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The Book! The Book!

 With people about to receive their copy, it seems a good time to start a new post.

Happy reading.

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Enbrethiliel said…
@yorkshirepudding and @HappyDays

Re: "the family she never had"

She must have really turned up the love-bombing when using the phrase, for three different people to have quoted it to others.

A few years ago on this blog, we wondered if it was a common narc tactic. Oprah herself has called people "the mother I never had," "the sister I never had," etc. -- and of course, * got to be "the daughter I never had."
Magatha Mistie said…

Mutton dressed as mutton

Princess Angela of Liechtenstein
Wedding dress classic
looked divine
Same can’t be said
of our horizontal incline
princess meh von Wienerschwein…


Sandie said…
@Este
Great post.

I was at a Catholic convent boarding school, so I would guess that at school, kindness, compassion, doing good deeds were values of the school. The 'activism' from childhood she boasts about would have been the culture of the school and not her unique personal traits, but at the school you would have to exhibit those traits to get approval.

As you point out, her entitled, demanding, rude behaviour grew as she climbed the ladder. What I realized when I read the book is that they were fully developed by the time she met the prince. Even with the love bombing, they must have been obvious (and seemed to be to his family and friends), so he married her fully knowing who she is.
Sandie said…
https://heatworld.com/celebrity/news/meghan-markle-prince-harry-security/

An absurd article claiming they spend tens of millions of dollars on security! Their argument that they are targeted because he is a prince is absurd, and they are either lying about intruders or they have sloppy security measures. It is not difficult to stop intruders from getting onto your property.

I kind of feel sorry for them, trapped in their illusions and paranoia and endless spin.

Halfway through summer and still no podcast from the duchess ...
Magatha Mistie said…

Megsies mantra
“The family I’ve just had”

@Hikari,

I’m short on time to give you a full reply. 🥴 I’ll be back later.

If you listen to HG Tudor’s analysis of the excerpts, this is where he talks about where Maggot inherited and learnt her behaviour from, namely her Father and the loss of control due to the fall out of her parents marriage. Doria’s own behaviour affected Maggot differently.

I actually like his voice, I find it very soothing and easy on the ears. 😃

Here’s a link to excerpt analysis No.1 the others follow on thereafter. I haven’t listened to them all yet.

https://youtu.be/QQ5ylDupkr0
Magatha Mistie said…

Mamma Rear

Doria’s input
was a major cause
Of meh’s entitled
ginormous claws
Learned early on
The art of the con
Nothing was ever
too low down, or wrong…

Sandie said…
'They Knew Everything': Meghan Markle Blamed For Spreading Prince William 'Cheating Rumors,' Source Claims

Meghan Markle was skeptical of Victoria Beckham for leaking stories about her relationship with Prince Harry to the press, but now an insider claims the 40-year-old former actress was doing the same thing when it came to Prince William and Kate Middleton's marriage.

“In 2019 when rumors about William cheating were all over the American press, everyone suspected Meghan,” a source exclusively tells OK!. “Meghan and Prince Harry were just married and living in England. They knew everything that was happening within the royal household.”

“Meghan had a strange obsession with William and Kate’s marriage,” the insider continues. “She always wanted to know what they were doing and how they spent their time together as a private couple. She also had a bizarre interest in Rose Hanbury, the Marchioness of Cholmondeley, whom William was allegedly having an affair with.”

The cheating scandal appeared in an American magazine — one that Meghan had appeared in many times before, which was why she was one of the main suspects.

“Meghan knew In Touch magazine very well. She had been in the magazine several times when she was trying to be famous and had had drinks with several writers and editors as she worked hard to be noticed,” the insider dishes. “Before she married Harry, Meghan wanted to be in all the weekly magazines and worked with publicists to make that happen. Meghan knows how they system works better than anyone which is why Palace insiders blamed her for the leaks.”

...

https://okmagazine.com/p/meghan-markle-blame-prince-william-cheating-rumors/
SwampWoman said…
I hadn't noticed the glare that the Bride of Satan gave poor little Charlotte previously. Once seen, it can't be unseen. *Any* idea that the Bride of Satan can come back to live en famille at Windsor can be abandoned. What was she thinking? Starting a war with the future king prior to marriage to his less capable brother is bonkers.
Maneki Neko said…
Harry and the Application for a Judicial Review. No, not a new addition to the Harry Potter series but a new Harry Markle blog,
Girl with a Hat said…
@Sandie,

about the security - wasn't there a rumour going around when they lived at Tyler Perry's mansion that the police department in that part of LA wasn't responding to her calls any longer because she had too many false alarms? or was that in Montecito?
Este said…
@Raspberry Ruffle...no, I don't listen to HG Tudor but it's basically cuz I never thought of it as anything but fluff. Could be wrong and will check that out. Thanks!

@Henrietta...I believe secondhandcoke might have legit source there. Makes good sense to me. How can they move forward with it while "the whole world is talking about" not Scobie's new book but Bower's No 1 NYT best seller. I am definitely buying Bower's book because I want to keep it at the top for as long as possible. This book is exposing Meghan and Harry. If it's libel or slander, they need to sue and good luck with that. We see how well it worked for Robert Maxwell. Bower's book is a bomb destroying the last shreds of their credibility. Now we see why they've been shunned by Hollywood and the other power players like the Obamas.
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@Sandie, thanks for compliment on the post. I look forward to their books.
Sandie said…
@GWAH
I think it might be both!

I don't know how it works in America, but here robbery is common and home invasions are always a threat. Burglar bars and security gates are a must-have except for the poorest of the poor. Spikes and barbed wire on a fence are next on the list. Security beams (around the property and on windows and doors) and rapid response are for those who can afford it. The very wealthy have security guards on the property and any theft/break-ins are an inside job. This is how we live and what is our normal, so I personally do not understand why they have had multiple break-ins.

I suppose even royal properties have break-ins, but the duo do not live in a high-profile place. It is very unlikely that there are intruders targeting them. For goodness sake, they have personal body guards!

There was a conversation online that claimed the 'intruders' were actually either false alarms or wild animals trying to get to the chickens!

The couple seem to always be talking themselves into a stew about something. I think she is addicted to drama. When their body language indicates tension of some kind between them, just about everyone immediately predicts separation/divorce. I don't. The drama is part of their toxic bond and I think they feed off the speculation and gossip. She is not getting the appearances at star events and being papped socializing at elite places so she has to settle for getting the attention anyway she can.

Classic Freudian psychology: Whatever they complain about the most reveals their shadow selves; whatever they wax lyrical about reveals their shadow self.
Sandie said…
@Raspberry Ruffle
We have loadshedding again tonight so it would be a good idea to download some stuff to listen to.

Personally I found HG Tudor's voice annoying but I think it might be worth trying him again. He started with writing posts, which I followed, but I lost touch with him when he switched to YouTube.

Supposedly he has done an in-depth review of Bower's book that is quite insightful.
Enbrethiliel said…
@Magtha
“The family I’ve just had”

It took me a second, but after I got it, I howled. Fantastic wordplay!
Enbrethiliel said…
@SwampWoman
I hadn't noticed the glare that the Bride of Satan gave poor little Charlotte previously. Once seen, it can't be unseen

I still can't get over it myself.

While I can understand being highly stressed during the fitting of your wedding dress and the wedding party's outfits, it is near unfathomable to me that she would look at a three year old, who was dressed according to her specifications and for her wedding, with so much anger on her face. It was that important to her, in a moment when the world was watching, to make Princess Charlotte feel bad.

Mr. Rosas points out that you don't get the full impact of how diabolical * was at that moment until you see her turn to Harry and suddenly turn into a shy, giddy, almost giggling bride. That was a mask. Her real face was what Charlotte saw.
Karla said…
Invasion problems in Montecito.
Theories about the manipulative aspects of a narcissist.

1) At the moment, PR created by MM to make Charles feel guilty and manipulate him to bear the couple's security costs.
In case Charles doesn't fall for it.
1) Change of residence with claims of security motive to camouflage economic problems they are experiencing.
Note: In both cases, for them, BRF will always be the culprits.
Sandie said…
Jungian psychology, not Freudian!

Her birthday and no deluge of articles about the fictional party or the 'special' gifts?
@Este and Sandie,

I bypassed HG Tudor’s YouTube channel posts numerous of times, I never ever listened to it till more recently, I didn’t think it was anything serious or in-depth. To my surprise he might actually know his stuff, but see Hikari’s comment and take on him. I don’t know enough about his background yet to give an opinion, and I don’t know loads about narcissism (even though I’ve known a few) but either way he gives a far more in-depth analysis on the contents of Tom’s book than Lady C does IMHO. 😃This is mostly found within the excerpts (videos he’s made) that appeared in The Times. He’s currently reading the actual book on his channel too, and gives some analysis on Maggot’s behaviour here as well. 🤗
Karla said…
Sandie, Freud too.
MM projects onto others the flaws she has
...
In the case of Jung, you reminded me of Jung's archetypes.
Isn't that the topic of her Podcast?

Jungian archetypes are defined as universal, primal symbols and images that derive from the collective unconscious, as proposed by Carl Jung. They are the psychic counterpart of instinct. It is described as a kind of innate unspecific knowledge, derived from the sum total of human history, which prefigures and directs conscious behavior.
...

Meghan Markle attempts to trademark the word ‘archetypes’ after deciding to use title for new Spotify podcast
The application has been lodged at the US Patent and Trademark Office by Archewell Audio, a company set up by the Duchess and Prince Harry.

https://inews.co.uk/news/meghan-markle-trademark-word-archetypes-title-new-spotify-podcast-duchess-1558998
Maneki Neko said…
@Raspberry Ruffle

I second Maneki Neko’s comment regarding who can wear a tiara and I’ll add, titled female’s born within the aristocracy should only (by tradition) wear a tiara once they are married as well. Though I’m not sure if this also applies to blood Princess’s, I assume it does. 🤗
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I believe blood princesses can wear a tiara once they're over 18 but Princess Anne was an exception, apparently because the tiara/s she wore were loaned, not given, by the Queen.

Thank you for the link to Harry Tudor. I like the way he can't mention * by name, like us, but calls her 'Harry's wife' all the time. I found a quote of his mentioned on Twitter: For the true narcissist, boos and applause are the same. It's simply attention in different garments. And it's attention that is their oxygen. So * must be totally impervious to boos and criticisms.
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@Magatha

Brilliant again! Mama Rear sums it up nicely 😉. And 'the family
I've just had' is genius.
@Hikari,

I had a quick look at HG Tudor’s About page on his channel. Yes, a self professed narcissist. He recommends readers to listen to Why am I doing this video whereby he explains why he wants to tell us all about a narcissist. He uploads tonnes of content, every hour at the moment, that amount of content is very time consuming and I’d be tempted to say that he’s either a full-time content creator or it forms part of his job. Maybe he’s a Consultant of some kind. Seeing narcs enjoy making it all about them , enjoy attention etc. it’s another guess why he does what does. 🥴
Este said…
On SaintMeghanMarkle reddit thread, it's claimed that Harry's memoir is being delayed due to need for substantial revisions. In Lady C's excellent and comprehensive review of Bower's book she claims he does an excellent job of unmasking two "highly disturbed" individuals in Meghan and Harry. I want to read his book to learn more about Harry's dysfunction. I feel like a comprehensive portrait's emerged with Meghan. I just don't know how Harry can tolerate what he and his wife has done to their families? He must be a very damaged soul indeed.

The body language guy has an excellent video of Meghan's body language toward Charlotte at the wedding. That she can be cruel to a 3 year old and show favoritism toward her former BFF friend's girl over Princess Charlotte reveals a highly disturbed and disturbing portrait of a woman who has 2 children of her own now. And it just makes me fear for the emotional health of those children, regardless of how they came into the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rJzvyToxDY&t=677s

Bower's book is a bomb blowing away the last chards of facade between these two. The vile attacks on the Cambridges just shine back on the mud slingers as desperate and utterly base. No wonder Serena, Ellen, Amal, Sir Elton John, Michele and maybe even Oprah have dropped them. Oprah was only ever using them for her own brand and it looks like their usefulness is up.
Hikari said…
If you listen to HG Tudor’s analysis of the excerpts, this is where he talks about where Maggot inherited and learnt her behaviour from, namely her Father and the loss of control due to the fall out of her parents marriage. Doria’s own behaviour affected Maggot differently.

Rachel's parents both created an atmosphere that was a toxic mix of familial strife, overindulgence and laxity coupled with unavailability both physical and emotional. Thomas was always working and overcompensated for his absences by buying his daughter stuff and providing every means for her to compete with wealthier classmates. In that family, success is equated to material things, it seems. For all that she went to a Catholic school, * and the whole family if I'm honest come across as spiritually and morally corrupt. Doria was absent in a different way . .even when she was there, she wasn't all there. Then she was very likely incarcerated or else in a commune for several years when she was off the grid all together.

Thomas seems to be a man fairly open to manipulation. Doria lovebombed him and got him to leave his wife and kids . .only two years later that union went south and Little Flower took over as the chief manipulator after her mom. I'm sure she was used as a pawn by Doria as well, when Doria still had primary custody, to get more money out of Thomas as a requirement to see the child. If Tom is a Narc, he's not very good at it and has been outclassed by two superior Narcs in his own family. It's very true that both parents played a significant role in how their curdled malignant Flower has turned out.

If Tom is indeed a beta Narc in service to a couple of Alphas in his own immediate circle, that is the parallel I see with Harry. We know now that Haz, far from being the innocent lovesick empath ensnared by a predatory Narc is in fact a narcissist himself. I will use the lower case for him because his personality, will and desires have been completely subsumed by his Alpha. I think he threw his lot in with her gleefully and went along with all her schemes because marrying her was his defiant "Get Out of the Royal Family" card. With his arrogance and entitlement combined with his dimness and general naivete, she was able to sell the 'American Royalty' fantasy, and he envisioned, I don't know . .spending his days at Disneyland and partying with celebrities, all the while being given the deference as Harry of England he was accustomed to. His perpetual sad sack/kicked dog demeanor these days isn't because he feels remorse over what he's done to his family and specifically his grandmother. He's just feeling sorry for himself that it hasn't worked out that way. He's weak, and deprived of his supports within the RF is not as cocky a narc as he was at one time.


I actually like his voice, I find it very soothing and easy on the ears. 😃

It is very deep and sonorous . . puts me in mind of Stephen Fry a bit.

It is so soothing that it lulls me to sleep when I attempt to listen to one of his podcasts from bed on my phone. He speaks quite slowly as well, which contributes to the relaxing effect it has.

OCGal said…
Online poster J. Cook made a great point in reference to her narcissist mother's gargantuan lie(s) and attitude towards the lies: "The salient portion for me is the fact that my mother invented it, it served her purpose, but then when it no longer served her prime aims, discarded and forgot or buried it completely... and she expected me to do the same! -- but, I did not forget. The narcissist expects other people to swallow his or her lies, without question, and without memory." - end quote -

I imagine this is how liar MM thinks, and she becomes so angry when the world remembers her lies and doesn't just move on.

MM is dangerous, and as I've stated before, I am 100% convinced that Hazbeen is behind her all the way, encouraging the lies and the wreaking of havoc and aiming for utter destruction of family, friends, colleagues, and yes even the monarchy.
xxxxx said…
Harry knows all about guns from being in the military and from all the Royal shooting parties at Sandringham. (Has anyone here ever eaten grouse?) He can apply for the California permits he needs to have enough guns and rifles at home, for the security Meghan craves. H can probably even get a concealed carry permit, which is difficult for the peasantry in California. We all know what's going on with their campaign to have Royal Protection Officers cover them when in England. It is so that M has an awesome entourage on display when she flits about.
Hikari said…
The couple seem to always be talking themselves into a stew about something. I think she is addicted to drama. When their body language indicates tension of some kind between them, just about everyone immediately predicts separation/divorce. I don't. The drama is part of their toxic bond and I think they feed off the speculation and gossip. She is not getting the appearances at star events and being papped socializing at elite places so she has to settle for getting the attention anyway she can.

Classic Freudian psychology: Whatever they complain about the most reveals their shadow selves; whatever they wax lyrical about reveals their shadow self.


@Sandie

Totally agree. In early days, I along with a lot of folks assumed that Hazza was genuinely in love with this woman and his vulnerabilities had left him open to being manipulated by a Narc. Those days are long gone that I feel any sympathy for H. He is not a victim; he's a co-conspirator. He had the rage, envy and malice all along that drives his wife also but what he lacked that she's got is the drive to really stick the knife into those he hates and to hustle for deals and connections. M's only output of 'work' may be in self-promotion and monitoring SM about her, but in those endeavors she's relentless. H is just a big dumb lazy ball of entitlement and the only reason he's not equal to his wife in their shared disorder is that until recently he's been given ever conceivable thing and has been deferred to all his life. As a Prince of the Kingdom he's been swaddled in cotton wool and coddled and never faced any rejections or adversities, even when rejection for his own merits would have been appropriate. Someone with such a childlike level of emotional development and learning difficulties should never have taken a place at Eton or Sandhurst or Her Majesty's Army from a more capable and deserving candidate. But he did, all those times not because of what he personally achieved but because his father was Prince of Wales. Now he's getting a taste of life without the gilded prison he says he hated, and his perpetual smacked bum face is not because he's got remorse over what he's done to his family but because he's not getting all the toys he promised . . he doesn't get to live at Disneyland and party with celebrities all day and night . and his corporate masters expect him to *work*. An entirely new concept to H.

Like his wife, he grew up in a broken home where the atmosphere was unstable and unified parental love and attention was absent. Even when Diana was still here to be a loving Mum, after the age of 13 and being shipped to boarding school, her boys only saw her on school holidays. Harry lost the constant attentions of his mother long before she died. M was successful in evoking a maternal connection apparently, and now that their relationship os 100% toxic and in constant upheaval, that must feel very familiar to H as well. We seek what we know because we are used to it, not because it's good for us and that's what he's done. He *wanted* an excuse to completely blow up any bridge to his family and his royal responsibilities and he's found her. At any point he could have left her and said, "This is not what I want any more; I've made a terrible mistake." But he hasn't and he won't, I believe. The couple will continue to double-down on their blame-gaming and whinging about how the world and specifically the RF done 'em wrong. They are beyond tedious.
Harry was warned by her brother prior to to the wedding. A letter which was made public and if I remember correctly he was told not to allow her to interact with children. If she behaves this way with other people’s I can’t imagine what she is doing to “her own” or whomever or whatever children are living with her. When a close relative warns you - you listen no matter how great they are in the sack. Been there and they were right as was her family.
HappyDays said…
Sandie said…
Jungian psychology, not Freudian!

Her birthday and no deluge of articles about the fictional party or the 'special' gifts?

@Sandie: There are a couple of reasons why Harry’s wife’s birthday might not receive much beyond a passing notice by the media this year.

1: Last year, she entered her 40s, which is somewhat of a milestone birthday as she entered middle age.
2: Also, her big 40x40 project, which was tied to her 40th birthday, bombed on a spectacular level. Had it succeeded, she would mention it every time she could wedge it into a conversation or speech.
3: I think the Tom Bower book, which has not revealed anything that I can think of that can be considered to be a true bombshell, has reminded people in one concisely-written book what a horrible person she is. It certainly is not doing any favors to bolster her declining “brand”.
snarkyatherbest said…
Sandie - hmmmmm your comments on security. Perhaps as we suspect they owe everyone perhaps the Mrs recent weight loss is that she is back to her old um party habits. From there one could deduce that perhaps 1) they are in debt to a supplier or 2) they are trading party favors to earn a little extra cash and are further in debt to a supplier. They would definitely need security to fend of those problems

I still think they are trying to get someone else to pay for security by law and will be submitting "receipts" akin to birth certificates 😉 that consisted of 6 full time body guards at $100 per hour where the reality will be Archie gets a red rider bb gun for his birthday and will be patrolling the perimeter on his tricycle. They will try to make money on this security thing for sure


JennS said…
Hikari said:
Thomas seems to be a man fairly open to manipulation. Doria lovebombed him and got him to leave his wife and kids .
..............
@Hikari
Love reading your comments as always but just want to point out that Thomas' relationship with his first wife was already over long before he met Doria.
He actually dated a couple of other women before meeting Doria.
I agree there seems to be something very shady about Doria but she did not break up Thomas' first marriage. Bower delves into this early Markle history but Samantha offers even more detail in her book. I don't think Thomas has very good taste in women!😁
Yahoo is truly scaping the barrel for `positive' news on the Harleks:

https://uk.yahoo.com/style/prince-harry-meghans-son-archie-132750842.html -It's today's rerun of the unchanged-baby-taken-to-polo story of yonks ago, presented, if you please, as a `playdate'...

BTW, that's a typo above that I've decided to let stand - perhaps it's almost too appropriate, given that their war-cry seems to be `Exterminate! Exterminate!'
Este said…
Notwithstanding the fact narcissism is on a continuum, I think it's safe to say Thomas senior was one based on the fact he was drawn to Hollywood himself tho he was not handsome enough to be before the camera. And I'm sure the global star fantasy is one he indulged and nurtured in Meghan. Plus he went to Thailand for cheap hookers who would blow your mind in bed. He encouraged Junior to follow daddy's footsteps "it'll make you a changed man, my boy!" Really, kind of sick. So I'm not sure he isn't part of the problem. But I haven't yet read Bower's book. Just thinking out loud.
Fifi LaRue said…
@Este: Oh my, my, my....Thomas Markle Sr. took sex vacations to Thailand?

Those girls are all living in slavery.

I used to feel some compassion for Mr. Markle. It has all disappeared.

What a low life he is.
Caniche said…
Just a thought. Knowing that Catherine and her sister Pippa are very close, do you think the latter would have named her new baby daughter “Rose” if there had been any truth in the rumours about an affair?
@Este,

I agree with your comment. Thomas was the one who treated Maggot differently from birth and gave her his undivided attention (she was The golden child, compared to his older children) he was the one who unhealthy indulged her both psychologically and materialistically. He allowed her to believe she had more influence and power than she actually did. He was the most present parent growing up, Doria was absent most of time until Maggot moved out of her Father’s home, when he failed to give her what she wanted.🥴
Sandie said…
Palate cleanser:

"Getting the royal treatment
A visit with my son for the table tennis at the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday. Five minutes before pulling into Birmingham International for the NEC, I use the bathroom (we are travelling first class) as Ted waits outside. As I am doing my thing, I hear him talking to a woman in the vestibule. “Are you here alone?” she asks. “No, my dad is in there” – he says, pointing to the lavatory.

They continue chatting as I use the soap, then tap, then dryer. Judging by the laughter, they are having a whale of a time. I hear my son telling the lady that his father once won Commonwealth gold and sense that he is brandishing the medal he has brought along for the occasion. I hear more laughter. By the time I am finished, we are only a couple of minutes from the station.

“Come on Ted,” I say, “we have to get off!” “Oh, and thanks for keeping him company . . . ” I say turning to the woman waiting her turn when I am stopped in my tracks. My brow furrows, my face works. “Kate?”, I blurt out. There are no security guards in the vestibule; no armed guards. But here is the Duchess of Cambridge, chatting merrily with my son.

We are still going at it when the train has stopped and is on the verge of heading off to Birmingham New Street. “We’d better get off,” says Ted. “Did you realise who that was, son?” I ask him. “No idea but she was really nice,” he responds.

The Duchess had no idea she was chatting to the son of a journalist so I take this to reflect her character and sense of duty. The monarchy is in consummate hands."

https://mobile.twitter.com/home
Harry revealed his loathing for England/UK even before he met *.

He said it during a TV interview when he was in Afghanistan - I thought it was shocking and thought `What the H-?'- but, as far as I recall, nobody picked up on it. It may have been the time that Harry the Hero leapt to his feet and rushed off to a fake alarm, like a WW2 fighter pilot reacting to `Scramble!'
Scobie's sycophancy is operating to the max, to judge by today's reports on Yahoo.

For my part, I'd just like to wish the female Halek (cf. Dalek) `Many Unhappy Returns'.
BTW, the Wikipedia entry on Daleks is remarkably accurate as a description of *.
Sandie said…
Thomas Markle and holidays to Thailand: not in Bower's book. This was a claim made by Thomas Jnr way back in 2018. Thomas Jnr also claimed, round about the same time?, that his father had won millions in the lottery.

https://radaronline.com/videos/meghan-markle-dad-sexcapades-thailand-weed-hookers/

I doubt that the story is true but it could be. I was not aware of this story at the time.

An interesting long article about Thomas from December 2017 before the paparazzi found him:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5137911/So-Meghans-dad-determined-hide-world.html

From the article:

"Before this fractured family came to prominence, however, Thomas Junior says he visited his father in Mexico, and gave me a glimpse of his lifestyle. His dad, he says, often sleeps until the afternoon, spends his days reading, watching TV news and old films, playing slot machines or ambling around. His son says he has gained weight by his junk-food diet.

He doesn’t swim, fish, sail or surf like many on that coast: his only hobbies are photography and travel. He has a fascination with Asian culture, he says, and has visited Thailand and Vietnam."

The story about sexcapades in Thailand emerged from Thomas Jnr in 2018, a few months after the Archie pregnancy was unleashed on the world:

https://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/meghan-markles-dad-thailand-women-sex/

https://radaronline.com/videos/meghan-markle-dad-sexcapades-thailand-weed-hookers/
The Cat's Meow said…
Very strange yet interesting situation...

Apparently, Fergie seems to have "bought" a posh Mayfair property despite them being universally acknowledged as "broke." Am pondering the following...

Could this be that PA and Fergie have been warned that they will lose their "grace and favour" home in Windsor once PC ascends? Also, since the Cambs are moving to Windsor it is highly likely they do not want PA nearby. Finally, since PA is under all of there lawsuits/bad money dealings this home has to be in Fergie's name in order to protect it from being wrapped up in any of the legal matters.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11080033/Mystery-Fergie-buys-5M-Mayfair-home-pleading-poverty.html

Thoughts?

The Cat's Meow said…
Insta-official acknowldgement of TBW's b-day from the royal accounts. HILLARIOUS that they use practically the same shots of her emerging from the Thanksgiving Jubilee service where they were booed.

Oh, and as one commentator in the DM points out, the first picture exposes the recording wire near her hair...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11080071/Happy-birthday-Meghan-Prince-William-Kate-Middleton-share-best-wishes.html
Stephanie_123 said…
Good Day Everyone:

The newest comments under the DM article about birthday wishes to * are devolving into crazy territory. I don’t recall ever seeing such vile comments under a DM article about the pair. It’s as if the inmates at the asylum — or perhaps one very crazed, unhappy inmate — got ahold of a computer with Internet access.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11080071/Happy-birthday-Meghan-Prince-William-Kate-Middleton-share-best-wishes.html#reader-comments
Mel said…
I know it seemed to be widely reported that she had a wire in her hair, I don't think that's true.
See a close-up of them walking down the aisle as they arrived. From a distance I can see how it looked like a wire, but up close appears to be an out of place strand.

However, I would not be surprised that she was wearing recording equipment someplace on her body. She and H were *far* too interested in whatever was under her collar.

Since when has H *ever* shown any interest in how her clothing fits?
And she does not normally fiddle with her clothes like that, ill-fitting or not.

Totally out of character behavior from both of them.



https://the-hollywood-gossip-res.cloudinary.com/iu/cs_srgb,f_auto,q_auto:420,w_732/v1654536360/meghan-markle-and-prince-harry-return
Stephanie_123 said…
@ Sandie

Regarding your comment on home security, I am a resident of the US and traveled in South Africa for a month in the late 1990’s. I remember my amazement and trepidation at all the signs in Johannesburg saying “armed response”, every home in the city having walls, razor wire, guard dogs, gated garages and other heavy-duty security.

In the US, by comparison, even in most very wealthy areas, security is less visible. There may be an armed response, but it is not advertised. Wealthy homes may have walls/fences/gates, but the security guard at the gate generally does not carry automatic rifles. Instead, weapons may be in the security building and only brought out as needed. The guard may simply be there to call the local police.

In many, many small cities and well-to-do suburban areas, property crimes are infrequent and residents have low-key security. Homes and autos are locked but homes may not even have security systems and nearly no homes are walled. You do not see razor wire at the tops of fences.

The last time I saw a fence topped with razor wire was around an auto dealership in Paterson, New Jersey — a small, densely populated, crime-ridden city. Other properties on the same street around the auto dealership had no fencing. Businesses will have alarms.

The Markles live in an area where overt crime is rare. A woman can walk on a public street day or evening and expect that she will not be robbed of her jewelry and handbag. Autos are not regularly stolen on the streets.

From the real estate photos, I don’t recall that the home in Montecito is walled but I do remember seeing a substantial fence and gatehouse. This is standard for that area. However, do they keep guards on duty? Or, to save money, do they rely on an a security company that comes to the home when the alarm is triggered?

If their security is perceived by the criminal element in their area to be less robust than at the homes around them, they will be targeted. I suspect this is the case.
Girl with a Hat said…
The twit has filed another lawsuit against the Metropolitan Police on the twat's birthday.
Sandie said…
Duchess of York buys Mayfair property from Duke of Westminster:

This is an intriguing story. (The property is actually two apartments that have been converted into one.)

Andrew has a lease on Royal Lodge. He pays a reduced amount for that lease because he spent a considerable amount of money on the property before he moved in. So, other than the reduced lease, he is in the same position as the Wessexes with Bagshot Park or the Sussex with Frogmore Cottage. He can negotiate to give up the lease (the term of the lease is at least 50 years but it may be longer), but the Crown Estate will not want the place empty so would have to have a new tenant lined up.

Like everyone else, I wonder where Sarah got the money from. I think Andrew has access to more money than is known, plus she has a very wealthy son-in-law.

I can't see Andrew leaving the comfort of Windsor Estate (he would have the same issues with security as the hapless one) but maybe Sarah has decided it is time to move out?
Girl with a Hat said…
On the one year anniversary of a project the alliterate one announced, it would be nice to have a reporter track how many of the 40 celebrities asked, actually did what the big announcement said they were all going to do. You know if it had been completed, there would have been a celebration. I can't wait to hear what is announced today to great fanfare that won't be completed and to which no follow up questions will ever be asked.

https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2022/08/blind-item-7_4.html#disqus_thread

Sandie said…

@The Cat's Meow said...
'Oh, and as one commentator in the DM points out, the first picture exposes the recording wire near her hair...'

To me it has never made sense in any way that she was wearing 'a wire'. But there is so much that not only does not make sense but is crazy with that couple!

It looks like wire but I think it is more likely that it is a strand of hair, loaded with hair products, that has come loose from the hairdo. She has always been sloppy with grooming ... forgetting about little details.
Sandie said…
https://youtu.be/zdmiucmxkac

New Palace Confidential ... Richard Eden in charge!

The whole episode comes across as very favourable for the duo and their antics.

I object:

The duo were given the best staff and heaps of assistance that Diana did not get. They would not follow advice. The Oprah interview was filled with spiteful lies. Diana did damage by telling the truth, not a bunch of lies.

Catherine very much looked to William to guide her (as well as being taught manners and social skills in her upbringing), plus I am sure she has had guidance from courtiers that she listens to and follows. TBW was too busy shoving the Prince out of the way and barging ahead and bullying everyone to listen to or follow any advice.

Security: plenty of celebs have security and do not end up dead in a major car crash. The issue is the quality of bodyguards/drivers and affordability and the principals allowing the bodyguards to do their job. The British government will always keep an ear tuned to threats against the hapless one and act accordingly. But these two legal battles (a new one today on her birthday) are all tied up with the death of his mother. Cynically one could also say that if he wins these battles then they get full-on quality protection without having to pay for it, but they will still be unsafe if they do not let that protection be in charge and follow their direction without question.

xxxxx said…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11080619/Prince-Harry-files-second-lawsuit-against-UK-government-Scotland-Yard.html

Hapless suing some more over the denial of Royal Protection Officers for him and M. When they visit UK. This denial is a good thing if it gives them another reason to stay away.
OKay said…
@Stephanie 123 I didn't see any particularly nasty comments on the DM from your link, but this caught my eye and did make me chuckle.

________________
Sunshine forever, Paradisio, United Kingdom, 3 minutes ago

A face you'd never tire of slapping!!!
OKay said…
@Sandie I get a notice that the video to which you provide a link has been taken down. How unfortunate...I would have loved to have made a comment or two...*L*

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I concur with those who believe the "wire" in question is actually a strand of hair. I can fully see why people think it looks like a wire but if it were, it would likely be much thinner and not all wrapped up in the bun.
Girl with a Hat said…
@Sandie

It is definitely a wire. Too thick for a strand of hair.

This is typical of gaslighting done by a narc. It might not have been a microphone, but she might have wanted people to think she had a microphone, so that people would be nice to her, for example, or for them to fear her.
Karla said…
Markle's x Markle's case
Samantha x Meghan
🔥🍿
2023. Tampa, Florida

Discovery by - 3 April
Dispositive motions by - 5 May
Pretrial statement by - 22 Aug
All other motions by - 29 Aug
Final Pretrial Conference - 19 Sept

💥 Jury Trial term commencing - 2 Oct

Conduct mediation hearing by 31 Aug
https://twitter.com/brigantia__/status/1555231505290448899?s=20&t=BIcHh8f5y44gGNi2om1Dzg
Sandie said…
I have naturally curly hair so I know how if you use too many grooming products on your hair, you can get a piece that looks just like her hair in that photo. By strand I mean more like the thickness of a rope than a thread (yet still within the definition of the word).

This supposed cord for a microphone in her hair and supposed microphone under her wide collar make no sense.

But @GWAH, I think you are right and we need to not make sense of it but see it as the behaviour of someone who is batsh1t crazy and makes no sense!
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@OKay
If the video was the new Palace Confidential, then I accessed it through a subscription (free) to the newsletter. It usually takes a little while before the video appears on YouTube where I think everyone can access it. I'll try and post a link again later directly from YouTube instead of the newsletter.
Girl with a Hat said…
@Sandie, sorry, but I'm not buying it. That's definitely an electrical wire.
Stephanie_123 said…
@ Okay

I saw the crazy comments on the DM about 10 hours ago. At that time, the article had about 1.5k comments,. Now, we are at nearly 4k. So, somewhere just before the current middle… The comment you found is perfect.
It’s very very clearly hair strands. Not one strand of hair. More like 25 strands of hair twisted together that fell out of her twisty bun. No one wears a mic wire in their hair. It’s hair.
I’m usually far from the conspiracy theories, I looked at those photos of Maggot and it could pass as a wire. Yes, a thicker one than normal, but a wire could’ve just been deliberately woven into her hair strands to hide it, and given it an appearance of being thicker wire. She was fiddling with that side of her collar throughout her time at the service…many at the time thought she had a recording device on her. 😟
A cheering report that's good for the heart:

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/kate-middleton-shocks-father-she-142157810.html

(tho' I do wish Yahoo would realise that, in the UK at least, `shock' implies a nasty surprise, not a nice one.)
Magatha Mistie said…

What a mangled mess she weaves

The wire-haired terrier
With her pneumatic derrière
Posed the question
was she wired for sound
She tangled up her coiffure
Whilst demanding a chauffeur
The hound was released
from the pound
Desperate to retrieve her lost ground
Butt was soundly
booed all around…

Magatha Mistie said…

@Enbreth
Thank you,
so glad you got it 😉

@Maneki
Not long now 😘

@WildBoar
Maybe Doctor Who
delivered her babies???

Sandie said…
https://youtu.be/zdmiuCmxKAc

New Palace Confidential (hope link works).


https://youtu.be/4GOwxiy0xRA

New Body Language Guy (interesting to see history of coverage of TBW in America).
Este said…
They say good and bad things happen in threes. For Meghan's b'day she got:

1 Treated to complimentary copy of People magazine with her good friend Kate on he cover hailing HER as the Queen. Never complain never explain. Hear that Meghan??

2 HMTQ did not burden Meghan by invading her privacy to wish her happy birthday on Instagram.

3 It's a date!! Court date set for Samantha Markle defamation case. Boom!

What a day! She got loaded.....with presents she can't return and never wanted. So much for being number one.
Sandie said…
https://youtu.be/RlSJGDGRrls

Thomas Jnr wishing his sister happy birthday. His sense of humour is not my cup of tea, but he looks good (kind of reassuring that one can get back on track and be healthy after alcoholism and where it leads you!). Interesting peek into Thomas' house - I bet there is a great view of the sea from those bedroom windows.
Sandie said…
https://mobile.twitter.com/knesix/status/1555349568191070208/photo/1

Her photographer friend posted a photograph of her for her birthday, no doubt directed by her.

Everyone is making the comparison with Catherine. My immediate reaction: the one is all light and grace; the other is dark and messy.
Magatha Mistie said…

The dog that barks/lies
in the night/day

The dingo delivered her baby
Not sure about the second,
maybe
All subjective via megs
Realised she’s RF dregs
We all know she’s
stark fucken crazy…

Sandie said…
@Magatha Mistie
Your poetry is brilliant - each line delivers a punch.

'All subjective via Megs'!

That is her defence in the court case, so she is exposing herself to major humiliation. The media is going to invite every psychologist/psychiatrist to comment on her pathology ... The Amber Heard debacle should have been a warning to her.
Mel said…
Man, that photo by her friend is bad. Looks like it was taken by a 5 year old.

She really needs to give up on trying to copy Catherine. It's never going to happen.
Girl with a Hat said…
@Este, also, a photo spread of the Cambridges in the glamorous Paris Match magazine, and a story in the DM about how William flew the helicopter that delivered Charlotte to an appearance. Hairy must be spitting up fur balls. No more helicopters for him unless he pays.
Girl with a Hat said…
@Magatha, you make me laugh so hard.

Remind me never to get on your bad side, though. I don't like the words that rhyme with "Girl with a Hat"
Sandie said…
Interesting...

Theresa Longo Fans
@BarkJack_
Exclusive - a showrunner rang us yesterday. The tea is MM does not give a toss about credibility rumours swirling or Tom Bower's book. She is not embarrassed by accusations of bullying either. She's emboldened now.


Theresa Longo Fans
@BarkJack_
Replying to
@summersparks56
Something is afoot regarding Spotify. It's telling no shred of publicity, press release or podcasts followed a trailer. However -- I am told some podcast episodes are verifiably completed.
Sandie said…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11081529/Tatler-crowns-Kate-Middleton-best-dressed-star-2022.html
Karla said…
Magatha👏👏👏❤️
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New Rumors About Harry's Paternity
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Howard Hodgson, royal biographer and an acquaintance of the Prince of Wales, told ( Lady Dy) her first affair was in 1983 with a man called Henry Herbert, the 17th Earl of Pembroke.
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Twitter

https://twitter.com/seeds_we_sow/status/1555000960874954753?s=20&t=7Sq4ubIrXJHX2uMUwPVkyQ

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Throwback - 2004
Lady Colin has written several books on the Royals, but most noticeably hit the headlines with her 1992 best-selling biography Diana In Private. It spelled out for the first time - several months before Andrew Morton's book on Diana - how unhappy she was in her marriage and her bulimia.
The book also claims that before her affair with James Hewitt, Diana enjoyed a relationship with Henry Herbert, the 17th Earl of Pembroke. According to the authoress, Diana became involved for a short while with the earl, who died last year aged 64, sometime between the birth of her two children.
Note; The book was met with fierce denials.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-328739/Diana-secret-abortion.html

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Henry George Charles Alexander Herbert - 17 th Earl of Pembroke
https://www.geni.com/people/Henry-Herbert-17th-Earl-of-Pembroke/6000000004868058453

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William Herbert, 18th earl of Pembroke - son of Earl Henry.


https://www.gettyimages.no/detail/news-photo/18th-earl-of-pembroke-william-herbert-is-photographed-at-news-photo/138655195
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/18th-earl-of-pembroke-william-herbert-is-photographed-at-news-photo/138655240

Another one of the 18th Earl of Pembroke, William son of Henry 17th earl.

Hmm...
Fifi LaRue said…
@Magatha: LOL! I especially like "fucken crazy."

Based on the noticeably increased PR coming from Queen Twat, the Bower's book really did affect her, most negatively.
Kween Twat is emboldened, only to the effect of producing quadruple the PR now as compared to before the book was released.

Beware the person whose most passionate desire is to be famous. Kween Twat has passed famous and now and forever will be infamous.
Karla said…
WBBM
This one is great. Thanks❤️
@Sandie,

Of course Maggot it going to put on a front to suggest she doesn’t care about the contents of Tom’s book, just like she says she doesn’t read comments about herself or the tabloids! We know it’s not the truth and that Pinocchio is alive and kicking! 😂
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/david-spade-says-kate-middleton-125813209.html

Bloody 'ell.
OCGal said…
@Girl with a Hat, your comment to our own Poet Laureate Magatha Mistie about striving to not get on her bad side since you don’t like the words that rhyme with “Girl with a Hat” somehow struck me as absolutely hilarious. The more I thought about trying to rhyme your name, the funnier it became.

I struggled unsuccessfully with rhyming hat, chapeau, bonnet, beret, sombrero, lid, headdress, turban, tam-o’-shanter, and so on, until I finally had great success with great words to rhyme with

Phrygian Cap.

Thank you for my day’s allotment of laughter.
OCGal said…
@Marnie, WOW! What a great connect you made between the words to “It Never Rains in Southern California”, and the life in real time of Hapless Harry:

“Didn't think before deciding what to do
Oh, that talk of opportunities, TV breaks and movies
Rang true, sure rang true…”

“Out of work, I'm out of my head
Out of self respect, I'm out of bread
I'm underloved, I'm underfed
I wanna go home…”

“Please don't tell 'em how you found me
Don't tell 'em how you found me
Gimme a break, give me a break…” - end -

The songwriters Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood presciently channeled Hazbeen and I thank you so much for bringing this forward, but I chastise you because this song is now an unstoppable earworm which I can’t stop singing in my head.
OCGal said…
@Karla, thanks for the eye-opening notes about Diana’s affair with 17th Earl of Pembroke, excellent DailyMail old article heretofore unknown by me, and Getty imagery of the 18th Earl of Pembroke who has an amazingly similar look about him to Second Row Sussex.

Food for thought!
Sandie said…
https://youtu.be/wCeKG4n3GpU

Rayner got a restraining order against Thomas Markle Snr? Who is Rayner? I had not heard anything about this so I have no idea what Thomas Jnr is talking about.

Anyone here know anything?
Karla said…
Thomas Markle Shock: Meghan Markle’s Dad Reportedly Threatened To Kill Paparazzi Company Jeff Rayner Over Their Staged Photos, Videos, Restraining Order Filed
Paparazzi company owner Jeff Rayner filed a restraining order against Thomas Markle.
https://epicstream.com/article/thomas-markle-shock-meghan-markles-dad-reportedly-threatened-to-kill-paparazzi-company-jeff-rayner-over-their-staged-photos-videos-restraining-order-filed
Martha said…
@sandie….I believe Rayner is the photographer who took the photos of Tom Sr. Which so enraged *.
Sandie said…
Take a look at this:

Tyler Perry
@tylerperry
I’ve had a front row seat in your life for the past few years. I’ve watched you endure things that would have broken a lot of people. I'm so incredibly proud to see how happy you, your husband, and your kids are now. It fills me with joy to say Happy Birthday Princess Meghan.
Observant One said…
Coleman Rayner is a “news” agency, basically paparazzi. Apparently Tom Senior was quoted in Tom Bower’s book, stating he was screwed by Jeff Rayner and one day, if terminally I’ll, he will go after him.
snarkyatherbest said…
Sandie - i saw the tweet - im guessing on a friday afternoon, the personal assistant had access to the account or perhaps madmadam hacked him hes been silent forever and is a besty of oprah. maybe she showed up crying on his doorstep that no one acknowledged her birthday, not even H , and the paps are hounding her and the queen made a racist comment and blah blah blah
Hikari said…
Tyler Perry
@tylerperry
I’ve had a front row seat in your life for the past few years. I’ve watched you endure things that would have broken a lot of people. I'm so incredibly proud to see how happy you, your husband, and your kids are now. It fills me with joy to say Happy Birthday Princess Meghan.


Sandie, re. this alleged tweet . .

I'm not on Twitter but if this is actually Tyler Perry's account this is coming from, I'm aghast.

Word on the street is that the Harkles were evicted from Perry's home after not only numerous complaints from neighbors about them trashing the property and putting up those ungodly eyesore security fences--evidently they never picked up after the dogs and the stench was so bad the neighbors could smell it--just the type of environment for a young man learning to walk, n'est pas? . . the 'birthday Archie Duck Rabbit video' was allegedly shot her . . but an even graver matter of abuse of Perry's household staff occasioned them getting the boot. Specifically that * had shoved an elderly housekeeper into the swimming pool. I think I heard this here first but I don't remember from whom.

If this allegation is true, M is guilty of reckless endangerment at the least. Intent to cause GBH. Even attempted manslaughter. Perhaps an older black person doesn't know how to swim. Even good swimmers can get into trouble if they are surprised, hit their heads, inhale a mouthful of water . .If this happened on Perry's property, do we really buy this gushy birthday wish to "Princess Meghan"? Wrong form of address altogether and I think Tyler and Oprah would know this.

Smells like * is inventing some celeb birthday wishes for herself since nobody feted her or so much as chucked a rock at her. In the wake of the People cover feting the future Queen, she's gotta remind the world that she's a Princess.
Maneki Neko said…
@Wild Boar 6.53 pm

As you say, 'Bloody 'ell'!. I wouldn't pay much attention to someone whose language is 'Her kid, who’s like 3'. I don't like the word 'kid' and this unnecessary 'like' is irritating. Either the child is 3 or he's not.
Sandie said…
Her birthday PR seems to be a princess theme:


Indiana Pizza Club
@TheIndianaPizza
The Indiana Pizza Club honors our #AmericanPrincess Meghan Markle on her 41st birthday.
This American not only became a Princess, but she turned the British Royal Family on its head and showed them what the USA is all about.
Someday she may be Queen, but for now here she is eat
Sandie said…
And another one (pic of a birthday cake with pink phallic towers):

Zarah Bukake MP 🇵🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
@Zarah_BukakeMP
Phew. It's taken me hours but it's done, happy birthday Meghan, your Princess cake awaits!

https://mobile.twitter.com/home
Girl with a Hat said…
over at CDAN, there's a blind about how Tyler Perry hires people to put projects together, and then doesn't give them any credit for them. Classy guy? nope.
Girl with a Hat said…
over at CDAN, they are discussing celebrities faking pregnancies and having different outward appearance of their "child". no discussion of the twats, but I think we now know where she got her ideas about maternity:

https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2022/08/blind-item-11_5.html#disqus_thread

near the bottom of the thread
Girl with a Hat said…
this is the kind of script that Tyler Perry produces (from a comment over at CDAN)

I had the great misfortune to watch 5 minutes of The Oval last night. Holy cow it was horribly awful. In that short period of time I saw the president of the USA flirt and have sex with his new press Secretary, his kid was trying to rape a housekeeper, etc. The script was bad, plot predictable and acting wooden. I’m shocked to realize that this show is on its 3rd season! I thought the Haves and Have Nots was bad.

Sandie said…
Add Vogue to the list ...

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg2h_xDMExt/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=234bff4f-a21c-4998-b2b0-dfbc8dfbfc54&ig_mid=39EBA386-EA08-40C3-9714-E2C44098808D
Este said…
Tyler Perry only tweeted what he did because he was compelled to do so. I think there is dirt on him that could be leaked by friends of Sunshine Sachs if he didn't deliver some essential, at this point, celebrity help. I fully expected this move by her team. I was just surprised that they couldn't purchase more. And these are just my opinions, musings and intuitions based on fact Meghan is desperate to "defend" her all important image. Even former BFF Jessica Fellow Mean Girl Mulroney is shading and mocking her on her Instagram. Make no mistake: the no longer useful smell blood on the water.

Bower's book is a reputational bomb from which she will never recover: nor should she. She's not Lady Macbeth so much as she is Iago, in her temperament and vision.
Este said…
Also, cuz mental due diligence is not unimportant, let's not overlook the obvious motive for Tyler Perry's tweeted support: he was paid enough and/or promised business deals to make it worth his celebrity endorsement of toxic. But what could these two talent challenged idiots offer deal wise? Has he not spoken to David Furnish, Sir Elton John's husband?
Fifi LaRue said…
Kween Twat faked a meeting at Oprah's last month, so the tweet is another fake from the deranged mind of Princeass MeMe.
Personally I see absolutely nothing has happened to her from the book. Anyone who thinks so is overly optimistic in my opinion.

Tyler Perry is a multi millionaire (if not a billionaire) and he needs absolutely nothing from her.

Also, the idea of an imaginary meeting with Oprah (or steadmen or anyone else who lives on that compound) is also made up. We don’t know Oprah and Steadmen’s schedule or their zoom abilities or the thousands of other things they went there for.

Diluting the cause by letting imaginations run wild doesn’t help. My 2cents
hikari, it was indeed from Tyler Perry’s official blue check account.

The fantasy that * pushed an elderly housekeeper was definitely not from this website. I’ve never heard it before and it is silly.
Girl with a Hat said…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TfwOd6jpso

The BLG goes into the list of celebrity friends of the twat who didn't wish her a happy birthday.
Sandie said…
https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-cake-fails-expectations-reality/

Was someone trolling the duchess with that birthday message and the alarming cake?
Hikari said…
Ilya,

You seem very definitive in your opinions. Much of what we post here is speculative. I tend to give credence to the allegation that Harry’s wife abused Tyler Perry’s staff while she was a guest in his home. I don’t have receipts on the particulars that she shoved a domestic worker into the swimming pool, But whatever they did, they wore their welcome out at Perry’s. As a result of the bullying investigation, we have pretty hard-core proof that she’s got history of treating underlings like crap, and past history is the best indicator of future performance. In that light, An allegation that she abused staff members belonging to someone else is really anything but “silly”—-I call it right in her wheelhouse, And she would’ve had means motive and opportunity. Perhaps if she endangered or injured an African-American employee of Tyler Perry’s, that was too egregious for even those woke arse kissers to overlook. Mr. Perry might not need anything from Harry’s wife, but he sure doesn’t need a multi million dollar lawsuit lodged against him by one of his employees either. It’s probably the worst kept secret in Hollywood the Tyler Perry takes his marching orders from Oprah. He owes her, you see, for launching his career. You may call that fantasy if you wish but that’s how it operates. The Harkles were invited to stay in Mr. Perry’s home because Oprah wanted them there, At proximity to Montecito where she was still negotiating the terms of their now infamous interview.

Among all the other rumors out there like “Markus is the secret love child of Andrew” or “Meghan has boy parts!”, I do not find the prospect that Harry’s wife shoved somebody in a fit of rage who may or may not have fallen into a pool to be outlandish at all, given what we know about her. If anything of the sort happened, I hope the person did fall into a pool rather than onto concrete.
Hikari said…
Ilya,

You seem very definitive in your opinions. Much of what we post here is speculative. I tend to give credence to the allegation that Harry’s wife abused Tyler Perry’s staff while she was a guest in his home. I don’t have receipts on the particulars that she shoved a domestic worker into the swimming pool, But whatever they did, they wore their welcome out at Perry’s. As a result of the bullying investigation, we have pretty hard-core proof that she’s got history of treating underlings like crap, and past history is the best indicator of future performance. In that light, An allegation that she abused staff members belonging to someone else is really anything but “silly”—-I call it right in her wheelhouse, And she would’ve had means motive and opportunity. Perhaps if she endangered or injured an African-American employee of Tyler Perry’s, that was too egregious for even those woke arse kissers to overlook. Mr. Perry might not need anything from Harry’s wife, but he sure doesn’t need a multi million dollar lawsuit lodged against him by one of his employees either. It’s probably the worst kept secret in Hollywood the Tyler Perry takes his marching orders from Oprah. He owes her, you see, for launching his career. You may call that fantasy if you wish but that’s how it operates. The Harkles were invited to stay in Mr. Perry’s home because Oprah wanted them there, At proximity to Montecito where she was still negotiating the terms of their now infamous interview.

Among all the other rumors out there like “Markus is the secret love child of Andrew” or “Meghan has boy parts!”, I do not find the prospect that Harry’s wife shoved somebody in a fit of rage who may or may not have fallen into a pool to be outlandish at all, given what we know about her. If anything of the sort happened, I hope the person did fall into a pool rather than onto concrete.
Karla said…
I was finding it strange that all of a sudden, "Princess Meghan, was being used so heavily. and I went looking for why. i think that's the answer. Something to keep tabs on.
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New Private Members' Bill to give the Monarch powers to remove titles; to provide that such removals can be done by the Monarch on their own initiative or following a recommendation of a joint committee of Parliament.
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Removal of Titles Bill
Private Members' Bill (Presentation Bill)
Originated in the House of Commons, Session 2022-23

Last updated: 24 June 2022 at 13:13
https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3289
...

Are sugars aware that this bill is in the works. If it's successful it will give the monarch the powers to remove Titles based on their own initiative. If they don't want to involve the parliament.

https://twitter.com/royalinstablog/status/1555726142447013889?s=20&t=D3VIuATDcz5rp_WpshRtCA
Girl with a Hat said…
@Ilya, you're quite wrong about the Oprah meeting.

Oprah's father was dying and she was spending his last weeks in the Eastern US so she was not available for a meeting with the twats.

Secondly, the BLG has analyzed the photos and says that there are no traffic lights between the Monteshito mansion and Oprah's house, yet the photo of them in the Range Rover was taken at a stop light. There was something else the BLG brought up, but I forget what it was. IN any case, the photo has been analyzed by many people and there were a lot of doubts raised about it by them.
Ilya said,

Personally I see absolutely nothing has happened to her from the book. Anyone who thinks so is overly optimistic in my opinion.


It’s not going to exactly raise her profile either, it highlights for all and sundry to see. 😳 Anyone paying attention would have noted they haven’t reacted to the book, they usually jump straight on….that speaks volumes about the truth (no doubt backed up with evidence) within those pages. 😐
Sandie said…
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/wh74xn/as_we_deduced/

Theresa Longo Fans report here.

I think she (and probably him as well) is addicted to attention, but is furious that she cannot control the narrative. She keeps doing the same stuff, and the 'princess' narrative around her birthday is hilarious. If she wants to be known as Princess Meghan she can, in America, but that made-up title has nothing to do with British royalty.
Este said…
More oddities about Tyler b'day tweet to Meghan:
1: it was sent day late
2: It shows picture of Meghan kissing her thumb in a photo op meant to make her look saintly.
3: He says she's has endured what would have broken most....on one level meaning is obvious but still cryptic....what has Meghan endured?
4::Princess Meghan?? Does he really not know how much she loves and insists on using her title..the Duchess of Sussex?
5: he says he's proud of ....her happiness with Harry and kids....so she's happy now, right?

@ilya, you are most welcomed to our opinion but billionaires do indeed care for their reputation and can be blackmailed to protect their all important image and global brand. I think Bower book is reputational bomb because it delivers lots and lots of receipts of abuse. Bower helped to expose Robert Maxwell and he's worked same magic on Meghan. The silence from camp Sussex and their so-called celebrity friends is deafening and quite a bit different to noise they generated in wake of Oprah interview.
TheGrangle said…
The photo that Tyler Perry chose to accompany his birthday greetings to * telling and the possible reason for his choice is well explained here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/wh8r1u/that_tyler_perry_tweet/

If SS managed by whatever means, to persuade him to wish her a (very syrupy) happy birthday, there's a sting in the tail it seems.

Perry knows what she is and I agree with the poster, he's calling her out.
Hikari said…
@Este

Having slept on the question of TP’s effusive Tweet to the Princess of Lies, I am now wondering whether he was in fact trolling her.

I just find it rather odd that his tweet is the lone voice in the wilderness in terms of any whiff of ‘celeb Hollywood’ remembrance of her birthday. No acknowledgment is forthcoming from the legs of Elton and David, Ellen, Michelle Obama, the Clooneys, et al. Serena? Priyanka? the Fosters? Jenina, who just shared a Range Rover with her recently? Not even lower wattage celebs Like her Suits bestie Abigail Spencer… Deafening silence. Oprah herself silent as the grave— Just a single tweet from her sycophantic rent boy, TP. TP does what Oprah tells him to do. Is this a rare off the reservation act of defiance in support of Princess Twat after she trashed his home and alienated his staff? Or, more likely the more I think about it, a veiled mockery of her deluded Princess fantasy On behalf of Oprah as well as himself?

If we see no further collaboration between the queen of all media and the Kween in her own mind, we will have our answer.
@etse so Meghan Markle is THE MOST POWERFUL woman in the world then? Blackmailing queens and billionaires with all her top secret information? 🤣 Does that also make her the best actress in the world also? We’ve been sitting here for 4 years waiting for her downfall, but now you have convinced me that she will be the ruler of all the world!

Stop giving her super human qualities.
@hikari, I guess I missed it. Where is the bullying report? What was the outcome of the bullying investigation? I’d love to read it, thanks.
I’m a little confused, what am I missing?😟

How is Tyler’s birthday tweet calling Maggot out? I can’t see anything passive-aggressive in it etc. 🥴
We'd better not get too excited about Parliament taking action.

It's a Private Member's Bill, as opposed to an official government one and there's an idiot among the MPs who always votes against such measures on principle, regardless of the merits of the case - thus they get nowhere. Sorry, I can't remember his name.

Karla said…
WBBM❤️
Thank you for your information.
TheGrangle said…
@ Raspberry Ruffle

It's not the tweet, it's the photo he chose to accompany it. The possible inference is made clear in the post that I linked.
Este said…
@Hikari...I'm definitely with you in the belief that TP's tweet was not what it appeared to be. I think the celebrity silence is as close as the woke crowd is going to get to supporting Meghan. This reminds me of a dig Dave Chappelle made in a live act about Jussie Smullet, where he said black people's silence regarding his "innocence" WAS support, you know like that's the absolute outer limit of what they could do to support him, given how bad it looked. I think it's the same deal with Meghan. She's now toxic and they know it. Plus, who wants to be friends with someone whose already shown you they will drop you and spill your secrets the minute you're no longer useful to them?? She failed to consider how ghosting her family might have looked to them. Family matters to the super rich, along with their privacy; probably the 2 things they value most, outside of money and power, of course.

I thought it was funny when @barkjack said Meghan approached someone they knew to get her story out there and was shot down by them too, poor thing. Meghan wants us all to know she's unbothered by Bower's bomb. She doesn't give an avocado salad's toss about the bullying (well, duh!) or credibility issues cuz she's just so above it all livin' her truth to the absolutely max and is now emboldened, like that's not her regular go-to personality fault. Oh boy, watch out! Meghan is coming for us only she's doesn't realize she already played her hand and it came up snake eyes. She's Amber Heard, not Diana 2.0 and Demo-rats are getting ready to laugh her out of town.
Karla said…
We haven't been waiting four years for Meghan to fall. We spent two years talking about how narcissistic she was.
Two years ago, this started to become more evident. And when she left the Monarchy, everyone was saying that her success in Hollywood and America would be a reality.
And that hasn't happened yet. She has been accumulating failures. And changing projects to support their success narrative. Now it's a political career. And in a contrary current, she wants to be called Princess.
The big point is: she's already fallen and to say otherwise is to believe her narcissistic narrative.
Meghan's big support comes from her sugar, paid PR and bots and fake accounts.
abbyh said…


Tyler Perry - what is interesting, given that People has Catherine on the cover, has a different picture of * when they talk about the tweet rather than show the picture he did.
https://mobile.twitter.com/people/status/1555613614417088512 That was an interesting photo montage of People magazine by BLG.


On her/them - no damage, there is a difference between the appearance of no effect from the TB book and no effect at all. Not all damage is immediately apparent. Many big earth dams were looked at right before they failed because someone thought there was a problem only to be told there was no damage.

The book, which I have not read yet, had no big smoking guns that many wanted. So, what it does have is all in one place a lot of backstory which clarifies much of the smoky past which was vaunted to make her look good. It minimized what could be sued over, which as (sorry I forget who said something about allowing people to be able to smell the blood in the water) might be able to see how the dust settled after this one. Feeling safer, this could open a lot of doors to him for the next book on her since this one stops well before the present. And, that be where dragoons are (meaning that could really be sources of all kinds of damage one suspects or doesn't even know about). Smart move to leave people wanting more.

The bullying report: just because it was not made public doesn't mean that there was no proof that there was a problem. It only means that we don't get to read it. But that they are making changes so that kind of thing does not fall through cracks (again) indicates that something did, in fact, happen - why make protocol change if no problem existed? Like the dog who didn't bark explanation.

Besides, if there was no proof, that could easily have been reported to the world as a see how the Palace does in fact, defend you from malicious gossip. But ... no one did release that.



Abby, the reported problem was supposedly that Jason Knauff set in a report of bullying on behalf of other employees who didn’t make their own reports and also didn’t wish to. That is also supposedly why Knauff no longer works for the Cambridges and that is supposedly the changes that have been made. People can no longer make bullying claims on behalf of other people.

I have no proof of this and I didn’t do a deep dive. Only a superficial one.
JennS said…
Karla said...
We haven't been waiting four years for Meghan to fall. We spent two years talking about how narcissistic she was.
Two years ago, this started to become more evident. And when she left the Monarchy, everyone was saying that her success in Hollywood and America would be a reality.
And that hasn't happened yet. She has been accumulating failures. And changing projects to support their success narrative. Now it's a political career. And in a contrary current, she wants to be called Princess.
The big point is: she's already fallen and to say otherwise is to believe her narcissistic narrative.
Meghan's big support comes from her sugar, paid PR and bots and fake accounts.
.......................

Karla
I agree with you 100%. And I'm wondering with the increase in squad activity lately whether Megxiteer forums like this one will be infiltrated with stans attempting to negate what folks have worked hard to prove. It's certainly a tired and tatty approach to constantly defend the indefensible.
@The Grangle,

I didn’t realise he posted the photo as well. 🥴From the link you kindly shared, I wasn’t sure what he wrote/ included and what was another persons input. After sending my last comment, I noticed a few other Nutties giving specifics as to why Tyler was having a dig at Maggot,😐
snarkyatherbest said…
Karla the use of princess meghan. it is something to watch. does she use it in private ? is she worried about titles? is she sending the queens health is worse and charles will strip titles or she doesn’t want catherine using princess of wales is this part of anticipating a divorce negotiation and use of a title. does show me she’s desperate to keep the royalty ties

i like the responses about tyler petty post. at first it irritated me but yes he was probably trolling her. perhaps someone at SA reached out and asked a bunch of people to wish happy birthday. maybe TP was irritated by even the ask. the princes meghan thing sure could be trolling. and does he know about kids or lack there of. perhaps happiness with them is a troll remark. i do like one of the remarks that Madea would put up with her.
Ralph L said…
I listen to HG Tudor at 1.25 speed.
Sandie said…
@karla
Wise observation ... she has (they have) already failed.

The princess PR? She has no core identity other than dominate, control, get attention, and so on, but she has been Rachel, Meghan, Rachel, then Meghan again; bean, Megs, whatever is cutesy name of the moment; duchess, Queen, princess ... but as a little girl she fantasized about being a princess (while acting like a queen though) and maybe she is throwing aside the power couple brand and is embracing being the princess she always dreamed she was. That is not to say that she won't be calling herself Duchess or any other name she has used in her life, but to the deranged mind of a narc, marrying a prince should have made her a princess so she is darned well going to call herself one for now, for her birthday!
TheGrangle said…
@Raspberry Ruffle - It was the post by Lastlemming-pip which interested me, I would have preferred to copy and paste the post which would have have been clearer, but wasn’t sure whether it was ok to do that, so opted for the link instead.
I tend to agree with her, it was an interesting choice of photo by TP and I remember well how ‘their’ decision to leave his property was reported. By all accounts it was most ungracious.

JennS said…
Ilya said...
Abby, the reported problem was supposedly that Jason Knauff set in a report of bullying on behalf of other employees who didn’t make their own reports and also didn’t wish to. That is also supposedly why Knauff no longer works for the Cambridges and that is supposedly the changes that have been made. People can no longer make bullying claims on behalf of other people.
.....................

This is not true - your info is Sugar / Squad propaganda and misinformation.

▶The RF would not have engaged an outside firm to investigate the bullying charges if they did not happen.
The findings were not reported for a number of reasons but the absence of any RF statement clearing Markle is telling...so is the lack of any legal action from the Harkles. Markle has not initiated any lawsuits against The Times, Valentine Low, or Jason Knauf.

▶And the complete sealing of the results as well as the recommendations clearly implies issues were found and IMO they were far worse than was expected. I believe Markle is a horrible bully and was particularly sadistic while a member of the RF.

▶Your comment about Jason Knauf is misinformation and reflects sugar narratives.
He left for personal reasons. And as a matter of fact, the Cambridges awarded him a new role in William's Earth-shot charity just a couple of weeks ago!

Meghan Markle Bullying Accusation Aide Given New Role at William's Charity
https://www.newsweek.com/aide-meghan-bullying-accusations-prince-william-earthshot-1725020
Este said…
@Ilya...your theory about why Knauf left the Cambridges' employment is different to my theory. I think he had to leave after leaking the email that proved Meghan and Harry were lying out of loyalty to the Cambridges who are and have been mightily abused by the Sussexes. I choose to believe Knauf fell down on his sword for the good of the monarchy and that he will land on his feet quite well, professionally speaking.

Let's not forget that Harry agreed to put his beloved grandmother through the ringer while her beloved husband of 50+ years was dying. These are some bad operators here and Bower's book has 80 sources and loads more of stuff he couldn't publish, for legal reasons.

Bottom line. If Bower is wrong, the Sussexes must sue to get the truth out in the public, since that matters to them. Yes. Let's let a court of law, not me or you, decide the truth here.

Bower is either telling the truth or he's not. Sue him or accept what he's written as truth.
Enbrethiliel said…
I just saw the photo on the Tyler Perry post and agree it was an odd choice. Perhaps he chose it for the little black girl?

That's my charitable interpretation. But my very first reaction, primed by the KP and Clarence House birthday greetings that showed * on the day she was stuffed into the second row and publicly booed, was: "Did he want to remind us of the time she squatted on Ellen?"

And from there, the word play is easy. She was a squatter in his house first, wasn't she?
Karla said…
Thank you to everyone who mentioned my name. I confess: I love being here.❤️
Why I think MM has fallen in the narcissist Meghan's view. And let's think more about MM and her narcissistic personality disorder.
She knows it's an unrealistic title. She will not be able to wear it at formal events or proclaim herself Princess. She wants everyone to believe that she is loved like a princess. She wants to be Meghan, the people's princess. She wants to be loved and adored by the world like Diana was. It's all about Diana.
The clothes. The staging. The perfume. The facial expressions. These were all laid out like a script. The time it has taken to research different Diana looks and moments and has prepped for her per event is insane.

Not having the world loving and adoring her is killing her.
She did that interview with Oprah to bring her the effect of the interview Diana gave Bashir. The world supported Diana and MM did not achieve that.
She’s still waiting for her moment. SS have spent so much money on her trying to make this happen for them. For them as a firm. This project isn’t as successful as they have hoped. This isn’t Diana fame and it’s definitely not Diana love, and it’s for sure not Diana $.

Keep waiting MM - it isn’t coming.
Kisses
Sandie said…
Valentine Low was the journalist who broke the story about the bullying. He has a book coming out this year (October I think) about royal courtiers and will cover the bullying (and the exit of the duo) in more detail. He had to move up the publication of his book to get it out before the Prince published his memoir.

The downfall of the duo is not finished yet ... there is more coming their way! (By the way, when the Palace was accused of burying the bullying, the Palace would have been well aware that Low was writing the book and that Sussex staff had spoken to him. The Queen perhaps was protecting staff and family from attack but knew the truth would not remain hidden.)

Jason Knauf left because his husband had relocated for a new job. And, yes, he now has a position with the Earthshot Prize. And he would not have done an about-turn and handed over the emails and texts for the court case without the go-ahead from the Cambridges. Jason is still very much serving the Crown, and the Cambridges in particular.
abbyh said…
Jenn,

Thank you for the factual information. I appreciate you.

I knew Jason was doing something with PW again but didn't remember details.



This is a good moment to, as a moderator, remind us all about de-escalating, not engaging to enrage.

We do sometimes get posters who have alternative ideas which may or may not have been given truths that we know about.

Let us stick to the facts as best we know them. Kindly point out where there are potential flaws in their information.

And, kill them with kindness.

Sandie said…
Knauf left because his husband relocated (to India?) for his job. Knauf worked out a long notice period and him and his husband were separated for most of that time. His new job with the Earthshot Prize allows him to be with his husband and continue working with the Cambridges, in a very prestigious position.

Knauf did not fall on his sword to provide testimony in the trial. He was leaving anyway. And, since he still works with the Cambridges, he must have had their blessing to give the evidence that he did.

The evidence Knauf gave did not win the case for the DM but it exposed the Duchess and Scobie as liars who had committed perjury, and the hapless Prince as being a co-conspirator.
Sandie said…
I found this at LSA, but won't put the poster on the spot by giving a name. No source is given for the following, but it is rather amusing so I thought I would share it:

-----
Allegedly MM and PH had a raft of conditions to be met for them to even consider staying in the UK -( lucky us ) two ( hopefully the most outrageous) of them leaked were -

Half the Duchy of Cornwall lands and money to be given to PH
Royal Titles for her and Doria. Demanded that she was made a blood princess in her OWN right outranking Catherine, ( Princess of Edinburgh i believe was the title she was after) and Doria was made a countess or duchess in her own right - thats how delusional the Sussexs were - they actually believed they had the upper hand and the BRF would fold to their perceived star power.

The Middletons as grandparents to a future KING dont have a title, why she thought two AMERICAN nationals deserved or warranted one is anyone's guess.
The Duchy was clearly a community property asset grab.
BRF should publish it - UK would piss themselves laughing and they would be mocked globally.
God knows what else was on the list - Windsor, throne of Canada the possibilities are endless.

I honestly think PH thinks he's some sort of mystic guru/ world leader who the peasants wait with baited breath for his pronouncements - MM she's entitled and has mental health issues.

They wanted to change the monarchy and turn it into a monocracy with PH at the head of it and her a modern day Imelda Marcos plundering the UK of assets.
-----

I doubt this is true but the spirit of the story is true. They believed their own story and thought they were more powerful and popular and special and entitled than they actually ever were. I wonder if they still have their delusions (either or both) and still believe in their own greatness and that the royal family, supported by the British media (ignoring the American media), are jealous and trying to destroy them?
I wasn’t saying any of that was true! I said I only did a superficial dive and I added a bunch of “supposedly”.

The truth is we don’t know the truth. KP hasn’t told us anything.
Karla said…
Valentine Low - Courtiers : The Hidden Power Behind the Crown.

Out Thursday 29th September!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472290909/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_awdb_imm_TJS0HFGPBJ93VY7APNKR?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
...
Prince Harry’s memoir will have to duke it out with competing Royal books
The next few months will bring a flurry of books tipped to give new insight into the lives and behaviour of the Royal family.


"Sources have indicated that several books due out at around the same time will tell different versions of the latter stages of the Duke’s life in the Royal family and his ultimate departure.
One is written by Valentine Low, the journalist who broke the story about the Duchess of Sussex being accused of bullying staff while she was at Kensington Palace.
Then, protected sources spoke candidly about the atmosphere and eventual formal complaint, with the Duchess’s team denying the accusations".

https://archive.ph/2022.08.06-204219/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2022/08/06/prince-harrys-memoir-will-have-duke-competing-royal-books/?utm_content=telegraph&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Twitter%23Echobox=1659809507-1
...

<[Valentine Low] joked:

“-Think of the publicity opportunities, Harry! We could do the chat shows together, and breakfast telly. We’d make a great double act. You could tell them how awful the media is, &I could tell them what fun you used to be, before it all went wrong”.
Rebecca said…
@JennS
Thank you for setting the record straight 🙂.
JennS said…
@Abby and Rebecca
You are welcome! With the Sussexes telling so many lies it's certainly hard to keep things straight so I appreciate this blog as a place that reports the truth and explores potential theories with open minds. We're still plugging away in my corner too but are keeping it under wraps.😊
Este said…
On SaintMeghanMarkle reddit thread, there is an eerie side by side picture of Wallis Simpson wearing a nearly identical belted white coat dress that Meghan wore at the Jubilee. This is hard to believe as merely coincidental. So. Who dressed Meghan and what message are they sending and, maybe, to whom??
As I recall, the Palace gave up trying to stop the press calling Diana `Princess D-' instead of `Princess Charles' but made it clear that this was not creating any sort of precedent.

So, tough luck,Princess Henry (which she is entitled to be called, like Princess Michael or the Duke of Edinburgh's mother, Princess Andrew of Greece). That handle, of course, indicates that her status is based on that of her husband which I imagine makes it a no-no in her eyes. In earlier times, in vulgar circles, she might even have been referred to as `Harry's Old Woman'.

It beats me that she seems to have no idea what `of the blood' means - and who the current `princesses of the blood' may be, all of whom rank higher than she does when she is not with H.
The Wallis lookalike:

Is she now implying that as Wallis was married to a man who had been the rightful heir to a king, Harry's now a rightful heir, rather than William?

I suppose it makes a change from her wanting to be Queen of the World - and posing as the Queen of Heaven as well.

@WBBM said, It beats me that she seems to have no idea what `of the blood' means - and who the current `princesses of the blood' may be, all of whom rank higher than she does when she is not with H.

You should know by now that Maggot doesn’t care for truth or facts, so being referred to as Princess Maggot isn’t going to bother her in anyway. 😐
Magatha Mistie said…

Whomping Billow

The fecund lay dilating
To prove she’s gestating
Under a weeping willow
Skin like armadillo
course hair, think of brillo
The aardvark presented
a freaking pillow…

Magatha Mistie said…

@Gwah
Mwah, Mwah, Mwah 😘

Magatha Mistie said…

@Karla, cheers
@Fifi, I may have been
a bit rude, should have said
“fucken mentally challenged”😉
@Marnie, thanks for the song,
I’ll give it a go when I’m having
a dry spell😜
@Sandie, I aim to deliver
below her belt…

KnitWit said…
I wonder if other royals in addition to M&H were accused of mistreating staff. I pity any women working around Andrew. Both Andrew and Charles seem demanding and have tempers.

Perhaps the princess title is perhaps in response to threats to remove the Duchess title.

Magatha Mistie said…

Pull-its-er Prize

Wallis and Wallet
We know which one
won it
It wasn’t the ‘girl’
known as pearl
For a start
Wallis had taste
Not to mention a waist
Wallet’s a hurl in a whorl…


NeutralObserver said…
In the spirit of not doing a deep dive, but would love to know:
1. Was Doria in prison during that near decade that she disappeared from *'s life? Bowers chronicles the disappearance, but doesn't give us details.

2. Why did the 6's children's birth certificates differ so much from those of other royal babies?

3. Why did *'s baby bump periodically shrink & grow, sometimes on the same day?

4. How did * supplement her income during her almost 20 year career in Hollywood, when she didn't have a recurring role in a series. Are the yachting rumors true?

5.Why on earth did * take her alleged suicidal feelings to Human Resources, of all people, rather than seeing a qualified medical professional, as her husband did? Who goes to HR about their medical issues?

These are just a few of the questions many have about *. Again, I haven't done any research, but just asking.LOL!
@RaspberryRuffle,

Yes.

Malice may have looked like the hookah-smoking caterpillar the last time she was in the Abbey but her thinking is straight from Humpty Dumpty (Through the Looking Glass')

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."

"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."

"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master - - that's all."


The Cheshire Cat got it right -`We're all mad here'.
Magatha Mistie said…

Sad to see that Judith Durham,
The Seekers, has died.
“The Carnival is over”

SwampWoman said…
She does appear to be more concerned about her meaningless appellation than her character. She lives in a meritocracy where she is judged on her own merits, not on who her husband's ancestors were. (He is being judged as well.)
Magatha Mistie said…

@JennS
Thank you.
Had realised!!! 😬

Magatha Mistie said…

@WildBoar
I think Alice was on the right track..

lizzie said…
@Neutral Observer, I'd like to know all those things you list too. But MM's "nearly 20 year career in Hollywood" wasn't really that long.

She graduated from Northwestern in June 2003.

She met Harry in May, June, or July (take your pick) of 2016. While he was tight, I'm pretty sure she didn't pay for her own ticket when they went to Botswana on their 3rd date for some good-natured peeing in the bushes, for example.

That's only a 13-year span. And part of the time she lived with and then was married to Trevity-Trev-Trev. And part of the time Thomas was supporting her it sounds like. (Bought her a car, paid her student loans.) And part of the time she lived with Corey.

She was still friends with Niki Priddy for part of those 13 years and certainly had gotten travel benefits in the past from her family. She was friends in Canada with Jessica and probably used her. She used charities for travel too.

Maybe she yachted but she had plenty of iffy ways to get money without doing that.
Magatha Mistie said…

@KnitWit

I’ve heard only good things about
Charles treatment of staff.
His staff are very loyal.
Not so sure about ‘drew.

Sandie said…
https://youtu.be/Tz04dSDfg5o

Thomas Markle Jnr ... he rambles and can be rather crude but the story he tells is rather sad:

Meghan was my dad's universe... He dedicated every single spare minute of his day, which he didn't have very many of because he worked many long hours in the studios, it's a very demanding job. And he just doesn't deserve to be treated this way. I mean, how heartless and cold could you be... What's really disturbing is the other day he told me, Meghan told him he was just a sperm donor.

...

When all this went down I was in Grants Pass, Oregon. I was sitting having some coffee and my phone rang, and it was an English accent. And I go, how the hell did you get my number? It's just really bizarre. From that point on, when Meghan started dating Harry, it became a nightmare. My whole life was public information, and it sucked. No instructions, no help, no nothing. It's just like, fend for yourself. And trust me, it takes years of practice to learn how to deal with the media. Years and years of practice. Because you say one thing, about anything, and they twist it around, they make you look like a piece of you-know-what. So I had an attorney friend of mine reach out to the Palace... I said, 'I want these paparazzi's off my back, I had a private life before this, I love my private life, and that's all I want. Get these people of my back, it's not my responsibility, it's your responsibility'. The response I got back finally from the Palace was, 'Meghan said "That's distant family and I don't know those people".'
Hikari said…
When Methane told Oprah with a straight face that she, the pregnant, suicidal Duchess, sought help from the HR department, I nearly lost my teeth laughing. Really, how stupid does she think we are that such a response would have seemed sensible, never mind plausible. Let’s agree as I think we all can that the entire point of the Oprah interview was to pander to an American audience. Methane might have read some career articles online that advised to go into your company‘s HR department with mental health concerns, as most employers have programs available as well as policies relating to mental health leave and such. I don’t think that Methane has actually held a job in her adult life for any length of time that had a human resources department per se, but she thought it would sound proactive to Americans listening.

Methane going to HR about her problems is like The Big Bad Wolf expecting sympathy at a Little Pig convention, innit. SHE was the problem going to the very office meant to be empowering staff in dealing with her. A more sinister reason emerges for her alleged visit to HR— If for instance she gotten wind of Jason Knauf’s emails about her— She might have gone to that office to try her charm offensive and/or pull rank/intimidate employees of that office. For a member of the royal family to personally visit human resources would be highly irregular… It would be like the queen dropping in unannounced to the kitchens demanding cookery lessons. * would have known damn well that she did not belong at HR with her “problem”. Not the appropriate channel.
Maneki Neko said…
@Este

Well spotted. Wallis's white belted coat is indeed very similar to *'s. Wallis, however, had a very slim waist. I'm not sure if anyone has posted a photo but here it is. * shouldn't wear anything with a belt, she doesn't have the waist for it. I wonder why she's copying Wallis now? As you said, hardly coincidental. Maybe an FU message to the Queen/BRF?

https://preview.redd.it/7bzjdzbxt5g91.jpg?auto=webp&s=4c3f7a3308648f0ecc3041709b4e39f2e539c7a0
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Karla said…
Wallis Simpson x MM clothes

Twitter talked a lot about it.If it's not just a coincidence, I was thinking that...
If ( ???) Netflix is ​​going to make a documentary about the Harkles if..... the love story of a british king for an american (Wallis) who made the king abdicate his throne will not be used to trace Harry's love for another america (MM) who made him leave the same monarchy british.
Mel said…
Enbrethiliel said...

And from there, the word play is easy. She was a squatter in his house first, wasn't she?
--------
If he had posted only the picture and a simple happy birthday it would have been a perfect dis.

I think verbiage was written by Mm. Too flowery for a man to write.
He probably posted it as see? I posted just what you told me to. She wasn't anticipating him finding a squatting pic to go with it.

Think he was subtly mocking the Ellen squatting photo?



Mel said…
Sandi...
That's just sad about Tom Jr.

It must have been hard as kids to see their dad falling all over the new baby. And yet they didn't seem to resent the baby for it.
Fifi LaRue said…
Kween Twat did look like an elephant (no offense to elephants) or a huge white tank in that suit at the Jubilee. It's so puzzling why she deliberately looks bad at every public occasion.

I recall something to the effect, @Hikari, that when the Sukkits hauled out that child they called "Archie" in South Africa, that no one in the RF had ever set eyes on, that's when the Sukkits got their walking papers.

IMO BP told them to get out of Dodge, and the choices given them were an outpost in Africa, or the Falkland Islands.
Sandie said…
Off topic ... help in solving a mystery:

https://youtu.be/RBNgJoWpPAg

The Cambridges arriving back at Kensington Palace recently (watch from 3 minutes) ... the young blonde woman with them is staff. Who is the teenage boy? School uniform and bag but tie and blazer removed. I don't think any Royals living at KP have children that age but maybe a grandchild of the Kents or Gloucesters who got a lift with the Cambridges?
Sandie said…
@Hikari

Going to HR because she was suicidal was the most bizarre claim and nobody in the media or in any books written has unravelled that mystery.

Speculation: She went to HR to try and shut down the bullying claims. While there, she played the suicidal pregnant woman victim to the hilt (no one will help me ...) and it was a very awkward encounter. No one told her it would look bad for the family ... she made that up.

Bizarre speculation: Was she trying to get a freebie stay at the luxury yoga retreat (which she would then make money from merching) and in her delusions believed that she could get it through HR somehow?

More speculation: He gave such a bizarre response when Oprah threw him a question about that because the real story was so bizarre and embarrassing, but quickly got back on track supporting his wife's victim narrative. Of course it would look bad for the monarchy if wifey jetted off to a luxury yoga retreat that she was merching for a couple of weeks, but who in HR would have had the courage to actually say that to her face?
Observant One said…
@Hikari -
The HR story that * told to Oprah was indeed laughable. You are absolutely correct that this lie was to discredit the very team who listened to the complaints of her staff during their exit interviews, or on days when they were melting down from her attacks. Anyone who believed that she was refused mental health care by the Britis Royal Family is not quite bright.

I have a working theory that she was feeling a great deal of pressure in the weeks leading up to Archie’s fluid due date. She was likely told about the “of the body” requirements for a Royal birth and the requirement that the witnesses sign the birth announcement. I think we have enough evidence to support the fact that she was not pregnant and the palace fed her some rope with this to see how it played out. It’s not unreasonable to assume that she faked being suicidal and demanded to go to the states for treatment. I believe she even said that she told “them” that she needed to go somewhere. I do believe the couple were left to their own devices to fix the mess with the faux pregnancy. That’s why it was such a shit show in the days leading up to it, including the length of the gestation, no witnesses, confusion with the time of birth, Harry’s odd interview at the stables, culminating with the appearance of * in a white dress and H holding a reborn Darren doll in the hall of a palace they didn’t live in.

I apologize if this was already discussed in detail, at the time it all went down. I just simply don’t understand how anyone, who has been paying attention, supports her after all of the strange behavior and obvious lies - including her husband.


A good one from a recent Neil Sean (my bold)


Marina Knife
17 hours ago
`Hopefully Samantha wins - most of the world is rooting for her. That couple make it seem like we're living an off-shoot of The Night Of The Living Dead - their press & media just keeps rising up!'
Stephanie_123 said…
Hello everyone,

I just saw a link to this article on Twitter.

Apparently, * is concerned about H’s being homesick.

https://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/2607400/meghan-markle-concerns-prince-harry-homesick/
@ Observant One,

Palace staff go to HR as would any employee elsewhere. The royals have their own personal physician’s. The HR claim is not only laughable but ludicrous too. Mole would know this fact and so does Maggot. Please let’s not give this story any credibility. 😳
This reminds me of an old gag about someone claiming to be homesick:

`But you are at home...'

`Yes, and I'm sick of it.'

He's been there, done that already...
Enbrethiliel said…
Thomas Markle, as quoted by @Sandie: The response I got back finally from the Palace was, 'Meghan said "That's distant family and I don't know those people".'

Even if it had been true that * never really knew her Markle relatives, surely someone who put all that stock in "kindness" would care enough about them to want to get the press off their backs.

But * only feels compassion for people who are in the headlines -- and only when there are cameras around.
Enbrethiliel said…
Re: HR

That was an eyebrow-raising moment for me, too. It tops the more obvious whoppers from the engagement interview.

I suspect her main intention was to shade the BRF. When a family is so cold to you that you have to turn to HR because no one else will help you, then it looks quite bad. Or at least it would, if people believed you.

She would have been more believable if she said that no one was there for her except her American and Canadian friends.
Hikari said…
@Raspberry,

I hope it is clear that Observant One and I were doing the opposite of giving M’s tale of a visit to HR credibility—insofar as the Duckarse truly believing that was an appropriate outlet for her. She said it in furtherance if her agenda to throw the Palace under the bus and make everyone there out to be heartless monsters unwilling to help a suicidal pregnant lady because she’s a black American.

One wonders where ‘HR’ for the Palace resides…in BP? Or did she go to a satellite office at KP? One thinks she would’ve required an invitation from the queen to come to BP, with a reason for her visit. When the prince of Wales himself needs an appointment to see Mummy, they don’t just let anybody roll up there at any time, minor of Royal or no.

Sparkle the pathological liar has learned the trick of perhaps telling a tiny kernel of truth mixed in with her lies. That way if someone has to accede that part of her story is true, that casts out upon the rest of it being made up. Sparkle does manipulation, of everybody in every situation, so I could see her going to that office with two potential agendas: the more benign one would be to see if she had a legal recourse to force the palace to pay for her stay at a luxury spa in the states under the guise of mental health treatment. She was under the gun to “deliver Archie” and if as we have speculated here, there was a surrogate in the US, she could’ve been frantic to source that baby. Alternatively, she could’ve rocked up to Threaten/Weedle employees that office into giving her information about the internal bullying investigation against her. If she was denied both aims, She squirred that away in her arsenal grievances against the cold British Royal family that didn’t care if she was OK. Markle has no “credibility” anymore, but we are trying to dissect what might have done at HR if she did attempt to pull rank there. What she wanted the viewers to take away was pity for a helpless vulnerable expectant mother who was feeling overwhelmed in a hostile foreign land. We absolutely know that she knew that HR was not the appropriate channel for her to visit but she could’ve been determined to bully them into getting her some perks. That’s how she rolls.
NeutralObserver said…
@Lizzie, I guess you're not counting her star turn on Nickelodean for her dish soap triumph in 1993.LOL. Her first credit on Imdb is as an extra on Married With Children in 1995. In any case, * has been angling for a Hollywood career for yonks.
Sandie said…
September Vogue cover? Supposedly they have said that the person they have chosen is history-making. A travesty, a joke ... but I think this rumour may be true.

https://www.vogue.com/article/meghan-markle-next-style-chapter-looks-good-on-her

https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/images-of-the-week-meghan-markle-turns-41

https://www.vogue.com/article/meghan-markle-date-night-jumpsuit
Maneki Neko said…
@Sandie

I looked at the video of W&K flying back in a helicopter but have no idea who the blonde woman is nor the young man. I'm not sure he's a teenager, just a young man with a backpack. I think the blonde woman could be Natalie Barrows, Kate's assistant private secretary. Hard to see properly so not 100% sure.
Maneki Neko said…
@Hikari

Alternatively, she could’ve rocked up to Threaten/Weedle employees that office into giving her information about the internal bullying investigation against her.
,.............
It's entirely possible that * could have turned up in HR offices unannounced. If, as you speculate, she threatened/wheedled staff then wouldn't they have reported the fact to some courtiers? This visit would be highly irregular and I don't think the HR staff would have let it slide, particularly as the visit wasn't HR related but health related (if we believe *'s version of events, which we don't).
abbyh said…
I hear you. Rather inclined to agree with your suggestion. There have been a few times I have thought how can I say that (as well). And I agree with your assessment of the long game.

The difficulty is that it was clearly directed to someone by name. And by the rules, that's a no go because it starts down a slippery slope of where the focus of the blog can go way off topic in an effort to claim innocence, others join in to the fray and so on. They get a win when we rise to the bait.

thank you as always



Este said…
My source tells me that when they met with the Queen, the conversation was about the questionable future of their marriage.

That’s a big topic in all circles right now and even royal biographers have been talking about it. It’s no secret that they’re both miserable so no one knows what’s the end game right now.


https://www.exposingsmg.com/blog/qz7hg5vdoupgydjzyugnq4bz1cveu4
lizzie said…
@Neutral Observer,

No, I wasn't counting the Nickelodeon appearance because of the dish soap.:-) I assume Thomas was supporting her then. And she was glomming trips off the Priddy family and playing up to her friend's dad. Yuck. https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/omfd32/looks_like_meghan_is_a_little_too_friendly_with/

As precocious as she no doubt was, I doubt she was yachting then.
Observant One said…
@ Lizzie -
Ugh, that picture with her friend’s dad is just disgusting. We’ve seen that smug look on her face so many times. She was 14 or 15 years old!

@ Hikari -
Thank you for the clarity you always bring to the forum. I love the clever moniker “the Duckarse!” It’s tasteful, descriptive and evokes fitting imagery.
Hikari said…
Maneki

If Princess Pushy did try to bulldoze HR staff with fake tears or demands, the RF would not publicize that she had. Nobody had either confirmed nor denied that part of her tale to Oprah. They were more concerned with the fallout from the incendiary ‘racist’ allegation. But I don’t think the HR story damages the RF. Two options: 1. She went to HR like she said so smugly to Oprah— A breathtaking tone deaf, wholly inappropriate and fruitless gesture, since they were never equipped to help her, and she had no more business being there than Lia Thomas in a women’s locker room, 2. She made the entire thing up, which just confirms again that she’s a liar. No reasonable person can doubt that now. The tradition of Don’t complain, don’t explain has aided * in her campaign of deceit and obfuscation because no one with authority will challenge any of her claims. Let’s hope this is changing.
Ian's Girl said…
There have been a few things we've gotten dead wrong here; Archie being presented to the world in the stables, for one thing. It was some sort of Hall in St. George's, at Windsor.

And I've never gotten why people think Hazbeen said (paraphrasing) "they change so much in two weeks", when he very clearly said something along the line of "Everyone says they change so much in two weeks".

I also think Christening Archie looks like South Africa Archie, ( and also that he looks like Harry at the same age) and could possibly have grown into Duck Rabbit Archie, although Duck Rabbit Archie appeared to be 4 feet tall! But I don't think Duck Rabbit Archie looks at all like the Archie we've seen since, and I just don't see how he could have shrunk so much, as he appears to me to be on the smaller side, and Duck Rabbit Archie all but dwarfed Nutmeg.

I've not ever seen any of the Magic Bump pics or videos, but I can easily believe she faked her pregnancy, or perhaps faked being further along than she was. I find it hard to believe she got pregnant so quickly at her age, and after not ever having any children, which implies many years of birth control, or multiple abortions, both of which will eventually cause difficulties in conceiving, let alone at her age.

I could easily believe the yachting stories, but aren't most yacht girls at least marginally known? I thought that was part of the draw for the men, that they were sleeping with starlets? Or perhaps very beautiful.....and she just isn't. I am in no position whatsoever to be judging anyone else's looks, trust me, but she is cute at best.

And I thought the birth certificates had logical explanations, not that I can remember any of them!


@Hikari,

The royals aren’t employed by anyone. The whole story of Maggot going to HR is the ludicrous part on its own when anyone who is employed knows who HR is there for. If Maggot had gone to HR, they would’ve advised her to make an appointment with her private Doctor and ended it there…. the whole story is just so silly to even write it down. So I personally don’t believe there was any interaction between her and HR. 🙄🥹Oprah made herself look incredibly stupid because anyone with a functioning brain cell wouldn’t buy the story, she didn’t question any of it. 🥹🙄

Yes I agree, Maggot solely said them (HR) to try and throw the Palace etc under a bus, to suggest they didn’t care or was willing to help. I do however wonder whether she lied to Mole about who she did supposedly see (that is her private physician, but didn’t actually ask to see them or go) and then during the Oprah interview stated it was HR, by that point he had no alternative but to back her up on that narrative. He could hardly say it was untrue and survive the fallout afterwards. 😂
Priddy photo: Was she `just' trying to get as close as possible to the centre of the photo?
Sandie said…
@Maneki Neko

Thanks for pointing out that to you the 'teenager school boy' looked like a young man. It never occured to me that the young man might be a member of staff, but why does a young member of staff (perhaps an assistant) have to be a woman? Geez, some major bias uncovered in me!
------

TBW used to love holidays, eating out, getting papped (especially with A-listers) and promoting herself. Either she is getting out and not calling the paps or she is not going out. I can understand him hating the paps, not only because of his mother, but also because of the numerous times very embarrassing photographs were taken of
him. But she has always managed to call the paps anyway and then play victim to him.

@Este posted a reference to the state of the marriage. It is believable. She is not a stay-at-home, stay-out-of-the-limelight kind of person.
Sandie said…
By the way, I doubt the Queen spoke to them about their marriage. The Queen has decades of experience of making polite friendly conversation without getting personal.

Just a thought ... re. the bizarre claims he made about the Queen in his interview at the IG: is it perhaps about his fight with the government about security? He is all over the place, but he did initially blame the presence of the Queen's representatives on RAVEC for removing his security.
BTW - Treason legislation from 1842 is being used to charge the armed intruder at Windsor:

https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/cps-authorises-charges-against-armed-windsor-castle-intruder


This might be an appropriate moment to remind certain parties that `attempting to undermine the lawfully established line of succession' is also High Treason...
NeutralObserver said…
@lizzie, Please accept my humble apologies for not making myself clear. My comment at 3:21 pm 8/7/22 was a response to what may have been trolling in earlier comments. I was clumsily engaging in rhetorical hyperbole, which is often used in satirical forums such as this one.

My comment at 12:33 am 8/8/22 was a joke. I'm sorry that I made it so difficult to understand. I certainly wasn't saying * ever engaged in yachting in my earlier comment, I was just showing how rumors can be spread without actually stating anything as a fact. It happens all the time, even in the 'real press.' However, *'s appearance as an extra on Married With Children in 1995 is an actual fact. So there is a slight credibility to my mention of a 20 year stint in Hollywood.
Sandie said…
Yachting? Basically, a 'yacht' girl is one who is hired to spend time on a yacht with wealthy men for their entertainment/pleasure. Some men, and from photographic evidence we can deduce that Andrew is one, seem to need the huge ego boost of being photographed on a yacht surrounded by young women in bikinis and preferably topless. I just do not see TBW being appropriate in this role. She has to be centre of attention, in control and be photographed with wealthy and influential people, arms draped around each other and staring directly into the lens of the camera. What rich guy wants her on a yacht yapping away, and being rude and demanding and taking endless selfies?

Yachting: possible but highly improbable.

The claims about the birth certificate ignore the facts. The one shown to the media was a printout. Louis's birth certificate was the same except the media were shown the printout that had been signed by the parent and registrar and thus was the official original. For the Archie printed copy of the birth certificate, someone at the registrar office signed the printout to verify that it was a true copy of the original. Whether Archie was born to TBW or to a surrogate is not proved or disproved by that copy of the birth certificate. The PR nice could have provided false information when he provided the information for the birth certificate. However, for the kids to have been born to a surrogate would have required a number of people to collude with the couple in the conspiracy, and the couple would have to keep their story straight and congruent. Unlikely but not impossible. Since the birth was in secret at a private hospital and none of the birth staff were revealed to the public, the media cannot really verify that the kid was born of the body other than to believe the information on the birth certificate provided by a prince who has a shaky relationship with the truth. Was the Queen shown the evidence that was not provided to the public before adding the kid to the line of succession? Unlike the birth of other royal children, there was no verification from the official royal physicians.

Surrogacy: possible but not really probable.
Observant One said…
@Ian’s Girl -

The comment I made about the stables included the phrase “Harry’s odd interview at the stables.” I pasted the statement below:
“That’s why it was such a shit show in the days leading up to it, including the length of the gestation, no witnesses, confusion with the time of birth, Harry’s odd interview at the stables, culminating with the appearance of * in a white dress and H holding a reborn Darren doll in the hall of a palace they didn’t live in.”
Sandie said…
@WBBM
That is fascinating. It shows the government will dig up legislation/whatever to counter threats to the Head of State.
DesignDoctor said…
No way of fact checking this—a comment on the DM article about Kate driving around Windsor today stated the 6’s have landed in England. No kids or Nannies, child equipment, etc in tow.
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