Let's continue the discussion...
Not much appears to be going on. Living Legends came and went without fanfare ... what's the next event? Super Bowl - Sunday February 11th? Oscar's - March 10th? In the mean time, some things are still rolling along in various starts and stops like Samantha's law suit. Or tax season is about to begin in the US. The IRS just never goes away. Nor do bills (utility, cable, mortgage, food, cars, security, landscape people, cleaning people, koi person and so on). There's always another one. Elsewhere others just continue to glide forward without a real hint of being disrupted by some news out of California. That would be the new King and Queen or the Prince/Princess of Wales. Yes there are health risks which seemed to come out of nowhere. But. The difference is that these people are calmly living their lives with minimal drama.
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Beautiful - `The Secret Diary of Harry Mole Aged 13 ¾'
@WildBoar
Or Diary of a Wimpy Kid…
Thanks for the link. I had to read the following sentence twice to make sure it was about 6.
The publishing company calls it an "intimate and heartfelt memoir from one of the most fascinating and influential global figures of our time" and promises “an honest and captivating personal portrait.”
Personally, I query 'the most fascinating and influential global figures' and 'an honest and captivating personal portrait'. The memoir will be anything but.
@Wild Boar
Have you read the list of Diary of a Wimpy Kid books? Here is a selection of titles for your perusal.
- The Last Straw
- Dog Days
- The Ugly Truth
- Hard Luck
- The Long Haul
- Double Down
- The Meltdown
- Wrecking Ball
- The Deep End
Unpleasant Lament
Her fifteen percent
Is this recent, nascent
She’ll be even more smug, complacent
But she’ll not be content
‘till she’s caused his descent
And the fifteen becomes fifty percent
I have just asked a friend who worked outdoors at a Royal Palace some years ago, not an indoors domestic, about this.
Yes, she had to sign it right at the start of her employment.
I cannot imagine that this security requirement has been dropped without equivalent steps being taken.
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Cheers, Magatha!
Hahaha Maneki
Every title is perfect, so apt!! 😆
Ties in with ‘Horrid Henry’ books
Horrid Henry and the mummies curse
Horrid Henry how to get rich quick…
@WildBoar
From what I’ve read.
The Official Secrets Act covers former,
and current, government employees.
It is an offence to leak information considered
damaging to security, defence, intelligence
and international relations.
Seems like the ones in breach
are the Harkles, on all counts!
Anyone serving the malevolent one
Afternoon Delights
would be in their rights to spill the tea?
I’m still bound by the act, not much to tell,
friends do, but don’t.
@Rebecca
‘twould appear the palace
are sharpening their arrows
@Karla
Big foot has already got him!!
Secrets : I've lost count of the number of times I've had to sign the Act - every temporary job with various bits of the Civil Service.
I think this is for them to ensure that they can still profit when "donating to charity." Even though their charity is Archewell, of course!
This way, whatever Harry "earns" cannot be donated until he pays all "expenses." This is frankly just a way of funneling money to their personal bank accounts, before the Markles donate to Archewell and.....funnel it back to their own bank accounts ;)
The future divorce will be an entirely different business arrangement LOL
Thanks for the posts ... always wonderful to check in here and find lots of good reading matter.
This bit of news may require a new post?
https://www.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=2c7c3c2d6d5a1cb8&from=serp
Neflix are looking for a creative director for Pearl! Please look at the ad, which is very detailed, and share your thoughts.
Immediate thoughts:
Netflix are trying to recoup the huge advance they gave Meghan and are thus taking control of the project.
Meghan will still interfere and will still take credit as Executive Producer and as creator (please help out with names she can assign for herself for this role). She is aiming for an Oscar. (Remember Harvey Weinstein? A despicable man who was worshipped and rewarded and heaped with awards by Hollywood. Oprah and Meryl Streep, among others, gladly cuddled up to him for photo ops ... they managed to brush off any repercussions. Oprah especially feels she is untouchable.)
Well, that bit of information already has me laughing!
I will read the article you posted about Wife’s latest vanity project; In the meantime, I thought the Nutties Would get a kick out of what Chrissy Teigen has chosen to name her new basset hound puppy. Any guesses? That’s right… Pearl. Coincidence only? Everyone judge for herself.
In this article, Chrissy reminisces about her late French bulldog, Pippa, “who just loved her pearl necklace”. Now, I know People often put jewelry on their dogs, and Chrissy Could afford to put genuine pearls on a dog. But excuse me for having a dirty mind when it immediately leaves to the carnal meaning of “Pearl necklace”. Because I think a woman that would talk about her vag steaming on National TV Might mean exactly this. All of Meghan’s Hollywood supporters are the lowest common denominator.
Pippa passed away at 10 years old, which means she was born right around the time of William and Kate’s wedding. Pippa is not a common name, especially here in America, but it got a huge boost From Catherine’s sister. So I’m not completely ruling out that Chrissy named her dog after Pippa Middleton.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.eonline.com/amp/news/1293775/chrissy-teigen-introduces-new-puppy-pearl-she-hopes-will-add-love-to-our-home
i am of the opinion oprah and her squad (including besties like david geffen) are trying to take over where harvey weinstein left off. aggressive “marketing” to get emmy and oscar nominations being just one of the ways. and yes as executive producer the netflix series could be up for best animated movie oscar and yes madam would be eligible. somehow the disney and universal (dreamworks) wouldn’t want to cede that space to netflix. mega bucks (as opposed to lily bucks) would be needed to market that outcome.
As always, there are sometimes other meanings associated with a word or two.
Pearl necklace is one of them. Thanks to DJs dancing around this to avoid problems on air when talking about the ZZ Top song ... I was educated years ago. when looking it up on the internet was not possible.
I forgot to post a trigger warning before posting about Chrissy Teigen's vag steaming.
Oops, I did it again!
Chrissy co-hosted the New Year's Eve show with Carson Daly on NBC, let's see . . I want to say 2018? Definitely before Covid was on the radar. It was an absolute p*ss*ng down with rain night in New York, and the little outdoor studio was absolutely drenched. Frankly I worried about somebody getting electrocuted. Carson looked miserable and Chrissy by contrast was effervescent. So much so I suspected substances because nobody could possibly be that happy while standing in the rain in a New York December at midnight. I thought she was acting like a trooper and making the best of a terrible situation, but it went off the rails when she started babbling about how she regularly steams her vagina for self-care. Chrissy's talking is the same sort of stream-of-consciousness as her social media posts. Carson was So Done with his co-host and didn't bother even trying to hide it. Owing to the lateness of the hour, I guess NBC faced no sanctions over the use of 'vag-steaming'--it wasn't a family program, after all.
Ordinarily, I wouldn't think anything of CT choosing the name "Pearl" for her puppy. I just find the timing of her announcement that out of all the potential girl-dog names she could have used, she selected the exact same one her pal the woke Duchess picked for her latest project.
"Pearl", "Flower", "Sparkle" . . .doesn't #6w just have a veritable plethora of cutesy nicknames for herself? Just another symptom of her raging narcissism . .one name would never be enough for her.
I have a choice list of other nicknames I use for her. I hate that she's now tainted forever sweet wholesome words like pearl, flower and sparkle.
TRIGGER WARNING: I hypothesize that perhaps Pearl truly got her nickname due to one of her specialties during her part-time yachting career, not because 'Meghan' means pearl in Welsh or whatever the explanation du jour is. We know she's always been fond of jewelry, but notice that she never wears pearls. She's worn enough of those in her lifetime already, I reckon, of the temporary kind.
I wouldn't say it's all in your mind, no. There have been too many instances. Roast chicken?
Archie's first word, 'Crocodile'? Waffle maker? Just way, way too many for them all to be innocuous coincidences.
One wonders when the 'receipts' on her will be released? I don't believe for a minute that Her Majesty's security services haven't dug up the dirt on her. Maybe Chrissy T. has some receipts? Her choice of the name 'Pearl' (for her short, stumpy breed of DOG) seems to be a "Right back at cha, girlfriend." #6w posted her essay about her 'miscarriage' and organized that pity party for herself shortly after CT had taken to social media to share her own pregnancy loss. We all grieve in different ways and Chrissy's grief was extremely public--but there's no doubt that she did actually lose a baby. #6w jumped on that sympathy bandwagon, too, but with no accompanying hospital photos or testimony of friends and relatives that it happened.
I just wish these odious vile people would crawl back under the rocks where they belong.
Kudos to the poster who named this: "The Diary of Harry Mole, Aged 13 3/4". That is a British YA book published some time ago, the Brit version of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, I suppose, in which the protagonist is a 13-year-old boy named Adrian Mole. He won't mind if Harry borrows it because it fits so well.
July 2016
Dear Diary, I met the most beautiful woman today. She’s an actress called Meghan, and I am totally in love. When I told Wills he was really unenthusiastic. All he said was: “Wow, oh my God. She sounds lovely. Nice one, bro.” I was devastated that he was so hostile towards me. The least he could do is tell me is that I have met the best woman who ever walked the earth. Why does everyone hate me?
November 2017
Dear Diary, Meghan told me that I had to tell Wills and Papa that I am going to propose to her. They were so angry with me it was sickening. First William said: “Wow, big news. She’s lovely. I hope you will be very happy together.” Which was bad enough, then Papa said: “I’m very proud of you son. She seems really nice. We look forward to welcoming her to the family.” What a pair of utter bastards. I cannot believe how hostile they are. Meghan says they are jealous of my intelligence and she is definitely right. She is always right.
May 2018
Dear Diary, It seems that once again the forces of the Royal Family are against me. Why is it my own family hate me so much. It’s not fair. I didn’t ask to be born. It was my wedding day today and Meghan wanted the day to be sunny with clouds, like from the start of The Simpsons. Instead it is just blue skies and sunny. Papa obviously doesn’t care enough about me to arrange the weather Meghan wanted. To top it all off, that bitch Kate had the balls to say to Meghan what a lovely day it was. How can someone be so cold-hearted?
January 2020
Dear Diary, Sad news. Meghan says we have to move out of our cottage and go and live in Canada. I’m a bit scared because they have Big Foots there but Meghan says she will protect me. I am sad we have to leave but Meghan says Britain is a hostile environment and she is right. To prove her point she drove me around London and pointed out that there wasn’t a single statue of Meghan anywhere. That can’t be right.
January 2020
Dear Diary, Once again proof that Papa hates me. After telling him I was going to give up being a Royal he has decided to stop giving me money. How dare he? Now I will only be getting five million off him. Meghan says it’s because he’s jealous that we have such a strong love and wants to break us up. She says she will sort the money out and let us keep our dignity and privacy.
December 2020
Dear Diary, Meghan said we are launching a podcast! I am hoping it was like pod racing from Star Wars but it’s actually a bit like a radio show but on your phone. Anyway I have been told to be very excited about this because it’s a Big Thing. Meghan says it’s about mental health and positivity but I am hoping I might be able to slip in a few anecdotes
about my time in Afghanistan. I don’t think I’ve told Meghan about some of the lads funny nicknames.
March 2021
Dear Diary, Signed up to appear on Oprah. I was worried because I’m not very good at singing but Meghan told me that was an opera, which is different, and is also a tool of Western Elitist Oppression, which I think is bad. Anyway can’t wait to be on telly. Meghan has already written my script and says it will help protect our privacy and that Granny will love it.
March 2021
Dear Diary, Granny didn’t love it. Meghan says it is because she is the figurehead of an elitist colonial family that is hellbent on maintaining its position which means doing down the little people like us who only have 50 million in the bank. Meghan is never wrong so it’s a bit of a shock to hear that Granny is basically evil.
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Magatha forever ❤️❤️ (I love you)
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Hikari... Amazing!👏👏👏
That Indeed advert is too priceless not to share. Wouldn't it be funny if they got '0' applicants? Surely word must be out in the industry that project affiliated with the Sixes is cursed from the start. You can bet the Executive Producer is going to have tons of 'notes' for her Art Director and will send them incessantly. Probably turn up at the studio, too. Who's watching Lili, Your Highness? Never mind--Lili, just like her big brother is a wonderful baby . .so calm, unmoving and quiet. She is bound to be right where 'her mom' left her before leaving the house, 12 hours ago. Sometimes Mommy stays out all night or goes away for the weekend on the spur of the moment with her special friend Uncle Marcus and not only are the kids all right--they cook for themselves and clean the house while she's gone. All 17 bathrooms, too. So helpful, so advanced, these kids. Lili is on target to go to preschool this fall at 3 months, and Master Archie is waiting on his early acceptance letter from Berkeley. He's decided to take a gap year to work on his toilet training and learning Cantonese. The kids are such a breeze, they are raising themselves and don't even need a Nanny. This gives Mommy plenty of time for out-of-the-house pursuits like volunteering at soup kitchens, posing for Vogue magazine, long yoga sessions on the beach, sourcing her avocados at Whole Foods . .and after all that, popping over to the studio to 'direct' her creative team producing Pearl, the "Roots" of children's television programming.
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With over 204 million subscribers enjoying great content in over 190 countries, it’s an exciting time to work at Netflix.
By serving as a platform for original storytelling, we’re fueled by the broad appeal of being able to instantly enjoy unlimited movies and TV shows and seek to create joy for our members around the world. This guiding principle has informed our commitment to animation, a universal language, and the establishment of Netflix Animation Studios where creative visionaries can perform their best work.
This is the new wave of animation — and you can help shape it. Our goal is to tell stories that no one has seen but that everyone will remember.
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We are seeking an Art Director for Pearl, a CG heartfelt adventure comedy series. Pearl comes from the mind of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex and centers on the adventures of a 12-year-old girl who finds inspiration in a variety of influential women throughout history.
The Art Director will help to develop, create, and support the aesthetic vision of our Executive Producer Team. They will be the source of clear communication to the art team, ensuring everyone is following patterns, keeping consistency, giving clear verbal and visual instructions to the next person in line and to our partnering studio. The Art Director will identify and confirm we have created all our assets appropriately for a smooth hand-off. Working with Production Management, they will work to tie any loose ends and keep the art train on the tracks.
An accomplished artist themselves, the Art Director must convey direction and visual communication through applied artistic skills. They will work with the CG Supervisor to develop the CG Pipeline - design through the outsource studio design instructions - sharing responsibility to define scope boundaries and generate clever solutions to work within them.
Develop and communicate the style guide and theory; spanning visual development, character design, environment design and props/fx
Partner with production leadership and technical teams to understand and clarify creative direction and scope, timelines, tools, and budget
Works closely with production to create asset breakdown lists for assignments
Prepare for and lead design handouts by communicating overall direction, design requirements, and expected level of polish to the design team
Supervise a team of artists in-house and/or around the globe
Troubleshoot and review potential changes on a regular basis with creatives and production staff
Jump in to create assets along with the team — we want to see your skills in action too!
Work with CG Supervisor and Production Manager to ensure art packeting is complete, communicating the visual instructions fully, before sending to partnering studio.
Provide notes and mentorship to creative teams and partners, incorporating hands-on drawing, reference, and tools to enable these teams to do their best work
Assess portfolios and demo reels and take part in interviews for building design team
Collaborate with grace, humility, inclusion, and open-mindedness
What You’ll Need:
3-5 years of CG animation production experience
Expert working knowledge of digital drawing tools such as Photoshop a must
Considerable knowledge of color theory, lighting, staging, and perspective
Proven leadership on animated shorts, series, or features
Excellent communication skills
Samples and/or credits demonstrating excellence in roles such as visual development, background paint, color design, or character design
"How to Gaslight a Narcissist"
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I hope the future Art Director for Pearl watches and takes notes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkKYvfroJv4
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In brief, the three tips are:
1. Keep the comments upbeat but completely impersonal. The Narc is looking for You statements to shore up their greatness. Do not give them any.
"That's great. That type of work project is exactly what this company needs."
"That's so interesting." Then let the crickets chirp.
"Great to hear that. Now, what do you think about this?" (change topic completely)
The Narc will try several times to yank the conversation back to themselves and want you to verbally genuflect before their awesomeness. Lather, rinse, repeat.
2. Avoid the use of "Yes" or "No". Play dumb and ask for more details as to the Narc's latest pronouncement. Since they won't have thought through details and are expecting immediate capitulation, this will throw them.
2. Make them fight with themselves. You can't employ this very often but save it for those occasions when the Narc really needs to be taken down several notches.
Really gush in your praise to make them think you are a compliant fuel-supplier:
"Wow! Your interview on Oprah garnered some of the best viewershare CBS has ever had! You really blindsided those racists over there in England . .and your look was so bold, so Euro-chic. Any plans for a follow-up? Your last one was so *impactful*, I can't wait to see how you can top that. If you are able to do that, that'll really be something!"
"You haven't heard from Oprah since April? Well, don't worry--I bet she's churning out a sweet contract deal for you right now and that's why she hasn't been returning your daily calls or emails."
According to one DM commenter, they said in the first 3-4 episodes MM is portrayed as a washed up actress and the only one who is projected as "normal" is Kate. Good for Kate, I really like that these media jokes elevate her instead of taking the piss.
Even in The Windsors, their version of Kate is actually the highest of praise (former traveller who can re-assemble a tractor and pick locks while being sweet as pie). I think it is very intelligent if you want to make a comedy show that you don't make the powerful women look bad.
They always make Camilla look pretty badass too, ha.
@snarky: Oprah most likely has a PA who takes calls, and lets the hackles know that, yes, Oprah, has received their calls, and texts.
"According to one DM commenter, they said in the first 3-4 episodes MM is portrayed as a washed up actress and the only one who is projected as "normal" is Kate"
So MM is going to sue HBO, claiming it affects her mental health.🤗
How very appropriate.
Lili SUCCESSION ploy/STRONGARMING Queen/Harry & DIFFICULT Meg riding 4 FALL/Press Mischievous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjwXSIJ3_Xc
New Lady C video.
Lili SUCCESSION ploy/STRONGARMING Queen/Harry & DIFFICULT Meg riding 4 FALL/Press Mischievous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjwXSIJ3_Xc
She stopped putting up closed captions which were useful if you speed up her video. Also to confirm what she is saying. So I will not be watching. Probably the best idea is to start up her youtube video on your phone. Then go for a 45 minute walk and listen with ear buds.
spokesman for Cheshire Police tweeted: "Their modus operandi appears to be to jet wash part of a driveway without asking the occupants of the house first, then knocking at the house to show the occupant how well it has come up before pressuring them tot have the rest of it cleaned at an extortionate price.
"These individuals appear to have been working in tandem.
"The driver of the Toyota was *described as looking like Prince Harry in appearance*.
https://www.knutsfordguardian.co.uk/news/19475109.prince-harry-like-bogus-trader-tries-fleecing-vulnerable-people/
As for whether her name is shade at Harry's wife . . . Although I prefer to think that the Harkles are so low on the showbiz food chain that everyone else forgets them after five minutes (the ultimate shade, really), I can see things getting petty between Mrs. Harkle and Mrs. Legend. First Mrs. H tried to ride on the coattails of Mrs. L's miscarriage, and then she joined the mob against Mrs. L after the old tweets resurfaced. It's obvious that Mrs. H has no real sense of direction, because she just does what all the cool kids are doing -- and no real sense of identity, because she can't even figure out her own definition of "cool." Mrs. L doesn't really have the moral high ground here, but I can see why even she would despise Mrs. H.
For me, the best, classiest, mentally healthiest response would be to ignore the Harkles as if they didn't exist. (The sweet little dog didn't deserve to be hate named like that!) But if Chrissy wants to turn this into a petty sniping war of shade, well, I've got my popcorn ready!
The first thing I noticed was that this is the second time the Harkles have used "heartfelt" for one of their recent projects. Harry's planned memoir was also described as "heartfelt." I guess it's their latest attempt at branding.
Now I'm genuinely curious about what Pearl actually does. We're told over and over that she finds inspiration from women in history -- but what exactly is she inspired to do? Has Mrs. H done any writing on this beyond picking a narcissistic name?
Collaborate with grace, humility, inclusion, and open-mindedness
Grace and humility? Did #6w write this or this supposed to be a subtle dig at her by whoever did write it?
I also love the way this 'adventure-comedy' series is going to be 'heartfelt'. Like, heartfelt slipping on a banana peel kind of comedy? Meg's vision is just so extra, as those genres aren't usually jammed together.
I guess she's going for a 'Time Warp Trio' kind of vibe where 'Pearl' travels through time and space to come to the aid of the likes of Harriet Tubman and Eleanor Roosevelt, et. al to show them the way to greatness? By . . speechmaking about her color and making them grovel on the floor, presumably? Will this be voiced by the Duchess herself? If so, I propose streaming Pearl 24/7 at Guantanamo Bay and other counter-terrorist areas. They will be very compliant and forthcoming with information in record time.
Thanks for alerting us to the new Body Language Guy video. At first I was put off by the word "gaslighting" in the title, but it soon became clear that Jesus just put it there for clicks.
The video is very useful. Anyone following those tips will get to keep their dignity and defend their energy while dealing with manipulative people.
Just thought I would pop in and share a clip from one of my favorite Coen brothers films, Burn After Reading. Not entirely a 6 and 6w scene, but could be close.
Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-yEqDYNfPE
Meghan and Harry live in a community property state. She can’t take 15% of everything he earns…she takes 50% if they divorce from everything he earns whilst they are married and living in California.
Which means his inheritances and other assets before the marriage are not community property. I am hoping the RF made sure Harry's assets were secured when they did their Megxit if not before.
As far as the name and meaning of the word Pearl goes, I have become skeptical about a lot of meanings of a lot of names, especially the old Irish and Scot language names that got Christianized by priests and the church to get folks to abandon their old languages and names and use the bible names for their kids. I do not believe that Margaret, Margo, Meghan etc. means Pearl or Sean means John, and that Siobhan means Janet, or Grainne or Egrainne means "Grace". I think the names have their own meanings in the old languages. My name is Frances. One book on names says it means, "Free" but I learned from a doc. about St. Francis of Assisi that it actually is pronounced Fran Cheece and it means, "Little Frenchy" which was St. Francis' nickname given him (his real name is JOHN) by friends because his father was a textile merchant and he loved wearing imported French fabrics, so they called him Francheece.
When MO’s memoir Becoming was published, there were rumors that she had worked with an anonymous ghost writer on the book. The primary reason suspicions were raised about its authorship was Obama’s senior thesis at Princeton, Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community, which she submitted as one of the requirements for her degree in Sociology from the university. You can find it here: https://www.politico.com/pdf/080222_MOPrincetonThesis_1-251.pdf
The late radical Anglo-American journalist Christopher Hitchens had this to say: “I direct your attention to Mrs. Obama’s 1985 thesis at Princeton University. Its title (rather limited in scope, given the author and the campus) is ‘Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community.’ To describe it as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be ‘read’ at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn’t written in any known language.”
Who knows if Obama did or did not write Becoming by herself, but it goes without saying that Harry could never have gotten away with using an anonymous, uncredited ghostwriter for his memoirs.
Love the name Fran Cheece.
I didn't get past p.1 - the urge to reach for the red pen was so strong but that'd be nit-picking. Presumably, it was deemed adequate for a first degree.
Collaborate with grace, humility, inclusion, and open-mindedness
Grace and humility? Did #6w write this or this supposed to be a subtle dig at her by whoever did write it?
Hmmmm. It's a toss up.
On the one hand, the job description is concrete enough that I doubt it's her own writing.
On the other hand, that line stands out in tone from the rest of it.
I can imagine her making someone do the hard work of writing the main job description and then tacking that on at the end. But I can also see Hikari's scenario of a hapless Netflix intern inserting a dig. And since the latter is far more hilarious, that will be my vote!
In any case, I think we are now aware of Mrs. H's collaboration style. Graceless, arrogant, exclusionary and closed-minded.
It is rough. I can see why people thought her memoir was mostly ghostwritten.
We also use what we call overwriters ... the author hands in something unpublishable or unfinished so the publisher hires someone to 'clean up'.
I would regard a ghostwriter as someone who actually does all the research and writing themselves, for a person who cannot do the work themselves but wants the book to be an autobiography/memoir rather than a biography (i.e. have control).
The guy writing Harry's memoirs supposedly is skilled in scratching beneath the surface and producing something more substantial than a self-promoting memoir, but it is still a memoir.
Since Michelle Obama seems to have no track record as a writer, and nothing published that matches the style of writing of her memoirs (to my knowledge), I can believe that she used a ghost writer or overwriter. She would have assisted the person with information, perhaps sat down with the person for some valuable information-gathering chats, and read and provided feedback on the manuscript.
https://celticcrossanon.tumblr.com/
Her latest readings are about the sexual encounters between Meghan and Charles, and in her posts she gives some crazy details!
A good tarot reader always follows up and learns from mistakes made, and is consciously aware of personal bias. They all seem to crow about successful predictions and brush off mistakes as something external.
It seems that Meghan set out to charm Charles with flattery in the early days, but this story from the tarot reader is projection of her own fantasies.
The way I see it is she made it through elementary school as a Black girl in the Southside of Chicago, did well in high school, went on to Princeton for her Bachelor's then to Harvard for her JD in law. Then she worked in high paying careers, THEN became the first Black First Lady of the United States. Not too shabby!!
She is now a successful author, lecturer, mother, wife, etc. etc. AND she lives in Martha's Vineyard.
A successful woman of color is to be celebrated if she did it through hard work, which she did. She had a fairly typical childhood; in Southside of all places. Ever been there? And with hard working parents who encouraged her educational goals. It's the Horatio Alger story, the American Dream...
Like her or not, I will not disparage the woman. TBW wishes she had this CV, as most of us here. What do our CV's look like? Mine looks nothing like Michelle Obama's. Her CV is why conspiracy theorists create untruths about her...
I would much rather disparage the likes of Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein and low life men like them than another successful woman of color.
Just saying, ladies. Just my honest opinion.
Good day Nutties. I'm off to meet a friend for coffee :)
Almost two years ago, another tarot reader on Tumblr predicted that the Cambridges would have a fourth baby -- another girl. I'm still waiting . . .
Which is not to say I'm wholly skeptical. But I do think that a form of divination that is as subjective as tarot reading means that a lot of practitioners are going to be projecting their fantasies onto what they see. Heck, many people already do that without any such aids! (Case in point: The sugars.) And does anyone remember Ashli of DanjaZone, who used nothing but her own intuition? (She claimed that it had always been incredibly powerful and that her mother had also had that "gift.") I had to quit watching her after she said that Harry and Catherine had once fallen in love and had an affair. Catherine had to see the royal psychologist for it, but she's okay now. Etc.
Sort of related: Years ago, I read an article by an astrologer who said that perhaps only 5% of people who call themselves astrologers are any good. And only 5% of the 5% are really good. I'd apply her estimate to tarot readers as well.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9843941/Fergie-says-Diana-proud-Harry-Meghan-shouldnt-judged.html
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sarah-ferguson-not-worthy-invited-24640447
It's always a face-palm moment for me when people who have been excluded from something try to get revenge for it. All they're doing is proving that snubbing them had been the correct choice!
Is Sarah Ferguson completely stupid?
I still think the entire York clan have been emoldened by the PR hype about how the talentless Harkles are making multi-million dollar deals trading on the royal connection and openly trashing the Queen, as monarch, and her direct heirs. The Yorks have chosen a side, and it is not the winning one.
Yes, she is a stupid
The Duke of York, Ms Ferguson was allowed to keep her title as Duchess of York, as was the custom.
She also decided to continue using Her Royal Highness – until the Palace intervened.
Within a few months, a letters patent regulating post-divorce royal titles was issued to the Duchess of York.
The letter stated that Ms Ferguson could no longer use HRH anymore, since she was no longer married to a member of the Royal Family.
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Sarah Ferguson offered access to Prince Andrew for cash, * sayd tabloid*
Duchess of York allegedly caught on film demanding £500,000 in order to 'open doors' for reporter posing as businessman.
Michelle Obama's melanin status does not interest me.
Her thesis is juvenile. I think she got where she is because of Affirmative Action.
In her final year of college, she doesn't even know that it is "thank you", not "thank-you" and this after proofreading. And not once, but 3 times! Ridiculous level of literacy for her level of education.
Some of you followed me over to Heygo, the virtual touring platform that was started last year to provide unemployed tour guides some income due to the pandemic. Tourism is starting to come back and the guides are resuming a lot of in-person groups, but most still want to continue with the virtual tours and are constantly adding new content. This was posted just today . . one of my dream destinations, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, home of most of the masterpieces of Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes Vermeer. Our guides in Paris routinely go to the Louvre & the Orsay, site of the largest collection of Impressionist works in the world. Museums only recently opened back up in Europe at the beginning of the summer. So I'm once again plugging Heygo, which is free to join & watch as many tours as you like. It is tip-supported on a voluntary basis to provide some income for the guides after their hard work. You'll never get to tour any of these sites in person for a $5 or $10 gratuity, that's for sure, so it is a fantastic window on the world. If museums aren't your bag, there is a dizzying variety from nature hikes, street art, native cooking, wildlife watching--the guide in Iceland went to an active volcano.
Okay, plug is over. Heygo has saved my sanity when I felt I was close to going postal over The SixSh*ts. If you need a mental health break as well, try travelling with Heygo!
https://www.heygo.com/tours/ton-tells-gems-of-the-rijksmuseum
There seems to be a market for what the tarot readers are peddling, but it takes a high level of braziness to continue making these outrageous claims and getting so much so very wrong.
I have studied the tarot and when I look at the cards and the interpretations, I am astonished at what the tarot readers say!
A few weeks ago I did a layout for the Harkles and my interpretation of the cards was basically:
* They are preoccupied with juggling practical matters.
* Their goal has always been power through financial wealth (it is a material-based power so they are focused on accumulating wealth), but they have not yet achieved that. The possibility is still there though.
* Other people still have the upper hand in terms of power, i.e. they depend on others giving them money but cannot themselves do the work to earn it so depend on others to do the work. I also interpreted this as the royal family and those aligned with them having the upper hand in terms of power.
* This makes them vulnerable (depending on others) as they are aligning themselves with people who are not necessarily trustworthy or ethical.
* They are so focused on the made-up narrative in their heads and navel-gazing that it has become a trap for them ... almost like a prison ... so basically, no matter what they say, they are neither happy nor satisfied and cannot find a way out as they are too obsessed with their own voices and story, and so on.
I did not see anything that would indicate marriage troubles, but the situation I saw is actually not conducive to a happy marriage or life!
I still think the entire York clan have been emoldened by the PR hype about how the talentless Harkles are making multi-million dollar deals trading on the royal connection and openly trashing the Queen, as monarch, and her direct heirs. The Yorks have chosen a side, and it is not the winning one.
In fairness to Prince Andrew, he has kept a dignified silence since his forced retirement. And after he protected his mother on the balcony when Harry's wife tried to get beside her, I don't think he has had a hand in any of this.
Could he have at least reined his ex-wife in? I wonder if he managed to do just that for a year and a half, only for her finally to champ at the bit this month. Which was probably the "right" decision for her, inasmuch as she has a book to promote. I would never have heard of the book, had she not jumped on the Harkle train.
While I see the reasoning behind this move, however, I'm still surprised that Sarah went there. The Queen forgave her, even when Prince Philip wouldn't, and made an effort to include her in family gatherings even after the divorce. In contrast, Harry's wife announced her pregnancy at Sarah's own daughter's wedding and stole the other daughter's baby name. (I recall reading that Sarah was livid after the maternity coat stunt. Whatever happened to that?) Perhaps she thought that by focusing on the Cambridges and the Harkles, and leaving the Queen out of it, she could pull off the same balancing act Michelle Obama did with her word salad.
Who would have guessed that Andrew would turn out to be the classiest York?
Sarah Ferguson gets her revenge on William and Kate and proves in the act of revenge why she was not deemed worthy. Revenge is a dish best served cold but it's enjoyment is short lived.
Is Sarah Ferguson completely stupid?
I still think the entire York clan have been emoldened by the PR hype about how the talentless Harkles are making multi-million dollar deals trading on the royal connection and openly trashing the Queen, as monarch, and her direct heirs. The Yorks have chosen a side, and it is not the winning one.
It's always a face-palm moment for me when people who have been excluded from something try to get revenge for it. All they're doing is proving that snubbing them had been the correct choice!
I'd say YES to all of the above, with a provisional Yes to the second-to-last item. Beatrice and Eugenie have been in the press a lot lately, due to their personal life events happening. Bea is more elusive and somewhat above the fray with the SixSh*ts, because apart from announcing her blessed state on the SS's wedding anniversary, she appears to be in her own little bubble away from the SS drama. Eugenie and Jack have gotten sucked in due to their supposed affiliation with Frogmore Cottage and monies they may or may not be paying to Mole for use of the cottage. The media insists that the Brooksbankses are settled into FroggyCott and have not once, but twice, hosted E's drunk/high/abusive/potentially infected with Covid lout of a cousin in their home with a newborn.
I remain agnostic about all of the above. We've been assured through media reports that all of H$M's sh*t they abandoned when they fled for their lives and freedom to North America has been boxed up and packed off to North America. But why would Eugenie have agreed to move in to FC if the Harkles' stuff was still there and it was still their official home? What does this now mean for H's position as Counselor of State? It's all very convoluted. Eugenie is much more prolific on social media than is her sister, and these stories of an alliance between herself and the SixSh*ts keep percolating.
I don't want it to be true. So far E. and B. have largely enjoyed a better reputation than their parents, and I don't want to see them dragged down to that egregious level.
What brass neck. She is banking on the brevity of people's memories, if she thinks that we all have forgotten why she was excluded from W&C's wedding, and WHO was responsible. I'm sure that William would have gladly invited his aunt and wanted her there . . .but the Queen forbade Fergie's attendance due to that little matter of Sarah trying to sell access to Andrew for 50,000 pounds. William had to defer to his grandmother, who had the final say over the guest list.
Though I felt a bit sorry for Sarah at the time, the fact is--she f*cked up and she deserved that punishment. She was sent to the naughty corner, and rightly so. Turns out that the Queen takes a dim view of persons who are no longer part of the family pimping out other members for cash. Sarah no doubt thought she could charm her way out of any consequences from discovery because the Queen is rumored to be fond of her. This is a betrayal in the manner of Harry's, just on a smaller scale. Sarah is conveniently dodging any personal culpability for losing this privilege of attending a Royal event, just like two other people we could mention.
When Sarah first arrived on the scene, I really liked her. She seemed the very opposite of neurotic, unhappy, high-strung Diana. Jolly, outgoing, laughed a lot, enjoyed food. I envied her beautiful red hair. She and Andrew seemed like a true love match, unlike the Waleses. But that curdled after too many instances like this, where baldly mercenary and breathtakingly gauche personal conduct revealed that Sarah and Andrew are basically like a couple of reality-TV hustlers in better threads. Nowadays I find they both have the faces they have earned . . a very far cry from that good-looking pair of 26-year-olds who tied the knot in 1986. Sarah still takes the prize for deepest bridal curtsy to the Queen, but we can see how much she meant it now, maybe. I think perhaps she went into the marriage a lot more innocent, with purer intentions and was corrupted by too much easy wealth, deference and her morally lax husband. Maybe he rubbed off on her or maybe she just found her natural level. I wonder the same about the Harkles, in reverse.
It's true that PP avoided Sarah like the plague, but HM would have persuaded him to make an exception for something as important as the future King's wedding, with the proviso maybe that Sarah be seated at the back . . .seems kind of likely that had she been allowed to attend, she still wouldn't have been able to sit up in the family row with her daughters and ex-husband.
The primary reason she was excluded was because the Queen was incandescently angry about her financial shenanigans trying to make bank off selling access to Andrew. I don't think Andrew knew about this, so he was allowed to come. He was still in good books back then.
Nowadays I find they both have the faces they have earned . . a very far cry from that good-looking pair of 26-year-olds who tied the knot in 1986.
My mother (born in 1962) had the hardest time convincing my younger brother (born in 1997) that Prince Andrew was once considered handsome. Even with photos, it was a hard sell.
I think it's the opposite of the "love goggles" principle, which says that a man who loves his wife will always see the beauty she had when they first met and not her aging features. My brother heard of Andrew's behavior before he ever saw a photo from the 70s or 80s, and his mind superimposes Andrew's current sulky hedonist features on even the most flattering images from the past.
She is banking on the brevity of people's memories, if she thinks that we all have forgotten why she was excluded from W&C's wedding, and WHO was responsible.
When it comes to memory, she seems to be like those really young children who think that if they close their eyes and can't see anyone, nobody can see them either. That is, she measures everyone using herself as the standard. She seems to have forgotten what the Harkles have done to her own daughters, which happened much more recently than the Cambridges' wedding. So of course she would believe that everyone else in the world had wiped their memories of something from a whopping ten years ago.
The only thing worse than her forgetting the slights against her daughters is her genuinely not understanding why they were so offensive. But in this case, she probably doesn't understand why her current actions are so offensive.
Thanks for the reminder of how badly Sarah behaved.
Sophie was forgiven and embraced as a working royal though, so I think with Sarah it was more than bad behaviour. She was the divorced ex-wife of Andrew and unless she mantained a close relationship with William she actually had no reason to expect an invitation. Since Diana cut Sarah out of her life years before her death, and Sarah was banned from family gatherings because of the toe sucking incident, it is likely that William had not seen his aunt by marriage, but divorced for some years, since he was a child.
Her thesis is juvenile. I think she got where she is because of Affirmative Action.
In her final year of college, she doesn't even know that it is "thank you", not "thank-you" and this after proofreading. And not once, but 3 times! Ridiculous level of literacy for her level of education.
Michelle Obama's thesis is an awful embarrassment. Many have said as much. It is barely proto-literate but she did graduate from Princeton (huh? amazing!) and same for her brother who has had a decent career as basketball coach in a few colleges. Decent as in set for life on an upper modest scale
"Michelle Obama was inspired to follow her brother to Princeton University, where he graduated in 1983, after which he went on to become a basketball coach at Oregon State University and Brown University." (Michelle's family must have had had an in at Princeton University, to fill affirmative action quotas)
Michelle Obama's father was part of the Mayor Richard Daley political machine. He got out the vote in black neighborhoods. https://www.thelist.com/199713/the-tragic-death-of-michelle-obamas-father/ (some good photos here)
Father had a job at the city of Chicago water works as his reward for his loyalty and work for Mayor Daley. He had multiple sclerosis and died young at 55,
Most people are not bright enough to see that her thesis is mediocre and so assume she is some kind of intellectual giant because her degree was awarded by Harvard.
I doubt that race or affirmative action or some kind of nepotism was at play for Michelle Obama. Everyone assumes that because it was Harvard, her work was exceptional, but she did enough to get the degree. Since she also passed exams for years, she was good enough to get the degree. (There are many white people like that as well.) If Michelle Obama was awarded a first-class degree or passed with honours when her work was not exceptional, then I will revise my opinion.
My impression of her is that she is a likeable person with good manners who combines the two qualities to be a pretty harmless person who has established and maintained a good reputation.
Meghan was also mediocre to average but sells herself as something else. A big plus for getting into a top university is that you benefit from the association because people assume you are exceptional. Meghan plays that up a lot. Have you ever heard anyone say 'Meghan graduated with results that were mediocre but enough to get her a coveted degree from a top university'?
Do you suppose this is a case of the media twisting what Sarah said, in order to get clicks? Here and there one reads of people who have experienced being interviewed, saying a lot of things about Topic A, and then only getting quoted for a stray line about Topic B.
I also had to laugh at how Michelle Obama is described as being to attain all of the things she did, even as a "woman of colour", as though it were a mental handicap or something.
Please, people, stop playing the victimisation card. I have seen hundreds, if not thousands of people of various races, gender identities, sexual preferences, weight and age achieve tremendous success, so pulling these identity victimisation cards doesn't garner much sympathy from me or for the majority of the population.
https://mobile.twitter.com/murky__meg?lang=en
The media is always twisting for clicks but that doesn't change the fact that Sarah made glowing remarks about the Sussexes. Maybe she feels like Oscar Wilde and doesn't care how she's talked about as long as she is in the news.
I was responding to your comment that "there must be something afoot" if Sarah, who is normally respectful of the Queen, made remarks like those. I suggested that nothing was out of the ordinary; the media just got twisty. (In the DM article alone, the title and lead paragraph both scream "so proud" of Harry and [bleep], but then we read the actual quote, which is "so proud of her sons and their wives.")
Plus, Sarah has always struck me as what my friends and I call a "feeler." Even her "not worthy" quote is more of a self-pity party than a direct accusation of anyone. She may truly think she is presenting her thoughts on the incident, but she is only airing her feelings all over again. And she doesn't mean anything by it; she just wants a hug.
The Mirror takes the "not worthy" line from a Town and Country article. Here is a bit more context for that short phrase:
As recently as 2011 she was excluded from the wedding of William and Kate, a decision she neither fought nor resented. “I didn’t think I was probably worthy to go to their wedding,” she says. “I took myself to Thailand, actually, to be far away from it so that I could try and heal.”
That excerpt is directly followed by this paragraph:
That Ferguson had reached a détente with the royal family was evident when she attended Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s 2018 wedding, though today she seems to have taken the Firm’s side on the most divisive royal issue of the day: Megxit. In April, after Piers Morgan was forced to resign as host of Good Morning Britain for saying he believed that Markle was lying to Oprah Winfrey about racism and Buckingham Palace’s indifference to her suicidal thoughts, the TV host revealed that Ferguson had texted him support. There is, of course, great irony in this situation, given that Ferguson too was once deemed a mortal threat to the monarchy. (She refuses to comment directly on Megxit, only offering, “I believe that Diana would be so proud of her boys…and she’d be so proud of her grandchildren.”)
She's commenting from her experience as a mother whose children were dragged in the press. And maybe from her own experience of getting bad front pages. She can't separate William's and Harry's issues from Beatrice's and Eugenie's -- and probably not even from her own. She's just not analytical in that way.
But back to your point. What exactly do you think might be afoot here?
Honestly, I'm not really a monarchist tho I'm surely not anti-monarchist. I was briefly fascinated by Meghan and watched the wedding moved by the Cinderella optics. That was before I realized Meghan was Duchess Difficult who burned her own family and then torched Harry's. Now I'm seeing Harry was very much a player in The Drama. It was the familial betrayal that hooked me here more than anything. Plus, I hate seeing people win by dishonesty and manipulation. Plus throw in ID politics that doesn't give a fig for the actual truth of the matter on a individual level and I keep feeding the monster of this nasty train wreck the banana of my attention.
Hikari, I too felt some sympathy for Fergie back in the day but now I wonder if there wasn't more than what we knew for her to iced out as she was?
I also wonder if The Harry Meg didn't invite her to the wedding as a snub and the RF keen to soothe what was already a rocky relationship with them and William and all allowed her to attend in an effort to placate them?
I said what I said...
What does your CVs look like? Rhetorical of course (I have zero interest in getting sucked into a debate).
@Enbre,
A very wise friend of mine reads tarot cards. She has for many years. She explained to me that the cards never predict the future, they merely are a tool to get insight, intuition and direction in what you are going through. I look at readings like this now and it makes a world of difference.
Re: Michelle Obama
Amen!! Well said.
I'm sure your wise friend is in the 5% of the 5%.
“I believe that Diana would be so proud of her boys…and she’d be so proud of her grandchildren.”)
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👆 I think Sarah has enough sense to know Diana would not be proud or happy with the state of her boys' relationship today.
And to answer your above question about something being afoot... I have no idea. What could be her motivation?
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@Sandie,
Agree about MO. But I believe the thesis was written for Princeton (undergrad in sociology) not Harvard (law school.) It did pretty much suck though. There is research suggesting "elite" universities have been inflating grades more than "ordinary" universities so crappy theses aren't surprising.
If you mean the 5 Percenters,
nah... she's Jewish from Nu Yawk :D
Meghan was also mediocre to average but sells herself as something else. A big plus for getting into a top university is that you benefit from the association because people assume you are exceptional. Meghan plays that up a lot. Have you ever heard anyone say 'Meghan graduated with results that were mediocre but enough to get her a coveted degree from a top university'?
@Sandie: My guess is that Meghan got good enough grades in high school and college to graduate from both, but she was not an exceptional student when it came to academics.
The reason for my thinking is that if she had been either valedictorian or salutatorian of her high school graduating class, her narcissism would make sure it was public knowledge.
The same goes for her alleged degree from Northwestern. If she had graduated magna or summa cum laude, or scored incredibly high on her SATs, it would have been trumpeted to the world.
Even though she’s been out of high school and college for a long time, she’s too profoundly narcissistic to keep that type of info to herself. It would be floating around out there somewhere. And it would have surfaced. She would make sure it did.
I also believe that because we already know claims race based on convenience, her college applications listed her as a minority.
I don't know what that means, but I'll bet it's hilarious! :-D
I think Sarah has enough sense to know Diana would not be proud or happy with the state of her boys' relationship today.
I'd like to think so, too, as all the events have been pretty blatant. And surely Sarah wouldn't want her own daughters feuding that way.
But in this case, I can't understand why she would say something so patently false. So I rationalize that she lets her emotions get the better of her intellect and falls back on being the "people pleaser" that she claims she no longer is.
Google is your friend lol :D
The primary reason she was excluded was because the Queen was incandescently angry about her financial shenanigans trying to make bank off selling access to Andrew. I don't think Andrew knew about this, so he was allowed to come. He was still in good books back then.
@Hikari: I’m familiar with Fergie’s activities trying to make a pound/buck for herself, which was terribly bad form by her, but if HMTQ was incandescently angry about Fergie selling access to Andrew, I’d think HMTQ would be thermonuclear regarding the Sussexes.
H&M basically have skipped over having someone like Fergie playing the middleman and went straight to directly selling royal access to none other than themselves to the highest bidder. The only product H&M have to sell is the fact that they are royals.
Look at tge reports about how they auctioned their royal selves off to the highest bidder for the deal for four books.
I SO hope that somewhere in the royal family or within their staff there is someone who possesses the balls to crush the Sussexes, or at least hand them the shovels to dig a hole deep enough that they will never be able escape it.
Maybe a grandson gets more leeway than a married-in?
But you're right that the double standard here is very clear. Sarah was shunned for much less. And if the BRF were willing to take such a memorable, embarrassing public stand against her actions, it doesn't make sense that they're letting the Harkles get away with so much more today.
https://harrymarkle.wordpress.com/2021/07/29/the-house-of-windsor-defending-a-war-within-your-own-walls/
https://harrymarkle.substack.com/p/are-the-sussexes-still-much-lovedmembers (this one has comments)
Remember: No one in interested in TBW. She has nothing to bring to anyone's table.
But you're right that the double standard here is very clear. Sarah was shunned for much less. And if the BRF were willing to take such a memorable, embarrassing public stand against her actions, it doesn't make sense that they're letting the Harkles get away with so much more today.
It was a different time - British society has changed a great deal since then in terms of what is deemed `unacceptable'. We were more censorious all round then - and prepared to say what we thought.
Also, Fergie's background was one in which she was expected to know how to behave - upper middle class, `good family' (ie well-connected , in contact with the `right' sort of people, been at a `good school' (ie an independent one).
She was expected to know how to behave, not like me, a council-school kid who had to proceed with care in those circles.
Also, the R factor was did not apply.
Thank you, xxxxx, for the links to the latest Harry Markle Blog posts. They include some excellent comments.
I used to believe the BRF, and particularly HM, were not responding more forcefully to H/HW for myriad “soft” reasons:
At first, no one in the Royal bubble saw the Markle’s actions as a threat to the Monarchy or imagined the lengths to which they would go to secure fame and fortune. H and HW were difficult family members, like Fergie or the Duke of Windsor. The original thinking was that the M’s might cause the Family a minor embarrassment or two (or three), but they would eventually go away and the BRF would continue to carry on as usual. After all, Harry was family and knew the rules of what could and could not be done. Perhaps also, originally, the Queen was not apprised of the full extent of the situation with the Markles by her courtiers, since the courtiers did not perceive a long-term threat from the Montecito dwellers.
Fast forward to today. Harry, through his actions, has ripped up the Royal rule book, burned it, and mailed the ashes back to BP.
Yet, the BRF appears to do nothing in response — despite vociferous calls from their Subjects to strip titles and much very bad press, etc. The BRF have even added L to the line of succession in recent days.
Why? Do the BRF still believe the H/HW pose no threat to the Monarchy? That relations can be patched up? That would be naive, magical thinking.
Or, do they have reason to believe that taking action against H/HW will cause an even worse counteraction from Montecito? An action that really could swiftly destabilize the Monarchy?
For example, could the wife, from her yachting days, have info on members of the BRF that would cause huge embarrassment or worse? We, as “normal” individuals assume the wife would want that past hidden from the public, and the BRF can use that info against her in their negotiations. A malignant narc or sociopath has a mind that works differently. She likely feels no shame about any actions she took in her past and would not care if the info was splashed in the papers. The BRF scrubbed the Internet when Harry decided to marry her to save themselves from embarrassment.
What is in the notebooks M sent back to the US during her “active” Royal days?
A narc in my husband’s family crashed their car in an accident where they were clearly at fault. Their blood alcohol level was way over the limit and the police found them passed out in the vehicle at 3 am. That person faced serious criminal charges yet managed to get most charges dismissed through devious means that most people would not dare try. To this day, the narc remains proud of what they did and still believes the police were wrong and “terrible people” to charge them.
The BRF likely still has a hard road ahead, simply because M did not get everything she wanted from them… and she found some of their worst vulnerabilities.
Well, on that note, I’m off for a two-hour drive to a party with my husband’s family. The narc in the story and two others will be there. Having read many books on dealing with Narcs, I am still close to shaking at the thought of having to interact with them this afternoon and evening. And, after getting to know this family, I’m fairly certain extreme narcissism is hereditary.
My thoughts about the threat the Harkles pose to the BRF:
- I think that the BRF covered up Harry's various bad deeds, from beating up prostitutes to disobeying orders while in the military
- I think the BRF covered up Meghan's various bad deeds from bullying to fraud about getting freebies and claiming that she paid for them
It's on the Harkles for the bad things they have done, but it's on the BRF for covering up for both of them. It's as though they were complicit in them
My thoughts about the threat the Harkles pose to the BRF:
- I think that the BRF covered up Harry's various bad deeds, from beating up prostitutes to disobeying orders while in the military
- I think the BRF covered up Meghan's various bad deeds from bullying to fraud about getting freebies and claiming that she paid for them
It's on the Harkles for the bad things they have done, but it's on the BRF for covering up for both of them. It's as though they were complicit in them .
Let’s be very clear here, these are rumours, they aren’t proven truths and therefore shouldn’t be referred to as such IMHO. 🥴
Personally I do think the royal family has had to do a massive PR job on Mole when he was part of the Royal Family, as for his wife they were aware of her bullying, but that has now been exposed.
1) this entire blog is speculation.
2) it took the BRF quite a long time to act on the bullying complaints. They only chose to proceed with an investigation when it was convenient as a weapon against the Harkles. It looks very bad for the BRF
She cannot simply issue Letters Patent and remove Harry, Archie and Lili from the line of succession. Parliament has been asked to do so, but they kick it down the road and say it is not in their power to do so, which, in a strange way, is true.
The Duke of Windsor abdicated, taking him and any children out of the line of succession, but not through some existing mechanism ... it was done through a one-off special procedure, through Parliament.
I think it was two members of the royal family who were removed from the line of succession during one of the world wars - for treason (i.e. siding with the enemy in a time of war), but even that was I think, not by a law that still exists. Those conditions (treason in a time of war) do not exist today (the UK is not at war with the USA nor any other country), and to create special circumstances for the Harkles opens the door to popular opinion deciding who is or is not in the line of succession, and the entire monarchical system unravels.
Removing the HRH from Harry would be an unprecedented move for the Queen and carry the same risk if popular opinion ends up deciding who HRH is and who is not (rather than people themselves deciding, like the Wessexes and Princess Anne). That the Queen instructed them not to use the HRH for commercial deals is unprecedented and limits them hugely because they either defy the Queen or never use the HRH because everything they do is commercial. (They are not the only ones in the BRF who use the HRH to get commercial deals.)
HRH only for working royals who do not participate in any commercial activities nor take any freebies would affect the York sisters, Andrew, and the Kents, and the Cambridge children in time, so every move the Queen makes has ramifications and would probably result in damaging schisms in the family. But this is perhaps something the Queen should consider.
The problem is that there are too many stupid people in the world who do not understand that HRH does not indicate that the person is in the line of succession or not (e.g. Prince Michael was HRH and was taken out, and then put back in; Zara Tindal is not and is in the line of succession). It does not have any property or income or position or privilege attached to it, other than when people fall for the scam and give huge advances to talentless grifters sprouting a lot of word salad. It does not help when people like Oprah and Gayle feed misinformation to a misinformed/ignorant public. The result of all this ignorance is companies like Spotify and Netflix giving the Harkles huge amounts of money and sweet deals.
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This whole blog is speculation; truth.
So I'm going to speculate that from Bullying's allegations against MM, the Harkles' were expelled. And the half-in and half-out narrative was a Harkles demand that was not accepted. And Bullying's allegations went ahead to combat MM's lies. I don't believe that H&M wanted to separate from the Monarchy and this expulsion made them furious and they want revenge. They are always changing their narratives which suggests they are unreliable.
Most media is used to entertain, some to inform, but very little is used to hold those in power accountable. The Queen did respond quickly when the media chose to hold those in power accountable and ask why bullying claims were not investigated when the Palace has a dignity at work policy.
Most theses are adequate, but if a degree is awarded by a more prestigious university, people assume it is superior.
For that very reason, as I said above, race had nothing to do with Michelle Obama getting the opportunity and then earning the degree. Like most, she was not exceptional, but she was good enough, and that is more than the majority of people, irrespective of race.
Unlike Meghan, Michelle Obama is likeable and has good manners (friendly and dignified is good), can do long-term commitment, speaks in understandable language, values family ... Race does not determine character!
I am also of the opinion that 'out' was not what the Harkles wanted. The Queen really pulled the rug out from under their feet there!
RE: I'm late for the party... again...Lol!
Just popped in to share a quote from an Amazon book review. When I'm interested in a book I often go there.
We were discussing Michelle Obama. Some here seem to think her thesis was badly written because it has some typos or other minutiae. I read the gist of it and I found it adequate for an undergraduate work.
Here's the quote:
"And then there's the oddity: I did not detect one single editorial error. Not one typo. Not one grammar error. That is so rare in modern publications. Kudos to the editorial staff".
I found this reviewer's comment relevant to what we discussed. So for those who think perfection equates ***editing...
Addendum:
Per Sarah Duchess of York, I can't even begin to fathom how that woman married into such a blue blooded family. She reminds me of the women we see at the weekend flea markets on a slow day. Crass, brawling, and vulgar. The proverbial fish monger's wife. No offense to fish mongers.
IMO the ONLY reason she is sucking up to H&M is because she smells possible money. Pathetic.
I do like her daughters though.
JMHO.
Carry on Nutties. I'm out for the day.
I agree 100% Well said!
I never said Michelle is exceptional in the brains department (not directed at you), just very accomplished and her accomplishments are not to be sneezed at nor meh'd, yet because of politics unfortunately, she is a polarizing person which is a shame because she really made something of her self.
My main point was why trash a successful woman, not just a woman of color but just a WOMAN? Because of politics?
Sadly, some people can't see beyond their ideologies.
Somewhere in my comments from a few days ago I said, "TBW wishes she was Michelle Obama"...
so the person who read Michelle Obama's thesis is just as illiterate as Michelle Obama.
In the first 2 pages, I read " thank you to my parents, Thank-you to blah blah".
The proper English usage is "Thank you" as a verb and "thank-you" as noun". For example: I owe you a big "thank-you", but "thank you for all your help".
She nor her reviewer seemed to know the difference. And, that's in the first sentence and a few more times in the first pages.
Re. The double standard
I agree that the wildly variable treatment Fergie received relative to the SixSh*ts is impossible to ignore, and the Yorks must feel that they have been unfairly sanctioned for far milder offenses than Twat and Tart, who have done everything and more that they were told not to do.
T&T have a number of advantages over Sarah:
1. Twat, the volatile basket case they have always tiptoed around and covered up for is unfortunately blood. Sarah, the disposable commoner ex. Worse, Twat is Charles’s. So he gets more of a bye than any of the other grandkids. This state of affairs isn’t going to make Andy’s relationship to his elder brother any warmer. Though Chas did walk with Andrew last Christmas—by himself—so maybe it’s better? This last year might have led to a relapse in relations. The RF has sheltered their defective for so long they don’t know how to do otherwise.
The Queen has always had an easier time chastising outsiders than her own family.
2. Sarah is not black and she’s British born, so the expectations for her conduct are higher. From the get go the Palace was afraid to touch the American WOC. Twat threw his lot in with hers and so the two are double Kryptonite in distant America. Sarah is both more accessible and infinitely more comprehensible to the PTB in BP, not an alien life form and so easier to deal with more harshly.
3. Timing. Fergie’s brouhaha was 10+ years ago when M was still on her second husband. Nobody knew what was ahead, and at the time, pre Meg Pre Epstein allegations, Fergie’s shenanigans looked really bad. How quaint they seem now.
It’s a right mess. Don’t know how the Queen and all her men are going to fix it. This Gorgon keeps sprouting more odious heads.
Let it go. No one really cares.
I agree. I would heart Sandie as well if I had emojis that work on this site.
Sarah is not black and she’s British born, so the expectations for her conduct are higher. From the get go the Palace was afraid to touch the American WOC.
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Right on! The BRF are now walking on eggshells because of the race card TBW pulled out on them. She's one of those POC who have no class and do rotten things like that.
Sarah also has proven by her behavior over the years that she lacks "class" as well. IMO this is why Prince Phillip detested her. AND why Diana befriended her-to annoy the H out of the Firm.
JMHO.
I care. Who are YOU to tell me what to do?
When it suits you, you drone on and on and on.... but when you don't like what people are saying, you climb up on your high horse.
I experienced several feelings. 1. That I had to read in slow motion 2. That I felt like I was watching a really bad movie also in slow motion. 3. That I was swimming in slow motion too.
I haven't read any other Princeton level Thesis work's so I don't have anything to compare to MO's. If I were to grade this work I would never put it at a College Level Student, never mind that of someone attending Princeton. This is the work of a high school student who hasn't fully grasped the writing skill of a more mature person.
I'm not taking away from any of her accomplishments that she has achieved in her life since her College days, but she was seriously depressed or suicidal when she wrote that Thesis. I tried, I really tried to read it in full, but I'm too old (60) and don't know how much time I have left in my life to complete it. JMHO
Michelle Obama is also projecting her feelings onto other people in her introduction.
For example, she feels that other people see her as black first, but she offers no proof of this. She says she feels unwelcome in the student community, also her personal feelings.
I realize that sociology is not a hard science but that is going too far because she never acknowledges that these are only feelings of hers, and may not be what other people feel towards her or towards other black people.
I have met a lot of black people who feel this way, by the way. They feel uncomfortable or different in a group of mostly white people, so they think that other people feel the same way about them, but it's not necessarily true. There's a difference between your feelings and reality.
I don't believe there's a deal for four books; that's more hyperbole from TBW. Only #6 received a book contract, and the advance was nowhere anything close to $20 million. The advance was probably closer to $750 thousand, because the publisher is also providing the ghost writer. Everything and anything that comes out of their camp is hugely inflated; about 95% of their "successes" are simply not true.
Ah, I had been wondering when Mrs. H's manifestation vision board would reveal itself again! They probably got a deal for one book and decided to manifest three more, including a "wellness book" for Mrs. H. The forecasted event of the Queen's death is like the anticipated Jubilee . . . or like Mrs. H's birthday at Balmoral, which, of course, her mind sets on the same level. The advance in the millions is the same old twaddle they tried with Netflix and Spotify, just with the names changed. (Someone could create a Harkle Mad-libs!)
A friend of mine is a published author in the US, and he recently shared these stats from the New York Times on his Facebook page:
1. Advances for books have dropped 40% in ten years.
2. In 2020, 98% of books sold less than 5,000 copies.
3. The median advance for books is now about $6000. (For me and non-US Nutties, he explained that that's about three months' rent.)
4. If you write a book and get it professionally published, you might make a fraction of federal minimum wage.
Undoubtedly, Prince Harry's name gives him an advantage that my friend and the majority of other writers don't have. But last year wasn't a great year for publishing and trends aren't looking up. (Besides that, Finding Freedom and The Bench both did poorly -- and in the case of the latter, the author did exactly one interview to promote it, which was taped beforehand, then used up the promotional budget sending autographed books out to celebrity mothers who mostly ignored her.) Even $750,000 is hard for me to imagine as an advance for a book "by" him.
It was a different time - British society has changed a great deal since then in terms of what is deemed `unacceptable'. We were more censorious all round then - and prepared to say what we thought.
Thanks for the extra context. If time period is also a factor, would you say that Mr. and Mrs. H's shenanigans would have been more heavily censured, by both the BRF and the people, had they happened back in 2012?
Then again, it's probably hard to say, given Mrs. H's R-card. It probably had greater value back then than it does now, when we're all incredibly tired of "woke" people telling us how to think and feel.
I agree with the reasoning that Sarah, with her background, truly should have known better in every stage of her life -- and should have shown a learning curve with every succeeding stage. But I can also imagine the Yorks smarting over a foreigner (race being irrelevant!) receiving more tolerance than one of their own. Don't both charity and loyalty begin at home?
And then comes a reasonable question:
@Sandie
what exactly is the Queen supposed to do that she has not already done?
They're already "out" and receiving no money from either the Queen or Prince Charles. They're not allowed to use the HRH style in their commercial ventures. They've been iced out by the rest of the family (except, perhaps, by Sarah and Princess Eugenie?). If the BRF's aim is to keep the Harkles from hurting them, they don't want to do anything with long-term effects that will hurt younger royals.
Having said that, I'm sure the Yorks have some ideas. I sincerely want to hear their answer to Sandie's question. We'd have to weigh it against the fact that none of them has much to lose any longer -- but it would still be interesting!
Per Sarah Duchess of York, I can't even begin to fathom how that woman married into such a blue blooded family. She reminds me of the women we see at the weekend flea markets on a slow day. Crass, brawling, and vulgar. The proverbial fish monger's wife. No offense to fish mongers.
As other people have said, it's probably a true love match between Prince Andrew and Sarah. Had they not been ordered to divorce, they'd still be married. But with quiet measures having been taken behind the scenes to curtail Sarah's spending. At least one would hope so.
In some ways, I see Sarah as a forerunner to Mrs. H. The Queen was strict about Prince Charles's choice of bride, but much more tolerant about whom the "spare" could marry. She remained kind to Sarah even after the toe-kissing photos, the access-to-Andrew scandal and Sarah's six-part series on Oprah's network*. Ironically, the reason the British public have been quicker to condemn Sarah is probably the reason why the Queen has been quicker to forgive her. She is seen as "one of us." Not a blue blood, certainly, but a horsey, country-loving Englishwoman.
* This reminds me that I have no idea what the British public's reaction to the Finding Sarah series was. @WBBM and other British Nutties: Care to chime in?
Sorry for the late announcement. I had a migraine yesterday but thankfully it's subsiding.