The recent post which does mention that the information is speculative and the response got me thinking.
It was the one about having them be present at Christmas but must produce the kids.
Interesting thought, isn't it?
Would they show? What would we see? Would there now be photos from the rota?
We often hear of just some rando meeting of rando strangers. It's odd, isn't it that random strangers just happen to recognize her/them and they have a whole conversation. Most recently it was from some stranger who raved in some video (link not supplied in the article) that they met and talked and listened to HW talk about her daughter. There was the requisite comment about HW of how she is/was so kind). If people are kind, does the world need strangers to tell us (are we that kind of stupid?) or can we come to that conclusion by seeing their kindness in action? Service.
They seem to always be talking about their kids, parenthood and yet, they never seem to have the kids with them at that moment or the meeting doesn't happen at the dentist or pediatrician's office. Maybe kids like to do the drive through of the fast food or join their parents for lunch at a not fast food place.
Wait a minute - where are the body guards when this was going down? Aren't they necessary to protect the couple (and the kids)? Strangers might do harm and how they require security to be safe.
Let's switch gears and think about the kids.
When do we see them?
They didn't travel along the recent blink your eyes and you'll miss island trip. Not much in the way of whole family vacations even to visit family friendly spots in the US like Smithsonian or Exploratorium. The Tar Pits are fairly local and would have dinosaurs (usually a hit with kids). Or the Grand Canyon or Boston (lots of history) or just fun on Hawaiian beaches. The Natural Museum of History is a kid's dream in NYC. All these places and yet no kid trips to show the kids the country they live in - even when the parents have a trip to that city. Those are photos are with OPK (other people's kids). Their kids don't see their parents doing the good or making the speech.
When they are seen, they seem to have this in common:
It is a very brief time period - a couple of shots but does not appear to cover a prolonged period of time. (meaning the people on the periphery don't seem to move or change a lot).
It is shot from a distance. Not closeups. Even though we all know that telephoto lenses exist (even for phones). And, often taken showing the back of the adult and minimal view of kid.
Often it is a public holiday "gathering" of some sort but not a lot of listed adult friends (who don't have a working professional relationship with them) or even just friends of the kids along for the fun. Do these kids even have friends? If they do, there are things like birthday parties and play dates. And in school, there are often class photos for year books (even in pre-school). Later on there will be plays and science fairs.
No outside confirmation. Yes there are people who say they met the kids at interviews and the like but no photos. Ever. Even when it was all these high profile famous people who popped in to see the new baby Archie. Or, no photos even in the background from other strangers at the same event. So although they could have been at some event but how long did they stay after the photos were taken?
Even when they supply the photos of the kids, there is a feeling that the photos always seem to raise more questions than answers.
Christmas is weeks and weeks away. A lot can happen before the walk to the Church happens.
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Generally in England, if one dies without making a Will, and there aren't any relatives to make a claim under the rules on intestacy, their assets go to HM Treasury, ie the Government. In the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster, the money goes to the Duchies instead.
The Grauniad is trying to make out that it's all `secret'. Nonsense!
There are frequent exhortations from on high to make a proper wills but if, like my cousin, who knew everything, you hate solicitors even more than your family, the consequences would have you rolling in your grave were you aware of them. She fondly imagined her assets would go to `charity'; for that to have happened, she would have had to make a will to that effect. Many charities offer free will-writing services, so if you want the lot to got to homeless cats or any other cause, it's easy.
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/revealed-king-charles-secretly-profiting-160055077.html
From the Mirror, on SMM:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/18252j4/what_is_this_nonsense/
Apparently. * is now `prepared to re-engage with Royal life' to fix the feud' - as if she ever genuinely engaged with it in the first place.
THEY threw it all away, and won't stop complaining about it to us now.
'Fix the feud'? But they started it! How do they propose to fix it? More lies, accusations, attacks? They have no sense of reality.
Megging Bowl
Christmas is coming
the twat is losing fat
Hoping for pennies
from the old man’s hat…
Happy Thanksgiving
American Nutties
I love turkey
with bread sauce
@Sandie
Thank you
What kind of puckery is this?
@GWAH
Rim riminy…
@NeutralObserver
Happy to serve
I enjoy it 😉
I don't think that it has dawned on the Sussex Stupids that in order for normal people to be susceptible to emotional blackmail, they have to be saddened by the absence of the blackmailers. I don't expect that anybody in the BRF is even considering jumping around to fulfill conditions for those two giant pains in the butt to return.
/Sadly, bringing the family recipes for moonshine and barbecue is not considered value added.
//Just kidding. Your summer temperature is about the same temperature as my winter days.
Re: The story claiming TW wants to reconcile with the RF, but not her husband.
The Telegraph has an article about their amanuensis' lick-spittle book which claims the opposite. It's Todger who wants reconciliation, not TW:
Prince Harry ‘ready to forget’ royal row but Meghan refuses, says new book
Omid Scobie claims that the Duke of Sussex has abandoned a demand for an apology from his family
By
Victoria Ward,
DEPUTY ROYAL EDITOR
24 November 2023 • 3:59pm
The Prince of Wales and the Sussexes attend a memorial service
The Prince of Wales and the Sussexes at an Anzac memorial service at Westminster Abbey in 2018 CREDIT: Eddie Mulholland
The Duke of Sussex is ready to put the bitter feud with his family behind him and move on but the Duchess of Sussex refuses to have anything to do with them, a new book has claimed.
Author Omid Scobie alleged that Prince Harry, 39, had abandoned his demand for an apology from the Royal family for perceived slights that had blighted his life.
His new book, Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival, quotes the Duke as saying: “I’m ready to forget. Get an apology or explanation? At this point, who cares, right?”
It comes after Prince Harry contacted his father, the King, when he turned 75 earlier this month and sent videos of his children, Prince Archie, four, and Princess Lilibet, two, singing happy birthday.
But Scobie claims that conversely, the Duchess of Sussex had moved on and would not be extending such olive branches.
Meghan, 42, “refuses ‘to dive back into the soap opera’,” he writes in extracts published in Paris Match magazine.
The book suggests that only Prince Edward was worried about the state of his nephew’s mental health and alleges that it was the Princess Royal who persuaded the King to evict the Sussexes from Frogmore Cottage, their home on the Windsor estate.
When the news came, in January, Prince Harry is said to have pleaded with the King: “You don’t want to see your grandchildren anymore?”
Omid Scobie, author of Endgame
Omid Scobie, author of Endgame
Meanwhile, the Princess of Wales, 41, who has not spoken to the Duchess since 2019, had always considered her sister-in-law a rival, Scobie suggests.
“She spent more time talking about Meghan … than with Meghan,” a close friend is quoted as saying.
“Every time she hears about Meghan, Kate shudders and giggles.”
The book states that when Prince Harry did make contact, the King was “cautious” about speaking to his younger son.
“He wanted to limit their discussion to a harmless exchange,” it says. “Concerning Harry, the message that circulated in the family was not to trust him… everyone took it very seriously.”
However, Scobie reserves much of his wrath for the Prince of Wales, whom he depicts as cold and hungry for power.
He says it was Prince William, 41, who orchestrated the downfall of his uncle, the Duke of York, at the height of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, and who was able to convince his grandmother, Elizabeth II, of punishing her “favourite son”.
Meanwhile, the King could not bring himself to hurt his brother.
“[He] was in tears because he was afraid for Andrew’s mental health,” Scobie writes.
“Charles leads with his head and his heart. William is colder. He wants the job done and he has no problem with casualties along the way.”
‘Impatient to be king’
The book claims that the Prince of Wales is impatient to become king. “The Prince of Wales can’t wait to ascend the throne,” he says.
Scobie’s first book, Finding Freedom, co-written by Carolyn Durand, made sweeping personal revelations about the Sussexes’ private lives.
The Duchess was forced to admit during her High Court privacy claim against Associated Newspapers that she had authorised an aide to brief the authors for the book.
The author has warned that Endgame will reveal moments that the Royal family should be “ashamed of” and described himself as one of few journalists writing about the Royal family whose work was impartial and “spin-free”.
You win Post of the Month award for "amanuensis's lick spittle book".
My first encounter with 'amaneuensis' was in reference to Doctor Watson's role for Sherlock Holmes . . aka, a person who is a Boswell to a great man (or woman).
Scabby is disqualified on two counts:
1. The people whose spittle he's licking up are the farthest from great it's possible to be unless we are speaking of great PITAs.
2. Scabby's prose is shockingly bad . . like a seventh grade girl wrote it. He's either a seventh-grade girl trapped in an ostensibly male body which has been surgically and cosmetically altered almost beyond recognition or else he is just dutifully taking dictation from The Wife who thinks she's so whip smart but who also has a preteen level of sophistication in her attempts at writing.
Someone at SMM pointed out that Skank wasn't wearing a piece of jewelry, a gold pendant, at some girls' event. I can guess where it is/was, at a pawn shop in Santa Monica.
I don't.
I don't.
I do.
The Sussexes and Scobie do not seem to operate in the world of adult realities. Their are playing in a sandpit and quarrelling who gets the pink bucket.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/1838yuc/endgame_prologue_part_1/
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/18391gf/endgame_prologue_pt_2/
I find the attacks on Charles and Camilla old and stale and obviously come from people who are not close to him and have not been for a while. The attacks on William and Catherine reek of malicious envy.
I don't believe that Scobie's accusations hurt anyone or anything except the Hairballs.
They give the impression that anyone around them must be careful about everything they say or do because any perceived slight, no matter how minor, will be carefully nurtured and amplified for revenge even years later. But people don't care about them, so what does it matter if no one spoke to * during a car ride? People empathise with the BRF in this situation, not them. They seem to be seeking anything they can use as a slight to make themselves victims, but we all know they aren't the wronged ones.
Malicious envy is exactly right.
This is how we know that Scabby is only parroting what his handlers order him to transcribe. Narcissists—which both this one and that one are constantly project into others all their own malicious or insecure thoughts, desires and agendas. I think they have both colluded on this book because each has a nemesis— For this one’s wife, that person is obviously Catherine, the person who now wears Diana’s title and epitomes the Royal fairy dust in the best way. Like this one’s late mother, she has become the Princess of people’s hearts. She’s got the touch, and is completely genuine with the people she meets and the endeavors she supports. What else can a malignant person the opposite of sincere and authentic do but try to tear down that which she can never be?
We all know that TBW wants William for herself, so I believe the vitriol against William is emanating from Sparry. William is accused of being power mad and foaming at the mouth to be King, like yesterday. This is complete and utter bollocks. Those of us who have watched William grow up know that as a youth and a younger man, He had a very fraught relationship with both his father and his future destiny. As a child and a teen I think he hoped he could avoid it all together. Knowing Williams ambivalence about his future only served to fuel Harold’s delusions that he could somehow become a co-King with the reluctant heir. Since becoming a father, William has learned to make peace with his destiny and assume its burdens. But I do not for one second believe that he wants to rush that destiny before his time, and have to assume the Crown while his children are still so young. It’s another 11 years until George is of age to sit on the Council of State. There is every reason to believe that King Charles can reign even longer than that— He has genetics on his side, and apart from his condition with his hands seems to be in robust health. One does wonder how long he would live should he lose Camilla sooner, but if God grants CRIII the time, William will be in his mid-50s before he ascends. Having just become Prince of Wales and still learning that job, I am confident he doesn’t want to rush his last promotion.
But there is someone else who would crown himself King right now and we all know who that is.
The Suxxits are jointly incapable of learning from their mistakes. As I understand it, “Endgame” is Spare II, but it’s all the parts which JR Moehringer refused outright to put in. I think he walked away from the project in the end, even though his name is still on the byline. Scabby, lacking all journalistic ethics, bent over and did his masters’ bidding. As a former Royal correspondent, his bread used to be buttered on the other side. If * hadn’t come along to blow up Sparry’s world, We can be fairly confident of a couple of things: 1. Sparry would be taking his place alongside his family for the Christmas festivities and 2. Scabby would be happy to report on Catherine’s fashions for Vanity Fair. He’s got no personal vendetta against the Royal family but has sold his soul to the Soho House cohort for reasons only he knows.
My New Year’s wish for the Sussex’s hatchet man after he gets his 30 pieces of silver is that he takes it and goes away never to be heard from again. After the publication of this book, his second collaboration of seditious lickspittle on behalf of his paymasters, I hope he is never hired to write so much as a bubble gum wrapper ever again.
It's obvious that Skank has made herself into an Untouchable in Hollywood. Who in their right mind would want to get in her crosshairs? Because everyone, everyone ultimately does something to make her feel vengeful, jealous, and highly threatened.
That's why no one in Hollywood makes eye contact, or even says hello to Crank and especially Skank. It's dangerous.
When your Solicitrix or Attorney subtly suggests that you might care to make your Last Will and Testament, (they want your Probate) enquire of her (or him) whether they have taken their own advice. If they are honest they will have to tell you 'not yet' for that is usually the case. In my experience I do not think I ever came across bar perhaps once an estate which was 'bona vacantia' for it is or was that rare for an intestate to have no living relative. Neither do I think as one often reads that a will makes things any easier; to the contrary it increases the possibility of confusion and bickering and also the cost - and then you still have to find the damn thing.
Front page of The Sun: Markle is going to reveal which Royal noticed that Archie might be off-color. I doubt that he is as he does not exist.
your comment made me wonder what they will call it when the Hairballs vacate the titles? Sussex exit? or just Suckit?
One thing I have been wondering, can't remember if I read it or not, just when has the King met his other grands?
One christening and then? when?
thinking about the comment of: Don't you want to see your grandchildren? from the book?
Which brings up the next question of: who can be the source of such a painful conversation? Either one of them (the King, really? with OS?) or you are down do some person in the background who doesn't have an NDA or does but has a grudge against the King. But really how many people are likely to be around when this was going down that the King would want around when it did?
I would think that the King would want such a private conversation private. He seems to be about keeping things in the family, in the family.
So ... this could be questionable sourcing
Cui bono
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ-EQaHcfUw
Omid Scobie speaks out: Harry, Meghan and the royals in crisis
Omid Scobie’s new book, Endgame, rips into every member of the royal family — apart from a certain couple in California
By Laura Pullman
The House of Windsor is crumbling. The King is an unpopular stick-in-the-mud. The Queen is a ruthless operator. The Prince of Wales is a power-hungry schemer. The Princess of Wales is a wet blanket who really didn’t want to appear on Blue Peter. The Duchess of Sussex and her husband? All fine and dandy, with a bright future before them.
So I must ask Omid Scobie, the 42-year-old British author of Endgame, did Meghan contribute to his book at all?
“No, and I’m not her friend,” he says firmly. “I didn’t interview her for this book.”
For those with no scooby about Scobie, he was a jobbing entertainment reporter in London who nobody much had heard of until three years ago, when he and the American journalist Carolyn Durand published Finding Freedom, a breathless account of Megxit. The access Scobie appeared to have had was the envy of many royal correspondents back in Britain.
Initially Meghan claimed she had no involvement with Finding Freedom. Later, in November 2021, while in court taking on the Mail on Sunday for privacy invasion, the duchess admitted that she had provided “briefing notes” for an aide ahead of his meeting with the authors. An unfortunate slip of memory.
Finding Freedom topped the bestseller lists in both America and Britain. In revealing the depth of the divide that developed between William and Harry after Meghan came on the scene, it cemented Scobie in many people’s eyes as Meghan’s cheerleader, crusader and chum. These labels rankle the journalist, who mainly works for Harper’s Bazaar and ABC News. Nevertheless his perceived connection to Meghan has brought him racist abuse, social media pile-ons and death threats. “I’m very aware that I’m quite disliked in Britain. The way anything about me is said is as if I’m just the absolute worst person,” he tells me later. Tears appear in his eyes and I feel genuinely sorry for him.
“I have mutual friends with [Meghan], and that definitely helps with getting information and breaking details,” he says, but, no, he’s not on the Sussex payroll. No, he’s not sleeping on the sofa at their mansion in Montecito. (He’s renting a home in the Hollywood Hills, a long way from his upbringing in Oxford.)
According to his sources in Endgame, H&M (as their staff call them) are “in a good place”. “We have to remember that this is a couple that — this is just my own opinion — seem to have bonded over their shared traumas, experiences and battles that they’ve faced together against others,” Scobie says. “That kind of bond is much tougher to break than anything else.”
The subtitle for Endgame is Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival. Running at nearly 400 pages, the book gives a withering assessment of how close “the Firm” is to collapse, an argument built on Scobie’s opinion and his conversations with former aides, courtiers and friends of those in and around the family on both sides of the Atlantic.
Queen Camilla — now “finally tolerated by the public” — reportedly rolls her eyes when subjects such as gender identity or veganism come up. A former aide is quoted: “Even gluten-free or dairy-free options on a restaurant menu irk her.” Scobie claims, too, that when Piers Morgan called Meghan “Pinocchio Princess” on Twitter/X in 2021 after she had spoken out about feeling suicidal, Camilla “quietly thanked him for defending the Firm”.
Meanwhile the Princess of Wales, who has allegedly “jokily shivered” on mention of Meghan’s name, is portrayed as a woman terrified to do anything more than grinning photo ops. She reportedly had to be gently coaxed into appearing on Blue Peter in 2019. “In the coverage of Kate we infantilise her massively so the bar is always lower,” Scobie tells me from his Hollywood pad. “The small achievements that we’ve seen from the Princess of Wales wouldn’t perhaps be noticed if it was from another member of the royal family, but with Kate it’s like ‘wow!’” Many Windsor-watchers will raise an eyebrow at this depiction, Kate’s public profile having risen sharply since Megxit, and not by accident; her campaigning around formative childhood years has been well received in many quarters. Part of the Waleses’ strategy now, Scobie says, is to take Harry and Meghan on at their own game and focus on winning over the US. More trips, more press.
Then there’s the Duke of York. The day before I speak with Scobie, Prince Andrew’s fashion tycoon friend Peter Nygard is found guilty of four charges of sexual assault. While Harry has been booted out of Frogmore Cottage, Andrew still rattles around Royal Lodge with his ex-wife: “It’s interesting what’s considered the final blow to see you ostracised from the family.” Reports are that Virginia Giuffre, who sued the prince in 2021, alleging that he sexually assaulted her when she was 17, is writing a memoir. “There’s always this lingering threat of more to come out,” Scobie says. Andrew has always denied Giuffre’s allegations.
It’s an interesting time for the family. Harry’s phone-hacking case against the Daily Mail has just been allowed to go to trial; the final series of The Crown is here, including a ghostly turn from Diana; and the King has turned 75. In Scobie’s view, unless the royals rapidly change tack, the whole institution will shortly come skidding off its gilded wheels. “We are at this pivotal moment in time where the future of the royal family as we know it is in a crisis,” he says. “That crisis being a lack of interest from young people, an apathy, a growing republican movement, questions over whether the family still uphold the morals and values of the crown that the Queen did such a great job of. But when you look at the cast of characters … it has been questionable.”
Another damaging assertion is the apparently growing chasm between the King and his eldest son, who is in “heir mode”. Prince William, 41, “knows his father’s reign is only transitional,” Scobie writes, “and is acting accordingly.” The pair are out of sync, he says. “It would have been nice to see them come together on certain projects perhaps in the early years, to put on that united front, but they’re all working in silos,” Scobie says, sipping from his bottle of Fiji water. Most other commentators say William and Charles have become closer in recent years, a bond strengthened by Harry’s departure.
The King — “a flawed father and a philandering husband who destroyed the life of Princess Diana” — takes a battering. According to Scobie he demands that his shoelaces are ironed and, more seriously, isn’t relishing the job that he has waited for his entire adult life. “There has been a kind of realisation of what the role is compared to being the Prince of Wales, where there was a little bit more freedom and … personality,” Scobie says. Before Queen Elizabeth II died, palace aides reportedly suggested that Charles didn’t have, in Scobie’s words, “the moxie or the vision for the family’s next chapter”.
His fractured family hardly helps. It was reported that the King invited his youngest son to his 75th birthday celebrations at Clarence House earlier this month but Harry chose to stay away. “It’s perpetuating this notion that everything is hunky-dory,” Scobie says, rolling his eyes. “I remember calling the Sussex rep on the day that [story] came out and they were like, ‘We haven’t even heard a word.’” A few days after we speak it is reported that Charles spoke to Harry and Meghan on the phone on his birthday, breaking a long stalemate.
Endgame includes details of letters said to have been exchanged between Charles and Meghan in the wake of the infamous 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, in which the duchess said that there were “concerns and conversations” among the royals about the colour of her unborn son’s skin. In the private letters the identities of two people involved were revealed, Scobie writes, but legally he cannot name them. “I don’t know if either [Charles or Meghan] saw completely eye to eye in the end, but there was at least a feeling that both had been heard,” a source told him.
An understanding is said to have been reached that the Sussexes wouldn’t raise this deeply damaging matter again in either their Netflix docuseries, which came out last year, or in Harry’s bestselling memoir, Spare, which was published in January. “The fact that [Charles] engaged in a conversation about it shows a lot more of a willingness to take some of these issues on than Prince William, for example, who has completely avoided talking to his brother whatsoever,” Scobie says.
It was at the Sandringham Christmas family gathering last year that Princess Anne suggested to Charles that he take away Frogmore Cottage from his younger son, according to Scobie. At the same time Prince Edward, sympathetic to his nephew, is said to have been encouraging Charles to speak properly to Harry.
Fast-forward to this year and the chances of a cosy Christmas reconciliation between the brothers at least remain slim. Shortly after the release of Spare, Harry reportedly enlisted a mutual friend to try to orchestrate a conversation with William. It got nowhere. In Endgame Scobie quotes Harry talking to a friend: “I’m ready to move on past it. Whether we get an apology or accountability, who knows? Who really cares at this point?” He also alleges that Kate and her sister-in-law have had “almost zero communication” since late 2019. For Kate, Scobie writes, “there’s no going back, even in her relationship with Harry”.
Meanwhile Meghan sends the King photos of his grandchildren, Archie and Lilibet, four and two. She and Harry also reportedly recorded a video of the children singing Happy Birthday for the King this month.
Scobie grew up in Oxford with his Scottish father, who runs a marketing company, his Iranian mother, who works in child welfare, and his younger brother, and dreamt of becoming a journalist. After leaving Cherwell, a state sixth-form school in Oxford, he studied journalism at London College of Communication. His first job, writing celebrity news at Heat magazine, ended after, he claims, a boss called him a “P***” in emails. He has called it a “toxic workplace”. He moved to the American entertainment magazine Us Weekly and set up its London office. In 2011 he began reporting on the royals, when William and Kate were still Wills and Kate. Before then he had “no personal interest in the royals at all whatsoever”. Then, in 2016, Meghan Markle arrived.
It’s now that he brings up the abuse he receives from anti-Meghan social media trolls, which often focuses on his Iranian heritage. “I’ve really struggled with it, to be honest,” he says. “I definitely felt at times like I wanted to just disappear.”
In a 2020 interview with The Times he knocked six years off his age. “That was unfortunate and naive of me,” he says. “You live and learn.” He does look suspiciously younger than 42. Has he had work done? “Eugh, people are obsessed with this,” Scobie sighs. “I’ve not been under the knife, not done anything crazy.” I raise an eyebrow. He then admits he tried Botox “many years ago” and enjoys Ultherapy, a nonsurgical skin-tightening procedure. He is “hopelessly single” but has his French bulldog, Yoshi, for company.
Scobie gets offers to appear on various reality TV shows, but turns them all down: “I’d become the joke that I think some people already want me to be, or see me as.”
Scobie is the Sussexes’ (unofficial) biographer and is one of their keenest defenders. Earlier this month the Sussexes flew from California to Las Vegas and back by Gulfstream jet for a Katy Perry concert. They were guests of the oil heir Michael Herd. “Here’s the thing with private jets. I mean I obviously don’t fly on them myself.” Hang on, I say, I’ve seen a recent Instagram photo where you look very much as though you’re on a private jet. “OK, that was a private jet, but that was only going from LA to Palm Springs. It was very short.” When I check Instagram again the snap has vanished.
“Meghan has never publicly said a word about the environment, or really attached herself to anything to do with it,” Scobie says. “It’s nice of us to believe that she ™ advocates for the environment, but maybe she doesn’t care and that’s OK too.” (Archewell, the Sussexes’ charitable foundation, made a pledge to become net zero by 2030.)
Pop concerts aside (Perry, Beyoncé x 2, Taylor Swift), the duchess has laid low this year. Endgame suggests that she has been actively avoiding further royal drama — a “significant” reason for skipping Charles’s coronation in May. “It’s now set her up to launch businesses and more creative projects that no one can ever say that she’s … riding on the coat-tails of her royal connections because she has purposely tried to sever them.”
“I still don’t quite understand what that business project will be because, as I spoke to people while writing the book, it changed about five times. So we’ll see,” Scobie says. Her priority is apparently “business and philanthropy”, but since Netflix added Suits to its catalogue, the show that launched Meghan’s career has been a hit all over again. Scobie imagines there could be a cameo role for her in the coming spin-off, if she’d ever bite.
What about Harry, who turns 40 next year? “His focus, and this is what I was told by the team, is really building his work in the military space … within the US,” Scobie says vaguely. “There’s a real potential there to grow something really impactful.” There is also his phone-hacking case against the Daily Mail’s publisher to keep him busy. “The feeling for Harry is that he is one of the few people in the world that has the money to take this on. He also feels that having seen everything on the front lines, and during two tours of Afghanistan, that this is a war that’s not that scary,” Scobie says. “He’s also probably, out of any public figure, treated the worst by the British press, so his feeling is that it can’t get any worse.”
Spare, in which the fifth in line to the throne wrote about his frostbitten penis and losing his virginity in a field, “did Harry a lot of good in [the US] because it really reminded people who he was”. It’s not all blue skies in California, though. “The couple has become such a big talking point that they’ve almost become caricatures in the US as well,” he says. “Perhaps there is some apprehension from certain individuals to even consider working with them.”
What about the rumour being spread by a friend of the royal family that the duke is so miserable that he regularly sleeps in a local hotel? “I know a lot of people that know them, that are in their world, or their space, and I’ve just never come across anything of the sort,” he says, pointing out that the couple have a “massive guesthouse” at their disposal. “If you wanted to spend a night away, you don’t have to go as far as some janky hotel in Montecito town centre.” (“Janky” is the opposite of swanky.) Harry’s British posho social circle back in Britain shrank when Meghan appeared and, Scobie says, “it only continues to get smaller as some of those friends, who were also friends with Prince William, have picked their sides”. He reportedly has a small group of pals in America. “The narrative that this is some friendless loser that now … is all alone and only has his wife to boss him around — it’s make-believe cartoon at this point.”
Before Scobie can scoot off to his personal training session, I want to know if he thinks the royal family will win their “fight for survival”. Could William be our final king?
“It would take a lot to dismantle the British royal family,” he says. “But could William be the last king as we know it? Absolutely.” He believes that the Windsors reduced to tourist attraction is a genuine danger, but that such a fate can be avoided if they kick into gear. “The book isn’t hammering the final nail in the coffin,” he says, smiling. “It’s just a reality check.”
If Scabby rehashes this again… Something that happened back when he was in junior high… it just makes him look as unhinged and pathetic as his bosses. If that’s the best he’s got….pffft. Loser.
the Hairballs put out these statements that they know the BRF know aren't true. For example, that they exchanged pleasantries on KC3's birthday or that they said to Charles "Don't you want to keep seeing your grandchildren?"
Yet, they think that these untrue statements will move the BRF to change their behaviour.
So, what the Hairballs are trying to do is to shame the BRF because they aren't appealing to the BRF's better emotions, like love for non-existing children.
And, the Hairballs are puzzled that these efforts of shaming the BRF into changing aren't working.
If they were healthy, non-toxic people, they wouldn't use shame but higher emotions
He [Scobie] claims Charles wishes he were a 'tampon.'
Actually, this did happen. '“Tampongate”, a six-minute telephone call between Charles and Camilla was released by The Sunday Mirror in January 1993.
The call reportedly took place in 1989, when both parties were married to other people.' The conversation was illegally recorded. Sorry, I now can't find the above excerpt but you can Google it. The episode was apparently mentioned in the Crown (never watched it) but it happened in real life. Whether it should have been regurgitated is a moot point.
Further to "tampongate", there was also "Squidgygate". I don't know whether that was in the Crown or was mentioned in any nook (Scobie's). The internet says 'In 1992, The Sun published a recorded phone call between Diana and her close friend, James Gilbey. Throughout the call, Gilbey calls her “darling,” and “Squidgy,” implying the two were having an intimate affair. Diana complains to Gilbey that Charles makes life “real, real torture.”
For the sake of balance, 'Squidgygate' should be mentioned alongside 'tampongate' in any book about Charles.
Apologies if you're in the UK and old enough to remember.
That use if “any more” implies that a relationship exists whereby CRIII seeing his American grandkids was a regular occurrence. Demonstrably not true. Consider how many images we’ve got of Charles with his Wales grands. Still photos taken by Catherine and video at events. Scads and scads. There a couple of pictures of Charles ostensibly at Archie’s christening 4.5 years ago and nothing since. Zilch. Nada. And the two photos we do have are highly problematic as to their authenticity.
If, as I posited in an earlier post, the Sussex children are fictitious and the RF has always known this, it’s like tge Sausages are daring the Palace to call their bluff whilst they rub Charles’s regal nose in the previous announcement he made that tge Sussex spawn were to be given the titles and styles of Prince and Princess. If these kids are figments, then that is diabolical. My fear is if her lies about the children are outed, she will save her self by claiming that the palace forced her into the charade because Harry must have heirs and infertility is unacceptable. Of course she would be lying about that too, but there is no end to the things she would lie about for sport and to make the royal family’s life hell.
Re Scobie's book, you'd be brave to take one for the team. I understand @NeutralObserver's reluctance when she wrote
'I don't want you to do Scabies the favor of making his work more widely known.' That's true but at the same time, if you were to read the book and digest it for us, it would mean one book bought as opposed to several (dozens? Surely not hundreds!) Nutties buying it and increasing sales and revenue. This is assuming you have the time and the inclination. It would be good to know exactly what lies he's been spreading.
Quote: “According to a VERY well-placed source, The only pictures senior royals have seen of prince Archie and princess Lily are ones the rest of the world have seen. Now we can only say allegedly but the bottom line is this is from an impeccable source.”
Maybe Prince William himself briefed Neil on that one.
The Kraken beastie is sticking its nose out of the water, Smeaghan. Neil is being delicate for legal reasons, but to my ears he is as good as saying that Someone within Palace walls is saying that Smeg’s tales of exchanging happy snaps with the King is a steaming pile of ordure. As, by extension it is implied, the whole kiddie tale is unraveling. As in, as illusory as Brigadoon.
The Todgers' mouthpiece says: "Everybody already knows that King Charles might have preferred life as Queen Camilla's tampon," which turns a silly comment from a man making what he thought was a private comment to his mistress, into a king's lifelong ambition.
I think it's a distortion which reveals intense hostility from the writer. Who on earth needs to be exposed to that kind of tripe? Perhaps a more skilled and less biased author could have worked the incident into the book in a more amusing & elegant way. I don't have any tolerance for poorly written & factually dubious literature. Charles really did say he wanted to be a tampon. Unfortunately, that is true. It doesn't make the entire book any more factual.
As to reducing sales by having poor @abbyh purchase, read & then post a summary of this silly book, aren't the many excerpts being published online, & library copies enough for people to get the gist of the book? If @abbyh wants to devote the time to the effort, she should feel free to do so, but it seems an imposition to me.
Abbyh, I am not sure that that is "delicate". But "warning tremor" sounds right!
If you choose to read it, you are made of sterner stuff than the rest of us.
I think it would be great if you could share any bits that stand out to you as new accusations, or perhaps even a summary of each chapter. I'll share anything the YouTuber Vintage Read posts about the book as she is really good at spotting staff that other people miss.
From what I have seen do far, the trio are very immature. I do wonder why they are now attacking Anne by blaming her for them losing Frogmore Cottage.
He is also being very unjust to Catherine when he describes her as too terrified to do anything but photo opportunities. The photos do not reflect all the work done behind the scenes. I think this will backfire - I hope so - and that the BRF will be even more protective of Catherine. As for the photos opportunities, I think he got confused. Who's always staring at the cameras with a perma grin on her face?
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Scobie recalls that, as a mixed-race royal reporter, he gravitated to her relationship with Harry as the most exciting story. “I was going to work my damn hardest to make sure I was close to every single person in their lives, and become someone that, at the very least, people at the palace feel they can come to when they need to correct a story.”
One would think that a 'journalist' of his exalted caliber (okay, that is sarcasm) would know the difference between mixed race and mixed ethnicity.
Maybe Scobie has a crush on PW and is jealous.
Maybe it’s a generational thing. The toxic trio of Hank, Skank and Scabby are all of an age. Scabby has adopted the “biracial victim of society” narrative peddled by This One’s wife. To all appearances, Scabby had a privileged upbringing in Oxford with two educated parents who supported his dreams and gave him everything in life. He got a great education and parlayed that into a successful career doing what he wanted to do. In what way has he been abused and deprived as a result of being of mixed heritage? The United Kingdom is a melting pot of cultures, as is the U.S. This incessant whining about how tough and unfair scabby and skank have had it because they are not 100% Caucasian is so beyond tedious and it’s an insult to all the legions of people on both sides of the Atlantic who share biracial heritage and who have never used that as an excuse for being held back in life. Considering how materially blessed and elite those two now are, it beggars belief that they are crying that they have always been victims of racism.
H can’t cry that he’s partially non-white so his victimhood is on account of his family subjecting him to upper-class repression and racism by proxy. How is it that these three of wildly divergent backgrounds have come together like malignant magnets sharing the identical delusions? Is Scabby just dutifully copying down what he’s being paid to say or is he actually the (nominally) male version of *? It’s confounding. He is to all appearances throwing himself merrily onto their dumpster fire conflagration with no awareness that he is immolating himself in the process.
When ancient cultures used to build funeral pyres for their dead rulers, all the spouses, children, livestock and servants would also be thrown on the pyre alive, so they could serve their master in the afterlife. That feels like what’s happening here.
Why??? And when will it end? Scabby has made a fatal choice to align himself with the malignant pair. It’s not going to end well for him.
The Royal Rogue is in rare form about the forthcoming “Toilet Paper Roll”.
His nickname for Scabby is hilarious: Discount Barbie Ken.😂😂😂
Do you want me to read the book like I did before?
I would never ask you you to pay to read truly horrible slanderous writing! Even if the book was free, think of your elevated blood pressure upon reading scurrilous lies! It could be bad for your health, both physical and mental, and we want you to stay healthy. (I wonder if that disclaimer about health risks is going to be on the cover anywhere. It should be.)
If you wish to read it with red pen in hand and correct all the errors for your own enjoyment (grin) and share the results with us, I'd be more than pleased to read it. If I want to spend my actual money on something that makes me feel bad, I can always order cheap clothes from Amazon (LOL) that were made by and for 80 lb. people that are five feet tall.
It's raining and cold, gray, and depressing outside here. I may order some leggings online that will be too short and turn transparent once pulled on and any movement commences. That would still be less depressing than the Scobie book and the weather.
I need to force my little frou-frou house dog outside in the rain for a potty break. (My little house dog is a 60 lb. pit bull that HATES getting wet and is scared of the cat. He is NOT a protection dog. If somebody breaks in, he will be hiding under the bed because he knows who the alpha is, and it ain't him.) I just asked him "Want to go OUTSIDE?" Normally this has him dancing around at the door. Today he turned his head away from me and closed his eyes pretending to be both asleep and deaf. I think dog has been taking lessons from Husband.
It looks like he's taking all the senior members of the BRF one by one and tears them to shreds. Charles, as did the Queen Mother, has luxury tastes. I think, however, that the shoe laces and steamed bed linen - never heard of it - is an exaggeration. As for the toothpaste, how can you put one inch of it on a toothbrush and this is something that happened a long time ago, in 1990 to be more precise. Charles broke his right arm in two places while playing polo - he fell off his horse and it was a bad break. Maybe his valet put toothpaste on his toothbrush for s while but this is always quoted as an example of Charles' pampered lifestyle.
I did look at the comments and most just say that Charles can do what he likes, that's his own business. Two comments sum it up
- 'He is my king and can do whatever he wants'.
- 'My late father had a job that served the royal family. His take on Charlie (as he called him) was that he was gracious, kind and down to earth, and he could have a joke with him. How this toad knows anything about anything is beyond me!'
If Scabies thinks his book is a hatchet job, he might have to think again. I think in fact people will see it for what it is and will defend the BRF.
I'm about the farthest thing from Royal that you could possibly imagine. I steam bed linens (well, cotton sheets) to get the wrinkles out before placing it on the bed. If husband changes the bed, the wrinkles stay.
I don't do anything to shoe laces except wash them!
apparently, it's an issue for a soldier to have twisted shoe laces in his shoes/boots during a formal parade or appearance. so, soldiers iron their shoe laces to get the kinks out.
Is steamed bed linen then the same as ironed? If so, does that make me pampered as I always do iron bed linen? The difference is that I'm not royal and do it myself, Charles gets it done.
Scabies points are just petty and irrelevant.
Kitson's is a L.A. shop which is frequented by celebrities.
Every year, they do a window display about hypocrites and calling them to account.
This year, they chose the Hairballs and their frequent private jet trips as their theme. Ouch! all the people that * wanted to impress will be aware of this.
Apparently, there were a slew of ironed shoe lace jokes which were hilarious but unfortunately, I never saw any.
I don't think anyone is buying the stories that Scabies is pushing about the BRF. For example, people were commenting on twitter that it was normal for William and Catherine to laugh at the South Park episode about the Hairballs.
I read that even the Sugars aren't too pleased about his latest book.
Or looking like he just rolled out of bed.
Along review of the pathetic book. Here is a snippet:
Speaking of the Queen, her death wasn’t a family issue, or a national issue, or even a constitutional issue. It was all about Harry. My heart would bleed for him having to charter his own private jet at such a distressing time, were it not for the fact that chartering private jets is one of Harry’s great strengths.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/184xgtt/the_canadian_hockey_game/
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Scabies book excerpts are full of examples of the ways in which the Harkles via Scabies are trying to turn members of the BRF against one another - William against Charles, Charles against William, William against Catherine etc.
It's a strategy that TW has been noticed to use before (turning TW's niece/Samantha Markle's daughter against her mother).
A big tactic is telling different stories to different people/being the sole source of truth/controlling the narrative.
Anyway, a wonderful overview of triangulation here from Dr. Ramani, an expert on narcicissm. In my opinion, this is what the Harkles are trying to do in 'End game'.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/184wybg/excepts_from_scabies_book_are_full_of/
Much of what is dug up on Royal Family is fodder. Letters sent were undelivered.
Complaints corralled.
Bellyaching blocked from Senior earshot.
It is that simple. The Family swiftly move on.
The Firm's priorities are duty and family,
not drama.
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Lots more interesting posts here:
https://twitter.com/BarkJack_
I hadn't heard about that at all.
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GWAH,
Here's Jesus Rosas' take on it.
Redux of her TOS balcony behavior. Smirking at a disabled singer. Harry ignores her.
@SwampWoman
Is steamed bed linen then the same as ironed? If so, does that make me pampered as I always do iron bed linen? The difference is that I'm not royal and do it myself, Charles gets it done.
Yep! IMO, it's quicker, and I'm all about time saving! (Apparently, Princess Maneki Neko, liking unwrinkled bed linen is a sign of royal privilege?)
This is how I used to iron/crease my pants when I wore linen suits to work: https://www.lehmans.com/product/pants-stretcher-two-pairs/ Yes, it is old technology, but it works great!
The book is also described as ..."a penetrating investigation into the current state of the British monarchy."
On the face of it, the book is just about the BRF but it sounds as if every member of the BRF is slated except * and This one. Funny, that.
I note that it's already '#1 Best Seller in British Royalty Biographies', although it's not out yet. On Amazon Australia it's '#1 Best Seller in Political Commentary & Opinion'. Amazon.com has different blurb, 'Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival', implying there's trouble and they are in peril. As for Amazon France, Endgame is translated as end of reign. 'Where is the British monarchy going? The latest scandals revealed'. The book doesn't seem to have been translated into Spanish.
thank you
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https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/18551vc/breaking_news_from_neighbor_in_montecito_posted/
This is a bizarre story - a plane, flying at low altitude over Montecito with the banner: Prince Harry: Mum's fate accidental? 5his is a bizarre story!
Author is using NDAs and a non-traditional marketing strategy to whip up interest in his new work, which is published on Tuesday
(Apparently, Princess Maneki Neko, liking unwrinkled bed linen is a sign of royal privilege?)
Ha ha! I'm certainly no princess but I do like well ironed bed linen. It's Scooby Doo who seems to think Charles is pampered for liking steamed bed linen etc.
I saw some comments about * mocking an autistic singer singing the national anthem at the hockey game in Vancouver.
I hadn't heard about that at all.
I haven't heard about that but really, does this surprise anyone? That shows her level of empathy and emotional intelligence (i.e. zero)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Anne_Clarke
there are strong parallels with *.
The two 'royal racists' are named in the book, supposedly ... King Charles and Princess Michael of Kent.
Yes, where have we all heard that idea again and again and again?
Maybe he truly is only a shell and inside lives a baroness-countess-duchess who speaks and writes and uses him?
Cotton-polyester is a great time-save at home but even a family as hard up as mine made a priority of sending sheets to the laundry. There's interesting social history here, about the effects of technology on domestic labour.
Starched sheets are wonderful.
I'm now very suspicious of hotel sheets that haven't been starched and pressed within an inch of their lives, whereas I used to think (in the 1950s) that my mother's habit of inspecting the bedding for signs of previous human occupants (who might have had scabies!), also bugs and fleas, the moment we arrived at holiday accommodation, was a bit neurotic.
Cotton-polyester is a great time-save at home but even a family as hard up as mine made a priority of sending sheets to the laundry. There's interesting social history here, about the effects of technology on domestic labour.
Due to the resurgence of bed bugs, I also turn back mattresses and inspect the undersides of the tucked in sheets in hotels/motels for telltale signs. I told husband that I do NOT want to sleep in hotel rooms anymore and, when we're traveling cross country, it will be in something that can carry our bed with us. I don't care if it's a repurposed box truck, short school bus, or van.
Since husband has been experiencing back problems, he has sympathy with King Charles' reportedly bringing his personal mattress (and linens) with him. I can't believe that people laugh about that. I thought KCIII was showing a lot of sensitivity for the people that he was staying with so that they didn't have to go to the trouble of providing an orthopedic mattress just for him that could accommodate his back problems.
Anonymoushouseplantfan is commenting on the book as well.
https://anonymoushouseplantfan.tumblr.com/
The Princess of Wales is a “Stepford-like royal wife” who is content to be a “voiceless symbol”, Omid Scobie has claimed in his new book.
The biographer, whose book Endgame is published on Tuesday, takes aim at the Princess, painting her as a “shiny thing” who can be cold and is prone to copying her sister-in-law’s style with none of her “outgoing nature and leadership potential”.
Scobie, 42, says the Princess was liked by Elizabeth II for being “coachable” and pliable, and uses the commentary of social media trolls to call her “Katie Keen” as a dig at her “part-time” work.
He says that her long-term Early Years project “seemed a shade performative” to the sector, and that she is “infantalised” by the press and quite unlike “strong-minded Diana”.
When it comes to the institution, Scobie claims that the Princess has “absolute confidence that they know what’s best”, and in refusing to set the record straight about media stories, “seems content as a voiceless symbol of courtly resolve, a totem of stoicism in a time of emotional overdrive”.
While she has achieved a “Queen-like detachment” — described as “vanishing into your role, giving away nothing, and allowing yourself to embody what the public sees in you” — Scobie criticises the Princess for not yet displaying the “gravitas and commanding power that the late Queen mustered so effortlessly”.
‘Dull in comparison’
The Duchess of Sussex, on the other hand, “assuredly took to her role as a working royal”, with her “acting experience and upbeat demeanour” making her “supremely comfortable in her public-facing role, even when she initially knew very little about it”.
“Her confidence alarmed some at Buckingham Palace, who found it intimidating or obnoxious at times,” Mr Scobie says, noting the “underdog [Meghan] was becoming the star of the show”.
“William, Kate, and their team took notice and altered course,” he claims, in the Princess’s wardrobe and approach to engagements.
“Harry and Meghan had introduced the world to a new, more modern-looking royal, and it suddenly made the Cambridges – who for years had been the monarchy’s hot young couple – appear a little dull in comparison.”
On the relationship between the then-Duchess of Cambridge and Duchess of Sussex, Scobie quotes a source saying: “She can be cold if she doesn’t like someone.”
Pushed on whether that meant the Princess did not like the Duchess from the start, the same source said: “She wasn’t a fan, no.”
Another added: “She spent more time talking about Meghan than talking to her.”
On the Princess’s current relationship with Prince Harry, Scobie quotes an unnamed person who knows the family to say she “will always look back fondly” on their shared memories, but “there is no way she could ever trust him after all their interviews”.
Quoting an off-record conversation with the Princess at a Kensington Palace media reception in 2015, when the Princess spoke of the challenges of parenting, Scobie says: “I always thought this more frank, real side of the sometimes Stepford-like royal wife was something that others should see more of.”
Now I understand why they are holding onto that slight, and why they think they can back into the BRF if they blackmail Charles, so to speak, with that info by constantly regurgitating the story.
Publishers Xander have confirmed to the Daily Mail that it had received a last-minute request from the US to put sales of Endgame on hold and were 'awaiting further instructions'.
I thought they'd been named as Charles and Princess Michael of Kent? I hope the book is a total failure.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12800721/Endgame-omid-scobie-meghan-markle-prince-harry-royal-racist.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywaM_z5DNOM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12801189/Harry-Meghan-Endgame-Omid-Scobie-review-MAUREEN-CALLAHAN.html
And you can find a plethora of commentary about the book here:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12800721/Endgame-omid-scobie-meghan-markle-prince-harry-royal-racist.html
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https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/1863kbt/that_charles_was_the_royal_racist_was_first/
That Charles was the "Royal Racist" was first revealed in a book published in the US in 2021 by Chris Anderson
Fahrenheit 451 is the burning temperature of paper. Pass the blowtorch, babee!
Scabby has just signed the death warrant of his career and will be reduced to hiring himself out as a rent boy for poolside parties in L.A.
I don't have the stomach to comment on any of the shared excerpts (especially how snowflake, infantilised Stepford Catherine is 'nothing like the strong Diana' . . Diana was an extremely fragile person in many respects, whereas Catherine has proved remarkably well-adjusted and resilient) but I can only observe that to be tarred and feathered as a racist will possibly be the most hurtful acccusation which the toxic duo could have lobbed at King Charles. He is demonstrably the opposite of racist. Even if his work as the Prince of Wales for 5 decades didn't speak for itself, he walked * down the aisle like a daughter; was courtly to her mother; personally suggested and engaged the gospel choir at Sparry's wedding in honor of his new d-i-l's heritage and footed the bill for her lavish reception plus a million-plus pounds of engagement/wedding/working wardrobe. Really racist, a'right. I can see it now . . Grandpa Charles good-naturedly wondering aloud whether *'s baby would get the ginger gene. I will bet a million, zillion dollars that skin color was never even mentioned. But Haz is sensitive about the ginger gene and it is a loaded topic, considering Charles's initial reaction to the ginger whinger's debut at his birth. Charles must regret that bonehead comment every day of his life because *this, now* is Harold's Revenge. If he has his way, his father will never stop paying for that indiscretion.
Princess Michael of Kent was intentionally provocative with the blackamoor brooch upon meeting Harry's piece, but Charles is being smeared egregiously. One wonders what the Royal response is going to be to this outrageous slur. Really, it must be addressed somehow because ***the twats will never stop*** unless they are definatively shut down.
Fahrenheit 451 is the burning temperature of paper. Pass the blowtorch, babee!
Scabby has just signed the death warrant of his career and will be reduced to hiring himself out as a rent boy for poolside parties in L.A.
I don't have the stomach to comment on any of the shared excerpts (especially how snowflake, infantilised Stepford Catherine is 'nothing like the strong Diana' . . Diana was an extremely fragile person in many respects, whereas Catherine has proved remarkably well-adjusted and resilient) but I can only observe that to be tarred and feathered as a racist will possibly be the most hurtful acccusation which the toxic duo could have lobbed at King Charles. He is demonstrably the opposite of racist. Even if his work as the Prince of Wales for 5 decades didn't speak for itself, he walked * down the aisle like a daughter; was courtly to her mother; personally suggested and engaged the gospel choir at Sparry's wedding in honor of his new d-i-l's heritage and footed the bill for her lavish reception plus a million-plus pounds of engagement/wedding/working wardrobe. Really racist, a'right. I can see it now . . Grandpa Charles good-naturedly wondering aloud whether *'s baby would get the ginger gene. I will bet a million, zillion dollars that skin color was never even mentioned. But Haz is sensitive about the ginger gene and it is a loaded topic, considering Charles's initial reaction to the ginger whinger's debut at his birth. Charles must regret that bonehead comment every day of his life because *this, now* is Harold's Revenge. If he has his way, his father will never stop paying for that indiscretion.
Princess Michael of Kent was intentionally provocative with the blackamoor brooch upon meeting Harry's piece, but Charles is being smeared egregiously. One wonders what the Royal response is going to be to this outrageous slur. Really, it must be addressed somehow because ***the twats will never stop*** unless they are definatively shut down.
As well as the examples given by @Hikari about Charles, some of you may remember that Charles loved the Three Degrees and was particularly taken by the lead singer, Sheila Ferguson. He was besotted by her.
So, Scobie was briefed by the duo via their team ... just as with the first book he wrote about them. Hey, why change your behaviour when it works so well for you!
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Speculation is that the leaked name of the 'royal racist' via the Dutch edition was a deliberate slip up to generate publicity for the book. Is the next move from TBW to 'leak' the correspondence with Charles? She has leaked a letter to daddy before.
Hi everybody! I've been hanging out on the SaintMeghanMarkle reddit sub.
Good to see so many familiar profiles here!
Boy have they really run themselves out eh? The whole world is seeing it now. You don't really hear anyone use the term "racism" to refer to her problems, funny that.
You were all very kind to me during a very low point in 2021/2022 and I wanted to thank you so much for all your support at the time, it was surprisingly uplifting.
Nina Fong aka @Bakneena on Twitter/X who I believe to be one of MM's many alternate accounts, has gone silent since October 13/14. You can see all her replies (she replies more than she posts) and they just end.
Anyone else follow her or notice this? You can look at the history of her replies and see exactly what type of stuff she's be constantly saying with the vitriol words etc blaming Kate, etc
I haven't had a chance to read it yet but there's an article by Sarah Vine 'Where DO Harry and Meghan stand in relation to this puppet of theirs? If the Duke and Duchess of Sussex don't denounce the poison in Omid Scobie's new book, we can only assume they endorse it'. The headline just sums it up. The only problem is that Scobie has probably been careful enough to make it sound as if he got his information from third parties, thereby exonerating this one and that one.
Whichever way, I think he's finished and so are the other two.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12802399/Prince-harry-meghan-deny-claims-omid-scobie-book-endorse.html
Cent-impede$
The very hungry
caterpillar eye brows-ed
Chewed the crud
with whom he’s espoused
They’d taken bites
tops of the Crown
In the hope
Megipeed
would bring the house down
Didn’t go to plan
no-ones bothered as such
Hence the release
a Christmas Karel
going Dutch
Cocooned, all larvaed up
desperate for devotion
They’ve endgamed themselves
gastric, plastic implosion…
The very hungry
caterpillar eye brows-ed
Chewed the crud
with whom he’s espoused
They’d taken bites
tops of the Crown
In the hope
Megipeed
would bring the house down
Didn’t go to plan
no-ones bothered as such
Hence the release
a Christmas Karel
going Dutch
Cocooned, all larvaed up
desperate for devotion
They’ve endgamed themselves
gastric, plastic implosion…
@Hunter
Glad to hear you’re well.
Yes, we’re all still here
flying the flag and deriding
madam.
My second question is: Is there any possibility that the Royal family is going to do nothing about the situation when this is spreading to the international news and the scandal is making the family look very dirty. The news in my country are written by ignorant journalists, I mean truly ignorant and very pro Sussex.
Nope, it is Catherine who is named as the second 'royal racist'.
Omid Scobie’s Endgame is ludicrous propaganda for Team Sussex
The reporter’s much-trailed study of the Royal family is laughably partial, devoid of insight and bizarrely misogynistic
Hell hath no fury like a royal reporter scorned. Omid Scobie’s Endgame is billed as the real story of what has been going on inside the Palace walls. But what runs through its 400-odd pages is Scobie’s sense of burning indignation that he was shut out.
Scobie is the journalist who co-wrote Finding Freedom, the unauthorised (ahem) tale of Harry and Meghan. The way he tells it, he was “a trusted confidante for many in and around the younger family – a true insider” until he decided to throw in his lot with Team Sussex. Perhaps understandably, Palace aides went a bit cool on him after that. With nothing left to lose, and a great deal of money to gain – Finding Freedom was a bestseller – he went off to write Endgame, a hit job that reads like a Mumsnet post about the world’s worst in-laws.
The King (we read) has spent his life as “an outspoken environmental activist, an occasional meddler in politics, a successful businessman, a flawed father and a philandering husband who destroyed the life of Princess Diana… Everyone already knows that King Charles might have preferred a life as Queen Camilla’s tampon.” We’re only on page six. He’s “a former pampered prince who is now an ageing king”; unpopular, peevish, jealous of his son and heir. Oh, and he demands that flunkeys iron his shoelaces. Charles becoming King and attempting to portray himself as a moderniser, says Scobie, is like Apple unveiling its new product as a malfunctioning flip-phone.
How about William? He’s bad-tempered, emotionally volatile and jealous (of Harry); his public support for mental-health awareness is mere “virtue signalling”. The digs at William’s “Stepford-like royal wife” are more sly: Kate “spent more time talking about Meghan than talking to her”.
As for the Queen, is that a tone of misogyny I detect in Scobie’s prose? “Camilla,” he writes, “might not have stood on the barricades in the ’60s, but she did enjoy the sexual freedoms ushered in by that radical generation.” “Some who knew Camilla” have described her as “the sort to throw her knickers on the table”; he quotes, from one of the tabloids he despises, a housekeeper saying that she knew when Camilla had been to stay with Charles because there would be knickers all over the place. “Camilla’s undergarments making yet another appearance,” Scobie adds.
And as this dastardly bunch scheme away in their castles like Disney villains, what of Meghan and Harry? Well: “As the morning sun rises over Santa Barbara, bathing the steep Santa Ynez Mountains, and the Pacific Ocean sparkles with California’s trademark glow… Meghan [is] already preparing a family breakfast in the kitchen.” Of course!
Scobie denies that he is the Sussexes’ mouthpiece, but when he writes that “House Montecito’s stance” is that the Palace is run by “overlords and buttoned-up Machiavellis in cahoots with a tabloid cabal who are all hell-bent on upholding the Crown no matter the human cost,” you can’t help but notice that this is exactly what his book is saying too. He is obsessed with the Palace’s relationship with the media, and clearly still annoyed that, as a writer for US magazines, he was not part of the official Royal Rota, which is limited to British national newspaper titles.
Endgame refers to the “briefing wars”, and the belief – as declared by Harry – that the Palace planted stories in the press. But many of the examples given are of royal sources reacting, on William’s behalf, to the public proclamations being made by Harry and Meghan in Netflix series or globally syndicated television interviews or bombshell memoirs. Is that briefing, or responding?
There is little gossip to be had here, unless you count Scobie regurgitating a rumour that one of Charles’s bodyguards found him with Camilla “doing what Lady Chatterley enjoyed best” in the garden at Camilla’s grandmother’s house. He caveats the story by saying it is “an old (but probably false) fable in royal circles”, just as he refers to an internet rumour about William’s private life but provides no evidence whatsoever to back it up.
The hero of the tale isn’t Meghan, as it was in Finding Freedom, but Scobie himself. He zips around like a character from The Morning Show, informing us of his outfit choices (preparations for Queen Elizabeth II’s death demanded “a simple black sweater” from M&S) and his work for ABC News. He considers himself a wise counsel to Palace staffers, and can’t believe they ignore his advice. There is a hilarious scene in which he is filming outside the gates of Kensington Palace and comes face-to-face with William driving out: “Standing inches from the front end of his Range Rover, there we were, virtually eye to eye.” William, he says, gave him “an unimpressed stare”.
There is a lot of petty detail, but Scobie’s target is bigger than any one individual. It is the monarchy itself, described here as “a desiccated system”, “a cratered Firm”, “an unstable family business” and “an institution in decline”. The family is “debilitatingly out-of-touch, even expendable” because it hails from “an incredibly shrinking, old-fashioned world of land barons, polo fields and posh formality”. “The rot has set in,” Scobie warns, “and it’s eating away at the monarchy’s undergirding.”
Race is discussed, and here it’s hard to argue with some of Scobie’s arguments: Princess Michael of Kent wearing a ‘blackamoor’ brooch to an event attended by Meghan was ghastly, whichever way you cut it. It appears that Scobie has written the book with the American market in mind, providing a handy explanation of the word “toffs” (“British slang for a group of upper-class types”), although I’m not sure how much Meghan’s fans want to read about Brexit.
He gets tied up in knots about flags. “To stay relevant, the system, in an almost Trumpian twist, leans on patriotism – even jingoism – to shore up its purpose. When in doubt, festoon the palace, unfurl the Union Jacks and enlist the tabloids.” He accuses the monarchy of “leveraging patriotism”, and describes events such as the Golden Jubilee as “homages to Merry England… increasingly wearisome and transparent”.
Endgame is an utterly one-sided affair, but royal biographers these days like to pick a side – this book is no more biased than Revenge, Tom Bower’s takedown of Meghan. Scobie knows his audience, and they will lap this up.
Of course, he will probably regard it as racism against the British-Welsh-born-Scottish-Iranians of this world.
There is no honor among blackmailers.
Hindsight is 20/20 but by creating * a Royal Duchess, HMTQ effectively loaded the guns against the family herself. Knowing what was known about the mattress actress’s sordid past by MI5, as well as her multiple marriages and the murky criminal past of her family should have discounted her as a Royal bride. Her lack of citizenship or commitment to becoming one should have discounted her for a title. The RF knew she was trouble from the off. That premature statement of racist bullying in the press; the unauthorized Vanity Fair spread; the staff bullying—all this even before the engagement. H needed to be told that if he insisted on marrying this woman, it would be a simple private affair and he could step down immediately from his position as his wife could not receive a title until such time as she became a citizen.
If the RF had been willing to withstand the inevitable racist allegations back then, it would Have very likely blown over as quickly as the Ngozi Fulani affair. Until that tiara and title landed on her head, * was just Harry’s latest booty call. That didn’t make her anything special. The palace could have blandly released some of their extensive file on Harry’s girlfriend relating to the less public aspects of her show business career perhaps… Or details of her trial for tax evasion, etc. Before her royal wedding, she was an obscure nobody and middling show biz failure. She did not gain her allegiance of flying monkey followers and media support without the aid of the very institution she is gunning for. They made her a duchess, declared her questionable children as prince and princess of the United Kingdom and effectively weaponized her against themselves.
I wonder if 2024 is going to bring any updates to the line of succession or the public website of the Firm. Clearly, some response Has to be made. “Never complain; never explain” has held the firm in good stead these many many years. But it had never encountered a Markle before. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor may have become this egregious if social media and woke society narratives were commonplace in their era. Now that we’ve got the fifth estate and it’s open season on anything deemed traditionally male, Christian and white… Well it’s open season on the Royal family.
What a tawdry and to the King’s first year of his reign. If he ever hoped that the duo in Montecito would pipe down and give him some peace, that is obviously a vain hope. The question is, what will His Majesty do next?
Discount Barbie Ken has just immolated himself. Camilla’s knickers on the table?
This stuff can’t be taken back. It might be true—Camilla was never shy about liking a good time—but such disrespect toward the now-Queen is not going to be received in any way favorable to Ken or his masters.
Since discount Barbie ken is now to all appearance is nearly 100% plastic, it remains to be seen whether the bus rolling over him Will actually have an impact.
My thoughts: Engagement needs to happen. Its like someone shooting arrows at the castle, trying to burn out the doors, doing anything to penetrate the walls. You dont want to engage in a war but heck the other side is in full engagement. It will continue and continue and will eventually weaken you wall. Its time for war. Charles needs to be the one since its his reign and his family.
If i were him I would amazingly reveal to his utter sadness and dismay that he has been given credible evidence that harry's children are not his biological children (dont make it about surrogacy; leave that to others) "its so troubling and i wont hold this against the poor tots' " I hope to meet them someday"(thats a particular burn) "it's as if a fraud has been perpetrated on our family (and maybe even throw in his son)" "I am heartbroken as a father that such havoc has been wrought on my family and my prodigal son. " Leave line of succession and titles talk to others to force the issue. This puts it all back on her, could keep Harry out of it unless someone comes forward to confirm he knew about the surrogacy. She cant say there was pressure to produce an heir as a royal brood mare because if it were other genes and not harry's then its all on her. Make it about the coverup and not the crime.
If he does nothing, lets the Wales take a lot of heat then he is the wimp many make him out to be. If the speculation is true that it was Princess Anne who forced the Frogmore issue, and charles took the credit (or the "blame") he looks weak. Charles needs to take a stand and sooner or later otherwise his reign will be more stained by his lack of decisive action.
I think what he's doing is slut shaming Camilla.
It's not right when done to anyone, including people in their 70's whose indiscretions have long been forgotten by everyone except the most bitter people who would only be too happy to re-open every old emotional wound to make a buck.
We're so lucky that people like Scabies, * and Hairball don't rule the world, otherwise we would be facing nuclear Armageddon on a daily basis.
so harkles will get the blame for this (and rightly so) and that will really make them burn. For others working with them or being pitched to work with them its another reminder that they cant keep "secrets" in the very least and they outright lie in the very most. If any deals were coming, this will shut them down. They will be persona non gratis once again. WME must be just groaning thinking thats it we cant help stupid. They may be petty and vindictive, but they once again get hit by the swinging door. Whip smart!
They have not published the names of the "royal racists" for I trust they understand what the word "defamation" means. Which is more than what Omid Scobie can perceive!
She is crazy enough to believe it.
I remember reading that when people are invited to drop the puck at the Vancouver Rogers' Arena, there usually is non-stop cheering. It was very quiet when Hairball was introduced to do so and while he was on the ice.
People also got annoyed at how long it was taking him to get through the little ceremony, as he seemed to cherish his time in the spotlight.
When the jumbotron showed pics of the couple, there was no cheering in the arena.
Wow, that is an idea Queen Rachel of Britain! (No need to think about king Harold he would be totally irrelevant)
But her stories of racism have misfired badly for there are too many versions of them.
I can't understand that anyone thought that she was "whip-smart". She is a dunce of purest quality, truly.
The Royal family aught to consider legal actions.
“The Royal family aught to consider legal actions.”
I agree completely. The noisome twosome (plus their sycophantic satellites including Omid Scrotum and the paid-for sugars) will never, ever quit assaulting the Royals until the day they are revealed for their essential craposity, and once and for all firmly crushed completely in all ways: monetarily, emotionally, and reputationally.
I cannot believe that Charles continues to allow this destruction of the whole royal edifice. He may not care about the bazooka guns aimed at him personally, but OMG the lies must stop and be rectified which are attributed falsely to, and false accusations against, Katherine, William, Camilla, and the crappy conduct towards innocent children such as preciously perfect little Charlotte being called fat, and the insinuation that high energy Louis needs to be brought down a notch.
No matter how much abuse Charles is willing to be pummeled by personally, this whole assault isn’t just personal. It is designed to take down the whole Royal Family. It must be stopped, or Charles needs to step aside and let William handle the necessary mega-atomic-nuclear-bomb level action to stop the unrelenting character assassinations and lies.
You are absolutely right. I too have translated professionally and you can only write what is in the original text.
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There's a DM headline, "Piers Morgan names the two senior royals who Omid Scobie claims were the ones 'with concerns' over Prince Archie's skin colour". He was talking in his evening show which I didn't watch but the press haven't mentioned anything, although the internet mentions Catherine. Make no mistake, this is political and designed to destroy the house of Windsor. The reality is that people are sick to the back teeth of the Harkles and that they are now defending the BRF.
* is a control freak says Neil Sean. The couple share a telephone number so she knows everyone that Hairball calls or gets calls from and can listen in on all phone calls.
That made my morning, bless her!
To think we imagined that plots to take over the throne were a thing of the past.
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On the subject of the past, it is an unfortunately true that there was the Royal African Company (set up by Charles II, dissolved 270 years ago in 1750), the chief commodity of which was slaves. Sixty years before that, Elizabethan sea dogs, such as Hawkins, were involved in a private capacity but the queen was happy to accept their profits.
After 1750, however, we began to see the error of our ways and the Royals of the time were among the first to do so - George III, (unjustly maligned in the US, IMO) supported the Abolitionist cause for instance.
Scobie is outright lying. The names were in the original manuscript and were taken out at a late stage. Between the American and the Dutch publishers, and maybe even the translator, someone messed up and did not correct the text by taking the names out. In someone's inbox there is a message that was overlooked (everyone would have been working under pressure and bring pushed to meet tight deadlines). Those names could have been left in for every edition except the British without risk of being sued, so I think the names were removed from the manuscript by request of Scobie himself, and not by the publisher. Of the duo and him, someone got cold feet at a late stage. Which of the three do you think it was?
In the light of the row this week, just what happened during the Oprah interview – and subsequently – is crucial.
Meghan was adamant that questions about her son Archie's complexion were motivated by ugly racism (as opposed to, say, curiosity). At one point Ms Winfrey put it to her that 'they were concerned that if he were too brown that would be a problem'.
The duchess responded: 'If that's the assumption you are making, I think that feels like a pretty safe one.'
A visibly shocked Ms Winfrey responded: 'What? Who is having that conversation with you?' 'There were several conversations about it', Meghan said, which took place 'in those months when I was pregnant'. Ms Winfrey asked: 'There's a conversation with you?' To which Meghan interjected: 'With Harry.' When the prince joins the interview, his recall about the matter is markedly different. He maintained there was just one conversation 'right at the beginning' of their relationship, 'before we even got married.'
Asked to name names, Harry answered: 'That conversation , I'm never going to share.'
A more forensic interviewer than Ms Winfrey might have queried these obvious inconsistencies. For while both Harry and Meghan were 'speaking their truth', they can't both have been right.
It would be interesting to point this out again. In actual fact, I think the vast majority of people don't care one way or another and now see the Harkles have shown their true colours, of they didn't see it before.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/1879ai3/there_has_to_be_more_to_the_story_here/
There was once a prince christened Albert, known as Bertie, who wasn't rated much. He had a terrible stutter, probably the result of having a very strict father. He even had to propose to his future wife several times before she she gave in.
I wonder what happened to him? Perhaps he changed his name?
An indomitable King Charles III today brushed off the row over Endgame just before Omid Scobie appears on British TV today as Meghan and Harry were urged to sue their favoured royal reporter over the Dutch version of Endgame naming two royals as racists.
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Mr Stephens [one of Britain's leading media lawyers] told Newsweek: 'You're mainly looking to prevent him or anyone else from repeating information that should have never seen the light of day'.
'The way that Harry and Meghan demonstrate that they didn't want to see this in the public domain is by getting an injunction against the person who's breached their confidence.
'The moral imperative is that they must — given their widely known concerns about privacy and seeing another member of the family suffer as well as themselves suffer from an invasion of privacy — they would want to do everything they could to prevent it going further.'
The despicable two are usually quick to sue so it will be interesting to see if they do sue Vomit Scobie.
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Publishers will take one of two options: World English, or World Rights. World English is what it says on the tin: English language rights, usually split between US and UK/Commonwealth. With this, you handle foreign translations yourself, although publishers will work together. World Rights is the whole shebang, including translations - when it's this, the publisher then shops around for translations and whatever the foreign publisher pays for it comes off your advance.
World English Rights means he sold just English and held on to foreign translation rights. Dey Street would have then sold the UK/Commonwealth rights to Harlequin, but Scobie's agent would have shopped the translation rights.
Which means Harlequin did not send the manuscript to Xander. Omid Scobie's agent did... and his agent would have sent the manuscript Omid Scobie provided as a final copy for translation.
https://anonymoushouseplantfan.tumblr.com/
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Publishers will take one of two options: World English, or World Rights. World English is what it says on the tin: English language rights, usually split between US and UK/Commonwealth. With this, you handle foreign translations yourself, although publishers will work together. World Rights is the whole shebang, including translations - when it's this, the publisher then shops around for translations and whatever the foreign publisher pays for it comes off your advance.
World English Rights means he sold just English and held on to foreign translation rights. Dey Street would have then sold the UK/Commonwealth rights to Harlequin, but Scobie's agent would have shopped the translation rights.
Which means Harlequin did not send the manuscript to Xander. Omid Scobie's agent did... and his agent would have sent the manuscript Omid Scobie provided as a final copy for translation.
https://anonymoushouseplantfan.tumblr.com/
Well, does this sound like an adult who is fully compos mentis?
The guy is in a total panic mode and I hope he continues like that a very long time.
Well, does this sound like an adult who is fully compos mentis?
The guy is in a total panic mode and I hope he continues like that a very long time.
He tried to handle them (the Royal family) in respectful, mature way.....
Heavens, he is so hurt when everybody treats him unfairly (and they ALL DO!!) but the Force is Great in This One!
“Have Omid Scobie stolen the greatest scoop from the asterisk's memoirs when he published the princess of Wales' name?”
Wow! I bet you’re right, and the toxic one’s nefarious plan was to reveal as the top earth-shattering (false) bombshell in her own future book that the racists were Charles and Katherine.
Omid’s reveal in Endgame has ruined her evil plan. Haha, he did an end run around her in Endgame.
I’m now going to reacquaint myself with the delusional one’s unhinged screeds. Thanks again!
I totally agree that to speculate on an unborn child’s coloring, weight, height, etc is a normal conversation to engage in. The conversation occurred early in their dating, she wasn’t even present and * should be pleased that the BRF even thought about her. A potential heir’s skin color wasn’t even brought up, ffs. A joke was made to Harry about a ginger afro which is benign but Harry had to relay this comment to Mummy *. Since Harry has repeatedly written about his drug use and his ‘curated’ memories in Spare, I don’t even believe he correctly remembered what was said and the context.
Harry and * weaponize everything so it is necessary that a no contact policy continues in perpetuity. According to commentators, the duo sent Christmas gifts to the Wales children last year and complained they never received a thank you. The Royals have obviously been given a specialized briefing on how narcissists function and not to respond to any overtures from the narcs. Everything they are involved with turns to shit because they lie and gaslight and aren’t smart enough to keep their fictional stories straight.
Avid Gardener said that she believes King Charles won’t remove the titles but will allow the Monteshitshow duo to fall into bankruptcy and not rescue them. Her take on the situation is sound if you want to listen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kupIF_kzU5s
I heartily agree!
Pity nobody asked `Will the baby have his dad's rodent eyes? Or his mother's avarice?'
They'd have had to have sucked it up.
For some reason, I keep thinking of the Two Ronnies' sketches featuring very dim yokels. They explained that it was because nobody would ever write in and say `I'm a yokel and I'm mortally offended by the disgraceful way you mock my kind.'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9fHb9JN9vQ
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Another stray thought - by my way of thinking, Scoobie Doo Doo isn't mixed race - Iranians are Indo-European, like us. So are most Indians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qqt-xCEOjU
* is a control freak says Neil Sean. The couple share a telephone number so she knows everyone that Hairball calls or gets calls from and can listen in on all phone calls
That's ridiculous. I am 99% sure, that reality is that Megs and Harry share a phone number. Then they also each have 1-2 other phones/phone numbers that are exclusively for their own use. BTW, I have two phone numbers on my one and only phone. One is from the cell phone company, such as Verizon. I pay for this. The other is from Google voice. You install the free Google voice app on your phone. It is easier to first set up Google voice on a real computer. Then you transfer the settings to your smartphone. Android in my case.
So first, on a legitimate computer, log onto your Gmail account. Then do a search for Google voice. Go to google voice and you will see the instructions. After setting up google voice, leave it on your laptop or desktop. Plug in a microphone and speakers, and you can use your laptop or desktop as a phone.
But also use the same Google Voice settings on your cell phone.
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yeah work is slow right now
I dont think she was going to wait for her memoir to reveal the two "racists" she has prob been told its bad for her and her "brand" to do it and maybe a lawyer has said without proof you will be sued. As usual she uses someone else so she wont have to be the one. Shes a sneaky chicken mean girl like that. shes also knows the providence of the children or the missing foundation funds or the full bullying report are the BRF ace in the hole against her so she will continue with gossip and innuendo til she is an old hag in a rest home.
As for phone - lots of people have work cell phones and personal ones, although i could see her adding a line onto hers so she can watch what he is doing. i also think she slipped an airtag onto him so she can track him
this whole thing is blowing up in their faces because once again they are showing they cant be trusted once again. the vindictiveness reconfirms they have nothing no plans no projects.
I would like the King's response to be a very public pap picture of Princess Anne boarding a plane at heathrow direct to LA with no engagements listed on the calendar. And then we can speculate all we like as to what she will be doing
My first thought when he was talking about his 'mixed race' was that he wasn't even competent enough to know the difference between 'race' and 'ethnicity'.
Translation: "Gold Stick is coming to beat your traitorous a$$e$, with our full blessing."
Then something could be let slip in the press that Gold Stick went to the the purported address in Montecito where the RF (and the world) has been told they live, only to find tumbleweeds blowing across the deserted driveway, no signs of life.
Has anyone in the last few hours failed to get onto SMM? All goes well until I try to open the site and I get a pop up saying this:
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I couldn't get on until early in the morning here after not being able to get on at all yesterday. With all the new things coming out, it was aggravating. Today everything is ok. Maybe your access will be back to normal tomorrow.
I checked Reddit just now (23.09 UK time), it's working.
It's fine now- I'd been trying, and failing, on Google Chrome but managed it on Edge. Chrome fine now; fingers crossed that it stays that way.
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* must be nearly vomiting with booze and rage by now, the latest photos of our beloved Prince and Princess of Wales are divine. I take it that the blue is a compliment to their royal guests from Sweden.
Hard cheese, Markle. Tough titty, Ginge.
The problems with the Markle's efforts here, let me count them:
1. The allegation doesn't contain any actual racism.
2. Harry and Meghan gave contradicting accounts of the incident in the same interview, calling the entire thing into question. Meghan said it was when she was pregnant, Harry said it was before they were married.
3. It's been reported that Meghan admitted to King Charles that no malice was intended.
4. Harry claimed on global television no actual racism had been alleged.
5. A royal reporter on instagram said multiple sources have seen the contents of the letter and said the two called out were Camilla and Angela Kelly, not Charles and Kate.
6. Translations don't mess up or make up names, so that means they were named in a copy.
7. If they were named even though they were not the ones who said it, then they were included specifically for a leak to implicate C and K.
8. Odious Omid said himself he never named those people, which I take to mean he knows it wasn't them.
9. Last and certainly not least, Meghan's most estranged relationship is her relationship with the truth, so I would put a year's salary on none of it being true.
I just tried and SMM is still there. Might have been a temporarary Internet glitch on your end?
Anyway, this caught my eye . . Piers pulls no punches. Madam ghosted him but the piece de resistance was getting him in hot water with his bosses at the TV show. Me-Gain has earned herself an enemy.
Piers Morgan used Scobie as a pawn (title)
Piers Morgan stole all the attention. It was a calculated move. Now instead of people talking about Meghan’s experience with the alleged royal racists as written by Scobie- they are talking about Piers providing the names.
Stealing the attention away from Scobie and Meghan is a severe ego injury for both. Narcissists have a guttural, visceral need to react to ego injury.
Piers made his move and is waiting for the reaction. No doubt Madam does not want to get her hands dirty and has demanded Scobie clap back.
Scobie knows this will create a lifelong enemy with Piers who has shown he will go to any lengths to get even. Scobie will not want this. If Scobie chooses to do this Piers will leave no stone unturned in revealing the collaboration between Scobie and Meghan for Scobie’s book. Piers wins.
If Scobie doesn’t do as Madam demands he will create a lifelong enemy with Madam. Piers wins.
The ultimate check mate is if Madam herself claps back giving Piers evidence to provide to the public that she is the source of Scobie’s book and outing her as the main perpetrator in the attacks against KC and Catherine. Piers wins- game over.
Most of these people are alluding to Camilla and Angela Kelly being the real culprits. That's what the majority of the British press who were in on the secret thought.
The reason that the blame has shifted to Charles and Catherine, well, you can speculate about that.
I think the royal racist are hapless and the witch. They were the ones who were very concerned about having children that obviously looked mixed race. (Remember how she was expressing over-the-top delight in the Netflix documentary about Lilli having blue, blue, blue eyes?) All the drama is a classic case of projection.
Camilla Tominey rips into Omid and exposes him. The article is in the Telegraph and posted at the above link.
Even if they uttered comments as to `wtf does she think she is?' without reference to her ancestry/background/race/ethnicity/whatever, * would still have interpreted it as racism if someone stood up to her and refused to give her what she demanded.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67584565
How I hate the sight of that ugly mug.
Quickie 🎤
Apologies: Ronnie Hilton
A Windmill in Old Amsterdam
The Windmills of Their Minds
I see a rat
there
Swear he wrote Spare
Aiding the pair
Right there
A big rat with clogs on
Peddling his ware
Churning flip-flippity-flop
without care
Not fair…
Jan Moir
“that old miff-magnet
known as meghan”
Perfection-hahahaha 👌
Morganatic
Piers-ed the balloon
Needed to be done
Opened the dam
For truth to be won
I do envy the British for you have the most gorgeous "crown prince and crown princess" in your Prince and Princess of Wales. There is nothing special in presidents, helas!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12813423/meghan-markle-omid-scobie-not-leak-names-royal-racists.html
Rather odd isn't it? By denying being the leak, she confirms that the two people she accused are indeed Charles and Catherine. We only know about the existence of the letters because she leaked that information. So, are they claiming that someone in the Palace gave information about the letters to Scobie and other royal reporters ... someone who was specifically targeting Catherine? The rumour that Charles made the comment that was misinterpreted and weaponised by the duo has been out there for a long time, but no one has named Catherine before.
An astrologer's view of what is going on between the witch and Catherine. She predicts more acrimony between the witch and Catherine (and William) in the year ahead, but also between the witch and Oprah and hapless and Oprah.
Same astrologer looks at the witch and Scobie. Interesting:
"It’s envy or jealousy that drives them, plus in Meghan’s case an emotional pathology which appears to unleash destruction on any inclusive family relationships in her orbit."
She is unsure of Scobie's actual birth date, but concludes:
"Scobie’s birth date is iffy but assuming it is there or thereabouts his relationship charts are: dire with King Charles, almost as bad with Camilla, power struggling with Kate and William. If the birth date is sound then his connection to Meghan is under strain as of now and will fall apart from mid 2024 and worse in 2025/26."