Meghan Markle hasn't been getting many wins lately with much more negative press, getting snubbed by the Obamas, and heralding her 40th birthday with a 40 x 40 women's work campaign that took off like a lead ballon. Princess Eugenie seems to be in her and Harry's corner and perhaps she can look forward to winning 2021's "Grifter of the Year" award. Today as of 8:53 AM EST, she's #1 on Griftie's nominee list.
You can vote here: https://grifties.com .
Let's discuss this and more.
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@SwampWoman said
Are all of those humanitarians in California going to rush to help Haiti with their huge earthquake devastation?
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You may well ask. What about women in Afghanistan now? Will our feminist bl**dy woman organise some support? Very difficult, I know, for anything to reach them but our compassionate thespian could mobilise opinions.
I'm sure that the women that were teachers, professors, police and government officials (or were married to such) are probably dead now or will be soon. I read that young girls are already being forcibly "married" off to the fighters.
*sigh* I'm also sure that we will not hear a word about it from our "woke" feminists (who are not feminists).
She can bring the media with her for photo ops and well! it will kill two birds with one stone. TBW and the media.
I'm sure we have all witnessed people ending up with several different people, but all of them having the same personality defects whether it is an addictive personality (such as one ex having an alcohol problem, another being a meth addict), lying, stealing, cheating, etc. Some people would speculate that it is a karmic lesson that must be learned. I think that it is because it feels familiar and comfortable and it is easier to fall into old patterns than learn new ones.
Exactly! I agree with you. If you don't work through the issues that caused you to pick the first relationship, then you'll just end up in another version of it anyway.
My most dramatic example of that is a woman I know, who left her first husband after he said they should only have one child and then didn't get a new job fast enough after being fired from his old one. She felt that he wanted to live off her (because her father was a millionaire) and didn't even want to split the money with a second child. It all seemed very reasonable at the time, but the guy she married next also became a house husband very soon after they got together . . . and because they had to rely on only her income, he argued successfully that they, too, should have only one child. But because she had a second by then, I guess it was better than the first time around. *shrug*
I think the Royalblr bloggers have figured this out as well, because there are no more posts about "FD" (Future Duchess), Harry's supposed second wife, as foreseen by the tarot readers, who will be as much of a dream as his current wife is a nightmare. Even if he did meet a quality woman, she probably wouldn't want him . . . and he wouldn't go for her anyway.
Maybe TBW can also do 40 minutes' worth of mentoring in Haiti for a woman whose family are trapped under collapsed buildings and are about to get a deluge of rain and flooding from a tropical storm.
Nope. Not glamorous enough. It's more likely that she's upset that women* in Afghanistan and Haiti had the inconsiderate timing to be in trouble when she had a project meant to put the spotlight back on her. As the loose cannon of the BRF, she could ignore events she deemed unimportant and leak stories at will. But her PR firm is a lot savvier than that and will hold back until a more tactful time. Gosh, this must really spoil her birthday month. First the Obama snub and then now this!
My condolences to you and your husband on the loss of his mother. These last months have been difficult for you I'm sure, but how blessed she was to have you there with her during her last days.
https://youtu.be/Jm3kpdieuHI
I agree- it does seem a bit far-fetched.
I think that Obama extending such an invitation is more of a gesture towards the couple than a belief that William and Catherine would actually attend.
Issuing a "gesture" invitation to one couple that you know won't accept simply to make the point to another couple in the family that they weren't invited.., petty.
I think the Obamas don't care what the 6's think. The "in" with the future King of England is more important to them.
I think in those circles, people's egos get bruised very often. It's part of being "A" list that you get some rejection and most people who get to the top have learned how to deal with it so they don't care dishing it out to others. They are not the Queen of England who has to worry about bruising anyone's feelings.
I haven't seen KP go on the record about the invite. Only the usual "palace sources" and we know what that's worth.
@GWAH,
I don't doubt you are correct. That's partly why I don't see the O's being the type to issue invitations that they know won't be accepted, especially overseas invitations during a pandemic. And for a birthday party! Unless you are a person who wanted to go to the party (and I doubt W&K are in that group and I seriously doubt the O's would think they were), or a person who was invited and then uninvited like his former political buddies like Rahm, no one cares who was invited to the huge party. Just another example of rules for thee, not for me.
Let me explain my reasoning. The Obamas disinvited their ex-staff when news leaked out about the size of their party. They maintained their invitations to celebrities they hardly knew. So, they aren't people who are loyal and caring and don't want to hurt their staff's feelings. They are very aware of their status and want to remain to be seen hobnobbing with the "A" list.
I had moved away from the city in which I had established myself after uni, and from my friends. I was quite hurt when one of my dear friends had a huge celebration and omitted me from the guest list because I lived too far away. I mentioned it to him and his wife agreed that he should have extended me an invitation, even if he knew I couldn't or wouldn't attend.
I understand what you mean about inviting close personal friends to gatherings even if they live far away. Sometimes that makes sense. It can make sense especially if the far away person has a connection with the place the gathering will occur. (hometown, university town, first job town etc) Under those circumstances, a person might come.
I'm not so convinced the O's would invite W&K to a large birthday bash for that reason. They've not had much contact with them but have with Harry. W&K have no connection to the Vineyard. But other than former associates related to his presidency, it appeared the O's mainly invited Hollywood. I don't know if they invited people like Trudeau, for example. So I see your point but am not convinced.
The two in CA are no longer royal, want their privacy, and have no social ranking whatsoever. Inviting the Harkles would be like inviting the waitress from the cafe you went to once. Why would you do that?
Why would you make it a point to invite the Cambridges just to snub the mechanic from the garage down the street? You wouldn't.
I'm pretty sure this is all made-up hoopla by the media and the Harkle's pr. I can see the Obama's being like, who??? Oh, those gate crashers again?
The main reason I'm taking this with a grain of salt is that it's not something BP would ever have leaked. And after the Obamas disinvited staff for revealing the size of the party (or maybe just said they did?), it's reasonable to think that people around them are feeling a little more tight lipped than usual. So the only reason that information, if true, would leak now is that the Obamas wanted to stick it to the Harkles. But that would mean the Harkles take up more of their time and mental energy than I think they do.
And if they truly wanted an "in" with a future King (as they very likely do), doing it by inviting one party, while making it known that they didn't invite another, reeks of high school. It's very much on the level of Mrs. H inviting celebrities she had never met before to her wedding. That is, ultimately meaningless. There are better, smarter ways for the Obamas to achieve a strategic alliance with Prince William. And they're probably already doing them behind the scenes! I think the spirit of this rumor is true, even if the details are not.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9897583/Prince-Harry-rock-Buckingham-Palace-camera-crew-tow-royal-expert-says.htm
On a slightly different note, Oprah has a new book out with Bruce D Perry: What happened to you? conversations on trauma, resilience and healing (2021).
I find a couple of things intriguing. One is that it is new and exactly the kind of thing which might be helpful in the Apple health series. Maybe it was. I don't have Apple TV.
The other is that somewhere in there, it has some parts about resilience and healing - terms you don't hear either of them appear to use (either to others they are encouraging who are in something bad or something which exists within themselves -6/6w - when they were going through the traumas of being royal.) But yet those terms are the hope/strengths within people that are used to overcome the bad things. Interesting.
I really don't know - perhaps it's something that rankles with the journalists (so much ostentation, so little done to earn it?) Or else it's an uncontroversial statement used as a `filler ' - it must be the only thing they can mention that doesn't either stick in the throat (like her being an `alleged mother of two') or risk legal action.
and for that matter so did Peolsi by getting dis-invited.
as someone prior said, the Obamas showed they aren’t the loyal type because they disinvited the people that got them to the WH and disinviting those that worked hard for them while they were in the WH. the O’s showed how thirsty they are now by keeping the Hollyweird A++ crowd they met after the fact who can scratch their backs for more million dollar deals.
the press/former sychophants hasnt been too kind when reporting the Bday party.
but the Bday party is more or less old news now that Biden is back on vacation at Camp David while his Afghanistan exit in in shambles.
What is even more fascinating is that the Obamas very publicly humiliated (by disinviting) the people that helped them achieve political success. I expect some of these people know the secrets that were sealed re his education; for example. I wonder if there will be anonymous leaks revealing some long-hidden secrets in the near future.
I suppose the giant party FU to their neighborhood and their aides is an indication that they really do think that their future lies in California.
But if *their* future lies in Hollywood, what about TBW and 6? Is the town going to be big enough for both of them?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GLWG685?_encoding=UTF8&customId=B0752XJX9Q
I have been reading that there may be 10,000 Americans trapped there that work for NGOs as well as governmental entities that are teachers, medical workers, work with women's issues, etc.
"JHanoi, it may be just you and me that thinks that TBW and 6 dodged a bullet (so to speak) with not being invited to the Obama party."
You can add me to that group. Seems to me the Obamas' party was a bad look for lots of reasons (potential super-spreader, the ungracious disloyal choices made about who to uninvite [for that matter, uninviting people for PR reasons, not for true public health reasons as 300 people was still a huge party], the narcissism needed for an adult to plan a 500-person birthday party for himself in the first place) People may not agree it was a bad look but I don't think many people outside of Hollywood ever thought it was an especially good look in view of current events.
Now it is about 5:30 a.m. EST so people in this part of the world should be stirring soon. There should be lots of people out and about in England, though. You are right, it IS curiously quiet.
i’ve read its 30,000 us citizens. i’m not sure who they all are or why they are there, maybe they missed a memo?
i need to turn the news off again… too depressing.
the Harkles have been too quiet recently. just read they are going to have a quiet christening for BabyL in TBW’s homestate of CA, instead for demanding HM attend and have in the UK. this is not really a surprise, because I dont see TBW ever stepping foot in the UK again. but maybe I’m wrong.
In the face of this, I wouldn't think that a prudent person would be wasting money on puff pieces designed to keep her newly-remodeled face in the news because people aren't going to be paying any attention. OTOH, can we characterize TBW as a prudent person?
I wonder whether the various teasers about TBW and DoC being on Netflix together isn't more of a desperate flailing attempt by TBW to manifest something that isn't there. I can envision her in a meeting with Netflix or other execs pitching her new vision for a show, and being told "Nobody is interested. Your numbers are bad. If you can get the DoC interested, then we'll talk."
"Nobody is interested. Your numbers are bad. If you can get the DoC interested, then we'll talk."
Yes, that sounds about right, a very `likely' scenario - we're in the world of HM making a birthday cake here, I think.
I do wonder if she's drafting her proposal for how The Wannabe Most Famous Woman in the World is going to solve current world problems when she finally has the power?
Issued a statement full of sugary platitudes about suffering which bear no relationship to her own behaviour.
Omid Scobie
@scobie
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Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan have written a statement on the current state of the world in light of the situation in Afghanistan and humanitarian disaster in Haiti.
“As an international community, it is the decisions we make now… that will prove our humanity,” they share.
I've tried to copy the text of what she says but have failed - can someone who uses Twitter manage it?
Helpful, eh?
As we all feel the many layers of pain due to the situation in Afghanistan, we are left speechless.
As we all watch the growing humanitarian disaster in Haiti, and the threat of it worsening after last weekend’s earthquake, we are left heartbroken.
And as we all witness the continuing global health crisis, exacerbated by new variants and constant misinformation, we are left scared.
When any person or community suffers, a piece of each of us does so with them, whether we realize it or not. And though we are not meant to live in a state of suffering, we, as a people, are being conditioned to accept it. It’s easy to find ourselves feeling powerless, but we can put our values into action — together.
To start, we encourage you to join us in supporting a number of organizations doing critical work. We also urge those in positions of global influence to rapidly advance the humanitarian dialogues that are expected to take place this fall at multilateral gatherings such as the U.N. General Assembly and the G20 Leaders’ Summit.
As an international community, it is the decisions we make now — to alleviate suffering among those we know and those we may never meet — that will prove our humanity.”
– THE DUKE & DUCHESS OF SUSSEX
The Archewell Commitment
Like many of you, we are closely watching the crises happening across the world right now, and we are heartbroken. Archewell is committed to putting our values into action, and we hope to do what we can to meet the moment by offering support to the military community and the troops who served in Afghanistan, as well as to the Afghan people facing violence and terror.
We are also supporting the emergency response in Haiti with our partner World Central Kitchen, which is working with local organizations that are helping with recovery efforts to save lives and preserve the health of those on the ground.
Finally, against this backdrop, we are acutely aware that the rise of the COVID-19 Delta variant has jeopardized the health and safety of families around the world. We are working to support vaccine equity through our commitment to combating the spread of misinformation, as well as our ongoing partnerships with Vax Live and Global Citizen.
We recognize that many of you may feel helpless right now as you watch the state of the world spin rapidly. It can feel disorienting and defeating, but we have faith in the power of shared purpose, action, and commitment to our collective well-being.
Below, please find resources where you can learn about how to help those affected by these global emergencies. You’ll also find resources for your own mental health, which we hope you’ll use as you navigate whatever comes up for you during this critical time. Take care of yourselves, and let’s keep taking care of each other.
Thank you,
The Archewell Team
Here are the groups they encourage you to support (wonder how much of a kickback they will get)
Ways to Help:
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN
Join us in supporting World Central Kitchen’s efforts to provide meals to people impacted by the earthquake in Haiti.
WOMEN FOR AFGHAN WOMEN
Donate to provide safe shelter, resources and aid to displaced women and children in Afghanistan.
AFGHANAID
Help provide urgent, life-saving assistance to men, women and children who have been affected by the conflict in Afghanistan.
MERCY CORPS
Support on-the-ground efforts delivering immediate humanitarian aid to Haitian communities.
INVICTUS
Support the work that Invictus Games Foundation is doing to inspire recovery and support for wounded veterans.
Mental Health Resources:
NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS
Find mental health resources and support systems near you by tapping into the largest mental health organization in the United States.
THE LOVELAND FOUNDATION
Support resources and financial assistance for women of color seeking mental health services, or sign up for support yourself.
PROJECT HEALTHY MINDS
Ask for help, or support work being done to eliminate barriers that prevent people from getting the mental health resources they need.
Oops...forgot to say I was copying from (shudder Archewell)
Ha! You did cite the source at the bottom, but while I was reading the first few lines, I wondered why the quality of writing here at Nutty's blog had suddenly dropped. ;-P
In all seriousness, it's terrible. A statement for the sake of having a statement, with a hefty scoop of preaching on top. This is how you should think. This is how you should feel. You may not know it, but I definitely do. Unbelievable.
I don't even want them to get backlash for this. There are so many more issues to spend time and mental energy on. Anything from the Harkles is just noise and should be ignored.
In the face of this, I wouldn't think that a prudent person would be wasting money on puff pieces designed to keep her newly-remodeled face in the news because people aren't going to be paying any attention. OTOH, can we characterize TBW as a prudent person?
I still think she's seething over the audacity of the people of Haiti and Afghanistan, who have hijacked what was supposed ot be her month. On her own, she'd definitely go full speed ahead with the puff pieces.
But say what you like about Sunshine Sachs, they at least know when something would be a very bad look. I hope they rein her in. Not for her own good, but because this is simply not the time for her to be distracting people.
I see WCK claims to be a first responder - the very first people who need to go in after something like a quake, according to my Sapper ex, are the engineers to clear the way in and restore communications. Nobody else can do a thing until they have access. The engineers are self-reliant - they have the machinery and resources - plus rations and cooks. Will H be driving a bulldozer? Who is sending that sort of help?
As for the other organisations, they doubtless did sterling work in Afghanistan under former circumstances but to me it looks as if their chances of achieving anything now are very slim, apart from supporting those Afghans who succeed in getting out the country.
The Harkles should live by the advice that it is better to keep quiet and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt about it. Dennis Thatcher (Margaret's husband) stuck to that rule.
BTW,Harold Macmillan (PM 1967-63) apparently used to say that the First Rule of Politics was `Never Invade Afghanistan'.
Their picture is incomplete.
Harry should put on his suit, and plaster those medals across his chest, and a sash diagonally across his body. Negs needs a tiara, some large sparkly drop earrings, and a sparkly diamond bracelet. They need an official photo to go with their statement, and future statements.
There is nothing in the Harkles' statement that alludes to that. Yes, they mention "the military community" in one statement and veterans in another, but in a very impersonal way. If we weren't already haplessly familiar with Mrs. H's writing style, this is how we'd know it all came from her.
Statements from the BRF in response to crises usually include some kind of personal statement, especially if they had had a significant experience in the place or with the people affected. They never lecture people on how they must see the world or what they should think of the crisis. If Mrs. H wants to portray herself as royalty in exile, as @Fifi puts it, then she still has a lot of learning to do. There was absolutely nothing regal about her latest creative writing piece.
Someone just reminded me that Harry had served in Afghanistan. (Should that be: Harry had "served" in Afghanistan?)
Excellent point. People have feelings (positive or negative) about duty stations. If 6 hasn't
personalized it, either (a) his opinion wasn't asked, or (b) his opinion was so very negative that it was decided that it would be best if it were buried.
sub heading from the DM article -
"Never fear, the Sussexes are here! Harry and Meghan wade into Afghanistan crisis with woke 'word salad' statement saying they're 'speechless' (if only)"
Oh Lord - I needed a laugh today (and the passed two days). I never thought I would witness something like Saigon twice in one lifetime - this current situation IS Saigon on steriods. I worry about all the vets, and the surviving families, even #6.
With one exception, prior presidents are not giving statements, neither are other ex-royals, because it is not appropriate to do so. So why is it the Harkles think they are qualified or entitled to have an opinion about this?
They're nobodies. They represent no one other than themselves. They don't have any particular expertise in this area, or any other area. No reason to be speaking out at all.
Once again, this isn't any different than the cafe waiter down the street thinking his opinion should be taken as the gospel truth on this.
Oh, Lord! - I needed a laugh today (and the passed two days). I never thought I would witness something like Saigon twice in one lifetime - this current situation IS Saigon on steroids. I worry about all the vets, and the surviving families, even #6.
I just read today that thousands of the Americans who need to get out are contractors with our military. If they get left behind, we know what the Taliban will do to them. These contractors are/were working with our military to hold down the fort. Whoever has been hiring these contractors to go to Afghanistan better be exerting maximum pressure to get them out safe and sound.
What I see so far is that these American contractors are not being given priority on outbound flights, over Afghans who want out too. Afghans who translated and did other work for our military. Marked men for the Taliban
Yeah lots of laughs at the latest Sussex pontificating. Nice to see the DM dumping on the disastrous Duo, as in>
"Never fear, the Sussexes are here! Harry and Meghan wade into Afghanistan crisis with woke 'word salad' statement saying they're 'speechless' (if only)"
We have many Biden appointed woke generals today. They babble on while botching our Afghanistan exit. Our woke supreme commanders should have had a contingency plan for the Afghan Army collapsing quickly.
and to keep it on the harkles yes that is generous. for anyone and everyone who served there my heart does go out to them and what they are seeing. and yes thank you daily mail for the laugh on the “leaves us speechless (if only)”. love it!!! and of course she is probably all look i said something profound and the cambridge’s haven’t. (partly because you need to wade delicately with china and pakistan at the border. then again maybe the mrs and her woke word salad should go out there and negotiated with the Taliban. she’s practically a diplomat and she is a duchess
@Swampie
So sorry for the loss of your
mother-in-law. Big hugs to you,
Swampman, and family X
Archesell
We wonder how they dare
Keep spinning salad without care
Using tragedy, despair
to beseech us
Exploiting others, and their plight
All for clicks to their site
It is us that are utterly ‘speechless’
.So sorry.you have had so much loss during COVID.
I read in several places that the Obamas required everyone coming to the birthday party to be tested for COVID a coupke of days before the party. Don’t know if servers & other party employees also had to do test.
Obama fired the effective war-fighting generals.
"And, the 44X60 party was outside, under awnings. Lots of fresh air, coming off the ocean."
I don't think the main COVID danger was assumed to occur during the huge unmasked outdoor party so much (although deadly super-spreader levels of exposure were assumed to occur in Sturgis while motorcycle riding ;-) It was the party prep and clean up staff exposure, the travel exposure, the exposure created while guests shopped in MV, the exposure created while guests stayed in hotels and B&Bs in MV...So a host of things all associated with the party occurring likely did create exposures that wouldn't have happened otherwise. One can argue we can't hide forever and one can adopt tbe perspective we need to get on with our normal lives (especially those who are vaccinated) so no more gov't mandated limitations on activities are warranted. But it's hard to argue IMO that there was no increased exposure from 300+ people from all over the US coming to Martha's Vineyard while delta rages. And if there was no exposure danger why claim to have cut the party size down in view of delta? Why uninvite people for no reason?
I had the same hearty laugh when listening to River's latest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5rfJVLq-9c
"If you're speechless, DON'T SPEAK!"
By "us," Mrs. H probably meant the entire international community, of which only she is the only member with the self-possession to be articulate at this time. The rest of us are the "speechless" ones, so she is obligated to give the speeches.
maybe she used her good calligraphy pen to write it. so very royal
In which case, I now feel for the poor intern professional enough to type all that out instead of scanning the elegant pages to preserve the message's original charm! No good deed goes unpunished.
If only they would just shut up and enjoy the privacy they say they want.
I just learned yesterday that vaccinated people can be asymptomatic wrt the Delta variant and carry very high viral loads which can make them very contagious. Not so with the unvaccinated.
Hell
I pray for the women,
and kids in Afghanistan
Followed by the good men,
who fought the Taliban
I fear that the lives
Of these men, and their wives
Will shortly be ended, by the
Al-Qaeda Clan
My thoughts too.
I've just listened to powerful speeches in the Parliamentary debate from 2 ex-officer MPs Johnny Mercer (former Commando Captain, Cons.) & Dan Jarvis (former Para. Major, Lab) Both were thoughtful, insightful and eloquent. Dare I add `authentic'?
Such a contrast to the Ginger Idiot of the Army Air Corps and his bint - intellectually he's about the level of a new `Private', aged 13, in a school Combined Cadet Force, if that. He's like the fools of the Crimean War, there on a purchased Commission.
PS Both paid full credit to the courage of their Afghan brothers-in-arms; they had no doubts as to their bravery.
It's time the Ginger Idiot lost his place with Invictus, there are far better men than he doing more, unsung, for veterans.
@WildBoar
Harry chose ‘No Deal’
says it all!
All those world leaders, just sitting on their hands, waiting to have the Harkles tell them how to handle this situation. Good thing the Harkles spoke up right away.
With one exception, prior presidents are not giving statements, neither are other ex-royals, because it is not appropriate to do so. So why is it the Harkles think they are qualified or entitled to have an opinion about this?
They're nobodies. They represent no one other than themselves. They don't have any particular expertise in this area, or any other area. No reason to be speaking out at all.
Once again, this isn't any different than the cafe waiter down the street thinking his opinion should be taken as the gospel truth on this.
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Hi Mel :
I can only come up with one answer as to why they would dare weigh in on something so serious and I blame the media. Any news organization that published that crap is responsible for making that happen. I will secondly blame those who also feed the monster by clicking on such crap and then posting comments to feed the monster further.
I was once party to it myself, so I know I hold some responsibility for it happening in such a way that continued to make stories popular fodder for the masses. But I'm over all of it. I read the headlines and move on now, it keeps me sane.
I did however love the DM headline, for once they are literally making fun of the ludicrous word salad coming directly from the two of them. As you said, they know nothing about the real impact of what is happening in Afghanistan, how the Taliban made promises they didn't keep, or the true danger for all women that are now being terrorized by these savages. Does MM really think donating money is going to go straight to helping these people? It's just more money making opportunities for them and that makes me sick to my stomach.
This all needs to stop with them, they are nothing more than idiots trying to be smart, they hold no power, and their words can hurt other's in the process.
Obeyance
Just more salad words
From the constipated turds
Anything for more drama
They must understand
They have damaged their brand
Not wanted by Messrs Obama
uh oh. harkles on the cover of People but no new cover picture just about how they are entering a new phase of visibility.
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Hi Snarkyatherbest :
Now that's some humor I can get behind. I can remember in my own youth that when starting a new relationship it seemed like he and I could talk forever, we had so much to say, not realizing eventually it would all end with stony silences.
They need to stay silent on the world news we are presently seeing, however let them run their mouths until there is nothing left to say. Most are already over saturated with them saying the usual word salad which hopefully turn into disinterest, boredom, fatigue, and stony silence.
This must happen in a massive way, people need to stop clicking on the stupid stories and most importantly stop posting comments within the stories. I personally have already disengaged from the multiple stories they produce daily, sometimes multiple times a day.
There is no need to. They're usually published in their entirety within a blog post in a day or two, anyway.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1478729/Meghan-Markle-Prince-Harry-Queen-news-Royal-Family-feud-Oprah-Winfrey-interview-latest
I do remember noticing that in the latest video, her jaw didn't seem to jut forward past her upper teeth anymore. Remember how she always used to jut her lower jaw forward when she was sucking on her upper teeth?
I guess that would explain what appeared to be a pretty hefty double chin, and a very thick neck. I remember thinking that her neck looked terribly thick compared to a few years ago.
i disagree and don’t think she’s had her jaw adjusted backwards. i compared TY Bday blow out profile to previous porfile pictures and jaw appears the same. what is different is her blown up fish lips….too much filler… which isn’t good for the vaccines, it can cause a reaction. and she’s gained weight. i dont kno if its leftover baby weight or just general weight gain, but she’s heavier than before, resulting in ‘double chin’
For a laugh, here's and extract from an Evening Standard report:
GB News’ Simon McCoy erupts into laughter at Prince Harry and Meghan’s Afghanistan statement
Lily Waddell
Wed, 18 August 2021, 6:18 pm BST
GB News host Simon McCoy laughed out loud at Prince Harry and Meghan’s Afghanistan statement on air.
The former BBC presenter, 59, sniggered when his co-presenter Kirsty Gallacher, 45, detailed the Duke and Duchess of Sussex had been left “speechless” by the Taliban takeover in a news segment.
They cited the statement ahead of the GB News interview with royal biographer named Angela Levin on Wednesday.
Kirsty said: “Now, Harry and Meghan have broken their silence to say they are speechless about the situation in Afghanistan.”
To which, Mr McCoy failed to cover his amusement and giggled on air before apologising.
He said: “Sorry, only they would break their silence to tell us they are speechless...”
Rest of it is reiterating what they said.
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To use the Old English term -they are both scits (in OE, `sc'=`sh'), complete and utter scits.
PS: I agree that TBW gained weight. She's now got a fat face.
uh oh. harkles on the cover of People but no new cover picture just about how they are entering a new phase of visibility.
Invisibility, I hope?
Sussexes believe Queen did not fully 'own' race allegations, book claims
Victoria Ward
Wed, 18 August 2021, 8:10 pm
Part 1
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex believe that the Queen failed to take “full ownership” of the race allegations made in their Oprah Winfrey interview, according to the authors of an unauthorised biography.
A friend of the couple told Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, the authors of Finding Freedom, that the Queen’s lack of action had prevented them from moving forward.
The source also suggested that the Queen’s assertion that “recollections may vary” about their claims had not gone down well.
The Queen has until now been one of the only senior members of the Royal family to escape the ire of the Sussexes, who have gone out of their way to single her out for praise.
However, a new epilogue to Finding Freedom, published in the US in People magazine, suggested that the Duke and Duchess felt frustrated that she did not follow through with her promise to address their concerns.
It said: “The Queen’s ‘recollections may vary’ comment ‘did not go unnoticed’ by the couple, who a close source said were ‘not surprised’ that full ownership was not taken. ‘Months later and little accountability has been taken’, a pal of Meghan added. ‘How can you move forward with that?’”
The Sussexes made a series of allegations about the Royal family during their two-hour televised interview with Winfrey in March.
The most damaging came as the Duchess, 40, alleged that when she was pregnant with their son, Archie, “concerns” had been raised by a member of the family about the colour of his skin.
She also suggested that when she had felt suicidal, the institution had failed to help her.
However, the Duke insisted: “I would never blindside my grandmother. I have too much respect for her.”
Mr Scobie said that the Duke, in particular, felt that without “accountability” from certain individuals within the institution for the things that had affected them most, it was hard to move on.
He revealed that “very little” progress had been made in the Duke’s relationships with either his father, the Prince of Wales, or his brother, the Duke of Cambridge – although conversely, he was closer to some other members of the Royal family than he had been a year ago...
“I think he is quite willing to own his part in everything. But I have been told that he is also waiting to see some of that from the other side – and as of now, there hasn’t been that,” Mr Scobie said.
A friend of the Duke’s is quoted as saying that his return to the UK for the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral in April had “broken the ice… pushed a closed door slightly ajar”.
A different family source said that compared to how things had been six and 12 months ago, there had been progress. “There are efforts on all sides,” they said.
Mr Scobie said that the Sussexes had initially been “quite afraid of the consequences” of stepping back and “challenging the system”, but that the birth of Archie in 2019 gave them the energy to stand up for what was right for them, “regardless of what the consequences were”.
The Queen reacted to the interview by insisting that the couple’s allegations would be “taken very seriously”.
“The issues raised, particularly that of race, are concerning,” she said. “Whilst some recollections may vary, they are taken very seriously and will be addressed by the family privately.”
Cont...
‘A new era of visibility’
Finding Freedom, published last summer, will be republished in paperback on August 31 with a new epilogue summarising the dramatic events of the past two years.
In an interview to promote the new edition, Mr Scobie claimed that one of the lessons the Sussexes had learnt was to prioritise their mental health and keep “some of the toxicity” at an arm’s – and ocean’s – length.
He also told People magazine that as their period of shared parental leave drew to a close two months after the birth of daughter Lilibet, the couple were entering a new “era of visibility”.
He said: “They’re a couple who do very well in those moments of human interaction. They need to be on the ground. They say that the proof is in the pudding, and what we are about to see is that pudding.”
Mr Scobie’s comments raise the prospect that the Sussexes will take part in royal-style walkabouts on US soil.
The epilogue is expected to cover the Sussexes’ interview with Winfrey, the bullying allegations made against the Duchess by royal staff, which she denies, and the Duke of Edinburgh’s death.
It is also likely to touch upon the couple’s multi-million pound deals with Netflix and Spotify, as well as the Queen’s decision to strip them of all royal patronages earlier this year.
The Duchess has insisted that they did not collaborate with the authors. However, she admitted in court documents related to her privacy action against The Mail on Sunday that she did not know if the Kensington Palace communications team had provided information on her behalf and that on one occasion, she did pass information to them via an intermediary.
A witness statement lodged with the court on her behalf suggested the book was full of mistakes.
Buckingham Palace declined to comment.
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What the H-ll did she expect? HM to do public penance like King Henry II after the murder of Becket? Does she want HM to walk barefoot into Canterbury Cathedral, kneel at the altar and make a full Confession then be publicly whipped by Justin Welby? Or just reparation in the form of cash?
She's stark, staring, raving bonkers.
Or irredeemably evil.
Is that what they're going to say in the future, when someone asks why Baby$2 hasn't been christened yet? "The Queen's lack of action" is preventing the Christening?
They already moved across the Atlantic and the continental USA. They signed deals with Netflix and Spotify that they didn't plan to make good on. They filmed an interview with someone who negotiated with the Emmys for a nomination, despite knowing that Harry's family didn't want them to do it. To plead powerlessness now would be hilarious if we weren't all tired of laughing at their BS.
Mad or evil? I can agree with both!
There does seem to be a major personality disorder that interferes with rational and normal human behaviour. There also seems to be a reckless disregard for others and the harm done to them.
How about apologies and compensation from the Harkles?
They lied to and fleeced the British of millions as they spent and spent while actively planning their deals and life in LA.
They whined about and attacked their families, and told so many lies that were exposed. Worst of all was that they directly targeted the royal family as Phillip was dying, during and soon after his funeral.
They bullied staff and drove good people out of jobs.
They act so self important but have done nothing nor achieved anything of global importance other than being Royal. At least materialistic and shallow influencers like the Kardashians and some strange looking person called Katie Price stay in their lane! (The Harkles do not even have the talent or commitment to be shallow influencers!)
Yes, mentally deranged and evil people!
and now they think they are US Royalty and will be conducting ‘walkabouts’ presumaby with their chosen charities, for papping opportunities.
sounds like they are very very thirsty to be papped just like the thousands of other SoCal A-Z listers , to get eyeballs / $$ for their projects
I have more respect for Katie Price than for TBW.
Not so much as a story about Harry and his wife, but more wrt how narcissists behave.
She has taken a few blows because of the fact she wasn't invited to the Obama's party, but also because Catherine and William were, and they turned it down, and didn't even make it public.
She is desperate now for narcissistic supply.
Mr Scobie’s comments raise the prospect that the Sussexes will take part in royal-style walkabouts on US soil.
Walkabouts for who and for what purpose other than self-promotion?
I can't imagine anyone being interested enough in seeing them "walkabout" after their obnoxious behavior towards the BRF and their word salad pronouncements which not only say nothing meaningful but are not followed up by any meaningful, productive, concrete actions.
You said you wanted privacy go live your lives quietly and in peace.
As this witless pair “walkabout” onUS soil ( sounds like a USO service for overseas soldiers), who will be RAISING their children? You know the kids will not be trotted out for photo ops and #2 is still fairly young for prolonged travel, so I believe they will stay home. The first few years of a child’s life is very formative for their sense of self, security, learning skills, etc. I realize they have help, but weren’t they on a 5 month parental break? Of course, one could argue the kids are better off with the nanny…
100% agree with your above statement. Will and Kate are genuine, dutiful and loving in spirit. Everything the Harkles are not. Do they even have any friends in California?
I read Lainey so you don't have to. This is what she has to say about the Harkle's new visibility:
Is that all about to change? Are we about to see a Sussex comeback for the back half of 2021? And what does that look like? Like.. Met Gala? I mean, it would be a HUGE get for Anna Wintour if that were the case, and people’s heads would explode, especially since the theme this year is American fashion. Which I would love to see if only because of the ensuing British media meltdown.
If I were advising the Sussexes though, I would say hold on the Met Gala until Meghan can actually be a co-chair. That’s the ideal way to make your debut.
You know what else is happening in New York that week though? The UN General Assembly. That’s definitely in line with their work and the causes they champion. This is pie in the sky speculation, obviously, and probably even more unlikely than the Met Gala given whatever controversy might unfold over what nation they’re representing. But if we’re talking visibility, I mean the UN would be a massive spotlight. There’s your fall preview – Season 2 (or is it 3?) of the Sussex Show coming soon.
wait the UN general assembly meets in new york? 😉. ok that was snarky but Lainey really?!
After she blatantly lied about getting a standing ovation at the UN and then leaving the market in Fiji early to avoid the UN Women delegates, I doubt the UN would give her a nanosecond of thought.
As for the MET Gala . . . Anna Wintour is on the record for praising Harry's wife's "style" -- but she has also said her dream guests would be Mrs. H and Catherine. And before Harry got married, there were quite a few gushing PR pieces about Wintour wanting Catherine at the MET Gala or even on the cover of Vogue. One could say that because she will never get Catherine, she may settle for her sister-in-law. And perhaps she would have, when Mrs. H was still a working royal. But aged starlets are a dime a dozen in Hollywood. Mrs. H grows less and less interesting by the minute.
Plus, the Obama snub is a statement in ten-foot-high blinking neon. Wintour was kissing up to Michelle Obama even after Barack Obama had left the White House. She's not going to settle for 40x40, when 44x60 is still a big mover and shaker.
Now, for those that do not want to read speculation which is both political and health related in nature, turn your eyes away! I think that the following *may* be dominating the news cycles in the near future here unless it can be quashed. It is certainly dominating news cycles elsewhere. You can avoid it completely by reading this summary then moving on: The sh*t has not even begun to hit the fan re Biden's horribly-executed withdrawal from Afghanistan. I've thought for some time that he has dementia (and his horrible gaffes have been covered up by the media).
Back to Joe's Great Afghanistan Withdrawal Adventure, you have been warned. I have been wondering when it is going to finally dawn on people that when Joe's State Department told people to "shelter in place" and not attempt the trip to Kabul (and the only way out via the airport), that they did it with the full knowledge that there is *no* way to rescue said citizens because Bagram is closed. THEIR (state department) people went to the airport under armed guard, though. So long, suckers.
If he is willing to endanger/kill US citizens with his "strategy", what has he done to allied NGO citizens? Were they warned in real time about the collapse of the Afghanistan army? Are they, too, stuck in a hostile country with no egress except through the Taliban? There are reports of unknown veracity quietly circulating that Joe is not taking any calls from concerned world leaders. Kumala is going to be visiting Vietnam tomorrow and there are reports that she was heard shrieking while at the White House "They will not pin this sh*t on me!". Hmmmm. Even his soyboy generals are pointing fingers at him saying "We TOLD him what would happen but he wouldn't listen to us!" This is bad. REALLY bad.
Will Joe resign for "health" reasons shortly? (There are a lot of bets being placed privately as to not IF but WHEN he will resign. It is obvious that he is in poor health and mentation. I don't think that it can be covered up much longer.) Will a woman so very unpopular with the Democrat voters that she couldn't buy even ONE delegate in her home state assume the Presidency? Her biggest political accomplishment has been...well, you know.
Excellent analysis as usual. A very sad, troubling scenario any way you slice it.
I think Joe will have a "stroke" and die. The Deep State will take care of it. Then, people will feel sorry for the Dems. If he resigns, then there will be some shame attached.
Royal walkabouts in the US.
Are they throwing mud at the walls again, in the hope that something will stick?
Hilarious!
Will Joe resign for "health" reasons shortly?
Not shortly, Joe has two more major f-ups to go before he is replaced by Harris.
The powers behind Joe:
#1 Wife Jill is number one. She will try to keep him in office all 4 years
#2 Comes Obama and his crew. That wild no/mask party by his huge beach house was also an Obama crew planning session for what to do with Joe and how to control ol Joe. Plus how to control Kams Harris if/when she gets into the Presidency.
How can Obama have a 17 million dollar beach Mansion, right on the ocean, with all the global warming going on?
What is she going to accuse the Queen of this week? How is it going to even compare to Joe's incredible public Afghanistan debacle?
Maybe she could flip the script and surprise all of us by accusing Joe Biden of something this week? Has he become unpopular enough for her to feel safe speaking out against him? Even after that universally panned statement from a few days ago?
Perhaps not. She tried getting political all last year and didn't really move the needle on her "brand" -- which is trashing the British royals. She has enough of a learning curve to keep from doing something that doesn't provide her with sufficient "fuel."
Then again, you're correct that no one will care about her drivel these days -- and won't care for at least the end of the year. If Afghanistan is dominating the news, well, that just makes it the moment's biggest star to hitch her cart to. Perhaps she's already drafting a statement that begins, "As a woman of color and the wife of a veteran, the crisis in Kabul touched me in a unique way . . ."
A great comment and what a truly dreadful and very troubling state of affairs. 😔 Maggot and Mole are total Muppets, I honestly cannot believe anyone would have an appetite to want to listen to them anytime soon. They are sinking far into the abyss as far more pressing world news eclipses them.😔
I agree with DogsMatter comment that the pair are redundant and boring…I’ve long had that feeling. 😔
There was one attachment style which resulted in a personality where the person didn't care about how others thought, and of having no ability "to read the room". I think this is what shaped Meghan's personality.
That "close friends" are the sources does not matter. It still essentially came only from them. Having it in print means they also want it out there (as good friends would not allow such things to be published without authorizing it first). It also clearly gives light into how realistic any future sorts of reconnection or tolerance will or will not happen.
You cannot be talking about wanting to be friends or buddies from one side of your mouth and then trash talking about them out of the other side of your mouth.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/entertainment-celebrity/prince-harry-announces-1-5-million-charity-donation-from-memoir-at-surprise-polo-match-appearance-in-aspen/ar-AANvrAS?ocid=msedgntp
In the DM:
DAN WOOTTON: Of all the nonsense we've heard from Harry and Meghan, the claim that they had nothing to do with their tame writer's latest attack on the Queen is the bit that made me laugh loudest
I love the last part of this sentence:
The couple's author pal Omid Scobie will deliver the criticism on their behalf in an updated version of his hagiography Finding Freedom, co-written with the TV producer Caroline Durand, which comically paints the fame hungry man-eating D-list actress Meghan as a modern-day Mother Teresa. Ouch! I wonder what TBW will think of this description.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9909167/DAN-WOOTTON-Harry-Meghans-claim-new-attack-Queen-laugh.html
Dan Wootton pulled out all the stops in that article, but he actually is speaking the truth.
The problem is that she cannot 'own' who she actually is and keeps on overselling herself with such blatant grandiosity. It is OK to make a comfortable living as a D-list actor (lots of good people do), but laughable and mad to insist on portraying yourself as a super duper A-lister.
Keep in mind, the US will be flooded with refugees and asylum seekers. South of the border and now Afghanistan. Then the dominant culture wonders why their herd is thinning.
Those voting BOTH red and blue will surely want to be compassionate and kind and open their homes to folks from both these groups? Since they are so appalled?
Buhler?
Anyone?...
Crickets...
This issue is being politicized, as all political musings. No one really wins.
I used to say politics is the opium of the people. Nay. Not anymore. Politics is the fentanyl of said people.
If not Biden, then someone the same, or worse(!)
I have zero hopes for better.
Red and Blue, the colors of the Bloodz and Cripz, and then some...
That is a fascinating piece of the puzzle.
Her father put her on a pedastal and now blames Harry for everything (completely ignoring all the pre-Harry evidence of her spoilt brat mean girl narcissism). Doria must have played her part.
Can you remember any more details?
This raises my eyebrows. River is basing that statement on actual sources, so it's weightier than the speculation we tend to do here. But because it contradicts "popular opinion" as it is bandied about on this blog, I'm still considering it myself.
What do the other Nutties think?
My theory about the rising number of narcisists is that this number is rising along with the use of cannabis in everyday life. If Doria was as big a stoner as I think she was, there is a case to be made about her not giving Meghan the attention she required as a baby and toddler. She thus grew up with a bad attachment problem.
I am sure a lot of people will disagree with me, but I've formed this theory on the basis of my experience with people who smoke pot on a daily basis.
I would think Omid would be inundated with lawsuits from the Harkles if he was frozen out as per River. Time will tell. Also, why shouldn’t Omid make money if he is writing articles about them. Was he involved with the newest edition of Finding Freebies? I bet Harry complains about Omid but Megsy has a mouthpiece in the UK and I believe she is still feeding him her animosity.
Happy Days - Ha, thats a good one
EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Prince Harry's Invictus charity booms... thanks to William and Kate's generosity
They publicly attacked the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in their infamous TV interview with Oprah Winfrey, but Prince Harry and Meghan have a reason to be grateful to the royal couple.
I can disclose that the Duke of Sussex’s charity for injured ex-servicemen has enjoyed its best year ever, thanks to Prince William and Kate.
The Invictus Games Foundation, which former soldier Harry set up in 2014, received a grant of more than £500,000 from the Royal Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
The huge transfer of £560,984 meant that Invictus could boast an income of £1.77 million last year in newly published accounts. That’s a huge jump on 2019 when its income was £1.06 million.
Prince William and Catherine always supported Harry’s efforts to establish Invictus,’ a courtier tells me. ‘They are delighted that it has been a success.’
The comments seem magnanimous given that Meghan claimed to her friend Oprah that Kate had made her cry and accused an unnamed royal of making a racist comment about her unborn baby.
The Royal Foundation, originally called the Foundation of Prince William and Prince Harry, was set up in 2009 when they were still close friends as well as brothers. Their wives were later added to the title of the charity.
After Meghan moved to Britain in 2017, there were hopes that the quartet (jokingly referred to as the ‘Fab Four’) would become a powerful fundraising force.
However, just two years later Harry and Meghan announced they were quitting the charity to set up their own foundation called Sussex Royal.
The Queen banned them from using the word ‘royal’ after they confirmed they were leaving Britain for North America last year and stepping down from their roles as senior royals.
It will be fascinating to see how Invictus fares without the Cambridges’ financial support.
I agree that the number of rising narcissists can be traced back to how they were raised.
More working parents means less time spent with their children. They often try to make it up by overindulging them.
Then having lesser children per family also often results in overindulgence on the children. This is very true in China where in many of the single child normally a son family, the son becomes the little emperor at home.
The above and the current and popular method of praise, encouragement & reward way of raising children has given rise to what we call the strawberry and snowflake generation - children brought up by overprotective parents resulting in less resilient and more prone to taking offence, highly sensitive persons.
Thank you for reading Lainey bit of opinion on our behalf - her insinuation that getting the Viper would be a huge get for Wintour couldn't be further from the truth.
Wintour wouldn't be interested in her. Wintour gets it that controversy can be good and she did it with Kim Kadarshian. However, the Harkles are not controversial but obvious social climbers of the lowest order - one that bites the hand that feeds them.
She wouldn't want muck like that sticking onto her classic strappy heels.
Delicious Jan Moir article in DM
Love her line:
“Harry and Meghan’s
Lake of Ache” hahahaha!!
Diss-ability
Their show of visibility
Just proves their inability
No sense, or sensibility
Anew, era of divisibility
you're more than welcome.
@Snarkyatherbest
I can well imagine Harry becoming fed up with Omid and wanting him cut off . . . and his wife going behind his back to feed Omid tidbits anyway.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9909119/Prince-Harry-host-polo-match-Colorado-Sentebale-charity.html
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He's being very op if he thinks that his 'bombshell memoir' will make that much money. Whatever he donates, he'll recoup as this will be done through the Archewell Foundation.
@Magatha
Diss-ability: this is it in a nutshell. Wish they could have an invisibility cloak, not that they were ever invisible, sadly. A period of silence would also be commendable.
TBW can't be happy about that!
I notice silence from Montecito with regard to the huge donation the Cambridges have made to Invictus!
@Maneki
Derisible and Lieable 😉
@WildBoar
sc = sh
Re-make for megs
“Scat on a hobnailed hoof”
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Quite a paunch Harry is developing. Not using the fully equipped gym at the mansion?
@Sandie
What about that bump on his
forehead, brain finally developing,
and escaping.
Who will buy his book, most of us
will read all the dirt in DM etc.
Time for a Bench shriekquel,
“Two short planks”
Or they're at No 1 in this week's Scit Parade.
“Scat on a hobnailed hoof”
Oh, my! This just made my Friday evening! Hahahahaha!
@WildBoar
No 1 with:
“She ploughed her heels and scat’ed
the bad seed of her brand”
Some `Songs for Swinging Sussexes' perhaps?
- `I Can't Get No Satisfaction (and I've Tried)'
- `Lady Madonna' (all the lyrics seem appropriate)
- `Livin' Doll' (applicable to 4 of the Dramatis Personae - some real, some non-existent)
Meanwhile, HM must be humming Bad Penny Blues
(All Credit to the Stones, Lennon & McCartney, Cliff & the late lamented Humphrey Littleton)
yes, math doesnt work on the donation. Using hollywood math (and the creative accounting that comes out of there), Sentebale will be lucky to get anything. As wimpy (another paunchy fellow) would say "ill gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today"
Cheers Enbrethiliel
Friday Singalong 🎤
Apologies to Ritchie Valens
Donna
Connatations
Oh Conna, Yo Goner
We know a dame
Conna is her name
Since she got wed
She’s pimped up her game
How we loathe that dame
Conna, still bobbing her head
Still bobbing her head
She got it wrong
Taking Haz from his ‘throne’
All by herself
She’s left with his bone
How we loathe that dame
Conna, you’re fully blown
You’re fully blown
Oh Conna, So Wronga…
`Let's Twist Again!'
PS New HG Tudor up: Harry's Wife Part 70.6 : Wounding In Action (sorry, haven't been able to copy the URL). If looks could kill...
It's all about the Wonga.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQt-zv4q7x4 Taz latest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg0Dqf51IXw River
I am getting tired of all of these youtubers thinking that their vendettas with viewers or others are interesting to us.
I couldn't watch River's video from yesterday for that reason. I find myself turning off Yankee Wally's videos often as well for that very reason. Even Lady Colin Campbell has this frustrating tendency.
I may be selfish, but I want to be entertained when I watch these videos about the Harkles. don't want to listen to their ongoing battles with people. I feel like I do when I go visit my mother and she goes on and on about how her neighbour makes too much noise or some other complaint of her.
You need to start to put your rhymes to rap music and release an album!
I was horrified to learn that many countries pledged aid for various natural catastrophes and never follow through. It's very common. And, the countries who do so are considered humanitarian superstars, like Germany, Sweden and Canada!
Maybe that's where Harry got his idea of promising a vast sum. He never plans on following through.
In the world of Hollywood, Amber Heard who got a large settlement from her ex-husband Johnny Depp, promised to donate the entire amount (I think it was $5 million) to some charity, and Depp is trying to prove that she never did.
I read somewhere that Johnny Dept has compelling evidence that Amber did not donate all the divorce settlement as she promised.
Lady C. and River are both, despite some astute commentary at times, showboaters. They've hitched their wagons to the ongoing Harkle saga and both have nice little earners. I don't dislike them, but I find a little of either goes a long way because they are Soooo theatrical, dahlings. Their OTT personal presentation is part of their brand.
I've sung the praises of According2Taz on YT many times, and I will do so again. She presents a refreshing antidote to too much theatrical High Dudgeon by being so resolutely down-to-earth and normal. A 30-something professional woman (even if YouTube is her profession at the moment; she turned to it during Covid after being laid off from a real world job, who is vivid, lively and an on-camera natural, she's just the kind of person you'd want for a friend. A session with her is like dishing gossip with your best mate in her living room. She's a little zaftig, loves food, loves life and is an all-around positive thinker. This does not prevent her from accurately skewering the Toerags of Montecito, but she always does it with humor, pizazz and an eye toward not boring her audience. Her recent one about the Grifter's climb from cable-TV guttersnipe sl*t to Royal Duchess via the dumbest Prince in all of Christendom is some of her best ever work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXCShcGkiQE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY7o7Djb7p8
So what does he bring to the table?
He was there years and years ago so what ever he knew about it is not current or even close to recent.
Who does he represent?
Not the Queen. So even if he did still have "some association", the USA news people would want to go with someone local within their community.
I was in the grocery store today and the People magazine cover was not them (so either that news cycle has ended or the news is not out yet - but look! I see Kylie is pregnant again). My point is that some news cycles are really short because something else overtakes them in viewer interest.
People want to discuss those two issues, but IMO this is not the place for it.
I come here for entertainment and for comments about 6 and the wife.
Thanks.
I believe magazines are changed on Tuesdays, and the rack was full of People, so folks are not buying them.
Dear Gossips,
Should we check in on Prince Andrew, the member of the British royal family who was friendly with the dead rapist pedophile and accused sex trafficker now being sued for sexual abuse by Virginia Roberts Giuffre? After all, that should be the bigger royal headline, non?
Here’s the latest – an unnamed source who is said to be involved in the US investigation into Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking operation told Reuters that Andrew is a “person of interest”. Well that’s a feather in the cap! A “person of interest” in a sex trafficking case involving a number of underage girls over a number of years and across several continents! How cosmopolitan! Is this royal?
If it’s not royal to guest-edit a fashion magazine, is it royal to be called a “person of interest” in a criminal investigation where dozens of girls were recruited and groomed to be abused by a secret club of wealthy men?
She goes on about how Andrew is "a person of interest" but this might mean a lot of things. It might mean he has information that the police would like to have, or possibly that he is suspected of a crime.
Wikipedia defines it thus: "Person of interest" is a term used by U.S. and Canadian law enforcement when identifying someone possibly involved in a criminal investigation who has not been arrested or formally accused of a crime. It has no legal meaning, but refers to someone in whom the police are "interested", either because the person is cooperating with the investigation, may have information that would assist the investigation, or possesses certain characteristics that merit further attention.
So guess which possibility Lui decides to go with wrt Andrew? yup, she assumes he is a suspect in a crime
@GWAH
M n M
MagZee n MisteeZ 😉
Good onya James McGrath hahaha 👍
Eco-warrior Prince Harry is accused of hypocrisy as he touches down in Santa Barbara on friend's £45m private jet after flying 750 miles from polo match
seriously, you would be a smash hit with those little ditties turned into rap songs on youtube.
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/15002/person-hospitalized-after-taking-livestock-ivermectin-from-feed-store-to-treat-covid-19/
FYI y'all...
Now I have lost the link, but will try again in a subsequent post.
In brief ... TBW is trying to create a link with Catherine and putting out the message that Catherine needs her help.
Catherine does not regard herself as a philanthropist. TBW calls herself that.
The article is full of absurdities. TBW is quite unhinged!
It is in The Express and is by Oli Smith.
It talks about Meghan working with Catherine to improve Catherine's image and a whole lot of other nonsense and is pure Meghan speak.
The woman is deranged!
Eco-warrior Prince Harry is accused of hypocrisy as he touches down in Santa Barbara on friend's £45m private jet after flying 750miles from polo match
• Prince Harry took a two-hour private jet flight from Aspen, Colorado, to his home in Santa Barbara, California
• The Duke of Sussex boarded the 20-seater plane which is believed to belong to his friend Marc Ganzi
• He had played in the Sentebale ISPS Handa Polo Cup tournament to raise money for his charity
• The royal has been accused of hypocrisy for campaigning about climate change while travelling on jets
• It comes as Prince Charles makes his most powerful intervention yet over the 'catastrophe' of climate change
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9913301/Harrys-polo-trip.html
Whatever money was raised would have been offset by the cost of the event. This was an excuse for H to play polo, a sport for the seriously rich.
The moment it became clear that Lainey wasn't going after Prince Andrew because of sincere disgust over the allegations and a true desire to see justice done, but because she wanted to use his poor reputation to boost his nephew's wife's profile, she lost all credibility.
Not to mention all higher moral ground. She's using what she believes is a story of abuse and misery as fodder in Harry's wife's PR war -- similar to the latter making sure she would be photographed during a "secret" visit to a memorial for Uyinene Mrwetyana. Both of them seem to believe that the sexual trauma of teenage girls is a lesser evil than the tabloid woes of a forty-year-old woman who could simply step out of the spotlight if she really did want some peace.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1479590/Meghan-Markle-Kate-Middleton-Duchess-Sussex-Cambridge-Netflix-latest-news-vn
Meghan 'keen to improve' Kate's public image amid claims future Queen 'is not working'
MEGHAN MARKLE is 'trying to help' Kate Middleton's public image after royal watchers suggested that the Duchess of Cambridge was "not working hard enough".
By OLI SMITH
PUBLISHED: 12:45, Fri, Aug 20, 2021 | UPDATED: 12:48, Fri, Aug 20, 2021
Yes, the article itself refuses to be C&P'd by me as well. Goodness knows who the sources are - all apparently US based.
There was a time when women who had jobs were seen as neglecting their children (I'm talking about the 1950s & early 60s, when a the average British man's wage could support a wife and 1 child, and Child Allowance was only paid for 2nd & subsequent offspring.) Now women who fail to work are pilloried, even when there's no need for them to earn and they take good care of their children - rather like the way childless women are regarded.
Sorry I cannot post the link but you should be able to find the blogger on Tumblr with a simple search.
I do think Clairvoyance Anon is a fantasist but there is enough that rings true to make it intriguing reading, especially the parts about Harry and the ghost writer. I am also most amused by the description of Meghan's descent into madness, and can believe that there is someone shady from her past lurking around! The bits about the ghost writer digging for details about the BRF for some shady group stretches belief too far and I doubt that Harry could give reliable information from such an addled brain!
Thank you so much for finding the article!
If Harry hasn’t learned how to cope with life’s speed bumps and brick walls by now ( he is almost 37 yo ), then all of the wife’s vitriol about his family will perseverate in his brain. All the shoulder tapping and medications will not work.
Can he not compare the types of joyful family interactions he experienced with Chelsy’s family, Cressida’s family, his friends’, Kate’s family, heck even his OWN and know that something isn’t right with Megs? I say he is also a driving force in their toxic plays and not just a weakened participant with Stockholm Syndrome.
Do you think Harry is aware that Meghan is unhinged but believes he must stay with her and support her no matter what?
Whatever Harry's issues were that launched him into his wife's arms, they must currently be a million times worse.
One question I keep asking myself is whether this could have been prevented. With the "right therapy," for instance, to paraphrase your term. What are the best "nurture" conditions for someone with Harry's "nature" psychological profile? Once in a while, I'll say something impulsively, like: Harry should have been raised by a family like the Middletons. (James Middleton also struggled with mental illness, but his story looks as if it will have a happy ending.) Currently, I think the best clues are the parenting choices that Prince William is making. He's giving his children not just the childhood he himself would have wanted, but also the childhood he believes his younger brother should have had.
Can he not compare the types of joyful family interactions he experienced with Chelsy’s family, Cressida’s family, his friends’, Kate’s family, heck even his OWN and know that something isn’t right with Megs?
Another blogger who used to write extensively on narcissism made a related point around the time of Prince Philip's funeral. If the BRF wanted Harry back, the blogger said, they needed to keep him with them for as long as possible, to make the contrast even starker when he finally returned to his wife. It's the only way to save anyone you love who is in the clutches of a narc. Use their weapon of isolation against them, and use it out of love.
Neil Sean, a youtube commentator, says that TBW put out the statement on Afghanistan to remind the media that Harry had "served" there so as to be invited as a commentator on news programmes. He's probably right and it's very telling that no one took the bait.
Oh, good grief. What an insight into the mind of an opportunist! Have you heard the expression, "Never let a good crisis go to waste"? Harry's wife must have it engraved on her mirror.
@Elsbeth1847
So what does he bring to the table?
He was there years and years ago so what ever he knew about it is not current or even close to recent.
Who does he represent?
Not the Queen. So even if he did still have "some association", the USA news people would want to go with someone local within their community.
Harry's wife has never wondered what she herself brought to the table; she has always felt entitled to attention for opinions. Perhaps she is generously extending that confidence to Harry in this instance.
But yes, I can't think of what he might say other than: "Be kindddddddd!"
Anyway, that obviously didn't work, so now the wife is trying something else. This weekend, she's back to bashing Catherine while making herself look like the bigger person. Yawn.
I agree. These woke entitled influencers make so much noise and get so much attention that they shut down the real conversations that should be happening. Meghan is a hypocritical garish drum that harms rather than helps female empowerment, which is actually about being free to make choices without judgement.
Off Topic Warning
Virginia Guiffre is a classic example if harming a cause she professes to speak for. She dominates the tabloids, has already become very wealthy and is going for millions more, and has actually aided those who exploit young teenage girls and buried the appalling crime of true paedophilia.
* There is no evidence that Epstein was a paedophile.
* Real paedophiles do exist (and who knows what the true number is) and they rape babies and little girls and use them for pornography.
* Men do fantasize about and sexually exploit teenagers and I can find many examples of how people look the other way or even admire a much older man with a young teenage girl.
* The age of consent varies from country to country and even within a country. There is no consensus about what it is and why it is necessary nor on prosecution and punishment.
"One question I keep asking myself is whether this could have been prevented. With the "right therapy," for instance, to paraphrase your term. What are the best "nurture" conditions for someone with Harry's "nature" psychological profile? Once in a while, I'll say something impulsively, like: Harry should have been raised by a family like the Middletons. (James Middleton also struggled with mental illness, but his story looks as if it will have a happy ending.) Currently, I think the best clues are the parenting choices that Prince William is making. He's giving his children not just the childhood he himself would have wanted, but also the childhood he believes his younger brother should have had."
I do think the "right therapy" could have helped Harry. But the right therapy for a 12-year old probably would have involved other family members too. I doubt that was considered for Harry-- probably not even by the therapist.
I think it's obvious (admittedly in hindsight) Harry needed more limits while he was young. Will also needed those limits (Billy the Basher) and I believe the accounts that say HMTQ called Charles and Diana on the carpet for indulging Will too much (even when Harry was still a babe in arms.) I don't know whether the issue before Diana died is that they didn't stop indulging Harry or the genetic differences between W&H or the slightly restraining effects the Queen Mother's influence had on Will or something else. While he still was photographed in iffy situations too (staggering out of bars, for example), even before he met Kate he seemed more settled than Harry did at that age. Also though, when the family consists of only two brothers and they are close in age, competition isn't unusual even among "ordinary" families. (One other thing that may help Louis alot is having 5 years and Charlotte between him and George.)
I do hope James Middleton has a happy ending but it's too soon to tell IMO. Statistically he's at high risk given his diagnosis. Although there are limitations in some research studies, 50% of those who have one episode of Major Depression will have another episode regardless of initial treatment success. And while women are generally at higher risk for depression, men are equally at risk for a subsequent episode. One thing that kind of worries me is that he's been engaged for nearly two years with no wedding in sight. COVID changed alot of stuff, of course, as did his illness but I do remember his lengthy "serious" romance with Donna Air. I'm not saying one can't be happy and healthy without marriage. But marriage is a protective factor for men. And what would concern me most would be if James is reluctant to finally commit. But we'll see!
the right therapy for Harry would involve nutrition. He and other people with attention issues benefit from having a genetic profile done to see if he is over or under methylating, and which supplements could help. He needs to stay away from central nervous system stimulants and depressants like drugs and alcohol.
Exercise and meditation would help a lot.
People with dyslexia also benefit from certain types of repetitive writing exercises to train his brain to see things correctly.
When he is better able to think and read clearly due to these therapies, he will be better able to heal his emotional problems and understand what he's done