Not much appears to be going on. Living Legends came and went without fanfare ... what's the next event? Super Bowl - Sunday February 11th? Oscar's - March 10th? In the mean time, some things are still rolling along in various starts and stops like Samantha's law suit. Or tax season is about to begin in the US. The IRS just never goes away. Nor do bills (utility, cable, mortgage, food, cars, security, landscape people, cleaning people, koi person and so on). There's always another one. Elsewhere others just continue to glide forward without a real hint of being disrupted by some news out of California. That would be the new King and Queen or the Prince/Princess of Wales. Yes there are health risks which seemed to come out of nowhere. But. The difference is that these people are calmly living their lives with minimal drama.
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I can only refer you to the excellent book "Unnatural Causes" by Mr. Shepherd who very well explained the danger of sickle-cell trait as opposed to sickle-cell anemia (condition the person may not be even aware about) in certain situations.
"I saw a series of deaths in custody or under restraint. Many of the dead were black...and as the deaths under restraint were more than occasional, I realized that I had to focus on this".
Shepherd, Richard. Unnatural Causes (p. 206). Penguin Books Ltd. Kindle Edition.
Richard Shepherd is one of the founders of a movement in UK that resulted in review of the restraining protocols, which led to the serious reduction of deaths in custody.
I was merely questioning if USA cops are aware of the increased danger of restrains to certain groups of people and, if so, what happened to Floyd is even more inexplicable.
Sorry Nutty, it is not the subject of the blog and I will stop right here.
People of African descent, including African-Americans (among whom 1 in 12 carries a sickle cell gene)
Hispanic-Americans from Central and South America
People of Middle Eastern, Asian, Indian, and Mediterranean descent
https://www.hematology.org/education/patients/anemia/sickle-cell-disease
Royal SHAME: How Meghan Markle's moving speech reminds Royal Family of 'what they've lost'I'm
https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1291900/royal-news-meghan-markle-speech-black-lives-matter-royal-family/amp
As usual, she has to make it about her: 'And I remember my teacher at the time, one of my teachers, Ms. Pollia, said to me before I was leaving for a day of volunteering, "Always remember to put other’s needs above your own fears." '
@Maneki Neko: Performing volunteer work for students at Catholic schools has been a requirement for decades. I’d bet the ‘volunteer work’ she did in high school was part of the compulsory volunteerism. Also remember that many students who would not normally do volunteer work do it to burnish their high school activities CV for their college applications. As a profoundly narcissistic person, remember that Meghan doesn’t do anything unless it promotes her self-interests and her personal agenda, which is solely aimed at enhancing her public image, status, wealth, and power by using other people as objects.
Narcs have absolutely zero compassion and empathy for others. What passes for these qualities is purely an act.
She looked better certainly than the last video outing with Archie, where "Frazzled Mom in Messy Bun mode" was the prevailing aesthetic.
My initial impression of Meg's voice back in the day (2 years ago) was that it was a pleasant contralto, but now my gorge rises at both the sight and sound of her. As others have noted, it's a curiously flat and robotic 'performance' with zero smiling, as one might expect when supposedly delivering an empowering message to teenage girls from one's alma mater. While hardly a grievous error, considering the rest of the travesty, whip-smart MeMe says, wrongly, "I'm proud to count myself as an alumni with you" or similar. The correct term is 'alumna', to refer to a singular female graduate. A collective of all female graduates is 'alumnae'. 'Alumni' is for a mixed group of grads. So Meg should have said 'alumna' when referring to herself.
Oh, but that was hardly the problem with this little outing. We know Meg can smile, so broadly that her teeth can be seen from space, in a variety of settings both appropriate and inappropriate. She can grin like a maniac at a solemn service honoring war dead . . on the joyous occasion of young ladies completing their high school educations, she wears a face suitable for a funeral. Without sound, one might suppose she was praying to the memory of dead loved ones from the many times she cast her eyes skyward and clutched her bosom. All that was needed to complete this audition tape for the revival of "Jesus Christ Superstar" was her Magdalene costume from the South Africa tour. Doubtful that item made the journey across the Atlantic and the North American continent, but hopefully she retained the chic bivouac tent number from the polo match last July . . she and Haz might have need of it to camp out in if they get kicked out of the Perry mansion. Meg could really show how down she is with some fellow BLM protesters in a tent city then.
There was so much gauzy filter on the picture it looked like the whole frame was smeared with Vaseline.
I hope Immaculate Heart had another proper commencement speaker and just allowed Megsie to hitch her pitiful show onto their name since she is a former alumnA. Not that being associated with Meghan Markle is going to be doing any organization any favors at all. It's not like girls are going to rush to enroll in Meg's old school on the strength of this little ego project. 35 "I"s . . she's kind of outdone herself. That's at least half a dozen more than she used in her cookbook foreword.
Given the level of Meg's proficiency in acting, and the fact that she is capable of passing for Latina when she wants to, I have a post-Royal career suggestion for her the would be perfect: Latin telenovelas are right up her alley. As I watched her attempting to do 'Earnest and inspiring' what she reminded me most of was Salma Hayek's hilarious turn as a telenovela vixen/maid in a 1990s SNL skit.
Duchess of Sussex's lawyers withdraw claims of 'harassment and humiliation' against Mail on Sunday
https://www.yahoo.com/news/duchess-sussexs-lawyers-withdraw-claims-150500077.html
Fairy Crocodile said…
Found it, it is called a sikcle-cell trait.
"In fact, sickle-cell trait sufferers should avoid all situations where there may be any threat of oxygen deprivation at all, so as well as climbing high mountains, that includes scuba diving, parachuting … and being forcefully restrained...Sickle-cell disease is the UK’s fastest growing genetic disorder. It is carried by millions of people worldwide, mostly of African or Caribbean origin. Those who suffer from it are more likely to survive malaria (not very useful in metropolitan London).It is caused by a mutation in the haemoglobin gene and haemoglobin’s vital function is to transport oxygen around the body".
lizzie said…
Sickle cell disease is more common in certain ethnic groups, including:
People of African descent, including African-Americans (among whom 1 in 12 carries a sickle cell gene)
Hispanic-Americans from Central and South America
People of Middle Eastern, Asian, Indian, and Mediterranean descent
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Does anyone know if this has been linked to the increased chances of people from these groups being seriously ill/dying from C-19? I don't recall reading/hearing anything about it, but may have missed something. It just strikes me as being a possible explanation considering how C-19 also affects blood oxygenation.
Blind Items Revealed #2
May 28, 2020
Of course the alliterate former actress had a member of her group be the source/instigator for the tabloid hit job on the family members she can't stand.
Meghan Markle/Vanessa Mulroney is bff with author of Tatler article about Kate Middleton
Good thinking. They were saying that the reason appear to be genetic, so there very well may be a connection. I am sure we will know later on.
I concur ;)
I was 11 or 12 years old when I was about to start Immaculate Heart High School in the fall, and it was the L.A. Riots, which was also triggered by senseless act of racism.
If anyone knows whether Immaculate Heart contains junior high as well as high school, please advise, but Meg says here specifically that she was either '11 or 12 years old' (not sure) when she was 'about to start Immaculate Heart HIGH School'. Surely even students with summer birthdays would be at least 13 when starting the 9th grade? I have a fall birthday and turned 15 a month after I started HS, but I was one of oldest in my class. Though being as I like to think of myself, whip-smart, I did not skip any grades and did the full 12 years. Meg was 11 years old in the sixth grade as verified in the Nickelodeon video about the P&G project. Are we to assume that, based on her brilliance in the sixth grade, she was allowed to skip over 7th and 8th grade altogether and start high school when she was 11-going-on-12? It's a wonder she didn't just go straight to matriculating at Northwestern as their youngest-ever undergraduate.
It's the consistent haziness with details that Meg displays about her pre-Harry life that makes everything she says deeply suspect. Later on in the video, she claims she passed flaming buildings and looters running with bags of booty on her way home from school . . either 6th grade or 8th, she can't quite remember.
Bull. I'm sure Thomas did not make his little princess walk home through burning debris and looting from school. He probably picked her up personally every day or arranged her to be picked up if he was working.
Excellent idea!
But...
What we got was a speech for a graduating class, close-ups of bracelets and then a barrage of stories about how she's "more herself" and that the RF were foolish to let her get away. It's more of this "escaping the crown" narrative, followed up with stories today of her work for the Mayhew as their royal patron. They have so much scorn for the RF and yet they use their connections and titles at every turn.
No idea where M attended 6th grade but I'm pretty sure she didn't walk home during the riots from either school. (And she would have been going to the Little Red Schoolhouse at age 10, regardless.)
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We established when the riots happened Markle was 10. I just looked at the Immaculate Heart School website and they have high school and middle school students, Grades 6 to 12. I also checked what 6th grade mean in the USA and it appears students are usually 11 or 12 at the 6th grade.
Markle was 10, so could she possibly be a 6th grade student? Yes, if she skipped a grade, but did she skip the grade somewhere else to be accepted at grade 6 in the IH Catholic school when she was only 10? I simply don't know. Can she prove her academic brilliance at that age?
Either way her claim she was 11 or 12 at the time doesn't hold water.
Exactly!
The persecution of the Jews goes way back in western Europe too, there are records of appalling events in England as well prior to their being expelled by Edward I in 1290. Jews, as money lenders, were targeted on any pretext - but especially that of the `blood libel'. Burn the records of the loans and your debts `disappear' and can't be enforced.
In Spain, the Sephardim undertook extensive migrations, eastwards and northwards, to escape persecution and forced conversion. Some even got to Sussex, via Amsterdam, and possibly are present among my ancestors.
In the 19th century Russian empire, the pogroms meant Cossacks or other soldiers riding into Jewish villages (shtetls) and destroying them and their inhabitants by fire and sword.
In addition, conscription into the imperial Russian army hit Jews particularly cruelly; the Jewish quota was three times the rate of that for non-Jews,so even children as young as 8 or 9 were forced into service. This was for 25 years,so conscripts were more likely than not to die before their time expired .
That's before we even get on to the 20th century and its horrors and, sadly, it's not done with yet...
It's a disgrace that MM should have published such a speech as it can only feed societal divisions. I'd like to think that she'll receive the full weight of Royal disapproval but she got away with her comments about the EU & Brexit, and abortion in Ireland, so I'm not holding my breath.
Multiple reports now of her sponsoring the Archie H M-W kennel at the Mayhew. All done quietly, according to the reports.
Yeah, as if.
Cue Drum Roll and Fanfare.
I can't stand Markle but if she really helps financially to a dog shelter I support this. I myself support several. If she does something good I have nothing against it.
“I was 11 or 12 years old when I was just about to start Immaculate Heart Middle School in the fall, and it was the LA Riots, which was also triggered by senseless act of racism.”
According to this quote from Daily Mail. Middle school where I live is 6-7-8 grade. Some places it is 9-10-11 grade.
According to this quote from daily mail
Does that math work out?
I’m guessing in fall 1992, she was now 11 and entering 6th grade at IH middle school
Unless I am missing something she couldn't have been "11 or 12" as she herself says when the riots happened. They were April - early May 1992. Markle was 10 at the time. She turned 11 three months after they happened.
May be it is insignificant but to me it proves she is lose with details and devil in in the detail.
Her sentence structure is very awkward.
““I was 11 or 12 years old when I was just about to start Immaculate Heart Middle School in the fall”
Oh and the riots happened (when she was 10).
I’m not defending her. It’s possible she deliberately uses awkward flow in order to have like plausible deniability type of things....
She is, however, saying she was 10 when the riots happened in April (10 years 8 months, so nearly 11 in her mind) and 12 in the fall when she started middle school.
But, yeah. The technical sentence is a mess.
I don’t know why she throws 12 in there.
She is just a bad speaker, her speech structures are awful, as you say.
I am more interested in the recent claim by supposedly none other than Sam Markle that Megs was nowhere LA when the riots happened. If this is true and her father can confirm this it will be a strong blow.
I will sit and wait for the developments.
Doesn’t make sense that she did this. And she’s constantly doing this to get in the press. Super manipulative. She could address the riots and say something on its own to the public. So further, her word salad, if she was just addressing the school- she had no need to say ‘she had to say something! On the riots’.
She used the school for her own public relations gain. (Did not need to specify that she felt she had to speak out, it was a graduation speech ffs)
She used the riots to further her own popularity (As she always does), but as usual no direct talk or action so she can’t be called out.
She is probably the worst version of a PR celebrity we’ve seen in a long time. Everything is coordinated and calculated and she holds zero substance. If she had something to bring to the table (smarts, wits, looks, achievements) where is it? Banging on from her husbands position of privilege looks so weak, and why she’s having to pay a lot of money for PR every month (granted, she’s an easy PR client- spends lots of money and enough distributors will take a story from them for the attention it gets). How long will this continue?
Further, if Charles stops funding them with SO much money (Harry is always going to have an allowance, just how much is the question), can she afford her PR circus forever? The answer is no. She relies on easily over $100k per month going to the PR team (is it Sachs still- if so, even more). I know someone who runs a biz, paying 50k to a large PR firm just to try to get placed in different niche and industry outlets, the price is dependent on how many dedicated PR reps at the firm, how connected the firm is, and hours worked per week towards the effort and goals.
JH has proven he doesn’t care about any of this (where is his speech about racial inequality etc).
I’m also seeing that they both are trying to be celebs in their respective home cultures. Megs PR is tailored towards the American audience, and Harry’s towards the UK. It makes sense and would be their mutual goal of being ‘global roving royals’. Very easy for a PR company, just expensive.
What the heck is going on with Piers Morgan? He’s acting like a Meghan cheerleader in his latest article in the DM...Rumor was they threatened to fire him if he didn’t lay off MM, but this is a total 180 on his part.
My guess is he knows she's about to be thrown out of the BRF for her BLM stunt, and he wants the exit interview.
I was in L.A. during the original Watts Riots. I do remember seeing the flames/smoke, ashes falling from the sky. I remember my parents having our vehicles packed up, ready to go. I remember the police/national guard patrolling our neighborhood.
In 92, i was already living in MT. But most of my family was in So. CA and i followed those riots. I do believe Megs is, as usual, exaggerating to make herself seem more than she actually is.
I agree that caring for animals is a good thing but I suspect her motives. My suspicious mind thinks it may have more to do with improving her image here rather than anything on behalf of dogs.
For me, it strengthens the impression that they are trying to worm their way back into our affections.
Pure Hoovering.
If they do come back we''ll find ourselves going round in the same old circles, getting nowhere.
Lemon Girl And Richella
JUNE 5, 2020 BLIND GOSSIP LEAVE A COMMENT
[Blind Gossip] This actress needs to make a decision in the next couple of days.
It won’t be easy.
She has experienced several huge life changes over the past couple of years, many of which were orchestrated by her.
Actress was convinced that every one of her decisions was the right one. She was also convinced that she and her husband – we’ll just call him Hubby – were heading towards a life of huge fame… and a billionaire’s lifestyle.
So far, it hasn’t panned out that way.
Some of the blame does fall on world events. Like all of us, Actress had no control over many things that dramatically impacted billions of people.
However, some of the blame certainly falls on her. Her plans were ill-conceived, completely self-serving, and changed every five minutes.
Even worse, she managed to alienate many of the very people who had started out cheering for her. As she began insulting them and playing the victim and retracting her promises, they turned on her.
If there was ever a cautionary tale of someone turning lemonade into lemons, this was it.
Although Lemon Actress claims to be independent, neither she nor her husband are employed, and their current lifestyle is completely dependent on the largess of a few very rich people.
Lemon has a very, very rich female friend. They are not long-time friends. In fact, they did not meet until just before Lemon’s wedding.
Since then, though, Richella and her friends have been providing Lemon and her husband with contacts and publicity and private jets and housing.
Basically, Lemon and Just Call Me Hubby have been given entree into a world that neither of them earned on their own.
However, nothing is ever really free.
Richella and Friends did not not embrace the couple purely out of the goodness of their hearts. All of those benefits have a price.
Richella is considering including Lemon in a televised event in the near future about a contemporary topic. It is a little risky for Richella, because, although Lemon is famous, there is a possibility that she could pull focus from the topic. If she is included,
[Lemon] would be introduced as “a very special surprise guest.”
Lemon is in an awkward position. She was still getting her act together about her future plans, and this was not the cause she wanted to use as her big public coming out in front of a worldwide audience.
In addition, anything that Lemon has said or done so far on the topic so far has been late to the party, took a lot of planning, a lot of script writing, and a lot of rehearsal. A spontaneous conversation where each word would be analyzed is a completely different ball game.
However, saying no to Richella would be almost unthinkable, so Lemon wants to make the situation as comfortable for herself as possible.
[Lemon] wants to make her appearance conditional on getting the format and questions in advance so she can rehearse the best responses. She has been talking to [an Athlete friend of hers] about what to say and about possibly being involved, too.
Basically, Lemon wants to give well-rehearsed responses that appear spontaneous and heartfelt, but are curated, completely PC and accompanied by carefully selected anecdotes, facial expressions and hand gestures.
Actually, that sounds like her usual modus operandi. Acting!
We don’t know yet what Richella and Lemon Girl will do. Stay tuned.
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Well, fellow-Nutties, there's no need to guess who they all are!
At £5 a month for a dog room or £10 a month for a deluxe dog room she's not going overboard is she? I sponsor a dog with the Dogs Trust - a specific dog that because of behavioural problems cannot be rehomed and also a cat pen with Cats Protection
the harkles? i havent even finished reading it, but it seems obvious
Just will further alienate Brits. "I was not given a chance, the old Palace people were mean to me, Kate had been a bitch, Brits are racists, I wanted to change the world to a better place but the nasty people didn't let me, British press is nasty, they didn't like the Black Princess because they are all racists, yeah, their stiff upper lip is damaging inside, I tried so hard they all hated me from the day 1, Charles talks to plants and Anne is mean to me"
We know her agenda already. What can she offer to keep the audience interested? That Queen's corgi have a special biscuit baker?
Lemon Girl And Richella
JUNE 5, 2020 BLIND GOSSIP LEAVE A COMMENT
Who’s the Athlete Friend and is Richella Oprah? ;o)
Boy, wonder what the subject Richella/Oprah has in mind is? going to have to keep ears open and see what she has coming out.
I personally have not followed Oprah for years and years and years.
Or racism? Is Serena the athlete? Given that Serena was "straight outta Compton" I wonder how she'd advise M about that insult? (Really that was the only openly racist one I ever saw about M in the UK tabs.)
As for whether MM consulted with Serena... Not sure about that. I thought the two of them were at odds following the US Open.
Does she have other athlete connections?
Richella = Oprah
Athlete = Serena (assuming they're back on speaking terms after the American Open)
Contemporary topic? Well, it was to have been mental health (or was this with Hubby on his todd?)
My guess would be racism/civil rights/BLM.
Ellen DeGeneres spoke out on the Black Lives Matter movement Tuesday, days after deleting her first attempt to address the matter on Twitter.
In a video posted on her Instagram account, the talk show host said she was “so sad” and “so angry” over the “people” who are “getting away with murder” — but not before giving a disclaimer to her many internet critics whom she expects will be “in disagreement with what I say.”
“I haven’t spoken directly because I don’t know what to say. I am so sad and I am so angry, and I know I’m not going to say the right thing,” DeGeneres began. “I know there are going to be a lot of people who are going to be in disagreement with what I say. But I have a platform and I have a voice and I have always stood for equality.”
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ellen-degeneres-attempts-over-blm-170329149.html
On other topics:
I continue to be nauseated by any Harkle suggestion that they want to seek financial independence, when for more than 2 years now they've done nothing but sponge off of others and let others support them.
You want financial independence? You two have $30million, give or take a few mil. You can buy a nice house, even in SoCal, WITHIN WHAT YOU CAN AFFORD, with that money.
They also annoy me with their constant chasing the "story of the moment". Pick something you want to focus on and stick with it. Invictus Games? Great! I mean, didn't they say just before they blasted out of England that would be their focus? Then Covid comes along, and they want to focus on that, to help with Covid charities (unsafely, and spreading germs as they go). Now race relations are making news, and that's what $mirks wants to talk about.
Pick a subject, get educated in it, and stick to your lane, Harkles! It's so patently obvious they chase the "cause du jour" for publicity only, and it lessens any credibility they ever had.
Please, please, please, let these two fade into obscurity and ignominy. Soon!
I am so over the virtue signaling as well. I fully support BLM and the peaceful protests. As well as criminal justice reform on every level. However at this point it seems like that isn’t going to be enough to satisfy people.
I suspect no news outlet is in a hurry to even slightly criticize a POC right now.
She's sliding in on collective guilt.
She'll be Teflon for a couple of weeks.
I can see appearing on a "town hall" devoted to the discussion on racism would be difficult for a woman who listed herself as caucasian and aligned herself with "white" friends (see the pictures), "white" husbands/ significant others (see the pictures) until she began dating/ marrying Harry. Then, she became/ embraced her status as a woman of color. I can see why she demands control over all questions and the chance to cultivate her responses. The hypocrisy between her life before Harry and after is overwhelming.
I get that people can be younger than average in certain grades and can start college in the US at 17. However that usually occurs when there is an early fall birthday doesn't it? Not a summer birthday.
For example, in many US states, one has to turn 6 by a certain date to start 1st grade. (While many kids go to kindergarten it's not mandatory.) Usually these dates range from early Sept to occasionally as late as early to mid-November. But for MM to be 10 when she started 6th grade in the fall semester, wouldn't she have had to have just turned 10 in early August? Working back, that means she would have just turned 5 when she started 1st grade. Current CA regs would put her in kindergarten, not 1st grade. https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/gs/em/kinderinfo.asp
Maybe it was different in the 1980s or for a private school.
SHUT UP everyone who's bothering me!!!!!!! Just STFU!!!!!!!!
I haven't bothered with the math with MM's tall tale. I'm sure she's lying to make what she thinks is a "good story". If her mouth is moving, I don't trust a thing she says!
What M is doing is called "performative activism". (Google) Performative activism is a pejorative term referring to activism done to increase one's social capital rather than because of one's devotion to a cause. It is often associated with surface-level activism, referred to as slacktivism.
Dead On
So, if Markle de facto speaks as a member of the royal family, at the very least I expect her to clearly denounce all forms of racism. That she keeps emphasizing her own heritage makes her message personal and limited to her own self. She is privileged, protected, tax funded and pampered individual with very little record of service for any community, so why should I listen to her?
Frankly she is doing harm to BLM movement attempting to ride it for personal gain.
Is so very well said. Actually your entire comment was noteworthy, but I only copied the part about Markle’s deleterious effect on the Royal Family.
Thank you.
Thanks for the info on the Spectator article "Life's a riot wit Meghan Markle". It was deliciously scathing; finally a media person has the nerve to really slam Markle especially on her phony credentials with respect to BLM.
Here is the link: https://spectator.us/riot-meghan-markle-black-lives-matter/
Re. School starting dates
I’m sorry to not remember, but I think you are in the U.K.?
Education in the States is an interesting quagmire. We have 51 separate state Departments of Education plus the District of Columbia. The state level handles curriculum guidelines and distributes money, But each state school district has autonomy to set its own calendar and schedule for testing, grades and activities. Each state has hundreds of local school districts, and there is no standard time for starting or finishing classes in any given term. The start of the school year Varies from early August to early September, with different cut offs For students to enroll. Mandatory all day kindergarten is becoming increasingly the norm, although preschool is still optional. Most places require a student to be age 5 by a certain date in order to start kindergarten that year. This enrollment date can range from August 1 to September 30, so a student could technically begin kindergarten at four years old if September 30 is the cut off date in his or her district, a month after school has begun. Children with summer birthdays are there for almost a year younger then kids with a
fall birthdays in the same class, because fall birthdays will be within a month or two of turning six in kindergarten, having missed the cut off the previous year. This is what happened to me, and in fact my birthday was only four days after the cut off in my school district. Meg’s August 4th birthday would have made her one of the youngest in her class assuming the cut off was August 31. That is the most common date. The summer birthday babies will graduate at 17, and if a late August birthday, or even start college as freshmen at 17. Often times parents of summer birthday babies will hold them back one year, especially if boys, if it is felt they need another year to mature before starting school.
I think the article I had quoted the line from about starting high school at 11 or 12 was a misprint. Meg could have turned 11 prior to starting sixth grade, but that is a young sixth grader. Most of her classmates would have been 12. It’s a minor thing, But this glossing over of details which should be remembered… Most of us know how old we were when we began junior high, and are not hazy on that detail of a major life event… Just goes to Meg’s credibility. She doesn’t have any. If she can fudge details about tiny things, all the more so will she fudge bigger details. We know she’s always trying to seem younger than she is, so even though we can all do math, Such haziness allows her to have plausible deny ability about shaving a year or two off her age.
What do I think? I think MM cares as much about black lives as my poodle Sugar does. Actually, that might be unfair to Sugar who at least understands loyalty and can sniff out disingenuous people.
MM might do more harm in the U.S. than she even managed in the UK. She is wholly amoral and will fan the flames of discord wherever she is, as long as she perceives it to advance her own agenda.
That’s what I think.
There’s a reason why small children and animals shy away from her.
The enigmatic Doria knows so many secrets about Megs...She’s also got a closet full of her own skeletons to manage. Now SHE would be the real ‘get’ for Oprah. The world has heard plenty from Thomas Markle, but we do not have a single word from Dorias lips, Either in print or audio about her daughter’s rocket ride to fame. In Megan’s early years, she lived with Doria above a garage in Crenshaw, And now she is technically a princess in more than her own mind. Megs’ Mother will never be allowed to speak about her, not unless Meg, Harry and HMTQ Are all deceased… And maybe not even then, if talking will reveal her complicity in illegal activities.
In regards to Ninaki, I got the impression that she was a “neighborhood” friend who may not have gone to the same schools as Meg. I could be wrong, but since she severed the friendship with MM after the coldhearted dumping of Trevor, that doesn’t sound like the actions of a complicit bully to me.
also curious about the BG blind and the alleged BLM "summit" . how are they going to spin it to include Meg when basically her entire life,by omission, she shunned her heritage? even this year, zero mention of black history month
I wonder the excuse she gives herself for never having made it in Hollywood. who does she blame? her cries of racism or discrimination in that one article read as lip service but I wonder if that is how she really feels.
she really should reinvent herself, worked for madonna..thirty years ago
Recalling who has spoken out, She even reinvigorated her relationship with Katherine McFee to try to reconnect (and use her) to establish herself amongst that crowd again. Looks like it semi-worked. But Katherines statement on Harry was effing weird then we heard nothing else. Father figure? He must have really played up his ‘alienated from the family’ routine to them, as he learned from Megs. Why else would she phrase it that way...?
I actually appreciate Katherine spoke out and cleared up a bit of what was going on. She obviously views herself as having done well enough in the marriage department (questionable) to speak out as if her husband is more LA powerful than Harry (he is). And she uses her husband to advance herself, so she knows the drill. I thought it was a bit funny of her, to say what she said how she did. You could look at it as her one-upping Megs, knowing she has more LA social power through the prolific David Foster.
It was a smart thing of her to do publicly, but probably screwed things up a bit privately between her and Megs. She probably didn’t care. When you think about it, Katherine would know a lot more about their Real situation than any of us, and clarifying that not even Harry or Megs know where they are going to ‘land’ was very telling.
Anyway, other people who get close with enough power will feel comfortable speaking out and normalizing the duo. It looks to me like they try to hide and cultivate a false image through their silence. School friends? It just seems so long ago
That their opinion is irrelevant.
It also sounds like Meghan and Harry haven’t figured out their reciepts situation with Oprah. Oprah is a ruthless person. She runs a tight ship. I’m sure she assumed Megs could be a semi-protege, until most of their funding was announced to be only a year via Charles. It was clearly Oprah’s in with the Euro crowd and appeal. Served a couple of purposes for her.
But Meghan, as Oprah is learning, is a dishonest shitshow. So there’s no way that relationship will remain positive. I just don’t see it happening. Meghan is an actress and Oprah is ....Oprah. Even her name is unique. Meghan doesn’t have the stamina to work like Oprah. I guess Oprah can bring out her pony show to advance some of her causes. It’s pretty funny that it’s going to be about the current events. My husband said of course Meghan doesn’t want to do that, she’s trying to get acting jobs and distances herself from half her identity to be able to get the roles that go to Reece, Gwenyth, Meryl...you get my drift?
She’s always been like that. I highly doubt she’s going to all the sudden switch her aims to represent a community that serves no purpose for her. And Oprah’s trying to force it on her (basically testing Megs to see how full of S she was about the RF and their ‘isms’). This is what makes Oprah smart, and this is why Megs won’t be able to keep up. Oprah’s just sussing our her integrity.
Further (sorry lol) if that’s the case, Megs better make the right decision as it’s her biggest role to fill yet. Just appearing for Oprah.
End of rant (thanks for reading lol)
We still do not know if her speech is real vs. PR placement via Essence.
'Nervous' Meghan Markle delivered anti-racism speech with no notes, says friend
Rebecca TaylorRoyal Correspondent
Yahoo Style UK2 days ago
Meghan Markle’s anti-racism speech to students at her former high school was delivered without notes, and after she had conversations with “community figures” about the killing of George Floyd.
Floyd was killed in Minneapolis after a police officer knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes.
Meghan, 38, had not previously spoken out about the killing, having mothballed the social media account she shared with her husband Prince Harry when they were senior royals. They have not launched a new, personal social media presence yet and have been speaking through charities since they moved to LA.
But Meghan broke her silence on Wednesday as she addressed the graduating class of Immaculate Heart High School, which she attended as a teenager.
A friend of the Duchess told Newsweek: "As you can probably tell, it's pretty raw and she spoke without notes.
"But she's been having lots of conversations about the issue before filming.
"Both her and Harry have been having private calls with community figures about everything, so I'm sure that helped form her view."
The duchess admitted she had struggled to know what to say, adding: “I wanted to say the right thing and I was really nervous that I wouldn’t, or that it would get picked apart, and I realised the only wrong thing to say is to say nothing.”
Meghan told the students at her old school about her own experiences of seeing race riots in LA when she was a teenager, and told them she was sorry they had to grow up with the same things happening.
But she encouraged them to treat what is happening as history, and to “rebuild and rebuild and rebuild until it is rebuilt”.
She also urged them to vote, a comment which might have been seen as too political were she still a senior royal.
She said: “You are going to lead with love, you are going to lead with compassion, you are going to use your voice. You are going to use your voice in a stronger way than you’ve ever been able to do, because most of you are 18, or you’re going to turn 18, so you’re going to vote
A spokesman for the couple told Harper’s Bazaar: "She felt compelled to directly address and speak to these young women about what’s happening in this country right now around the killing of George Floyd—as well as what’s been happening over many, many years and many, many generations to countless other black Americans."
A source added: “This is something that is incredibly personal to Meghan, especially given everything she has experienced. And as a couple it is, of course, very important. They are both feeling it, just like the rest of us.”
One of those who graduated virtually tweeted: “I’m crying.”
It’s not the first time Meghan has addressed racial issues. In one significant moment as a senior royal, she told a group of women facing gender-based violence in South Africa: “On one personal note, may I just say that while I am here with my husband as a member of the Royal Family, I want you to know that for me, I am here with you as a mother, as a wife, as a woman, as a woman of colour, and as your sister.”
Thanks for the link to archewell global
https://www.instagram.com/archewell.global/
I checked and the first website that comes up on Google is indeed from H&M's Instagram account with the usual meaningless quotes, e.g. ’Diversity is a strength. Not a threat'.
BUT, the second site that comes up ,Archewell Foundation Global - Instagram, is similar to the hijacked ones earlier this year with delicious messages such as the 2nd wedding anniversary: something about expensive presents for MM then:
' Harry got a card' 'It's the thought that counts, right?'
https://www.instagram.com/archewellfoundationglobal/?hl=en
Thanks Hikari. I'm in the US not the UK. What you've written is what I said (but you've explained it better)
In my state a child has to be 6 by Oct 15 in order to start first grade in the fall (or 5 by then to start kindergarten.)
So someone with an October 4 birthday could start 1st grade at 5 when school opens for the year because she'd turn 6 on Oct 4. That would mean she'd start 6th grade at age 10 as she'd turn 11 on Oct 4. So kids with Sept & early Oct birthdays are either the youngest in their classes or the oldest. (They are the oldest if their parents decide to hold them back a year before they start 1st grade. That's sometimes advisable, particularly for boys.)
But MM's birthday is not a fall birthday. It's Aug 4. So she would have already turned 6 when fall semester started. And she would have already turned 11 before school opened for her 6th grade year.
And finally, in April/May 1992 when the riots happened M was 10. Not 11 or 12. That's just a fact if her reported birthday of Aug 4, 1981 is accurate. And it's a fact Barbara Bush was 1st Lady, not Hillary Clinton, when MM claimed she wrote about dish soap.
But M's not one to let the inconvenience of time get in the way of the point she wants to make. It does lead to confusion though. Remember Harry and Meghan couldn't agree on how long they'd been dating when asked during their engagement interview. How often does honest confusion over a simple fact like that happen after purportedly meeting on a blind date? Like never? M takes the notion that time is relative to a whole new level.
regarding the article and megs friend saying "she didn't use notes" who says that? odd statement to make.
Thanks for the IG address. Wonder why all the videos aren't there too?
It’s funny that you chose October 4 for your birthday example, because that happens to be my birthday. In my school district at the time I was a student, the cut off date for students to be eligible for first grade was September 30. That was a bit odd, seeing as the school term always began the Tuesday after Labor Day. So someone with a September birthday could start first grade at the age of five, as long as they turn to 650 by the end of the month. In my case, having missed the cut off by only four days, I had to stay home another year, and wound up doing two years of preschool plus a year of kindergarten. One month after the start of first grade I turned seven. In my graduating class of 430+ people, I was the oldest apart from one or two kids that had birthdays during the first three days of October, Or those that had been held back a grade in elementary school. There were just a handful of us who were eligible to vote in a put all of my senior year of high school, since only a few of us had already turned 18.
Since then my district has revised the cut off date and moved it into August before the start of the school term, which makes more sense. My nephew who attends in another district has a birthday on August 18, But the cut off in his district is August 1. That makes him one of the older in his class, having turned six before starting kindergarten. The cut off date in your district of October 15 is the latest one that I’ve heard of. In that case, fall birthdays would be the youngest in your grade, but I don’t think such a late date is the norm. Fall birthday kids such as myself tend to be older in their classes. It used to get my goat, because a girl who lived next-door to me Had her birthday on September 25. That made her only nine days older, but a grade ahead of me, a fact she enjoyed rubbing in whenever possible. We hung out a lot together during middle school, But our relationship changed after she started senior high, and suddenly had no more time to hang out with a lowly eighth grader. I had a bit of schadenfreude two years later when she came begging for me to tutor her in biology, a class that we shared, Although we were in different sections with the same teacher. My ex-friend was really you g for her grade and was a mediocre student. I started in with all the advanced classes, so I was doing the same work as her as a freshman. I ended up helping her out, but may have made the crack beforehand that I would tutor her if accepting help from a mere freshman wasn’t too humiliating for her.
I loved my junior year, well as much as one can love high school. Is high school went, it was the high point. My senior year was so anti-climactic and disappointing, that if I had it to do over, I would’ve done summer school so I could graduate early and enter college with the class that I would’ve been in if only my birthday has been a few days earlier.
Meg would have tuned 11 a few weeks prior to the start of 6th grade, but the Watts riots were some months prior, so there’s no way that she could have walked home from Immaculate Heart through burning debris, dodging looters. More revisionist history from Smeg.
I believe info about her earlier years is relevant, please don't take it down.
It is relevant as it would be interesting to know what she would say in response to reminders of her (alleged) bullying. It's not so much that it happened, as lots of kids don't behave as well as they should, but whether she mended/repented of her ways.
Would she say, with true penitence, something like - `I cringe whenever I remember some of the things I did and I'm really sorry'?
Or would be more like, `So what? It's no big deal - and anyway, they asked for it!'?
That is, would she apply the narcissist's perpetual `defence'? In their own minds, they are always right and are in the right - it's always the fault of the victim.
I know where I'd put my money.
I hope that journalists, and other parties interested in the truth of what she does and has done, and in the danger she presents in both US & UK, do read what we write.
I wonder exactly which “community figures” have been graced by a phone call or zoom chat with Meg and H. during a global pandemic and time of unrest which has not been seen in Los Angeles since 1992. Because at such a fright an overwhelming time, *the* Most important item on any community figure’s agenda is asking Meg if she’s OK and providing some sound bites To contribute to her word salad video speeches. Helping Meg to give back to the community with her wonderful rhetoric should be everyone’s first priority. I’m sure the mayors office has her on speed dial and all, Because she is so important and has so much to contribute to the ongoing social dialogue of our time.
I expect that somebody commented, as some of us did, that she could have been looking at her notes when she looked down. No shame for an ordinary speaker in having a few bullet points as an aide memoire but she, magnificent actress as she claims to be, should damn' well be able to remember her lines - hence the need to get a `friend' to speak out and deny it.
Top-flight university dons don't have any problem keeping track of what they say. It's a supposed overhearing that someone in Oxford passed two dons in deep academic conversation and heard one say `and ninthly...'
I did once hear the late, great, Asa Briggs speak without notes and he made the same utterance. (he also polished his shoes, each in turn, on the back of his trouser legs, as he spoke! Perhaps 'twas he that was overheard?)
`...has so much to contribute to the ongoing social dialogue of our time.'
Exactly! That's what I meant more bluntly by the reference to `danger'. She sees it differently, of course.
Meanwhile, William has let out that he has been working on a counselling help line, having been trained for the job. I daresay she'll say he's done as she suggested. At last a Grauniad article without sniping:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jun/05/prince-william-is-counsellor-for-mental-health-crisis-service
Exactly that! You wouldn’t feel the need to say it if you weren’t trying to defend something. Suffice to say, Megsy used notes.
I agree with other Nutties, Megsy’s school days are relevant. IMHO our innate traits don’t change that much, and it appears Megsy has always been nasty Megsy. :o/
"...the Watts riots were some months prior, so there’s no way that she could have walked home from Immaculate Heart through burning debris, dodging looters. More revisionist history from Smeg."
I generally agree but the Watts riots were in Aug 1965 following a police incident with Marquette Frye.
The riots Meg says she experienced were in April/May 1992 in response to the acquittals of the officers who beat Rodney King.
But the walking time from the Hollywood School House to where this source says Meg lived at the time was over an hour according to Google Maps. And the walking time from IHHS was nearly two hours (but the only a 15 min drive)
https://www.laweekly.com/mapping-meghan-markles-los-angeles-life-before-the-royal-wedding/
No way she walked the streets of downtown LA as a 10 year old trudging home from her pricey private school. Riots or no riots.
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Re: birthdays and school. I do remember when I was young kids started school earlier in CA. When a student would come to our state/school from CA he/she was always younger than the average. But that was a long time ago and wouldn't apply to MM. But there are state differences.
We did some sleuthing there!
To sum up:
According to the article in the DT Markle attended the Immaculate Heart School from age 11 to 18.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/28/meghan-markles-school-abuzz-news-royal-engagement/
It means she entered the school after she turned 11 in August of 1992.
She was 10 when the riots happened and, as Hikari pointed, she couldn’t have walked home from IH school among burning debris like she says she did.
Tatty always rightly reminds us not be like Megsy’s fan club with wild theories and check the facts.
We can safely say with this one: Markle twisted the facts to suit her agenda. She was never a little frightened girl alone on the way from the IH Catholic school during spring riots of 1992 in the midst of fires and ashes falling from the sky. That is a lie.
Doubt it. Unless she provided a falsified proof of identity for her wedding she is 38. The age of the bride must be recorded on the marriage certificate in UK.
Although I see what you say. If you are right, she did provide the false documents and that is illegal.
In other MM news, her UK lawyers have filed an amended version of her lawsuit against the MoS, cutting out the paragraphs the judge ruled irrelevant. Among the cut paragraphs is her claim that the newspaper 'manipulated and exploited' a 'fragile and vulnerable' individual i.e. her father. So if she acknowledges that her elderly, frail dad is fragile and vulnerable, why is she refusing to visit him, call him or otherwise contact him? He has always adored her, since she was born, and has done so much for her - two facts she readily admitted before she started dating Harry.
The screenshots and stills from her speech certainly look like she is merching the jewelry once again.
I would not have thought it odd for MM to have notes. but now I am laughing thinking what no teleprompter? Lol
At least they could pre Coronavirus. Who the heck knows what the rules will be in the fall.
As with everything, Megsy is a mass of contradictions. Her Father went from adored to a pariah. Tragic and sad. :o(
She actually say she remembers the drive home and pulling up at the house not that she walked
I suppose I should give her a few positive finger snaps for remembering, at the tail end of her Me Me Me speech, to encourage the graduates, but I thought it was seriously over the top to say things along the lines of "now it's your turn to go out and change the world!" I can't remember her exact wording, but that was the gist. To be exact, I'd need to re-listen to her word salad, and I can't bring myself to do that.
No, these girls aren't going to go out now and change the world. They are going to start college, or trade school. Once you complete advanced education, THEN you go out and change the world.
I felt her exhortations were 4 years premature. Cheer the girls on to their next steps in life, certainly, but don't tell a 17-18 year old "the world is waiting on you, young lady!"
There is still a LOT of learning about life and themselves that needs to happen.
(Before someone here beats me up: I am NOT saying people without education beyond high school cannot do great things, change their corner of the world, or make a significant positive impact. I'm saying on average the job these girls next face is college, and can we just let them focus on that rather than societal greatness RIGHT NOW? Good message, wrong audience to deliver it to. Should be a college graduation message, not high school.)
if she was so personally devastated and moved by the event she would most definitely remember how old she was. I think to the Challenger explosion and recall exactly what grade I was in ,what my teacher said and what prayer our class recited. she really is contemptible
Let the girls grow up first, before you charge them with changing the world.
That's better than bringing education level into the conversation. Just let them grow up!
I would be interested to know how the movie Elephants did financially. If it was a huge success, they'll want her back, because even bad publicity about her personally is still publicity for their movie.
But if enough people boycotted the movie because of her and it didn't meet their financial expectations, no matter how much the Disney execs loved her they won't invite her back.
Megsy shares her birthday with Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. Can you imagine a bigger contrast? During the war Queen Elizabeth was urged to evacuate with children to the North America or Canada. To which she historically replied: "The children won't go without me. I won't leave the King. And the King will never leave.". And this, ladies and gentlemen, is what the royal family is about.
Compare it with Megsy's "Nobody asked if I was OK" before she cowardly escaped first to Canada, then to North America.
History repeats itself first as tragedy, then as farce, as Marx famously said.
Sure it is an admirable thing to do and perhaps even required that a child with a privileged royal parent should grow up with the principle of active giving to others entrenched (i.e. done on his behalf from day 1).
However ...
$10-$15 is what ordinary folk do. Very wealthy and well connected royalty not ony donate a lot more but also use their connetions to solicit funding from others and do so regularly through a personal foundation or charity.
Meghan has frequently spent more money on one outifit that she would wear once than a poor family in my country would need to live on for a lifetime (she really did spend that much). Meghan is like a magpie with jewellery and spends far more (maybe more than 20 times as much) on buying herself trinkets every month (the expensive stuff is borrowed) than what she donates on behalf of Archie. But maybe it is Harry who is doing the donating for Archie and Meghan who is taking the credit. If these donations are a PR strategy then whoever they are paying for PR strategy should be fired.
At the end of the day, these little donations look cheap and when compared with what she spends on herself, it actually looks bad. That she then uses these donations for PR is very weird.
Thanks for confirming that the bracelet is probably one Trevor gave her. If she maintained a good relationship with Trevor it may be a bit awkward that she still wears it but acceptable. But, she completely threw Trevor under the bus and ghosted him. There is something ruthless and just unacceptable for her to wear that bracelet. Or maybe she is missing her old life in LA and anything from Trevor is a reminder of what she had? Canada was probably when she was at her height but her return there was not a success (maybe they could not find a wealthy person with a mansion in Toronto where they could squat).
Meghan's story about the LA riots? Like all her stories, it starts in truth but so much embellishment happens that it becomes a complete fiction.
One outfit Megsy were that was paid for the toxic British taxpayer would have set any charity for a long time. My favorite is a 90 thousand bedspread she wore in Morocco. Second is her engagement dress. Outrageously, unnecessarily expensive to the point of vulgar.
A number of times she traveled unnecessarily (baby shower and Serena playing); if not done it would have saved the amount of money several families in poverty would be more than grateful for. I don't even want to go to the farce of security costs when they bolted.
Meghan is the worst example of modern hypocrite because she expects others to do good deeds that require sacrifice, bit not herself.
Jesus said about Pharisees: "Do as they tell but not as they do, for they do not follow their own teaching". Two thousand years ago he nailed it.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.hellomagazine.com/fashion/royal-style/2020060591025/meghan-markle-monica-vinader-bracelet-sweet-meaning/%3fviewas=amp
The article talks about her Cartier bracelet....
It looks like she also wore her luxurious bangle from Cartier – the 'Love' bracelet is a classic piece that Meghan has had in her collection for
Insofar as the comment the “friend” made vis a vis the lack of notes: it was mentioned hither and yon that her eyes were cast down or forward, as if reading notes. Obviously Megain felt the need to correct.
Bullies have a history of caving/running away when confronted. Nothing but cowards.
And what did she do when the going got hard? Ran away to Canada, leaving H to face the fallout with his employer by himself.
They posted that manifesto as a joint thing, not an H thing. Thus they should have *both* faced the music, not just him alone.
She's always got a whole lot to say, thru friends. But when it comes time to put her money where her mouth is, she's nowhere to be found.
Always has lots to say, thru friends, can't even own it. Always with plausible deniability. Trashes Catherine non-stop, and then puts out that she's hurt that Katherine didn't say two words to her?
That's bullying. Mean girl stuff.
Trying to get Catherine to leave brf due to mm's bad behavior is the same as bullying classmates so badly that they leave the school.
I don't think enough has been made of mm's bullying behavior to Catherine.
Plus all her stans would start digging into your personal life, looking for dirt. Who needs that?
Martha...yearn for her comeuppance. You don't know how true that is. I think that's why so many of us are more invested in this than we might normally be.
And yes, about the notes. She was clearly looking down at something. You could see it in her eyes when whatever it was registered in her brain.
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He rolled over very fast to Harry’s unsubtle ask. That makes me suspicious.
Especially when he wouldn't have had to. Could have just said, sorry, project is already done, maybe next time.
Wouldn't the Harkles have known that the voiceover was already completed? So why were they even asking? What makes them think they're going to dump a project that's all ready completed just to let mm do it?
They must have had a reason to think Iger was going to cave, so what was that?
I also agree that the final landing place of the three million is certainly not clear at all.
Especially since the charity refused to comment on it. If it was completely on the up-and-up and legit why wouldn't the charity just say yep we got it, good to go.
(with apologies to T. S. Eliot - 1888-1965)
Megcavity’s a Mystery Cat: she’s called the Hidden Paw—
For she’s the master criminal who can defy the Law.
She’s the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad’s despair:
For when they reach the scene of crime—Megcavity’s not there!
Megcavity, Megcavity, there’s no one like Macavity,
She’s broken every human law, she breaks the law of gravity.
Her powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,
And when you reach the scene of crime—Megcavity’s not there!
You may seek her in the basement, you may look up in the air—
But I tell you once and once again, Megcavity’s not there!
Megcavity has a ginger cat, who's very tall and thin;
You would know him if you saw him, for his eyes are sunken in.
His brow is deeply lined with thought, his head is highly domed;
His coat is dusty from neglect, his whiskers are uncombed.
He sways his head from side to side, with movements like a snake;
And when you think he’s half asleep, he’s seldom wide awake.
Megcavity, Megcavity, there’s no one like Megcavity,
For she’s a fiend in human shape, a monster of depravity.
You may meet her in a by-street, you may see her in the square—
But when a crime’s discovered, then Megcavity’s not there!
She’s outwardly respectable. (They say she cheats at cards.)
And her footprints are not found in any file of Scotland Yard’s.
And when the larder’s looted, or the jewel-case is rifled,
Or when the milk is missing, or another Peke’s been stifled,
Or the greenhouse glass is broken, and the trellis past repair—
Ay, there’s the wonder of the thing! Megcavity’s not there!
And when the Foreign Office find a Treaty’s gone astray,
Or the Admiralty lose some plans and drawings by the way,
There may be a scrap of paper in the hall or on the stair—
But it’s useless to investigate—Megcavity’s not there!
And when the loss has been disclosed, the Secret Service say:
‘It must have been Megcavity!’—but she’s a mile away.
You’ll be sure to find her resting, or a-licking of her thumbs;
Or engaged in doing complicated long division sums.
Megcavity, Megcavity, there’s no one like Megcavity,
There never was a Cat of such deceitfulness and suavity.
she always has an alibi, and one or two to spare:
At whatever time the deed took place—MEGCAVITY WASN’T THERE!
And they say that all the Cats whose wicked deeds are widely known
(I might mention Mungojerrie, I might mention Griddlebone)
Are nothing more than agents for the Cat who all the time
Just controls their operations: the Napoleon of Crime!
What can the organizations do after these PR exercises have already gone viral? Denying that they ever asked Meg or H to get involved would be more damaging than letting it stand. This is what Meg counts on.
This is exactly what the bully counts on. That you'll be too polite to make a scene in public, and they'll get by with bad behavior. You'll let it go rather than make a scene.
When she appears in person, she just spoils the illusion, Especially when she has to stand side-by-side with authentic people.
And that's why things went wrong for her in the brf. She couldn't just skate doing the digital thing.
She had to show up in person and be authentic, which she can't do. That's why she hates Catherine so much. Because Catherine is authentic and in no way can she compare to that.
She knows she's a fraud, and Catherine shows her up by just existing.
@Mel(7:27pm), you're totally right. Great post.
I guess either M's friends and family have ignored her blatant inconsistencies for so long or she's shed friends and family regularly so it's less apparent how inconsistent she is.
It's as though she focuses only on the audience in front of her and her purpose right then when telling a story. She needed to be about to enter IHHS during the LA riots so she was. Archie needed to be a private citizen at the time of New South Wales' request so he was. Now Meghan needs his name out there as was he in all his diapered glory on his birthday for her PR.
Thomas needed to be evil, uncaring, and deserving of a 5-page handwritten scolding when she wrote him that infamous letter so he was. But she needed him or thought she could use him as a frail and vulnerable old man in her lawsuit so that's what he became. She needed HRC, not Barbara Bush, to be FLOTUS in 1992 (when she was in elementary school & wrote to P&G) so she was. She needed/thought she likely needed to be a practicing and sincere member of the COE to marry Harry so she quickly became one. Yet since then she's regularly adorned herself with magical charms and amulets that likely don't fit with traditional church teachings.
She needed a standing ovation "at the UN" so that's what happened (film of the event and actual location to the contrary.) She needed to be seen as an attentive mom so Archie's "feed time" meant she couldn't stay long at the Smart Works capsule collection launch on Sept 12. Yet less than a week before that Harry and staff were perfectly capable of caring for him while M flew off to NYC to watch tennis. And about a week after the Smart Works event both she and Harry were off to Italy without Archie to go to Nonoo's wedding. Guess someone else could handle "feed time" after all. She needed the royal family including W&K to be welcoming at the time of the engagement so that's what they were...then.
We heard H. telling Bob Iger, “She does voiceovers”. Bob seemed taken aback but polite when he was ambushed with this nugget at the Lion King premiere. This was in July, and it was reported that Meg completed the voice work around October of that year, just before the Harkles bolted for Canada. I think the breaking point for the RF with the Harkles had already been reached by the South Africa tour. The way they represented the queen there was an absolute travesty, then there was the whinamentry that promoted themselves and their lack of OK-ness, And ongoing questions about her spending on clothes and Frogmore, with nothing to show for it. The blowing off of Harry’s military duty with the Royal Marines in favor of panhandling the chairman of Disney for a movie for Meg can’t have gone over well, But just as she did with the Vogue issue, She just ignored royal protocol and charged ahead with the project she wanted to do anyway. Given the subject matter, both Harkles could argue that it was all in a good cause that Harry had long been involved with. Which it could’ve been… If Disney had asked Harry, the Royal elephant patron to do it, And made a $3 million donation directly to the elephant charity H. works with and not To the dodgy Sussex foundation which had not even been fully set up yet. We all know what’s going on here… Meg wanted a starring role and she wanted to pocket $3 million for it. Given megs ego, I’m surprise she didn’t demand Disney shell out 20 million to the Sussex foundation Disney, since that’s what Julia Roberts commanded at the height of her career as the highest paid American actress. That’s where Meg sees herself in her own mind, when her actual level of talent can’t even meet the demands of a burger grilling commercial. Bob Iger apparently allowed himself to be strong armed by halfwit Harry and his crass American wife, and let her ruin a movie that had already been narrated by an Oscar winner whose voice does not make ears bleed. Mystifying.
It has idly occurred to me that maybe giving Megan a project called “Elephant” was a sly insult? I’m sure when Meg made Halfwit broker a gig for her with Disney, a short film about elephants is not what she had in mind. Meg is obviously Disney princess material in her universe. The lead in Mulan was probably what she wanted. Ha!
I doubt it even went further than that in his head. He’s been known to make films regardless of what others think (black panther).
Anyway, Disney won’t work with her again. Too much controversial press, as they said. They still come out looking good- charity.
The account of MM’s bullying in high school is very interesting, and very relevant. The best indicator of future behavior is past behavior! MM was, and is, a two-faced individual who sucks up to the people who can most benefit her. In high school, that would have been teachers and administrators. Everyone else, she treats everyone else like gum on the bottom of her shoe. She reminds me of the smarmy Eddie Haskell character from the (very) old sitcom, Leave it to Beaver. He always attempted to charm Mrs. Cleaver, but was a ruthless bully to the Beav.
Memories are odd things. I confess most of my school years are quite fuzzy. Nothing remarkable to remember, and certainly nothing to build a humanitarian resume on in my opinion, although I engaged in hundreds of more acts of community service than Madame. It astounds me how she inflates random, school requirements into a portrait of Mother Meghan Theresa.
Anyway, school year memories that are clearest to me are ones in which I felt great shame. Nothing criminal or inherently mean. Just when I let someone down, or put self interest over sensitivity. So, while I can forgive MM being unclear with respect to dates, the events I think she is most likely to remember are those when she was at her worst behavior, not the saint-like stories she produces.
Then again, Madame has NO shame, so perhaps she has no authentic memories.
With respect to Oprah, I remember hearing about a woman that used to appear regularly on her show. Oprah was all set to give this woman her own show, a la Dr. Phil or Dr. Oz, but this woman had the audacity to shop around to other producers and Oprah was furious! It was a huge mistake. That woman, whose name we might have known had she not pissed off Oprah, was completely frozen out by Oprah and the entire media industry.
Here’s hoping MM makes a similar career ending mistake in her dealings with Oprah the Great. Knowing MM as we do, it’s a question of when, not if.
MM needs to stop the rehearsed, over dramatic videos. A simple interview would be more relateable.
PH needs to stop the hostage videos. Creepy and spooky.
They should hide out and avoid the press until people stop talking about them and they have something relevant to do or say.
Barring that, photos of all three enjoying social distancing in CA while ignoring the camera would show all three are together (and clearly not doubles or dolls or photoshopped separate photos). It is suspicious that they haven't been seen together since Africa ( I think). Meg's attempts to manipulate the press in the guise of privacy makes everyone more suspicious.
Regarding that woman on the Oprah show, I think it was Iyanla vanzant. Oprah had her back on the show, made her confess her transgression abjectly while sitting back smugly. It was not pretty to watch. I began to go off Oprah then.
The Katherine McPhee connection is interesting. I agree with others that Katherine actually has the power in that relationship. She is one of the few people from MM's distant past that hasn't been allegedly ghosted/exiled.
I was thinking today about how rude she was at the International Women's Day when the moderator asked her about her social media presence. MM scoffed, "Sorry, NO" when asked if she reads things about herself online. If that's true, why do H&M go after the press so relentlessly?
I am horrified.
Yes, the parody account is funny.
For those who missed it, here is the link, which I found by accident while searching for Unknown's link:
https://www.instagram.com/archewellfoundationglobal/?hl=en
One of the quotes (we need to laugh sometimes):
ENGAGEMENT INTERVIEW:
they are the greatest family ever
AFRICA INTERVIEW:
no one asks me if I'm ok, my life is hard,
pay no attention to the impoverished
Africans I'm supposed to be
representing, look at my sad face.
TELL ALL INTERVIEW:
they're so toxic, I'll tell everything for
a million bucks.
"She was actually in my sister’s class — two years older than me. My sister did shows with her, I did two shows with her when I was a seventh-grader or eighth-grader. They were obscure musicals. I think one was called Yankee Doodle,"
https://people.com/royals/katharine-mcphee-says-prince-harry-david-foster-relationship-like-father-son/
I thought I read KM didn't stay at IHHS for high school, just middle school but can't find that now.
This baby looks happy and healthy. He is very energetic and a good size. He looks well cared for, even though on that occasion he badly needed a diaper change and some clothes on. There was a complete and total lack of engagement with Meghan. The squirming was very typical of a toddler who wants to get down; he very obviously was not feeling this book. Meg was only offering a performance video, not a glimpse of real quality time with her son because she was completely tone deaf to his cues. He displayed interest in another more age-appropriate looking book, but she would not allow him to look at it. She just exudes discomfort with her own child, almost like she is a babysitter who doesn’t know this kid. More to the point, Archie did not appear to know her. I have scrutinized that video, And he never once looks at her face. This is not normal behavior for a one-year-old baby and his mother. Even if Archie has other caregivers, one would suppose that he recognizes his mom. There was no recognition. Arch was a pretty good sport for being held and manhandled by a strange lady. But he did not exhibit any signs of fear or intuition with her either, which I would expect to see with an emotionally with holding mom who is erratic and yells or hits. Meg can barely contain her temper when she is being filmed for what she wants to be maternal burnishing early literacy video… What would she be like in private when a baby does typical baby things?
I’m hoping that Archie’s relationship with Meg is so nonexistent that she will not be able to damage him. He’s a happy bubbly baby that shows no signs of being fearful of an unpredictable mother, so someone is doing a good job with him. I just don’t think it’s either of the people we have been told are his parents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsvCOEd3_jU
Meghan Markle revelations by Ninaki - Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5137785/Meghan-Markle-revelations-friend-knew-best.html
Dec 01, 2017 · Ninaki Priddy is torn between joy and a deep bewilderment when she remembers the blissfully happy day that her best friend, Meghan Markle, married her ‘eternal love’ six years ago. Meghan's maid of honour at her first wedding blames the future Royal for the mysterious end to the marriage: Friend since the age of two describes how fame changed Harry's bride-to-be
Apparently, if David and Katherine knew they were 'helping' them in a vulnerable situation back in October/November...these people (their friends) were aware they weren't going back to the Firm.
It's more than strange to me that Harry and Meghan couldn't arrange their accommodation privately, between two people, who are a married, as almost everyone else does.
I don't know about you guys, but do you all call friends to borrow other people's homes? I feel like it's crass if it's not acted upon as a kind open proactive invitation, To seek 'help' as a Royal is more than bizarre. Surely they know they are committing all sorts of social offenses. But maybe they don't care who they use up. They BOTH are experts at entitlement, after all.
I think they've painted a false story to everyone they know in the US about victimhood in the UK. And I think, with the court case, and Oprah, and the books, they will be toast in a few months.
No one can trust them, she's a bad actress that stands for nothing, no one with a brain wants to hear a trust fund family tell us what we should be doing, she's not inspiring whatsoever as her behavior is abhorrent and shameful, and he's a Prince that doesn't want to be in the limelight anymore.
If it's true that Oprah is covering their publicity, giving them connections, paying for housing and transport then they will be in a super bad spot if Meghan doesn't jump when Oprah says too. They fact she is even considering saying No to Oprah, the giving hand, shows exactly the kind of person Meghan is - mentally challenged and disturbed. huge ego.
Agree with you that the baby didn't show any signs of being afraid of her, which is a good thing. He really did seem like a happy baby. Just not one she knew.
He did seem well cared for. Just not by her. I'd be surprised if H takes care of him, either.
He had no earthly idea who she was. No signs of ever having seen her before.
When the baby wants to get down like that they're radiating...mom, let me go. This baby didn't give any indication of that vibe. He was making no vocalizations to her the way he would if it was someone he knew. Or pushing at her. Just nothing.
Notice how he vocalized to someone behind the camera. Not sure what he was saying, although it sounded very much like 'can't get it'.
Whatever he was saying, he was clearly asking someone he knew for help.
He never once vocalized anything to her. Because he didn't know her. He didn't know her as a person to help him out.
IMO, she spends *no* time with the baby. Or....
Has this been posted yet?
ROYAL EXCLUSIVE: Prince Harry’s Legal Move Over ‘Cash-for-Briefings’ Claims at The Sun – The Story Murdoch Tried to Bury.
https://www.bylineinvestigates.com/murdoch/royal-exclusive-prince-harrys-legal-move-over-cash-for-briefings-claims-at-the-sun-the-story-murdoch-tried-to-bury
I occasionally happen to come across an article of interest and the urge to post is too great.
Must learn to control the impulse! LOL
Maybe it is the madness of lockdown. First Tatler publishes a hit piece on Catherine, now Bylines Investigates makes allegations against Christian Jones (and Harry seems to be suing who now?).
Why would it be a scandal that a tabloid paid sources for stories? That happens often. If it was someone on the staff for the Sussexes who took money for leaks, well, it is a bit late to do anything as they laid off everyone.
Since publication: We have been contacted by Christian Jones who tells us that he was in no way responsible for and/ or facilitated and/ or condoned or turned a blind eye to, leaking to The Sun confidential information concerning the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in return for payments made to his partner Callum Stephens including their nannying arrangements and the identity of Archie’s godparents. Mr Jones tells us that he has played absolutely no part, whether directly or indirectly, in any alleged leaks of such information to The Sun or to any other media outlet or any third party. He also denies leaking information about the Sussexes’ planned move to Canada.
Byline Comments: As we were careful to make clear in our article, we have never suggested that Mr Jones was responsible for any leaks of such information. However, this categorical denial by Mr Jones makes the allegations of payments to Mr Stephens all the more puzzling, meaning it is all the more imperative that these allegations are properly investigated, and the source of the unauthorised briefings to Mr Wootton found. We will report on further developments as they happen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYoNhXgDws8
I’m wondering if the mystery of Archie is one which will ever be solved for us. I have ordered lady Colin Campbell’s forthcoming book, But it is too much to hope for that she will be able to get to the bottom of the Archie mystery. I think, if my suspicion that he is a product of surrogacy is correct, the details surrounding his conception and birth are classified, and will never see the light of day in this queen’s lifetime, and perhaps not as long as Meg is around to quash them. As tempting as it is to accuse her of a rent a kid scheme, We have proof that there is a real baby who genetically resembles both Harry and Meghan quite strongly. He is sporadically available for photo ops, but not as often as Meg wishes to stage Papp walks for attention. I would bet my pension and my salary for the rest of my career that the “baby” we saw last year at the polo, and again during a random “trail walk” in Canada more recently were dolls. The size, posture, and complete inertness on both occasions were dead giveaways. I have no idea what was presented to the world and her majesty on May 8, 20/19 at Windsor Castle. I’m going to assume that that is was real child. The tiny bit of his face that we could see Looked exactly like Meg’s father.
HMTQ has acknowledged this baby on more than one occasion in her speeches, regardless of what we think about the genuineness of the oddly stiff presentation tableau. There is a black-and-white photo of Harry and Charles at the christening, allegedly… I think that picture is genuine. I think there was a tiny private christening at Windsor, And that Charles at least was in attendance. He may have been the only one however who was willing to come, Or it least be photographed with this baby. The group shot christening photo is an uncomfortably glaring fraud, with Kate a gargantuan body size on a par with her husband, and wearing the dress she had worn the previous Christmas. The Spencer aunts and Doria look pasted in from other photos. The arrangement and spacing of the photo is very odd. So what I take away from this is that there were no royal family members besides Charles willing to pose with this child. The only other photos we have of the occasion are Harry and Megan by themselves, looking at each other and not at their son. I’ve come around to the idea that this baby is genetically theirs, But they have been denied custody of him, most likely due to drug use or documented mental illness that makes them a danger to a baby. There was most likely fraud involved in the surrogacy deal, but there’s at least been secrecy around it. Archie would remain the legal child of his birth mother. To maintain the fiction of happy family, Archie is periodically made available for pictures, But if that book video was shot in California, I would be very surprised. I think Archie is in the UK being raised by his birth mother. Who is not Meg. If she’s not caring for an infant, That leaves are free to gallivant where she likes unencumbered. If they maintain the story that they are taking care of Archie, they can claim to need all the security and garner more sympathy for themselves. This is my take on it.
If so, I am just not sure why someone would sue over these stories.
As far as Megxit, I could be wrong, but just because info was "leaked" why would Harry have been obligated to do anything? It would have hit the papers and he could have shrugged and admitted to his shocked family that they wanted to step down.
They did not have to be scurried away at midnight to Canada. IIRC, the Queen was very diplomatic in her response that it would take time to work things out. It appeared that the Sussex Duo was the force pushing for a quick exit, why?
Archie has been kept out of the public eye anyway.
I understand Christian Jones being appalled if he is accused of leaking something he didn't. And H&M have not exactly tried to stay out of the press since they left. If they really didn't want to be associated with the Firm they keep reminding us they hate, why continue to use the titles?
https://edwardjblack.com/2020/01/18/monarchy-and-liberalism-is-an-unhappy-marriage/
As far as the queen mentioning him a couple of times, thus lending him legitimacy, I can see that if JCMH said they're adopting him, and if he therefore considers Archie his son, well, the queen could with honesty "welcome" him into the family, as she did at Christmas. "Welcoming" him doesn't mean she is buying into the labor and delivery fairy tale.
>>> I do think they could have ordered up donor tissue or a zygote or whatever with the desired characteristics, say, beady eyes and red hair. Doria and Tom both have distinct, strong characteristics, I think. I'm no biologist and I'm sure if someone on here is, they can correct me.<<<
I assume you mean "donor tissue" such as an egg and/or sperm or a complete embryo that Archie could have been derived from. I am a biologist but I am not sure what you are referring to when you state Doria and Tom both have distinct, strong characteristics? Genetics is not usually as simple as dominant and recessive genes for many traits.
So the Harkles would have been hard pressed to special order some things but easier for a few traits (such as blue eyes vs. brown eyes in general but red hair color would have been difficult to prearrange). Skin color would have been easy if they wanted a white looking baby assuming the donor parents were truthful about their genetic heritage. Forget trying to order a certain kind of nose for instance.
Even parents who want intelligent children by ordering say sperm from a genuis father is not guaranteed to get a bright child. I find it is a wonderous thing of nature that children can be so different from their parents instead of just little clones even when meddlesome parents try to jerry-rig the process.
Oprah is a media genius and executive.
Oprah cares more about HMTQ and Harry, than Meghan.
Harry is currently married to Meghan.
Oprah knows Meghan is not welcome in the UK.
Oprah wants to own the Meghan related fallout in the US.
Oprah wants the exclusives and the exclusive interviews.
Oprah will always remain friendly with Harry, and the Firm.
Meghan looks like the idiot here.
I’m bracing myself for a “surprise” appearance by MM.
A phenotype does not prove the genotype (that is basic biology).
There are many children with African American heritage that look Caucasian and I see them everyday at the store (as many in my city are interracial couples). So I don't know what it proves that Archie looks white; it sure doesn't disprove Meghan's genetic material was used for Archie. Already Meghan looks Caucasian and passed for it for years so it is no wonder Archie (if her child) might look even more Caucasian since Harry is so fair.
If anything questions Meghan as Archie's mother IMO, is that she didn't look pregnant when she was supposedly carrying Archie but then again, her egg could have been used in a surrogate.
You are in most simple terms, Boring. Next, you are Nasty. Next, no one Likes you. Next, you drove away Elle. You will never be forgiven nor forgotten for your sins.
Insult away all you like. Everyone including me scrolls past your verbal garbage. You are toxic. You are Nasty. No one likes you. No one.
Yes I am liked while people are tired of your bossiness, game playing and you hurling insults. No one defended you yesterday, nor the day before nor the day before that! Bye-Bye!
God Bless You and may the Holy Spirit heal your anger and jealousy.
you need to lay off the booze
you don't make any sense my precious
especially in the evenings
Don't you know the rule
NO blogging while intoxicated?
She and her husband did exactly what Meghan and Harry should have done- a PR strategized video with candid convo between the two explaining their decisions and racism and removing Serena from his decisions around Reddit. Bravo to whoever orchestrated this. This is what good money PR does.
Does Meghan's PR team hate her or something? Or does she just not want to be open and honest, because unlike Serena and her husband (who are A-level in their fields) she and Harry are just hanger ons?
Read on.
Genetically, Meghan is probably at the most 30 to 35 percent black. She is not 50% black, and I’d bet a month’s income on that. She is about one-third African genes, and the rest non-African, most likely European.
Here’s why: American blacks whose ancestry goes back several generations, especially to the days of slavery in America as Doria’s ancestry does, are about 70 to 75% black due to mixing with other groups, mostly European ethnicities, over the generations.
So if Archie is the result of an egg from Meghan and sperm from Harry, he has at the very most, about 18% African genes.
Genetically, Meghan is probably mostly european, but she plays both sides of the racial fence. While she has always culturally embraced white culture and appearance and other than occasions when it is useful, she has shunned black culture and appearance.
Meghan embraces it, but only still arm’s length, when she uses it as a useful image tool, or as a weapon (the RF and UK don’t like me because I am a WOC and they are racists) or virtue signaling (only Doria and no other family either side at the wedding) or pretending to be a “down-with-the struggle” woman of color as she did as she spoke to a group of women with puzzled looks on their faces in South Africa are some examples.
Most of the time, she heartily embraces to culturally and in appearance live as a white person, but when she needs it, she is more than happy to pull the black card kept conveniently in her back pocket.
For more info that doesn’t get into a bunch of scientific lingo: See article at The Root by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. titled Exactly How ‘Black’ Is Black America? It looks at the genetics of black Americans.
https://www.theroot.com/exactly-how-black-is-black-america-1790895185
https://www.immaculateheart.org/
Meg’s antics continue to fascinate me as one of the most aberrant psychologies I have ever encountered. For such a profoundly damaged and damaging person, she’s made it far, but the fact is the wannabe called Lemon is poised to be one of the greatest cult failures of our time. I bet Her Smugness never dreamed she’d end up here during that smug ride to the church in Wally’s hearse limo. That fly knew BS when he smelled it.
The video was supposed to convey gravity, dignity and great inner pain, but it left me with the questions, "Why was this filmed through a gym sock?" and, "What poor horse is walking around without a tail so she could have that hank of hair dangling over her shoulder?"