With people about to receive their copy, it seems a good time to start a new post.
Happy reading.
Not much appears to be going on. Living Legends came and went without fanfare ... what's the next event? Super Bowl - Sunday February 11th? Oscar's - March 10th? In the mean time, some things are still rolling along in various starts and stops like Samantha's law suit. Or tax season is about to begin in the US. The IRS just never goes away. Nor do bills (utility, cable, mortgage, food, cars, security, landscape people, cleaning people, koi person and so on). There's always another one. Elsewhere others just continue to glide forward without a real hint of being disrupted by some news out of California. That would be the new King and Queen or the Prince/Princess of Wales. Yes there are health risks which seemed to come out of nowhere. But. The difference is that these people are calmly living their lives with minimal drama.
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I received a message today from Book Depository that my book is on the way to them from the warehouse and will be dispatched soon. Progress!
Good news. I was getting concerned. Received same message this morning. Looking forward to a surgical ‘slice and dice’ of our favourite narc. 😁
I am looking forward to your sharing of what stands out for you in the book. I finished reading it yesterday.
It is detailed and is mostly a compilation of what we have already read on social media and in the tabloids etc.
It is useful to have everything pulled together in one document, and to have some things verified that we read somewhere but were not sure if it was true.
However now and then there is a priceless piece of new information (e.g. even though the relationship was on the rocks, she only ended it with Cory, and he only moved out, after the Prince had visited her in Toronto, staying with friends ... I can't remember how the Botswana trip fitted into the timeline, but I am sure there were heaps of messages and phone calls after those two dates in London).
There are errors in the book that jumped out at me, but they are not part of the main narrative. Hopefully he will correct these in a new edition.
Bower said he left a lot out, but intriguingly said that now is not the time to share that information.
She comes across as a real piece of work and must be a nightmare to live with.
There are a few things I am still suspicious about. Here is one:
Did they cross paths in May when he was in Toronto, as she said in the Vanity Fair article, but then asked the information to be changed to blind date in London beginning of July? She was given copy to approve and the magazine was published with the May, Toronto information but she did get the date and place and circumstances changed for the online edition.
Interesting ... since Trevor also made a donation, I think this is someone she knew when she was with Trevor? Opportunity to one-up Trevor and virtue signal?
Ghislaine Maxwell can enjoy movies, yoga after transfer to Florida prison
By Lee Brown
July 25, 2022 10:05am Updated
I did read the article on 'how a narcissist views their intimate partners.' I immediately thought of a certain couple. He tells 'why the narcissist, who can be either male or female, is a 'child trapped in an adults body' who has issues with their mother.' Are we to believe *'s narcissism stems from her relationship with Doria?
Meghan a threat to the royals? That’s one way to sell a book of tawdry gossip
Catherine Bennett
The respected biographer, Tom Bower, has been giving some extraordinary interviews about his new study of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. His book, the calmly entitled Revenge, is not merely, we learn, a comprehensively negative assessment of the couple: Bower would like it actively to damage them. “This book may hasten a downward trend at which I wouldn’t be sad at all,” he told an enchanted Piers Morgan, “because they pose a real threat to the royal family.”
The public should not, you gather, be reassured by the Sussexes’ departure, some time back, for California. Nor deceived by their very minor role at a jubilee widely considered a triumph for the royal family. Nor taken in by the couple’s replacement occupation, now they are non-working royals, of supplying bland, homiletic content to US clients. It is not enough that every display of Sussex sanctimony is already made safe by Bower’s tireless allies in the UK media, with an answering volley from royal experts and body language professionals. Harry’s recent address to the UN was, for instance, immediately brought down with blasts of Sarah Vine and, still struggling to get over Meghan’s ghosting, Piers Morgan.
Bower still scents danger from the deceptively dormant Meghan, “a very scheming, very clever woman”.
After watching her with Oprah, he concluded: “This woman is doing something quite terrible to Britain and Harry has fallen in love with her, you know, in a ludicrous way, and has gone along as her accomplice.” If only Harry had fallen in love with the former actress in a sensible way, like, say, Prince Charles did with his now-venerated Camilla Parker Bowles.
So if Bower’s book, no less than the related interviews, seems suffused with a wild malice, perhaps it comes from a good and loyal place. It is to give the Queen a “final happiness” (that “Meghan and Harry seem determined to deny”) that Bower, as well as detailing Meghan’s ex-lovers, her early hustling for acting roles and determined forging of a personal brand, is compelled to supplement his case against her with insults. He volunteers, for example, that when the former Suits star was interviewed by Larry King, “Meghan looked unusually unattractive with greasy hair, rumpled clothes and peaky eyes”. Finding this still harder to accept than Bower’s conviction that reliance on notorious Markle-haters is a persuasive approach, I had a look. Judge for yourself, but to this viewer the contrast between Bower’s description and Markle’s actual (appealing) appearance is something his editors might, for the sake of reader confidence, have checked on. As it is, they must already hope that a response from one quoted detractor, Sam Kashner, published in the Times last week, will be the last to raise doubts about authorial bias. “I found Ms Markle,” Kashner wrote, “to be exceptionally warm and gracious and admired her intelligence and her remarkable courage, as I still do.” Bower retorts: “That just shows the power of Meghan.”
If the reader sometimes feels more balance might have strengthened his case, the experienced Bower perhaps felt a greater responsibility to awaken a nation yet to comprehend the threat of a controlling woman who is tellingly – a point not previously stressed – not tall. Schemingly, Meghan often wears high heels, but Bower is not fooled. If he’s not the only tall man to betray some pride in having grown himself so successfully, it’s still unusual to see this quality transformed into a royal threat-detector. At Wimbledon with Kate: “The physical comparison was unflattering to Meghan. On her own, Meghan’s radiance won universal applause but beside the taller, authoritative future queen the duchess appeared diminished.” Perhaps this could be deleted in any volume likely to be picked up by the Queen (5’3”), at this delicate point in her reign?
But no logic, in this protracted bitchfest, governs what Bower won’t gleefully cite in the Sussexes’ disfavour, while overlooking similar lapses among his favourites. Harry’s Oprah suit is “ill-fitting”. Thomas Markle looks… like Thomas Markle (the more than sartorial shortcomings of Princess Michael’s “blackamoor” brooch are likewise ignored). The Sussexes’ favourite journalist Omid Scobie, has a face, Bower adds by way of another irrelevant ad hominem, that “changed after working in Japan”. Presumably surgery is being referenced here, as opposed to the climate. “Some would say,” Bower adds, “that as the royal editor for Harper’s Bazaar, the Anglo-Iranian is a propagandist.”
Whether intended as an elegant malice-diffuser or handy gossip-vehicle the some said/would say locutions perform heroically throughout the book, as in one passage about a charity executive: “Some would even say he was besotted by her.”
Some would say, incidentally, that it’s unfortunate in a book that twits Harry for using a wrong word (“recipe” for formula) that Omid Scobie appears on one page as “Omar Scobie”.
To turn to the “explosive” new content promised by Bower’s publishers, the most prized revelations appear to be: Meghan was mean on a fashion shoot; the Queen was glad Meghan didn’t attend the funeral; the Vogue staff didn’t like her either; Meghan, with an outsider’s disregard for British niceties, vexed some of her betters with complaints about their hateful language.
Definitely new is Bower’s diagnosis, without any obvious evidence, of Meghan’s “terrible envy”. With his legal hat on, he suggests that an upheld judgment against a Mail newspaper’s publication of her private letter happened because, “as a class, Britain’s judges were unsympathetic to the Mail newspaper group”.
Returning to the facts, the author concludes that the couple’s messy departure for the US brought the Queen, Charles and William together. “They were forging a united front against the Sussexes.”
Some would say – to borrow again from Bower – that this observable royal resilience makes a further nonsense of his claims about vengeful, Montecito-based “agents of destruction”. As for his book’s contention that the whiny – though threatening – couple never had a thing to complain about: if they didn’t then, they do now.
Catherine Bennett is an Observer columnist
'Police have already brought in one suspect. A 96 year old English woman answering to the name of Elizabeth. Apparently she was carrying a Rambo style knife at the time.'
PRINCE Harry’s bombshell memoir is written and a finished manuscript signed off by lawyers — The Sun can reveal.
His publishers, Penguin Random House, are now trying to get it out for the Thanksgiving and Christmas market in the US.
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"The British Are Coming to Boston—Prince William, That Is
He'll be here to award the 2022 Earthshot Prize, he just announced.
The much-talked-about heir to the British throne announced in a short video Wednesday that he’s planning to hold the glamorous and sustainability-focused award ceremony in Boston this December.
He didn’t announce an exact date, or a location.
https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2022/07/20/prince-william-boston/
The narcissist who made the comments in the article is a male, so he frames all his work not only from a male perspective but also from his own personal experience (he had mommy issues). Nonetheless, his view is interesting in that it comes from a narcissist who does not pretend to be anything else.
But, in terms of nurture, some key elements for her are an absent mother (stoned and then physically not there), an over-indulgent father, and the influence of the star aspect of Hollywood.
Yes, I picked up on the narcissist’s mother playing a part in their narcissism. I don’t think I’ve heard enough of Tom’s book yet to agree with that assessment, but Tom does mention Maggot’s relationship with both her parents growing up. He said during their divorce she learnt to manipulate both parents and control her emotions. Her father realised (whilst in her early teens) that Maggot was controlling outside the home (school) and him and sulked when she didn’t get her way or went her way. Personally, I think her father is the making of Maggot character and Doria played a more minor role. 🥴
Maybe we need he hear or know about Doria, or maybe there are anomalies within the spectrum of a NPD? 🥴
See parallels between the coverage here by The Mouthpiece between Bennifer and The Megaliars? Celebs like Timberlake, Depp and even Marky Mark will never ever be forgiven for their issues from the past, no matter how many decades ago that was, but Ben and Halfwit get a magic free ride pass because they aligned themselves with a POC celeb and they will retain the magic get out of celebrity cancellation jail for as long as they stay with their spouses. What is the point of having principles if you don't consistently apply them?
My theory is that all the women here and it is almost entirely women hate hate hate Markle because they feel that they should have been the wife of a Duke of York. My further theory is that Markle is so awful because no matter how long she lives or whom she marries or how famous she becomes she will never never never be white; Obama in my view suffers from the same anti-white hatred.
I do not believe in the existence of Archie or Lilibet. My unanswered question is did the Queen bottle it or has the policy of the Palace been the best that could be done in the circumstances.
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These personality disorders are commonly described as dramatic, excitable, erratic, or volatile. Specifically, people with histrionic personality disorder are typically characterized as flirtatious, seductive, charming, manipulative, impulsive.
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They may be vibrant, enchanting, overly seductive, or inappropriately sexual with most of the people they meet, even when they are not sexually attracted to them.[6] People presenting with histrionic personality disorder may demonstrate rapidly shifting and shallow emotions that others may perceive as insincere. Physical appearance may be used to draw attention to oneself by wearing bright-colored clothing or revealing garments.[6] Those with histrionic personality disorder may speak in a vague style that lacks in detail.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK542325/
PRINCE Harry’s bombshell memoir is written and a finished manuscript signed off by lawyers — The Sun can reveal.
His publishers, Penguin Random House, are now trying to get it out for the Thanksgiving and Christmas market in the US.
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That should be when the new inflated prices for everything really ramp up. I don't foresee that there will be much demand for the book in the US.
It seems like years ago now but didn't we once have discussion about detecting `Duper's Delight', that peculiar sort of smile produced by a duping narcissist who is rejoicing in having pulled off another deceit against their victim? The UN smirk is just the latest in a long catalogue of such manifestations, hot on the heels of the sashaying to her seat in St Paul's.
I don't like I looked 20 years ago either, but I hope I am aging better than the Hapless one. He resembles Gollum from the Lord of the Ring movies. My precioussss...
In these woke times, one may have to settle for a cross dressed Marilyn, Mae West or Cher. To be truly woke, one has to wait for Nevada to change the pronouns on the wedding certificate form.
Thank you for the Guardian article. Nauseating is the word that comes to mind. The article is very biased, I find this is the Guardian and C Bennett is an Observer columnist, so hardly surprising.
"That should be when the new inflated prices for everything really ramp up. I don't foresee that there will be much demand for the book in the US'.👏👏
I agree with you.
I am fascinated by the narcissistic drama. Like many people on this list, I have encountered abusive narcissists. At the time, I was bewildered and hurt. One I learned that the abuser had NPD and her actions were true to the behavior patterns of those with that disorder, my experiences finally made sense. Understanding the complex behavioral dynamic helped me heal from painful life experiences.
Seeing a prominent couple enact a narcissistic relationship in the headlines is fascinating yet troubling. That this couple blathers constantly about the mental health of others defies belief! Any company using H&M as spokespeople for mental health loses all credibility. Harry appears to be on a downward spiral yet he us advocating mental wellness.
In an ideal world, H&M would have individual and couples therapy. Amy children would have responsible guardians and support of a loving extended family.
My sentiments exactly! 😐
I don't think I've seen this mentioned here, apologies if it has been.
https://youtu.be/0rgmpG9qe2o 44'39"
So that is that. Nothing new. Actually the part of this thread which resonated most with me is WBBM's comments about her narcissist, the woman who wrecked her wedding fifty years ago.
My theory is that all the women here and it is almost entirely women hate hate hate Markle because they feel that they should have been the wife of a Duke of York. My further theory is that Markle is so awful because no matter how long she lives or whom she marries or how famous she becomes she will never never never be white; Obama in my view suffers from the same anti-white hatred.
ROFL. I can't speak for everybody here, but I have never had a desire to reside in a fishbowl so that everybody can point and stare. I wouldn't trade my husband for any royalty anywhere in the world. Our life is what we have built, and I like it that way.
I look at *her* and hate the hypocrisy of a woman that purports to be a feminist but ruthlessly uses men to achieve her goals while trampling the women that work to make her successful beneath her feet. She leaves behind her a trail of broken friendships, broken relationships, broken families and broken promises.
I'm not envious. At the end of the day, I have friends and family that I love. She has *nothing* that isn't a gift from a soon-to-be ghosted person. She set out on this pathway years ago and, short of a near death experience, I do not see her being able to change.
As far as H? Ladies....can anyone see letting him touch you?? Ewwwww.
The man looks like he doesn't shower regularly, in addition to being a misogynistic boor. That scruffy neck. Yuck.
"There’ll be no wafts of Scottish heather and bracing hikes for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle as they are not on the Balmoral summer guest list, Page Six is told.
Despite reports the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were asked to join Queen Elizabeth on her annual summer break in the highlands, we’re told there was no such invite.
claimed that staff at the 96-year-old monarch’s Scottish estate had been told to expect a full list of royals, including “Harry, Meghan and their children Archie and Lilibet.”
However, multiple sources confirmed to Page Six that the Sussexes will not be going to visit Harry’s grandmother.
The couple will stay in the US ahead of the publication of Harry’s much-anticipated memoir this fall"
https://pagesix.com/2022/07/25/prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-were-not-invited-to-balmoral/
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And now: which mouse gnawed the clothes of the king of Rome?😂
I did see it on Amazon and then it disappeared.
Just for grins, I looked at Skippy (thinking about some of past bloggers like her and toronto paper1 who would get some interesting commentary but seem to have drifted out of who we tend to refer to).
https://skippyv20.tumblr.com/image/690724377860489216
"It's always something, isn't it?"
Your worthwhile insights are all too often marred by a clinker statement like “All you women here hate Markle because you all think you should marry the Duke of York. (Sic)”
Surely you don’t mean that every woman here wants to marry … Andrew?? Please tell me you jest. I believe mummy has stripped that title off in any case… There is no more Duke of York to my understanding until Louis is ready to take up that title. If uncle Andrew is still living when it comes time for Louis to get married and get his Dukedom, that’s gonna be awkward but no less than Andrew deserves. Or was it Harry you meant as the matrimonial prize?
I will leave the British Nutties To take issue with you over the misogynistic tone of that statement; I recuse myself because as an American I could never entertain such a scenario… Marriage to any British Royal. I was born on the wrong side of the Atlantic, and even though that family lives incredibly well, the price is too high. I admire your queen, but I Wouldn’t be able to integrate into that system of deference and live with my conscience. If Markle had been a person a good character, she would have pursued another rich man and left Harry alone. He would not be in this pickle now if he had chosen a woman who could be loyal and respectful to his grandmother, the family, and Britain, either a British subject or someone from the Commonwealth. I wouldn’t put it past Markle to have posed as a Canadian until she had her hooks into Harry.
And I know the damage they can do to their own children and husband. My father became an alcoholic. He was constantly humiliated by her until he died. And my brothers and sisters were victims of that. Of the four, only I am alive today. One developed schizophrenia. The other Borderline Syndrome and my older sister died of cancer at the age of forty.
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Note: Although, I have confessed this here. Just talk about it with my group.
"There’ll be no wafts of Scottish heather and bracing hikes for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle as they are not on the Balmoral summer guest list, Page Six is told.
Despite reports the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were asked to join Queen Elizabeth on her annual summer break in the highlands, we’re told there was no such invite.
claimed that staff at the 96-year-old monarch’s Scottish estate had been told to expect a full list of royals, including “Harry, Meghan and their children Archie and Lilibet.”
However, multiple sources confirmed to Page Six that the Sussexes will not be going to visit Harry’s grandmother.
The couple will stay in the US ahead of the publication of Harry’s much-anticipated memoir this fall"
https://pagesix.com/2022/07/25/prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-were-not-invited-to-balmoral/
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And now: which mouse gnawed the clothes of the king of Rome?
“Hate” is too personal an emotion for what I feel about M. It’s not really useful to couch it in those terms. She has not personally injured me, though if the United States taxpayers wind up being on the hook for security for the self important couple of do-nothing twats, I will be incensed.
When I consider M, I feel a complex mixture of things: gob smacked incredulity that such a walking disaster posing as a human being has managed to take her schemes so far. She is not, according to the assessment of one of her own kind, even highly skilled at narcissism, because if she were more self-aware, It might’ve been 10 years or more before we realized what an awful being she is. I’m using the term being because to me she barely qualifies as a person. She does not possess qualities that normally we associate with personhood… The capacity for empathy and the full range of emotions, imagination, all those bits and pieces that go into making up that which we call the human personality. These are lacking in her. She is basically an instinctual rage machine. She is a shark, an Apex predator who only knows constant hunger and cruising for prey. That’s it. Do I hate sharks? No, I do not hate any animal which operates according to the only nature it was given. I have a healthy fear of sharks, mixed with fascination and a healthy bit of revulsion too. To be on the safe side, I do not plan to put myself into their environment, where they belong and I do not. So no I don’t hate Harry’s wife, but in the words of the journalist in Morocco— I find her repugnant, repellent, frightening in her monomania and sheer lack of humanity… And I’d certainly avoid any contact with her. But I also find her childish, boring, self important for no reason, shallow and silly. It’s almost enough to make me feel sorry for her, because she is so profoundly damaged that there’s really nothing in there that constitutes a worthwhile human being, and after having destroyed two families she has dragged H down to her level in the gutter and what ever better qualities might have once existed in him… Those are dead.
What concerns me most of all is how even now This Soulless succubus has her defenders— Not just her squad of flying monkey Internet trolls but educated people, high profile people, professional journalists… Politicians. What did they hope to gain by defending and praising the nonexistent attributes of such a malignant usurious nobody? Where have they been these last four years, under a rock? Do they not realize if they are a person of some repute that they are being used? M Has got nothing to offer an exchange in these transactional relationships. Once upon a time she could dangle invitations to a royal wedding and other forms of royal access to the thirsty who flocked to help her, but now that they’ve been utterly discredited… Why does support still continue? I just don’t understand it. And it is in my nature to not do well with not understanding things. It frustrates me, so you can add that to the list of emotions M inspires. The only things she is capable of inspiring and me are negative ones.
Decorah and prevents me from going into detail about what I think she deserves for this merry dance she has let us on these last years. She is not capable of remorse nor change, so neither will be forthcoming. But I suppose she will slide out of the worst consequences for her behavior because she seems to be good at that. Like a certain Bodily waste product which we deposit in the toilet on a daily basis if we are regular, Madam will float Along, just effluvium on the stream of life. But that substance is what I think she is, through and through.
I second your comment, especially because it is so eloquent!
If the duo were just 'one of us' living down the road, I would avoid bumping into them and no doubt have a gossip now and then with the neighbour. But generally I would have no interest in them and their lives.
Unfortunately they seek global power through being influencers using any platform they can climb onto. More unfortunately, they get attention. They have the potential to do great damage in the world.
Luckily for me, for now, I am not British so it is not my taxes that were used to lavish tens of millions on that grifter in a short period of time. In my country we call it corruption. (There are two Indian brothers sitting in jail in Dubai awaiting deportation to stand trial in my country for grand corruption. It has taken more than 10 years to arrest them. Grand blatant corruption is particularly annoying when it involves foreigners swooping in to grab as much as they can and corrupt as many as they can, and then fleeing the country.)
Andrew may have seemed quite tasty in his bachelor days but I certainly wouldn't have wanted him as a toy-boy; Charles would have been too young for me as well.
I regard being in the Royal Family as a poisoned chalice and I have immense respect for those who rise to the challenge - but thank Heaven it's nothing that will ever happen to me. We're a Constitutional Monarchy - it's not perfect but it's good enough. Nevertheless, I reckon anybody who actively wants/burns to be the monarch is the last person who should be king or queen - ditto for a president.
Should Ms Markle actually run for president, be afraid America, very afraid, as she'll be backed by those who wish America no good.
I detest narcissistic behaviour - had I known about it years ago, my life would have been much happier but I'm here now because I decided to use my experience for good. Queen's University, Belfast, a few years ago published some research of how narcissists get into well-remunerated positions of influence and power but remain at heart, `truly horrible people' and, returning to MM, nothing would give me greater joy than if she should just go away and shut up or be else incarcerated incommunicado for the rest of her natural life.
Thanks for the update on Balmoral. I can't see the Queen being petty enough to not invite them, but I am not surprised that they did not accept. Perhaps they told her in May that they would not be spending any of the summer at Balmoral so there was no invite because they had said they were 'much too busy'.
Thanks for bringing your personal experience here. I do worry about the Sussex children. From what I have read in the Bower book and what you have posted about Histrionic Personality Disorder, I think she is a nightmare at home. I am always amazed that high profile people can hide the more severe manifestations of a disorder, but just because I do not see it does not mean it does not exist! That fixed fake smile of hers is almost a mask. He can't hide his feelings so well.
Thank you for the words. I'm going to leave, the fact that I remember my mother and the cruel, psychological and emotional abuse we go through day after day is still very painful for me.
Kisses to everyone.
May you find freedom, healing and joy - keep at it, it can take a very long time but your group sounds like a good place to be. You are fortunate to have such an opportunity.
I doubt this story is true. I think she started throwing her weight around and claimed the changes demanded were 'from the Palace'. She was a girlfriend at that stage.
If the hapless one got Kensington Palace staff involved then it was a misuse of public funds (i.e. corruption).
I don't know the right thing to say.
I don't like MM because I'm the daughter of a narcissistic mother. Today, I am part of . called group; children of narcissistic mothers.
And I know the damage they can do to their own children and husband. My father became an alcoholic. He was constantly humiliated by her until he died. And my brothers and sisters were victims of that. Of the four, only I am alive today. One developed schizophrenia. The other Borderline Syndrome and my older sister died of cancer at the age of forty.
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Note: Although, I have confessed this here. Just talk about it with my group.
Indeed. I do know a family of a narc mother. The father is a meek man afraid to say anything. Of the children, two have committed suicide, one is in hiding from the mother (who, being unencumbered by ethics, is a multimillionaire), and one of the children is a copy of the mother. The only one of the children that holds a responsible job is subject to extreme mood changes and rages.
I am so sorry. You are as much of a survivor as somebody imprisoned by a terrorist for 18 years.
@Hikari, I seriously doubt TQ has stripped Andrew of his dukedom. In fact, hasn't it been pretty much agreed Parliament has to do that if it's going to be done? If not, wonder why Harry is still a Duke? So far as being loyal to the monarchy and the role it plays, Andrew beats out Harry by alot. So far as I can recall, Andrew hasn't called members of the RF racists, he hasn't suggested they are trapped by their royal positions, he hasn't equated the Commonwealth with the British Empire, he hasn't whined about his personal misery on camera in one of the poorest nations in the world, he hasn't taken legal action against the UK government....
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Sorry if this is repeated news; I've been skipping some posts.
I send you all my love and good wishes.
TB revealed that * spent $7500/month on her PR company while on her television program. A nobody, C- list actress doling out that kind of money on a monthly basis was surprising. It must be 10 times that now.
The Sukkits really don't get attention. What they get is the result of their monthly retainer to their PR company, which puts out a continual stream of lies, drivel, fake news, aspirational, wishful thinking, etc. Whatever they get, they're buying, i.e., the NAACP award. That was bought and paid for.
@Maneki: IMO Lady C has got it wrong. Hardly anyone knows who the Dastardly Duo are. Young people in colleges care about Tik Tokers, social media, their friends, et al. They do not care about the Sukkits. The Sukkits do not make the cover of magazines because no one cares about them. If their visages sold magazines, we'd see them everywhere. Young working professionals and others do not care about the Sukkits, and know little of them. They are busy with their careers and families. They only reason we see/read/hear about them is because of the Sukkit's PR company constantly churning out junk for tabloids, FB, etc. or wherever they post.
Lady C has probably got it wrong about how 'woke' people are, too.
Your experience with sounds horrific. It must have taken you much courage to share it with your group and also us. Take care X
@Hikari
I agree with you completely about the 'Soulless succubus'. I don't hate her either, I don't hate anyone, it's a very strong emotion. Indifference is better than hate. You - and all of us, I'd say - are realistic enough to recognise that life in the BRF wouldn't not for us because we have an understanding of what it entails. It must be a golden cage but where we see a cage, * just saw the gold.
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Revenge by Tom Bower
Revenge : Meghan and Harry - Extra Chapters Coming!
According to Neil Sean, the paperback edition of the book of the moment will contain "extra chapters and more revelations". Maybe that's why the book still hasn't been released in the US and Australia - perhaps we're getting the paperback only? Anyway....link to Neil's comments here (around the 3.45 min mark):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuNE7aIRApo
@Hikari and Maneki Neko,
Agree too, very few people would want a life in a gilded cage within in a fish bowl. Any form of public life appeals like a hole in the head to me.
The unkindness and vindictiveness of Maggot and Mole’s behaviour is nothing we should be shy at calling out.
Cultural differences , background or ethnicity differences aren’t reasons that should serve as excuses to be silenced, particularly given the gravity and implications of Maggot’s and Mole’s despicable shenanigans. 😔
@Hikari, you said it best regarding Maggot! I’m going back for another read. 🤗
@Karla, I have no words for what your life must have been like. Wishing you the very best. ❤️
@Hikari, You are a kind person. Sometimes it's pointless to explain things. I might have been much less patient than you.
Re: Bower's book in the USA. I don't know enough about publishing to know why it hasn't shown up in pre-order on the big US book websites like Amazon & Barnes & Noble. I noticed that his publisher, Blink, seems to be an imprint of Bonnier Books UK, which seems to be a Swedish owned company. I don't know anything about international publishing rights. Perhaps Blink doesn't have enough clout outside of Europe to get Bower's book promoted & distributed to great fanfare in the USA. The big monster cos., like Harper Collins & Random House seem to be able to move heaven & earth when they want to promote a book. The book is selling like hotcakes in the UK, you'd think $$$ would motivate book sellers to make it available.
Someone compared * to the Kardashians. That is most unfair to the Kardashians. The Klan has elevated their do-nothing lives to an art form of sorts. As far as I know, they don't trash other people in public, especially family members. They get invited places, Hello Met Ball! They are not mean people. They have relationships, and children, Mrs. Sukkit, however, is mean and vicious, and plenty of people have been close to her to find out the hard way. Her marriage is massively unhappy, and the "children" are non-existent.
The Sukkits are free entertainment. They are like the stock car races that go around and around until the last car crashes. We are waiting for their last car to crash.
I'm not so kind . . a word forever tainted by Meh's overuse of it. In reference to our resident gentleman of the bons mots, my 'dear' was ironic. But I don't want to be called out as another hysterical female by flying off the handle, so . . As I said, I'm American so that arrow is blunt on me. I got over my princess fantasies, if ever I had any when I was 16 and watched the Chas and Di wedding. Even at that age, my thought throughout was 'This is doomed.' Charles looked like he was walking to his execution and the bride completely fluffed his given names. Not a good sign. Perhaps the Archbishop should have paused and called for a do-over since no such person as Philip Charles Arthur George existed.
In her court case against DM, she claimed that Charles (well, she implied when she spoke of a senior royal) urged and convinced her to write that letter to her father.
Bower tells a different story: both Charles and the Queen wanted her to go and visit her father.
She claimed that she could not even contact her father through his phone because she did not know if he was still in possession of his phone (plenty of evidence he was including him saying so). She claimed she could not visit him because it would be impossible to go to his home without being seen.
In my personal experience, this is typical narc behaviour. They either resist doing something for no good reason or demand that you do something that does not make sense at all. If you go along with them (let them get away with not doing something or do something they demand you do), you end up in a mess that you have to clean up. If you try to insist they do what you ask of them or resist doing what they demand of you, they throw a tantrum and become increasingly threatening and destructive.
If an American publisher/bookseller simply imports the book to sell to the American market, then no translation is done. This seems to have been the deal with the digital version of the book available on Kindle.
However, if an American publisher has negotiated publishing rights for the American market, then a translation is likely. The American publication may even require additional endnotes (or dootnotes or rewriting of text) to explain British customs and traditions (especially royal) that an American audience may not know.
I suppose it depends on if the American publisher wants to just earn a quick buck selling the book to the American market or if it wants the American edition to reach a large audience.
Another reason for the delay may be that libel laws are different and thus the book needs additional work to fireproof an American publisher from the litigious couple.
Maybe the publishing company's marketing study suggests that costs would outweigh sales for the book in the USA? While I will pay $$$ for a hardback copy of something that I will consult multiple times, a one-time reading means that I will get a digital copy (or pick it up at a thrift store). I *used* to frequent libraries to keep my bookshelves less cluttered. Libraries have turned into enclaves for drug addicts/mentally ill drug addicts. Parked cars are broken into. Purses are snatched. Kids are assaulted and their shoes and phones are stolen. They have drag queen story hours for the kids, too, as an added attraction.
Now my clutter is digital. I wonder whether we are the last literate generation.
If I have got it right, then, maybe, the Palace media control now understands that briefing only British RR is not working, they will fight the duo on their home ground. I am loving it.
That such a review was posted in The Guardian was a surprise to me. Difficult to read no doubt, and she almost sounds like one of the squad who attack not the information, but the person and their looks and arbitrary connections.
Catching up on feeling hate discussion. I have felt hatred for her in certain moments - example Ulvade photoshoot. Most other times I am disgusted. Hate is too extreme and too destructive to feel it constantly or even often.
"...(the) book will be a best seller and will be turned into a major motion picture/ box office hit. Move over “The devil wears Prada”…. The Devil wants Dior but alas wears Reitmans!!!" - end quote -
Haha, i love it!
* credit for this wit goes to Sugar Mama in comments section Meghan's Mole Youtube video with Reitmans in title
Regardless of when the preorder was placed, vendors are prohibited from shipping out items that have not officially dropped yet. They would get in big trouble for releasing a book before the official publication date out of their custody in their warehouses. So nobody on either side of the Atlantic had their book in the post prior to 21 July. So I've only officially been waiting 5 days even though it will be two weeks on Thursday when I placed the order. With so many excerpts everywhere, it's getting hard to avoid seeing that material when I'd prefer to wait to read it for myself.
The Guardian 'journalist' above whose name I won't condescend to remember because she's obviously in the paid sugar troll camp slings mud at Bower's book as full of 'wild malice' and calls it a 'protracted bitchfest'. Maybe TB would have done better to not describe MM as greasy-haired and high on the Larry King show. Without results of a drug test we can't be positive she was on substances but I've seen the interview and she is indeed jangly and unkempt with manic eyes, all classic signs of something other than just being nervous at doing a TV interview.
I smell fear in the air from the Sussex Squad, which will do all they can to discredit TB's work. Even if we here feel that the 'revelations' are small potatoes about who made who cry at a dress fitting or one offhand remark from the Queen about not wanting to see M at Philip's service . . and we're disappointed that there isn't more Kraken--still, Tom's book is gold. It will be confirmation of so much that we've speculated about here for the past 4 years. The huge stuff about the pregnancies and why those children are never seen and we only get obvious PhotoShop projects reflecting them . . I thought it'd be too good to get that in an expose. Maybe in a courtroom one day, but TB had to ensure this book could make it to press and not have a DNP order slapped on it. I trust his meticulous research.
As for the holdup in the States on publication . .we've had tons of other royal biographies over the years, most of them 'unauthorised' which were published in the U.S. I suspect that there are a number of international licensing issues to be sorted out, especially since this work is centered on a couple who is so litigious. American publication can lag UK publication by as much as two years, but that generally applies to fiction works. Something au courant about current events and newsworthy public figures is time-sensitive and would not be held so long. But there might be considerations for the American market that are going to hold the book up for some weeks. I'm sure American retailers and libraries are keen to get it ASAP.
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So true. The only time in my somewhat long life that I ever felt overwhelming hatred.
I was surprised at the fountain of hate that welled up and poured out of me. I didn't think I could even feel that much hatred for someone.
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A little birdie tells me that all is not well in the H&M camp. It also tells be that, maybe, just maybe... Harry is starting to see the light and is realising what a twat he's been, and how much 'doo doo' he is in! Apparently, a friend of his has told him to stop digging and to start swimming as fast as he can... and very, very soon.
My source is a good one but can't guarantee it's full authenticity.
Steph x
https://thebuckinghampalacetattler.quora.com/A-little-birdie-tells-me-that-all-is-not-well-in-the-H-M-camp-It-also-tells-be-that-maybe-just-maybe-Harry-is-star?ch=15&oid=75725874&share=e591e6a7&srid=uE5bRS&target_type=post
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IMO, he is miserable but still very much attached to TBW.
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A little birdie tells me that all is not well in the H&M camp. It also tells be that, maybe, just maybe... Harry is starting to see the light and is realising what a twat he's been, and how much 'doo doo' he is in! Apparently, a friend of his has told him to stop digging and to start swimming as fast as he can... and very, very soon.
My source is a good one but can't guarantee it's full authenticity.
Steph x
https://thebuckinghampalacetattler.quora.com/A-little-birdie-tells-me-that-all-is-not-well-in-the-H-M-camp-It-also-tells-be-that-maybe-just-maybe-Harry-is-star?ch=15&oid=75725874&share=e591e6a7&srid=uE5bRS&target_type=post
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IMO, he is miserable but still very much attached to TBW.
@Sandie--
Sadly for Hazza, I concur.
I do not lend any credence any more to rumors of an imminent split based on some huge public blowup they've had. All has never 'been well' for this couple. They've had screaming matches for all to witness since at least the Australia tour. Let's remember that the signs of marital discord were that early--only 5 months after the wedding. Smirkle was bored already and the devaluation of Hazza would only continue very publicly from then on, as she treated him like a servant on every shared engagement in the moments she wasn't clinging to him like a limpet.
I think until the 'pregnancy announcement' the BRF was trying its best to work with the Sussexes . . HM gave them prestigious patronages and they were given no fewer than three Royal tours in the ridiculously brief time they were in harness (Ireland, Australia & South Africa). They were prominently featured in every official Royal family event, even though they pitched a wobbly two years' running and refused to come to Balmoral. Even banishment to Frogmore was still 'in the fold'. That could have been a lovely family home for a less greedy and aggrieved couple. Do you all remember a piece that appeared shortly after the birth of 'Archie' in which Smegs enthused about how she loved walking with Bubs to the organic farmers' market and watching lawn bowls from the nursery window? (A geographical impossibility as was easy to prove, unless Smegs had Superman's vision).
In any case, Haz does not have the strength of will to leave her before she leaves him. He's a nasty child clinging to his evil Mummy. He knows there's nothing back in England for him and * is his only life raft.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/did-meghan-markle-terrorise-a-three-year-old-
Love that comment, too! Thanks for sharing
As soon as she signed the dotted line, the love bombing ended, and the devaluation began. Right away, she didn't waste any time.
And the destructive train she's driving, it's called the LOCO motive.
Yes, I too feel he isn't there yet.
It's a convoluted relationship and situation.
Since the wife often projects, her complaint of no phone, passport, communications to Oprah actually may be what she is doing to Harry. I am not sure he has enough access to information, personal documents, friends who aren't hers first to even think and move freely. How is he even going to swim faster than he falls in this case.
Then he's an equal shareholder, if not greater as an enabler, of this mess. Harry's not above being deceptive and sly himself.
It is he who jumped the order in the funeral procession to take his place behind William so that they are pictured together. It is he who also broke through the rows of chairs to walk behind William and Kate at the commonwealth day service. It is a younger but forever jealous Harry who the British press courted because he would give them gossip.
He is aware that his emotionally distressed pics and videos get scrutinised and create sympathy.
One minute we fear for him when we see her grabbing his arm in the UN, then there's this
https://twitter.com/hrrysgreysuit/status/1551829566972342272
This guy plays the game too.
Trying to raise the flood alarm with him is like talking to the guy who loosened the stones of the dam to cause a flood in the first place.
Thank you my laugh of today. I was just on a cruise in the Mediterranean, and the ship’s entertainment one evening was called “The British Invasion.” The Beatles song “I Saw Her Standing There” was an odd choice for the representation of the group, as it is about a seventeen year old girl, you know what I mean…,
If you had to pick a Royal Prince to slobber over, who in the world would fantasize over Prince Andrew? Sorry, but I drowned my sorrows in the ridiculously priced California Opus wine when Prince William married Catherine Middleton. The heartbreak! The pain! My second choice, Prince Philip, the hunk, was already taken by the time I was old enough to marry. Harry the Horrible never entered my mind, nor most of the commenters on this blog. Why wish for the two “spares” who have done nothing in their lives but embarrass themselves?
As to Rachel, I am sorry for her self-hatred; please do not project her feelings onto other people.
I'm sure they will be keeping it classy alright but the tide has turned against these two. The real power players you'd think would be in their corner are silent as the grave, which speaks volumes.
Still no word from BFF Serena I don't know who that woman is Willians?
The article is about Samantha's lawsuit. There is no new information in the article at all. Why write it and publish it? I am bemused. Surely the Telegraph is not a tabloid that repeats old news and views in the disguise of new articles?
I believe there is a special pit in Hell for those that abuse children and animals, and Madam has earned her place there.
Sociopathy is such a complex thing. It's been postulated that the formation of *'s narcissism came, as it does, at a very early and formative age and the source of the narcissistic injury was neglect by her largely absent mother. Even if Doria was physically present during *'s first 5 years of life, she was emotionally unavailable to her daughter due to her regular drug use and, I'm guessing, general disinterest in being a mother to a demanding toddler/preschooler. I'm also concerned about this alleged 'open-door policy' which Doria kept in her household whereby all sorts of casual friends and hangers on could drift in and out whenever to smoke weed or get it on with Megsie's old lady or who knows what. *'s hypersexualized behavior as her primary method for getting attention from men is a centerpiece of NPD for the female Narc but also is a very persuasive marker for early childhood sexual abuse. Who knows what when on between some of these men that were in and out of Doria's house and little M if Doria was engaged elsewhere, out of the house altogether or stoned and out of it?
Tarot by Andie's latest entry explores *'s relationship with her mother and although I have no belief in the cards because the reader can make them 'say' whatever she wants to fit her narrative--Andie does offer some astute analysis of young *'s effed-up childhood, stuffed with material things but devoid of that which she most craved: her mother's undivided attention. By the time she came to live with Thomas, she was a little diva monster already and he twisted himself in knots trying to keep his princess happy--an impossible goal to achieve for more than 5 minutes at a time. He indulged her out of guilt and to make up for all the hours he spent working. I doubt highly that Doria was working during those years . maybe her alleged incarceration was for dealing weed. Tom made his mistakes with his daughter but he was supporting everyone to the style they demanded and the television industry is not renowned for its reasonable hours. Andie says that everyone needs to stop blaming Thomas for the way * turned out . .that she was already ruined when he took over custody and that was her mother's doing.
All of *'s tricks I think * has learned from her mother. Doria doesn't get any free pass. She was a useful tool for her daughter's brand and I believe that she's been paid off to be quiet and compliant the same way * pays off the likes of Omid Scabies and her PR people and her lawyers. Doria is an employee who is only trotted out when she's needed for optics. Not that I believe there are any children . . but if there's a con, Doria's in on it. Did nobody else in the mainstream world think it odd that Doria was not invited to the baby shower at the Mark Hotel? That looked odd in terms of the happy families narrative * was trying to put out. She and most of the other guests traveled at great expense across the ocean to attend this shindig but * didn't get her mom a plane ticket from L.A. so she could attend the party feting the imminent birth of her first grandchild? We know how Doria loves a party . . I considered whether Doria had NOT been told of the ruse with Moonbump and was not invited because she'd know immediately that Rachel wasn't really pregnant . . but then I decided that it was more in the lines of a punishment--her daughter was letting her know that she'd been relegated to the 'Not good enough/hip enough to meet my celebrity friends' pile that Thomas had been languishing in. All this folderol about Doria criss crossing the Atlantic back and forth to Windsor to be a live in nanny for weeks at a time, pop up at the christening, back to L.A., back to Windsor for more nanny duty . .it's all fabricated bulls--t. I do not believe she's been to England since the cookbook launch in the fall after the wedding. She wasn't invited to come to New York for a weekend but she'd just completely drop her life in L.A. for 3 or 4 months to go take care of a baby in an English cottage that was a reno site? Then leave and come back 2 or three weeks later for a christening that lasted for an afternoon? More BS.
The pair of them are like the Thenardiers from Les Miserables. They'd strip a dead body of anything valuable without a second thought. Tell me Doria wasn't exhibiting Duper's Delight as she watched her daughter hook a whale in a CoE chapel. She looked nice that day but she taught her daughter all about grifting, even if * has eclipsed her massively.
Megaliar was publicly humiliating Hairy early on at someone's wedding. They were sitting in a pew, behind the Wessexes? She was rolling her eyes, and scolding him, while all his nervous tics were in full blown action.
As soon as she signed the dotted line, the love bombing ended, and the devaluation began. Right away, she didn't waste any time.
And the destructive train she's driving, it's called the LOCO motive.
That was Eugenie's wedding, mere moments after she'd walked into St. George's Chapel in the oversized and gaping maternity coat; a few hours on from this, we'd hear reports of her 'announcement' at the reception.
I believe that she'd told Haz that very morning, possibly in the car on the way to the ceremony that *today was the day* that Operation Sussex Heir was launching and he was desperately trying to head her off. He looked frantic in the pews like he desperately had something he needed to speak to her about urgently and the more fidgety he got the more she pointedly ignored him pretending to be deep in conversation with Zara.
I think the surrogacy angle had been discussed between them even prior to the engagement and H might have been theoretically on board but for some point in the distant future, not just a few months after their marriage, and NOT to get the con rolling on the wedding day of his cousin. H was sandbagged by this announcement but I don't think he believed that his wife was really pregnant. I think both halves of this couple are well aware that they are sterile and H might have signed on to con his family but thought that he'd be able to control the narrative in his own marriage as to if and when that plan rolled out. Silly b*st*rd.
Book is available on US Amazon, but it helps to search using the ISBN, 9781788705035.
It's free if you have Kindle Unlimited, $6 for full-price Kindle. $28.37 hardback, delivery Aug 10 - Aug 25.
No issues with "woke", publishing timetables or anything else. Wish I could post a screenshot.
@Hikari: I’ve been listening to H.G. Tudor over at narcsite, who is reading TB’s book with his own commentary, and I think you are right that there will be a lot of courtroom mudslinging if the Sussexes ever divorce.
In one pf the chapters that discusses Meghan disposing of Trevor, Bower gave an account of Meghan telling a family member that the reason she divorced Trevor was that he had treated her badly, which surprised the family member. From accounts in the book by others who knew the couple, Trevor worshipped the ground she walked on, so Meghan saying Trevor had treated her badly fits in more with her lying than her accusation of him treating her badly does.
An accusation like that is Meghan absolving herself from being any part at fault and also allowed her to portray herself as a victim.
Throwing mud at Trevor was much easier than admitting she had wrung every bit out of him that she could get and was dumping him because he was no longer useful.
I suspect if the Sussexes ever part ways, it will be a spectacularly nasty divorce featuring Meghan accusing Harry of doing everything but invading Ukraine.
Her life since a mid teen appears to have been m meticulously planned by her, there doesn’t seem to be any room for serendipity or chance. She’s constantly rewriting her past and present and reinventing herself. A shape shifting chameleon. 😳😟
Print postcards of * as Duchamp's version of the Mona Lisa, ie with her awful hair but without moustache & beard, captioned L A H O O Q - to be said as the names of the letters as pronounced in France** - it fits her perfectly.
**sounds like `Elle a chaud au queue'...
If all all else fails, try Google translate, although I'd say `in' rather than `on'.
Thanks to all the informative musings of the posters of this blog who are too numerous to mention. Your posts have been a beacon of light since the fog started in 2018.
Things I have always pondered:
I have never thought HasBeen was anything to look at: his beady eyes, his childlike speech, his turned-out feet (as the Toronto mouth piece used to mention), and his wiry, red hair. How could someone who looks exactly like the Duke of Edinburgh turn out so dim looking?
Why do TBW's dentures look exactly like Angelina Jolie's teeth circa 2005? Did she stalk AJ's dentist and ask for a copy of her impression? What did it take to procure the mold of AJ's teeth?
@snarkyatherbest mentioned upthread that Megaliar is envious of Catherine being a loving mother. I agree and I have also thought her vengeance against Catherine was because Catherine married William and Meganuts ended up with Hapless Harry. I know I would be raging too.
Why does anyone (the media) believe the bull**** that Sunshine Sucks produces on a weekly basis? Most of their drivel is a diversion from negative headlines highlighting the Princess of Montecito's contrarian behavior. She would never visit Balmoral because she would not be able to relieve herself in the middle of a heather laden garden at the gates of the estate.
Sorry for the long post.
Megaliar has so many reasons to be jealous of Catherine. Of course, she’s tall, slender, beautiful, has great hair, wears clothes like a dream, married the world’s most eligible bachelor, got Diana’s ring, gets to wear tiaras from the Royal vault, has three healthy kids who are unimpeachably hers, effortlessly athletic, gets all the good patronages, is the doyenne of several huge houses and…will one day be the Queen Consort of the United Kingdom. But even if she didn’t have all of that, mega nuts would still be jealous of her because of her solid and grounded family life with two loving parents and two siblings close to her in age. All the Middleton’s are physically attractive people. If Thomas had been able to hold his own with Michael Middleton in the Silver foxy dad category, he wouldn’t have been ghosted and treated like an embarrassment. He would’ve been at the wedding.
Catherine is able to be a loving mother to her children because her parents gave her a role model of how to be that. And Megan that parents taught her how to be what she is. So there’s that.
Whenever Harry walks, with his feet splayed and legs akimbo, he reminds me exactly of the cartoon character Beetle Bailey, If you are familiar with him. Harry is oddly built as so is his wife… If you ever look at them walking together, it’s glaringly obvious that they are never in sync with their steps and their body movements which couples who are on the same wave length will tend to mirror each others body language and stride rhythms. Compare William in Catherine on engagement with the Suxxits when they are out together. They clash in every conceivable way because they’ve never been in sync.
For having so many physical attributes of his grandfather, Harry is such a homely article. As a child he had fine straight strawberry blonde hair. The vast majority of human beings go through an awkward stage in adolescence though I don’t really recall William having an awkward stage. H’s Looks changed so much in the less than two years between his intake as a new boy at Eton and when he was 14 or so… To call puberty on kind to him would be an understatement.
He should’ve been sent to Gordonstoun and maybe this whole mess could have been avoided. That had to have been a better fit for Harry’s temperament then poncey Eton… Where Tom Hiddleston incidentally was a classmate of William’s. Tom would go onto are in a double first and classics from Cambridge, Just another example of how H was totally out-classed at that school.
Know I've said goodnight but just heard Bower will reveal more in a later paperback. Don't believe this is a moneymaking ploy. Genuinely believe he'll release it on same day as Harry's 'Whinefest'. Couldn't delay the book we have any longer cos he KNEW we were getting impatient😎
Yes, I remember the Beetle Bailey cartoon (LOL). You are right, Hapless and TBW are always out of sync. I think it's because Megsy is always trying to Zola Budd her soulmate to the nearest sand trap. Can you imagine what life would be like competing with her every minute of every day? No wonder why he looks like he's aged twenty years in the last four.
Oh, for the good ol' days when there was one Sunshine Sacks posting a week. The PR postings are now multiple and daily.
If * was paying $7500/month as a nobody actress, and presumably $75,000/month with Hairy's money, it's now gone to at least $300,000/month since Tom Bower's book debuted.
Mr. Sukkit: say goodbye to your inheritance sooner rather than later.
“Megsy’s always trying to Zola Budd her soulmate into the nearest sand trap” wins Hikari’s Post of the Day. 🥇Brava.
You might have to explain that reference, but I think most of us here have been around long enough to get it. So true, a narc absolutely cannot allow anyone else around them to shine.
Harry made the same mistake his father did in choice of wife. Both married a woman who appeared to adore them, and since both require excessive admiration and ego-stroking, they expected their wives to fill those needs. Unbeknownst to them, however, that it’s married a woman who herself requires excessive admiration and ego stroking. C’est Le impasse.
I am sapiosexual. H is lacking in intelligence. In short, Dullards like H dont light my fire. I also avoid men with Mommy issues.
I suspect H has unconventional sexual appetites. It took a scheming, ambitious, experienced person like M to fulfil and/or facilitate them. She could write a best seller on kinky x-rated love bombing. Perhaps her next act could be as a Madame in Las Vegas catering to the rich and powerful. Bet she has some world class tricks.
Opus, you should be aware that women who refuse to use sexual favors for career advancement or financial gain have no respect for faux feminist sexual opportunists.
She claimed/damaged several lives. I escaped alive. I am instinctively drawn to friendships with older women who repeat that pattern in different yet still painful ways. The subconscious is powerful. Now that I am aware of my weakness, I need to be certain to stop repeating destructive patterns.
The Sussexes ( and others like Amber Heard) have encouraged discussion of personality disorders. I hope that this awareness helps other survivors of psychological abuse.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex denies she lied to Oprah Winfrey about growing up an only child
At https://uk.yahoo.com/news/meghan-duchess-sussex-denies-she-183053764.html
Cheers to DesignDoc, Karla
and WildBoar, thank you 😊
@WildBoar
Love LAHOOQ, delish!
How about
The Scream by Munch
Elle Crie
Elle a froid au coeur
LAFOOC?
Sorry Maneki, bit messy 🥴
Glasgow Kiss*
Their invite to Balmoral
More lies, folderol
Haz not wanted
nor his manky mongrel
The Queen’s had enough
taken it’s toll
All over for red rover
and sayonara to moll, lol…
*head-butt
@Lily
Hahaha, relieving herself at
Balmoral gates
Guilding the heather, vulgaris
Zola Budd, blast from the past
who knows who kicked first
I’m glad to see they’re now mates
He has an impeccable rep. My sources in publication have said the hold up with Harry's book is that J.R. Moehringer won't put just any bullshit that Harry says in that book. I've got it on good authority that Harry tried to insert that bullshit about Diana dying because she was in a relationship with a darker skinned gentleman and it was refused on multiple levels, starting with Moehringer. Meghan can meet with him until the cows come home. Unless she's telling the truth with verified receipts, she wasted her time.
I guess it is too much to ask that she realize that nothing she can ever do or say will ever make her well-liked.
I'm no big promoter of Amazon--they don't need little old me to support them!--but I doubt they would connive to sell a much more expensive version, available in, what? three weeks? over a very cheap, immediately available version for $6.
That said, I just found it via the usual search. I opened a new screen, put in the title, specified "books," and there it was under New Releases. #20 in popularity. So either SOMEONE's buying it, or those algorithms are busy!
Good luck, all!
The Duchess of Sussex’s account of her upbringing in her Oprah interview was not meant to be “objective fact” but a subjective statement of her feelings, her own lawyers have argued in a defamation case brought by her estranged sister.
Will the defamation case go forward? That's what this Enquiring Mind really wants to know!
I never got my PhD in Bullsh*tology but I feel like I earned it so please call me Dr Este going forward and know a bonafide, self-proclaimed, uninsured yet fully bonded on Enron cryptocurrency Doctor of Bulls*t is now up in this crib!
https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/royals/meghan-markle-denies-she-lied-to-oprah-about-being-an-only-child/news-story/8706bac5fc120be967411c69309ceeaf
Also, the LAHOOQ leaves me baffled. Explanation? Thanks!
@Karla: Always put your self worth first in any situation. I have an understanding of parents with BPD.
On CDAN * used to be regularly excoriated; with the latest "blind" she's becoming a laughingstock.
LAHOOQ! That's a good one. I had a good laugh! (I didn't know that one).
@Magatha
Oui, elle a froid au cœur! Not sure there's an acronym for that. Please don't apologise, your ditties are always welcome.
Speculation 1: Secret wedding in Botswana? There is a long list of legal requirements for foreigners to get married in Botswana. No way the duo jumped through all those hoops! However, as in many African countries, a customary marriage is also legally recognized in Botswana. All that is required for a customary marriage is the consent of the local chief. Such a marriage would be much easier to arrange, but impossible to keep secret. Any Africans involved would have spilled the beans to the media long ago. Besides, the duo were not in Africa three days before the spectacle wedding.
My theory is that there might have been some kind of secret wedding before the spectacle wedding. She married Trevor in a court in Los Angeles a few days before her Jamaican spectacle (neither her or Trevor have ever explained why it was 'secret'). She is a known liar, at the very least, so she may have just lied to Oprah, and the world. Why did he go along with it if it was a lie?
I just find that whole story very confusing and am disappointed that Bower was not able to dig deep to answer some questions. I just have the niggling feeling that there was some truth to that story, wrapped in the packaging of lies and confusion that mat be symptoms of a severe mental/personality disorder.
i love this i didn’t lie it’s subjective truth. gotta give the gal kudos for having an excuse for everything and keeping it in word salad terms
Sandie. i think k she convinced H that they had a marriage ceremony somewhere. he maybe too stuoid to realize it wasn’t leafal. perhaps the three days before was the second of the many vows exchanged.. i also think i pregnancy was involved perhaps the surrogate miscarried for her and voila it’s too late marriage at st george chapel already announced. can’t back out now. perhaps the queen found all of this out before or around the time of the public wedding hence her glare.
Knitwit and Karla and all other impacted by narcs. we do appreciate your prospective. the longer H is in this the harder it will be for him to every come out. i do think if she is burned too bad she will drive him to suicide and probably because she wants to be sporting with widows tweeds to compete with the iconic Catherine photo at Prince Philips funeral casting for archie will have to be top notch to match the Jackie Kennedy John John iconic photo.
Most people will have a biased, and incorrect, view of what happened at the 1984 Olympics, so how you interpret a reference to Zola Budd depends on which story you have in your mind. The Wikipedia entry has details of what actually happened.
The truth is what I say it is!
Can't make me say something I don't wanna to say!!
I'm gonna scream, stomp my feet, throw hot tea and then drop you like dirty laundry, if you don't do what I want!
Good luck Smeggiddee controlling that all important narrative. Too bad the thread keeps unspooling, slipping just out of your grasp.
It's a cruel cruel summer, leaving me here on my own...
Serena, Serena, where ARE you? Our Little Mermaid neeeeds you now!
For your reading pleasure...
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Perhaps I am wrong and Diana is the only draw card he has and there will be nothing at all about the deranged claw in the first part of the memoir. I just cannot imagine her not dominating and exerting control.
L A H O O Q
In English pronunciation of the names of these letters (not sounds) is `'Ell, 'Ay `(hay with a dropped `h') Aitch, Oh, Oh, Queue' which is meaningless. In French though, it sounds like `Elle a chaud (pron `show') au queue'.
Literal meaning `She has heat in the tail' ie `She's hot for it'/ `She's hot in the ****' or, to be canine, `She's on heat'
Re. Megsie's (Second) Secret Marriage
* just loves her 'secrets' . . Having a secret gives her a feeling of superiority which she can hold over people. It's Narc fuel. We know she's extremely repetitive, lacking in imagination, so if she gets away with something once, she'll do it again. Trevor sounds like her dad and Harry--acquiescing to any demand of his princess in order to appease her, no matter how bizarre and crackbrained it seems to normal minds.
*If* the Archbishop of Canterbury came all the way from Lambeth Palace to Frogmore Cottage (where I remain unconvinced that the Harkles ever condescended to spend any time--* didn't get Windsor Castle so it would have been entirely in her wheelhouse to refuse to stay at Frogmore, despite spending/absconding with the money Chas gave them for reno) . .ridiculous to my way of thinking but perhaps he'd come for a rehearsal or pastoral counseling for the couple who needed it more than anyone has ever needed it--I could see him agreeing to let them read out the vows they'd written to him in a private meeting, whether it was in the garden or wherever . . after they had pitched a wobbly no doubt that these DIY vows were unacceptable in the CoE ceremony and having been denied reciting them in the church--and then saying a prayer. Narcs are absolutely determined to get their way by any means, even if it means making things up altogether. It wouldn't have mattered at all what Welby told her . . she can crow that she made him 'marry' them in advance. If any of that story even happened.
A normal, mature and non-devious person would understand that if any such meeting took place, it was a private devotional NOT a real ceremony of any kind. But I can see her orchestrating this for the sole purpose of having some reason to entrap Welby in scandal later or have some item for blackmail . . or some reason to later deny that he married them legitimately, and demanding a huge payout for the 'trauma'. Basically to allow him to twist in the wind. She launched that little salvo like a grenade in the Orcah interview. (No, that is not a typo. A meeting between Big O and * is two apex predators circling each other wondering who has the advantage. FYI to *: Orcas eat sharks. Specifically they devour the livers and leave the rest to rot. Even Great Whites will flee the area where orcas cruise. Orcas are mammals with much larger and more sophisticated brains than humans have. Sharks are cold-blooded fish with no reasoning capabilities, only instinctual hunger and urge to devour anything they come across, unless it's an Orca. Advantage: O.)
Welby did have to bleat his denials to the press after *'s little stunt, so she had her moment of twisted victory. People are still talking about it. If Welby was one of those charmed by Snake Eyes, let's hope he's learned his lesson. He won't be one of the ones TB was able to speak to about *, but if he could, I imagine Welby would have tons to say, including about his whereabouts on July 8, 2019 when he was supposedly performing a 'secret' christening in Windsor whilst simultaneously presiding over a church synod in York some 300 miles away.
Samantha lawsuit
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By me for me, England, United Kingdom, 2 hours ago
Subjective statement or her truth. Either way, to the rest of the world it's known as lies. I would love to see Meghan cross examined by Johnny Depp's legal team.
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Says-It-How-It-Is, chelmsford, United Kingdom, 13 minutes ago
@By me for me - forget Johnny Depps team, we'd all love to see her interviewed by Piers Morgan! It should ne a PPV. event. I'd pay for it!!
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Lucy Lucy, UK, United Kingdom, 17 minutes ago
As awful as Markle is and she is dreadful, I actually lay the blame squarely at Harrys door. He's the one who brought her into the RF and the UK, if it wasn't for him we would never of heard of this woman. He also enables her and goes along with her lies, Oprah is/was another enabler of Markles lies, they disgust me.
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Lucy Lucy, UK, United Kingdom, 10 minutes ago
Samantha was right from the start of this circus, the problem was her delivery and the claims she made sounded so outlandish, who'd ever have thought those claims she made early on would come true..? Samantha made Markle sound awful .. and she was right.
I think not. Son of the Prince of Wales or no, I think Harry and his sl*g would be expected to make an appointment to see the Archbishop in his study. She lies, without question. But which details is she fabricating and which have truth? Did he visit them at KP? Wouldn't be very dignified if so. Regardless of where this meeting took place, she's engineered a he said/she said scenario in which the truth is what * says it is. She can always claim a misunderstanding (which of course would be *his* fault).
Recollections may vary.
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@Fifi As I recall, Zola Budd was a runner who allegedly, perhaps, tripped a "friend" who was also in the race as soon as she got in front of her.
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An inaccurate but no doubt firmly held view/account of what happened. I rest my case!
So what does a reference to Zola Budd mean? It all depends on what story the person using the term believes, and what story the person reading believes. So, basically, it means whatever you choose it to mean. Perfect reasoning, MM style!
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Does anyone think a jury will accept that whatever MM claims to be true must be true in all circumstances if it is what she has decided, in the moment, is the truth? Amber Heard did not get away with it (pledge/donate, for example). I wonder if the claw will?
They were living in Nottingham Cottage at Kensington Palace at the time. Frogmore Cottage was still way into the future.
Your explanation of what really happened is reasonable and makes perfect sense. Remember Welby was completely under her spell at the time. Her love bombing of him was evident during the 'spectacle' wedding ceremony.
I do find it very odd that she somehow found a way to repeat what happened in her marriage to Trevor. It is like she has a story in her mind and whoever the latest man is just slots in to her fantasy narrative.
Your explanation that it is all about domination and control, beyond reason and sometimes dangerously and destructively so, must be the reason for so much that does not make sense. The pathology runs deep in that one!
27 July 2022, 11:50am
Did Meghan Markle grow up as an only child? She said she did, in that famously awful Oprah interview. Yet Samantha Markle, her half-sister, has taken her to court over the claim. She argues that Meghan made her feel ‘humiliation, shame and hatred on a worldwide scale.’
Rather than defending the veracity of their client’s assertion, the Duchess of Sussex’s lawyers have chosen instead to say that Meghan’s claim was ‘obviously not meant to be a statement of objective fact'. In other words, duh, people – Meghan knows she has two half-siblings, Samantha and Thomas. No, her remark was, according to her lawyers, ‘a textbook example of a subjective statement about how a person feels about her childhood'.
Well, there is something objectively hilarious about that use of ‘textbook’. Haven’t you read all those textbooks in which people claim to be only children when they aren’t? The official statements of the Duke and Duchess often deploy this torturously sub-Freudian lingo – as if not really written for public consumption, let alone clarity, but for two pairs of eyes in particular. Harry and Meghan’s apparent addiction to therapy talk – as an outlet for self-pity – o
That may be why the Markle story holds such a sway over the public imagination. We are living in the post-truth age, a time of alternative facts, fake news and algorithmic distortions. Meghan Markle is the Grand Duchess of Post-Truthiness, which is why she has gravitated back to Hollywood, the la la land where rich people can buy their reality and blather on endlessly about mental well-being. Their official Instagram, Sussexroyal™ is almost a parody of this feelings-first worldview: ‘Today, I feel …’ declares one post. You – yes, you – fill in the blank.
Maybe this really is the future. Right-wing blowhards like to say that facts don’t care about your feelings. Meghan proves them wrong: her feelings don’t care about your facts. Harry and Meghan represent the ascendant generations of millennials and Zoomers, so many of whom have been trained, almost brainwashed to feel, not think. It doesn’t matter what happens or happened. All that matters is your emotional response. Your precious ego is the sun around which everything else must orbit.
As for the Markles, they prove Tolstoy’s line that each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Their bitterness towards each other is manna from tabloid hell. The father falls out repeatedly with his daughter. Samantha has already written a book called The Diary of Princess Pushy's Sister and attacks her on Twitter.
Then again, in Meghan’s universe, none of that needs to be true. Not objectively, anyway.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/freddy-gray
WRITTEN BY Freddy Gray
Deputy editor of The Spectator
@Fifi As I recall, Zola Budd was a runner who allegedly, perhaps, tripped a "friend" who was also in the race as soon as she got in front of her.
Zola Budd was demonized for being from South Africa. Video showed that she (Budd) was pushed from behind and was not at fault. Budd's fault was that she was too shy to defend herself against the accusations of a hysterical prima donna. https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a21751547/zola-budd-after-the-fall/
I do find it very odd that she somehow found a way to repeat what happened in her marriage to Trevor. It is like she has a story in her mind and whoever the latest man is just slots in to her fantasy narrative.
Bingo. That's it exactly. For a Narc every single person in their lives no matter who, from service people to intimate partners to parents and children only exist as bit players in their personal life drama. *'s personal fantasies repeat like a broken record . . cosplaying Diana et al. Stealing bits and pieces from other celebrities she envies. She is determined to will her own version of reality into existence . .and if she's thwarted, she just lies about it and then makes sure those that told her No pay for it in very humiliating ways.
Your explanation that it is all about domination and control, beyond reason and sometimes dangerously and destructively so, must be the reason for so much that does not make sense. The pathology runs deep in that one!
I have my doubts about Mr. Welby's, shall we say, authenticity as a dedicated minister of the Lord. One does not get to his position without being a politician first . . and he's been on the record as essentially being an atheist. As such, his role is essentially playacting at the ceremonial functions. God can work through flawed people and even non-believers, so Welby's own personal faith or lack of it does not prevent him from performing a legitimate spiritual marriage. I do not like him but in this instance, I do sympathize with him because he didn't do anything wrong. Even if he *had* run through the entire wedding ceremony and pronounced them man and wife . . there were no witnesses, which in itself would negate anything she 'thinks' happened. Couples run through their vows all the time in rehearsal and it is understood by everyone (except maybe *) that a 'rehearsal' is not the official event--especially if we only have her word that anything of the sort happened. Maybe she's been watching too many staged clandestine Royal weddings on the Showtime network. Secret marriages amongst the nobility were commonplace if the intended was 'unsuitable' . . say, a commoner (and who is more common than *, I ask you?)
* can have as many fake fantasy island/fantasy bush/fantasy garden ceremonies as she wants; doesn't make them all legit.
If Welby agreed to listen to the no doubt puke-inducing word salad they'd dedicated to one another because gee, they'd worked so hard on them and were crushed that they were not permissible in the wedding ceremony, that is in the vein of a pastor who is engaged in premarital counseling of a couple listening to the promises they are making to each other.
Nothing wrong in that; he thought he was doing them a kindness . . and look how it's turned around to bite him in his vestment-clad behind.
* was determined to get her way and then throw him under the bus because she's got contempt for any and everybody who has ever helped her or done anything nice in any way. The only people she sucks up to in faux niceness are those she hasn't been able to use yet, but is planning to. As soon as they give her what she's after, then she starts treating them like garbage. Maybe this is Narc revenge for Welby being unavailable to christen her fake doll.
It's a murky place in what passes for her mind.
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Yep.
Family she never had - both weddings
Married 3 days before in secret - true for Trevor. How likely is this true for H?
Over 80%?
I still think they either were married earlier...Jan/Feb with Archbishop, or Botswana....or she at least told him whatever they did was legal.
Sorry, I forgot - she doesn't define `truth' in the way the rest of us do.
Somebody needs to send that memo to * care of Fantasy Island.
Anyway, I forgot the reference here -- someone that trips someone up? That'll do, anyway.
“My subjective truth is that all of us will individually win the billion dollar lottery prize drawn on Friday. It doesn't matter that we can't all individually win and each of us claim a billion dollars. It doesn't matter that we don't have the winning numbers. I feel that we should be able to so my feelings are all that matter.” - end quote -
Oh boy! Thank you for generously including all of us in your subjective truth.
I am going to start spending my winnings today.
`Secret marriages' were outlawed in the 18th century almost 270 yrs ago - see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clandestine_Marriages_Act_1753
If there's one thing better than setting up a situation in which one is centre of attention, it's throwing it back in the face of those who arranged and paid for it.
BTW: In Scotland, Common Law allowed a couple to declare themselves as married as long as it was in front of 2 witnesses, until the Kirk (ie Church of Scotland) managed to gain control of the process in the early 19th C. My husband's gt-gt-gt grandparents had to appear before the `Kirk Sessions' (the church court) c1818 for a reprimand for being `irregularly married' - never mind that the secular authorities were happy with a long-established practice. I don't know if they had to do penance but would have needed a church ceremony as a result, I suppose.
Husband and I lived together for 2 years before we married - a situation still described, I understand, as `married but nae kirked' and OK by old Scottish common law.
LAHOOQ
In French, this acronym is pronounced L, A (± as in cat), ash o (= a chaud), O and Q is pronounced cu as in tu and not as queue in English. Q is the same sound as cul - the l is silent - which means @rse. Literally, she's hot in the arse but I suppose the nearest would be she's in heat?
Though I'm not impressed with Welby as a clergyman, I do not suspect him of going behind the Queen's back to perform an unauthorized wedding ceremony without her knowledge at any time prior to 19 May 2018. The Queen is the head of the CoE and his boss, and if nothing else, I think Mr. Welby values his position. What would he gain by subverting the will of the Queen and sneaking around to marry her grandson in secret no matter how much Harry's bint batted her fake eyelashes at him? That would be a grave misuse of his position with no discernible gain. HMTQ had already assented to the marriage so it's not like Welby was assisting a 'young couple in love' who had been thwarted in their desire to marry. On the contrary, Harry had gotten everything he demanded . . barring the glitch with the tiara, but if he'd already been married and the Archbishop knew about it, he was obligated to inform Her Majesty of this. Harry should by rights have been treated the same way as his father was when he married Camilla--a registry office offair and a private chapel blessing followed by a family lunch. Why does the Heir's spare get the full-blown chapel wedding and carriage parade? Because--William had it and Harry was determined to have the same, even though the brides' situations were entirely different viz. the Church.
Even with a Botswana wedding, which would have happened . . what, a month or less after they met? . . there must be paperwork, signatories . . if not, then it was just some cosplay on the savannah. There must be extra requirements for two foreign nationals, each from different countries, with one of them a member of the Royal family of Britain, to have a legitimate marriage performed in Botswana. Blood tests? Sworn witnesses? I don't think two tourists to the country could just get legally married on a whim and have it hold up under scrutiny in their home countries.
If the Queen and the Archbishop knew about any prior binding marriage performed prior to the official wedding day and went ahead anyway, they are both beyond compromised. I can't believe that of either of them, especially the Queen. So it's far easier to just assume that * is lying again.
Since she hasn't exactly been a model of rectitude, I do believe that that is the way that I would bet. It is probably one of those 'subjective truths' again.
I will note that my comment regarding Zola Budd included the words "allegedly" and "perhaps"...I have no knowledge one way or the other (never really looked into it) and only vaguely recall the kerfuffle; merely reporting what was discussed at the time.
I didn't mean to sound all shrewish and judgmental. (haha, too late!) I was just annoyed that the media of the day mislead so many people at the time (including me), and I wanted to set the record straight. Not that the media are models of veracity now, of course.
whatever happened she was the only one happy at the wedding. even the groom looked miserable. would loved to have heard the other behind the scenes stories of the days leading up to the wedding. Meg. granny’s spy guy said the wedding want real maybe we should delay things… you fill in the rest of those blanks. 😉
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/duke-and-duchess-cambridge-us-visit-153535428.html
to save Nutties from clicking in the slimy git -
Pt1:
Prince William has his eyes set on the US - and here’s how he’s going to do it
Omid Scobie
·Royal Executive Editor
Wed, 27 July 2022 at 4:36 pm
As someone with a mostly American media career, one of my earliest challenges covering the royals was getting their PR teams to care about overseas coverage.
When the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge first got engaged in 2011, the British press was the only priority to those around the couple. Seeing the advantages of reaching US audiences took a little more time.
Access did eventually become more available but, over the years, the foreign market – including Commonwealth countries such as Australia and Canada – has often been an afterthought for palace press staff.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise. The primary focus of the British monarchy and its head of state is, of course, Britain. Its citizens being the only ones publicly funding the institution and all that it offers.
Arguments about the value of such funding are often countered with claims that the royals provide a boost to the British economy through tourism.
Past statistics have shown that out of the millions of Americans travelling to London each year – often more than any other country – the majority continue to put royal attractions such as Buckingham Palace, Kensington Palace and Tower of London on the top of their to-do lists.
It’s why over the years, particularly for major moments such as royal weddings and jubilees, the palace has learned to take advantage of this.
The BBC wasn’t the only official broadcaster of the recent Platinum Jubilee celebrations. The Disney-owned ABC network in the US also had exclusive access to the festivities and all official coverage.
Though the US has long been fascinated with British royalty, interest in ‘The Firm’ was massively renewed when one of the country’s own married into the House of Windsor in 2018. The story of Meghan’s journey as a royal (and all things related to it) still accounts for the majority of royal coverage in the US.
That space was once occupied by the Cambridges. In the couple’s earlier days, one couldn’t move for TV specials and magazine covers about William, Kate and their growing family. But as their life fell into a stable groove, the excitement and curiosity for the pair waned.
With births and many of life’s major milestones checked off the list, they slowly became a tougher sell to audiences. It’s why there were no US media outlets on the couple’s recent tour of the Caribbean.
In the UK, it’s the opposite. Though the Sussexes grab more headlines, a steady stream of orchestrated appearances from George, Charlotte and Louis – and William and Kate’s efforts during the pandemic –has helped the Cambridges’ popularity rise. And it seems Kensington Palace is now hoping they can do the same in the US.
Last week, it was announced that Prince William is taking his annual Earthshot Prize ceremony to Boston this December – the first US trip for the Cambridges since 2014.
It’s an event already heavily linked with the US, with the inspiration behind it taken from President John F. Kennedy’s “Moonshot” and founding partners including Jeff Bezos’s Earth Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies and the late Paul Allen’s family foundation.
It’s why William sat down with People magazine, still one of the country’s most read magazines, last summer for a rare interview. “William is keen for his work to be seen and have impact outside of the UK and the royal bubble,” a source tells me. “The charitable landscape in America is huge and he wants to have a presence.”
Though the source made no mention of it, I wondered if a little competitiveness with his brother might be in the mix, too. Harry’s popularity in Britain may be suffering, but his rise in the US has seen the Archewell Foundation receive huge attention from an impressive list of donors, and his charitable efforts and campaigning has quickly seen him acknowledged by the likes of Forbes and TIME, who named him and Meghan two of the world’s most influential people.
Though rarely spoken about, William and Kate’s own UK-based foundation – which Earthshot started life at in 2020 –actually has its own US non-profit called the The American Friends of The Royal Foundation. Its board has included individuals from some of the country’s largest financial institutions and entertainment companies, including Universal Music CEO Sir Lucian Grainge.
And with plans for the Cambridges’ December visit to be much more than just an appearance at William’s environmental prize, sources tell me that preliminary conversations about a fundraising event – similar to the $50,000-a-head dinner the couple hosted during eight years ago in New York – have already taken place.
Recon, I’m also told, has also been scheduled for a number of royal engagements and activities for the couple in Boston and beyond. Perhaps even a trip to Washington DC.
It’s no coincidence that the couple have recently hired a new head of communications who has spent the past seven -years climbing the ranks of US mass media empire NBC Universal.
British PR chief Lee Thompson, who officially started at Kensington Palace this month, previously served as VP of global communications and strategic partnerships for the conglomerate.
Though their focus will always be in the UK—where they are currently preparing to move their family base from London to Windsor—it’s clear the Cambridges have realised a slice of American pie would be nice, too.
And who can blame them? Interest in the Royal Family on the world stage has long been an essential asset to Britain’s appeal abroad.
And with the monarchy’s declining popularity across large parts of the Commonwealth, and the UK finding itself in an increasingly competitive and globalised world, now seems like the perfect time for a much-needed PR boost.
Thank you to all for explaining about Zola Budd, and the acronym!
Scobie is such a sycophant 🤮. Every one of his articles on the Royals should appear with a disclaimer.
A few years ago, my narc accused me of not writing to thank her for a Christmas present she allegedly sent me 45 years earlier. I eventually remembered she hadn't addressed to me but to her parents who were chez moi for the festivities - they took it home with them.
Did she apologise? Like H*ll she did.
So I was texting with Big Brother about the news that Meghan has allegedly cornered Harry's ghostwriter, Moehringer, and poured a dumpster of supposed Royal dirt on him, wanting him to add it to PH's book as revenge for Tom Bower's Revenge.
Big Brother said, "Word on the street is that she's supposedly literally screaming mad over this book. Like they said she went outside in her yard and screamed even more than she did over Kate's golden dress."
Big Brother added, "She is supposedly DESPERATE to 'set the story straight,' but she apparently can't find a journalist to broadcast her response to this book. She and of course this is ALLEGEDLY because I know you are going to run and tell Reddit, but she has been all but on her knees to Oprah to try to get Oprah to help her 'get the truth back out there' via another mudslinging interview, but Oprah, Gayle, and apparently everyone else is pretty much telling her to go pound sand. She must be using the ghostwriter as a last resort."
Anyway, that's what he said. It's not much tea, but it's a couple of drops. Also I heard today that Penguin wants to release Harry's book a day or two before or after Michelle Obama's new book. That's BAD news for Harry, and in publishing, it's a sign that they don't have a lot of confidence in Harry's book. They wouldn't release it alongside hers if they thought it would sell well on its own. Meg's rescue chickens are coming home to roost, I think.
I've heard and believe that there already are videos of these tantrums going back to the beginning. I've heard that Princess Charlotte's security has video of the bridesmaid bullying, that they have video of the ensuing altercation where Meghan did make Catherine cry. I've heard there's video of hers and Harry's fight before that UN speech. The press has it all, but they haven't published it A) because it's obtained from private citizens, B) out of respect for the Queen, C) because Sunshine Sachs still pays enough to keep the press positive, D) they have been good and locking people into NDAs, and and E) up until now, there hasn't been the market for it. Most people would see videos like that reported in the mainstream press as intrusive and distasteful.
Now that this book is out, though, I fully expect leaks to start emerging through social media and YouTube. Once people see that they don't have to be afraid of her NDA, they will start talking, writing, and releasing that videotape.
SecondhandCoke has shared this before about the videotapes, but I just find the supposed reasons for their having not emerged a little hard to believe. B, C and E just seem underwhelming. I think if anything, BP has the videotapes and the NDAs, and that's why none of these have surfaced. Luca on Twitter used to say BP was sitting on something that could decimate MM and that they are just hiding their time. I'm not sure I believe that either.
The response must be, "Thank you. We'll let you know if there is any interest in another interview." Repeated ad nauseam.
Her Majesty The Queen commands such world-wide respect that anyone who has the goods on * is just biding their time.
The same with the courts in the UK, and Twit's endless suing. No one wants to cause a ruckus, and rule against anyone in the RF because it is most embarrassing to the legal professionals who have the utmost respect for the BRF.
When The Queen does leave this earthly plane, all kinds of gauntlets are going to be thrown down. Megsy better hide behind the couch.
I agree.
I'm also not getting how Charlotte's "security" would have video. Those folks aren't wearing body cams are they? And if they were, surely the cameras wouldn't be turned on at a dress-fitting for little girls. People have made a big deal of the Cambridge children's privacy & that's fine but surely no one is secretly videotaping other people's children in a private "dressing room" setting with claims that must be done to protect the Cambridges, are they?
Think I'm out of the loop because I don't know where SecondHandCoke claims his/her info comes from. But I question lots of things reported here attributed to SHC.
Some of you have already received your copies of the book from Book Depository, or have received confirmation that it has shipped. I just checked my account since I had heard nothing after placing my order two weeks ago.
It says “Awaiting Publication.”
What the—-?!
Demand has probably outstripped expectation and they might not have had enough copies laid in, But I think if that was the case it would say “on back order”.
I’m peeved because I think I was one of the first here to order from this outlet. If there’s been some kind of injunction slapped on it, Some copies have escaped to America. But why wasn’t one of them nine since I placed my order a full week ahead of the listed publication?
I am Put Out.
Thank you for the Reddit posts from secondhandcoke regarding Harry’s wife’s alleged reaction to the Tom Bower Revenge book and her alleged move to add dirt on the royal family to Harry’s book.
My first thought was, “How damn stupid IS that woman?”
Bower has said he talked with approximately 80 people for this book. Yes, sone of that 80 may very well be associated with the palace or royal family staff, or perhaps even a royal, but it seems fairly obvious that a large number of people he spoke with are not affiliated with the palace or the royal family. Just read all the uncomplimentary things said about her from people who have worked with her in various situations.
What executive or powerful person in their right mind (are you reading this Netflix and Spotify?) would even think of doing a business deal or project with her or the husband she controls and risk her betraying confidential or personal information or just making up lies if she gets her nose out of joint and decides to lash out in a public forum of some sort?
There are probably a few stiletto-lickers still out there, but their numbers are declining.
Like many narcissists, Meghan is her own worst enemy. Many people at all levels of business and society are watching the Sussex sh!t show are taking note.
Thanks Maneki Neko - you've explained it more clearly than I managed. Such a long time since I did any French...
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Not at all, pleased to help. I must admit that I might have looked at the acronym (a gramogram) quickly and missed its meaning. Maybe this should be *'s new nickname?
I forgot to say in my previous post that Budd did run barefoot,as you said. I remember the incident with Mary Decker at the time but I think she went back to SA after a few years.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-11055709/DOMINIC-SANDBROOK-Meghan-child-triumph-feeling-fact.html
I second the thanks for posting the gossip from Secondhand coke.
Dominate, control, twist the truth, lie and insist everyone accept it as her truth, manipulate, grandiose grandstanding ... I think these are all deep compulsions. Capturing a prince went to her head and sent her grand ego into overdrive. She can't stop and he is too deeply complicit to be rescued from the madness. Although much of the gossip is made-up stuff fuelled by the pathology that drives such gossip, I would guess that there is a lot of instinctive truth in it.
Only a deeply disturbed person would marry a prince and become a working royal and then think and act as if she could spend money without restraint and say and do exactly what she wanted whenever she wanted. Bower's book reveals that she demanded, and got, taxpayer-funded security and transport, plus special VIP treatment at the airport, while she was still a girlfriend and shuttling between Toronto and London. She ignored and defied all of the well-meaning and wise advice about dealing with the media.
The media is complicit in going along with all of it. She wore an off-the-shoulder dress to Trooping the Colour. She repeatedly pushed herself ahead of her husband and interrupted him (there are two occasions on video where he was talking to a group of people and she rudely pushed him aside and stopped him talking so that she could take centre stage, plus more than once when she pulled him away in the middle of a conversation he was having at an official event). She created mayhem in the media using friends as her agents.
For the BRF she is a nightmare that will never end. If her husband has any decency and integrity in him at all he would step down from the line of succession (which will also remove him as Counsellor of State), give up Frogmore Cottage, and stay away from all public events involving royals.
USA Amazon finally shows you the hardback version when you enter the name & author, along with a lot of junk faux books which are 'reviews' or 'summaries.' The complaints in the comments are furious & ask why Amazon is 'hiding' the book. The way it's shown on the website is very different from the way Michelle Obama's latest book is shown. Could be because her book is published by Crown, which is part of Random House/Penguin, which is owned by Bertelsmann, a German company which is like the Exxon of publishing & media. Bower's book is published by Blink/Bonnier, which might not have the clout with Amazon that Crown does. Supermarkets do the same thing with the products on their shelves. Favored companies get better placement.
Corporate relations seems a better excuse for the book's clumsy USA debut out than political issues, but who knows? I would think a book having a slight whiff of the 'forbidden' or 'banning' would increase demand. In any case, my guess is that Bower's book will sell better in the USA than The Bench or Scabie's book, regardless of the slow roll out.
Ms. 6's fans are trying to hype tiny errors, which are obviously a result of lack of time & perhaps proofreading & editing cutbacks, but I doubt any lawsuits will be launched because Scabie's name was misspelled in a few places. Bower was supposedly a bit sloppy on some American celebrities, but a lot of Brits barely know who Oprah is, much less how to say her name, so to be expected. LOL.
Why don't you use their "Contact Us" feature and shoot them an e-mail?
When I go to their website it says "ships to U.S. in 7 -10 business days." When it shipped, I was give a tracking number.
I used to work for a company that did online shipping through a website. Orders don't necessarily go out in the order in which they are received, due to any number of factors. (Credit cards being declined, the person's address is not complete, we are short staffed because employees are on vacation, software/hardware issues...it can be anything. For example, nobody ever taught me to process a PayPal order so I skipped over those until someone else could do them.)
I would try and contact them via e-mail.
I’m on chapter 24, but in chapter 23 Bower writes that Maggot had concealed Doria’s past when she came to the wedding. The downside of an audio book is that it’s not easy to flip back and scan the pages (unlike an actual book), because I don’t recall anything in the book thus far that goes into detail about Doria’s past. 😳🥴If I don’t hear anything, I’ll have to go back. 😩
asking on google or your favorite search engine would answer your question. Try there.
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I ordered mine from Book Depository on 7/13, and it just arrived today. I'm on the East Coast.
I am not inviting an 'attack' on the book, but I have come across a few problems that the publisher should have addressed. My feeling is that the publisher has taken on the role of printing and distributing and did very little in the way of editing.
There are numerous little errors that are just sloppy. A good copy editor could have done a thorough check and eliminated these errors in 1-2 weeks.
An American audience especially, but a global audience generally will not know enough about the monarchy to understand how it works (financing, role, history, succession, evolution ...). I would have addressed this with information boxes, and would have even included some graphics. Yes, it adds to the design but the author should have known that the book would be a bestseller. It would have also become a lasting reference book for marginal extra cost and time.
I think Bower is a bit old fashioned and thus frowns on smoking weed and a mother being absent from a child's life without what he would call unavoidable reasons. Doria supposedly also was involved in an illegal enterprise growing marijuana. Plus he mentions that she 'slept around' while married to and living with Tom, and had nude photographs of her with another woman displayed at home. While Tom was working long hours she would have lots of friends visiting who would also be smoking while she wandered around stoned. There is also the suggestion that Tom bailed her out financially after the divorce. He gives the impression as well that she flitted from job to job, career to career without sticking to anything, and although bankruptcy could be regarded as a normal business practice in America, it might be considered scandalous in the British upper classes (an old fashioned view).
So, all the 'dirt' on Doria may make her interesting in another context, but Bower seems to think it was compromising for the royal family.
The Middletons did not exclude Uncle Gary from the big wedding, and I am sure they have not ghosted him and still see him in private. I think the BRF are a lot more modern and broad minded than people give them credit for.
Things do get out, even third-hand, to ordinary folk like me.
Thank you so much for the detailed background on Doria, much appreciated. 😃
Whether Tom Bower is a bit old fashioned when it comes to Doria’s past, is subjective, I feel there’s a lot of her past that would raise a few eyebrows of many potential in-laws, particularly royal ones. Whilst the latter are certainly no saints, it’s not expected behaviour of in-laws. It’s not unsurprising it’s not made common knowledge or has found it’s way in mainstream media on a big scale. The book said it was Maggot who concealed the info., not the palace. The royals may well have chuckled, but I think it’s the concern that mainstream media finding out about Doria’s past that would be bothersome, and I think the Palace knew and know all about Doria…...just not from Maggot. 🥴
Uncle Gary, (Carol Middleton’s brother) …we’ll he’s just an uncle, not a parent of a future Queen, there lies the difference. 🥴
The new Palace Confidential is an interview of Tom Bower.
I agree that the BRF do have to be more careful and circumspect than others. They represent the UK and are funded by taxpayers and are not elected like politicians and so on.
When you look back, it was all so messy and the behaviour of the couple so thoughtless and selfish. There was an entire Palace machinery plus the family, to help them navigate a difficult terrain but they defied and fought back and whinged and made a mess of everything. The media has a long history of digging up and publishing scandals, and of petty criticisms, and of cruel mocking. Compared with Catherine and Camilla TBW had it easy but still she could not think beyond herself and her self pity and grandiose demands.
I also doubt that the BRF knew all the details about Doria but I think they handled it well at the wedding, which is probably the only time any of them encountered her.
An article about the toxic Butter Up, even comparing it with Theranos. Maybe the article is exaggerating but it seems as if the Prince is sitting on a time bomb.
I was thinking about the timing of the release of the Bower book - maybe it was to get the other book in motion - meaning to trigger a response?
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I was wondering about that also. He seemed to be playing the cat mouse game with H's book. H's book seemed to be getting put off and put off.
There was some talk it was going to be put off until 2023. I kind of wonder if TB didn't put his book out to spur H to get his book out before H had time to put more crap into it.
Also, once H puts his book out what is there for him after that? They have nothing else in the wings? Except 2 more lame books?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4983258/Is-final-straw-Kate-s-bad-boy-uncle.html
But he wasn't invited to James Middleton's wedding at all even though he was vacationing in that area of France at the time and is James's godfather.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10004817/TALK-TOWN-Middletons-snub-uncle-Gary-Goldsmith-lavish-wedding.html
Maybe H was releasing his book to try to compete with William's Earthshot which is in early December.
I think H made his announcement about his book release shortly after the Earthshot announcement came out. I remember thinking at the time, of course H releases his book at the same time.
I know we're all accustomed to seeing mysteries in everything because we've been lied to for so long by you know who!
Now, H -- IF his book is ready -- THAT I believe he's conniving to release strategically. But I think the problem there is that it's garbage and that it can't be substantiated, especially if * is masterminding the contents. The ghostwriter is reputable; he must be having fits and ruing the day he ever took it on.