cambridges joined the Queen’s procession.

Instead, faced with the dread news that the Sussexes were “emotional and upset” at being excluded from the Royal line-up, the one they had chosen to leave, William and Kate defused the situation by dropping out of the procession and also being taken to their seats. There was no time to re-print the 2,000 orders of service which stated clearly that the Cambridges would enter with the Queen and the Prince of Wales.

Once seated, everyone looked tense and utterly miserable except the person who had done most to cause the tension and misery. Meghan kept her newly-whitened smile on full-beam lest she damage the brand by appearing unhappy in the photographs.

Boy, I have seen some awkward family gatherings in my time, but this one took the Bath Oliver. It will be just one year ten months and 12 days since Meghan joined the Firm on 31st March, the day that she and Harry bow out of Royal life. A remarkably short period of time to have sown such discord. Princess Diana would be devastated to see her boys so coldly estranged.


Perhaps Harry was always looking for a way to leave the life he thought had murdered his mother. Fair enough. I get that. Given time, people would have respected his decision. But it has been done so impatiently and with such arrogant obliviousness towards the Queen. It was Her Majesty who, upon their marriage, appointed the Sussexes as youth ambassadors to her beloved Commonwealth, a thoughtful gift that, at Monday’s lovely ceremony, they threw back in her face.

I count myself a Harry fan, but I find I now care very little that he is leaving our national life. I am not impressed, not at all, and I suspect a lot of people feel the same way. One day, the prince may have cause to reflect that, in pursuit of love, he carelessly squandered the affection of millions.

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https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/trudeau-self-isolating-as-wife-sophie-awaits-result-of-covid-19-test-1.4850159

Wouldn't it be ironic if Smirkles did travel with Mme Trudeau?
CookieShark said…
I read somewhere (wish I could remember) that celebs/narcs often suffer from "freezing" at the age where they become famous. Socially and psychologically they are "stuck" at that age. Someone in her camp has been very busy firing off stories since the Commonwealth Day service. She's apparently relieved she made the right choice, but it would have been different if a family member stood up for them, and by the way Kate doesn't hug people enough!

She (or her friends) sound incredibly immature.
Has she not read the news lately? A pandemic has gripped the world and most of us are shell shocked, wondering what the next few weeks means for our work and families. But she's taking 2 hour walks with Archie in Canada, while living in someone else's home? Great!

Most of us would not essentially extort our boss, quit in dramatic fashion while still making demands, then show back up at work two months later and publicly pout because we were treated differently.

I think her fury towards Kate knows no limits, because MM will never be Queen, no matter how many "likes" her IG gets. Kate also does not fawn over MM, in fact it appears she has her number and can see her for exactly what she is. I don't think MM is secure enough to accept that some people will like her and others won't. Those "others" are a huge problem for MM, in my opinion, so she resorts to attempting to tear them down viciously. I think at her core she feels tremendous rage.
Fairy Crocodile said…
Nutty

I have read speculation that these two guys are Putin's pocket pranksters. There are some indirect evidence pointing towards it. For instance, they never once played at his camaraderie, FSB or oligarch friends.

They were able to get to people like Saakashvili, Macron, Turkish President Erdogan, Lukashenko. I would imagine getting in touch with Erdogan is not that easy, this is not even the English-speaking country. Lukashenko is paranoid about security, not an easy gig either.

They admitted they had "help" getting in touch with Harry. In their book "For Whom The Phone Rings" they also admitted they accept "political" and "Private" prank orders. The average price, according to them, is "hundreds of thousand rubles". (£1000 is circa 80 000 rubles).
MeliticusBee said…
@Nutty and others
Anyone who removed his title or cut his funding would be blamed

Charles was already blamed, at least in part, for the death of Diana because her HRH was taken away. I doubt he has the appetite to take away his son's title now

William might be willing, but is that guilt something he wants to (or deserves to) live with for the rest of his life


true - but this is the same dilemma people face when dealing with a drug addict.
the answer is that enabling them to continue is never helpful. If you take away the support - they MAY get better. If you do not remove support - they will NEVER get better.

He will always, always remain sick if no one makes him get better.
Sandie said…
As posters said above, Meghan now saying that she left Archie in Canada because of the virus is absurd (but many stupid people will pick this up as the gospel truth and repeat it). She did not say upfront that this was the reason (does anyone remember what it was, because it was something completely different), and she has been hugging and shaking hands without caution and so has put herself at risk of picking up the virus and infecting Archie when she gets back. There is a reason why the BRF are doing the Namasta thing, refraining from shaking hands, and bumping elbows or arms (like Harry) ... because they are public figures who are expected to set an example and lead during a time of crisis.
Hikari said…
@Nutty,

Re. Harry has always felt like the family f@@@ up . .

Has a feeling ever been more justified? He *is* the family f@@@ up. But--there is a fundamental disconnect in his thinking--he believes that his family *unfairly* treats him as the FFU, only because he was born after Wills and likes to have fun. Meghan has shone a light on the rock star that was dwelling in their midst all the time and just didn't realize it.

Harry's been on the loose officially for only a few weeks and already he's kicked off an international incident. If his family is interested in keeping him alive, they need to fund the RPOs . .

As to the Harkles' obsession with retaining their royal protection, which has been offered as proof that they have a baby . . I am not convinced about the veracity of Archie on that point alone. Of course Haz and Mess want the cachet of royal protection paid for--first of all, they are too cheap to pay for themselves, and also holding the Palace over the barrel for royal protection reinforces their brazen claim to be 'Royals' no matter where in the world they go.

It seems inconceivable to me that the family and the Palace machine is not read in to the non-existence of Archie, at least, not within their custody, for reasons also acquainted to the family and the Palace. If it is a universally acknowledged fact within the Palace that there is no child with them in Canada, but the brief is to facilitate that illusion, then Meg needn't fear RPOs 'spying' . .if they have been provided to support her narrative that she's got a vulnerable minor subject to kidnap. As to why the Palace would go along with this, particularly after the Queen made her Christmas speech and has Archie listed in her subsequent post-Megxit statement . . your guess is as good as mine.

I can take a lot of things on faith, but where Meg is concerned, I cannot. Nothing about 'Archie' passes the smell test for me.
Nutty Flavor said…
Funny that Harry mentioned “my son” to the Russian pranksters/fake Greta.

On another topic, there seems to be some disquiet in the Meghan fandom about her failure to acknowledge Black History Month in February. Given that her victim narrative is largely based on being (a little bit) Black, this was a notable omission.
Nutty Flavor said…
Please, no more Corona virus arguments. That is not the topic of this blog.
Lt. Nyota Uhura said…
Nutty Flavor said...
Funny that Harry mentioned “my son” to the Russian pranksters/fake Greta.

On another topic, there seems to be some disquiet in the Meghan fandom about her failure to acknowledge Black History Month in February. Given that her victim narrative is largely based on being (a little bit) Black, this was a notable omission.
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Markle has the attention span of a gnat. I doubt she even knows about Black History Month.

On a different topic:

The DM has an article on just now about how Markle takes "Archie" out for walks two hours a day.

Some Canadian commenters are pointing out that the temps are in the 30s and 40s, with light rain on and off.

I'm beginning to think that Markle not only has a personality disorder, but might just be barking mad. Sunshine Sachs is too expensive to make such a glaring blunder. (I would think.)
Nutty Flavor said…
“She straps him on and walks the more rustic routes.”

Even if you buy the official line that Archie is 10 months old, he’s big. Minimum 10 kilos/22 pounds.

You’re going to carry 22 pounds for 1-2 hours on a rustic route? No.
Lt. Nyota Uhura said…
Nutty Flavor said...
“She straps him on and walks the more rustic routes.”

Even if you buy the official line that Archie is 10 months old, he’s big. Minimum 10 kilos/22 pounds.

You’re going to carry 22 pounds for 1-2 hours on a rustic route? No.
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Really!!!

I remember when my two were newborns, and I couldn't carry them far without a backache. Markle's "yoga" doesn't build muscle strength enough for a 15-minute hike with a 22-pound baby, much less two hours.

She seems to think we're going to buy that BS. That's why I think she's going off the deep end.
abbyh said…
Hilkari -

Also with the saga of going after Kate who has and is everything that M doesn't (which was really good), Kate also gets to wear all kinds of bling and the BRF hadn't opened up that jewelry box yet for M. Maybe she was expecting that privilege right away (insert any reason possible) or thought Kate would "share" something?

Sweeps weeks, according to Nielsen, roughly Apr 23 to May 20. Unless they need to bump it us for some reason. They need a big win and soon...the walls are starting to close in and the due bills on Frog Cott.

As for the daily walks where she is pleasant to any passerby, who are these people and why aren't they posting such exciting news publically?






Ava C said…
Another Telegraph article out this evening. By Charlotte Gill:

Farewell Prince Harry, the wokest Royal of them all

I suppose we’ve known all along, really. If there was a Royal Family special of Mastermind, you probably wouldn’t put Prince Harry on first.

The big clue was in 2005. Long forgotten now, but it was the year the Prince, albeit only 20 years old, decided to wear a Nazi outfit to a fancy dress party. What was he thinking, many wondered. Nothing, of course. That’s the problem...

This week however, he has done something truly exceptional, by falling victim to a phone hoax. If you haven’t heard it yet, you’re in for a treat. A prankster duo pretended to be Greta Thunberg and her father, and astonishingly Harry took their word for it and divulged intimate details of his personal life.

Among many confessions, he said that he’d dropped his royal responsibilities to “protect [his] son”, that he was “completely separate” from the majority of his family and even that he was “more normal than [his] family would like to believe” because he was in the military.

The obvious question is why, even if it had been Greta and her Dad on the other end of the line, did he think this was a good idea? But on he went. Some of the worst snippets were political - Trump has “blood on his hands”, claimed Prince Harry, before encouraging (Fake) Thunberg Junior “to be doing extreme things.”

As if that wasn’t bizarre enough, he then suggested that he could help broker an arranged marriage between Greta and Prince George, as well as trying to help her transport penguins. “I do have a man who deals with the North Pole”, he reassured her, Tony-Soprano style.

On the one hand, you could say this call is Harry’s greatest public service to date - as it served to distract the nation from thoughts of sore throats and burning eyes (yes, that is a symptom of coronavirus). On the other, wow. Many of us were left speechless as to the utter stupidity of it all.

A few days ago, I confess I had actually been feeling sorry for Harry. Maybe the media had been too harsh, I thought to myself. But this was validation of sorts, confirming all our suspicions that he is the wokest royal of them all, and doing the right thing by stepping away. He is unsuited to this job - too opinionated, tempestuous and confused - and frankly in desperate need of a holiday.

And when I say a holiday I do not mean one in which he frequents the red carpets, bleating on about climate change. This call was a cry from a man who needs a break. Who’s angry with the pressure of being a royal, and simply needs to quarantine himself - as we all shall be doing now - except this shall be an “opinion quarantine”.

Oh I shall miss this Prince of Penguins. He has been entertaining, at least.

ENDS

I've never found him entertaining, but many have I think.
Louise said…
Wild Boar: It was the story about Sophie Trudeau 's alleged illness that led to further details about how she travelled privately on a government jet without her husband present. (Instead of flying commercial) I say alleged illness because she was tested but could be negative for all we know.

Yes, it would be interesting if the Smirkles were also on board.
Louise said…
Nutty: The gals at Lipstick Alley were not too pleased about her ignoring Black History month. I'm sorry to say it, but if there is one person who does not seem to respect Black people, it's Markle. (with the exception of that guy into whose eyes she gazed on Commonwealth day)
KCM1212 said…
There is a new Harry Markle post on
The Sussex Tantrums at the Commonwealth Service
Portcitygirl said…
I went back and looked at the video of Harry during his standing ovation and it looked to me like he was tearing up and very emotional. I had focused on MM before but having revisited it today, thanks to one of the above Nutties, I studied him more closely on a bigger screen and it looks as if he has tears in his eyes. I felt a pang of sadness for him in that moment. However, I do think he may be a narc and they are master manipulators of others' emotions. So, I don't know what to think honestly.

I never heard the audio of Harry's voice with the fake Greta, but wow, if he in fact did say all those things I'm just gobsmacked. He really sounded like an unstable person. But a lot of his "new" friends are crazy as heck as well, so it probably seems normal to him.

About the shade thrown at Kate- I just don't know what can be done. Most intelligent people can see right through these narcs, but after reading the comments on youtube from The View
it seems the lefties in the US are going to continue to push the racism angle and the mean old BRF bit.

Also, I guess everyone has seen all the PR articles over at the DM about them. Gag. This saga won't end well. I just can't look away. What a train wreck.

It will be interesting to see who sides with the Monarch and who sides with the woke brigade. They are pushing the racist colonialist narrative pretty hard globally and I will continue to believe that they mean to topple the Monarchy. They being the behind the scenes political agenda pushers. My guess is they have promised MM and JH something. One thing we know for certain. It wasn't "privacy" these two hypocrites were after, but a global world stage.
Hikari said…
@Nutty,

>>“She straps him on and walks the more rustic routes.”

Even if you buy the official line that Archie is 10 months old, he’s big. Minimum 10 kilos/22 pounds.

You’re going to carry 22 pounds for 1-2 hours on a rustic route? No.<<<

Particularly for a 10 month old tyke who is advanced and 'getting ready to walk' by his 'mother's' own admission. Meg doesn't have the upper body strength for that and I don't think her toothpick legs are up for 2-hour daily 'rustic' hikes.

The 'rusticity' is to account for the non-sighting of her, her spawn or her husband anywhere. How many rustic routes could there be on a not-terribly large island?

Since Meg is never challenged outright for her lies, they just get more and more grandiose. Narcs lie like other people breathe, even when they don't have to for any particular reason. Truth-telling is anathema to them and they just can't do it.

Re. Black History Month

Meghan has spent most of her life from minimum age of 11 onwards denying her black heritage and listing herself as Caucasian. Her primary custodial parent is white, and she spent her days at a mostly all-white school, cultivating white friends & after school going to the set of Married, With Children, where I suppose a few of the crew members might have been non-white.

Her husbands have all been white, her current one, blindingly so. She spends all her time copying outfits from her late mother-in-law and the sister-in-law she envies so much, both white. Is it any wonder that Meg forgets for long stretches of time that she's supposed to be black and care about black issues?

Until Meg's fans of all colors wake up and smell the bat guano coffee she's brewing, she is going to continue to get the celebrity attention she craves. Her whole platform is being the Diversity Princess--as long as she's got minority women singing her (faux) praises, she's never going to stop. Her black fans need to start repudiating her as a big fat fake, and only then will the MSM follow suit. The viewpoint and outrage of Caucasian critics is forever going to be dismissed as racist jealousy. For Meghan to be unseated from her fraudulent high horse, the voices critical of her are going to have to come from the black community to take her down.
Ian's Girl said…
It is not possible to live in the USA and not know about Black History month. You are bombarded with it. She didn't say anything about it because it's not important to her. (In all fairness, it's not important to most of my friends, either)

March is Women's History Month, and I personally do not care one iota, but am curious to see if Nutmeg mentions it, since she's such a feminist, you know.

SirStinxAlot said…
WARNING: MORBID SCENARIO AHEAD. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK😱



In regards to Meghan's hugging spree during her final royal visit, maybe she wants to get Corona virus? Or any serious illness. Imagine the headlines "loving duchess gets Corona virus". Heaven forbid Archie caught it and mysteriously died from it. I believe there was a discussion on a previous thread about how the HAMS would get out of producing a growing Archie for the rest of their lives. There ya go!!
Lemon Tea said…
Lemon Tea here

I shouldn't be up at this time , but my day went off kilter, and so has the night.

@ Port city girl
Agree that Harry looked emotional , in fact his emotions , were all over the place since they reappeared in the UK.

A while back I asked about the Harkles being newly married and if they were invited out to lunches and dinners and society engagements, I did get a response. Forgot who it was, but what I want to say is , at that time , your reply was as expected but I did not phrase my comment correctly, so of course your correct answer was tilted. I apologise. Various comments thereafter show , that they were invited and swooned around quite a bit , wooed and dined, so forget my comment. Lots of public records available.
Hikari said…
@Ian's

>>>March is Women's History Month, and I personally do not care one iota, but am curious to see if Nutmeg mentions it, since she's such a feminist, you know.<<<

Well, Meg has already given us plenty of 'mentions'. She plotted to purposely derail media attention away from Camilla's speech about domestic violence with lame paid for photos of her touring a VR exhibit by herself at the NT. Camilla is the President of Women of the World, so by dissing Cam, Meg disses the entire organization set up to promote women's issues. Meg wanted to be patron of WOW; she didn't get it so this behavior is how she supports women.

At the same time, she staged another ambush visit to a school with her paid photographer, where she proceeded to invite a male student to the stage to talk about 'Women's Day' . . and flirted outrageously with him and plastered herself on him. He's 16. Meanwhile all the girls in the audience were background props, though Meg showed us a photo of a gaggle of schoolgirls admiring her. Presumably some girls were amongst the students who were barred from re-entry for not having ID.

Meg does not care about girls, or women. Meg only cares about Meg. It is so ironic that a woman who has spent a lot of her time on her back or her knees on her relentless climb to celebrity-hood, and has spent her entire adult life bouncing from one man to another who'd pay all her bills for her, and who continues to dress and act provocatively around males, so hard-wired is it in her . .is being held up as a feminist icon? Pass the sick bag, please.
Genia said…
Why hasn't Meghan been called out by her woke feminist stans for dissing Kate, another female public figure, as "uptight"? This is an unfair label with misogynist inference, one that many female public figures and politicians have been on the receiving end of, targeted by both men and women. Yet again, Meghan is doing very un-feminist things, this time putting other women down for not being as warm, smiley, or pert as she believes everyone especially women should be. This is very sexist, like when an older male boss tells the female colleague 'you should smile more and act more warmly', when that same boss wouldn't say the same thing to a male colleague. As a so-called feminist, Meghan should know better than to put down other women that way.
Portcitygirl said…
Lemon Tea

No worries!

I have one more thing to add about Harry's convo with the Russians. This attitude he has about the over 35's , hello Harry you're up, is completely ageist.

He is off the rails with this. Everyone who loves him in his blood family are over 35. What is he getting at? Imbecilic.
Henrietta said…
Small update on Sophie Trudeau: The Canadian PM is now self-isolating at home, according to the DM. So it does sound like Sophie was exposed. Also really agree with the poster who talked about how MM was more likely to bring the coronavirus home to Archie, making her argument about keeping him at home as a precaution pretty transparent. MM met a whole lot of people during their short stay, any number of whom could have been exposed, especially at a high svhool.
xxxxx said…
Yes it was inane and insane how Malicious Megs hugged/latched on that 16 year old black kid. He had a Nigerian name. Tighter than a starfish opening up a clam. Of course done to score racial Pokemon points with her sugars who ate it up. Hapless Harry is a massive Megsy sugar, as illustrated in his prank phone call with the Russkies. He used the words "social justice" in it

bonus��
By grasping and pulling until the clam tires out. once the shell is opened far enough, the starfish everts its own stomach (turns it inside out) into the clam and secretes digestive enzymes.
YankeeDoodle said…
To everybody who is afraid of calling a schmuck a schmuck, here is the English translation, sort of:

After receiving a knife from Meghan for Christmas, Kate knew she had to be careful about backstabbing. However, exiting Westminster on Monday, she felt okay, knowing there were just two little pricks behind her.

Louise said…
Henrietta: Sophie Trudeau had some cold symptoms yesterday and moved to the head of the line for Covid 19 testing.

The fact that she was tested does not mean that she was exposed. It only means that she was afraid that she might have been exposed and insisted on having the test. Because she's the PM's wife.
Henrietta said…
Louise, That does beg the question of why her husband is now reported to be in self-isolation.
Ozmanda said…
Ok I am going to call it right now and say Sparkles and/or Hazmat are going to announce they have been exposed and self isolate. This type of opportunity for publicity and sympathy will be way too tempting :)

Extra points if they accuse Kate of giving them the plague :)
KnitWit said…
The secretary said the Markles " bring smart bombs to a jousting contest". Riiiiiight. Harry's beer farts don't count as smart bombs.

I think Diana's former secretary is buttering up the Sussexes in search of work, interviews, something.
Her hugging and touching was a huge mistake given the UK’s COVID-19 situation. I would be furious if I were the parent of the school boy she hugged or flower girl outside the church she touched.
Mimi said…
Hasn’t they all been told there would be NO handshking, touching, etc? She breathed right into the kids face.
KCM1212 said…
@Ozmanda
Blogger Ozmanda said...
Ok I am going to call it right now and say Sparkles and/or Hazmat are going to announce they have been exposed and self isolate. This type of opportunity for publicity and sympathy will be way too tempting :)
----
And a very good reason to continue keeping Archie out of sight!

I too am sick of the sycophantic lefty press these two are getting. However, we see that historically she cannot maintain her shtick for more than about two years. The most recent was a few months under that. We know Hollywood is already wary of her. Her lack of talent, yachting past, and willingness to "go the extra mile" for a part is known. As is her arrogance, her treating the help as minions, and generally being difficult.

She was welcomed warmly to England, and the press was kind. She was the one who exposed what she is behind that manic grin. She simply cannot maintain the pretense for very long.

I wonder if this is why the people from her past, her family, teachers and co-workers are fairly silent on the issue of Meg.
They have seen her fail repeatedly. They know it's just a matter of a couple of years before she is totally exposed again. This time on the world stage with no RF to protect her.

The divorce will bring everything out in the open.

Even the true story of Archie.
Louise said…
Henrietta: When a person is tested for Covid, the presumption is that it could be positive, hence the self isolation until results come back.

As it turns out, her test is actually positive, so Justin Trudeau will now remain in isolation.

No matter, he has been useless. People have been begging him for weeks to stop flights from high risk areas, but he didn't want to do it. Instead, he called those asking for a flight ban racists.
Starry said…
I learned that Cressida Bonas has a favourite saying: "cringe de la cringe".

Apt description for the latest video on H&M instagram .

Prepare thy selves.

https://www.instagram.com/sussexroyal/

CRINGE
Starry said…
Where to start on the new insta video?

First of all, the SELF-ABSORPTION on this one is out of control.

The screen is filled with her face and her gesticulations and THE BACK OF OTHER PEOPLE'S HEADS - the people she should be showcasing.

She is certifiably delusional.
Hey Nutties! I love reading the comments but rarely add anything myself. I’m sorry it’s off topic but in the US right now I cannot get a test for COVID for at least a week and I’m symptomatic and currently undergoing chemo for breast cancer. And have amazing (aka expensive) insurance - my doctors office actually has access to the test unlike many.... not to mention the lack of ICU space and ventilators nationwide.... that is not all on the CDC, and to say Trump is doing a good job here is frankly offensive to me not to mention all the ppl who don’t have insurance, or who work in hospitality or other industries who will experience significant impact and likely be at higher risk for incurring debt, being foreclosed on, etc. And the market activity first thing this AM 100% backs the notion that Americans are not at ease with the situation. If a president can claim credit for a booming economy, they should also be held responsible for serious errors in judgment in the run up to this and blatant xenophobia now (this foreign virus will infect anyone regardless of their national origin). After all, the buck stops with them, right?

My 2 cents. I’m sure many of you will disagree and I don’t mind that. This blog is such a fun place to go for distraction, which I imagine we all need right now, so if I can humbly suggest we acknowledge our shared humanity and the potential gravity of the situation we are collectively confronted with, and so check politics at the door on the topic of COVID-19. Stay healthy all!
HappyDays said…
Ozmanda said...
Ok I am going to call it right now and say Sparkles and/or Hazmat are going to announce they have been exposed and self isolate. This type of opportunity for publicity and sympathy will be way too tempting

@Ozmanda: Spot on! I think now that Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson are CV-positive snd Sophie Trudeau is too, I can SO see the Harkles claiming they are too, just to garner some attention.

Magatha Mistie said…
I’m laughing over a DM comment re Meg
taking Archie for 2 hour walks.

“How much fresh air does a doll need” Hahahaha
Crumpet said…
@Hikari,

I think what you are saying, is karma is a b$tch... Totally!
Fuzzynavel said…
Harry has savior complex. He has to save and protect his wife & kid. No matter how miserable he is he won't give up until she kicks him out. Besides since he's in that type of mindset he doesn't have to deal with his own issues, like anger and substance abuse. Meghan needs one thing and that's some steady income she brings in. Not Harry and not BRF. As soon as that happens she kicks Harry out. Divorce happens. She goes public with new guy. Harry breaks apart in little pieces. They send him to a special place to get clean & sorted. Archies life is ruined. The end
Ava C said…
On one of today's DM articles they have an assortment of photos from Meghan's time in the BRF. One has a far sharper impact now. You can almost feel it, and there are many around like this. It's of Meghan in that supposedly navy but looked black (if I remember correctly) cocktail dress on the Palace balcony with other royals in their summertime colours. It has such a visual impact. Due to the fabric and severity of cut, there's an intense darkness. Just see the difference to the others in that group.

Now we know what damage she has wrought you feel as if you're there, in the crowd, pointing at her and crying out "There! She's there! Can't you see her? You need to do something quickly!" It's like seeing a virulent bacterium in the royal petri dish and they're all standing there like lummoxes.

Yes I know Harry is culpable too, but left to himself he would have just gone on as he was, in ever increasing obscurity. Meghan made this happen. Meghan surgically removed him from his family. Meghan brought the knife to do it.
Scandi Sanskrit said…
They apologised to Laurence Fox:

https://twitter.com/EquityUK/status/1238389563061612547?s=19

And changed a committee's name to something LESS RACIST: https://twitter.com/EquityREC/status/1238390859135168512?s=19
empty space said…
Just want to peep in for a sec to inform everyone about the newest Torontopaper1 tweet:

Darling, you organized a prank making him bash who you called so nicely Syphilis! You think by making trouble you get security paid for you? Nice try peasant!

Twitter link: https://twitter.com/torontopaper1/status/1238234004501024769

Going by how scripted H sounds on the prank, maybe there's truth to this being organised by themselves? And add Richard Kay's article on this subject to this, it does make H sounds like he needs security, if not the full palace machinery, to protect him from stupidity (or threat, if you took it as that) such as this.
Toppling the monarchy?

Remember, this is 2020, 400 years since Mayflower set off from Harwich (yes, she called at both Southampton & Plymouth en route).

What better woke for woky-folkies to round it off by interfering in our affairs and destroying the current representatives of George III?

Damn, somebody beat me to it by posting that they've got a `get-out-of-jail' free card for `losing `Archie' to C-19. We should demand the evidence - insist on a formal autopsy with trusted pathologists - they would of course `cremate' him straight away, stuffing the dolls into the furnace.

I raised the question of her being more than a narc some time ago and it didn't go down too well. We at least agreed that she met the criteria for the Dark Triad. May we revisit this, given that someone used the term `barking mad'?

Her apparently unshakeable belief, that she is entitled to at least Duchess Catherine's place, is a delusion on the scale of thinking she's Napoleon. She's been on the UK scene long enough for it to have penetrated almost anyone else's skull that this ain't gonna happen, yet the obsession still seems to have her in its grip.

We can see they've both appear to have got galloping paranoia about how they are treated - paranoia + delusion = well, you name it.

To me, they seem locked in folie a deux as well.

Were they in my family, I'd be shouting for a psychiatric assessment in reasonable hope, I think, of them both being sectioned. (Hi Meg - are you OK?).

Politically, it's impossible over here, especially as she's a US citizen. Is H still here? I expect he's desperate to return to his awful wedded wife and `child'.
Portcitygirl said…
Scandi

Wonder why all of this now? I only followed this when it first unfolded. Thanks for the link, too. I really admire Mr. Fox for speaking up.

xxxxx said…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8105261/Kate-Middleton-officially-overtakes-Meghan-Markle-biggest-fashion-influencer-2020.html

The end of the Meghan effect? Kate Middleton officially overtakes the Duchess of Sussex as the biggest royal fashion influencer of 2020 - with her Ireland wardrobe and love of causal wear proving a hit

Kate Middleton has overtaken Meghan Markle as 2020's biggest royal influencer
Research shows former actress's fashion influence has declined since Megxit
Her influence on fashion searches has dropped from 216 per cent to 31 per cent

####Steam is coming out of M's ears! The Royally Dumped Dumbarton.
Lt. Nyota Uhura said…
xxxxx said...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8105261/Kate-Middleton-officially-overtakes-Meghan-Markle-biggest-fashion-influencer-2020.html

The end of the Meghan effect? Kate Middleton officially overtakes the Duchess of Sussex as the biggest royal fashion influencer of 2020 - with her Ireland wardrobe and love of causal wear proving a hit

Kate Middleton has overtaken Meghan Markle as 2020's biggest royal influencer
Research shows former actress's fashion influence has declined since Megxit
Her influence on fashion searches has dropped from 216 per cent to 31 per cent

####Steam is coming out of M's ears! The Royally Dumped Dumbarton.
_______________________________________________

Bahahahaha! You just KNOW Markle is spitting nails! All that PR money, all those so-called A-list contacts, going down the drain ;-)

However, I did have a depressing thought just this morning -- the Harkles are keeping their options on Frogmore Cottage -- given that, and the fact that their foreign visas run out after 6 months, does that mean they must spend the other 6 months in England? If so, poor Britons, ugh.

Perhaps a Nutty more knowledgeable than me can enlighten?
ALICE FRANCE said…
" Kate Middleton has surpassed Meghan Markle as the greatest royal influencer of 2020.The
research shows that the former actress's fashion influence has diminished since Megxit
Its influence on fashion research increased from 216% to 31% "
It's probably a sign that Meghan's global reputation is starting to decline...
Her UK visa, I believe, would have been valid for 3 years before it had to be renewed.
Assuming it was issued sometime before the engagement, it is due to expire by this autumn.

It's probably too much to hope that it won't be renewed.
Just a thought about Toronto Papers & the frequent use of `peasant'.

The only user of that insult I've known was an army officer.

Is it a particularly British term? I can't quite imagine it's used elsewhere as it's a reference back to the feudal system, (serfs, peasants, lords of the manor, barons, king) - very much a U-terminology (as in Nancy Mitford's use for Upper Class).

Is it a clue to the writer's nationality and social status? One of his acquaintances rather than hers?
xxxxx said…
@Uhura

The BRF can easily keep the Dumbarton freeloaders out of Froggy More. Just tell them they must pay for the 2-3 million in renovations before they get to stay there. The Dumbartons are highly allergic to paying for anything.
Who's seen the photo of the Queen in her colour-block dress? Wow!

One has to hand it to her - methinks it's a statement but what is it saying?


https://uk.yahoo.com/style/queens-latest-colour-block-dress-161307386.html
Hikari said…
Wild Boar,

>>>Remember, this is 2020, 400 years since Mayflower set off from Harwich (yes, she called at both Southampton & Plymouth en route). What better woke for woky-folkies to round it off by interfering in our affairs and destroying the current representatives of George III?<<<

I don't know if Meggy has shadowy global illuminati backers, or what benefit they'd get for destroying the British monarchy . . seems like there would be more lucrative targets, like, oh, the Saudi oil machine? The Chinese economy? (Wait, there is a Coronavirus bio-lab in Wuhan . . ) Great Britain is no longer the global superpower she was when Brittannia ruled the waves . . that's been steadily eroding since Victoria passed on. What a quizzical water carrier they picked if Meggy's their gal.

America and the mother country had our kerfluffle when George III was presiding, and things were bad for a time. But it wasn't long before the fledging country had sent our first ambassador (Mr. John Adams) to the court of George III and the Special Relationship was in its fragile infancy. There was a reigniting of hostilities circa 1812, but 400 years on since the Puritans set sail for the frozen wasteland of Massachusetts in the wintertime, and weathering two World Wars together, the United States has Britain's back. Anybody who wants to see Elizabeth's realm fall is no friend to the U.S., either, even if they call themselves Americans. They are terrorists.

If Meggy's backers come from Soho Houseland (and she does have so many helpers and 'friends' among that cohort), I think any 'Take the monarchy down' movement is coming from within Britain. Meggy's bestie Amal is a British citizen with ties to the Middle East through blood and work; her lunk of an American actor skating on the thin ice of has-beendom has been said to have shadowy backers too who have worked to turn him into a political tool after propping up his career. He's from a famous show biz family but George just isn't that good of an actor . . . he got his start playing a handyman on a cheesy 1970s TV show and his level of nuance has not really changed. He's had help to get where he is, powerful friends--Weinstein, no doubt, among them . . Maybe that's where he first crossed paths with Meggy, in those circles.

There is scum rising to the top in every country. Meg is just such a blunt instrument and entirely self-absorbed; I just can't see her taking marching orders from anyone, not even when it was to her gain. She's inherently self-destructive and self-preservational at the same time. That rumor's got legs, though . . that Meg's remarkable convergence of 'luck' in snagging Harry and working all things out to her own advantage despite such awkward and transparently false public behavior is due to her 'friends' pulling the strings for her behind the scenes.
Jenx said…
I think TP's use of "peasant" is a sarcastic reference to her post-demotion status. Talk is TP is a group, not an individual. People that have known her in Canada.
KCM1212 said…
It occurs to me that Megs recent "stylish" assault, aside from revenge dressing, may be advertising. She is shopping for her billionaire and wants some pics out there where she looks good.

Harry is not shaping up to be a good provider of the lifestyle she is owed. Why make money herself when there are so many men out there dying to take care of her?

And EVEN
That dress!

SwampWoman said…
Hikari said: If Meggy's backers come from Soho Houseland (and she does have so many helpers and 'friends' among that cohort), I think any 'Take the monarchy down' movement is coming from within Britain. Meggy's bestie Amal is a British citizen with ties to the Middle East through blood and work; her lunk of an American actor skating on the thin ice of has-beendom has been said to have shadowy backers too who have worked to turn him into a political tool after propping up his career. He's from a famous show biz family but George just isn't that good of an actor . . . he got his start playing a handyman on a cheesy 1970s TV show and his level of nuance has not really changed. He's had help to get where he is, powerful friends--Weinstein, no doubt, among them . . Maybe that's where he first crossed paths with Meggy, in those circles.

There is scum rising to the top in every country. Meg is just such a blunt instrument and entirely self-absorbed; I just can't see her taking marching orders from anyone, not even when it was to her gain. She's inherently self-destructive and self-preservational at the same time. That rumor's got legs, though . . that Meg's remarkable convergence of 'luck' in snagging Harry and working all things out to her own advantage despite such awkward and transparently false public behavior is due to her 'friends' pulling the strings for her behind the scenes.


(Picture me standing and applauding.) I don't know that anybody is controlling Megs BUT I could see where it would "amuse" some people, perhaps other royals, to give the house of Windsor-Mountbatten a black eye and a case of heartbreak by facilitating the marriage of MM (and you know they understand her) and Harry. Those games have been played in families of power for millennia and I do not think that our new "woke-sh" ethos is going to eliminate those. Same game, different players. And she is the gift that keeps on giving.

In an earlier age, she and all her backers would have been swiftly executed, problem solved. Now she will continue to exist as an unlanced boil.
Lt. Nyota Uhura said…
Wild Boar Battle-maid said...
Her UK visa, I believe, would have been valid for 3 years before it had to be renewed.
Assuming it was issued sometime before the engagement, it is due to expire by this autumn.

It's probably too much to hope that it won't be renewed.
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Thanks, WBBM -- Sadly, I think it probably will be renewed.

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xxxxx said...
@Uhura

The BRF can easily keep the Dumbarton freeloaders out of Froggy More. Just tell them they must pay for the 2-3 million in renovations before they get to stay there. The Dumbartons are highly allergic to paying for anything.
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That would definitely work for me, as well as a whole lot of other people! But given the Queen and Prince Charles' behavior toward them up till now, I can't see it happening ...
SwampWoman said…
I don't often comment on fashion because I prefer jeans, boots, and T-shirts (winter wear) and will never be mistaken as looking like royalty or appropriately attired. Every day is casual Friday. But OMG that dress the color and texture of rotting pumpkins. Everybody that wore that monstrosity looked horrible, so it wasn't just MM.
Unknown said…
Sunshinedaydreams, nutty specifically said not to discuss that topic. This is not a political blog, get it? Go to Huffington post.
SwampWoman said…
What the heck with woke-ish become woke-sh? I suppose I should just be happy it wasn't something completely inappropriate.
Hikari, Jenx, KCM1212 & Swamp Woman:

I agree she's the wrong horse to back if you want to use her for your own purposes - a loose cannon rolling around the decks, wreaking havoc.

It was just the anniversary that made me wonder- coincidence? Mel Gibson, an Aussie, for example, has a such a big grudge against England that he's happy to distort history and paint us as black as he can in his `historical' films (I'm thinking of `Braveheart', which helped to sour many north of the Border against us, and also `The Patriot', although I don't know if that affected thinking in the US).

TP is Canadian, I know - the clue's in the name - but could the writers be of British origin? I've always taken `peasant' to be a slight not only on behaviour but on social origins, although it may be right in that it also predicts what's coming.

Is the term used in Canada? It has such an English public school ring to it. I've no doubt whoever it is has `known' her, possibly in a variety of places afloat. Sadly, we shall never know who's behind it.

On a brighter note, literally, my guess on the message of the Queen's dress is something like:

`Bitch, nobody steals MY thunder, not even you!'
Humor Me said…
@Wild boar Battle maid.
Mel Gibson is American - Moved to Aussie land when he was 12.
Scandi Sanskrit said…
@Portcitygirl:

I've no idea why the union suddenly apologised now.

But I'm starting to think they're insincere or, as somebody suggested in the Twitter replies, they got sued.

Because my tweet congratulating him (basically I said, "I'm eff-ing happy for you but still mad so few stood behind you" is now hidden.

So are replies to my tweet as well as another comment I made of my observation of thirtsty actors.

The tweet was posted 9am GMT/16:00 western Indonesian time. It is now 22:12 and there seems to have been a clean up.

My comment as well as other supportive comments are only visible on my timeline but not on the tweet. Now all you can see at the top right under the tweet are pro-Wokie protests.

I know you can hide replies. Some also likely reported every tweet supportive of Laurence Fox, mine included... I imagine even more perks if you're a verified account.

Not the actions of an organisation that actually believes in free speech.
Royalfan said…
@Hikari
Bravo re your remarks re her denial of blackness! I am Canadian and, “sorry” but not the least bit racist, so I can say with certainty that I agree ... her black fandom needs to call her out big time. As you so eloquently argue, she has done everything she can, from a very early age, to present as “white.” That’s fine, but what really irks me as a staunch Canadian royalist is the racism boohooing she levels at everyone, from the queen down. Reprehensible.

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