Twitter appears to be in an uproar about the latest being they are possible separating.
Is it true?
Might be. There does seem to be a heavier rotation of articles about how they have separated recently.
But then again, there have been rumors in the past have faded away after nothing more appeared to come of it at that time.
As always with them, it's hard to tell.
What are your thoughts?
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Discussions "at the highest level" have reportedly taken place over whether or not the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will keep their titles.
This was the World Cup for Women's Football that Spain's team just won.
It only occurs every 4 years, like the men's World Cup.
The previous victory you're thinking about is England's winning the Women's EURO championship.
I don't know re the DM article, I haven't analysed the language (busy ironing!) but the article says 'a source& so anything is possible, including * herself.
@Girl with a Hat
I see CDAN are on to the missing engagement ring. Indie wonder in a previous post if the stones had been substituted for imitation/cheap ones. Again, anything is possible with * but the job shouldn't take months. I also mentioned in a precious post that the central stone looked different from the original one, not as high but there are very few close ups of her ring.
As for *'s possible 'confusing new title', this seems to be speculation at the moment. She won't like Countess of Dumbarton so would it be Princess M? (please, no, absolutely not). Plain Mrs Mountbatten-Windsor is more than enough. Unless the Palace is considering a possible post divorce title? Who knows...
Presumably all the reports are issuing from the Harkles, not the Palace.
An article from Spain about William's fictional affair with Rose, with all the details, in the context of how friendly Catherine and Rose now are. The duo succeeded in creating a story that will never go away. There was no affair, ever ... and nothing ever happened. It was all a malicious story started by the duo.
What people forget is that senior royals of their ilk are accompanied by security 24/7, as Prince Phillip pointed out. Plus, unless an illicit affair is conducted in a private home with spouse and children being absent and lover not spotted arriving or leaving, secrecy is almost impossible. William witnessed the devastation of the break down of his parents' marriage and the misery that caused and so he was over cautious before he made the commitment of marriage. He also took his time before fully devoting himself to his royal role in service to the people because he grew up knowing what that meant. The dastardly duo married in haste without knowing each other and without her knowing what being royal meant and certainly not actually being committed to anyone or anything other than herself ... the mess that followed caused damage that can never be fully repaired.
Before I discovered Nutty Blog after “the birth of Archie”, I spent a lot of time over on Harry Markel, where the debate was fast and furious about the Queen Mary bandeau she wore being a paste replica. That seemed far-fetched to me at the time, even though her gold digging intentions were plain enough even before the wedding. But now I do not think it far-fetched at all. She is not trustworthy with anything precious. As for Harry’s feelings about the ring he gave her, I’ve come to the conclusion that he probably didn’t care. The whole marriage and anything associated with it was a grift from Day One. He would only be upset if he loved the recipient. I for one certainly hope they didn’t waste any of the precious welsh gold on her and made a substitution there too. Maybe the initial ring was a fake all along and after she found that out when trying to flog the stones, that’s when she stopped wearing it. What could be more fitting for a fake marriage than a fake ring?
"A well-placed source":
KC and PH are LIKELY to meet...
PH is REPORTEDLY due to fly back...
The king and PH will be in the capital at the SAME TIME...
It's THOUGHT that the pair COULD meet...
Staff are REPORTEDLY making plans...
Staff are TRYING to fine-tune the details...
IF THE TALKS TAKE PLACE...
I presume that the king has personally contacted OK! so we can trust that information is correct. He himself is the well-placed source.
REALLY!
H and the missus are well-matched for pathology, because they both suffer from Oppositional Defiant Disorder. All human beings go through a stage of ODD, colloquially known as toddlerhood. Some people, like these to here, never outgrow that stage. Toddlers mastered the art of screaming NO! At other people very quickly, Because it gives them a feeling of power and they learned that if they kick up enough of a fuss, They usually get what they want. They do not like NO when it’s directed their way. Neither Harry nor his wife heard enough NO in their childhoods, and both had weak/absent parental figures who failed to exercise NO and follow through on it. Consequently, both learned that if they just ignored NO and did what they wanted anyway, There would be little resistance from the adults. It’s the Chinese water torture method… Wear them down through continual repetition of the behavior. And for them it worked. Harry grew up in a Palace, with an indulgent mother, a Largely absent father, an older sibling with whom he felt insanely competitive, With the primary responsibility for the day today oversight of his behavior falling to nannies and teachers. Owing to his royal status as the son of the prince of Wales, these minions didn’t dare discipline a little prince. Mugsy did not grow up in a palace, and the gender roles were reversed on her indulgent parent and the absent one, but like Harry, there were very weak boundaries with the adults in her life who were supposed to be authority figures. She learned quickly that she could outlast any resistance just by making a big enough scene, Since most people do not have the intestinal fortitude to do a constant battle with a defiant little sociopath. It’s easier to give in in the short term, although it’s the worst possible long-term strategy. It’s amazing how similar Harry and the wife actually are. Harry had a patina of superficial observance to etiquette drilled into him, but as we see the drill couldn’t reach very deep into the bedrock of stubborn selfish narcissism and congenital stupidity. Like a heat seeking missile, Methane found the lid for her pot. If she hadn’t turned up, I think Haz would have been happy enough to screw around with short-term women like Uncle David before Wallis.
I don’t think either of them are ever going to understand the permanency of NO. Their narcissistic egos will not allow it. It truly is like they are deaf to anything that doesn’t support their self deluded version of reality.
Unfortunately, * cannot be demoted to Mrs M-W because it is a principle in English law that a wife takes the status of her husband, (although the reverse doesn't happen - hence Philip was not King) We don't have morganatic marriages.) So No Prince H & Mrs Henry M_W , unless a way can be found to remove H's princely title.
(A thought - were there any princes of the blood `reduced to the ranks' by the 1917 changes? Can a precedent be found here? Can marrying a foreign wife alter things? ) Just speculating.
2 hr. ago
[Hairless] could have done SO MUCH GOOD for veterans ... he's using these same veterans to try and save his reputation.
I keep telling this story.
The previous Duke of Westminster, Gerald Grosvenor, wanted to leave a legacy to the country and to the armed forces.
He started a charity, called The Black Stork, and asked rich friends to contribute - nothing less than several millions.
He (the charity) used that money to buy land, an estate, in Nottinghamshire not too far from Birmingham airport.
He carried on fundraising and built "The Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre" - which is a state-of-the-art rehab centre for those who have suffered severe trauma. It is a much-needed replacement for Headley Court.
https://www.thednrc.org.uk/what-is-this-all-about/the-dukes-idea.aspx
Unfortunately Gerald Grosvenor died, suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 64, and didn't see the centre opened. That privilege fell to his son who was just 25 when he inherited the Dukedom.
https://www.thednrc.org.uk/
Charles III, when Prince of Wales, founded The Princes Trust with around £35,000 - his severance pay from the Navy. The Princes Trust has helped over a million young people achieve their potential, including Idris Elba.
https://www.princes-trust.org.uk/about-us
Imagine, if you will, what Hairless could have achieved - if he truly cared - but instead he bought a money-pit of a house, and got his wife a few expensive frocks and baubles.
According to Neil Sean, #PrinceHarry wanted to go to the Women’s World Cup final to support ENG 🏴. He wanted to deputize for the #PrinceofWales but was REJECTED.
https://twitter.com/NaomiSky_15/status/1693109048143679952
Oooh, looks like the camel was trying to get his nose under the tent and was swatted.
Re the Women's Cup final and William not appearing, it does seem rather uncharacteristic. As Hikari mentioned (and Abby seconded), COVID is running wild again. It was mentioned that perhaps PoW had COVID. I think it would be more likely that HRMKC3 or Queen Camilla may have gotten it, and PoW may have had to substitute in meetings.
I wouldn't have believed in the existence of ODD in a fully-grown adults whom I'd thought were of more or less full mental capacity, until I met it myself a few years ago. It shook me to the core - once with a house-guest over washing up. Short of using physical force on the bloody woman, I couldn't stop her doing things her way, with the risk of creating unwanted plumbing chores for Mr Wild Boar, besides wasting water (notoriously expensive in my area) and time.
The other instance was an agency cleaner I had to fire for using bleach, for which she was not insured. I'd hidden it but she still found it and put a prodigious amount into the downstairs loo - so much that although I was upstairs at the time I had sore eyes for a week. She actually shouted at me when I spoke to her.
Yep, it's unbelievable until you meet it yourself.
Some very perceptive words from Expensively Mundane over on SMM:
`...many of us are here because we are survivors of narcissism. When Madam came onto the global stage I think a nasty spiritual narcissist nuke bomb detonated triggering all of us who have survived narcissists whether it be friend, family, neighbor or co-worker. We feel every ill-intention of the Harkles behind all of their charitable endeavors...’
Wow! That's it in a nutshell.
Perhaps August is a time when many other Councillors of State travel abroad simply because they know the the monarch is safely ensconced in Balmoral, accompanied by one or more CoS at any time?
HM the King is still dealing with Matters of State, (and I'd add family matters in all probability) just without the interruptions of public engagements. If the Waleses are there, others are free.
So perhaps William couldn't leave the country anyway?
@Maneki
Thanks, the better team won
@Swampie
Good onya 👍
As for hazzhole , love it,
in the words of Mary Earps
F.ck Off…
Who knows with madam?
Missing rings, kids, husbands
The only constant
her ugly big feet!
Some interesting comments from Plant ... she reckons hazbeen is in denial, and has not accepted that there is no way back in for him. He also seems to think he can appease his wife by getting 'an apology' for her.
But, I am still intrigued by his genuine happiness on his 'polo holiday' with Nachos. There has been no real change in anything that we have seen, and he is very much a person who reacts 'in the heat of the moment'. Maybe it was simply that the IG documentary finally got finished and he is pleased with it, he had successfully negotiated a small role for her in the upcoming IG*, and he was finally on track doing what he always wanted to do (royal engagements for charity), without her. Methinks he is deluded because *she does make an appearance in the documentary and she is still tenaciously clinging to the IG as a vehicle to get attention for herself, no matter how small her role is.
@WildBoar
It’s a sh.te journey
Full stop!!
First/cattle class
same disorientation
(30 years and counting)
Will was damned
either way
When the Royals and Boris Johnson came down with Covid the first time, it was genuinely scary because the damn thing was so new and it was killing people like flies. After BoJo came down with it, I was genuinely frightened for him, because Boris does not take the best care of himself. Besides looking like an unmade bed, he’s overweight, middle aged And we know he enjoys a party. I was relieved that the United Kingdom did not lose their Prime Minister, despite his personal failings. Then it was announced that Charles had it. I was less concerned for him than for Boris, which may seem odd considering that Charles is a lot older, but He had genetics and generally clean living on his side. I think his majesty proved during the funeral gauntlet for his mother that he is more robust than he may look.
I hope the king and queen are both well; getting Covid for third time would just be the pits. William looked very well in his video message with Charlotte to the team, So I do suppose the decision was taken that considering the king is on his annual retreat, that the Prince of Wales remain on deck to take care of anything that crops up in London. I hope William will take Charlotte to a Lionesses game next season. George has had plenty of opportunities at football and Wimbledon. Charlotte was dare I say the star of her Grandfather’s Coronation. The young lady seems very mature for seven, and she is ready to help Daddy with the Wales charm offensive.
Worse than ‘Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex” would be “Princess Meghan”. Which she would certainly flaunt even though it’s incorrect. Incorrectness not only doesn’t stop her, it spurs her on. Before Harry’s father became King, she would’ve tried to add “Princess Meghan of Wales”. She still might.
Harry will always be a prince of the blood, and stripping off his style of Prince would be unprecedented, I imagine. Though this is certainly an unprecedented situation CRIII is dealing with. Americans in particular would not really understand or notice the difference between HRH the Prince Henry and just Prince Harry. We’ve all known him as Prince Harry for 38 years, and despite his protestations of “just call me Harry”, That has been proven to be false humility as we see. If his birthright title went away, providing him the opportunity to have everyone just call him Harry forevermore… The whingeing would never stop. I’m sure it matters like these are occupying Charles’s mind at Balmoral as he prepares for the family summit on the future of the monarchy. I am assuming that the suggested “peace talks” with HazNowt are just more Sussex projection. Harold has wounded a Scorpio too deeply to forgive, so I don’t think there will be any peace talks. I’m sure Charles still loves his son under the pain, but I believe Operation Grey Rock is still in force. Hazmat is going to hear nothing from Balmoral except crickets.
If we recall, when the Duchess was “expecting Archie”, It was announced that after the birth of the baby, they would be posted to South Africa for a couple of years. This was swiftly retracted, but I think it did come from the Palace as a last-ditch effort to keep the Sussexes in the fold while getting them away from court, William’s family and too much publicity. The bullying report had yet to be released as well. It would appear that both of them flatly refused such a posting. This is what should’ve been done to Harold immediately after he returned from active military service, and I think he would’ve been a great deal happier to go to Africa alone. There was no way that Methane would have agreed. So it’s fairly odd that just a few months later the couple would be sent on official royal tour to South Africa, which garnered some favorable publicity but was also a disaster behind the scenes. Just a few weeks after they returned from that spectacle of a tour, they decamped to Canada.
So it’s not like Harold and his wife weren’t given plenty of chances to retain what they have thrown away, but there will never be peace or appeasement with them without giving into any and every one of their demands. So it would be fruitless to convene peace talks with parties that have no interest in peace, only discord and grabbing everything for themselves. So they have to stay out and this is what Harold is not accepting.
I bring it up here because I suspect that she is another example of the harm that can be done by a sadistic, conscience-less, attention-seeking, power-crazy, conniving, mask-wearing narcissist. Her deeds were so terrible that it is easy to see how any reports of her conduct could have been dismissed as fantasy by those who should have stopped her. They clearly hadn't ever met a toxic narcissist.
From National World:
at https://uk.news.yahoo.com/lucy-letby-sentencing-whole-life-132122957.html
Heather Carrick
Mon, 21 August 2023 at 2:21 pm BST·
Lucy Letby, the former nurse convicted of murdering seven babies and the attempted murder of six others, has been sentenced to spend her remaining life behind bars.
Letby, 33, was handed down a whole-life order for her crimes, with presiding judge Mr Justice Goss stating: “There was a malevolence bordering on sadism in your actions. During the course of this trial you have coldly denied any responsibility for your wrongdoing.
“You have no remorse. There are no mitigating factors. You will spend the rest of your life in prison.”
Letby, who refused to appear in the dock for the sentencing, has become the fourth woman in British history to be handed down such an extreme sentence. She joins a list of women, including Rose West and Myra Hindley, to be given the order as punishment for their crimes.
Whole-life orders are normally reserved as a punishment to those convicted of the most heinous crimes. Others currently in prison who are serving a whole-life order include Wayne Couzens, Levi Bellfield and Ali Harbi Ali.
Letby is also expected to live out her sentence at Durham's HMP Low Newton. The prison is home to some of the UK's most infamous female killers.
Here's everything you need to know about what could be next for Letby.
What is a whole-life order?
A whole-life order is a sentence handed down in which those convicted will never be released from prison. Compared to a mandatory life sentence, in which a prisoner must serve a minimum length of time before being considered for parole, there is no opportunity for parole for those handed a whole-life order.
Those sentenced to a whole-life order will only be released in exceptional compassionate circumstances, such as immediate medical care.
The premeditated murder of children was added to the list of crimes under which whole-life orders are deemed an appropriate sentence after the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act was passed into law last year. This means that Letby is likely to be handed the order under the new sentencing rules.
What can Lucy Letby expect at HMP Low Newton?
While reports are unconfirmed at this time, it is expected that Letby will be placed into custody in HMP Low Netwon in Durham, a close prison for females and young offenders.
The prison is infamous for holding some of the UK's most notorious murderers, including Rose West who stayed in a cell at the Durham prison for more than ten year until 2019. She has since been moved to HMP New Hall in West Yorkshire.
Another notable prisoner at the institution includes Joanna Dennehy, who is currently housed at the prison after being found responsible for the 2013 murders of three men in Peterborough.
So much public education is needed.
I think the worst punishment imaginable for a malignant narcissist isn’t torture or even death, but to spend the rest of her life in solitary confinement. Let her out one hour a day to walk the yard under guard. Do not permit her to speak to anyone or meet with anyone apart from her solicitor. Do not allow her to receive mail. Any communications can be handled through her lawyers. Give her zero chances to manipulate anyone or cry victim. Shut her away and make her a complete nonentity. It goes without saying that she should not be permitted to see any newspapers featuring her crimes or have any access whatsoever to the Internet. Give her a Bible and tell her she can spend the next 50 years staring at the wall. Such a person will either find a way to do her self in and save the taxpayers for upkeep, or she will die just for spite. My prayers go out to all the families of the babies she took from this world.
Yep, again. `Princess Henry of Wales' would soon morph thus : `Princess Henry of Wales' to `Princess Meghan of Wales' to `Meghan, Princess of Wales' to `Meghan, the Princess of Wales'. It's been obvious from the start.
I'd like to see any low-born foreign female who marries into the RF not getting a title until she's gone through the Citizenship process and passed, with no fast tracking, even if it meant noy conferring hubby's dukedom until then.
I approve your idea re 'any low-born foreign female who marries into the RF not getting a title until she's gone through the Citizenship process and passed' wholeheartedly. This is an eminently sensible idea. Had this been in place, * might have thought twice about snaring Harry, although in her delusional state, she'd be convinced she'd ace the test without studying for it.
I think to your excellent suggestion I might add that the 'low-born foreign female' (or any applicant) must also be of 'good character' and have lived in the UK for 3 years if married to a British citizen, among other requirements. I think being a girlfriend for at least two years prior to marriage should also be a must. Again, * would probably imagine the Home Office would make an exception for this would-be royal. Maybe *'s case will be a lesson to the BRF.
bet we don’t get any of that but she will flash a new ring to keep the interest in her going. hmmm an more importantly when will she launch tig 2.0 and how will she commemorate mama diana’s death later this week.
actually on my bingo card. she will allude to the divorce in her invictus moderation 😉
NY Post:
Prince Harry’s luscious new hair chopped by critics: ‘Looks like a fool’
Everyone’s talking about Prince Hairy.
Prince Harry’s new head shot just dropped on the website of the mental health “transformation” firm BetterUp — and he’s showing off a mysteriously dark, thick crop of hair.
The 38-year-old royal serves as the chief impact officer of the company, who describes him as a “humanitarian, military veteran, mental wellness advocate, and environmentalist” in his biography, alongside the picture featuring his luscious locks.
But weirdly enough, recent photos and video footage of the Duke of Sussex show him with much thinner and brighter ginger hair than his leadership team snap.
Earlier this month, Harry was photographed shopping for his wife, Meghan Markle, 42, in Tokyo — and his hair was not as abundant.
Harry also took a jab at his brother’s progressive hair loss in his bombshell memoir “Spare,” calling Prince William’s balding pate “alarming” and “more advanced than mine.”
One royal watchdog on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, sniped that “Prince Harry’s new picture on BetterUp does little to deflect from the fact that he’s balding, badly.”
They continued, “I don’t make it a habit to discuss people’s looks, but Harry started it by making fun of his brother for the same. He’s not fooling anyone anymore, and the denial of the obvious is not doing him any favors.”
“His brother accepted his hair loss with dignity, despite his brother’s jokes at his expense. Harry now looks like the fool, again, for refusing to accept that he’s not 25 anymore and needs a different haircut that works with his hair loss.”
Another commented, “He was so nasty to Wills and now it’s come back around…”
“He’s in denial about how he looks and everything else about him,” someone else remarked.
“It’s hilarious when people do this, eyes made bigger and bluer, skin flawless, hair filled in. Then you see them in Tesco without the filters,” one said.
“Why is he Khloe Kardashianing himself?” another quipped on X.
The Royal family will rue the day forever that HMTQ allowed this fast-tracked engagement and marriage. I can only think that the Queen was thrilled that her most problematic grandchild had finally found a woman who had agreed to marry him. On paper she looked viable. She was in her 30s, with an established career, and her own money (haha). She'd traveled widely, been to a good university and expressed interest in the diplomatic service. She was whip smart! She was a style icon/supermodel and humanitarian in her spare time!! It must have been hoped that a wife would help to finally mature Harold and settle him into a more productive role as befitting a senior royal.
HMTQ was an indulgent grandma. Harold certainly did not repay all of his grandmother's favor with acceptable Royal behavior. But she should have seen that coming.
It should have been put to Harold that, owing to his girlfriend being an American who had not been resident in the UK for any length of time and the very real complexities, both constitutional and practical inherent in having a commoner non-citizen joining the Royal family that M had to prove her good faith by residing in the UK for no less than two years prior to the marriage taking place. The Palace would have helped her with visas and securing employment if need be. She should have been enrolled immediately in classes to prepare for citizenship and expressed her willingness to convert to the Church of England. The latter she did do, apparently, a rush job right before the wedding . .but we all know the level of sincerity that would have entailed. Methane changes religions as often as some people change their shoes, if it's going to gain her something like a man or a berth in prestigious parochial school.
I don't know who to attribute this to, but it is so apt: "Nobody falls in love quicker than a narcissist who is in need of a place to live."
`Disney CUTS TIES with Meg Excluding Her From Invictus Games Closing Ceremonies'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxx0jca-urM
???!
According to the above source the 'peace talks' are not happening, although tabloids are running with the story: a planned meeting with his father after the IG; wife not involved but may be with him in the UK; he needs some allies with him for support ... abject apologies to wife and 'diversity training' and being invited back with a formal role to play seem to be missing from the story.
According to the above story, no such meeting is planned.
I only knew what I'd read, not being the avid royal follower that I am now. :-) I hadn't even seen a picture of her.
She seemed like she could be a good fit...a university education, interested in the diplomatic service would indicate some awareness of the BRF history, experience dealing with the press thru her Soots job, probably somewhat comfortable with media scrutiny, supposedly had $, spoke French and Spanish fluently, no apparent baggage such as children, her ex's seemed respectable enough and also out of her life. And bonus, she was half black.
Personally, I think that was the selling point to King Charles. A black member of the royal family? Icing on the cake. Piece de resistance.
I think it was Charles who fast-tracked Mm into the family. I would expect that the Queen ok'd whatever was presented to her for H's marriage. Although he does have a history of going around the rules straight to her to get what he wants. So maybe that is what happened here.
She should NEVER have let him go around the military brass to ask to be made a captain. They'd said no, she should have honored that. It seems that he did that often, went over other people's heads straight to the Queen to get what he wanted. She should not have allowed that. Not only disrespectful to the other people, but she wasn't doing H any favors.
Mm certainly was using the race card as leverage to get that wedding done.
Another possibility for Mm leverage is whatever her connection to Andrew is. If there is a connection, you can be sure that Mm threw that out there as a threat. Fast track the marriage or I will reveal what I know about Andrew.
Thinking about it, that would have much more of an impact on the Queen than the threat of racism. That would definitely have spurred her into action.
Although we have no proof…yet… It seems inevitable that the grifting Duchess had crossed paths with Andrew on the Epstein circuit even before meeting his nephew. Given what we do know about the tentacles of Soho House, how Methane had weaseled herself into the yachting and high profile circles of Toronto… How does a cable TV actress on a third rate show where she’s only a supporting player get to be such pals with the PM of Canada and a Princess of York? Andrew’s barely disguised animosity toward his nephew’s wife hints at some past history. Who among us can forget the “Scarlet Wall of York” during TTC 2019? Andrew and Anne performed an impressive choreographed maneuver to keep Harry’s hussy away from the Queen. I think Andrew would’ve as soon tossed her over, but he settled for making like a piece of masonry in his scarlet uniform.
If memory serves, Andrew’s troubles with Virginia Guiffre surfaced in the public domain the very same time H&M announced their engagement. Let’s just say where MeGain is concerned, I do not believe in coincidences.
Andrew has many faults, and There’s no way back for him after this scandal, even though he’s never been charged with any crime and his chief accused has proven herself an unreliable witness. But he had more regard for the Queen than Harold ever showed her.
I second that.
And bingo! Just like that it got settled in one or two days. And Mm in relation to that was never brought up again.
Very good post at 9.42 pm. I love your phrase 'lay-du-jour'!
You wrote 'She should have been enrolled immediately in classes to prepare for citizenship' but although I suppose you can swot for the test straight away, I would have thought it's best to learn as you go along for X years and then prepare for the test. A bit like learning the highway code first before even sitting behind the steering wheel. The witch had no intention of taking the test, she wasn't interested in the country. Anyway, too late know.
@Wild Boar
Thanks for the YouTube video, what a find! I hope it's true. I love the following: "Bob Igor, head of Disney, holds a favourable view of the Prince and Princess of Wales and is open to collaborating with them on children's projects, conveniently ignoring offers from H & M"... Ouch! Imagine Disney collaborating with *'s arch enemies. I hope she gets to hear about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sia4LPjeKpI
Do watch it. Perhaps the algorithms are on our side
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I'm confused as to Royal grift videos - there seem to be 3 that I've seen but all with the same ULR. Or have I misread these?
I meant to add that SMM has probably identified the real reason why Wm wasn't at the match - the Aussie's didn't invite him (also some question as to whether CRIII would have to visit first). he couldn't just turn up on a tourist visa.
It wouldn't have been a `private visit' but a public one, one which had financial considerations for the Aussies and would have had to be planned months in advance, just on the off-chance that we got to the Final.
About * getting to be friends with the PM of Canada, I think that the show business world of Toronto is rather small. Ben Mulroney, the ex-PM's son is in the biz, and they must have had some acquaintances in common. Justin Trudeau's wife was also in the business, and Justin has always been attracted to drama, theatre, etc.
That doesn't preclude her being involved in Soho house in some nefarious way, but the fact that she's lower down on the ladder and mixing with VIPs is not surprising.
In fact, I think that's how she got the idea to try to spread her wings in the UK. In Hollywood, she would always be a small fish in a big pond but in Canada, she realized that she could have better results in a small pond.
I have known a number of females murderers (murderesses?) but I have got to say that when it comes to Lucy Letby I smell a miscarriage of justice and so this will not be the last we will hear of her. Now if I were the Lord Chancellor the first thing I would do would be to sack all the managers and appoint Matrons and Ward Sisters. I was you see appalled by what I observed in an English Hospital back in 2003.I know three people who have voluntarily let themselves out of hospital in fear for their life.
I don't know if the Lucy Letby case is a miscarriage of justice, I haven't followed it closely because I can't bear to read about children, never mind newborn babies, being mistreated, hurt, neglected etc. but an acquaintance of mine told me that her daughter, who is a high up nurse in the NHS, has been drafted in to take part in an inquiry into the case. Other staff are being called from various parts of the country. You may well be right when you said this will not be the last we will hear of her.
I've read the details of the case, and concur with the consultants and the verdict. I think it's undeniable that she was harming these children for attention.
I saw something (UK news channel) that one of the things which they tracked was that of all the babies who died or came close to dying, she was the one person in the room in ever case. All the other nurses did not have an overlap which came close to each and every time.
When they did do the search of her home/parents home, they found a lot of notes or copies of notes on some/most? of those cases in her possession when they should not have left the hospital. Also, they found some personal notes about how she described herself as evil.
What I didn't know how they could "prove" that it happened was that air was inserted into the blood vessels. How can you prove that?
What was sad (to me) was that some doctors suspected her early on as many of the babies were doing well enough/not expected to die but were essentially run over by the administration claiming that the doctors were out of line.
You are correct that I know very little about European football. Ask me to explain the off-side rule and watch me break out in a sweat. I assumed the Lionesses had regular season matches, but if you are telling me that the Lionesses only convene under that name as the All-England team, then I think I understand your mansplain. I would like to see a Daddy-Daughter outing at some sporting event in the near future; doesn’t have to be soccer, but I send the Lionesses best wishes on their next try.
you are correct. There has been little research into the symptoms of air being injected into a human being's blood but what little there has been matches the symptoms of some of the babies. Poor wee ones.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2023
Blind Item #7
Speaking of the ginger haired one, I guess he got tired of looking at his balding head so made the failing app company who pays him millions while they lay off employees and cut the pay of the ones they keep, photoshop his photo on their site to make it look like he has a full bushy head of hair.
@Hikari
I’m sure the RF all realised
from the start,
she was a dirty rotten hound.
On paper, she was as passable
as Harry’s ‘A’ levels.
The RF, at best, thought
she might toe the line
for fancy frocks
and limelight.
No one could have forseen
the detrimental, duplicitous,
derangement..
Cheers @Maneki and @Hikari
for Lioness support ⚽️
@Opus
Why a miscarriage
of Justice?
Year in Review: H&M’s Greatest (S) Hits August 23,2022 to August 23, 2023
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/15yrudd/year_in_review_hms_greatest_shits_aug_23_2022_to/
I wanted to share this posting with everyone as it is a nearly complete list of the Duo’s shenanigans and Hollywood attempts over the course of just one year. It’s plain to see the effects of sociopathy and delusions in all their decisions. M creates chaos and drama wherever she goes that must mentally cripple Harry’s sanity as she demands he defend her. How f# c.king exhausting. All this foolishness to accomplish absolutely nothing of value to the world.*
* Except I have learned so much about paid Awards, paid puff pieces and Narcissism.
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/northern-town-france-receives-king-053706304.html
`French town receives King’s blessing to rename airport after Queen Elizabeth'
I've got quite a lump in my throat. ERII spoke fluent French which was much appreciated on the other side of La Manche.
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What might they name after *?
(Après avoir vendu de la merde aux gens pendant six ans, qu'est-ce qu'elle mérite? Thanks, Google Translate!)
Reply in English svp.
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Thinking of which, a wag over on SMM has posted an image of what she might produce from her whinery. The label reads:
Meghan Markle Wine
Made from sour grapes.
This is a full-bodied and bitter vintage
guaranteed to leave a nasty taste in your
mouth for years.
Grown in pure bullshit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/15yn4sh/i_like_wine_but_not_from_this_vineyard/
(My apologies if this is a double post)
How did I miss this article (published in March this year)? It is a long article (and informative) but the essence is:
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As Grigoriadis explained in the podcast and in her Vanity Fair story, the wife of Prince Harry is an ambitious “striver” who has long sought to be “a household name” and to rise above her family’s middle-class but unconventional “shaggy-dog tale” existence. To do that, she worked hard in high school and college, struggled to make it in Hollywood, aggressively courted press attention as a B-list cable TV actor and crafted narratives about her life that are not necessarily aligned with “reality.” Grigoriadis agreed that the latter is a very Hollywood thing to do.
“What we know now about her is that she has a sort of a strange relationship to objective reality,” Grigoriadis said. “She has this warped reality and then she marshalls evidence underneath it to support a thesis that may not be the case.”
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In the podcast interview, Gold doesn’t ask Grigoriadis if Meghan is “delusional.” But he said he wonders how the former TV actor compares to the narcissists and sociopaths the writer met doing investigative stories on the NXIVM cult. Grigoriadis said Meghan isn’t “a psychopath,” but she said it’s her “hunch” that there is something off about “all of them” — meaning Meghan and her family.
As Meghan has been in the eye for close to seven years, she has begun to reveal some problems with “authenticity,” as Gold said. Grigoriadis described how those issues became apparent to her when she first reported on Meghan in 2018. Grigoriadis was told by people who knew the former “Suits” star that she can easily come across as warm and personable, but that she also isn’t “someone you can be friends with.”
Grigoriadis also mentioned a writer colleague, who spent a day with Meghan at her home in California, for a magazine profile.
“Her takeaway was, ‘This person just is not on the level,'” Grigoriadis said, with her friend also saying, “I don’t want to be here.”
When the engagement was announced, I think any reasonable person gave this union five years at the outside. Despite all of her self promotion as a polyglot humanitarian who’d worked for the foreign service, I think she outed herself as a gold digging aging starlet wanna be from the off. However, we did not know about the depths of sociopathy at that time. I figured she would be a spendthrift and probably not dress appropriately, but no one could have predicted how egregiously, brazenly destructive she was going to be. There’s being benignly gauche and spendy, like Fergie— But Harry’s wife is a whole other level.
I also never expected the “children” con. The extent of her manipulation and probable insanity came out when the moon bump Mountbatten Windsor show commenced. Now their toxicity is thermonuclear. The Sussexes aren’t just workshy, disorganized and bad with money… They are both crazy. Turning them loose on their own recognizance has only proven that more and more every day since they ran off to North America. How is this going to end? Is it going to end? The world is entirely fatigued by these two unhinged tossers.
On paper, she was as passable
as Harry’s ‘A’ levels.
LOL
@BarkJack_
It is not true the entire relationship is dead. I can unequivocally state this with precision due to close ties with certain people in Royalty.
The Royal Family continue to remain cordial, at arms length and under strict provision (rules to follow) when dealing with Sussexs'
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There's no formal meeting or indication H scheduled in King's immediate wks ahead)...
IF they meet, it will be as much loved family. No agenda items. It is not "peace talks" - no negotiation.
NO different for KC3 than at lunch with a Commoner.
https://twitter.com/BarkJack_
I watched that video you recommended but I am having a hard time drawing conclusions from it.
What do you think of it?
"I have known a number of females murderers" whereas want I had intended to type was "I have known a number female murderers".
I know the apostrophe was missing but it was women who have killed not those who have been done in by my sex that I intended to reference. As such I do not doubt the ability of women to kill and frankly that was a glass ceiling much as we men and with mysogyny aforethought tried to prevent being broken that you smashed through many centuries ago.
So why I am asked do I have doubts as to the verdict and that I concede is with knowing very little about the case. This is not the place to set out any grounds of appeal. I will not do that but will merely observe that 1. miscarriages of justice are not unknown, 2. there are plenty of people on the net who have set out in broad terms what is wrong or disturbing about the case. 3. All the evidence is circumstantial and thus with the possibility of jumping to the wrong conclusion.
The Royal Grift published her second video on the London Scoop messages, and it is very good.
What she does not say is that TBW claims to have known Eugenie and befriended her, before she got herself set up with hapless. It never occured to me before, but was Eugenie the one who got the two of them connected (the secret mutual friend)?
She does go over stuff we all know but it is worth hearing it summarized and repeated: the deals that were in place before Megxit, the deviant behaviour in the short time she was within the family, the appalling callousness displayed when Phillip was actively dying ... But, overall, Megsie is not a cool, calculated master mind; rather she is a ruthlessly self-serving grifter who is not nearly as bright as she claims to be.
Thanks for alerting me to the post from WBBM, which has the link to part 1 video from The Royal Grift on the London Scoop messages.
https://youtu.be/sia4LPjeKpI?si=BSyJ65b8LaMaP-Lu
I had read the London Scoop messages when they were first published by Skippy and then recently republished. The two videos from The Royal Grift are excellent.
It is a rabbit hole of conspiracy, but it is intriguing and everything seems to line up. Basically, TBW was 'recruited' to infiltrate the royal family as a 'warning', but she went rogue and grabbed for marriage and whatever else she could get. I reckon that her grandiose narcissism and delusions might have blinded her to become ng used and she concocted her own stories and followed her own agenda.
It's more or less what I've always suspected,
I never found it easy to believe that she got that far on her own, rather her strings were being pulled by another party. I even wondered if a monarchical downfall was bring planned to coincide with the 2020 400th anniversary of Mayflower setting sail from Harwich/Southampton /Plymouth, as the case may be. (Nothing came of the plans for Plymouth UK, thanks to Covid.)
Nobody here thought much of that interpretation, altho' I said that even if something looks a conspiracy theory, it doesn't mean it isn't. It was when she opened her trap about UK & EU, even as the engagement was announced, I smelled a rat. It all unrolled from there.
Real rabbit holes do have additional exits to the outside (Lewis Carroll, like Kenneth Graeme, wasn't much of a naturalist!) - it looks as this metaphorical one may have one as well.
I'd `predicted' that she'd produce a couple of children within the first 2-3 years, then decamp to Hollywood to be a huge box-office draw. H to follow if he wanted, otherwise he could fight her for the kids, assuming of course that the marriage went ahead. As events turned out, I gave up looking ahead for more then 2 weeks at a time!
As someone said earlier today (here or on SMM) she had it all but spoiled it by `being herself'. She's a lousy actress.
River has found out that the duo asked if they could visit Balmoral and have a summit/peace talk negotiations with the King (the narrative they have been pushing since before the coronation). Although the family are open to a private visit from him this summer, the wife is not welcome at Balmoral (just as when the late Queen died), and they are not interested in any kind of summit or negotiations.
Is there another strategic reason she was set up to penetrate the RF, perhaps as an agent provocateur to push the RF into revealing themselves in a very bad light? (Remember the report/rumour that someone had sought to recruit a mixed-race woman to marry a European prince?). Was the intention that it should be carried out in a controlled way, so that the sympathy of the People was with the new bride, not the Family and they would welcome a republic, with large financial spin-offs for the plotters?
Instead of which her greed got the better of her, her `constructed self' didn't include any authentic goodness, only all the nasty things that human nature can demonstrate. She alienated the People to the extent that even those who've never experienced narcissistic destruction began to catch on, yet still she proceeded as before, incapable of working out what had gone wrong. She is unable to conduct herself in a civilised manner, not can she act the part of a decent person.
Perhaps one day we may see that we were fortunate that she did not stick to whatever script she'd been given and was incapable of following directions, stage or otherwise. Had her backers chosen more wisely, we might have found ourselves in a revolution by now, with no idea how it had happened.
All speculation, of course.
I read somewhere that Harold wanted to date and marry Rihana. He actually thought that this drug smoking singer would be an appropriate spouse for him. So, I think the issue about a mixed race marriage was already discussed prior to * arriving on the scene. I don't know if Harold was considering this to annoy his family or to meet the diversity quota that seems to exist everywhere now.
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That's always been my thought.
I also think Mm deliberately befriended E in an attempt to infiltrate H's inner circle. And E was too stupid and not savvy enough to see through Mm and bought into Mm's false friendliness.
It’s hard to imagine Harold giving a fig about diversity quotas, so I’d guess the former. I vaguely remember H being linked with Rihanna, but I can’t remember if they actually were dating, or he just met her during a VIP concert event and they shared some photo ops. My imagination fails at Ri-Ri being remotely interested in the ginger tosser, even if he was Royal… But this would’ve been eight, 10 years ago? HazNowt was slightly more appealing than he is now, certainly had more hair.
Rihanna would have been a strange choice for a Royal bride, but look what he got! Any concept of strange or inappropriate is now forevermore Measured against the thing that was allowed into the royal family. In that light, Ri-Ri has Quite a few things to recommend her over what he ended up with:
1. She is a bona fide talent and wildly successful both artistically and financially. Any idea that she would want to marry into royalty for gold-digging purposes is moot. Besides her recording and concert career, she is a songwriter for other artists and also a businesswoman with some product lines— Deluxe handbags and cosmetics I believe under her birth name, Fenty.
2. She’s gorgeous.
3. She hails from the Commonwealth.
I doubt her views on monarchy are favorable, and she is fond of the ganja. But Harry’s current wife meets both of these conditions as well, so on balance, Rihanna would have been a better bet. * wishes she were Rihanna.
Meghan Markle’s father denies involvement in Harry and Meghan’s ‘tacky’ Montecito tour
If you’d like to read this short article it’s best to simply google the headline.
8 September: anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's death. The King (and presumably the Queen as well) will spend the day in quiet reflection at Balmoral. Rumoured that the Prince and Princess of Wales will be doing some kind of public acknowledgement of the significance of the day. How will the duo grab attention on that day?
9 September: IG official opening in Germany. She is only scheduled to be part of the closing ceremony, so will she be with him?
Interesting ... what a monarch gives, a monarch can take away!
There once no fewer than 3, if not 4, Duchesses of Argyll simultaneously, IIRC. The 11th Duke had 4 marriages and 3 divorces. His second son, Colin (from his 1st wife), is the ex-husband of Lady C, hence her being called `Lady Colin Campbell - to the reported annoyance of her ex.
Diana had to drop the definite article when she and Charles divorced, becoming `Diana, Princess of Wales' rather than `the Princess of Wales', a subtle but important distinction, deemed to be too subtle for most folk hence Camilla used `the Duchess of Cornwall'(Down here, Charles was Duke of Cornwall, not Prince of Wales anyway).
So yes, if H lives to fight another day, we may have a string of Sussex duchesses.
The article about *'s 'delusions' which Sandie posted a link to has 'before' & 'after' photos of her; the 'before' photo is with her father. She has obviously spent a lot of money & effort on alterations to her appearance.
I actually like her 'before' appearance better than the pseudo Grace Kelly face she has tried to give herself. The young girl in the photo, with her chubby cheeks & natural hair, seems to have two traits we have never seen in ILBW, humor & honesty. She looks likable.
She has a wry smile which in others might indicate a ready wit. It seems to have morphed into what many call *'s 'smirk.' Has she changed, or just revealed her true character?
We know her mother was absent for long periods in her life, and she's found it necessary to alter her appearance in a fairly dramatic way, perhaps as a reaction to the demands of Hollywood. Did these two things make her angry?
There is a lot of talk about NPD here & elsewhere. Is NPD rooted in self-hatred, or is it just an extreme version of selfishness? Her actions are so bizarre, & often self defeating. It's difficult not to engage in some arm chair psychology.
Your comments about how her looks in time, reminded me of this video. To me, she has a totally different look than I think of her as now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4cwqOa7JFE&t=172s
After all that he has done there is no way in the hell he will ever be in the same situation with his family as in the time before "that woman".
The King and William may forgive him but they will never forget what has happened. They have no choice. They have the realm and the commonwealth to run.
William can not let Harry near his children. His job as a father is to protect them. And the destruction that Harry has caused his own children is horrifying. Those poor kids are growing up in a world where no one knows whether they a) exist b) are Harry's own children c) are his wife's children d) are born to be legally in the line of succession e) are b*st*rds in a royal family. The family will be unable to protect them against the filthy newspaper stories for the rest of their lives.
Harry does not give a s**t about his own offspring. The destructive harm he can cause to the Wales children is scary.
How could there be any full time role in the institution for a royal duke like Harry? No way.
I surmise that Mrs. Todger realizes that she is a nobody without Mr. Todger; and, they are dead broke and need income.
. . . The young girl in the photo, with her chubby cheeks & natural hair, seems to have two traits we have never seen in ILBW, humor & honesty. She looks likable.
She has a wry smile which in others might indicate a ready wit. It seems to have morphed into what many call *'s 'smirk.' Has she changed, or just revealed her true character?
We know her mother was absent for long periods in her life, and she's found it necessary to alter her appearance in a fairly dramatic way, perhaps as a reaction to the demands of Hollywood. Did these two things make her angry?
My favorite iteration of * is as a curly-haired toddler with a few teeth laughing with her Daddy. She seemed like a happy baby. Thomas seemed over the moon with his little girl, and until things went so far south, * shared many anecdotes of his loving attention, like purchasing multiple sets of dolls at the toy store so she could assemble a family that looked like hers. Was she already damaged beyond repair in such early childhood or did that happen later?
Doria, in typical Narc fashion, moved in on the divorced, much older lighting director in her first weeks as a makeup trainee on the set of "General Hospital". Within 6 or 8 weeks she'd moved in with Tom, and d'ya know, she never went back to work to finish that makeup course. Guess she'd found her meal ticket. This was circa 1977. Tom was the primary custodial parent of the teenage Samantha and Tom, Jr. Tom, Jr., at the time in middle school credits his stepmother with intervening with the school board when the district was implementing mandatory busing for integration purposes, petitioning them to allow Tom to stay in his school rather than be bused an hour-plus across the city to a more 'diverse' school. The fact that Doria was black must have carried some weight with them because Tom was allowed to stay where he was. He got his helping of racial diversity at home. The couple got married in 1979, a Christmas wedding in some whack-a-doo New Agey church Doria was affiliated with. Flower wouldn't debut until 18 months later, which is quite surprising, considering that a pregnancy trap is a tried and true method for a Narc to lock her mark down. Tom and Doria were having too much fun partying. Tom was on hiatus from the show for a while but after the birth of Flower, he went back to long days on set. According to Tom, Jr., his stepmother spent much of her days in her pajamas, smoking weed in the driveway while her infant daughter was unattended inside the house. Tom, Sr. admitted that he had participated in the partying when he wasn't working but after he returned to work, it dawned on him the shocking amount of dope his wife consumed, more or less constantly throughout the day.
I have never ruled out that Flower was the victim of sexual abuse from one of her mother's hangers-on or even one of her Ragland relatives. I do not want to cast aspersions at any of her family, but Doria was too high to pay attention to her daughter, so who knows what may have happened. Flower's sexual exhibitionism and mercenary attitude toward it is consistent with sexual trauma in childhood. Most sex workers were abused as children and that numbs one to attaching any emotional meaning to sex as a self-defense mechanism. Such children are also indocrinated with the false belief that they aren't worth any attention apart from what their bodies can provide.
It is said that one's bedrock personality is formed by the age of 8. She was 8 or 9 when she acted like a little monster at her best friend's birthday party, so the diva exhbitionism and entitlement was already in force. A person who'd behave that badly at someone else's birthday behaved equally badly at home and everywhere else. Most kids try to be on their best behavior when they are guests in another adult's home. She was 11 and in the fifth grade during the infamous Nickolodeon film crew visit to her school re. the dish soap commercial. Despite being an objectively homely child, she was already at ease snatching the lions' share of attention from anyone else in the class and though it was a class project, the segment ended up being all about MeMe as some biracial prepubescent second coming of Hillary Clinton. I understood why when I read that Thomas was acquainted with Linda Ellerbee and had contacted her about featuring his kid in a segment. So as early as that, Tom was acting as her chief cheerleader and unofficial agent/manager.
I did not see a wry, witty child, but a little snotrocket who loved the limelight. There's a fleeting scowl on her face in one frame--she's apparently 'reacting' to the commercial that she's watching on a monitor with the class but divorced from that context . . it is the menacing scowl of a junior sociopath. It's a juvenile version of the look Duchess Dumbarton gave to her mother for daring to speak once. I do not think little Flower was popular with her classmates when cameras weren't rolling, but she always knew how to snow the teachers. An ingratiating manner and nice handwriting seems to trick a lot of educators into thinking that a student is a good kid.
In sum, I think her bizarre behavior and unique relationship with objective reality as regards herself and her decisions is rooted in maternal rejection and abandonment that she felt as a child, the bulk of the damage being done before she was old enough to articualate or even understand what she was feeling. Doria was an unfit mother, a Narc who produced a junior version of herself. Not consciously, of course but how could it be otherwise? The same things being done to Harry were done to Thomas a generation ago by her mother. It's a family business, you might say.
I think her traits were only exacerbated by growing up in Hollywood and picking show business for a career, despite a resounding lack of intrinsic talent or the work ethic necessary to become one of the 5% who are gainfully employed in the acting profession. If she'd kept her nose clean, buckled down to her studies at NW and passed the foreign service exam, who knows where she might be now? We probably wouldn't know of her, had she chosen the diplomatic service . . and she'd still be a narcissist, but she still may have done some good for the world anyway. High-achieving Narcs can be very industrious. They love control and their standards of others are insanely high, but that's why they make effective CEOs . . .or world leaders.
I was reading this morning that H was going solo to the WellChild awards and will "'snub his family' - as it is revealed he faces having to ask King if he can stay at Frogmore Cottage". I'd say * is persona non grata as far as the BRF is concerned. She's flying straight to Germany.
@Fifi
The New York Post quoted Angela Levin today about Mr. & Mrs. Todger wanting to rent an apartment at Kensington Palace so that they can help out with the RF.
I didn't read the article but I can't see how the Harkles can 'help out with the RF'. I don't think they'd be allowed to and I'm sure * is barred from setting foot in any royal property.
@VetusSacculi
I never paid much attention to your name but I've have just had a birthday and feel now I'm an old bat. I looked at your name now and still have enough Latin to realise its meaning...
'Fozia Khan, unscripted lead for UK Originals for Amazon Studios, said the team were 'shocked and disappointed' but ultimately made the decision to continue the show.' [Clarkson's Farm] They know which side their bread is buttered on. Hypocrites. Incidentally, a lot of people agreed with him.
JAN MOIR: Harry may be coming home, but there's a burnt out bombsite where his family used to be
Royal-watchers spotted a cloud of black smoke rising over assorted palaces and castles this week, part of a sad new ritual called the Bonfire of the Olive Branches. For when it comes to relations between the Royal Family and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, we're looking at a burnt-out bombsite where a family used to be.
Relations are at rock bottom, clemency is in the deep freeze. The outstretched hand has been withdrawn and the peace pipe has been doused with a thousand duchessy tears. It is over.
In September, Prince Harry will visit the UK to attend an awards ceremony for the WellChild charity on the day before the anniversary of the Queen's death. But there are no plans to meet his father or his brother. Apparently, he is not even going to the private family dinner at Windsor to remember Elizabeth II.
He then goes on to Germany for the Invictus Games, where his wife will fly out to join him.
The message from Meghan couldn't be clearer. She is never going to set foot in the grey, cake-filled, miserable UK again if she can possibly help it.
Perhaps being forbidden to attend the Queen's deathbed at Balmoral — to shed light, to empower, to recommend a turmeric cleanse and some yoga stretches to the woman she never knew as Gan-Gan — was the last straw. And if there is a role for her as wifely appeaser to help heal the rift between her husband and his family, she has chosen to avoid that, too. As is her right.
But there is a puzzling disconnect about all this bitter friction.
The Duke and Duchess keep embracing big themes such as reconciliation and family. They talk earnestly of healing, humanity and hope but, somehow, never apply these messages to themselves and their relationships with their families, which are as toxic as a giant hogweed swamp.
Consider that poor Thomas Markle, living alone in a dusty Mexican border city just 250 miles south of Montecito, has yet to meet his grandchildren. It also seems unlikely that King Charles will ever get a second chance to meet Lilibet, his granddaughter. And that is terribly sad.
I note that the Duchess accompanied the Duke to the WellChild Awards in 2018 and 2019 but is not attending this year. A shame, for it is a moving ceremony held to celebrate the achievements and resilience of children with severe illness and the families who look after them.
That first year, the Duchess was pregnant with her first child, Archie — it had yet to be announced to the public — and the Duke paid tribute to her on stage.
The following year, he broke down during his speech at the same event, saying: 'It pulls at my heartstrings in a way I could never have understood until I had a child of my own.'
He is so right. When it works properly, family is everything. Family is your home port, the wind beneath your wings. Family is more than name-napping your grandmother's nickname for your own child. Family is not a seized opportunity to build a business on a royal name and a heritage you like to denigrate when it suits.
It has been seven years since Harry met Meghan. It is five years since they married, three years since they stepped down as royals, two years since their infamous interview with Oprah, one year since the Queen died.
In this time, Harry has cratered his existence as he knew it and lost the only father and brother he will ever know. In elevating his and Meghan's joint status and virtue by ruthlessly tearing down the legacy and reputation of the Windsors, he has reached this bleak point of no return.
Prince Harry is coming home, but there is nowhere for him to go. His involvement in the Invictus Games and charities such as WellChild is the very best of him. But surely the day will soon dawn when he comes to regret losing what he says he prizes the most: his family.
That article by Jan Moir is gut-wrenching.
I do believe that all the rumours about 'peace talks' are from her and stem from a very twisted person.
To add fuel to fire, the latest Palace Confidential features highlights from the duo in the past year ... highlights of just how badly they messed up!
Shade-Shifters
They’re truly perverse
Live their lives in reverse
Switching up
to garner more drama
Arch and Lil always hidden
And swamped in the midden
First words were
Mada and Dama…
* seems to be a person who didn't like the life she was born into or her experience of it as she grew older, so she made up an alternate reality for herself. She's using her newly acquired fame & wealth to foist her delusions on the public.
She seems so desperate to hold onto this alternate universe she's created in her head, even referring to herself as a 'young mother.' Young on what planet? It boggles the mind. She has had access to an apparatus of very sophisticated publicists, but she's more like the crazy person ranting on a street corner, in spite of their efforts.
WME is going to have to make her look sane before they can sell her personality. American advertising has occasionally used nutty personae to sell things with great success, like Joe Isuzu, but the actor who played him & his employers were completely sane.
I don't think ILBW is in on the joke. We pay attention to her because she's a train wreck, but she thinks she's the one who's putting one over on us. She can draw clicks, but can she move product? If I were a big commercial enterprise, I don't think I'd bite. There's interesting & there's uncomfortable.
Happy 25th Birthday Maneki😘
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Meghan Markle is reportedly planning a huge acting comeback as the former Suits star is currently in talks with "big name directors and producers" and believes an Oscar award could be in her future, an insider has claimed.
As Meghan is being told that there is a demand for her to return to Hollywood with a newfound interest in her former show Suits, she has begun planning the next step of her career. An insider revealed to Life & Style Magazine: "Suits is such a hit in reruns that Meghan's being told there's a demand from fans to see her act again. She's excited." They added: "While she'd love to land a new TV part, Meghan really wants to sink her teeth into a dramatic film role. She thinks an Oscar would be in her future."
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/us-celebrity-news/meghan-markle-reportedly-talks-big-30780219
Haha! Thanks 😉. Your birthday wishes are well appreciated.
@VetusSacculi
Thank you for my company in the bag department 😁 (I ain't no spring chicken but I've been assured I don't look like an old bag)
@ArabellaRober19
Word has it that Karl Lawson has always been and continues to be on mm’s payroll. Not surprising really. It was mm who came up with the idea of the $1200 tour of her home and her life.
https://twitter.com/ArabellaRober19/status/1695084127337210192
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So * is taking money for buses to drive by her home? Anyone here anything about this?
If Harry’s wife invested a fraction of the mental obsession and industriousness she devotes toward facade management and carrying out vendettas toward those she feels wronged by into activities of actual substance, she might’ve actually gotten somewhere in becoming the person she tries to promote herself as. It doesn’t matter how many publicists or agents she hires to burnish her image, or how many publications she buys… Her con was not sustainable over time because there is simply no “there” there to build upon. It’s all puffery without foundation. I think that her IQ would probably test in the above average range; she graduated from a top university ostensibly, and knows a lot of big words even though she doesn’t always apply them correctly. Her problem is that she expects everything she wants instantaneously, with no concentrated and consistent effort on her part. She just wants to be given everything on demand and worshiped, but her persona is as flimsy as a soap opera set. In the short term it filmed OK on camera but it was only ever cheap plywood painted up to look better than it was.
I can’t really imagine what her days are like, or what it’s like sharing a house with her. When does she ever sleep, since obsessively come in the Internet for mentions of yourself and harassing critics Hass to be a 24/7 job? When she makes public appearances, They appear excessively micromanaged yet impulsively thrown together at the same time. That is a feat unique to Harry’s wife. She joined the royal family and whether or not she accepted it, she was completely in over her head from the beginning. Lacking the resident humility and gumption to except her place in the pecking order whilst subjugating her ego to the service of the monarch and without the robust ability to withstand public criticism, she was never going to make it. Though I think she was never sincere in wanting to fit in and from the moment the RF let her in, she aggressively worked to undermine them. When she turned up in public unkempt, high and refused to follow protocol, was that a symptom of her ‘fragile mental health’ they were unsympathetic toward, or did she purposely look and act as bad as possible so she could later claim racism after receiving criticism for her behavior and appearance?
It’s hard to know because with Harry’s wife I think a calculated agenda is all mixed together with a pernicious princess fantasy. She wants it both ways. What she wanted was to be the Princess of Wales— Only, someone was inconveniently already in that place, possessing the beauty, poise, figure, personality, children, jewelry, wardrobe and mist importantly— Husband that made me felt entitled to for herself. Consequently that person had to be taken down in her mind. She seems to be a mix of cunning agenda with forethought and completely impulsive immature toddler mentality behavior. This is certainly a rare combination. On the one hand, some of her schemes seem the work of a deviously intelligent strategic thinker. Then we get toddler tantrums and pap walks with dolls that are absolutely unhinged. Which one is she? In addition to the narcissism could be a split personality disorder? If that’s the case then both personalities suffer from narcissism, and the unique kind of blindness towards her own qualities and abilities that seems to accompany that disorder.
@Maneki
Felicitations of the day… Are you really only 25? �� You are barely out of the egg. You are the age the Duckarse has gotten stuck in in her twisted mind. Enjoy being really 25 for as long as it lasts, it’s a brief season only but enjoy the spring, as River would say.
I was first called an old bag thirty years ago, by yobs who yelled from an overtaking car as I cycled up a steep hill - was told to get out of the road. The next time I set out on my bike I wore a helmet (hiding prematurely-grey hair), shorts and vest top - got wolf-whistled by a lorry driver. Misogyny takes strange forms.
Perhaps we should do what Bebe Daniels did in `Life with the Lyons ' - perpetually insist she was 32...
Thank you for your felicitations of the day. Sadly, no, I'm not 25! Only a few (cough, cough) years older. I think @Magatha was being humourous! So no, I'm not barely 'out of the egg'! 25 was along time ago, but thank you for your nice, kind post.
The “insider” (Harry’s Wife) is fantasy-projecting again.
She will be never be hired for another acting job unless it’s a skin flick on the Internet.
Any day now I expect to see pictures of her at a mall in Santa Barbara selling autographs. Followed by a Tiffany style mall fashion show! This is her true level. The approximately two years she spent as a princess of the United Kingdom is just a fever dream.
I suspected that you may have been 25 some while ago but I didn’t like to assume. We all have a favorite birthday, don’t we? My 25th… Not seeing exactly how long ago that was, but let’s just call it the 1990s… was very special to me also. I celebrated it in Portland Oregon with a group of people I was preparing to go to Japan to teach English with. Our flight was two days after my birthday. A new friend of mine in our group has a birthday exactly one week before mine, So we had a joint birthday cake. It would be my last birthday Stateside for six years. In retrospect, it’s been a long downhill slide since then! Another birthday is encroaching upon me soon, and I can’t help feeling a little maudlin and nostalgic. I’d love to say I was enjoying my middle age much more than I enjoyed my 20s, but that wouldn’t be honest. Aging gracefully is learning how to accommodate one’s losses and still find reasons to get up in the morning. The Dukes& Duchess of Sussex have, despite themselves, become inadvertent mental health coaches to everyone in the world, but not in the way that they think. When you were having a really crappy day, or a crappy month or even a crappy year, and you get to feeling down about yourself and the way your life is going.., Just hop on the Internet for a few minutes of feel good Hairball and Methane stories. You can tell yourself that whatever mistakes you have made, you have not f’ed up your life like THAT. There’s still hope and you can still turn things around, unlike the No Accounts of Dumbarton. After a few belly laughs over how Methane plans to be an EGOT winner in a year or two, You’ll be smiling to beat the band. If you’re healthy enough physically and mentally not to require drug rehab or psychiatric incarceration, you are doing a lot better than the Montecito Twats.
So happy birthday again, no matter what number it is. We’ll just keep calling it 25 For as long as you like. Would you like us to throw in happy birthday to a vulnerable young mother as well, because we’d be happy to. LOL
I haven't been called an old bag (yet!) but I like your suggestion that like Bebe Daniels we insist we're 32.
Thanks for your happy birthday wishes but enough about me now, the blog is about * & H. Talking of which, the 'vulnerable young mother' has been quiet for a while. She must be working on her 'bravery and resilience' speech for Invictus or working out who to cadge a lift from in their private jet.
Maybe German Chancellor Scholz will send the national jet for her and invite her to address the Bundestag while she waits for the closing ceremony of the IG. After all, she is a prospective Oscar winner very soon, and the Germans are very fond of cinema. Maybe some of them are even watching Suits right now!
WME must be feeding *'s ego with the idea she could restart a career in film/television. Think * is taking acting lessons, voice lessons, dance, movement, practicing improvisational? No, she ain't doing any of that. It's all just gonna be handed to her, and she's Oscar material. Popcorn anyone?
I would think that it would be a miserable existence, but they must enjoy it. If they don't enjoy it, why continue perpetuating the misery?
An excellent suggestion although the German national jet doesn't have quite the same cachet as Air Force One. The Luftwaffe would be a better choice. I eagerly anticipate *'s presence on stage at Invictus. The speech might even be in German (isn't she fluent?) and the dress will be another example of sartorial elegance (Megs's style).
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Marketing expert Kent Moore, who runs OneEyedSocial and has worked with actors such as Star Trek’s Sir Patrick Stewart, said: ‘I think she would instantly shoot into the top ten highest-paid influencers in the world.
‘Her status is unique because she is a celebrity, actress and royalty.
'Meghan could charge a million dollars per post as an absolute minimum.
‘That sum would rise quickly if her partnerships achieve global coverage and traction.
‘Brands could want to align with her for campaigns over a couple of years, featuring several posts and even personal appearances.
I presume this is the new Tig. $1M per post does seem optimistic. Will this new venture fare any better than Spotify and Netflix? I doubt it.
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Reminds me of the question....when are you going to stop beating your head against thY brick wall?
When it hurts enough, you'll stop.
Apparently it hasn't hurt enough yet for either Harkle.
Blind Item #4
The alliterate one is going to cast herself in the lead role of the project she had the streamer buy. She has been looking at actor's to star with which is why she was supposed to meet with the A+/A list actor last week and he blew it off even after coming out there to meet with her. I wrote last week that he decided to hang out with his 20 something instead, but now we know what the meeting was about.
The latest manifestations Re. Working with A-list directors and becoming an influencer commanding $1M per post is just her 2020 vision board reheated and served up again. Just more rinse and repeat of the same broken record we’ve been listening to for the last 3+ years. Covid tanked her plans to dominate Hollywood after her “triumphant return” with a Royal title and Royal husband in tow. Ha. There’s nothing new here… just new shills to repeat it. She’s paying WME a crap ton of money to “field offers” for her. They are going to string her along for their retainer as long as they can until her behavior gets so egregious they have to cut her loose. If they tell her there is no work for her and no offers to star in Oscar vehicles are going to be forthcoming, she’ll throw a fit, stop paying and sue. They have to wait until they can release her for cause. She’s latched on to some positive pep talk spin they wove her when courting her business and you can bet she thinks that is a promissory note. If Ari
Emmanuel doesn’t already regret signing her on, he’s a fool.
Say, how much alcohol do you think those vision boards comes with for those visions to be written in permanent marker? Those fantasies need a LOT of assistance.
Doria at a private party with the Kardashians, happily posing for loads of photographs. True colours showing? I roll my eyes!
I did not check this post, until now. The private party where Doria was showing off her new connections in trashy celebrity wealth, was in honour of Lauren Sanchez, the 'living homage to plastic surgery' fiancee of Jeff Bezos.
DM has the full story with all the pics.
My opinion: hapless was always just a means to a goal for the mother and daughter: lots of money and all the material benefits of such wealth, tabloid attention, and mixing with very wealthy people. TBW is boasting about making 1 million for just one IG post, so of what use is hapless now?
Gossip is of him divorcing her, but what if she is now ready to ditch him?
I think *'s 1$M per Instagram post is just an estimate and that's it's been vastly inflated. Obviously, we'll have to see what happens if and when the project gets off the ground but judging from past experience, I don't think there's anything to get excited about.
Harold may well be surplus to requirements at this stage.
All of her failures haven't made her change her mind about that.
This is the psychology of the best seller The Law of Attraction.
The funny thing is that she has received the opportunities she wanted, but failed to follow through with them with hard work, keeping the peace with her co-workers, being polite and grateful to the people who gave you those opportunities, etc because those parts aren't in the book. LOL
Are H's forearms in shadow or covered by tattooing? If he's had his legs done as well, he'd look as if he has bad varicose veins.
Rach is going to go full praying mantis and eat everyone alive at WME on Monday morning for not getting her $1 million/post on Instagram.
H's forearms are in shadow and I see no evidence of tattoos. I can't imagine him or anyone else in the RF sporting tattoos.
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The reality family went out of their way this weekend to not only host the mother of the alliterate one, but also introduce her to people because they would like to do some business with the alliterate one. That is a long way removed from helping the people's of the world. The next thing you know the alliterate one will be working with the business manager of the reality family and trying to put the ginger haired one in a conservatorship
he really looks like a rat in this pic.
I haven’t seen the pic under discussion, but would it really be surprising if Hairball has gotten some ink? Indeed it’s hard to imagine royals getting inked up, and would be strenuously against dress code. Even if King Charles is far more lenient in matters of grooming than his late mother (Would he give two farts if Catherine or Sophie wanted to wear colored nail varnish for example?) I think visible tattoos would have to be strictly verboten still. Which is exactly why I think Hairball would entertain getting some. It would be an act of rebellion, but he’s no longer under the oversight of Royal protocol. Flouting protocol is his MO; look at those manky surfer boi Bead bracelets and necklaces he always wears. You don’t see any of the other Royals sporting Streetfair junk like that. He never takes them off. He grew the beard circa 2014 in defiance of military regulations, and when his COs complained, He just went whining to granny and was allowed to keep it. If he’s been told all of his life to avoid tattoos, that would be a perfect incentive for him to do it. Concerns about propriety and royal tradition wouldn’t trouble him at all. He’s still got more money than sense and what else is he really doing with his time? Does he check in for an hour a month at BetterUp even? The guy has no proper job or occupation besides hedonism and doing dope. He’s got plenty of time for the tat chair, and could even get someone to do house calls for enough money.
@Sandie
It’s my contention that Hairball and the Mrs. live in separate hotels. Ergo no private gym. Even if the Montecito pile was a short term rental, for the purposes of Netflix filming, I think that agreement has come to an end. I think they’re both officially homeless, and just spinning more BS about where they actually live. As for the kids— What kids, say I. Rental babies, just like the house.
I genuinely couldn't detect any tattoos on H's arms and personally, I would be very surprised if H had any. Maybe a small one on a discreet part of his anatomy, who knows, but not visible ones. Charles might be more relaxed than the Queen where nail varnish is concerned - I'm sure I saw photos of Sophie with red nails - but tattoos must be strictly a no-no. H might flout convention at times but I'd say even for him tattoos would be a bridge too far.
So there are all these pictures of (say) Doria with this or that person. It is all appears to be friendly. Heck, lots of famous people are at this party. Everyone appears to be friends or maybe friends with friends up to a certain level.
So ... how does all these great pictures happen to magically appear from ... a private party?
Please. Enlighten me. This isn't the only private party which has ever happened on the planet (as my local paper has lots of similar pictures in the society pages). ... explain how you think this can happen = pictures from a private party appear or sold.
It just seems so convenient in a way not unlike a movie from Hallmark when someone is trying to convince the world that they have all these friends. Or that I missed a great party I was never invited to.
I doubt highly that Hairball would have the intestinal fortitude or commitment to get significant tat work done. Sleeves would take months of painful visits of several hours’ duration each. That would require a discipline and a tolerance for pain that I doubt he has.
But considering what he has done to his family and to his dying grandparents over the years since he’s been with *, I don’t think there is anything that constitutes a bridge too far for H. SPARE and Netflix and Oprah— It’s worse than the last are proof of that. Getting some tattoos would hardly compare to all the other expectations of him he’s already trashed. How could Charles enforce any rule upon his renegade kid about not getting a tattoo, and with things having already gone so far…would he even care? Harold has chosen his side. He’s demonstrated amply that he’s going to do exactly as he pleases irrespective of his family’s opinion. SPARE 2 will probably be in the works shortly.
I looked v.carefully at where the light catches his right arm and the blue hue seemed to extend even into the well-illuminated area. Future short-sleeved photos will be examined critically to settle it one way or the other.
Watch this space!
Since the Todgers landed in California, I said they'd end up on a reality show, but I thought it would a Real Housewives show.