Is there a new chapter for the Sussexes? Are things looking up for them after Fergie signals support and they have a new former Disney+ exec heading Archewell content?
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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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On that weekend in 2016 when news of Prince Harry’s fledgling relationship with an American TV star broke, it was Eugenie and Jack who were with them on holiday in Toronto and spotted at a Halloween party in Soho House. They spent time together as couples when they were first dating, going on double dates in Toronto and in London, and were said to have been instrumental in helping to keep their relationship a secret.
In fact, Eugenie is one of many people close to the couple who have been touted as having originally set them up. In the Oprah interview, Meghan said: “Eugenie and I had known each other before I had known Harry, so that was comfortable [...] We're friends with them as a couple.”
Above all, then, Harry’s younger cousin is perhaps the only member of his family who truly knows his wife of three years. “Eugenie knows them better than any of the Royals in a way,” says one insider. “She was there from the beginning.”
While some members of the family may have watched or listened to the Duke’s interviews with a degree of horror, and struggled to make sense of his often damning revelations, Eugenie may have been more sympathetic. She’ll also have heard her cousin’s perspective on what has been a tumultuous few months for the Windsors.
The pair have always been close, spending much of their childhoods together along with their siblings, William and Beatrice. Family photos show them larking about on ski slopes and on summer holidays. Princess Diana’s 1996 Christmas card ‒ her last before her death in 1997 ‒ features a happy, sunkissed photo of the young princes and their York cousins, including a cheeky-looking six-year-old Eugenie.
As they grew up, they moved in similar circles. As adults, they share many A-list friends, including the Clooneys, who Jack got to know through his work as brand ambassador for George’s Casamigos tequila, and singer Ellie Goulding. Eugenie has always been close to Harry’s significant girlfriends too. She is friends with Harry’s ex Chelsy Davy ‒ the Zimbabwean attended her wedding in 2018 ‒ and it was Eugenie who first introduced Harry to Cressida Bonas, whom he dated for two years.
The Sussexes may be settling into life as a foursome across the pond, but they are sure to have one eye on the family engagements that will draw them back to Britain next year. The Queen will celebrate her Platinum Jubilee in the summer, with events planned around the country. If Harry and his family are to be part of the celebrations, perhaps after a turbulent few months, Eugenie the peacemaker can help bring her favourite cousin back into the fold.
Re chou, yes, it does mean cabbage but when the French say 'mon [petit] chou', it doesn't refer to a cabbage. An approximate equivalent would be sweetie/darling/honey etc.
Thanks for the link re: Sam Markle interview. She's brilliant, so astute, AND she comes out and says plainly on Archie and Lilibet "since there's no real evidence they even exist..." Wow! Just wow.
Amazing clip!
Sam Markle's interview with Dan Wootten is fire. She unpacks it all. Oprah, TBW's obsession with Diana, etc. Absolutely worth a watch.
*Maybe* Eugenie has been quietly (or sneakily, if you will) introducing him to good-natured female friends of about her age who don't care to be famous in Hollywood or to be on the front pages of newspapers daily. (He might even be relieved to find a person that doesn't have a Face of the Month Club membership.) *Maybe* these would be young women who would be thrilled to live in a remote area away from prying paps while raising draft horses or organic herbs or, for abbyh, rutabagas, would appeal to him now.
I wonder what TBWs reaction would be if she found that 6's head was being turned by a wholesome, cheerful young woman who doesn't enact a screaming, tearful, dishes-throwing trauma drama if she isn't invited to Obama's party or the Academy Awards (because 'normal' people aren't really into that). I think TBW would smile sweetly, pretend to be the BFF of the York daughters and meanwhile attempt to destroy their relationships. (He wouldn't even have to be in a relationship. If they were casual acquaintances that occasionally texted, IMO that would enact a rage response.)
“Mon petit chou” sounds more adorable than Cabbage, but most things sound better in French.
It's calling your loved one a sweet little pastry, not a vegetable.
Apologies if this has already been posted.
GB News interviewed Samantha Markle today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2XnukaoTiA
@Miggy:
Wow. Just wow. Thank you for posting the link to the wide-ranging video of Daily Mail GB news columnist Dan Wootton interviewing Samantha Markle, Meghan's half sister to mark Meghan's 40th birthday.
I had only read Samantha’s warnings about Meghan and until this video, had not heard her speak.
She and her warnings about Meghan were spot on in 2017 and 2018 in the lead-up to the train wreck, er wedding, and her opinions, which many people in the public said were just sour grapes and jealousy are proving to have stood the test of time for their accuracy.
Samantha is very well spoken, heartfelt in what she says, and brutally honest. I believe Samantha Markle to be as genuine as Meghan is fake.
I hope other nutties take a few minutes to watch this video. It’s not very long, but it’s jam-packed with Samantha’s candid observations about her half-sister. It will be well worth your time.
I wonder if there is another reason TBW might be trying to mock the RF? Namely with the fake tea ceremony and the possible cabbage hat. Perhaps she is really seething that HMTQ didn't "mentor" her as she had wished? From Mark;e's point of view, the RF should have not only protected her, but promoted her better and taken her under their wing.
Since they didn't, she will now show them the "right" way to do things...
But @abbyh I might try the rutabage receipe this fall, it sounds yummy, thanks.
Context, after all, is everything ;)
Very good your text!
Poor Eugenie, bless her. She fell off the Silly Tree and hit every branch on the way down.
In fact, I ended up texting the IG her just to express my disappointment. I thought of the 95-year-old widowed queen going through so much emotional turmoil at this point in her life. However, I must remember ( here) that her father withdraws from royal duties not because of PC, but because of his own actions!
I think that she should express support and mentor her father's victims and not the MM or keep silent! Hypocrisy and empty public relations using women who have real problems to make headlines. The "woke" at this point, seem to be asleep. I confess, I don't regret it!
Note: As for blocking (laughs) she will have to block a lot of people.
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"The only birthday present you really need, Meghan? A happier husband" - CAROLE MALONE
https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1472840/meghan-markle-40-birthday-duchess-of-sussex-royals-letter-royal-family
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"It shows what she thinks of the Royal Family': Expert accuses Meghan of 'mocking' the Queen and the Firm in her woke 40th birthday video call with Melissa McCarthy that shows 'she's got what she wanted'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9865759/Royal-expert-accuses-Meghan-Markle-mocking-Queen-40th-birthday-video-call.html
Also, the teacher's pet is called "le chouchou de la prof".
You can also call your loved one your "chouchou"
I just have to roll my eyes at the interviewer asking if she loves her sister after Samantha just told him how she'd trashed her family and probably triggered the heart attacks in her dad and made his last years miserable. What did he expect? "Why, sure, Dan! I really, really love the way she destroyed my family! I can hardly wait to give her a big hug and ask her to do it again!"
Just sayin'.
In Britain, TBW emphasized being an American. In America, she wants to play the CA cool girl while appropriating British habits to galvanize her Royal "Duchess" status? I say fake and foul.
Astute observation! She knows she's nothing by herself. When she was dating Harry, she dragged a whole race into the relationship with them -- the same race she had professionally disavowed for years. After she married him, she dragged the rest of the US into her drama, too. Now that she is free to be a black American woman, she throws around her "Duchess" title and pretends to have afternoon tea.
I'm generally very neutral on "cultural appropriation." Of course I think there should be great respect when appreciating cultures that are not one's own and using elements from them. But as a friend of mine likes to say, culture is supposed to be appropriated. Our children appropriate it when we pass it on to them, etc.
But now that I see Harry's wife playing at being a proper British duchess, when she crapped all over that culture for two years, I understand the dark side of cultural appropriation. She never respected or enjoyed British culture; she only "likes" it now because it lets her make some money and tell more lies. Shame, shame, shame on her.
Many thanks for the link to the Samantha Markle interview with Dan Wootton. It’s obvious that Samantha is the pick of the litter in that family: she is highly intelligent, thoughtful, honest, genuine and articulate—the opposite of her half sister. I really hope the video gets lots of views—and that the Queen, Cornwalls, and Cambridges will watch it.
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@Karla
You wrote that Eugenie 'should express support and mentor her father's victims'. I think we need to be very careful here. I don't like the word 'victims' as PA has not been tried in a court of law and we don't know that these girls/women were trafficked etc. He may well be guilty of some offence/s but until such time as we have confirmation we shouldn't talk about victims.
@LavenderLady & @HappyDays - Yes, it was a good interview. I quite often follow her timeline on Twitter, (when she doesn't lock it) and she appears to be astute with a great sense of humour, unlike her bratty sister.
@Swampwoman - I almost choked when Wootton asked her if she still loved TBW!! I don't have much time for Dan anyway but that was just plain stupid! However, she handled it well.
@Svetlana - Samantha has been asked numerous times on Twitter to confirm TBW's age and she has always said 'turning' 40 is correct.
@Rebecca - Samantha really does have all those qualities that you listed! She's funny too. :)
"@Karla
You wrote that Eugenie 'should express support and mentor her father's victims'. I think we need to be very careful here. I don't like the word 'victims' as PA has not been tried in a court of law and we don't know that these girls/women were trafficked etc. He may well be guilty of some offence/s but until such time as we have confirmation we shouldn't talk about victims."
I agree. We don't know the facts at this point. And whatever the proven facts turn out to be, I bet they aren't what many people think they are right now.
I also think that position holds Eugenie to an almost impossibly high standard. I mean really, how many of us would come out publicly for a "victim" if one of our parents was accused in the press of the wrongdoing? Why should Eugenie say anything? Do we expect the same from Chelsea Clinton? Or even Andrew Cuomo's daughters? I know I don't.
Thanks for the articles you posted. Acid tongue Carole Malone's was excellent although I felt she held back a little on what she was really thinking! lol
@Rebecca,
Thanks also for the Eleanor Steafel article. Ever since TBW mentioned that she'd known Eugenie before Harry, it became obvious to me that Eugenie was the one doing the introductions! Hence the secrecy involved.
What greater "dis" is there than to deny, to identify with another race on your resume, and to expensively and repeatedly erase all physical signs of that race from your person? And then shut down all criticism by playing that race card?
BONUS POINTS: Most recently: using the funds provided by the taxpayers of the nation that you are now crapping on to pay for the white hair and the white features? Pretty neat, eh?
McCarthy Snark
Meg and her forty forte
An impertinence, a messy foreplay
Using M’liss McCarthy
Drinking tea, rather sarky
What a joke,
the turds are cut from same whey
The Blunder of You
As they carry on with their
pillage and plunder
Haz it occurred to our prince
the boy wonder
Just how it will all end
Doesn’t look good, I’ll portend
He’ll lose all, and be put down, asunder
"choux à la crème" is the plural of "chou à la crème"
un chou, deux choux.
A chou is a chou.
Larousse.fr has this entry for "chou, choux(pluriel)"
3. Petite pâtisserie soufflée obtenue à partir de pâte à choux, cuite au four et fourrée de crème.
yes, choyer to chou makes sense. Thank you for that!
I think that if the man you love calls you something delicious, you would see the affection behind it.
"@Karla
You wrote that Eugenie 'should express support and mentor her father's victims'. I think we need to be very careful here. I don't like the word 'victims' as PA has not been tried in a court of law and we don't know that these girls/women were trafficked etc. He may well be guilty of some offence/s but until such time as we have confirmation we shouldn't talk about victims."
Lizzie wrote: I also think that position holds Eugenie to an almost impossibly high standard. I mean really, how many of us would come out publicly for a "victim" if one of our parents was accused in the press of the wrongdoing? Why should Eugenie say anything? Do we expect the same from Chelsea Clinton? Or even Andrew Cuomo's daughters? I know I don't.
I suppose it is extremely naive to expect people that have no standards to live up to them. Chelsea isn't stupid. She has to know about her parents' ill-gotten gains and has certainly profited from them. Hunter Biden is publicly taking payments from the Chinese via his "art" sales. Joe is calling for Cuomo to resign due to sexual harassment when he's been groping, fondling, and harassing women for YEARS.
If Eugenie and Sarah are jumping around seemingly catering to TBW's whims, I'm more inclined to think that Andrew is being threatened than that they are BFFs.
Beatrice & Eugenie were never
in the scene.
What greater "dis" is there than to deny, to identify with another race on your resume, and to expensively and repeatedly erase all physical signs of that race from your person? And then shut down all criticism by playing that race card?
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Oh gawd, yes to this! I know too many whitewashed POC (including in my own culture) who are masters at this game. It's not only sad to see but very annoying. Then they wonder why people get pissed when they swan around pretending to be something they are not and looking down their noses at others. It's maddening.
The consequence for those who do this is nobody likes them for being fake; though they are the last to get the message that it shows...especially if they are narcs like TBW. She probably couldn't care less anyway.
The worst is when someone is not of your culture and tries to pass themselves off as a member of your culture or immerses themselves in another culture because they are ashamed of their own. The worst...
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Sigh...more French lessons. Can it stop? And the Covid talk, and the ***in your face politics talk? It's not like we have NO news of 6 and TBW. Sigh...
I believe we're seeing a sadistic streak here.
What other public figure posts a video of themselves and doesn't include their spouse? Worse, he is playing outside and is the subject of ridicule. I believe that's to hurt the RF. Completely undignified, look at what he's been reduced to. Displaying her wealth and privilege, she makes fun of the family she married into and then tells other women they need to get back to work.
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This! Very well said. 👏👏👏👏👏
@Girl with a Hat
Thank you 🤦. I'm mortified and should know better but the internet shows 'choux à la crème', 'choux pastry' etc. which confused me! The old brain wasn't in gear... Never mind what type of chou, it's chou singular, choux plural...
I said what I said. PA can prove your innocence, but he refuses to testify. Which leaves a dark cloud over him. And PE must know that this story weighs heavily on his father. Episode that kept the father from being an active member of the Monarchy.
I can talk about. It is wrong for PA not to prove his innocence.
Harvey Weinstein case that the victims suffered to tell the truth.
In the end
"If your roof is made of glass, don't throw stones at your neighbor's house"
"A blind man will not thank you for a looking glass
"dis"?
I think you mean "Diss" definition is - to treat with disrespect or contempt : insult.
"Chou" is the puffed pastry filled with cream and thereby a sweet nickname; "choux" is the plural of "chou".
Still, I believe Melissa's hat has a cabbage on top as a rude reference to the Queen, based on the popular translation of "chou" into English. Shows TBW doesn't speak as good French as she pretends (since she ignores the nuances).
Btw, the way she is holding her cup of tea shows her poor manners. Not the upper class way. Melissa, on the contrary, is holding it correctly.
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https://archive.vn/2021.08.05-181829/https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-futility-of-meghan-s-mentoring-scheme
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"chou-fleur" means cauliflower.
google is your friend.
"I said what I said. PA can prove your innocence, but he refuses to testify. Which leaves a dark cloud over him. And PE must know that this story weighs heavily on his father. Episode that kept the father from being an active member of the Monarchy."
"I can talk about. It is wrong for PA not to prove his innocence."
You are entitled to your opinion, of course. My opinion is it's wrong to expect people, including Andrew, to prove their innocence.
I'm also not at all sure Andrew has actually been asked to "testify" yet so I'm not sure when he "refused" to do it.
Btw, the way she is holding her cup of tea shows her poor manners. Not the upper class way. Melissa, on the contrary, is holding it correctly.
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Oh no, now I will have to watch THAT video again, the horror!! But seriously thank you for noticing the difference's between the two of them. I think Melissa has been Markled......
I'd rather judge Eugenie by her own actions, even though her latest ones aren't putting her in a very good light.
"dis"?
I think you mean "Diss" definition is - to treat with disrespect or contempt : insult.@GWAH said,
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I apologize for my comment and who I offended.🥴🤪😔
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Song of the Witches: “Double, double toil and trouble”
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
(from Macbeth)
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and howlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.
Note: (H&M twin personalities)
I mean, not that I consulted it while dashing off my note . . .
You are correct about Prince Andrew. The FBI and New York District Attorney’s office have repeatedly requested PA’s cooperation, which he promised but never actually delivered. Andrew will never sit down with them for questioning because he knows it would put him in legal jeopardy. It’s easier for him to hide behind his mother’s throne and pretend that he is ready and willing to “help” with the investigation into his good buddy Epstein. He is coward and a liar. Prince Charles will see to it that his younger brother never represents the Royal Family in public again, which is at least some consolation—not for Epstein’s victims, of course, but hopefully Andrew will stew in Purgatory for the remainder of his life.
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@Swamp Woman,
I think that if the man you love calls you something delicious, you would see the affection behind it.
Just call me DELICIOUS, no specifics nevessary. I might change my name to Madam Delicious?!?! I like it.
Thanks for The Spectator article. Very amusing and right on.
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Aside from Epstein, for years Prince Andrew was boinking any woman he could get his hands and his Princely charm on. He usually did not have to exert himself, the world is full of women who want to say that they slept with an English Prince. They called him randy Andy back then. He must have bedded 500-1000. He had his fun, now he is paying the price. No more repping the Monarchy and no more pitch@palace, pretty much a scam and imitation of Shark Tank on TV. One that earned PA millions from young entrepreneurs that wanted some Royal fairy dust sprinkled on their up n coming enterprise.
My take is Epstein gave PA his pitch@palace idea. Epstein was his business consultant. Not only his sex with young women consultant. Women under 20 years old. It is wrong to call PA a pedophile, which means going after pre-pubescents. I doubt PA was into this. A degenerate he was, but not that kind.
Wikipedia-
Pedophilia (alternatively spelt paedophilia) is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children.[1][2]
Fergie was born an aristocratic flake, was always a flake. Came into her marriage as one. But what changed her into *the crazy Royal* was PA's hundreds of infidelities. My take anyway.
"You are correct about Prince Andrew. The FBI and New York District Attorney’s office have repeatedly requested PA’s cooperation, which he promised but never actually delivered. Andrew will never sit down with them for questioning because he knows it would put him in legal jeopardy. It’s easier for him to hide behind his mother’s throne and pretend that he is ready and willing to “help” with the investigation into his good buddy Epstein. He is coward and a liar. Prince Charles will see to it that his younger brother never represents the Royal Family in public again, which is at least some consolation—not for Epstein’s victims, of course, but hopefully Andrew will stew in Purgatory for the remainder of his life."
I'm not sure that's all correct. The NY DA has made lots of public noises but it's unclear if official requests have ever been made by that office. That office does "hot dog" alot and attempt to try cases in the press. (And one wonders why that office doesn't talk to Bill C who lives in that state or talk to other prominent Americans in bed with Epstein. Heck, to hear some talk, you'd think PA was the only man ever identified by name as involved with Epstein!)
It's been reported PA's legal team has said he will answer FBI questions if the FBI comes to the UK. That hasn't happened. Of course, no attorney would tell a client to fly to the US and answer FBI questions! That's not advice only a prince "hiding behind a throne" would get. Any client would get that advice and any client who isn't an idiot would take it.
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@Teasmade,
Ignore the nitpicking. I always like what you have to say!😀
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RE: Prince Andrew
IMO anyone who pal-ed around with a scumbag like Epstein is just as bad. That Andrew is a member of the RF is what got him off. Anyone who refuses to see that is duped or has their head in the sand.
That goes for politicians as well; corrupt SOB's who are all lining their pockets-on either side of the isle. Politics is a dirty business and the opium of the people. I am a centrist who tends toward apolitical so I don't pay attention to rhetoric-or conspiracy theories...
All just my opinion of course.
Her “initiative” is basically a narcissistic behavior known as character acquisition as Meghan, whose biggest success in life has been and always will be marrying Harry, attempts to network and feed off the achievements, status, influence, power, and fame that each of the people on her list have been duped into participating in. It is Meghan’s latest in a long string of one-off publicity generating events designed to advance and cultivate the flimsy but carefully-cultivated facade of Meghan as an activist-philanthropist, who is generous, and oh yes, lest I forget, a saintly person.
I do hope you remain here and continue to post comments.
In case anyone wants to read it, the well-written article is below. It is a bit over the count for here, so it is in two parts.
The Spectator
Melanie McDonagh
The futility of Meghan’s mentoring scheme
5 August 2021
What, do you reckon you’d get from Princess Eugenie in 40 minutes, always supposing you were a woman trying to return to work, after furlough, or a baby or something? What insight would this amiable royal have to offer the rest of us? Sheryl Sandberg might conceivably have more to say but probably nothing you wouldn’t get from that fascinating book, Lean In, which I haven’t read but have read all about. Or Hilary Clinton? One would welcome her advice on marriage, obviously. Or how about Amanda Gorman, the attractive young woman whose very bad poem was the highlight of the Biden inauguration. Whatever, it wouldn’t be to do with mugging up on the basics, like grammar, before embarking on poetry.
They are, of course, among Meghan’s 'mentors' and she’s called in this special favour from her besties as a very special birthday treat. The 40:40, as she’s calling the project, is 40 celebs promising to give 40 minutes of their time to 40 women returning to the workplace. Can you believe it! What’s more, they get their very own T-shirts; can’t wait to see what Edward Enninful makes of his.
Mentoring is very much of the moment. Lots of universities, colleges and schools call on their old members to give a helping hand to aspirants in their field. Most usefully, it offers the young person a leg-up in the way of contacts and work experience. But alas, that kind of favour is a bit frowned upon nowadays, because it usually entails a benefit for the already privileged and becomes a way of reinforcing social hierarchy.
The only kind of mentoring that actually works is the kind that never had a label; it just involved working around someone with experience who’s good at the job you are trying to do. So, a senior lawyer might get his sidekick to get the coffee, but he’d also pass on an example of good working practice and advice on what would be useful in what context. When you work with someone who’s better and more experienced than you, you do your best to follow, like a duckling; it's a rewarding relationship for both parties.
The former editor of the Evening Standard, the kindly Stewart Steven, was very good about advising younger colleagues. And I don’t mean that as innuendo; among other things, he advised one young woman destined for greatness always to choose smoked salmon as a starter when she went out to lunch. That way, she’d put on less weight. That was actually useful.
The old formal kind of mentoring was altogether more serious; it was an apprenticeship and you paid for it and you worked for it and it lasted seven years. It most definitely wasn’t a 40 minute affair. It was the approved way of passing on skills down the generations, but that was for proper trades, not general aspirational stuff. And it was not designed to make the mentor — or in this case, her lovely friends — look good, but to transmit methods of working.
The Spectator
The Futility of Meghan’s Mentoring Scheme
Melanie McDonagh
5 August 2021
A pity that Meghan isn’t one of the mentors herself, really. She could so easily pass on the secret of her success, which can be summed up in a nutshell: marry well. That would have been intelligible to Jane Austen, but it’s probably not what a hapless woman returning to the workplace would get from the Duchess of Sussex. Probably it would be to do with always being authentic, and staying hydrated.
I am perfectly keen — possibly too keen — to foist my opinions on my colleagues, but I can’t honestly think what I’d have to say in 40 minutes of mentoring. It’d be more along the lines of avoiding my example in all things except one: to save your last question in an interview for the subject that’s going to get you thrown out. And to make sure before you send an email that you’re actually sending it to the person you intended.
This being Meghan, the exercise is fabulously self congratulatory. It draws our attention to her circle of famous friends and it is an interesting take on philanthropy in that other people do the actual work, such as it is, rather than the birthday girl herself. It is, like so much virtue signalling, entirely cost free. Still, anything that keeps her away from children’s literature has to be a good thing. Do you suppose a self-help book is on the cards?
Fergie was born an aristocratic flake, was always a flake. Came into her marriage as one. But what changed her into *the crazy Royal* was PA's hundreds of infidelities. My take anyway.
Interesting view of things! Why do you think Sarah didn't take Diana's route? I would think she had more reason to hate her then-husband and want to bring him and his enabling family down.
(My apologies to the mods if this is a double post. I got an error page the first time I tried to post this.)
Re: The futility of Meghan’s mentoring scheme
Melanie McDonagh captures perfectly the problem with calling the 40:40 PR stunt "mentoring." It's basically an extended, interactive version of Cameo (the celebrity video messaging service). Forty "lucky" working-class women get to be star-struck for forty minutes while getting lectured by forty virtue-signaling upper-class Sunshine Sachs clients.
At first I was going to lay all responsibility for this silly stunt at Sunshine Sachs' door. The ginger juggler's wife could never have pulled this off by herself, after all. But as I was trying to explain the futility and tone-deafness of it, I remembered the SmartWorks collection. At the time, someone pointed out that it promoted Misha Nonoo's uglier clothes over items that a working-class woman would actually need for a job interview. What both initiatives have in common is the illusion of practical help for those who need something better and a photo op for Harry's wife in which her poorly-groomed hair grabs all the attention.
In celebration of the 40th birthday of our Patron, The Duchess of Sussex, we are delighted to share in a mentoring campaign to help more women re-enter the workplace. In the words of The Duchess,
“I believe mentorship is one way to help women regain confidence and rebuild their economic strength, and for my birthday, I have asked 40 friends, activists, athletes, artists, and world leaders to help kick off a global effort by contributing 40 minutes of mentorship to support women reentering the workforce. With this time, I hope they each help someone advance a professional life on her own terms, and I hope that they inspire countless others to give 40 minutes of their time.”
The Duchess of Sussex has personally dedicated many hours to supporting and mentoring Smart Works’ clients ahead of their job interviews. We look forward to playing a small part in bringing this initiative to life for the women we exist to help.
Happy birthday to The Duchess from everyone in the Smart Works community.
At the end is a link to what I presume is the Archewell site.
I can see why SS would want SmartWorks to mention it. The similarities between 40x40 and SmartWorks' coaching service are very obvious. Someone would eventually ask why Harry's wife is doing something with American celebrities who are sacrificing forty minutes of their personal pampering time that she's not doing with British commoners who work full-time for a charity they believe in. For SmartWorks to claim that Harry's wife had already "personally dedicated many hours" to them at least makes her look better.
I wonder if they got a big kickback for this. I don't want to begrudge them, if they and the women they help truly needed it, but the real harm of selling out is the damage to one's sense of integrity.
We've discussed most of them but there may be one or two we've missed - there's one on empire building, for example.
I can't face checking through them one by one - does anyone feel up to it?
He seems to have his feet firmly planted on the ground, much `sounder' than Welby, methinks. JW strikes me as one of those clergy who is `too heavenly minded to be any earthly use.'
Has Welby been completely Markled?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaZpfzXfHLk
https://twitter.com/Lottie2000000/status/1423797355258683393/photo/1
I'm not clear about why she tried to copyright a title - as far as I'm aware, there can be no copyright in titles - publications are identified by author, publisher, place and date of publication.
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Another twist? I saw on BBC Red Button text service this morning that the US has changed its ruling on citizenship for children born abroad by means of `assisted reproductive technology', including surrogacy. All long as the child is the genetic offspring of the American parent, it can now have American citizenship.
Can any one comment on this with regard to the child known as Archie? I recall we chewed over at length whether or not he had been registered at the US Embassy on London. Of course, if he doesn't exist, it's purely hypothetical, as our former PM Harold Wilson used to say!
"...the US has changed its ruling on citizenship for children born abroad by means of `assisted reproductive technology', including surrogacy. All long as the child is the genetic offspring of the American parent, it can now have American citizenship.
That's not quite right, I don't think. Previously the child did have to have the genetic material of the American parent to qualify. That's no longer true. The child just has to have genetic material from one of the (married) parents-- it can be the foreign parent.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-citizenship-eligibility-children-same-sex-couples-born-overseas/
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/19/998143097/u-s-ends-policy-denying-citizenship-to-children-born-via-in-vitro-surrogacy
I don't know if the change is retroactive so I don't know if it would affect Archie if he exists and if he doesn't have M's DNA.
Thanks to GWAH and Petunia.
https://t.co/MmW9fJwZ8M?amp=1&s=08
UNCLASSY Meghan courts controversy, HUMILIATES Harry, BUT IS SHE INTERSEX? Samantha interview hints.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dluJRwUGGzo
The Daniela article at https://t.co/MmW9fJwZ8M?amp=1&s=08 is full of barbed wire and lemon juice, a description I once heard applied to Bartok's String Quartets!
Thank you, Nelo.
Thanks for that link. Based on that article alone, I never would have guessed that Daniela Esler was a sugar.
She's right that the Harkles' brand, which they keep insisting is kindness and service through charity work and "shining a light," is actually division, tension and family baggage. The 40x40 initiative is a stab at reestablishing the former brand. We see through it, of course, but I wonder what a normie (one who is neither a sugar nor a "saltine") thinks of it.
O/T: @Swampwoman, could you tell me which brand/formulation of ivermectin you and your husband used? Thanks! All they had at our feed store, it was mixed with something else. Thanks!!
Those 40 women/people will never be followed up on. It's a PR move and a lousy one at that. All BS... it's all TBW is capable of producing; caca...
Beyonce, Obama's, Clooney's, Oprah are not giving her a nod. They would Harry if he was single or with someone else. I think she's been blacklisted. It looks that way doesn't it?
Beyonce did send birthday wishes to TBW via her official website, although I don't think she's one of the 40 people taking part.
Interesting that Bey gave her a nod. But will she give them work? I doubt it. They are tarnished, me thinks.
Anytime :)
There are a thousand ways to buy horsey Ivermectin. Animal Ivermectin. Amazon has it in the US. I think you can trust Amazon.---- https://www.amazon.com/Ivermectin-Paste-Dewormer-Percent-Flavor/dp/B0894SWN2M/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=Ivermectin&qid=1628386926&sr=8-6
It comes in paste in a tube like toothpaste. Adjust the horse dose to your own body weight. Horse and human are similar enough to do a pound for pound adjustment of dose.
Ebay might have it. Look for the apple flavored paste in a toothpaste tube
PART TWO
The Spectator
The Futility of Meghan’s Mentoring Scheme
Melanie McDonagh
5 August 2021
Futility? The writer is taking this Megsy "initiative" far too seriously.
This is more Megsy virtuous talk, because talk is cheap. Even if the services of Sunshine Sachs are not. Ouch! Hapless, are you paying the SS product placement bills out of your Diana inheritances? Probably so.
The real reason for this 40x40 is for Megs to show off-debut her new face and hair. For hoi polloi of UK and America, a glimpse of her mansion and what was strategically placed in the room the video was taken. A Sunshine Sacks production.
Lady C did bring up the yachting joke by Mellisa McCarthy; and, how dim Harry was humiliated by tbw by juggling his balls outside the house.
TBW's hair was so awful, not even tendrils, but big hunks of hair on each side of her head, just hanging there. Lady C says it's to hide her surgery scars. Why get surgery when she ends up with an unflattering, ugly hairdo?
Seems a little weird to not wear any earrings? Lack of attention to detail.
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Feminism is getting a big push from Meghan and Carrie — a push right back to the 1950S
CAMILLA LONG
COLUMNIST, THE SUNDAY TIMES
Imagine you are an 80-year-old woman. You have, in your lifetime, seen seismic change. Women are no longer routinely groped, harassed, sidelined: they are leaders, experts, bosses, even prime ministers.
But imagine if this picture started changing, if the world suddenly wasn’t as filled with happy, respected female role models as you had hoped. Imagine if, as you are led towards the light, the female role model you in fact see emerging is the person we saw last Wednesday: a pruned, spoilt duchess sitting at her Gnomeo and Juliet desk in a mansion in California telling us she was a new global icon for women.
Looking at the Duchess of Sussex’s 40x40 video, in which she announced her desire to “mobilise women back to the workplace” after Covid, I wondered: how did we even end up with a workplace mentor who famously doesn’t work? It seems amazing to me that in 2021, when our world is filled with so many talented female politicians, scientists, academics, sportswomen and engineers, three of the most talked about and influential female figures are Meghan, the Duchess of Cambridge and Carrie Johnson, women who have slept their way to their positions, and none of them have proper jobs. What is that about?
If you want to know what men think of this, well, of course they are laughing. Last week we learnt that Boris Johnson’s approach to dealing with Carrie was to ask Dominic Cummings if they could send her on one long, photogenic holiday. Could the cabinet secretary get her “a job with lots of foreign travel” on Cop26, Cummings claimed the prime minister asked him last year, in an interview on Thursday. Can we be in any doubt that men like Boris think women are shallow accessories when the most ambitious he is for his wife is to let her “travel around the world with Kate Middleton"?
I don’t even think this came from a place of specific misogyny. It’s misogyny by what, omission? You can see Dom and Boris laughing: “Crackers” would love to drone on about pangolins with the duchess. Even worse, Meghan, Kate and Carrie collude in such low opinions.
Remember the mad fertility photoshoots at the ludicrous G7 summit? Jill Biden forced to hobble, barefoot across the sand, to admire the fruit of Boris’s loins - all sorted by Carrie. So much space is devoted to their “love story": you’d be surprised how many people invest in this antiquated fantasy, especially voters. Lynn Barber, who wrote the interview with Cummings in The Spectator, claims she was “surprised” to see a sentence about Carrie being “Boris’s wife and mother of his son, with another on the way” added into her copy.
Where did that come from? Is “mother of Boris’s children” now the way everyone sees her? What happened to her being a “true feminist”, like Boris, a working woman, proud of her career? Wheel out the children - that will please voters. Pose in a wedding dress that makes you look like a sacrificial victim - that will secure the trust of women. Change your name to his, ditch the job, only half pretend you want to work, buy gold wallpaper - this is the Duchess of Cambridge school of doing things. Remember Kate’s two kitchens?
Quoting Camilla Long: how did we even end up with a workplace mentor who famously doesn’t work?
This is a valid point because it questions her brand identity. Harry's wife has actually been pretty consistent about tying her brand to "women's issues." (She may not stick with a single issue for very long, but they all do fall under the same category.) This month, the issue is women who are struggling to rejoin the workforce. I think it was chosen because it is halfway credible as something Harry's wife would care about and because she wants people to identify her with determined, hardworking women who just want a second chance at productive work. But Camilla Long is correct that we've been watching Harry's wife own ”reentry" for over a year, and she hasn't done any work for either of the companies that hired her. Branding fail!
My apologies for not responding earlier (it has been on my mind but not made it to the key board).
Ambling back in the direction of the topic at hand please.
Even serious women are being sucked down to their level: if you look at the Barbie doll issued in honour of the 59-year-old vaccinologist Sarah Gilbert, launched last week, you will see from the glossy hair, unlined face and sexy pair of specs, that even it looks like a character from Suits.
As for the average woman: what on earth does she think of a workplace initiative launched by Meghan sitting at a desk in a house with 16 bogs? And the video, well - it didn’t take us back three decades, it took us back five centuries, to a time when aristocratic ladies would shower gifts on peasant women, or in Meghan’s case, 40 minutes with each of her 40 celeb friends, including Adele. Since when is 40 minutes with Adele going to solve anything? Why not 40 hours, or 40 years, which is how long you really need to make what Meghan would call “systemic change"? What’s amazing is how many people will still believe what they’re doing is real good, and not just hollow marquee initiatives.
It’s funny that Meghan should alight on getting women back into work after Covid, because she is right: Covid has been genuinely awful. It has driven us out of our jobs and back into the home, where we are drowning with cleaning and childcare as if it is 1853. We’re essentially back in the place where men want us, shut away, invisible, quiet or, as Boris puts, it “travelling the world with Kate Middleton”. But, you know, here’s a video of Prince Harry juggling at a window. How helpful is that?
@CamillaLong
Thank you!!!
The best bit of Meghan Markle's dull palace is the chicken coop: ALEXANDRA SHULMAN says room where Duchess's birthday video was filmed exemplifies the chasm between money and taste
'I’ve tried, honestly I have, to be positive about the latest initiative from Team Sussex. But once again I’m failing.
When Meghan spent 40 minutes of her birthday videoing compassionate messages to less advantaged women, no doubt she meant well. It was certainly no crime.
But the room where the video takes place? That really is criminal.
Yet another example of the familiar chasm between money and taste.
Each to his or her own, of course. Taste is in the eye of the beholder.
But really, why live in what looks like an identikit hotel interior, the sort rolled out across the world from Mykonos to Taipei.
Safe, uncluttered and – dread word coming up… neutral.
I realise I am falling into the same snob trap Tatler did when they critiqued Carole Middleton’s decorative style as ‘very Buckinghamshire’, but this spa-reception look is so disappointing.
Wall-to-wall beige might be soothing if you need to recover from a hot-stone massage but it’s no place to live.
The sandblasted stone of the fireplace, the rush matting (which Meghan’s spike heels will get into a terrible tangle with, in a most un-zen way), the display of white storage boxes and the cream Hermes throw are unutterably bland.'
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I find the advice helpful and timely, so, I for one, welcome all the medical advice you can give me.
I just saw O BDay pictures and all of the napkins, toiletries, andparty paraphenalia had the emblazoned on it.
Live every day to its fullest. Say I LOVE YOU often. Be at peace knowing that when we leave this world we are going to a better place.
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No printer, either. Not to mention the ergonomics of having the laptop up at the level of her neck.
No lights either. She must only 'work' during daylight hours.
my request for advice wasn't for you, but for all nutties about medical advice. Give me all your medical advice, people. I can always learn something new from your experience.
The 6s missed a trick here. They could have praised the US team (not sure they'd have praised the GB team).
MeghanM should've offered, "40 apologies to 40 individuals she's bullied, backstabbed, lied to, ghosted OR hurt."
It'd only be a drip in the bucket of making amends, but there's always the NEXT 40th birthday to cover another batch.
I am making no comment about the likelihood or otherwise of there being any truth in the rumour.
It seems that the worldwide response to Meghan’s 40x40 initiative hasn’t exactly been a groundswell of support.
The Express is saying a report in The Sun says there were just over 200 people who took Meghan’s bait.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1473145/meghan-markle-birthday-instagram-40x40-melissa-mccarthy-video-prince-harry-royal-news
Meghan Markle humiliated as public fail to honour birthday plea
MEGHAN MARKLE turned 40 on Wednesday and to mark the milestone she asked fans to share a birthday poem on Instagram - but analysis shows just 200 public accounts have honoured the plea.
By EMILY FERGUSON
09:03, Fri, Aug 6, 2021 | UPDATED: 09:56, Fri, Aug 6, 2021
Meghan Markle launched a new initiative to coincide with her 40th birthday in a short video with actress Melissa McCarthy. During the two-minute clip, the Duchess of Sussex unveiled the 40x40 campaign, which encourages women to return to the workplace, and asks leaders to contribute 40 minutes of their time to mentor other women. As part of her birthday message, she asked her followers to share a readymade Instagram post featuring a poem publicising 40x40.
Announcing the news on her joint website with husband Prince Harry, Meghan asked fans to spread the message to: "Spread the word, share how you’ll devote your 40 minutes, and encourage your friends to do the same."
The website includes two readymade pictures to share on Instagram, one to be shared on stories, and another for a permanent post.
The artwork reads: “For women who give everything, we give our time. Are you in?”
The placing of the words means the word 'forty' is highlighted down the centre of the image.
The website also features a caption suggestion for fans to use, which reads: "To celebrate The Duchess of Sussex’s 40th birthday, I am devoting 40 minutes of mentorship or service to a cause I care about.
"Please join me in donating your time.
"Together, we can contribute to a global wave of compassion and positive change. #40x40 #CompassionInAction."
But it appears very few people have acted on Meghan's plea
Analysis by The Sun Online, of Instagram posts made in the first 24 hours after the video was released, found just 217 public posts sharing the poem with the 40x40 hashtag.
The analysis does not include Twitter posts or private shares on Instagram, or stories that may have already vanished.
But the dismal figure will likely leave Meghan humiliated, who had hoped her initiative would gather traction.
In the video Meghan asked A-listers to donate their time for the campaign.
She also asked members of the public, such as activists, artists, world leaders and athletes to give 40 minutes, in order to "help women reentering the workforce".
Meghan said: "Over two million women in the US and tens of millions around the world have lost their jobs due to Covid.
"I think if we all do it and see all commit to some sort of act of service, we can have some type of ripple effect."
Since the video was released, several celebrities have come forward to offer their time to mentor women.
Singer Adele, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, the wife of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Stella McCartney, and poet Amanda Gorman have all signed up to be a part of the initiative.
Princess Eugenie also congratulated Meghan on the new campaign, and said she has pledged her time to mentor women.
Former First Lady Hillary Clinton also shared the poem on Instagram and encouraged her followers to get involved in the project.
https://www.statnews.com/2021/02/23/federal-law-prohibits-employers-and-others-from-requiring-vaccination-with-a-covid-19-vaccine-distributed-under-an-eua/
Have H$M come out with photos or promotions of the vax yet?? They wanted to be a source of reliable covid information at the beginning of the pandemic. Wonder if their vax status had anything to do with their invite to the Obama party getting lost in the mail? Or was it their rancid personality? Trying to promote women getting back to work during a labor shortage and pandemic is another flash in the pan
H is a spoilt man child who has been protected by the palace his whole life. M is a social climber who uses men until she finds her next mark. Such a farce.
It absolutely looks that way! I really wonder how much the last four parties know about the circumstances under which TBW left the U.K.
The first room a woman would pack -- other than maybe the nursery -- would be her bedroom. (I could see Harry not packing anything because he would just assume someone else would do it.) But when a woman doesn't pack her bedroom, she must have left in one hell of a hurry.
Yacht Party!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-28kE4EwYCo
She seemed to be saying something along the lines of:
'If people can see she dumped her own family for such trivial,nasty, reasons after her father had done so much for her, why should they imagine that she had good reason to turn on our Royal Family and nation who offered so much more?'
Is their belief in her version the result of `dog-whistle politics' in response to the R-word?
I think that's what she was saying - if I am mistaken, I'll claim it as my own thought!
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/meghan-launches-project-mentor-women-151631819.html
Her upper lips look frozen - like thickened and hardened, lol.
Is their belief in her version the result of `dog-whistle politics' in response to the R-word?
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Wild Boar, could you elaborate on your statement here? This thicko doesn't get what you are proposing.
Thanks!
It means using a `code-word' to elicit the instant response that you want from your hearers, like sheepdog handlers in the UK calling `Away!' or `Come by!' to their dogs, or using a whistle as a substitute. My old collie had learnt to throw herself at the door barking furiously if I said `See 'em off!'
She was so sensitive to this that she once demonstrated that she was eaves-dropping on conversations -
Mum asked me what somebody's surname was,
`Seymour', I replied.
Dog reacted instantly, not even waiting for me to finish what she thought I said!.
In British politics, the name of one politician is used a lot in that way, in some circles. Best not mentioned at all.
In the case of TBW, I wonder it's a matter of people hearing her say the word `Racism'and so reacting in an equivalent manner, without thought?
Like a dog, ears are pricked up - `Racism! What? Where? Who? Kill! Kill!'
They don't bother to ask if it's true, or if there's another story, especially in view of how nasty she's been to her own family.
Perfect!
The phrase "chip on their shoulder" has been used for yonks to strip POC of their voices. It was meant to shame so I'm grateful you steered away from using the archaic phrase. The way you describe seeing racists behind every bush is very helpful.
Much thanks!👏👏👏👏
Talking of TBW's family, I see her half-bro., Tom, has made the news:
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/thomas-markle-jr-prince-harry-meghan-154120605.html
Thomas Markle Jr says he warned Prince Harry that Meghan would 'ruin his life'
Katie Archer
·Contributor
Mon, 9 August 2021, 4:41 pm·2-min read
`Meghan Markle's estranged half-brother Thomas Markle Jr has branded her "shallow" during a reality TV ad and claims he told Prince Harry she would "ruin his life"
Markle, who shares the same name as their father who Meghan is also estranged from, is taking part in Big Brother VIP, the Australian version of Celebrity Big Brother.
It was clear from the first trailer for the series that he intended to hold nothing back in his negative view of his half-sister as he labelled himself "the biggest brother of them all" and got stuck into criticising her.
The 55-year-old said: “I told Prince Harry, ‘I think she’s going to ruin your life'.
“She’s very shallow.”
Markle has moved into the Big Brother VIP house alongside 11 other contestants with a claim to fame, including Caitlyn Jenner.
He was not invited to the royal wedding of Meghan, 40, and Prince Harry, 36, and at the time reportedly wrote a scathing letter to Harry warning him off the marriage.
The letter is said to have told the Prince it was “not too late” to turn back, that Meghan was “obviously not the right woman” for him, and claimed that his Suits star sibling was acting “the part of a princess like a below C average Hollywood actress”.
Markle has previously antagonised his half-sister by taking part in a beer advert alongside a Meghan look-a-like where he pretended to burgle Buckingham Palace, eventually choosing a crate of beer over the Queen's crown.
He said at the time that he "didn't think anyone would be upset by it", even suggesting that the royals might find it funny.
Meghan and Harry are now living in the US with their two children Archie and Lilibet, and earlier this year gave a tell-all interview to Oprah Winfrey where they spoke out against their treatment by the royals.
The couple said that a senior royal had questioned how dark Archie's skin would be before his birth, and also claimed Meghan had received little support over her mental health struggles.'
I wonder if Magatha will be able to watch the show and report back?
I recall that Lady C, in her book about the couple, described TBW as being `as shallow as a teaspoon'.
We just need more people close to the H$Ms to speak up.
She'll sniff out the cash like bloodhound, regardless of who is offering it, once the current channels have run dry, as I expect they may. Even her postulated mystery backers may eventually lose patience with her.
She certainly won't give it away for free.
It is a good one for an angsty teen. Among POC it does have a certain connotation that it's best avoided now a days.
Ugh...we can get into so much trouble with the slightest observations; it's maddening!😲
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/sussexes-love-affair-obamas-over-132653285.html
From the Daily Telegraph:
Is the Sussexes’ love affair with the Obamas over?
Camilla Tominey
Mon, 9 August 2021, 2:26 pm
Part 1
Confusion surrounds whether the Sussexes were snubbed or simply couldn’t make the party
The Secret Service had set up a no fly zone to ensure total privacy as hundreds of A-listers descended on Martha’s Vineyard for the post-pandemic party of the year.
Revellers at Barack Obama’s 60th birthday celebrations on Saturday night were treated to hand-mixed martinis, gourmet cuisine and live entertainment at the former US President’s £12 million Massachusetts mansion. Guests including Jay-Z and Beyoncé, Tom Hanks, Stephen Spielberg and George Clooney flew in for the exclusive bash, which featured specially branded napkins and face masks, and tongue-in-cheek backstage passes for the assembled VIPs.
Yet as hundreds of America’s most high-profile Democrat supporting stars gathered to see Obama and his wife Michelle, 57, hit the dancefloor, one celebrity couple was conspicuous by their absence.
Ordinarily, you might have expected the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to be front and centre of any guest list drawn up by the Obamas.
The former President and First Lady have a longstanding relationship with Harry, 36, after they bonded over the Prince’s hugely successful Invictus Games initiative. They famously starred in a video montage with Harry and the Queen to promote the 2016 competition, and the Duke subsequently interviewed the former commander-in-chief on Radio 4. When Michelle gave a talk at London’s Southbank Centre in December 2018, Meghan made a point of attending – and the two women were said to have had a long “power meeting” backstage, during which they discussed their shared passion for girls’ education.
And, despite the Obamas having not attended the Sussexes’ wedding that year, it was thought that the newly California-based couple would be shoo-ins at Obama’s 60th, as prominent “progressives” and new-found members of the influential US metropolitan liberal elite.
Meghan’s close friend, the CBS news anchor Gayle King, had made the cut, after all and although she did not attend, Oprah Winfrey is also believed to have been asked to save the date.
So why weren’t the Duke and Duchess on the dancefloor? Could this be a sign that the Sussexes’ love affair with the Obamas has gone cold?
Confusion surrounds whether they were snubbed or simply couldn’t make it after the website Page Six, which broke the news of Harry’s multi-million pound book deal, reported that they were “not planning to attend” the shindig.
Having welcomed their second child, Lilibet, into the world in June, the couple are currently on parental leave – although Meghan did manage to record a video with actress Melissa McCarthy last Wednesday to mark her 40th birthday.
Although Obama turned 60 on the same day – August 4 – neither he nor Michelle were seemingly invited to participate in Meghan’s new charity initiative to donate 40 minutes of time to mentoring women returning to the workplace after Covid.
Celebrities who were asked to support the 40x40 drive included Hillary Clinton, singer Adele and fashion designer Stella McCartney. Yet with some criticising the scheme as “self-serving” and “woke”, could the Obamas be fearful that their ongoing association with the Royal couple risks attracting negative publicity?
Continues…
Some in Democratic circles have suggested that the Sussexes’ attempts to ape everything the Obamas have done since they left The White House could have jeopardised their once “special relationship”.
After leaving the Royal Family and moving to Montecito near Santa Barbara in March last year, Harry and Meghan appear to have used the Obamas’ modus operandi as a blueprint for their own Stateside relaunch.
Like them, they have signed a lucrative multi-million dollar deal with Netflix to produce their own documentary series, while Harry last month announced he is writing his memoirs for Penguin Random House, which is the former President’s publishers. His autobiography, A Promised Land, was released in November 2020, two years after Michelle published her own life story, Becoming.
Intriguingly, the Obamas had a similar format to Meghan’s 40x40 initiative to personalise the weekend’s birthday party, emblazoning everything with a bespoke 44x60 logo to symbolise the 44th President’s 60th birthday.
(Continues…)
There is also the issue of the Obamas’ loyalty to the Queen. When the couple paid a state visit to Britain in 2011, they got on famously with the monarch and her family. The only president to be offered a full state visit since George W Bush in 2003, photographs of the three-day extravaganza, which featured a lavish state banquet, showed the Obamas, the Queen and the late Duke of Edinburgh relaxed in each others’ company, and in a show of mutual respect.
So intimate was the meeting that Prince Philip, then 94, turned chauffeur to drive the Obamas to lunch at Windsor Castle in his navy blue Range Rover.
The foursome had first met during the G20 summit in 2009, when Michelle was famously photographed putting her arm around the Queen, who responded by placing a hand on the former First Lady’s waist. In her memoir, she explained that she had not been aware of “Royal protocol” and had simply reacted after the two women had agreed that a long day wearing heels had left them with sore feet.
We were just “two tired ladies oppressed by our shoes”, she wrote.
The incident certainly did not cause any friction with the sovereign, who a few years later when they visited London privately, gave Michelle and her daughters Malia and Sasha a guided tour of Buckingham Palace.
Describing how much she liked the Queen during her 2019 book tour, Michelle said: “She’s wonderfully warm. And funny. And she’s elegant and kind and considerate in really interesting ways. That kind of warmth and graciousness, and intelligence and wit. I like her.”
After the Duke of Edinburgh passed away at the age of 99 in April, President Obama’s tribute was among the most heartfelt.
So it arguably will not have gone down particularly well with a couple that have always put “family first” to see Harry and Meghan being so openly critical of their Royal relatives during their Oprah interview in March.
During the 90-minute prime time tell-all, the couple accused the monarchy of failing to support them and suggested that Prince Charles and Prince William were “trapped” in The Firm. It is perhaps worth noting that the Obamas are also close to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, who were central to the 2011 state visit, which took place just weeks after their wedding.
When the Obamas returned to the UK in 2016, they made a point of popping into Kensington Palace, when they were introduced to a then three-year-old Prince George, ready for bed in his dressing gown, before sitting down to dinner with William, Kate and Harry. Last October, the former President made a point of supporting Prince William’s newly launched Earthshot Prize, tweeting: “It’s going to take a lot of big-thinking and innovation to save the one planet we’ve got – and that’s why @KensingtonRoyal’s leadership on climate change can make a real difference.”
“The Obamas didn’t like Harry attacking his family. They value family and certainly aren’t the type of people who would want their children talking to the press,” says one insider.
But perhaps the greatest clue to the Obamas’ feelings was given by Michelle when she was asked to respond to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s recent outpourings on Oprah. “I just pray that there is forgiveness and there is clarity and love and resolve at some point in time because there’s nothing more important than family,” she said.
It seems that when it comes to Harry and Meghan, the former President and First Lady remain firmly of the view that blood is thicker than water.
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Thanks for the article, Harkles and Obamas. This right here!
"could the Obamas be fearful that their ongoing association with the Royal couple risks attracting negative publicity"
I'd bet my sweet bippy (though it's worth nothing these days lol...)
Re: an episode of The Prince (from the Independent):
In one of the episodes, the characters of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, played by Orlanda Bloom and Condola Rashād, can be seen presenting a home makeover show called Royally Screwed.
The cartoon couple introduce themselves, saying: “Hi, I’m Meghan Markle and I’m Harry and we’re royally screwed. Each week we take a house from drab to fab.”
A family has given them their $75,000 life savings to transform their home. But the mother of the family collapses when she discovers the royal duo have spent the entire budget on a back splash with solid gold inlay for the kitchen and the rest of the house is exactly the same.
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https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1473145/meghan-markle-birthday-instagram-40x40-melissa-mccarthy-video-prince-harry-royal-news
Failure!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hod3TlCcDlE&ab_channel=PDina
Funny vid!!
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Sorry if anyone posted these already.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/there-are-6-types-of-narcissists-and-mental-health-experts-say-one-is-super-important-to-avoid/ar-AAN7Hh8?ocid=msedgntp
Thanks for posting that article! It was a big snub by the Obamas. Had it happened earlier, maybe some of the women who signed up for 40x40 would have made a different decision.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43CpkKA4kLc
My thoughts:
1. Mrs. H's hair is just awful. Most of it is pulled back rather severely, but then we get chunks of hair hanging down oh so casually. If she had really been determined to hide plastic surgery scars, surely there were more flattering styles. Perhaps it's futile for me to ascribe any intellectual consistency to her, but I'm thinking that she keeps going with thick slut strands because it's the closest thing she can get to a signature style. Like what Jennifer Aniston had in the 90s.
2. I'm guessing that they filmed their "scenes" separately. Either that or Harry's wife refused (or proved unable) to match Melissa McCarthy's energy. Jesus points out that their chemistry is so bad that the "funny" exchange at the start of the video seems badly edited. I'd say that it was decently edited, but the editors had to work with what Mrs. H gave them.
3. Mrs. H's teacup is gorgeous. I'll hand her that.
4. "Harry finally found his balls and is juggling them!" HAHAHAHAHA! And now I can't believe it took me this long to remember the movie The Heat. McCarthy plays a no-nonsense detective who gets really angry when the police captain doesn't back her up. In one scene, she pretends to search his office for something. When Sandra Bullock's character asks what she's looking for, the resigned captain sighs: "She's looking for my balls." It's one of the funniest movie scenes I've ever watched!
5. But seriously, why did Harry even need to be there? To remind us that Mrs. H still considers herself royal? To humiliate and devalue him, narc style? . . . We all know it's both.
It would have been so much better to have had him appear in a doorway, to give his wife some message. Maybe something about the children they supposedly share, since the Harkles have been trying to get his "hands-on father" brand to stick. Show him as someone who lives in the house, too, and not as someone whom an outsider would confuse with a confused neighbor or a tramp just passing through. As it is, they didn't even put him in clothes that match the soft neutrals of his wife's set. His grey shirt clashes terribly with the image she so carefully put together.
@Enbretheliel: Good point about the separate filming! That goes a way to explaining the weirdness and the poor editing, well, the sheer idiocy of the exchanges in the beginning. And as for your point #5 . . . whoops, I've already used the word "idiotic." That juggling thing was simply inane, possibly on a drug-inspired level. My English-major mind is scrambling for any possible symbolic meaning, and coming up blank.
All others need not apply, this includes H/M. Harry was established as Royal prince but he left that all behind. Today they are Hollywood scroungers.
5. But seriously, why did Harry even need to be there? To remind us that Mrs. H still considers herself royal? To humiliate and devalue him, narc style? . . . We all know it's both
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Without Harry, no one would watch so she included him-in a most undignified way. He's basically her organ grinding monkey. At least she didn't have him shown on one of their 16 toilets...
@Teasmade,
Re: pdina, Lady C's vids are good but too long. She is rather entertaining IMO but I do like pdina very much. It's important to have content from another black women, again IMO. That she is from the same community drives it home how TBW uses the race card. River's campy approach in IMO is annoying. I don't watch him.
She has been talking about this for years and years. This he did this to me has been around.
I would highly suspect that she got legal advise about this (how to respond, how not to respond) to any and all types of questions about this topic at the beginning (and likely at different points through the years).
And yet now is the time when the lawsuit actually gets filed. And they want the other side to produce this and that? Well isn't that interesting in clinical way.
What about her "evidence"? How much of do you really think has been newly discovered over the years which would change the equation without anything from his side?
So other than a legal deadline, he has shown no signs of rolling over and paying her despite her claims.
My general thought is that she talked with various lawyers over the years and was told that other than the picture, which doesn't prove he had sex with her (I believe it was taken in London), they don't have really enough of a case to go definitively to court. Especially against a well funded group like the BRF.
There are lots of lawyers who would love to take on the BRF, fight against bad men who do evil things to young vulnerable women and yet she did not run with any of them. Their numbers have increased through the years as the court wins have racked up with big numbers and society have become increasing less tolerant.
I was sexually harassed by a boss in the 80's. I lost my job for refusing an affair. I showed the legal docs to a lawyer who told me that they knew they had a problem and were very afraid I might sue (he said he could tell by the phrasing). But he also said that I really needed to be able to say: date this: he said X, date that: he said Y and none of that was ever said around anyone else. If I wanted to do something, I could but I really needed that documentation other than some vague comments to strengthen up my case. So, yeah, it was on the books, he said I could always come back and file but it would be a much stronger case if I had better documentation.
I too had an issue with a boss - he wasnt really well liked by his bosses, and the bosses boss was so "straight and narrow" i went to him. He was horrified even having the discussion with me. I was a bad -a$$ then and didnt care if it would scuttle my career. Others came forward eventually and he was fired. Would never have been fired if it were a different set of bosses Glad i worked with a mostly principled group at the time.
So sorry to hear of your bad experience with a boss. I had a couple as well back in the day. I still deal with it on occasion at my gym where it's mostly senior citizens. As we all know, I have a big mouth so I find ways to shut them down plus I report them to the manager. Right now in this weird climate I tend to just ignore. The feeling one gets from those type of episodes is never flattering. Ugh...
IMO, bottom line, Andrew I'll get away with it.
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Just an afterthought on TBW &co being snubbed by the Obama's,
If they were concerned about getting negative attention by inviting the Spare's, then why include Chrissy and John Legend? I mean, she's a horrible bully and crap human being? I'm beginning to think maybe there ***is some sick club those types belong to. I'm usually a logical person but something smells with the A-listers. Not that TBW is not evil. She certainly is but why keep her out? Has it anything to do with her dis of the royal family, HM, whom the Obama's seem to love? Chrissy verbally abused, publically, a black child on SM so why would the O's include her? It makes no sense to me. Thoughts (not to get too political)?
Blogger LavenderLady said...
DM is now reporting Virginia Roberts is suing Prince Andrew. I'm sure by the time this gets posted a link will be available.
Reeks of desperation. Trying to get money from Andrew? What she's *really* trying to do is get some *piss off* money from the monarchy. Still making her living from being a whore.
Reeks of desperation. Trying to get money from Andrew? What she's *really* trying to do is get some *piss off* money from the monarchy. Still making her living from being a whore.
August 10, 2021 at 4:09 PM
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One woman's whore, is another woman's hero.
Okay makes sense, but why hire them in the first place since she is very controversial? One would think the O's would like to avoid that sort of can opening...
Yes the then 17 year old Virginia was technically "a whore" but it doesn't make it right what PA and Epstein did her, right? (rhetorical)
All I can say is, by the grace of God, there go I. I had wonderful parents, a stable, loving home life and upbringing.
Elsbeth1847 - she has a pit bull of a lawyer David Boies who is know for "extorting" settlements. My guess is others settled and Andrew did not so he is going all in on this. I think its the lawyer driving this and she is more than happy to offer up her face to it. Ironically because Boies was a Weinstein guy. He gets a % of everything and he gets to play pitbull against his biggest adversary of all the BRF.
Grifters gonna grift. We had a situation a few years ago where an attorney was in partnership with a handicapped 'client' (it may have even been a family member) who would go into places and check their handicapped facilities even though they weren't customers. If something was a quarter of an inch off, even though the business and/or facilities were grandfathered in by the age of the facilities and didn't even HAVE to have handicapped access, they were deluged with negative publicity and sued unless they paid for the problem to go away. Their targets were small businesses that could be bankrupted by a prolonged court case. Eventually the attorney and client were shut down.
They'll (attorney and whore) play the game of threatening/extorting/blackmailing people for a "cash settlement" until some furious people shut them down. If the wrong people are threatened, they'll be shut down permanently, which is probably why the Clintons were never targeted.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2021
Blind Items Revealed #3
August 3, 2021
The alliterate one invited this A+ list mostly movie actress to her wedding. The actress said no because she didn't know the alliterate one. The alliterate one tried to get a deal done with the production company of the actress. The actress said no because the projects pitched were not interesting. While the alliterate one sees herself as some kind of media kingpin, our actress with a recent sale, is pretty close to being a billionaire.
Meghan Markle/Reese Witherspoon
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That's because they're one and done type projects. They have no heart behind them.
Even the Harkles aren't into them as evidenced by their lack of contribution to them.
They're strictly put out there as a way for the public to adore the Harkles.
There's no weight to them,no heft, no significance. Kinda like the lame 10 pounds/month she donates to dog shelter.
If she wanted to put some weight behind this project, to have it be significant, she would have seeded the project with a contribution of her own that was significant. Or at least publicize what it was that she had done so far to mentor 40 people.
She couldn't even be bothered to let people know how they were supposed to go about finding these poor unemployed women. And once they did find them what they were supposed to do for them. What would be the best bang for the buck.
Furthermore,unless the case has been tried in court and the Defendant proved guilty, one has to be very careful to cover one's backside by referring to `allegations' and `alleged' crimes.
For PA to cough up, without having been tried and proved guilty, would be seen as an admission of guilt.
Most trafficked proven `white slaves' in the UK seem to be vulnerable children, often from `care' homes, literally kept prisoner, fed drugs and alcohol so they don't know which way is up, probably kept short of food and held in secure places with no escape. We're very aware of `modern slavery', as it is known, where vulnerable people, either with learning difficulties or foreigners who are duped into accepted into accepting the criminals invitations are literally trafficked, with their passports taken away from them and , like the other slaves, are beaten into submission, unpaid for the rotten work they are forced to do and forced to live under appalling conditions.
They are certainly not well remunerated for their services. Nor are they photographed looking cheerful. It seems to me that VG is just after the cash. Her case seems the equivalent of M's `racism' claims - pure tissue paper which diminishes the suffering of those who really suffer.
I find the timing interesting - it's happening when the other revenue stream bubbling out of royal coffers to another tart, has been sealed off. Is this a coincidence - or not?
I'm not defending Andrew but trying to set the case into the context of slavery as it exists in the UK today.
BTW, the perpetrators of the crimes that do come to court are very different from the Epsteins and Maxwells of this world.
`... we know he was slipping into the bedrooms of extremely young girls around the world on these jaunts...'
Do we `know' this? I most certainly don't.
You might think you know it - were you there? Or is it some thing you heard at thirtieth plus hand? Has it been proved in Court? If you were there, if you were one of those girls, you should go to the police and be prepared to go through the Courts and prove it.
Until then, it's all allegation and must be made clear. Otherwise you and this blog will be in deep do-do.
This what I mean - you must say it's `allegedly'? You are asking for serious trouble if you state something as fact when it's only an allegation.
I'm not defending Andrew but trying to set the case into the context of slavery as it exists in the UK today.
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Andrew has been a scuzball all of his privileged life. The proof is in the history. The Playboy Prince, Randy Andy. Can anyone say Peter Nygard? Where there's smoke there's fire...
Who knows what else was covered up?
I'm not into cancel culture but if the two Andrews, Cuomo and Duke of York continue to get their nastiness tossed under the rug then what a disgrace; regardless of how powerful their families are. Cuomo is finally getting his so let's see how Duke of York fares.
Let me add the Clinton's to that bunch. Corrupt as Hell.
Per Wikipedia, Virginia Roberts Giuffre;
"It was reported that she had come from a "troubled home"[17] and, from the age of seven, was molested by a close family friend.[2] Giuffre told the Miami Herald that she went from being in "an abusive situation, to being a runaway, to living in foster homes."[18] She lived on the streets at age 13 before getting abused by a 65-year-old sex trafficker, Ron Eppinger, in Miami.[19] Giuffre lived with Eppinger for approximately 6 months.[14] Eppinger reportedly ran a front business for international sex trafficking known as the modeling agency "Perfect 10".[20] He was raided by the FBI and later pleaded guilty to charges of alien smuggling for prostitution, interstate travel for prostitution, and money laundering.[20]"
IMO calling troubled young girls "whores"and "tarts" sounds rather callous and uncouth. I understand the Queen is very beloved and she's his mom but the man is a disgrace to her legacy.
Until it is proven false how this young woman lied about her history, we will have to agree to disagree.
Chrissy is the poorman's party girl. Guess Barack needed a discounted version. Lol...🤣
So, it's no wonder that people don't trust her to follow polite social behaviour, like not ratting out your host in the cause of your own PR.
Who is going to invite anyone with that type of personality to any social function? You know that it will not end up as you intended, to put it midly.
So let's shift back in the direction of 6/6w.
We are continuing the moderation of responses for the time being.
Apropos of the apparent (?) alliance between the York women and the Miserable Mountebanks of Montecito . . (though personally I am holding out hope that Eugenie's "***dear Meghan*** Insta post was some well-honed aristo snark. Mugsy has acted anything but 'dearly' toward Eugenie herself and her family by extension. The fact that she ran in Soho circles and met Mugsy before Harry did doesn't mean they were ever 'friends'. Mugsy relentlessly stalked Eugenie's circle of well-heeled, well-connected social friends. E. may have even liked her enough to think she'd be a good match for Haz, at least of a temporary sort. Mugsy is apparently capable of being charming and fun toward people she wants something from. Mugsy's actions since October 2018 are not those of a 'friend' and I *will not* believe that Eugenie owes Harry any money for the use of Frogmore Cottage. His rental agreement with the Crown does not extend to him making himself a distant landlord to his cousin and her husband. If Frogmore Cottage has been reassigned, that's the Queen's doing, not Harry's. If he still gets mail there as an 'official residence' and is permitted to use a spare bedroom when he has to quarantine, it seems fairly clear that the SuxSixes are done with FC. Haz has spent more time at Frogmore Cottage since April than he ever did during the year and a half he ostensibly 'lived' there.)
Anyway, it appears that the Queen is under a double-pronged attack from within her own ranks . . the SuxSixes and now the drums are beating from Royal Lodge, dredging up old business from 1996. This article goes full-bore on the Queen's 'monstrous' suggestion that she 'control' the fallout from the York divorce and further send Sarah to Coventry by denying Sarah custody of her daughters, then 8 and 6, something which Major Ronald Ferguson took grave exception to and which was never supported by Andrew, either. In the end, the technically divorced couple has more or less continued to cohabitate at the same address and co-parent their daughters since getting officially divorced.
I think it's more clickbait because the Queen has always technically had custody, on paper, of her minor grandchildren, as Charles will do when he ascends. It is a paper formality and a carry-over from when George II's son and wife were so unfit as parents, the monarch had to remove their young children to his custody for their own welfare. That statute was kept on the books *in case* it happened again, but this is the first I'm hearing that the Queen thought Fergie, of whom she is said to be very fond still, an unfit mother. But the fact that this is here in print just serves, with incendiary language, to reflect very negatively on the House of Windsor.
And why is this being rehashed now, at this particular moment, when the 'little girls' in question are now 33 and 31 years old and mothers/soon-to-be mothers themselves?
We know why.
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https://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/2478065/sarah-ferguson-custody-prince-andrew-divorce-royal-scandal/#comments-anchor
I'm surprised she hasn't been arrested as laws are rules as well. Everyone who knows her says how she loves to be an iconoclast.
Who knows . .there may well be arrest records that have been expunged or otherwise whitewashed over along with all the other dirty laundry which HM's security services and various PR firms may have been able to make disappear.
Iconoclast has got a positive connotation, which I'm sure #6w prefers. When she breaks rules or more seriously, laws, she's just 'modernizing' things the Rachel way according to her truth of how she expects things to go for Herself.
I prefer the term 'Antisocial Personality Disorder', really. There is the term 'Oppositional-Defiant Disorder', but I find that ODD basically describes the majority of normally developing toddlers and is not narrow enough in its parameters. Certainly a woman who carries on blithely with chronic three year old tantrum behavior and refusal to recognize polite, adult social boundaries has outgrown the ODD label and is a full-out sociopath.
Item on Blind Gossip today sounds a lot like the woman being discussed is Meghan. Lilibucks was apparently a surrogate baby AND the blind says she has a number of health issues and a dependency on a prescription drug.
The pandemic has been the perfect opportunity for her to pretend to be pregnant.
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Pregnancy Story 2
AUGUST 9, 2021 BLIND GOSSIP
This actress likes to tell people how much she wants to live a private life.
Now, we could debate all day long the fact that the kind of life she chose doesn’t exactly lend itself towards privacy.
In fact, both her career and her choice of partner pretty much ensure that her life will never really be private.
That’s why it is so interesting that she was able to maintain some measure of secrecy around having a baby in the past year.
We have something to tell you about that.
While she now has the baby, she didn’t exactly have the baby.
There was a surrogate!
Given that our actress likes to advocate for a healthy lifestyle – and has been known to talk about her workouts and diet – why didn’t she have the baby herself?
“She’s had a health issue for a few years now. Actually, more than one health issue, but the one that made it unsafe for her to go through the pregnancy herself is her dependency on prescription medication.”
We will not disagree that the girl has issues. However, wouldn’t it have made more sense for her to resolve that medication issue before “having” the baby?
“It was a timing thing. She wanted the baby now and she wanted it to be healthy so this was the best option. She can deal with that other issue later.”
Actress:
[Optional] Do you think she is a good mother?
Yet, many myths and misinformation are still being spread about what human trafficking is and is not. Sex trafficking can include prostitution, but not all prostitution is necessarily sex trafficking. Two main factors differentiate the two.
I was stunned to see Virginia Roberts Giuffre described as a “whore” upthread. To whom it may concern:
First, trafficking must involve a third party-beneficiary, meaning someone else besides the “john,” or the person receiving the sexual act, must be involved. This is often a pimp, boyfriend, friend, or family member.
Secondly, human sex trafficking – when involving adults over the age of 18 – is achieved through force, fraud or coercion. Importantly, if the person prostituting him or herself is not 18 years of age, then whenever a third-party beneficiary is involved, the prostitution constitutes sex trafficking. In other words, if a person is under the age of 18, there is no force, fraud or coercion requirement to prosecute the person recruiting, enticing, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining the minor as a sex trafficker.
Prostitution can be a euphemism for human trafficking. This is why I do not refer to people prostituting themselves as “prostitutes.” The label implies a choice when the reality is that many people are not prostituting themselves by choice. The word “prostitute” evokes a certain negative connotation, and victims of human trafficking deserve better.
Until it is proven ***true that this young woman lied about her history, we will have to agree to disagree.
Thank you for your compassionate understanding of the plight of sex workers and for sharing your thoughts. It's a hard life for a mature woman much less a teenage girl. The level of exploitation they experience at such a young age is staggering.
Angela Levin/Lauren Clark
ROYALLY DISAPPOINTED Meghan desperately wanted to be the special guest at Obama’s birthday party…but she didn’t even make the top 475 list
THERE were some very special celebrations taking place last week, with Meghan Markle and Barack Obama both marking their birthdays on August 4th.
However, the Duchess of Sussex - who turned 40 - is reported by a royal expert to be unhappy that she wasn't invited to the former US President's party.
Writing in The Sun, author Angela Levin explained that the mother-of-two "desperately wanted" to be among those in attendance at the three-day do.
She said: "I am told that despite claiming she was unable to attend, Meghan desperately wanted to be the special guest at the Obama’s amazing party."
Due to Covid restrictions, the guest list had to be shrunk down from 475.
The expert added: "But the fact is, Harry and Meghan were never even on the original list."
Obama's bash was held at his seven-bedroom £8million holiday home in Martha Vineyard.
In addition to his wife Michelle, the final guest list included "royalty" from the worlds of Hollywood and politics.
This included Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, John Legend, Chrissy Teigen and Gayle King, as well as George and Amal Clooney.
In the past, the Sussexes have claimed to be close to the Obamas, and Barack - who turned 60 - back in 2016 supported Prince Harry, 36, in a jokey promotion for the Invictus Games.
However, it is thought that Barack and Michelle wanted to take a "step back" from the couple out of respect for the Queen.
They first met Her Majesty back in 2009 at the G20 summit, and in 2011 she hosted them on a three-day State visit.
Last week, Meghan celebrated her milestone birthday by inviting A-listers, including Adele and Stella McCartney, to donate 40 minutes of their time for mentorship.
In a post on her Archewell website, she wrote: "In reflecting on my 40th birthday and the many things I am grateful for, I’m struck that time is among our most essential gifts.
"Time with our loved ones, time doing the things we love, time spent learning, laughing, growing, and the sacred time we have on this earth."
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What's with all the jokey stuff, anyway? There's a time and place for that...the unveiling of your mother's statue isn't one of them.
Time for H to grow up. A comedian he ain't. Show some respect.
H/M were never snubbed by the Obamas. They were never even considered. This mega-party was for established Washington DC Democrat hacks and for established Hollywood actors/actresses. Some media figures too, though I have not seen who they were
I absolutely see your point and agree that they weren't even considered; but I still disagree because I think their names did come up at some point. (The Harkles would have pulled every PR string they had just to be on the table.) They were just immediately shot down.
At least she didn't have him shown on one of their 16 toilets...
He already used the bathroom in the Fresh Prince house, so it would have been rehashing an old joke.
And I wouldn't be surprised she went full-narc and proposed it, only for him to put his foot down and reject it. His juggling outside is her "compromise," because she knew he still had to be there, but she still wanted to devalue him in some way. In this case, he did find his balls . . . sort of.
Love it that Reese blew off doing any sort of projects with Meghan because her ideas sucked.
Remember that Reese was also rumored to have received an invitation to the Harkles' wedding. According to the source, Reese found it odd that someone who had never met either the bride or the groom would be invited to their wedding. And we can consider that the very first sucky idea -- though the sad reality is that other people will happily praise the duchess' new clothes in exchange for some quick publicity.
I think the Legends and the Harkles make a fantastic contrast. Yes, it's true that Mrs. L is PR napalm these days, but I don't think the "elite" ever rejected her. In this sense, I agree with @LavenderLady that there is a "club" that the wealthy and powerful belong to, whose rules we ordinary people (pun not intended!) will never know.
It may not even be some sinister thing, but simply hypocrisy fueled by wealth. If you had been Mrs. L's "friend" for years and didn't care how she treated people less powerful than she (maybe because you were that way yourself?), why would you care about public opinion? Oh, sure, you'd make sure you looked as if you were keeping your distance. But at a private party, you can show your true feelings.
And we've already seen the beginnings of Mrs. L's rehabilitation, with her new puppy Pearl. (cough) She still has insider friends, so after couple more years, she may emerge as the poster girl for converted bullies who are now kinder and wiser. It's not something I'd like to see, but hey, the public has a short memory.
Needless to say, this why it's such a big deal that the Harkles didn't make the guest list. This means they have neither public support nor insider backing. 40x40 may be the last hurrah.
As others have pointed out, Obama didn't have to hire John Legend to perform. There were other musical superstars on the guest list. Though I doubt he would have had trouble booking any act he wanted.
But Obama chose John even if it meant that people would be reminded of Chrissy and ask the obvious questions. Even if he were still friends with them and didn't care about Chrissy's tweets, the Legends could have been invited quietly. Or John could have performed without the press having to hear about it. I'm sure Obama (or someone on his team) is PR-savvy enough that the fall-out from this decision was considered. And it was ultimately a risk he was willing to take. Barack Obama is still cool with Chrissy Teigen.
C and J are lamers and not very bright. But came from nothing to where they must be worth at least 60 millions. I respect this. Though I can do more useful, intelligent projects with one million, than they do with 60. Crissy the hustler.....her cookbook has 10000 Amazon reviews, which translates into high sales numbers. Co-authored of course. She is a proto-illiterate. Easy guess is the co-author did 80% of this cookbook. Her mother came out with one too! Thai recipes iirc.
So the contrast, C and J got the O party invitation, M/H were never considered. I wonder if rumours of Meg's surrogacy circulate in Hollywood. Sure to drag them down if they do. They sure seem holed up in their marvellous Montecito mega-mansion, not getting out much in their new found community.
For the Obamas and staff, the time spent thinking about an invitation for M/H was one nano-second.
Thank you, @LavenderLady, for sharing that video. I like the way Pdina connected Obama's party to the Lion King premiere. The Harkles already upstaged one black power couple very publicly -- and they had no qualms presenting themselves as competition right in front of Beyonce. Who is to say they won't do it again, with an even bigger power couple, at that couple's own party?
It's just the beginning of several great points she makes in her video.
Every YouTuber has his or her own style. LadyC just isn't for me, even when she is sped up. I enjoy River, camp and all. And now I find that I like PDina, too.
We may firmly believe that, say, a murderer is guilty as hell, that a tradesman who rips us off is a thief or that a creepy person's sexual behaviour is criminal - but if we state this publicly as a fact, before it has been tested and proved in a Court of Law, we put ourselves in the wrong.
Stating it online is regarded as the same as publishing it to the world, even if it's on your own Facebook page. We are free to think what we like, to say it to our friends or write it in a private communication but not to announce it in the paper, on a placard or in an open blog without risking legal action against ourselves.
I reckon the Obama’s have markled
the markles card.
The poisonous perps have had the
door slammed, and locked, in their faces.
“Say goodbye to Hollywood”
Zero juggles whilst FOMO burns
The latest from sad sack ex spare
Tossing his balls without reason,
nor care
No doubt megs idea
Have her jester appear
Then ensure that he’s coughed
And then dropped
Singalong 🎤
Apologies to Lesley Gore
It’s My Party
Party’s Over
It’s their party, Obama’s don’t want you
Oprah don’t want you
Gayle don’t want you
They know it’s true, it’s all about you
Nobody knows where real Harry has gone
But megs is doing just fine
How do we know they have kids
Never seen, not a whine
It’s their party, Obama’s don’t want you
George don’t want you
Amal don’t want you
We hope you two
get the message F..k You…
Everyone has some good points about this but move on.
McCarthy Shark
Oh dear, Melissa McCarthy
Left on her own with Meghan Malarkey
Who would’ve thought
They’re hell bent on same rort
Anything for clicks
And notoriety
Hellooo? Anybody out there??
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9883429/Prince-Harry-Meghan-Markle-continue-hiring-spree-Archewell.html
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Hi @Magatha :)