Let's keep going...
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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Lockjaw
With a resounding click, clack
Her false teeth set, to attack
Hatching her latest revenge plot
Must stick in her craw
To congratulate no 4
Happy Birthday to Princess Charlotte
Bit of a singalong
apologies to Carolina
Nothing could be finer
Than to be rid of Haz, and Whiner
In the dawning
Nothing could be sweeter
Than to see the press defeat her
And her clawing
All that’s left, much viler
Is to hear they’re both on Grindr
Up for Broiling...
Diorama
Diana did say, long ago
That she was a little bit slow
“thick as two short planks”
Harry’s excuse
For being rather obtuse
Stems from his mother
and her *fusion of ranks
*Diana instilling in Harry
he was equal in all things royal.
Wrong.
@charade, cheers, you’re a darling 😘
Hypocrite
Nothing new to write about
Much the same, I’m losing clout
As for the likes of MS Mantel
PR blitz for her clientele
I really do think that she should
Hand back now, her royal Damehood
Dame Hilary Mantel
Bagging the Royals, again.
Happy to accept, and use, the title,
Dame?
Charlemagne
Charles will be King
There will be no usurping
Whether you like him, or not
He was born to this role
Given his life, to the call
He will reign, and take over
the top spot
Just a quick word about today’s over-emphasis on showering/hair washing/bathing – the pendulum’s going the other way now. As long as you feel comfortable and aren’t noticeably smelly, there’s no need to add guilt to your other feelings!
It was in the 1960s that manufacturers pushed the idea of it being desirable to wash hair daily, rather than weekly, because it was good for profits. Until then, a common brush-off to being invited out by a bloke one didn’t fancy was:
`Saturday? Nah! I’ll be I washing my hair.’ (a process which could take hours then – rollers, curlers, & pathetic hair driers!)
From the early 1920s onwards, there was a well-known slogan for a setting lotion: `Friday Night is Amami Night’ . See
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1262377/Wave-goodbye-secret-girls-curl-1950s-setting-lotion-discontinued.html for a real blast from the past.
Even the Queen would be reported as having her hair done just once a week (shampoo, colour rinse of `Chocolate Kiss’ & set). Apparently, she wears a headscarf when riding as a hard hat ruins One’s hairdo and One begrudges the time it would take to put it right! Also, wearing a hat, scarf, or crown helps to keep hair clean, and hides it when it's not!
The 2nd time, I saw someone had posted a brilliant one word comment `Diorama'. I pressed `Publish' and that comment vanished.
Interesting quite a few stories stress that Prince Charles hasn't moved on from his initial upset and anger about all this. If anyone can indeed know what his state of mind is. We know he is focusing on streamlining the royals and is most concerned about the cost of the BRF as this could threaten their long-term survival (being the most expensive royal family in Europe - if we can still emotionally include ourselves in the term 'Europe'). It would only be natural that he keep returning mentally to the astronomical sums he spent on M. When annual costs came out, his household saw a dramatic spike and it was all down to her. He may as well have thrown that money on a Highgrove bonfire. Given Prince Charles went straight from his father's funeral to his Welsh refuge, to think hard about the financial, ceremonial and charitable future of the BRF, the Sussex profligacy and treachery will be standing out in painfully sharp relief, for the man who will be King.
There should be some uncomfortable squirming around in Montecito as I am even more convinced now that they will run out of money. H hardly seems to have hit the ground running for his new employers. I've had two American bosses and worked the hardest I've ever done in my life. I just can't see H lasting long. Netflix and Spotify have basically been told to wait ("Fine" they say, patting their closed wallets). It was interesting to read yesterday that for most British people they already see the Sussexes as permanently detached. Celebrities not royals. Peripheral. As we've all said before, it's the Duke and Duchess of Windsor all over again, except they had more solid financial reserves. That's going to be a crucial difference as we watch this play out.
Twins? I would have thought it would have come out in the interview? That would be oh such good click news they could have coasted on for a long time. It's not like at that point she would not have "known" in the timeline of a pregnancy.
And that was an interesting point (in the last post) - no pregnancy would mean technically fraud.
Yes, hope you also got the double entendre
“glamping stool” regarding her outdoor
excretions 😉
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Ha ha! Yes I did! 'Her outdoor excretions'! I should add 'execrable excretions'
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OT
The Telegraph magazine had an article on Hilary Mantel yesterday. Knowing her leanings, I didn't bother to read it. I can copy & paste it (I think) if you want.
@hunter, I'm sorry if what I said yesterday made things worse for you.
ConstantGardener33 said...
@Ava C, I reckon the recent feelers put out by H&M are a sign they are having major cash flow problems and are looking to make their way back to Charles's money spigot. They think Charles and family members will forget the other stuff if she kind of admits she might've been wrong about one little thing. It's all for show and she thinks they'll fall for it because they(and by extension us) are stupid. She blew the house up and is looking for sympathy and cash as if it wasn't her fault or that people would forget or ignore she was the one at fault.
What IS it with these people? They talk publicly about various positive virtues that everybody ELSE is supposed to exhibit (while they exhibit none) and then expect their bad behavior to be forgiven and forgotten? Oh, wait, aren't they planning another blockbusting interview/expose?
Raise the drawbridge and fill the moat with Nile crocodiles raised on a diet of tourists.
They expect us to ignore their behaviour because they think they are our betters, and we're supposed to be forgiving/forgetting/ignoring and all that or else we're racist and mean. They deserve forgiveness but regular people do not. Two different sets of rules. She has never had real consequences in her whole life. Neither has he. That's why they think they should and can get away with it.
Ms. Golding, speaking after the passing of Prince Philip, "commended the way he used his energy, drive and influence to promote the cohesiveness of society here in the U.K."
Ms. Golding singles out Prince Charles for special praise, having worked for nearly two decades for his Race for Opportunity charity. "He sees the barriers. he sees that his privilege can enable things to happen."
She adds that she was not offended to learn (so H & M claim; my own thoughts) that someone in the in the royal family wondered aloud how "dark PH & MM's child would be. "Unless you know the context, it's very difficult to know the intent."
So there! Has anyone else employed by the RF ever complained of racism by the family? Just had to add this today, as yesterday was my husband's birthday and I was too busy to post. I condensed and used abbreviations to save space.
@Hunter, please hang in there and stay with us. I've enjoyed your posts since I first saw you on CDAN, which let me here when Nutty announced her new blog, which we all now enjoy. I hope you can receive some kind & patient help. These times are difficult for many and the isolation can be overwhelming. See a doctor, even if by virtual means. Btw, ketamine under a doctor's care is administered via intravenous method. It is usually used for cases of severe depression or suicidal thoughts or attempts. First steps are the hardest. If you were in AA you already know that. "Just for today, I will not drink." Repeat tomorrow. Sending you hugs.
I can just imagine the Sussex consternation when they realise Papa is no longer an easy target. His moneybags are no longer their moneybags. And behind the new, tougher Papa stands an even tougher proposition. William. Badmouthing Catherine will be the worst mistake M ever made and failing to protect Catherine will be the worst mistake H ever made. That's saying something!
Magatha's Best Yet:
Nothing could be finer
Than to be rid of Haz, and Whiner
In the dawning
Nothing could be sweeter
Than to see the press defeat her
And her clawing
All that’s left, much viler
Is to hear they’re both on Grindr
Up for Broiling...
Nope, I think that being mean to little Charlotte was the worst mistake ever made. They might forgive rudeness and hostility directed to themselves, but NEVER to their little girl.
Look at 3 minutes in as Charlotte holds on tight to flowers bouquet given by Royalist plebs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4wh8TC9LMs&t=191s
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/princess-charlotte-clutches-flowers-gifted-214136545.html
https://www.stuartmillersolicitors.co.uk/sentences/sentence-for-fraud-by-false-representation/
I think there have been several UK cases of criminals using Go Fun Me to raise money ostensibly for cancer treatment' eg Nicole Elkabbas got 2 yrs months for fraudently obtaining £45k:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9246085/Mother-42-jailed-faking-ovarian-cancer-public-45-000.html
I'd like to think that, should wife fall into the hands of the law, she'd get the book thrown at her.
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Whether she'd ever risk showing her face here again is another matter - it's now being suggested that even #6 won't come here in July (several recent reports)
Interestingly, and as far as I can see, the `overshadowing' excuse first surfaced on 2nd Feb this year, a fortnight before Prince Philip was admitted to hospital.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/why-meghan-markle-won-t-return-to-the-uk-with-prince-harry-this-summer/ar-BB1dvCiR
Another plant, presumably?
Not thinking of photos, but my late narc step-monster tried to play an angle on everything she did, usually ostensibly to save money (sometimes illegally), and it often came back to bite her or my dad or someone in the ass. For example, she kept the car Dad had given her registered in Colorado years after she'd sold the house there that he'd bought her. It was a mess after she died to get it in his name in his state.
Whatever the decent, dignified, thoughtful thing to do in any situation would be, M and H will do the opposite. And then try desperately to spin it.
As children, their mommas should have slapped 'em both nekkid and hid their clothes until they were fit to behave in public.
Will not be attend the unveiling
Of Diana
As #6 and M will watch
Green England from afar
They becoming masters of surfing
With the legendary HotRob instructing
Their ill-chills turn out all good
As they stay in their neighborhood
To never blight ol blighty again
Stay in Cali
You dunces you chancers
You half baked romancers
Under that hot sun
You have no one
Who will bail you out again.
Magatha's Best Yet:
Nothing could be finer
Than to be rid of Haz, and Whiner
In the dawning
Nothing could be sweeter
Than to see the press defeat her
And her clawing
All that’s left, much viler
Is to hear they’re both on Grindr
Up for Broiling...
I agree! Its hard to choose just one, but its easily top ten
Thanks for the laugh, Magatha
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Have we talked about this? I saw this idea referenced somewhere and got curious.
"Prince Harry will continue to leak information about the Palace until the Royal Family address his concerns, according to ABC royal contributor Omid Scobie."
The article is soon after Harry blabbed to Gayle King, but no wonder William is so angry. This is blackmail!
I just can't believe these two think they are being "strategic" and that the rest of the world admires them for this.
They have the screwiest thinking I have ever heard of. And Scabie is just as bad!
http://dianalegacy.com/royal-family-taken-aback-as-prince-harry-threatens-to-use-unprecedented-pressure-tactic
The issue is that H concerns WERE addressed during the Sandringham summit and earlier this year when the announcement was made the Disastrous Duo will not return to royal duty. They just didn't like the answer they got. The RF has always known H was a loose cannon. Never see photos of him with his nieces and nephews or cousins. Lots of pics of Tisdals and Cambridge kids along with other kiddos. Wasn't there an old saying -Don't call H, he will call you. Friends out of convenience, not genuine care. I doubt H$M have much ammunition other than suggestive comments. They NEED Charles and William $$$$$. They can't attack them directly, no matter how much they want too.
"Blind Item #4
Even the alliterate one's favorite scribe/lap dog, had to cross her, and admit she lied during the interview with the A+ lister so she could play another victim card. He tried to do it gently, so he can keep his access, but hopefully it will be played in a loop on social media for eternity."
ah geez - has this been linked on here before? Bookworm's recent video - let's play truth of dare?
So sorry you a feeling so bad. I hope today is a better day and you reach out to AA and for some medical support. I’m keeping you in my thoughts and wish the best for you. I enjoy your posts so much.
All I'd say is about UK ambulances: our local ambulances (far from Windsor) do pull in somewhere quiet awaiting a call, rather than returning to the ambulance station.
Why use an emergency ambulance in the livery of a public Ambulance Trust? Was it a scheme to suggest the child's being delivered by paramedics rather than by a helicopter? Was it a theatrical `prop' as used in TV dramas?
Why not use a normal vehicle?
Of course, the black vans labelled `Private Ambulance' are actually undertakers' (ie morticians) vehicles, collecting the deceased from their deathbeds and taking them back to the undertakers' premises to be prepared for the funeral.
I would think, if they had a baby "delivered" (as in born elsewhere), they wouldn't be so public about it being delivered. Why would it be in an ambulance?
Her video was very interesting - what she knows vs what she thinks. I feel like if they had a surrogate with Archie, she was in Canada and the baby was flown in. then brought to them and then they waited a couple weeks. (I still am perplexed by H's remark about babies changing so much in 2 weeks).
I am thinking this pregnancy is actually a surrogate. Much easier to pull off in CA than other places. Gestational surrogate. Her egg/his sperm. And i think they planted the recent twin girls rumor. Desperate for attention.
I really wish actual proof would come out about all of it. Although Bookworm is right about the uproar it would cause of the RF knew and kept it secret. If they knew, it was well in to the pregnancy, not when they got back from Australia. And they could simply claim that due to medical confidentiality laws, they could not reveal it. ???
In the normal course of things, had #6 married a mentally stable wife, surrogacy might have been allowed to pass without comment. Unless, many years on, #6 and his child suddenly moved up the Line of Succession as a result of very unfortunate events. By that time, few of today's senior royals might be around, memory of Diana could have faded at last, and public attitudes and/or the law might have changed, to the point where nobody would be particularly bothered.
It's their own need to play silly buggers that has created this situation IMO.
They are still set on creating chaos, if recent reports are to be believed. #6 apparently intends to release more `dirt' unless the RF caves in and cash is forthcoming - blackmail in other words.
The only ray of hope I can see is that they are getting such a reputation for lying that they won't be believed.
Im going to have disagree with you. The RF does discuss health issues. H getting his ball surgery as a kid, William having Covid, Phillips heart surgery, H mental health issues, other women in the RF having miscarriages like Sophie and Zara, birth in the bathroom floor, Kate pregnancy issues, etc.
To counter this, I believe the RF should request actual proof of both the child known as Archie and unknown alleged girl's birth from Harry's future ex-wife's body. If no proof, no line of succession. Personally, I think Harry should be removed because I don't think he's fit. Lucky for Harry, the RF doesn't care what I think (grin). Also lucky for Harry that they would remove him from the succession via paperwork, not swordsman.
In the normal course of things, had #6 married a mentally stable wife, surrogacy might have been allowed to pass without comment. Unless, many years on, #6 and his child suddenly moved up the Line of Succession as a result of very unfortunate events.
1) Yes, IF there was a mentally stable wife. Since it appears that these alleged children are products of two mentally unstable individuals, what are the odds that they will be normal?
2) I would want #6 and his 'children' removed from the Line of Succession so as not to give crazy people ideas about helping them up the ladder.
I think the RF may have suspected something odd about M pregnancy but certainly couldn't publicly confirm anything. They would not have really 'known' until late in the gestation process or after the "birth". Medical Privacy Laws are pretty sticky. Since M$H technically 'work' for the RF, does their employer have the right to publicly disclose your health information to the public without your consent?? I doubt it. Everyone has the right to a certain level of control over their private health information. Example: Joe Biden possibly having Dementia or some other deteriorating disease. Not opening up for political discussion, just making a point about health privacy and public entitlement. The public would like to know about these types of things regarding ALL politicians and representatives of the people or does the individual have the right to HIDE the truth?
This is no laughing matter now. It must have been the Queen who abolished the requirement. She needs to put something else in place. I did read that it was only ever relevant to direct heirs to the crown. If the Sussexes are deemed too lowly to require vigilance, the Cambridges must stop travelling together. If they don't, the Sussexes remain unacceptably close to the throne and all precautions must be taken.
I cannot begin to accept a #8 born in another country to a couple who habitually employ falsehoods, manipulation and exaggeration and seem to enjoy mystery and secrecy to a pathological degree.
The Sussex obstetrical saga, chapters 1 and 2, undermines our constitutional monarchy. I don't understand why the Palace puts up with it. Lady C's book goes into detail about the Palace's consternation, frustration and anger about the silly buggers game they played last time. Yet now we're about to see an even more uncontrolled version. M is just laughing at us and H, as ever, does nothing to stop it.
I say 'about to see' but M, as before, has been 'heavily pregnant' for what seems like forever, so it could go on for what seems like forever. Someone should put together all the bump photos from last time, like an advent calendar. Every time you open a little door you get a surprise. Sometimes flat. Sometimes humungeous. And all stages in between.
Funny how we always assume previous generations were so prudish, and yet many royal births were watched, and earlier still, the wedding consummations!
I don't suppose it's possible H has already been removed from the succession and it wasn't announced? One can only wish. If Parliament is the mechanism, I suppose it would have to be made public?
Catherine was the daughter of Lorenzo de Medici, Duke of Urbino, and the niece of Pope Clement VII. Henry had been forced to marry her in 1533 by his father, Francis I, who needed Medici support for his Italian diplomacy. Both parties were just fourteen, and it was a mésalliance. Perhaps not least because Catherine was expected to consummate her marriage in front of her father-in-law – he joked that she had ‘shown valour in the joust’ – she disliked sex. [I'm not surprised!]
Taken from John Guy's biography of Mary Queen of Scots. I still haven't finished his book on the later years of Elizabeth I's reign, as he apparently strips away all the things that make her, still now, the nation's greatest monarch. Even if it's an illusion I still need to believe in it. He's at Cambridge and when I was working there I kept wanting to ring his direct line and tell him to stop undermining my favourite queen. We need figureheads! I loved Elizabeth smacking Walsingham on the head in 'Elizabeth the Golden Age'. That at least wasn't fiction. Boris needs to serve the first Elizabeth not the second. She'd make him behave and she'd certainly expect him to comb his hair.
Taken from John Guy's biography of Mary Queen of Scots. I still haven't finished his book on the later years of Elizabeth I's reign, as he apparently strips away all the things that make her, still now, the nation's greatest monarch. Even if it's an illusion I still need to believe in it. He's at Cambridge and when I was working there I kept wanting to ring his direct line and tell him to stop undermining my favourite queen. We need figureheads! I loved Elizabeth smacking Walsingham on the head in 'Elizabeth the Golden Age'. That at least wasn't fiction. Boris needs to serve the first Elizabeth not the second. She'd make him behave and she'd certainly expect him to comb his hair.
Some people seem determined to tear down our heroes and heroines.
*Plus she has her own private broomstick to fly.
Y'all have a good rest of the night (or early morning over on the other side of the pond).
Here's a very touching story that has nothing to do with the Dastardly Duo, but I just wanted to share it. It brought me to tears (good tears). Never underestimate your elders:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9535779/Elderly-couple-dementia-Alzheimers-escape-Tennessee-assisted-living-facility-memorizing-exit-codes.html
This was normal practise in all walks of life all across Europe. We hear about the Kings and Queens and the occasional aristocrat because it was written down.
However, as the example of Katherine of Aragon and Arthur, Prince of Wales or James 2 and Mary of Modena's baby James Francis Edward, having physical witnesses didn't mean a different version of events couldn't be spun to reach a different outcome.
And it was the example of James Francis Edward's birth that kind of codified the need for verification of the birth.
In the modern era, it's done via official royal doctors. They are not just there to ensure the best medical advice for the head of state. They are there as official witnesses.
By refusing to use the official doctors, Archie's birth will always be suspect even though he is a welcome part of the family.
For the sake of fairness and good public opinion, the family will accept Diana Junior regardless of the flouting of verification protocols in place. It's not worth fighting for a baby born at no 8.
With few exception due to extraordinary circumstances, there has never been a fuss over a baby born at no 8. Frankly, unless they are the children of the monarch or the PoW, no one cares about the other children.
The only exception was Queen Victoria who was technically born at no 5. In her case, circumstances were exceptional and she was the only legitimate heir therefore her birth was important which required and received special attention.
We like to think these things are in the past, but nope!!!
Hymen restoration is one of the most requested cosmetic surgeries in the world for this reason.
Megan Sheets - apparently works for the Mail, based in NYC. To judge from her Twitter posts, she's a very superficial young lady.
Hikari - thank you for the link to Heygo, I'm doing my first tour this morning (Porto at 11am GMT) along with my sister who lives in Italy and I have ringmarked a few for later in the week (Spoleto in Umbria plus a few others).
Ava C mentions the following in her earlier post re: validating the birth of a royal baby: 'Catherine was the daughter of Lorenzo de Medici, Duke of Urbino, and the niece of Pope Clement VII. Henry had been forced to marry her in 1533 by his father, Francis I, who needed Medici support for his Italian diplomacy. Both parties were just fourteen, and it was a mésalliance. Perhaps not least because Catherine was expected to consummate her marriage in front of her father-in-law – he joked that she had ‘shown valour in the joust’ – she disliked sex.
Urbino (in Le Marche, Italy) is simply stunning so if Heygo ever do a tour of there then I'm definitely up for booking that and recommend others to also book it, it's a Unesco World Heritage site and is steeped in so much history and if you ever get the chance to go it's beautiful and not teaming with tourists unlike others cities on the general sightseeing tours. It was the birth place of Raphael and more recently Valentino Rossi.
Back to the duo, why is the wife listed as 'chair' if she didn't actually attend the Vax charity event? is this some sort of scam to pull in their foundation for receiving funds and taking credit? Or is she laying low because she's not got a suitable size of moon bump for this stage of her supposed pregnancy?....
@Hunter how are you feeling today? I spent my Sunday eating Chinese takeout straight from container 😒
Looking toward you for inspiration. Whatchya got?😉
Every once in a while is ok to ****off . We are in it for long game 🙂
I must say he looks good in the photos, in a blue shirt and smiling. Funny how he always looks so much more relaxed and happy without his jailer/controller next to him. I'm not sure, though, how he could talk about empathy and compassion considering how he and that wife of his have treated his family and hers.
The wife won't like that he received a standing ovation and will kick herself for not attending. Will she hit him, or at least berate him, when he gets home for being so popular? It wouldn't surprise me.
Anonymous asked:
I didn't realize it was called the concert to reunite the world. What arrogance. Lol Americans can't even unite themselves but Selena and Ben Afflek will do it. Eddie Vedder can't even get Pearl Jam to reunite. And Harry and Meghan have fractured themselves from their families. But they'll reunite the world. Give me a break.
LOL! So true!
@ Maneki Neko , I wondered why she wasn't there . Could it be that she was worried about getting the right size pillow in the right position? Or is she plotting something really big that is taking up her time?
I'm increasingly getting the feeling she's cursed by unpopularity outside the US and cursed by indifference inside the US. Her supporters are really very niche, especially now there's such widespread hardship. The people who support her are the very people who put people's backs up in everything they do. She is slowly sinking while Harry is a skimming stone. The end is the same for both of course.
The optics here are becoming repetitive. Of Meghan lobbing grenades from the 21st century luxe equivalent of a castle but only H being sent out to face the music. Her cowardice has been evident for years - most memorably for me the time she ended her marriage by post.
I don't quite class her treatment of her father as cowardice. More like furtive panic. I was reading in Lady C's book that that has been her Achilles heel throughout. It has come back to haunt and condemn her over and over again. However Lady C wrote that it was absolutely necessary for M to stop H meeting her father before the marriage, as her poor little me making my way through the world alone shtick was what hooked him, apart from the obvious. Even if she had had the benefit of hindsight, she would still have had to act as she did, to avoid ending up as a little-known cable TV actress with a remarkably thin CV, aged 40.
There was no long term mileage in characters like Rachel Zane. She was already clinging on by her fingertips. To transition to a character actress you have to be able to act. Lady C summed it up: "What Meghan had in spades was ambition, but it was an ambitiousness way beyond her discernible attributes". I would have clung to the BRF like a life raft if I was in her position but now she has increasingly to fall back on her own attributes again. What she would see as a rock solid advantage she didn't have before - her "royalty" - has turned out to be the equivalent of gold plating. Already wearing thin.
Personal note - I'm taking a break now Nutties as I really must focus on wider job hunting now I'm approaching my second vaccination. I've been doing occasional remote working for a previous employer since I moved to Scotland last summer but need to get serious now. I've also been asked to monitor my blood-pressure by a concerned GP so the Sussexes are contraindicated! I shall look at the headlines once a week and only write here on Sundays. Unless The Great Day comes early and William the Scarfer takes control. I can trust my mother to tell me if that happens. Donning my Dame Edna Everage purple wig I shall just say "I love you all dahlings!".
Whatever life positions the 2 of them started from, they are both now equally corrupt.
So I imagine it was polite applause by a group that was already standing.
I've just read that about the "non standing ovation" I went to DM and looked at the pics. Yes, people were already standing,that's what people do at music concerts.
I now will copy (Control and the V key) it before I press the Publish Your Comment button. It has saved me enough times to make it worth the tiny hassle.
C. V is paste.
not enough caffeine yet.
Remember there's this rumour they put out that she might be expecting twins so she has to keep that mystery going.
I was very surprised not to have seen any pics at all from that zoom call to these poor girls last week
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/05/03/meghan-harry-betterup-archewell-podcast-netflix/
This is quite a puff piece on all the Sussexes' so called achievements. Still, I enjoyed this little dig...
...the jokes about Harry’s new life as a tech bro began rolling in: “prince harry in a patagonia vest slamming drinks in the marina after his barry’s class WHEN,” asked one Twitter user. And certainly, “chief impact officer” is one of those titles that, true to Silicon Valley form, is just vague enough to suggest an amorphous-but-senior role and a hefty salary.
I checked Harry's IMDB page and his credit for this appearance isn't included yet.
LOL!!
I agree too that moonbump mayhem is reason she was no show. That is totally "her crowd"
Now, she hides. Interesting.
Think of it this way- if it was Canadian born- everyone involved would be sued into oblivion by Markle of the info was shared with the Queen. I think the RF team understands this about Meghan. Imagine a BRF member suing healthcare entities for $$$$.
On top, then there would be succession discussion which would further harm the BRF reputation.
I think their strategy is IF the info came out, it can’t come from them and they’d rather not know.
I’ve never really thought Harry and Meghan willingly left the RF. I assume the trip to Canada was their warning. Of course, they couldn’t comply and decided to take matters into their own hands thinking they had many deals lined up and ‘no one was going to tell them what to do!’ Hence all the public stabs at the RF, the Grudge and anger. The interview. All of it. Doesn’t line up at all with ‘we willingly and happily went on our way!’
I don’t think the BRF knows the truth about Archie, and I think they only somewhat care out of the sheer arrogance of it all.
Harry on stage in America is a pathetic sight to see.
No, I didn't think so.
Perhaps they weren't going to pay the wife and that's why she stayed away? She didn't let the bump get in her way, literally or metaphorically, before.
I was wondering on the cost too. And how much PPE and oxygen that could buy for the poor souls in India, Brazil etc
https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1431093/Royal-Family-live-updates-Prince-Harry-Meghan-Markle-Queen-Elizabeth-II-Kate-Middleton
I was going to say, the truth is out there but, with those two, i doubt it
Yeah and I kinda agree she is having work done ahead of the bid People spread - dorito's foot next to harry's wife's face, baby swaddles, with harry's wife smiling like a cheshire cat. Need to get the swelling and scars down before the big shoot. airbrushing and touch ups can be expensive.
I agree with HW's moonbump issues. If one is heavily pregnant at the funeral with a Summer due date (July 1 being tossed out) then I am the Queen of Sheba. Same song, second verse.
I am in hopes that ALL the media are on to these two after ?17 statements have been refuted as lies, Oprah has offered a disclaimer, and we are seeing less of the two in the British print media.
If she appears at the Covid thing on the event release date this week, she will look skinny with a bump. Harry was very dressed down for his appearance. She will probably be in jeans. If she goes high glam I wouldn't be surprised. Fact is, she will be skinny due to surogate.
“I just read this "ask" on a blog
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I didn't realize it was called the concert to reunite the world. What arrogance. Lol Americans can't even unite themselves but Selena and Ben Afflek will do it. Eddie Vedder can't even get Pearl Jam to reunite. And Harry and Meghan have fractured themselves from their families. But they'll reunite the world. Give me a break.”
As a long time Pearl Jam fan, I’d like to point out they have never broken up, are still doing great tours, and their last album was excellent. And Eddie is still hot.
They have a column on the Sussexes that is not flattering. If someone can copy it to this blog I would appreciate it.
It's very unusual for the Washington Post to be critical of the Sussexes.
In Montecito, Calif., a 9.3-square-mile coastal enclave nestled between the Santa Ynez mountains and the Pacific, where gray whales swim by the shoreline, avocado and citrus trees bear fruit nearly year-round and there’s nary a sidewalk in sight, multi-acre properties near the beach routinely sell for upward of $20 million. You can surf in the mornings and hike scenic foothill trails on weekend afternoons and look out for celebrities who live nearby, like Ellen DeGeneres, Oprah Winfrey, Adam Levine and Katy Perry.
Yes, the town has ample attractions to lure Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, into buying a $14.7 million home after “stepping back” from the royal family last year. But there’s another reason the location makes sense: The couple is modeling their new life together on those of the Oprahs and Ellens around them. Through various business moves, two new jobs for Harry and a PR-savvy, revelation-packed interview with Oprah herself earlier this spring, they are reinventing themselves as multihyphenate American celebrities, the kind who dabble in content, philanthropy, technology and a tasteful dash of politics.
Essentially, they are becoming a brand — and their unique royal sparkle would make them especially well positioned to leverage that brand across many different areas. That wasn’t an option for Harry’s great-great uncle, the Duke of Windsor, when he abdicated his position as king back in 1936. But whether this new form of fame will give the Sussexes a happier and more sustainable life remains to be seen.
“Harry and Meghan will be sought after socially in America and paid generously (some might say exorbitantly) for their celebrity value,” said Kitty Kelley, a biographer who’s written books about the Kennedy family, Winfrey and the British royal family, in an email. “Not even the biggest U.S. movie star or sports giant can claim Harry and Meghan’s link to the British monarchy.”
Still, the former actress and semi-prince are restyling themselves in the image of such stars and giants who start out in one field and then end up in all of them — performers like Dwayne Johnson and Jennifer Lopez, athletes like LeBron James and Serena Williams, models like Tyra Banks, chefs like Bobby Flay and, of course, political families, the most famous recipients of the “American royalty” moniker. Jacqueline Kennedy was known to use her celebrity for charitable causes; now the Clintons are creating novels, podcasts and docuseries. Barack and Michelle Obama launched podcasts on Spotify (“The Michelle Obama Podcast” for her; “Renegades” with Bruce Springsteen for him) and partnered with Netflix to produce a slate of socially conscious movies and shows, such as the documentaries “American Factory” and “Crip Camp” and the cooking series “Waffles + Mochi.”
Films! Novels! Springsteen! The Obamas and Clintons seem to be having the time of their lives.
So by the time the Sussexes made their royal exit in 2020, the blueprint for what to do next was already there. Archewell Audio, the podcast they host and produce in partnership with Spotify, launched in December with an episode featuring reflections on the elapsed year from stars like Elton John, James Corden and Stacey Abrams. On April 6, the couple’s Archewell Productions announced the first project to come out of their multiyear deal with Netflix: “Heart of Invictus,” a docuseries about the Invictus Games, the international competition for athletes with disabilities that Harry founded in 2014.
Archewell, which also includes a foundation, states on its website that all of its endeavors aim to “unleash the power of compassion to drive systemic cultural change.” It’s named for the Greek word meaning “source of action,” which reportedly influenced the name of their son, Archie. Last week, it announced the couple would be co-chairs of a charity concert in May to help bring coronavirus vaccines to the world’s poorest countries.
Kelley noted that there’s some precedent for royals (or ex-royals) crossing the pond to make money: Sarah, the Duchess of York, the ex-wife of Prince Andrew, partnered with the U.S.-based company then known as Weight Watchers as a spokesperson in 1997. The Sussexes, though, seem to be aiming to put a more glamorous and ambitious twist on the Fergie model.
After the arrival of their second child, a girl, later this year, Meghan will eventually resume some of her philanthropic work on behalf of women and girls. (A spokesperson for the couple declined to comment on the record for this article.) In March, Harry joined the nonprofit Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder, which will study misinformation and disinformation in the United States. He was also named chief impact officer at the San Francisco-based BetterUp, a tech start-up that partners with employers to offer coaching that promotes organizational harmony and growth. As soon as the latter announcement hit the Internet, the jokes about Harry’s new life as a tech bro began rolling in: “prince harry in a patagonia vest slamming drinks in the marina after his barry’s class WHEN,” asked one Twitter user. And certainly, “chief impact officer” is one of those titles that, true to Silicon Valley form, is just vague enough to suggest an amorphous-but-senior role and a hefty salary.
Divina Gamble, managing partner of the management-consulting firm Korn Ferry, noted that roles like these, often with “impact” in the title, have been growing in popularity in both the corporate and nonprofit worlds, and that they often have oversight of how the company promotes or maintains social responsibility.
For years, Silicon Valley companies have worked with celebrities in any form they can, often enjoying the free press it generates. Sometimes those partnerships consist of little more than the celebrity showing up, promoting the product and collecting a check: Justin Bieber, for example, “unveiled” a dancing robot called mRobo at the 2012 CES tech conference in Las Vegas.
Some celebrities, though, try to be more involved in the companies that pay them by accepting similarly amorphous-but-lofty titles like “creative director.” Everyone from Justin Timberlake (Bud Light Platinum) to Jay-Z (Puma Basketball) to Lady Gaga (Polaroid) has been a creative director.
While it’s common for companies to claim that their celebrity employees are doing real work and participating in developing the company’s strategy, it’s unclear how many are going into an office, looking at spreadsheets and chatting about their weekends in the kitchenette. BetterUp has stated that Harry will “expand on the work he’s been doing for years, as he educates and inspires our community and champions the importance of focusing on preventative mental fitness and human potential worldwide.” The company did not respond to a request for further specifics, and we may never know them. The Duke of Sussex does not appear likely to post his duties on LinkedIn — unlike other celebrities-as-brands, the Sussexes don’t have a social media presence, for now.
Still, Harry isn’t an entirely out-of-the-blue pick for the company. He’s been vocal about supporting mental health causes, one of the few remnants of his old life that has carried over into his new one. In 2016, alongside his brother, Prince William, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, Harry led a U.K. campaign to end the stigma around mental health issues, called Heads Together; three years later, with Meghan on board, the same group promoted a mental health campaign called Every Mind Matters. Stateside, Harry is continuing work on a documentary series about mental health with Winfrey for Apple TV Plus. (First announced in 2019, the series was delayed by the couple’s move from the U.K. and then by covid-19.)
When the Duke of Windsor, former King Edward VIII, left the throne 85 years ago to marry Wallis Simpson, a divorcée and an American, their post-royal lifestyle was posh: The Duke wrote a memoir and served for five years as the governor of the Bahamas. “They lived luxuriously in the Bahamas and Paris, and always traveled as royal ‘guests,’ ” Kelley noted in an email. (That said, a 2018 biography of Simpson painted a picture of an unhappy union, and the Duke’s legacy has come under scrutiny for his apparent pro-Nazi sentiments.)
In their new life, Meghan and Harry may similarly enjoy some of the perks of still being blood relations of the royals. Unlike the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, who were known to host parties often, the Sussexes seem to crave a somewhat private home life.
Their chosen home of Montecito may be the perfect place to pursue it. In the quiet Santa Barbara-adjacent village, celebrities and moguls can count on being able to go about their business each day un-gawked-at and unapproached. “They’re left in peace, they raise their families … and just enjoy kind of an idyllic lifestyle” while sending their kids to “first-class, award-winning schools,” said Joy Bean, a Montecito-based real estate agent for Sotheby’s. “It’s far from the madding crowd, although we’re only 90 minutes from Los Angeles.”
Soon, the Sussexes may be just another hard-working, high-earning, southern California couple, trying to raise two little kids while balancing a tech job, a podcast, an assortment of philanthropic commitments and some projects with Netflix. You know — the American Dream.
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I'm reading M was there but in the video's released, she doesn't appear. She will appear when it airs on May 8th.
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So the usual MO of 'surprise!'
An SS event set up for SS clients I think will ensure standing ovations, rapturous applause, hoorays, shrieks of joy - am trying to list whatever we may soon hear of the reception to the duo - either as a performance, or as background sound edits played to sound like the crowd, or in press coverage.
Remember when they received this standing ovation
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a31270213/meghan-markle-prince-harry-formal-uniform-standing-ovation-photos/
IIRC, the hall was clapping for someone else when they walked in but H&M turned the press coverage to say everyone was cheering the pair in red.
We'll miss you during the week, and will look forward to your weekend posts! Good luck!
Though I appreciate it very much and your many comments on hair washing were actually funny, no harm no foul. I used one of your arguments against my mother by telling her such expectations were ADDING TO MY BURDEN by stacking guilt on top of depression. I like to push her buttons so that was a fun one and remarkably effective.
That said I'm doing great today so thanks and holy crap please thank you (really so much) but no more. :)
WBBM mentioned the weekly hair day - OMG so you guys I really got into watching black youtuber girls doing various hair things. Stylists doing blow-outs and hot presses and all kinds of shit I just never had any clue before. Twists, protective styles - some of this shit takes EIGHTEEN HOURS, these women are in a weirdly traumatic relationship with their hair.
It's really opened my eyes to not only what is possible (I had no idea) but the personal anguish and time and effort and anxiety and maintenance that can go into ever-curlier/kinkier versions of curly hair. Crazy stuff.
I am a white girl with hair like Alicia Silverstone so my hair life has always been set on Easy.
This part caught my eye:
“Harry and Meghan will be sought after socially in America and paid generously (some might say exorbitantly) for their celebrity value,” said Kitty Kelley, a biographer who’s written books about the Kennedy family, Winfrey and the British royal family, in an email. “Not even the biggest U.S. movie star or sports giant can claim Harry and Meghan’s link to the British monarchy.”
Then they go on to list a number of real celebrities WITH ACTUAL IT FACTOR who continue to enchant us for various reasons - love her or hate her, JLo does have a compelling presence on screen.
This seems like a PR article in itself begging for work for the Harkles while... simultaneously kinda slagging them for being losers like the Windsors? Who wrote this WaPo article? Any history w/ that journalist? Maybe they were assigned the story but hated the topic.
https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/meghan-markle-unpopular-opinions-thread-pt-2.2215591/page-8089
On LSA - scroll down to post #661 by TouchofGrey
once you see them, you'll never be able to forget them.
Not sure of the veracity of Paula M, as she said that nobody at the concert knew who John Legend was, either.
Paula M was surprised that everybody at the concert were Democrats. Wouldn't you be able to figure that out by the names included in the concert? Then she goes onto some rant about Obama and Osama Bin Laden. Because of her political statements, I'm not going to post a link.
HA
HAHAHAHAH this explains everything.
Those were such sleazy pics! Harry sucking on some guy's chest so that the wine glasses will stick, then the photo of H pretending his thumb some guy's "appendage."
Yep, that's our brilliant H in action again. He's got the mind of a child. H also appears to have problems with keeping his clothes on.
Yeah, it does explain a lot, doesn't it? HAHAHAHA! I don't think H knows who H is, either. He's one messed up man child.
I just read on another page - that someone at the Vax concert said that the mosh pit in front were the one's standing and that before he came out, they announced and told everyone to give him a hand. That a lot of them were like, who's that? Why is he here? He's a Prince? a Duke Huh? what the hell?
Now that is a reaction i can believe
Now it's licking.
Yuk.
FF one year and now everybody talking about "The Eternals", directed by the Chloé Zhao and starred by Angelina Jolie, Gemma Chan and Salma Hayek. I have the impression that this is the movie that MM was targeting at! Maybe Hayek's role was the one that MM wanted for her!!
"Blind Item #9
Ever since shows began being filmed in front of a studio audience, they have shared a couple things in common. One, is that some person is trying to keep you involved in the taping and the other is that you are told when to clap and given encouragement to be crazy loud when you clap for someone. So, when you see the video making its way around today of the ginger one, they did the same for everyone else too. It was for a television show, in front of a live audience and the audience was told when to clap and to make sure they were loud."
It's really opened my eyes to not only what is possible (I had no idea) but the personal anguish and time and effort and anxiety and maintenance that can go into ever-curlier/kinkier versions of curly hair. Crazy stuff.
@ hunter, OMG, me too! I've been watching a young UK woman with a (to me) delightfully musical accent try "white girl" hair styling products. She's great! Sometimes the products are surprisingly successful; sometimes a dismal failure, but so much fun! I always knew the time factor in taking care of "black" hair because, contrary to what the media says, most of us southern USA white(ish) folks have friends and family that are mixed race.
Seriously, a black mother, grandmother, or auntie is not going to let her child go to school with bad hair if she has any life left in her body, and that hair takes HOURS. With *most* of my grandkids, I can run a comb through their hair and done. But, with youngest grandson, I'm doing the oil treatment comb outs, and keeping my fingers crossed that we won't get near an open flame until that oil is absorbed into his hair and, y'all, HE HAS SHORT HAIR. When I see the little girls with the multiple plaits, ribbons, and decorative barrettes and flowers, sometimes I can't control myself and have to stop and congratulate total strangers because I *really* know the time and effort that goes into it.
I think that we as humans might be better off if we stepped into other people's shoes occasionally. /There's a difference between 'knowing' it because I've seen it, and 'knowing' it because I've done it/experienced it.
That being said, I have no intention of putting on my priciest clothing and hiring paps to go out and see what being a celebrity would be like (grin). That's a "oh, HELL, no!" bridge too far for me!
Totally agree :)
Ooo Bill Gates is getting divorced. Someone tell Markle!
@CG33: I sure didn’t see that one coming.
Meghan has probably already sent him a DM under the pretense of needing activist/philanthropic advice.
So there's a new horizon and challenge for Harry's wife. This must be exciting news for her.
The Washington Post had an article today calling the Deranged Duo "mega celebrities." I skimmed the article, but what they failed to mention is that neither of them has any skills, creativity, intelligence, wit, talent, humor, or any human warmth.
That is a real shock to me. I thought Bill and Melinda would be together forever.
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I'm surprised that H didn't do a dive into the mosh pit.
I also started following this girl's channel Deeper Than Hair (link below) because she has a really soothing voice and explains things nicely and then when you see her she's really pretty and cute too, she is an American who mostly treats black hair but also other curly types (mixed race, etc) and she's a wizard.
I'm also astonished by the transformations because I was ignorant about what is possible for some of these ladies. Also she combed out and rescued a woman's (horribly napped) hair who had neglected it over months. She gave that woman new life.
https://www.youtube.com/c/DeeperThanHairTv/videos
What I really notice though, listening to these girls, is how much weight the entire issue is for them, especially listening to different ones from different cultures or hair types, it is just a MASSIVE MASSIVE pain in the ass and then they feel they have to APOLOGIZE to the entire black community with a five-min disclaimer if they even consider relaxing their "natural" hair, it's all just such a psychological burden.
I enjoy watching and yes, one learns a LOT just observing and listening, I had no idea.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/tv/prince-harry-wrongly-praised-not-24026749.amp?__twitter_impression=true&s=08
Simultaneously, Megan's ears just perked up...
I don’t think the RF knows the truth about Archie. I think their strategy is IF the info came out, it can’t come from them and they’d rather not know.
I go half and half on this question. It is plausible that they didn't know in the early going, like when she derailed Eugenie's wedding in her huge-ass coat and announced to everyone that they'd had the 12-week scan and blah-blah. That may have been the first anyone in the RF knew anything about it. M was within her rights to choose her own doctor and keep that information private even if her grandmother-in-law is the Queen. M loves to sandbag people at the 11th hour, because literally the next day they were flying Down Under. It was one of her lob-and-run stratagems. Because ordinarily there would be medical concerns about letting a pregnant lady in the 2nd trimester (she said) fly to known Zika areas. M wasn't even supposed to go on the tour initially; it had been planned for H many months or a year-plus prior to the marriage and M was jammed in at the last minute, creating no small headaches for their hosts. Just a tiny foretaste of the headaches she'd create once she arrived . . .
So the RF could say that M insisted on flying AMA and their hands were tied. Also tied vis. her doctors and her absolute refusal to share anything about the progress of her pregnancy or the birth plan, anything. It is wondrous bordering on unbelievable that the Palace would have asked no more probing questions regarding H's first child's impending arrival, just to insure that mom and baby were both healthy and doing well.
My feeling is, the RF *knew* prior to the 'birth' circus that the DoS was not expecting in the normal fashion. But they do not *know 'officially'* and due to M's pathological need for secrecy, the RF can claim, rightly so that since the Duchess never informed them of a single thing regarding her pregnancy, they couldn't be expected to know that things weren't exactly as M said.
She wants to be believed without question until she decides that her plan for Teflon 'mystery' didn't work out so well for her and then all of a sudden, she cries victim . . ie, people 'should' have known and 'should' have helped. But if she's a crypt, she can't have it both ways.
I really thought things would come to a head after 'the polo'. Clock Catherine's face and the faces of everyone around M. They are looking at an insane woman parading around a plastic 'baby' that never moved or twitched for over an hour? in the hot sun with noise and people. H and William had fisticuffs or nearly . . the combatants needed to be restrained. Why would William be so upset? Because a madwoman was lurking near his family posing for papp pictures . . .AND THE 'CHILD' WAS NOT REAL.
Even after that performance the Queen still let her go on the SA tour and humiliate the Crown still further. Mystifying. She should have been grounded and sent to a sanitorium disguised as a spa.
@Jocelyn'sBellinins: yes on the mosh pit dive, with an unexpected "assist" from behind!
...And she is scoping out opportunities in Seattle to "run into" Bill.
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This is all I will say
(a) "I want to chase hot young gold diggers and Melinda isn't down with that!" (If that is the case, we'll hear about it PDQ.) An added complication could be that:
(1) Gold digger may be pregnant.
(2) Gold digger may be his youngest daughter's age.
(b) He succumbed to a foreign espionage honeypot and the unsavory details are going to come out soon.
The above are fun, but my most probable guess is:
(c) He and Melinda have differing ideas about the direction of the Foundation, each thinks the other is batshit crazy, and they aren't on speaking terms at this point and their communications are through their attorneys.
What would be best for everybody would be if Harry's future ex-wife is carrying little Baby Gates. Sadly, I don't think that she's pregnant. It would distract Bill Gates from World Domination, and Harry's future ex would be happy to help him get rid of all that nasty money. There are so many needy yak growers and plastic surgeons out there.
When asked about the arrangement, Gates said it was simply a weekend of walking on the beach, miniature golf, and long discussions about biotechnology. I will find the 1997 article and link it in a separate comment in a minute.
When I was working on the Microsoft Redmond campus, for six months with a project, I sometimes had an impromptu dinner with his team at a sushi spot not far away in an upscale outdoor mall, or when they cooked out on the camps itself, or with two whose condos were near mine. Bill was said to be odd in meetings, not particularly impressive (surprising to new employees) in meetings, not always up to date and they eventually assumed others did the work and thinking. This was about a dozen years ago. People were polite about it, but consistent in their comments that he didn’t seem to be very knowledgeable about technology or the business. I don’t know how to parse that today.
A friend in Seattle (another company) tells me rumor is the split is to ensure all assets cannot be touched if something comes out. In other words, half of his 130 billion (number from my friend, I haven’t looked it up for accuracy) would remain out of touch with his “ex” wife.
A classified study of the origin of SARS-CoV-2 conducted a year ago by scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Department of Energy’s premier biodefense research institution, concluded the novel coronavirus at the heart of the current pandemic may have originated in a laboratory in China.
Google Lawrence Livermore and click news.
He is a scary guy
sorry for OT but had to mention it
SwampWoman - I choose 2b on gates. My brother once saw Gates at a pizza place in seattle. He rocked in his chair a lot and seemed fairly incoherent (my brother was a the next table) Melinda did all the ordering and directing. Then they left and he proceeded to drive down the wrong way of a one way street. My bro thought he was like the Rainman. Waitress at the restaurant said he was in all the time and acted that way usually. Maybe some good drugs keeps him on point during the few interviews he does. My inclination is Melinda was wearing the pants on the foundation and in the marriage. I imagine Harrys' wife has a repertoire that even the soon to be former mrs gates didnt have; gates could make a good mark for our grifter.
Dang, I have read rumors like that before, but none from trusted sources like you received.
I was thinking that, too, because of his vaccine "problems" and buying up of farmland, etc. IIRC, it was Bill Gates that was talking about the next pandemic being a coronavirus before a coronavirus pandemic kicked off (I had figured it would be a new influenza virus). Was it a Ted talk? Does anybody remember? I don't remember; I will have to research it later as I'm on the way out the door.
The rocking back and forth - I remember that part. Now - what I remember makes him sound like some where on the aut scale.
But to me, his big sins are 1. creating Microsoft Word and 2. bastardizing Helvetica, a fine, classic typeface, into Arial (so he wouldn't owe any royalties) and missing the point so that he created one of the ugliest typefaces known to man.
The link to the story about Gates and his annual weekend with his former girlfriend (WITH A BONUS CHARLES/CAMILLA REFERENCE!)
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/mar/09/beaches-biotech-and-bill-now-that-gates-is/
[I remember EVERY guy I knew talking about this back then, and swearing they would add this to their pre-nup if they ever married!] here is a humorous article about it:
AGAIN, this is from 1997.
Beaches, Biotech And Bill Now That Gates Is Married, An Annual Weekend Away With An Old Flame Just Doesn’t Compute
Sun., March 9, 1997
Celia Rivenbark Wilmington (N.C.) Morning Star
OK, let’s see if I’ve got this straight. “Time” magazine reports in a recent profile of mega-billionaire Bill Gates that, as part of an agreement with his wife, he gets to spend one weekend a year with an old girlfriend at her beach house. Just the two of them. All alone. All weekend.
Gates says it’s perfectly innocent, that the two of them spend all their time “walking on the beach, playing miniature golf and discussing biotechnology.”
This is, as they say, good work if you can get it.
If I saw my husband headed for the airport to visit one of his leggy ex-girlfriends for the weekend, I’d be forced to violate the annual beach trek agreement and go upside his head.
If he even dared to propose such a weekend getaway, the conversation at our house would go something like this:
“Hon, I’ve been feeling stressed at work and I could really use a breather. I’d like to go visit my ex-girlfriend at her beach house for a couple of days, just the two of us, so I can unwind a bit, you know, just be myself. Maybe talk about old times, play a little Uno. Whoa. Put that down. Where’d you get that? Is it loaded? … Ahhhhhhhh!!!!”
Some of you may think I’m overreacting, that in a loving, committed relationship, both partners should be able to trust one another completely.
Of course, some of you may think you’ve seen the Shroud of Turin in your spaghetti sauce.
And what’s this hogwash about discussing biotechnology on long beach walks? I don’t care how rich and brilliant he is, Bill Gates isn’t flying across the country to spend a weekend with an attractive woman, one he used to have a romantic relationship with, to talk about genetic engineering.
Oh, sure, the two of them may try to keep things on the up and up, but, sooner or later, that beach-walk conversation will slide into …
Bill: “You know, I’m working on a new computer program that will synthesize the protein from the bladder of a newt and transform it into a monoclonal antibody that will lead to the end of all diseases known to modern man.”
Ex-girlfriend: “That’s swell, Billy. Now let’s get my cabana boy to fetch us a couple of those drinks you can set on fire and how’s about you give me all your hot monkey love?”
The whole tawdry arrangement is reminiscent of Prince Charles phoning Camilla Parker Bowles while he was honeymooning with Di just to chat and defended it by saying that Camilla was his bestest friend.
We all know how that turned out.
One minute he’s being all haughty (and Chuck, like so many Brits, seems to stay on a kind of permanent haught, doesn’t he?), insisting that it’s all perfectly innocent and what’s wrong with a man having a female friend after all. Next minute we’ve got tabloids gleefully releasing telephone tapes in which Chuck’s saying things to Camilla that would make Larry Flynt blush.
Now there’s nothing wrong with visiting old and dear friends, as long as your spouse gets to go along.
I think Melinda Gates should pack up the baby and say, “A beach weekend? Terrific idea, Bill! We’ll join you!" If Bill grumbles and pouts and whines that she and the baby will destroy his concentration and he’ll never win that waffle cone for a hole-in-one on the 18th, we’ll know he’s up to no good, now won’t we? Of course we will.
It frightened a lot of people. If Bill Gates is who I think he is, human beings are just data points to him. I do not denigrate the people that are fearful of the vaccine which is, after all, experimental and we do not know of any long-term consequences. I don't *think* there will be any but I'm not an expert, and I'm not urging people to get it. Everybody has to flip a coin, so to speak, and take their chances.
@Jdubya,
My friend said the rumor she and her husband heard at work didn't specify the particular what/why. However, they are surmising it is Epstein related, per other local talk. Although the trips/investments he and Fauci made to a Wuhan lab company in mid 2019 (?) have been raising huge whispers for a long time in science community as well, apparently, and a Swiss pal in biotech keeps saying that's the big story to watch for. My friend's husband is worried about the V because of the PEG component, but she is just mad she can't sue BG if it makes her or her parents sick! She was thinking "well, I'll do my part for mankind and take part in this testing phase, but damn I want a billion if my hair falls out!"
@Elsbeth1847 and @Teasmade, yeah, I think he pegs over hard on the autism scale. So did Jobs. Zuckerberg may be an alien (grin).
Ex-girlfriend: “That’s swell, Billy. Now let’s get my cabana boy to fetch us a couple of those drinks you can set on fire and how’s about you give me all your hot monkey love?”
Oh, my, we have wandered juuuuust a tiny bit off course from talking about Harry and his future ex Mrs. to Bill Gates' hot monkey love. Since we can only hope that said hot monkey love shall be expended on the future ex Mrs. Harry, I think we're good (fingers crossed).
For every science reason BG can wave high now, I can find you three scientists and practicing doctors (even very pro-vac scientists & docs) who are saying wait, wait, the evidence isn't in, nice idea, but, the timing and testing is bad. That is how science actually works. Research done and papers written and debated on many sides of any topic. Attend EU scientific seminars, as I did, and you'd see what I mean -- Guy One convinces me, Guy Two shreds him apart, Lady One flips the both upside down.
Like others, I was thinking "Great, vaccines! Whew! Let's do this!" Then things got so beligerant and hate-filled, with testing info buried and you're bad if you wonder about it. People research vitamins for days. But, not this? I feel like we slid from shock about a grim pandemic, into.... fetishizing vaccines like they are the new ecstasy. When was the last AspirinLive celeb event?
Well, at least if it is true he (BG) is heavily invested in Pharma and vaccines, then hey, he is getting richer by the second, and the LiveVax thing is like a big advertisement for his investments, so he will get even richer --- and maybe MM will actually fling the bump aside and go hunt him down in her oat-lined mini and size 12 suede stillettos, the way she hunted down Harry! Maybe Markus is already planted up there, ready to go! That would be hilarious to watch because you know she would be firing up SS to drop the hints all over the place. Come on, Fate, make it happen! "Baby Diana is really Bill's Baby!" the Enquirer could shout! She won't bother to research the pending lawsuits so, we could watch the drama!
So what y'all are saying is to stay tuned? I wonder if BG got a little too big for his britches and he pissed someone off. Maybe Melinda got tired of babysitting him and wants the second half her life to be with someone a little less high maintenance and more relatable. Great tea, lots of food for thought.
MM must not have been at the gig last night because her Spidey Senses were tinging. He's the perfect target for her in so many ways.
I haven't read it yet. This story is not going away as much as some would like it to be considered "a conspiracy theory" and filed away.
Hairy's wife was at the gig last night. There will be shots of her in the broadcast version but no speaking parts.
I thought Eugenie more likely to grow up seeing the Camb kids but the funeral? maybe if they also brought a nanny to help out it might have been within the range of possible and then I thought: what about the upcoming trip for the statue? If (and that may be a big if), he comes, why not bring the kid (if he is real)? This is the grandmother you've never met photos.
@Girl with a Hat,
My Swiss scientist friend has been saying (as I mentioned above) for a year that allegedly BG made a 2019 visit to the lab in question, and Dr F in his vested role allegedly gave them half a million US dollars for research. Their hands are, allegedly, not clean and science circles related to their area of interest were fairly open about this Gates-Wuhan lab work, until things went horribly wrong. I definitely think European press will find the alleged story first, because it is in their interests: a case can be made that by not admitting what he knew when it broke loose, BG contributed to the human devastation. And then, these various countries/governments (UK as well) could perhaps sue BG for the economic losses they incurred.
Also, G Maxwell’s talking, rumor has it. Her sister is heavily involved with information technology used by the 3 letter agencies and pharma, genetics, and biotech. Perhaps via her sister, GMaxwell knows about more than Epstein, and is shedding BG knowledge as well?
Back to MM and H, I wonder what is going to happen with that statue unveiling. The date is coming quickly.
“Harry appeared at the concert while Meghan, who is pregnant with their second child, remained at home.”
I used to go to the same hairdresser in Kirkland, WA that Bill Gates did when he had made his first billion. The salon owner did my hair, and she told me that she would have to call Bill's office and tell his secretary to remind Bill to wash his hair at least once a week.
Was the pizza place Pagliacci's?
Bill lives in Bellevue, WA, over a floating bridge (Lake Washington) from Seattle. My husband and I lived just up the hill from him. Bill often drives around in an old Honda, and is seen all over the Seattle /Bellevue area when he's in town. He doesn't hide, and he stands in line for burgers, pizza or groceries just like everybody else with no body guard (take that, Harry's wife).
Bill has a family beach place that most people don't know about (and I'm not going to give away the location). The only reason I know about it is that my parents had a beach house almost next door to it. I wonder if that's where he takes his girlfriend? It's quite secluded, and you can only see it from the water because it's behind huge gates. We'd sail by it from time to time.
OT/
@Girl with a Hat,
My Swiss scientist friend has been saying (as I mentioned above) for a year that allegedly BG made a 2019 visit to the lab in question, and Dr F in his vested role allegedly gave them half a million US dollars for research. Their hands are, allegedly, not clean and science circles related to their area of interest were fairly open about this Gates-Wuhan lab work, until things went horribly wrong. I definitely think European press will find the alleged story first, because it is in their interests: a case can be made that by not admitting what he knew when it broke loose, BG contributed to the human devastation. And then, these various countries/governments (UK as well) could perhaps sue BG for the economic losses they incurred.
Also, G Maxwell’s talking, rumor has it. Her sister is heavily involved with information technology used by the 3 letter agencies and pharma, genetics, and biotech. Perhaps via her sister, GMaxwell knows about more than Epstein, and is shedding BG knowledge as well?
Now THAT is some steaming hot tea! G. Maxwell, Epstein, Gates, Fauci! (I have been suspicious of Gates and Fauci for some time and have been hearing about his connections to the Wuhan lab before the first case of COVID-19 was discovered outside of China.)
AnT
https://sharylattkisson.com/2021/05/video-exclusive-investigation-separating-rumor-from-fact-on-covid-19s-origin/
This is the reporter who used to work on CBS and CBS and she confirmed through experts that the US was spying on the laptop by the FBI in i think 2012 or 2013
Love the topic but we are a Harkles group. So now we have reports that Harry's Wife wasnt there. What is up with that. We know she is box office poison so to speak but I am not sure she realizes that. Why the absence? entertaining a gentleman caller while the hubby was off in LA?
You are close but what Fauci did was to send a few millions in US taxpayer's dollars to the Wuhan virology lab to study and improve "gain of function". After Obama banned such research in America. If you do not know what "gain of function" is then you are behind the curve.
WUHAN evil research the US paid for
Yes, GoF research was shelved here in the US several years ago, so money was funneled to the Wuhan lab via NIAID/NIH to do GoF there instead. There is an article in Newsweek from a year ago about it. It has all stunk to high heaven. (I'm a research immunologist)
Right! Keywords being gain of function (GoF) Banned in USA in 2014 so Anthony Fauci sends a few million to bat lady etc in Wuhan Lab to continue this research. Gain of function means improving the infectiousness of XXX virus. Lethality too.
Are they ending their marriage or just marriage in general? We have given Bill a lot of authority in the past 12 months so who knows what he’s an expert in now.
It is ironic though to see pics from covid relief concert and no masks, wth?
Funny reading haircare stories. My sister was 'blessed' with kinky unruly hair and from adolescence to adulthood slept with winter hat to try to keep locks smooth and flat. Lol thanks for memory
I know OT but enjoying BG stories. Refreshing to see healthy skepticism regarding his interest in covid vaccine. So much creepy information regarding him, if you look. Rather amazing too this vaccine was produced so quickly (most take 5-10+ years.) I believe Ted talk he had was regarding his quest for population control, among other things.
He is also psychic?
https://openairoutreach.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/update2-e1586925947841.jpg?w=326&zoom=2
I also started following this girl's channel Deeper Than Hair (link below) because she has a really soothing voice and explains things nicely and then when you see her she's really pretty and cute too, she is an American who mostly treats black hair but also other curly types (mixed race, etc) and she's a wizard.
I'm also astonished by the transformations because I was ignorant about what is possible for some of these ladies. Also she combed out and rescued a woman's (horribly napped) hair who had neglected it over months. She gave that woman new life.
I watched that video a few days ago! It is crazy how difficult it is for women to do their hair by themselves, too. It is a *very* good thing, with my short temper, that I have white hair. Otherwise, I'd have an *extremely* short haircut. Oh, wait, I already do (grin).
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/01/investigative-reports/silicon-valley-and-wef-backed-foundation-announce-global-initiative-for-covid-19-vaccine-records/
^^^salesforce, microsoft allliance pushing the vaccine hard for only one reason: data.
Meg and Harry are playing for the wrong team and I’m not sure they even realize what they are talking about when they say things like ‘misinformation’ and ‘privacy’......
@xxxxx,
Yes, re G0F, hesitated to go there, but glad you did. Yes, discussed with my Swiss pal.
@Girl with a Hat,
Ha, that is a fantastic comment! Thanks for sharing it.
BACK ON TOPIC:
@snarkyatherbest,
Can't you just see MM, alone at last while Harry runs out to get the thrills of being a little celebrity. She'll be on the white sofa, hunched over her phone, stabbing in the number Oprah gave her. When Bill Gates answers, she'll be breathy and coy and loud in her extreme excitement. "Hi, it's me, the Duchess of Sussssssssex, Oprah and Michelle insisted I call as I'm enlisting corporate people to work on my worldwide vaccine drive -- oh, you KNOW about the vaccines? Oh that's amazing! You're already bringing the light to so many, then -- I mean I am all about culling the human peasant herd, too, so we tops can enjoy our oats in peace, like, I have already totally culled two whole families myself with just a couple of people to go, so I totally can tell you how to do it and like, guide your next endeavor --- well, we must have dinner, how about tonight, fly down, I have a few hours, and my own wing, we can talk about merging our Foundations! I think I read yours is worth like ten billion, but mine is already about five hundred dollars and we have a bunch of checks coming, so we should combine them like you mentioned back on that yacht! You don't remember me? We met on a really big yacht? What? Heavily pregnant? Oh - oh - no, no, that's just something my uh security team -- yes, security team, well teams really! you know how it is when the whole world follows your every move as a leader -- so my teams thought -- but never mind, it's not even real, like, my husband isn't real either, it's all just to keep me safe as a future President, so my teams thought a Prince would scare people you know, swords -- but so come down here and we can have chicken tacos and talk about culling people and vaccine diversity! I can even cull a queen if you want! Are you sure you don't remember me? Really? The girl in the white hat on the boat in Paul Allen's lap? Really? Well, actually my colleague Markus is in your driveway right now with the photos and a video --- so, you might want to get your arse down here, now!"
Yup. And then, roll in Ghislaine Maxwell's sister's profitable data mining work, related to the three-letter agencies as well.
On another note from the Sun -- is someone taunting them to bring "Archie" out into the public eye?
PRINCE HARRY ‘WOULD BE A HIT AT MOMMY AND ME MEDITATION SESSIONS
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The Duke of Sussex would be a “big hit” at popular LA baby classes favoured by Brits, reckons an expat.
OK! ex-editor-in-chief Sarah Ivens writes in the Daily Mail: “Baby classes are more exciting in LA, [including] at The Cow’s End Cafe, near the beach, always filled with yogi mamas like Meghan who headed upstairs for ‘mommy and me’ meditation sessions.
“Harry would be a big hit with the worn-down Brit mums who gather there looking for a lift during those first few months with a new baby.
“So long as Harry and Meghan have a group of Brits to laugh and cry with, it’ll be the perfect place for Archie to become a big brother.”
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Did the Gates family get the jab?
(We will never know the truth.)
https://www.entertainmentdaily.co.uk/royals/meghan-markle-latest-prince-william-regards-duchess-as-lowest-form-of-pond-life-claims-lady-c/
3 May 2021, 18:09Updated:3 May 2021, 18:10
She doesn't pull her punches!
https://healthreporters.info/bill-and-melinda-gates-launch-global-citizen-advocacy-effort/
Cheers Nutties 😘
Hikari
I enjoyed a salted caramel latte
& a bacon butty 😋
Punch-Drunk and Grudge Judy
Something’s afoot
Dastardly on stage, without Mutt
Where, oh where could she be
For the pantomime dame
To miss out on such fame
Megxit backstage, locked in the lavatory
“She’s behind you”
Meggey Allbanger
Ten greedy meggles
Banging against a wall
If one greedy meggle
Should land a royal ball
There’ll be nine more greedy meggles
Banging for more haul
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Now there’s one greedy meggle
She’ll finally get her fall
There’ll be no more greedy meggles
She’ll end up with f..k all
Hmmm.
Banging for more haul
She’ll end up with f..k all
Two good lines for our eternal Z lister. But where is #6? Out feeding their chicks? On worldwide TV? This just might be.
Me and my wife live all alone
In a little log hut we're all our own
She loves gin and I love rum,
And don't we have a lot of fun!
Ha, ha, ha, you and me,
Little brown jug, don't I love thee!
Ha, ha, ha, you and me,
Little brown jug, don't I love thee!
When I go toiling on the farm
I take the little jug under my arm
Place it under a shady tree,
Little brown jug, 'tis you and me.
'Tis you that makes me friends and foes,
'Tis you that makes me wear old clothes
But, seeing you're so near my nose,
Tip her up and down she goes.
If all the folks in Adam's race
Were gathered together in one place,
Then I'd prepare to shed a tear
(I'd let them go without a tear)
Before I'd part from you, my dear.
If I'd a cow that gave such milk,
I'd dress her in the finest silk;
Feed her up on oats and hay,
And milk her twenty times a day.
I bought a cow from Farmer Jones,
And she was nothing but skin and bones
I fed her up as fine as silk,
She jumped the fence and strained her milk.
And when I die don't bury me at all,
Just pickle my bones in alcohol
I'ut a bottle o' booze at my head and feet
And then I know that I will keep.
The rose is red, my nose is too,
The violets blue and so are you
And yet, I guess, before I stop,
We'd better take another drop.
https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/27318430/Arvell+Shaw/Little+Brown+Jug
The irony is that neither the singer nor his wife are aware of their precarious position brought about about by their addiction.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1431093/Royal-Family-live-updates-Prince-Harry-Meghan-Markle-Queen-Elizabeth-II-Kate-Middleton
...the Queen's grandson left pregnant Meghan at home to attend the "Concert to Reunite the World"...
No use of Harry's name, and she is not referred to as "his wife"--she's called by name with the adjective blatantly clear.
To me, this is the surest sign yet of trouble in paradise... We all know this stuff is leaked straight from the source...
Of course William is done with Harry and his wife. He's just allowing "royal sources" to let us know he's done and thinks, quite rightly, that Harry's wife is the lowest form of pond life. She's vile alright. Funny she had to pass on the PR of the Vax Live Concert. Between that and missing The Funeral, it's been Mariah Carey bleak for our Narcissist in Chief.
I really do not think the RF should be used by the govt to promote the vaxx and I take a dim view of the Duchess doing so. Harry has the excuse that he is an idiot.
I am as reticent as the BAMEs and principally on the basis of the government's own words contained in the brochure sent to me by Health England.
Here you go!
MEGHAN Markle completely misread her royal status and felt "shunted off" by not living in Kensington Palace, it has been claimed
The Duchess of Sussex was "drawn in" by the fantasy of royal life after marrying Prince Harry - but was completely unready for the significantly less glam reality, author Tom Quinn told the Pod Save the Queen podcast.
She reportedly felt "disappointed" at having to live in a "little" Frogmore Cottage rather than the considerably grander Kensington Palace where Prince William and Kate Middleton are raising their children.
But it was actually Nottingham Cottage, Harry and Meghan's first UK home, which sits inside the grounds of Kensington Palace, that first hammered home the reality of Meghan as a second-tier royal, Quinn claimed.
"I think that actually, she wasn’t too keen on that," he said.
"It seemed like they were being shunted off to a little prefab in the grounds," Quinn added.
.........
PRINCE HARRY IS A 'US SEX SYMBOL'
Royal fans have declared Prince Harry as a sex symbol in the US, where he now lives with wife Meghan and son Archie.
One Twitter user said after his speech at the VAX Live concert that he looks "amazing" after his "California glow up".
Another said: "Prince Harry walked out on that stage like he was doing a strut for Paris Fashion Week."
And one person posted: "Love his 'podcast voice.' That's code for 'sexy voice' btw."
One more new fresh pearl from the Sun:
MEGHAN 'SPENDING $400K ON NURSERY FOR NEW BABY'
Pregnant Meghan Markle and Prince Harry could be spending as much as $400,000 on a nursery for her new baby, it is claimed.
The duke has reportedly taken the lead on the build as he has "an artistic streak", according to one insider.
A source told Star: "High-tech safety devices don’t come cheap and of course everything is designer."
Although Gossip Cop has debunked the wider story about Meghan expecting twins, so it could all be false rumours.
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In other new news, Melinda wanted the divorce, and Bill's lawyer is 97 years old.
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https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Gain+of+function
mutation [mu-ta´shun] 1. a permanent transmissible change in the genetic material. 2. an individual exhibiting such a change. point mutation a mutation resulting from a change in a single base pair in the DNA molecule. somatic mutation a genetic mutation occurring in a somatic cell, providing the basis for mosaicism. suppressor mutation the correction
Yes, i had to google the term. But the rumor of this virus affecting the DNA structure has been around for a while. But it's all a conspiracy theory, right? hmmm
BACK ON TOPIC - I watched H just grinning and enjoying the applause. That is what he misses. That is what he craves. He used to have that and it's been missing from his life since he arrived in CA. He needs that to feel good. (they love me they love me). I can imagine his convo with the Mrs when he got home. And her just flipping out.
Finding Freedom book's new chapters will blow any chance of reconciliation between Prince Harry and his family if 'intimate details' of conversations at Prince Phillip's funeral appear, royal expert claims
• An updated version of Sussexes' biography is set to be released this summer
• First edition was published on August 11 last year and painted a flattering picture
• Duncan Larcombe warns new chapters could be 'final straw' for Royal Family
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9540571/Finding-Freedoms-new-chapters-final-straw-Prince-Harry-royals-says-royal-expert.html
from the article:
Finding Freedom's new chapters will be 'extremely telling' about the state of the royal rift between Prince Harry and his family and could blow any chance of a reconciliation, a royal expert has claimed.
An updated version of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's biography by authors Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand is set to be released this summer. The first edition was published on August 11 last year and painted a flattering picture of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex from when they met in 2016 to their departure from the Firm in early 2020.
According to The Sunday Times, it is now being updated with new chapters which will cover their tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey, the allegations that Meghan, 39, bullied royal staff - which she denies - and the death of Prince Philip.
Duncan Larcombe, author of Prince Harry: The Inside Story, warned there will be 'no chance' of a reconciliation if the book divulges more negative information about the royals or in-depth details of any personal conversations between Harry and his family after the funeral.
'That really will be the final straw,' he told Closer magazine. 'That'll be it - there will be no chance of a reconciliation ever and all trust will be broken.
'How could anyone from the Royal Family trust them again if the intimate details of conversations were leaked. Why would they want anything more to do with them? Those chapters will be extremely telling as to the state of the royal rift as it stands now, and to where it'll head in the future.'
The updated Finding Freedom, which is also expected to discuss their multi-million pound deals with Netflix and Spotify, their new life in California and the Queen's decision to strip them of their royal patronages including Harry's military roles, will go on sale on August 5.
'The Oprah interview detonated a bomb under the Royal Family and most of them are still reeling in shock. The book will not help,' a senior courtier told The Sunday Times.
Another senior royal source added: 'After Oprah, what else is there to say?'
While he admitted it 'makes sense' for there to be more chapters to address unanswered questions about the Oprah interview, what was said to Gayle King and what was said in the wake of the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral, Duncan added that he hopes the recent rebuilding of bridges will have deterred the Sussexes from worsening the rift.
'Whatever's said will be a bombshell - everyone is just so gripped by the situation,' he told Closer.
(it continues, but that is the meat. Link above). ##
is it just me, or do you have a sense that Harry would lovvvvvvvvvve a career as a Hollywood actor? Action movies, police tv dramas? A fitness tv show on Discovery? I honestly think he fancies himself a little star.
Prancing around on a stage saying words written for him was his Invictus Games thrill, and here it is again. Remember, he had that little quick speaking role as a turn-of-the-century gardener in some sports tv ad as well. And he and William got to dress up as Storm Troopers and actually film a small scene for a Star Wars movie installment.
Did all this tickle his fame appetite? [Rumor had it he really wanted to marry a celebrity (actress or singer) for years, too. Which is why I think Chelsy, in the end, didn't have a chance, not that I think she minded walking away to safety.]
Without the written words, without a script, he is just another useless peevish bore, as we saw on the Corden bus ride.
But I can see him trying to weasel-charm his way into particular roles now that he's squatting in LA. I see him getting an agent and trying hard to trade on British thing ("listen to my accent! and I can ride a horse, people say I am sexy and funny, and I drive fast, and boy, I can punch people too!"). Do-gooding with these fake charity and mental health stunts will bore him soon.
And if he made a go of it, I think Heavily Pregnant MM would lose whatever is left of her shredded cheese mind in screaming envy.