Let's continue the conversation...
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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"Isnt Windsor going under a remodel and thats the excuse given for turning down the Harkle request to live there?"
It's BP that is undergoing a remodel. Everyone has to move out.
On a personal level though The Queen adores Windsor Castle, she's rarely shared it with anyone except her nuclear family. And once the kids reached adulthood, she kicked them all out.
There was no chance in hell she would agree to the Harkles' request given their behaviour to all and sundry. If they were lovely or corrected the disastrous boat they were determined to rock, they might have been given better accomodation.
Instead they were given long forgotten staff quarters close to a public road!!!
To me that was the first public sign that all wasn't well chez Windsor considering Harry was still pumping out favourite grandson PR.
"I thought Welby was supposed to be on sabbatical - such a shame it's not a silent retreat...."
Isn't his sabbatical starting in June 2021?
Great analysis. I too think the family - but not the BRF as such - would take him back, particularly if he ends up a broken man, but he'd be kept away from events such as Trooping the Colour etc. Maybe some time in Africa would be good. I think he needs serious deprogramming.
Good point about MM suing for divorce and having to produce children. Better still, if Harry left/escaped, he might decide to put the kibosh on her divorce plans and say there are no children. The best outcome all round.
I dont think jh is ready yet to throw in the towel and return home. Hes joined his wife in trashing his family, their way of life and country as recently as March the O interview.
If he were angling for a way back hed have skipped it and let her do it.
Once he does decide to make a break from shallowness, fakery, money grubbing, thirstyness and go back home, he'll have to fight for custody of archie and daughter, tax problems, money problems, citizenship problems, business contratual problems, PR problems....MM will be ruthless, Etc. It will be hellaciously difficult without the help of the brf.
When hes ready, he should start throwing filthy rich millionaires in her path and hope she cheats with one!
I think you are right. Making a PSA in support of the American Democratic party was bad enough. But he joined in on the 2-hour-long Orcah trashfest of his family and is doubling down on everything they said in it by insisting that his family 'apologize' to Meghan.
How far can brainwashing go? I guess we need to ask Patty Hearst about that. The tale of Haz and Mess stopped being a star-crossed love story long, long ago, if any of us ever fell for that. This is now an ugly double act of international extortion of a 94-year-old head of state, played out on a global stage.
I'd have said, if this were in any way a normal union, that Harry's best bet for getting off with a minimum of fuss in a divorce is to have proof of her infidelity. But I think it's been an open marriage from the start, if it's even sexual between them now, or ever. The elusive Markus Anderson would be subpeonaed by the Crown lawyers to testify about his role, potentially ongoing, in the Sussex marriage. Would the BRF just pay off a gargantuan settlement in lieu of fighting her and having all the filthy skeletons on both sides revealed? They are up to their figurative neck in complicity for scrubbing both Meg's past and Harry's. They know the truth about Archie and probably what happened to all that money that went missing.
The problem with a pond scum life form like Meghan is that she could never be trusted to be honorable about keeping quiet after a settlement. They could give her 100 million pounds, and she'd still sing like a canary because she always thinks she can go back to the well for more and more and more. It's in her nature. Nothing is ever Enough, and she must always think she's Won by having the last word. Even after she's had the last word, she finds more words.
If Harry thought he'd gotten himself into a pickle by getting INTO the marriage, getting himself OUT of it is going to be near impossible. This marriage will be the end of him, one way or another.
I think the past year has demonstrated loudly that they will never pay her off no matter how or what she does with Harry.
Also, in the event of a divorce, the BRF wealth is untouchable. If Harry still has unbroken RF trusts, those will also be untouchable.
He has broken his Diana trust specifically to spend it on them which adds a wrinkle to how that is handled legally because usually trusts are untouchable unless they are broken by the recipient.
There is not a single royal family in the western world that has handed money to exiting divorced spouses. They use the private wealth of the royal as the basis of a divorce settlement which has always ended badly for the divorcing Spouse given the lifestyle they became accustomed to.
Tessy of Luxembourg took it to court to argue that she was living on *royal family* wealthy rather than private wealth of her royal husband. She lost.
The case was heard in a British court which gives BRF precedent of a test case.
On a practical/ gold digger note, if one was planning divorce wealth from a royal spouse, marrying an Arab prince or Sheikh would be the way to go. You put up with being silenced for a couple of years, pop out a kid, then exit with fabulous wealth. Meghan targeted the wrong system and the wrong Prince for her ATM dreams.
I imagine that probably occurred to her, maybe as soon as the engagement day. Her subsequent behavior is her trying to make lemon elderberry cake out of lemons and force through her vision anyway.
She'd never get an Arab Prince now. She was too old for optimum by at least a decade when she was pursuing Harry. She'll be 40 on her next birthday if we assume she's being truthful about her birthday and she's not actually 5 years older than that. If a sheik is going to go for a Western concubine, she'll be blonde, model quality and 25 or under. Meg might have had a chance at snagging one of these 20 years ago, but that ship's sailed and gotten jammed in the Suez Canal. Any mega-rich celebrity man or foreign Royal is going to do far more due diligence on her background than the BRF did. She'd never get past the vetting stage for any one else. And if she insisted on stalking other wealthy men the way she stalked Harry and pushed her way in, she'd probably disappear and never be heard from again. The BRF was breached by a Trojan Horse due to their area of greatest vulnerability--their weakest link, Harry. So fearful were they of what he would do, of what SHE would do, they acquiesced to their own downfall.
It's hard to imagine anybody else making that same error. Especially now that she's been outed for what she is.
Now seeing these new tweets and especially the collage of photos for comparison, I'm wondering if this woman's child has indeed played the role of Archie! He does resemble the elusive Fauxchie. People are accusing Gingras of this on Twitter.
The recent B&W 'Archie running on beach' child looked distinctly as though he had Asian features to me, as did the Christmas photo shot of 'Baby Archie' (aka Frankenbaby) in the 2019 Christmas photoshop project. That Christmas card was allegedly taken by Markle-pal Janina Gavankar, even though that was nonsensical, since the Harkles were in Vancouver Island at the time. (they said). That whole card is a very bad cut and paste job, and the baby in the picture looks decidedly Asian and very unlike earlier images of Archie (or the later one, produced at New Year's--the one that shows Harry holding a little girl with completely different eyebrows.)
So I'm wondering if Meg doctored up some photo of a baby in Janina's family for that card, giving her 'photo credit' for it. Janina has resurfaced again in recent months, 'supporting' the Harkles in her SM . . and her expressions of support were followed pretty swiftly by release of this beach video, featuring a toddler who could definitely be the older version of Franken-card baby. That child, cute as he was, looks nothing like SA Arch, Duck Rabbit Arch or the curly-headed child featured on Silver Tree's Christmas photo. Janina is based in L.A., and though I don't think she herself has a child that age, she could have easily borrowed a nephew or a little cousin on both occasions.
What say the Nutties?
Even for those who fervently believe that Meg gave birth to a little boy herself and has had him with her all this time, you have to admit that the child's appearance is inexplicably changeable, wildly so, from image to image.
How does this work though?...babies may look similar enough to get away with substitutions but what about when the child gets older?
For those wondering about A o.C, I just found this very odd article:
A Wolf Amongst The Lambeth Palace Lambs?
by Brian Gerrish
Monday, 25th January 2016
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/wolf-amongst-lambeth-palace-lambs
It begins,
"Sitting in the shadows with respect to his part in the commissioning of the Woolf report, Welby then allowed the press and media to publish that the Church of England had said that the report was a "sad waste" and had "fallen captive to liberal rationalism."
In my December 2015 article 'Who Says Britain Is No Longer A Christian Country' I exposed the links between Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and the Woolf Institute; the ---- backed organisation which had commissioned the 'Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life' report which claimed that Britain was no longer a Christian country.
Aside from the links to grubby ---- corporate funding money I pointed out what was effectively gross hypocrisy - Welby was a Patron of the Woolf Institute which had commissioned the 'report' and yet he was then interviewed for the 'report' as if he was an independent bystander.
>>(ETC with more explanation and images of correspondence and reports)
The author ends his article this way:
"My questions to Archbishop Welby were simple, clear and direct. The reponse from Andrew Nunn is irrelevant and evasive. So why the eerie silence in Lambeth palace?
My conclusion is that Welby has been caught up to no good and he is now running from the truth. The Primate of All England is assisting the destruction of Christianity in these Islands and of his own church from within.
Is he something other than a Christian? The duplicity and deafening silence suggests there may well be a very dangerous wolf amongst the Lambeth Palace lambs."
Maybe one of the Nutties can translate all this.
Whoops, this was the second part of Jenn's comment.
My answer is, it must already be getting very difficult for Meg to source different children of roughly appropriate age for her scam. In monetizing terms, 'Arch' is a dud. She never got any $2 million dollar spread in People; no TigTots little boy line of apparel; the 'foundation' named after Arch is a big dud . . and enough time has passed, with their bizarre secretive behavior that Archie isn't a draw any more. As Narc fuel supply, he's used up. Hence, time to debut Spawn #2 . . this time it will be a girl and she will get a Shiloh Jolie-Pitt style photo spread in People and merch the hell out of a little girl, and she won't care whose little girl she's got to use to do it. Now that she's on her home turf and doesn't have to hide her activities from the nosy courtiers, it will be easier. They should be able to buy the infant girl of some desperate single mom out there in Lalaland. Let's just see if they don't.
Palace source says THIS incident on the tour of Australia upset Meghan's staff | Her.ie
https://www.her.ie/celeb/palace-source-says-reason-meghan-staff-upset-447241
from the article:
Meghan Markle's frustration at having her independence taken away has led her to snap at the people working around her, it's been claimed.
This attitude is what has rubbed staff up the wrong way, a royal source has said.
The insider who was on the royal tour of Australasia in the autumn has told Page Six of an incident that showed this frustration while the couple were visiting Sydney.
"During their tour, just before they were about to go to the Invictus Games, Meghan was bawling at her hairdresser to get her hair right, while at the same time someone was ironing the bottom of the dress she was wearing," they told the publication.
Longtime royal correspondent Duncan Larcombe has revealed that Harry behaved very differently on the tour to previous ones.
Its tradition for the royals to socialise with members of the press who travel on tours with them, he said - but not this time.
“They basically blanked the media on this tour, which is very short-sighted,” Larcombe told Page Six.
"All of Harry’s staff have always thought he was fantastic, but the two of them [together] are high maintenance."
@Ant
Is he something other than a Christian? The duplicity and deafening silence suggests there may well be a very dangerous wolf amongst the Lambeth Palace lambs."
Maybe one of the Nutties can translate all this.
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All sin and fall short of the glory of G-d, but then again Judias Iscariot is alive and well in all centuries, IYAM.
Nice job for Welby to throw all Britain under the bus in service of the Harkles, who, after all, are only chaff in the wind. They must be better, or worse, than him!
Funny you should mention Patti Hearst, I was thinking about her in relation to Harry. That's why I said he needs to be deprogrammed.
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I can't imagine there was much information on MM when she began dating Harry. It's not as though any of her mental disorders were clear cut. From what I've read about her she's quite charming and smart and men are draw to her charms. As a woman I don't find her charming, never did and obviously I never will. The RF didn't count on a Narc. She played the game like a real expert until she had the ring on her finger. All the red flags before that seemed to have been hushed up and are only now coming to light. Harry was charmed by her in a very superficial way, because he was physically attracted to her when he first saw her in person. I imagine that will eventually wear off when he gets to see more of her personality and just can't accept it anymore.
I appreciate all of your common sense when you post comments here. I may be the only one here that believes Archie actually exists. Archie is a mini Harry baby. I'm blessed with 3 grandsons and they are all under three now. My oldest came out looking exactly like my son, his father. My heart literally felt like it stopped for about 30 seconds when I first saw him. Of course he has some features of his mother, but not enough to say, hey lets get this kids paternity checked. My other two which are brothers, three and 8 months old couldn't look more different than each other as brothers, but my oldest looks just like this mother except for his eye color which belongs to me and my son, green. My youngest grandson is 8 months old and looks like my son but has his mother's blue eyes.
It is Archie's distinct look that I can't deny that he is real and Harry is his father. On the other hand and because there are just so few actual real pictures of him, they could be using a stand in, in various pictures. But again, there are only a few of Archie I can imagine them doing something stupid like that.
There is absolutely no rhyme or reason to anything they do, but one thing is for sure, it's always a failure. Especially in the States because people are getting disgusted with their antic's here and have little tolerance for stupid.
Britain on the other have much more to say about this damaging duo. I actually like that you all seem to be pulling together in support of the BRF. We don't have that here in the United States, there is no one person or family that we can all get behind, including President's. We haven't had a popular President in years and their terms in office is no longer than 8 years, so we don't get attached to that.
Thank you for all of your careful thoughts and considerations in your comments here, I appreciate them.
Here is what you have to know. The alliterate one didn't care that her best friend is quite probably a racist and she doesn't care that her company deals with a company that supports/enables/profits from genocide. She only cares about the person in the mirror.
https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2021/04/blind-item-1_8.html
Reality check • 3 hours ago
Wife of the Judas Prince - she who will not be named - won’t give her what she wants
HFgm texasrose • 2 hours ago
I never thought I would see the likes of the Evil Queen/Evil Stepmother in Snow White come to life ... and yet, we have seen her, and her name is Rachel Meghan Markle.
ladymuck HFgm • an hour ago
She literally is the wicked witch on so many levels! Her evil knows no bounds, she's like "blood diamonds gifted by a torturing murderous despot, merch coffee and get Oprah to merch coffee made in a Chinese state connected to genocide, no problem!" I can't work out if she's stupid to think the media wouldn't dig around or she's so completely insane that she believes her own crap".
During her time as a royal, she didn't graduate into a royal persona. That's actually something she cheated her own fans out of. I speculate that their anger is partially misguided out of the frustration that their idol didn't give them any royal moments or royal persona during her time as one.
Then you have her general behaviour in and out of the family. She been a completely nightmare.
She very publicly lashed out at The Queen.
She has no cache to her at all.
Only negatives.
She's of no use to anyone right now.
Hollywood tolerates her as a way to get to Harry. Beyond that they'll ditch her once they figure out how to get round her to get to him.
On a different note, the BRF's Achilles heel is public opinion. I always say that Harry's main takeaway from his mother's funeral was her celebrity and how it had forced the family to change and has used the Diana card to get his way ever since.
The family allowed him to play the card because of public opinion. He's now added race to his bag of tricks.
They created a monster and then the monster turned on them. And that monster knows how to manipulate public opinion because he learnt it from them.
William finally took his destiny seriously in 2017 and that's when he started attending duchy meetings and receiving red boxes and taking on much more serious duties.
That's when the contained monster in Harry really let rip. Around this time, rumours went around London that he'd decided to date only celebrities because they were used to the spotlight. It was then he started getting celebrity / model dating sightings.
Meghan may or may not have plotted her way to him, but he was already swimming in her pool.
And now we know they planned commercialisation of the royal brand almost as soon as the ink was dry on their wedding certificate if not before.
That speaks to a corrosion in Harry that already existed. He just didn't know exactly how to go about the job except to threaten to ruin the family's public image if he didn't get his limited demands.
He found someone who was shameless, money and fame hungry to expand his demands and get him everything he felt was his due regardless of the fact that he grew up in it and already knew the limits.
And now he is in California getting all the jobs and letting Meghan take the rap for their joint project that would never have happened without his collusion and complicity.
And whether he walks out or not, besotted or not, he continues to hold the cards despite appearances. The family can rescue him even if they don't trust him plus everybody wants him. Not her.
And she has no prospects of another mark even if she succeeds in ruining him completely because doing so is a circular firing squad for her.
Rob Lowe just dropped $47 million on three Montecito, Calif., mansions
can't read the whole thing because of the pop up - but M's former teacher praises her "devoted dad" and has no reason why they fell out
https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1210304/meghan-markle-latest-news-archbishop-canterbury-justin-welly-royal-family-updates
I had this bookmarked next to it
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7621843/Archbishop-Canterbury-defends-Meghan-Prince-Harry-not-superhuman.html
I can't visit right now, be back later :)
Harry and Meghan screwed their Hollywood ambitions by dishing to Oprah because now that’s the storyline."
https://archive.ph/2021.04.07-224935/https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/opinion/2021/04/07/prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-trashed-their-hollywood-dreams-by-dishing-to-oprah.html
This is a very interesting take and I totally agree
This was behind a paywall, so I'm going to add the whole article. Thanks Nelo, I agree with you!
(And @Martha, I often have that problem with links. Im using an IPad as well. One thing I can sometimes do is cause tge link to "open" rather than "copy" the link to another tab. I have to find my place again, but it works. Also, I often have luck cutting out numbers and symbols at the end of a link. If I stick with the alpha it will open it for me. If all else fails, I'm grateful to those who give us a hint to fibd tge article. I attribute my issues to Brit/EU/US posters.
Part One
Prince Harry and tattletale Meghan Markle will regret sitting down with Oprah.
Not because of the bad blood now boiling inside Buckingham Palace. Not because of the Argentina-sized wedge that interview shoved between the royal family and the Sussexes. And not even because of the plunge in approval ratings they suffered in the U.K. last month.
No, they will regret that blockbuster because it was a blockbuster.
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And now everything they do will be measured by blockbuster.
Do you know how to tell when People magazine is feigning enthusiasm? It’s simple. Those celebrity-obsessed freaks will add an exclamation point to a headline. For example: “Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Announce First Netflix Series — and Harry Will Appear on Camera!”
That exclamation point is a dead giveaway of simulated excitement.
It’s the fake orgasm of punctuation.
You think anyone at People is really hot and bothered by “Heart of Invictus,” the first collaboration between Netflix and Harry and Meghan’s Archewell Productions? Give your head a shake. They will be drawing straws to see who gets stuck reviewing this upcoming docuseries.
That is not a shot at the project. Let me be clear. We should absolutely celebrate this “group of extraordinary competitors from around the globe, all service members who have suffered life-changing injuries or illnesses on their road to the Invictus Games …”
As I’ve said before, we do not value our soldiers nearly enough. We take their sacrifices for granted. If your freedom depended on my combat skills, tie your pillowcase to a stick and fill it with socks and underwear because we are both headed to the gulag. I get a paper-cut and my first instinct is to beg off chores for 48 hours. I am a weakling and a coward.
But the wounded warriors who compete in the Invictus Games? As Prince Harry put it so eloquently this week, they do indeed “contribute in their own exceptional way to a mosaic of resilience, determination and resolve.”
Here’s the problem: by running their yaps to Oprah, Harry and Meghan cast a shadow over that mosaic. They created an enduring sideshow that is more powerful than the philanthropic blueprint of their foundation or their wish to make the world a better place.
Of course, everyone should watch “Heart of Invictus.” Of course. But my guess is most viewers are still too preoccupied by the allegations raised by the Sussexes. Most viewers will only care that “Harry Will Appear on Camera!” if the scene involves an injured triathlete pinning the Duke under a Peloton and demanding to know which royal member fretted about Baby Archie coming out of the oven a little too dark. If a friend tells you their family is horribly racist and then wants to yammer about climate change, you’re going to say, “Hang on. Before we deal with carbon footprints, what’s this about your racist family?”
I have no doubt Harry and Meghan believed the Oprah interview would provide closure. But all I see now is busted windows and kicked-open doors. The tabloid scrutiny they claim to abhor is amplified. Piers Morgan has all but put a fatwa on their heads. And they are now trapped in a purgatory where the nutritional value of their do-good intentions, in terms of public interest, is no match for the beans they could still spill.
The massive deal Harry and Meghan signed with Netflix last year is a blank slate of content freedom: documentaries, scripted fare, children’s programming. But this only makes sense if viewers are not more interested in the personal lives of the executive producers. The documentaries that have gained cultural traction in recent weeks — “Framing Britney Spears,” “Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil,” “Allen v. Farrow” — have done so by putting the narrative focus squarely on the celebrities involved.
Take Michael Jordan out of “The Last Dance” and all you’ve got is a tango with who cares.
I have been trying to get my daughters to watch that doc and they are just not interested. That’s my fear for Harry and Meghan. They want to create content that dovetails with the “values and causes they hold dear,” as Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos put it. But will viewers be interested? Or did that Oprah interview put the kibosh on Harry and Meghan’s kinder, gentler dreams by training the spotlight on their dark allegations?
You can’t give viewers a taste of “The Crown” and then offer up “Heart of Invictus.”
There will be few takers. That is why Harry and Meghan will regret that Oprah interview. It has left an elephant in a palace already cramped with intrigue. And it has made it hard for viewers to care about Harry and Meghan unless the cameras are on them. If I were a Netflix co-CEO, I’d encourage the Sussexes to complement their “values and causes” with vanity and celebrity.
You know what people will watch? A reality show in which they struggle with parenthood in LA. A feature about the ugly side of royalty. How about a Bachelor-style show starring Prince Andrew? Oh, stop.
All the contestants would be of legal age.
The point is, Harry and Meghan screwed their Hollywood ambitions by dishing to Oprah because now that’s the storyline. Everything they do must have the promise of personal revelation.
There can be no future blockbuster that’s not about them.
@JennS Gurrrrrll, you know one of those is for you! 😘
Hey, maybe some of the alarms H&M reported were potential buyers walking around Rob's property. Could you imagine, buying property and then finding out H&M were your next door neighbors?
I used to be a 9-1-1 dispatcher. Some of the alarms we'd get called in were caused by an unsecured window and the wind was blowing and the curtain waving around set it off. Exterior motion detectors set off by raccoon family (George Lucas house). Raccoons scared the heck out of my officers as they were checking around the house. Lit them up with flashlights and they all came on to their hind legs and hissed at officers.
CA usually has a charge for alarms. You might get 3 freebies and then charged for any "false calls".
It's not the kind of documentary that people look forward to watching. They had to rush the news out when they did to distract from Piers Morgan's interview. Like one columnist in Toronto Star said, no one is interested in any documentary that unlocks action, all people will now want to see from the Sussexes is messiness and drama. That is their brand now no matter how hard they try to pretend they are global philanthropists.
The BRF messed up with regards to Harry as they always do but I think that his threats and manipulation no longer work on them as it used to. If it did, he wouldn't have lost all his patronages and he wouldn't have been kicked out of London and given the servants quarters to live in. I think his hold over them has weakened considerably.
according to BG they used IVF for the baby girl because she was soo old, and they needed to guarntee #2 on schedule and choose/wanted a girl (not very PC...seems rather backwards, not woke in todays environment ). and they may have used assistance for Arhie too, alll on the down low away from BRF /grey suit prying eyes.
anyway, if true, ding dong PH has a bunch of swimmers hanging around in some clinics freezer!! too be used by anyone whenever.And/ or there could be fertilzed eggs hanging around as well, for MM to claim for herslf or a surrogate!! Soia veraga has had a lawsuit for years to prevent and ex from using their stuff conceived when they were together.
and who’s to say PH’s swimmers were used for the actual procedure, we’ve all seen the stories of Dr’s switching their stuff in for the father.
and this is all assuming PH is healthy and can produce, and MM to, and Archie is real.
https://thewigblog.tumblr.com
Its worth a look just for the parody of MMs "The Tig"
On Rob’s twitter thread, he has posted that Gayle King will be his next guest on his Literally podcast:
(4hrs)
From Prince Harry to best friend Oprah, Gayle knows the real. She’s also lovely and hosts the great morning news show”
I notice he doesn’t mention Megs.
Did the Markles literally call 911 for the police? If they did, then their phone calls and recordings are in the public’s domain. One can legally, through the Freedom of Information Act, ask to listen to the recording, or the transcribed words. What was the reason for the time-strapped, overworked police to be at the Markles? What was the address given? Police records are also public property. Where are the reporters on this odd story?
Where I live, people are given one malfunctioning alarm system free of charge.. The second false alarm within one year and the fine is $500.00. It doubles for each time, as in $1,000.00 for third, $2,000.00 for fourth. These are just alarms, and 911 multiple calls from the same residence is in many cases domestic abuse. Police are required by law to show up and enter any address that has a 911 call. Your home is searched. I had a toddler that heard calling 911 would bring flashing police cars and fire engines. After she cleaned out our bank accounts with the phone calls, she was not allowed to be near any phone, even her play phone!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9451097/Private-club-Soho-House-secretly-files-IPO-New-York-Stock-Exchange-value-3b.html
. I had a toddler that heard calling 911 would bring flashing p"olice cars and fire engines. After she cleaned out our bank accounts with the phone calls, she was not allowed to be near any phone, even her play phone!"
While I an sorry for your pain, that is a great story!
I saw a comment today referring to MM as "the Duchess of Karens". Yep.
Thanks to the Nutties for the great commentary and the links to the articles (or the copy and paste).
This filing must be the reason Markus Anderson has not been seen or heard from for a long time. If you take your company public, you cannot talk or interfere with anything before your company shares are legally changed. Three billion for the name Soho House? The Soho decor, copied by millions on their homes and businesses, is going stale quickly. Like avocado refrigerators, green long shag carpets and orange walls from the 60s, and Formica kitchen tables, and Arne Jacobson faux, cheap copied chairs. Fifty shades of grey is so 2015. Why would anyone want to stay in a rustic grey room?
Apologies —-the italicized line “From Harry to O” was the tweet Rob put out about his podcast with Gayle. Sorry that was not clear.
Also, remember that Rob the sin of an astute, no-nonsense, quite tough trial lawyer. I don’t think he would be helping Gayle with much that was known to him to be fishy. That said, he might well be open to the idea of having a bit of fun seeing if he can use his podcast to unravel some mystery?
Years ago there was a rich person in my town whose alarm system kept calling the police station with false alarms. The police chief talked with the homeowner, it still kept happening, they started charging him for every false call. But he still wouldn't do anything to fix it.
This went on for quite a while and they were getting pretty annoyed. So the next false alarm, the policeman says to his partner, you smell smoke? I smell smoke. Call the fire department, tell them to bring the battering ram cuz we gotta get in to make sure everyone's safe.
Of course the fire department is all too happy to have an opportunity to use their new battering ram. Broke the front door down, burst in to check for any trapped people.
In the meantime, a newbie officer slipped on the sidewalk ice and fell down. He radios in, 'officer down'. (He never lived that one down.) You can only imagine how many people have now shown up at this house.
Needless to say, that was the end of false alarms from that guy's house.
Rob taped the Gayle show already - I'm listening to it now.
Jdubya - good tea on 911/alarm calls. Still think she's publicizing this for money She always gets desperate and goes for security!
Think we have found the elusive archie. My question, why would a mom who works for CNN, and puts pics out on instagram of her kid let someone so public use pics of her kid? Money? connections? being blackmailed? did she adopt the real archie?
Interesting that Hot Rob talked of the Harry sighting (with the pony tail ha!) and did not mention megs then or related to gayle and his upcoming podcast. Maybe no one in Montecito likes her. It is interesting lately it is all harry all the time but the little misses is no where. It must be driving her nuts or she is having work done and will reveal still another new face in time for the Cambridges anniversary.
Great sleuthing yet again.
Have you ruled out Ellen’s newest $4.5 million Montecito Tudor home, purchased in February 2020...as an English Tudor style home, formed of two 1700s English Tudor homes shipped to California (according to an Australian home magazine) it might have the appropriate landscaping for a home of that type. Plus It has those pale old school bricks. I mention this because somehow the garden in the interview seemed lovely but a little old style wild Tuscan garden.
Ellen sold the Tudor to Ariana Grande not long ago...after redoing it.
2. As to a public offering by a pretorian group of people, with “private lives, membership dues, and black listing of unfavorable people gracing the porticos of SoHo House” - I say the grass these people are smoking is not found in a pasture meant for cows.. As a hotel investor (small), with one of my hotels with a famous name and considered high end in a large metro area, which just went belly-up (bankrupt), I find it hard to believe that Hoso is actually going public. The group is not well known. The HAMS advertise the hotel , as in H, on taxpayer pounds, flying to Amsterdam to open a Hoso House? Doing an IPO for a small group of rustic, by membership only, will not do well. As with everything the HAMS are involved with (and I bet your bottom dupee the duo was given a portion of the shares to be bought by fools) this too will fail. There is something that stinks around the whole Mulroney/Markles/Anderson/ and other investors.
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Just wanted to say that I love what @JerseyGirl said, sums it up pretty well at this point: "There is absolutely no rhyme or reason to anything they do, but one thing is for sure, it's always a failure."
(Really shouldn't laugh, but ... ��)
She has a little patch when Oprah's in the state--ALLEGEDLY.
This is what I keep returning to in my mind. Harry as the Trojan Horse. For centuries English aristocracy and royalty felt reasonably free to ignore younger sons and left them to stand or fall as they may. We have a fine history of wastrels and scoundrels carrying on below the radar.
The big issue here is that Diana gave birth to this particular wastrel and scoundrel (Harry qualifying as both). She supercharged him to cause maximum damage, although I agree she would have been upset by what is happening now. Never forget however, that she deliberately undermined a future king on national TV in front of millions. She questioned his suitability for the throne. That was as breathtakingly disloyal as Harry is being now.
@Acquitaine - William finally took his destiny seriously in 2017 and that's when he started attending duchy meetings and receiving red boxes and taking on much more serious duties.
That's when the contained monster in Harry really let rip.I
This really brought me up short. You're absolutely right about the timing. It all falls into place. It looks as if Meghan is the biggest culprit as we had a good long while with Harry as an OK adult (in Windsor terms).
We only had that because William took longer than expected to accept his role. He put it off by being in the air sea rescue and then air ambulance. William gave Harry a long grace period by gaining one for himself. As you say, as soon as William moved into full, formal, grown-up royal mode the real Harry emerged. We finally saw, close-up, what had been there all the time. Back to the little boy slamming his pedal-car into the legs of a member of staff.
Harry then found his soul-mate in betrayal and exploitation in Meghan - very quickly - and that swift timeline therefore cast Meghan as the principal villain. Which was wrong. They are truly equal in villainy.
1) Blogger YankeeDoodle said...
1. Everything is smoke and mirrors. Who knows where the Markles live? If they called the police nine times, what is their address?
(Here is what I have found: https://twitter.com/Liana38055133/status/1379699669710774275)(Yet more smoke and mirrors. If you ask me, smoke and mirrors is going to become the next intellectual path forward toward understanding human nature, much like Sigmund Freud and his "mother complex" stuff was at the turn of the last century. But I digress!)
Me: Plenty of people here are better aware than me of California culture regarding security, but I remember reading that every celebrity, no matter how "huge", has had security issues, i.e. people stalking them, break-ins, etc. Begs the question: WHY move there, if you're so worried about security, H?! And I, too, have thought from day one that they could not possibly afford their "digs" without big money, which may have conveniently come from the Russian oligarchs who owned their hideaway (supposedly) in Vancouver (Island?).
Smoke and mirrors indeed, again, the constant theme of these two. WHY?
2) Security: This stuff seems to be an obvious ploy to coerce the Royal Family into forking over more cash, because "our security is at risk". The British people obviously aren't buying it. Neither, I hope and pray, are the Royal Family. Looks like the Harkles thought they needed *more* security than the *average* celebrity because they're *royal* in order to keep up their *image*, and it costs a lot of coin to make it happen.
(Me, I think they're running out of cash. I would love to read from a Nutty Blogger here just how, as I'm sure I'm right.)
It's the Duke of Windsor all over again. Give 'em the old blufferaroo, in his case, "think of the Kingdom" (nice one given HIS behavior) in hopes of getting your way. Didn't work for them (the whole "HRH" business) and it won't work now.
*Back to your regularly scheduled program* :)
'Piers Morgan could feel the wrath of Meghan Markle according to a royal biographer, who says she is preparing a team to take on the former Good Morning Britain presenter
Meghan Markle is thought to be assembling a "very aggressive legal team" as she prepares to respond to Piers Morgan's accusations in the past weeks.
Since the 39-year-old Duchess of Sussex spoke to Oprah Winfrey in an explosive interview, in which she made a number of allegations about how she was treated by the Royal Family, former Good Morning Britain host Piers, 56, has been spitting feathers.
After quitting his role on the ITV breakfast news show, Piers has been looking to discredit Meghan and the claims she made, challenging her to clarify some of her points that she made.
Speaking on TalkRADIO, royal expert Angela Levin warned Piers that Meghan is getting ready to bite back.'
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/meghan-markle-aggressive-legal-team-23880621
Buyoed by her recent court case outcome, although I don't think it's over,she thinks she's untouchable. This should be interesting, if confirmed. 1) I wonder how Megalodon will disprove her lies 2) How will she be able to afford yet another lawsuit? And she'll be known as a serial litigant, if she isn't already. Who'd want to have anything to do with her? If Piers Morgan is sued, I hope he'll get the moral support of the BRF.
You posted while I was dithering on in my own stream of consciousness, but you said: "This is what I keep returning to in my mind. Harry as the Trojan Horse. For centuries English aristocracy and royalty felt reasonably free to ignore younger sons and left them to stand or fall as they may. We have a fine history of wastrels and scoundrels carrying on below the radar."
This is what people will not understand, (especially us Americans) due to ignorance of history, but which the Harkles, much like generations before them, have known and used to their advantage or disadvantage. Court intrigue. Same as it ever was ... I guess?
I thought I read somewhere that he'd already started it - although nothing was said about it being scheduled for June at that point. That of course was the original statement. Perhaps it was wishful thinking on my part.
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The Woolf Institute affair is odd - is he running with the fox and not even pretending to be hunting with the hounds? Has she completely bewitched him or is he somebody who automatically supports the underdog, regardless of the merits or otherwise of their case?
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The only way to silence HuMbug long term would be for her to be arrested, charged, tried, convicted and sentenced to a very long time as a `guest of Her Majesty' somewhere high security, perhaps a `Special/Secure Hospital'.
Moreover, it would have to be `at Her/His Majesty's Pleasure' (ie an indeterminate sentence.)
Some hope!
'Inappropriate' Archbishop of Canterbury 'should stick to increasing his flock': Backlash after Justin Welby said being in Royal Family is like 'life without parole'
• The Archbishop of Canterbury has called being a member of the Royal Family like serving 'life without parole'
• Outspoken clergyman Justin Welby accused the British public of 'expecting' royals to be 'superhuman'
• Royal experts accused the archbishop of being 'singularly inappropriate' and 'jumping on a woke bandwagon'
• The head of the Church of England presided over Harry and Meghan's 2018 wedding at Windsor Castle
By JACK WRIGHT FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 17:24, 8 April 2021 | UPDATED: 02:55, 9 April 2021
The Archbishop of Canterbury last night sparked a major backlash after he said being a royal is like serving 'life without parole' amid the fallout from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's exit from the Firm.
Justin Welby, the outspoken head of the Church of England, was accused of being 'singularly inappropriate' and 'jumping on a woke bandwagon' after appearing to throw his weight behind the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who quit royal duties and moved to California last year to strike out on their own.
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Royal experts have now accused the archbishop of trying to make amends with Team Sussex as he told the Financial Times: 'It's life without parole, isn't it? If you go back to the 1930s, Edward VIII - he was still a celeb and followed everywhere once he'd abdicated. We expect them to be superhuman.'
Mr Welby has been an outspoken opponent of the Government's policy on Brexit and austerity, and has clashed with Tory MPs in recent years. His repeated political interventions on the EU prompted Steve Baker, the former Brexit minister, to call for the disestablishment of the Church last October.
Critics slammed the archbishop's 'parole jibe' and suggested that the head of the Church 'would be better off finding ways to increase his flock by getting people back into churches after the pandemic'.
Speaking to MailOnline, Dickie Arbiter, the Queen's former press secretary, thundered: 'I find it extraordinary that he would compare service to parole. I'm not sure what he means. Is he suggesting that being a royal is a jail term?'
Richard Fitzwilliam, a royal commentator and former Editor of International Who's Who, accused the archbishop of putting his foot in his mouth and claimed he was trying 'to show as much sympathy with Harry and Meghan as he can, especially since he has had to deny having them married twice'.
Royal author Phil Dampier blasted the clergyman for 'tending to stray into politics' and accused him of 'jumping on a woke bandwagon which he might think will attract younger people to the church'. He warned that Mr Welby's comments 'will certainly raise eyebrows among older churchgoers'.
Mr Fitzwilliam told MailOnline: 'It is perfectly clear what the archbishop means when he says being a member of the royal family is like 'serving life without parole'.
'It is also a singularly inappropriate way of describing, for example, the position of the Queen where her dedication to duty as a symbol of national unity has been beneficial to the whole nation.
'In an ideal world she might well have preferred the life of a countrywoman with her dogs and horses but I doubt, as Supreme Governor of the Church of England, she will feel that comparing her situation and that of her family to prisoners is appropriate.'
The royal expert continued: 'It is clear what the archbishop intends, to show as much sympathy with Harry and Meghan as he can, especially since he has had to deny having them married them twice.
'It is also true that, as he says, life in the public eye can be ferocious However someone of Archbishop's Welby's exalted status should use a less controversial turn of phrase. In talking of 'life without parole' he is guilty of dontopedalogy, the Duke of Edinburgh's term for opening your mouth and putting your foot in it.'
Mr Dampier, author of Prince Philip: Wise words and Golden Gaffes, said that he doubted that the Queen, Prince Philip and Harry's father Prince Charles 'will like the Archbishop's choice of words'.
'The Queen has put in an extraordinary 69-year stint as monarch and head of the Church of England and has devoted her life to those institutions, as well as the Commonwealth,' he told MailOnline.
'She has a sense of duty, but I don't think she sees it as a life sentence, which implies something which has to be endured. She said at a young age that she would devote her whole life to service, and she has always wanted to do her parents proud, which no-one can deny she has. So for him to use such words is very surprising.
Mr Dampier went on: 'Archbishop Welby has tended to stray into politics and all sorts of other fields far too frequently in my opinion and he would be better off finding ways to increase his flock by getting people back into churches after the pandemic.
'The Queen is theoretically his boss so he shouldn't be making sweeping statements like this without consulting her first, which I'm sure he hasn't. By siding with Harry and Meghan he seems to be jumping on a woke bandwagon which he might think will attract younger people to the church, but his comments will certainly raise eyebrows among older churchgoers.'
I am talking about fictional portrayals here and these do count. They are indelibly Anne's image, unless you have an obscure interest for religious reform and historical minutiae, and the appetite for Tudor books and films never ever wanes. It's part of our national psyche now.
As I've moved further into my 50s I've found a deep well of sympathy for Catherine of Aragon. I feel all the force of the younger woman seeking to undermine an older one and ultimately make her invisible. During this time of course I have watched the advent of Meghan Markle and I feel the disrespect she has shown very deeply. The real damage she has caused. Her image has even entered the odd nightmare. Her fondness for severe dark clothes as a working royal. Her malevolent or mocking face in the otherwise familiar parade of royals. All my instincts rose up and told me that here is danger. Here is an alien presence I cannot understand. Not in terms of race. In terms of sheer humanity. Or lack of.
Thank you for The Wig Tumblr blog, very funny.
Royal commentator Rob Jobson accused the outspoken Archbishop of Canterbury of being 'a little clumsy with his words' and 'sure to irritate' senior royals.
'I think he was trying to emphasise what being Queen and royal involves,' Mr Jobson said. 'But coming on the back of Harry saying Charles and William are 'trapped' by the system, Welby's remarks are sure to irritate'.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9450371/Archbishop-Canterbury-says-Royal-Family-like-serving-life-without-parole.html
The article continues with what we already know about the `Thursday wedding' and other, more general, comments made by JW.
I know from other reports that JW did/does duty as a hospital chaplain at St Thomas's, which is to his credit, but I get the impression that his emphasis on being an SJW has eclipsed the support he should be giving to his flock during this time of emergency. Apart from his Easter sermons, which he would been delivering anyway, I feel he could have offered more visible encouragement to the `people in the pews', especially as they, and even the clergy, were locked out of the churches.
This may be an inaccurate perception (I hover on the fringes of the CofE at moment) but I'd have liked to have known what else was being done, beyond Zoom, to minister to the parishes. JW seems very cosy in his relationship with the Almighty, without realising that his emphasis on Glossolalia is divisive, tending to make his approach exclusive. Once, one just had to `invite Jesus into one's heart' to be considered a `real' Christian by those of an evangelical persuasion. Now speaking in tongues seems to be required.
I smell the odour of sanctimony about him - just my opinion of course.
With your rapidly expanding knowledge of properties in Montecito, I think you need to move there and become an estate agent. You might find Rob Lowe in your orbit :)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9451097/Private-club-Soho-House-secretly-files-IPO-New-York-Stock-Exchange-value-3b.html#comments
"Mr Welby has been an outspoken opponent of the Government's policy on Brexit and austerity, and has clashed with Tory MPs in recent years. His repeated political interventions on the EU prompted Steve Baker, the former Brexit minister, to call for the disestablishment of the Church last October."
Shouldn't the head of the Church of England, just as the Royal Family, be beyond politics?
The more I read about this .... person ..... the more suspicious I become.
Thanks for the DM article bits about JW.
I was shocked when he felt the need to say H&M "deserved" a vacation back in 2019 when the 6 weeks to Canada & the US was termed as a short break. As if that was a matter for the church or a matter of faith or church doctrine.
Now I just think he's gone off his rocker. It's one thing for a religious leader to be a SJW and blab about that. But IMO it's quite another to publicly involve himself and publicly comment on an individual's or a family's perceived personal difficulties. Any person. Or any family. Sure, he was the epitome of discretion for weeks, and ridiculously so IMO, when accused of violating church and secular law by marrying H&M twice. Once in the kind of private ceremony many couples have probably requested during the pandemic and have been denied. He was MIA when officials in his own church wanted him to speak up because they were in an awkward position with engaged couples. But he's running his mouth now? During a pandemic when so many have already lost so much? And who knows when "normality" will return for most people, if ever?
Something is wrong with him. I wonder if he wants to leave his post but like Meghan, is trying to make it somebody else's fault.
By the way, re the article that Grumpy Kat posted re Soho House, somebody contributed this comment which hasn't been scrubbed yet:
Watch out Megain Markle. All roads lead to Soho House. The Harkles were introduced to each other by Marcus Anderson of Soho House reknown. It's said he lives with them and that Harry really likes him. Roast chicken is their favorite recipe.
Just quotin'.
Hmm.
JennS, I’ve been thinking of visiting Montecito before life gets fully back into the swing of things. I’ve got some time to kill and I found myself looking at hotels the other day. I want to get photos and try to find Loch Ness. :D
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It looks like Welby has been Markled. Why on earth call the RF a prison state? Is he insane? Looks like he’s about to lose his position and is lashing out. Nothing else makes sense. What a complete lack of integrity.
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Jdubya, wow! Interesting info on 911 dispatch. Thanks for sharing. The number of call outs is excessive, and unstable.
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I agree that Harry is using Meghan and Vice versa. They both have sick chips on their shoulders and feed off the negativity.
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No surprise Meghan is threatening Piers with a lawsuit. She doesn’t know how to do anything else. I actually hear from her Bev Hill attorney quite frequently 😂. They always send the wrong documents and reference other entities I have nothing to do with. Can’t believe she directs and pays those people who have no attention to detail. I just ignore them and always think *bring it on*. When it comes to
me, The only thing she can do is further ruin her reputation. And if they are going out of their way to contact lowly me, she probably has nothing real going on in her life.
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Any good tea from Rob and Gayle? What a surprise interview! Love his absolute shade of Meghan. Ignores her existence. Hilarious.
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I’ve been thinking the reason we don’t hear much anymore from Meghan is because she fired SS, and got rid of her Agent, and tried to move her PR in house to save costs. Looks like her PR doesn’t have good connections. Oh, well!
Cant beat the Queen, though. Also, what struck me was his ‘we don’t discuss what was said at meetings’. That seemed inappropriate, as if trying to give a semblance of truth to Meghan’s claims.
In the words of Trump, “Good luck Welby, you’re gonna need it!”
https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/royals/prince-philip-duke-of-edinburgh-dead-at-99/news-story/a6d9590b0270702812da89c064a0c310
No doubt MM will use her pregnancy as an excuse not to attend the funeral.
Prince Philip has died.
Vale great and honourable man.
It’s so terribly sad for The Queen, he didn’t quite make his 100th year. I do hope it isn’t the demise of her and she keeps the strength to carry on.
I really feel for Her Majesty.
May those despicable individuals in Montecito get the fate they so richly deserve.
I know you've been posting a Rob Lowe connection to the OW interview. If you watch the interview from the beginning OW & MM both discuss the backyard of a 'mutual friends' home where the interview is taking place.
RL has no connection to MM or Harry, so he can easily be eliminated as that mutual friend.
However soon after the interview I saw a article in the DM. Not a headline type article, just a small one. It said that Tyler Perry's backyard was where the interview took place. Which makes perfect sense since I would consider all involved to be mutual friends in some way. Maybe you could look into that angle and put RL aside since it's unlikely his backyard was used.
So sad to see this shadow on Prince Charles and Camilla's 16th Wedding Anniversary.
At her age, HMTQ has been so put through the wringer by Harry and his awful excuse for a wife during the last three years that I wouldn’t fault her for tossing in the towel at this point. She must be absolutely drained by the behavior of not only the Harkles, but Andrew too.
But she has immense inner strength and may soldier on alone for a few more years.
I hope this may be a rude awakening for worthless Harry. Meghan won’t care a bit and I hope her pregnancy prevents her from traveling with Harry for the funeral. The distance, plus the time difference of Harry being slightly out of her steel leg trap grip for a week or two might be an opportunity for Harry to realize he is under the manipulative control of a selfish pig.
It would be very inappropriate for a heavily pregnant or largely-pillowed Meghan to show up with Harry and like narcissists usually do, attempt to make the trip all about herself. The Queen and the rest of the family do not need a Sussex sideshow at this time.
Blessings on HMTQ during this difficult period of transition in her life.
Excluding the markels. I hope HM is well insulated and there is a brick wall to keep those idiots out and away from any funeral. Covid can be used as excuse to keep them away. No doubt they will be out trying to cash in on Prince Phillips death.
We all knew that he didn't have long left on this earth but I was really hoping that he would make it to his 100th.
Wishing strength to our Queen.
I think the long term prognosis wasn’t good and they knew the outcome, going on Prince Charles’ face during his visit to his Father when he was in hospital.
Philip was truly one of kind.
Perdition to faithless princes.
God Save The Queen.
I say that based on my own family experiences. When my brother died, my sister in law was asked not to attend. The family was grieving and she was a narcissist trouble maker. My deceased brother couldn't stand her. So my living brother (her husband) decided to sit out with her and make a visit to the grave after everyone left.
Im sure Harry will send flowers for the memorial, via the same person he sent flowers through to Dianas grave recently. Some people just can't admit they are wrong.
Your character, influence and support will be very much missed.
My most heartfelt condolences to the Queen and the Royal family, may God strengthen you and His peace and presence be with you in the days ahead.
(didn't seem appropriate to ask that on the new post).
Philip was such a unique part of Great Britains history, and Elizabeth's partner in the pas de deux that was their love story.
God Bless them both.
And on a related note, I hope he updated his will to cut out the mercenary Merkles. For H to benefit from Philip's death feels all kinds of wrong.
a) If it was at Tyler's, where do you think that porch is?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8297083/Meghan-Harry-living-Tyler-Perrys-18-million-hilltop-mansion-Beverly-Hills.html
b) Not doing this at their "home" is a big red flag which there is no easy why explanation.
c) Where ever it was, will have some kind of paper trail to it. People don't let other people use their place without some sort of legal liability release. Especially people connected to the business.
(we were selling our house and the buyer was running into trouble with their lender before the close and after. Every day we would wake up and wonder if we were going to close that day. Buy was supposed to move out of their place and move in and we had not closed yet. We had to sign a rental lease agreement for this so she would have a place to live until we could close. So, there are legal forms to use someone's place for filming in the LA area.)
M is getting her lawyers together to go for Piers.
This would get interesting as is It would be opening up Pandora's box to all kinds of things his team would need for discovery. That list of false, misleading and exaggerated claims - front and center. Dismissing those would be difficult as they represent a nice public chunk of his claims about her all along.
Perhaps some saber rattling then?
Go fund me might not do legal but if he asked people to help contribute and posted a mail box to send checks to ... he would get around it (and they would send him money!).
Prince Philip
Quite sad to see this. He was the good one.
Will one or both come back for the service? Don't know but it would be the next ice age arriving if either showed up (and a protocol nightmare). (the snarky in me thinks that if she could go to NYC for a baby shower, she could make it back for a funeral)
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?vpsrc=6&ctz=-60&ie=UTF8&msa=0&t=h&ll=51.474627477463855%2C-0.5972801647323078&spn=0.025388%2C0.085745&z=17&source=embed&mid=1etkWB5AfpoCgKGqf1eplJBgmmM8
or https://tinyurl.com/9322xd92
I have enjoyed reading all of your views and comments - we are thinking along the same lines. I had a bad feeling about H's wife prior to the engagement interview, because I didn't feel that she had spent enough time trying to find out about our country, and it was all a bit rushed. The wedding and run up to it made bells ring, and I must admit the wedding itself seemed to be orchestrated with the intention of almost sticking two fingers up to our history and traditions - but then I am a bit of a traditionalist!
I am of the opinion that a surrogate was used and Darren doll was used in the first photograph (the one of 'they change so much in the first two weeks') and maybe others - including a larger version in the pap walk with dogs.
Everything seems to point to her not actually giving birth, but her eggs may or may not have been used with H's sperm.
I think she would have stayed a bit longer in the RF, but she didn't expect her demands to be refused as often and thought it would all be a pushover with her taking the leading role eventually. Although she studied the RF for years, she didn't bother with the important bits of seniority and succession - I bet being junior in rank to Catherine just ate her up!
Those are some of my initial thoughts, It is great to have been reading everyone's opinions of the Dimwit and his spouse over the years, and realise I am not alone in thinking there is something very very wrong with the whole shenanigans!