Until another topic is started, carry on.
Recently there was (yet another) post somewhere out in the world about how they will soon divorce. And my first thought was: Haven't I heard this before? which moved quickly to: how many times have I heard this (through the years)? There were a number of questions raised which ... I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. One of the points which has been raised is that KC would somehow be shelling out beaucoup money to get her to go "away". That he has all this money stashed away and can pull it out at a moment's notice. But does he? He inherited a lot of "stuff" from his mother but ... isn't it a lot of tangible stuff like properties? and with that staff to maintain it and insurance. Inside said properties is art, antique furniture and other "old stuff" which may be valuable" but ... that kind of thing is subject to the whims and bank accounts of the rarified people who may be interested in it (which is not most of us in terms of bei
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They didn’t pay for Canada, they didn’t pay for Tyler Perry’s house, they didn’t pay for Oprah and Tyler’s private jet transportation. They didn’t pay for security.
Enter Meghan and Montecito. Who paid the $3mm down payment on the mansion? The rumored year of funding from Charles? Meghan’s clothing merch deals while in the RF? An *advance* from Netflix? Backers? ...or, since June, has it been Harry and his coveted trust and savings- the only money he knew he’d have for life in the RF?
We know their living expenses for the mortgage are over $1mm per year, this doesn’t include any thing else: staff, nannies, beauty, Harry’s *mud masks*, travel costs, and general upkeep for a family of three.
Is Harry losing his mind over real life expenditure? Or is he still safely tucked away under a line item in the Duchy accounts at Clarence House?
@Maneki Neko,
Thanks for that link... but that article is about the fact that this is PP's 'joint' longest stay in hospital. ie: he was in for 11 days last time, if I recall correctly?
Nowhere in the article does it say that he has an infection in a joint... only that he is in hospital due to an infection.
I think you looked at the first definition of ARCHIE in the urban dictionary.
It was the second one that made me > 😲
Is Harry losing his mind over real life expenditure? Or is he still safely tucked away under a line item in the Duchy accounts at Clarence House?
I think Harry maybe has moments of panic over finances . If he is lucid for a time
Should he question the state of their finances to MM then possibly,
if she is in a good mood when he asks
He is then probably pulled back into the deluded fantasy world that he and his narc wife live in.
He is then reassured of his royal rank, Prince title ,popularity earning capacity and his family money and entitlement .
Then all is well for a brief time .
Any other time he panics or questions finances if she is having a bad day reading reviews
Haz may be scorned mocked derided threatened undermined by his scheming wife
What a way to live
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I don't know any Gaelic, despite Sturgeon's best efforts to have a Gaelic equivalent for everything. Train station signs, ambulances, police cars... nothing is safe until it has The Gaelic emblazoned on the side of it. Our local dialect would be Doric. My grunnie would have described Megz as a clarty, manky besom who needs the smirk wiped frae her puss and who should be affronted by her blethering. I'm sure you get the picture. Oh, and she and her man need to stop telling us about their visits to the cludgie
I was in the paper shop. A young woman entered and looking at one of the papers (obviously an early edition) observed that it looked grave and then seeing another of the papers announced 'she is in her grave'. Brahahaha. Hey, don't blame me; that was what she said.
I wonder, I ask rhetorically, how any of you good ladies would feel if following the premature death of your former daughter-in-law you were forced to tell the world how wonderful your son's ex was and to lower the flag above your home to half mast. I can't see my Mother doing that. I have often wondered to what extent the caterwauling for what was after all a death caused by a bad driver combined with the non-wearing of a seat belt was manipulated by the then Prime Minister. I mean, the absurd speech by my Lord the Earl of Spencer and that ghastly song by Mr John as well as the flag business and the traipsing behind the coffin of the two royal Princes. It (the song) was perhaps a touching ditty before the lyrical rewrite (although very blue pill) but yuck-inducing when the lyrics changed.
Not everyone likes the Queen. Her attempt two days ago at gaslighting us refuseniks was appalling especially when her own husband has supposedly been in hospital following his bad reaction to the second jab. The sight of the pall-bearers of Captain Sir Tom all wearing masks when he died after having caught the Covid from a mask wearer strikes me as perverse. Will I ever forget that balmy summer's night after having left the club and in the company of my Pupil Master and finding ourselves outside Buckingham Palace he waving his fists at the Palace and uttering abuse that really one should shield a lady's ears from.
I see that Prince Harry has been on a bus; this must be a first for him.
I think you’re onto something. Meghan is his new handler, afterall. With how many different stories she makes up for the simplest of things, I cannot imagine dealing with someone like that day-to-day. The Schemer Extraordinaire. Harry probably doesn’t remember how they met, how much money he is supposed to have today, or Archie’s first word. Side note: I’m waaaaay in the camp of Archie not being with them or real- parents would be much more protective and realistic when talking about their own child, due to pride. Also, why doesn’t the Queen see Archie? Why is he just running somewhere in the background???
But yes, the web of lies that Harry is now feeding us. We have to question, why? Why are all the lies necessary?
It’s funny, I’ve been trying to recall a celebrity who made up an entire *persona* for the world at large, without a hint of a resume or authenticity, and I haven’t been able to land on one.
is really only rented for business purposes by Grip.& Drip ? Zoom meetings , photo ops interviews?
Ophrah's estate is so vast in Montecito
Grip & Drip could be living on part of her estate rent free. That is their normal pattern since flowing the UK
The rumour /mention of MM meeting delvery drivers at the gates of Mudslide Mansions is suspicious
The next door proximity to OW .
All other homesthey have lived in are rented or borrowed
If they are not making enough money and are both tight fisted...
After the OW interview they both might find themselves on the move again .
The news that they bought such a huge estate in Montecito was maybe a lie to boast and compete with the RF perhaos?
Photos of OW estate
jttps://nimvo.com/20-photos-oprah-winfreys-90-million-montecito-home/
Underneath the sickening PR blitz, there does seem to be some desperation showing. Could be the usual narcissistic need for camera time? True.
Oh, and @blondegator, Meghan DOES NOT represent Californians, either. She is her own bad self on her own. One can be shallow without being rude to the Queen of England.
Baith should've had a guid skelping on their airses when they were wains. Their bahuchies shoulda been sae sair they couldna sit doon for a week.
We dae oor bast tae pit her gas at a peep.
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I was a strange child, especially for an English one - I tried teaching myself the Gaelic when I was 14. Didn't get very far. Have you ever watched any of the learning Gaelic on BBC Alba? Cringeworthy - two people in a bus shelter, agreeing that it was raining; both keep saying, repeatedly `Tha i fliuch'.
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btw, Hikari, when I was a newborn being brought home, the neighbour's little boy told his mother that he'd seen my Mum getting out of a taxi, carrying a `bundle of washing'. I can't beat your wonderful story though.
Tha i Fliuch
I posted this on the last thread but here it is in case you missed it.
The headline is confusing but further down it says:
'Prince Philip begins 11th day in hospital after being admitted with an infection in his joint longest stay for at least a decade'.
I was confused by the headline and had to read it twice.
Following on from your comment re Spartan Obstacle course - I have read the same elsewhere. It was a requirement of the JC interview that the obstacle course was included. Spartan are a worldwide franchise and interestingly one Peter Phillips (Hazbeens cousin) is involved with the UK franchise via his company SEL UK (Sports and Entertainment Ltd) of which he is MD.
I think you're interpreting it wrong.
'Prince Philip begins 11th day in hospital after being admitted with an infection in his joint longest stay for at least a decade'.
That's where I think the emphasis should be.
The headline and that particular sentence has been written very badly, causing confusion!
If they had added a comma after the word infection it may have made more sense.
That has always been my contention—Mudslide Towers was still being listed as a “for hire” location for film production as recently as November of 2020 on a company website. An intrepid blogger posed as a production scout interested in renting the home And was sent the application form, fee schedule—$7000 per diem/10 hour minimum—And available dates, which included most of December. This inquiry was made six months after the Harkles supposedly moved in to the mansion in July without any of the neighbors noticing.
Harry and Meg, both individually and jointly have never ever owned any property themselves. It’s all been rentals and freebies from family and other connections. Harry is legendarily too cheap to even buy a round at the pub—Yet we are meant to believe that after an extended period of nearly a year Of couch surfing into millionaire loaners, they suddenly Purchase and furnish a $14 million property in the midst of a pandemic and make this massive move without anyone noticing? This was several months before the announcement of the Netflix deal. It is far more likely, if they are even in Montecito at all, that this property Is being rented in the short term or they are being permitted to stay there ala Tyler Perry’s In exchange for some favors that can only be guessed at. Long time Montecito resident Rob Lowe expressed his dubiousness at the arrangement in a hilarious manner in national television. Let’s just say that I believe the residence of Montecito know the truth. It’s not that big of a place, and the property where the Harkles are allegedly based is very well known. It also was unsellable for over 10 years before they suddenly moved in. They could’ve gotten it cheap I suppose, due to structural concerns that mean that no sensible person with a knowledge of California earthquakes would want to make the investment. It’s a bit odd isn’t it that after Harry and Megan supposedly closed on this house that it was still being advertised as a posh Airbnb for production companies? I suppose we will be given some sort of grand tour during the Oprah interview, But that will prove nothing, even if we get to see “Archie’s room” And the vegan painted gender neutral nursery prepared for the new baby. I mean “new baby”. Harpo productions, Oprah‘s company, has very deep pockets. If they are housing the perfidious pair, maybe Oprah can also assume the costs for answering they are mail since Charles has given that up.
He has been on a bus, as a child who `showed up' his mother.
Flanders and Swan `Transport of Delight'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YWcaGgOG_8 2.45 - 5.15
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9307787/TALK-TOWN-Royal-pals-tear-Meghan-Markle-Harrys-treatment-Queen.html
The DM catching up with the changes Megalomaniac and Handbag have made to the Archewell website.
I'm not sure when London Transport went entirely one-man-operated. If they were on an old Routemaster, it would have had to have been a conductor as the driver was in a separate cab. On a new Routemaster, there's no bell for moving off. The conductor didn't see it as funny - he was from the Great Subcontinent.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/cheeky-prince-harry-left-diana-10850144
Another Flanders and Swan monarch of the road
It's to do with Camilla's book club and an extract she shared.
https://twitter.com/LouLouLa10/status/1365749049157124096
The extract Camilla shares reads, "People only betray their country for 3 reasons” he said ,quietly,seriously ,cueing her next question.” And what are they?” “ Money ,blackmail and revenge.”
ITV drumming up advertisers?(hopefully failing)
Meghan Markle and Harry's Oprah chat to attract Super Bowl-style £100,000 adverts
EXCLUSIVE: Experts believe ITV coverage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's interview with Oprah Winfrey could attract ads worth £100,000 per 30-second slot
BY PATRICK HILL21:55, 27 FEB 2021
MEGHAN MARKLE 'MAY ACCUSE ROYAL FAMILY OF RACISM' IN OPRAH INTERVIEW
Harry and Meghan’s TV chat with Oprah Winfrey is set to attract money-spinning Super Bowl-style adverts.
The duo’s March 7 interview will net huge sums for slots on US network CBS.
And experts believe coverage on ITV – the favourite channel to win the UK rights – could attract ads worth £100,000 per 30-second slot.
More than 50 million people are due to watch the interview in the US next month, making it as popular as the American Football
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/meghan-markle-harrys-oprah-chat-23578665.amp
Prince Andrew 'will miss out on Queen's birthday parade again this year amid Jeffrey Epstein scandal and will be replaced at Trooping the Colour by decorated Afghan veteran'
By Danyal Hussain For Mailonline08:24, 28 Feb 2021 , updated 08:55, 28 Feb 2021
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9308811/Prince-Andrew-miss-Queens-birthday-parade-year-amid-Jeffrey-Epstein-scandal.html
The business model I used to work with can be reduced to the following: idea, detailed plan of all aspects, approval, development, production, marketing, sales. No sane business person starts on marketing and sales (despite pressure from those departments) until you are sure about what you are going to deliver and when.
The Sussexes have done a lot of marketing and sales but there is no product, no plan for deliverables. Then I realized why ... in their fabulousness beyond anything the world has ever seen, they are the product.
They ambush Zoom meetings (secret), get a gushing response (I can't believe it ..., Oh My God!), and then leave. Planning ahead would enable those organizations to use the 'visit' for marketing (get the message across and attract a much bigger audience and maybe even organize a special marketing/sales event).
The same for their 'volunteer' work ... they turn up for about 20 minutes, get the photos and then use Scobie or one of their many 'staff' to flood media sites with PR. Once again, by parachuting in for a photo op, the organization is deprived of using the visit for marketing and to drive projects.
Netflix and Spotify fell for the scam and are now trying to justify why they gave them so much money when they do not have a product to sell (they are not even promoting other products for them). Disney, and who knows who else, said no thanks and could have seen through the scam.
Comparing their chat with Oprah to the SuperBowl?!!! Lol, you’d think someone died. Absurd claims to drum up interest and try to get a better distribution deal in the UK. I bet the numbers haven’t come back great.
The shade from Camilla is becoming as legendary as William's scarfing!
James knows it’s fishy. Why else make a segment about moving into the Fresh Prince house and have Meghan respond ‘we are finished with moving.’ Bringing attention to the issue, really.
The way M/H are behaving to TQ and Royal family, add in Covid19 restrictions lifting, add in normal Springtime exuberance....
I predict we will see more defiance that will be building up all this year. Defying the RF, using Sussex tiles and their "Royal aura" to merch themselves, their babies and possibly Sussex branded baby products and more. With shiny new baby#2, this makes it irresistible, to kick their merching into high gear.
Just my opinion of course.
The shade from Camilla is becoming as legendary as William's scarfing!
Great, isn't it? We need just one more Royal Family member to join in and then we'll have a hat trick! 😅
Well, if that many really are that interested enough to watch, it would 15% of the USA population. Whereas the most recent Super Bowl, down trending from a high in 2015 of 114 million, to 96.4 million. USA population is 328.2 million.
I don't remain convinced of the hype.
Jessica - why American reporters don't do an expose?
Probably because they don't think most Americans would care or consider that it would impact them in their daily lives.
The UK seems very far away, the BRF lead lives which the average American citizen won't see as the Queen does not come over and do her garden parties of any of them, and Diana was a long time ago. People have moved on. They are worried about the crime increasing, job losses, covid, work from home or not, are the kids getting the education they will need to succeed, the crazy weather so even a prince (and his wife) over here seen doing "good deeds" isn't something they are thinking about in how they will live their day to day lives. It just isn't on their horizon. Yes it will be for a few who always think fond thoughts of the UK, her stans but for most, they are a non-event.
And why waste time/effort for something with so little payout for the visibility long term to keep or move up in their job?
The fact that M is a nobody. Very few ever heard of her before she married H. she wasn't a famous actress and nobody cared.
the fact the H is a Brit and isn't really that known in the US.
They sure are promoting that interview. It'll be a flop compared to what they are promoting it as. some may tune in for a short time, but they'll get bored quickly and change channels.
I have recently read in several articles that it is a 2 hr special? Thought it was 90 minutes.
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The Harkles CHANGED their website’s home page pre-Oprah begfest probably hoping viewers will rush to donate.
They replaced the Diana/young Harry image with one of Megsy as Cousin It handing out sandwiches she didn’t pay for. Stellar.
And, they replaced the petulant “I am my mother’s son” statement with some laughable garbage about their compassion, charitable works and .....”creative activation” (I suppose, money for merching cocktail rings and dresses, oat milk and sobbing biographies, peeing on the Corden show, etc.)...with see DM where commenters are vomming.
A sneak preview, my dears, with my comments:
COMPASSION IN ACTION <— new headline has typo! It is spelled “con-passion” I believe?
“Driving systemic cultural change” <— like, raising plastic dolls as children?
“One act of of compassion at a time”. <— did they mean to say “per year, with photoshop?”
“Through our non-profit work, as well as creative activations...”. <— your warning that they are mixing a lot of something else in their harity drink......like 5% handing out ten sandwiches for ten minutes, 30% cosmetic refreshments, 65% mansion rental/RRover/jets. Give big!
....I feel like I just read “How Grifters Grift”, Chapter Three. 🤮🤑😡
My bid for Urban Dictionary inclusion is the word “harity” and it is used above for your opinions.
Derived from Harkles+charity
Means, “when hookers and gigolos join to grift non-profit cash from unsuspecting public for roast chicken and crocodile lifestyle”
This eliminates the dangerous confusion between giving to a charity or a harity. See? 🧚🏼♂️
Oops you’re right, I did only read the UD definition #1 of Archie.
🙄🤮 = just reading definition #2.
Ok....I now sense the name shaped from a late night NYC tickle session of Megsy and Markus on laptops trolling Urban Dictionary. Yup. I do.
Now I wonder if it will out that the invisible baby's name really isn't Archie at all, they just told people that to maintain his privacy.
They're crazy enough to try that stunt.
They are claiming they do Non-Profit work, but are not registered as a non-profit. False advertising, much?
I don't pretend to understand the in-breeding with Hollywood PR, but with Corden on CBS (is that right? I don't have TV), Oprah on CBS, shared PR agencies between celebs who say nice things about each other...it's all too pat and cozy to be valid.
On the Diana topic: My cousins all live in England and I remember one was absolutely livid at the waste of money spent on the flowers for her. Acres and acres of cut flowers. My cousin said something along the lines of "just imagine how much a charity could have benefited if everyone had spent their pounds and pence on a donation, instead of a floral tribute."
I've never forgotten that sentiment, as well as her anger at the waste of money. Since then I've been sure to memorialize someone with a donation to an appropriate charity in lieu of flowers that are already dying the split second they are cut.
RE: Lady Colin Campbell
I think her sources are impeccable. She has a history of such as a Royal biographer and she is diligent to not say anything that would create a legal hoo haw. I agree her vids are too long but that last one where she rips Megan to shreds was so fun to watch I didn't feel the burn on the length.
I too think something is going on with her hosts. Leo was fabulous! Gorgeous, Princely, fashionable, and very in tune to her wants on camera. Her son is not in the same league ( more the Rugby type!) but was doing fantastic. I have seen her clips from Get me Out of Here and her reno of Castle Goring. She can be very difficult but since I don't have to live with her, I find her a real badass vs. a pain in the ass. No one can disembowel someone like LCC. She is the master and as I've said before, the Queen of Analogies. I love how she chameleons in and out of decorum and bawdry. She's quite a character. No offense by this but she too is a Leo and though I don't think she's a narc, I think she may have picked up some tendencies in her childhood environment.
The narc rage woman I worked with, which I mentioned in the last thread is a Leo. She's just like La Markle. That's easy to spot but covert narc behavior not so much. I have never met a Leo woman to date that is not powerful in some way. Leo's are amazing people but need lots of attention. Perhaps LCC felt Leo, her original host, was getting too much attention away from her. Misha her son may just feel he needs a break from mum. Very natural for a young man his age. Especially for one as high maintenance as LCC.
I think the last thing she wants is to permanently offend the RF. I have a suspicion that they use her on occasion to put info out there but that's just my opinion. Especially now with the Haz$Hag debacle. I think she's considered an ally by BP insiders.
RE: Meghan's other (ahem!) career. I've said it before on this blog that SoHo house is more like So Ho Ho house... bananas have, it seems. always been her bag...
@jessica, investigative reporting in the US died some time ago. People are too afraid to rock the boat and potentially lose their job and thus put their family's wellbeing at risk. Lots of others available to take your job at the drop of a hat and play nice should you exit for some reason. Very few real investigative reporters in the US anymore. It's definitely not like it used to be.
Yep. Local blogs, volunteer journalists, are really the best source of what is going on in and around town. Small town newspapers are pretty good, too.
I find this blog works best for me if I read and catch up, post my thoughts, then bounce so I don't offend. I'm not one for ongoing back and forth convos. Just a head up ;)
So carry on and have fun guys :D
At 99 yrs old PP can still order Charles to his bedside. And make him feel like crying. I feel the topics were mostly regarding the traitor grandson & grifter wife. I also feel PP was making it clear neither were to attend his funeral. Or anything officially royal or public events. Like Andrew the markles have been fired.
Wouldn't it be uplifting to see Will's wearing "that" awesome scarf again? And the awesomeness of Camilla's remark hit the bullseye.
Does "good king harry" think Uncle David was successful after leaving RF? Do they think they should get money for life like he received? Do they think he should have come to America?
American's love their sports and cannot wait to get back to the social gatherings. Get together to watch and tail gate parties, attending games in person have been put on hold for long time. Watching major sport game or watching a has been talk showhost with boring unknown wanna be's.
We expected that they would pull a big stunt for Commonwealth. Is Oprah ok with the timing? Is she paying them back for wedding invite & then cutting her future ties? Does Oprah see they are poisonous at this point? Or is this Oprah getting revenge for Charles refusing to a interview & Fergie not dishing of RD? Wow let's get Charles son & his wife who have no problem dishing. Narc revenge for all.
Art history again - in a sense, that was the point about cut flowers for funerals. They've been symbols of mortality for centuries. Flower paintings began as reminders that we `blossom and flourish like leaves on trees, then wither and perish...' It's `vanity' as in `emptiness'. Look at all the little creepy crawlies in Dutch flower paintings, symbols of Death and Resurrection.
In Britain, we aren't great buyers of cut flowers so florists depend on Valentine's Day and Mothering Sunday to keep them solvent - they must have thought that both had come at once! Other sections of the retail economy suffered that week because so many stayed at home feeling miserable. My friends who take cut flowers from their gardens to the Country Market said that the Market as whole did badly that week and they had to take their unsold flowers home, which is unheard of.
Diana's flowers themselves went to a good cause - composted along with the Household Cavalry dung to maintain fertility at Kew Gardens!
What irritated me was the amount of cellophane that such tributes carry these days, especially when people leave them in memory of the departed at makeshift roadside shrines. They are also the bane of the lives of Park Rangers who have to clear them up from the wild places, the mountains and moors, or along the Coastal Paths, where they are nothing but unsightly litter, dangerous plastic for the animals that roam such places.
I suppose it helps people in their own grieving in that it's something they can do; I just wish they'd take the miserable remains away themselves, not leave them for someone else to clear up.
Yes, they could have given the money to a charity that Diana supported, though I do wonder what those who contributed to her memorial fund now think.
Thanks for the historical information re: cut flowers. I didn't know any of that and it makes sense. I have a black thumb and so I avoid anything plant-based as a home or yard decoration as much as I can. You're right about the cellophane being nothing more than litter and a danger to the animals.
I wonder what did happen to the funds donated to the Princess Diana Memorial Fund? Have they ever been distributed? Is it an on-going organization that William (and used-to-be Harry) oversee, or is the money gone and the charity nothing more than a memory? I can look it up easily enough, but if someone knows of the top of their head, feel free to chime in!
The Diana Memorial Fund was closed in 2012 and remaining funds turned over to the Royal Foundation that now owns the name. When the Royal Foundation was split that money was split between the Royal Foundation and Sussex Royal/Travalyst. There was an investigation launched because of possible improprieties. Travalyst isn't a charity, for example.) Nothing else heard about that so far as I know. Will said appropriate things about letting the process play out; Harry blew up along the lines of "how dare anyone question me." That's it in a nutshell as far as I can recall.
No need to click on the Archewell site. I didn't -- the new look of the Archewell home page with their new statement & photo is in the DM today --here is the link.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9309063/Harry-Meghan-replace-Archewell-letter-declaring-mothers-son-short-paragraph.html
Also I noticed that the story is somewhat buried below a story about the Duchess of Cambridge's thrifty re-wearing of clothing.
It seems I got confused and I agree the headline is very badly written. I originally thought an infection was a UTI but then saw - or thought I saw - something about a joint infection 😕. Apologies if I've misinformed everybody 😳.
I, too, have suspected that IF there is an Archie, he isn't named Archie. Doesn't make any sense and if ever a name screamed out "I'm made up" its "Archie Harrison" for a Royal. Archie not Archibald or Archer? Harrison? Can that be any more vain????
a look at the Oprah Magazine home page......featuring MEGHAN AND HARRY AND... MERCHING! yay!
https://www.oprahmag.com
Head: "Lady O is sitting down with the couple to discuss their marriage, royal life, and baby number"
if that bores you, you can also read the feature on a serious world issue:
"The Pandemic Has Caused a Gossip Shortage."
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9309063/Harry-Meghan-replace-Archewell-letter-declaring-mothers-son-short-paragraph.html
Fairly decent word salad at the renovated Archwell-Merchwell home page
TITLED-- Compassion in Action
REAILTY is their charitable donations are cheap and stingy, done only to enhance their image among the sheeple and stans. The US media too////// They cannot get back into a good image with the UK media that is onto them.
-- Talk is cheap!
The slippery Mudsliders are stepping up their image game, I will admit. They will be a bigger headache for the RF this year.
My son is *very* bad at picking women. He has this rescue complex about galloping in and saving women from the consequences of their bad decisions. I try to stay out of his crash and burn relationships except to occasionally remark that renting a companion would be ever so much less expensive than giving his fallen princess all of his household goods every couple years. Prince Charming can't save Gutterella no matter how hard he tries.
With that being said, if (really a matter of when) son's current/soon to be ex-wife dies, I'd not be invited to the funeral because I'd stand up and start singing "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!" with witch being spelled with a b. It would be hard for me not to grab her out of her coffin, drag her decaying body around by her hair, and maybe kick her a few times before lighting her on fire. Then I'd bless her heart because she always did like to light up a room.
I am, however, on very good terms with his first ex-wife and her husband and kids.
I hate drug addicts, I hate liars who lie about everything, and I hate child abusers who physically and mentally abuse children. I hate lying child-abusing drug addicts most of all. Her (current wife's) children have begged son not to make them go with Momma and not to let Momma take them. I don't know what will happen to them when the divorce goes through, though, poor kids.
The old Routemasters were withdrawn from regular service in December 2005. Harry must have been on a new one if he imitated the driver within earshot of him as the drivers, as you said, were separated from the passengers. Although Diana was curious, Harry carried on. There are very few old Routemasters left in London and it's always a pleasure to ride on one.
You have just made my night, I nearly spat my beer out.
I'm still giggling away, thanks for that.
https://harrymarkle.wordpress.com/2021/02/28/warby-and-his-letter-case-summary-judgment/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPdg-xvHAQE
recorded Feb 26,, re royalrotaTV. about 32 minutes long
And while Has is climbing ropes and giggling with Corden,
Richard Eden tweets:
Prince Charles's godson Lord Frederick Wellesley gets engaged to bomb disposal expert who served in Iraq. #royal https://dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9306461/Duke-Wellingtons-youngest-son-Lord-Frederick-28-engaged-bomb-disposal-expert.html?ito=amp_twitter_share-top… via
@MailOnline
DM says:
The Duke of Wellington's youngest son Lord Frederick Wellesley is set to marry a bomb disposal expert who served in Iraq with the Royal Engineers.
Lord Frederick, 28, who is the godson of Prince Charles and a direct descendant of the 'Iron Duke' who masterminded victory over Napoleon at Waterloo, is engaged to fellow soldier Katie Lambert, 28.
Their engagement was confirmed by a notice in the Telegraph on Thursday.
Maybe Lord Frederick can work with Anne, or whoever picks up Harry's former military titles? Help a little? Seems solid.
Thanks for the rundown. I appreciate it!
@xxxxx,
I agree with you -- they are doubling down on their game, and will continue to be a problem.
But I tend to think they are sinking in terms of mattering, and even if the Oprah program gives them a quick publicity kick, they are really too good at sinking their own ships. They failed to land a winning punch and are just popping up with little slaps. William will scarf them off. Charles, who knows. I feel sometimes like Charles is wandering in a sort of Lala land at this point. They let Charles enjoy the books and the garden, and William takes care of business.
One more lapse into Scots vernacular and then I'll revert to the Queen's English.I heard of a primary school teacher in a Glasgow school who had a very hard time convincing her primary 1 class that the words to sing in the nativity play were actually "away in a manger" rather than "a wean in a manger".
Swampwoman. That sounds like a nightmare. My mum had a similar situation with my brother and his Mrs. It must be so hard to watch your son go through this again. Hope it resolves itself for all concerned.
I used to be ace at jumping off before the bus stopped - Mum taught me how because her war work was as a clippie. Another piece of her wisdom was `if you're travelling with a dog or children, keep them behind you as you go down the stairs'.
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Am very impressed with the female bomb disposal fiancee - shows Haz up, doesn't she?
I can't resist Stanley Baxters `Parliamo Glasgow' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Lk7qivXbw.
As for Dundonian (!) I can just about manage `Twa pehs an an ingin ane in aw'.
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True. And your son's ex who was running around the world denigrating your son. And exposing your grandchildren to shady elements.
https://uk.yahoo.com/style/meghan-markle-blue-maternity-dress-134116961.html
Actually, tell your pesky locals that it is absolutely recommended that one opens windows --
https://elemental.medium.com/the-germ-cleaning-power-of-an-open-window-a0ea832934ce
This article says in part:
In the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, public health officials in the U.S. are increasingly trumpeting the benefits of open windows and fresh air. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends opening windows to reduce the spread of coronaviruses, and state health departments are encouraging the same measures to slow the transmission of Covid-19, specifically.
“Changing the room air is a widely used measure for infection prevention and control,” says Stephen Morse, an infectious disease researcher and professor of epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. “It replaces any virus-contaminated air with clean air.” Opening windows is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to encourage this type of air turnover, he says.
Sorry meant to add that I loved your story about your mother's bus advice as a clippie. Here is something you might enjoy related to that, that includes video:
https://www.britishpathe.com/video/clippies-aka-women-bus-conductors
......And yes -- Lord Frederick's fiancee Katie is quite impressive! perhaps Lord F and his fiancee can take on our "Haz" and his LA playdate, and do a UK military obstacle course program race for an actual military charity.
I agree it had a tepid/negative reaction and that'sprobably why they changed it. But also wondering if maybe the Spencers or the BRF told them to take it down?
I could see PW being pretty unhappy about them monetizing his mother's death. Or maybe PC told them to stop it?
Apart from that, I walk everywhere. My world has shrunk but the international contact here is great compensation - thank you all.
Very funny about the 'witch' spelled with a b! (Might this apply to someone else we know?). At least you can see the funny side of things.
mmmmmmm your dry cider, fruit cake and Cheddar treat sounds absolutely delightful! I am about to start baking some simple fruit tarts for Mr AnT, as the rain falls here. I have turned into quite a "what do we have to work with" baker over the last year, hit or miss, making it up sometimes, and it's fun.
Haven't been on a bus, plane or in a taxi for a year. I can drive for errands, but we are also near a square with small family grocer, baker, fish and meat shops, book shop etc and I decided to keep walking there to support them with most of our shopping during all this.
We also live by a large park and public garden, so have being doing a lot of walking too, while working from home. Really seem to notice the birds, plant life, trees more than I used to...have you noticed this yourself?
World is smaller, but maybe we are also finding ways to enjoy the simpler things a little more. We have a few deer that live in the woods in the large-acreage parks by us, and two have been coming to our garden the last couple of years to nap, drink from our birdbaths and shelter from the noise. The neighborhood welcomes them as we have a tiny park hidden among our houses and everyone outfits a winter food table for them. Our lively old 18 yr old Maine Coon was friends with one doe for her last three years.....she would see it from a window or her nap spot in our flower beds, and eagerly go to it it would walk up to her with a fawn or two in tow. The doe would lower its head and they would touch noses and then, the two old friends would go lie down together under a tree or in the sun. The doe and her newest fawns still show up for winter apples and nuts and to say hello daily. Things like this have meant even more now.
AndI agree -- Nutty's international forum here has been a saving grace and source of fun during this strange and difficult year!
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2021
Blind Item #6
As part of a side deal, the ginger haired one had to agree to not exploit images of family members for any for profit ventures or ventures that appeared to be for profit.
Thank you so much for the link to the film about becoming a clippie - that's exactly as it would have been for Mum. She was with the green London Country buses out of St Albans garage, mainly going to Hertford, past de Havilland's at Hatfield, hence getting strafed by Jerry.
She volunteered for that work so she wasn't `directed' into munitions.
I disgraced myself, aged about 18 months- 2yrs, on the no 84, coming back from my aunt's in Muswell Hill. I should have been sitting quietly on Mum's lap but there was a woman in a fur coat in the seat in front, and I started stroking her, saying `Nice Pussy, nice Pussy.' I then got my fingers entangled in the veiling on her hat and, once freed, began to climb up the vertical pole joining back of seat to roof. I don't remember any more than that.
Just think, ladies in fur coats and hats with veils, riding on a double-decker bus... She must have taken it in good heart though.
A few years ago, we were visiting some chilly show caves so I wore my dark brown, soft kid-leather gloves. Standing listening to the guide, I felt my hand being stroked. There was child behind me, looking at my gloved hand , then with intense puzzlement at my very pink-and-white face, then back at my hand. Poor little soul, she was very confused.
I think the cider's got to me, so I'll take a break.
Absolutely love those stories! Little Battle Maid petting the “pussy cat” coat, then shimmying up a bus pole! Fantastic! I am chuckling just imagining it and the chagrin of your mother!
PLEASE tell me you’ve read the funny and poignant books of Barbra Pym? Her wartime memories that lace her stories, the styles, the coats and hats, the cityscapes of a service in a half-bombed London church? My mother devoured those books, I love them and have reread them all. I believe they are back in print, or certainly in libraries.
Sorry odd autocorrect — should say Barbara Pym.
I haven't read Barbara Pym for years - but remember devouring them when I did. Thanks for the reminder - I shall follow it up. I don't read nearly enough fiction.
I read and loved one of the biographies of Barbara Pym as well (“A Very Private Eye”). I think you might love it as well.
So many of her real-life experiences and details made it into the books she wrote, against a backdrop of history and life in war years etc... but this biography of her life was rich and entertaining on its own as well, a lovely record of her time.
Lily Anne Thrax, Of Dork, United Kingdom, 49 minutes ago
S Meg has lead a "life of service" for years, just ask her j0h ns, d 1cks and Dirty Hairy.
You could, aged about 18 months-2yrs (Archie's age) say 'Nice Pussy, nice Pussy' but could you say 'crocodile'? 😉
(sic)Anonymous asked:
I see sugars romanticizing their departure and now the upcoming Oprah interview. They think Harry and MM are bound for billionaire status and all I want to tell them is the best predictor of the future is history. The situation would have looked more promising if they’d both been incredibly successful outside of TRF; say if MM was a top talented box office actor and established philanthropist or if Harry had managed to stay in the army and grow further up the ranks on his own merit, but man, they’re neither. I’ll also just add that when Oprah says this is her “best one yet,” I feel like it’s a death sentence. She said the same thing about MJ and Whitney Houston’s interviews.
Has there ever been a “big” Oprah interview that ended well for the interviewees? I’m reading this list the Independent did, and I think the Obama one was the only one that wasn’t a complete train wreck for the subject.
https://www.standard.co.uk/insider/best-oprah-winfrey-interviews-moments-ever-b921215.html
You too? I love it! Finding a fellow a Pym fan delights me! Yes, I agree wholeheartedly—Pym absolutely was the modern-day Austen, another of my favorite writers. Pym’s wry humor, turn of phrase and ability to go into her characters were stunning. My favorites are Excellent Women, Jane and Prudence, and Less Than Angels. Which are yours?
Viola on No Fiond Return of Love is probably the most Megs-like of her characters, in a way, but without the emotional potential for Viola’s happier end. I would have loved to know what Austen would have made of Megs!
My copies are worse for wear at this point, having been through mother and aunts, friends and me, so anytime I see one available on Amazon or by a private seller, I try to grab it. I love her work that much.
🤣 your “...could say nice pussy, but could you say crocodile?” made me burst out laughing. Sublime. 👏
The fact they cannot use any RF image is crushing to their promotion attempts.
I have a couple of old hard bound copies, but also a stalwart row of very tattered, much-loved paperbacks. Most bear little handwritten initials inside their covers of the women who read them as they were shared. I love that. I have always traveled with one, and they show their lives well lived.
JennS,
The fact they cannot use any RF image is crushing to their promotion attempts.
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Yes!
And to their production attempts as well! How can they make any docs about the RF for Netflix if they can't use any images? How will they film for example Diana's statue unveiling or Trooping the Color events as we thought they might try to do! LOL!
I forgot A Glass of Blessings! Oblivious Leonora. Yes, that was a marvelous one. That theme had a little echo in Crampton Hodnet as well as An Academic Question. tAnd ah, makIng a Pimm’s cup in the summer! (Lucky you to have enjoyed so much time in Hawaii, by the way.)
I also really cannot believe how ridiculous the Harkles are at this point, with their crude word references to mock the public, and childishly self-obsessed lifestyle. Having to be told not to life off his mother’s images, and Royal imagery in general.... These two are zeros with else nothing to offer.
He married a woman who was aging out of starlet “D” roles and yachting. She looked at this ginger nitwit, decided her future personal wealth and survival would be built on the bones and ashes and pain of his mother and family. It is utterly sick.
Can they hide their creepiness on the long, long Oprah show? I doubt it
So I don't know.
The fact that Jobson wrote his Diana book with a mate from Scotland Yard should give Megs a shiver.
He isn’t playing with this comment or this interview. Someone at the palace gave him an okay to run with this, I think.
I missed any news of a longer length program....I am still thinking it will be 90 minutes?
However, Oprah’s people have been planting lots of “our ad time will be costly because the whole world will watch” snake oil in ad sales quarters. Oprah wants more bam bam for her time. So CBS may be eyeing a flex out to two hours if high ad money per 00:30 rolls in. That’s all I can think of.
https://youtu.be/MhbRw04ZBx8
https://youtu.be/y7LJrh5UTr4
"Were you silenced, or did you choose to be silent?"
Harry is back to wearing the brogues with holes in the bottom.
First one shows a pic of Diana/Harry. Then the 2nd one - "you've said some pretty shocking things here".
M has a plastic looking face and Oprah and her glasses. She's been wearing weird glasses a lot lately.
I wonder if M & O shop at the same wig store.
I can't picture them revamping the entire evenings lineup for O to expand the interview on short notice.
Their "business" of compassion MUST be a money laundering enterprise, because who in their right mind would enrich these two relentlessly self-serving, deeply inauthentic posers.
Why the media insists on pushing the "Royal Family is terrified" angle. Pffft. The only history being repeated is the Duke & Duchess Windsor scenario, a sad swirl down the social ladder. At least the Windsors had genuine style.
I feel for William and Kate.
Unknown. great comment. Sadly, we have a rule that everyone must have an ID. Could please re do this with one?
thanks
“It has been unbelievably tough for the two of us.”
My reaction:
1. —— straight off, the pair of you.
2. And with these words, these obtuse, entitled fools complaining in a mansion in the era of Covid have thoroughly hung themselves.
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Yes. She was artificially enhanced in many more ways than one.
So, true @Ant.
Yes, the unbelievably tough year, the annus horribilis for the Sussex Duo. The private jets, the mansions, the million dollar deals, the thousand dollars of couture...
This quote beats the previous whine from HazBeenMegs, not many people have asked if I am okay.
Not sure if the US press will pick up on it, but certainly the UK press will.
Harry is featured in the clip, Morticia stays silent. That's because no one is the least bit interested in her, who she is, or what she has to say. Publicity people don't bother with her, because they have done the research and know she won't pull in viewers. Harry is the trained monkey they have put up front.
The only pulling power they have is Hopeless Harry. And even that is pretty small, because after all, who cares about an entitled millionaire git complaining about his lot in life, when all the rest of us have been hit by deaths, disease, unemployment, financial ruin, loss of businesses, and an end to our safe and happy way of life.
This won't be a neutral-impact interview. People who were formerly without an opinion on the Harkles, will actively start to hate them for their moaning sense of entitlement.
Own goal by grip and drip.
My husband & I get our 2nd vaccines tomorrow and in two weeks I finally will have a haircut. It’s been a year. My hair has been mostly short as an adult and now that I can put it in a decent pony tail, I found my hair is the same shape and has the same loose waves in the same places as I had when I was 5 years old. It surprised me. Different color, of course.
Anyway, thanks to everyone, again.
Heidi was major madam with a black book of clients who shook in their boots in fear when she was arrested. I can see this as emergency backup business plan.
I thought what if the big reveal is admitting Archie's not real? Of course it was because it wasn't safe to have a baby in "toxicity" of the UK. Or the other crap they repeat non stop. Maybe the IVF finally worked. It does look like she's repeating the pregnancy crap again. Different bellies, using clothes to hide etc. I doubt anyone would perform plastic work on a real pregnant woman.
Well I need my nausea meds after seeing one promo. If I can remember, I will watch so others who don't have nausea meds can be spared.
I think Oprah needs to balance her biased interviewing as s and interview Tom Markle and Samantha.
It's like she's playing it up like the Sacred Heart school girl Roxy Hart did for her murder trial in Chicago.
if you ever need a place to do some research, this might be one to check out.
Thanks for the info on Gwenyth P and Goop blowing off Markle. I wonder how rejection works with her type of Narc? I think she is an extremely vain person who does not have any problems with low self-esteem. So does she just get angry and angrier? At what point will she finally admit after constant rejection that the fault must LIE WITH HER?? When will she GO AWAY?🤣
@ JennS: Narcs generally do not handle rejection very well. Yes, she is extremely vain, which often partners up with low self esteem. Narcissists are usually very occupied with maintaining their appearance. It is part of the facade they create to hide the emptiness inside them.
They combine the shiny outer shell with whichever personality they happen to need at the moment. They are very practiced chameleons who morph into whatever personality they need to advance their agenda, much the way Meghan portrayed herself to Harry as the reincarnation of his mother. The personalities they create, often called masks, are only temporary, as the narc is eventually unmasked and their true nature, which reveals an angry, shallow, vindictive, thin-skinned, greedy, mean, materialistic con artist who refuse to take responsibility for the wreckage left in their wake, instead preferring to play the victim.
Brilliant catch. I thought O seemed a bit casual and the sweater over the white blouse, very grandmotherly look.
@NeutralObserver & all Barbara Pym fans on this blog.
I'm a big fan also of Barbara Pym Have ead all her books too.
Sourced them all from everywhere but unfortunately have now passed them all on .
Went to an exhibition of her life in Oxford BodleianLibary in 2013
Also visited (stalked ) her homes in Oxford & London
There is (as you all may well know) a Barbara Pym society
https://barbara-pym.org/
We are an international literary society devoted to the 20th century English novelist Barbara Pym, shrewd observer of a certain kind of middle-class Englishwoman, no longer young and not quite beautiful, whom society finds it easy to overlook. She is just as shrewd an observer of the people that these women, vigilant and perceptive, themselves observe.
The spinster heroine of Excellent Women, Pym’s most famous novel, says, “I suppose an unmarried woman just over 30, who lives alone and has no apparent ties, must expect to find herself involved or interested in other people’s business, and if she is a clergyman’s daughter then one might really say that there is no hope for her.”
The Society holds its Annual General Meeting at St. Hilda's College, Oxford University, every summer and also holds a conference in Boston, MA every spring, a spring meeting in London, and other events. Our newsletter, Green Leaves, is published
Barbara Pym and the Bodleian
A display at the Bodleian Library, 9 November - 8 December 2013
The novelist Barbara Pym (1913-1980) wrote 'the finest examples of high comedy to have appeared in England during the past 75 years' (Lord David Cecil, 1977). As a student at St Hilda's College in the 1930s, she studied and socialized in the Bodleian, which features in many of her early works and in later correspondence with the poet Philip Larkin. After her death her sister, Hilary Walton, donated her literary papers to the Bodleian. This display celebrates Pym's involvement with the Library and the richness of the Pym papers held by it.
Yes! Harry's white shirt. It looks like he's pregnant, too. I'd been reading about MM's dress looking like a seagull pooped on her shoulder, and when I finally saw the clip, that's exactly what it looks like.
Oprah is using reverse psychology by dressing down for the interview. The Harkles attempted to dress up, but Oprah is as casual as can be. That's a silent sign that she's the leader there, not the Harkles. It's an "I'm not impressed with you. I'm in charge, and you're not worth my time getting dressed up' move.
Oprah is using reverse psychology by dressing down for the interview. The Harkles attempted to dress up, but Oprah is as casual as can be. That's a silent sign that she's the leader there, not the Harkles. It's an "I'm not impressed with you. I'm in charge, and you're not worth my time getting dressed up' move.
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@JocelynsBellinis
I can believe that.
I thought it weird that the interviewer and the interviewees' wardrobes seemed so opposite. Markle is way too overdressed in her $4700 designer number.
But Oprah is too underdressed for what she called her best interview EVA!
It's weird that MM is dressed royal-Duchess-style while complaining about being in the royal family. They are sitting outdoors. She should have dialed it down a notch or two.
Suggestion: if it's on ITV here, it may be broken up by commercials - although they usually show big Royal events without them. Otherwise, reruns of old dramas such as `Foyles Law' on ITV3 extend the prog. by 5mins per hour. 30mins on 90mins does sound excessive though.
I was already wondering if it would be broken up by ads, in which case, look for the choice of ads and see if there's a message there - apart from learning who's prepared to pay big bucks for a place.
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Yes, that dress looks as if she's been hiding out in St Ives. Daphne Du Maurier called the gulls `Cornish assassins'. Could she have been lurking anywhere other than California? Without the wig, bronzer or bump, would she be recognised?
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My husband reckons H's eyes are getting closer to together - says H reminds him of a raccoon now. I can see what he means, too. We'll record it and watch later.
They combine the shiny outer shell with whichever personality they happen to need at the moment. They are very practiced chameleons who morph into whatever personality they need to advance their agenda, much the way Meghan portrayed herself to Harry as the reincarnation of his mother. The personalities they create, often called masks, are only temporary, as the narc is eventually unmasked and their true nature, which reveals an angry, shallow, vindictive, thin-skinned, greedy, mean, materialistic con artist who refuse to take responsibility for the wreckage left in their wake, instead preferring to play the victim.
Thank you, Happy Days. This is the very best description of how narcissists conceal their inner void that I've ever come across. They seem to become the person their target needs. All false, of course.
First off, we have a grown, extremely privileged man whining in America. Americans do not like this.
Secondly, he is not whining about anything real. He's whining about his perceived paranoia (mental issues) caused by bad press, while having moved to a paparazzi hotspot as his solution? And going on Oprah to do a worldwide exclusive interview? Surely anyone with an IQ above 10 can understand the lack of integrity here.
Third, if enough people in the comments bash their sob story narrative I really don't understand how they expect to turn public opinion. They must have been low on cash and publicity.
Fourth, I barely see any coverage of them at all nowadays. Must be really harmful to Megs ego.
Fifth, we have to remember, in their manifesto the only thing they craved was 'financial independence'.
WTF?
Hand on her stomach, looking demure, sitting there in a $3300 dress, Harry with tiny eyes as as been noted (too many joints?) - major eye roll.
https://tinyurl.com/wthdhd4w (DM)
They aren't even trending on Twitter. We had Trump's speech and the Golden Globes. Many talking points between both events that will take over today's news cycles.
Meghan has botox and fillers, so she can lie through her teeth and her facial expression will not give it away.
"The Golden Globe awards was yesterday and the DM has pix of stars in all their finery. I bet Megalo was green with envy. Is that why we are treated to snippets of the interview with O?"
That may be part of it. But also the snippets are likely part of the international marketing scheme and a reaction to the CW program occurring in the same day as the eventual broadcast.
The point is Meghan will be competing for screen attention against bonafide celebrities putting their skill to use, live. This game will dominate Twitter chat.
Here's a list of top interviews based on ratings:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_watched_television_interviews
WTF indeed! Meghan took every opportunity to push Harry aside and give a speech, and being married to him and with the status the BRF gave her, she had a global audience.
As for that comment about Diana being alone! It's crazy! Separation and divorce are usually difficult and that of his parents was so public, but Diana was never alone.
The Harkles chose separation and divorce and chose to make it a toxic war.
Diana did not ghost her family, friends and the British people. She had relationships with lovers. She was active in going out and continued public service (the real thing). Besides, Charles has always been a busy man so I doubt that him and Diana were joined at the hip during their marriage.
Harry is isolated and alone because his wife engineered this. His mother was never in that position.
Scroll down on Chris Ship's twitter.
Prince Phillip?
Ominous!
Whatever is happening (I think PP has died or is being taken home to the Queen to die), it's going to knock the Harkles and their smug, whining, deluded 2-hour interview off the charts, and is going to make them look very bad. Will this be a breaking point for Harry?
Bad news -
Inside Iranian rocket attack that pushed US to the brink of war: Terrifying new footage shows missiles slamming into US base in Iraq and soldiers fleeing as general admits to 'retaliation' plan if Americans had died
--This attack was January 8th but has more details
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Then a few Megs/Haz/ Oprah entries as the upcoming interview gets analyzed to death - Including a body language expert gives her take. Nothing on PP but I scanned quickly.
Happy Monday to Nutty Professors!
Death is inevitable, of course, none of us `gets out of here alive'. I hope, though, from a `political' viewpoint point, that he doesn't die before the 7th, or the interview will only be postponed, here - if not elsewhere. If he is critical, let's hope he can survive another week and confound the b*ggers in LA - I'm sure he has the determination to do it. I think we can assume he'd want to be by HM's side when the Sharkles come in for the kill, assuming that it was him that was released.
Whenever he dies, I imagine it could be the most difficult thing the Queen has ever had to cope with.
So, Prince Philip, sir, just keep b*ggering on! We're all behind you!
(btw, my 1st husband died 6 years ago, aged 74, from aggressive prostate cancer, and was allowed home for the end because there was nothing else the hospital could do to help. He survived a while and it gave his family precious time with him. It was a very gracious thing to do. So it's possible that it was PP who was discharged - let's keep everything crossed.
And I gather `The Crown' did well at the Golden Globes - pity)
There will be a backlash, this side of the pond anyway, if the despicable duo carry on with their pity party.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9312049/Royal-experts-accuse-Oprah-suggesting-Monarch-mafia-boss-silenced-Meghan.html
He was taken in an ambulance at 11:15 this morning.
From Chris Ship
The Palace says doctors will treat him for his ongoing infection - plus undertake "testing and observation" for a "pre-existing heart condition.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9312171/Prince-Philip-leaves-King-Edward-VII-Hospital-London-14-days.html
Seconds later: BBC just announced that it's for a heart condition - he's already had a stent. Looks like another op.
The Sharkles can't have done him any good.
I read the same about St Bart's. It's not looking good at all and those two idiots over the pond should be ashamed of themselves!
I realised I was quite possibly mistaken as to the bus and so it was. How I loved the old route masters for from the age of five and for some years thereafter I went to school on them. This is what I did: as the bus was approaching the stop I would hang on to the pole with one leg dangling in the air out over the road. The Conductor never stopped me even though I was certainly doing that from my earliest schooling. Then aged five I would walk the not inconsiderable distance to my home - alone. Years later I represented a bereaved husband in Coroner's Court whose wife had died when she had fallen from the said platform of a routemaster on to the road. There is still - at least very recently - an open door Number 9 routemaster which runs from the Albert Hall up to St Paul's - and back. I love taking that bus - in either direction from Charing X.
My Mother always insisted that small boy that I was if the bus was full I had to give up my seat for any woman. Men still do that on the train, I observe. What do my American cousins think of that piece of rampant chauvinistic sexism! What I liked best about the bus was the conductor and the coloured tickets he gave out which he would clip with a ping. Loved that. I was recently watching one of the old 'Doctor' films where there is a scene with Bogarde on the bus and the conductor 'clings' a ticket. Bruce Montgomery (the composer) has the triangle give a beat in the score at the very moment of the cling. If one is not looking for it one naturally assumes it is the ticket machine. There are I suppose many pleasure in life that come from not being a Royal Prince.
@swamp woman
You have my sympathy. Like your son I and so many other men always choose the wrong woman. As my Mother told me: 'Women have always caused you trouble - AND THEY ALWAYS WILL'. Thanks Mum (for the vote of confidence).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Bartholomew%27s_Hospital
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Bartholomew-the-Great , for the story of the founding of the Priory of which the hospital was part.
The church was founded in 1123 by Rahere, a prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral and an Augustinian canon regular. While in Italy, he had a dream that a winged beast came and transported him to a high place, then relayed a message from "the High Trinity and...the court of Heaven" that he was to erect a church in the London suburb of Smithfield.[4] Rahere travelled to London and was informed that the area in his vision—then a small cemetery—was royal property, and that nothing could be built upon it. Henry I, however, granted the title of the land to Rahere after he explained his divine message.
So, the hospital has almost 900 years of history, another reminder of how deep our recorded history runs.
Funny how we've arrived at talking about `hitting the ground running' in a literal sensed. Perhaps MM should have been taken at her word and asked to demonstrate it from a Routemaster!
It's not so long since I boarded a Tube train with a flying leap (well, the doors were about to close) much to the astonishment of the passengers. OAPs don't usually do that sort of thing (I was only 70, after all)
I used to love swinging around the pole on London buses and then leaping off as it neared our stop.
We were 'pole dancers' before the words were even coined! 😉
@Opus and Wild Boar
Ah, the memories brought back by the old Routemasters. I remember once getting off one f them at the lights in Praed Street, opposite Paddington station, and being nearly run over by a cyclist. And the conductors, some of them very friendly and funny.
Opus, there is still the number 9 bus but also number 15, from the Strand to the Tower.
Well the first thing you know ol Jed's a millionaire,
The kinfolk said "Jed move away from there"
Said "Californy is the place you ought to be"
So they loaded up the truck and they moved to Beverly
Hills, that is. Swimmin pools, movie stars.
******Make that Montecito for the Haz/Megs duo.
******Plenty of private jet rentals in California, with global warmistas being put at the head of the line and given discounts.
Up to the age of 10, I used to play with the boy next door. A favourite game was `Leapo'! from my swing - we'd do 10 `swings' then jump and be catapulted as far as possible, usually about 8 feet.
What is it with us Nutty women?
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It's not just kids who behave badly on buses. Stop me if I've told this story: I was on the `pew seat' just inside the door, riding down Tottenham Court Rd once. The conductress was trying to persuade a mother, with a child who was clearly very `green about the gills' to get off at the next stop and walk the rest the way.
Not her!
`'Sorl righ'', she said. `'E's always sick on buses.'
Sure enough...
(Translation from the Cockney `Everything is in perfect order. It is usual for him to be overcome by mal de mer on the omnibus.')
The Corny Corden And Hooey Harry Show
You'd think Harry would be more bothered by that sort of thing (along with fans wanting to kill his brother's entire family) than criticism of his wife's clothes. Heck, you'd think even Scobie would be a little nervous to have such delusional followers.
In St.Albans, coming through Fleetville, there was joker who always called out `Dead Centre!' as the bus approached the cemetery.
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Mum's driver used to complain at the end of shift if it had been a slow journey, picking up or setting at every stop,
`Well, Girl, it was like a being a dog tonight, wasn't it? Stopping at every bleedin' lamp post.'
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And going to my grammar school in another town, one conductor shouted `Glamour School' as we approached. Bit obvious really.
That's how ordinary people lived. H didn't realise that humour was best left to the conductor.
It would be easy to go through and calculate their Sussex follower bot groups, paid followers, and write a tidbit on how they feed the system they condemn. Once someone does this, all bets are off for a persona revival.
Their actual followers in the human form are a really nasty character-less group of people. They've found their dear leaders in Meghan and Harry. Try having an educated discussion with any of them. You can't.
@scobie
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Omid seems to be trying to put his foot down:
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Shouldn’t have to point this out but I will block anyone coming here to make jokes about someone’s health. It’s not right.
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Clapping hands sign Exactly. Bullying of the sort should never be tolerated.
I too love Barbara Pym. Her gentle, unassuming novels offer wonderful vignettes of women whom mainstream novelists often overlook. Her writing is uniquely English especially in its settings, but her themes are universal: the lonliness of single women, unrequited love, men taking the sacrifices women make for granted. Pym could also be very modern at times like the way she wrote about a gay man with matter-of-fact awareness and zero judgment. Excellent Women, Jane and Prudence and A Glass of Blessings are ones I re-read but the book that touched me was Autumn Quartet, a unsparing look into the darker side of being single and sliding into old age. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Thanks for the info about the Barbara Pym Society.
Thanks for the update re: Scobie. That wasn't there when I looked. Glad he did it.
Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan’s charity have also created a portable list of good deeds to “share with friends, hang it in your fridge, and inspire acts of compassion everyday, all month long.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/scobie/status/1366395241599746054
I've just noticed that Catherine's chin is slightly asymmetrical (in the latest video on Omid). It points slightly to her right - does that fit with what Puds noticed about MM?
Otherwise, wishing him strength to hang on a little longer. The poor Queen. I know she always projects stoic, but this has to be hard on her.
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The clips of Oprah so far...oh my.
H is wearing a too tight light gray suit and white shirt with black socks that have lost their elasticity and worn brown shoes with a hole in the sole.
Surely they can afford some new light gray socks and at least black shoes, if not gray ones? And a shirt that fits. Brown shoes with a light gray suit is just a no. Stylish this man is not.
Not what one expects from a prince, to look so shabby. He reminds me of a soot covered Cinderella. Or a hobo. He's only missing the bag of belongings on a stick slung over his shoulder.
She is looking much older than her years. Apparently a whole new face. Looks nothing like the face we just saw in the lemon dress video from a few weeks ago.
She is wearing an expensive black and white dress that does nothing for her. It ages her by decades. Of course she cups her pregnancy throughout.
She is sitting all regal-like, back straight, neck elongated. She looks like an elderly dowager. Somebody's aunt.
Harry looks like a poor dude who can't afford clothes that fit, has outgrown his clothes but can't afford new ones. She looks like his elderly aunt who is having gas pains. Or maybe a gallbladder attack.
We've seen that kind of vibe before , where he looks like a teenager/young adult and she looks like his mom or much older sister. I wonder why they do that when what they're trying to sell is young star-crossed lovers.
So no new shoes for Harry
Hey, eyeliner ain’t cheap. You gotta cut corners somewhere.
Oprah is really a piece of work
This is her job. She puts on a pleasant front, but she wouldn’t be where she is without a healthy streak of ruthlessness.
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The Kardashians have never turned on each other, warts and all. Kim rode Kanye to mainstream fame but she never isolated him from his friends or stopped him from doing what he likes. If Kim had been the one marrying Harry, she would have made a giant show out of getting a fat father fitter for the wedding and wheeling the disabled sister around London. It would have been Jerry Springer but not The Truman Show that Meg dragged Harry into with her fake friends.
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Not caught up on the interview yet (and not watching to give it ratings) BUT...Can we talk about how Harry and OW at least look like they showed up to the same event...while MM looks like she was univited from the Golden Globes but decided to wear her black silk nightgown in an interview set in a GARDEN?
It looks so out of place. I hope she switches outfits at some point.
It's interesting that a big part of Oprah's history had many admitted co-dependent relationships. She used to find her worth through men. She's very open and honest about how bad it was for her. Maybe she does have empathy for Harry and sees this in him, too. It goes along with the theory that she is trying to 'Save Harry' to get into forever good graces with the BRF.