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?
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Was that teenage-style slave chain Mrs. Sukkitt's way of advertising her services as a Dom-sub?
Post in thread 'Meghan Markle unpopular opinions thread pt 7' https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/meghan-markle-unpopular-opinions-thread-pt-7.4863691/post-81190989
Says the Australian tea-throwing incident happened after a staff person walked in on MM securing her bump.
https://theresalongofanpagerome.blogspot.com/?m=1
"My source in Hollywood told me that Netflix was absolutely livid when H&M were denied access to the Dutch Royal Family and that there was to be no reception, no state dinner, no red carpet...He said that NF was just absolutely pissed..."
"The other part...is that NF is about to lose its g-ddamn collective mind over 'Pearl.' They are almost completely over it. And Meg won't take her dirty, incompetent hands out of the project so that it will get off the ground. Hopefully that info will get picked up by a mainstream source soon."
She's also said that NF has taken control of Invictus production down to both H&M's wardrobes. MM has been told that there will be no merching, and her clothes are being selected so as to not draw attention away from the athletes.
It sounds like NF is doing a lot behind the scenes to tell the stories of some individual athletes, and secondhandcoke says the final product will be focused on the athletes, not the Sussexes.
She also said that they're now considered a joke in Hollywood, but that MM's abuse of subordinates is getting out. She says that after Invictus and one more attempt at Pearl, NF is going to wash its hands of the Sussexes.
"Despite strict protocols for non-working members of the BRF, please note that it may be likely the two are "in attendance" in the background - again - not being photographed. Surely NOT on the balcony. It is not a stretch to say they may be invited to attend (privately)!"
https://theresalongofanpagerome.blogspot.com/2022/04/june-2022.html
So much disinformation put out, mainly by the duo, but also by incompetent reporters.
That message from the Queen that he relayed to the British team, for the benefit of the BBC, which was filming, and thus to the British public, was a real stretch of the imagination. The Queen only attends sporting events that are horse-related and has done so for a long time. If she wanted to send a message to the British team, she would not have done so via a disgraced grandson, who is not her representative. She is still Queen, and she has not lost her marbles.
As for the duo attending Jubilee events ... It would be royal tradition to gather all the family and have group photographs taken. Usually she invites a lot of family onto the balcony for Trooping the Colour, but with the Queen struggling for mobility, I doubt that she will be appearing on such a crowded balcony. Is there any value of being on a crowded balcony if the Queen is not present? Remember TBW kept turning to talk to him while the national anthem was being played and he eventually had to reprimand her? She has no interest in seeing his family, unless she thinks can get something major from them, or unless she is bribed with the promise of goodies, preferably of her choosing. At this stage, I don't even think she would perceive the value of photographs of her or the children with the Queen.
PS He was photographed with a couple of the Sussex squad (posing with arms around them and smiling broadly for the camera) and thanked them for their support and all that they do. He is untrustworthy and a traitor.
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I think there is some truth to the stories on social media about Spotify and now Netflix reaching the end of their tether with her, but every time a story is retold, a detail gets added or changed and I think the anonymity of social media amplifies the effect.
obama birthday party
two different met galas
the oscars
the Beckham Peltz wedding
the ribbon cutting at the new Philips 66 in oxnard 😉
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I can't figure this out. Netflix isn't stupid.
Surely they know that the Harkles are disgraced exiled royals.
No royal house is going to be offering the Harkles the accouterments that they offer to real royals.
Why would Netflix think that they would?
Unless H lied to them that he had it under control.
I love the NF tea, but I do have to shake my head at anyone thinking that the 6th in line would get a state dinner or even a red carpet! I'm not even sure why anyone thought the Dutch RF would house them; I doubt the Queen offers a bed at Buckingham Palace to every minor Euro royal who has a few days' business in London, and she's related to most of them!
I don't doubt Our Duchess insinuated all this glory was taking place, but I'm surprised anyone believed it.
I must be the only one who isn't bothered by the possibility of a balcony appearance. My grandmother wanted all her grands and greats around her on birthdays and holidays, even the absolute rotters.
I see Her Majesty as an elderly lady, staring down her mortality, and wanting her family around her on this unprecedented occasion.
She also certainly wants to maintain the image of a united family, of course, but if the balcony appearance happens, I hope we can accept it as something that's important to this much loved woman, however much it sickens us to see.
@Henrietta: It's the body language. There was more genuine feeling with the dude than there ever was or will be with the b*tch wife.
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What a pity the pair of Traitors cannot be arrested on arrival, flung into the Tower and publicly executed as part of the Jubilee Celebrations - live on Netflix!
Perhaps HM regards TBW as a poor madwoman requiring Christian charity in one's dealings with her. We might be more charitable if we could see her as lacking the mental competence to take responsibility for her actions - more Broadmoor than Dartmoor, so to speak, ie criminally insane.
Incidentally, there is a precedent for the Monarch not struggling with the steps at St Pauls - Victoria stayed in her open carriage for the 1897 celebration and the Dean came out to her. Am not sure whether the service went on inside or not.
And what about Harry, who said ‘Every single time I see a camera, every single time I hear a click, every single time I see a flash, it takes me straight back' (to the death of Diana)? He seems to have made a miraculous recovery.
@Sandie
A very minor point: 'The Queen only attends sporting events that are horse-related'. She also attends the Highland Games in Scotland in summer.
However, as host country, it is strange that there was not only no interaction but also no acknowledgement of the IG royal patron. I think it is the King's sister who was actually at the venue on the first day, and it was covered by the Dutch media and royal social media accounts. There was absolutely no interaction with the duo and has been no mention of them in their social media coverage of the games. In 2020, when they thought they might still be able to go ahead with the games, the hapless prince visited the Netherlands for publicity for the games and was accompanied by the King's sister.
It will be interesting to see what happens at the closing ceremony, when the Dutch King will be there. Body language experts get ready!
The Dutch King is a member of the Order of the Garter in the UK. Means nothing to the duo in their self-obsessive delusions, but is very important to real royals.
According to Lady C’s sources Netflix are acutely aware that Maggot and Mole have tarnished and tainted their own brand, and the duo have been told this. Netflix etc found out about the non invite by the Dutch royals and it did not go down well. Netflix are the ones who said the duo had to arrange to meet with Mole’s family, because without the royal connection they have no brand . They are also concerned that the Queen might die before the documentary is released and so it would be an extremely poor look for the pair if they didn’t see The Queen.
Netflix have told the duo they can’t mess this up or they’re out. They’re the ones who has paid for her wardrobe, and have her make up artist there etc. they want her looking as glamorous as can be. 🤨
The Invictus Games and the Veterans taking part are just monetary pawns for both Netflix and Maggot and Mole. It’s all completely contrived and all about PR. 😟😩😒
-- If NF is responsible for her wardrobe, then WHY does MM still look so sloppy?!?!
-- If the whole IG thing is a PR ploy....is the organization itself aware that they are pawns? Don't they have any say in how they are being used? And if the whole event is so contrived, why would the Dutch King be attending the closing ceremony?
-- Just because NF wanted them to have an association with HM and the BRF doesn't necessarily mean that this most recent "meeting" wasn't ordered by HM and was unfriendly.
1) everyone hates the queen for this (stirring up the pot. such a narc thing)
2) don’t be there (make it look later that they get no invite) and cry racism, security prince louis kicked me in the shins whatever and stir up the sugars that the monarch is mean
job completed. stir the pot and make terrible rancid tasting soup. yep. mrs trotter is quite the cook
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Well that's true. Netflix apparently did absolutely no due diligence prior to signing contract. Just wholesale bought what the Harkles were selling. Trying to get in on the ground floor, like Oprah and Spotify wanted to do.
But still...why would anyone in their right mind, knowing what they know now, think the Dutch royals would offer two private citizens with no credentials a state dinner?
The Harkles represent no one.
-- Just because NF wanted them to have an association with HM and the BRF doesn't necessarily mean that this most recent "meeting" wasn't ordered by HM and was unfriendly.
You’ve taken the word contrived too literally and then ran with it. 😳😉
The Dutch Royal’s would have attended regardless whether the Duo were beloved or not. It’s what royal families do, it’s not only being polite but part of their duty as well.
No one is saying that Maggot had no say with what she wore. It probably meant she couldn’t wear jeans and be casual etc.
The Invictus Games has become tainted because the Duo have taken a film crew for a documentary which Netflix has paid for for. I’m sure there are many who participated felt used in that sense. Maybe it was harder to turn down participation after they found out they were being filmed for a documentary.
The Queen’s visit was pre-planned. According to Lady C and her sources, the Duo had no plans to visit initially. It was pushed upon them to do so by Netflix for the reasons I’ve already stated. Who said the meeting was unfriendly? 😕According to Lady C it was civil and I can well believe that.
Why not write to Lady C and see what she thinks of your questions? 😉
They wouldn’t have even if Maggot and Mole were loved and well respected. The Dutch royals would have met them at their home and allowed them to stay with them. The fact duo were not offered that, shows how they are truly thought of and regarded by foreign royals and other VIP’s.
Yes! She rarely misses the Highland Games and is always accompanied by family! Thanks for the reminder.
@snarkyatherbeast
Yes, I pointed out that the video of family leaving Windsor after Easter clearly shows that the Sussexes would have been accompanied by footmen (though they may be woman), so, yes they would have been accompanied and watched over while in the palace', and it is implausible that they would have been seen, waved, and no one took a photograph. The family leaving ignore the cameras, almost as if they are not aware that they are there. However, I still maintain that no way were the Sussexes walking to the Palace, and a busload of people going to the church service at the chapel would have used another route and entrance to the castle complex and could not have seen the duo. It was a leak, sloppy on details, which is typical of them, because they wanted to use the secret private meeting for PR, just before the huge IG appearances, and to start speculation.
https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/queen-elizabeth-ii-trooping-the-colour-2000
The last time the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret were on the balcony for Trooping the Colour. Within two years they would both be dead. However, note the balcony was not as crowded as the two times TBW made an appearance. I just don't see a crowded balcony with the Queen making an appearance; without the Queen, how could the duo (who would he pushed to the back, even with the Queen there) spin the narrative so that they get all the attention and look like victims who actually have been robbed of the crowns that are rightfully theirs? An appearance by the Queen only with working royals and those in direct line of succession seems most likely.
The duo will be invited to a family luncheon, similar to the Christmas lunch at Buckingham Palace, but it will be private and the only chance of photographs will he when they arrive and leave, and they would have to endure an event with no media, no photographers and a group of people that TBW cannot relate to and a whole lot of etiquette that she is clueless about. They may well accept just to get the media coverage of arriving and leaving.
Yes, he is not a working royal and not there as a representative of the Queen, and thus the government. It is unlikely that they wouod have been hosted at the royal palace. However, he is the founder and patron of the games and he is being completely ignored by the Dutch royal family. The Netherlands is the host country, and Princess Margriet (I think that is her name) is the patron of the Dutch team. She has been there in those days when the SS spin was on full blast, but made no attempt to interact at all and nothing was reported about the duo on royal social media. Princess Margriet was with himself in 2020 when he made an appearance connected to the games. Two years later they clearly get a royal snub, but it is not the extreme that is being reported because they would not have stayed at the palace anyway and there would have been no state banquet. If they were granted an audience at the palace, then so to would the patrons of all the other teams. Perhaps an event like that was not arranged because no one wanted the toxic duo anywhere near the palace?
Netflix has a contract with the duo. One assumes that the contract stipulates some kind of terms. Wisely, it would include timelines and some general idea of what they are going to deliver, how much they will be paid and when. How many clauses the contract includes, or indeed if there is a contract at all, is open to speculation, fed by overblown claims by their PR.
They are not kicked out by Netflix and cannot be, so the supposed directives from Netflix come from fantasist who do not understand contracts in business. They either deliver what they promised or not. What consequences there are for non or poor quality delivery depends on the contract and Netflix's willingness for a court battle.
I doubt that Netflix is dictating anything to them, especially a private visit to the Queen (there is no footage, no photographs, no formal letter for the games from anyone in the family ... nothing Netflix can actually use to make them look royal and important, so they are going the vacuous celebrity route). Netflix is however providing the creative and production side of things, for all their projects, but with the constant and unwanted interference of the executive producers (i.e. the duo).
We wait with morbid curiosity to see what is produced after so much drama, hype, misinformation and general nonsense (and a rolling door of various Archewell staff with pompous titles).
It's easy to spot spiel originating from duplicitous duo, which unfortunately is so loud, well-coordinated, sly yet remarkably strategic that aided by BRF silence it overwhelms even those who might know better.
I watch out for supposedly negative articles that seemingly undermine two but actually try to hand them great power.
Articles that say the wife and H will be a 'distraction' (isn't this one of their biggest beefs that the BRF is actually afraid of how popular they are) at ceremonies/events, the memoir has the Queen, Charles 'nervous', BRF 'afraid' to speak to Harry or both alone without witness.
Isn't the reality that they are wary, cautious, on guard versus afraid. Anxious, stressed, fed-up, taxed versus nervous as if helpless and at their mercy, disgusted by presence rather than think them distractions.
In fact, when Thomas Markle said - slap in the face for the Queen, I found is too to be undermining the Queen. He could have said it's insulting/disrespectful to the Queen. But this the phrase creates a visual that is inappropriate and gives the sense of a hapless victim. Those mindful of the monarchy don't say it like that.
The wife and H are on a high they haven't known in months, years. The articles now and soon after will reflect this. I don't know whether to tighten the seatbelt or simply vacate the seat since currently my faith in the BRF acting with strength and conviction has been completely shaken. Those current headlines worked their number on me.
Yes, definitely no state occasion, no real royal representatives of our Queen so no state dinner! 😳😜There was a statement put out by the Dutch palace that the duo wouldn’t be having an audience with the King etc. They we’re snubbed by the Dutch royals, the duo were met with the bare minimum of politeness by the host nation to a charity event. 😃
NBC interview tonight
Buckingham Palace officials were today preparing for further bombshell revelations from Prince Harry after a major US TV network announced that he had given them a sit-down interview during the Invictus Games.
NBC's Today show revealed that the Duke of Sussex had given presenter Hoda Kotb an interview in the Netherlands about 'the Invictus Games, his surprise visit with the Queen and life with his wife Meghan Markle'.
I am grateful for all of those who summarize the Lady C videos. I have been trying to drop my Trotter addiction and had been doing SO WELL....but now there is (sadly) too much going on.
Sigh.
If the Duo don’t deliver and they hadn’t, which is why Netflix had to step in and take control. 😉
Lady C was referring what her sources said about Netflix etc. this wasn’t her personal opinion or knowledge of. Some of the time you just have to read between the lines. She mixes with the upper echelons of society, and although I don’t always agree with her opinion, I do think her sources (because of who she mixes with and knows) are more than likely very close to those who know the truth or people that actually know the truth. 😃
Think about it....there are many extended family members who likely know the issues and want resolution, and would likely want to help and encourage solving this. If JH were serious he doesn't need an "official" mediator!
Other than PR this is an attempt to triangulate William, manipulate said mediator and put both brothers on an equal footing. They are NOT equal in the Firm, and no amount of "mediating" can make them equal in position.
What a joke.
Shades of my narcissistic bridesmaid in the 1960s when formal clothes were expected to fit.
My mother (a Court dressmaker in her time, if you recall) did the final fitting of her dress and it was perfect. The bridesmaid, who considered herself Queen of Dressmakers, argued that it was too tight - she normally wore clothes which fitted like a sack. We though we'd won though, as time was short & with luck she wouldn't have time to mess about with it. Some hope.
Come the Big Day - Mum took one look at her and metaphorically spat pins-
`The little ****** has let it out again!!!'
True, she could have taken it off without unzipping it, or crawled out from under the hem, leaving the brocade standing there on its own, it was so loose.
Mum was very upset because it implied that she was incompetent.
Had I realised what she would do, I'd have put her in a shift dress or got another bridesmaid.
https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/royals/meghan-markles-69000-threeday-designer-wardrobe-is-obscene/news-story/8795b3042acfa86f6f65e1ef367f9ac4
One choice tidbit: "The word that comes to mind here for me is simply, ‘yuck’. There’s conspicuous consumption and there is this retail orgy which would make even the blackest of black American Express cards creak and buckle.
Imelda Marcos, take a seat."
Ok -- I need to finish up and actually try to accomplish some work today...
Mediation? You are absolutely right - it's all a game. He has no intention of shifting his position, it's just to look good, waste everyone else's time and money, run rings around them. Been there... but I refused to agree to it.
Has the Sun realised it's blundered?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/18264232/body-language-expert-moment-meghan-markle-didnt-care-royal-duties/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/18292533/harry-meghan-queen-service/?rec_article=true
Thanks for the chuckle.
I am pretty sure the Queen did not expect the very private visit to be discussed on American TV. Are they shooting themselves in the foot? And what about his father, his only parent since he was a pre-teen. Why do they always pick on the Queen?
I am still laughing about the story about a mediator. Of course, if it does not happen their PR will spin a story to try to make William look bad. Those two are going to be trouble, always, and his family should just keep calm and carry on without them.
I don’t think Maggot took much notice of dress advice. I only saw her in that cream suit which looked like a parachute about to take off! 😂😩She was still over emphasising her jewellery and showing she still has appalling taste. 😳
I haven’t watched any of the Invictus Games, I’m just not interested in anything to do with him or her. 😟
https://ericberne.com/games-people-play/look-how-hard-ive-tried/
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Spotify executive who signed H&M to their podcast deal has been let go. Not surprising, given the protracted release of any Archewell content.
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Spotify Podcast and Editorial Exec Courtney Holt Exits
The executive, who first joined the audio giant in 2017, will stay on as an adviser for a year.
Courtney Holt, Spotify’s head of talk partnerships, editorial and global markets, will transition to an advisory role next month as the audio giant prepares to divide his responsibilities across multiple executives, a person familiar with the matter told The Hollywood Reporter.
Holt is expected to stay on as adviser for a year. In the meantime, his duties will be taken over by a team primarily led by Julie McNamara, Spotify’s head of U.S. studios and video, and Max Cutler, the head of new content initiatives and the founder of Parcast Studios. The transition has been underway for a few weeks, according to the person, and Spotify is not hiring a replacement for Holt’s position.
“I want to give thanks to the incredible teams at @Spotify I was [lucky] enough to lead and interact with,” Holt tweeted on Tuesday. “The goals we set were ambitious, and yet we achieved so much. There is a great future for the company beyond what you can see and hear today!”
Holt first joined Spotify in 2017 from Disney as the company’s head of studios and video. Since then, the audio giant has made a number of hires focused on entertainment programming, including the 2018 appointment of Dawn Ostroff, from Condé Nast Entertainment, as chief content officer and last year’s hire of McNamara from Paramount+ to lead the company’s podcast studios, which include The Ringer, Gimlet and Parcast, and oversee partnerships for Spotify Originals with companies like the Obamas’ Higher Ground and Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s Archewell Audio.
Spotify declined to comment. The Ankler first reported Holt’s upcoming departure.
You should be able to read it or listen to it.
https://www.gbnews.uk/gb-views/harry-and-meghan-are-a-circus-the-queen-should-ban-them-from-her-jubilee-says-patrick-christys/275202
I had to smile at the newly released Easter family portraits from Albert and Charlene of Monaco. Albert is wearing a roomy white suit also. No doubt copying the Duchess of Montecito. In truth, her white ensemble looks like it would fit Albert easily.
The mediator tale is designed to be another double blind for the RF. William, Charles and even the Queen can be tarred afresh with the “unreasonable racists” brush if they ignore this, And if they show even a smidgen of receptivity to opening up talks again with Snitch, His PR can frame that as “winning!” And he can try to wheedle and tantrum his way into restored privileges. Yet ANY statement to the affirmative or the negative about the Suxxits just gives her more Narc fuel. The Dutch Royals have the enviable luxury of completely ignored the two tossers. It’s not their Palace walls and the integrity of their family the 2 anarchic delinquents are hurling petrol bombs at.
Let the Queen issue a challenge to the Sussex camp: We will sit down with your mediator and even christen Lili in Windsor chapel. In exchange, you pull this book of Harry’s. No can do? Then regretfully we shall release a statement saying you declined both. Harry ramming through “his truth” at the expense of what he said he wants—Reconciliation and a christening for his daughter, it’s not a good look.
Caveat Emptor, Y’all. Wonder whose heads are going to be rolling at Netflix?
https://www.gbnews.uk/news/meghan-and-harry-are-holier-than-thou-spoiled-brats-with-nothing-to-say-to-ordinary-people-says-mercy-muroki/275260
A Not So ‘Secret’ Visit To Pa And Granny To Start The Invictus/Netflix PR Project
If they do show, perhaps they will be asked to pass through one of those xray scanners to detect if they are wearing a wire? Remember that last public appearance with the weird look of almost bullet proof under the clothing? There was some speculation of wearing wire then I believe.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/netflix-earnings-q1-2022-11650325682?mod=hp_lead_pos1
Netflix has been producing a lot stuff people just aren't buying, while raising their prices. Don't know what happens to show-biz deals when companies falter, perhaps someone here can enlighten me.
People need to calm down about the Jubilee invite. It makes the BRF look good, & deprives the 6s of their victimhood & racism shtick. The BRF has likely attached enough conditions to the invitation, (no Netflix cameras, no photos with 'real' royals, etc.) that the 6s can't gain much from putting in an appearance. The other stuff is just Suxxit noise. Pay them no mind.
Haz is the Kneepads cover boy this week.
Basically identical regurge in the Daily Mail.
My thoughts: Video, or it didn’t happen.
10 months is a bit advanced to be walking, but second borns tend to walk sooner to keep cup with older sibs. However, hi find the idea that Archie, not yet 4, earnestly telling Daddy that he wants to be a helicopter pilot when he grows up a tad much. File that under his first word is an infant being “crocodile”.
I believe both children are figments, along with the developmental anecdotes.
https://people.com/royals/prince-harry-reveals-lili-took-first-steps/?amp=true
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10732885/amp/Prince-Harry-reveals-Lilibet-taken-steps.html
Re the developmental anecdotes: correct. You have a good memory. Their children are so advanced, with Archie's first words being hydrate and crocodile and also asking for a waffle maker for Christmas. Of course Archie wants to be a helicopter pilot like daddy! I seem to remember LiliBuck$ doing something at four months, can't remember what (first tooth?). Do we care? (no). Where's their privacy? William and Kate never divulged this sort of information about their children.
Hear, hear! I agree with Patrick Christys' point of view.
Trotter will try to make it all about her and take the spotlight off the Queen.
They should stay in Cali where she/they wanted to go for privacy and be deprived of any chance to hog the cameras or create chaos in the Queen's celebration!!!
They do not deserve any privileges or recognition after the horrid way they have treated the BRF and the British public.
I know babies fully walking at 11 months so first steps aren’t wildly out of the possible, no.
But these are the Harkles. Maybe they read a Cliffs Notes version of a parenting guide between the first and second fake pregnancies. A 10-month-old taking steps is a lot more possible that a 14-month-old producing the words crocodile, or specifically asking great granny to send him a waffle maker for Christmas. Or, oh yes “hydrate”.
Do you know why I immediately assumed, rightly I think, that the Lili step story’s made up?
Look who else recently took his first steps too…And then re-created the feat An actual photos? Why, it’s Lilibet Diana’s cousin, Augie Brooksbank, Who celebrated his first birthday in March. That makes him about 2 1/2 months older than Lili. 12 months is a standard developmental time for mastery of independent walking versus first steps clinging onto a parents hands. But it would be just like The Meg to have to make her kid the most advanced baby who ever lived. Why, by the time Lillys actual first birthday rolls around, which happens to be the very day of the Queen’s Jubilee celebration, Lili will Most likely not only be walking on her own, but she’ll have a full head of teeth and be as tall as Charlotte.
I look forward to what the year will bring in terms of milestones for these wondrous children in Montecito.
https://www.purewow.com/news/princess-eugenie-august-first-steps?amphtml=true
I doubt Netflix dressed TBW. Those jeans with the jacket simply did not work. It was like she was out digging in her chicken house, came in, put on a jacket, grabbed a purse, and put on some heels. It was an awful look. To see how an elegant jacket should be worn casually, all one has to do is look at how Chanel styles their clothing.
What I believe NF did tell Trotter was to NOT wear a ball gown, because we all know she wears ball gowns to afternoon teas, and visits with disabled military.
One thing about Trotter's designer labels: No designer is giving her the clothes in exchange for free advertising. Trotter has to pay for her clothes. Otherwise, the clothes would be fitted to her body, and tailored. So far we've just seen clothes with inverted nipples, too long pants, crappy jeans, etc. The shoes seem to be her own, the same beige/skin color so her short legs are not so obvious.
Lilibuck$. we are so proud. probably walked the runway merching her Huggies. like hikari they prob read some milestones or a mom blog about kid anecdotes. of course she is walking. so convenient.
saw that Kate and Princess anne are doing a joint appearance. they need more of these. i like the united effort look. William and camilla would be good too. wish the would do some appearances where a video even taped of queen offering some words would be great. she can sit in her chair and record a few words. she may not want to but it would go a long way for people to see their queen in the jubilee year.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10733143/Prince-Harry-says-wants-PROTECT-Queen-ensure-right-people-her.html#reader-comments
Neutral Observer - i agree Jubilee is 2 months away - a long time in Harkles years ;-) A lot can happen in that time but be sure that the Harkles will be putting out PR to gin up interest in the will they wont they scenario. Also, I keep pounding on the wording of these articles. "It is understood" "it is reported" no attribution that can get you close to the location of any source. Not good journalism but definitely good PR. They are making comments blow up on the royal family for even suggesting they could be invited. Chaos in her wake, thats our Mrs Trotter.
Netflix - truly markled. Missed on revenues, missed on subscriber counts. Most online platforms are losing money. Stock down over 25% in the after markets. Maybe elon musk can buy that too since all of these content platforms seem to having issues ;-)
NBC's Hoda Kobt - shes on spotify perhaps they are trying to do some cross marketing to get ears on all the podcasts and eyes on Today, which is trailing GMA on ratings.
Finally - word that Harry wants to have a mediator to work on healing the family. I have not doubt he woudl try to broadcast it, and use BetterUp coaches to help the process. The wife can dress all the family and merch the clothes. She will match the right tiara with each person with Kate getting nothing because she isnt open to the process. Archie can teach William how to fly and Lilibuck$ can put that dastardly Louis the adorable back in his place.
They must live in a parallel universe.
Harry is a lying little gobshite, isn’t he?
Markle had tea with the Queen the same way she had chicken tacos with Michelle Obama—by manifesting from another location. There’s always a kernel of truth with the lies, a practiced and professional liar slips that in. No one would dispute that she had tea at Windsor. Or that the Queen was also somewhere in the Castle at the same time, probably having tea too—with her grandson. In a distant room, Madam’s teatime was supervised to ensure she didn’t pocket the teaspoons.
“Harry is now protecting the Queen????!” “Ensuring she’s got the right people around her??” And how is he meant to be doing that exactly, from Montecito, California? Until this recent visit, and despite three appearances in the UK since March 2020, I don’t believe Harry has spoken 10 words to his grandmother via Zoom or any other way since the Sandringham meetings, which went smashingly—💥💥💥.
He knows the Palace will not stoop to correct such a petty little fib. But is the now universally teased Jubilee balcony appearance just a petty little fib? Neil Sean, a staunch monarchist went so far as to call it the biggest error of HM’s 70-year reign, if she allows this.
Even I wouldn’t go that far. It would be a terribly unpopular decision, yes, but I wouldn’t equate the two plonkers stood in the back of the balcony as worse than—Aberfan, or denying Margaret Capt. Townsend. Or the laggard response to Diana’s death. Or favoring Andrew. Or allowing this poisonous trollop into the family in the first place. Public sentiment is running high though. The Queen will not imperil herself by playing happy families on the balcony, but she will make things more difficult for those that come after her. She will look a fool when Harry’s smear job is released just a few months after this “push for family unity”. As a grandmother she can forgive, if she is able, but as sovereign, she can’t show such public *favor* to the architects of such strife in her realms.
If this is what is is alluding to, he was told he woudl be stripped. Now he is taking credit for it like it is his idea. Ah, the Mrs taught him well
Hikari, I agree - she had tea somewhere at the castle at the same time as the queen.
Brilliant comment on twitter from @kegeiger:
"IMHO harry the handbag has been removed as counsellor of state - he is trying to get ahead of the news, it was ALL HIS IDEA!!! Because he is in USA "for the time being" and in order to "protect" HMTQ he agreed to his removal!"
I think this is spot on. Harry is spinning what the Royals have told him is going to happen, and 6's spin is that he is not able to be around the Queen to protect her because he now lives in USA, so has asked or agreed that someone else step in as Counsellor of State. He is being protective of her in doing so (ha!).
I wonder if removal from the Line of Succession will happen at the same time as removal as CoS?
If so, 6's comment could also be used by him, along with the 'privacy' argument and wanting a different life for fictitious Archie and Lillibucks, to justify why he will agree to being removed from the Line of Succession.
It could be the Queen, as chess master, will take these two measures prior to the Jubilee, so she gets positive acknowledgement for including the 6's on the balcony, but because of their formally reduced status can put them on a side balcony, WAY, WAY up the back, to publicly confirm they are no longer relevant as royals.
Moo-chers
He really is an insufferable prick
Spouting more bilge
to appease his lame trick
Chewing his crud
is all he’s good for
Aided and abetted by his
ruminant wh*re…
I had not considered the removal as Counsellor of State…I never thought HM would be so decisive as to strip that. She took away captain general royal Marines, but he still got his titles and his HRH—but his comment makes sense in this light. If it’s constitutionally mandated at the council of state consists of the four persons next in line over the age of 21 plus the monarch’s spouse— this does raise an interesting question about harry speech or in the line of succession. I suppose substitutions can be made in the event that a counselor of state is unable to serve for reasons of health or in Harry’s case, because he does not meet the domiciled in the UK requirement any more. But perhaps more is coming vis his place in line. Because if some legal way it could be found to remove H from the succession, that would handily negate the thorny issue of Harry’s problematic offspring being there without having to confront their legitimacy or actual existence head on. Harry’s removal would be a matter for the Parliament, But I doubt there’s a single soul in that body who would step up to defend him now. The Queen is moving. Is the Kraken far behind?
queen: don’t worry my pets we’ll be out there shortly. no harry that’s not the back. the renovations have you confused. move along. we want you to have a prime spot ahead of the brood of cambridges
yes. the US is now my home. applied for citizenship at the US embassy in the hague perhaps. i want to be a us citizen so it wouldn’t be right for me to be in the line. and since there are no princes at the montessori school let’s just take those “kids” out too. does let them merch whoever it is they are hiring
With goods and services rising in price far more rapidly than anybody's paycheck, I think overpriced streaming services would be a great cut to make.
And cutting an idiot prince and his harridan wife would probably also be a great cut to make.
How refreshing to know when exactly this child was born and to see him doing normal kid things at normal times. His cousin Sienna Elizabeth, 7 months, has all that to look forward to.
Peter Dennison
5 HRS AGO
“I’m just making sure she is protected and got the right people around her,”
What planet are you on you moron!?!
The right people around her are those that stand loyally by during the final days of her husbands life, that do not wash their dirty family laundry in public for the sake of an Oprah channel payout, and don’t make unverifiable accusations that undermine the future of the Commonwealth - an institution his grandmother devoted her life to maintaining.
I say it again. No publicity for these two DT, they are a pox on the House of Windsor.
Whether it can be achieved now, via an Act of Parliament, is something only a Constitutional lawyer can answer. In theory, Dk of Windsor went of his own accord. Who knows what would have happened had he clung to the throne. Perhaps the Church would have refused to consecrate him? He doesn't seem to have entirely accepted that he was no longer king.
Can Parliament declare an heir unfit to reign? I don't think it's ever been tried though they may have come close with Geo.VI. What a mistake that would have been. Henry Dk of Gloucester may have been Ok but Geo. Dk of Kent, Geo V's youngest son would have been another disaster.
Anna Burton
5 MIN AGO
This is seriously creepy. Well beyond the usual lies and claptrap. Genuinely mental.
People are saying 'don't give them oxygen' but this is rope, not air, and the sooner H&M can hang themselves (metaphorically, please take note, mods!) the better.
@Longview asks "I wonder if removal from the Line of Succession will happen at the same time as removal as CoS?" The CoS are the monarch's spouse and the next four people in the line of succession. So being in the line of succession is a requirement. Ideally, H should not be in the line of succession or a CoS.
Strangely enough, the DM is still not allowing comments on the article about making sure the Queen is protected, this at 7.32 and the article was published at 1.33 and updated at 3.48 (all UK times).
I truly would hope something along those lines of that comment is true. My biggest concerns is they both The Queen and Charles will always be hopeful of a truce of some type. I personally think pigs have a far bigger chance of flying. Whatever were The Queen and Charles thinking allowing either of those two anywhere near them?! Mole is very clearly barking mad with his latest comments about The Queen’s protection! He’s positively certifiable! 😳
The meeting was supposed be a secret and private. How many more times are the royals going to allow the Duo to throw them under a bus? William is said to have the measure of them, no coincidence that the meeting was set up during in his absence in the country. 😳😩😒
@xxxxx 😂😂@ Misery Guts, it’s been a very long time since I’ve heard that expression used. It sums up Mole so succinctly! 😂😁
Could this be the first hint that they're going to refuse to come?
Dishonourable Dis-charge
So haz the defector
Is now gan-gans protector
Still lobbing incendiary snares
Spewing lies and conjecture
And failing to respect her
Should be strung by his
short curly hairs…
Hari Kari
The serpent’s tooth
sank his fangs in again
Implying the Queen’s being
ill-advised by grey men
Including the family
rest of his kin
They’re ignoring Queen’s wishes
to let him back in…
The world according to barf!!!
All jokes aside, I am utterly disgusted
with his latest salvo.
Such a low, sly, lying
dig at the Firm.
I’m hoping that his meetings with
the Queen, and Prince Charles,
didn’t suit, hence the verbose,
vitriolic verbiage.
If this is the news that the 6s got at Windsor, it makes me feel that Bark Jack & Lady C. were both correct in their descriptions of the meeting. The 6s were summoned, but didn't want to face their irate relatives. Netflix insisted on it, because it would increase interest in their documentary. Poor Invictus is just an afterthought in all of this. I hope the publicity does them at least some good. It's a worthy cause.
@Olly
Harry told Hota
lot’s of stuff
Who’ll believe
this pot of guff
Not having tea with his tatty wife
Led to this acrimonious strife…
"By law, the counsellors of state are the monarch's spouse and the next four people in the line of succession who are over the age of 21. If Andrew and Harry were removed they could be replaced by Princess Anne and Camilla. "
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10412099/Palace-officials-mull-ways-axing-Andrew-Harry-two-four-Counsellors-State.html
The tabs do make stuff up, so this could be made up as well.
Netflix's flurry of woke content, the end of Covid and Harry and Meghan's 'patronising virtue-signalling lectures' on climate change and racism helped to drive 200,000 subscribers away, viewers revealed today as the US streaming giant's shares tanked by an eyewatering 25%.
The Californian company's decade of uninterrupted expansion came to a juddering halt and appeared to go into reverse after it revealed that it lost hundreds of thousands of subscribers in January-March this year, and could lose 2million more in April-June.
Netflix said the Covid boom had 'created a lot of noise' as it blamed its slowdown on the post-lockdown return to normality. It also blamed password sharing, competition from Disney+, Apple TV and Now TV, the cost-in-living crisis gripping the West, and its decision to 'quit' Russia - losing 700,000 customers in one swoop - because of Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
However, current and former subscribers said they turned off from Netflix because they are seeing friends and family and enjoying the Spring weather instead of lying crumpled on the couch.
Others claimed 'there's nothing to watch', seizing on billionaire Elon Musk's taunt that 'the woke mind virus is making Netflix unwatchable' as the company releases show such as He's Expecting, which depicts a man who becomes pregnant.
And some Netflix users said that the decision to sign up the Duke and Duchess of Sussex for $100million was the last straw, and preferred to cancel their accounts than listen to Harry and Meghan's 'patronising, virtue-signalling lectures'. They are filming a docu-series for Netflix on the Invictus Games, which they are currently attending in The Hague in Holland. But at the opening ceremony of the sporting contest, Meghan had another dig at the Royal Family by talking about 'service', while her husband Harry called on the world to 'better show up' for Ukraine before exclaiming: 'Slava Ukraini!'.
One Netflix user wrote on Twitter: 'Making Harry and Meghan program directors definitely didn't help Netflix', while another mused: 'Netflix has been Markled. The curse of having Meghan Markle and Harry'. And a third said: 'The majority of the public are not remotely interested in watching content like Harry & Meg's patronising, virtue-signalling lectures on Netflix either, no wonder their prices have gone up! If Netflix don't serve up better content, the subscription isn't value for money'.
Another commented: 'Nothing on Netflix seemed interesting enough to watch. We cancelled it recently to save money'.
And one former subscriber tweeted: 'I'm one of those who recently cancelled Netflix, largely because it's a massive time suck and there's nothing really good to watch. Maybe produce decent content and people will hang around?'.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10733055/Netflix-shares-drop-22-loses-200-000-subscribers.html
Nice one!
Neutral Observer said, Wonder if Camilla has been made a counselor? I would hope that Andrew has been removed as well, perhaps replaced by Edward or Anne.
No Camilla can’t be a Counsellor of State, she married into royalty, she’s not a born royal. The role goes in order of succession so Andrew is after Harry, after Andrew it would be Beatrice. 😉
Appointment as a Counselor of State is a matter of law. It's supposed to be the first 4 in the line of succession 21 or older who are domiciled in the UK and eligible to take the throne. Plus the Monarch's spouse. Not sure how Anne or Edward or even Camilla could possibly be appointed unless the law was changed by Parliament. Bea and then Eugenie are next. There is no rule saying only working royals can be appointed. And the term working royal is not defined in law anyway.
Could this be the first hint that they're going to refuse to come?
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H is not sure now with all the security issues 'and everything else' (bad relationships?).
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10735203/Prince-Harry-REFUSES-say-misses-Prince-Charles-William.html
He is so close to HM that she can talk to him about things she cannot with any one else?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10735065/Prince-Harry-refuses-say-misses-Prince-Charles-William.html
Going by the photos, Hapless is in good shape. Pilates? Yoga? Except for his balding pate. From what he said above, it looks like the threat is this. "I promised the Queen she would see Arch and Lillybuck$ soon at The Jubilee. But our family will not come to England unless I/we get the Royal Security detail that I/we demand"
We know that Megan demands this Royal security detail to enhance her (faux) Royal status and her entire family's. Hapless is just her mouthpiece on this. So we have a tug of war here, between Charles and Hapless. Jubilee visit or no visit? Royal security or hire their own?
Their Royal security detail is being contested in the English courts. I doubt Charles and William will cave. They are fine with them staying in Montecito. The only kink in this is that Hapless might start threatening Charles and William about what embarrassing parts he will include in the upcoming book.
The hapless prince is not domiciled in the UK, so he cannot serve as CoS. Next in line would be Beatrice. Andrew can only be removed as CoS if he renounces his place in the line of succession, which he is not going to do, or if Parliament changes the law, and I doubt the government or royal family want to take on that battle. Next in line would be Eugenie. Neither the Queen nor the government can pick and choose who serves as CoS, but if all CoS and the Queen are unavailable, the next in line steps in. Anne has and does frequently take on the duties of bestowing honours on behalf of the Queen (frog leaping over Andrew, Beatrice, Eugenie, Edward), as do Charles and William. So the law is not being followed, but there is probably some technicality that allows the Queen to appoint Anne to act on her behalf (instead of the hapless one or Andrew and so on). If the Queen and the government try to replace the hapless one by Beatrice, the dastardly duo will sue, so they let him puff himself up as important for having a status that he in reality does not have. My opinion is that they should bite the bullet and get rid of him.
Did he really say that 'he’s ensuring The Queen is “protected “ and has the “right people around her”?' The high level of delusion and grandiosity is astonishing. He is talking like a brainwashed cult follower. Why are people indulging him instead of helping him? Who is the interviewer that is so dumb that she did not react with astonishment or hysterical laughter or any other appropriate reaction? What do you think the royal family can and should do? I instinctively feel that doing nothing is not the right way to go but have no idea what they could do.
He said that he is so close to HM that she can talk to him about things she cannot talk to anyone else about?
I am going to call him 'the mad prince' from now on! Do you think they share this madness (folie deux?) or is she manipulating him in some sort of compulsive but conscious controlling way?
I saw this article from a news roundup called The Week summarising. Harry is "making sure the queen is protected"...suuure he is. My foot. Keeping in with her to keep himself in the will too, I would imagine. She needs protected from him! Oh dear, cynicism rears its ugly head, blinking and snorting in the sunlight. I do wish you all a pleasant day and week.
From The Week newsletter of April 17, 2022
REUNION
Prince Harry says he's making sure the queen is 'protected' and has the 'right people' around her
BRENDAN MORROW
7:56 AM
Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, and Queen Elizabeth II
Chris Jackson/Getty Images
Prince Harry is opening up about his royal reunion with his grandmother, the queen.
Harry chatted on the Today show after he and his wife, Meghan Markle, recently visited Queen Elizabeth II for the first time since leaving the U.K in 2020.
"It was great," Harry said. "It was just so nice to see her."
The Duke of Sussex said he, Meghan, and the queen had tea, and it was "really nice to catch up." He also said he's "making sure that she's protected and [has] the right people around her," adding that he and his grandmother "talk about things that she can't talk about with anybody else."
Harry and Meghan paid a surprise visit to the queen at Windsor Castle last week on their way to the Netherlands, their first joint visit to the U.K. since they stepped back from the royal family two years ago. It was also their first joint visit since their infamous interview with Oprah Winfrey. They leveled bombshell allegations against the royal family in the interview, including regarding alleged concerns about "how dark" Meghan's baby's skin would be. Harry was last in the U.K. for a statue unveiling in 2021, and he also attended Prince Philip's funeral.
On the Today show, Harry said that "home for me now is, for the time being, in the States." He and Meghan moved to California after leaving the U.K., and Harry said they have been "welcomed with open arms" and have a "great community" there. But he also said he's "trying to make it possible" for his kids to come to the U.K. and see the queen. His lawyers have said he currently feels unsafe bringing them there due to his current security arrangements.
The Today interview closed with Harry reflecting on his late mother, Princess Diana, saying he feels "her presence in almost everything that I do now."
Well if MM is going to dress like her 90% of the time I guess you would....
I do think the Queen did right meeting them for tea. Just doing that takes the wind of victimhood out of their sails. Plus, she forced him to meet his father. But Wills was like, ya'll have fun. I'm taking the wife and kids skiing.
Meghan's gear was bad. The white wrappy top with the black paints was beyond basic, you know Netflix chose it and made her wear it, ha ha. There's a picture of her smirking maniacly upon the Turd while he looks visibly uncomfortable. The Svengali must have sacrificed one of those organic chickens to keep him so miserable yet in line. It's like she's Sam Lufti to his Britney Spears.
He also said this?
The insanity is both sad and very frightening. But perhaps more frightening is the willingness to give such madness a public platform.
In subreddit called r/SaintMeghanMarkle which is anti MM, the chat is about MM’s gaffe (putting it nicely) of painting the Flag of Ukraine upside down during a private Invictus engagement.
Posters had brilliant comments (here are 3 jewels):
- I bet our Smeg will tell Ukraine their flag is upside down
- and try to patent the work "Ukraine"
- Has Ukraine reached out to ask Meghan if she's ok?
This is a genuine insult to Ukraine. She is deserving of the entire world’s contempt. She is irredeemable.
Their narrative would have one think that the Queen is sitting around doing nothing all day.
Seriously...those photo stills do not show the expressions of a normal person.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10735601/Gossipy-Prince-Harry-wanted-emphasise-distance-Prince-William.html
He also said this? Yes, Sandie. It's another one of the fresh out of the mouth logs he's known quite well for cutting on camera. The Turd just can't handle that mom did better with Big Willie and he's the embarrassment of the family.
I think Lady C hit the nail on the head when she said the Gruesome Twosome has poisoned their brand. This isn't a good look and it won't help Netflix recover their losses. Guess it serves them right giving people a platform they haven't demonstrated that they've earned in any way.
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I feel sad for Harry because you can see his mind is in decay. He is equally evil as his wife but once upon a time he had the chance to be a better version, a purpose-oriented version of himself. The wife's clarity and doggedness about her and only her goals and delusional belief in her supremacy are a perfect combination to Harry's most negative persona. He feels stronger with her because she endorses his most darkest side as the right side. It will wreck him. Although with his mind, he may never realise it.
Nothing about the Hoda interview would have been a surprise. His answers were most likely discussed in advance with his comms team and primped for effect.
Prince Harry and the Queen: is this his version of The Crown?
His latest US TV interview shows the half-in, half-out Royal model they always wanted. The Firm should worry, says Hilary Rose
Picture the scene. The Netflix documentary about Harry and Meghan opens with the couple walking into Windsor Castle last week. Bathed in spring sunshine, hands clasped, they’re reminiscing about their wedding day in Windsor, almost exactly four years before. “The Duke and Duchess are back in England together for the first time in two years,” the voiceover might say, “and they’ve been invited to tea with the Queen.”
Netflix is said to have paid $100 million to make various programmes with Harry and Meghan, including a documentary about their lives. Netflix’s executives haven’t paid so much because they’re interested in the speech the couple gave last year in Central Park, or the humanitarian award they received in LA in February, or even the Invictus Games, which anyone can see on TV. What they’ve paid for is a real-life version of The Crown.
With the news that Netflix’s share price has plummeted by 25 per cent and the streaming giant is losing subscribers, content is, more than ever, king — or in this case, queen. Netflix needs the Sussexes on the palace balcony in June, not off in California feeding the chickens with Archie. Which brings us to the latest Sussex truth bomb to detonate at the heart of the royal family: Harry’s star turn this morning on American breakfast TV, billed as “Prince Harry: one-on-one”. In it, he boasted that he had a “very special” relationship with the Queen, who he said can talk to him about things that she can’t talk to anyone else about.
“Being with her, it was great,” he told NBC. “It was just so nice to see her, she’s on great form. She’s always got a great sense of humour with me and I’m just making sure that she’s protected and got the right people around her.”
Cue jaws dropping. As Roya Nikkhah, The Sunday Times’ royal editor, told the Today programme this morning, Harry knows that whatever he says will be pored over. The “making sure she’s protected” comment about his grandmother wasn’t even the answer to any question: it was a pre-prepared line that he shoehorned in. But why? Who was he referring to?
The comment could have been a dig at Prince Charles and Prince William — Harry sidestepped a question about whether he missed either his brother or his father. Another possibility is Angela Kelly, the Queen’s dresser, personal adviser and one of her closest aides. The daughter of a Liverpool dockworker, Kelly wrote a book The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe, an updated edition of which will be published next month, revealing that she helped to remove the Queen’s coat after the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh, and watched as she went into her private sitting room to mourn alone. It was widely rumoured that in 2018, in the fraught run-up to the Sussexes’ wedding, tiaragate centred on a conversation between Kelly and Harry. Harry allegedly lost his temper with her and shouted: “What Meghan wants, Meghan gets.” In response, the Queen summoned him for a dressing down.
Couldn't stand to watch the interview or read summaries. However, I did read the recent "Body Language Expert" article on the DM. The photo stills of JH's expressions are really freaky. The "Expert" talks about how gossipy and relaxed/happy JH is....and I am thinking that is why he was freer to show on his face who he really is.
Seriously...those photo stills do not show the expressions of a normal person.
I'm with you in not going to voluntarily look at any interviews with the Lyin' Prince! Methinks he doth protest too much regarding how ecstatically happy he is with Duchess Guttersnipe and the purchased embryos (I'll just call her Gutter for short) that he didn't want to kiss. I don't blame him. He probably has to gargle with bleach afterwards just to be safe.
I thought that the strange hand gestures and facial expressions were because Duchess Guttersnipe has been coaching him and giving him acting lessons. It makes sense because she is SUCH a wonderful actress! I'm pretty sure that he knew the questions in advance and practiced a lot, probably with an electronic dog training collar attached someplace particularly painful should he get an answer wrong. God knows what would happen if he forgot to mention HER.
Maybe his lack of authentic facial expression that does not appear to have any human emotion is because he's all botoxed and his facial muscles are paralyzed?
“My mantra every day, and it’s a dangerous one because I have to make sure I don’t have burnout, is to try to make the world a better place for my kids.”
He feels his mother’s presence in everything he does, he said, especially since Megxit (“over the last two years even more than before”), and is sure that Diana is watching over him and his family. He effectively claimed his mother’s ghost for himself.
“It’s almost as if she’s done her bit with my brother, got him set up and now she’s helping me,” he said. “That’s what it feels like.”
Today, with the Sussex PR offensive in full swing in the lead up to the Jubilee, the next scheduled brickbat will be Harry’s autobiography. Conveniently, that won’t be published until the autumn, long after Netflix has got its money shot (or not). It’s rumoured that the person who feels the full force of Harry’s displeasure in the memoir is Camilla. According to Tina Brown — whose new book, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor, is published later this month — while William has made his peace with his father’s relationship with Camilla, and her future role as Queen, Harry makes no secret of the fact that he can’t stand her. When the Queen released a statement in February saying that it was her “sincere wish” that Camilla would become queen consort when Charles is crowned, the Cambridges “liked” the post on Instagram. There was deafening silence from California.
“He doesn’t want Camilla to be queen, he’s very angry that it’s happening. He has not made his peace with it and he probably never will,” Brown recently told The Daily Telegraph. Relationships between the two brothers are terrible, Brown continued, and there is “absolutely nothing going on between them”. The situation is all the sadder, she writes, because of the “tight fraternal alliance” they once enjoyed “in the stifling royal bubble”. Received wisdom was that William needed Harry just as much as Harry needed William, because Harry was the one person William could be absolutely sure didn’t hang out with him because one day he would be king.
The move was said to have blindsided the Queen, something Harry later denied point-blank in his interview with Oprah. Tina Brown quotes a Palace source from the time saying that the family was supportive of Megxit if the couple were so unhappy, “But they wanted it done in an orderly way and they also wanted it done in a way that set the right precedent. William’s got three kids. The precedent they set for this generation would affect his children. He’s very mindful of that. So they wanted it done properly.”
In the end, the Sussexes flounced off first to Canada and then California, and the royal family have been left ever since waiting and wondering where the next blow might fall. The Sussex business model relies on the royals, and the royal family’s business model increasingly relies on not becoming collateral damage. In The Palace Papers, Brown quotes a “Palace veteran” saying “Harry is a deeply caring person who wants to make a positive difference. He doesn’t understand that the reason he’s getting to do that is because he’s a prince.”
His NBC interview ended with what could be seen as yet another warning shot across the bows of the Palace.
“This was a life that she signed up for,” he said about Meghan, waving his arm to reference the Invictus Games, “and we’re doing it as a couple for ever. Because of the circumstances, we’ve now moved that life of service to the States and will continue to do all we did before. Nothing has changed for us. It’s just a little bit more complicated.”
Harry was always acutely aware that he was the spare to the heir, that William and Kate would always be in the front row, with him and Meghan at the back. He used to get the Sunday night blues, he said in his interview: not any more. Now, the Sussexes are the stars of their very own show. Nobody ever imagined they would go quietly. Few could have predicted quite how noisy it would be.
The truth about Harry’s fixation with ‘the Queen’s protection’
The ill-concealed barbs in his latest interview reveal much of the prodigal prince’s true motivations
By Camilla Tominey
It was Diana, Princess of Wales, who first coined the term the “grey men” to define the palace aides that she claimed were watching her every move.
We now know that the deceitful tactics of Panorama presenter Martin Bashir, which included falsifying bank statements suggesting her closest aides were betraying her, had made Diana paranoid.
Indeed, as Prince William pointed out last May in the wake of Lord Dyson’s investigation into Bashir and the BBC’s subsequent cover up of his nefarious methods, that bombshell 1995 interview not only fuelled her “fear, paranoia and isolation” but also worsened his parents’ relationship.
Nearly 25 years after Diana’s death and Harry is once again invoking the image of palace “suits” in yet another eyebrow-raising interview, this time with the US network NBC News.
In their interview with Oprah Winfrey, Meghan had already accused these faceless courtiers of failing to support the couple.
But Wednesday heralded another bombshell on American TV from Harry. The prince, who has a long military history and fought an underhand war with the paparazzi, suggested even the Queen may be in peril. He had popped in on the monarch, who turns 96 this week, in order to “make sure she’s protected and got the right people around her,” he told Hoda Kotb, his interviewer.
NEW: Prince Harry on whether he’s attending the queen’s Jubilee this year: “I don't know yet. There's lots of things: security issues and everything else. So this is what I'm trying to do, trying to make it possible that, you know, I can get my kids to meet her.” pic.twitter.com/180vYIj33L
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) April 20, 2022
His words will no doubt provide a field day for American conspiracy theorists. But without elaborating on who he was referring to, more seasoned royal watchers surmised that he was once again taking aim at the Queen’s private secretary, Sir Edward Young, who he singled out on Oprah for giving Her Majesty “some really bad advice” in the lead up to his departure from official royal duties.
Blaming his grandmother’s aides for her allegedly uninviting him and Meghan from lunch at her Sandringham Estate in January 2020, he said he was told “do not come up here” to the Queen’s residence by Sir Edward shortly after Her Majesty personally invited him and Meghan to visit and discuss their intention to step back from “The Firm”.
He added, conspiratorially, that the Queen herself then told him there was “something in her diary” that meant she was busy when they had expected to come – but that he didn’t “push” her because he “kind of knew what was going on”.
Harry appeared reluctant to agree with Winfrey that “the Queen gets to do what the Queen wants to do”.
He said: “No, when you’re head of ‘The Firm’, there is (sic) people around you that give you advice. And what has also made me really sad is that sometimes that advice has been really bad.”
Hence why palace insiders felt a sense of déjà vu following Wednesday’s outburst. As one close observer put it, tongue firmly in cheek: “Who does he think are the right kind of people? Oprah as the new press secretary, Ellen [de Generes] as head of personal protection and Elton [John] as the new mistress of the robes?”
While one source suggested his comments will have “infuriated” the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge, the consensus is that the barbs weren’t aimed at family.
“‘If in doubt, blame the staff’ appears to be Harry’s mantra,” sighed another.
So what is really behind Harry’s latest intervention? Despite a supposedly “amicable” meeting with the Queen and Charles and Camilla last Thursday at Windsor Castle, it seems there is still unfinished business for the 37-year-old royal.
So what is really behind Harry’s latest intervention? Despite a supposedly “amicable” meeting with the Queen and Charles and Camilla last Thursday at Windsor Castle, it seems there is still unfinished business for the 37-year-old royal.
During the interview with Ms Kotb, who co-presents NBC’s flagship breakfast show, Today, with Savannah Guthrie, he said “of course” he missed his family during the pandemic, but stopped short of warm words about anyone other than the Queen. Describing how they “have a really special relationship,” he praised her “sense of humour and her ability to see the humour in so many different things” before adding: “We talk about things that we can’t talk about with anybody else”.
Asked outright whether he missed his father and brother, he avoided the question to insist he was focusing on the athletes of the Invictus Games, currently taking place at The Hague in the Netherlands.
As on Oprah, Harry once again seems to be trying to make a distinction between the Queen – who the couple have been at pains to say is blameless – and the institution of monarchy itself. This attempt at divide and rule in the House of Windsor is understood to have riled royal relatives who remain suspicious of the couple praising the Queen in one breath, while trashing the rest of the family in another. According to one source: “What the visit to Windsor Castle last week demonstrates is that this was more about topping up their royal credentials (doubtless at the urging of Netflix) than checking up on Granny.”
It is not known whether their “private” meeting with the Queen – which lasted just half an hour – will feature on the streaming platform in a forthcoming documentary about the Paralympics-style competition for wounded ex-service personnel.
The duke also said there were “lots” of issues to overcome before introducing his son Archie, two, and 10-month-old daughter Lilibet to their great-grandmother, casting doubt on the Sussexes’ presence at the Platinum Jubilee.
He added: 'The recent speculation has been created by their Hollywood publicists to force the Palace to accept the Sussexes' demands. It's becoming an unseemly battle which the Palace needs to firmly squash.'
He has it spot on. Plus the amount of people who have said, if the balcony invite is true (and no I don’t think it is), it will be seen as a bad move by the Queen and yes, destructive for the monarchy as a whole.
I think his IQ is somewhere in the mid-90th percentile. He can apparently learn lines to script but his ability to extemporize is not very developed. A posh voice can only take one so far. This trip was disastrous to the Harkles’ grandiose ambitions. I think he’s out as CoS and was told they would not be required at the Jubilee. The Netflix deal is swirling the drain. Harry’s gabbing to Hoda was a desperate attempt at spin.
His only observation on being a father is that he sees himself reflected back. Narcissus much?
Who still thinks those kids are at home?
Prince Harry was last night accused by royal staff of 'breathtaking arrogance'.
They said his self-delusion knew 'no bounds' in an extraordinary interview in which he claimed he wanted to 'protect' the Queen.
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His remarks prompted an unprecedented intervention from Downing Street, which dismissed Harry's suggestion that the Queen needed extra protection. Asked whether the Prime Minister was confident in the arrangements for ensuring the Queen's welfare, Boris Johnson's spokesman replied: 'Yes.'
The witch won't be happy.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10736945/Royal-staff-slam-breathtaking-arrogance-Prince-Harrys-comment-protecting-Queen.html
the comments about Hairy over at Dlisted are scathing. Examples:
"Lock him and Meghan McCain in a room and see who gets tired of bringing up their Dead Parent first"
"You know Harry is believing his Mother’s ghost roams his mansion nightly calling out his name and telling him he must move all his assets into Meghan’s name!"
Jan Moir piece in the Daily Mail is excellent.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10736993/JAN-MOIR-shamelessness-person-Queen-needs-protection-Prince-Harry-himself.html
What struck me was that 6 said his mother has done her bit for William and is now with 6 every day, and has been for the last two years. If I were William I would be really aggrieved to be told my deceased mother's spirit had deserted me and now only cares about or communes with 6. It was a really nasty and unnecessarily hurtful comment I thought.
This makes that photo of him sitting with * in her white Diana cosplay top & her rictus grin while he looks sullen & angry very creepy. It's as if she's cackling at his obvious discomfort & unhappiness. Cruel.
the mrs is probably laughing at all of it. he looks like a complete idiot. she always makes him pay (likely help rule him up in this case ahead of the interview) whenever he didn’t deliver on something. i am convinced the Windsor meeting didn’t go well.
Yeah, it didn't go well at tea with granny. 15 minutes? The tea must have been served lukewarm to get him in and out, pronto.
Methinks thou protest too much Twat.
Despicable.
Also, Lady C. brought up Ugly wearing the cross necklace, and as an insult to Christians and Muslims.
IMO Ugly wore the necklace to suggest that she is the one being crucified. She is the victim.
I am sure I am not alone in wishing that the Queen would issue a statement, something along the following lines:
Following a suggestion from me, conveyed by my staff, that my grandson could make a detour to or from the IG to visit family in the UK, he did spend about (1 minutes at Windsor Castle, before the church services, accompanied by his wife, and had tea with myself, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall. Recollections may vary as to conversation in that brief time. One would like to take this opportunity to assure the people of the UK and the Commonwealth that one has no favourite child, grandchild or great grandchild, one is well protected and in frequent contact with beloved family among others, and one is still sharp of mind and good spirits.
My only seance story is from my parents -they were with sister & bro-law, among others, for a hands-around-the-table with a glass and alphabet cards. Embarrassing b-i-l asked which horse would win the 2.30 somewhere the next day.
My parents swear the glass spelled out `Don't be such a bl**dy fool!'
For the first time ever, I've just clicked on `People' piece - with a photo, said to have been taken last month, of HM with 2 of her Fell ponies, both beautiful greys, against a magnolia in full flower.
It's a stunning image - I bet it'll cause much foaming at the mouth in Montecito. Top that, you little scrubber!
Happy Birthday your Majesty! Long live the Queen!
Those ponies are not Fells but are Highlands.
I wonder what Hoda Kotb would say Harry reeked of in their interview?
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I also think that her wearing the slave bracelet the first day was an f-u.
They made Andrew agree to a pay off to avoid it overshadowing the event.
Maybe H and his wife know this and are making the most of it with all their PR bull.
Netflix also seems to be having its share of problems, which if I were Harry and Meghan, would be concerned that Netflix might drop them after the Invictus documentary streams.
Two interesting items from Crazy Days and Nights and from the Page Six column in the New York Post. Both from today, 04-21-2022.
From Crazy Days and Nights
THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2022
Blind Item #6
The alliterate one and her husband were blindsided by an announcement that their role models were leaving a podcast host. Now, they want out of their deal too, despite owing a bunch of episodes on their contract.
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From Page Six in the New York Post today, April 21, 2022:
Headline: Why Spotify dropped its deal with Barack and Michelle Obama
By Ariel Zilber
April 21, 2022 | 9:54am
The Obamas are searching for a new home for their podcasts after Spotify reportedly declined to offer the former first couple a new contract because they didn’t make enough personal appearances on the streaming service.
Barack and Michelle Obama are reportedly in talks with several companies, including Amazon’s Audible and iHeartMedia, on a deal that will likely be worth tens of millions of dollars, according to Bloomberg News.
The ex-president and the former first lady, who co-own the production company Higher Ground, will reportedly decide on their podcasting platform of choice sometime within the next few weeks.
Higher Ground is said to be seeking an arrangement that would allow it to release shows on several platforms simultaneously.
One of the sticking points in negotiations with Spotify was the Swedish company’s insistence on an exclusive licensing deal.
I also think that her wearing the slave bracelet the first day was an f-u.
Smeg's unique talent is in spending gobs of money on luxury designer items and still looking cheap and tacky. Her taste in jewelry has always been so juvenile. All her trinkets look like she picked them up at a street fair or else Claire's in the local mall.
That 'kitten mitten' was not only ridiculous but it looked quite hazardous to wear at an event where she was supposedly shaking hands. All her ensembles are some level of f-u mixed in with 'Don't you wish your wife was hot like me?' delusional thinking . . but I'm wondering if the 'slave chain' wasn't some sort of oblique reference to the perverse sex acts with which she ensnared H and which she (in my opinion, a theory, anyway) continues to hold over H and the Royal Family. That would not be obvious to a casual observer but H would know what it means, and the RF too--at least the ones in the know who made the marriage happen, after * rejected a massive payoff to go away. $100K, was it? That is not a parting gesture to a girlfriend with whom one is parting amicably with zero baggage. Haz dated Chelsy Davy for 11 years on and off, and she didn't get anything out of it but an invitation to two weddings. H 'dates' Smeg for half a year and they are offering her that sum to Go Away?
If only she had . . .but she has gotten 100 fold what that offer was plus a gravy train for life. If things start to look dicey, she can always pop out another Reborn. She doesn't even need Harry alive for any of it.
Back when Haz was a soldier with long-term, beautiful girlfriends, it never occurred to me that he was anything other than a red-blooded hetero guy. The uniform helped, of course, but I would have said that Hazza was as butch as they come, back then. Since he's been with Smeagol on the public stage, the hugest revelation to me and to us all is what a weak, neurotic character Harry is. Being tied to a Dark Triad narc will suck the will, personality and autonomy right out of a person, but . . .it drives me nuts the way H is constantly worrying his hands. Nothing about his demeanor now says "I'm a confident, masculine guy." Quite the opposite. With her knack for sussing out pliable victims/johns, I think * and her cohort learned what Hazza *really* likes in the boudoir (figuratively speaking) and provided him with it. Whatever it is, it is not conventionally heterosexual, or loving or 'normal', to use a term which is now pejorative . . 'normal' is whatever you want to make it these days. Certainly not 'royal', according to the tenets of Her Majesty the Queen and possibly not legal, if they run to sexual violence, sex with minors, plying partners with illegal narcotics to make them amenable to whatever . . I think that * and the sinister co-hort have ample video, audio and other documentation to have a very thick blackmail dossier on 6, which they used to ram through (pun intended) the marriage. He was done and dusted with her . . .until he wasn't, and she made sure he wasn't.
I'll never forget the sight of his face (and Justin Trudeau's) at the Toronto Invictus opening. Not the faces of two guys who had just had an eyeful of something they wanted to see. Sick horror, more like. A visual representation of "Oh, Holy F********K!"
I don't know if Tom Bower will be able to get to the bottom of this mystery, but I hope he can dig up something to illuminate why we are are. Because it is not Twue Wuve.
I thought Highland at first but then decided that although Fells are often black, the amount of feathering on the feet of these indicates Fell, not Highland. The proportions of the body:leg are also more like Fell.
Also her Highland stud is at Balmoral, not Windsor.
Yes, these are magnolias, but not the Great Southern Magnolia/Bull Bay. There are other species and garden hybrids, from the old world, and March/April is the time for these to flower in the S of England.
Toronto Invictus, 2017: When Harry of England sold his soul to Beelzebub. One imagines that just a few minutes before most of these photos were taken, H might have been a happy man, basically content with his life. Sitting with the First Lady of the U.S. and the Canadian Prime Minister, he was in his ordained sphere, there to cheer on the veterans at 'his' signature event.
Then Satan walked in, with her secretary and all was lost.
His status used to be such that the American President sent his wife as an official delegation. What a difference 5 years makes; H was not greeted, seated with or acknowledged by the official government of the current host nation.
With the benefit of hindsight, each of these photos tells a sinister story, different than the one the Daily Mail was spinning back then--one of a Prince so distracted by the excitement of having his beautiful girlfriend in the same room that he could barely concentrate on the reason he was there.
Well, H was feeling something that night, certainly--'excitement' not the word I would choose. The urge to vomit, perhaps? He looks alternately scared, glum . . at a few points like he is battling the urge to cry. One thinks it isn't from touching images he's watching on a screen.
This is the face of a man who has been Busted by his worst nightmare coming home to roost and seated a few rows ahead. Smirkle and her minion are even closer to the stage than the VIPs . . how did that come about?!
If Harry had invited his not-yet-officially-unveiled girlfriend and her plus-one to the ceremony and was expecting her to come, he should look happy about it, right? In this photo array, I'm assuming that most of the smiling took place before she walked in because H sure doesn't look to be in a celebratory mood in the stands. And she looks quite cuckoo herself, decidedly under the influence of something . .staring down cameras with racoon-like eyeliner and a glazed expression. She'd come to merch that horribly unsuitable ensemble she's wearing and just looked unhinged AF.
About 2 months after these ghastly photos were taken, we'd be watching them announce their engagement. Looking at these now, I feel like I'm watching the last free hours of a condemned man. H is in hell now, a hell of his own making and he's welcome to stay there. Just wish he'd Shut TF up and fry more quietly.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4913990/Meghan-Markle-joins-Prince-Harry-Invictus-games.html
Speaking to People magazine, the Duke of Sussex, 37, said the he hopes and believes that 'everything he does' makes her proud.'
I'd say Diana would be thoroughly ashamed of him of she could see him. No doubt wifey must have told him Diana is proud of him and he's convinced that's the case 😟. It's actually quite sad.
God Save the Queen- may she live at least as long as her mother did.
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Terrified
Horrified
Shocked
Scared sh*tless
Panic sScared.
Aghast
Certainly more than just alarmed or scared or feraful. That was a man who knew his life as he knew it was over. Kind of like when a gang member sees the enforcer walk in with 10 beefy guys as backup, and he makes eye contact.with.you.
He knew he was a walking deadman. That's the same look he had at the altar the day of his wedding.
As embarrassing and horrifying as whatever it was, he should have come clean that day with his dad or brother. Or the Queen, being as they're so close and all.
More than many things *'s done, to me reversing the Ukranian flag is one of the top 5 appalling, especially while masquerading as sympathizers. There aren't many more simple flags, but that's beside the point.
I was able to check Twitter and see that Scabbie (not up on his latest name) quickly came up with the upside down flag = distress lie, but that's a crisis PR move if I ever saw one.
Also, apologies if this WAS discussed today and I'm being repetitive. Long day.
(Before hitting Send, I'm trying to think of more Top 5 deeds. So far all I have is they way they treated her father, and the fake pregnancies. Oh -- that lie in the NY Times about a "miscarriage." Hm. One to go . . . )
the Ukrainian flag is so easy to remember, compared to the Polish one, for example, or the Italian, because of the story behind it: yellow for the sunflowers, blue for the sky. She either can't be bothered to do the simplest amount of reading about something or she doesn't retain it (for someone who is supposed to be whip smart)
Not a great way to win favor with dad and perhaps the Queen too.
Article does not specifically mention the Sussexes, but a number of points made in the article seem to describe the type of content or what they will attempt to pass off as content, that will spew forth from the Sussexes. It will have to stand on its own legs and be profitable for Netflix according to the article. If not, it will be pulled from the service.
I just don’t see how anything the toxic twosome can produce will garner enough viewership to make Netflix execs want to plow millions of more dollars into whatever other woke holes the Sussexes dig for themselves while trying to pass it off as worthwhile entertainment.
Having thoroughly tarnished and devalued royal titles will only get them so far, especially when they continue to reveal themselves as treacherous traitors to the institution that provides those titles. Masquerading as empathetic humanitarians who use their platform mostly to advance their own self-interests and bank balances does not sit well with many people.
I’m sure the Sussexes have been counting on every last dime of the alleged Netflix contract to fund their lavish lifestyle. Perhaps they have already even spent it. If they lose the Netflix contract and with their Spotify output reportedly seriously lagging, the Sussexes financial outlook could be stormy.
Poor dears.
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The Wall Street Journal
April 21, 2022
Netflix, Facing Reality Check, Vows to Curb Its Profligate Ways
Streaming service spent lavishly on productions to win subscribers, but now growth has slowed
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/netflix-facing-reality-check-subscriber-loss-stock-plummet-cut-costs-vows-to-curb-its-profligate-ways-11650547424
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10740983/Royal-family-determined-Prince-Harrys-comments-aside-Queens-96th-birthday.html#reader-comments
It makes it clear that he is not, and never has been, HM's favourite grandson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NooePrE5WF4
It's long so best watched speeded up a little.
Not, sadly, Private Fraser intoning `They're doomed, all doomed.'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysEMYni08R8
Neil seems to believe that the repulsive duo thought that their situation was going to be improved, not downgraded.
But, Neil has been wrong before.
Says event will be in partnership with indigenous communities 'in the spirit of truth and reconciliation'
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Does he really not see the irony? 'Truth and reconciliation'? What a joke! How can he be taken seriously?
the tide has really turned - the headline for this Us Weekly is "Using the Queen for Money"
I was traveling for a family situation and did not have internet access. When I arrived, that place had lost their internet. Up all night and a bad nap did not help either. So not the day I wanted.
So Sunday is supposed to be another travel day ... let's hope that works out better than today.
Again, I am sorry and I got here as fast as I could.
Lovely photos of Louis taken by Kate on a beach in Norfolk for his fourth birthday. I wonder if we'll be treated to some'arty'
photos of his cousin in California showing him from the back of just part of him.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10744871/Prince-Louis-join-siblings-new-school-September-Kate-releases-princes-birthday-snaps.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10744731/RICHARD-KAY-new-book-says-Prince-Harrys-state-mind.html
@Magatha
Thanks again for wonderful writing. You are so clever and never fail to entertain and delight with your words.
Cheers @DesignDoctor
Hard to keep up with the thread
with current time zones 🥴
Dutch Cap 😉
Trotter the thot-er
and her mealy-mouthed rotter
Now flogging crap hats
Archetypal
Like fish out of water
They both really ought-a
Realise they leave a bad smell…
Rotter-dam
“The wound is the place
where the wife entered you”
Was she really worth it
for a three way screw
Re-opening your wounds
sole aim of the shrew
And selling your soul
to the Netflix crew…
BOOK OF THE WEEK
The Palace Papers by Tina Brown review — secrets from inside the House of Windsor
This disgustingly entertaining book by a well-connected author is an unashamed romp through recent royal history, says Melanie Reid
Underlying the Harry and Meghan split from the House of Windsor, according to this well-sourced and exhaustively researched book, was the grating problem of money. Meghan discovered she was as dependent as a teenager is to the Bank of Mum and Dad. The couple wanted paid jobs and as early as 2018 Meghan was talking to Netflix. But the palace said no.
The actual trigger for the hardest of Megxits, though, after the couple had decamped to Vancouver Island, was when the Queen removed a picture of the Sussexes from her desk for her 2019 Christmas broadcast. “That one,” she said to the director preparing to film her. “I don’t suppose we need that one.” It was a flourish worthy of Stalin.
Tina Brown has produced a whopping 500-plus pages on the past 25 years of popular royal history. The Palace Papers picks up where her bestseller The Diana Chronicles ended and takes us through the careful restoration of Charles and Camilla’s reputations, the emergence of the impeccably safe William and Kate, the fall of Andrew, and finally the detonation of the royal narrative yet again by Harry and Meghan. Sadly, its publication just predates Harry’s latest marmalade-dropper about checking that his grandmother has “the right people around to protect her”. Shame.
The extremely well-connected Brown is a former editor of Tatler, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. For this book she interviewed 120 sources, many intimately involved with senior royals, and her transatlantic perspective gives insight into the clash of Californian ambition with a thousand-year-old British institution.
Meghan Markle had beauty and drive, but as an actress struggled to land anything until Suits, an obscure cable TV show. One of the show’s producers told Brown she was cast because she intrigued them. “She was an interesting human that you just wanted to know more about . . . A kind of twinkle and ambition that you just somehow knew or believed she would succeed.”
But it was her only notable role. For all her relentless hard work and self-promotion — the director described her as “playing three dimensional chess with you” — after seven years’ filming, she remained number seven on the call sheet. The show was ending, she wasn’t making it on to big-time talk shows, however much she pestered, and no other acting jobs were offered.
Brown describes a woman “famished for prestige, frantic for validation”, who pursued an upward trajectory at all costs, curating her life and airbrushing her past. She dreamt of turning her website The Tig into Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop; she hustled a minor speech for the UN. But as she headed into her late thirties few people other than Suits fans had heard of her. That’s when she went career-fishing in London and wangled a chance meeting with Harry through Violet von Westenholz, a PR director and daughter of one of Charles’s best friends.
Enter Meghan, who was unlike anyone else he had met — an actress, a humanitarian, a woman focused and in control of her life. “It was as if Harry was in a trance,” a friend said. Very rapidly, theirs became a pact: us against the world. When the romance was revealed, she went from being a TV actress desperate for recognition to a besieged celebrity. Her dreams had come true.
When Harry issued a statement attacking her racist treatment by the press, it got even better. Meghan made the quantum leap to being a “global avatar” for diversity and style, a wronged woman. “She devoured her new identity ravenously,” Brown says. The pair were drunk on “the shared fantasy of being instruments of global transformation”. One aide described their confrontational stance as a “mutual addiction to drama”.
William, meanwhile, worried about his brother’s mental fragility; he knew it was happening too fast. In a delicious detail — I’d always wondered about this — Brown reveals that Meghan had scarcely met her wedding guest Oprah Winfrey, if at all. George and Amal Clooney didn’t know her either. The point is they were friends to recruit.
For Meghan the limitations of being married to the sixth heir, with a lifetime’s dull service stretching ahead, swiftly became obvious. Her Californian earnestness left her at sea with the dry, satirical British sense of humour. On a charity visit she wrote “you are loved” and “you are brave” on bananas destined for sex workers’ lunches — cue much eye-rolling and sniggering. The couple’s sense of persecution grew.
Earlier in the book Brown revisits ground that feels like ancient history, but there are gems in there. One such is the pivotal scene in the movie The Queen, in which Helen Mirren as the monarch, alone in the Balmoral heather after Diana’s death, encounters a noble stag. The Queen’s troubled expression turns to joy and wonder; the epiphany gives her strength. As a soppy nation went “aww”, back in Buckingham Palace Her Maj’s courtiers were corpsing with mirth. “The Queen would have shot it,” one told Brown.
Brown does irreverent well. She’s like Camilla Long’s big sister (both are ex-Tatler) with the same knowing bitchiness and precision snobbery. Brown knows that the crumbs that fall from royal bird tables are intrinsically funny. Among the treats I collected are that in 2008 Prince Philip gave his Savile Row tailor a 51-year-old pair of trousers to be altered; the aesthete Charles thinks the gardens at Buckingham Palace look like a municipal roundabout; William’s room at Eton had a poster of a Rastafarian flying through the clouds with a spliff in his mouth; and the Queen was so fond of opening bridges and tunnels that she would dig in her private secretaries’ decline pile for invitations.
After Margaret burnt her foot in 1999, apparently the Queen viewed her wheelchair as an almost theatrical indulgence. On mother-daughter visits to Buckingham Palace, a duel took place: Margaret would make a beeline for the chair readied by the footman. “For God’s sake, Margaret — get out! That’s meant for Mummy,” the Queen remarked.
There’s also a great pen portrait of the high-rolling, arch-traditionalist Queen Mother, who died in 2002. She was an “old mischief maker” who upset the Queen by encouraging Charles’s personal extravagance. Even in her waning years the QM could be dominant and burdensome on the Queen, questioning her decisions, always trumping her with her natural charisma.
For the most part it’s an unashamed romp. Brown enjoys being subtly bitchy about Camilla and Kate Middleton, portraying them as endlessly patient, scheming women, determined to play the long game to catch their princes. Kate, Brown suggests, is straight out of an Anthony Trollope novel, with her sensible striving for social advancement. She waited and waited until William realised she provided the drama-free family life and emotional safe space he needed.
But Brown does serious too. She acknowledges the racism inherent in traditional royal attitudes. A chapter on the excesses of the media and their destructive part in royal life, from phone hacking to the BBC’s Panorama, makes acutely uncomfortable reading for any journalist. She also shows real compassion for Harry and his fragility.
The Palace Papers is clever, well-informed and disgustingly entertaining. At the end, Brown identifies national foreboding — the grave question of how the buffeted House of Windsor can maintain its mystical stature after the Queen. An antiquated version of monarchy must pass into history, she says. Has she the energy, I foresee the King Charles Papers in a few years’ time.
The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor — the Truth and the Turmoil by Tina Brown, Century, 572pp; £20
Saturday Singalong 🎤
Apologies: The Everly Brothers
Cathy’s Clown
King Kaput
Don’t want your bullshit anymore
Don’t want to see you
that’s for sure
We cry each time
we hear you moan
Here he comes
that’s megsies clown
He’s heading for a fall
making our skin crawl
We know he’s telling lies
doesn’t come as a surprise
He’s not a man at all
Here he comes
that’s snatchy’s crown
When you see him shed a tear
And you know he’s insincere
We think he’s really mad
how he’s acting out so bad
Archetypical ex spare
Here it comes
that Harry frown…
Willem Smells Covertordure
Will Willem Tell*
of having to sit
With the ex royal knave
who looks nervous as sh*t
I’d rather imagine
this n’arrow’tive instead
Of Willem taking a shot
at his big orange head!
*I know, Swiss, apple,
just having some fun
in the twilight zone 🥺
I posted the link to the DM’s review of Tina Brown’s book by Richard Kay. Please don't delete your post, with moderation on and also a time lapse due to different time zones, this cross posting is unavoidable🙂
More from Tina Brown that's worth reading, courtesy of the Independent. Apparently, he wanted her to get police protection asap.
There we have it - it would seem H is extremely jealous of William, who was always destined to play a much bigger role. Obviously, this jealousy has been exacerbated and fuelled further by the arrival on the scene of a certain Z list actress. Apparently, he vented so much to Cressida Bonas (at the time) that she persuaded him to see a therapist, even enlisting the help of MI6 (British foreign intelligence service) to find the right person.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10745909/Prince-Harry-Olympic-rows-William-bombshell-new-book-claims.html
Thank you for valiantly rising to the occasion again with your ditties and singalongs 😁. Love Rotter-dam and Dutch cap, also Willem Smells Covertordure 🤣