Let the Games Begin - with Netflix in tow.
I'm trying to think of how or what exactly can be shot and shown to the world?
When people sent in their applications, was the photography release for Netflix included? I can image there was something of a release - because the organization wants/needs publicity spread far and wide so they expect photos printed in papers and hopefully some scenes in the home country tv broadcasts. But did it extend to Netflix level access? Will there be signs about a release as the audience walks into any event (turn back if you don't want to accept the release). That may put some families in a bind - they would want to support their family member but maybe they also don't want to be part of the whole Netflix possibility for some personal reason like they don't have Netflix and wouldn't be able to see if they were included? Or they don't want to be photographed?
I don't know. Maybe the planners already thought of it so it's done and dusted but no media has thought about asking. Or, may be not?
What I do know is that BLG made an interesting point about how pairing the good deed/action as a Royal with an opportunity to publicize it via some monetization "... a conflict of interest."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qucYKM2HkY (start at about 5:08 for the lead up to specific point).
So H and M might/might not still be considered Royal Royal but Royal with some limitations but if he still is pushing for needed to be classified as a person who still needs the protection offered to the British Royal Family and he wins, then ... he still would be Royal enough for the monetization to be a conflict of interest for this. And for everything they have been building up to create an empire money-making machine so far. "It's all about the optics." (especially if you are aiming for a UN position or a political run or local humanitarian).
Not a clue about the surprise and not holding my breath waiting for it either.
Which leads up to the: is he safer in the Netherlands than in the UK.
I was planning on that as the next post but the DM beat me to it. But let me add some other thoughts.
This will be a concentrated gathering of people who did a lot of the same things as H did in the countries he was in. So, I agree with Ken that it could have the potential for increased risks. Or not because everyone is looking/paying attention because they don't want something to happen.
Not just numbers of others who could be hurt as well but budgets. It would certainly be a cheaper cost (ticket to the Netherlands from the UK or maybe they are already living in the Netherlands/EU), easier to enter country from nearby, where there is great public transportation, easy access to bikes/mopeds, hostels compared to fly to the USA, pass customs, rent a car and hang around in a very expensive city waiting for an opportunity without being obviously not a resident of the city.
But if "something" happens (like the alleged event after the Diana statue dedication or worse), does that mean he is really a full blown target for the rest of his life?
But what about the vaunted private security that he would have in tow? Well, according to google, they won't be allowed to carry guns in the Netherlands in the same way they are not allowed to carry guns in the UK.
To me, that's a kind of problem in logic about how to think about safe/unsafe places to visit. But I am not their travel advisor.
But I don't think I'm wrong about what happens if he does get the protected person status - just so he has the potential to feel safe about visiting his grandmother. My impression is that it can be immediately applied universally to all other countries. So he can ask for it and would get it in the USA even if he never returns to the UK for the rest of his life.
Let the games begin. Invictus. Legal. Netflix. Surprises. Should be interesting. Popcorn anyone?
Comments
Fake News about stopping by for tea with The Queen.
I haven’t read any of the articles or studied the photos, but thanks to Sandie for doing the donkey work and working out the map bit! 😁
Absolutely your comment! 😂I totally agree! 😜
https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxnOqTqnoUHvElrng-PIKW7UYie8YGCuok
The black car is fairly ordinary by current UK standards.
The outriders could be hirelings in hi-viz on powerful bikes, just staying on the right side of the law when it comes to impersonating police officers.
Have the cars near the camera been pulled over or are they just waiting at the junction?
Certainly looks like a Netflix stunt.
How many outriders would Haz and FitzBadleigh qualify for? If the white van isn't part of the cavalcade, the riders are doing a poor job of imitation - I'd expect a better job of clearing the road. Wouldn't they be flashing their blue lights?
The last time I saw the queen was when I was first on a line of traffic stopped at a roundabout to allow the Daimler to emerge from the next exit. There was no doubt someone important was coming. Lots of police on the ground, all traffic stopped, road well cleared.
She looks ridiculous and sloppy as usual.
To Google Maps! onwward and upward
It would be so much easier if Neil Sean would just happen to do a news cast from it
like the theory that netflix set up for the car/camera footage. they have to make things look more dramatic just pathetic. like where’s the similar cottage in the Netherlands
And wow - her shoes are clean ! If only she’d bothered during her 72 working days as a Royal.
Ye Gods, she looks as if she's wearing The Hulk's jimjams.
Best photos at Daily Mail. Can't do copy and paste with this phone, but they are the lead article and the coverage is fawning.
Earrings and shoes from wedding day.
Supposedly Diana's watch.
New necklace, symbolizing enduring love.
Trendy hand chain.
Message? Marriage solid. He gave up everything for me because he adores me. I had a royal wedding. I am royal, more royal and trendy and fabulous than any royal that ever royalled. I did not need the Beckham wedding because I can copy Victoria and look more fabulous than her, ever.
Am I reading too much into this? Anyone pick up other/different messagages?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10722229/Harry-Meghan-make-public-appearance-ahead-Invictus-Games.html#comments
she looks horrible. Fake eyebrows. Her face is just weird. Anything that was attractive in it is gone. It looks like her jaw grew and her cheeks sank, while her face elongated. The mascara and eyeliner are a mess. She looks like she has vitiligo on both of her cheeks or that might be really bad highlighter.
The huge jacket makes her look really top heavy.
Her hands have really aged. The skin looks rough and very freckled.
Her hair doesn't do her any favours. She should learn once and for all, that she needs a little volume at the crown. Flat hair like that suits very few people.
And finally, she overdid it with the bronzer, again.
My rating for her look : 3/10
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10722229/Harry-Meghan-make-public-appearance-ahead-Invictus-Games.html
The white suit is 2 sizes too big and the trousers are too long, as usual.'Inspired by Kate?' asks another article. No! If you look at both, there is no comparison whatsoever.
*: https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/04
/15/17/56657853-10722287-Meghan_Markle_sported_a_3_200_Valentino_white_suit_as_she_steppe-a-73_1650041620836.jpg
Kate: https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/04/15/17/56659667-10722287-image-m-72_1650041616025.jpg
The lack of blouse doesn't help. Has anyone seen the bizarre chain around her left wrist and hand?
On the plus side, she does look good, I have to admit.
Wondering why she thinks this is all about her, she loving.
I really wish the two of them are shunned but for some reason I doubt that's going to happen.
Invictus Games could be Prince Harry's chance to rebuild bridges with military and Royal family
The Duke will have the opportunity to flex his protocol-free muscles at an event of his own making and thaw tense family relations
By Camilla Tominey
It was just minutes before the opening ceremony of the Invictus Games in Canada and Prince Harry was becoming increasingly frustrated.
With his girlfriend Meghan Markle waiting in the audience, Harry was desperate to get on stage but had to have drinks with all the assembled dignitaries first. They included Melania Trump, the former US First Lady, and Justin Trudeau, the Canadian Prime Minister.
According to someone who was in Toronto for the paralympics-style competition in September 2017, although he was all smiles for the gathered VIPs, the former Army captain wasn’t really enjoying himself.
"It was clear he was just desperate to get on stage and do his stuff," said the observer. "He didn’t want to press the flesh with the great and the good. He just wanted to be among his own people - the military vets.
"When he finally got on stage it was like that scene in Bohemian Rhapsody. Like Freddie Mercury at Live Aid, he bounded up there like a rock star. He was Tigger that night, it really was quite something."
The royal had double cause to be as impatient and excitable as the tiger in AA Milne’s Winnie the Pooh books.
Not only was he doing what he loved, but he was doing it in front of the woman he loved.
With Meghan attending an official royal engagement alongside Harry for the first time since I broke the news they were dating almost a year earlier in October 2016, it was a special night for the couple, which made for an altogether more electric atmosphere.
Looking statesmanlike in a dark blue suit and tie, a beaming Harry could not have appeared more confident as he addressed the audience in English and French, flashing his trademark cheeky grin as he said: "Merci beaucoup pour votre… um…hospitalité."
Recalling leaving Afghanistan after his first deployment in 2008, he described how the coffin of a Danish soldier was loaded onto the plane along with three British soldiers in induced comas, their missing limbs wrapped in plastic.
"The way I viewed service and sacrifice changed forever and the direction of my life changed with it," he said. "I knew that it was my responsibility to use the great platform that I have to help the world understand and be inspired by the spirit of those who wear the uniform."
The crowd cheered; this was Harry at his finest.
Little wonder, then, that the royal, 37, should choose this moment to rekindle his relationship with the Royal family as he prepares to take to the stage in The Hague to mark the fifth Invictus Games, postponed twice by Covid since 2020.
Having refused to make a public appearance in Britain over fears for their security after they were stripped of their Metropolitan Police protection officers, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex met Her Majesty on Thursday in a low-profile visit to Windsor Castle.
The couple were spotted walking around the grounds by members of the public, after flying into the UK from Los Angeles en route to the Netherlands.
Their attendance over the four-day bank holiday weekend remains unconfirmed pending the outcome of Harry’s legal case against the Home Office. The Duke is offering to pay out of his own pocket for armed royalty protection officers, claiming his family is not safe without them in Britain, even though they would be included in the policing of any major royal event.
With Prince Charles also thought to be at the incognito meeting with the couple, despite the acrimony caused by their Oprah Winfrey interview in March last year, it is thought Harry is using the Invictus Games not only to relaunch his severed links with the military - but also with the Royal family.
(It is perhaps noteworthy that the Sussexes chose to visit when the Cambridges are on a skiing holiday in the French Alps with their three children, amid suggestions William and Harry's relationship is still decidedly rocky).
Saturday's opening ceremony will be a significant occasion for both Harry and Meghan, amplified by the fact they will be accompanied by a film crew to capture every moment for a Netflix series as part of their estimated $100 million deal with the streaming giant.
It is understood the couple will meet with Ukraine’s Invictus team as well as taking in all aspects of the seven-day tournament.
For Harry, the event will mark a reunion with former service personnel after he was also stripped of his military titles in 2021 as part of the "Megxit" deal - a move which caused him considerable upset and anguish, according to insiders.
Following a second deployment to Afghanistan in 2012, Harry qualified as an Apache helicopter pilot, passing a gruelling test with flying colours.
After being awarded the prize for the best Co-Pilot Gunner in 2013, I remember him joking with the assembled press that, having struggled academically at school, it was the first time he had got top marks in anything.
He then took up a staff officer role in HQ London District as SO3 (Defence Engagement) in 2014, where he helped to co-ordinate significant projects and commemorative events involving the Army in London - before going on to become Honorary Air Commandant of RAF Honington in Suffolk; Commodore-in-Chief, Small Ships and Diving, Royal Naval Command; and Captain-General of the Royal Marines.
As one military source put it: "There’s a deep feeling of dismay and empathy among those who know the prince personally there wasn’t quite enough flexibility in The Firm to accommodate his needs.
"It’s a loss to the British Armed Forces that he is no longer directly involved. He was very relatable. The thing about the Royal family is there is always someone who can turn up and do a parade but Harry was somewhat of an exemplar. The highlight of his career was flying Apaches and serving in Afghanistan. He’s more at home with soldiers than he is with anyone else."
I was on a royal tour of the US with Harry in 2013 when he first came up with the idea for the Invictus Games to use the power of sport to inspire recovery, support rehabilitation and generate a wider understanding and respect for wounded, injured and sick servicemen and women.
The name Invictus, with its distinctive "I AM" logo, means "unconquered", and was chosen by the prince to embody the fighting spirit of the competitors.
In September 2014, he hosted the inaugural Invictus Games at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.
From memory, the prince travelled around the venue on a bicycle as he urged the press to give it as much coverage as possible.
We duly obliged and the opening ceremony was attended by then Prime Minister David Cameron, Prince Charles, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Prince William, and Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark. The event also included a recorded message from Michelle Obama, then the First Lady.
It proved a triumph and is widely regarded as the most successful solo initiative ever launched by a royal.
According to someone who worked with Harry on the original games: "It was really clear to see how much he enjoyed being with the veterans. He could completely relax with them and was totally at home in their company. He didn’t enjoy being with the hoi polloi. I don’t think he trusts politicians much - so he was determined to make it all about the competitors."
I remember the prince remarking at the time that he didn't get the Ministry of Defence too involved because "the last thing we need is a load of politicians turning up".
The source added: "The whole point was that it was Harry’s initiative. It wasn’t a government thing, it wasn’t a Royal family thing - he owned it. At times I think he found it hard to make the distinction between his military career and his royal life. Even when he was at Sandhurst he would tend to be pulled away to do a royal duty and I think that started to wind him up. He was deeply upset when his first tour of Afghanistan was cut short after a press leak.
"To be in the Royal family and have something to point to that’s yours - it’s actually quite rare. People congratulated him for it - not his father or his grandmother. He absolutely loved that. It made him feel validated."
Despite their newfound non-royal status, the couple are apparently going to be given VVIP (very very important person) treatment as soon as they arrive in the Netherlands, where a "ring of steel" has been put in place to protect the opening ceremony and subsequent events, which will feature around 500 competitors from 20 countries.
It will be Harry's first opportunity to finally flex his protocol-free muscles at a major global event of his own making.
Which explains why he chose to pop in on his grandmother ahead of such an important date in the diary. Yes - there are family problems to smooth over - and, as well as it being Easter, the Queen also turns 96 on Thursday.
But the Queen has also been invested in Invictus - giving her grandson free rein to turn it into the success it has become. Indeed, she is so proud of what Harry has achieved that she agreed to appear in an amusing video also featuring the Obamas to launch the 2016 Invictus Games.
As head of the armed services, a former member of the Auxiliary Territorial Service and the wife of a Royal Navy officer - she knows better than most what this contest means not only to Harry but those bravely taking part.
If anyone would like to hear about the latest instalment of what has undoubtedly been Harry’s crowning glory, then it is certainly Granny.
(It is perhaps noteworthy that the Sussexes chose to visit when the Cambridges are on a skiing holiday in the French Alps with their three children, amid suggestions William and Harry's relationship is still decidedly rocky).
No, she doesn't look good. She looks horrible. She has been altering her face much too much
She looks absolutely scary.
Her fingernails even look gray with black around the cuticle.
What a mess she is!
and merchy meg keeps putting her hand up to her chest to merch the necklace and rings and the diana watch. girlfriend is pulling out all the stops.
Comments on the Tominey piece are overwhelmingly negative. Which gives me hope, at least, that most Brits are still smarter and more aware than certain members of the Royal Family:
‘Where exactly is this parallel universe Camilla Tominey is writing about?’
‘The article is the biggest load of tripe I have ever seen. It makes the idiot to be a serious military office who has brains.’
‘ Hell can freeze over before these two bast***s will ever be accepted again by the British public’
‘ Has anyone commenting agreed with sad Tominey? And how quickly before she closes the comment section?’
‘ Sorry but I couldn’t read all that bull. Absolute rubbish from start to finish. A pair of overpaid twollops.’
‘ Hopefully HM Liz told them to crawl back under a rock...’
‘ Didn't feel inclined to read a lengthy piece about this repulsive couple, and wish these bores would fade into obscurity. I loathe them.’
‘ Dead right. A massive big boofest. Repulsive money-grubbing pair.’
‘ His own people, the military vets”? His own people are Tinseltown lowlife now. Clear off back there you pair, never want to see you darken our door again’
‘ there wasn’t quite enough flexibility in The Firm to accommodate his needs'.?? Where have you been the last couple of years, Camilla, that you can give column space to this claim? Me, me, me.’
‘Vermin’
‘ Can't wait for Tom Bower's biography on Markle currently being written.’ REPLY: ‘Is the title ‘Legs apart, money ahead?’
‘ Naff off back to the US you ginger prat, and take the plank with you.’
‘ What a sickening, fawning piece about this shameful couple. Invictus Games a worthy cause, but those two bathing in the limelight of it is repulsive.’
‘ More like a copy of his mother- spoiled, needy, entitled, needy, stupid, needy. With similar taste in 'partners'.’
‘ Disgraceful. What about us? This family represents the nation and H and M have denigrated it. I for one would prefer a republic to a monarchy in which such treasonous people play a part - and I don't say that lightly, I truly hate the idea of a republic.
Whoever is advising the RF to liaise with this pair has seriously miscalculated.’
‘ Puke, puke and more puke !’
‘ He might stand a chance if he gets rid of the despicable cuckoo in his nest, but I doubt he’s bright enough to have made the connection that she’s the cause of all his and their problems!’
‘ You must be joking ! They have cooked their goose to a cinder and are considered toxic by the general public. He’s a traitorous rat and she is a conniving ‘actress’.’
Apologies for getting carried away. But I felt nauseous and angry reading Tominey’s drivel. Good God. Hopefully the other Camilla (Long) will have write something that deserves to be published and read.
I posted before reading your post on *'s look. I see what you mean but overall, I still think she looks better than, say, in NYC in that short white dress or in the O interview with her smokey eye makeup like Diana. She's obviously used a eyebrow pencil but the look is not hard as before. I think she's looked far worse IMHO.
I haven't seen her grey fingernails, perhaps I haven't seen the pix although I've searched. If so, yuk! That's something I can't stand.
Apparently, she was walking around in The Hague with jewellery worth more than £300,000 (US$392,000) and the chain around her hand is a
Catbird's £234 ($238) 'Kitten Mitten' hand chain - in case any Nutties wanted to get one 😆.
‘Netflix will want them on the balcony at Buck House. If Betty and Chas give in I think they will be sealing their own fate. We will not tolerate much more of the behaviour of miscreants in this family.’
‘ I saw a comment elsewhere by a former Royal Marine named Steve who served at about the same time as Harry .He said : " My old Nanna . bless her , was a great fan of the bride at the wedding . Six months later she s ready to beat the yo- yo knickered strumpet to death with her ornamental royal wedding teapot . "
‘ Looking at the comments below I think building bridges with his family is one hurdle, but the wall they have to scale with the public they have alienated is insurmountable. They are like Edward and Wallis forever tainted goods now.’
‘ Too late.The bridges are smouldering wrecks in the bottom of a very deep chasm. He wanted this, he can live with it.’
‘ They should have kept a closer eye on Harry . After the two beautiful decent girls refused to marry him ,there was always the danger that he would bring home a pole dancer or a suit case girl .’
Okay I will try and restrain myself.
You commented on how * was upstaging the Crucifixtion....
Well, I'm sure we all can remember her infamous 'Virgin Mary' pose during what, her speech to the Catholic High School graduating class. Even the real Virgin Mary did not upstage our good Lord on his notable day.
My personal observation on her looks is not positive either. Her manicurist must have quit on her and her baggy clothes appears to be an attempt to hide her body. Indeed, as she has aged in just a couple of years, it hasn't been kind to her face (maybe as some have remarked it is too much surgery). Was her nose always that broad/big toward the bottom? The fake 'Yak Hair Wig' (or glued on horse tail) always seems a bit excessive and I think she needs to find a more flattering shorter style.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10722967/Queen-insisted-Harry-Meghan-meet-Charles-audience-writes-RICHARD-KAY.html
Richard Kay is a respected bonafide royal reporter and author and has been for many years. Yet, I still don’t buy the fodder we’re being fed right now. 😒He did refer to Scabies as the duo’s mouthpiece…so at least he’s got that right. 😟
From the article:
This time, husband and wife retreated behind the blacked-out windows of a people carrier for the short drive from their former home, Frogmore Cottage, to the castle.
If true, why did earlier reports say that they walked up from Frogmore to the castle. And came upon first a bus load of excited tourists, later changed to gobsmacked pensioners coming for Maundy Thursday services.
Others even had quotes from the unidentified bus people.
Now this guy has a completely different story.
The details have vastly changed as time has gone on.
Once someone pointed out that places where the tourists would go were closed for the day, it quickly became pensioners arriving for the church service, and M/H attended the service. No identifying information about the quoted tourists aka pensioners. Such as Joe Blow, 58, who was there with his wife, Maria, 59.
Once it got pointed out that there was no way a bus would have been anywhere near the walking path, it became oh, they were driven to the castle.
Then you have Omid Scobie posting clean up on discrepancies.
Very fishy.
Also saw a clip of them sitting at a table chatting to some folk. Most odd. He is really engaged, talking, listening. She is trying to appear that she is listening but is really behaving herself ... keeping her mouth shut, not groping him, putting on her best interested listener's look. Oh, and everything is being filmed (them not the athletes or organisers of the games ... what is the so-called documentary about?).
Why the appearance today, putting the focus on them? How does this promote the games? Why is she giving a speech at the opening ceremony?
...
I am finding all this talk about the duo returning as part-time working royals most disturbing, as is the wall-to-wall propaganda in all the major coverage of them.
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Aren't you glad they didn't come for PP's memorial service?
Between them and the media it would have been the Harry and Meghan Reality Show.
GWAH, really agree about MM not liking what she sees in the mirror. She just seems to be trying to look more like Kate every time she appears at a high-profile event. And the hair situation is not improving. At this point it's identical to Kate's, but the faux hairline looks awful and on her there's way too much of it for a woman her age. It just looks so fake.
Okay, guys, I must have been wrong over her visa status. I'm truly stunned that she stepped foot back in the U.K., and the fluctuating story that Mel pointed out is just bizarre. A busload of tourists sees them yet the famed British tabloids don't get even one picture of it? This is the first time I've ever been tempted to say, "Pics or it didn't happen."
But of course it happened. I'm
just really stunned and suspicious of the role that their contractual obligations to Netflix played in all of this.
you can't say she looks good here
also, the people at dlisted are saying the same thing I did - she looks like she has vitiligo
https://dlisted.com/2022/04/15/prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-made-an-appearance-at-maundy-thursday-service-but-skipped-a-visit-with-prince-william-and-duchess-kate/
I think her hips looked REAL wide and she looks very unfortunately square. I would NEVER EVAH EVAH wear a shite suit (typo & it stays) right after Catherine had also appeared in one so nicely.
Of course MM has to go with no blouse so she can look like hooker girl.
Is it the media? And, if so, why? Everything is for money. So this dastardly duo bring in money for these papers? They are so so sycophantic. Why? Does this drive in the money? I’m just honestly asking, because I just don’t get it! Couldn’t the scribes report with honesty? Do they earn more when they’re acting as courtiers?
The duo are despicable..InEach and everything they say and do.
For the life of me, why do those who know better not show them up?
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Her pantsuit looks like David Byrne's BIG SUIT in the Talking Heads concert documentary "Stop Making Sense." And what is with the bottom of the pants always dragging on the ground????
@gfbcpa: I had the same thought! I saw Stop Making Sense in the 80s and vividly remember David Byrne’s BIG SUIT. However, there is a major difference — David Byrne and each member of Talking Heads have more talent in their little fingers than Meghan has in her entire body.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyEiYWwNjpI
And the timing...always in their favour?
The cards always seem to fall into place
I think it’s because they get no back lash. We have the class act, the Cambridges who always conduct themselves with decorum, committed to good service..and they’re critized!
I guess the press really does worship only money. What I don’t get, though, is how these numskulls bring in money, are they creating and aggrandizing them?
I hear what you are saying, know/understand your words and tend to agree.
Only insofar as the trousers were made for someone of Catherine's stature - and C*pid St*nt has failed to have them shortened.
So I've just rung them up and told them that the * article was the last straw for me. I said it was fawning and nauseating. I'll be up by £155.88 pa and they'll be down by the same amount. They've tried tempting me back with dirt-cheap offer but I'm not budging.
I hope others make their displeasure known too.
"Netflix is NOT producing Heart of Invictus, so they are not paying the Sussex’s expenses. Netflix is solely the distributor and they have an exclusive agreement, which means virtually no royalties can go back to IGF as the film will only be accessible via Netflix. Netflix will only be releasing money to H&M after the series is released on Netflix and the amount of money will be subject to views. Netflix does produce many of their exclusive projects, but according to industry records, not this one.
Violet Films (owned by Joanna Natasegara), Archewell and the Invictus Games Foundation are the executive production companies, who have put up the money to make Heart of Invictus. Harry & Meghan are being PAID actual cash, for being executive producers, so factually, the Invictus Games Foundation is paying for a portion (1/3?) of H&M’s salaries, bonuses, first class travel & entertainment plus security expenses, using DONATIONS that were intended to help disabled veterans. It appears that the Sussex’s spokespeople are not telling you the truth, Neil. They are also concealing that the Invictus Games was the sole corporate sponsor of the Intrepid Museum’s Salute to Freedom 2022 Gala, which H&M used to film their red carpet entrance in that ill-fitting red dress with H speaking to the PTSD award winners like they were Kindergartners. Harry & Meghan ARE dipping their greedy claws into the Invictus Games coffers. Their spokespeople need to be called out for lying again."
Will that be in the documentary?
The media is fawning over these two! Might as well hand over the Crown, and the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancashire to them. If William ever does become king, these two are going to make life a living hell for him and his family.
I don't believe they are discussing returning as part time royals
I think it's shameful that the newspapers are publishing these unverified stories. The stories about the war are prime examples of that. The DM publishes something, and the next day, the Pentagon reports something completely different.
It's a shame when they lie to you, the way that the Telegraph does, and they expect you to pay for the privilege of being brainwashed.
the 6s pulled out of an Invictus fundraiser because Amazon was involved.
If you were in any doubt - highly unlikely - that * was the support act at the Invictus games, this latest news confirms that the whole visit will be all about her. The reading will be filmed by Netflix. Poor children, having to be subjected to that tripe (and probably given a copy of her book). And here will be a mention of how selfless she was in giving her expensive coat to a woman to protect her baby against the cold. So maternal and altruistic!😉
did watch the video of the two at dinner the Mr was very animated. probably first time he’s been allowed to talk to anyone in a long time. she feigned interest but wasn’t talking
if the daily mail is correct and the meeting at windsor was a summons and it was brief perhaps there is a stripping of something. hope it was not a jubilee negotiation. so if it happened they know what is about so will we have another big splashy announcement of something which will come say tuesday while the mr is still out of town and will make once again the palace look reactive and not proactive. if you spent less than 15 min with your father and prob that with the queen it wasn’t a pleasant chat over tea. you know mrs will try to change the narrative before the palace does
someone pointed out scoobie do isnt referring to them as prince harry or duchess meghan but just by their first names and by sussexes today. hmmmmm. really wish something could be or is being done.
there is something fishy going on again with these two. and this drama in a week where the real drama is good friday and easter really shows their character. all about them and not about anyone else.
Par for the course now, she's darkened herself considerably. The sunlight is showing up the patches/or underlying make-up layers.
And I think the loose fitting suit is to conceal the mic she's wearing. In some of the pictures showing the back, you can make out a faint outline of a box around her waist.
In the video in which she and Harry are seated with participants, I feel she's channeling Kate's mannerisms in group interactions but looking totally stupid.
I read somewhere - apologies if it's here, I just cant remember where - that last week Charles offered his coat to someone while on a visit to shield from the cold. A TV actress? I find her 'heartstrings act' of the coat odd in that it's inauthentic.
The wife has shown she answers only to American endorsed power of money. Why else will she put up the demure act, walk a few steps back etc? It's because the American power masters have asked her to produce results. All of these things were impositions/anti-feminist/racist/ downgrading popularity and position when she had to do them when working on behalf of the BRF.
I now realise the power of SS - Sachs and Squad. They way they were able to attack the cambridge tour and are able to hype the Invictus appearances, even with trusted reporters towing the line, has been eye-opening.
If they *were* granted an audience with the Queen for an hour or less, Perhaps it was to inform Hazmat that he was being removed as a counselor of state. If there were truly any reconciliation feelings on either side, it seems like the Harkles would have been invited to stay for a longer visit on their way back from the Netherlands when William and Catherine would have been back in the country and there weren’t other engagements to rush off to.
It is incredulous to me that we can no longer rely on the press to truthfully report the facts on a straightforward matter such as whether a meeting took place or did not take place. I am sick to the back teeth of constantly being gaslit over even basic tenets of reality.
It's all Smoke and Mirrors wherever/whenever Trotter and Haznoballs put out PR.
A 15 meeting with The Queen was not private, but filled with Advisors, etc. It was business-like, and not the warm fuzzies the Sukkits would like everyone to believe. They were ushered in, given five minutes to speak, and then ushered out. Netflix forced them to it. How much sweating do you think Trotter did? Were there pit stains on the white suit, or did she know better this time than dressing in a dark color which exposed her?
In the Good Old Days the two would have been sent to the Tower. Ah, the good old days.
I feel sorry for the students and people of the future who will be reading history books which are based on such lying newspaper articles.
It makes me wonder if we can believe everything we learned in school regarding historical events... was Edward viii really a Nazi? maybe he was a populist and the elite didn't like that? who knows? these lies that the British papers are printing make one want to question everything.
His sudden look of despair where she holds his hand, their fake warmth with kids - it all looks better than before because this time it matters a lot more to them and to those paying for them, more than ever before.
A day in and I know nothing more of Invictus 2022 than these two - not the games, not the teams, nothing.
A very recent documentary called Edward VIII: Britain’s Traitor King. Showed newly released/unearthed documentation which is extremely damning of Edward. It said if it had been public knowledge at the time he could have hung for treason. He was extremely dangerous and I do wonder just how much the royal family knew of his connections and just how deep he was in with the Nazi’s and Hitler. 😳😔😒
Sorry, but I am long past believing "newly unearthed documentation" as well.
I have lost all trust in our media, and those who build our publically accepted narratives. I am questioning every.single.thing. the powers that be want us to believe.
I read media from various countries every day, and I watch video in various languages. I speak quite a few fluently, and I understand several others. I know that the narrative that we are being fed about a lot of things is just full of lies and propaganda. The British press is particularly bad, the tabloids, the broad sheet press and television as well.
It's not just about the monarchy, it's about everything. About the EU, about the 6s, about the war... The British used to be understated, sober and calm. Now, everyone who opposes the media's agenda is a genocidal rapist intent on destroying everything British.
I do not hold out much hope for Charles as King when Elizabeth passes on. Just as Meghan exploits Harry’s dead mother for her own gain, using Harry as her proxy, Meghan will easily exploit what guilt and regrets he has concerning his relationship and treatment of Diana for her own personal gain.
My guesses are Meghan wants a royal christening as soon as possible given the poor health of the Queen to get the photo-op money shot of the happy royal family with Lilibucks seated in the Queen’s lap no less. Meghan knows they MUST maintain a facade of “we’re one big happy family again” to refurbish their heavily-tarnished brand, especially in the US for idiot organizations and companies like Netflix who will pay them for having royal titles.
I think Meghan will also attempt to use Charles’ love for Harry, no matter how much of a demanding little turd Harry has turned into, especially since falling into the steel grip of Meghan’s influence, to persuade Charles to toss out his plan to slim down the monarchy and give the titles of prince and princess to the Sussex children once he becomes king.
Hopefully, Charles’ reign will be short to minimize the damage he will do as a feckless monarch.
William and Kate will likely have a lot of clean-up work to do once William is king. I hope that permanently neutering the Sussexes is at the top of William’s to-do list when he is king.
Videos, or it didn't happen. And even then not to be trusted completely.
Preferably video from random observers with no vested interest in the outcome.
I prefer not to go in for, nor subscribe to mass generalisations about a nation, whether it be about my own or others. 🥴
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I’ve just listened to Lady C’s latest video and her info/take on Maggot and Mole’s fleeting visit! 😳🤨
https://youtu.be/qTvCmXYJOQw
this is the image I was referring to when I said her fingernails looked gray and that she had some black around the cuticles.
this is the image that people are saying shows vitiligo on the thumb - the pink colour
If the intent was to get the long-delayed christening before the Queen passes on…what a stellar opportunity to have brought the kids along to Windsor to meet great-Granny now—no time like the present!
I’d lay my modest pension with Ladbrokes that there is no Lilibucks to christen—at Windsor or anywhere.
However I do find it interesting that after having been the top headline for the last 12 hours or so...that there are only about 775 comments. Usually the Trotters had generated 10k in their heyday. Let's hope this is the world becoming finally collectively bored with them!!!
I wish I could agree with those of you who don’t believe they met in private with the Queen, Prince Charles and Camilla. But I believe they absolutely did. Every single British news outlet reported it. It sickens me to think of the pair hovering over HM like a couple of vultures.
* certainly has been coached up to act like the dutiful wife to her Prince for the Netflix cameras. The PDA’s, pasted-on smiles, the laughter….it is all manufactured to make the pair look like the happy, loved up, charismatic, winning we-could-have-changed-the-monarchy-into-something-more-hip-and-modern-if-only-the-stodgy-men-in-grey-hadn’t-torpedoed-us couple of the decade.
To me it was jarring to see the images of them—and especially her—after such a long period of being mostly invisible. I have a sick feeling in my gut that they will indeed be present for the Jubilee in June. Maybe they won’t make it onto the balcony but I’d bet anything they’ll be front and center at Westminster Cathedral.
The jeans she was wearing to great the UK Land Rover team are not flattering at all. She needs a full length mirror.
https://www.nytimespost.com/harry-and-meghan-make-their-grand-entrance-at-the-invictus-games-opening-ceremony/
The Queen isn't dead yet. She just had covid, and may be feeling a little tired. She may bounce back to a certain degree.
I hate it when people talk like she's already dead.
My guesses are Meghan wants a royal christening as soon as possible given the poor health of the Queen to get the photo-op money shot of the happy royal family with Lilibucks seated in the Queen’s lap no less.
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I could be wrong but personally, I very much doubt this is a likely scenario. Nothing is impossible with TBW and I would out nothing past her but she & H would have to have a christening sooner rather than later considering the Queen 's current health. I can't see that happening and anyway, she didn't attend Louis' christening so I don't see why she would make an effort to attend the christening of a child she's never seen, Lilibet that she is. And the Queen wouldn't be holding the baby (toddler), that's left to the mother.
That ship has sailed, I'm afraid.
Ollieeeb, Colchester, United Kingdom, 34 minutes ago
The games already began with Meghan years ago
Didn't they just!😂
As for driving in to the Castle in a blacked out van - perhaps they did not want to be boo'd. Perhaps this is part of H's fear of being stalked by the press. Perhaps this is much ado about....nothing.
Unfortunately she left off reading "The Bench"
The thought on some of the other blogs is that the RF is rehabbing Harry and that they will be on the balcony at the Jubilee.
Sassyfrassboss has a BINGO card with selections of Meghan's actions at the Games:
https://sassyfrassboss.tumblr.com/post/681616570269810688/to-get-us-started
Unfortunately she did not mention reading the Bench,
Some of the other blogs tend to think that the RF is rehabbing Harry and that they will be on the balcony at the Jubilee.
Post in thread 'Meghan Markle unpopular opinions thread pt 7' https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/meghan-markle-unpopular-opinions-thread-pt-7.4863691/post-81111659
I just don't know how MM gets away with this! You'd think her using cosmetics to change her color would be anathema to her fellow African-Americans.
Sorry to say but BRF looses from this ambush. While H&M maggots get more video footage to edit for N-Flix
It's now being trumpeted that they promised HM they'd bring `the kids' to see her soon - probably hoping that the passage of time will mean they won't have to fulfil the promise.
One report said they only had 15mins with HM; `palace insiders' are said to have said they did come.
The Press? They're mainly thinking of their circulation; with TV it's ratings. Somewhere at the back of my mind there's a memory from 1986 when the Independent began that it wasn't going to publish Royal news. It was largely owned by an ex-KGB bloke (maybe still is) the chap at the centre of another current political row here, if I'm not mistaken.
BTW, the kiddy-car stunt is another form of the party-hat dig at C and her family.
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"Netflix is NOT producing Heart of Invictus, so they are not paying the Sussexes' expenses. Netflix is solely the distributor and they have an exclusive agreement, which means virtually no royalties can go back to IVF as the film will only be accessible via Netflix. Netflix will only be releasing money to H&M after the series is released on Netflix and the amount of money will be subject to views. Netflix does produce many of their exclusive projects, but according to industry records, not this one.
Violet Films (owned by Joanna Natasegara), Archewell and the Invictus Games Foundation are the executive production companies who have put up the money to make Heart of Invictus. Harry & Meghan are being paid actual cash for being executive producers, so factually, the Invictus Games Foundation is paying for a portion (1/3?) of H&M's salaries, bonuses, first-class travel & entertainment plus security expenses, using DONATIONS that were intended to help disabled veterans. It appears that the Sussexes' spokespeople are not telling you the truth, Neil."
(End Part One)
"They [the Sussexes] are also concealing that the Invictus Games [Foundation] was the sole corporate sponsor of the Intrepid Museum's Salute to Freedom 2022 Gala, which H&M used to film their red carpet entrance in that ill-fitting red gown with H speaking to PTSD award winners like they were kindergartners. Harry & Meghan are dipping their greedy claws into the Invictus Games coffers. Their spokespeople need to be called out for lying again."
I have the Sussexes on the brain!
Kate’s white pant suit
cambridge land rover
diana top from an iconic photo
nail necklace on holy saturday
she’s trolling everyone. is this winning? i don’t think so. you can do whatever you want when you are winning. you do t need to do petty trolling when you are winning you don’t need to show connections to other if your are confident in your own skin. the more she trolls the more i feel like it’s all slipping away for her and for the husband.
i am starting to believe they were at windsor castle especially when reports are 15 minutes with charles and 15 minutes with the queen. something is happening. we may not like how it’s playing out but i don’t feel like she got her way. she’s putting on a great show for all of us. can’t wait to hear BLG and Lady C. it will be a real treat but i keep going back to somehow she’s not getting what she wants and is throwing a trolling tantrum for the world to see.
Blind item from today's Crazy Days and Nights. "The alliterate one" is the nickname for Meghan Markle on this site:
SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 2022
Blind Item #7
The alliterate one brought four stylists, a makeup person and a hair person, along with other staff.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Well, I’m sure the disabled veterans affiliated with the Invictus Games will be thrilled it took four people to help Harry’s wife choose clothes to wear, plus a hair person to style her extensions and/or weaves, a makeup person AND other staff.
Given her narcissism and her overblown senses of entitlement and grandiosity, this does not sound out of the realm of reality for Meghan. I wonder how much all THIS cost? In addition to paying these people for their work, there are costs for travel, transportation, lodging, and meals. She had 7 people listed here "along with other staff," so she could easily have had 10 or perhaps an even dozen people on the trip just to take care of her.
If this isn't narcissistic behavior, then I don't know what on this earth it would take to qualify as narcissistic behavior.
/and people that have lots of displays of affection in private don't need to make it public.
She has had a life time of watching the 2nd in line struggle; her father, her sister, Andrew and now Harry. I think she has somewhat of a Royal version of survivors' guilt, only not survival but of feeling the huge difference between your position and the one who just missed being in it by chance of birth.
As much as I despise them both, the Trotters haven't done anything any worse than David by a long shot, and are probably on a par with Andrew, who seems to have been every bit as exploitative, but had the benefit of a more complaisant press early on, and as well as the lack of social media and the 24 hour news cycle. I don't mean the press ever covered for him, but it's just so much easier now to find out about things; it's no holds barred and the devil take the hindmost now, especially if the person they're after doesn't fit the agenda being pushed.
Neither Hazmat nor Nutmeg has any personal charm or decency or any sort of redeeming quality to make up for their grasping sleaziness,
but Harry is still Her Majesty's grandson, and family is really all she's got. Despite all the material trappings, what else do the lot of them really have except each other? I suspect they can't possibly truly develop any kind of meaningful relationships with anyone outside family and a very small circle of trusted staff.
William is the only one who will be able to deal with the grifters; he's probably thinking just the same as we all are...how do these sleazebags keep getting everything to go their way? But he is never going to forgive the constant insults to Catherine, and he will have many, many years to let is fester. I hope I'm still around to see it, because I doubt HM or PC are going to be able to handle it as we'd like to have it handled.
@Maneki Neko,
No, she doesn't look good. She looks horrible. She has been altering her face much too much
She looks absolutely scary.
Her fingernails even look gray with black around the cuticle.
What a mess she is!
Oh, my. I certainly hope she isn't merching that handbag or that bracelet thing; they look horrible with what appears to be dirty/stained cuticles. "Princess Harry demonstrates the casual look with her accessories right after being forced to clean the fireplaces for Queen Elizabeth II."
I agree with everybody that cannot understand why she doesn't have pants the correct length for her EVER. If she thinks that wearing a shapeless bag makes her look smaller, well, good luck with that. Maybe it is a safety measure. If she is planning an unscheduled departure from her aircraft while in flight, she could probably glide for miles.
A staff of 10, and still she looked like crap. Bad hair, bad jeans, suit that didn't fit, horrible make up, crayola eyebrows, outfits that didn't go together, wrinkled pants, unsuitable jewelry. It just goes on and on. She must have thrown a tea pot at each stylist, and the result was payback.
I know. Those eyebrows look like she belongs to the Church of the Perpetually P*ssed Off and Unpleasant Sorts. Do you suppose she cut pieces out of carpeting in her hotel and glued them on?
I don't need a staff of 10 to make me look like crap, I can do it all by myself. But at least I'm not gluing carpeting to my forehead.
Meghan Markle has made a subtle dig at the royal family after telling competitors at the Invictus Games they know what 'service' is, after taking a previous potshot at the Queen over the use of the word during the Megxit row.
Speaking at the Opening Ceremony for the Games in The Hague, the Duchess of Sussex said: 'Thank you so much for your service and thank you to all the family and friends that are here who have been supporting you along the way. Because this is service, this is dedication and this is the Invictus family.'
Not only is this not subtle, it's a pot shot at the Queen and is as undignified and unnecessary as it is disgraceful. This shows that she's not happy about something and I think it means that the meeting with the Queen didn't go her way. It also shows that all the smiles are fake if she's peeved. Perhaps I'm reading too much into it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10725033/Prince-Charles-aides-fear-Harry-Meghan-overshadow-Queens-Platinum-Jubilee.html
I wonder if the Duke and Duchess of Plaza Toro will satirise H & * because these Spanish aristos are surely the Sussexes archetype?
It's more like a musical than opera, so no reason to avoid it on that account!
I wasn't sure what your comment about 'some pretty painful PDA' referred to, I thought this was about constant hand holding although you did mention a kiss. I've now clapped eyes on a photo of them kissing on stage and it's a good thing I haven't had any breakfast yet.
It's all about her/them. What about the veterans?
AN INSIDER ACCOUNT ON WHAT HAPPENED WHEN H&M VISITED WINDSOR CASTLE:
A very good friend of mine from childhood, who now lives back in Manchester England with her family, told me about the visit with the Queen & then with Prince Charles… I can’t get into who my source is but, her sister works at Windsor & was working there, during the visit… Apparently, MM did not go in to see the Queen, she was not allowed to go anywhere near the Queen & only Harry was allowed to see his Grandmother… But, M had to sit in another room, with 4 Footmen watching over her but, they did bring her some hot tea & something to nibble on, while she was waiting… Harry on the other hand, was with his grandmother for just about an hour but then, he met up with Prince Charles also, for only 15 minutes… Because, allegedly, Harry & Charles had this awfully HUGE, really loud & highly charged blow out & their interaction was extremely hostile so much, where others couldn’t help from hearing it & they all heard, the extremely loud yelling coming from & in the vicinity of the room where Harry & his Father met, in Windsor Castle!!! And that Harry left & stormed out in a huge huff, as he slammed the door behind him & then, he asked where M was & then he apparently pushed his way past one of the Footmen, who was standing in the hallway & told another, to tell M to meet him in the car!!! So, the meeting didn’t go down well with his Dad I was told but, I was told that his meeting with the Queen was quiet & seemed pleasant enough… So, that was the take of what went down during their Windsor visit, by one of the Queen’s staff.
- A comment made by R Teresa on It's Ashli(DanjAzone) April 16 video, "Harry Leaves Meghan Behind - She's Upset"
Note how happy the Duchess looks, because she is getting attention. Body Language so-called experts are pointing out that his body language is a mix. He is being rewarded by her for giving her a platform for all this attention, so I bet there is a lot of love bombing going on. She may be deluded enough to think that the euphoria she feels is love ... it is, but it is love of attention.
It is very sad that they have turned the long-awaited games into an opportunity to get attention - all about self-service for them. Spiteful as always, she could not resist a swipe at the Queen, and as she stood their, giddy with excitement because she is getting attention, she made a snarky remark about 'THIS is service' at the opening ceremony.
As for 4 stylists ... that must have been irony from CDAN. She is styling herself as always.
I wish the Tindalls would take over as joint patrons. They would do a fabulous job promoting the games and focusing on the athletes. Can anyone name any of the athletes on your national team, from the press coverage? Know anything about them and their story of being injured, recovery and ending up at the IG? Can anyone name the sporting events? Records and record holders? Top rated athletes? World record holders?
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A quote from one of the dozens of DM articles about the dastardly duo.
Surely the time for such a documentary would be before the games so people have an interesting in actually watching the games, cheering for their favourite athletes?
https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=APq-WBvk62JdUDSGYy9nmeSQ5QN_EaNANA:1650197535078&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=2020+invictus+games+launch+princess+margriet&client=ms-android-lenovo-rev2&fir=GxUElS_Ia-haoM%252ChdglnHpTQRyaCM%252C_%253BHAhlEeOsFLiPDM%252CzXtQ2eTQW1kjKM%252C_%253B2ZGiMV9VpRiA7M%252CJlW7DTkDBT-gZM%252C_%253BGIu1MjuJkWwGXM%252C2vyo2jCTTMgPfM%252C_%253BNnfbMoTfKmtC8M%252CyNMDAUqOLFCsDM%252C_%253Bmd51qZD2bV4Q3M%252CsmwMfa9XGg8KSM%252C_%253BrX5VlUVsLGKQ5M%252CJlW7DTkDBT-gZM%252C_%253BzLy98VPq8FPT9M%252ChUWMxNLDm4pByM%252C_&usg=AI4_-kQWEjiiERfM025YJLoKN1r6Irqs8Q&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj7wIzviJv3AhVTlFwKHc44BnYQ7Al6BAgDEFU&biw=400&bih=568&dpr=2
I shall cherish the thought of Snatch being guarded by 4 footmen, (shades of George V!'s Lying in State, with military posted around the catafalque?) Footmen traditionally were very tall so that should have reduced her very nicely, in all senses.
saw some pics from today. more i’ll fitting clothes. no doubt she doesn’t one these clothes otherwise she had all the time in the world to get them altered. (there has to be some Cinderella bear Montecito that could have done it 😉) Good pics of the cambridges. i know charles likes to be in scotland for easter but why not do windsor and see your mom on Easter for a brief pop in. do something with the family after church. better strong family optics
so sad the palace word is don’t expect the queen to show up unless something changes. even if they could do more video displayed on big screens for everyone, only a quick message. did she even have a written message today? makes me angrier at the troublesome twosome. common decency is not their strong suit for sure
I shouldn’t have, but I did.
I am including this puff piece from one of Snatch’s pocket rags for the absolute HOWLER of a line:
“She looks absolutely stunning. Drinking water and minding your business works really well.”
So much to unpack here. I will agree that I am absolutely stunned whenever I see the Duckarse of Montesh*tshow. She is continually out doing herself, and that is her very own special talent. As to what’s in her water we can only speculate, but minding business, oh my, can she ever.
Neither George Orwell nor Aldous Huxley could have envisioned the funhouse world of Sparkle Markle when the were penning their seminal works. But regardless of what Marie Claire gets paid to shovel, everyone with eyes, integrity and half a brain knows what sociopathic opportunistic garbage she is.
What will be interesting to see is the amount of time (%) within the show which could be one of the following:
*
him
them together
them with an actual participant
actual participant without them
here is to hoping that someone notices and comments about it (actually asking them to statistically split out with real numbers might be too much to ask for)
I wonder if the Duke and Duchess of Plaza Toro will satirise H & * because these Spanish aristos are surely the Sussexes archetype?
Wild Boar! How could you use the word 'archetype' especially when the context is the 6s? Don't you know the word is trademarked (well, not yet) 😉
Chicken little looking around for the woman to come rescue him from the plebes.
Maybe they don't have VVIP status after all?
Why would he think disabled vets are going to harm him anyway?
https://twitter.com/LizzieITV/status/1515695803503099914?t=VIxGlFBjmyh3DPPCibxd9g&s=09
A comment about it from twitter:
I wasn’t going to post about them, but please look at this post. You can see H look back at Toya and give her the eye to get the reporters to back up. If they so-called had VVIP protection she wouldn’t have to do that. They don’t have any extra protection then the other people.
Thanks for the tea about the Harkles visit to Windsor, oh my! If it really happened then H will have been in a foul humour. I wonder what that was about, did Charles say there was no more money at all and they were not to come back to the fold as royals, only family members? It must have been something along that vein. I can't blame the Queen if she refused to see *. Her health is precarious enough.
Him = 10%
Together ≈ 5%
Them with athlete ≈ 4%
Athlete alone = 1%
The Dollars were driven around in clown cars, instead of Rolls Royces with the flags flying. LOL!
Trotter has horrible nails, and bites them all down (BLG).
Do you suppose Trotter bought that white suit, or borrowed it? The hem must be beyond repair after being dragged on the ground.
I don't believe Charles was screaming at Haznoballs. That would indicate an intense level of feelings, which I don't believe is there, at least on Charles' part. Haznoballs may have screamed demands, that being part of his long-established behavior pattern. The adults would have all stood back while Haznoballs threw his tantrums.
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H looks pretty p¡$$ed off and is twisting his wedding ring while * is oblivious and smiles indulgently at him. (photo courtesy of BackGrid).
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/04/17/10/56707179-10725967-Prince_Harry_was_caught_in_a_moment_of_pensiveness_as_he_and_Meg-m-23_1650186633187.jpg
Whoever said TBW does not have (but needs) a full length mirror is correct!
At least the jeans with the Celine jacket are not ripped to shreds like the jeans worn to the Toronto games. That outfit was most inappropriate.
Agree with whoever said she is wearing Mom jeans. So much money for a clothing allowance, so little taste and tailoring, which results in unbecoming looks which fail to convey her image.
Happy that she was not allowed in to see HM. Would love to know if C&H really got into it. Emotions must be running high on both sides.
Both Charles and Andrew divorced as a result of commands from above. I wonder Charles informed Snitch, on behalf of HM, that he had to make it a hat trick? Or else be cast into Outer Darkness...?
Yes, I know it's wishful thinking but that could account for an explosive response from Snitch.
Trotter is not the only one who needs help with her hair: H could use a visit to the barber, too.
https://twitter.com/TvKhaleesi/status/1515424585512071170/photo/1
https://youtu.be/6_znz0AiXVU
I don't believe Charles was screaming at Haznoballs. That would indicate an intense level of feelings, which I don't believe is there, at least on Charles' part. Haznoballs may have screamed demands, that being part of his long-established behavior pattern. The adults would have all stood back while Haznoballs threw his tantrums.
I cringed when I saw that white suit abuse (although it wasn't a good look for her). I suppose it is because I don't have a staff whose duties are returning things to their original state or get fired.
I suppose Charles might have raised his voice to be heard over Harry's demands. He was probably outraged over the way Harry treated his own grandparents, his own brother and sister-in-law as well as himself and his wife, and now that snake and his disgraceful guttersnipe wife that continue to drag everybody's names through the mud want to make demands? I think NOT.
And not sure I believe they'd have made Nutmeg sit alone in a room, either, footmen notwithstanding. Incredibly rude, and just not something I think HM would do, especially not on Maundy Thursday. I suppose it's entirely possible he was told not to bring his Baggage, and did anyway.
The entire thing is just so odd to me. IF it happened, and I suppose with everyone reporting it, it must have...I wonder whose idea it was?
It was perfect timing, what with them being in the neighborhood on a holy day, and one associated with forgiveness, but also because there were built-in time constraints, since Charles needed to be handing out the alms afterwards. To me that leans towards the invite coming from the RF, because I frankly can't imagine either of the Harkles remembering, let alone observing, Maundy Thursday, despite their upbringing. Could have all been coincidental, too, though, and the brevity of the visit leans towards it being their request, but on the RF's terms.
Was Nutmeg the only high profile woman wearing jeans? She can't even do High/Low well. I wonder if the shoes were the only Chanel she could afford? Not that Celine is cheap, but I'd have gone with Chanel for the jacket and bag, and ditch the Chanel flats, which are never comfortable and seem like an odd choice for tramping over fields. If she was determined to wear something recognizably luxe, and of course she would, she could have gone with Gucci or Hermes bit loafers.
The woman is just always a hot damn mess, no two ways about it.
look how dark her face looks when she's wearing that outfit with the blue shirt! Amazing!
And, the Queen, in her twilight years, may have decided to stop being Mrs. Nice Guy and made the trollop cool her heels in the vestibule.
Those eyebrows look like she belongs to the Church of the Perpetually P*ssed Off and Unpleasant Sorts.
LOL! But tell us how you really feel!
I agree with everyone that the supposed first-hand account from the comments of DanjaZone sounds legit. I personally think PC is going to be more than capable of handling PH for as long as MM is in the picture. Just can't figure out what the BRF's end game is here. It seems to have shifted. I mean, why receive PH at all if he clearly has nothing to say or apologize for after all his public accusations?
The MBX corporation or LLC that bought their Montecito property -- I've always suspected this was PC and then PH rented from him. Could PH have been asking to continue there rent-free now that their money is assuredly running out? Maybe we'll get some answers when the place is sold.
I'm relieved to hear others felt the same way about that kiss after MM introduced PH. It seemed to so powerfully change something that was supposed to be about the vets. Maybe it wasn't that bad in person, but I doubt it. Neither the time nor the place for PDA.
This way they can imply that she was there all week.
Sneaky.
A well meaning sentiment but how is he going to make the world a 'better, more equal place' for A & L? Either he's a bit naive or else he spouting *'s usual word salad. Maybe he could start by rejecting his title (and * hers) and not getting any money/inheritance from the BRF.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10726939/Prince-Harry-tells-child-reporters-drive-make-world-equal-place-kids.html
Looks like she recycled the brown coat and the pit stained turtle neck - another square checked off in bingo.
She is certainly wanting this to be a royal tour with many outfit changes (but that is usually to fit the activity not to fit the merching).
Cant wait to watch BLG - he has a bunch of new material
The command that they come to windsor seems more plausible- the Theresa Longo fan account:
"We have done a ton of digging overnight. Our sources say the meeting with HMTQ was secondary to first meeting with Prince Charles. This is accurate. Prince Harry was then only given an audience with HMTQ if he APOLOGIZED and smoothed the waters during his time with her and listen to her concerns and directives. He was summoned - ORDERED - to attend this UK stop - especially given the duo were due in Netherlands together.
Netflix did NOT accompany the pair in or around the meeting and Harry was ORDERED to keep family matters private by not filming or recording the meeting. It will be interesting if any of it is commented on by Harry in their upcoming NETFLIX productions.
Finally, it was certainly NOT the pair's initial idea to make a pit stop at Windsor. Their team leaking the meeting & alleging it was Harry's Olive Branch speaks volumes about how the pair are trying to spin this stop! "
also posted:
"Information about a recent visit was released by "Sussex Offices & Representatives"
-It was not a surprise visit -- rather an ORDER to attend -- but not by Netflix.
Furthermore, it is likely expected the duo be ORDERED to keep quiet about private conversations if the Family request it! We'll see the spin they put on it or how much they are allowed to reveal.
We can exclusively report: THE SUN has it wrong! This was NOT Harry's olive branch.
We do not yet have details of the meeting's subject matter but our close, inside sources are ready to inform us should anyone uncover more information from the inside. It should be noted, the details of any meeting are highly confidential and it is not even being talked about among staff and Courtiers.
What we do know, given the total secrecy around this meeting and it's topics: it was SERIOUS. "
well if true makes me feel better - perhaps a cease and desist order coming
If true - and a promise not to leak about the family conversations, the mrs will not be happy and likely will do something to lash out - what will she do?
But what if it were a follow up to that meeting of Megxit? the showdown one where the terms were laid out, she was not to be present, he was graciously offered a year of allowance to allow a transition and he did not feel that was as necessary as others unnamed may might have felt worth shoving in the luggage he would tote back even if he didn't exactly want that anyway? It was face to face and the great chess player able to see how the body language responded.
Covid hit and then people were not traveling to see HM quite so much.
And then Prince Philip passed and that was ... not ever going to be the best time to "discuss family business".
With the unveiling, it might not have been good either. Emotions still running high. So maybe waiting until there was a less emotional moment to "discuss unfinished business..."
So ... I suspect, guess, that really this level of discussion would not be done over zoom. No. It would be done face to face. And, I suspect it was delayed due to all of the above.
Maybe?
So ... maybe his father was the one tasked to lay down the law to his son as similar to his mother tasked with telling him he needed to fish instead of continuing to cut bait. Part of making hard decisions as future king?
purely speculation on my part but just thinking about how people behaved in the past, how they handle things, in person or drop a note ... how covid played with everyone's plans or timelines ... maybe this was the year review, just delayed by logistics and but not forgotten.
If the couple cant use their royal connections and she can find $$$$$ she will dump him as fast as she can
I'm of the opinion that if the couple can't use royal connections, they're done. They have no winning personalities (in fact, the opposite). They have no original ideas. They have no business acumen. Increasingly, they have no allies, and have alienated their families.
Very plausible. I've always felt it was PC's responsibility for any disciplinary action regarding his wayward son, NOT HM's. If my (adult) grandchildren are making complete fools of themselves, that is their parents' problem, not mine.
Harry and Meghan drive their point home with far slicker PR
By Hilary Rose
And so the latest instalment of the Harry and Meghan show returns to California, royal connections burnished, Netflix paymasters gleeful, and Slava Ukraini, obviously, as Meghan said in her inevitable turn centre stage. She is due to fly home today, with Harry following later, after she has read her children’s book to some kids there. It was billed on publication last year as her “first” book — shoot me now — and if I did its PR I’d bill it as the ultimate bedtime story, guaranteed to put your kids to sleep in no time, or your money back. In case you’ve forgotten, and alas I cannot, it’s about a bench, and has all the wit, verve and narrative arc you’d expect of a piece of furniture.
Nevertheless, the fact is that the H&M show is now a slick, nimble, multimillion-dollar money-making operation. They’re working what they’ve got, and who they know, to the nth degree. In comparison, the royal family’s PR strategy looks like it was patched together in a leaky ballroom by men in suits, and I say that as someone with a weakness for the royal family and, indeed, men in suits. Look, I don’t work in PR. I have no idea how you position and strategise a royal family modelled on service in the celebrity-obsessed 21st century and the age of the internet. But if you throw enough money at the problem, there must be someone who does? The Sussexes are effectively pulling the rug from under the Cambridges’ feet. The H&M show is what you get with a big budget for the most ferocious PRs, which for the past few days has been essentially a series of “happy coincidences” and public displays of affection, bathed in spring sunshine. Extending an olive branch to the royal family just before the PR extravaganza that is the Platinum Jubilee, for example. Invictus coming hot on the heels of the happy coincidence that their PR agency, Sunshine Sachs, also did the PR for an event at which they were given an award for “distinguished public service”.
Or take that photo op at Invictus, of H&M driving mini Land Rovers with kids. Am I alone in detecting the whiff of a dig at the Cambridges, after their Land Rover PR debacle on the recent tour of Jamaica? They inspected local troops there wearing uniform (him), hat (her), standing up in a Land Rover that had been used for the same purpose 60 years ago by the Queen. Their intentions were presumably to honour the Queen, but in 2022 the optics were, as they say, unfortunate, and no amount of courtiers saying the Jamaicans asked them to do it changes the fact that somebody should have had the nous to say “no”. Put Harry and Meghan in jeans, on the other hand, grinning in toy Land Rovers? Bingo. And finally, what a lucky coincidence once again that the next brickbat due to be lobbed by the couple, Harry’s autobiography, will only be published later in the summer. Any Jubilee photo ops will be safely in the can, Netflix may have its balcony money shot, and Harry and Meghan will be back home in California speaking truth to Oprah. The latest instalment of the H&M show is now over. It won’t be the last.
And, I suspect (on a personal basis ... maybe?) that making that happen now (instead of later after she has passed) she is making it actually easier on PC in that some decision has been made in that he can point back to this meeting and say: Yeah but ... you knew ... therefore ... your choice in response to the options you were offered ... was no second bite to the apple ... sorry but my hands are tied ...
There is no doubt in my mind that PW knew to the level of how many breaths (and by whom) were taken in the room as of today.
This would be about leaving PW leverage at the bargaining table down the road long after the other major players have left the building. And that is a chess master - leaving a legacy to the future, someone who cares about what happens after she has left the building.
I have always had a lot of respect for her. I will be so sad when she passes.
From the Telegraph
Queen's meeting with Prince Harry could pave the way for Sussexes to join family's Jubilee celebrations
Royal expert says Her Majesty wants to present ‘a united family’ at her Platinum milestone and hopes Harry and Meghan accept ‘olive branch’
The Queen’s meeting with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex could pave the way for the couple to join the Royal family at Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations this summer.
Royal experts say the Monarch will be hoping the family can present a “united front” for what would realistically be her last major public engagement.
There have been doubts about whether Prince Harry and his wife Meghan would travel to Britain for the jubilee celebrations, with the Duke saying his family would not be safe visiting the UK following the Government’s decision not to provide them with police protection.
The Duke of Sussex is seeking a judicial review of the decision, which was one of the reasons he gave for not attending the memorial service for his grandfather last month.
But heavy security surrounding an event like the jubilee may persuade him to attend with his wife and their children, Archie and Lilibet.
That could see the Sussexes appear with the rest of the wider Royal family for the first time since they stepped back from Royal duties and quit Britain amid growing tensions.
Ingrid Seward, the author of Prince Philip Revealed and editor-in-large of Majesty magazine, told The Telegraph: “The Queen is all about forgiveness - look at Fergie and Andrew - and she would certainly be happy to have Harry and Meghan around her for the Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
“Their meeting at Windsor on Thursday shows the olive branch has been offered to them and she will be hoping they accept it. She wants to present a united family on an occasion like the jubilee, because an occasion like that certainly won't happen again.”
‘Warm family meeting’
The Telegraph can reveal that the Queen’s private meeting with Harry and Meghan at Windsor on Thursday came just after Prince Harry and Prince Charles met together for a full half hour, defying fears of an irretrievable breakdown in their relationship.
The Duke of Sussex and his father are understood to have had a “warm family meeting”, with little of the tension that has soured the atmosphere between them during the past two years.
Thursday’s meeting, during which the Duke was accompanied by his wife, took place as part of their flying visit to the UK from their home in California.
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, joined the trio halfway through for a cup of tea and “a chat”.
Prince Charles is known to have been deeply upset by the Duke and Duchess’s damaging Oprah Winfrey interview, in which they made a series of claims about racism and neglect.
The Duke accused the Prince of Wales of failing to support him and of cutting him off financially, causing a severe rift between the pair.
But palace sources scotched suggestions the meeting was a ‘summit’ designed to repair relationships, describing it instead as a normal family meeting between father and son.
A source said on Saturday: “The Prince of Wales loves both of his children very much.”
Although Prince Charles and his youngest son have not spoken much over the past year, palace sources say the heir to the throne does not want to alienate him further and wants to maintain friendly relations.
Ms Seward added: “Neither the Queen nor Prince Charles like confrontation and they don’t want to push Harry and Meghan away.”
@Snarky: If Haznoballs was ordered to a meeting, and he showed up, that suggests that $$$ is involved. It would be the only way to make him toe a line. What else would the RF have on him?
@Fifi LaRue and Snarky: The royal family could have several things on Harry.
1) Perhaps they have had enough of the Sussexes and are thinking of asking Parliament to remove Harry and Meghan’s titles. It would also help Charles slim down the monarchy as he is said to desire.
The best scenario would be for the RF to call Harry and Meghan’s bluff by saying “We know how much distress being a royal causes you and your wife. To remedy this problem, we want you to renounce all of the titles given to you and as a courtesy to Meghan upon your marriage in 2018. In addition, to completely rid you of the lifelong burden of being royal, renounce your birth title of Prince and opt out of the order of succession and any titles for you, your wife, your children, and future generations of your lineage.
We will set you up with $20 million US. If you invest it wisely, you and your wife can live comfortably off the income it generates as private citizens known as Harry and Meghan Mountbatten Windsor. We will always love you, but completely renouncing your titles will allow you to live a truly free and private life happily together.
2) They want proof Meghan was pregnant with Harry’s genetic children and she gave birth to both of their children.
3) They are concerned about possibly unwise use of charitable or non-profit organization funds by the Sussexes and want to send a forensic accounting team to look at their finances, businesses, charitable activities, expenses, and ledgers.
ROYAL GUARD Prince Harry & Meghan Markle hire Barack Obama’s former bodyguard after couple sue Government when security was removed
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/18291820/prince-harry-meghan-markle-barack-obama-bodyguard/
And IMO, if Harry was "ordered" to do anything, then, like Fifi said, money is involved. PC must still be supporting them somehow. Maybe through the Montecito property?
The fake, forced kiss on stage. Ugh!
Harry's passionate kiss, and embrace of some guy while Meagan looks on. Hmmm.
The meeting with The Queen, and Prince Charles: IMO Haznoballs got the law laid down, re: Jubilee celebrations. It was a business meeting, not a warm family get together.
Neverland
Never, ever, ever in his treacherous life
Since he joined at the lip
with his noisome wife
He’s never given thought
to the VETS of Invictus
Decided instead to forever inflict us
By making the games all about her
He’s proved to the world
he’s a sod, rabid cur…
As for their Windsor wanderings,
normally I wouldn’t believe that
the Queen would be so rude,
banishing madam to an anteroom.
But, these aren’t normal times,
and H&M aren’t normal people.
If the meetings were official,
as with megxit, I can see only
haz being permitted an interview.
Sayonara Sad Sacks!!
Happy Easter Nutties 🐣
Singalong 🎤
Apologies: Roy Orbison
Only the Lonely
Only the Homely
Only the homely
knows she’s not quite right
Only the homely
knows she’s not too bright
Where are the babies
None from the start
Forget them, whatever
Not too smart
But only the homely
Knows why
She lie
Only the homely
Maybe tomorrow
A new chance
No more borrow
Billionaire romance
If your homely face caves
Lonely and homely…
This is strictly not true. The world has changed and the role of the spare has become redundant coupled with 3 extremely problematic spares in a row which makes your statement seem true, but on examination the problem is them not the system.
Until Margaret, every spare either went into the military for life or was sent away to govern a duchy or a colony. The women married off somewhere that was politically advantageous. In her father's generation, all her uncles went into the military as did her father. Only David turned out problematic and they got rid of him pronto.
Even Victoria managed this feet of keeping her spares occupied with the exception of her 2 youngest children Leo (had severe Heamophilia just like his cousin Alexei Romanov though unlike Alexei, Leo was able to grow to adulthood and have kids of his own) and Beatrice ( kept as her personal companion for life).
The dangers were always the heirs because they had to be ready to become monarch at any time yet be kept off kilter so it never occurred to them to usurp the throne. The life of the heirs was always idle and unfulfilled, but kept busy with rounds of 'make work' projects in support of the crown.
The nature of monarchy changed globally during and after the wars. The spares born afterwards didn't stick to the plan or adopted the modern attitude of expecting to be coddled without thinking to create a life for themselves.
If Margaret had married well and or used her position productively as Victoria's daughters and Princess Mary and Princess Anne did, there is no reason to assume that her life would have turned out as it did. She chose to live an unfulfilled life and no one could order her to live it differently. Not even The Queen.
Andrew followed the plan upto a point - he was in the military for 20yrs. All his troubles started after he retired and perhaps the military is where he should have stayed like other spares in his position. Considering how disliked he is, if he were coddled in the military, we'd have heard about it by now. Retirement was his undoing.
Harry is the truly problematic, ungoverned, feral spare. He was raised with ridiculous notion that he was equal to the heir, has been coddled all his life including during his brief stint in the army. Was rescued from every single scrape. Even now when it's obvious he is the problem, MM is taking the brunt of criticism and doing all the work to afford him the lifestyle he feels entitled to.
Yes, she's problematic too, but she's a reflection of him and she's doing the most even if she has to fake it. He chose her well because he can use her as a shield even when his true character is exposed because she has no inbuilt lifetime of public emotional investment like he does. We are therefore less forgiving of her monstrous character.
@Maneki
I agree, the Windsor meetings
didn’t go her way.
Someone? Mentioned chess?
Yes, the Queen is in position.
Check Mate.
Comedy of Errors
Trotter thinks she’s hotter
in long legged pants
Hazzer thinks he’s got her
in long rabid rants
Both confused
making no sense
Hoping we all
join in their pretence…
ROYAL GUARD Prince Harry & Meghan Markle hire Barack Obama’s former bodyguard after couple sue Government when security was removed
`This must be true - I heard it on the wireless' - I had to smile, the BBC announcer called their former employer `Baroque Obama'. It reminded me of slightly camp colleague who said that whenever he had to fill in a form asking `Style' (ie `Mr, Mrs...) he was always tempted to write `Roccoco'.
@fifi
Bandage/bondage/badinage
top revealing!!
Meghan allegedly demands it. Ive heard that writers submit scripts, and she changes entire plot lines, rewrites dialogue in that awful purple prose of hers, fucking it up so badly and making it so that no one wants their name associated with what she's written. It's reportedly really bad and completely cringeworthy. Think about the script she wrote for that 40 X 40 birthday bullshit. (Oh yeah, she is allegedly the one who wrote that) and then apply it to a cartoon.
She has yet to approve of an animation style that isn't plagiarized from Disney. Then there's the self-absorption. She's actually given animators pictures of herself at the age of 11/12 to use when animating this character. She has no concept of compromise, compassion, respect, talent, or quality. She has her hand in every step, believes she knows all about everything, and people throw their hands up and quit because not only does it hurt their professional reputation to be associated with that bunch of horse shit, but also she IS a bully. She's treating these people exactly the same way she did palace staff, her wedding dress seamstresses, the Australia tour staff, Catherine Cambridge and Princess Charlotte, her ex-husband(s?), her family, the Royal Family, et al. She seems to be amassing quite a lot of skeletons among the ill-fitting clothes in her closet.
She has allegedly asked more than one industry professional to call her Duchess. Her middle of the night emails are reporredly full of insults and berating diatribes, written full of passages in caps. The thing is that these emails are now going around Hollywood circles, and people working with her are starting to video her misbehavior. OH! Here's some tea. There's a rumor that a video exists of her abusing Princess Charlotte at the dress fitting. A member of the security detail filmed it to show Will and Kate.
Anyway, that is the short list of the issues people are having. She is reportedly controlling, trite, insipid, and her behavior is allegedly abusive. She needs to be careful though because Netflix made a mistake initiating a contract with her, but they're not stupid, and they're not about to make a mistake regarding the fulfillment of that contract. I imagine Netflix is keeping track of evidence of her abuse, and those emails and videos feature prominently in their dossier. At this point, it looks like it is a question of when, not if, these emails and video-recorded tirades break into the general public. If it does, I predict it will be like the goddamned Boston Tea Party is happening all over again. Her behavior is, in my opinion, starting to bite her in the ass in a big way. It couldn't happen to a better person. She, of course, could keep everything under wraps by changing her behavior, but she seems to really struggle with that, so... unfortunately she's digging her own grave. Allegedly.
Thanks
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The red flag for me in the above account is the bit about secretly video taping her tirades. She is working remotely with these people. Video tape an email or phone call? Zoom calls are video anyway.
And MO is that she wants fame and success as MM. She just uses the title to open doors and get platforms, but it is very important to him.
The story probably started with genuine industry gossip and then elaborations crept in with every retelling.
She's starting to look just like her mother - as dear Oscar said “Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.”
I don't think the excessive PDA is solely for Netflix. To me, it's consistent with the idea that he's been told to get rid of her. They could be setting a trap to catch HM/Papa -
`How could they be so cruel as to try to break us up when everyone can see how deeply in love we are?' A club with which to beat the other Royals?
I'll get on with my day now.
Yet that kiss where she has her feet together but H has to lean towards her - he looks as if he has to dash off somewhere more important and daren't be late. (Trying to look as if he has to deal with the Taliban? To me, it comes over more as a snatched peck as he's late for his morning train up to the City?)
To say nothing of that kiss with a bloke - Ye Gods! It certainly confirms that his attitude to her is ambiguous, at the very least.
One day, when all this is over, TBLG should be awarded an Honorary Knighthood for `Services to the Crown', though which monarch it'll be by then is anyone's guess.
To me the writer is pretending to underplay the duo to take potshots at the Cambridges and the BRF as a whole.
Yes, there are people seduced and in thrall of the duo's antics, but many, many people see them for what they are. During the Cambridge tour, one clip got really popular - a woman in the crowds at Nassau in the Bahamas shrieking in joy at seeing William in the flesh. She says, "I remember the day you were born." It was a very real moment and a moment true of the Caribbean tour. We would have seen more of this had SS and their jealous, vindictive masters not put their forces upto creating false 'optics'.
The writer is almost advising celebrity as a solution, an almost Hollywood prescription to sustain fame. And that's where she has lost me and my basic respect.
A constitutional monarchy doesn't need PR gimmickry. No doubt, post the duo, the BRF have been pulled into low-brow influencer-style contests by watchers and royal reporters. Easy to happen when the BRF is essential a cultural icon and the space it occupies via its work relies on goodwill and soft diplomacy. What the BRF need is a hybrid approach to the duo where it mixes old approach of ignoring but also does some straight talking instead of reacting. They don't need to explain all the time, but at crucial junctures take hints from the DRF that clearly said no meet, no stay. Get ahead of the duo, state position and then let them rot with their own PR games.
The BRF is bigger than PR antics that sustain celeb fame just for a season.
From last Wednesday when their current news cycle started to Monday - I am already tired of the wife and H.
normally i wouldn’t believe that
the queen would be so rude,
banishing madam to an anteroom.
The Queen would never be rude but I think she wanted TBW out of the way in order to talk to H without any interference. I think the message wasn't something the 6s wanted to hear (re titles/ money/ inheritance etc) and the Queen didn't want TBW putting her oar in and screaming like a banshee. H without * is probably slightly more amenable than with his harpy. And the sight of the strumpet would set the Queen's recovery back several weeks.
There was a kind of obscure article about how the internal looking into her behavior towards the staff was going no where as there were many who had not been talked to.
I say obscure because all the media focus has been on what clothing and jewelry she was wearing seemed to trample over this as if it almost seems to be one more example of how she has not face repercussions for her behavior.
What if people were being asked about her but also asked not to tell anyone so the working on this could be done in secret? or be less obvious in the big picture? (ducks paddling furiously under the water, eh William?)
What if part of the meeting was about letting him know the initial results?
And/or this impacts anything they might receive monetarily in support?
I would bet money that the agreement has some clauses in it which allow the monarchy (HM now, PC and PW later) leverage about changing the terms based on most recent behavior and anything new which has been uncovered. Not having a clause like that would be a huge opening to exploit.
Agree.
I do think that she will always get attention and she will always cause trouble, but, unlike the Cambridges, she will never contribute anything of lasting value.
Ted Bundy got a lot of attention, and still does. Same with Hitler. Same with influencers like the Kardashians. Overall, the world is full of celebrities who are not of good character and contribute nothing decent and worthwhile.
Sure there are models who become very famous for simply being beautiful and raising awareness of and thus increasing the value of a brand (like make up, perfume or ridiculous fashion), but not all of them try to rule the world nor be as destructive as TBW is. They are happy to simply please the eye by being beautiful.
There is an article in The Express that is quite astonishing. The commentator gets it so wrong. The duo appear popular because that is the image being projected in the media. They are not anywhere close to being as popular as the Cambridges. Most people don't like them.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1597364/Royal-Family-live-updates-Meghan-Markle-Prince-Harry-the-Queen-Kate-Middleton
I am getting past the outrage and now finding amusement in the sight of TBW giddy with excitement being surrounded by all those cameras and the media making her the centre of attention.
I think She-lob is leaving today, isn’t she? Perhaps now that the high school PDA displays will stop, the actual competition will get some airtime.
There are no words to describe how disgusted I am by the worldwide media at this point. Let us hope that the Invictus organization is busy re-organizing itself with another patron. They have essentially been running themselves for the last 3+ years with no input from Snitch since he ran away from home. So carrying on with another patron will not be a hardship. These games have been such a shit show so far, if Invictus continues to be associated with H and Netflix, they may have a hard time recruiting athletes to take part. At some point everyone involved Hass to invoke their self-respect even if Harry has none.
It was clearly a business meeting at Windsor and one that didn’t go well, based in its brevity. I believe they were summoned, or at least Harry was, to discuss financial terms and possibly future of his titles and his position as counselor of state. In that light, I don’t consider Smeg’s exclusion rude. She was certainly made comfortable and plied with refreshments, but she wasn’t supposed to be there at all. She glommed onto Invictus but originally she was not meant to be there either. The RF has gotten itself into this mess in the first place by being overly solicitous of Harry’s showgirl and we all know how they have been repaid. The Queen’s health is delicate and MeGain’s untrustworthiness re. recording devices is assumed. Hence, she gets to wait in reception.
The Harkles have never been more than three days wonder—They can churn out some fluffy PR for themselves for that long, but the cracks underneath always show through. After the Games are completed, I look forward to some athlete reminiscences of how they “actually” were to the competitors and staff outside of the photo ops. Too bad Trevor Coult wasn’t made a correspondent.
Since the visit to Windsor, I’ve been seeing a number of articles saying that the royal family should allow the SuxShits to be part-time working members…Same old tired refrain…But even Neil Sean has drunk that Kool Aid, I was surprised, very surprised, to hear seeing as he staunchly supports her majesty. I think it’s more drip drip drip of Smeg’s wish manifestation PR. Charles might waver and give in, But I can’t imagine William standing for this. The only way forward for Charles as King is to be seen supporting and working with his loyal son who will succeed him as Prince of Wales, Not sucking up to the louche ginger deserter and his trollop.
Does Scobie just post what they tell him without question?
Whatever it was, did whatever PC said no to impact their surprise?
Why did that just seem to fade away?
No one wants the millionaires anymore. Poor Dears. I am thrilled to have a date for lunch and a couples massage this week! Not sure what I will wear yet, but it will not be a white double breasted suit.
Why didn't the makeup artist do something about the claws? Press on nails? Nail polish tape stuff? A good scrubbing with a nail brush?
I thought the hand chain is called a " slave chain". Googled it:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_bracelet
Is she trying to make a statement or just merching bling?
That kiss reminded me of the time Michael Jackson kissed his then wife Lisa Marie Presley at an awards show. Failed PR that made my skin crawl.
High heels are usually not allowed on golf courses or running tracks. She looked ridiculous trotting around.
The outfit changes are probably to merch as many items as possible.
Hope she skipped the Cartier love bracelet. Not a good choice for Easter weekend. Her previous husband had better taste in jewelry than prince arsewipe.
Reading the dreadful book a surprise? How much does she have to pay child actors to sit still while filming that? It may be worth a few giggles if she has affected a British accent - especially since her other half sounds more American each time he is allowed to open his mouth.
Regarding the Royal visit, if they were served with legal papers, it would be done with witnesses. Perhaps, the Queen had something she wished to say to Harry while she was able. Who knows, we may be able to guess in time
The press are trying to shape people's ideas and opinions, but people are getting fed up with being force fed ideas like "* is so beautiful", "they are so kind and wonderful"
People will just turn off the mainstream press and go look for people who report the truth.
/I would certainly be tempted to spit in the tea and let the dogs lick the biscuits first.
Yes, those 'fashion' magazines going into transports about the beauty of ill-fitting clothes somehow fail to convince me. It does say that they will lie their butts off in return for cash.
Based on Haznoball's embrace and kiss of the bloke, it's seeming to be more likely that he married Trotter out of a case of blackmail rather than love, or hetero sex as we've assumed. More likely she was providing Haz with unlimited "forbidden" experiences. She is not his first preference when it comes to sex. That kiss on stage at Invictus? Methinks thou protest too much.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10728323/Netflix-losing-6-25-BILLION-year-users-flock-illegal-password-sharing-marketplaces.html
bwahahahaha. Netflix tried to make their billions on the back of the BRF by lying about them. Karma.
my newest opinion. at first i thought she decided to go along to get visibility then i though nah that meeting at windsor didn’t happen. i’m now thinking he was summoned she decided she needed to be there given that she can’t trust him to do anything. they likely didn’t meet with her if it were bad or serious news delivered. i’m guessing the footmen who guarded her were female because we no trotter would have escaped as best she could using all er alleged wiles 😉(yeah gross).
time will tell now that she is back in Cali. if we get ridiculous leaks or speculation of the jubilee that would mean maybe there seas an olive branch. if there is nothing more about that meeting then it was really serious. if we start seeing more rumors about charles camilla or the cambridges you know it was really bad.
Perhaps there are engagements and moments exclusive to Netflix and these weren't released in the general press coverage, so we haven't seen them either.
The silly and numerous dress changes are I think are her imitating Kate in the Caribbean where she arrived in one, went about town in another and changed for evening engagements.
It would mar the celebration in general and leave a stain on what will likely be the last balcony appearance of HMTQ.
It will appear forced to have the Sussexes there and not a display of any sort of family unity to have two people who have done their best to destroy the monarchy, while disrespecting Harry’s family as Meghan has manipulated him to create as wide of a rift as possible between Harry and his family, friends, and country in order to tighten her grip on him to keep him as isolated as possible.
As many of you know, narcissists work to isolate their victims from their family, friends, and former life before the narcissist to gain and then maintain control.
They do not care a bit about the wreckage they leave in their wake
Including them in the jubilee celebrations is a mistake.
pregnant with twins (david and wallis; naming rights to be awarded later)
the chicknes are pregnant
archie is transitioning
the press hounded them in london again even though no pics of them there
lilibuck$ has a birthday party at the Kardashians that cant be missed
too distressed over William/Rose rumors
Louis said a racist comment at the wedding reception
Has nothing to wear
Take a pick- im guessing its not gonna happen
Please create a profile as that's one of the rules.
Harry: Gran all we ask is to be on the balcony with the rest of the family
Queen: Over my dead body, you will
Harry: Megs call Sunshine Sachs - we are getting an invite!
Reminds me of when my mom would go on and on lecturing one of my siblings after they just got in trouble. And my brother would always have a snarky response "well you didnt say no so I thought was a yes"