The Valentine Low book will be out in a day or two. The USA release is late January so it will miss the December holiday rush. Too bad.
We have already had a few excerpts from it. Goodness knows what else is there lurking in the pages waiting to confirm the suspecting mind or shock the unprepared mind who hasn't been following this saga.
While we wait, it got me thinking about all the things which we weren't seeing a couple of years ago about the 5's but now are.
This and the Tom Bower books - nope. They are dense, detailed and full of unflattering information about the couple. The early yet critical books really stop short of spilling anything really specific like these do.
Before the Queen's death, people started showing up to events, holding signs and booing the couple. And, it was the news about that event most of the time.
Or that someone declined to have their hand shaken by her. Wow. That's a quantum shift from the picture perfect hug and compliments. The criticism tide is rising.
Even in the DM, there are stories about how unhappy 5 looks and specifically citing a comparison to Edward VIII. Yes, the comparison of the two has been around but now they are talking about how sad they both look/looked. Or the comparisons of her and Wallis. They just seem more pointed now.
The recent pictures? The criticism stops short of calling them propaganda but does mention that the look is quite regal and works in that there is the appearance of trying to set up a rival court. That's a new comment.
I don't know where or how Valentine is getting his information but it does come off as possible Palace tolerated so far. That would not have happened in the past. Perhaps there is truth to the idea of HM was the shield and now that's gone. I don't know but that is worth a thought. The book was in motion before she passed (which probably could not have predicted to come out so closely spaced) but maybe it was a signal of the coming change?
We may still be looking for a big Kraken release but this is still change in that we wouldn't have seen any of this that long ago. Besides, small leaks still create damage. It just takes time. And the crown always plays the long game.
As Joe Kenda would say (as he looks you in the eye and smiles his bemused half smile, shaking his head): "My, my, my."
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He said: 'They need the money and they need it now more than ever because they've got no other source of income. So I think they're just stuck with the devil now.
They're tied to Netflix, they're tied to their book. And all the criticism they're going to take means nothing because that's the only way they can earn their money.'(DM)
Assuming they can get a decent amount of money from the book and Netflix - and there's no guarantee - then what? There's only so much whining/dissing/lying you can do. I think H's 'literary career' will stop there. As for Netflix and *'s podcasts, the same applies. They need to plan well ahead because their potential sources of money are getting more and more limited. I think the future looks bleak, which is why they're trying to backpedal on the book/Netflix in order to effect a rapprochement with Charles and W&C. Too little too late.
What went wrong with H happened very early, though the divorce and the subsequent loss of his Mum solidified his issues.
He was given a bye to Eton and then to Sandhurst due to being a Wales, not because he had the ability. I’m sure the RF thought an Army career would shape him up and give him a purpose. In those days, I thought that H was probably an average student at best but popular with his mates and a leader on the sporting ground. The army seems like an ideal match for him.
Sources agree that Captain Wales was not popular in his unit and was accused of several racial slurs toward fellow squaddies. That he repeatedly failed his helicopter pilot exams and that his 2 very brief tours in Afghanistan were primarily for a PR show. Some time prior to 2015, he grew a beard in defiance of regulation and was routinely insubordinate due to his privileged status. That year, a new CO arrived that wasn’t going to tolerate this anymore because H’s behavior was damaging unit morale. He put it to hairy that there were two options: pass the exam for promotion to Major or resign his commission. Major would have meant a desk job so H quit, saying he didn’t want a desk job… But it’s extremely doubtful that he would’ve been able to pass the test. His officer evaluations were poor. He has said that the army was the best time of his life, but I think his fellow squad mates remember their time with him less fondly. Look at how quickly he abandoned Invictus except for publicity for his wife and himself. As for his brief tenure of one year as Captain General Royal Marines—debacle. What an insult. He doesn’t care about veterans apart from photo ops with them. And the occasional groping.
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZPdih-KJK3o?feature=share
I have my suspicions that Madam is teasing another pregnancy. That will give her the next eight months for blooming photos courtesy of her pal Harriman… Handy for getting out of a deposition for Samantha’s defamation lawsuit, citing being unwell and if King Charles is really lucky, she could go into labor on Coronation day. Being heavily pregnant will be a convenient excuse to see your face over the lack of an invitation, and it’s some thing she’s certainly employed before.
Yep. She's not bright enough to come up with an original idea.
As a woman that worked while pregnant, *I* didn't take off for feeling unwell. She can sashay her shapeless butt into court to do her deposition. After all, she was capable of sitting in a chair and lying to Oprah while 'pregnant'. Surely she can sit in a chair and lie during a deposition. Newsflash, dumb and dumber: *This isn't England and you're not royalty.
*Shades of Quigley Down Under
I can hardly wait until they have to stand on a street corner with a Need $$$ for
Manipulating Misinformation and VING-ing It As A Humanitarian
Good piece about Spotify and the VING project - "a national movement that is helping create the next generation of philanthropists" - and Archewell. 'Together, the organizations will invest $1 million to a national giving movement inviting individuals between the ages of 14 and 18 to "nominate a woman who has inspired them and defied life's hardships," per an Archewell statement. If chosen, the teens will be able to give a $1,000 grant to their nominees to help make a difference in their lives.' (taken from Harper's Bazaar).
Apologies if VING and Harry Markle have been mentioned before, it had completely passed me by.
Yes he had therapy but did he know how to tell the therapist that part of the sad or the loss was a loss of sources of feeling of valuable? At that point, the problems that seconds can get into was probably not a consideration for anyone in terms of avoidance planning. So would anyone have thought to ask the therapist to check out that potential?
So when he's talking about how he/his role of where he fits in the family and that it will be run over by the next generation only in a couple of years (ignoring that they will not spring into full blown Senior Royals doing all Royal things at 18) has been part of his self talk for years now. What started as a path is now as deep as the Grand Canyon.
Once you start looking at the world with a certain outlook, then any and everything done/not done to/for you is reinforcing his idea of they are doing this because they know I'm ranked below my brother which then becomes they are trying to keep me from being productive in the ways that could make me more of a star (versus I am part of the entire BRF team) which then produces someone who is concerned about if the staff below is really loyal to him or is this someone else who is trying to keep me down?
I can certainly see that. OTOH, is Harry even capable of the introspection that it would take for him to recognize his passion and develop his brand for his 'legacy'? I haven't seen evidence of this out of him. What I have seen is an enthusiasm for playing polo, strippers in Vegas, drugs, rumored violence to prostitutes, rumored fondness for blondes (mommy fixation?) and alcohol abuse.
I would think that a person in search of a meaningful legacy would be actually working at establishing it. He has a limited time in order to do this. (He's nearly halfway through the average male lifespan. When is he going to work on the legacy thing?) The clock is ticking. Whining and attacking his family isn't legacy worthy, IMO. He wouldn't even be able to do THAT if there weren't people eager to destroy his family, and Fredo is quite happy to lend them a helping hand. The only relevance that he currently has is as KCIII's son and PWoW little brother. Without that, he has nothing else to offer. He is apparently unable to visualize that. Maybe setting up dubious charities and charging for personal appearances is the best he can do.
Perhaps one of the people working on the reality whinge show realises that they are liars and is concerned that the documentary will be known for the number of lies the couple tell.
@Maneki Neko
VING seems to suit their narrative and fit into their PR, plus it gives TBW a database of teens she can target because that is her major support group. Support for what? I don't know - her ego?
Lord Louis Mountbatten was Philip's uncle; Penny Knatchbull was married to Lord Louis' grandson. So P & P were great-uncle-in-law and gt-daughter-in-law, if |I'm thinking straight.
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May 6th 1960 - Pr Mgt's wedding of course (I knew the date ran a bell!)- we had the day off school but Latin homework was to write an essay about it - in Latin.
on the money front. he prob gets a bit of a salary but the company he works for is not public would likely have restrictions on private transfer or sale of shares and because it’s a start up it’s not paying a dividend to shareholders. same with the oat latte company. and given where the stock market is these days the shares likely have very little value at this point. prob some spotify,netflix and book advances. i bet he’s dipped into or borrowed against his inheritance. perhaps they are looking to flip the house (if they even own it) and buy more modestly (ha!h taking profit and equity out of it. especially if charles gave and no lent them $ for the purchase or down payment. i am guessing they are looking for cash let’s see if she has sold those blood diamond earrings 😉.
Prince Harry, the Memoir (as imagined by Ben Machell)
The Duke of Sussex is said to be writing a final chapter to his book. But what it will say, we can only guess….
As I write these words, the sun is setting over Santa Barbara. My children — for I am a father — are sleeping soundly in their beds. My wife — for I have a wife — is in the podcasting wing of a house it seems we are already outgrowing.
I feel a rush of pride just knowing she is there, creating content, channelling her innocent wisdom and fierce humility into streamable form. She has a gift the whole world should subscribe to. I am in awe.
I shut my eyes. I breathe. I ground myself, and affirm that I am the man I truly deserve to be, by reciting a short mantra. “Blowing up insurgents in an Apache gunship is not ‘a good laugh’,” I whisper. “Blowing up insurgents in an Apache gunship is not ‘a good laugh’.”
I say it over and over again, which makes it true. Eventually, I reopen my eyes and look at the laptop before me. I type with a renewed clarity and purpose, both fingers attacking the keyboard, firing round after round of My Truth into the little letters below.
This is not the epilogue I had planned to write. When I first pitched my tell-all autobiography — provisionally titled Going Spare: The Second Son’s Story — I was angry. I see that now. I was only halfway through my learning journey and was stuck in a mindset of “Everybody is a bastard and out to get me”, which, incidentally, I also considered as a title.
No amount of manky string bracelets could hide that hurt. Apart from my tight inner circle — Oprah, Banksy, Princess Friederike of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg — I felt isolated and alone. The original epilogue I wrote was very short. It just read, “This book is dedicated to my family: a bunch of totally repressed, emotionally dead, ice-cold oddballs who have really f***ed me up (not including Meghan and the kids).’’
After writing it — and this is incredibly hard for me to admit, but I urge you to allow yourself the privilege of hearing it — I stayed up all night playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare on the PS4 I keep hidden in the pool house.
When Meghan eventually found me, I had drunk two cans of hard seltzer and was on the verge of texting James Corden and asking him to bring round some CBD-infused cronuts. It is a testament to my wife’s generosity of spirit that she found the courage to shame me for this. I am constantly astounded by her. She is right. I am a gammony weirdo. Perhaps I always will be.
I was humbled by their desire for me to find peace. Gripping my wife’s hand tightly — for I have a wife — we stepped back into my old world: the vacuous world of unearned privilege and venal yes men that we had tried so hard to leave behind by moving to Los Angeles to work in entertainment media.
Yet, in a way, it was cathartic. Dad, in particular, paid me lots of attention and showed a real interest in what I was up to. “What’s going on with that book you’re writing?” he kept asking. “What’s in it? What do you say about me? How much are they paying you? Where are the proofs kept? Is it somewhere prone to fires?”
In fact, everyone in the family was full of questions about it. At one point, Wills took me to one side and asked if it was true that one of the chapters was called My Brother the Boring Sanctimonious Slaphead and his Oh So Perfect Wife Who Tries Way Too Hard When Playing Sports Against School Kids in Photo Opps.
I told him he was absolutely welcome to come up with something else if that was too triggering. This started an impromptu bout of punching therapy, which I think we both benefited from, before we made up and spent the rest of the night doing our Paul Burrell impressions.
And now I am back in California, reflecting on a life of highs and lows and lessons learnt. Outside, the cicadas chirp, and the gentle “ping” of emails from Netflix executives tell me I am indeed at home.
Having once been trapped in a gilded cage, my life is now as simple as anyone else’s. I go to the gym. I browse Rightmove for mansions, but mansions we can really grow into as a family. I play polo to an incredibly high standard. I listen to my wife’s podcasts and marvel at her elegant insight. Her heroic modesty. Her fragile strength.
My phone vibrates and I smile to see it is another text from my dad. “Harry, tell me what is happening with this book, I’m begging you,” it says. “I’ll give you money if you want. Name anything. Anything at all.”
Wow. Attentive and generous. I feel overcome with gratitude. I radiate joy. I sweat positivity. I hit the contractually agreed word count.
Evidently KC is open to the idea of DNA testing the bones of two young people 200 years after the Princes went missing in the tower.
Would KC be open to DNA testing somewhere else?
1) glad he’s doing it. glad when they found Richard III at the mall (parking lot😉). people will be fascinated about this tale and any conclusion. good distraction to the messy government stuff
2). yes he seems very interested in DNA. Montecito are you listening are you sweating yet (and not positivity. rebecca love that quote).
I hope that counting will be delayed elsewhere as well as my corner of England, or that if it goes ahead on the 6th it'll work around the Coronation. The tellers may expect to be paid extra for Bank Holiday working. Perhaps republicans will be happy to have something to do...
Whatever's decided, I hope it's not to delay the Coronation - * would see it as a victory.
Thank you for H's mock memoir in the Times. It was very funny (with a grain of truth).
The coronation ceremony is about an hour (add another hour for travelling there and back). It will be televised. How this will interfere with vote counting is a mystery to me. Certainly any delay in announcing election results is not beyond a few hours, if those counting votes want to stop and watch the ceremony and spectacle. People won't be lining up to actually vote on the day.
This is what I had read previously about the couple. Also, they don't even live together. She lives in her mansion about 15 km from High Grove.
I remember reading in a Vanity Fair article about her that Camilla was called "the lazies woman in Britain".
I am just posting this because so many people have contradicted me about these points in this blog.
And after locating these accounts he orchestrates a massive campaign against these accounts. Many end up losing these accounts.
And incites hate towards anyone opposed to their narrative.
In short, your job is to silence those who attack your customers.
https://twitter.com/cbouzy/status/1579505901001924608?s=20&t=RDGmRQsYa54K_WN-z8A-Pw
Among his clients are Amber Heard and Meghan Markle
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The complaint is being made by the profile Nate The Lawyer who claims to have hard evidence against Christopher Bouzy and his direct connection to AH and MM.
https://twitter.com/NatetheLawyer/status/1581248159979778048?s=20&t=yLwGpOugdOV1rhfVz1dMbA
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If true, we now understand attacks made against accounts that oppose MM such as Barkjack ( they talked about it themselves ) and many others. In case of YW who spoke of the farce of MM's belly that had his account closed.
Now the question is; 1) some media will take this story and bring it to the public.
2) because Twitter is more effective at taking down accounts that talk about MM and is more tolerant of accounts that attack RF.
Standards for who may call himself a journalist have fallen right off in my lifetime, I don't mind saying.
I always thought it really odd that Humpty was targeted as the initial source of this rumor . .not that she wouldn't be overjoyed to run with it once it was between her (false) teeth, but I never thought that she'd have even met Rose or any of the "Turnip Toffs" of Norfolk. She stayed at Anmer once, Christmas 2017, when the RF was doing its best to show Harry's bint cordiality. She might have met Rose and her husband then but in the flurry of seasonal activity, one would have thought the other couple would be busy with their own three children, the youngest of whom was an infant at the time, to be hobnobbing with Harry's fiancee. Any alleged affair between William and Rose would have taken place well before Humpty joined the scene and she only attended 2 Christmas walks at Sandringham, the second in 2018 when she was (quite hugely) 'pregnant with Archie' though he wouldn't appear for 51/2 months.
I guess a bombshell that Hawwy could drop might be that William is the actual father of Lady Iris who would have been conceived in mid-2015. This might account for the sudden flurry of DNA talk amongst the House of Windsor. But how would Hawwy know anything about anything? He certainly didn't hang out with William's friendship circle in Norfolk.
I hope the Cholmondeleys sue the pants off Hawwy if he alleges anything of the sort.
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I got interested to learn more about the former Lord High Chamberlain to ERII, and found this interesting article, published at the time of the opening of Parliament recently--which would turn out to be David's last in his role.
https://www.tatler.com/article/who-is-david-cholmondeley-the-marquess-of-cholmondeley
The Lord Great Chamberlain is a hereditary title which involves a duty of service to the Palace of Westminster. The Lord Great Chamberlain plays an important role in royal coronations and state occasions and is required to wear a distinctive scarlet court uniform that bears a gold key and a white stave as the insignia of his office.
This bit is from his bio on Wikipedia:
Cholmondeley exercised the office of Lord Great Chamberlain from 1990 to 2022, during the reign of Elizabeth II; in the event Charles III ceases to be king before Cholmondeley's death, he would exercise the office again.
Upon the death of the Queen, the office of Chamberlain passed to another noble house which shares the duties alternatively, I guess, since David could get it back if Charles predeceases him. The current occupant is Baron Lord Carrington, who is the same age as Charles. If he predeceases Charles, the office will pass to his son and heir, Robert. David Cholmondeley became Lord Chamberlain in 1990, succeeding his father at only 29 years of age. He's had a good run; his successor's will be shorter.
The hapless prince attended one state banquet. He was 'partnered' with Rose at that banquet (walked in with her and sat next to her). This was early July 2017. TBW was very much in the picture as his 'girlfriend' at that stage - about 8 months after she used emotional blackmail to get British-funded security (limited), a public statement about their relationship, and presumably after he had proposed. It would suit her kind of craziness to develop a grudge against Rose, fuelled by immense envy (as with her grudge against Catherine).
https://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/2017071340604/prince-harry-rose-hanbury-spanish-state-banquet/
Hawwy doesn't need encouragement from his wife to make his brother look bad, but Sharkle pal Toxic Lainey was very enthusiastic for this rumor.
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GWAH,
(Charles and Camilla) don't even live together. She lives in her mansion about 15 km from High Grove.
Presumably with her elevation to Queen Consort she is going to have less private time to escape to her country home, but she's always kept it as a refuge. She's got 5 grandchildren herself and they can visit her there with their parents, well away from the fishbowl of London.
In recent years, Camilla has glammed up considerably and I've been surprised to see her looking well. During the funeral for HM, she looked extremely haggard in black, as did many of the Royals. I've heard her health is none too good, owing to lung disease from years of heavy smoking and a family history of osteoporosis, which may effect her stamina for engagements, so considering all these, she's doing quite well. I do wonder how long she and Charles will have together. She is the elder by 18 months and smoked a lot which Charles never did. Charles displayed an impressive amount of stamina for his age during the recent grueling funeral week.
If Chuck and Cam aren't in each other's pockets all the time, it probably helps to keep the romance alive, and they aren't out of the norm for aristocrats, who all have more houses than they know what to do with.
Giles was partying at Soho House Amsterdam when he sent out that reckless drunken tweet (which he deleted the next day). The dastardly duo were also at the Soho House celebrations that weekend.
That piece of gossip is not only completely untrue, but is the sort of lie that TBW would spread, all while playing victim and praising herself for being kind and a great philanthropist, etc. The hapless husband would not only not correct her lies but would support them.
The media is always looking for something to hype about, so everything is hyped and things are manufactured to hype about.
How true and sad. What I have noticed is that we have talking (media) heads pontificating with great authority on subjects that they do not understand. Increasingly, we're having gender study majors (who apparently do not understand gender AT ALL) censoring physicians. (In California, it is now a crime for physicians to contradict politicians on medical policies. At this point, whenever I write "California", you can assume the eye roll. I assure you that it is there.)
The sad thing for me is that I used to get my 'facts' from things like studies published in medical journals. Now I find that a lot of the studies were actually faked and the medical journals are not to be trusted. I can understand this happening once, but multiple times? Apparently we live in an era where medical studies (and all studies) are confirmed by woke consensus, not actual science.
All the stuff about Camilla is so old (when Diana was alive old), it was before she was married to Charles. Since marrying Charles I can’t fault her and she’s shown Britain how to be an exemplary royal. I was never ever a fan of her’s when Diana was alive, but I sing her praises now, she very much comes across as down to earth, self effacing and a very normal person and who helps Charles be on a more even keel.
Yes, she still has Millhouse (and that was known about when she married Charles) not far from Highgrove, she herself called it her bolt hole to get away from Charles who’s known to be hard to live with full time. Camilla goes to there to relax in her own environment and be normal (cook etc). No evidence she lives there full time at all. 🫤
The hapless prince attended one state banquet. He was 'partnered' with Rose at that banquet (walked in with her and sat next to her).
I had forgotten about that state banquet so, yeah, there's the connection. Rose is younger (b. 1984), a striking brunette who resembles Catherine a bit. She was a fashion model before her marriage. Her husband the Marquess may be lower-ranking nobility than a Duke and son of the Prince of Wales but I bet he's got more money--he's got a castle in addition to his stately home in Norfolk. If H was sat next to the lovely Rose for an evening and enjoyed himself (and was stupid enough to mention it to Megdusa, which of course he did even if she had to grill it out of him) . .it would be extremely triggering for her narcissistic ego.
This dinner happened before the Corpse Bride Wedding Show but I can imagine her sordid little wheels turning. William had already made it known that he didn't think 'this girl' was anyone his brother should be with in haste and she wasn't likely to wrest him away from Catherine. But she could torpedo two marriages, make her rival C. cry and cry, get back at William for daring to advise his brother to reconsider their relationship, get revenge on another woman who had all the things in life she covets and possibly comfort the Marquess right out of some of his fortune.
The two ladies considered legal action, with grounds, but I don't think it was pursued. Rose accompanied Catherine to church in Sandringham and Pippa named her daughter Rose, so rumors of a rift, like rumors of an affair, are likely manufactured from the same source.
I think both Harkles are trying to p*ss on the bonfire they themselves created. Too late!
I disagree. Camilla is a very low energy individual, probably from a lifetime of bad habits like smoking and drinking.
She needs to rest a lot after any type of exertion or stress. I doubt that means she spends a lot of time with the demanding and entitled Charles. So, that means the rumours I've heard of them living separate lives are quite true. I think they get along when they're together, but mostly because Camilla makes the effort, not Charles. He appreciates it, at least, which is why he is so loyal to her, as he knows he is insufferable.
Yes, Camilla has had a reputation for being lazy but I think this is rather unfair. She's been very active, quietly and discreetly - unlike her step daughter-in-law. She is a patron of over 90 charities and has done a lot of work for domestic abuse victims and the prevention of osteoporosis in particular.
She kept her own house so that her children and grandchildren could visit more easily and more freely and, I think, so that she didn't have to worry about her dogs leaving Highgrove less than immaculate.
You also have to remember that the upper classes don't lounge all day in pearls and long gowns but often in Wellies and old tweeds.
As @Raspberry Ruffle, all that stuff is old. There may have been a PR push but lately Camilla has been praised for her work.
like the theory the wife is also upset with Rose since she herself wasn’t at that state dinner.
i say to the harkles. speak “your truth”. keep all the nasty stuff in. see where it gets you. perhaps the family knows all that you out in the docudrama and the book. spice it up. and can we have a few more “unplanned” pap pics we are getting bored. or are you gonna photoshop the king playing king with the kids as a birthday tribute to charles. 😉
Maybe we are joining the dots to create a picture we want, but I came to the same conclusions as you ... except you added the information that William had suggested that his brother slow down in the relationship and that did not go down well. I suspect that the hapless princes actually liked Rose and was foolish enough to mention that to the claw. By the time the 'story' was told to Giles in Amsterdam she must have known that William and Catherine would always outrank her and always, in her mind, get more and better. She was carrying some huge grudges by then.
I wonder if we are due for another 'outburst'. Catherine is using Windsor Castle for meetings and she is Princess of Wales and... I notice that the ridiculous story about an olive branch still has legs, even though the two couples will not be in the same place at the same time - not even close in terms of time and geography. But she will be in the uncomfortable position of having to appear following a successful visit by the Prince and Princess of Wales. Her go-to response is to attack when faced with competition way out of her league.
I think we may have missed the latest Harry Markle (11 October):
Manipulating Misinformation and VING-ing It As A Humanitarian
Good piece about Spotify and the VING project - "a national movement that is helping create the next generation of philanthropists" - and Archewell.
@Maneki Neko: What is VING?
My mother was adamant that her children should have a place (that they can afford or is paid for) should something happen to the family (or current living arrangements) through divorce, death of one of the members, or financial downturns.
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If I recall correctly, he sent it out at around 2am, deleted it within minutes. In the 5 minutes(!) it was up, a blogger,, Lainey Lu (I think), tumbled to it and was all over publicizing it on her blog.
Tell me *that* wasn't orchestrated. The blogger discovering it in the middle of the night for the few minutes it was up.
That's how I remember it....I'm gonna have to research that a little more.
International comedy treasure Tracey Ullman imagines the Duchess of Cornwall popping to the chemist's to pick up some things for the in-laws. I think she's gotten Cam's horsey down-to-earth esprit just right, and the hair too.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYg8zleKaTs
As per the Vanity Fair article I read a few years ago, that is exactly what Camilla does after each engagement - lounge around for a few days. As for her patronages, I know that she is surrounded by a very competent team of women who probably do 99% of the work, and Camilla is only involved in the appearances.
These two - Charles and Camilla - are not who they seem to be. They are very manipulative and unpleasant people, who only pretend to be caring and pleasant.
I concur with your comment. 🤗I originally included the grandchildren’s visits to Millhouse, where Camilla could enjoy them more freely etc, but I took it out as I wasn’t sure how long it continued into her marriage to Charles.
@Snarkystherbest,
Not many women would pass up a bolt hole! 😋A place to escape even for a few hours, I have a girl cabin…it suits me nicely.
The usual people employed on a casual basis counting votes (the `tellers') might not want to turn out to do the job- it's a night shift. The polls usually close at 10pm on an Election Days/the ballot boxes are taken to a main centre; counting then starts and may go on into the small hours of Friday or later,depending on turnout, certainly true for General Elections. Remember, we still use ballot papers marked by hand. If votes are close, there may be a recount.
Local elections usually have a much smaller turnout and interest is less, it's true.
Yes, we `know' Bouzy as a seemingly nasty piece of work. He and asserts that any anyone who breathes a word against his goddess is a racist hater. He specialises in taking down individual posters who to our way of thinking do a very good job of holding the Harkles' feet to the fire. He also described one assemblage of TW's citics as `a leaderless group' - did he mean us?
He does not believe in free speech; there are powerful laws against `hate speech' in Britain but he attacks and sometimes manages to suppress opinions the expression of which is permitted under British law.
This comes across as petulant entitlement. They have no right to the security they demand. I am sure that was made quite clear at the Sandringham Summit but they refuse to accept what they do not want to hear.
Thank you for the reply. I didn't know him. But Twitter is talking a lot about him today. Oh honey, thanks for confirming. I love you ❤️
Vanity Fair, purveyor of the “She’s Just Wild About Harry” tripe, after which Graydon Carter was forced to resign due to violating the gentleman’s agreement to vet Royal relationships with the Palace, not to mention pretty p!ss poor judgement in getting manipulated by Harry’s grifting Narc of a hustler, doesn’t hold much weight for integrity to me. Do you have other less commercially motivated sources for your assertions about Charles and Camilla?
I realize their past behavior toward Diana was cruel. A lot of people are unable to forgive them that. Fair enough; their conduct back then is to their everlasting shame because if they hadn’t betrayed Diana, she might still be with us. But I feel we have to be fair in evaluating how they are now, not through the lens of past misdeeds. I don’t see how one Vanity Fair piece can give such scathingly infallible insight into these 2 people. They are hardly angels but nor do I regard them as demons. They are both flawed, deeply, I daresay, but as least in Charles’ case, I believe he is sincere. Sometimes misguided, often blinkered by his traits of character others can find challenging—he is certainly unique. But systematically deceptive and evil? This I do not believe.
Smear jobs sell big. Why else do we suppose Penguin Random House gave a Numpty like Harry who couldn’t pass high school without cheating, 20 million dollars?
Hit pieces are all the same—controversy gets people talking and spending more money and getting their friends and their book clubs to buy copies too.
"But I feel we have to be fair in evaluating how they are now, not through the lens of past misdeeds'
I agree with you and add...
The Queen before dying recognize Camila's qualities. And asked that we receive her as Queen Consort.
"And when, in the fullness of time, my son Charles becomes King, I know you will give him and his wife Camilla the same support that you have given me; and it is my sincere wish that, when that time comes, Camilla will be known as Queen Consort as she continues her own loyal service"
https://www.royal.uk/queens-accession-day-message
I can't believe the Queen (my great Queen ❤️) put her foot in the wrong place.
I'm also not sure how "energetic" people are supposed to be in their 70s. While QEII was fairly active until the last couple of years, not everyone is active as a "senior citizen." And I'm not sure I'd call people who aren't "low energy" or assume it must be because they smoked and drank. People vary. Genetics play a huge role. That said, Camilla has seemed to hold up well enough on tours. And while their tours don't get as much attention as those carried out by younger royals, C&C have done quite a few tours abroad.
Personally I find the causes that Camilla champions meaningful. Her Christmas party for children is always filled with magical and happy moments. And she's done some great work for victims of DV. Certainly she's not a Princess Anne but heck, the "young royals" who are 30+ years younger aren't either! Of course, we can't know exactly how much work she does to prepare for an event vs how much is done by staff. But we can't know that about ANY of the royals. To me it doesn't make sense to criticize Camilla for not doing "grunt work" when we don't know that anyone else does either.
Camilla was like that 20 years ago when the Vanity Fair article was written. She just hasn't got much pep.
It happens when you have lived through too much stress or too many toxins in your body. It's called the mitochondrial cell danger response as the mitochondria in the cells are responsible for both energy and detoxification.
so daily mail(or the wife’sPR) says the book is finished and highlights the ghost writer being know for breaking down father son relationships. and so the pr begins. pay us or we publish claims it’s a $45 MM book deal. so is that what they want out of charles $45MM? i often wonder if some of these stories are out there as a negotiating tool.
Maybe. I'm not at all sure scientists agree it's so clear-cut so far as cause and behavioral effects go. So far as I know, most scientists think behavioral causes are multi-factorial although Vanity Fair writers may not agree.
I can point to plenty of famous people who are *known alcoholics* (and drank much more than Camilla was said to) who definitely aren't "low energy." And there were Holocaust survivors who were not "low energy." (I think most would agree that was a stressful situation.) What about their mitochondria?
So without some sort of examination of Camilla's body at the cellular level with some sort of comparison of those findings to Camilla when she was young, and without some sort of psychological history that's more detailed than what we have, I think it's hard to say why at 75 Camilla isn't as active as some people seem to think she should be.
I do think
1. It's known Camilla has osteoporosis and that her mother did too. While "lifestyle" factors play a role in developing that, so do genetics.
2. There are some very unrealistic ideas about 65+ year olds out there. It used to be older folks were thought to be doddering and all ready for nursing homes. That wasn't accurate. But thinking the norm is being very physically active isn't accurate either. People DO age even with the right diet, the right attitude, the right exercise, not smoking so on. Some even drop dead without warning long before reaching Camilla's age! Camilla seems young only in comparison to the ages some reached in the RF.
But if 75-year old Camilla does have a lack of energy now from things she did 40-50 years ago (and I'm not convinced of that) is it really fair to criticize her now for decades-old choices?
No, I do not agree that people should be judged for decades-old choices. I am not British, but I have read she works very hard and does a great job working hard for Women’s causes rather than just giving lip service to it. Patron of90 charities! She and Charles seem happy together. Her job cannot be easy at 75. I support her.
The YouTube video at the chemist’s was hilarious. Thank you, dear Nutty for sharing!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11319595/Boycott-hurtful-TV-Crown-say-Kings-friends-Furious-John-Major-condemns-Netflix-drama.html
It seems that the ghostwriter projects himself and his issues onto the subject, which is not what a ghostwriter is supposed to do, and that he shares much in common with the prince.
To me, a biography/autobiography is only interesting if the person has genuinely lived an interesting life or one that is so unfamiliar to me that it broadens my knowledge. So, my only interest in the prince's life is if he describes 'behind the scenes' what it is like to grow up in such unusual privilege, what it is like to get so much media attention and be hounded by the paparazzi, and so on. He has done nothing interesting or unusual in his life beyond growing up royal.
Did I share the link? Apologies if this is a repeat! It is a good article and seems closer to the truth than all the rumour being peddled. I think both in the dastardly duo are a nightmare to work with in that they change their minds, so I can believe that the prince will try to make last-minute changes. They are messy in everything they do.
However, I still think any delay in publication is due to adding a chapter about the Queen's death and funeral. If I am wrong, then I think it is a huge missed opportunity for the publisher.
Note that the manuscript was sent back for a rewrite because it was too much 'touchy feely' stuff and not enough 'spilling the beans'. I don't have much faith in a ghostwriter who would have his manuscript rejected and sent back for a major rewrite (hence the delay in publication).
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Northern Witch just did a tarot reading on the coronation date, and Harry was focused on Catherine and being very angry at her. Meghan was not happy and planning to upstage, as per usual. Out of the two Harry seems to be disassociating emotionally, never a good thing. The King of swords energy came up, I wonder if he’s thinking of suing his father for half the duchy of Cornwall? IMO Harry has left the building entirely. The late Queen has created a rage monster by giving in to his tantrums every time. It’s all he chooses to know and do. But I wonder if there’s a spy in the camp that’s told him something’s up with Catherine. Love and light Catherine, love and light my dear girl.
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The last comment in the above is about pregnancy: numerous tarot readers are convinced that Catherine is or soon will be pregnant. They have been saying the same thing for more than two years!
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energy of meghan and harry on the coronation of Charles may 6, 2023
interesting, I started with the energy oracle: there was a card that slipped behind anxiety and it was the queen of coins = meghan.
she is anxious about this event, she is in rather puzzled energy (my role in it) (I had the feeling that meghan wanted to order a dress to look like the coronation to the queen but if she does that.. she is aware that the brf will burn her in public)
much inaction and lack of communication and knowledge. She is waiting for direction from the BRF but there is zero.
I could feel her watching on the internet but she's not working anymore and Charles is going to rearrange this ceremony.
She still hopes that this event will open her the door to abundance (again this feeling that the brf will recognize her mistake and hire her again)
interesting to note that harry is not very present on this draw it is rather meghan or the couple. I don't feel a connection to Archie on the date.
Well, they are aware that they are completely missing the connection with Charles, they are seen this coronation date as a sign of disregard for their couple family and status.
They are consciences who pay their price for their behavior and their stupidity because we have the fool's card surrounded by bad cards.
They won't harvest anything or very little with this card of the sun = coronation, there is a very real feeling of loss of status, we can no longer find it or we will have difficulty finding jobs with this status.
conclusion: it has nothing to do with my cards but rather my intuition. When Charles said I am King and Willam and his beautiful wife Catherine will become Prince and Princess of Wales and Meghan and Harry will continue their lives abroad, it was a sance in the eyes of the world. They have no power and little royal value
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energy of catherine and william on the coronation of Charles on May 6, 2023
the cards are really beautiful, a very nice energy, totally different from harry and meghan.
For them, there is no room for error, they are very happy for Charles and they are happy because Georges and Charlotte will be able to attend and observe all this event and make a report.
The second row is just gorgeous. The energy is we are not jealous, we are happy with our status as prince and princess, we want to show the world what we are and our know-how and our heritage like for the funeral of Queen Elisabeth.
A lot of balance, a lot of strategy and reflection with the heart because we end with the heart chakra. It's so sincere.
with the tarots there can be some problems around catherine but nothing serious, we delay certain things, the recklessness is cut by an event and a decision. On a development of a project I find it difficult to understand because the energy of meghan arrives but I do not know if it is her who jostles or catherine will annoy meghan which will create chaos. WE HAVE TO WAIT
She is still a patron of Smart Works. It seems a bit odd to have a patron that they cannot use for publicity and to attract donations! They really should ditch her.
The omission of her from the article is interesting. It goes along with the King’s speech and public acknowledgement that they are pursuing independent lives in the US. My interpretation of his statement is you made your choice—no half in/half out Royals. They made their choice—gambled on using their Royal status to make the big bucks— and lost—no way back in to represent the Crown and the demand for their products is drying up. As I read on another site, their lives would have been far easier if they had stayed and followed protocol. They would not have to get out and hustle to earn their living. They could have have been set for a life of luxury by following the rules.
I too was rather flummoxed by the name VING, tried to find what it meant and didn't. I've just seen your post and looked again and this is what I found.
Liz Lefkofsky along with her husband Eric founded the VING Project as a mission to give back to others while celebrating amazing teenagers.
“GiVING, ReceiVING, LoVING, BelieVING.” Liz Lefkofsky
Just right word salad for *.
Sorry, but I am convinced that Camilla was always a low energy individual. To say she is lazy is to judge her perhaps, because I think that she actually has a lot of health issues which cause this lack of energy (without going into too much detail about it, I did mention mitochondrial issues). I don't expect that the issues that were mentioned in the Vanity Fair article from two decades ago have gone away. This energy problem can be treated, but only with the latest health research which most people consider to be crazy and then in 20 years, will happily adopt.
We've been told that her staff is extremely efficient so I give them the credit for all of the patronages she supposedly has.
True, * is still a patron of Smart Works. I assumed she left the patronage when she legged it across the pond. I checked and she is still the patron of Mayhew, the animal charity where she squatted down to pet a dog and sprang back up unaided on her 5 inch stilettos while 6 months pregnant.
How she can be a patron of UK based charities when she is in the US?
She is still a patron of Smart Works. It seems a bit odd to have a patron that they cannot use for publicity and to attract donations! They really should ditch her.
October 16, 2022 at 4:01 PM
Desperate people are unpredictable. We know H$M are sue crazy and running out of $$$$. The RF has closed ranks on them and it's obvious to anyone even considering working with them they are high risk. Look at the Wild about Harry article being dredged up as racist because it didn't get the desired response M wanted. Wouldn't surprise me if they are trying to sue the publisher too. Not to mention the age old news articles about H during the phone tap days (20+years ago, I think). Desperate for a payout.
I predict the book will be a massive bestseller in the US. The British tabloids will feast on it for months.
Sorry, but I am convinced that Camilla was always a low energy individual. This energy problem can be treated, but only with the latest health research which most people consider to be crazy and then in 20 years, will happily adopt.
What research? David Sinclair has a YouTube channel. He favors resveratrol and NMN.
I will be buying these soon. He also takes metformin.
https://brainflow.co/2022/03/19/david-sinclairs-nmn-resveratrol-protocol-dosage-brand/
His YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/DavidSinclairPodcast/videos --- But Sinclair has interviews with others, plastered all over YouTube.
I am concerned about Twit’s book mainly because of J.D. Moehringer writing it.
I predict the book will be a massive bestseller in the US. The British tabloids will feast on it for months.
Agree!
J.D. Moehringer has a stellar reputation. This book will be organized, very well written, will suck in millions to H/M's point of view. Being both of them as victims. Palace beware, and I think they are. But which will come first? This book or Charles' Coronation? Right now, it looks like the Hapless book will be first.
Lady C mentioned ages ago about the reputable J.D. Moehringer and his style of writing. She also said the book may afford both Maggot and Mole some sympathy…but she did say this a while back. 🫤Some American’s might be embroiled by J.D. Moehringer, (what about chosen subject matter? ) I don’t think the Brits will be. Not only is he not known here in Blighty, the Brits have had their fill of Mole and his version of truth etc. It also matters not whether it’s serialised in a newspaper, we are well passed saturation point. We know Mole’s memoir is coming, we just want it done and over with. 😟🙁
Maybe it will be successful. If it is, hopefully they won't p*ss it away. I've never met anybody that has had even the slightest interest in them.
"NO BIG PAYOUT' Part 1
He added: "They got a couple of million for development up front but that is just a small balance which Netflix would see as a necessary loss."
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NO GUARANTEES' Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s money spinning Netflix deal ‘could be killed at any time’ Netflix bosses warn.
NETFLIX bosses have told The Duke And Duchess Of Sussex they will pull the plug on their multi-million-dollar deal at any point if they are unhappy with what they produce, according to an industry insider.
The couple and their team at Archewell, who were reported to have signed a $100m contract, were advised there are "no guarantees" what they create will air.
And it could mean they end up losing millions as they are yet to launch a show on Netflix and now allegedly want to edit the content produced for their new docu-series, according to Page Six.
The Sussexes reportedly want to review the tone of some statements and potentially delay its release until 2023 despite it being scheduled for released later this year.
However, executives at the billion dollar broadcaster have "final edit" decisions where they can veto their client's proposals or even end business deals.
It is likely if the service doesn't green light any of their shows they will still receive a kill fee, as is standard within the industry.
Netflix has already walked away from Meghan's project, Pearl, after deciding the content was not what they wanted.
A Netflix LA based consultant told The U.S. Sun: "Harry and Meghan are in a tricky place right now.
Sure they may have concerns about the content in the can and what they said on camera about the Royals, but Netflix hold the power.
"In reality it is their outlet and they have final say on what is broadcast. No talent is greater than Netflix.
So while there may be concerns or push back from The Sussexes on what they want to present on screen, Netflix can carry on.
"And should the streamer's executives become frustrated, feel like a stalemate has been reached, or frankly just get fed up, they are entitled to walk away altogether.
"The Sussexes and their team knew that going into this deal. Just because they are a Duke and Duchess makes no difference. If no settlements or agreements are reached the deal could fold."'
The source explained that development deals in Hollywood end like this "all the time," and at the time of agreeing to a contract for a project all the parties share common goals.
"However, if those goals are not met or the parties are at odds then everyone walks away amicably," they said.
"Certainly no-one is pushing around Netflix executives. With the utmost respect to Harry and Meghan this is one deal within a multitude of content decisions the executive team discusses daily.
"And sure, while they are high profile, this deal is a business transaction.
"Netflix struck a deal with the promise of exclusive insight into the lives and outlook of The Sussexes, which they felt would be a ratings success.
"If they are uncertain that the content will produce the ratings they desire, then that becomes a problem.
"At pitch and content production meetings it is made clear that Netflix prides itself as an independent editorial broadcaster.
"They do not simply release whatever contributors serve up to them - they can go to Youtube for that."
The U.S. Sun has reached out to Netflix and Archewell for comment, but did not hear back.
The source is adamant that Netflix has not and will not pay The Sussexes' reported $100m.
'NO BIG PAYOUT'
He added: "They got a couple of million for development up front but that is just a small balance which Netflix would see as a necessary loss."
In May, The Sun revealed the enormous fee related to the Netflix deal is not "the full picture."
A source said: "On the surface this large sum seems enormous, but the truth is that their deal is all about budgets when shows get commissioned.
"Sure, they may have a couple of million in an advanced development deal to produce ideas, concepts and film pilots, but they have not been handed one hundred million.
"In reality those sums would be handed over to cover the entire production cost of the project, with Archewell providing a breakdown on fees for all aspects of the making of the show.
"Included in that would be a broad understanding of the profits too for the company.
Some deals see companies achieve as much as 20 percent of that total, while others can earn half that figure. Every deal is different.
"But fees for writers or executive producers, like the Duke And Duchess, are often specific amounts outlined in production budgets."
https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/6434300/prince-harry-and-meghan-markles-money-spinning-netflix-deal-could-be-killed/
Thanks for the article from the Sun. It sounds realistic.
The enormous sums they were supposedly paid by Netflix, Spotify and Random House were always reckless PR I assume. Those were projections of what they could rake in if their projects were successful.
Considering what is happening with The Crown, it seems that Netflix simply want a hit show so the more controversial the better. I hope that they air the show unaltered so we can all see their hypocrisy - perfectly ok to say what they said when the Queen was alive but now a bit awkward?
I wonder if they do not want to actually unleash a barrage of lies about the Queen now that she is gone and cannot answer back. Maybe that is an addition they want to make and the delay for them to make changes has been misinterpreted?
Some Americans might be embroiled by J.D. Moehringer, (what about chosen subject matter? ) I don’t think the Brits will be. Not only is he not known here in Blighty, the Brits have had their fill of Mole and his version of truth etc. It also matters not whether it’s serialised in a newspaper, we are well passed saturation point. We know Mole’s memoir is coming, we just want it done and over with.
So true. I'd never heard of J.D. Moehringer until he was mentioned as H's ghost writer and we've certainly have had our fill of the 5s and their truths/whinges.
@Karla
Interesting article about Netflix deals. Kill fees are apparently around 25% so the Harkles need a plan B in case things don't work out. If on top of this H's book is a flop, then not only won't they miss out on a lot of money but their reputation and influence, already on the wane, might not recover.
Still, I think this will sort out the way Rebecca says. Flighty, frivolous Americans, and others outside the UK, will be most sucked in by the Hapless and M victimization claims. As narrated by this superior ghostwriter. Then, while UK citizens are on to their line of rubbish, the notorious (according to M) UK tabloids will have a field day debunking these claims. The clear preference of the Royals would be, none of this book driven hullabaloo to pollute the atmosphere, as the May Coronation approaches.
With the hard winter, electricity prices, pension crisis and the Tory political turmoil, the British public will look to the stability of King Charles3 and your centuries old Monarchy. For Emotional Rescue, as the Rolling Stones tune goes.
"They do not simply release whatever contributors serve up to them - they can go to Youtube for that."
The U.S. Sun has reached out to Netflix and Archewell for comment, but did not hear back.
The source is adamant that Netflix has not and will not pay The Sussexes' reported $100m.
Let's give H/M, that they really did sign a $100 million Netflix contract. A football player here will sign a 5 year, 100 million dollar contract. If he gets irreparably injured in year 2, he is not going to get "his" $100 million. The H/M Netflix contract is 97% theoretical.
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Harry and Meghan are imploding, and so it's definitely a Netflix flex, but it's more like, how are we supposed to release this product if you guys are undermining your own credibility? They are also are learning from Spotify that Meghan contradicts herself constantly, and that also undermines the quality of their product. Creating a product that is disingeuous certainly is grounds to null and void the whole contract...
I may move my DivorceWatch March of 2023 to December of 2022.
Money troubles are severe, and Meghan's only with Harry for the money, so that doubles down the pressure on the marriage and on Meghan and Harry as individuals. I've heard that money is their #1 concern right now. The titles for the children are wrapped up in it, and the more Charles holds back with those titles, the more marital discord there is. Meghan tantrums and screams at Harry for Charles's not enobling the children.
The word is that Charles apparently told them both to "get on with it" regarding their threats of releasing all this dirt, and while Meghan is hearing it as an empty threat, she's also simultaneously more than happy to go scorched Earth on the family for not giving her what she wants. Harry, on the other hand, is reportedly hearing Charles's statement as a line in the sand, and that if he crosses it, he can never go back, and he wants to go home, but feels stuck in constant crisis between her bullshit and his own and can't see his way clear, he just knows he doesn't want to lose his family forever. And if the marriage falls through, and it will, he's going to need them.
Also, it's an unpopular take, but I think Harry will be the one to leave. Just my hunch. Harry is deeply unhappy.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/y5udn6/comment/ism3hm9/
I sense that this is the gossip swirling around the duo in Los Angeles, but we will have to wait and see if there is any truth in it. I suppose Netflix squares the circle by claiming that The Crown is a fictionalized account but their documentary is supposed to be a true and accurate version of 'their love story'.
A very talented tarot reader predicted about two years ago that he would have to do a lot of growing up to leave. (She gave up on tarot readings ages ago but predicted that she would dump him as soon as she was set up in Los Angeles, but that energy changed.)
Mole’s book will be just more of the same. Fatigue is setting in, and it’s only the brain dead and deluded buying their over ripe victim tripe now. 😁I think it would be highly desirable at this point if King Charles removed all their privileges and links to the monarchy… alas like many I feel I’ll have to continue to dream on.
As for the rest of your comment, we aren’t the only ones suffering, many other countries in Europe have similar issues as those do in America with petrol/disease price rises etc. Very few countries can gloat about good and great times right now. However, Brits looking to the Monarchy for emotional rescue during this?! 😂😂Erm nope, you’re a century and more out of touch, not to mention a rather skewered view as a whole, you sound like you’re swallowing the New York Times nonsense about Blighty . 😳
I agree with you. (if this article from The Sun is true) Netflix is denying the amount paid. Because now?
the issues with ageing and lack of energy/problems with detoxification are a big, big topic in medical research.
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With the collapse of fertilizer availability, KCIIIs experience for years with making organic farming profitable will be helpful during this period.
No, I do not think they have secret footage from when they were royals. She did a couple of Hallmark movies and I think that is her image of romance. So, there will be footage of them in romantic poses and gushing about each other, plus the footage they have of greeting adoring public (Invictus Games), power playing (trip to New York), and giving speeches. Maybe him playing polo as well. Her in her 'office'.
If they did a whine fest about the family and the tabloids and the UK, Netflix will want to keep that footage as that will be the selling point for them. Sugars are too few to sustain a Hallmark movie about the loved up 'power couple'.
I wonder if they managed to buy some footage from the funeral, or from any royal event since Megxit. How are they going to remind people they are royals?
* I think the King and Queen will want to make a conciliatory gesture. But, are there enough tiaras to cater for everyone? (Camilla, Catherine, Anne, Sophie, Zara, Beatrice, Eugenie, Louise ... just for starters)
An unpopular opinion - his overseas son should be there. It is in what capacity that is the unknown. The book will probably come out before the Big Day.
I would like to believe that C will have his second son in the audience. There is no reaosn for C to have H in a line like the working royals to bend the knee and pledge to be a leige man.
If the scaled down version happens, there will not be any coronets or tiaras, so that is a moot point for TW.
QEII's coronation dress was so stiff and heavy it got stuck against the pile of the Abbey carpet when she tried to leave - it had been fine, of course, going up the nave but going back was a different matter. Luckily she had 5 Maids of Honour to help free her.
It reminds me of dissecting my first dogfish ( a kind of small shark)in A level Zoology: move the fish nose-first along the dissecting board and it moved freely, pull it by the tail and the dermal denticles (ie miniature sharks' teeth but in the skin) dug into the board.
I'd laugh like a drain if * wore a similar dress and got stuck - she won't have anyone to free her. Might they leave her there?
I read that there were so many grandees in '53 that carriages had to be borrowed from noble families to transport them all.
I've probably mentioned this before but there was, a few years ago, a very sympathetic TV portrait of the Duke and Duchess of St Albans, reduced to living in a relatively modest flat. Hos robes had been made for the coronation of Queen Anne in 1702 - and they looked very fragile. Financial problems had obliged him to sell his gold coronet.
He's probably not the only hereditary peer in that position. I predict that theatrical costumiers will be very busy if peers have to appear looking appropriately dressed.
"I would like to believe that C will have his second son in the audience. There is no reaosn for C to have H in a line like the working royals to bend the knee and pledge to be a leige man"I agree with you. So it was at the jubilee and at the queen's funeral. And the queen forbade MM to wear the crown jewels. I will wait for the actual announcement of how KCIII's coronation will be made and I believe he will follow that line; Harry and MM to build their lives abroad. (said the King)
i don’t think Netflix ever stated what the amounts in the contract nor the thresholds for payouts were.
$100 million is the figure I am consistently seeing, but--Netflix is stipulating that that would have represented production costs for the several successful series that were supposed to be part of this deal. "Pearl" was supposed to be one, and I doubt David Furnish would have been attached to the project if potential wasn't initially seen in it . . but working with Humpty was a zero-sum game for everyone involved and it was easier just to drop it. Archewell was supposed to be the production company, with Netflix as the distributor, more or less. It seems that H&M misunderstood that as 'executive producers' they were expected to come up with the content themselves and Netflix would polish it up and help with edits, advertising and so forth. Not that they'd fork over $100 mil upfront for the duo to personally spend while producing jack diddly. Consensus seems to be that at most they may have been given a couple million dollars advance, as seed money, but the rest of that grand sum was projected value, not actual. They never received that kind of money.
Humor Me,
Poor KCIII - he is d*mned if he does, d*mned if he does not regarding the 6/5s and the coronation ceremony.
An unpopular opinion - his overseas son should be there. It is in what capacity that is the unknown. The book will probably come out before the Big Day.
I would like to believe that C will have his second son in the audience. There is no reaosn for C to have H in a line like the working royals to bend the knee and pledge to be a leige man.
If the scaled down version happens, there will not be any coronets or tiaras, so that is a moot point for TW.
I agree. To exclude H&M from an invitation will only fuel their victimology narrative some more, despite having lobbed who knows what kind of incendiary bombshells in the Netflix broadcast and book before then. But on no account should the traitorous overseas toerag and his wife be treated as Royals while there. No coronet or tiara, no being seated in the family row. Let them be seated with the congregation. Had circumstances been different and H had stayed loyal, he would be pledging fealty to the sovereign but wouldn't that just ring hollow now.
The Sussexes should be apprised of their seats and non-peerage status at the event and they can accept or decline on those terms. BP should release a statement confirming that they have been officially invited by the King so they can't claim to have been snubbed later. But if Hawwy is going to pitch a wobbler over the ERII cypher being removed from his uniform, imagine what he will do if he has to sit in a 'lounge suit' (quizzical name, this. In the States a lounge suit is usually made of velour and has an elastic waistband for lounging around the house in, not attending formal events) whilst his brother and everyone else is wearing coronets and ermine? And * will be chewing glass with those false choppers to be denied her emerald tiara (again).
KC has to be firm and tell Hawwy that any sign of a wobbler, he and Twunt will be forcibly escorted from the service by Major Johnny and a few other strong-armed guys. Buh-bye! Good luck overseas!
I forgot to say about lack of energy, that this may (and is usually due) due to genetic mutations, known as MTHFR which control methylation in the body. Undermethylators tend to be considered lazy and lethargic, whereas overmethylators are over achievers and probably linked to Type A personality.
The only way to find out is to do a genetic test.
Google the symptoms of each methylation type to find out more.
That's hilarious! TBW is a control freak but really bad with details and dealing with reality so some kind of disaster is possible! I do so hope they will be there because she will wear something inappropriate. I guess that she does want a tiara of her own made, filled with woke symbolism, but I doubt the hapless husband will pay for it. If she does want to have a bespoke gown made that is embroidered with meaningful symbols, I assume that there are a lot of people in America who do intricate embroidery and bead work, but one again, I doubt the husband will willingly pay for it. But, she has done 12 podcasts so after paying all the people who did the work, there may be enough left over for a tiara and bespoke coronation gown.
Charles may modernise the coronation ceremony and spectacle so much that I will be hugely disappointed with the tiaras and gowns. I hope not.
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Maybe the toxic issues are deleterious to some but I read some of the published literature concerning MDR and some of the studies have some low participation rates, peer reviewed?, repeated results? No doubt there can be such a response but what has been investigated/discovered about why so many people don't fall victim to such damage. My brother is 74 and was a cocaine/crack addict for 25 years before he was 68 and suffered several major strokes in the majority of his brain, suffered 2 comas bc of strokes, also drank heavily at times, smoked ..and didn't start going to docters until he was 68. At 74 he no deficits and is working weed-eating my property and reads and thinks about astrophysics (Physics was undergraduate studies). He remembers US & world history, including wars and guns of the last two centuries. Learns from Scientific American. Some people are disabled by their prior choices and some "damaged people" are very resistant to such damage.
Beisdes, as a grad. Biologist @ prestigious Univ. I believe the jury is still out on many, many things about the workings of the body and almost always true they're will be exceptions (like a true grading curve). The only thing definite is death and even that is questioned by scientists with respect regarding brain death.
But Camilla may or not be lazy depending on habits, choice, DNA, disease, Charles wanting him to shine more than a possible Diana emerging in Camilla, courtiers, opportunities, 'ad nauseam'.
But I respect your interest in the fields you have, knowledge and hope research will be more conclusive on the body's functions as to influence of external factors.
while i’m excited about the coronation i’m more excited by state dinner next month and we have remembrance day. what will the wife do to get attention drawn away from those events. we know the jealous witch will do something. and then we have earth shot in boston. a failed reconciliation in september and orange glow at the rfk dinner and of course christmas cards! wow the wife will be busy with her pr
EXCLUSIVE: Rattled after attacks on Season 5 of The Crown, Netflix has decided to postpone its documentary series featuring Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, until next year.
The documentary unofficially had been slated to stream on Netflix in December following the November 9 launch of The Crown.
However, Netflix came under fire over the weekend from former UK Prime Minister John Major, who complained about a plot line in Episode 1 of Season 5 suggesting that in 1991 Prince Charles, now King Charles III, summoned Major to moan about having to wait to take over the throne.
Titled “Queen Victoria Syndrome,” so-called because of Queen Victoria’s 63 years on the throne, the installment is based on an actual poll that ran in the UK Sunday Times which argued that the monarchy was dated and that Queen Elizabeth should abdicate in favor of Charles. The drama features scenes of Charles (Dominic West) privately agreeing with a passage in the Sunday Times, from back in 1991, that ”an ageing monarch, too long on the throne whose remoteness from the modern world has led people to grow tired not just of her but of the monarchy itself.”
Charles then has a clandestine meeting with Major where the royal relates the story of how Edward VII was ”kept waiting in the wings” for decades due to the longevity of Queen Victoria’s rule.
Major has insisted that no such conversation about a plot to overthrow the late Queen took place and described it as ”malicious nonsense.” Other establishment figures spent the weekend savaging a show that they’ve yet to see, often relying on inaccurate reports of what the Season 5 episodes are said to contain.
But following days of negative front-page stories, executives at Netflix felt that it would be foolhardy to stream The Crown in November followed by the Harry and Meghan documentary in December.
“They’re rattled at Netflix, and they blinked first and decided to postpone the documentary,” a source told Deadline.
The untitled documentary series produced by Netflix and Archewell Productions did not set an official broadcast date. However, officials at Netflix had stated several times this year that they’d wanted to do a royal double-whammy, with The Crown to run first, to be followed a few weeks later by the docuseries, some of which was filmed at Harry and Meghan’s Montecito estate.
Both Netflix and Buckingham Palace have been ultra-sensitive about both The Crown and the docuseries since Queen Elizabeth’s death September 8, which is when Charles ascended to the throne. It may well suit the Duke and Duchess to have the documentary delayed while they reconsider its content.
There’s also anxiety about the filming next week of the scenes that led to Princess Diana’s death in Paris. Netflix has stipulated that the crash-impact scenes will not be shown.
Netflix said Monday that ”there’s never been any documentary from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex confirmed.” Deadline has reached out to Archewell for comment.
"Netflix said Monday that ”there’s never been any documentary from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex confirmed.” (???) Deadline has reached out to Archewell for comment.
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EXCLUSIVE: Rattled after attacks on Season 5 of The Crown, Netflix has decided to postpone its documentary series featuring Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, until next year.
The documentary unofficially had been slated to stream on Netflix in December following the November 9 launch of The Crown.
However, Netflix came under fire over the weekend from former UK Prime Minister John Major, who complained about a plot line in Episode 1 of Season 5 suggesting that in 1991 Prince Charles, now King Charles III, summoned Major to moan about having to wait to take over the throne.
Titled “Queen Victoria Syndrome,” so-called because of Queen Victoria’s 63 years on the throne, the installment is based on an actual poll that ran in the UK Sunday Times which argued that the monarchy was dated and that Queen Elizabeth should abdicate in favor of Charles. The drama features scenes of Charles (Dominic West) privately agreeing with a passage in the Sunday Times, from back in 1991, that ”an ageing monarch, too long on the throne whose remoteness from the modern world has led people to grow tired not just of her but of the monarchy itself.”
Charles then has a clandestine meeting with Major where the royal relates the story of how Edward VII was ”kept waiting in the wings” for decades due to the longevity of Queen Victoria’s rule.
Major has insisted that no such conversation about a plot to overthrow the late Queen took place and described it as ”malicious nonsense.” Other establishment figures spent the weekend savaging a show that they’ve yet to see, often relying on inaccurate reports of what the Season 5 episodes are said to contain.
But following days of negative front-page stories, executives at Netflix felt that it would be foolhardy to stream The Crown in November followed by the Harry and Meghan documentary in December.
They’re rattled at Netflix, and they blinked first and decided to postpone the documentary,” a source told Deadline.
The untitled documentary series produced by Netflix and Archewell Productions did not set an official broadcast date. However, officials at Netflix had stated several times this year that they’d wanted to do a royal double-whammy, with The Crown to run first, to be followed a few weeks later by the docuseries, some of which was filmed at Harry and Meghan’s Montecito estate.
Both Netflix and Buckingham Palace have been ultra-sensitive about both The Crown and the docuseries since Queen Elizabeth’s death September 8, which is when Charles ascended to the throne. It may well suit the Duke and Duchess to have the documentary delayed while they reconsider its content.
There’s also anxiety about the filming next week of the scenes that led to Princess Diana’s death in Paris. Netflix has stipulated that the crash-impact scenes will not be shown.
Netflix said Monday that ”there’s never been any documentary from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex confirmed.” Deadline has reached out to Archewell for comment.
https://deadline.com/2022/10/prince-harry-meghan-netflix-documentary-delay-the-crown-criticism-1235146831/
The truth is the duo have not delivered/signed off on anything that can be aired. Not because they do not want to cause offence but because they keep tinkering and adding and changing, but neither have any experience of making a documentary so they do not actually know what they are doing. Yes they have hired good experienced professionals but she is a control freak with a grandiose sense of herself and her abilities.
Perhaps I am wrong and the UK and Commonwealth is a big enough market for Netflix to be worried. But, they hired consultants for The Crown who then walked away because Netflix ignored their warnings that the script was way off base and if it was anyone other than the BRF they would be sued, despite their protestations that it is fiction based on reality.
Netflix said Monday that ”there’s never been any documentary from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex confirmed.”
The most interesting part. Netflix is debunking MM in The CUT.
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I find it strange that Netflix (if true) is leaking such claims against the duo right now. H&M's Archewell Productions is responsible for the content and has not been able to present anything. MM spoke of the documentary series (I think) as a way of blackmailing RF. And Netflix, according to Barkjack, was ready to cancel the contract in November.
If all is true, H&M plans to say they'll cancel with Netflix as they don't want to hurt RF and come out on top again and let the world see how willing they are to sacrifice themselves for a reconciliation.
It's the spin the duo are making now, but Netflix doesn't look like they're going to allow the duo to cash in on fake PR. I repeat; if true, we will have Netflix x H&M.
I always thought he seemed like a smug prick.
I totally agree and no wonder Maggot and Mole liked Cordon…birds of a feather and all that
The perfect kind of justice for Cordon, he’s an arrogant one trick (unfunny)
pony, not particularly liked in Britain, well done that man Keith McNally!! 😛😜🤞🏻
@CatEyes
As a Biol.grad from another prestigious university, I agree completely with you.
xxxxx said: With the hard winter, electricity prices, pension crisis and the Tory political turmoil, the British public will look to the stability of King Charles 3 and your centuries old Monarchy. For Emotional Rescue, as the Rolling Stones tune goes.
With the collapse of fertilizer availability, KCIIIs experience for years with making organic farming profitable will be helpful during this period.
Organic is best, but not the WEF way that produced disaster in Sri Lanka. That nation banned all imports of chem fertilizers. Best way out is organic farms for those who want to eat this way. And chem farming too, to feed entire nations. Are you getting free tree trimmings from the powerlines?
Charles has made organic seem silly. But he has it right. You know that his current project is organic/grass fed herds at Sandringham. Way up Scotland, where he can wear his kilt all day long. Charles and Camilla like meeting and greeting, gabbing w the county folk. At fairs, floods and anything. Same as Anne. I was amazed at all the horses at the Queen's funeral. What a horsey set they have in the Royals and the English aristocracy. Queenie's Ascot races and so on.... How many horses will be seen in the Coronation?
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Prince Charles: Why we went organic at Sandringham …
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/prince-charles-on...
May 19, 2021 · Prince Charles has chosen to farm organically at Sandringham. Shortly afterwards, the heir to the throne announced he would be turning the 21,000-acre estate's …
Many many thanks for posting and I will look into this. One thing I do already is take lots of D3. 10000 units daily + K2 and magnesium/ Let's all be healthy and find ways to do this.
From what the restaurant owner said about Corden suggests that the overweight one is cut from the same cloth as *. he even has `egg issues' as well
Personally, I don’t think Netflix gives two figs about the British royal family. The content of The Crown is clear evidence of that. Whether they’ll renege on the contract with the Duo remains to be seen….they are backing losers there, and it serves them right for believing the Duo had any talent or skills to offer. 🫤
I always understood that the mutterings about Victoria in her last years stemmed from her hiding away as `The Widow of Windsor' and seldom emerging into the public sphere. There was fear of republican unrest but I've never read anything that suggested there were thoughts of replacing her with the Prince of Wales because they wanted someone younger - people weren't too keen on him either, on account of his womanising. As it happened, he was more successful than expected, especially as he established better relationships with France, thanks largely to the time he spent in Paris on frolics of his own.
I've noticed that people with axes to grind about current issues often attempt to `write them back' into history and assert that they had been issues in the past, when they weren't.
"One thing I do already is take lots of D3. 10000 units daily + K2 and magnesium/"
OT...Last medical-related post I promise!
I took 10,000 units of Vitamin D3 on the advice of an RN and ended up with a very toxic level when my blood was tested on orders from an Endocrinologist & Nutritionist at UT Southestern (a highly regarded medical center/med school).
I could have suffred serious damage from taking that amount off and on for 6 years! The staff were horrified and immediately said to stop all Vit. D. and now 1 1/2 yrs later my level is still above the normal range.
It is prudent for people to be careful about fat soluble vitamins (A, D, E, K) especially A & D. Not my advice but medical lieterature. One should get professional advice and look at a variety of mmedical/scientific facts when considering what to ingest. My physician-father years ago, used to say many of these nedical fads/theories will be debunked in 10 yrs.
That's it for me. Sorry moderator!
I have an advanced degree in health sciences.
For undermethylation, I suggest you read this website:
Why is this all happening now?
Slow, poor or “under” methylation is a multi-generational disease, so any gene mutations you have now are the combination of approximately 5 previous generations. It seems that we are breading the problem genetically, photo coping our bad copies of DNA one generation to the next. Stress uses up many methyl groups so if there are not enough and we have a mutation that stops us creating them we are in trouble. If the stress response is using up the methyl groups then this shortage will affect other systems like the brain, thyroid function, digestion, immunity and lead to fatigue to name a few.
https://undermethylation.com/causes/
These are issues that have been "recently" discovered and a lot of people are using these genetic discoveries to improve issues like autism, ADD and ADHD.
Thanks. I saw one of his hour video interviews today. My D levels are 75 ng/ml. (2x tested) --- D3 toxicity, 95% myth. The indoorsy Chinese have low D levels, so now they are in and out of perpetual lockdowns. While the outdoorsy people of Oz have the highest skin cancer rates, so high D3 levels. They never should have locked down.
Sorry mod! My last.
The gossip re. Netflix is intriguing as the duo and Netflix seem to contradict each other. We do know that the duo have been filming themselves from early on. The only time they have not taken cameras along is when they were at the few royal events they attended.
Her claim in the article that the documentary is about their love story is quite alarming as it sounds as if they have been making a Hallmark movie. Presenting themselves as global activists and humanitarians is also like filming fiction. Then there is them being award chasers! I have noticed that there are so many award ceremonies now, and the only ones benefitting are those who make the hugely expensive designer outfits and the events organizers.
She is a very successful grifter though, so she will always find someone else to con - to throw money at her, give her freebies and awards, give her the media attention that she craves. If he gets tired of it all and wants to leave her, she will use the children as a weapon as Angelina Jolie is doing with Brad Pitt. Someone on social media said that if she does that she will go against the power of the BRF and she will be destroyed.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s hotly-anticipated Netflix docuseries is still set to premiere this year — and is being slated for a December release, multiple sources tell Page Six.
A Deadline report Monday claimed that the show was being pushed back until 2023 amid a backlash over the upcoming season of Netflix hit “The Crown".
“They’re rattled at Netflix and they blinked first and decided to postpone the documentary,” a source told the outlet.
But despite everything, we’re told that the show will go on — and any issues surrounding the doc had nothing to do with the fifth season of “The Crown.”
As we previously revealed, Netflix sources told us there were issues between the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and Netflix as they wanted to delete any incriminating comments they had made about King Charles III, Queen Consort Camilla Parker-Bowles, Prince William and Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales.
The couple had indeed been the ones who wanted to delay the show until next year.
But one highly-placed industry insider told Page Six, “As far as I am aware, the docuseries is still going ahead later this year.”
Netflix has yet to announce an official release date and insiders told us that there were still issues with the doc: Harry and Markle made comments in it that contradict what he wrote in his upcoming memoir.
Reps for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and Netflix did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment. ...
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As I have said previously, how could anyone connected with the Netflix show know what is in the memoir? I am surprised that numerous media outlets keep repeating this without even mentioning this. It just does not make sense. Perhaps, being aware of all the lies that have been told, the Netflix dozens working on their fake documentary are concerned, but unless they have read the memoir, they will not know and the publisher would not have handed over the manuscript to Netflix ... unless the stupid prince did so?
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Archewell still late in filing 1st annual charity renewal with California's Dept. of Justice (was due May 15). They can file late if they requested an extension on their IRS filing (was also due May 15). Extension is only 6 mos. If they haven't filed by Nov. 15: bad for Archewell. California charity renewal shares more info publicly, including assets & non-monetary gifts received, so Meghan & Harry are probably dragging their heels. Don't be shocked if they "rebrand" their "charity."
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I have no idea of the accuracy of the above, but I think it is something worth keeping an eye on.
Telling porkies again - she was living with Trevor, who was paying the bills. She says she only took that job as a suitcase girl in Deal or No Deal because she needed to pay the bills.
But she has a degree from a 'prestigious' university ... she made no attempt to use that degree to do work other than showbiz.
She says: 'I ended up quitting the show. I was so much more than what was being objectified on the stage. I didn't like feeling forced to be all looks. And little substance. And that's how it felt for me at the time being reduced to this specific archetype the word bimbo'.
Bimbo is not an archetype; it is a stereotype. (And woman are called bimbos when they display obvious low intelligence stupidity or use a sex image to get attention.) Did she quit the show willingly and for the reason she gives? And why did she continue playing the sexpot (e.g. grilling burgers video) and so on? Why does she always blame someone else for her bad choices and bad character?
Since I am now old, I was young at a time when women were still fighting for equal opportunities and equal pay as men. (Maybe not achieved elsewhere in the world, but certainly has been the norm in my country for a long time.) There were a few occasions when I was objectified sexually, patronized in the workplace, etc. As young as I was, I behaved professionally and was grown up enough to know that some people will not change but it is not worth making a fuss or getting upset. Let go and move on because the reality was that my gender/sex did not hold me back from achievements in any sphere. Any failure was always down to my character or behaviour or mistakes.
I am older than TBW by more than a bit but she seems stuck in a distant past that predates me!
I am not a physician. I did tell husband that he probably had the gene mutation based on observed family history, and bought methylated B complex vitamins for him. After his series of strokes, his neurologist tested him and he did have the gene. His neurologist prescribed methylated folic acid for him. (The MTHFR gene is associated with a higher level of strokes, various cancers, as well as migraine headaches.) The MTHFR gene, as it turned out, was not responsible for husband's strokes. It was atrial fibrillation AND a failing heart valve.
What DID do the most to improve daughter's migraines was leaving a stressful marriage. She claims that had she known that losing 180 lbs. (his weight) would have improved her health so much, she would have done it long ago.
I understand that people can have way more knowledge about a specific topic like supplementals which can be helpful. I just would prefer we drift back to the target topic.
Thank you.
If KC really wants to have a minimalist coronation, he could do so....and then maybe throw a party (closed to Grifters of course) where everyone could bling up ;)
I have no clue about how they did their finances. I have known of all kinds of arrangements from he pays everything and this is my spending money to we split things proportionately to our income.
No doubt it was Suits which was funding her lifestyle there. Although she was 6 on the call sheet, she used the long hours and safety to press for them to pay for a driver when she really wasn't entitled to one. In all likelihood the case probably could have also been made for others.
I have been reading the Palace Papers and noted (also remember elsewhere) that she was unhappy with him because he wouldn't tap in for favors to get her work. I think that's important because her really early stuff came from her dad's connections.
I just see this as another example, early on, of how she learned how to tap into/use connections to get "things".
When she got to the UK, that future probably felt endless in opportunities without realizing those opportunities were reopening a village train station or a new medical building and not endless fancy dinners.
As an American, she would unlikely be taught any British history after the Revolutionary and 1812 Wars so think about the various changes over time if your last understanding of the British government dated from the absolute rule of King Henry VIII. There may have been an expectation that she could say/do what she wanted because she had the royal aura backing her - which created some of the problems in how she treated people.
Harry's book
Yeah, it probably will get a big splash no matter the final form in the US and maybe some other countries and the UK will have lots of stories about "problems" in the narrative.
But I do not think it will be a guaranteed smooth sailing no problems in the US. All it takes is one tenacious reporter who wants to be the first to write about something scandalous (to make their name) backed by some news media to spark others. A slow news day would help.
After all, the UK papers are available on the internet for generating "ideas". Without the backing of SS who could easily have smoothed prior wrinkles, this could let the genie out on this side of the pond.
I don't think that she actually studied history of any kind, American or world. She appears to be a remarkably self-centered, incurious person.
Perhaps I'm holding her to too high a standard to expect her to actually do some research before she opens her mouth to spew forth nonsense for our edification? Every time that she opens her mouth about 'feminism' I get the urge to commit violence.
wow archetypes podcasts is really a way for her to answer her critics it’s fascinating how much it’s about here. but at least lilubuck$ gets a mention. she seemed awol after the birthday jubilee. i guess someone is answering for the fact we have all have said it’s all about archie for a while. guess the bucks as some worth 😉
so now it’s netflix yes netflix no. is this the new pr strategy to find up interest. seems chaotic. for sure the mrs must be in charge of PR now. 😉
Captions are the best of thus week's post!
1) Prince Harry and wife Meghan have founded a production company and signed a multiyear deal with Netflix.
2)The unnamed company will make documentaries, docuseries, feature films, scripted shows and children's programming.
3) Described on the Archewell Productions website: Heart of Invictus is a docu-series that will showcase powerful stories of resilience and hope from competitors on their journey to Invictus Games The Hague 2020, now set to take place in 2022. This series is being produced in partnership with The Invictus Games Foundation and comes from the Oscar-winning team of director Orlando von Einsiedel.
MM talked about an amazing series about love's journey for The Cut and Netflix never said anything about it. As far as I know, the cameras, microphones on the clothes and recordings were made by Archewell Productions and directed by Liz Garbus.
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June, 2022
Harry and Meghan recruit Handmaid’s Tale director for Netflix documentary about their lives
Emmy-winner Liz Garbus will reportedly helm the ‘fly-on-the-wall’ docu-series delving in to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s world.
Her career to date features such acclaimed projects as Love, Marilyn, What Happened, Miss Simone?, and an episode of The Handmaid’s Tale, so it’s little wonder the Duke and Duchess of Sussex looked to Liz Garbus when it came to seeking out a director for a Netflix series about their lives.
US gossip site Page Six reports that the upcoming documentary is part of the couple’s major partnership with Netflix, Archewell Productions, and has reportedly been in the works for over a year already.
According to the news outlet, Garbus was spotted with the couple during their trip to New York last autumn. The duke and duchess were reportedly joined by a small camera crew, maintaining a low profile while details of the ‘top-secret project’ remain under wraps. Cameras reportedly followed Harry and Meghan as they attended a red carpet gala in honour of military veterans, held aboard the USS Intrepid on the Hudson river, as well as during a lunch at New Jersey’s Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst military facility. Garbus was said to have been spotted discreetly fitting camera equipment to clothing and bags.
https://www.tatler.com/article/harry-and-meghan-handmaids-tale-director-liz-garbus-netflix-documentary-about-their-lives
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In my understanding (of course driven by speculation (subjective truths🤣) There is material recorded by Archewell Productions and not by Netflix and I wonder who had the idea of recording content about "a beautiful love story" if MM or Netflix suggestion or just PR spin.
I am older than TBW by more than a bit but she seems stuck in a distant past that predates me!
I agree. Her rhetoric about feminism feels very outdated to me; I, too, remember when it first became an issue. Stuck in the past. Tossing irrelevant, meaningless word salad.
This bit made me smile with a hefty dose of rue. Those of us who thought that being elevated to Princess of Wales might jolly the press into stopping calling Catherine by the nickname she had in college are sorely disappointed. Not to mention the entirely nonsensical 'Queen Consort Camilla Parker-Bowles'. For pity's sake.
Though I always looked forward to getting rid of my birth surname at marriage in favor of one that was less Germanic, easier to spell and God willing, in the front half of the alphabet . . I'm a 'W' that languished in the back row of every classroom, every registration queue, commencement walk and receipt of government document due to being at the bottom of the alphabet and hoped for a more prime place for my future kids--moot point now. As the last of my father's line to bear the family name I guess I'm saddled with it until I go to my final reward--one would suppose, if one is a Queen Consort or Future Queen Consort of the United Kingdom, one could have the dignity of being addressed by one's current status in the press. In the Royal family retaining one's maiden name upon marriage into a hereditary Royal until very recently based on male primogeniture isn't really the done thing.
If Catherine had wanted to be known as Kate Middleton forever, even after 11 years of marriage and three kids, she probably wouldn't have set her cap for the Crown Prince of Great Britain, I don't imagine. Listing Camilla as Queen Consort Camilla Parker-Bowles is a surefire way to keep her detractors' grievances alive.
I am older than TBW by more than a bit but she seems stuck in a distant past that predates me!
@Design Doctor said:
I agree. Her rhetoric about feminism feels very outdated to me; I, too, remember when it first became an issue. Stuck in the past. Tossing irrelevant, meaningless word salad.
I'm also a bit older than * and agree with Miranda Sawyer of the Grauniad who described the first podcast as "sixth-form feminism". I think in many aspects * is forever stuck in a teenage frame of mind; she may be all about growth and empowerment but she sure isn't gaining any wisdom.
Oh, now that's odd.
I was thinking about the comment in the recent podcast about how difficult and she wants more for her daughter than just a Deal or No Deal kind of life.
So I wondered when exactly she was on that show.
Doesn't show up here under actress (and it used to) https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1620783/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
It shows up under "self". one episode in the first year and ten to fifty of a seventy episodes season two.
What is interesting is that they would shoot like 6 or multiple episodes a day so that the actual number of days working was not as much as it looks like. One point in the Tina book was that if you were picked, the advantage was you get to go off the stage while all the others still had to stand there in their heels.
I get that she quit to do more actressy roles (which technically would not have paid the bills for all that long compared to the entire run of 2005 to 2009, 2018 to 2019) but still find it kind of amusing that this role gets buried at the bottom of self when it repeatedly gets pulled out for her work history almost as many times as Suits (in all formats) or that she actually did a fair amount of one shots on a lot of tv series.
Not to mention the entirely nonsensical 'Queen Consort Camilla Parker-Bowles'. For pity's sake.
Yes, agree with you, this is so cringe. I think this because Netflix is not a British company so they have no idea about correct titles, like saying the Queen was Queen of England.
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Re * saying 'I didn't like feeling forced to be all looks' and that she was 'reduced to a bimbo': did anyone force her to do those jobs? Especially for someone who is supposed to be ' whip smart' and have a degree from a 'prestigious' university. She obviously had a boob job (pic in the red dress), was she also 'forced' to have bigger boobs? In any case, wasn't the podcast supposed to be about Paris Hilton? Or are all the podcasts an excuse for her to talk about her favourite subject, i.e. herself?
Elizabeth, Mary, Alexandra were simply `Queen' just as Adelaide, Caroline, Charlotte, another Caroline, several Catherines/Katherines, Henrietta-Maria, James I's Anne & HVIII's 2 Annes were before her, right back to a couple of Eleanors. (Geo I's queen Sophia doesn't feature - the marriage was dissolved and she was locked up in Germany).
I was a `W' too (still am, as I reverted to my maiden in preference to an earlier married one). The worst time was at school when the music mistress decided to go in reverse order for singing tests - now that was real humiliation.
'There were times when I was on set at Deal or No Deal and thinking back to my time working as an intern at the US Embassy in Argentina, Buenos Aires, and being in the motorcade with the secretary of treasury at the time and being valued specifically for my brain.'
LOL!
And, once again- look up the meaning of "archetypes" because you're using it wrong in every show and making yourself seem like... a bimbo!
King Charles has hired a constitutional law expert as his deputy private secretary as he prepares to slim down the monarchy.
Dr John Sorabji, a law lecturer at University College London (UCL) and a former barrister at Nine St John Street Chambers, has been recruited by Buckingham Palace to beef up the new monarch’s team.
He will play a supporting role to the King’s long-standing private secretary, Sir Clive Alderton, who has worked in the royal household since 2015.
A royal source described Dr Sorabji as a “good man” and “super smart”, saying he would be instrumental in “building and strengthening” the court of Charles III.
The appointment of such a learned law professor will lend weight to the theory that the King is not only planning to make the monarchy more cost effective, but also to increase the institution's transparency as he prepares for next year’s Coronation.
Dr Sorabji’s legal expertise will doubtless also prove useful when it comes to handling the publication of the Duke of Sussex’s forthcoming memoirs - and other potentially incendiary matters involving Harry and Meghan.
Described by his former chambers as an expert in data protection, constitutional and procedural law, Dr Sorabji was called to the bar in 2001 after graduating from Oxford, and gaining a masters of laws degree from UCL before returning to Oxford to complete his PhD.
Last year, he was instructed as the legal adviser to the Independent Human Rights Act Review.
Before that he was the senior lawyer advising the Lord Chief Justice, Master of the Rolls and other members of the senior judiciary on a wide range of legal and constitutional matters, including data protection and freedom of information.
He has also provided data protection advice to the judiciaries of Northern Ireland and Scotland.
Since 2012, Dr Sorabji has taught at UCL, where he runs undergraduate and postgraduate courses on civil justice and alternative dispute resolution. He has also taught regularly at the University of Paris-II, as a visiting professor.
It is thought he will continue lecturing but give up his chambers role, along with his appointment to the Independent Human Rights Act Review when he takes up his new role in the coming weeks.
LOL indeed.
I wonder if this was one of the times she was valued specifically for her brain.
https://youtube.com/shorts/1u1ppA88Flw?feature=share
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If there was ever even a few nanoseconds when someone was in danger of valuing Mugsy 'specifically for her brain', well . .she wasted no time stripping off to grill a burger video, simulate BJs on TV, writhing around on the set of the Craig Ferguson show and reminding everyone that she was a 'supermodel' in her scanties.
No one forced her to take the bimbo roles. If she'd been concerned about being valued for her intelligence, she didn't have to traipse down the cheesy and sleazy road she went down. Her father had given her the best schooling money could buy. If she didn't avail herself of it, that's her fault. Being a brain requires more unglamorous work than prancing around in lingerie and lipgloss (or less). She could have had that international diplomacy career IF she'd buckled down and studied and passed that exam. IF she'd actually worked hard to learn Spanish and been committed to her internships and all the opportunities she'd been given by her father and her uncle.
It's my understanding that the internship in Buenos Aires was to only last 3 weeks, but she lasted for 5 days before taking off with a married man to do whatever they did. Similar tales in Spain. Then she flunked the civil service examination and came back to L.A. to audition for 'skanky girl' parts on TV. Really coming full circle from high school, Rachel, what a waste.
Rachel seems to have a very childish idea of what it means to be a serious professional career woman . .she tries on personas like she's Career Barbie but never with any real commitment, investment in education/training or perseverance. She couldn't even sustain doing a lifestyle blog to anything really long term. She loses interest immediately after she gets her picture taken and published somewhere labeling her as a blogger/actress/diplomat/humanitarian. Then it's like done! Achieved that 'goal'.
Next she thinks she's going to waltz into a high level position in government and take Joe Biden's job. Hahahaha!
If a marker of IQ is an ability to learn from one's mistakes and grow and pivot to learning new skills, I'd say Rachel's congenital intelligence is very low. I wonder how much damage Doria did to her when she was pregnant and when her little brain was developing. I don't rule out the role of prenatal drug use in creating aberrant brain pathways in the fetus.
Thanks for the link. * said “That could pay my bills. I had income, I was part of the Union, I had health insurance, it was great." 'I was part of the union'? I thought she was 'such a fraud' when talk about being a member of the actors' union. She can't remember her own lies.
Dr John Sorabji, a law lecturer at University College London (UCL) and a former barrister at Nine St John Street Chambers, has been recruited by Buckingham Palace to beef up the new monarch’s team.
IOW he knows how to strip titles gracefully, and how to delay titles for years and look non-racist. Gracefully. H/M should take notice. He must know many subtle ways to keep H/M toeing the line.
https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2022/10/blind-item-5_18.html#disqus_thread
Claudia Jordan disputes Meghan Markle’s ‘Deal or No Deal’ ‘bimbo’ claims: It ‘never’ happened
https://nypost.com/2022/10/18/claudia-jordan-responds-to-meghan-markels-deal-or-no-deal-claims/
I think that the job she lied about being in the union had to get her a union card when they hired her so she probably kept that.
From my experience, 50 -60 years ago, when I was at university, it seemed to me that the biggest factor holding women back was the male perception that if women proved themselves capable in a male-dominated activity, the activity itself became devalued and so some men would fight tooth and nail to stop women from doing whatever it was.
A simple example - the Zoology lab technicians often issued me with faulty equipment, then implied that I was stupid if I couldn't make it work - eg microscopes with badly aligned prisms, microtomes where the ratchet was faulty, electronic equipment which picked up and broadcast the local taxi firm's communications across the lab, instead of measuring the speed of a nerve impulse.
In effect, women were only there on sufferance.
Quickie 🎤
Apologies: Jim Reeves
Bimbo
Mumbo Bimbo
Bimbo was a little tart
devoid of wit or friends
She’d trap her man
False teeth, fake tan
And polarize his lens
Her padded boobs and bum
stuck out
She could barely walk
or talk
With tongue poking out
her wide snide snout
The Toms began to roar…
Bimbo, Bimbo
On another rode e ho
Bimbo, Bimbo
Who’s up next for or e oh
Bimbo, Bimbo
Does your daddy know
His darling dealing Bean
Is Just a plain old ho e oh…
Archell has a fury
like a bimbo porned
What a low blow
Being forced on a show
To adopt the position
of a skanky Bimbho
Orally challenged
a job for a pro
Using her head
soho slow
Counting down
90210…
@Karla @Snarky 💜
@Observant One- thank you,
very much appreciated😊
@Maneki
Dealing with a noxious weed
try, try again 😜
@WildBoar
Was Hildisvini Wear(y) 🧐
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11329199/Harry-Meghans-Archewell-Foundation-builds-playground-Uvalde-4-months-mass-shooting.html
I must confess I'd never heard of Jim Reeves so I looked him up. I saw a list of his songs and thought some of their titles could inspire you. Uncanny, aren't they?
Yonder Comes A Sucker
He'll Have To Go
Writing's On The Wall
Wind-Up Doll, The
Making Believe
Highway to Nowhere, The
Where Do I Go from Here?
Am I That Easy to Forget?
How Long has it Been?
Is it Really Over?
'After the mass shooting at Robb School shocked the nation and the world, the Duchess of Sussex made an incredibly low-key visit to Uvalde where she laid flowers at the memorial site for the 22 victims.' Incredibly low key, yes, with a cameraman in tow.
Actually, twice, including once in the headline, the DM writes 'Archewell Foundation builds a playground in Uvalde'. No they didn't, elsewhere they write 'Archewell Foundation has joined forces with other charities'. Scooby Doo is quoted in the article, did he feed them this drivel?
A Dreck of Cards
Haz the insufferable joker
Turned his hand to
three stud poker
Laid his suit on the table
Enabled by cable
His pale poker face
turned her tricks into race
As his pack warned
never stroke her, or poke her…
From what I can gather
from google,
Liar is pronounced/same word
in Farsi as English.
Unfortunately I can’t
transliterate their beautiful
language into a meaningful
metaphor for megs t-shirt.
She likes to think she's Wise Woman ( may be not an old one but she may end up as Crone). We see her as Trickster.
BTW British attitudes to working woman have seen a complete shift within my lifetime. After the 2nd WW, women we removed from their wartime jobs, often in heavy industry (eg making locomotives at Swindon) and `sent back to the kitchen'. Even years later, some blokes resented women working and saw them as `taking men's jobs'; I and a colleague, as `Job Centre' clerks, had it thrown at us by a U/B claimant as he `signed on' - I managed not to say `My husband's been made redundant and can't get work and she's a lesbian' - and there's nothing to stop you applying for a job here'.
In the '50s and 60s, working women were condemned - accused of neglecting their children in favour being able to afford luxuries like TVs & washing machines' - `latch key kids' was the phrase.
Many men saw it as a slight if their wives wanted a job because it implied they were failing to earn enough (the average male wage was sufficient to support wife and 1 child; Child Allowance was paid only for 2 or more offspring). Nobody dreamt of accusing women who didn't go out to work of being `lazy'. Daughters and wives of rich men, without the need to seek paid employment, were envied.
We get our knickers in a twist in this, as in other areas, when we try to apply current thinking to situations in the past - judging past attitudes by those of today.
@Mel - that's interesting about pharmacists, tho' I'm not sure where you are. In England at any rate, pharmacists are taking on more roles hitherto restricted to doctors but it's difficult to work out if this is a good or bad thing from the patients viewpoint - our GP practice is panicking about its budget as an effect of pharmacies providing seasonal vaccinations, thereby depriving the GPs of the govt. payment.
Tough, say I.
Clever technology allows pharmacies to offer almost instant tests that would take an age to get with the GP - at a price of course - and another example of de-skilling.
Cinder
7 hours ago
She's so unaware of herself.
Living in an alternate world.
She's living her own television show.
She traded Suits for Fleece.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YJGANw3N48
She disgusts me.
Now using women from Iran.
They have no voice,
or choice.
Her wearing a Farsi inscribed
t-shirt doesn’t help anyone.
How time flies.
On Coronation Day, though, it was `Music while You Wait' played over the PA system along the route of the procession,
A gushing feature in and interview with her.
netflix. someone else is doing the documentary so it’s through their lens not “ours”. read dont blame us
overly glowy at the beginning but interview and photo shoot is not at the house
barely mentions the hubby
it’s mm not duchess of sussex. knows she’s losing title and is rebranding?
mentions kids but also alludes to potential titles but she would rather have them succeed as who they are. knows there will be no titles. setting it up in advance.
doesn’t discount them in entertainment industry. hmmm bet she takes the circus on the road for $. stage mom?
talks about tv in the 90s and how to create something where everyone can be part of it at the same time. yes she knows we think she’s stuck in the 1990s. aw. she does read the blog 😉
no wonder no cash rumors. they spent a wad on the pr and it’s mostly just about her.
glamour shots - bonus feature.
And, once again- look up the meaning of "archetypes" because you're using it wrong in every show and making yourself seem like... a bimbo!
The utter irony!
Totally unrelated to Mrs. Dollar, I've been listening to two YouTube creators who do know the meaning of the word "archetypes" and who have created thought-provoking content on feminine archetypes that is head and shoulders above anything * has recorded. She's out classed by amateurs making videos in their bedrooms!
I once worked in a factory with about 3000 men and 6 women. The men who were the nicest to me were the blue collar workers and the professional men were sexist, to put it succintly.
I also have many male friends who have PhD's and MDs and although they claim to like and value women, I see how they devalue them. For example, when something witty or clever is done, they always assume it was done by a male, and remember it as being done by the male in a couple, even though it was done by the female.
In Soviet Russia, being a physician was a highly valued profession until women became the majority, and then it was considered an easy degree to obtain and doctors were not so highly esteemed.
She implies more than once that she had a close and warm relationship with the late Queen. Nonsense, but dead people are an easy target, hence the endless Diana stories. Diana has William to defend her but the Queen has a large beloved and loyal family.
But, it seems she has learned a lesson and has a been a lot more restrained about bashing and threatening his family, other than saying that their relationship with his family is complicated. I bet it is with that couple!
Talk about a 180 turn from The Cut - I cannot stop laughing! The photo is almost the same except * is.....smiling and happy. The photos - she is smiling and happy. The article.....she is happy, plans to never act again (ROTHFL), and speaks like they are normal. And then there is the talk about the elephant in the room - all the while knowning that Charles is watching their actions.
So, keep drinks away from your computer while you read this - as you are likely to spit all over your keyboard......
Thinking back to Lady C's book on *, and reading between the lines, she as good as pointed out that illegitimate or adopted children cannot inherit titles and that the lack of titles indicates their irregular origin. Could the Harkles, in the first instance, have been informed of the position `...so don't even think of using C's Scottish title for Archie'?
* may have then made out that she had turned down the offer of a title - sour grapes, as Aesop might have said.
As you know, I'm convinced that what we were shown was an interim birth certificate for an adopted child. The Registrar signed it as she had no other option - she'd have been constrained by the Official Secrets Act. This prevents all Crown servants, and the Registrar General and those appointed by him/her, from breaking the confidentiality of their clients. Anyone in the know about such things would see immediately that it was perfectly lawful - the lack of the stamp announces that it is, however, the certificate for the birth of a child known as Archie Harrison M-W even if his parents weren't those named on the certificate.
Thus I believe that it was a fake pregnancy; a child of as-yet-unknown biological parentage was born by a surrogate and if he is playing the part of their child, he has been adopted and entitled to diddly-squat by way of a prince's coronet.
I am still laughing.
She is definitely flipped onto the charm cycle.
The video: DM had it on autoplay when I started reading it. I forgot that I have that site muted so I couldn't hear what she was saying but ... it is interesting to watch her: pose smile, pose, pose pose and smiling smiling smiling as if she would never have said a mean word about anyone - from Catherine to an unnamed aid over some detail of the wedding.
could you give us the name of these bloggers on youtube please? they sound interesting.
I always try to look at MM in the light of some personality disorder. Many say it is: narcissism. "Narcissistic personality disorder — one of several types of personality disorders — is a mental condition in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for excessive attention and admiration, troubled relationships, and a lack of empathy for others. But behind this mask of extreme confidence lies a fragile self-esteem that's vulnerable to the slightest criticism"
And on this issue, as the daughter of a narcissistic mother, my interest is not what she says, but why she is saying it. And following, my experience (unique and individual, because each one suffers in their own way) deduce that MM is lying. But about what? what purpose?
Taking his words as true is what annoys me the most, because the victims of these lunatics, when they go to tell their truths, have them always in doubt.
Note that Meghan appeared to distance herself from the Netflix docu-series set for release. Suggesting left-wing filmaker Gloria Steinem had taken the lead she said: 'It's nice to be able to trust someone with our story — a seasoned director whose work I've long admired — even if it means it may not be the way we would have told it;
...
I never thought I'd say this: but my feelings lead me to believe that Harry is getting tired of MM and she's desperately trying to create her solo brand.
Well, time will tell if I'm right or not!
...
Magatha, as always, amazing ❤️ I love you
And what are the 'wide-range of issues including 'misconceptions'' she's talking about? There are no misconceptions, we've seen the real *.
She really thinks we want to know all about her. We do, actually, but not that manufactured tripe!
@Ziggy
And, once again- look up the meaning of "archetypes" because you're using it wrong in every show and making yourself seem like... a bimbo!
The utter irony!
Totally unrelated to Mrs. Dollar, I've been listening to two YouTube creators who do know the meaning of the word "archetypes" and who have created thought-provoking content on feminine archetypes that is head and shoulders above anything * has recorded. She's out classed by amateurs making videos in their bedrooms!
I LOVE the amateur videos of people creating art, doing woodworking, building chicken palaces. I watch YouTube, Rumble, and Discord preferentially. Husband was complaining that there was *nothing* that he wanted to watch on Amazon and Netflix. Oh, well! I recommended that he turn on YouTube and watch My Mechanics rebuild something, and we spent an enjoyable hour watching various rusty pieces of junk being turned back into useful things of beauty.
1) prince louis said it first
2) since you all knew him and presumable H knew him longer would he have sad granddad, pops, phil, her prince. her husband sound like what we who have not met them would have said
love how she said she wasn’t going to act again. aw M we knew that there were no offers (well except probably from a few adult film sites 😉). love how she tries to spin it like it was her choice. guess that means BravoTv and Real Housewives franchise it out. such a shame. would have been fun
strange way to refer to them. once again trying tie up the loose out there. she reads everything.
this article is the gift that keeps on giving
The blue collar workers are devalued by the same people so they were probably saying "welcome to the club".
Gladly!
One is Everyday Starlet. Among her playlists, check out "Masculine and Feminine Energies in Film": https://www.youtube.com/c/Everydaystarlet/playlists
It's also a new direction for Whitney Hedrick. I think her look at three women from horror movies is appropriate for "spooky season" and also a thought-provoking lens with which to look back at our teenage years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsoW12EwGcA
And because we know that * likes dropping by once in a while, I'll be staying alert in case she plagiarizes anything from these two creators!
love how she said she wasn’t going to act again. aw M we knew that there were no offers
No offers that she thought were good enough for her.
I recall that Tara Reid was totally willing to cast * in a movie that she was producing: https://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/tara-reid-wants-meghan-markle-to-star-in-her-movie-mashas-mushroom/
We can well imagine that this was nowhere near the kind of production * thought would be worth her time. An unknown director and no A-listers in the cast at all, although Beverly D'Angelo, Vivica A. Fox and Reid herself have been in some big hits in their time.
Does she think all this makes her/them more relatable? We never go to a drive-thru.
the interview and photo shoot were not at her house. so wasn’t it available to rent. there had been rumors she spends a lot of time at that ranch. perhaps it’s where her land-based yachting occurs 😉
As you know, I'm convinced that what we were shown was an interim birth certificate for an adopted child. The Registrar signed it as she had no other option - she'd have been constrained by the Official Secrets Act. This prevents all Crown servants, and the Registrar General and those appointed by him/her, from breaking the confidentiality of their clients. Anyone in the know about such things would see immediately that it was perfectly lawful - the lack of the stamp announces that it is, however, the certificate for the birth of a child known as Archie Harrison M-W even if his parents weren't those named on the certificate.
Thus I believe that it was a fake pregnancy; a child of as-yet-unknown biological parentage was born by a surrogate and if he is playing the part of their child, he has been adopted and entitled to diddly-squat by way of a prince's coronet.
I believe that the family (including Harry and +1) `knew that Prince Philip was extremely ill when the Mentally Ill Duo decamped to Canada and then America. Whether it was because they thought they could become Richer and More Famous or because they were sent to time out over "Archie", I have no idea. The family also had to know that the Queen was declining fast. We aren't close family but watched with alarm concerning her increasing frailty.
I can understand why they didn't want to have a huge controversy to mar the last days of beloved family members if Archie and Lili are either adopted or imaginary. However, KCIII is going to have to address it. I'd like to know your opinion on whether you think that it will hurt him with the citizens of the UK if they are exposed for the mentally-ill frauds that (I think) they are? Will people sympathize with how carefully he may have had to handle mentally-ill family members who are likely issuing threats left and right about self-harm and throwing allegations at his entire family? Will they blame him for not exposing their fraud immediately? Do you have an opinion on whether the royal family even know whether or not there are actual children?
Apart from that, words fail
Now Megs, whose privacy is so precious, tells us she and H love going to the drive-thru and that staff know their order (they must be regular). He's favourite is the In-N-Out. Hmm... I think she should have refrained from mentioning that!
Does she think all this makes her/them more relatable? We never go to a drive-thru.
Hunh. The turnover in restaurant help (particularly fast food) is so high that, unless they're picking up the same order three times a day seven days a week, I don't think anybody would know their order. I would also think that rather than pick it up themselves (because they are so busy and important) that the order would be delivered by food delivery company of their choice.
Has she posted them back to H?
I'd be willing to bet my pension that going to the drive-thru for some In-and-Out is another of their little crocodile waffle-making hydration insider jokes they so love to use as insider shorthand/advertising to those in the know exactly what kind of lifestyle they are into.
Harry may love a good In-and-Out, but neither of this couple would condescend to go through the drive-thru themselves. That's what security flunkies are for. But ask me if I think that Humpty & Numpty are members in some exclusive hush-hush Eyes Wide Shut sort of underground BDSM club and I'll say yes.
When they were back in Canada, there was a widely circulated (pap, natch) photo of Harry on the street carrying a bag of Subway food. The guy that needs 20 million dollars worth of annual RPO protection because he's so important just strolled over to his local Subway for some sandwiches by himself. Sure.
Anyone interested in English history might like to look at an article in today's Church Times at
https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2022/14-october/faith/faith-features/deeds-as-well-as-words?utm_campaign=Church%20Times%20RSS%20Daily%20bulletin%202.0&utm_source=emailC
It's about the great Dr.Johnson and Francis Barber, a Jamaican 10 yr old who was technically a slave who lived with Dr J and was highly valued, and treated very well, by him. When his owner eventually died, Barber became legally free and finally was Johnson's sole beneficiary. The illustration of an oil sketch by Reynolds has long been said to be of Barber. He was a great favourite of the local ladies (!) and my mother's forebears were living in the right place at the right time, he has the same wide cheeks and long neck of my mother's sister - so who knows?
Barber's father was probably his owner. He was one of those descendants of Edward III so there are still those today descended from Edward III via a Jamaican slave. Now there's a thought...
PS don't be put off by having to sign up to read the article.
could you give us the name of these bloggers on youtube please? they sound interesting.
Google appears to have eaten my comment. Just in case it didn't go through because of the links, I'll try sending a comment without them.
The two content creators are Everyday Starlet and Whitney Hedrick.
For Everyday Starlet, go to her playlist "Masculine & Feminine Energies in Film". There are many videos there.
Feminine archetypes are a new direction for Whitney Hedrick, so she only has a couple of videos on that topic at the moment. Her newest one on the dark feminine archetype in horror movies is pretty interesting.
I would think that the RF do know that the children weren't born in the usual way and are as likely to be unrelated, or only half-related, to those now their legal parents, as they are to be 100% their offspring. It may only have been whispered behind closed doors so far.
The appointment of a constitutional lawyer to the King's staff suggests to me that the King knows he needs advice from a legal crackshot to deal with the Harkles' outrage should/when they be/are told the children don't qualify for titles.
Is `In-N-Out' another double-entendre from the Urban Dictionary?
Oh Lord, it is...
Terrible photos, that green tarpaulin thing and that blue backdrop…don’t get me started on her odd and manic facial expressions…she looks (barking) mad. 🫣🫢
The DM is full of Maggot stuff…..🤢
discussed *’s bimbo podcast. Buck Sexton, a former CIA analyst had the final word, saying “This woman has no gratitude for anything.” Not an original or uncommon insight into * but it gladdened my heart to hear someone with real gravitas say it to a national audience.