Jessica Mulroney was one of the earliest players in the Meghan Markle fame drama.
She met Meghan sometime between 2011 and 2015, when Markle was in Mulroney's native Canada playing a role on Suits; by 2016, the two women were pictured vacationing together in Italy.
Jessica was right by Meghan's side during the romance with Prince Harry, even present during the couple's first public outing at the Invictus games in September 2017.
She was a visible presence at the Royal Wedding in May 2018, and even made a brief appearance during the Sussexes' Royal Tour of Australia, for reasons that have never been fully explained. There was also gossip about the Sussexes giving the Mulroneys an expensive Jaguar car - why is also unclear.
There was great speculation that Jessica might be chosen as one of Archie Windsor-Mountbatten's godmothers, although as a follower of the Jewish faith, she would not ordinarily be eligible.
And when the Sussexes returned to the UK for their last appearance as Their Royal Highnesses, they reportedly left Archie - such as he is - in the care of Jessica Mulroney, even though she was living in Toronto at the time and they were based in Western Canada.
She and Mulroney started their family quickly - their twin boys were born in summer 2010, along with a daughter in 2013.
And they leveraged their family for publicity from the beginning, regularly sharing images on social media. Mulroney even served as a spokeswoman for Pampers diapers, along with a side business distributing high-end lingerie.
In November 2015, Jessica had her big breakthrough as a stylist, choosing a range of ensembles by Canadian designers for Justin Trudeau's wife Sophie to wear on the world stage.
After hitching her star to Meghan's, she won a regular spot on "Good Morning America" and her own reality show featuring re-dos for brides whose first wedding had been botched.
She met Meghan sometime between 2011 and 2015, when Markle was in Mulroney's native Canada playing a role on Suits; by 2016, the two women were pictured vacationing together in Italy.
Jessica was right by Meghan's side during the romance with Prince Harry, even present during the couple's first public outing at the Invictus games in September 2017.
She was a visible presence at the Royal Wedding in May 2018, and even made a brief appearance during the Sussexes' Royal Tour of Australia, for reasons that have never been fully explained. There was also gossip about the Sussexes giving the Mulroneys an expensive Jaguar car - why is also unclear.
There was great speculation that Jessica might be chosen as one of Archie Windsor-Mountbatten's godmothers, although as a follower of the Jewish faith, she would not ordinarily be eligible.
And when the Sussexes returned to the UK for their last appearance as Their Royal Highnesses, they reportedly left Archie - such as he is - in the care of Jessica Mulroney, even though she was living in Toronto at the time and they were based in Western Canada.
From shoe sales to celebrity
Born to a Canadian family that had made its fortune in retail shoe sales, Jessica Brownstein was married in October 2008 the son of former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, whom she had known since her teenage years.She and Mulroney started their family quickly - their twin boys were born in summer 2010, along with a daughter in 2013.
And they leveraged their family for publicity from the beginning, regularly sharing images on social media. Mulroney even served as a spokeswoman for Pampers diapers, along with a side business distributing high-end lingerie.
In November 2015, Jessica had her big breakthrough as a stylist, choosing a range of ensembles by Canadian designers for Justin Trudeau's wife Sophie to wear on the world stage.
After hitching her star to Meghan's, she won a regular spot on "Good Morning America" and her own reality show featuring re-dos for brides whose first wedding had been botched.
Jessica is cancelled
Now, at a time of heightened sensitivity about racial matters, Jessica has been "cancelled" after a feud with a Black Canadian influencer.
I don't have any special insight on their disagreement, which was explained in greater detail by Meghan's longtime supporter (and Jessica's friend, I thought) Lainy Liu.
But I do think it's a sign of the thinness of her celebrity that Jessica could be washed away so quickly and easily; she seems to have lost all of her gigs and sponsorships in a matter of days.
Is there anyone at all who stood up for Jessica? Anyone who was sorry to see her go?
Transactional friends
Celebrities with deep support are people who have been around for many years, people who fans can see themselves reflected in: Jennifer Lopez, Reese Witherspoon, even Harry Styles.
Were one of those celebrities to make a serious misstep, they would probably be able to work their way back again. (Witherspoon did, actually; she was caught driving drunk in 2013 and told the arresting officer, "Don't you know who I am?")
Jessica, maybe, not so much. Did anyone ever really like Jessica?
Did Meghan? Or were they only transactional friends?
It will be interesting to see if the Duchess of Sussex, eternally polishing her woke credentials, says anything about her supposed good friend's sudden fall from grace.
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It was assumed that someone who'd bragged about her top education, her polyglotism, her acting abilities, innate style and diplomatic and humanitarian experience would sail through the demands of her royal role. They took her at her word, and that's when things began to go wrong.
Kinda makes you wonder just how much vetting they actually did of her, doesn't it.
A really top-grade one could charm the pants off everyone in the room
Exactly. Mine could charm anyone in public. At home a whole 'nother story.
I think she is narcissistic, but has some other disorder(s) which override the narcissism. Which brings us to extremely short attention span....
Maybe that's why she showed up to so many events looking like she'd stumbled out of an all-night party in somebody else's clothes.
You're probably onto something there.
a lot of time on set would be spent getting her hair and make up done, fitting clothes choosing jewellery, and interfering with stuff like catering.
I so wish we had a like button....:-)
Having been trotted it out for the wedding, was Doria not deemed good enough to mingle with Meg's glitterati Hollywood friends in a more casual setting
In a casual setting, far too easy for mom to accidentally/inadvertently spill the beans a put whatever lie mm has told everyone?
Yes! My dear spouse has asked me later a few times where I know that lady (or gentleman) in line at a grocery store checkout because they were telling me their life's story. I would shrug and say I had never met them before. "THEN WHY ARE THEY TELLING YOU ALL THESE THINGS?" "Maybe because I'm the only person they met this year that was interested in them."
Yes! I can't tell you how many times this has happened to me. People often say to me how do you find out so many things about people? Uh, because I listen/ask questions. You wouldn't believe all the things people tell me about their personal lives.
I can't fathom being at a royal garden party and being bored. You'd have to drag me away to the next part; I wouldn't want to leave.
And for a true narc...so many connections to be made. All kinds of opportunities for people to fawn over you. And who knows which one will invite you to be part of their circle so that they can fawn some more.
I'm sure you would have behaved impeccably, do not compare yourself to MM who must be an ill-mannered ignoramus of the highest order if she said out aloud that she was bored. What an ungrateful, uncouth, obnoxious boor if that story is true.
I can believe she complained about being bored or accused people of being boring and was overheard.
First she is lacking basic manners and training to politely interact with people keeping a nice smile.
Second as a narcissist she would be totally incapable of taking interest in anything but herself. Personally I believe you can always find a subject to talk about with anybody - if you invite the person to tell you about him/herself and then elaborate on the subject. "And you say you are a baker? I respect you so much, making a good bread is an art. And what is your favorite bread? And why?" "Are you a farmer? Do you breed rare pigs? How interesting. And what is your favorite breed? Why?"
I believe if many people heard she was complaining about being bored the Harkles would indeed be instructed to leave.
Lainy's latest. Long and convoluted and the lady doth protest too much. She is trying real hard to distance herself from this. Wonder why?
She seriously miscalculated the royal job description and doesn't quite understand the word duty. And now, here she is, nothing. Tough lesson to learn in front of the whole world.
Yes, the body language of both in the pair seems very tense/downcast. Meg is staring at her lap with head down and Harry's glaring straight ahead like he wants to punch the windows out.
If Meg had whined audibly that she was bored and wanted to leave, having gotten her wish, she should have looked happier, no? She should have been preening herself in the rearview mirror and smiling, particularly if they were 'heading off to their fabulous honeymoon which they had postponed especially to be there.' Maybe Hazza had told her off in the car just before the photo was snapped, if he was embarrassed that she'd caused a scene at Pa's birthday party. It really doesn't seem like an offhand cutting remark by anyone else as they exited would have had that effect. Meg is generally deaf to the approbations of others, but maybe because her precarious security depends on keeping Harry on-side, when he tells her off, he can sometimes ellicit the teary-eyed bride look (cf. Trooping the Colour 2019)
When this pair does not think the cameras are watching, the facade drops instantly . . and in Harry's case, often when the cameras *are* watching and he knows it, he cannot bring himself to fake the look of transported newlywed bliss that according to Meg's PR we should be seeing. Harry has looked utterly whipped and miserable in at least 90% of the photos of him since 2016, whether he's attached to Meg or not. I think it's a complete show marriage. How long before this tawdy show is cancelled?
You can fake a happy marriage to the outside world but eventually it gets too tiring(or the 2 involved just stop caring anymore) to keep up the facade. Am watching this in happening in real time to a couple I know. It's been fascinating to observe over time. Expecting filing any day now.
Good question. In fact, it was held 'to celebrate the work of The Prince's Charities in the year of His Royal Highness's 70th Birthday.' (www.royal.uk)
Royal events are often held during better weather months as opposed to the actual month the event occurred. The Queen's birthday for example. Its in April (I think???) but celebrated in June when the weather is better.
Cindy Adams:
I first met Britannia’s Jamaica-born Lady Colin Campbell long before they built London Bridge. We’ve also visited one another when she did books on Princess Diana.
“Georgie,” we call her, lives in assorted castles, knows everyone who’s someone in London and writes about no one who’s just anyone.
On June 25, Simon & Schuster publishes her “Meghan and Harry: The Real Story.”
She says Meghan wants to run for president of the US someday and that “England doesn’t do it for her.” She describes her as “an operator… a fame addict”… who’s “had a series of men.”
Page 261 states “Meghan’s whole life is an act.” Harry? “was desperate to meet someone”… “he’s not the swiftest”… “he’s a prop.” Page 217 calls him “pathetic.”
I know that this book’s been through more layers of lawyers than Harvey Weinstein. Still, you should hold it wearing gloves.
Lady Colin Campbell knows from scandals. She’s bounced through a few in her colorful life. She told me on the phone: “I know the lot. The royals. The courtiers. They’re friends. I’ve attended their parties. Been to their homes. And I’ve taken care to be positive and even handed, although Meghan’s thrown the whole British family under the bus.”
Also from Her Ladyship’s mouth, which is as tart as her pen: “This person is no more suited to royal life than Angelina Jolie would be to competitive boxing. She has inflated herself beyond natural entitlement. Since she always wanted to be a star, she has this propensity for exaggeration.
“As for Harry, he should have been instructive. This nonsense that she didn’t at first know so much about him… I mean, please. She’d looked him up in books. And she pats him like, ‘good boy.’ She even answers for him.”
Campbell also writes that Mrs. Harry planned financial deals for herself from the beginning. “She went into the marriage intending to embark on commercial enterprises. That’s something forbidden to the royals.”
If this is true she always wanted to be royal on her own terms and intended to use it for commercial activity, her garden party fiasco would have infuriated her. The logic would be:
You think I am not good enough? I will bloody show you!
Hence her activism and political agenda she had been advised against. She would have seen any attempt to direct her to more traditional royal route as a personal insult. Come her leaks about "modernizing the monarchy" "hitting the ground running" "feminism", queue nonsensical speeches and magazines.
Brought up in America with it's heavy emphasis on personal success and lacking understanding about the British history and the monarchy's role and place within it, she would have tried what always worked in the States: Hollywood style PR campaign. Everything she did and said really fitted neatly into this concept. But it would be totally alien to the British who are accustomed to certain ways and certain standards of behavior from the the royals.
She would have seen herself as a valiant fighter against a moldy system, a bright star in the obsolete hierarchical order led by a geriatric woman. This explains a lot in her behavior.
https://twitter.com/sage1411/status/1272534537948413952
And if it's not all about her, it's boring. After all, at the visit to the retired actors care home in December 2018 (wearing that bizarre white/lavender print tight summer dress) she felt the need to tell everyone she felt "very pregnant" that day (when she was barely 5 months along). Obviously she could have talked about acting to them! And at the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the investiture of Charles as PoW two full months before Archie was born, she felt the need to tell Welsh Secretary Cuirns that she looked very different than she had when they last met, and that they were "almost there" all while clutching and caressing her pregnant belly. I'm pretty sure that wasn't necessary and if I had been him, I would have found it quite awkward.
You can fake a happy marriage to the outside world but eventually it gets too tiring(or the 2 involved just stop caring anymore) to keep up the facade. Am watching this in happening in real time to a couple I know. It's been fascinating to observe over time. Expecting filing any day now
Most couples give it the old college try for a while, even if the union is for show and they both know it. The Sussexes looked like this together barely, what, 72 hours after their glittering televised wedding. After Meg was heard to blurt 'F*cK!' in the wedding carriage, I was like . . 'That it? You made it as a Royal Duchess for all of . . 20 minutes (!) tops before you couldn't help showing your true colors?
Take Meg's expensive PR froth away and what you have is a primitive, basic AF grasping woman who even by the standards of self-promotional Hollywood is gauche beyond belief. To be nearly 40 years old and have supposedly been 'a career woman' and have not the slightest clue about interpersonal relations. She attended some of the very best schools, but when in public, frankly acts like she doesn't even know how to use silverware.
If Meg and I didn't share a nationality, I could probably just laugh her off as an entertaining freak show, but as an American woman, I am insulted on behalf of my nation. After Britain's last horrible experience with an American divorcee in the House of Windsor, if Meg had had any couth or any modicum of intention to represent her home nation admirably in her new role, she could have been someone both nations could respect as a good addition to the royal family and to Anglo-American relations. Unless one has a personal friend who is American, most Britons' conception of America and Americans is going to come from popular entertainment--movies, TV, Internet gossip. I get twisted in the guts to think what Meg has done for the reputation of American women abroad. She's arguably the highest-profile female figure who is not British born connected with the UK, and *this* is how she represents American womanhood to our British cousins.
I have to go with the explanation that her behavior at least in part is attributable to mental illness of a profound order because it is inconceivable that someone would *choose* on purpose to behave in such disgusting, shameful ways on the world stage. I really think she is not in full command of her faculties and does not fully grasp what her behavior looks like to the observers.
I hope Lady Colin Campbell has connections in Australia and spills the tea over what transpired at Australia House. We've heard the rumors . . we've seen the tweets from AH staff about the nightmare horror she was to serve, and the fact that she and Harry were having screaming rows every day about 'the baby' and sleeping in separate rooms and the smiles and hand-holding only came out when they were on walkabout for cameras. But I'd like another confirmation of these. This was 5 months into the marriage, but in truth I don't think this marriage has been genuine for even 5 minutes.
Seems like MJ would chill her out and make her more amenable? Unless she was slurring her words or reeked of cannabis? That sashay walk seemed overly exaggerated like she was either overcompensating to keep her balance, possibly being high, or else a big FU, kiss my a$$ signal.
It's not a stretch to believe that she or the both of them might have been on something, but unless she was jonesin' for a bag of Doritos, seems like the ganja would make her more content to stay, not less. I'm not familiar with the effects of controlled substances to say.
It was one of the few times that her outfit and hair were entirely appropriate to the occasion. I really thought she was making an effort here, and only learned about the fracas sometime later. If Meg thought that playing Duchess dress up for half an hour was going to be sufficient effort, though, she was completely wrong.
If she couldn't hack it for more than 20 minutes (15 max + the time to inform Charles and arrange a car), and couldn't as an 'actress' even pretend, then she didn't even try and made zero effort. And this just a few days after getting the ring on her finger. Shows just how interested in her new family and new role she was.
For those who say they see no time when she could have said anything, the entire event was NOT videoed. She may have made the remarks after the speeches and before the video began. What we see on the video is she was on a roll, chatting up her fangirls, being filmed just like she wanted....then PC lowered the boom. Lol. Perfect.
@ Wild Boar Battle-maid re:Seattle. I live a few blocks away from the Seattle area known as CHAZ/CHOP or the Police-Free zone. In spite of the media representing Seattle or the Capitol Hill area as a lawless enclave of communists, actually it's quite calm here. Yes, there are some hippie kids, a few revolutionaries, but that's not unusual for Seattle. The area they've "overtaken" is mostly a city park.
Take what you hear from the news media with a very large grain of salt. Remember when MM was a wonderful addition to the royal family?
Thanks or that info. So, that is what Lady C was told - Meghan was overheard telling Harry that she found this kind of royal event (meet and greet the public and socialise with charity people) boring. I reckon she was not on camera when she was overheard saying this to Harry.
I can kind of believe this because:
* We now know that Megxit was being planned before the wedding (Meghan had already realised the gig where she was not top dog and where she couldn't do things her way was not for her, and, yes, she did find the public boring because she has no interest in other people unless they can do something for her).
* Harry was completely enthralled by her and was very easily manipulated by her. You can see this by his behaviour at the garden party.
So, do you think someone at the garden party told Charles (discreetly spoke in his ear, but unfortunately that is not on camera) what she had said and how Harry reacted (I guess that part would have been very hurtful for Charles) and Charles, being hurt and furious (and I have no doubt there had been a build up of Meghan shenanigans) reacted, called for Harry, and told them to leave, but in a polite way?
That is the only way I can join the dots, and it is quite a shocking picture.
https://www.laineygossip.com/how-jessica-mulroney-used-white-privilege-and-white-fragility-against-sasha-exeter/66442
Lainy's latest. Long and convoluted and the lady doth protest too much. She is trying real hard to distance herself from this. Wonder why?
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Lainey wants to avoid what happened to Jessica and so is desperately trying to stay on the right side of the BLM protests, as is Meghan.
It is quite instructive to see how these three, who were as thick as thieves and who collaborated to get Meghan the royal gig, are now scrambling around in such an unseemly manner. It is not classy at all, and it is certainly shallow self-serving cynicism to the extreme.
Lainey was the one who started the rumour about Catherine not taking Meghan shopping with her and was there to spread Meghan's story from the beginning; Jessica helped Meghan up the ladder and was with her for every key moment in the capture of Harry, plus threatened people on behalf of Meghan to change stories, and Meghan did not seem to have a problem with that, but now ...
The real story in all of this is the one of these three women!
Somewhat OT, but upon reading Doria has moved in with the Harkles as an “unofficial nanny” has second baby on the way or on the way soon written all over it.
Poor child if true.
https://twitter.com/sage1411/status/1272534537948413952
Monday, June 15, 2020
Blind Item #12
Apparently there have been several questions raised about the profits and the copyright of a cookbook organized by the alliterate former actress turned royal for charity.
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Liza Minelli tweeted today, I believe, that she hasn't been in contact with the Harkles. Why did she feel the need to set the record straight? Why not let it just go the way of "Tom Cruise Conversations with Dolphins" - type of tabloid fodder?
Liza is a talented, accomplished Hollywood star. For some reason she felt it necessary to go on the record and distance herself from them. Omid's tweet "Oh" in response is disrespectful and unprofessional. But what's new?
I wonder if this story was planted with the hopes that Liza would be flattered and call them: "You'll never believe what I just read, ha ha!"
Well the word is out now on the garden party scandal. And yes I am gobsmacked too! It wasn’t the tongue or the taking of gifts. Meghan told Harry she was bored and wanted to leave! And an attendee at the event overheard this. She apparently badgered Harry to go and he told her 1/2
they had to stay on longer to do their bit. This whole conversation was overheard! Well can you believe that. The fantastic Murky Meg has finally updated us on this . Just hilarious! You could not write it,its so carcrash. Though I am glad Lady Campbell has done just that! 2/2
with Doria, HM, and PP was photoshopped, and we know that, not only was the Christening photo photoshopped, but the photo was taken on the same day as the ‘Archie Introduction’ photo. This has been proven.
As far as when Doria’s involvement began, we know that she complicit at the Invictus Games along with JM & MA. Those photos are so sad. It was like leading the lamb to the slaughter.
I can see Megs and Harry smoking pot and consuming otherwise, the legal marijuana boutiques have tres expensive candies and edibles in California. I never touch the stuff.
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Murkey Meg -12 minutes long-- posted today at you tube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAME4MWXv5c
"I know that this book’s been through more layers of lawyers than Harvey Weinstein. Still, you should hold it wearing gloves."
I read this as "Although it has been through more lawyers than HW, it is still too hot to handle."
Dear Supporter,
You took a stand against taxpayers paying the bills for Meghan and Harry when they moved to Canada. It turns out that stand saved taxpayers a lot of money.
We have to documents to prove it.
Remember when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau refused to say whether or not Canadian taxpayers were footing the bills for Meghan and Harry?
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has discovered that taxpayers paid more than $50,000 for Meghan and Harry’s brief stay in Canada.
You and more than 80,000 Canadians signed our petition telling Trudeau that taxpayers shouldn’t be on the hook for the famous couple’s bills and we delivered those signatures to Parliament Hill.
Taxpayers emailed and phoned the prime minister’s office to make sure he got the message.
On Feb. 27, 2020, the feds finally said that taxpayers wouldn’t be paying for the royal couple’s security bills anymore.
But, what about before that? We’ve got the exclusive answer.
The RCMP spent $56,384 from Nov. 18, 2019, to Jan. 19, 2020, according to documents we obtained through access to information requests.
And that money was just for overtime and expenses. The bill doesn’t include the regular salaries for the Mounties who were working security for Meghan and Harry. We’re still pushing to get those bills.
Here’s the bottom line: if taxpayers hadn’t said no to paying the bills for Meghan and Harry, it could have cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.
A Foie gras goose has had more feed stuffed down its throat,
Another of her MOs... She says and does stuff and counts on people to stay quiet. Lisa said nope. Priyanka said nope. Canada said nope.
I used to be one of HM Inspectors of Taxes and can assure that any rumours of a sudden increase in wealth would result in an investigation into the last submitted tax return at the very least. I would assume that the IRS follows a similar procedure.
Sorry for the delay in responding to this topic but it has taken me quite some time to catch up with this blog- I do try to read all of the comments
Getting an error message and having to retype the whole thing has not helped
This made me proud for the Canadian taxpayers who took a stand and saved themselves hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments for two worthless individuals and their child. 56K for just overtime from November to January! I imagine how huge the total cost is.
It also tells us how much they actually cost. It makes me angry and sad. There are so much more deserving cases than Harry and his shameless wife.
We were told ages ago (before wedding? about time of engagement?) that she couldn't be bothered with those who didn't measure up to her standards of `beauty'? (that narc thing about being entitled to associate with only `special people'.) No way would she chat to guests who were plain or `homely'.
HM's opening gambit with strangers is often `Have you come far?' That too is a good opener, - I'm sure she has such a good grasp of UK and world geography she could say something appropriate like `I remember when we were there some years ago that ...' wherever they were from.
I doubt if MM's concept of London geography extends to Admiralty Arch at the far end of the Mall, let alone Constitution Hill or Birdcage Walk, or the rest of the UK.
She is shallower than a stableyard puddle.
Doria was part of the coterie that ambushed Harry at the Invictus Games in Toronto, but what we don’t know is her level of foreknowledge or knowing collusion with Meg’s schemes. Personally, I never bought the Saint Doria narrative any more than I but the Saint Meg one. Doria is 1/2 creator of this corrupt human being, and her own personal conduct over the years has been in a word, dodgy. However, I don’t assume That Meg is close to her mother these days, if she ever was. Meg bent over backwards to deny the African-American side of herself, Including her black family members, who as we see we’re not invited to her wedding. Doria may have schooled young Meg in how to pursue transactional relationships, but Meg may have not read her completely into her plans. Knowledge can be dangerous. I don’t rule out that Meg could have all seven playing her mother along with the rest of the world and Harry. If her gambit was to coerce hairy into marriage with the tale of a false pregnancy, who better to have along to help apply the pressure to make an honest woman out of her (such a laugh) than her mother? Was she kept from visiting Meg during the “pregnancy” after the wedding, or attending the baby shower because she knew too much? Or, equally likely, because she thought the pregnancy was genuine? Meg could fend off ordinary people wanting to touch her bump or get too close… But her own mother was gonna want to touch her stomach, and expect to, if she thought the pregnancy was real. Presumably at some point after that, if her image was employed in doctored pictures with a baby that isn’t really Meg’s, Doria would have to be told the truth. If a great deal of money has somehow found it into her bank account over the last two years...She may know where it came from, or she might have been told that they were gifts from the extremely wealthy British royal family. Meg had very little conception of how the royal family works, so with her mother have cause to disbelieve it!
Doria does not really sit right with me, considering what we know about Meg’s dysfunctional childhood. But I am willing to give her the benefit of the doubt until we know otherwise for certain that she didn’t necessarily know everything her daughter was up to, and attended the wedding in good faith. Oh this recycled nonsense about Doria being imported to wherever Megan’s living to be “the nanny” Shows a blatant disrespect to her mom in my book. Even if Doria is cooperating in this con, wouldn’t she object strenuously to be in continually labeled as the help, not the loving grandma? It’s a throwback to megs earlier story about Doria being mistaken for the nanny in Meg’s predominately white neighborhood. The 1940s actress Merle Oberon had a mother who was Indian, from India, and introduced her to people as her maid. It was a real life Imitation of Life. Is this how a proud woke feminist woman treats the mother who taught her to be a proud biracial light bearer? My eye.
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While I'm sympathetic to BLM and racism we continue to have to address in America, ID politics is a crock because the truth and the complexity of the matter with people never comes into play. If you're white you have privilege regardless of whether you're poor or sick or homeless. If you're black, you're oppressed regardless of whether you're rich or healthy or famous.
The truth of the matter, as I see it, Jessica Mulroney and Meghan Markle are 2 peas in a pod. They are both highly ambitious and were helping and using each other. And they're both wicked narcissists and elitists.
However, she also slipped in a little nugget about how the British press were so horribly racist to Meghan, without offering any actual examples. Other than a comment about Meghan bringing "exotic blood" to the RF or something similar, I can't think of one instance where anything with a whiff of racism was written about her. Even in the DM comments, which have been scathing, I can't recall anything racist. She and JH have been judged fairly, on their behaviour, not the colour of her skin. Why would Lainey still be trotting out this unfounded allegation if she didn't have a dog in the hunt?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8422339/Edited-photos-imagine-royals-look-like-opposite-sex.html
Brilliant!
What a skillful job the artist did and very convincing. Meghan would probably think she comes across as a reformulated hunk a la Cary Grant or Clark Cable. I really never thought she was some great beauty but did have pretty eyes.
Two things really boil my blood, as far as the Markle situation stands.
1) Foremost, the horrible smears against the Cambridges, esp. Catherine, that Markle puts out, and which mostly go unchallenged, and
2) The narrative that she has been a victim of racism from the royal family and the British people. This has been repeated so often that it is accepted as fact, even though, as you say, there is scant evidence to support it.
https://harrymarkle.wordpress.com/2020/06/15/is-archewell-a-hoax/
@wullie I saw same pic! had around 600 "likes" lmao disgraceful for "cool kids" table. I wonder who paid for the meal? Maybe a pair of the girls earrings and anothers bracelet
These ladies really bring out my inner jerk.
Have enjoyed reading everyone's comments. I have a feeling once book is released this place will be ghost town for 8 hours then explode! Who is the speed reader?
@Nutty have you ordered a copy?
@swampwoman I hear you.
As far as Lainy goes her latest comment is a leftist garbage dump. I never go there but I read all of her latest post as she dumps JM and Megs for her own salvation.
Bottom line: Lainy is still on TV and JM been ousted from all her shows.
"SERIOUSLY? He's paying for a fancy funeral for another POS woman beater and child abuser that was so drunk that he passed out in the Wendy's drive thru lane, then beat up the policeman that was called, took his taser, and was trying to taze the police when he was shot?"
She flew in for the wedding and we actually got a pap picture at the airport.
She flew in for the birth, Christening, and who knows what else and....crickets. No pictures whatsoever. Nobody seems to have seen her. Now she moves into TPs house and not one pap picture, not one? LA isn't as locked down as people think so there are paps around. No pictures of Doria moving in? And who's living in her house if she moved in to TP?
Just want to say my father was a true racist, used the N word, made sure we lived in towns that did not allow people if other races, etc. but worked for a major corporation and was able to get along with all. Once when a young black handsome friend of mine had done me a large favor, I watched my father shake the friend ‘s hand, smile and make very friendly conversation.
Racists can hide it well.
This is not the place to debate current events regarding policing, and I would kindly ask you not to do so.
I'll buy `boredom' as the reason for her daughter exiting that market pdq - it'd also explain why she demonstrated complete lack of interest in the famine memorial on the Quayside in Dublin. She was probably thinking something like `It's bad enough being expected to chat to lousy, ugly peasants but, what the f***, this is just metal!'
There was something to be said for that Dior bell tent she wore in Morocco - it covered her up! At least, for once, her knees, armpits and side boobs weren't on display, to say nothing of bra straps, cleavage and bump, even if the effect was spoiled when she cradled her `abdomen'.
I come from a deprived area with high level of crime. Social bottom. I managed to leave it because I worked bloody hard. When people told about me "she is right out of the "forsaken mile" I just shrugged it off. Because it is true. But it doesnt matter.
Somebody who is determined to take offense will find an opportunity to do so. That article's headline is a non issue. They simply turned it into one.
Plus--and I've read this only one time: a suggestion that the idea to say that was planted by MM herself.
She's made a whole career, and no doubt several million dollars for herself and her mother's bank account, on claiming a racial status that she has done everything to disavow and cover up.
But she clearly shows same pattern of behavior at future events .So stands to reason she really did want to leave after 20 minutes and frankly I am dumbfounded
First royal engagement. She looked fantastic and prior to that strut on the way out, appeared to be charming and engaging
How can she form any sort of opinion let alone be bored in span of 20 minutes? Especially at first engagement! Only thing I can think to is perhaps she was coming down from some drugs and needed more.
Sorry I know you all have been all over this past couple days but I had my own thought and obviously wrong. I haven't been around, I did read every comment but when I fall behind I fail to comprehend as well. I am going to have to go back and reread
She did not even try. Hit the ground running straight out of her first royal engagement. Not sure why I am so amazed by that but at the time didnt have benefit of knowing what we know now and it shocks me and screams selfish. Even if she wasnt having great time turn on a smile for your husband and show respect to family but again it was literally 20 minutes
Also to add I never felt RF showed any sort of discrimination to Meg whatsoever and from my view over here they really went out of their way to welcome her into the fold.
I remember feeling Doria looked alone at wedding but frankly I think that falls soley on Meghan and it is shame she put her in that position.
I remember the Straight out of Compton but I did not feel it as insulting as when she was referred to as two steps up from trailer park but Compton comment got far more coverage
@swampwoman I apologize my comment upset you and would welcome opportunity to discuss and clear the air and we can do so where you referenced reading the Uber comments if it is comment board or I will offer you my email when I see you posting. It is proton account so I don't fear sharing it I would just rather delete once I know you received it
>>>How can she form any sort of opinion let alone be bored in span of 20 minutes? Especially at first engagement! Only thing I can think to is perhaps she was coming down from some drugs and needed more.<<<<
It is a plausible reason but as a poster wrote, marijuana would not be a likely drug to make her act that way nor powder cocaine which might have her be quite chatty and relish the party. But crack cocaine has an insidious effect on the user that they want it urgently when the drug wears off and it surely would have in the time of getting to the engagement and 20 minutes in. A regular crack user generally is insatiable and wants another hit after another. She could easily functioned on crack making small talk but the urge to do more would have her fleeing the scene and back home in private relishing more. It is easier to be a crack use (none of that white powder lingering on your nose sometimes. LOL) than many people would imagine; plus little rocks of crack and a tiny glass pipe are easy enough to hide than a a big pile of powdered cocaine.
I say this only as an explanation not that I believe it. I think it may as many posters explained so well, that Meghan was overheard complaining and was told to leave and perhaps Harry still holding onto to one testicle had the nerve to tell her off in the car right before the photo of shame was taken. There wasn't any hard feelings though with Charles as he went on to pay for hundreds of thousands of money on Meg's clothes.
"Lainey who is Asian, feels she has been treated unfairly in life, has a major prejudice against white people, and deep anger over white-privilege."
She may well feel this way but I think she sees an opportunity to advance her own agenda and career (aka financial interests) by aligning herself with the hardcore woke celebrity agenda. Professionally speaking, Lainey's done well for herself and has succeed in life so the "poor me" or resentment play doesn't hold water with me. In fact it smacks of ingratitude which is never a good look and makes celebs and their coterie of hangers on and professional promoters look hypocritical and ridiculous.
I agree that Meghan has used her race as cover for some sketchy and divisive actions on her part. I'm reminded of her demanding and getting rows to herself at Wimbleton because she didn't want to see hobnobbing with the sweaty masses who pay big bucks for those seats. See, even that crowd is beneath her, never mind a poor Black bloke. But that's small fry compared to the PR nightmare she's been to a family who made her famous and made her fortune. It sounds more and more like Prince Harry had his own agenda too and a fair amount of sibling jealousy and driftlessness at play here too. I think that book "Finding Freedom" will shed some like on his part in this sordid mess. He sure doesn't seem to care the damage he's done to his own family and that is on him and can't really be blamed on Meghan. I think it's funny that Lady Campbell has her own book coming out and one that will balance out the Saint narrative you know you're gonna get in Scobie's account. And with the Jessica bomb that just exploded, who knows what added egg will be thrown on Harry and Meghan's faces. Jessica won't go down quietly not after all she's done behind the scene for her celebrity BFF. Like I said b4, 2 peas in a pod there. Meghan's played hard ball with TRF and Jessica will have her revenge too on the BFF who ghosted her but revenge is dish best served cold and underhandedly.
Megs platform is due to her marriage into a “white privileged”
Royal family.
Oxymeghan?
https://hunnymae.tumblr.com/post/621011039606259712/formerlyroyal-razziegirl
@Este
Megs platform is due to her marriage into a “white privileged”
Royal family.
Oxymeghan?
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Or DoxyMoron?
Lady CC's "scion of the aristocracy with impeccable Palace connections" most likely saw through the whole farce and recognized this episode for what it was; a big red flag that MM would never conform to the Royal way of doing things and would insist on getting her own way every time. She was happy for the privileges but wanted none of the responsibilities.
Doxymoron hahaha!
The guestion is does this prove they weren’t asked to leave?
Maybe her book will fill in some puzzle pieces. Was the publishing date also pushed back in the UK to July?
No, according to Amazon my order will be arriving on the 30th June. ;o)
"Megs platform is due to her marriage into a “white privileged” Royal family."
Yes, the Royal Family is rich and privileged and white but Meghan wouldn't have any platform without them and I don't see her and her husband staying rogue celebrities that maintain our fascination for much longer.
People love conflict and that's what's driving the ink here, not social justice causes that most of us are tired of hearing about ad nauseaum among celebs. When you know they are all parroting the same woke line and that those who step out of line like JK Rowling are attacked, it gets old quick. That's my 2 cents anyway.
In, or out, they should have had the manners, decency,
to greet the public, with manners and decency.
Don't they say `Be nice to people on the way up because you may meet them again on your way down...'
* Charles and Camilla went to visit health care workers and thank them.
* William went to visit ambulance workers and thank them.
* Anne went to visit soldiers involved in Covid-19 operations and thank them.
Meghan arranging a pap walk and her and Harry having a huge fight about it? Meghan pushing the time line of the big spectacle planned for the BLM movement (bound to be not only controversial but non-effective)?
I think that perhaps Meghan really believes her intentions are to help others and she is totally unaware of how self-serving she is and how it trips her up every time (plus her grandiose sense of her own worth and capabilities).
It was a mighty gaffe - after all, isn't she supposed to be an actress? Can she really not stay in role for more than 20mins?
That is not the expression of someone who left when they wanted to.
Poxymoron ? ?
Good to know the book comes out soon in the UK.
The picture in the car, with her face cast downward, says it all for me.
That is not the expression of someone who left when they wanted to.
She embarrassed Prince Charles and Camilla immensely which is unforgivable. It wasn't some junior mistake. That was the face of someone who knew they let the mask slip and all eyes were now suspicious.
An Anon claiming that Jessica used to get the free stuff for Meghan to merch and that it was still going on as early as January this year. (Despite claiming they were experts in COVID-19 and setting up a platform for all things COVID-19 on a soon-to-be defunct IG account, I think Harry and Meghan were clueless about it and what the effects would be. Maybe Meghan thought she could still use Zoom calls for merching.)
An Anon can claim anything and hide behind the Ann and that several Anons have said the same thing does not necessarily make it true, but gosh, it would be an interesting scandal if named people can provide proof of this from the time that Meghan became 'royal'. Even if it was just to get freebies and not payment, it really would put Meghan in the dustbin of royalty and she would not be able to climb out of that. The BRF courtiers would know that Meghan knew she could not do this and why because they would have briefed her ...
(In her scandal, Sophie was saved because she immediately acted to fix the mistake, kept a low profile and acted according to requirements from then on. Sarah was already out the royal fold when her scandal erupted. Could Meghan get way with faking a mea culpa and reformation and make her way back into the royal fold? Just a thought ...)
It’s the stress, innit, Bruv.
Haz Seems to have been snapped midway through making a raspberry to the apparent vast entertainment of his wife. In addition to incomprehensible word salad, what the Harkles seem to offer the world is their Super special talent of being two middle-aged people Who stick their tongues out all the time to show how hip and cheeky they are. They just look rude, and in the case of Harry, Mentally deficient.
For those of you who were around for Charles and Diana’s wedding in 1981, do you remember how relentlessly mocked Charles was as a fuddy duddy who was going bald? Charles did lose a patch on the back of his head, but to this day it appears that he has more hair than any other man in the house of Windsor including his father, his two brothers, and his two sons. Charles was 32 on his wedding day, the Rite Aid has an old goat next to his 20-year-old bride. Harry was a year in a bit older than his dad was when he tied the knot 4 months shy of his 34th birthday. But he’s still calling himself the young royal. Not really that young anymore; just acts like a big baby.
https://apple.news/AB9D139Z-QgSovf3GZjFwbw
Honestly. That should read “derided”.
If the Sun had been deliberately set up to discredit UK's press I don't expect the newspaper will simply drop the matter.
They know where the information came from and Sun will use it later to its advantage.
We may expect some response from the media in retaliation. Interesting what it would be.
https://www.google.com/url?client=internal-element-cse&cx=013605867031112037315:rizvvhxexxt&q=https://www.laineygossip.com/how-jessica-mulroney-used-white-privilege-and-white-fragility-against-sasha-exeter/66442&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwikxq_g8IbqAhUbVTABHU9mAvAQFjAAegQIABAC&usg=AOvVaw3V5RzQkGktx82ZsPZpuDxJ
@Wild Boar @Magatha
Poxymoron ? ?
Even better! I suppose we should say `allegedly'.
I am sorry but that "article" is dreadful. She is bleating about "white privilege" and "white institutions" and I do not buy it for a minute.
What is the white privilege exactly? I don't have it whatever it is. Was born in a modest family. When I was a kid my father left us with no money and no place to live. Had to study when there was no food. Had to work hard. Had a dreadful first marriage. Got kicked out of the job when I was at my lowest ebb because someone else wanted the position. Never had any state benefits paid to me. Everything I have I have earned or saved. Where is the privilege they are talking about supposedly due to me because I happen to be white? My only privilege is meeting really good people who helped me to get through all this.
Mulroney comes across like a nasty person. There are nasty people in all races. There are excellent people in all races. There white people who help others and people of color who rob other people of color. There are black people who stand to shield white policemen from the crowds.
I wish they stopped this "white privilege" crap. In Mulroney's case this is just a nasty woman who married the son of a former Canadian PM and decided she is untouchable. Glad she had been proved wrong.
"I never thought they were actually kicked out of the Garden Party. Perhaps it got back to Charles that MM wanted to leave and he was sympathetic and thought it was all too much for her on her first time out with the family, so he whispered to Harry that they could leave to start their honeymoon. Granted, 20 minutes at an event is a total joke for someone used to being in the spotlight but Charles likely hasn't forgotten Diana breaking down in tears in public."
I guess Charles could be that naive.
But when Diana began doing royal events she was 20 years old and had worked only as a maid and as a kindergarten assistant before she married. Meghan was nearly 17 years older than Diana had been when she married into the RF, she was purportedly an actress, she had been performing on stage since middle school, she had been on camera one way or the other for over a decade and she had done several events with Harry and other RF members during the engagement period (Anzac Day, Republic of Ireland, "Fab Four" interview, Christmas at Sandringham, and so on) so it wasn't really even her first time out.
Any mid-30s woman with over a decade+ of professional work experience has had to handle more demanding "social" situations at work than 20 minutes at a garden party with her husband.
I wonder who leaked to the Sun that Liza befriended Harry? Sun would not have run the article without a source they deemed reliable.
If the Sun had been deliberately set up to discredit UK's press I don't expect the newspaper will simply drop the matter.
They know where the information came from and Sun will use it later to its advantage.
We may expect some response from the media in retaliation. Interesting what it would be.
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I agree. I did some research on the journalist (forget her name now) and she has credentials, both academic and in terms of experience. I can think of two scenarios:
1. As you say, she was set up. It is the kind of 'stick it to the media' spiteful thing the Harkles may do (and for no other reason because that part of Meghan's submission in the lawsuit has been struck out so she gains nothing for that in proving that the media make up stories about them). Perhaps they are too foolish to realize that if they are exposed they are going to look very bad?
2. In times of the virus, the journalist is under huge pressure to deliver and thus, under extreme pressure and weird times, she made up the story. (Media may have lost sales of their printed versions, but I reckon their online versions would have become hugely more popular in times of the virus.) There may be another personal reason why she, under unusual pressure, was foolish enough to have made up a story.
It is a pity. As Richard Palmer says, evidence has emerged that most of what the media published about the Harkles turned out to be true.
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@Wullie'sBucket said...
Although I usually agree with all your thoughtful posts, I have to say I don't think our Megs thinks of anyone but herself. I believe all that she does is for her alone...me, myself and I is old Megs motto.
IMHO it's very sick to latch onto a fauxmatarian facade as a means to earn a living and elevate oneself...perhaps something a hollow narcissist might be drawn to!
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Thank you. I have personal experience of a narcissist who has ruined me and my life and I suppose I always try to find a rational explanation that will somehow make everything all right again. Occasionally I remember my own humanity even though I have found that it can actually be dangerous when dealing with a narc because you get blind and get attacked out of the blue without any defences.
Harry must have been complicit in all of this, and even the instigator of at least some of it. I hope that he can break free and be with the right people who can help him recover and work on being a decent person. For his family's sake and the sake of Archie, I hope so (although the kid I saw in the latest video came across to me as 'I've got your number and I am not one of your victims, now where is nanny .. oh, hello Papa!' with his mother!).
Photo of a very happy and hairy Harry at maybe 18 or 20. A happy and care free creature that is not affected in the least by his mother's death. There are many similar photos out there. Even up to age 32 or so. Megs has nurtured his negatives and made Harry into a complainer.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/photos/prince-harry-years-17238675/image-51123640
Assuming I'm recalling it correctly, do you think he meant `helping her in practical ways so she could make a fortune'?
Or was he implying that he knew she had `issues' and that he hoped to straighten out her mind, using all his experience of counselling, as an amateur shrink - another kind of narcissism, an inversion of the usual `all he needs is the love of a good woman'? Not a good idea.
I really not impressed at how some very wealthy and famous people have jumped on the wagon for self gain or self protection.
If you really cared about the impact that COVID -19 is having, have you donated anything at all in significant quantities to help those in need? Have you donated or used your connections to assist organisations that are fighting the virus? Have you used the qualifications you have or quickly got the qualifications you need to volunteer and help (in hospitals and care facilities, delivering care parcels, phoning and visiting to check upon the vulnerable ...).
And don't use any of the above as a means to do pap walks.
If you really care about BLM issues here are three things you could have been doing:
1. Handed over your money and raised more money from your connections to uplift black communities (housing, schools, community facilities, bursaries ...), and then extended that to all poor or deprived or challenged communities.
2. Used influence and money campaigning for laws to change or human rights organisations to be more effective so that police brutality stops (most police are good but it is a profession that attracts bad people and one rotten apple can do a lot of harm, plus stress can turn a good apple into a bad apple).
3. Actively used money and fame to find ways to accelerate and broaden racial integration. People who live in separate silos have little opportunity to get to know each other and bond over shared experiences.
But, Meghan and Harry do not have the kind of connections, power or influence to actually get anything like the above done, and they are too mean with their money to fund someone else more effective to do so.
Me, too. I have decided when dealing with my narc..grey rock 100% of the time. I no longer give them the benefit of the doubt, no longer try to be kind.
It doesn't pay. They will always, ALWAYS, come back and burn you.
I used to feel bad about that, like I was a bad person for not being 'nice' to them. But that's a falsity. Why should I be nice to someone who treats me badly?
I don't have to be evil, but I don't have to be nice either. I can be nothing.
I have had so much more peace in my soul since I went no contact if possible, grey rock if I have to be in their vicinity.
>>>I have personal experience of a narcissist who has ruined me and my life....<<<
Based on reading your posts for well over a year makes me think you are anything but ruined (I hate to even repeat that nasty word in the same sentence as you)! You have thoughtful kind commentary and that can only from someone of value! No need to reply.
I remember back in the fall of 2016 there was a nasty item about Kate in Lainey's gossip blog. It seems that while MM was visiting JH and staying at Kensington Palace, she ran into Kate one day and told her about a shop she was about to go to. She went there on foot and was astonished to see Kate shopping there. Kate had obviously planned to go there but did not invite MM to go with her. MM saw this as a huge snub - and a day or two later, Lainey wrote about it. Now how would Lainey know about this shopping trip? As far as I can tell, only two people knew - Kate and MM. So either MM contacted Lainey directly or she had her friend JM do it.
I never thought they were actually kicked out of the Garden Party. Perhaps it got back to Charles that MM wanted to leave and he was sympathetic and thought it was all too much for her on her first time out with the family, so he whispered to Harry that they could leave to start their honeymoon.
Maybe it did get back to Charles, and like a patient and wise parent, he simply said "okay, off you go now". If you look at the conversation btwn he and Harry, it is VERY short and Harry doesn't look like he's just gotten into trouble. He looks more like "OK, Pa says we can go now". I've even wondered if Charles said something like "security issues" and H knew that meant too much hubbub, time to go! It just seemed too smooth, Harry wasn't surprised.
Words, if there were any, came later.
Which makes me wonder. When MM committed faux pas, would the BRF speak to her directly about it, or would they go to Harry "about your wife"? One method would make H mad, the other would make MM mad. Just curious though.
That being said, I can't imagine the stress of living with a narc and what it does to one's body. I keep thinking this fiasco can't get any worse, yet here we are. I think HMTQ has intel as always from MI5 / MI6, and the 12 month "review" was designed to give Harry an out. MM has to be stabbing her claws into him, because what in the world will she do after he has fled back to England? No career, she's ghosted everyone and burnt all bridges.
Just want to say my father was a true racist, used the N word, made sure we lived in towns that did not allow people if other races, etc. but worked for a major corporation and was able to get along with all. Once when a young black handsome friend of mine had done me a large favor, I watched my father shake the friend ‘s hand, smile and make very friendly conversation.
Racists can hide it well.
I don't doubt they can. Without a window into someone's heart and mind, we can only observe their words and their behavior to determine what their values are. To make the presupposition that someone *must* fit into a certain category based on the color of their skin or other outward factors is at the very heart of racism. If it is automatically assumed that any white person is incapable of being anything other than condescending to non-white people, that's racism, too. Just not the kind that gets acknowledged as widely.
It is certainly true that we can't glean Charles's feelings toward race entirely based off his courtly behavior toward Meghan and her mother on the wedding day. But neither does it follow that, since Charles is at the top of the pile for white male privilege that his gestures toward Meg and Doria were for ceremonial show only and didn't reflect his true intentions. But we have had the benefit of another two years in between to see how the BRF treated its newest recruit. None of us can know what went on behind closed doors, but publicly, the Firm has been nothing but supportive of Meghan from what I can see. The Queen lavished her with titles and a wedding that all told, cost as much if not more than William and Catherine's, largely due to security costs. So they endeavoured to keep Meghan safe, and continue to pay for her protection. Charles lavished her with designer clothing. She got no fewer than four Royal tours in less than two years. She was given a home. THe statements from BP on her behalf were nothing but supportive, and no Royal bride or girlfriend has generated so many of these as has Meg. Her racial heritage has only been an issue infofar as she obviously believes that being a part black means that she can never be criticized at all for any reason without it being a racist attack upon her.
I can't think of a time where Meg accused the Royal family as such of being racists . . she seems to reserve that for 'The British Press'. To me, the fact that Meg was freely allowed to marry into the British Royal family is proof of how racist they are *not*. If the family truly did not want a partially-black American to join their ranks, more obstacles would have been put in Meg's way. Harry would have been forced to choose, as his great-Aunt Margaret had to, between his titles and princely perks OR a bride who was deemed unacceptable. If the BRF were racists, Harry and Meg would have eloped to Las Vegas and they could have started their life free of any Royal demands that much sooner.
Have to wonder if apple news is the only outlet for said picture, are they getting paid for said picture?
The outlet is 'Business Times', which, despite the title, never seems to have any articles about business--just tabloid-quality articles about the Royal family. Meghan is a very popular subject--one wonders what this publication did for content before she came on the scene. I got that article off my phone, but I suppose it can also be found by Googling "Prince Harry Has Reportedly Lost More Hair Since Relocating to the United States." Dateline is 6/16/20 and byline is by Camille Heimbrod.
I'm not sure how payment works for photos . . I would assume the photographer was paid by BT. BT articles are usually sycophantic about Meghan, but occasionally a less flattering one will slip in. This one is in that latter category, so I don't think MM's Sunshine Sucks will have been involved. Very slow news day on the Harkle front if this is all they can dredge up. It's to the point where I never read the Business Times any more because it's all drivel--they have obviously given their tawdry publication a dignified sounding name to give legitimacy to their stories and attract readers who are, I dunno, business types. But they never print anything worth reading. This particular very unflattering photo of Harry caught my eye, though and I had to share.
We can judge the substantiveness of the Harkles' impact on the world by the quality of their press coverage. Basically, they generate nothing worthwhile to cover, just a lot of empty promises that go nowhere, boneheaded decisions and bad photos. So Meg can relocate to L.A. and tell everyone she's in talks to be in a film with Brad Pitt, but the international tabloid press is still covering Hazza's rapid balding. So much for Megsy's triumphal return to Hollywood. They are both poison, and they have Markled themselves. We can thank Covid for at least muzzling Meg to a large degree. Otherwise the papp shots of her in L.A. would be tedious.
Isn't it strange Harry didn't insist on meeting him before the wedding?
Didn't he ask why MM, so close to her father at the time, didn't bring him around? Wouldn't that bother you if your fiancée seemed to be hiding family members?
Another thing that I noticed is that MM seems to have taken a lot from Diana's playbook. Lady C tells about how Diana manipulated the media, put out false info through her friends in the press, blasted Charles in the press in the days of their separation, wanted to become an international roving royal (sound familiar?), pouted when she didn't get her way, was very vindictive, wanted to be an international superstar, then wanted to be an international humanitarian, it reads as if Diana could have been MM. I think this is also how MM is able to handle Harry because MM and Diana were so much alike, but MM hasn't realized that Diana was beloved by the world, and MM has never been able to achieve that. Quite the opposite.
I believe that MM has read Lady C's book about Diana and made her plans for world domination with the info she read in that book.
It's well worth reading the Diana book before we get our copies of the book about MM. There are far too many correlations between Diana and MM. Harry truly did marry his mother.
Thanks for the information. The International Business Times has only been around since 2006 . If they ever intended to be a legit news source, they were probably swept up in the movement from factual, unbiased news to celebrity news. Hence so many gossip Royal articles.
I'm reading Lady C's book about Diana. Don't expect Lady C to come out with guns blasting against MM. That's not her way. You have to read between the lines, which is easy to do with the way she writes. She will write one negative comment, alongside a positive comment to give balance. She gives good insight into Diana's mental health issues, and says that she may have had more serious issues than we had realized, some that we've discussed about MM and Harry.
I am looking forward to Lady C.'s take on Meghan, and I don't expect it to be a muckraking job. Georgia was raised in the kind of aristocratic circles the Royals travel in and is well-versed in that code. If she has a barb to deliver, it will be encased in silk. Aristocratic put-downs can be devastating while remaining elegant, but the target audience knows exactly what's been said. It's like a game of fencing . .a touch, a touch!
I think she will endeavor to mention whatever favorable toward Meg she can find also, in the interests of balance. I am sure that she's got a top team of lawyers advising her as to what exactly can be put in. She and her team will have made certain that Meg has no grounds for another of her slap-happy lawsuits.
I watched an interview with Lady C. recently talking about her forthcoming book and she is very well-spoken and circumspect in her answers. The interviewer, a young man, got on well with her, but he prodded her a number of times to answer a question posed by a viewer about her ex-husband. She deflected and finally said, I don't feel comfortable answering that. Georgia is not going to publish anything that will compromise her integrity in any way. I think as a person with a unique heritage . . .white Jamaican, living for 21 years as a boy before she was accepted as her true self--if Meg thinks being part black is hard, she ought to try navigating society as a hermaphrodite--these things would predispose Lady C. to be compassionate toward another woman who didn't fit into her prevailing culture . .at first we all felt that way towards Meg, or most of us did, even me. But she bollixed that up Royally in only a few days, so as far as I'm concerned Lady C. can take off the velvet gloves.
Whatever she writes, it won't be coarse. That's better than Meg deserves since she's the epitome of coarse.
It’s an old picture. Pre-megxit. He is wearing a grey jacket and a white suit shirt.
I don’t know why, but I was hoping for something recent. The article is basically a nothingburger (I’ve seen that expression used here). The author concludes: “Prince Harry is starting to get that enthusiastic, American, teenager vibe that the public didn’t get to see while he was still a senior working royal in the United Kingdom.”
Gag me!
Thanks so much for taking one for the team and reading that long post by Launiy.
Here's the thing ... what was her close connection that got her to that dinner that night?
She claims to only have met Meghan that once, at that dinner (or did she say twice and when was the other time?). So, it was not her connection to Meghan that got her the invite nor her connection to Corey (if she was that close to Corey, she would have met Meghan). Ditto if the connection to Meghan or Corey was through her husband.
She distances herself from Jessica in the same way (I hardly know her), so the invite did not come from Jessica and why would Ben invite her? If she was that close to him, she would know Jessica. Ditto if the connection to Jessica or Ben was through her husband.
Were her or her husband close to Christina and Trevor? There is a connection between Trevor and Michael Buble, and Christine and Trevor were probably Soho House socialites, which creates the connection between Meghan and Jessica and their respective partners and Christina and Trevor. (Christina, the owner of Basquiat, a Vancouver boutique, would have been someone Jessica and Meghan would have wanted in their social circle.)
Lainey's husband is a house husband, so he did not get her that dinner invite.
Nope, Lainey was there because of her connection to Jessica and Ben and through them, she got to know Meghan.
As far as the SUN wasn't there just a hullabaloo again about Harry suing because they paid someone working for the RF? I'm thinking the SUN will lie low for now and plan the right time to give the info as to who told them about Liza .
Lainey needs to be careful ( not that I care lol) because she's calling H&M game whores, and disavowing knowing Meghan to prove she's not biased . I can picture meghsn getting pissed and throwing receipts out that prove differently. It's amazing , as Harry would say,to consider what the three of them may to do to / about each other .
Something happened in those couple of intervening days that entrapped him, and they surrounded him in that booth. But -- big but -- at some point after that, he joined the conspiracy against his family as perhaps she detailed how they would leave the BRF in a blaze of glory and be "bigger" than the BRF, making millions, perhaps billions. If Harry couldn't be king, he could be something more than even a king. Dim bulb Harry fell in. But as you point out, it seems highly unlikely they ever lived together anywhere; at least there's no visual proof that they did. As for Arkie, there seems to be some child that either does or does not answer to that name, but who knows who he really is, or where he is. However, HM has acknowledged some baby as a great-grandchild, so...so I really don't know what that might mean. Perhaps it's a warning to them not to abuse him by merching him to within an inch of his life.
What we do know now is that the master plan for their jailbreak out of GB has been met with multiple blunt traumas. Absolutely NOTHING has worked out and they seem more and more, with each passing debacle (the latest being the JM disaster), to be reaching a nearly pariah status in Hollywood as elsewhere. If not pariahs at least laughingstocks.
And the Archewell gambit proves them inept as well.
But I can't look away! In a world gone mad, the entertainment the duo provides is priceless. If only they could bottle themselves and sell it to Comedy Central. That will never happen because they take themselves so seriously -- which is what makes them so funny (once you get over the outrageous conning of the BRF and the world, that is, which is infuriating). So the beat goes on, and I cannot wait to see what they've gotten up to each day.
I have never wasted my time on Liu’s blog due to its rah rah Meg bias, And the nasty vindictive way she has relentlessly smeared Catherine and other members of the family in her zealous promotion of Meg. I have seen a photo of the Queen of Meg Stans.
I assumed all along that she and Markle were friends, having travelled in the same circles in Toronto. She has certainly written on her blog these last 2+ years like she was defending a friend. Now I find it hilarious that she is so eager to disassociate herself From any deep acquaintance with either Meg or Jessica Mulroney. She’s made Singing the praises of Meg the centerpiece of her blog and basically her entire livelihood, But now she can’t tell us fast enough that she barely knows Meg and only spoke to her for 15 minutes on one occasion? If Meg were her good friend, I could understand the investment in her success. If Lainey were a delusional obsessive fan, a wanna be
projecting her own desires as a WOC in the world of entertainment onto another such woman in the royal family, I could understand that. But now she’s backtracking and wanting us to believe that our main topic of conversation and income over these last years has been a woman she met once at a dinner party and barely spoke to. This makes no sense whatsoever, but she and Megan have that in common. Believe absolutely what I’m insisting is true and not the evidence of your own eyes,
LL Shouldn’t even have to justify the biases in her blog. A blog is personal opinion, an entertainment platform, not journalism. As a blogger who’d devoted herself to one chief subject—Meghan—her cachet and credibility depended on a perceived ‘in’ to the world of Meg. Without a personal connection to Meg, LL is nothing more then yet another fan blogger on the fringe. Can anyone here who has followed LL Speak to whether she has promoted herself as a friend of Meg’s? If so, then she’s a fraud as well as a coward. Will she lose readership in a huge way now that she has disavowed any sort of relationship with either Meg or Jessica? I would hope so because the assumption of that relationship was the entire appeal of her viewpoint. Maybe it’s time for LL to rebrand her blog ... aren’t there any admirable Asian Canadian women she could highlight instead? She whines about the discrimination she’s faced as a non-Caucasian woman, but spends all her time writing about Another woman of color who complains about racism while pretending to be white for most of her life, and who uses sex to advance herself. Maggie is not an admirable role model for anyone, unless she’s a baby grifter.
Yes, that young man who is doing the interviews with Lady C is Prince Leo of Croatia (his princely title is explained in one episode). He's been on COVID lockdown with Lady C in her mansion/event space.
In their interview series, Lady C also refused to discuss whether Doria had served prison time, but if you listen very closely, she does give the answer to that question. That's what is so fascinating about Lady C. and the aristocracy/BRF. They know how to let the word out without appearing to say anything. Behind those serene exteriors lies steely information sharing with a smile and a wink, and the truth is spread within their circles with such cool reserve. It's fascinating to watch, and it is often used in the British press, too. Every word counts because if you miss just one, you'll have missed the whole point.
As for Lainey, she's been covering the Toronto Film Festival for years, and I think she met MM at the 2012 TIFF. MM has always looked for any person to do free PR, and I think she spotted Lainey right away as a mark. In her usual fashion, MM love-bombed Lainey into thinking they were instant good friends.
Here's a rather scathing article asking why the biggest person at the 2012 TIFF was MM, who didn't even have a movie to promote, but was obviously there to promote herself and her connection to Harry.
https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/tiff/2017/09/07/meghan-markle-becomes-tiffs-most-wanted-govani.html
With names such as these attending in 2012, you'd think that MM would have had some luck in finding a Hollywood connection, but it seems she wasn't just good enough to break through into the stratosphere.
https://www.popsugar.com/celebrity/Celebrities-Toronto-Film-Festival-2012-24783100
Lainey is also a member of the SoHo House, so she probably met MM and her cronies there, too. All of them are social climbers- JM, MM and Lainey.
That long dialogue makes LL look like she is protesting too much - at others' expense. There is no loyalty among this crowd.
If you watch Suits, Meghan Markle is a big deal. If you don’t, she’s a “who?” What can you tell us about her?
"We’ve talked to her at eTalk a number of times, and she’s very sweet. She’s not one of those people who walks into a room and is like, ‘Look at me; I’m a celebrity.’ She’s not Mariah Carey. She’s really passionate about her two dogs. She seems pretty low key. And she is stunning."
You’ve mentioned Harry’s overall popularity a number of times and on your blog you make no secret of your love for him. What is it about him?
Harry is one of those rare figures who checks off all the boxes. He’s enough of a hard core —he’s been to the army — he’s a prince, he’s obviously attractive. He’s great with animals and senior citizens, and then he has this bad boy side — there was the time he got caught with his pants down in Vegas. You know that he’s not boring. I love him because I think he’s fun. He’s a guy who knows how to have a good time. Especially in contrast to his brother and sister-in-law. They’re so boring, they’re so stodgy."
They are not "boring" or "stodgy, Lainey. That's class and decency.
June 17, 2020 at 3:20 AM
Is this what this Lainey said? Pffft.
As quoted by The Star (thanks @Wullie'sBucket.)
"Meghan was the only fiancee that was ever asked to Windsor before the wedding and the "only newly-wed who was invited by the Queen to accompany her on a daily engagement."
So what? And neither seems to be exactly true. Where did TQ meet the other fiancees? Walking down the street? And Edward and Sophie lived together for years before marrying. She reportedly spent weekends and holidays at Sandringham, Balmoral, and Windsor.
I know it was supposed to be a big deal M was invited to Sandringham for the Christmas before the wedding. Kate wasn't there the December before she and Will married in April. But neither was Will! He was working in Wales. And before the Sussexes married, how could Harry have gone off for Christmas and left M alone in England without family?
As to the train trip with TQ, I do think it was intended to publicly welcome M. But Kate appeared with TQ and PP when she was still a "newlywed" on a trip to Leicester. I guess Philip being there too made it less of a big deal? How odd.
That's Lady C-speak in it's truest form.
HMTQ and PC aren't going to want a "dominant" person in a very minor role in the BRF, and would not want to have a dominant personality marrying into the BRF. The only dominant person in the BRF is the Queen. Every other person is her subject.
As for her dominance over Harry, that is obvious. That's a very loaded word.
"Vivacious" can be a code word for too over-the-top, too outgoing, too demanding, too loud, too Hollywood. "Vivacious" can be a compliment or very derogatory, depending on who is saying it. Members of the BRF aren't supposed to be vivacious. They are supposed to be poised, measured and dignified.
Lady C then implies that in spite of MM's "dominant" and "vivacious" personality, HMTQ and PC rolled out the red carpet for her, which would be the proper thing to do in the pubic's eye. Behind closed doors, I'm sure that HMTQ and PC had the very same thoughts that PP had- don't marry the showgirl.
I do think that PC had a little twinkle in his eye over MM for a short minute, then quickly saw her for what she was well before the wedding. That's when he said Harry was c*nt-struck.
This is the way I tend to read Lady C's books and listen to her interviews. Every word is very carefully crafted, and many of them have double meanings.
I commented awhile back that the CEO of the Crisis Hotline M&H gatecrashed in their zoom meeting was fired yesterday for abusive and racist behaviour and has been doing so for a long time . Another racist person Meghan knows lol. Also it's coming out about MM stans cyber bullying, threatening people and racism and the queen of her stans is the one they called to thank them for Archie's forest. R. Palmer is telling the media they need to look into this because Meghan is again friends with a racist . Domino after domino.
Oh, I thought all humans were the same, I thought there were no colors.
@Fairy Croc, I found your story very moving and inspiring.
“ The sins of the fathers shall not be visited upon their children,” along with the Ten Commandments and every other last vestige of Western Civilization, a 2,000-year-old project of putting the rights of the individual at the center of humanity, is being dismantled wholesale. I am a white woman whose grandparents were gassed in Treblinka, and all of their possessions confiscated by the “woke” of their time, still within living memory. So no, we have not been so “privileged.”
That why I dislike the BLM movement, a Marxist/Antifa movement upon whose bandwagon MM and her dim-bulb hubby are championing now in their desperate effort to remain relevant and cool (what a joke that is). Are these then HM’s values MM and H promised to uphold?
@Aquagirl, I think you’ve hit on a very important point, in that whatever else the dastardly duo get up to, HM and the BRF will have to come clean about Arkie. A child’s life and well-being are you ynot to be sacrificed upon the altar of saving face or covering up their black sheep’s ignominy.
Meanwhile, The Express claims Doria has truly joined her daughter on TP’s sofa, or is perhaps sharing the laundry cupboard with JCMH. Curiouser and curiouser. I wonder what happened to Doria’s partner. Perhaps her partner has had it up to the proverbial “here,” much like the rest of us.
As always, thank you, Nutty for this insanity-free zone. I continue to enjoy all Nuttiers’ contributions, and I still miss Ava C and some others.
"I do think Karens can only be white women though - I learned this from the black women of LSA!"
Oh, I thought all humans were the same, I thought there were no colors.
I agree with your comments so often.
@Musty S, I don’t have the slightest idea of what might have happened To Dorias house. Perhaps she let her house. Or maybe it’s a temporary arrangement and her partner will remain in Doria’s house. The question in my mind is why the supposedly woke Harkles didn’t invite Doria’s partner to live with their little family in TP’s house. Or maybe the Express article is pure fiction. Who can ever know the truth with the shady Harkles?
I read it on Blind Gossip ages ago. Maybe LL read it there too. ;o)
I agree with your reply to Wullie’s Bucket about Lady C’s book. You do have to read between the lines, the uttered or written word shouldn’t be taken in the literal form. Yes, many double meanings too.
If people understand and know what’s not acceptable or accepted in the royal family, they’ll understand Lady C’s take.
The ones that I have read state "Meghan said friends reflect friends and because of what’s at stake, she can no longer be associated with Jessica, at least not in public,” The source continued. “She has to do what she has to do in order to preserve her dignity and her own reputation.”
It's clear to me, especially when combined with other statements made over this matter (MM doesn't believe JM is racist and she is heart broken etcetc) that MM isn't dropping JM as a friend. She will do so in public and that's all. The anonymous source statements should be read like a lawyer. There's plenty of wiggle room in there which allows MM to still stay friends with JM and to not be called out as a liar. Of course she'll be keeping it very discreet, and they'll probably not see/hear much from each other for a few weeks but no way is that friendship over. As others have said, JM knows too much.
https://torontosun.com/news/national/jessica-mulroney-hiding-in-muskoka-as-dumpster-fire-rages
For some local TO flavour.
I do not deny that evil, crazy Karens exist who call the cops on blacks. I worry that the fear of being labeled a Karen will cause normal women to stop using their voices.
https://youtu.be/sGslSh3xgu0
Now why exactly is discussing Meg's pregnancy a legal minefield, Lady C? Perhaps an injunction us plebs have no right knowing about?
I love how she talks about how widespread adoptions by non-British royals is and her stance that royals and aristocrats should ensure their children inherit titles if they have that opportunity.
I have a lot of family and friends in the U.K. so I am a little familiar with how polite Brits can be, especially the posh set. Everything is very subtle, extremely diplomatic, and context is critical.
Lady C is not a Brit but she has to play by their rules. By default, she's very informative and never direct. She gives context through history lessons and stories of other people which Brits are better equipped to decipher because of their better grounding in British etiquette, class system, history, and so on...
Like @JocelynsBellinis said, my takeaway was Lady C told us exactly what she knows about Doria. She also told us what she knows about Archie.
Very well said.
I agree @JL that "Karen" and "Becky" has misogyny baked in. I'd say it's the sister term of "Diva" which gets levied against black women.
"Karen" and "Becky" gets misused from it's true meaning because of the popularity of the memes. They are call-outs to specific women who go out of their way to make difficult, hurt, or even destroy another person's life for ridiculous things.
The prototype of a "Karen" or a "Becky" has more to do with class, usually upper middle-class and has a "perfect life à la big house with a white picket fence." They cannot tolerate any inconveniences/infractions to their life bubbles so will retaliate disproportionately to things not going their way. Meg is a good example of a "Karen" when she confronted that reporter for looking away while interviewing her:
https://youtu.be/vSkBYXNJA9Q
@Hikari Phenomenal posts!
Just want to point out that Lady C vehemently denies being a hermaphrodite and will sue any press including Americans that print any false stories about her.
Per Lady C, she successfully sued several British newspapers for perpetuating the false claims made by her ex-husband. She says Meg's camp is re-circulating that story to discredit her. She was born with only female genitalia but had a deformity that required corrective surgery. Her parents were adamant about raising her as a boy so she could not have the corrective surgery until 21.
As soon as my eye fell on the word's "Meg's dominant personality", followed by "vivacious", I had a laugh and almost had some coffee come out of my nose. As you point out, *that* is the perfect aristocratic take-down. The subject herself would read this description and be pleased with it, but these words are most decidedly not compliments.
Dominance and vivacity (extroversion) are American virtues for Getting Ahead, but not so in Britain. You can be dominant, you just have to pretend to play the game according to British rules, wherein being too pushy, bragging about one's accomplishments and trying to 'dominate' the room gets one labelled Up Oneself. That is a cardinal sin on that island. That aesthetic would go 100x in the Royal family where there can be only One big cheese and they all defer to her--even, most especially, her lieutenant, second-in-command, designated heir the Prince of Wales. It's hilarious (and pathetic at the same time) that Meg assumed privileges for herself and freedoms of conduct which do not even extend to the Queen's own son and the future King. Meg's self-regard is just really that astronomical. There's a point where ego and arrogance tip over into mental illness when it busts all tethers of reality and I think Meg's been there for some time now.
For 'dominant', insert 'overbearing' and for 'vivacious', 'exhibitionistic' or quite possibly 'high as a kite'.
Charles may have been amused by Harry's choice for a little while. Meg really turned on the goo-goo eyes on Charles & also to William. She knows where the bread is buttered. Charles is widely traveled and counts himself friendly with lots of celebrities, both British and international. I think he likes the United States, as do both of his boys. Meg was an interesting case study at close range, but he and the rest of them must have known very quickly--by the first Christmas at Sandringham, if not before, that she was going to be a handful. To put it mildly. There aren't enough hands to contain the wonder that is Meg.
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Embattled socialite Jessica Mulroney is in hiding as the firestorm that derailed her TV career rages on, sources told the Toronto Sun.
Before last week, Mulroney appeared to have it all.
A show on CTV, regular appearances on Good Morning America, and a bustling styling business. Add in membership in two of Canada’s most famous families and a BFF named Meghan Markle and it’s a potent society CV.
But bullying a black fashion blogger, threatening her business and a “liable” [sic] suit coupled with accusations of “white privilege” and disingenuous apologies has left that life in ruins.
In addition, a source said CTV has set up a task force to interview staffers on her axed show, I Do, Redo.
Colleagues at CTV, socialites and people Mulroney allegedly rubbed the wrong way over the years are standing up and being counted.
Longtime city society watcher Shinan Govani said that the affair crosses a number of different worlds, society, fashion, media, politics and royalty.
https://torontosun.com/news/national/jessica-mulroney-hiding-in-muskoka-as-dumpster-fire-rages
a hermo technically would be part of the LGBTQXYZ group, whether they acknowledge they are one or not.
born this way and all that stuff, they can’t help it.
im offended for the that ommunity that a woke, milliniel would attempt to use a ‘hermo’ label as a negative.
I also wondered about Doria's partner. Perhaps Doria uses relationships as does her daughter? I still don't think she moved in, and to be the nanny no less. Not a lot of child care experience in Doria's past, one child yes but it would seem she doesn't have a close relationship to any nieces and nephews as that would be the family MM never had.
IF, and its a big IF, Doria is living there (temporarily or otherwise) I am inclined to think its because something huge is coming and MM needs Doria as a shield. Maybe Harry took a private jet back to the UK (hopefully with Archie in tow), or maybe what is coming out in LLC's book is so explosive, MM needs her mother for support, or maybe something has happened to MM (rehab, psychotic breakdown) that requires a guardian and Harry isn't there or isn't fit to be one. All speculation of course.
I think the tactic is more about her being seen as a fraud and someone who can only be an outsider in aristocratic circles. Therefore her access to insiders is nonexistent and the intel she has, has to be shoddy. My guess is they are trying to convince us that Brits are racist so there is no way someone from the LGBTQ community would be embraced either.
What Lady C's identity is has no effect on me but it may on more conservative royal followers.
Whatever the state of Lady C.'s internal organs, I don't think they have any bearing on her skills as a journalist or worth as a person, though her aristocratic husband divorced her due to what his family interpreted as 'the scandal'. His ego could not cope with the idea that he had been intimate with someone who was not conventionally gendered. 'Hermaphrodite' is not clinically correct in her case, and it's become pejorative, even though it's just a medical diagnosis, like psoriasis. When a diagnosis touches on gender/sexual identity, that's when it becomes loaded.
Regardless of one's views about Lady C.'s books, it seems like she has done pretty well at building a life for herself despite being dealt some really crappy cards.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/48936/lady-c-is-a-monster-crushing-snob-and-a-complete-fake-says-the-man-who-married-her/
Perhaps, Meg is a racist herself? That's something I truly believe. That comment she made about what color she wears to change her perceived ethnicity is a huge red flag.
Just gross!
charade - thanks for that video.
I've only gotten 40 seconds into it and noticed that she involuntarily grimaces/frowns/closed or almost closed mouth looking irritated/facial tension for just a fleeting second more times than I might have expected given this was not her first interview.
Kind of cool watching it on slow speed (settings adjustment) and mute it as well.
-Rehashing the old hermaphrodite story is one more item for the list of signals that Meg is completely tone deaf. I find it hard to believe Sunshine-Sachs would endorse such a tactic in June 2020. Ken Sunshine, what do you have to say for yourself? Wouldn’t you like to take this chance, the millionth opportunity Meg has provided, to distance yourself from her and Harry? Your reputation is tanking, pal.
-Whatever the case with Lady C, and it’s not our business, the whole affair gives her a unique, if not the impeccable descriptor that she uses, set of contacts among—and likely employed by!—royal circles. Who else has contacts up- and downstairs and the nerve to publish what they know?
I laughed at the wording, too. Lady C is very cunning with her wording, and each word is very carefully thought out. Take "captivated", for example. People can be captivated by seeing a car accident or a train wreck. They are captivated (or held captive) by the horror. People were captivated (glued to their TVs) by 9/11 and it's aftermath, but it doesn't mean that they were swooning over it. It means that they were held captive by the horror of it.
@charade,
Yes, within her history lesson, Lady C just told us of Archie's parentage. After discussing who is royal within the BRF (the lead up), she moves onto the "birth" of Archie. Within the history lesson concerning people within the aristocracy, she repeats one word again and again. Adopted.
Lady C is a master with words. If you just take her words at face value, you won't get much out of her book, but if you look for the key words or phrases, in this case, "adopted," you'll find lots of great information.
Her extended laugh and a shake of her head is also a clue that something very interesting is about to be said.