Prince Charles received his last official job promotion in 1969, when he was crowned Prince of Wales at Caernafon Castle. He's been waiting for his next bump up, to monarch, ever since.
Charles' big moment may be at hand. His father Prince Philip is reportedly bedridden, and his 93-year-old mother, Queen Elizabeth, might have trouble continuing to keep up with even ceremonial occasions once the man she calls her "rock" has passed on.
The Queen's upcoming 94th birthday, on April 21, might be an optimal time to announce a regency, in which Charles would formally take power without his mother having to formally advocate.
Last week Clarence House once again confirmed that Charles' wife, Camilla, will take the title Princess Consort after he ascends to the throne - not Queen Consort. This will avoid conflicts with fans of the late Diana, Princess of Wales.
So, just one other thing that needs to be gotten out of the way - the Sussex mess, particular the situation with Prince Harry's son Archie.
The host quickly changed the subject - perhaps there is a super-injunction against mentioning the matter - but its clear that Bower isn't the only one who has questions about where Archie came from, or perhaps if he exists at all.
Archie's unusual size - huge in July at the polo match when he was supposedly 3 months, then seemingly the same size when papped in a carrier in January at what would be 9 months - is also mysterious.
And the news that Archie would not be joining their Sussexes for their final round of Royal engagements didn't put any minds at rest.
The seventh-in-line to the British throne has now not appeared in public since September.
Was Bower's "slip of the lip" intentional in order to put the Archie question on the agenda? If so, was that "slip" planned by Buckingham Palace and perhaps even approved by Prince Charles?
There is certainly public interest in the matter. A DM article about the decision to let Archie remain in Canada while his parents visited the UK garnered more than 8500 comments in 36 hours.
Harry and Meghan are scheduled to attend the Endeavor Awards this Thursday, and then on Friday Harry will open an auto-racing museum with Lewis Hamilton. (Is that environmentally responsible?)
On Saturday, the two of them are supposed to attend a concert at Royal Albert Hall (Will Meg be boo-ed?), and Meg will supposedly do something on Sunday to celebrate International Women's Day.
After that, there's nothing left but the Commonwealth Service on March 9, where they will (uncomfortably) appear with the rest of the Royal Family.
Charles is not going to let anything ruin his big moment.
If there are reveals to be made, he would rather have them sooner than later.
Charles' big moment may be at hand. His father Prince Philip is reportedly bedridden, and his 93-year-old mother, Queen Elizabeth, might have trouble continuing to keep up with even ceremonial occasions once the man she calls her "rock" has passed on.
The Queen's upcoming 94th birthday, on April 21, might be an optimal time to announce a regency, in which Charles would formally take power without his mother having to formally advocate.
Ducks in a row
Charles seems to be getting his ducks in a row for a potential change in status. He has spent the last few years instructing William on how to run the Duchy of Cornwall; William now takes his own children out to enjoy farming in the English countryside.Last week Clarence House once again confirmed that Charles' wife, Camilla, will take the title Princess Consort after he ascends to the throne - not Queen Consort. This will avoid conflicts with fans of the late Diana, Princess of Wales.
So, just one other thing that needs to be gotten out of the way - the Sussex mess, particular the situation with Prince Harry's son Archie.
A slip of the lip
Prince Charles' biographer Tom Bower, appearing on Good Morning Britain on February 24, said that among the reasons the media disliked Meghan was, "When she didn't tell the truth about Archie's birth, when she tried to deliberately confuse people about the time of birth."The host quickly changed the subject - perhaps there is a super-injunction against mentioning the matter - but its clear that Bower isn't the only one who has questions about where Archie came from, or perhaps if he exists at all.
Archie's unusual size - huge in July at the polo match when he was supposedly 3 months, then seemingly the same size when papped in a carrier in January at what would be 9 months - is also mysterious.
And the news that Archie would not be joining their Sussexes for their final round of Royal engagements didn't put any minds at rest.
The seventh-in-line to the British throne has now not appeared in public since September.
Was Bower's "slip of the lip" intentional in order to put the Archie question on the agenda? If so, was that "slip" planned by Buckingham Palace and perhaps even approved by Prince Charles?
There is certainly public interest in the matter. A DM article about the decision to let Archie remain in Canada while his parents visited the UK garnered more than 8500 comments in 36 hours.
The Sussex Final
As of March 31, the Sussexes are no longer officially part of the Royal Family, although in fact their public duties appear to be ending this week.Harry and Meghan are scheduled to attend the Endeavor Awards this Thursday, and then on Friday Harry will open an auto-racing museum with Lewis Hamilton. (Is that environmentally responsible?)
On Saturday, the two of them are supposed to attend a concert at Royal Albert Hall (Will Meg be boo-ed?), and Meg will supposedly do something on Sunday to celebrate International Women's Day.
After that, there's nothing left but the Commonwealth Service on March 9, where they will (uncomfortably) appear with the rest of the Royal Family.
The former Royals
Once the Sussexes are no longer "Royals", what will the Royal Family be willing to disclose - or let others disclose - about Archie?Charles is not going to let anything ruin his big moment.
If there are reveals to be made, he would rather have them sooner than later.
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I’m sure most people would have her Sussed within 5 minutes, apart from Harry.
Why would they risk their reputation on a ridiculous, convoluted plan
with a desperate, avaricious starlet.
I think it’s much simpler, she has something on Harry, sextapes, worse, from Soho?
The Invictus photos with Markus & Doria looked like an uncomfortable set up,
fake pregnancy, forced marriage?
BP reluctantly went along with Harry’s demands to marry her, & totally underestimated
the She Devil she is.
In the mean time she has sucked the life out of her prey & BP are frantically trying to get him back.
I feel like if an 🇬🇧English company did that, they'd be torn to pieces for it. And pigeon-holed with Zwart Piet.
Anyway, nothing wrong with Sleb/film-inspired food. I've thought about a "Parasite"-inspired cake (plum juice flavoured with cramelised peach topping, and cranberry syrup à la Patrick Bateman). 🍑
I also have a "Fight Club" cake (shaped like a soap, infused with Omega-3 lol). And "Stunning & Brave" motivational cakes. Lol.
I just feel like making references to a person's skin colour is super awkward & uncomfortable. At least it makes me *uncomfortable* IDK.
I feel like we're about to see a bunch of double standards in the near future. Hollywood royalty like Disney will snub her harder than the very-accommodating royal family, but I'm predicting no accusations of racism to the Americans. No race card-flinging.
Please post more! I keep bursting when I see your avatar. Excellent remedy against a dismal weather.
I thought you might like to know that the petition to strip Megsy and Harry off their tax paid security has reached 22 thousand signatures out of 25 thousand goal. I signed.
https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/182/113/000/
Genuine question, if a British ice cream company (one that wasn't marketed as a "woke" company) created/added a new flavour hinting at the colour of her skin (coffee) and called it "Meghan" (instead of of Queen), do you think that would have been considered a racial faux pas?
Omgosh I hadn't even made that connection! You're right, I do believe it would.
I do not know who is writing and producing the Crown but they take much license with history. That said, the most compelling scene in a rather dreary season 3 is between Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Princess Margaret has proposed some sort of co-monarchy with Elizabeth ostensibly to lighten her load. Philip points out the quandary of the house of Windsor going back to Victoria's issue. For every dull, steady, responsible Elizabeth, Bertie... there is a narcistic, unreliable, treacherous Margaret, David... I know wonder if this was some foreshadowing and one can keep going Anne, Andrew... and William, Harry...
I can't imagine any 21st century person wanting to be an opinionless mannequin rolled out for silly little receptions and ribbon cuttings for the rest of one's while being fodder not just for tabloids, but now TV and film dramas, and endless attacks on social media. HRM was born to this life almost a century ago. No other Windsor feels so tied to duty by a God given mandate. It's an anachronism.
So, this crazy story of an unhinged Harry threatening the Windors' secret plan to sunset might actually be plausible. I doubt Meghan was recommended by former client Andrew but who knows? More likely Harry in a haze spilled to some Soho House reptile who told Marcus Anderson and he colluded with Meghan to gaslight and love bomb the emotionally crippled Harry. Charles in his wokeness probably figured Meghan's 1/4 blackness would win favor for the RF which might explain the whacked out wedding.
Meghan, being Meghan, couldn't stay on script or resist maxing out on the worldwide fame and has kind of blown the plan. Or this Megxit brouhaha might be the red herring to end all red herrings - by setting up the terminus of Windsor upon the Queen's death with a walloping golden parachute.
I’m pretty sure I haven’t completely lost my mind or imagined an interview but I’m going to see if any of y’all remember reading an interview with, to the best of my recollection, Gina Nelthorpe-Cowne of Kruger Cowne. In this possibly hallucinatory article, GNC is recounting what she called a “frantic” phone call or email enquiring what she knew about the ‘of the body ‘ law. I seem to recall this being in the early stages of her ‘pregnancy’. It may not have been GNC but I can’t think who else she may have felt knowledgeable enough to ask about a legal matter and they were very close at one time. This wasn’t the subject of the interview so the import wasn’t staring me in the face. We know that M seldom thinks things through so on the morning she got up and decided to suddenly announce she was enciente, some time had passed before she discovered that her child could not have a title. It seems to me that this is when the ever-changing baby bump show went full tilt crazy. I’ve been scouring the ‘net, tumblr and everywhere else I can think of for this story. It wasn’t important enough to me at the time to document the source so, of course, I’ve been searching for it now for several months. I have a mental picture of M going crazy as she discovered that her spawn would not have that coveted title. So, if any of you out there remember GNC or anyone else recounting the night M “frantically calling to ask what I knew about the of the body law”, could you please point my addled brain in the right direction?
Sadly, no.
Even if she departs this life, there remain the allegations that she covered her backside by posting copies of the results of her `intelligence-seeking' (otherwise known as `snooping') off to the States. Doubtless, they are in trusted hands and marked `To be opened/published in the event of my death'.
In its early days, the British Post Office (`Royal Mail') was very much an instrument of government control. According to the history of the PO, at one time every letter entrusted to it was opened, read and copied with some form of early copying machine, because it was believed that this was imperative for national security. I'm talking about a period, roughly, of a couple of hundred years ago.
Today, it is a criminal offence us to `tamper' with the mail, even for a nosey neighbour opening mail that's been mis-delivered. I bet though that legislation still allows it at times of national emergency but I doubt if anyone thought it necessary to tail MM to letterbox or PO in order to get hold of the evidence.
Coffee-coloured ice cream referencing a person of colour? You bet there'd be a row. A Unison rep (that's a trade union, for those not in UK) once told me that asking for white or black coffee at her office was asking for trouble. One had to say `With/without milk.'
Over 20 years ago, a friend who called her jet-coloured cat `Blackie' was criticised so viciously about it when she moved into a metropolitan area that the poor animal had to have a name change to `Midnight'.
@Seabee, I think you are probably right. The Firm knows it's days are numbered once HM passes on. What you have said make a lot of sense.
>>>I can't imagine any 21st century person wanting to be an opinionless mannequin rolled out for silly little receptions and ribbon cuttings for the rest of one's while being fodder not just for tabloids, but now TV and film dramas, and endless attacks on social media. HRM was born to this life almost a century ago. No other Windsor feels so tied to duty by a God given mandate. It's an anachronism.<<<
This theory is so believable. It reflects what is going on in our society as a whole. People don't go to work anymore for a company thinking they are going to be a loyal employee and stay with it for 50 years and retire. On a more common situation, people say when they get married "it's till death do us part" but in reality most mean we'll stay married until something big and intolerable happens. Even the military has a hard time recruiting short-timers much less career patriots and US residents did not flock to join even in our so-called wars of late ('Desert Storm'). Or in our own families, do you see daughters and sons staying committed to caring for their aged and infirm parents till death, hardly not. So people in general don't have a sense of duty anymore even in the BRF (eg. David and Harry). After William, is it not likely that all of his children could say 'No' to becoming the Monarch. I think it is very plausible and better to end it on a positive note in a structured manner than see it collapse in a constitutional mess.
There was a children's book written a long time ago with the same name, about a little black boy named Sambo.
The Story of Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman.
I have this little book tucked away in a drawer.
All part of my innocent childhood.
Thanks for the memories. :)
Lurking with a Spoon - has to be a female doctor, eh, that is not good medical advise Megsy. You can just as easily find a doctor who doesn't have the skills you want be any sex options. When looking for a good doctor, look at skills (and how much experience they have at doing X). Lot of medical professionals in my family.
@gabes_human:
Meghan ghosted Gina Nelthorpe-Cowne of Kruger Cowne months before the engagement (in an abrupt em-mail) so this story is not true. Besides, why would a PR person know about the legalities of royal birth, titles and succession, especially one who is not actually born and bred in the UK?
I wonder if the Queen is going to ignore the anger f the British people and let Meghan and Harry keep on milking the taxpayer, which they have been doing since they ran off in October/November and will continue doing so until at last the end of March. A few appearances does not make them full-time working royals.
Hopefully those last few appearances will provide some entertainment ...
on the waddling issue
From a medical perspective - once the pelvic girdle (and all the other tendons in the body) loosen up due to pregnancy hormones, they never fully tighten again. This is why your feet "grow" during/after pregnancy - they actually aren't growing but spreading.
In any case, since the pelvis never re-tightens up so much - you have to develop muscles and posture changes to compensate for it otherwise you would be wobbly forever. As you exercised a great deal, you had developed plenty of muscles to stabilize and it wasn't a shock to your stance when you got pregnant the second time.
So the waddle is less obvious in the second pregnancy because you have already developed a different gait altogether.
There are just so many examples of why her physical stance, clothing, appearance and movements did not indicate pregnancy - but someone who sometimes knew to "act" like she was pregnant...and forget to "act" at other times. Her "maternal" performance is even less believable. The child she has been seen with (rarely) is not one she is comfortable with...and in fact, she does not look like she would be comfortable with any child. She is "acting" like she is a mother...not very well. Which is why she was a 3rd rate actress - she's just not that good - and doesn't appear to care.
@Fairy
"He and his wife attacked the whole nation, accused people of racism and acted so divisively I would constitute it as destabilizing behavior. By all accounts they plan to continue spreading their "racist" narrative abroad."
I don't know much about British law....but this skirts the edge of treason IMO. Someone might be reminding this of what happens to people who act in concert to bring down the...
I have to say that most people I've come across that do not like Meghan have valid reasons and its not jealousy its more of her actions, etc.
I am simply waiting for 9th of March. How she can refuse to bring her son just shows how evil she truly is an I love the ones who tie themselves in knots OH the conroa virus and recycled air on planes etc. And royals always leave their children behind etc. Its not the same but in their unhinged love for a woman they wouldn't of cared about 3 years ago is unreal. Anyway happy to be here and welcomed and I do still think there is a baby :).
https://www.thepetitionsite.com/en-gb/182/113/000/object-to-and-stop-paying-for-harry-meghan-and-their-son%E2%80%99s-global-security-costs/?cid=headerClick
Wow, that theory of Harry having a double, his mental breakdown, and MM being in on it is absolutely crazy. I can't help but think, though, of Occam's Razor. Which basically boils down to the simplest explanation is usually the right one. But what is the simplest explanation, everyone? There are so many options it's like a Chose Your Own Adventure book.
@Elsbeth
Personally - I didn't want a female OB for the same reasons I never wanted a female PE teacher - who insisted I "most certainly could" do those pushups - the males gave the girls a break - but I hated PE class.
I prefer females for gynecology but for obstetrics...in my experience, they tended to be less sympathetic and more "you can tolerate this because everyone else has". I might have felt differently about a doula - but they aren't common in the US - especially not the Southern part.
I ended up having to use a female OB for my third pregnancy - it was the worst experience ever (including the emergency c-section of twins) - and was every bit as bad as I expected. I know not everyone feels that way but I think MM excuse was just an excuse...a woke one, at that.
That's fascinating snippet about her panic over discovering the `born of the body' requirement. I can't find anything about it but I can well imagine her having an attack of sickening anxiety. There's a clutch of online articles about her having panic attacks regarding her future (as well she might - I call it `justice'). Does this explain all the weirdness we've been witnessing? She'd screwed up big time and knew it?
There are also reports of Kate suffering from anxiety - my sympathy is completely with her.
Not a very astute observation - what is it the financial people say of tempting investment opportunities?
`If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.'
I never, in a million years, saw coming what we've been handed by Her Royal Pain in the A$$.
@hunter— Thanks for finding yet another explanation for the Harkles behavior. I agree with @nutty that the easiest way to deal with Harry is to have him live in Africa.
Youallknowme999 is, I think, the person who posts and then deletes the content in a week, in 24 hrs—something like that—because his/her info is so secret. I draw the line at the devil worship/drinking blood theories. It is truly major tin-hat territory. I don’t know about DripDrop and torontopaper1, either. They are entertaining and supposedly know her through Soho. But who knows if anything is true, as we discussed last night.
I support Occam’s Razor. The simplest theory is usually the best. MM may be a narcissist and Harry appears to be totally under her control. They are PR/fame hungry and make a lot of mistakes. If they weren’t in the BRF we wouldn’t even be talking about them.
I can’t wait for the next week. I hope there are some answers. I especially want to know about Archie so get busy Piers and the DM.
Here is a U.S. Based petition to prevent paying for the dismal duo's security.
https://www.change.org/p/fox-news-no-us-funding-for-prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-security-in-the-us?signed=true
I'm really looking forward to seeing whether she will show on the 9th. I just don't think she has the fortitude. For such a "social warrior" she has no courage. She hides behind ghosting, running and lies. She attacks with "leaks" and insinuation. What a miserable excuse of a human she is. And Harry as well.
One day, Perhaps Thomas Markle will write a book detailing the outrageous stunts she got up to as a child. Veruca Salt indeed. Of course, he may feel complicit in creating this human tornado.
Speaking of tornados, anyone else get hit Monday night? My beautiful city is just decimated. (Sorry Nutty). I'm so proud of the people who pull together in tragedy. Nobody was on our news last night standing in front of the rubble thar was their home whining about "how hard this is" and requesting checks to see if they are "okay". The human spirit is so beautiful.
Which makes this selfish pair even more despicable.
The "of-the-body" law regarding Royal babies was discussed in depth on Slippy's blog during and after the odd pregnancy/baby saga. MM apparently reads Skippy's blog or has her infamous Troll Squad do so.
Yes, the night ones are the worst
And I thought the same thing when they got married! Someone who won't be frightened Hythe media attention.
He must have been the equivalent of human crack to her.
>>>> [...] the Queen may be interpreted as weak and the Harkles winning but we know she's conflict averse, and for good reason. We don't want to see the BRF rowing in public. I wonder how much that's angered Meghan? We all know people who love a fight and how frustrated they get with a passive response.
[...] the BRF have time on their side, Meghan doesn't if we look back at her pattern of relationships. That's a girl in a hurry. <<<<<<
I hadn't really thought about how the softly-softly approach could be harder for Meghan to deal with than outright confrontation.
Goodness, I didn't know you lived in a tornado zone. I have never seen one and hope not to see it ever. Very much hope you are OK, they scare me brainless, would not be able to act sanely. But you there must be made of sterner stuff to cope with the thereat of them on a daily basis!
The last time I looked it was 24,5 thousand signatures. The first time I looked this morning it was just over 22. Two and a half thousand people signed it within mere hours.
That is the biggest public response I have seen since Brexit.
When they first got married, I was a bit on the fence about her because I found it hard to believe that Harry would want to marry an actress.
Amusing that Megsy was not even on the Harvey Weinstein starlet radar level where you get a phone call to come to his hotel room for going over a possible role and a script. We know Megsy and she would have killed to be in a Miramax or Weinstein production. We know what Megsy would have done for HW.
Hollywood is so difficult to succeed in, to get any kind of success that an actress *must* be a narcissist. Narcissist translating into a self confidence that mentally excludes all the naysayers who told you "come back another time" at the countless auditions you went to. Megsy was rejected at 100 or more auditions. She developed a thick skin as seen how crudely Megsy divorced Trevor Engelson. He was completely blindsided.
Megsy learned how to be a slick, non-romantic operator and applied this to her willing dupe who is now the Prince of nothing in Malibu (soon)
The nice/talented/lovely women have trouble breaking into Hollywood. They cannot be as ambitious as the narrow minded narcissists/ Who have blinders on like a horse. So they can focus focus focus on the target at hand.
When our Megsy was displaying her one million dollar wardrobe from the Charles ATM machine, 80% of this was for showing off to all who rejected her in Hollywood. "How do you like me now!!"
Yes, Meghan has become more impatient and eager as she has got older, but Meghan has a history of dropping a bomb via remote detonation and then ghosting the person so she never has to confront them face-to-face. Harry is softening up granny so that there will no risk of her having to face any kind of confrontation at the Commonwealth Day service. The media will gush about reconciliation and everyone being 'loved up' (so good for the Sussexes PR that the stories will run for weeks), but what most people forget is that the Queen and the Cambridges are not only polite to whoever they meet on public engagements but the Cambridges especially have the 'friendly and engaged' manner perfected. The two who might let some emotion slip are Charles (he may look 'pained') and Camilla (she may let a bit of a frown slip through).
Can I be superficial and wonder what Megsy is going to wear to that very public family reunion? To be true to herself, she would wear a new, very expensive designer outfit that she will never wear again plus lots of new bling. However, she may want to play the 'cut off and struggling financially' role and try and do better than Kate and do a recognisable rewear. The only problem with the latter is that most of the clothes she bought while a 'working royal' no longer fit her properly, unless she has been on a starvation diet and had some liposuction done. Whatever she wears it will be black or navy ...
On one of the American based blogs I am sure there was a photo of MM sitting on Harvey Weinstein's lap at some do or other???
Possible one that has since been scrubbed, will check around.
Harvey Weinstein is a pig, but he still went after women with talent. hahaha. Poor Megsy.
Meghan as The Queen? I wonder how HMTQ would feel about that! I think it's time that these PR companies are told that mentioning Meghan is going to backfire on their businesses big time. If you have the time, send them your thoughts on how stupid and wrong this PR idea is. That's the only way this will stop, along with boycotting their products. They need to know that backing MM will hurt their business.
Coolhaus is another do-gooder company with approx 10.8 mil in annual sales. In 2018 they were trying to drum up money by offering equity shares in the company.
https://www.co-opagency.com/clients/
You can also email the CEO of Coolhaus at natasha@cool.haus Natasha Case, Coolhaus CEO
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Let's Markle them!
Harvey Weinstein is a member of the Soho House and has been seen at both the Toronto and LA houses. He visited Soho House in Toronto for TIFF.
I've seen the photos of Weinstein and MM together, too, but can't find them online now. Probably scrubbed. At least one of Weinstein rape accusers said it happened at SoHo House.
I completely agree! These companies need to stop.
https://66.media.tumblr.com/fa191b4649d52ba407c942b206b3b63b/da3deadf2cf4d314-98/s400x600/70ec4d0496e14a72e0ae7c5f9cf954313fbf6d8c.gifv
What is she doing?
Harry, you gave up your country, your friends, your family your life for this?
If MM were as "whip-smart" as her fans claim, she would have had Archie shown-off at some events in England where his presence would be expected. But she appears to have been blind in her spite to not show him in England, ever. Just naming him Archie is spiteful - there's too much info available suggesting this was a nickname for George. If it's true that it was his security nickname, then naming her son Archie is next-level wicked and Harry never should have gone along with it.
Question for the Brits: It seems that the risk for the Queen and Prince Charles being at Trooping the Colour will be horrific (elevated risk of COVID-19 deaths for those that are older). Do you think that it would/could be cancelled? I'm expecting deaths to start occurring in Florida soon because they don't call south Florida "God's waiting room" for nothin'. I'm concerned about her making any public appearances, even at church, at the moment.
I am pretty sure approaching the Queen is out of question unless you are vetted about 20 times and we can reasonably expect anybody around her will be tested for the virus.
If they feel the threat is too big they will not hesitate to cancel the event.
https://cool.haus/new-queens-coffee-ice-cream/
What caring mother would leave her baby behind so many times simultaneously claiming she wanted a quiet life to care for the said baby? Only Megsy who thinks she is whip-smart.
On a lighter note - did you notice her hair is always in a bun if she has to appear holding Archie in public or he is firmly fixed in place? I presume this is to avoid him grabbing her wig and pulling it off.
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So it is a blend of coffee 3 Queens from African grown coffee being used in ice cream. I am hoping no one slams them because it has NOTHING to go with Meg's.
I think COVID-19 spreads like any cold or strain of flu - someone who has been sneezing or coughing or blowing their nose touches something and you then touch it (e.g. trolley in the supermarket) and then touch your face or pick up something to eat ... something like that.
Symptoms of COVID-19 are fever, coughing and difficulty breathing (no runny nose or sneezing). Supposedly a person is only infectious once they are ill. (What we have seen happening in Iran is insane - people who are actively ill are not isolated but conducting a press conference. No wonder the virus is spreading so quickly there. In China they break down your door and drag you off to isolation if there is any hint that you may be infected!)
The face masks people are wearing are odd in that they help to prevent an infected person from spreading it but you are not likely to breathe in the virus unless someone coughs directly in your face (I suppose especially in crowded areas there may be merit to such a preventative measure).
I am sure the people who will be shaking hands at the Commonwealth Day service will be required to wash their hands beforehand as a precautionary measure. The BRF do not interact with the public in walkabouts for this occasion.
They will be fine.
Well, it's currently on
https://ladygreyhound93.tumblr.com
Just scroll down a little to see the clip. Various Nutties have wanted to find this again in the past but couldn't. It's elusive. So make the most of it.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/transmission.html
I would think being in the tight-packed crowd (I recall it being 5 -7 people deep) would pose the highest risk of infection.
Trooping the Colour is in June anyway, so perhaps it'll all be over by then.
It's the up-coming concert & church service that I'd be concerned about as they take place in closed buildings, though the Abbey vaulting is high above the congregation so there's a good volume of air there. Still, when I lived in a cathedral city, the GPs blamed the Cathedral Carol Service for spreading the 'flu at Christmas, along with doing the shopping at Sainsbury's.
A little story, a tiny bit OT. 1951 was a year when the then Princess Elizabeth took the salute at TTC on behalf of her sick father. I was small enough for my mother to put me on her shoulders - a wonderful viewpoint. E rode side-saddle on the chesnut police horse called Winston. She wore a red Guards tunic and a stout blue riding skirt.(easy to find pics online)
After the RF returned to Buck House, the crowd moved up the Mall to see them on the balcony. I remember `Old' Queen Mary (Geo V's widow, E.'s grandmother) was there, looking exactly as she does in all the photos. I can't remember if the King came out but the Queen was there. E & Philip of course, not sure about PC -he would have been 2 & A even younger)
Anyway, when it was all over and the crowd began to move away. Mum & I were in the thick of it but somehow we made it to the edge and Mum stepped over the low wire fence onto sacred grass, whisking me across with her.
An enormous policeman appeared instantly and told her back into the scrum but, wonder of wonders, Mum defied him-
`If you think I'm taking a child back into that crowd...'
And he backed down, didn't say another word as we scampered across the grass and out towards Green Park. Amazing!
Coolhaus has nothing to do with MM?
Then how about their billboard that says, " Ice Cream Fit For A Queen. Call us, Meghan."
https://www.foodnetwork.com/fn-dish/news/2020/03/coolhaus-ice-cream-meghan-markle
By Camilla Tominey, Associate Editor
'What we have witnessed is two royal women taking control of their own destiny'
To echo a tweet I posted on Monday, is Hilary Mantel able to promote a book without making highly controversial and conveniently headline-grabbing remarks about modern-day royals?
While I think we can all agree the Wolf Hall trilogy is a work of genius, I’m confused as to why being an expert on Thomas Cromwell makes Mantel an authority on royalty in general.
Having previously criticised the Duchess of Cambridge’s “perfect plastic smile”, the 67-year-old novelist now says the Duchess of Sussex is the victim of “abominable racism” and anyone who thinks otherwise should “check their privilege”.
Any racism is abominable, which according to the dictionary definition means ‘repugnantly hateful; detestable; loathsome’.
But I find the suggestion that anyone who has questioned the Duchess (and Duke’s) behaviour in recent months is abominably racist rather misguided.
Has anti-Americanism and even misogyny been at play here? Certainly, but I am yet to witness any hostility towards the couple because of the colour of Meghan’s skin, outside of the virtual sewer that is social media. Perhaps there is unconscious bias at play, but in that case we would all have to reluctantly conclude, like the famous Avenue Q song, that “everyone’s a little bit racist”.
Mantel’s claim that: “I think almost all of us would have bet that if she left, she’d have to leave alone,” also didn’t make much sense. It seems to be fuelling the rather sexist myth that this was all the Duchess’s doing. Prince Harry is a grown adult who knows his own mind. Every decision the couple has made they have announced together.
“None of us know the details of how this is going to work out,” added Mantel, having clearly not read the Sussexes’ 1000-word website update spelling out exactly how they think it is going to work out.
Mantel is right to say that Meghan was a “smiling face in a dull institution” who “cheered the nation up no end”. But I find it odd she was not able to apply the same description to Kate, which begs the somewhat troubling and controversial question – is the Duchess of Cambridge a victim of Mantel’s ‘privilege’?
In her 2013 lecture at the British Museum, Mantel described the royal, who at the time was pregnant with Prince George, as someone with no personality whose only purpose was to breed.
Comparing her to the late Princess of Wales, she added: “She appears precision-made, machine-made: so different from Diana, whose human awkwardness and emotional incontinence showed in her every gesture.”
There is a great irony here. The press constantly stands accused of being racist, unfairly comparing royal women, and providing endless commentary on their looks. And yet I cannot ever remember a journalist daring to describe a Duchess as “painfully thin as anyone could wish, without quirks, without oddities, without the risk of the emergence of character”.
A spokesman for Mantel later explained that the author was speaking about royal women as victims of their predicament. Yet what we have witnessed in recent months is two royal women taking control of their own destiny – one inside the institution and the other outside. Don’t both approaches suggest a strength of character? And isn’t the suggestion otherwise rather abominable?
I've just done an image search for `Trooping the Colour 1951' there are several balcony shots - the King isn't there and no Anne.
Also, there's one of the people lining the Mall, so evocative that I even looked for myself (not visible,sadly). The white things that people are holding are little `periscopes', sold in the street by pedlars/spivs. It's seems extraordinary now to see that people are sitting on the kerb, almost in front of the service personnel. It's only six years after the end of the war.
Indeed, remarks previously made on Twitter by Toronto Paper support a version where they were looking for a person to fill this role as Harry's +1. All of us have seen trails of the rumor another (pretty, American, Southern?) mixed race actress had been considered for the position but Meghan was "selected" instead.
They make it sound more like she is filling a purpose and doing all her crazy shit in addition to whatever the original plan was. Perhaps they "chose" her over the other girl because MM had less scruples and was (initially?) more agreeable, who knows.
Much of this has officially jumped the shark for me and I'm just sticking around for an Ultimate Archie Reveal.
I want to make a comment about the Satanic Baby Eaters but I don't want to take us down that hole - just want to say there is PLENTY of evidence going back far too long that suggests these activities are absolutely taking place both in the USA and the UK. I have read and heard some things that are too specific and too similar to be a complete multi-generational hoax.
That said, speculating exactly WHO is involved in such activities and how that may play into the real world machinations of politics is just too riddled with uncertainty so I just assume everyone is banging Satan while taking money under the table. My faith in humanity is offically shot ever since I realized our reality is a farce. #deepthoughts
I supposed they think that's OK - it might be fine with MM, seeing the firm's in LA, but I doubt if it is with the RF.
"A spokesman for Mantel later explained that the author was speaking about royal women as victims of their predicament. Yet what we have witnessed in recent months is two royal women taking control of their own destiny – one inside the institution and the other outside. Don’t both approaches suggest a strength of character? And isn’t the suggestion otherwise rather abominable?"
Talk about backpedaling. Yes, two royal women taking control of their own destiny. But it doesn't go onto just how MM has gone about it from Day One. We all know the details of that.
She simply cannot compare how Kate purports herself with grace and dignity with Meghan's hateful, money-grubbing antics, trying to split up the royal family, her insidious control over Harry, the Archie mess, etc. That is not strength of character.
But their gigantic billboard does. It's such a sleazy way of advertising.
@Southern Belle, hello neighbor! I am again, so proud of this town I hope you and yours are safe?
Thank you for your good wishes @Fairy and @Swampwoman
@gloriosa I think I've seen that photo! I'll try to find it as well
@Sir Stinx....wow. I agree that Harry is fully complicit in all this...didn t think to apply it to Chelsy or Cressida....intriguing!
@Avac yes!!! The big baby! I was the one looking for that last week and a kindly nutty showed me the gif. I believe it's ELF helping to talk him down.
@wildboar...you have such cool memories! I love to hear about them as well. I just realized very recently that HM rode sidesaddle always (in public) and that she had a kid shoot at her! During TOTC!! Was it blanks? Still, that amazing horse (Burmese, a gift from Canada) didn t bolt, she kept her seat, and did it all again the next year. I so admire her, and some of that is her love for dogs and horses.
@sandie...thanks for the CDC info. It would be horrible to lose anyone to this blasted disease.
M'm sure that MM LOVES to see her name on billboards. What narc wouldn't? But insinuating that's she's a queen is beyond the pale.
I agree 100%
This is all terribly wrong and a real shame:
"He and his wife attacked the whole nation, accused people of racism and acted so divisively I would constitute it as destabilizing behavior. By all accounts they plan to continue spreading their "racist" narrative abroad."
"I don't know much about British law....but this skirts the edge of treason IMO. Someone might be reminding this of what happens to people who act in concert to bring down the..."
While my heart hurts for HMTQ and for Harry's family, this chaos and divisive behavior have to stop. That they've leveled such charges against an entire nation, and against the monarchy of 1000 years (if my history is correct), is outrageous. One silly, selfish woman should not have this power.
Hopefully, Harry will wake up, will return to his family, and will grow up, and hopefully the baby will have a safe and happy home. But, MM will never stop causing trouble for them. Boundaries must be drawn for her, and for Harry, where he is out of line.
Beautiful
Well said!
The virus is not self-propelling. It requires coughing and movement of air (either from vigorous coughing or a breeze) in order to be airborne. It is possible that if a person is perspiring profusely, as that perspiration evaporates it becomes airborne, but that takes time.
This is from the CDC:
There is much to learn about the newly emerged COVID-19, including how and how easily it spreads. Based on what is currently known about COVID-19 and what is known about other coronaviruses, spread is thought to occur mostly from person-to-person via respiratory droplets among close contacts.
Close contact can occur while caring for a patient, including:
being within approximately 6 feet (2 meters) of a patient with COVID-19 for a prolonged period of time.
having direct contact with infectious secretions from a patient with COVID-19. Infectious secretions may include sputum, serum, blood, and respiratory droplets.
If close contact occurs while not wearing all recommended PPE, healthcare personnel may be at risk of infection.
@Jdubya,
Coolhaus has nothing to do with MM?
Then how about their billboard that says, " Ice Cream Fit For A Queen. Call us, Meghan."
https://www.foodnetwork.com/fn-dish/news/2020/03/coolhaus-ice-cream-meghan-markle
Heh. Imagine if it said "Ice Cream Fit For a Queen. Call us, Harry!"
If it said "call us Harry" I would buy a vat!
That made me laugh out loud!
I think this is just very topical marketing, trying to generate buzz by piggy-backing ongoing trends.
I met a woman once who suggested I pick fights or mis-represent information of my detractors or competitors just to get the publicity of them coming out of the woodwork to defend themselves.
I had never thought of it because obviously she is smarter than me, but it is likely the same tactic.
I think this is what the Vice TV show is going to be about. MM will show all sorts of threats against her life and Archie's. Well, that happens to all high profile people, Meghan, and if they are frightened enough, they will pay for private security.
You brought this upon yourself, Meghan, drawing your son and Harry into it, while trying to "break the internet," grasping at any fame you can. That low profile you said you wanted brought out the crazies, if there really are any.
I have no sympathy for you, but I do for Archie. If you really cared about the safety of your son, you'd go back to the protection of the BRF. But, I guess your reach for international fame is more important than the safety of your son.
I found the Toronto Police info on The Charlatan Duchess, which posted the Celt News video.
https://the-charlatan-duchess.tumblr.com/
@wizardwench, I'm looking at you... O_____O
(not being a hater, just hit return a bit more... anywhere would be fine and I could piece it together... )
In the famous words of Dirty Harry, "You've got to ask yourself one question. Do I feel lucky?" If you are under 60, are not immunosuppressed (taking immunosuppressive drugs for a transplant or for a condition such as rheumatoid arthritis, are not on chemotherapy, do not have HIV), do not have diabetes, obesity, a history of smoking, no respiratory or cardiovascular issues, do not have small children that need you or a sick spouse or parents to care for, maybe you do feel lucky.
As for me, I haven't won one of those mega million lottery jackpots and I do not feel lucky at all. I'm susceptible to bronchitis and pneumonia after viral infections, so this is one that I should sit out.
(o)______(o)
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All roads lead back to banding, doesn't it?
I think this was how she landed her"whale". Somehow, either Harry told Meghan, or someone at Soho House that Harry was all about the death of his mother. He blames the media, and his own failure to protect her.
Meghan instantly began working on those fears. She made up stories, she pap walked as "proof", she created threats where there were none. All while lovebombing the hel l out of him.
HArry the sap, subconsciously equated saving his mom through saving Meghan. He fell for every story. Believes every lie. He makes statements, scowls and brings lawsuits against the enemy. And she has so.many.enemies.
What he fails to grasp is how useful those enemies are to his wife. She courts them, provokes them, flirts with them.
Archie, of course, ups the protective ante. If they truly have him that is.
Harry is so confused that he has to streamline all the conflicting info. He has chosen to believe his wife. He is the White Knight, and she the fair maiden. That is his operating principle.
And what the fair maiden wants....
Sheesh, my writing skills have crashed.
Help me calm me down! In the latest Daily Express (yes, I know, I am hoping it is more MM fake news), it says MM to get role in next Dwayne The Rock Johnson movie, Black Adam! I love The Rock, but would could never bring myself to watch any movie with MM in it! Maybe I need to start a petition, and thank you Nutties for the link to the US petition re security funding for the EX royals.
And @Wild Boar Battle Maid love hearing your stories growing up in the UK, it reminds me of some of my fav British tv series like All Creatures Great and Small, The Darling Buds of May...
"…. sneezes can propel those viruses out 28 feet/8m..."
As a biologist I learned this decades ago and it is true. Also lessening one's exposure to groups is a way to reduce the likelihood of catching the flu and other seasonal viruses (and maybe the CV-19). Personally I employ this and have only gotten the flu once in 67 years. My father, a physician was always washing his hands at the clinic and at home. He never got sick until he was in his late 60's and rarely then. Also try to avoid touching your face at all times as it allows the germs on your hand to be transmitted near your mouth and nose otherwise.
That's exactly what Celt news said! That MM was making fake calls to Toronto Police to hook Harry by working on his fears. However, her complaining began during the first year of Suits when she said she couldn't go out to a restaurant without being mobbed or followed by paps.
I think it's her narc personality again and also looking for publicity. Then she ultimately used that to hook Just Harry. Then Just Harry put out the statement about MM being harassed. Just Harry is such a fool.
He is! If he had just an inch more sense or mental health, the damage that could have been avoided!!
All It would have taken is for him to see the Emperor Had No Clothes (and was grilling hamburgers)
Look closely at the headline and article on the Black Adam movie. The headline asks whether she will get a role in the movie, not that she got a role.
Here's the last paragraph:
"It could be the perfect opportunity for Markle to join the filming, particularly because if she wants a fresh start, a film alongside huge superstar The Rock and current fan-favourite all around the world would undoubtedly propel her to the top of the A -List in Hollywood."
This is pure PR and speculation. Nothing says that she got a part in the movie. You can rest easy.
Perhaps I have had too many G & Ts this evening...!
Glad I eased your mind. Enjoy the G&Ts.
@Elle,
Yes, the last thing I'd do is try to get DNA from Archie. I enjoy my life too much.
@hunter,
You tease! :0)
I just bought a big jug of white vinegar to keep my ice maker clean. So I just looked up whether it would work on viruses, and it does!
Does white vinegar kill viruses?
Vinegar, be it white or malt or rosemary-infused, is about 5 per cent acetic acid. The acid kills bacteria and viruses, by chemically changing the proteins and fats that make up these nasties and destroying their cell structures.Jan 11, 2018
Health - ABC News
I'll smell like Easter eggs, but it will do in a pinch.
Personally, I don't trust the CDC for info on COVID-19. It's too politicized.
I have seen reports on the web re how to make your own.. most recipes suggest that the mixture contain at least two-thirds 99 percent isopropyl alcohol and one-third aloe vera gel. A 91 percent alcohol would work as well.
Or, perhaps just dunk your hands in an Aloe Vera Margarita.
Can't we just drink the margaritas and hope for the best? lol.
Nutty, you ca get rid of my comment, which is long and personal. I also remember the 5.8 earthquake tha occurred in Virginia, and the quake was felt up to New England (templates are different in the east coast of Us, and earthquakes are felt for hundreds of miles, as opposed to west coast earthquakes, which are contained in a less than 109 mile distance, if even that). My house shook for two minutes, and a worker on our backyard deck fell off an almost died from injuries. Our entire house fell apart shortly after, and we are still fixing things.
But they have a video from Suits (scroll down past the other photo's) that i've never seen before. Where she is topless (from the back of course).
Now i am going to wash my eyes out with bleach because i had no clue what i would see on Celeb Jihab and i feel dirty now.
The Irish commenters over on DM are having a blast trashing the Meg sugars/trolls in the article about W&K's visit. One said after praising the Cambridges that just wait, next Rach will arrive in a hot air balloon when she comes to UK in an all out attempt to upstage Kate and Wills. haaa haaa. love it. A lot of the comments are just as funny as LSA.
I lived in a renovated farmhouse in Duchess County, NY, and a tornado went though my back yard and through the house. The whole house had huge windows, so I had nowhere to escape, and being from the PNW, I had no idea what to do. I was so afraid that the windows would blow out and cover me with glass. So, I dragged a mattress, bedding and all, from a bedroom into the middle of the living room (furthest place from windows) and hid under that until it was over. Very scary, and NY doesn't get tornadoes often, either.
The virus is coming it has made it east of the Cascades, so watch out.
I will have to check out the Irish comments on the DM, the Irish can be scathing... maybe the Queen read Just Harry the Riot Act at the four hour lunch and told him [and Meg], no upstaging the Will and Kate tour in Eire. I found her shimmery green dress with the ruffle at the bottom [a RUFFLE?] very Beatrice like. The other green dress, nice.
ha ha ha - hang in there lady!
Mattress, smart move in tornado situations. It must have been so scary for you. From a former Southern gal now in the PNW, no more tornados, just forest fires instead.
When I saw the tornado in the yard, my mind was just whirling, watching it head toward the house. I kept trying to remember if you open the windows to release the pressure or keep them closed. Never did figure that out, so I just grabbed the most padding that I could find and hoped for the best. I was terrified.
https://people.com/royals/reports-of-meghan-markle-attending-met-gala-in-may-are-untrue-in-any-capacity-says-royal-source/?fbclid=IwAR3XOKP4CY2UO1phypoTMX2Jq0KzOnqlv_5EhzmzaHI7kzAlIH04jK2DIeA
Reminds me of the baby shower Kate was supposed to throw for Meghan, or the Surprise Birthday party the Queen planned for Meghan, or Doria getting a special invite to Christmas with the RF, do many other fake stories to choose from.
Re the Hand Sanitizer:
1 cup Vodka
1 teaspoon TeaTree Oil
2 teaspoons glycerine (because the alcohol can be rough on hands)
Mix and put it in an airtight container (alcohol evaporates), a pump bottle would do.
Know this is off topic, but this may help those worried about sanitiser shortages. Stay safe and healthy everyone.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8075633/First-British-victim-25-describes-coronavirus.html
How can you be at risk? Imagine a person with the virus is in a supermarket and is coughing. Although the person covers their mouth, minute droplets of the virus do get into the air. You are not near that person when he/she is coughing but if, very shortly afterwards, you walk through the place where the person was standing and coughing you could breathe in the virus (very unlikely scenario). More likely is if the infected person coughs, covering mouth with hand, (or wipes perspiration off face) then uses hand to pick up an item off the shelf and then puts it back. Unaware, you take that same item off the shelf and the virus gets transferred to your hand and if you touch your mouth or nose it can get into your body.
It's a nightmare to keep this virus under control in a populated area if people who are that sick that they are coughing and perspiring (like that Iranian Deputy Minister of health) and do not self-isolate themselves. It will spread just as seasonal colds and flu strains do unless infected people are quickly identified and isolated.
Where I live, supermarkets have sanitary wipes at the entrance, free for everyone to use. This is not because of COV-19, but has been common practice for a while. Obviously if someone is coughing as they push a trolley around they are transferring any virus and bacteria to the trolley, but supposedly the sanitary wipes help to create a protective barrier for your hands. No COV-19 here yet but it is probably just a matter of time and then we will probably be handed sanitised face masks to put on before we enter a supermarket! It's to encourage people to keep shopping, not to protect the population!
Meghan and Harry: Remember 2019 (so long ago in terms of what has happened since then) when Meghan dressed up like a waitress?
https://www.endeavourfund.co.uk/news/endeavour-fund-awards-2019/
The Endeavour Fund is very much a Harry cause but so anathema to everything that is Meghan, yet she will steal the show tonight and hog all the headlines and front pages for tomorrow. Meghan is aware of this and no doubt she will not disappoint!
@hunter. - as fascinating as that theory is, I find it hard to believe because it's too complicated. Occam's razor all the way.
1. why choose an LA actress with a murky past you have to scrub from the internet, when you could have very easily found somebody who doesn't have yachting, two failed marriages, drug use, and a possible sex tape in their past?
2. why involve so many high profile people, who in turn have to involve their armies of assistants, advisors, helpers, etc....the more people know about these logistics, the higher the chances that this would get out (generally a good rule of thumb for annihilating over complicated conspiracy theories, especially in the time of Julien Assange and Edward Snowden)
3. why 'ban' crazy Harry at all? Just keep him on psychopharmaceuticals like a vegetable, close to you so you can keep an eye on him, that'd be so much easier. Banning invited questions, while keeping him under your watchful eye and only rolling him out a couple fo times a year to wave while heavily medicated, does not
4. what secrets could he possibly know that the public hasn't already heard? I agree that family secrets aren't for everyone to know, especially not the volatile and/or stupid ones
5. I don't believe for a second that Harry was mistreated, like 'dirt under a shoe', on the contrary, I think he was spoilt, and raised in an entitled way, he was able to do whatever he wanted, and the RF cleaned up his messes before
6. why choose a woman with fertility issues who is older than him? Why not choose a younger actress to avoid all this insane speculative drama? Or how about not an actress at all? The possibilities would have been endless. Besides MM is an atrocious actress, nobody can tell me she was 'chosen' because of her thespian skills. Pretty much any girl off the streets would have done a better job at acting the part.
As interesting as this theory sounds, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1251094/meghan-markle-international-womens-day-greta-thunberg-influential-list-royal-family-news
Meghan Markle blasted over being named most inspirational woman in UK - 'preposterous!'
Ahead of International Women’s Day on Sunday, LoveCrafts.com conducted research among five thousand people and they felt the Duchess of Sussex had earnt the top spot of being the most influential woman in the UK. Those who also missed out on first place included feminist campaigner Jameela Jamil, human rights advocate Malala Yousafzai and environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg.
Columnist for CCN Audrey Hansen, said the latest list was “preposterous” and “built upon the very thing women have been fighting against.”
She wrote: “As International Women’s Day rolls around every March, I take time to honour the women who have been inspirational to me.
"Meghan Markle is never on that list."
“Why would she be? Her fame is built on the very thing that women have been fighting against for decades.
“Reliance on men.”
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@Sandie,
Re the sneezing, it's not a symptom of C-19 but people can still sneeze for lots of reasons (my allergies cause me to have sneezing fits all year round whether I have a headcold or not), so it could still technically be spread by a sneeze if that person happens to have it and has an unrelated sneeze caused by dust or allergies or something. Sorry, don't mean to sound pedantic, I completely agree with everything else you've said :O)
There are so many threads to this that we need something like a crime Major Incident Room, with walls to which we can attach bits of paper detailing each item of evidence - photos, timelines, suspects, accomplices, sociograms and so on, making a 2-dimensional mind map.
Unfortunately, we are online so everything is linear but, the Internet being what it is, we have to get on with it and make the best of what is a 3-dimensional chess game.
May I suggest another line of enquiry - was `Archie' `supposed' to have been a girl?
Was the `pregnancy' organised just before the wedding, hence the smirk at the mention of `procreation', as well as her theatrical entry to the Chapel which was nothing short of triumphal (Victorious Nike/Winged Victory or Avenging Angel?)
1. I read somewhere, ages back, that M would probably not take kindly to a male sprog, feminist principles and all that jazz. Raising a son could pose emotional problems for her - maybe along the lines of `how could I bring another male into the world?' A daughter might be easier for her (poor child would have had to have been an extension of her Mom - or else!)
2.Didn't she say something about intending some piece of jewellery/a watch/whatever `for her daughter'?
3.Weren't there reports that the notorious NYC baby shower was pink-themed?
4.So does it sounds as if she assumed that she was `expecting'(in the broadest possible sense) a girl? Had she been a) pregnant & b)properly cared for, as she implied in the reference to the 12-week check, I would have expected her to have had a scan. This would have revealed if the foetus was F or M. Either she'd have known for certain or realised it could go either way. Or had she sought to influence the outcome in vitro?
5.Yet she also gave us the bilge about "the embryonic kicking of feminism”. From a boy? Or did she just think it was a great line?
6.It has been suggested that there may be something `wrong' with the baby. Is it that it turned out `wrong' by being a boy, not a girl?
7.If it was surrogacy, I'd expect her ovum to have been used - she's NPD, no other woman's donation would have been good enough for her. The bloke would be irrelevant; Harry seemed as we've said already, blindsided by the whole business. The suspect? Who knows? Markus or a chap from a catalogue.
8.Someone has pointed out that the NYC-shower trip fits nicely with the idea that she'd gone to collect the baby, conceived about 39 weeks earlier, just before the wedding. Only whoops! It was a boy. Do those dates fit with the over-large baby?
9.if the child was the `wrong' sex, they might have needed a boy's name at relatively short notice - `Archie Harrison' sounds to me like a name thought up by a marketing consultant for a range of clothing for boys. We've noted that it had a pre-existence, well before this charade became a public production. It reminds me of the fake `farm names' that supermarkets use for their prepacked vegetables. Did it just happen to be wildly appropriate?
What do Nutties think? What are the flaws in my argument?
Btw, did anyone else think that the elderly lady's response to `I feel very pregnant today' at the care home -`Yes dear, we do have newspapers' - sounded like one of Gran's lines in Ab Fab? Pure June Whitfield, a real put-down for MM's Edina Monsoon.
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>>>Was the `pregnancy' organised just before the wedding, hence the smirk at the mention of `procreation', as well as her theatrical entry to the Chapel which was nothing short of triumphal (Victorious Nike/Winged Victory or Avenging Angel?)<<<
I've thought for a long time the "procreation smirk" was meaningful. Otherwise, we have two almost middle-aged adults (one of whom has been married before at least once), giggling about the idea of having sex. That's just too absurd for belief.
And yes, I loved the woman's response to M's inappropriate proclamation about her pregnancy feelings!
IDK. I think on some level she realized that if she had a girl, the cute kid would run over her in popularity. And, the narc inside, said no to that idea.
Why pink at the baby shower then? Maybe initial reports back from a surrogate had a girl. Or there were several baby options in the running. But by the end of the NYC visit, the boy was born (ie ready to fly back in a private plane) and or problems with the girl. I think that the size, if it were born around then, would work with the earlier birth date.
Baby shower was February 20 and the birth was allegedly May 6 8 + 31 + 6 = 45 days
I would bet money there is some girl name out there on tap, the way Archie was ready to drop when needed.
OTOH, what if the surrogate hadn't had the baby yet by the time of the shower, she (the surrogate) flew back on the private plane, had the baby which was then handed over to HAMS. It would account for the change so much in two weeks comment.
Meghan is the only royal bride - well only bride actually - who I have seen smirk her way up the aisle. The first royal wedding I ever watched was Princess Anne's, so that's a fair few. At the time I was sad for Meghan, given the celebrities rather than family and friends as well. I was sad she was such an empty vessel. All the moments that are so precious in life, such as walking up the aisle to be married to someone you love and sharing that with everyone else you care for, was just means to an end for her. Same for a baby's arrival in the world.
I'm reading an interesting book on early Tudor life and it made the point that Henry VII and VIII could live partly in privacy which was then unknown for common people. However other aspects that would otherwise be private were NOT private to them, such as their medical history, bowel movements, or giving birth for royal women. The people had 'a justifiable interest'. This still applies today in some respects, such as royal doctors, their signatures to birth announcements and firm information as to place of birth etc. The safeguarding of royal succession is vital as long as we choose to live in a constitutional monarchy. The more I think of it the more outrageous the Sussex conduct around Archie's birth becomes. It was just unacceptable.
Let her act whatever role she lands. She is not great actress and now she will be even worse because she thinks she is special. She will demand special treatment, interfere with directing, push her own ideas and throw tantrums. The movie will flop and bury her acting hopes under the debris. She is nearly 40.
"Why is everyone expecting to see pics of M’s arrival in the UK? This is the UK. Where Harry and Meghan enjoy the most privacy. The paparazzi is highly controlled, more so than the US and Canada."
I had been keeping an eye out for her arrival earlier today, then reminded myself of this very same thing. That makes a nonsense of their move abroad. God it seems like years since that Sussex hissy-fit statement. Everything associated with them seems to go on forever.
You left out March and April ...
8 + 31 + 30 + 6 = 75 days before the birth so she was about 6.5 months pregnant at the time of the baby shower. If she was overdue when Archie was born as was rumoured, she was about 7 months pregnant.
Just for fun:
Moon bump pregnancy: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/19/f8/8a/19f88aa28f4d9c691b2393de92c9ffb6.jpg
Real pregnancy (although normal does differ): https://cdn2.momjunction.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Sixth-month-pregnancy-Temp.jpg
Anyway, what I was going to say was that I have never done so much scrubbing in my life. Every day. Everything washed thoroughly until the water ran from the floors out into the moat. Far more careful than in modern life, although of course without modern detergents. I think we could learn a few things from households at that time.
Off-Topic Warning back @Elle! You have read the "Florida Man" headlines, right? 'Nuff said. I worry about your being located at ground zero. From what I've read, one of the persons in your AO that had the virus tested positive for both the most virulent and deadly strain as well as a lesser strain of COVID-19. (Yes, there are two known strains now and likely more.) That is *very* bad for us/you.
I don't have a lot of faith in the ability of the governorship of the west coast to even realize how big a problem there is, let alone how to contain it, particularly when the heads of governmental organizations are there due to their political views, not their expertise. Imagine 20 patients completely overwhelming a facility resulting in shutting down a hospital and the exposed medical people having to be quarantined, and then imagine it getting into the homeless population. Well, you've already got medical people and EMS people in quarantine, so no imagination needed there.
As for alcohol wipes, I cut paper towels (or gauze bandages) into appropriate sizes, place in ziplock bag and saturate with 70% isopropyl alcohol. I stuck a (small) bag into my glove box in the truck, into my purse, and into my wallet. I'm turning into an insane cleaning lady *in public* which is cray cray because we're in the midst of some demolition on interior walls of the house (some people rearrange furniture, we rearrange houses) so there is *nothing* sterile here. I went to the local grocery store last night before closing when the only people there were some young people cleaning, and picked up a couple more quarts of 70% isopropyl alcohol for $1.00/quart. If we run low (grin), I can always pick up Everclear and dilute it.
Folks, when you go into big warehouse stores and the nice man or lady is ostentatiously wiping the carts with a container of Lysol wipes in hand, it is just cleaning theater. The surfaces that have been treated with said wipes need to remain wet for 4 minutes for the micro life to be killed. Maybe it stays wet for that amount of time up north, but not here.
Another little-known fact about Florida: As well as the state most likely to get a long power outage after being hurricaned, we are also in the top 3 states for tornadoes and guess what is in the forecast for today! Yes! We get to watch for tornadoes this afternoon!
We're number 1 for shark attacks and being hit by lightning, so I guess being number 3 for tornadoes isn't too bad considering what our odds are of being killed by somebody saying "Hold my beer and watch this!".
Now, back on topic. NONE of this MM/PH nonsense makes any sense to me until I realized that we're evaluating her (and him) and trying to make sense of their behavior from the perspective of rational adults, and nothing that I have seen thus far indicates rational adulthood from either of them. More like toddlers with tantrums.
I hope there is a rational reason for their behavior and it will be revealed, but I'm not going to hold my breath until I turn blue (unless I'm in Walmart and somebody starts hacking up a lung, but then I'll relax because it's probably TB).
...and don't forget to take vodka internally! Vodka has been used for centuries to fight viruses and bacteria. Joke but every joke has some truth in it.
I'm making you my primary GP as of now.
To have registered the birth, Harry should have taken the child's Personal Child Health Record (the Red Book) which contains details of the birth, presumably verified by legitimate medical person(s) although it looks as if the Registrar does not have to ask to see it. That's usually issued by the hospital at the time of birth, or brought round by a Health Visitor a few days later, if a Home Delivery.
https://www.gov.uk/register-birth
The birth would have had to have been kept secret - and there'd have to be a way of getting hold of a Red Book for him. Then again, in UK law, the woman the child comes out of is the legal mother (an observable fact), hence the requirement to adopt one's `own' baby when it's been created by surrogacy. So the surrogate's name should be recorded as `mother' not the name of the woman whose ovum it was.
People can be leaned on to turn a blind eye but the more there are of them, the greater the difficulty of keeping it quiet. Perhaps we are the only ones who don't know what happened.
Then again, what Registrar would argue with a member of he RF?
What a great experience!!
@swampwoman
Stay safe!
I've seen the vid on #NotMyDuchess of His Royal Poutiness. William (lookin' cool in shades) is avidly engaged talking to a gentleman on his other side, his body semi-angled away from the threesome. It really looks to me like Kate and the gentleman on Harry's left are conducting their own conversation over Harry, rather than trying to talk Haz round. He's in the middle with his arms crossed and slumped down in his seat, scowling like a lump. However, he could have just been very unhappy with whatever was transpiring on the field, wherever they are. Was it Wimbledon? I can't tell. Harry is the only one of that group that seems to even be looking at whatever's going on. His very blond eyebrows and close-set eyes always make him look angry, IMO, if he's not smiling. People talk about William's RBF, but the RBF is very strong with Harry. He usually looks pissed off, constipated or both. It might be a result of inner turmoil as he tries vainly to keep up with what's going on around him. But such poutiness gets really old in an 8 year old, never mind a fully grown-a$$ man.
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Wild Boar,
>>>Someone has pointed out that the NYC-shower trip fits nicely with the idea that she'd gone to collect the baby, conceived about 39 weeks earlier, just before the wedding. Only whoops! It was a boy. Do those dates fit with the over-large baby?<<<
I am leaning this way myself, and the dates would certainly fit. The child we have seen as 'Archie' is significantly larger by several months than his published birth date would indicate. Harry's tall, but if Archie's birth weight was barely over 7 pounds, that is not a large baby. Not large for a girl and certainly not for a boy baby overdue by 10 days or so. 7.3 lbs would fit nicely with a full-term baby who was born in February, though. I'd wager early February or even mid-to-late January, since newborns would not be permitted to fly transatlantic. If she brought a baby back with her, he was probably a month old at the end of February.
The true purpose of the trip would also explain the necessity to use Amal's private jet, so they could conceal whatever they were bringing back, besides 'shower gifts'. It was very careless of Rachel to step out on the town for papping while leaving her 'fetus' back in her hotel suite, though. She didn't think that detail through. All she thought that night was "I want to drink, so I can't very well show up at a bar 7 months pregnant. I'll just hide behind a huge handbag and *nobody will notice* because they are all so much stupider than me!"
>>>if the child was the `wrong' sex, they might have needed a boy's name at relatively short notice - `Archie Harrison' sounds to me like a name thought up by a marketing consultant for a range of clothing for boys. We've noted that it had a pre-existence, well before this charade became a public production.<<<
Even in this day and age, scans can still trick doctors into predicting the wrong gender. Another thought was, it's common practice in IVF to implant more than one embryo to increase changes of survival. Perhaps the surrogate was initially expecting a set of twins and a girl fetus didn't survive. I saw both blue and pink gifts among the shower bags, so maybe guests were not told in advance what 'she was having'. (here's me playing along with the joke.)
I don't see any flaws, because you agree with me, lol.
I am convinced that Rachel was not herself pregnant, with all this coy cloak and dagger BS, not to mention a complete lack of normal pregnancy symptoms or behavior. Still so many questions, though. IF the baby was born in New York, ostensibly by an American surrogate who went to Toronto for the procedure, since that's where Meg's eggs were, does American surrogacy law hold precedent, or does Canada's? (I don't know if they differ.) If the child was born on American soil, than he . . or she?? . . is automatically American, regardless of the parentage, but that birth would have to be registered with an American office of records. If 'Archie' was born in London, as is Rachel's story, then she still was required to report to the American embassy in London to register the birth of an American citizen abroad. Otherwise the authorities only have her say so that he's hers. If the baby was born in North America from her genetic material, then he is hers by law. So for this baby's sake, I would rather he was born of a British subject in Britain and Rachel and Harry were compelled to wait 42 days to apply for adoption and were rejected on the grounds of gross unsuitability/drug use, and he/she is happy somewhere with his/her British mother. Because on no account do I want Markle and Harry to have a child to ruin for life. I'm distraught over the prospect. If this baby is in the clutches of these two Narcs, his life is ruined before it's even properly started. She will eat him alive. If he is in her custody, God help him, I do think it's slightly better that he's a boy. A daughter would represent too much of a rival/ego threat to Meg, especially as she grows up.
Embryonic kick of feminism, my arse.
>>>Btw, did anyone else think that the elderly lady's response to `I feel very pregnant today' at the care home -`Yes dear, we do have newspapers' - sounded like one of Gran's lines in Ab Fab? Pure June Whitfield, a real put-down for MM's Edina Monsoon.<<<
Wonderful! I laughed so hard. An early shade-throwing at her Royal Pain in the Dutch-Ass.
For the record, that day, December 5, 2018, is when I abandoned any vestige of hope that Meg was going to settle in and work out in the Royal family. Until then, I viewed the wardrobe and protocol gaffes with more indulgence. Girl wasn't used to dressing up fancy, and certainly not used to being demure, and I knew there'd be a learning curve. I did expect a modicum of effort from her, though, even with allowances being made for her being an American from the decidedly not-posh class that was comfortable with fish knives and hosiery and hats, etc. It was her complete resistance to being instructed that first got my hackles up, but when she turned up at the actors' home at 4.5 months pregnant, so she said, stuffed into a summer dress like a sausage casing, with a glaringly square-shaped stomach, complaining how pregnant she felt that day . . I told myself "She's a complete loon." Nothing has changed since then, she's just confirmed it every day a hundred times over.
Ahem. Well, I DO have a "Let me speak to your manager" haircut.... Seriously, I can envision an older, maternal lady who still thinks kindly of Princess Di being willing to overlook a few irregularities for Prince Harry. I am a nobody that was in a different state that was able to get various titles changed over that the attorney said was illegal and I couldn't get done on my own. I told him a nice older lady version of "hold my beer....", and got things changed over because a clerk of the court and I bonded over a mutual dislike of attorneys.
Forgot to add that at least the "Harrison" part of Archie's name was thought up by a marketing consultant for a range of textiles--"Harrison" being the Soho House brand of home linens, available for purchase, of course . .towels, rugs, slippers, bathrobes, and other home furnishings. I can well imagine Rachel and Haz getting baked in their comped suite at Soho House Toronto (where their assignations would take place) thinking that naming a future kid after Rachel's favorite terrycloth bathrobe would be a real wheeze. The similarity to Harry's own name was a bonus.
As for 'Archie' . . the only way I can accept that as Rachel's idea is because PG Tips's call sign with the RPOs was 'Archie' . . hence, RMM's not-so-subtle dig at the Cambridges. Catherine's cute kids press every one of Meg's Narc Rage Jealousy buttons, which is why her attacks on the Cambs are so personal. Archie may be very popular in Britain, but is not a Woke So Cal name and Rachel never would have agreed to it without some powerful motivation. Harry might like it and have some former friends by that name at school, but I frankly do not see him asserting himself over the name pick myself. If the kid is called Archie Harrison, it's because that's what Meg wanted.
Swamp Woman is right - we're trying to make sense of irrational behaviour using our, very rational, minds. H$M share an internally coherent view of what for them is reality - sadly, it's a completely different reality from ours.
The history of avoiding epidemics: I read ages ago that the reason UK universities have traditionally had such a long Summer vacation goes back to the days of the Plague.
For centuries, we had only 2 universities in England but they were responsible for the education of the clergy, who in their turn constituted the Civil Service which ran the country for the monarch. (Hence CofE clergy acting as Marriage Registrars are a survival of those times). `Clerks' who do even secular `clerical' work are so-called because they were once `Clerks in Holy Orders', able to read & write.
Anyway, the Plague usually struck in the summer, so Oxford and Cambridge emptied as the universities packed up until autumn and their members dispersed home. Otherwise, all the brightest and most highly educated young people could have been wiped at a stroke, a national disaster.
Here is a really good account of what this Welshman did in China when he got the Corona virus in November>>>>>> He went the whisky/hot toddy route for some of his sick days which were 20 or so.
If corona does not kill you but puts you in the ICU. Meaning you have it bad!!!..... I think many will have lungs that are scarred for life by fibrous scar tissue. Meaning you will have to live with a lower lung capacity. My uneducated guess is 30-50% less. Who wants to have this? Not me!
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What it's REALLY like to catch coronavirus: First British victim, 25, describes how 'worst disease he ever had' left him sweating, shivering, and struggling to breathe as his eyes burned and bones ached
Connor Reed, 25, an expat teacher from North Wales, lives and works in Wuhan
In November, he became the first British man to catch the deadly coronavirus
Here he explains how he beat the illness that is sweeping across the globe
By CONNOR REED FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 17:08 EST, 4 March 2020 | UPDATED: 19:55 EST, 4 March 2020
>>>>>>2.2K views<<<<
Connor Reed, a 25-year-old expat from Llandudno in North Wales, has worked in a school in Wuhan, China, for almost a year. In November he became the first British man to catch the coronavirus. From coughs and aches to burning up and spending the night in hospital, here’s how he beat the illness that is sweeping the globe.
Day 1 — Monday November 25: I have a cold. I’m sneezing and my eyes are a bit bleary. It isn’t bad enough to keep me off work. I arrived in this country to teach English as a foreign language — but now I’m a manager at a school in Wuhan, the city in central China where I have lived for the past seven months.
I speak Mandarin well, and the job is interesting. My cold shouldn’t be very contagious, so I have no qualms about going to work. And I live alone, so I’m not likely to give it to anyone. There hasn’t been anything in the news here about viruses. I have no cause for concern. It’s just a sniffle
Day 2: I have a sore throat. Remembering what my mum used to do when I was a child, I mix myself a mug of honey in hot water. It does the trick.
Day 3: I don’t smoke and I hardly ever drink. But it’s important to me to get over this cold quickly, so that I can stay healthy for work. For medicinal purposes only, I put a splash of whisky in my honey drink. I think it’s called a ‘hot toddy’.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8075633/First-British-victim-25-describes-coronavirus.html
I've been reading up on the symptoms . . I'm not particularly worried about it, any more than the seasonal flu, though I've had my shot for the flu. I do have a job with high public contact, though, so I've been educating myself. More deaths are being reported here Stateside, but so far they are all very elderly patients or middle-aged patients with underlying medical conditions. The virus starts as a sore throat, developing into fever and dry cough/difficulty in breathing. According to what I have read, if you produce a runny nose and/or a wet cough with sputum, it is a cold, not coronavirus. So that's a little comforting, at least. If you're a snothead, you can rest easy that you are not going to die.
@ Hikari, yes, I should have mentioned that Harrison was already a relevant brand. Soho House isn't exactly Mothercare so would they be doing kids' clothes? Probably not!
Yes, anything to have a go at the Cambridges and create mayhem and nuisance for security staff - power for its own sake. Harrison just fitted the bill.
He shops regularly at the food market in Wuhan which the outbreak has been traced to, but says he did not see any 'exotic' meat like bats. Doesn't matter . . a pig could easily have become infected via bat feces, which is *exactly* the scenario depicted in the 2011 movie "Contagion", where a butchered pig in Hong Kong had ingested infected bat feces before slaughter.
By the time he realized how ill he was, he was halfway over it. Sadly, his kitten died. Though whether because it was also infected or he was too sick to get up and feed it enough is a bit hazy.
Not the best launch to my workday, reading this.
March 5, 2020 at 5:20 PM
Blogger SwampWoman said...
Ahem. Well, I DO have a "Let me speak to your manager" haircut....
Oh I love this! The very fibers on your head brook no opposition!
Then again, what Registrar would argue with a member of he RF?
And that's really the crux of it? Who would ever question the Duke of Sussex?
no hype, just basics
https://www.technologynetworks.com/immunology/videos/what-actually-happens-if-you-get-coronavirus-331164
Here I go, being a downer again. You can be infected with cold, flu, seasonal allergies AND coronavirus all at the same time because they attack different receptors. (Some of the dead patients were infected with multiple respiratory agents.) Just because they are trailing snot like a slug doesn't mean that they aren't infectious with something far more deadly.
/downer persona off.
The younger you are, statistically, the better your chances. The chances of dying of CV for a young person is roughly double the flu and then it really starts to ramp up in the 40s, then again in the 50s, in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s.... OTOH, there is some thought that the older people are more likely to have comorbidities and that is the reason for their elevated risk. I'm sure it also has to do with their more depressed immune system. If a younger person has a comorbidity (diabetes, transplant, lung disease), their chances may be the same as a person in their 70s, 80s or 90s, so they should keep that in mind.
If I had a child with an elevated risk due to chemotherapy, a transplant, or an immune disorder, they would have already been pulled from the school system.
Since it is temporarily quiet and at Nutty's indulgence>>>>
Scientist may have figured out why women live longer than men
By Natalie O'NeillMarch 4, 2020 | 3:47pm | Updated
https://nypost.com/2020/03/04/scientist-may-have-figured-out-why-women-live-longer-than-men/
In the search for the fountain of youth, “X” marks the spot!
Scientists may have figured out why women live longer than men — linking it to having two X chromosomes, which defend against aging, a new study says.
The extra X provides a sturdy cellular structure that protects against gene mutation and sickness, according to a report published Wednesday in the journal Biology Letters.
“These findings are a crucial step in uncovering the underlying mechanisms affecting longevity, which could point to pathways for extending life,” the researchers write. “We can only hope that more answers are found in our lifetime.”
For the study, scientists from the University of New South Wales gathered data on the sex chromosomes and lifespan of 229 species, including insects, fish and mammals. They found that animals with two of the same sex chromosomes — such as birds with two “Z” chromosomes — live nearly 18 percent longer.
Their research piggybacks on a pre-existing theory known as the “unguarded X hypothesis,” which notes that one X can serve as a buffer against disease.
As the theory goes, only one X is activated in each of a woman’s cells, so a harmful mutation in one cell is less likely to effect all cells.
That makes mutation-related disorders “masked” more often in females, according to scientists.
By contrast, guys are more likely to be exposed to the same types of mutations because their XY chromosomes only have a lone X.
But when the males of other species double up, they tend to live longer than females.
Overall, males live an average of 7 percent longer than females in species where males have two of the same sex chromosomes, according to the study.
When the chromosome pattern is the other way around — as in the case of humans — women live an average of nearly 21 percent longer than guys.
But there may be other factors tied to longevity, such as fighting and risk-taking, the scientists said.
“Pressures to travel far to find a mate, establish a territory and compete with other members of your sex are not seen often in females,” said Zoe Xirocostas, who co-authored the report.
Steven Austad, a University of Alabama at Birmingham expert on aging, called the study promising.
“It plays some role in understanding sex differences in longevity,” Austad, who was not involved in the research, told The Guardian.
A bigger role in child care may also be tied to living longer, he said: “For instance, owl-monkey males live longer than females — and the males play a big role in infant care in that species.
(article in full)
In my experience a bit of pure alcohol inside is the best remedy against high cholesterol, stress, high blood pressure, poor appetite, depression and about a thousand other conditions.
It may even be effective against Meghan Markle.
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11106576/meghan-markle-returns-uk-megxit/
Let's discuss the Endeavor Awards appearance tonight together...
Makes me really disgusted! Another poke in the eyes for the taxpayers of Great Britain who paid for the Frog cottage renovation. They pledged to pay, but these ex-royal con artists will never pay back one penny for this 2.4 million dollar renovation. BUT Hapless' biggest con job is gaining sympathy for being mental. Whatever mind problems he has are 20% of what he makes them out to be.
In the past months, Harry, who professes to want privacy and independence, has let others carry his bags, hold umbrellas over him, drive him around in a car, and provide free lodging. A man (or woman) with any personal pride would be ashamed not to provide for themselves, especially after making such a fuss about demanding their independence. This is a pole in the eye at the people of Britain, and begs the question, “who is paying”?
People who can’t afford to pay their bills wouldn’t spent this kind of money. Maybe it’s all he knows?
Another item to use instead of gauze or paper towels for home made wipes is coffee filters. I kept my filters as a backup after getting a coffee maker that uses kcups. Comes in handy when I run out of paper towels.
I read that vinegar also kills virus in case we run out of alcohol, vodka and Everclear.
Interesting allegations / speculation on Charlatan Duchess that the security brouhaha is an attempt to break open the BRF /
Diana trust.
@Duty calls: This behavior from Meghan would not at all surprise me. As a narcissist, being materialistic and greedy to the nth degree, and largely defining herself by possessions, is common. She’s likely been salivating to get her hands on that trust from Diana since she leaned it existed.
One of my predictions for the Harkles is that they will encounter severe money problems due to Meghan's extravagant taste and spending habits, which are largely driven by overblown senses of entitlement and grandiosity, which are common to narcissists.
Narcissists are also often OTT spenders, especially if they are spending other peoples’ money. It is also typical for narcs to spend their victims money and when it’s all gone, move on to their next prey.
It wouldn’t surprise me one bit for Meghan to get her mitts on all of the trust money from Diana. It is said Harry gets about $350,000 a year from it, but Meghan can spend that in one couture fashion shopping spree. They will live far beyond their means and end up in financial distress.
They are likely to initially make some money as “independent” royals due to the novelty factor they currently have, but even if Meghan had Bill Gates type of money, it would never be enough to satisfy her bottomless greed.
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This still applies today in some respects, such as royal doctors, their signatures to birth announcements
Am I correct in thinking that this the modern equivalent of the birth being witnessed by a bunch of people in the birthing room? It's been rumbling around my mind every time it's been discussed but I've not seen it specifically brought up when discussing how things used to be done (or missed it if it was) so I was a bit unsure about saying something. If Archie's announcement wasn't signed by the royal doctors (or any doctors at all, if my memory is right), isn't this a bigger red flag than the confusion over the birth certificate or place of birth, or am I barking up the wrong tree?
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Plus, no matter how much they try, they will never outdo PW and DC. Im so happy their tour was a success and DC is as gorgeous and classy as ever.
Off topic: was at the grocery and the cashier coughed right in my face and the news announced this am we have COVID in our county and then back tracked that news. It is prob here and they don't want us to panic.
Are we ever going to see Archie?
Fascinating re your Tudor experience. What has always confused me about the past is how did women get their whites so white--(I can't even do it with a washing machine) and I am not talking about MM new veneers.