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The Podcast Release - Who is listening?

 So ... the first real podcast has been released!

Finally something concrete that people can listen to.  

What does it say?  I don't know.  

I wonder when it was taped though.  Just how current does Serena talk about her life, her plans and so on?  Can you tell this from the content or is it just vague enough not to?  I just wonder if it were taped and finally cobbled (excuse me, edited) into something useable from some time ago or was it done last month.  Does it sound like a logical conversation flow?

Is it even relatable to the current general public?  How well will it be received by said general public?  I know that you want certain demographics that are the target group(s) but would they, just by themselves, be enough to sweep this up high?  I was thinking you need them plus more (but I can and have been wrong).

People are always looking for filler so I guess we can expect it to be mentioned in most or all the articles for the upcoming charity appearances.  So, that's free advertising I suppose to help make people aware of it.

Is there something new we can all learn?  That would increase it to a broader market appeal.  Or is it all something we could get from a newspaper, magazine or biography?  

Now there can be numbers to throw up on the wall - to slice/dice/compare to other releases and get an idea for ROI (return on investment).  

And ... that will be "interesting" to watch.  

How will the response be portrayed when released?  Who will do this?  What if they don't release numbers?  Would that even be mentioned as to why no release?  Or worse, no one asks what they are to the responsible sources.

Finally - any ideas on if or what the next one might be?

Comments

DesignDoctor said…
Does anyone here believe that Serena Williams consulted the gruesome twosome about retiring?
I do not believe that tripe for a nano second!
DesignDoctor said…
Does anyone here believe that Serena Williams consulted the gruesome twosome about retiring?
I do not believe that tripe for a nano second!
Fifi LaRue said…
@ OCGal: Have hear the term Cee U Next Tuesday? In The Cut, the N goes between the u and the t.

Hope that clarifies things for you!
Girl with a Hat said…
@abbyh, thank you for all your work on this blog.

It is very much appreciated by many people.
NeutralObserver said…
The woman is a loon. I guess she's going for husband number three rather than the political career. I don't think draping oneself over benches is a good look for a political aspirant here in the USA. The quotes I've seen sound like vintage *.
SwampWoman said…
Maneki Neko said: .........
There's a flurry of articles on *, I wonder if it's to eclipse the anniversary of Diana or if it's to deflect from the podcast lack of success.


I think you got it on deflecting from the podcast. I'm surprised that the article didn't mention people spontaneously begging to carry her about on a gilded silk-covered throne so that her delicate feet and those of her cherubs didn't have to touch the foul California sidewalks.
NeutralObserver said…
Let's admit it. The article sounds hilarious. It's like she's dictated a self parody. She sounds like she should be in a padded cell and given some really good tranquilizers. Perhaps if the author had gotten those 'guttural noises'that * made on tape, it might have hastened *'s access to the help she seems to really, really need.
Girl with a Hat said…
now I understand. the writer of the piece on the cu*t in NY magazine, is this woman.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11157507/Writer-Meghan-Markles-latest-interview-SEX-writer.html

that explains Lainey LUi's sycophancy that I posted earlier. Lainey likes to kiss the ass of POC ever since her bestie Messica Baloney was caught being nasty to one a few years ago.
SwampWoman said…
Ziggy said...
Psycho playing Diana dress-up again.
https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/376965431283842845/


Guess she needed to remind * who mummy is now.

That has got to really enrage Diana's brother and sisters. As for me, I just say "Thanks for reminding me that Diana will always exist in our memories as younger and more beautiful than you, but you made an effort to have your hair clean this time. That should count for something. I suppose you should get 2/10 for that."
Stephanie_123 said…
Ugh. So, one South Africa citizen thought they would suck up to * by telling her their country was dancing in the streets about her marriage. How did this person become the spokesperson for all South Africans? Were there corroborating photos? Why would * believe this silly story and repeat it as fact in a major publication?

What an idiot she is…
Stephanie_123 said…
Dan Wootton has a solid idea with this article:

I’d love for The Duchess of Cambridge to give H a serious, heartfelt intervention about the angst caused to all the Royals, particularly the Queen, by the crazy liar’s stories. Harry always respected and loved Kate.

Perhaps the RF can fight fire with credibility, humility and formidable Carole Middleton’s behind-the-scenes orchestration.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-11157395/DAN-WOOTTON-Meghans-latest-tirade-against-Royal-Family-Britain-final-straw-Harry.html
snarkyatherbest said…
yorkshirepudding. good take. it certainly doesn’t feel like a love match. and love your screen name. i want roast beast and yorkshire pudding. 😉
SwampWoman said…
Dang it. She needed to remind 6 who his mummy is. Sorry, y'all, I have to work because nobody is carrying me around on a gilded throne while showering me with gold and jewelry and telling me how wonderful I am. They don't make peasants like they used to. I am personally offended by that.
snarkyatherbest said…
abbyh. sorry work was bushy. don’t they understand to lighten up when markle makes a drop 😉. yep where are those kids. clearly she wanted to show off her model self can’t compete with “kids”.

for me. it seemed like she’s launching her newly single brand and i didn’t see the engagement ring on her hand. definitely all about her
Mel said…
Interesting that Archie's 1st word was a complex word when his parents only communicate via guttural sounds.

Makes one wonder exactly what the nanny is talking to him about.
Rebecca said…
From The Spectator

Meghan Markle’s Mandela moment

It’s been a long walk to freedom

By Cockburn

It seems that the last two years of interviews, podcasts and media briefings actually count as Meghan Markle keeping shtum. Towards the end of a 6,500-word interview with the Cut, which covers the duchess’s views on the monarchy, the British press and racism, she says that she “never had to sign anything that restricts her from talking,” adding, “I can talk about my whole experience and make a choice not to.” At this point, Cockburn doesn’t know whether this is an attempt at satire or if Meghan genuinely believes her “truth.”

The interview with Allison P. Davis — the zeitgeitsty feature writer who first coined the terms “big dick energy” and “vibe shift” — is titled “Meghan of Montecito” and comes less than a week after her Archetypes podcast with Serena Williams (in which listeners might have hoped that she could have spoken a little less). Maybe Meghan decided that an hour of uninterrupted self-endorsement wasn’t enough and has now dedicated at least a day to the feature-length interview and photoshoot.

At one point, she claimed that during a visit to the Lion King premiere in London, a cast member from South Africa pulled her aside: “He looked at me, and he’s just like light [sic?]. He said, “I just need you to know: when you married into this family, we rejoiced in the streets the same we did when Mandela was freed from prison.’” Seems legit.

Another bizarre section sees homeless people used as a learning experience for Meghan’s son Archie. They take the interviewer for a drive (not at all pre-meditated, Cockburn is sure) where Meghan then “reaches into the trunk and produces a brand-new black backpack and hands it to her security detail to give to an unhoused man on the corner.” Meghan claims that they are ‘teaching Archie that some people live in big houses, some in small, and that some are in between homes. They made kits to pass out with water and peanut-butter crackers and granola bars.” Cockburn wonders if Meghan couldn’t have instead offered one of the nine bedrooms from her Montecito estate.

And what’s Harry been up to? According to the interview, not much. He’s spent a fair amount of his time doing DIY around their home as well as “fixing sprinklers” for their LA neighbors. The interviewer described the prince as “exasperated” when talking about “fixing pipes” in their Montecito mansion. Perhaps it’s another learning experience for Archie: some people are born princes but end up as glorified handymen.
Rebecca said…
And from the New York Post:

Toddler and tiara: Meghan Markle STILL throwing tantrums about royal family

By Maureen Callahan

Lest anyone remain in doubt, Meghan Markle’s latest interview makes one thing clear: This woman has nothing to say.

She has nothing to offer, no original thoughts or guiding philosophy, no earthly reason to be taking so much money from, and so much space in, the mainstream media she so clearly reviles.

You know, just as she reviles the British royal family, even as she clings to her title and accepts money from her father-in-law, the future king, who reportedly subsidized her and Harry’s $14.5 million mansion, purchased for their privacy.

Still, yet again, the Greta Garbo of Northern California sits for another major profile, this time for New York magazine. Forget the People’s Princess — now we’re saddled with the Petulant Princess, one whose preferred crown is perpetual victimhood. For the past three years she’s had a global platform, yet all she does with it is complain that she’s been censored, silenced, shut out. Meghan Markle has been a public downer longer than she was a working duchess. It’s long past time for a new talking point.

I must concede her lone accomplishment here: Just when you think Meghan Markle can’t get any more delusional, she outdoes herself. Her self-regard runs in direct opposition to her waning relevance. She clearly has no real friends left — or even decent publicists — because anyone with an iota of common sense would say, “You know, Meghan, it’s probably best not to compare yourself to Nelson Mandela.”

Reader, in this profile, Meghan Markle compares herself to Nelson Mandela. Settle in.
“I had just had Archie,” she says. “It was such a cruel chapter. I was scared to go out.”
But go out she did — alas, there’s no keeping Meghan Markle down — to a performance of “The Lion King.” After, a South African cast member, she says, “looked at me, and he’s just like light. He said, ‘I just need you to know: When you married into this family, we rejoiced in the streets the same we did when Mandela was freed from prison.’ ”

Oh, this piece is full of howlers. Enjoy it. Savor the details. Don’t read it with your mouth full.

Anyone who’s read Tom Bower’s recent book knows that Meghan is an inveterate liar. But here we have the duchess in her natural habitat — a soulless mansion, Meghan “backlit by the late-morning light in a scene that looks like a Nancy Meyers cinematic interior, Town & Country, Goop, and Architectural Digest had an orgy” — and this only frees her up to reveal her most authentically inauthentic self in all her resentful glory.

We begin with the “invisible” help lighting a scented candle from the members-only Soho House — the founder, Meghan says, a friend. Annual dues run a little over $4,000. But remember: even though she wants to be known as a humanitarian, a feminist and a renegade, what’s equally important are all the famous people she knows and the exclusive, rich-people-only places she has access to.

Meghan opens the interview with the most millennial of revelations: “Do you want to know a secret?” she asks. “I’m getting back . . . on Instagram.”

Stop the presses, indeed!

Or . . . not? Meghan doubles back on that bold announcement almost immediately: She’s not sure, she says. She might not. Lots to consider.

What those factors are, she cannot say.



Rebecca said…
Oh — and this moment: “At one point in our conversation,” writes Allison P. Davis, “instead of answering a question, she will suggest how I might transcribe the noises she’s making: ‘She’s making these guttural sounds, and I can’t quite articulate what it is she’s feeling in that moment because she has no word for it; she’s just moaning.’ ”

This might be the single most insane thing I’ve ever read in a celebrity profile. Truly, it’s Charlie Kaufman-esque: Meghan evincing such pain she’s non-verbal, yet verbalizing why she’s ostensibly non-verbal to her profiler, who Meghan says should tell us that Meghan doesn’t know what she’s feeling because Meghan told her, in Meghan’s own words, that there are no words for it.

It’s celebrity profile by way of Kafka, and it says something that the hundreds of reader comments on New York mag’s site — a self-selecting group of self-identified feminist social justice warriors — mostly proclaim her phony, delusional and vapid, if not an outright liar.

What will make Meghan happy? Hell if she knows. The only solace she finds from this existential torment, it seems, is sitting for fancy photo shoots and talking to friendly journalists.

“When the media has shaped the story around you,” Meghan whines, “it’s really nice to be able to tell your own story.”

Here’s something this self-styled brilliant mind seems to have missed: A little thing called social media has long allowed for unmediated, unfiltered communication between celebrities and the rest of us, the great unwashed who still, despite Meghan cawing and crying on Oprah, or among starving African children (“nobody asks if I’m OK”), or her new podcast (more on that later), still don’t get how hard it is to be Meghan Markle, unappreciated duchess in exile, transcendent representation of rare greatness.

Why won’t we all just adore her?

Gwyneth Paltrow, consider yourself dethroned. We have a new Queen of All Things Insufferable.

“One of the first things my husband saw when we walked around the house was those two palm trees,” she says, touring her grounds with our ink-stained wretch. “See how they’re connected at the bottom? He goes, ‘My love, it’s us.’ And now every day when Archie goes by [the trees], he says, ‘Hi Momma. Hi, Papa.’ ”

Archie is three.

Another thing about Archie, the toddler whose privacy necessitated fleeing the royal family like thieves in the night: Meghan teaches him that “salt and pepper are always passed together.”

Get it? Salt and pepper, white and black. It’s a none-too-subtle metaphor for her and Harry’s great love struggling to survive amid royal racism — even though the Queen fast-tracked Meghan into the fold as no royal bride before her, even though the British taxpayers happily spent over $40 million on their wedding and lined the streets to cheer on this modern American mixed-race divorcée.

But Meghan’s interlocutor does not ask about her and Harry’s disgraced attendance at the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, the public shunning from his family, the boos from the public. Nor is Meghan asked about Netflix’s reported impatience with her and Harry’s inability to produce content, despite two years and a $100 million deal. She doesn’t ask about Meghan’s frankly unbelievable claims that the royals didn’t care that she was suicidal. Or that royal staffers allegedly fled Meghan’s employ in droves and often in tears, or the claims that she bullied Kate Middleton’s toddler daughter, Charlotte, for not being the ultimate in small royal bridesmaids.

Rebecca said…
Another thing about Archie, the toddler whose privacy necessitated fleeing the royal family like thieves in the night: Meghan teaches him that “salt and pepper are always passed together.”

Get it? Salt and pepper, white and black. It’s a none-too-subtle metaphor for her and Harry’s great love struggling to survive amid royal racism — even though the Queen fast-tracked Meghan into the fold as no royal bride before her, even though the British taxpayers happily spent over $40 million on their wedding and lined the streets to cheer on this modern American mixed-race divorcée.

But Meghan’s interlocutor does not ask about her and Harry’s disgraced attendance at the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, the public shunning from his family, the boos from the public. Nor is Meghan asked about Netflix’s reported impatience with her and Harry’s inability to produce content, despite two years and a $100 million deal. She doesn’t ask about Meghan’s frankly unbelievable claims that the royals didn’t care that she was suicidal. Or that royal staffers allegedly fled Meghan’s employ in droves and often in tears, or the claims that she bullied Kate Middleton’s toddler daughter, Charlotte, for not being the ultimate in small royal bridesmaids.

All omissions, I think, that rise to the level of journalistic malpractice. If there’s ever another Oprah sit-down, as has been rumored, Oprah — please! Do us all a public service and ask Meghan the tough questions.

Left to her own devices here, Meghan returns to her default mode, perseverating over the Queen’s refusal to give her and Harry everything they wanted: Namely, to monetize their royal status while owing nothing in public service.

“That, for whatever reason” — Meghan’s not saying race, but she kind of is — “is not something we were allowed to do, even though several other members of the family do that exact thing.”

Why do you think that is? Davis asks.

“Why do you think that is?” Meghan shoots back.

Davis presses for an answer, and Meghan, ever the C-list actress, shifts into soap-opera mode. “’I don’t know,’ she says, casting a knowing gaze out into the middle distance.”

Dear lord. How about the most logical answer, one I’m quite sure was explained to her ad nauseum: You don’t get something for nothing. Cut a few ribbons, shake a few hands, then luxuriate in your castles and your taxpayer millions and your access to the most famous and powerful people on the planet.

Now Meghan’s been reduced to just another hustler, here to promote her podcast — the product of a reported $25 million deal with Spotify, one that took nearly two years to generate a single episode.

And guess what it’s about?
Rebecca said…
“It’s like I’m finding — not finding my voice,” Meghan says. “I’ve had my voice for a long time, but being able to use it.”

Because if anyone’s been silenced as Nelson Mandela was, it’s Meghan Markle.


A note about that podcast: A lot of people listened to it, I know. I also firmly believe those ratings are the audio equivalent of rubbernecking. If the first episode — ostensibly an interview with Serena Williams — is reflective of the rest, this is really a podcast about Meghan Markle.

She leads with her oft-reported origin story of Feminist Meghan, standing up to corporate America as an 11-year-old (a story Tom Bower surgically took apart as false), then asks us to marvel at her longtime friendship with Williams and endure another tall tale in which the royals and their staff do not care that baby Archie almost burned to death in South Africa.

The conversation is everything one would expect, Meghan going on about her “lived experience” — is there any other kind? — her “dear, dear friend Serena,” and the “labels, boxes and archetypes” that women still suffer.

“Women” being proxy for Meghan, “archetypes” such as: Spoiled brat. Ungrateful. Delusional. Hypocrite.

Now, I will also admit that I didn’t think Markle could surpass the moment when, as a working royal, she spontaneously wrote inspirational messages — “you are strong,” “you are loved” — for sex workers. On bananas.

But here, we see a totally spontaneous and sugary everyday school pick-up — “She scoops [Archie] up in a big hug so full of genuine emotion that both close their eyes” — turn into a teachable moment about the homeless.

“At a stoplight, [Meghan] reaches into the trunk and produces a brand-new black backpack and hands it to her security detail to give to an unhoused man on the corner.”

Yes, young American royal-non-royal Archie: If you want to give some food to a starving homeless person — peanut-butter crackers and granola bars, no whole meals or cash or the like — have the help do it. No need to get near poverty and filth yourself.

And then back we go to the Montecito manse, where Meghan has another ready anecdote about the grand piano Tyler Perry gave her as a housewarming gift, instructing her to “write the soundtrack for your life,” she says.

So relatable.

Meghan winds down by returning to her other favorite subject, forgiveness. Even though she won’t forgive her father, whose main crime has been talking to the media, she wants the royal family to know that someday, maybe, she might forgive them.

She, of course, has nothing to be forgiven for. Why would one even ask?

“I think forgiveness is really important,” Meghan says, adding that she has “a lot to say until I don’t. Sometimes, as they say, the silent part is still part of the song.”

Meghan Markle, two very weary nations beg you: Please. Be that silent part.
Rebecca said…
I think I screwed up the copy and paste of the NY Post commentary, sorry. Here is the link:

https://nypost.com/2022/08/29/toddler-and-tiara-meghan-markle-still-throwing-tantrums-about-royal-family/
OCGal said…
@Fifi LaRue, thank you for the clarification of the mysterious added letter of the alphabet which makes THE CUT into a word both socially unacceptable and a grimly accurate assessment of the contemptible douchass. It fits her to a T.
Rebecca said…
This comment about a piece in the Telegraph on The Cut debacle is a little long but it is a good one I think:

Caroline Gibson
11 HRS AGO
I think this has gone way too far now. She seems to be quite deluded and worse still seems to believe her own lies. She has a cult following who think it’s okay to make death threats to critics. She lies all the time, making up increasingly far fetched stories that most people no longer believe, knowing the Royal Family will remain silent with their hands up in surrender. She caused an international incident with South Africa with her podcast, and quite a number of South Africans believe her comments were racist. If she is allowed to continue in this way, she will destabilise our 1000 year old monarchy.
Her brother is foaming at the mouth with hatred, her sister is suing her for defamation and her father has finally disowned her. The UK press have been accused of terrible racism. She will never let up with the lies and distortions against the RF. Her cult followers are equally mentally unstable. Harry needs to get her mental health assessed as a matter of urgency and until that happens, no more interviews or statements because she is coming across as quite deranged and delusional. Yes it’s fun for the press and garners lots of attention, but it is feeding her delusions, making her claims ever more grandiose and far fetched. It won’t be long before she crashes and burns and the UK, and the RF will be in that inferno unless action is taken,
MPs need to meet to discuss removal of their Sussex titles urgently, ensure Harry can never, ever, gain access to the throne and that RF will no longer be associated with them in any way.
Thank you FiFi for the observation about the asymmetry of *'s face - thanks to your thought I tried something I'd done in an IT skills test years ago, to demonstrate a use of the picture tools in Word.

I copied a well-known face (Alan Sugar as it happens) made 2 copies - and `split' them into 2 half faces (by cropping out) then reconstructed 2 full, but completely symmetrical, faces. I've just tried it with the CUT photo...

We all have a degree of asymmetry in our faces and facial beauty is sometimes thought to relate to having less asymmetry than other, less fortunate people.

Alan Sugar's craggy face was easily recognisable from each photo, but neither image seemed `quite right' in an indefinable way.

*on the other hand `becomes' 2 completely different, but utterly convincing, people, who don't seem to be the of same ethnicity.

Both of her expressions are chilling.
"`By my life, this is my lady’s hand! These be her very C’s, her U’s and her T’s and thus makes she her great P’s.'

– William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 5. Malvolio picks up the fake letter written by Maria and is convinced it is from his mistress Olivia."

at https://www.allgreatquotes.com/twelfth-night-quote-109/


Of course, the joke wasn't explained at my all-girls school - and we all know about *'s `great P's' now.
From Press Association writer, Laura Parnaby,

https://uk.yahoo.com/style/meghan-opens-losing-father-harry-155128302.html

Mon, 29 August 2022 at 11:56 pm

The Duchess of Sussex has opened up about “losing” her father and how it “doesn’t have to be the same” for her husband and the future king.

Meghan spoke about her estranged father Thomas Markle and reflected on the relationship between the Duke of Sussex and the Prince of Wales during an interview with The Cut magazine at her California home.
Harry’s relationship with his father has been said to be tense since the couple’s departure from being working royals.
He said during their televised interview with Oprah Winfrey last year that Charles had stopped taking his calls.
Speaking about the impact of their decision to step down as senior royals, Meghan told The Cut: “Harry said to me, ‘I lost my dad in this process’.
“It doesn’t have to be the same for them as it was for me, but that’s his decision.”
A source close to Charles said he would be saddened if Harry felt their relationship was lost, adding: “The Prince of Wales loves both his sons”.

Meghan also revealed that she believes there is “room for forgiveness” between herself and the royal family.
“I think forgiveness is really important,” she told the magazine.
“It takes a lot more energy to not forgive, but it takes a lot of effort to forgive.
“I’ve really made an active effort, especially knowing that I can say anything.”

Meghan also said that she will be “getting back on Instagram” after deleting her account more than four years ago as part of becoming a senior royal.
She added that along with deleting her personal social accounts, she felt like “an actress” playing at being a member of the royal family.
Meghan said: “I was an actress.
“My entire job was ‘Tell me where to stand. Tell me what to say. Tell me how to say it. Tell me what to wear, and I’ll do it’.”
Even the BBC has reported this, uncritically of course:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62717696
Then there’s this:

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex accuses U.K. press of calling her children the N-word

https://uk.yahoo.com/style/meghan-duchess-sussex-accuses-u-181215271.html

I’m darn sure that if that had happened there’d have been a hell of a stink - arrests and court appearances, on a charge of `inciting racial hatred’.
Sandie said…
I giggled when I came across this comment by an anon:

Archie is the most articulate toddler in the country but his parents apparently sit around making guttural sounds all day instead of speaking.
Thank you, Rebecca, for that comment from the Telegraph - it certainly tells it like it is.

Will anyone who matters take any notice of it?

The problem with saying someone needs `helps' is that it so easily backfires on oneself - the common defence that narcissists utter is that their critics are the delusional ones. The RF may anticipate such a backlash.
Sandie said…
Possibility?

She did indeed bring an electric bar heater from the UK, and did instruct the nanny to plug it in and switch it on to 'warm the room' for Archie. A staff member at the residence either walked by the room and smelt the 'new smell' of the heater and went in to investigate or went into the room for another reason. The staff member, when she saw the heater, immediately switched it off and unplugged it. Because of the thatch roof and fire in the past, those type of heaters are not used in the residence. (Popular in South Africa are the electric panel wall heaters.) When the duchess demanded to know why the heater she had brought from the UK was not being used, as she instructed, the nanny tried to explain and then was reduced to tears. The duchess always changes the narrative to hide her behaviour.

What mystifies me is that the DM insists that they packed up and moved elsewhere after the heater incident. This is highly unlikely, mainly because of security and the sheer logistics. Plus, if they had moved elsewhere, someone would have seen them, someone would have posted something on social media in South Africa. They had heaps of staff and numerous imported SUVs with them ... they would have been noticed.
Sandie said…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11159461/Meghan-Markles-claim-fire-broke-Archies-nursery-confirmed-security-source.html

The account of the incident from one of her bodyguards who was close to her.

* Although the word 'fire' keeps being used, there was no fire but melted plastic on the heater.
* They did move after the incident. Where the heck did they go and how did they manage to keep this all a secret (unless they hastily managed to hire another house in Bishopscourt, as they seem to have done for the entourage)? No wonder the tour was so expensive and was it really necessary to move in a huff?
Maneki Neko said…
Madam got her wish, she's on the front page of a newspaper (the Washington Post) but perhaps not what she was hoping for.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/08/30/10/61862693-11160007-image-m-39_1661852440677.jpg

Well worth a look. I don't know how she can come back from that.
Maneki Neko said…
Apologies re previous email, read New York Post, not Washington Post.
Maneki Neko said…
Just in - EXCLUSIVE 'Overcoming 60 years of apartheid is not the same as marrying a white prince': Nelson Mandela's grandson slams Meghan Markle for suggesting South Africans celebrated her wedding the same way they rejoiced his freedom (DM and others)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11159869/EXCLUSIVE-Nelson-Mandelas-grandson-slams-Meghan-Markle.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
Sandie said…
Why did Tyler Perry give them a piano? Neither of the duo play the piano. But maybe she told Perry one of her fibs and he thought she is a piano player?
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11159869/EXCLUSIVE-Nelson-Mandelas-grandson-slams-Meghan-Markle.html
NeutralObserver said…
@Girl With a Hat, I think the writer was very subtly giving * enough rope to hang herself.

Believe it or not, there is more diversity of opinion within various groups than one would think, given how our profit & conflict driven media play it. One of my kids has a college friend from Princeton who writes for one of the big name digital news companies, & who is black. The friend would love to write about a lot of subjects; he's very intelligent & talented. I met him at my child's wedding. His white bosses force him to write about 'race.' See how it works?

*'s loons have attacked South Africans, South Africans!, for not supporting her 'Archie almost died in a fire' story. Talk about solidarity. Yikes! ( I know * has tried to claim that her story has been backed up by some anonymous source, but fortunately, it was too late & too dubious to have been picked up.)

I just hope loony * doesn't engineer or provoke some sort of false flag attack in the UK with her shenanigans. The woman needs better meds, & careful treatment.
NeutralObserver said…
* & people like her are such ignoramuses.

* looks vaguely Asian in her Cut photos. She should Google Empress Wu, who lived in the 7th & 8th C.s. There was a gal who didn't let 'labels' hold her back.

Princess Peye, the African woman who enslaved & abused John Newton, the white Anglican cleric who wrote the famous hymn,Amazing Grace, didn't let any old 'labels' prevent her from doing what she wanted. Loony * can look it up!
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*on the other hand `becomes' 2 completely different, but utterly convincing, people, who don't seem to be the of same ethnicity.

Both of her expressions are chilling.

They certainly are chilling. And they remind me of photos of the faces of serial killers—their left eye is always wonky, as though one entire hemisphere of their brain is fatally scrambled.
Hikari said…
Well, my Nutties,

It appears that finally, after four-plus years of waiting, the Kraken is awake. The downfall of the Deceitful Duchess who conned the Royal family will not be engineered by what the RF has been keeping hidden about her. They will continue to Never complain and never explain whilst she dismantles herself. Of all the things and people which a Narcissist destroys, ultimately she destroys herself. It's happening. Look at this rush of stories in the mainstream media now that are *openly* mocking her and all but calling her off her rocker. The word 'delusional' has been used by more than one publication. I'm framing The Cut piece as a first-rate example of what happens when a legitimate journalist conducts an interview with a loon who thinks herself the second coming of Diana, Mother Teresa and Nelson Mandela all rolled into one.

The photos for the Cut story are chilling, that's the only word for them. * looks like Medea after she's killed the kids. Stone cold, the way she stares down the camera. She really is the most unsettling person--both in demeanor and in her what I can only call bizarre physicality--that I've ever seen. She's a shape-shifter. How can she look like a pudgy Oompa Loompa soccer mom on one day and set of photos, then the next time we see her she's a Gumby-like sylph that looks like a reject from a Ballanchine troupe? Gotta be digital manipulation. M does not have normal proportions, no matter what size she is. We've had our moments of laughter at her and Harry both but this has turned into a horror show some time ago. Watching her mocked and reviled by the world media is the long-awaited day and yet there's little pleasure in it, because matters simply never should have been permitted to get this far. She never should have been sent on any international tours for the Royal family, for one.

I am praying for a merciful end to this freak show but it ain't over yet. If Haz really has managed to break away, fleeing the house so quickly he forget all his polo gear . . it will be interesting to see if he returns to California. What would she do if he didn't? A divorce and custody battle will finally call her bluff on those kids. If H called his family and said he's done with her, can he seek asylum back in the bosom of them?--would they help him extricate himself with lawyers and such? Or has he really and truly torched every last bridge? That memoir isn't published yet; there's still time to retract it.

Back in 2018 I predicted that she would not stick it out more than 5 years, absolute tops. She's at the 4.5 mark, nearly, which is about twice as long as she normally gives relationships. Maybe this black turtleneck scary photo (that turtleneck actually tops a super-frothy ballgown skirt on the bottom--it's a very weird garment) finally did it for Haz? Or the flop podcast coupled with his flop speech at the UN? If H walks first, it would surprise me but that might be the final pin pulled on her Narc Collapse.

We are in for a few interesting weeks.
Este said…
Meghan is trying so hard to co-opt the title Princess by claiming, all those young Black girls, think of her as one already, and ghee, can't let them down, now can she? Oh I'm sure the future Queen of England is just quaking with fear in her designer pumps over fear of Meghan seizing the crown.

The level of narcissism with Meghan is quite a thing to behold but really whose buying this years' old woke baloney she's selling other than other operators looking to leverage politics into a lucrative career? We're over it, right? But hey, this is Meghan's primo opportunity to prove us all wrong. She's got Netflix and Spotify in her back pocket and is building a shadow court, future Presidency, worldwide royal mogulship domination. You go girl! You seize that crown already! Don't you let nobody hold you back from what's yours, right!
Scobie can’t take *’s words back for her:

Asked about the confusion regarding Meghan's comment, The Cut declined to comment.
A source added: 'This line is a direct quote from Meghan's interview with Allison, and as a general rule, we don't comment or speculate on sources' intent outside of the text of the story.'
Girl with a Hat said…
the podcast with Mariah Carey has dropped.

I wonder if she will use the word "I" more than 200 times in this one.
Maneki Neko said,

There's a flurry of articles on *, I wonder if it's to eclipse the anniversary of Diana or if it's to deflect from the podcast lack of success.


I personally think the interview was initially set up to try and eclipse the 25 year anniversary of Diana’s death….Maggot sees herself as the the new Diana, the reinvention of, the one who’s now suffering just like the Princess of Hearts. We all know that Maggot loves to try and eclipse all others. 😳🙄However, with the low and poor reception of her podcast, I think the interview has also been used to dampen down the disappointing success of the podcast.

Hikari said, It appears that finally, after four-plus years of waiting, the Kraken is awake. The downfall of the Deceitful Duchess….

I hope you’re right, I truly do!🙏😃


@Fifi LaRue,

I did the covering of the photo thing with Maggot….neither side looked any different to me 🤔…so is the mad manic side now showing outwardly as well now? 😂


Lady C’s new video should be available later! 😀
snarkyatherbest said…
so the piano? does she play. does anyone play? did she steal it like the shoes from the photo shoot. now that would be a feat! is this “i have to have a piano. kate has a piano i have to have a piano” weird to mention it but not talk about it. what a great gift i’m learning to play the whole family is learning to play music is so important. nah. compose the music of your life or some other dribble.
abbyh said…
New Post UP!

I was going to wait a few hours but it seemed to be a good idea to get this out there now.

Thanks as always
snarkyatherbest said…
i do feel like she’s trying to ruin everything for harry. big blitz on diana death week constant south africa references that are derogatory. she’s burning all his bridges. probably hyped up diana and the. pills this crap at home while he is likely in a fetal position rocking in the corner she really does hate him doesn’t she.

love the idea of kate intervention (and perhaps privately it has already happened and was rejected). a few words said to a reporter at an event about. “we worry about harry we worry about his health. we pray for him every night. we care about him. “. it shows forgiveness (preached by one side but not acted on) compassion and being the better people. it would set off the narc more but would show harry a real olive branch not that he should have one. but i’m guessing he will be gutted when this is all done.
Rebecca said…
A comment in the Times:

Wow. Now her marriage is equal to Mandela's release from prison. What comes next? Her third child being conceived by virgin conception and compared with Baby Jesus?
abbyh said…
Magatha,

Several people have expressed concern about you as we have not seen you post in a while.

We miss you.
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