Let's continue the discussion...
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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oh and you and Magatha - thanks for the visual NOT - i dont want to even have a hint of what in the throws 6 and the wife look like but i imagine there is video out there somewhere ;-)
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Puds...I agree with you. 👏The petition is a way of saying that we are fed up. I am sure that when, and if, the Queen decides to remove Harry from the line of succession, she and Parliament will know how to use specific laws that benefit the Monarchy.
If by some very very slim chance JH became the precoronated king. He and TBW would
Be on the quickest flight back to ghe U K to try to hoover up all the spoils... theirs or not... benefits,priceless antiques, land, gold, jewels, etc. That TBW could get her greedy paws on for their own personal use and do their typical fake 'donations' to try to get good press.
They can all th old grey suits and bring in their US Hollyweird movers shakers... SS types, to replace them.
They'd turn Windsor and the other properties into corporate money makers, Disney style amusement hotel restaurant parks, Netflix Amazon entertainment studio sets, etc. Anything to make a pound/dollar off the monarchy and people.
The people would probably rebel and maybe the monarchy would be over
Ok, i think we have a reality series started. Tell the two of them they are "precoronated" fly them back to the UK and we could see a day in the life of the duo - snapping at staff, swigging champagne like its water, wearing all the jewels, and then at the end of the day the queen and charlotte come into the room - and tell them they are fired. Now i would pay to watch that. Netflix, are you listening?
I think I simply likened the effect of rage on TBW to another physiological phenomenon - The observation about its effect on her ambulatory capacity sounds like the Marvellous Magatha!
Puds, so sorry. Lol. My thanks should go to Happy days. Apologies for my tablet separating your name HD.
I'd just watched a video, supposedly by Murky Mag, alleging that TBW is trying to push H over the edge so he gets committed.
Then I found this -
Harrys mental health tribute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHEVcrB5cF4
More food for thought, a lifetime of mental issues. Doesn't excuse the behaviour though.
This type of attachment style in an adult results in a person who cannot ACCEPT that people love him/her even with overwhelming proof of that fact.
They consider themselves unlovable, I suppose, and may act out in a way that proves that fact. If Harry spent so much time being treated by mental health professionals, why has this never been fixed?
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Daniel MacClure -Royal commentator, broadcaster(BBC,ITV & Sky News), freelance writer(Town & Country, Guardian etc) & author of The Queen's True Worth -
is saying.
"Royal reporters & commentators alike should be wary of repeating this figure of $20m as no one in the publishing industry seriously thinks that sales will generate such a massive return and more than likely the figure is just a guess. The public is being misled by such ramping"
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Curious, Oprah talking about PG's birthday on her twitter.
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Oprah Daily (@OprahDaily)
" Prince George Looks So Grown Up In a New Photo, Taken By Kate Middleton For His Birthday" https://t.co/ucN9SRrzrM https://twitter.com/OprahDaily/status/1417972455151325187?s=20
Netflix is being markled since the deal was announced in september of last year, the stock is down 11%; S&P 500 is up 26%. ouch.
The former Hollywood lighting director also said he will be petitioning the California courts to see the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's two children.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/meghan-markle-estranged-father-thomas-markle-grandchildren-petition
I guess I had the fastest finger tonight! lol :)
A fast finger comes in handy looool!
However.
Once Charles ascends to the throne, this will actually be accurate for his grandchildren which will be the Cambridge kids and the Harkle dolls.
Gosh reading that Veciloraptor (sp?) blind again from that reddit link made me realize what a real pickle the BRF and Harry's balls are in.
I'm not sure if you ask that question facetiously, but if you are genuine I would like to take a crack at the answer.
The question reminds me of a roommate I once had who asked me something along the lines of "if they went to rehab five times, why didn't it work?" which I found hilarious because I have a history with addiction.
The reason unlimited mental health assistance may not have had any real, lasting, valuable impact on Harry (or anyone) has a lot to do with how introspective a person is capable, or willing to be. Some people reject the very notion or are genuinely confused by pretty basic stuff, especially if he is a giant dummy.
If he is indeed a big dummy-head, it's entirely possible he is MUCH more emotionally driven than conscious-thought and actions, which makes a person damn hard to counsel because they exist in reactive mode.
Anyway, just some thoughts.
estranged father Thomas .......
The former Hollywood lighting director also said he will be petitioning the California courts to see the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's two children.
This could take years with the California courts backed up due to Covid19. And now with the new Delta Covid they are masking up again in California, restaurants must be shut down and so on. Making for more delays in the California justice system.
I would love to see Thomas get some justice but...Don't look for anything quick.
Yes, I know that upper class Brits often ship their young kids off at a rather tender age, but to me it just seems a tad barbaric.
Boarding schools don’t suit all children but middle class parents will send their children to a boarding school too (a lot of public and private schools are boarding, some have both day and boarders), but I’m betting he’ll come home each weekend, at least when his parents are in the country. 🥴
HM can gracefully avoid confronting the issue of the Sussex Spawn because they do not fall under her legal oversight, The fact that Charles is not more publicly agitating For access to his younger grandchildren or appearing more public ally willing to make concessions to H or even agree to see him in exchange for visits with Archie and Lili speaks volumes to me,
Think about it; if M had followed royal protocol with her pregnancies and sharing information with the RF and the public… If there were rock solid surety... medical proof, medical witnesses that the Duchess of Sussex had carried and birthed both of Harry’s children, what is the Sussex is perhaps have been given a little bit of leeway in using Sussex royal on a limited basis, In order to keep them and the children close in England? Or at least in a Commonwealth country? If it turns out to be true that the Sussexes We’re actually booted out of the family before they could quit, in swift response to their conduct on the South Africa tour, When they flew onto the baby allegedly theIrs On TV for bishop 22 when they had refused absolutely to show “him” to the citizens of the UK, or even to his own family members..,Then M truedcto merch the little outfit he was wearing, While handling him gingerly Like a bag of rotten potatoes, and a miserable looking H displayed that he did not know this kid at all ...The children’s existence… Or nonexistence more like is at the very heart of this mess.
It will be interesting to see, if we do not get any clarity before then, what happens when Charles ascends and officially takes over responsibility for Archie and Lili's welfare.
Little Miss Muffed-It C'est vrai!!!!
Here is an article about this idea from a law information center in the UK. The article discusses the origin of this idea (appears to be a 2013 blog post partly based on a 1993 Times article that can't be found.) It also discussed the likelihood the idea could/would legally stand up today.
http://www.alternativefamilylaw.co.uk/blog/will-harry-and-meghan-have-custody-of-their-own-children/
IIRC, the custody law was at least mentioned after the Waleses got divorced because, apparently, Diana wanted to take the boys to live abroad with her - in Australia?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9813643/Prince-Harrys-memoir-focus-Princess-Dianas-death-blames-biographer-claims.html
I don't think it says anything new - apart from showing what a sh*t H is.
Regarding the ineffectiveness of H's therapy, my bet is that he doesn't want to change, he gets enough of a reward as it is, or at least he'd have to face up honestly to how he's screwed himself up.
My bet about his book is that it'll be a long-winded word salad to the effect that `Grandpa killed Mummy'.
a) on the hunt for a Brit
b) she wanted to be a `London girl'
Who is pushing what?
"IIRC, the custody law was at least mentioned after the Waleses got divorced because, apparently, Diana wanted to take the boys to live abroad with her - in Australia?"
I do remember that. But we don't really know what was going on behind the scenes then. It seems to me that
1. As the father Charles would have had sufficient reasons to object to having his sons moved to a far-away foreign country without a royal perogative being a part of it. At least in the US that would be the case for a mother or father.
2. We don't really know if Diana was serious about that move. Seems to me there was a period of time when she was threatening to do all kinds of things.
3. Even if royal control of children HAD been mentioned to Diana and she bought it, I'd still wonder if it would actually hold up if legally challenged. It's not the 1700s anymore! Everything I've read from legal experts says it wouldn't hold up if the non-royal parent challenged it and in the case of H&M, even the royal parent likely would object.
We'll see if the issue of custody of Archie & Lili gets raised. I really doubt it will myself. Too little chance of success and not a good look for the RF to be trying to wrestle children away from their parents--- especially children who have (essentially) no chance of ever taking the throne. Plus, raising the issue would suggest W&K don't really have custody of their children either. Probably not a view anyone wants to promote.
Re 6's mental health and why he had not been fixed, IMHO I believe that Harry was largely fixed - he did have psychotherapy - and I can't remember him bleating on about it pre the witch. I'm sure the wound had healed. Enters the witch and strangely enough, the wound seems to be reopened. I see the witch's claw behind all this, she reopened the wound and keeps twisting the knife (while she told him his family were responsible, he was trapped and had to escape). Of course, he didn't know any of this until he met her 🙄
“I think the problem for Meghan was that she was angry, she was upset,” royal author Tom Quinn said on Meghan at 40: The Climb To Power.
“I think that she thought when she entered the Royal Family she could shake them up and they would love it, she would do things Meghan’s way.
"When that didn’t happen and she came up against what she saw as the forces of reaction it made her so upset that, that interview was her way I think the only way for her to get her revenge and put the case as she saw it.
"But I think later on she will think I shouldn’t have burnt my bridges to that extent."
The climb to power must have been steeper that the north side of Everest. As for thinking she could shake the BRF and they'd love it, delusional doesn't come near, especially for someone so 'whip smart' 😂. At least it gave me a good laugh.
Finally, she'll be 40 in only a couple of weeks. We haven't heard anything about birthday festivities. Is the Queen sending her a cake made with her own fair hands? Are W&K sending her presents? Are the Cambridge children making her a birthday card?
Let me be cynical and suggest that Oprah posted the photo of HRH Prince George of Cambridge so that she could call HRH The Duchess of Cambridge (Catherine) Kate Middleton.
I wonder about this more and more these days. What will the people who don't like Catherine going to do after Prince William's coronation?
Oh, wait. I already know, because they're already doing it. They emphasize that she won't be Queen Catherine, but Queen Consort Catherine.
As others have commented it seems like the news of JH's impending memoir was leaked by the NY Post prior than the Markles had originally planned
Who do you think arranged for the leak?
I wondered for a while whether it was the Palace. On the one hand, it doesn't quite seem their style. Then again, if they had wanted to cover their tracks, it would have made sense to leak to US media rather than local media. If it is they, the message this sends to the Harkles is: We're on to you.
It could also hurt them if either they or Penguin Random House were hoping to back out of the book deal. After what happened with Netflix and Spotify, plus the reactions to the Oprah interview, I can't see a publisher feeling too enthusiastic about working with the Harkles. But instead of being able to back out quietly, they'll be added to the Markling wall of shame.
To be fair now, I also ask: Is this just one of those chance mistakes? Someone blabbed -- not with intent, but from carelessness?
https://tinyurl.com/trp4w97n
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@LavenderLady,
Lololol. What I should have said last night was 'fastest finger first', as in the first game show participant to answer a question correctly by pressing a buzzer!
Embarrassing late night error by me!! 😌
Meghan Markle 'couldn't let go of the American Dream' and 'understand her duty was to the Queen', US-born viscountess claims.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9810499/Meghan-Harry-did-Oprah-interview-press-nuclear-button.html
No worries. I thought your comment was a good one. It made me laugh! It made me think of the old cartoon character"Quickdraw McDraw" or some thing like that. It was me who contorted it into whatever people want to think. The ambiguity of my response to yours was all on me :D
I did look up grandparents rights in California. It seems he may not get very far. There is a list of stipulations which that situation doesn't meet. Darn! My hope was he at least blows it up so that it becomes evident there are no kids. But of course they are protected by the RF so...
@Sandie
Let me be cynical and suggest that Oprah posted the photo of HRH Prince George of Cambridge so that she could call HRH The Duchess of Cambridge (Catherine) Kate Middleton.
I wonder about this more and more these days. What will the people who don't like Catherine going to do after Prince William's coronation?
Oh, wait. I already know, because they're already doing it. They emphasize that she won't be Queen Catherine, but Queen Consort Catherine.
Nah. The snarky side of me says they will still be calling her Kate Middleton until she dies.
Not like they show any signs of changing soon for that (and they have been married how many years now?).
RE: article Julie Montagu
Wonderful points about not just believe but expecting that the BRF would stop everything and give them a big apology (not stated but suspect public).
It goes on to bring a really good point (Ashley Pearson) about linking the not offering an opinion and not historical beheadings. PC cannot go home and let it slip that he despised X because they are a dictator after meeting them. None of them get to do this. They weren't picking on her because (fill in your favorite justification).
Emily Andrews says something which links back to that Jordan Peterson video of the evilness of Hitler. "She wants to be superstar, she wants to be a changemaker, this disruptor.
Snarky And Sandie...I couldn't agree more
My opinion: Oprah should be: America's Most Wanted. (Reason: Faking headlines: crime against truth.). Oprah calls DoC Catherine as Kate, but Meghan always introduces herself as Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, the British Monarchy title she sells in a Republic.
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" Prince Harry has been called upon to use his royal titles to launch his revealing new memoirs. A statement written by the Duke to announce the business with Penguin Publishing House began with an acknowledgment from Harry that the book would be written: “Not like the prince I was born but like the man I became. However, the fact that Harry subsequently signed the same declaration with a signature in the style of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, had Us Weekly royal commentator Molly Mulshine is fuming.
Ms Mulshine told the Us Royally podcast: “He said he wasn’t writing this as a prince, he was writing it like the man he had become.
“But he signed him Prince Harry Duchess of Sussex.
“It’s like you’re in America now! “
“We don’t use titles. “
Co-host Joe Drake added, “People are having trouble with that, I think.
“There’s a lot of that, not the prince I am but the man I am but then it’s all over… the signature is Prince Harry.” “
Earlier in the episode, the couple had mocked the Duke for his heavy use of “clichés.”
Ms Mulshine told Royally Us listeners the statement amounted to a ‘salad of words’ in a brutal slap of the royal’s writing skills.
Mr Drake said: I interpreted this as don’t worry, I’m not going to distort the truth.
“Like I’m going to tell you what really happened.
“But you’re right, you shouldn’t have to say it will be true.
“A brief should of course be truthful. “
I'm not convinced that (a) he's been a caring, engaged grandpa that has been a large part of his grandchildrens' lives, and (b) that the grandchildren would be genetically TBWs. I'm not grandpa shaming; when one has an end stage terminal illness, there isn't energy left to take grandchildren fishing, for example.
Maybe he knows that any grandchildren are not genetically his daughter's, so is subtly trolling.
I'm of the opinion that there are people that believe that she was silenced and this book would be validation for them. There are people that recognized what a pain in the nether regions she was, and would say things like "I don't condone it, but I can sympathize". Many people would question the timing of this revelation which coincides with rumors of brokeness rather than wokeness. I believe that the majority of people have more important things to think about than the Broke Prince of Moneycito.
But who would share a secret with a tool like Harry? (Now that I write it down, it feels as though I need to write an apology to "The Sound of Music").
It's arrogant to assume you can enter a situation and change everything about it. She did a magazine cover with that exact headline, that she was going to change everything about the monarchy.
Last year I would have said: In fairness to Harry's wife, she has changed a lot of things. But now I see that she didn't change things as much as expose their true states. (I guess we can give her some credit for "shining a light"?) It was tough for people who had watched Princes William and Harry from childhood to admit that the latter was not the wonderful son, brother and prince whom we had believed him to be -- and that he had probably never been.
But it was also nice to see Camilla, Catherine and the Wessexes getting recognition for being the steady, supportive workhorses they are.
Cookie Shark - good point about not making it and rejection redirected.
So I was mulling around with the concept of her ego and the boundaries of it.
She has always been good about pulling out the I wrote about the soap story. But she used to also mention having written to famous women but then that appears to have drifted off when the timelines don't jive.
So I started thinking about her long history of acting. When I was at uni, the drama department put on plays and they sold tickets to the public.
If she had any contact with the drama department at NW (while working on that double major drama + international studies), in terms of being in plays doing something, it would be in their little program (everyone wants to see their name in print to send to the parents/grandparents). She probably did not spend all of her time learning set design.
I would have thought there was a list somewhere of all the different plays she was in through the years (even HS for that matter). But there doesn't appear to be.
Is it because it doesn't exist? or is it because that she could lose control of the narrative of what her college years were like when some reporter tracked down the "right" person?
I'm of the opinion that there are people that believe that she was silenced and this book would be validation for them.
I'd ask those people: Wasn't that what the Oprah interview was for?
Plus, they have to admit that everyone who is even vaguely interested in this book cares mainly for Harry's take on events in his early life. His parents' separation and divorce, his mother's funeral and the aftermath, his rehab, his years with Chelsey and Cressida, his military "service." The idea now is that Harry was silenced and is now getting a chance to speak. No one cares about what his wife thinks. Especially not after she herself silenced him during the interview.
I've been reading about plot archetypes lately, and I wonder which one the memoir will borrow for its narrative. I have a feeling that the ghostwriters (plural, for I mean both his wife and Moehringer) want to make Harry's life out as a "hero's journey" -- with his meeting his wife as the "call to adventure" and Megxit as the beginning of his "rebirth." But who would ever believe that tripe?
There may also be elements of overcoming the monster -- with the BRF playing the monster. Good luck with that when an increasing majority of people see Sir William of the Order of the Scarf as their champion against the radioactive Megalodon from Montecito.
But anyone who has been watching Harry's life since Edward Lane Fox quit handling his press knows that the plot/genre that best fits him now is tragedy. Our main character comes to grief because he can't overcome a single fatal flaw.
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(...) She did ask me later if I knew Brad Pitt or George Clooney, but I think she was just testing me. About what, I don’t know. Politics, maybe? How can I be expected to know all the US presidents?
Anyway, back to that morning. After I was dressed, fed and gently burped, I was carried on my chair to her wing.
I burst through the door and ran to Meghan’s bedroom suite, where I saw my bride ordering her ladies-in-waiting to pack up all her clothes, jewels, ball gowns, tiaras, scepters, fairy wands and glitter into her Louis Vuitton travel wardrobe, a wedding gift from the Queen.
Looking back now, I wonder if Grandmummy was sending us a message.
That’s it, Harry!” Meghan exclaimed. “You are being held hostage in this three-story, 100-room palace that your family just had gut-renovated for us! We’re leaving!”
Now, I will admit to being confused. We hadn’t even hunted stag yet.
“Oh, H,” she said.
She tilted her head and squinted her eyes. How I melt.
“You only think you’re happy. Trust me when I tell you that you are trapped. I’m the only one who can save you. We’re going to make a run for it with just the clothes on our backs and the $20 million your mom — who I definitely never heard of before I met you — left as your inheritance.”
But where will we go?” I asked.
“Canada,” Meghan replied, whilst typing furiously into that little glowy rectangle. “But don’t worry. That’s just for optics. Really we’re going to America, where you will truly know freedom. And Oprah. Maybe even Ted Sarandos and Bob Iger.”
It sounded enticing, I have to say. I didn’t know who those other two guys were, but everyone knows Oprah"
https://nypost.com/2021/07/22/a-fairy-tale-of-what-prince-harry-prints/
Also - i am a fan of conspiracy theories - i like a good thought out plot twist (yeah I need to get a more challenging job!) so at the time of Di's death one of the more prevelant theories was that the driver was slipped a mickey, and that a lone motorcyclist who fled the scene flashed a laser at the driver's eyes with the light being more debilitating than the pap flashes. None of the theorists could account for the lack of seatbelt but i imagine something jammed in the latch could make it useless. the theories were interesting at the time but as more emerged after the Bashir interview and all of her mental health/paranoia struggles the theories dont hold up. She was on a path toward destruction and her life just seems like it was headed to tragedy. Sadly, H is certainly follow on that path
The book - there have been rumors that in one pot possession example that Harry took the fall for William. That could be something he lashes onto (even if it werent true) if he even deals with the partying dancing naked and nazi get ups, i imagine it will be in a psychodrama lens - muting my pain with drugs and alcohol. I wonder if he will bring up a molestation charge? or a am in pain becuase I want to be a woman charge? those would be an attempt to get a pass about a lot of stuff he shouldnt get a pass for.
I have to wonder how much money people are willing to spend to read Harry's opinion.
Good point. Genuine curiosity won't always lead to sales. (Especially not where Millennials are concerned.)
But memoirs like this always remind me of the joke about Hillary Clinton's memoir of her years as First Lady: That everyone who got it immediately flipped to the chapter concerning Monica Lewinsky. It was the main thing everyone cared about!
IN Touch magazine's cover says that Meghan was in "LOVE WITH WILLIAM. HAD POSTER OF HIM IN HER DORM ROOM".
lol
It's a little confused.
Back in January 2021,(https://harrymarkle.wordpress.com/2021/01/03/the-hypocritical-irony-of-the-archewell-brand/), I was contacted with information that Harry had ‘written’ a book with the aid of a ghostwriter, and that it would be a memoir that specifically would focus on the death of his mother Diana. The actual information came from someone working on the book at Random House, but I chose to keep that quiet so as not to get them fired. Things have taken a turn since then, as we have had the OW interview, and the Apple therapy session, where the content included specific attacks on members of the RF, the Crown itself, and those who worked in the Royal Household. The fact is the RF must face the truth, that Harry has turned his back on them and the Crown – in short, he can be considered a traitor.The book has already been written (a little like FF), and was being proofed back in January. What were they waiting for?" (Harry Markle)
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a) If in January 2021, the book was already being worked on at Random House. When did Harry receive the supposed sum of £20 million? I suppose when he closed the deal, but then what will he donate? Part of the proceeds from the sale?
b) Most claim that it was Page Six/NY post that broke the story of Harry's book. If yes, , H&M did not want this information leaked at this time. What is the publisher's interest in remaining silent.
c) Why would Random House pay so much for a biography and wait over a year to publish it? After all, Harry's fame could be lost and the publisher has few sales. Would they take that risk?
d) How sure is the publisher that Diana's movie will be released?
d) How will the case of Bashir turn out since the lies told to Diana were confirmed after January.
e) Diana's movie? I don't think PW will happily allow this movie about his mother to be allowed without resorting to legal action. Especially after Bashir's discoveries that he practically cleared the royal family of conspiring against her. Having the Earl of Spencer himself saying he wants to sue the BBC.
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"IN Touch magazine's cover says that Meghan was in "LOVE WITH WILLIAM. HAD POSTER OF HIM IN HER DORM ROOM". ...I agree. Lol
there have been rumors that in one pot possession example that Harry took the fall for William.
I've also heard that. But I recall the source also saying that Harry's Nazi costume was actually Prince William's fault, because William encouraged Harry to wear it. (Does not compute, I know, I know . . .)
The pot story has me skeptical on another level, though. Was there really no one else who could have taken the fall for it? An anonymous friend, whom William cut out of his life after the pot was discovered. An irresponsible RPO, who was subsequently fired. A vengeful courtier, who is quietly being prosecuted for it. Do you see what I mean? If you're going to protect one prince, why not also protect the other one? At that time, the brothers were perceived as a unit -- more popular as a team than as individuals.
And given all the stories about Harry's hard partying that have to be whispered about because the mainstream news won't touch them, the real issue is not that he was once thrown under the bus, but that he constantly got shielded from bad press. The Palace did a lot of damage control to prevent the Vegas photos from leaking. (I wonder if they failed only because it happened in the US. There may be lots of damning evidence from parties in the UK and the Commonwealth that they were able to suppress.) If Harry tries to blame his brother for the pot story, do you think the Palace will retaliate by exposing his partyboy past?
Thank you for the New York Post article. It's absolutely hilarious! 😂😂😂
I think the English tabloids can open Harry's storybook now. The Sun has already started.
22 Jul
OPEN BOOK? From the drugs drama to that Vegas incident, these are five things you’re unlikely to read in Harry’s new memoir.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/15660104/drugs-drama-vegas-five-things-prince-harry-bombshell-book/
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Miggy...True! Hilarious.❤️
None of the theorists could account for the lack of seatbelt but I imagine something jammed in the latch could make it useless.
No mystery here -
It was generally known that Di only `buckled up' in the UK because it was the law. Beyond the jurisdiction of our law, she refused.
IIRC, my comment after exclaiming `How awful!' (or wtte) was `I bet she wasn't wearing a seatbelt' or similar)
I don't know how publishing houses actually work but....Why would they agree to a $ amount without seeing the product first. The rough draft isn't due on the publushers desk til September or October. Then won't be published til next year!?! Most people don't write a blank check, definite don't uf you have no track record of writing any sort of book and are well known to have cheated your way through school. Honestly, H can barely string a coherent sentence together sometimes ( just like M). I suspect the Disastrous Duo had discussed writing memoirs privately, shopped around to see what they could potentially get, and then signed a conditional contract. When no progress or drafts were being produced, the publishing house suggested hiring a ghost writer to help. I highly doubt H will get $20M up front, just another Sussex glory # trying to boost their depreciating value.
Any business that give the Disastrous Duo money up front deserves to loose every penny for their stupidity. Netflix gave them $$ and still haven't gotten any content. Spotify gave them $$ and got 1 brief webcast. The Bench, was really not a success and ended up in the bargain bin. Meanwhile, Oprah gets a tell all 'my truth' interview. Hmmmm
The skeptimism about the huge advance that people have expressed here is well founded. An author gets a percentage of the profits from sales, which is usually around 10%. Publishers sell books to retailers at a hugely discounted price (the selling price is not what the publisher gets) and the royalty paid to the author is a percentage of the actual money the publisher gets after all discounts.
Who is paying the ghost writer? Is he getting a percentage of the royalties?
I think that The Bench was published because it was a condition of Random House getting Harry's memoirs.
I agree that the ghost writer was probably brought in by the publisher when they realised that Harry, with the additional problem of interference from Meghan, was never going to produce anything publishable ... nothing they could even work with and make publishable.
Harry had not gone on Oprah to trash his credibility at the time the ghost writer was contracted, so the publisher had every reason to publicize their catch at the time they contracted the ghost writer, unless the writing process has been so problematic that the publisher wanted to be sure they could get a book out of Harry, or because the Harkles insisted on secrecy. A publisher gains credibility and prestige and attracts other lucrative authors by publicizing the signing of an important author, long before publication. Plus, they generate hype about the book and build up momentum with pre-publication sales.
No, Harry will not get the 20 million that the Harkles talked up in their PR (do the Maths and see how many books he would have to sell). And, any advance that Harry was given will get subtracted from his royalties when the book is published. To give such a huge advance to an author who needs a very good ghost writer, for one book and The Bench is madness and only the ignorant and foolish believe that, or there is a crazy stan working at the publisher who will soon be out of a job and a career.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8fy2RR9_n4
- his illegitimate child(ren)
- his stint(s) in drug rehab
- his mental breakdown
- his stinginess towards his friends and girlfriends
- his infidelity towards his girlfriends
- how he broke up with Chelsey (reputedly by fax)
- how he cheated to get through school
- how he decided to be a real brat to get attention
- how he really met Meghan
- how he really speaks to the Queen
That snippet was hilarious. Thanks for sharing it with us!
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Girl with a hat... ( Lol) .Yes! At this point you quoted I believe that the queen is right. For Harry..."Recollections may vary’:(And lies are necessary for him)
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Enbrehiliel ❤️
I'm not convinced that (a) he's been a caring, engaged grandpa that has been a large part of his grandchildrens' lives
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Rhetorical question,
Huh???
How can you say you are "not convinced he's been a caring, engaged grandpa that has been a large part of his grandchildrens' lives", if he's never even met their dad much less them?
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Alex Belfield: Voice of Reason.
https://youtu.be/bmSc7nxfFIc
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Note: , "Be carefull, nuts. Anyone here can receive a letter from MM's lawyers. In my case, the letter can get lost in the belly of a Croc-o-dile!
Prince Harry will publish a memoir next year, during the Queen’s platinum jubilee
Starting price for the deal was $25million (£18m), with the final fee much higher
Harry will write two books while his wife Meghan Markle will pen 'wellness book'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9819583/Harrys-deal-FOUR-books-one-wont-released-Queen-died.html
As for TBW's 'wellness book', what will this be about? Yoga, diet (avocado on toast), Botox, cosmetic surgery, new teeth, anything to make you feel better? Another success like the Bench.
"Payment for the publishing deal is likely, insiders say, to be delivered in parts over a number of years"
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SSA...Well Said👏
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The Sun
"It is not known who ordered his belongings, said to include framed pictures, to be boxed up and left at the nearby castle.
But it has sparked claims Harry, 36, and Meghan, 39, may never return to Frogmore and will hand the luxury cottage back when the rental deal runs out next April.
Royal sources say it is “impossible to conceive” the couple will return for next year’s Queen’s Platinum Jubilee after Harry agreed to pen a tell-all memoir.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15676710/prince-harrys-belongings-taken-frogmore/
I feel like each book will be released as a future bargaining chip for $$ and royal privleges etc. A way to continue to blackmail and extort from the RF. It will continue lest the royals get their heads out of the sand quick!!!
One of the books won't be published until after the Queen has died.
My first thought was: Harry is a coward.
But then I realized the book wouldn't necessarily be about the Queen. He probably has one especially for Prince Charles and another especially for Prince William.
Will he ever run out of knives to put in his family members' backs?
In River's video, he asked whether Harry's name on the book would be his current style "Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex". I would hope the BRF and their "sloths" will finally make a move to prevent something like that from happening.
Lady C also said the royals and the courtiers accept Mole has gone rogue and will no longer be referred to as dearly loved family members when ever he is mentioned in statements. She said William will never back down and Mole will never get back in.
As a non family member I can only imagine how I’d feel, but to be part of one of the most public and famous families in the world and have a truly nasty rotten piece like Mole as a family member must be beyond crucifying. Despite my absolute astonishment as to why they never stood up to Mole and said no to this ghastly union (and thus bringing this situation partly on themselves), I hope they air brush him from history, nor be allowed near another royal occasion, private or public ever again. 😔
I pity the BRF, they won't be able to relax for the next few years, in fact until after the Queen dies with this constant drip drip of revelations, sorry, 'truths'. The 6s are obviously too tone deaf to realise the impact of the O interview. Do they think that by writing their books they'll endear themselves to the public? Maybe they are marginally better liked in the US but they are now detested in the UK and will be even more vilified. Is it worth is, Harry?
There can never be a time again where the BRF should speak to H or his wife. What else is there to say? I'm guessing there will not be a Christening in Windsor or a invite to the Queen's Jubilee.
It's just so sad that the Queen now knows she will never see her grandson again, nor speak to him or his children. As a grandmother I would be traumatized by all these recent events. In my book, I'd had to walk away and never look back. No matter how hard it would be for me.
This person was answering a similar question to yours as to why Meghan, who loves to brag about and embellish, and modify her achievements, has never pointed to her participation in the Drama department at Northwestern.
The commenter said she tried out for parts in many productions, but that she was not very talented as an actress, so she never got any roles, which is part of the reason she added the studies in international relations as a second field of study.
If you think about it, this makes sense. Narcissists are all about bragging. For example, Meghan was happy to tell the public about snagging the State Department internship at the US Embassy or Consulate in Brazil, but there’s crickets regarding roles she played in Northwestern theatrical productions because according to the commenter, she never got any of the roles she auditioned for.
She has apparently been smart enough to avoid claiming she had lead or other important roles in college productions because any claims could be easily checked via cast listings from past productions at Northwestern archives, yearbooks or other records kept at Northwestern.
For example (and I’m not saying these were productions at Northwestern when she attended there), if she had played the title role in My Fair Lady, Elizabeth I, or The Princess and the Pea, we’d be hearing about how well she played those roles ad naseam. Instead, the only claim to fame she has as an actress, which took until her mid 30s to achieve, was playing a secondary role in the cast of Suits.
My thinking is that the person who commented truly knew her at Northwestern and knew she did not get any roles in the university drama department productions.
If I ever wander across that person’s comment, I will post it here on nutty’s blog.
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My bet: Harry and Meghan will have to fight many truths omitted by the British media. "The press English in Silent or Silenced?" Now, British journalists can talk what they know about H&M. Thus wish!
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I had commented in the last thread how Spare is the only one who really attracts the attention (and sycophants) because he is the royal, not her. It was in reference to his biography.
I said I think it will sell because there is that element here in the USA who want tea and gossip about the BRF. I said something like he'll get attention as a solo act and wouldn't be surprised if HIS book makes it's to the best seller list.
I wonder if they will turn on each other as famous bands have re: Beatles, Eagles, Queen etc. Always over attention and money.
I have had this feeling for quite awhile. His star may grow while hers fades then mucho trouble in paradise...
Someone suggested that the book(s) to come after his grandmother passes are on his father and then on his brother and that the holding onto this for the future is a desire to make a clear threat of fear to the BRF.
Either way they have clearly shifted into scorched earth mode (not shocked really).
You may well be right. There will certainly be an element of curiosity but will that be enough to propel the book/s to the bestseller list? Isn't the American public now getting rather jaded about the 6s?
They may well end up turning on each other, I thought that a long time ago. When M thinks there's enough money in the Montecito coffers, she might attack H, especially if her star is waning, and decide it's time to start divorce proceedings.
The books are clear threats…so transparent infact they can barely conceal that fact. It’s all about leverage and getting what the Duo want….as Lady C says….William will never back down nor give in.
Agree with Lavender Lady and Maneki Neko I too had thoughts they will eventually turn on each other. Their grotesquely oversized egos will get the better of them both…..eventually. 👹
Here is another comment in the same vein:
Pepper, sumwhere n d middle of nowhere, United States, 21 minutes ago
1. Harry Plotter and the Witch's Stone 2. Harry Plotter and Madam's Secrets 3. Harry Plotter and the Prisoner of Montecito and the final installment Harry Plotter and the Deathly Glares.
The comments are scathing (no surprise there).
It’s all about leverage and getting what the Duo want
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Yes. This is called blackmail.
Publish and Be Hammed
Here we go, they’re at it again
More vile drippings
from their poisoned pen
Awaiting the death of our beloved Queen
To release yet more bile
is odious, obscene
God Save the Queen
Thanks for clarifying. I read your statement to mean TBW's "kids" since that was the discussion context.
@Maneki,
No worries my dear :)
@Maneki Neko
One of the books won't be published until after the Queen has died.
My first thought was: Harry is a coward.
@Enbrethiliel and Maneki Neko:
My first thought is that narcissists are profoundly jealous and envious people, and if they can’t have what someone else has, they often attempt to wreck whatever it is that the other person has.
It’s like the pettiness of someone keying their neighbor’s brand new car, but of course this is at a massively-elevated level of nastiness.
It’s no secret that Meghan is likely tremendously jealous and envious of the Cambridges. Before Meghan, William, Kate, and Harry were a strong trio, but once Meghan entered Harry’s life, she had to take control. She wanted to be equal to, or in some ways, above the Cambridges, and she fed her a steady diet of jealousy, envy and victimhood to Harry. And he lapped it up. They thought they should be treated equally to the future king and queen consort, and she thought that she and Harry would become the glittering global superstars of the royal family.
Meghan uses Harry as a tool to lash out at the royal family in general, but I believe that William and Kate are truly her prime targets because they are the same generation as she and Harry and will be around approximately as long as she and Harry. The Queen and Charles will pass on, but William, Kate, and their brood will still be present.
From her viewpoint, the Cambridges likely pose the greatest threat to her grandiose plans, and they must be destroyed as royals so that she and Harry will be regarded as the true royals while William and Kate are regarded as the mean, awful, racists.
A four-book deal guarantees Meghan can use Harry as her proxy to assert control by holding implied threats over their heads keep chipping away at the monarchy for at least the next decade, and depending on how long the Queen is able to be an active monarch, perhaps even longer, depending on how long she lives. As evidenced by the Oprah interview, being truthful does not matter. She just makes poisonous accusations.
Harry is so thoroughly isolated and controlled by Meghan and likely fears her wrath. It is largely because he has no one to turn to. She has seen to it that the relationship with his family, especially William, is so thoroughly destroyed that there is no route back for him, so he is stuck with her.
The Queen, Charles, and William need to move now to make Harry renounce all titles, including his birth title of prince and opt out of the line of succession for himself all of his children.
Ha Ha! Instead of Goopy (for Gwinnie) TBW will be known as Poopy.
And that hat!! Looool!
God save The Queen
God save The PC too.🤗
@Puds
You called it first-Poop Scoop 💩
@Maneki
Harry Plotter-The Half Blood Prince 😉
@Swampie-Princess Henrietta
hell bent on her vendetta 🧚♀️
@Karla 😊
Bidding war? $45Million? TBW's gonna write a wellness book?
Total PR baloney put out by TBW.
PART 1
OPEN BOOK? From the drugs drama to that Vegas incident, these are five things you’re unlikely to read in Harry’s new memoir
PRINCE Harry has announced he is releasing an “intimate” memoir about the “experiences that have helped shape him” in his life.
But will the book give the full picture about the royal’s history - including mentioning his infamous Las Vegas misdemeanour and his stint in drug addiction rehab?
Harry said of the memoir, which is to be released next year: “I'm writing this not as the prince I was born but as the man I have become.”
It will be ghost-written by JR Moehringer and will provide “the definitive account of the experiences, adventures, losses, and life lessons that have helped shape him.”
So will we see the following scandalous moments featured?
Vegas
Prince Harry hit headlines for all the wrong reasons during a 2012 Las Vegas trip, when he was pictured covering his privates during a game of strip billiards.
Speaking on Armchair Expert podcast to Dax Shepard, Prince Harry addressed the awkward moment saying: "At least I wasn't running down the strip, stripping or naked.”
During the infamous trip, Harry is said to have racked up a bill of over £30,000 while partying, but never paid it, according to biographer Katie Nicholl on Channel 5's Spending Secrets of the Royals.
When it came around to settling his expenses, Katie said: "Steve Wynn, the owner of the hotel Harry was staying in, just wiped the slate clean."
Drugs scandal
The party prince was caught indulging in alcohol and cannabis during the summer of 2001 while his father was away, and would host parties at Highgrove.
Charles handled the situation by sending Harry to rehab clinic Featherstone Lodge in Peckham, and he was grounded during the Christmas holidays.
St James's Palace later confirmed that Harry had "experimented with the drug on several occasions" but said he was not a "regular" user.
The Duke of Sussex, 36, opened up about his struggles with his mental well-being and the trauma that haunts him after the death of mother Princess Diana in the documentary The Me You Can't See.
He admitted to taking drugs and regularly "drinking a week's worth of alcohol in one day" to "mask the pain" of his mum Diana's death.
The Nazi outfit
Prince Harry was strongly condemned after he was spotted wearing a Nazi uniform, complete with swastika armband, at a party.
The prince, then aged 20, later apologised for his actions.
Prince William had gone with his younger brother to Olympic triple gold medallist Richard Meade’s son’s 22nd colonial-themed birthday in January 2005 where William chose an animal outfit and Prince Harry chose the khaki-coloured uniform.
The Duke was later photographed wearing the uniform at a party causing "public outrage," according to royal biographer Robert Lacey.
The Sun broke the news on January 14, 2005, along with a photo of Harry in the uniform holding a cigarette and a drink, under the headline “Harry the Nazi”.
Schoolteacher tribunal
In 2005, a former art teacher of Harry’s at Eton College won her case for unfair dismissal against the school and was awarded £45,000 in damages.
The teacher accused Prince Harry of cheating in his A-level coursework and she said she had been asked to ghost-write accompanying text for his project.
The employment tribunal found no evidence of cheating, but it accepted the prince had received help in the project, which he needed to secure his place at Sandhurst.
Cadet slur
Harry apologised in 2009 for calling fellow Sandhurst colleague Ahmed Raza Khan a “r*ghead” and “our little p*** friend” in a video that he filmed himself.
Harry’s slur came to light in a video leaked in 2009. The footage showed the prince three years earlier as a 21-year-old officer cadet during a military exercise in Cyprus.
Clarence House issued an immediate apology for the video and the Ministry of Defence said the Armed Forces had zero tolerance of racism.
Christine McG........
23 hours ago
Harry is pointing his water pistol at the Queen’s cannons. Twerp
Thank you for the hilarious snippet from the NYPost.
Even the Americans are mocking him. His lack of grey cells seems to be legendary.
I hope the British press will now run all the killed stories about the 6 with permission of the royal family. They need to sully his name now and make him totally unremarkle and untrustworthy before his memoir comes out.
You said " They have breached the most common level of decency that unites almost everyone the world over, no matter what your Faith or Politics, you do not attack your family in public, you do not betray your family, you look after your elders."
THIS! Well-said.
Yes! That's my bet.
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
(Shakespeare)
https://twitter.com/i/status/1417945340985024513
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Puds....❤️❤️❤️
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Harry denying, denying...
Scooby, the messenger.
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Omid Scobie : "A report claiming Prince Harry is holding back a second book (of a multi-title deal) for after the Queen’s death seems to be wide of the mark. A Sussex rep says there’s NO project coordinated around such an event, adding that it would be factually inaccurate to suggest otherwise" https://twitter.com/scobie/status/1418723313694691333?s=20
Megdusa
Book number four
Starring madam la whore
Attacking Charles, and Camilla
He’ll be slinging more hate
Towards William, and Kate
To appease his gorgon, Megzilla
The little creep/twerp didn't pay his $30,000 party bill.
It's a wonder the Mafia doesn't have him in their clutches for repayment.
The problem the Sussexes have is that they have already proven themselves to be fabricators of lies, half lies, mistruths, aspersions that nobody in their right mind should believe anything they say.
I find it difficult to believe that the DM is such a bunch of mess-ups that they would report something as outrageous as this fourth book and the circumstances that would dictate its publication. It’s just too crazy for the DM to have created something like this, but it is not so crazy to think that Harry and Meghan would do such an evil, treacherous, and diabolical thing and then deny it.
Will be curious what the DM’s response is to their denial.
I think the Sussexes allowed this info out as a trial balloon.
@Puds
You called it first-Poop Scoop ��
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I totally agree. I was letting @Puds know I thought the comment on POOP was very clever. I merely mentioned GOOP=Goopy
POOP=Poopy
Did I do something wrong?
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DM
"After being alerted to the story in detail on Thursday and told that it would be published on Saturday, lawyers acting for Harry replied to the Mail yesterday afternoon saying that they would not be commenting"
Five hours later however, and after early editions of the paper had gone to press, they then wrote to the Mail again saying the claims were *'false and defamatory*.
They said there was only one 'memoir' planned by Harry, which will be published next year"
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If they say that this DM information is false and defamatory, they are denying the existence of 4 books that the article reports.
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Happy Days... Yes! I think you got the point. Why didn't the Sussex deny it before the article was published?
@ Happy Days, There was a guy who dated Negs when she was in LA, not sure if it was the Porn Star or another guy,(he did a newspaper interview a couple of years ago but I don't think I have it, I did mention it here, he said over their small talk at dinner that she said she dropped out of the theatre course at NW saying it wasn't for her and switched to a Communications course.
@Puds: I didn’t put your entire reply, but thank you for it.
You are right in that a lot of Meghan’s past has, as you said, probably been sanitized, but I am guessing if they wanted to do it, the RF could unleash quite a barrage of past sh!t upon Meghan….and Harry too. Heck, the royal family might have even helped cover some of Meghan’s past indiscretions.
They could also poke around and interview people who have been associated with her in the past. They might even get Trevor to speak anonymously. There’s probably enough dirt to fill several dump trucks.
@LavenderLady
My comment to @Puds
You called it first-Poop Scoop 💩
Was a play on words, exclusive/scoop
and a double entendre, sh.t shoveller
Just a bit of fun,
lightening the load 😉
The denial is interesting as it denies specifics (no such project co-ordinated around the event). Kind of like denying emphatically that the dress will be berry red (just an example) because it is actually strawberry red.
My opinion is that this is all lashing out by Harry because he made a huge mistake by marrying Meghan, but he cannot see a way out of it nor can consciously admit it.
@SwampWoman
Life without coffee is not life. It is a cold winter here in the south and if this affects coffee, it is a global disaster that will far eclipse the bloody virus!
“Is he kind?”
😂
I forgot about 6w's 'oaty fibre coffee thingy drink she has invested in', although I did say a few weeks ago she'd have her own 'wellness' blog/book. As for said book, I trust there will be a comprehensive chapter on pregnancy, including how to eat well for pregnancy, dressing for pregnancy, skincare and haircare, mental health, early days of motherhood etc, all based on her personal experience, naturellement.
1) When Meghan goes to the beach and takes a dip in the Pacific, as a professional courtesy, the sharks that live in the local waters steer clear of her.
2) If Diana miraculously returned to earth for a quick visit, she’d grab Meghan by her fake hair, punch her in her fake nose, and knock out her fake teeth.
3) At the pace she’s going, Meghan will one day get her wish to be Queen. In hell.
Back on track…
Saturday Singalong 🎤
Apologies to the Beatles
Paperback Writer
*Yellowback Slighter
Dear Oprah, Elton
will you publish my book
I’m trying hard to write
not having much luck
It’s based on my family
who now live in fear
Of my open gob
So I wanna be a yellowback writer
Yellowback Blighter
It’s a dirty story of me, dirty man
And my clinging wife, so underhand
I’m sick of merching for the Daily Mail
Need a few bob
So I wanna be a yellowback writer
Yellowback Shiter
Yellowback Biter…
*Yellowback- a cheap novel
Check out the ‘real’ lyrics
love the DM line 😆
My opinion is that this is all lashing out by Harry because he made a huge mistake by marrying Meghan, but he cannot see a way out of it nor can consciously admit it.
@Sandie: Great comment. You are right on both parts: Harry can’t see a way out, at least not for the time being. Because this relationship is on a worldwide stage and like many people who insist in quickly marrying someone before they truly get to know them, is in a terrible jam.
If he was a regular non-famous person, he would have more options, but due to his lack of intelligence, his stubbornness and childish reaction when William and some of his friends suggested he slow down and get to know Meghan, he has painted himself into a corner, and Meghan knows that. And now, because like any profound narcissist, she quickly isolated him physically, psychologically, and emotionally from every aspect of his former life (except for keeping those cherished titles) and she uses the isolation to her advantage.
I think that the Sussexes are essentially a one-trick pony. They will make some money, but in the world they are attempting to inhabit, people they are trying to cultivate for financial gain as well as the general public will get tired or are already getting tired of their “poor little me” victim narrative and the nasty way they treat both of their families.
If they treat their family this way, how will Harry and Meghan treat these successful people in business dealings or social settings? Pretty much the same way. Why would any of the millionaires and billionaires tell either of them anything confidential if they know it might show up in a future interview with Oprah or their next book?
Yes, they will make some money, but my guess is that although they will attempt to create a lucrative cottage industry out of trashing the royal family, it will have a relatively short lifespan as they poison their own brand. After all, toxic humanitarianism, is not a big seller in any demographic.
I think if there is any hope for Harry breaking free of Meghan’s tight grip, it will be when their act gets old in the public eye and in the corporate boardrooms and the money dries up but they, especially Meghan, continue to spend lavishly to maintain the appearance of being successful. I believe they will end up in deep financial trouble. Meghan will accuse Harry of being abusive as she kicks him to the side of the road to join all the other people who have ceased to be useful.
It will be a magnificent divorce on par with an MMA steel cage match, but it could be several years before the money dries up and then a few more for them to keep spending money they don’t have.
I would love to be able to listen in on the conversation when Harry calls Charles or William ( if they will even take his calls by then) and asks them to dig him and Meghan out of the financial pit they are in, and are politely told to go f- -k themselves.
Thanks Natalier, Harry alway has to blame someone else, but he was the one who dug his spurs so hard into his polo pony it bled, he was the one shooting rhino for sport in Africa. Entitled Harry has a nasty competitive streak and doesn't know when to stop and like his wife thinks those trying to advise him are deliberately trying to spoil his fun rather than guide him. He is in now competition with his brother fuelled by his own demons spurred on by his greedy wife and doesn't know when to stop.
I'd add I now believe, and I didn't want to, that he DID shoot the Marsh Harrier, an endangered, protected, rare, bird.
Bonfire of the Insanities
It’s time for the Queen to abolish
she must
This grifting pair
she clearly can’t trust
Strip off their titles
their names turned to dust
All I can say is
I am filled with disgust
I wonder what this blogger thinks of H:
`When Macbeth is at his wits end, sleepless with guilt, hated by everyone, his marriage broken, he goes to find the witches to try and find out how it’s going to end for him. They know he’s coming and Shakespeare gives us a wonderful scene as they prepare a potion for him to drink. They have a steaming cauldron on a fire and they are cooking their ingredients, chanting as they do so...'
https://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/quotes/famous/double-double-toil-and-trouble
(Or even `Boreham Wood to Dunstable Down' as I once heard in Hertfordshire?)
@WildBoar
Cocoa, my clown…
Blogger Karla said...
Mel..Omid is referring to the communique from Harry's lawers
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DM
"After being alerted to the story in detail on Thursday and told that it would be published on Saturday, lawyers acting for Harry replied to the Mail yesterday afternoon saying that they would not be commenting"
Five hours later however, and after early editions of the paper had gone to press, they then wrote to the Mail again saying the claims were *'false and defamatory*.
They said there was only one 'memoir' planned by Harry, which will be published next year"
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If they say that this DM information is false and defamatory, they are denying the existence of 4 books that the article reports.
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Happy Days... Yes! I think you got the point. Why didn't the Sussex deny it before the article was published?
My comments:
He needs another excuse to sue. They are apparently winning partially or fully in their previous lawsuits. Why not let it be published , then deny specifics, File a lawsuit, settle for costs and a small bit of $$$. Seems to be their MO. Just like call the paps themselves, then sue when photos are published. The paps are beyond crazy if they continue to invite lawsuits like that. The Disastrous Duo should be blacklisted by now.
https://yankeewally.tumblr.com/post/656980671982714880
The Harkles are very entertaining in the hands of people with a sense of humour!
Thank you mi lady :)
Sorry for asking. I do feel like I'm walking on eggshells here. It's responses like yours, and others upthread, that calm those apprehensions. I appreciate it when others acknowledge my presence.
LOVE your additions! They keep us smiling <3
Current Affairs: The full truth about our time in the royal family and how we escaped (actually a fantastical tale told by Meghan in buffet style word salad).
Motivational 1: Lessons learned on our road to independence (how to con a lot of stupid people out of loads of money).
Motivational 2: Daily lessons from the Sussexes served up in gourmet word salad (e.g. Delivery does not matter. Just make the deal and get the advance. Once the salad is eaten, you can't give it back. It is what you say that counts and every time you speak, you can say anything ... truth and making sense is for stupid people who will never be rich like us.)
@LavenderLady
No eggshells here, dive in.
We all appreciate acknowledgment.
https://fabiosa.com/ctnws-rsyhr-auobs-pbtzh-phnkz-royal-family-is-searching-for-a-new-pilot-is-meghan-a-reason-for-his-quit-because-of-her-difficult-temper/
I oscillate between the humour (very bitter) and dark despair when it comes to these two.
Feeling that I wanted to give up and do something else, I recalled a prayer that our headmistress frequently used at daily School Assembly, `the Prayer of Sir Francis Drake', about starting something important and sticking to it, so I looked it up.
Well, Drake didn't write prayers as such but what I was thinking of seems to have been derived from a letter he wrote to Walsingham in 1587, dated May 17th, saying:
`There must be a begynnyng of any great matter, but the contenewing unto the end untyll it be thoroughly ffynyshed yeldes the trew glory...
`...If we can thorowghly beleve that this which we dow is in the defence of our relygyon and contrye, no doubt but out(r?) mercyfull God for his Christ, our Savyour’s sake, is abell, and will geve us victory, althowghe our sennes be reed. God geve us grace that we may feare hym, and daylly to call upon hym, so shall nether Sattan, nor his menesters prevayell agaynst us; although God permett yow to be towched in body, yeat the Lord will hold his mynd pure...'
http://discerninghistory.com/2014/11/francis-drakes-prayer-fact-or-fiction/
I don't what colour my sins are but I ought to have this done in poker work and hang it above my desktop.
Perhaps Drake saw these two `Ministers of Satan' coming...
God Save the Queen and confound her enemies.
@WildBoar
Amen
Thanks for sharing that article from The Sun. I'm pretty sure the same information will be reprinted every time news of his book comes out, to create an association between them and the memoir. Keep these events in public memory. So if he either avoids them entirely or seems less than "wholly truthful" about them in his recollections, he'll look like the liar he is.
@Karla
"The press English in Silent or Silenced?" Now, British journalists can talk what they know about H&M.
Fantastic point! There may have been British reporters freaking out at the "silent or silenced" line, because of everything they know but have not been allowed to print. Where is their Oprah interview?
Harry alway has to blame someone else, but he was the one who dug his spurs so hard into his polo pony it bled, he was the one shooting rhino for sport in Africa.
There should be a whole chapter of his memoir in which he is "wholly truthful" about his behavior toward animals.
@Wild Boar Battle-maid
I'd add I now believe, and I didn't want to, that he DID shoot the Marsh Harrier, an endangered, protected, rare, bird.
I had completely forgotten about the Marsh Harrier!
I wonder if Harry is going to spin these stories with the excuse: "But William did first and was protected, so I thought it was okaaaaaay."
itv has a sussex spokesperson saying no 4 book deal. hmmm. did they get caught and the extra two books are just options on those. or did they leak the four to negotiate some shut up money for the last two. does confirm what was speculated here. the bench was a gimme me to get harry’s book.
if true about one after the queens death all i can say is long love the queen. in 5 years 10 years will anyone care? does seem to be giving after charles and william to disrupt them. could the “after the queen is dead” mean some deep dark queen or philip secret ? or just a tease about that. those two are nuts. let the press start getting things out including the deference to the brf when hiding harry stories. a good editor in chief reflective story on news media and the brf and explain what was going on and why they let the palace protect him. he’s not gonna look good in any of this and maybe they can start leaking theb6s wife info too.
JH - Memoir of the man he has become …hahahaha
- book to be published AFTER HM death - obvisously some sort of ‘memoir’ of ‘traumas’ she/ PP / BRF/ Grey suits gave him that caused him to becaome the man ‘he was’. published AFTER HM can direct the grey suits to mount a defense.
TBW - wellness book??? what a joke. why would anyone take advice from her? she’s just another Goop/ Kate Hudson/ flavor of the week “welness” advior? what qualifications does she have… avacadoe taost, banaa bread and rescue roast chicken? yoga warrior poses in the sunset? thats all a dime a dozen all over streaming youtube/ tiktok/ etc.
4th unnamed book - was it the already published childrens bestseller? “the Bench”??? hahahah
looks like random huse has been markled. - their $ is on the JH manly memoir and Post Mortem being the” real bestsellers”
I share everyone's skepticism at how qualified Harry's wife is to say anything about the subject of wellness. But I also find it odd that she's choosing a book for her medium. After the laughable failure of The Bench, does she really want a Round 2?
Also, if she's trying to have a career like Gwyneth Paltrow's, surely a Web site or online portal would be her best bet. Even the most dedicated sugar can only buy so many copies of a physical book; but because anyone can visit a site for free, even "saltines" might drop by now and then out of curiosity. ("Saltines" is River's word for the Harkles' critics. Given how queasy Harry's wife can make people, it seems appropriate to think of the Nutties as relievers of nausea!)
The only reason to have a book rather than an online resource is that she knows she will never be able to create enough new content for it. In a week, a Web site will go the way of Archewell Audio -- but this time, with visuals. Nor will she be able to attract talent or sponsors to do the work for her. Ollie Ayling snubbed them. And if reports are true that no baby clothes company wanted to work with her after Lili's "birth," she won't have any partnerships for her site, either. With a book, she'll be one and done, and still be able to boast that she hit the NYT Bestseller list.
" . . .She said she dropped out of the theatre course at NW saying it wasn't for her and switched to a Communications course. That sounded very possible to me as she never cited NW as part of her drama coaching. <....> Because there doesn't seem to be info on the course during Negs time at NW it is mostly speculation which ever way you look at it. Some say she did not attend the Drama School Graduation, some think she was abroad working at the Embassy as an intern arranged by her fathers brother at that time, which strangely some also think she dropped out of after a few weeks and started an affair with someone and then she went travelling in Europe.
Because Negs is not a good actress I think she may not have had much coaching other than her drama classes at school when she was a teenager and just learnt on the job which may be why producers didn't repeat hire her for projects though she put that down to not having a union card.
While lots of working actors of native ability and drive have managed to become successful without drama school degrees, the traditional route is to learn one's craft via structured acting lessons and drama courses. Many actors drift into acting while not having studied it formally in a university/graduate school setting, but possess degrees in other disciplines. It'd be really odd for the child of an award-winning lighting director, who announced to her father that she wanted to be famous and who'd grown up in Hollywood to reject the excellent professional training which would be offered at a program like Northwestern. After all it was no doubt Thomas's connections in the industry that got her into NW in the first place, and we all know that he paid for her schooling. The same could be said of Gwyneth Paltrow, child of true Hollywood royalty, who nonplussed her dad after dropping out of UC Santa Barbara's drama department after one semester. The deal was that Bruce would happily pay for her education, wherever she wanted to go. Gwyn's parents were strenuously hoping she'd choose anything other than acting. He would have joyfully paid for multiple graduate degrees at the Sorbonne--but, if she chose not to pursue her education, she was on her own, financially. There was a certain amount of whining over having to dig through sofa cushions for change to buy gas for her car and so on, but Gwynnie's gamble paid off as she soon got acting work despite almost no formal training. Having Bruce Paltrow and Blythe Danner for her parents helped inestimably in that regard, no doubt, but she was still made to audition for roles and she even fell into the clutches of Harvey Weinstein. Gwynnie's suffering for her art was short-lived because she had the ability and the looks. Even those who are tepid to salty about Miss Goop and her entitled self (like me) have to acknowledge that when matched with the right roles, Gwyn was a very winning ingenue, with talent. Negs did not have any of those advantages.
Once at school, and confronted with students of much more talent, and continually failing to win parts (no supporting roles for Mugsy; only the lead in every single production would do), of course her Narc ego couldn't take it and she quit. Her lack of technical ability is so glaring, she doesn't seem to actually have had acting lessons, ever, but she certainly was taught well by her dad how to work a camera.
She has apparently been smart enough to avoid claiming she had lead or other important roles in college productions because any claims could be easily checked via cast listings from past productions at Northwestern archives, yearbooks or other records kept at Northwestern.
At the time Eyelash Glue-gate came to light, I read a piece that clarified why Negs seemed to vanish from the Northwestern campus scene sometime around the halfway mark of her tenure there--end of sophomore year/beginning of junior year. For someone who'd been appointed social chair of her desirable sorority and who had spent at least a year in the sorority house . . and furthermore, the next Sarah Bernhardt/Mother Teresa walking amongst her fellow students in the flesh, Negs being so under-the-radar for two-plus years . . no roles in any productions, no mention of her in other campus groups, student body leadership or other, and the deafening silence from former sorority sisters, classmates or professors who would have known her, none stepping forward with character references to gush with happiness over one of NW's own marrying a prince--was a great mystery.
According to this piece, Negs' records at NW were sealed, along with the terms of the court proceedings against her for her alleged grievous bodily harm to two undergraduate sorority pledges. However, it was speculated that part of those terms was her being banned from the main campus and any of its properties or from coming within 100 feet of either of her victims until they had graduated from the university. If Negs' listing in the graduation program of the Class of 2003 is legitimate, she would have had to complete the final two years of her coursework remotely. Online courses weren't very common in the early 2000s, but NW does have a satellite campus in downtown Chicago. Some of this period would have also been covered by her 'international' period, some of which she ostensibly was doing for academic credit. But she's told so many lies about her past accomplishments and so much has been whitewashed, I am not convinced she actually did graduate from NW. Her name's in the program, but she did not attend. Her name may have been inserted as a prospective graduate but she actually failed to complete the requirements. I doubt we will ever know if she actually was awarded a diploma. Anyone who'd lie about having a SAG card for self-interest is also totally capable of lying about earning a college degree being a compassionate 'humanitarian' or having two babies for the same reason.
Harry goes ROGUE/book's TRAPS/Thomas Markle/SUING Harry/Palace DILEMMA/merching the KIDS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ7n9ntQjsg
Please include an explanation about the baby she carried around at the polo match. Why did it not move like the living kid toted around on the SA trip? And why didn't she introduce it to her SIL or the kids? The photos of the introducing the new arrival to his cousins would made the front page and brought out for years.
JCMH is being boxed up.....
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9820593/Windsor-Castle-staff-cleared-Harrys-possessions-Frogmore-Cottage-storage.html
One can hope this is a sign of things to come.
Anyone who'd lie about having a SAG card for self-interest is also totally capable of lying about earning a college degree being a compassionate 'humanitarian' or having two babies for the same reason.
@Hikari: I’d forgotten about the alleged hazing incident at Northwestern and Meghan being brought up in front of a disciplinary committee of members of chapters of her sorority from other colleges and universities. One woman who posted a comment on Twitter who seemed to have first-hand knowledge of the incident and subsequent sorority disciplinary hearing mentioned that Meghan had her Northwestern records sealed. Tom Bowers needs to ask Thomas about this incident for his book about Meghan. The two girls that allegedly had their eyes glued shut by Meghan had medical bills that were reportedly paid as part of the action against Meghan.
Of course Meghan is a liar. After all she is profoundly narcissistic. Narcs lie without a second thought. They are so well-versed at lying that it is as natural to them as drawing breath.
I think you are onto something here. Hopefully, the royal family will look into the endless string of lies, half-truths, and misrepresentations by Meghan over the years and bring them to light. If it’s one thing cockroaches like Meghan hate, it’s having the bright light of truth shine on them.
(eyelashes glued) happened the way it's been reported. I just don't think in the year 2000 or so ANY reputable university (which NW is) or any parents of injured girls would have settled for paid medical bills and M being made to merely keep her distance from the injured parties. Just don't believe it. I also don't believe the sorority would have been let off the hook for hazing. Had the sorority been sanctioned that would be a matter of public record and there's no evidence that I know of that the sorority was ever cited.
Regardless, just about every account of the supposed hazing says M "had her records sealed." Will someone please explain what that even means?!. FERPA would already automatically seal many student records such as transcripts. And NO school's disciplinary records for individual students are open for reporters to rifle through. Just what is M supposed to have sealed?
A woman who would glue the eyelids of two sorority pledges is NOT a "compassionate humanitarian." It is inconceivable to me that anyone would do that!
Snitch and Witch?
or, with reference to Lord Snooty and his Pals (The Beano )
Snitch and Snatch?
`Snitch and Snatch – identical twins in babygrows who cause mischief and mayhem.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Snooty
Rental on a storage unit in central London must be astronomical. It would be petty but the BRF should charge them for boxing and storage fees.
I could believe something else did though. Don't know what but could easily have something happen which lead to some wild stories like the glue. Most of us usually don't need to seal our school records. There is a lot of smoke there but not sure what is burning.
The other thing about the wellness idea is that you need a product people will need to be replenished. Frequently. (the comment of the book - one and done is right as the problem with books). With the wellness tie in, you need something people will feel a need to go out and buy. RIGHT NOW. And, it has to be disposable (in that they always need to be ordering more).
Then, the real problem becomes that face creams, perfume (or similar) is that there is always something new or the latest or the next must have which will shove yours down the hill. And then you have to have the new and improved version to regain your transient market as your core market will be less likely to switch (unless they find something better or change their mind about you/therefore your product).
I once read about how there are companies which develop the perfume which are then offered for sale to different stars to "bottle" as their fragrance. I suspect the same is true for creams (based on seeing special stuff at dermatologists which has their name on it as the brand). It costs money to play in that game to hope to make more money off it.
But if you own it, then your profit margin is greater and you can't get kicked out of the contract at some point (which could be a technical problem with trying to pair up with an existing company with existing product).
So one thing they do, over and over, is that they do not make a sustained effort after the first one (the one trick pony comment is so true). It is unclear who (may vary) is choosing not to continue the joint opportunity.
It is unclear if they have some idea of what they expect on their ROI but the whole one time this and then it is something else is not what anyone would call a sustained business plan. PC basically asked for it to be put in writing (pre Megxit). Judging from what they did later, it is unclear if they used or didn't use one (or even how much of one they ever did give him). Don't know but guessing that it would have been a shock to the former Gates employee when first joining up to discover what it was or what her job really was after leaving the Gates Foundation behind. Maybe that became her real focus - to put one together?
A woman who would glue the eyelids of two sorority pledges is NOT a "compassionate humanitarian." It is inconceivable to me that anyone would do that!
Most certainly a person who'd do that is a monster . . . considering that it's MM, though, is it so inconceivable? The likes of you and I are horrified at the thought that someone could do that, but we are not narcissistic sociopaths.
Lizzie and others doubt the reports of this hazing incident. If the proceedings were sealed, and there is any veracity to the speculations which are circulating, either there's been a leak, or--the incident has been made up/conflagrated into a bigger deal than it was. There've been reports that other members of the sorority not involved in this alleged glue incident were relentlessly bullied by MM, feared her and avoided any sorority/campus events if they knew she was going to be there.
Again and again and again, we hear these stories of her bullying, cruel behavior to other girls. She's got form as they say . . so we have to ask, does an incident like this seem to fall well within her established patterns of behavior? I say yes. Also, the details of the alleged incident are so very specific . . not just a generalized allegation of 'bullying', but so detailed. We've got evidence that MM is very fond of her fake eyelashes but she's not skillful with the application. A kid that would see if she could choke her pet cat by feeding it frozen grapes might think that putting Superglue on eyelashes to trick unsuspecting younger girls would be a gas.
We will never know the details, unless Tom Bower or someone can blow the lid off the secrecy. Given that MM only faced a disciplinary hearing and wasn't actually convicted of felonious assault in a criminal court perhaps means that the girls were OK after receiving treatment and didn't actually lose their sight or have lasting effects. If they *had*, I doubt the resolution of this matter would have been satisfactory to the girls or their parents.
How much might Thomas have paid off the families/the university (couched as 'an endowment') in order to minimize the repercussions of this matter? I don't think it was M's tuition fees alone that bankrupted him after being a multiple lottery winner. We also have to remember that Narcs can generally charm themselves out of a tight spot or else successfully shift the blame for negative outcomes to someone else, essentially making the victims of their injurious behavior somehow complicit in their own injury. We are seeing it with Haz, no?
Something bad went down at Northwestern and it may have cost her her degree if not her freedom. Her name in the program may even be a face-saving measure for the university, to preclude questions being asked about why she wasn't listed in the commencement program . . she might have tried the RACISM card back then just as easily. A name in a program isn't legal proof of any sort and could easily be denied as a 'clerical error' if anyone pressed the matter. I'd love to hear a deposition from anyone who's actually ever seen a legitimate diploma from NW with her name on it. This whole episode is just an early symptom of how she's always been and how she will always be.
The other thing about the wellness idea is that you need a product people will need to be replenished. Frequently. (the comment of the book - one and done is right as the problem with books). With the wellness tie in, you need something people will feel a need to go out and buy. RIGHT NOW. And, it has to be disposable (in that they always need to be ordering more).
What if it's not a consumable product, but a service? Maybe she's hoping to become the "face" of a chain of luxury spas? With some photo editing, she could also pass as the "body."
I once read about how there are companies which develop the perfume which are then offered for sale to different stars to "bottle" as their fragrance. I suspect the same is true for creams
I see it now! A line of facial care products made with California's finest royal jelly and called . . . "Duchess".
And should anyone complain, she could haughtily point out that "there is not any jurisdiction by The Monarchy or the Cabinet Office over the use of the word . . . overseas."
... and the deafening silence from former sorority sisters, classmates or professors who would have known her, none stepping forward with character references to gush with happiness over one of NW's own marrying a prince.
*Lorrie* is the only one that I recall.
Full disclosure, Meghan was a Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority sister of mine at Northwestern University in the early 2000’s. Even then, as most of us gained 15 pounds and generally embarrassed ourselves socially on a weekly basis, Meghan was a class act. She had a close-knit circle of friends, though she was incredibly warm with everyone. And of course, she was lovely both inside and out. It came as no surprise, then, to see her pop up on television in the years following graduation. During coffee breaks, I’d catch up on her now-disabled lifestyle blog, the Tig, and occasionally checked out her now-deactivated Instagram to see her latest fashion and travel posts. I loved her speech on gender equality for the UN in 2015. It was fun to see someone from back in the day, doing well and using her growing platform to connect to women and girls on something more than surface level (I’m looking at you, Kardashians!). Role model, anyone?
https://sanfrancisco.momcollective.com/trending-news/royal-wedding-watch-meghan-markle-was-my-sorority-sister/
There's also this article from The Irish Mirror about her time at Northwestern.
https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/celebrity-news/meghan-markles-throwback-sorority-picture-11606480
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/man-dies-children-yorkshire-rip-tide-151319746.html
Bad things happen to good people all the time - in the UK we’ve had a spate of drownings lately in the heat wave.
In this case, a man died in front of his children, having been caught in a rip current. He’d been brought ashore by the RNLI but expired on the beach.
What makes H think he’s so special? Methinks he doth protest too much - is he using his mother’s death as an excuse for hitting the bottle at an early age, as so many little blighters do, with no excuse other than wanting to act big or doing what’s forbidden?
It would fit with my other thought about the non-effectiveness of any of the interventions/therapy so far - to benefit from any form of therapy, one has to cooperate, to want to kick what ever it is, be it thought or action, that keeps you in an unhappy state.
He doesn't want to change. They're each as bad as each other, I've decided. They're locked together in their delusions and conduct.
I expect their belongings are stowed away somewhere remote and therefore cheap, like the galleries in old salt mines that are already being used for document storage.
@Snarky,
Yes, probably written by TBW herself, in her finest calligraphy.
Here’s another bit of TEA about Meghan’s bullying. This time, it’s a comment that I believe is still visible on Quora from a woman who states she was in the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority chapter with Meghan at Northwestern. It sounds like classic Meghan behavior. That Meghan quickly wormed her way into nothing less than the British Royal Family is beyond any fiction bestseller. But as the saying goes: Truth is stranger than fiction.
This woman describes Meghan, as “cruel,” which I define as far beyond “mean.” To me, cruelty indicates that the person being cruel derives a certain sort of sick pleasure from mistreating another person (including children), or an animal. Most people would be mortified to be described as such. She also attempts to temper her observations about Meghan, but as most of the inhabitants of this blog know, narcissists spend most of their time hiding behind a carefully-crafted, and as dumped former lifetime friend Ninaki Priddy called it a “ curated” facade.
The first paragraph by this woman sums Meghan up in a nutshell.
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From Quora:
Question:
Is Meghan Markle a nice person?
Anonymous
Answered March 27, 2020
I was friends with Meghan Markle in college (Woo go Northwestern!) so I can answer this one.
My personal opinion is that she could be very nice but also very cruel. It all depends on who you were. To her “crowd” or friends like me, she was very nice and friendly.
But to people she disliked or did not care for, or people who displeased her in some way, she could turn like a switch and become very mean.
At one point, her bullying of two friends of mine ( I will call them “Sam” and “Katie” ) became so bad, that both friends would refuse to come to events if they knew Rachel was there. One of them considered quitting the sorority because of it.
However, even though Rachel could have a few bad moments, I do not think she is a horrible person. She could also be very nice and friendly, which is how she was most of the time. What people need to realize is that most people are not 100% kind, compassionate people. Most people are not nice to every single person they meet, and I do not believe it is fair to put her on a pedestal and expect her to act perfectly 100% of the time.
Was what Rachel did to my friends wrong? Yes. But most people I knew in college could be quite mean, and could bully others at times, and I am willing to bet the person reading this has been mean to people as well.
So who are you to judge?
So while I do not think Rachel is the next Mother Theresa, I do not think she is a horrible human being either. What I think she is, is normal. And I think she should be treated like a normal human being.
P.S I would like to say I was never a “best” friend of Rachels, though I was involved in the sorority she was in and knew her well enough for us to call each other friends. Also, Im going Anonymous so I dont get death threats or nasty comments from anyone. Sorry, but I will not be answering any questions/comments. And no, Rachel and I are no longer in contact with each other, we went our separate ways after graduation.
March 26, 2021 @ 9:47 AM
LOL Neither would I... but I'm sure when she first posted this people would have checked her credentials.
ie: Lorrie is a licensed and practicing attorney in both Illinois and California. She is proud to represent employees in all manner of work-related disputes, and partners closely as Of Counsel with Caffarelli & Assoc. Ltd., a Chicago-based firm.
Yep, I remember that comment from Quora. :)
Harry is likely well into the devaluation stage by now, so we can only imagine what sort of emotional, psychological, and yes, perhaps even physical abuse he is subjected to on a 24/7 basis.
People who live with a narc spend their lives walking on glass as they fear the next time the narc will fly into a rage over the smallest thing.
So in the absence of evidence it happened including absence of evidence of any punishment being levied against the sorority (as that would have been public) I tend to think it didn't happen. Saying that it "sounds like" something M would do is simply not convincing proof it actually did happen. And the idea that the school was covering up for the hazing by putting her name in the graduation program and the school is continuing to falsely claim she graduated https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2017/november/from-wildcat-to-royalty
to cover up the incident is not credible IMO. Also lF she was banned from the main campus as has been claimed here, I simply do not believe the school would have attested she was in good standing for the internship semester and the study abroad semester.
IF the hazing happened the school would not be beholden to M. And in 2003, trying to play the race card would have been considerably less effective than it might be today.
I agree her name in the program is not proof of graduation. Sometimes students apply for graduation and fail a spring course, for example. A picture of her in a cap snd gown isn't proof either. Even video of her at the ceremony wouldn't be proof. Being listed in the program AND NW saying she graduated (see link above) is the best we can do. And when it comes right down to it, we don't have any better proof anyone else in the RF has ever graduated from anywhere either.
I can think of lots of reasons 15 years later more people at NW might not have stepped up to talk about M when she became engaged and her sorority wouldn't have planned a viewing party for her wedding-- reasons besides she never graduated after she superglued girls' eyes shut! Like maybe people prefer not to get involved, that faculty who knew her best retired or left NW in those 15 years, that she just wasn't memorable to remaining faculty in terms of intellect/ talent, she wasn't always nice, her reputation at the sorority wasn't great with all members, plus being impressed by a connection to royalty may not have been a popular stance to take at NW in 2018. And as to why she reportedly wasn't around some weekend nights during college, if that's even true, that's easy-- she was spending those nights with her first husband. (Seriously, isn't Joe G supposed to be from her time at NW?) Or she was having an affair with a professor.
We don't have any proof she ever "sealed her records" either (or what that would even mean.). But that claim is repeatedly stated as though God himself said it's true.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9821863/Royal-Family-real-fears-Harrys-18m-four-book-deal-destabilise-monarchy.html
...as couple renew their campaign against ‘bigoted’ British media.
By Mark Hookham
The Sussexes have renewed their campaign against the British media after backing a fierce attack on the industry body that represents newspaper editors.
Archewell, the couple’s campaign and media organisation, has thrown its support behind a group of journalists who accused the Society of Editors of a ‘ham-fisted blanket denial of racism’.
The move could reignite the row sparked during the couple’s interview with Oprah Winfrey in March, when Prince Harry claimed the UK tabloid media was ‘bigoted’ and created a ‘toxic environment’ of ‘control and fear’. ITV, which bought the UK rights to the interview, was later forced to edit out some misleading and distorted headlines which portrayed British press coverage of the couple as racist.
Society of Editors executive director Ian Murray said the couple’s accusations were ‘not acceptable’ and the UK media ‘has a proud record of calling out racism’. However, his comments prompted a backlash that led to his resignation and the postponement of the society’s press awards.
Some 123 journalists – 36 of whom work for the Left-leaning Guardian – last week issued a letter in which they accused the society of a failure of ‘moral leadership’.
Supporting the letter, Archewell said it was ‘seeking to bring awareness to a coalition of UK journalists calling for stronger initiatives to combat the under-representation, inequity and racial bigotry that still persists in this important industry’.
Christening caused chaos for Welby
The Archbishop of Canterbury was forced to leave the most important meeting in the Church of England calendar because the Duke and Duchess of Sussex chose to baptise their son during the General Synod.
Senior clerics were mystified when, without explanation, Justin Welby pulled out of the Saturday session of the four-day meeting in York in July 2019.
Such was the secrecy surrounding the christening of Harry and Meghan’s son Archie that senior bishops only learnt why the Archbishop was absent after Palace officials released two photographs after the service.
The couple initially chose Friday July 5, 2019, but the Queen and Prince Charles were unavailable so it was moved to the next day. The Queen was still unable to attend.
A well-placed source said the sudden change in the Archbishop’s diary raised eyebrows: ‘The Sussexes certainly didn’t consult others as to what date might suit best... that just wasn’t a consideration.’
The revelation comes amid speculation the couple want their second child Lilibet christened in Britain.
Prince Harry's old Eton and Army friends warn him not to reveal their secrets and threaten to dish the Royal dirt on him if his book exposes them.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9821799/Prince-Harrys-old-Eton-Army-friends-warn-not-reveal-secrets.html
Marrying a prince and becoming immensely wealthy and famous almost overnight went to her head and sent her over the edge. Unfortunately, both royalty and celebrity culture do not require intelligence nor any real talents, because the Harkles have neither. Meghan was not capable of the honour, duty, decency and selflessness British royalty requires. They are all human and do fail to live up to the Queen's standards, but Meghan failed to even show basic good manners and seems to think that everyone owed her and that she has done nothing wrong.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9821851/SARAH-VINE-time-Harry-long-hard-look-mirror.html?ito=amp_twitter_share-top
Thank you!
https://www.mashed.com/468964/in-ina-gartens-career-one-recipe-stands-above-the-rest/
SARAH VINE: It's time for Harry to take a long hard look in a mirror
Admittedly I am not a publisher but I do know a little about the book trade. And one thing I can say for certain: you don’t get a four-book deal with an advance approaching £30 million if the person signing the cheque doesn’t know for sure there’s some seriously juicy stuff on offer.
The revelation that Prince Harry is working on a tell-all autobiography in collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-winning ghostwriter J.R. Moehringer would have been nerve-racking enough for the Queen, given his recent track record with Oprah et al.
Now it transpires there are three more books in the pipeline. Admittedly one is a ‘wellness’ tome, to be penned by the Duchess herself, so probably more of the sub-Gwyneth Paltrow guff about the importance of self-love.
But the other two remain a mystery –save for the fact that Volume 2 will reportedly be held back until after the Queen dies.
If this turns out to be the case, then inevitably there will be speculation as to why. And given the Prince’s recent string of attacks on his family, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to assume the worst.
There have been many jaw-dropping moments over the past few months in relation to Harry, but this sets a new bar.
Because however uncharitable it may be, it’s hard to dismiss the notion that the Queen, who has never been anything other than forgiving of her grandson’s behaviour, is now little more than an inconvenient obstacle in his mission to cash in on his past life as a Royal.
What’s more, one can’t help wondering: is it possible that Prince Harry might not actually be the rather sweet, generous-hearted man he always seemed to be – or even the emotional, bleeding heart Prince of Woke he likes to project?
We’ve seen glimpses of this over the past few years. His aggression towards the press, the petty rows with his brother, the way he and Meghan deliberately targeted the Duchess of Cambridge in that Oprah interview, his decision to fly home straight after his grandfather’s funeral rather than stay a few extra hours to celebrate the Queen’s 95th birthday.
The further Harry steps out from behind the protective screen of the Monarchy, the more his true character seems to emerge. And it’s not all sunshine and rainbows. Details about how he ‘led’ contract negotiations from his £11 million mansion in Montecito are in themselves quite revealing. According to a source in publishing, he had a ‘very take-it-or-leave-it’ attitude, and ‘those involved were actually very shocked by his approach, which was to look at them coldly and state his demands’.
His starting price was £18 million; the bidding apparently ended around the £29 million mark. That’s the kind of deal Gordon ‘greed is good’ Gekko would be proud of.
It’s certainly a far cry from the touchy-feely persona Harry likes to present in carefully engineered photoshoots and interviews.
But ultimately you have only to look at the way Harry continually ambushes the Queen and the rest of the Royal Family with bombshells like this, never giving them fair warning of what he’s planning, to see that this is a man who, while he talks a lot about compassion and caring, often behaves in exactly the opposite manner.
Uncertainty and living under constant fear of attack are classic stress triggers, and that is exactly what Harry is doing to the Queen.
And now she knows that it won’t even stop when she’s dead – that, in fact, her passing will unlock another clause in the multi-million-pound contract.
Harry claims that in writing this memoir he will have a chance to address the world ‘not as a Prince but as the man I’ve become’.
Might I respectfully suggest, Sir, that as that man you take a long, hard look in the mirror…
Best thing the family can do now is to ensure damage and that nothing is salvageable.
I misspoke when I said that it is inconceivable that anyone would glue the eyelashes of two sorority pledges shut. Plus am sure there are some evil minds in hat would do such a dastardly deed.
I was married to a narcissist so I am very familiar with their behaviors.
I should have said that it is inconceivable that someone who wants to portray herself as a compassionate, kind humanitarian would do that. But narcs do not think the rules apply to them, do they?
@Nataliet Thank you for posting the text of the Sarah Vine article. Very interesting. I have honk what others have said about 6 being complicit in what we have seen since 6w arrived on the scene is correct.
Enty asks, What else does she lie to him about?
Here are the two most likely lies: 1) I love you, Harry. 2) I was really pregnant with Archie and Lilibucks.
Other lies from Meghan: Everything she says to Harry.
July 17, 2021
I told you years ago the alliterate one was dealing with the streaming company. The question is whether she lied to her husband the whole time she was dealing. What else does she lie to him about?
Meghan Markle/Netflix