At last, the coronation.
How are you celebrating? food? drink? dress up? tiara?
Whilst we celebrate, take a look at a nice history of the all the earlier Kings and Queens. It ends while Her Majesty was still alive. And for all the UK citizens, please note that they do have a mistake or two but note the correction in the description. For the rest of us, sometimes it is nice to see the origins of something as we don't always have a good overall vision of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evArztIZpYw
Probably not mentioned by the talking heads is the history of the Abbey. It began on what was then called Thorney Island (marsh area where the Thames and Tyburn met) as Benedictine monastery (960 something).
More likely they will be talking about how there will be females singing in the choir. And, that there is a distinct attempt to connect with all the different groups of people who make up the kingdom of today.
More likely they will be talking about how there will be females singing in the choir. And, that there is a distinct attempt to connect with all the different groups of people who make up the kingdom of today.
The new era has begun with lots of changes. May the new King live long and have peace in the land. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZGRxn9eCxU
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We are now in a situation where a black or gay character is not expected to be played, by a white or straight one in any medium (same goes for disabled or Jewish characters). I doubt that there will be any insistence on the reverse.
Of course, you go hiking dripping with expensive jewellery... I thought * was wearing her wedding ring and I checked, she definitely was. The rest was totally unnecessary and didn't go with the sporty look.
https://images.app.goo.gl/pmKMgLj2WSbfYn6J6
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@Magatha
Yes, that Bridgerton actress. That was outrageous. She has further compounded her stupidity (won't say more). And Lady Susan Hussey was made to apologise and then resign.
I agree with both of you re Bridgerton. We didn't match it, some of these productions are too 'woke' these days. Adjoa Andoh has not done herself any favours, especially after today.
Of course, we never see his resting face because he's usually smiling and enjoying himself in the photos so perhaps on Saturday we saw the serious side of him in an intensely serious situatio. I feared for him, he seemed so frail and vulnerable.
The ongoing stress generated by the Sussexes must be taking a toll on them - I'm surprised that the Princess of Wales manages to eat anything at all.
BTW, how do they address *, ``with her title', given that she isn't supposed to use the HRH? Normally, she'd be addressed as `Your Royal Highness'. Do they say, `Good Morning Duchess of Sussex'? `Hi, Duchess,' or what? `Your Duchesship'? Harry would be called `Sussex' to his face by his `equals' if he weren't a Royal Duke, `Your Grace' by lesser mortals.
Whatever it is, it's bound to be wrong by British etiquette and I bet it gets up American noses.
New Palace confidential. I have not watched it yet.
We have to remember that only a minority of people are paying much attention to any of them.
She hasn't eaten since 2009.
new DOCUMENTARY of Netflix that tells the true story of Cleopatra. She was black!
Never mind that she was member of a greek (macedonian) family and they had married their siblings during 10 generations. She was black!
BTW, how do they address *, ``with her title', given that she isn't supposed to use the HRH?
@WBBM: I suggest (with apologies to the late, great musician Prince) they address her as The Narcissist Formerly Known As Duchess.
Apologies for the typo in you name (previous post).
Re addressing *, it's normally 'Your Grace' for a duke/duchess. Maybe she's trained her staff to use that??
"For [other] female members of the Royal Family the first address is conventionally 'Your Royal Highness' and subsequently 'Ma'am'." I think 'Ma'am' is probably too lowly for her. (www.royal.uk)
her ducal title but addressed as such? No.
I reckon she'd be livid were she addressed by the only title she can legitimately claim - Mrs Mountbatten Windsor. How about `Hi, Dookess!'
To British ears, she has just made herself even more ridiculous.
As far as H&M, their PR is a joke. Their actions only reinforce the South Park characterizations. I believe the rumors that WME signed on ILBW because she has a tell-all book coming out. This book will backfire spectacularly like Sparry’s and she will be sued for libel. 😃 A narcissist ALWAYS has to have the last word so she will burn more bridges to the BRF. Harry will always return to the UK alone. The children will never know the RF, the Markles nor the Raglands.
Question: KC hired a Constitutional lawyer and I wonder why. Do you think KC will publish new letters patent regarding the LoS and that only Royal British citizens can be included? Any other ideas?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11916275/How-Prince-William-Harrys-feud-echoes-splits-King-George-VI-Edward-VIII.html
The King should pay her NOTHING! It should all come from Harry, because his greedy spendthrift wife has already bled him dry & there's nothing left!
https://twitter.com/lady_doi/status/1656820265274445826
have you noticed that Catherine is thin in the torso and hips, but her arms and legs don't appear to be too thin? they don't appear to be excessively muscular either, just well tones and a normal size. I wonder how she manages that.
$50m? She'll run through that in 2 years, maximum.
Rumor had it that the Crown offered Madam twice that amount to not go through with the wedding. The reason everything looked so ratchety on the day--dress that didn't fit, attendant children improperly dressed . . no aisle runner, lopsided cake, etc. was because in patented fashion, she refused to give an answer and kept the Palace dangling until the last possible minute. First said she'd take the money and then did an about-face with just weeks to go. Meanwhile, BP had quietly rung round to every wedding vendor within 100 miles and encouraged them to all be unfortunately unavailable for Hazbeen and Merchle's travesty of a wedding. Having built up relationships with the Palace over years and desirous of more Royal business in the future, everyone obliged.
Never ever give in to an extortionist because they will never be satisfied and will always come back for more. The RF gave into two extortionists, one an outside agitator and one from inside their own ranks and they will be ruing that day for a generation to come. At least.
Diana didn't even get half that amount in her divorce settlement, if memory serves. And she'd been married for 15 years and provided 2 heirs to the Crown. Now that we know what we know, it'd have been for the best if Charles and Diana had had a single chick and stopped there. Harry was such a cute toddler. It's tragic. No doubt Charles has memories of better times with his constantly problematic second-born and sentimentality is making it difficult to be ruthless. But he needs to cut out the rotten branch without pity. Not a single farthing, Your Majesty. If it comes to a divorce, ILBW is going to resort to some filthy Amber Heard-style tactics to make Hawwy seem like the abusive, erratic unfaithful one that made her fear for her life and that of 'the children'. Unfortunately for Hawwy, he's gone on the record enough about his drug use and his temper that she's got cause and probably has got ample evidence of any infidelities he's engaged in with other women . .or men, or underage minors or animals . .who knows what she's got. Her own colorful file of misbehaviors won't entirely protect him if Hawwy has done the same things and she's got proof.
On US Jeopardy! tonight, in the category Grandmas, the name of the woman given ended in Ragland, and none of the contestants came up with Meghan Markle! I hope she still watches it.
Watching Jeopardy was likely another of Merchle's fantastical brags about stuff she pretends to do/be when she's never done anything of the kind. She might have caught Jeopardy a few times when she was off sick from school. Well, by and large, the people that survive the audition process to appear in studio on Jeopardy! are bona fide 'Whip Smart' people . .and it's one of the very few, maybe the only--show on television that can actually make you smarter by watching it. If Merchle Ragland had actually spent years watching Jeopardy as hosted by the late, great Alex Trebek, she wouldn't be so woefully, transparently ignorant about the British Royal family or world geography, to name just two subjects they routinely cover.
There's a scene in the Julia Roberts movie Dying Young where the characters have some banter over Jeopardy questions when it comes on the TV. Victor (Campbell Scott), a brilliant young man who spent a lot of his youth bedridden with leukemia has watched thousands of hours of Jeopardy! and can provide answers like "What is a troika?" Meanwhile his two low-brow companions played by Julia and Vincent D'Onfrio don't have a clue about world history or culture but they know "To the moon, Alice!" What do you want to bet that Merchle's Jeopardy fib is part and parcel of her Julia Roberts cosplay, like when she renacts 'Vivian Shops on Rodeo Drive and then Goes to the Polo' in 'Pretty Woman'. PW is, of course the tarnished Cinderella tale about a young woman from a less-privileged background who discovers that the best way for a girl without family money to get treated to luxury sportcars and diamonds and suites at top hotels is to have sex with rich guys for money. The unvarnished truth is that Hawwy forced his family to accept is by-the-hour playmate as his wife and make her a Royal Duchess. As to what sort of pressure was place on Hawwy to get him to extort his grandmother the Queen and his father with these demands we can only guess at but it's been our pastime here for the last 5 years.
If Merchle had, even with her tawdry background, decided to settle into her new role and really made an effort to project at least a patina of class and deportment, I wouldn't have the problem with her that I do. But she didn't even try and remains a guttersnipe through and through, as the late Queen sussed about her.
My first thought to nobody's guessing Doria as a grandmother was . . Well, that's because she's NOT one.
Wasn't it rumoured that ERII was budgeting £37m to cover divorce settlement and this was offered to her at the very start to persuade her to change her mind about marrying H. It wasn't nearly enough - I read she turned her nose up at £50m. Allgedly.
Gosh no, I hope Charles doesn't give * a penny, she's taken enough money from him and the British taxpayer.
If she were really to get any alimony there should be ironclad conditions attached such as NDAs. She deserves nothing.
We know she deserves nothing but in her mind, she's entitled to the world.
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Man oh man. A lot of water has gone under the bridge since then.
and yes, I read the excerpt from Brothers at War this morning in the DM. How sad that HMTQ had to see this and deal with it twice in her lifetime. One would this the lesson of The Duke of Windsor would have drilled into the minds of every Windsor child born of the Line.
I find that patterns and scenarios keep repeating in families as time goes by.
I remember some self-help books talking about that. I think it was Harriet Lerner in her book "The Dance of Anger" but I could be wrong about that.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12078563/J-R-Moehringers-7-000-word-whinge-suggests-Harrys-ghostwriter-skinned-prince.html
Here are some key paragraphs:
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The Queen did not consign the Duke and Duchess of Windsor to a remote grave in the Frogmore burial ground; nor does Frogmore have a 'mini-skyline of crypts and monuments', as he claims — the headstones lie flat.
Harry is not descended from Henry VI, the founder of Eton College, because the King's only son died childless.
There were other historical bloomers: Queen Victoria was not 'shot at eight times'. She was shot at three times.
Queen Elizabeth's corgis were not descended from corgis that belonged to Victoria. While Victoria had 100 dogs of 28 different breeds, none of them was a corgi.
The Royal Family did not get out of the car on the way back from Crathie kirk on the Sunday morning that Diana died to look at flowers — that actually happened four days later.
Nor was Harry at school when the Queen Mother passed away in 2002. She died during the Easter holidays and he, Prince William and their father were skiing at the time in Klosters, Switzerland.
The Queen was not at the Golden Jubilee Palace pop concert in 2002 when Brian May played at the beginning. She arrived just before the end. Nor did she go to the Windsor Guildhall for Charles and Camilla's civil wedding ceremony in 2005, but she was at the service of blessing in St George's Chapel — a significant point which was ignored by Harry — and she hosted the reception.
These may be minor issues but they raise questions about the veracity of more serious points. In describing media accounts of Meghan's first engagement with the Queen, Harry says the Press reported it as an 'unmitigated disaster'. Even the most cursory glance at the reports at the time show the opposite.
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Prince Harry and other celebrity claimants are a "long way off" proving Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) unlawfully gathered information on them, the publisher has told a court.
Harry is among high-profile figures accusing MGN of various illicit practices including phone hacking.
Andrew Green KC, representing MGN, said the evidence was "slim" in some areas and "utterly non-existent" in others.
He spoke on day three of a highly anticipated hearing at the High Court.
MGN, which publishes the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People newspapers, vehemently denies the allegations.
During Friday's proceedings, Mr Green said the claims had been made with "no basis" and "a sense of outrage".
"The evidence in this case is slim in relation to one of the claimants and utterly non-existent for the other three", he told the court.
He also took aim at the newspaper articles that had been submitted as evidence, saying they offered a "breathtaking level of triviality".
Some 207 stories, published between 1991 and 2011, make up the bulk of the case's evidence. More than 60% of them are about Harry, Duke of Sussex.
As well as intercepting voicemails, the claimants have accused the publisher of using private investigators to illegally gather details about them to write stories.
David Sherborne, the lawyer representing the claimants, told the court that the board knew about the hacking and covered it up.
In response, MGN said the claimants were "smearing" executives, adding that there had been "extreme allegations of dishonesty".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65570185
Excerpt:
'The line between memory and fact is blurry, between interpretation and fact,' he wrote.
For good measure, Moehringer shared a quote from Harry himself: 'My memory is my memory, it does what it does, gathers and curates what it sees fit, and there's just as much truth in what I remember and how I remember it as there is in so-called objective facts.'
But there was no attempt to address the mistakes and, amid all the bile Harry poured over the Royal Family, the blunders went unchallenged.
I have zero interest in that book but was wondering about the headline. Apologies if Moehringer's lapses of memories have been mentioned before. Hawwy's ones, we know. If he had any integrity, Moehringer wouldn't have written the book.
In the DM and Reddit.
https://tinyurl.com/yxybm6aa
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/13fy62t/j_r_moehringers_7000word_whinge_suggests_harrys/
Why do all her relationships come across as so transactional? It is the fashion in today's world of social media and self-promotion as a way to become very wealthy (influencers and bloggers). But she is a duchess, married to the son of the King of GB. Show some class for heaven's sake.
By the way, this campaign was launched late April, supposedly, so she is going through her contacts drumming up publicity for Mother's Day and generally looking for the attention she craves. In other words, these are old photos that she is using strategically, through someone else.
IMO the narrative in the above article is realistic and accurate (about how the King views the duo ... beloved but best kept at a distance). The narrative of Charles wanting the duo back in the fold and reconciliation and so on is part of their strategy for this year to become very wealthy and beloved by all. Whatever they have on their 'goals board' is not aligned with reality. And I do wish that people like Camilla Tominey would stop pushing this narrative. Look at what they have said and done, judge their character from that, and then realistically consider if they can ever be trusted.
The next BRF occasion when they may be invited? It will be probably be a funeral. The Duke of Kent or Princess Alexandra are the most likely because of their age. But, sometimes tragedy strikes and someone younger gets taken first.
https://twitter.com/barristerlawusa/status/1657140803452514305
The happy couple go out for sushi.
This is the TMZ article.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/13gymcq/lady_colin_campbell_may_13_2023_video/
2:40 Lady Campbell has said in (at least one) previous video that she has a friend who is a “top accountant”. From this source: Harry’s visit [at the coronation] was as short as it was for tax reasons. (Refer to the rules of the UK’s statutory residence test in the Finance Act of 2013) Harry can’t return to live in the UK until April 6, 2026 at the earliest.
20:35 Lady Campbell understands from people who know Chelsea Davy “very well” that the longer she was with Harry and the more she got to know him, she didn’t want a life with him. Yes it was going to be a royal life because Harry was a royal but Harry doesn’t get it. No one wants to admit that they are the problem. Harry himself has admitted he suffered huge bouts of depression and paranoia because he felt he couldn’t trust anyone.
27:48 Yorkshire Gal says: The truth needs to come out. Harold didn’t go to Archie’s “party” – he went straight on to San Francisco then went to a polo match the next day in Santa Barbara. She believes Harry and his wife are separated and get together only for business reasons.
28:09 Lady C responds: she’s read this comment out because this is the story that’s making the rounds. She claims she was the first person to say she was getting reports they were in effect separated. The long this goes on, the shorter the odds that the marriage lasts.
She really has unattractive legs and feet, yet doesn't seem to understand that.
The pregnancy rumours exist because of that square object under her shirt in the hiking pics?
Such a strange couple.
so all we have is a pap pic of someone showing off her legs. no pic of the queen bee and her strangely absent children? where are the little prince and princess. archie making banana bread for mum while lilibucks does a pap walk to merch her baby gab outfit? what about the birthday. no pics? barely a mention. but we will get a whole lot with two yes two award ceremonies for that global humanitarian. in the meantime Princess of Wales playing piano in a magnificent dress for Eurovision. (which by the way has strangely gathered traction out here. know of several people that had watch parties). still failing in Montecito
A lovely story of Charles and Louis at the corination rehearsals. The Monte ito duo are depriving their children of many memories of a lovong relationship with a grandfather, and all the opportunities to learn what being royal actually means.
https://twitter.com/Nessie13Nessie/status/1657658244922494981
Today is/was more about missing a "holiday" which fits one of her niches that got me thinking. So often we do not miss something which isn't there to remind us it should be.
Like most won't notice that the Visa bill didn't arrive one month. It didn't arrive so it wasn't there to "remind" someone that it still needs to be paid even though it was not there to "cue" the writing of the check.
So, with her, she's been all about being the mummy (A's birthday was proof of devotion to the kids most recently) so ... why pass up another photo op of the kids, their art work or their attempts to make her breakfast or give her flowers from the garden? Those are tailor made for connecting with the mums.
Make sense?
Filled with sarcasm, this article compares the waning star of TBW with the rising star of Catherine. In the last paragraph, the writer suggests the possibility of a successful rebrand this weekend when, with appendage husband attached or trailing behind her, she jets into New York to accept another award. A successful rebrand would require a radical personality and mind transplant, IMO. She can put on an act that fools the tabloids and media, as we have seen before, but it is just an act. Fun and games await us!
This post is about the number of public engagements done by working royals over the last decade. I disagree with the conclusions. I think she did far too many engagements, because she wanted to 'hit the ground running'. That was a huge mistake (very expensive for the British taxpayer and the BRF), and was due to her arrogance and compulsive desire to control and dominate and get attention.
She should have taken it slow and taken the time to learn about British culture and history and traditions, and about the BRF, and about performing a public role. I do agree with the poster that in time, with 4 of the working royals aging, the duo would have had an important support role to play.
However, in the long run, her abject failure may be a good thing for the BRF. Working royals should not be judged by the number of public engagements, although these are important, or popularity (which shifts), because we have the Internet, which reaches far more people, and it is work like the Prince's Trust that really makes a difference. William and Catherine are really embracing social media and videos to connect with people, and I hope to see that have more focus on the people and their needs and struggles and the people and organizations that try to make a difference.
Prince Harry's excitement at returning to his home in Montecito for his son Archie's fourth birthday just hours after his father's coronation ceremony on May 6 has been short-lived, as friends say "a sense of gloom" has descended upon the Sussex household.
After witnessing the emotional coronation of King Charles III, the 38-year-old prince has been plagued with pages and pages of triumphant post-coronation coverage – the parties, the speeches, the family dinners and photos of his most beloved people in the world. And his inner circle says Harry isn't just suffering from post-coronation blues. "He's really struggling with this," says a close friend.
"He's been stewing for days now on what he missed out on, and as lovely as it was to tuck a half-asleep Archie in that night, he has painful regrets on his decision to leave the celebrations so quickly. This was a momentous historic occasion that the family have been training for their whole lives, including Harry, and he still can't believe his role in it was nothing but the absolute bare minimum. There's no doubt it's been a bit of a hard pill to swallow."
According to insiders, the hardest part for Harry, apart from being completely left out, was watching his brother Prince William, 40, take centrestage in his father's world.
"Originally Harry felt he was being a good dad by racing back for Archie, but now, with hindsight, he's realising he could've given Archie the most unforgettable birthday of his life by allowing him to ride in a carriage behind his Grandpa King!" a friend tells.
"Harry's reassessing his whole life right now and knows there's a great opportunity awaiting them back in the UK but instead they're battling and trying to make it on their own," says the insider, acknowledging his inner turmoil.
"Nothing makes sense to him any more, and being estranged from both families isn't helping. He's considering going to the King and asking him if there's a way back, but there's no guessing whether Charles would even consider it at this stage."
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https://archive.ph/2023.05.15-061031/https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/prince-harry-3-questions-ask-royal-family-next-u-k-return-expert-says.html/
Here are the questions:
* But where’s he going to stay? (Nicholl suggests that they be given another royal residence.)
* I think it’s really a case of do they want to come back? (IMO, he does and she doesn't, and she will keep the children in America.)
* Do they feel that they’re going to be made welcome? (Here is where Nicholl suggests that the royal family essentially bend the knee to the duo.)
Here are my answers for Katie:
* Try a hotel.
* Hazbeen, grow a pair and return regularly, with your children. For a start, spend a couple of weeks with the children at Balmoral this summer, if you can be trusted to behave yourself and not gather information for the next attack.
* Without a radical personality transplant, the duo are not to be trusted and unpleasant to have around.
"However, Page Six is told that they weren’t actually solo. We’re told they dined with Gwyneth Paltrow and her husband, TV producer, Brad Falchuk. The foursome was also accompanied by Cameron Diaz and her husband, Benji Madden, as well as the CEO and founder of Bumble, Whitney Wolf Herd, and her husband, Texas oil heir Michael Herd."
https://pagesix.com/2023/05/14/prince-harry-meghan-markle-seen-for-1st-time-since-coronation/
the reason for the quick return to Montecito was for tax reasons. Lady C explained this in a video a few days ago. Harold is only allowed to spend 24 hours at a time in the UK.
This is how we know they the Douchess has low intelligence—!she was made a Royal, a member of the world’s most famous family—an unimaginable opportunity to transcend two bit game shows and cable soaps and make history. As a member of that family she had achieved iconic first name only status. Right up there with Madonna and Beyoncé. But she tossed that away in favor of hustling for free clothes and hiring paps to create the illusion that she’s got celebrity pals. That she’s a In Girl. It’s so 2014. What squandered opportunity. But absolute control over the pathetic minutiae of her fabricated life was more important than living the dream of being a real-life princess. She’s a miserable excuse for a human being and so’s he.
why were there no photos of all couples leaving the sushi restaurant together then?
Royal fans think ‘cringe’ Kate Middleton faked playing piano for Eurovision
I did not realize it, because they are so lowkey, but in the pap shots of them walking up to the restaurant, the couple standing there are Cameron Diaz and her husband. What is going on? The possibilities are endless. But, surely if they were dining with all these celebs, Cameron and her husband, who seemed to be waiting outside the restaurant, would have greeted the duo? No pics of that. And no pics of Gwyneth or other celebs going into or leaving the restaurant.
Is it possible that TBW only realized afterwards that in the pap shots of her and handbag, Cameron and her husband were accidentally in the pics but not identified? So, she then briefed the media and put out this fabulous get together with A-listers?
All we need now is for Gwyneth and Brad and the other couple to deny they were at the restaurant, and Cameron to claim that she has never met or spoken to the duo!
The article in Hello magazine says that the following is their IG account, but it is a fanpage. A stupid error or something odd? Is she back on social media pretending to be a fan?
https://www.instagram.com/archewell_sussex_/
I'm on that bandwagon with ya, sister.
People who do not follow the Sussexes or the Royal family with the dedicated interest we have here don't have sufficient reason to question the narrative that the expat Royal and his American wife have got two kids. To such folks, to suggest that there could be an elaborate charade/con in play whereby said famous people are only *pretending* to have two children, for monetization purposes, going so far as to wear a succession of 'pregnancy belly costumes' and give numerous interviews and photo ops ostentatiously showing off 'the baby bump' and taking about a phantom gestation and now, possibly phantom children . . well, it sounds like anybody who'd think this is a prime candidate for the loony bin . .or Mars.
But WE know who belongs in the loony bin, and it's not observers who question the extraordinary, fantastical ABNORMAL exploits of Rachel's uterus and her subsequent 'motherhood saga'.
This past Mother's Day weekend is a case in point. After creating an international incident in the media over how Harry's insensitive racist family, who'd denied his purported biracial children whom they had never met titles, and HOW DARE the sovereign of the United Kingdom schedule a Coronation on ARCHIE'S BIRTHDAY rather than shifting it as the former event having so much more significance to the world in weightiness and reach than the piddling crowning of a King--after bleating on about what great and devoted parents they are to these two figments and with Rachel glomming onto mothers of dead children to show how very deeply AS A MOTHER she feels their pain (as long as the pretense of feeling is going to enrich the coffers of Archewell in some capacity) . .
After all of this, what do they do? Hazza bypasses home altogether to go 'play polo' or whatever he's REALLY doing in San Francisco, one of America's queerest cities and then the couple convenes at a swanky sushi eatery for an adults-only dinner where some other L.A. glitterati may or may not also have been dining at the same time, if not the same table.
Where's all the wholesome family fun, Rach & Harry? Shouldn't 'Mother's Day' feature, you know . . your kids? Because you keep telling us how you can't live without 'em, but we NEVER see any little people in your vicinity unless a Netflix crew is there. So--You can pimp your kids out to Netflix but a family snap in Women's Day magazine is out of the question? You keep recycling the pic of Baby Archie in South Africa, which is now almost 4 years old and the kid's changed a lot since then . . .hasn't he? And where's his little sister, Invisibet? We've not seen a whisker of her since 'her first birthday' last year.
I just can't wait for the 2nd Birthday party in which Beyonce is going to ride in on a unicorn to present Invisibet's mother with the MOMMY of the MILLENNIUM award and Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom will make ice cream sculptures for the guests while Misan Harriman captures it all.
SMH.
"You are likely to be treated as UK tax resident under the SRT if you: spend 183 days or more in the UK during a tax year; or. have a home in the UK, and do not have a home overseas; or. work full-time in the UK over a period of 365 days (this does not need to coincide with the tax year)."
Those are the general rules, and no way has hapless come anywhere close to 183 days in a year in the UK since he bolted with his wife, he does have a home overseas, and does not return to the UK to 'work'. If he is now merching for Dior, then his tax liabilities have become more complicated?
From the government website, a definition of domicile:
"Your domicile’s usually the country your father considered his permanent home when you were born. It may have changed if you moved abroad and you do not intend to return."
And some more information in the following:
"You can visit the UK without becoming resident again - depending on why you visit and how long you visit for.
If you work full-time abroad, you can usually visit the UK for up to 90 days - as long as you work no more than 30 of these days."
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I bet his residency and domicile status are complicated and it is possible that he fled without getting appropriate advice. Surely he must have engaged a lawyer to sort this all out for him? And how does losing FC affect his status in the UK and as CoS? But, he did not rush back to TBW because of tax implications, no matter what his residency status is in the UK.
If having dinne "with" means passing behind and being ignored by Cameron and Benji, then yeah 🤣🤣🤣 Lokk at Cameron, low key, no bodyguards and the grifter... #MeghanMarkIeisaLiar #MeghanMarkleIsAGrifter #MeghanMarkleGlobalLaughingstock
a discussion of Omid Scobie's claims that he doesn't hang out with the Sux Its socially
Scobie lied for them before in a court in the UK and got away with it. Is his luck going to run out this time?
The following discussion is based on a comment by Dan Wootton pointing out that he claimed in Finding Freedom that he chatted to hapless at a small drinks reception.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/13ihle3/dan_wootten_called_scobie_out_on_twitter_glad_to/
https://twitter.com/Van7212/status/1658253343507070977
Miso en scene
She sashimied
wig skewered, yakitori
Ramen around for unagi
Haz not too soba
tempura e’n’damame
The staff being saki
asked u the fuk ‘ushi
And *tofu home alone cried
where is umami…
*Soy Beans 😉
Fergie now has her own podcast. I know she is immensely popular, but I think she is just as much as an attention-seeker, grifter and spender as the duo (plus is not discreet and really uses her royal connections). The main difference is that she is not inherently nasty and spiteful. As for telling porkies ... I suspect she does embellish a lot but as far as I know she has never been caught out outright telling lies.
An interesting post pointing out the complete inaccuracies in Camilla Long's article. She has an impeccable reputation, has she not? So what happened with this article?
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Am I imagining it or are Beatrice and heavily pregnant Eugenie doing a lot of public appearances with the causes and charities they support? I must admit that I am suspicious of Eugenie because of the way she treated Catherine and her close ties with the dastardly duo, but I suspect she is a supporter of the King and the Firm at heart. Perhaps it is not a bad idea for the King to consider taking the two York sisters on as working royals. They know the ropes and know how to act in public and with the media, so they have a huge advantage over any married-ins of the future, and could be mentors for such married-ins.
So, they are back to doing faux royal engagements ... and really seem to believe that the youth are their target market.
Re Mole’s quick and short stays to the UK
According to Lady C’s Account (source), Mole can only stay in the UK up to 16 days per year for tax reasons. How he’s going to navigate this with his court case is going to be challenging. She says she has no idea why the pair aren’t just honest with the reasons. 😯
@Sandie
I am not a supporter of
Fergie, her daughters
or husband.
God Save the King
I checked the government regulations and what Lady C says is not true at all, in that it does not align with the law. I posted the relevant bits. Since bolting, he has spent far less time in the UK per tax year than he can without incurring a hefty, or any, tax bill in the UK.
What is interesting in what I posted is that now that he has lost FC it is not clear cut that he can claim domicile in the UK (but he probably can because his father is King and he did live there until his mud-30s. However, he is clearly a resident in the States. He does not have a tax liability in the UK unless he spends a lot more time there (roughly about half the year). He can even work in the UK for far more days than he spends there per tax year, and not be liable for tax in the UK.
What Lady C said in her video, and I have checked, does not align with tax regulations in the UK. She sometimes makes huge factual errors in what she says, so don't simply accept everything she says as fact. She does seem to be connected to a lot of 'high society' gossip about the duo, and that is where you can find some nuggets.
IMO he bolted from the coronation because it was too uncomfortable for him to spend time with his family, at events where he had no role to play, where his closest family were the centre of attention and he was left out. He ran back to where and whom he feels comfortable with ... wifey in Montecito. It is probably the only place and 'family' where he feels he belongs. He is the ultimate hostage of a determined and full-blown malignant narc, but he would have to find the courage himself to break free. I have no doubt that his family would find him a bolt hole on an estate somewhere if he had to flee the wife, but he would lose his children and it would take far more than he is capable of. I doubt he has anyone in his life like Katie Holmes did who could help him escape permanently.
https://twitter.com/MattSunRoyal
the royal editor of the Sun newspaper has some interesting tweets about how the case for protection is going.
It seems that the judge hasn't bought the argument that Harold had the right to be consulted about his own security, or the right to offer to pay for it privately.
also this thread about the arguments being presented about protection for the twits and twats.
it doesn't seem to be going their way, for example:
Fatima says Harry should’ve been consulted before RAVEC’s decision not to let him pay. Justice Chamberlain suggests RAVEC was deciding policy on behalf of HS on whether protective security is available for money and “I’m not sure your client had a right to be consulted about that
St. Meghan Markle has some hilarious photoshops today.
Why were the cretins both dressed all in black for their visit to the youth center?
Added to this, * will be in New York to collect a 'Women of Vision' gong. "Mr Ede [brand and culture expert] said: 'Meghan's positioning herself as an inspirational figure, which she is to many, and she's doing what she does best: highlighting causes whilst highlighting herself.
'She's also giving herself space from Harry to stand on her own two feet and be recognised not as a duchess but as her own person, which she will be very happy about'."
Is she a woman "of vision"? I don't know what her vision is (apart from money and status). As for 'inspirational', I don't know who she inspires or how. I wonder if 'giving herself space from Harry to stand on her own two feet' heralds a separation. The thing is that she can't stand on her own two feet, she is not an independent person but usually has to rely on a man. Has she ever achieved anything on her own merits?
That's all I managed to read - cursorily - in the DM, that was enough.
She has definitely diminshed her looks and she is brown'er (darker.) than ever! I guess it's her choice but it looks fake compared to her actual complexion she inherited and maintained for most of her life ("beauty is in the eye of the beholder" but the 'Beholdee' AKA * helps create the look with foundation makeup 10 times darker than true skin color. She is guilty of 'Darkinazation' (my term) that may soon be "blackface". I don't know why no one calls her out for that, except they might make her make-up guy cry!
And her legs look dounright scary like she suffers from some muscle-wasting disease (so I pity her, saying this as a person, aged 70 who still has the shapely legs of a track athlete without any exercise, except working on my hobby poultry farm.) Seriously she should consider weight training or wear pants IMO.
Lady C’s source was an Accountant looking at Mole’s businesses etc. In order not incur a large tax bill he must keep to 16 day (or night) limit here, today she specified nights, and not days. This specified time frame is until 2026. What difference night and day and/or only 16 nights makes I have no idea. To be honest, I really don’t care that much I was just passing on info, her thing was more about the silly excuses he gives about not being able to stay longer. 😏
look at her non-existent legs - and she thinks they are her best feature.
also, she seems to have grown back her bunions.
what do you gals think of the dress?
If MM falls and lands on the floor, will the dress sound like bubble wrap when stepped on?
This is wrong on so many levels. Color, style to body shape, fabric, fit, awwwkkkk!
@GWAH
The mattress looks like she’s
wearing a motel bedspread
The other noticeable thing is that she doesn't appear to really look herself over before she walks out and they start taking photos. Most of the ones in the DM show an edge of the band around her waist tucked up. Nor is it a smooth silhouette on one side.
This isn't the first time something dangled or wasn't quite photo-ready which is kind of funny when you think of just how often she has been photographed in a social setting designed to show off or be impressive through the years.
"...the mattress wearing a hotel bedspread." Lol
Funny tho...I could have sworn * dress was a reincarnation of the fancy plastic cushioned toilet seats from the 60's.
what do you gals think of the dress?
@ Gitl With A Hat:
Harry’s wife’s dress looks like crumpled up Christmas wrapping paper.
Go look up “Kate Middleton No Time to Die James Bond premiere 2021”.
She wore a gold dress by Jenny Packham that was nothing less than smashing. Harry’s wife looks like a scrub compared to Kate in her gold dress.
@GWAH
@Magatha
The mattress looks like she’s
wearing a motel bedspread
😂
When I saw the douchesse in that gold dress, my first thought was that she is copying Kate’s spectacular gown at the No Time To Die premiere. Epic fail.
@GWAH
@Magatha
The mattress looks like she’s
wearing a motel bedspread
😂
you crack me up! your best one yet, I think
look at her non-existent legs - and she thinks they are her best feature.
Yes, she does. Don't forget, she's 'the girl with the mile long legs'. This is how she described herself IIRC (she's also 5ft 7😉).
As for the dress, it looks weird but I think I've seen worse on her. The fabric looks too thick and too stiff for the style. Also if you look at the photo where she gazes adoringly (🤮) at Hawwy, she has her hair parted at the side, wavy and pulled to one side, exactly like Catherine at the piano for the Eurovision.
The mattress looks like she’s
wearing a motel bedspread
You always manage to cut her down to size with a few choice words.
I liked Miso en scene but I love Japanese food and don't want to be reminded of the gruesome twosome when I eat it 😉
"your daily acts of service, in kindness, in advocacy, in grace and in fairness". The 'acts of service', whatever they might be, certainly does not apply to her. Is she comparing herself to the Queen and her life of service? The only service is probably the one she offered on yachts. As for kindness etc, these words certainly do not describe her.
And did anyone see the ginormous monster cars they came in? There was the same one following. While I didn't expect them to ride the NY subway, was there a need for such petrol guzzlers for our eco conscious duo?
In her acceptance speech, * said "You can charter a path". The 'whip smart' woman can't even write properly. Who "charters" a path? (a yacht?😉). I checked it wasn't just the DM - their grammar and spelling & typos are atrocious - and it isn't.
I read through the Twitter feed about his court case to force the government to reconsider providing him with full-on security. IMO it would require a very woke judge pandering to the privileged to rule in his favour. TBW, and Scobie, got away with a reprimand for perjury in her court case, so the duo simply brushed it off. Will this judge pander to the prince? If so, I reckon their luck is going to run out, sooner or later.
He is provided with security when he visits but on terms decided by the government and he is required to give sufficient notice of his visit. But, like his wife, he always wants to life arranged according to his demands and wants. They behave like toddlers!
I saw a snippet of her speech. What a load of meaningless, woke word salad.
I can't quite pin it down, but in the photos of her posing with the trophy husband I get a strong feeling that she is putting on a pose but not quite pulling it off. She always puts on the Hollywood pose, but this time there is something off about it and I can't pin down why.
No engagement ring yet again. Thoughts on why?
Maybe they had to flog it to pay the utilities bill (joke)!
They passed Hertz rental on their way in. Matchy matchy moment!
But I still think 'bedspread' is the best description, from our resident poet @MM!
She really did stride ahead with her mother trailing behind her and hapless trailing behind her, and a handful of staff bringing up the rear. The narc reveals herself in all her glory.
They left in a yellow taxi cab? Did they only have enough funds to hire SUVs for arrival at the Hertz rental desk?
Surrounded by her friends, all of whom were wearing black, as was her mother. Surely this is not a coincidence?
A tarot reading on Catherine. The tarot reader is not an English speaker and I am struggling to fully understand this reading. Anyone here who can interpret it? The reader does say that Catherine has had miscarriages, which they have kept a secret.
She reads that Catherine has moved into a different frame of mind, drawing on more masculine energy.
But, overall, is the tarot reading saying that there is a fourth child, a rainbow child, but the pregnancy will be kept a secret for a long time?
"Yep, the dress is suppose to have straps. It's from last season and currently 60% off at Saks" Interesting. So all she rates now is a $740 non-couture dress on clearance.
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Is this their austerity drive? Are they in financial trouble?
Diana - Queen of Hearts
* - Queen of Herz
People think she was doing product placement for Herz
That was my first thought too. Trying to influence the judge by hiring a stalker. I mean, have we heard of anyone obsessed with * other than her sugars? In all the years that she's been "famous"?
Yesterday I was reading a discussion somewhere and now I can't find it, to the effect that possibly the ring is at a jewelers being "upgraded" to a much better stone in the cut-clarity-color-carat game.
Markle already, you may recall, "re-designed" and upgraded in 2019 the engagement ring which Harry actually designed, himself, for her.
So this could be upgrade #2.
The posters suspect she has demanded a prestigious gem upgrade in advance of their 5th wedding anniversary later this week, so that when the split finally happens, she can sell the gem for a staggering amount of money.
Two hours sounds an awful long time and 'near collision' involving pedestrians? How fast were they going? Is this genuine or another attempt at garnering sympathy and getting full-time protection?
I thought that the dress and hair and even the shoes were the best effort I've seen her put forth in a long, long time. Bravo for that. I thought the bright color looked better on her than her beige efforts. If she is going to put herself on public display, I think she needs to consult a stylist about her body shape and color family. However, her skin tone constantly changes. She needs to decide on a skin tone and stick to it so that her clothing color choices will be the most flattering.
It is sad that in order to look good in the dresses that she likes, she has to target her central adiposity at a cost to her extremities. But again, I'm a person that is comfortable going into public in my work clothes and boots because I'm not trying to impress others. But if I WERE, that is what I would do to make the best with what I have.
The diamonds 'price' is highest in the showroom. I'm not sure whether the diamond ring, once it belongs to her, is going to appreciate in value or be diminished in value. I expect the latter.
For anybody that is interested, the New York post is running serial complementary articles on ILBW today. If you have a sensitive gag reflex, do not read.
...The posters suspect she has demanded a prestigious gem upgrade in advance of their 5th wedding anniversary later this week, so that when the split finally happens, she can sell the gem for a staggering amount of money.
Ah but jewelry has a limited value when resold. It only gains in value if it is linked to someone the buyer really cares about and wants to have something that was theirs.
Anything Princess Diana? boom. Possible Jackie Kennedy? still pretty boom. You get in the celebs and things can get dicey as there are a lot of them and people can get very choosy in their likes and dislikes.
For the people who have the cash, is this in their style range?
Then layer on that it would be less and less linked to the BRF because it no longer has directly from a member of them who designed it for the woman he loves.
Looking historically, it brings back memories of the lists of demands made upon the return to Hollywood to be considered for her to work at. It could be that the value placed upon it might seem pretty high to some.
So there could easily be fewer and fewer people in the pool of "who might be interested" in it. If pitched privately, then people could well bargain really hard to lower the price. Publicly it would be subject to meeting minimum plus the auctioneer's fee (privately maybe too).
What I wonder (about now) is: what happened to those earrings? Where are they? That's the kind of thing which could more easily be split up, remade into something elses or sold.
Good point!
and only two police people were involved in this? or where they an almost hit?
Considering it was last night in the US, why was this announcement delayed for hours? I thought it was so weird that the information was that last night they left in a taxi.
Why not call 911? If someone did, when will the call be released? Two hours and no one in the taxi had a phone or could call for help from the taxi dispatch?
As a side note, considering the time, it sure doesn't make the NYC police look like they are willing to respond to celebrities.
Notice that this happened in a taxi, not the fancy cars they came in. Isn't that interesting. Those fancy cars have things like seatbelts but taxis? eh sometimes. People don't care as much when it is such a short distance.
Between the stalker and now this - right up against the timing of the trial about his security. Homicide detectives have a saying about not believing in coincidences.
So. Isn't is a blessing that the taxi driver had the skills to handle all those near crashes right, left and center, for hours PLUS have enough gas in the car to hold out for that long. (sarc off).
Even if they were actually being chased by a crazed fan with a butcher knife, duct tape, and zip ties, it isn't like the New York DA would charge crazy stalker with anything besides a minor misdemeanor.
Just saw this on another blog - you were right in your description of the dress!
https://64.media.tumblr.com/9305c96c16660ee667a88e218bcf16fd/b54a548deb68b1ea-6d/s1280x1920/1f07e76f4a28e73e3fcd00015bf780fade2c58e8.jpg
This seems like an attempt to conjure up memories of the chase and crash of Diana, which is character acquisition.
This seems like a feeble attempt to force Charles and the British government to provide them with a large 24/7 security detail.
This seems like an attempt to portray themselves as victims - again.
Why were they in a cab and not a limo?
Where was their security person(s)?
Why did this go on for more than TWO HOURS? Didn’t they call the police? Didn’t the cab driver tell the cab dispatcher they were being pursued or call the police?
There were multiple vehicles chasing them, ALL with blacked-out windows?
This has strong Jussie Smollett overtones.
If you recall, Smollett was an actor on a FOX network tv show “Empire” here in the US. He was found to have staged a hoax attack on himself on the streets of Chicago in the middle of the night by two alleged MAGA Trump supporters who were, according to Smollett homophobes. This incident happened about four years ago.
I do not think Ari Emanuel or anyone at WME is crazy enough to stage a publicity stunt like this.
Why were they in a cab and not a limo?
Where was their security person(s)?
Why did this go on for more than TWO HOURS?
There were multiple vehicles chasing them, ALL with blacked-out windows?
This...is a joke. And the media across the Pond is dumb enough to fall for it.
Also - please note the JCMH is NOT wearing his seat belt in the cab.
I really hope the courts ask for credible evidence from the NYPD souces, and not just TMZ - aka "we go when called".
What pure, unmitigated b**locks.
https://twitter.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1658874726855344131
HM The King has reached out to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle after news of the New York incident surfaced.
HM was said to have been briefed upon return from Buckingham Palace reception for recipients of Princes Trust Awards.
https://twitter.com/jomilleweb/status/1658862835957477380
the timeline of the alleged car chase. the NYPD doesn't confirm any car chase.
Check out the tweet for the info
'Those involved in the chase were confronted by police officers multiple times, according to the spokesperson. A spokesperson for the New York Police Department said he could not confirm any information about the incident.' (Reuters)
'Prince Harry and Meghan Say They Were Chased by Paparazzi in New York - headline in the NY Times'. Were they or were they not? Why 'say'?
'The mayor said he expected to be briefed in depth later in the day, adding, “I would find it hard to believe that there was a two-hour high speed chase.”' So did I, mayor, so did I. I had a healthy dose of scepticism.
The DM is running an article but bizarrely is not showing any comments. What's the reaction over the pond?
On Tuesday evening, May 16, the NYPD assisted the private security team protecting the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. There were numerous photographers that made their transport challenging. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex arrived at their destination and there were no reported collisions, summonses, injuries, or arrests in regard.
Ah, the King `reached out to them' - that says it all.
Right, lets move on...nothing to see here except Scobie opening his mouth to order.
The cabbie's statement is very telling.
The Mayor weighing in on this is comical.
And...no seat belts in any of the photos. Shame on you Harkles.
When I heard this little story, I wondered why they didn’t pull into a police department or fire station. I also flashed back to their creepy staged paparazzi chase on Netflix. And, If this happened they have lousy and untrained security.
I think the ILBW is totally losing it. In her staged hike photos, the day after the coronation, she looked like she was in a major rage and the people with her looked frightened. The obviously staged photos at the sushi bar screamed “CRAZY AND DESPERATE BITCH!” At the HERTZ office party 🤭last night, she looked seriously manic - directing her best rictus smile toward a doorway and the backs of two people in front of her. I expected Steve Martin to jump out from behind the desk and launch into a King Tut duet with the ILBW. She was dressed for it.
I expect this train wreck to crash and burn, sooner rather than later.
She has to know that they are
This is such a farce now that it is laughable - talk about something blowing up in one's face?
https://twitter.com/according2_taz/status/1658857399434838018
According2Taz
@according2_taz
Ok I’m calling it, Harry & Meghan are furious that they were photographed in a taxi! That was not part of the paparazzi deal!
They were to be filmed & photographed in the huge motorcade. So now they are raging & are going to sue over a dangerous car chase that didn’t happen!
Gosh, I turn my back for a few days in Cornwall and they pull this stunt. Does anybody believe this? Anybody...?
Ah, the King `reached out to them' - that says it all.
Right, lets move on...nothing to see here except Scobie opening his mouth to order.
ROFLOLOL! I asked Grumpy Spouse what the likelihood would be of a 2-hour high-speed car chase in midtown Manhattan with near misses, police, close calls with pedestrians, and *nothing* was reported to police and nobody was arrested. Grumpy Spouse said that they must be counting on people never having been in traffic in NYC if they said there was high speed anything on the streets. "I think they had to drive on the sidewalks." "Apparently they are counting on people not having seen the sidewalks in New York City."
This does not compute. It takes time to get out and then get in. Since they were so closely being followed how can this help the trio get away? (or was that the goal, to continue to be followed?)
Why not call for police when you first realize there is a problem? Why wait?
Why a taxi? Why not pull into a hotel nearby and stop the SUV in the driveway for 10 minutes? The hotel could help by offering a bolt room during the time it takes for the pack of paps pulls in and deals with trying to park the car in the hotel. This is what you pay your security team to do: think of several plan B's at all times and be able to get the valued person out of the situation.
So ... why is there the move away from not being with their security and a professional driver who may or may not have had some evasive training and into the unknown - a taxi driver who comes along, just minding his own business. This really makes no sense from a our job is to protect the valued person we are being paid to be around, not run away from trouble/let them fend for themselves.
But wait - if the plan was to exit and get into a taxi, why not let Doria get out to try to decoy? Which still doesn't make sense because you are still wasting valuable escape time to put more distance between you and what is chasing you.
Bottom line: you always have plans in mind for every excursion and everyone knows the plans. (hint: keeping a pair of flats in cars with you at all times does allow easier running than on high heels).
This just comes off more as cat and mouse playing than a real terror experience. It reminds me a lot of the chase in Paris but with the egging them on going on inside the car.
the security guard did appear to stay with them.
So they rode around in the SUV for more than an hour being chased, they don't try to go back to where they were staying (unknown), they get dropped on at a police station, spend 15 or so minutes there, then the taxi for a short time (when exactly is unknown) and then they were returned to the police station.
15 minutes is not enough time to make a substantial claim to the police. It takes way longer.
As for the two NYPD people, they were in their own car following the trio at some point. If they felt threatened, why would they not reach out for more cops?
It still does not make sense.
To them, in their twisted, delusional world, it probably makes total sense. Common sense
is something completely beyond their understanding and it's our fault for not thinking the way they do.
Thank Goodness.
It also means that they fail to understand how we spot the flaws in their logic.
Over on SMM, they're `L-ing their A-s Off' at the idea of a `high speed chase' in NYC.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/13k61z6/there_is_a_dark_tragedy_ahead_i_fear/
The reason behind King's awkward Coronation day wait revealed
Monarch appeared annoyed at his early arrival at Westminster Abbey, which seems to have been down to the added sprightliness of his horses
According to a military source who took part in the procession, it was the horses’ fault that the King arrived around six minutes earlier than planned.
Six Windsor Greys were chosen to pull the carriage from Buckingham Palace: Icon, Shadow, Milford Haven, Echo, Knightsbridge, and Tyrone.
“When they did the dress rehearsal it was the middle of the night so the horses were quite sleepy and took their time,” said the source, who took part in the procession.
“But on the day of the Coronation they were wide awake and consequently went a lot faster than they had in the practice. That’s what threw the timings out”.
You have a kindred spirit 🙂:
Gary Limericker
27 MIN AGO
(With apologies to Frank Sinatra)
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Start spreading fake news
Meg’s car’s on its way
Chased to the very heart of it!
New York New York
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This vagabond two
Just won’t go away
Oprah was just the start of it
Now its New York
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They claim they’re chased round a city that never sleeps
But ask for proof it occurred
You won’t hear a peep
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Their London Town lies
Have forced them to stray
Now lying that the paps are part of it
In Old New York
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If they can make it up there
They can make it up anywhere
None of it is true
New York New York
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They tried to make it up
In a city that doesn’t sleep
Meg wants to be number one
Top the civil list
Head of the firm
The Queen on the Hill!
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Their London Town claims
Have melted away
They’ve made a right pig’s —— of it
In Old New York
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They couldn’t make it up there
Too many cameras, everywhere
Heard a story more true
From the Duke of York!
This fairytale ain’t true
New York! New York!
Asked abt the description of a "near catastrophic
chase" he said "I don't think that's true, I think that's all exaggerated". 🤭😂
It´s a NO from their taxi driver.
NO Seatbelts?
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23DumbPrinceAndHisStupidWife&src=trend_click&vertical=trends
For a couple so preoccupied with their own safety, one would think they would not allow themselves to be compromised in any way. #setup
@Magatha - Gary Limericker created a catchy tune about misadventures in NY, but your cleverness and creativity are the absolute best!😇
@alianor - I think Megsy is their PR team. No professional would suggest they lie to the media or police, but it’s right up her alley. IIRC, there were 17 fabrications in the Oprah interview and we were all pretty suspicious about several more, including the miscarriage.
And of course it’s strategic. After all, she’s just signed with WME, now represented by Ari Emmanuel, the agency’s top executive; Brad Slater, who also works with Dwayne The Rock Johnson; and Jill Smoller, who’s been Serena Williams’s agent for years. According to Variety, WME will also handle the Sussexes’ company Archewell and “film and television production, brand partnerships, and overall business-building will be explored”, but “acting will not be an area of focus”.
The signal here then is that Meghan is ready to go big with the business. Partnership deals and ambassadorships will be on the table, perhaps along the same lines as what Angelina Jolie has been doing with Guerlain and Guerlain’s association with UNESCO’s Women for Bees programme. And even though whatever business WME will bring Meghan will align with her advocacy, image management is a key part of that, just as it is for all celebrities. Which brings us back to the dress. The dress serves the image, an image that is no longer restricted by royal protocol. Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, is free and clear to be an influencer now. Or, more accurately, free and clear to go back to being an influencer now. Beauty, wellness, lifestyle – all of it is coming soon.
except with that crazy story they concocted, her future is over, like Jussie Smollet's.
Paula Matanovich🍷
@paulamatanovich
No car chase, one can clearly see the paps were waiting for them and how #princeharry #meghanmarkle slowed and stopped for the pictures to be taken. These two belong in jail!
(with video)
Terrible trip home from work this evening—stuck in traffic for hours. Lots of near high speed collisions. Will now launch a court case to become an Internationally Protected Person, so the UK taxpayer can pay for VIP bodyguards for me and my family for life.
Backgrid tried to dissuade her from her attempt at getting the sympathy of the world by pretending to be pursued by paps.
Carp eh DM
Rental kween Herzetoetinia
Goldfishing
between bouts of chlamydia
Dressed to the gills
Scaled back touting shills
She’s gilded and quilted
and looking ab drab
No Golden Carriage
for Cash n Grab
As madam hailed
a yellow taxi cab…
Former NYPD detective slams Harry and Meghan car chase as 'total rubbish!'
https://www.gbnews.com/royal/prince-harry-meghan-markle-car-chase-new-york-former-detective
Interesting ... Lady C has quietly been won a legal battle with the Mirror for years and she won.
I remember the tabloids kept using the term paedophilia, which was incorrect. Sexually exploiting minors and paedophilia are not the same thing.
This sounds like a Hollywood production.
'Writing on Twitter, the couple's biographer, Omid Scobie, claimed the chase 'could have been fatal''. Yes, however it wasn't! Like the 'near catastrophic' car chase. Pure fantasy. I wonder if the police will date sue them for creating a hoax/wasting police time.
According to the Guardian, "Eventually they completed their journey in their security vehicle." In that case, why didn't they use said security vehicle in the first place? In any case the taxi driver said they were in his taxi for about 10 minutes.
So many lies. I hope this backfires massively.
It seems that sometime in this comedy show their SUV was driving erratically (endangering pedestrians) to try and shake off paparazzi and was pulled over by NYPD. This is from Hello, so even kneepads is not falling in line with their ridiculous behaviour.
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https://countesscuriosity.tumblr.com/post/717599144024358912/the-british-assassins-were-actually-backgrid-paps
The statement from Background.
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https://the-cat-with-the-emerald-tiara-1.tumblr.com/post/717603484407660544/hahahaha
Her caught in a streetcam ... by Hertz cars! To me it actually looks as if she is getting out of the cab, but Google info shows that this is not at a police precinct.
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By the way, I think the behaviour of the paparazzi is appalling, and that celebrities themselves fuel this behaviour to get media coverage.
Notice that there are no photos of them in their SUV, which had tinted windows. Why get out and get into a taxi?
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""This relaunch suggests a pivoting away from the dramas with the Royal Family while promoting Meghan as a woman of substance.
A bit late in the day to save the brand, I'd say. Actually a few years too late. There's nothing to salvage. A for the woman of substance, she is too false and shallow.
Sushi Mullet
Megaloopy Pit Stain
and Thick Bastardy
Took mummy for a ride
to spin paparazzi
Out of gear
gaslighting Wacky Races
Gallons of fuel
headlighting
skid markles faces…
They should brush up their knowledge of Aesop's fables, in this case, the one about raising false alarms when watching over sheep:
The moral stated at the end of the Greek version is, "this shows how liars are rewarded: even if they tell the truth, no one believes them". It echoes a statement attributed to Aristotle by Diogenes Laërtius in his The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, in which the sage was asked what those who tell lies gain by it and he answered "that when they speak truth they are not believed".[7] William Caxton similarly closes his version with the remark that "men bileve not lyghtly hym whiche is knowen for a lyer" (Wikipedia)
Scobie has waded in, adding a higher level of confusion:
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/harry-meghans-taxi-driver-during-015500930.html
@CatEyes
Plush Flush 😳
@Maneki
Short ensuite
mattress actress-
mactress 😘
@Midge
Can’t see it, using phone
Ultimate bed spread?? 😁
@Vetus
Missing dress straps
worn by security as ties 🥺
@GWAH
Gimme time 😉
@Rebecca
Loved Gary Limericker
Possible du’v’et 😃
@Observant One
Thank you,
very much appreciated 😊
Carp eh DM 🤣 You're on fire this week 😁. Keep mocking the 'mactress' and hubby.
Another lie.
They went in because one of their SUVs was driving erratically to shake off the paps.
The police escorted them into the precinct.
From there, they decided to take a cab but instructed the cab to wait so that the paps could take photos.
The taxi driver said that they only went around the block and he felt completely safe.
https://twitter.com/MorrisDemetress/status/1659014508671815680
with the screen shot and link to a story about the alleged affair
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/13ktz16/thank_you_beloved_americans_and_new_yorkers/
I only read this site and wish I could express my appreciation there for all the Americans who see through them, just as we do. It's very heartening.
It's also significant how our allies are calling out the Press's attempt to gaslight us, for whatever reason, telling us to be kind - there's something very suspect about the voices making out that we're the nasty ones.
one worrying thing. he looked high as usual. 10 minutes on drugs can feel like two hours. no one was wearing seat belts. rumor was they switched cars (escalade to a taxi) because of the “chase”. prob all set up my mama and the grifter (now we know why doria was there). very much a “diana” moment. prob one blackgrid photog she hired with extra flashes. are they setting him up for a breakdown. could be trying to set up related to his security case but someone on twitter suggested worse that next time he is in a car or driving himself will he get triggered and crash and kill himself and others. i wouldn’t put it past her. can’t afford to go through another divorce. but widow reputation and if they haven’t accessed his trust fund maybe the cash.
* She was completely concerned with her glamorous public image throughout. There are even a couple of photos of her giving her 'I am a star' smile. Throughout, she was conscious of portraying the 'right' image for the photos to match her PR for the evening, all decked in gold like a Hollywood glamour star.
* Doria is completely ignoring what is going on around her and looks unconcerned.
* Hapless is looking demented, filming the paps and looking very stressed in the photos of him without phone in hand walking to the car or sitting in the cab.
I think this whole episode was created by a paranoid and out-of-control prince. Any stress that mother and daughter showed was because of his behaviour.
Why did they want to keep where they were staying a secret? Paranoia about security from the prince? Or was there something about who they were getting a freebie from that they wanted to keep a secret?
Hapless has given NYPD the footage he shot and he wants people prosecuted. Grandiose entitlement is too mild a term to describe his behaviour.
I wish I could express my appreciation there for all the Americans who see through them, just as we do. It's very heartening.
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It is very heartening. I have American relatives and I told one of them the UK was relieved * wasn't going to the Coronation. Her reply: "I wish we could gift Ms. Markle and her drama to the UK. We won't miss her...Seriously take her". I emailed another one who said "I am so sorry that she is American. It gives us all a bad name." I'd say the scales are falling off more and more people's eyes.
* She alerted a photographer to their arrival through a back way. The other paps were deprived of the opportunity to to get photos.
* They wanted to find out where they were staying in the hope of getting some candid shots the next day, like the typical ones we see of New York celebs out and about. (Only problem is that the duo do not walk around like New York celebs do.)
* The duo had put out a rumour that they were going to dinner after the awards ceremony. There was always the chance that they might be meeting up with some celebs or exited a restaurant drunk or after a fight for million-dollar pics, but at least another chance of getting photos to sell.
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The mature response to being papped? Stop the car, get out, be nice and polite, and ask them to please back off and let them get on their way in peace. It may not have worked, but it would have got them good PR instead of this mix of hysteria and ridicule. Oh, and staying in the SUV with tinted windows and driving carefully would have also been a good idea.
I keep on being reminded of Michael Jackson and his bizarre behaviour with the media and paparazzi. His life ultimately did not have a happy ending ...
Everyone is debunking the "catastrophic car chase" as never happened. Mrs. Todger is so provincial to think that the rest of us have never been to NYC, and seen its traffic. She is a lunatic.
Mrs. Todger will never go big with business just because she will fight and push against any and all things WME suggests for her, because she knows best.
So Doria is there when ILBW is too busy to put the screws to Hairy, Doria steps in to keep him under control. Two grifters keeping a prince under their thumbs.
Most casual consumers of the MSM will believe the story to be true.
They've now tripped from juvenile attention-seeking and being professional annoyances into full-fledged unhinged insanity playing out on the world stage. What recourse does the Royal family have to extract Harry and force him into psychiatric treatment/rehab? I'm really concerned that he will not live to see his 40th birthday at this rate. He's an adult and if all his papers are in order to stay in the U.S., what can his father legitimately do to retrieve him? The wife belongs in jail.
Fatuous, irrelevant and no sense of purpose - what a fitting backdrop Manhattan's 'Women of Vision' made for the vapid La Markle herself! Fellow guest MAUREEN CALLAHAN's sparkling account of Meghan's word-salad gala appearance
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12098661/MAUREEN-CALLAHANs-hand-account-Meghans-word-salad-appearance-New-York-award-gala.html
Qui bono?
I think others while this is a nightmare for him. Perhaps he was told at some point, something like this is likely to happen to help us win the lawsuit kind of thinking.
One of the things I question is how much did her security know in advance because it never made sense for them to leave the safety of the SUV and move into that of an unknown taxi. If this is the best that company can think up, then I suspect others will be taking notes and dropping them from the on call list.
https://youtu.be/N1AHwNSWDtg
@Golden Retriever
That article by Maureen Callahan is brilliant as she was actually there. The sole purpose of that award for her was to attract media attention. There was nothing enjoyable about the event (food, venue or attendees) nor any kind of networking or enjoyment of meeting interesting people. What is she going to do when she runs out of people to give her awards so that she can do her 'Hollywood A-lister appearances'?
and Twitter is going nuts - the latest is the duo asking of the photos caught in traffic to be suspressed and Backgrid (or the photogs) said NO.
This is the gift that keeps on giving....
"Fatuous, irrelevant and no sense of purpose - what a fitting backdrop Manhattan's 'Women of Vision' made for the vapid La Markle herself! Fellow guest MAUREEN CALLAHAN's sparkling account of Meghan's word-salad gala appearance
She so badly wants to be the Queen of Hearts.
But, as she arrived on Tuesday night, making her grand entrance in Midtown Manhattan, sauntering past that rental-car backdrop, it was more like the Queen of Hertz.
Of course, as the world is now all too aware, Meghan Markle capped off winning a meaningless award with what we’re told was a ‘near catastrophic’, ‘two-hour’ car chase through the streets of Manhattan.
Yes, according to a spokesperson, Meghan, along with hapless Harry and mom Doria, were the subjects of a wild, impassioned hunt by the paparazzi.
Some sympathetic commentators have already made the gruesome comparisons to Princess Diana’s tragic final fate.
But to echo the statements made by New York City’s own mayor Eric Adams and the police department: Perhaps it didn’t quite happen the way it was painted.
Recollections may vary.
Naturally, their mouthpiece Omid Scobie is whining that no one from the Palace has yet reached out.
Wonder why?
One also wonders what Gloria Steinem, the 89-year-old feminist icon who chose to honor Meghan as a ‘Woman of Vision’ at Tuesday night’s Ms. Foundation Gala, must be thinking now.
After all, the car ‘chase’ debacle soon stole all the thunder from her event, which I was lucky enough to witness first-hand.
Now, it was hardly the red carpet one might expect. Hardly the pomp and circumstance of, say, a coronation.
Yet Meghan forged ahead as she always does, as if this were her crowning moment, sheathed in gold as if to symbolize a crown.
Or an Oscar statuette.
Same difference, really, if your only goal is fame. That’s our Meghan, none too subtle as ever, literally going for the gold as Harry and Doria took their positions three steps behind.
Harry may be a prince of the blood, but never forget — Meghan is The Star. Her Norma Desmond-ing is among the great spectacles of our modern age.
And this image, our renegade duchess without a palace-worthy advance team to prevent such cheap optics as the Hertz hiccup, set the tone for the evening: Fatuous, irrelevant, high on its own self-regard, all sense of purpose lost.
It was a bizarre night.
Upon entering the Zeigfeld Ballroom, guests were asked whether they were ‘VIP’ — seems even feminist movements have their echelons — and turfed to the lobby.
My $1,500 entry-level ticket got me a hard seat with a front-row view of coat check.
After ten minutes, circumstances having changed inexplicably, the riff-raff were allowed up to the second floor.
Here were two open bars serving top-shelf liquor and the shock of post-pandemic dress code slovenliness. One unkempt guest was wearing sparkly Birkenstock sandals and a black stretchy minidress under a pink puffer jacket.
These were the VIPs?
The only recognizable person I saw was Peloton instructor Ally Love, and that’s saying something. Where were the stars? Where were the notables of the movement? The Malalas? The Fondas? The Beyoncés?
Perhaps no one was meant to outshine Meghan. Only one feminist icon was going to enter via rental car office!
Down in the ballroom, the plated salads on our banquet tables were ready waiting for us – dry, unsightly, stringy greens that resembled nothing so much as regurgitated hairballs.
Notably, not one person I spoke to nor one speaker or honoree mentioned Meghan.
Not one said how exciting it was to have her there. Not one expressed the slightest curiosity at what she’d have to say.
If anything, as the night dragged on and the event slipped an hour behind schedule – a sudden break announced so we could finally have dinner – the crowd bristled.
It says something when a table of size-6 women tear into their heavily glazed steak and buttery mashed potatoes with abandon.
Yes, the night was pure Meghan Markle: A manufactured build-up of anticipation, a highly dramatic entrance afforded no other actual activist — Meghan climbed on stage to the Alicia Keys she-ro anthem ‘Girl on Fire’ — and then... a whole lot of nothing.
Verbiage and word salad that were content-free, except when speaking on her favorite subject: herself.
Here, in real time, we observed Meghan’s inability to read a room. She thanked the ‘other honorees’ without naming them.
‘Congratulations,’ she said, ‘and frankly, well deserved.’
It was all so smug and supercilious, this glorified podcaster telling these boots-on-the-ground activists — no matter what one thinks of their politics — that they had, in fact, earned their place on the same stage as the great Meghan Markle.
That ‘frankly’ was so typical. It was meant to redound to Meghan’s benefit, as the lone wolf daring to speak the unspeakable.
There was the cringe-inducing humblebrag, calling her new friend Gloria ‘Glo’.
It brought to mind the forced intimacy of meeting Kate Middleton barefoot and insisting that the pair share lip gloss.
It's 'Glo' to Meghan, but Meghan is 'Duchess' to us.
‘We all bear witness,’ Meghan continued of her fellow honorees, ‘to you standing in elegance and the power of your strength.’
Huh?
This crowd was not convinced. This crowd was checking their watches. There were trains to catch, children to kiss goodnight. Alas, we were stuck with the vapidity of La Markle.
Her speech didn’t even deliver fresh content! She repeated the story, as told on her podcast, of poor little Meghan coming home from school to her TV dinner, cat collars and copies of Ms. Magazine strewn about courtesy of her mother — even though it’s well-documented that her father primarily raised her.
‘Having these pages in our home,’ she went on, ‘. . . signaled to me that there was so much more than the dolled-up covers and those images that you would see on the grocery store covers. It signaled to me that substance mattered.’
Says the former D-list actress and former briefcase game-show girl who used her looks to get ahead. Who has posed for those very same magazine covers.
This warmed-over speech, less heated than our steaks, was Meghan’s greatest hits:
‘Change is just one action away.’
‘You can be the visionary of your own life.’
‘Daily acts of service, in kindness, in advocacy, in grace and in fairness.’
‘The imprints that were forged in my mind — I can now connect the dots in a much better way to understand how I became a young feminist and evolved into a grown activist.’
A feminist who, let us not forget, has publicly demonized her famous sister-in-law — ‘Waity Katie’ to Oprah and an audience of millions.
Kate made me cry! WAAAGH!
In truth, Meghan's a self-identified 'grown activist' who has done nothing. The pontification, her sing-song-y cadence as she luxuriated in her own praise, was as insufferable as it was revealing.
‘Ms.’ she said, ‘was formative in [my] cocooning. It piqued my curiosity, and it became the chrysalis for the woman that I would become and that I am today.’
Right: The woman who vilified the institution headed-up by Queen Elizabeth II in her final years. The woman who heavily alleged institutional racism until her husband finally backed away from that terrible smear.
A woman with no substance and no accomplishments as a feminist. A woman who is still trying to one-up the royals, even from a car-park adjacent ballroom with no red carpet.
One sentence sums it up. "What we need is the NYPD to launch an investigation, because the 18,000 police cameras that monitor nearly every godforsaken corner of New York City cannot tell a lie, nor allow tragic personal history to cloud their focus."
Obviously, recollections do vary.
https://tinyurl.com/23t8tkcb
What right has that unspeakable creep Scobie to demand William's reaction to Harry's pervert shenanigans when their mother's corpse plays some sick roll as a ghoulish miss Havisham character in Harry's money making schemes?
No one can know how William feels when he is forced to watch his brother's self destruction and destruction of their family constantly in the public eye, no one.
The off the shoulder blue dress looked really nice on Kate, who was accused of copying * - as if she needs to.
As a New Yorker, I'm beyond incensed that the NYC mayor or the NYPD had to spend a nano second dealing with the Todgers' nonsense. NYC is undergoing one of its periodic downturns largely caused by combination of Covid & poor governance. The NYPD is demoralized & facing calls for defunding, the mayor doing his best to keep things from going further downhill, & then this ridiculous couple piles on.
Their tacky event got out when all the theaters & restaurants are disgorging customers. No way traffic was moving at 80 mph. Maybe you could find a street to go that fast for a few blocks in the dead of winter at 4 a.m., but not in Midtown at 10 p.m. in mid-May. Playing to their unsophisticated & not too swift fandom per usual.
Now the DM has an article showing doubts about yesterday car chase that seemingly never was. I hope other papers and the BBC etc follow suit. I don't know how they can come back from this. If the car chase was some ploy to engineer sympathy and get police protection this will haunt them for years to come.
'Harry and Meghan's account of 'near catastrophic' car chase involving 'cat and mouse' run-ins with paparazzi is called into question amid conflicting reports of what actually happened'.
Possibly staged to make Harry look as paranoid and mentally unbalanced as possible (not that he needs any help) before divorce proceedings? I noticed that his first wife and first mother-in-law seemed extremely composed.
If WME planned the 'chase' scheme, they're completely incompetent, and/or crazy.
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“The couple’s team were so shaken that they stayed up all night, monitoring news sites to see which images were published and by whom.” (Why? Are they compiling a grudge list? If employers treated me like that I would resign!)
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Backgrid, an entertainment picture agency, said on Thursday it had received a letter from the Sussexes' legal team saying: "We hereby demand that Backgrid immediately provide us with copies of all photos, videos, and/or films taken last night by the freelance photographers after the couple left their event and over the next several hours."
The agency said it had replied in a letter: "In America, as I'm sure you know, property belongs to the owner of it: Third parties cannot just demand it be given to them, as perhaps Kings can do.
"Perhaps you should sit down with your client and advise them that his English rules of royal prerogative to demand that the citizenry hand over their property to the Crown were rejected by this country long ago. (Why would lawyers send such a bizarre threatening letter? And that crazy couple sure have been busy!)
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Is this a folie a deux or is he going off the rails and mother and daughter are watching like a pair of vultures?
Have you seen this article by Jan Moir?
Well, Maureen Callahan had better watch her back now . . the Sussex Squad will be out for her.
It is profoundly gratifying on a schadenfreude level to see Madam Hertz excoriated in print for the fraud she is. To think she went from being embraced by the Royal family, as its exciting new member to a Hertz Rent-a-Shill in a gold lame bedspread from a cheap hotel.
What I am still not seeing though is the duo being called out for what they are: a menace to society and a mental health threat. Amanda Bynes and Britney Spears were both sectioned multiple times for acting out in public like this while visibly under the influence of narcotics. Everyone knows what's happening but no one is intervening. Can they? What a mess.
To me it's doubtful that WME got the "award" for Mrs. Todger. WME thinks they can work with her? They ain't seen nothing yet.
We may actually see Mr. Todger naked in the streets having a meltdown due to a drug overdose. That is his hope for reconciliation with his family, and out of the snare of the grifter and her grifter mother.
Mrs. Todger? She's gonna take longer to have a meltdown, when she becomes completely irrelevant, and not one word is written about her.
If memory serves, Ms. Bynes was arrested and forcibly committed for setting a fire in a neighbor’s driveway. No one was hurt, and there may not have even been damage but it was still criminal menacing. Another time Amanda was taken into custody after dropping objects off her high rise apartment window that could have killed someone. She, like Britney is a manic depressive who has psychotic episodes when off her management medication.
The tableau from the the other night is in this territory now. Harry goes along with the madness but I will not believe he was the mastermind behind this stunt. He’s so addled and out of his element he can’t say no. Which is proof that he is not in his right mind.
Gee, we are just hours away now from their 5th wedding anniversary—funny but I’ve not read it mentioned once, have you?