Seriously. It was not.
Sudden trips, surprise awards, a cooking event, not much forward momentum in rebranding while elsewhere was profound loss, missed scheduled events and a few more warning shots over the bow about "truth" and be careful what you push for.
Perhaps, at least for a while, there will be some peaceful quiet before things ramp up for TOC.
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An innocent person did die in the Salisbury poisoning, someone called Dawn Sturgess. Some of the Novichok had been disguised as perfume and was carelessly disposed of in a bin. Someone thought it was a lucky find and she reportedly sprayed it onto her wrists, as one does.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58635137
`Former Russian agent Sergei Skripal, his daughter Yulia and a police officer, Nick Bailey, were exposed to the substance in 2018.
Dawn Sturgess died after finding a perfume bottle with it in months later.'
I was trying to back up WBBM's comment that major abdominal surgery takes time to recover from. My first born was born in the UK, but the surgeon didn't mention driving. The Drs. and nurses would remind me though, that I had just had 'major abdominal surgery.' The PoW's surgery apparently wasn't one that one can just get up from and go home afterward. I think all of the speculation the poor woman has been subject to has been reprehensible. Just hope she can recover completely and soon.
Our last few most recent American Presidents have been anomalies. Mr, Biden is the 46th man (so far no women) to hold that office since the founding of our Republic. Mr. Biden, at 80 years of age is no longer at full strength, but he was elected President in time-honored tradition: after decades serving in the Congress, the bulk of those as the senior Senator from Delaware, he served two terms as Vice-President under Mr. Obama. Many of our most successful Presidents have come in with previous experience in the executive branch as state Governors—an even more elite group than the Senate being only half as many. Leading a large and complex state is more useful training for the Oval Office than the legislature, because the decision-making demands are very similar, just a difference in scale. Several Presidents were military commanders, starting with our first. George Bush Sr. was head of the CIA. Mr. Obama had the least amount of experience of any President up to that point, but the Zeitgeist was with him, embodied by the support of the Democratic machine and an electorate that was ready to install a dynamic young family of color in the White House. His lack of experience in government was incidental. His successor Mr. Trump was a complete outlier to politics but that was his entire selling point, really. Two guys in a row might seem to have started a trend, but they were not the normal order of things. Considering that 2024 is going to be a replay of 2020, it’s safe to assume that henceforth “normal” no longer applies. I can’t say I care for it. There are indeed times when being compelled to, in the words of GRIII in “Hamilton”: “Are they going to keep replacing who’s in charge?!”—feels like too much, and this year is certainly one.
Back to business—
Some may feel I was too harsh in my criticism of KP’s handling of the recent attempts to reassure the public about Catherine’s health. I realize the situation is unprecedented and that this young family is under incredible strain. Missteps were made, and Im sure things would be handled differently in retrospect. It is indeed shameful that William and Catherine were relentlessly hounded for private details, and that Catherine suffered a breach of her medical files where they should have been safe. I hope this current crisis will lead to a rethink of how future health crises in the RF will be handled from a public relations standpoint going forward. If I were advising the couple, I would remind them that her Late Majesty’s mantra of “Never complain, never explain,” or if I can put it more colloquially, “Never let the bast*rds see you sweat—or cry or exhibit any negative human emotion—served her quite well for 70 years, and is worth emulating in a situation like the one facing William and Catherine now. I commend her for putting out the video she made. That was helpful. The other two efforts were misguided and damaging, and as much as I support the Royal couple, I am dismayed that they or their office buckled to the pressure but only ended up copying the methods of the duo in California. I stand with the Wales family, and the King but I suppose they realize now that in situations were unvarnished honesty is not possible, maintaining a dignified silence in the face of provocation is the better course. That is no doubt a lesson learnt for next time. Because there will be next times.
re Baroness Bruck - there was a very great deal on SMM yesterday about the same topic.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/1bnwggq/the_rumours_behind_baroness_bruck_account_is/
I have refrained from checking out the cesspool of the Baroness Bruck account myself, but the chatter is that she suddenly 'turned' from being a reasonable critic of the total family and became a rabid Catherine hater. No evidence to back it up, but the gossip is that TBW purchased the account because it has such a huge following, and that is why that major change happened.
I can't remember the name now, but there are convincing arguments, but no proof, that another Catherine hater account is also her.
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A blogger I follow is posting all the messages about Catherine from all over the world, including from government officials from foreign countries who have met her once. Those messages are so genuine and caring. The message sent through a spokesperson to some media outlet from the duo is looking worse by the day! But narcs are like that - they actually do not care about other people and DO take delight in the misfortune of others whom they regard as their enemies.
Sarah posted a lovely message, on note paper that reminds me of ... hmmm ARO branding! It seems that in the royal family those who cause the stress sail along happily while those who bear the brunt of the fallout of misdeeds get cancer! Of course I know that cancer is caused by genetics and thus some people are more vulnerable to environmental factors, but surely genuine stress has a small role to play?
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Sorry to be so ignorant, but someone named Diddy or something like that is in legal trouble over s*x trafficking? In the indictment, hapless is named. There is no indication that he knew what was going on or participated (yet?), but it is claimed that this Diddy guy invited hapless to his parties to 'lure victims'. I wonder how big this is going to get and if 'victims' are going to start claiming that he participated? The duo flaunt their wealth and times are hard and one or two or more might want to grab for a big payday like Virginia Guiffre.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13239279/prince-harry-lawsuit-sean-diddy-combs.html
Her fantasies about ARO are ambitious, and so very much her. She still has no product to sell and no partnerships announced. Gossip in Hollywood is that she is talking to people in Asia to try and secure a business partner (i.e. someone to fund this fantasy).
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13237379/Meghan-Markle-sell-MAKEUP-lifestyle-brand-American-Riviera-Orchard.html
Below is a link to a Tina Brown article in the NYTimes. The link seems to work without a paywall. She has this to say about Prince William:
"We hear often of Prince Harry’s hatred of the press. If possible, Prince William — while concealing it better — hates the press even more.His bloody-minded determination to stick to his grandmother Queen Elizabeth’s script of “never complain, never explain” is magical thinking in the era of the social media maelstrom, creating a vacuum filled by rumor and deranged conspiracy theories."
I think Pw's aversion to the press has a lot to do with how they've handled the health crises. I think he thought he was protecting his wife and children.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/25/opinion/kate-middleton-cancer-diagnosis.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fk0.N60A.Yo548mX0WXE0&smid=url-share
Prince Harry is named in bombshell $30million lawsuit against Sean 'Diddy' Combs: Producer suing the rapper in US over 'sex-trafficking parties' says star's access to the Duke of Sussex and other celebrities boosted his 'legitimacy'
Prince Harry has been named in US court documents related to a $30million lawsuit claiming that Sean 'Diddy' Combs is a sexual abuser of men and women, MailOnline can reveal today.
Record producer Rodney 'Lil Rod' Jones' filed the bombshell lawsuit against Diddy and claims that his 'affiliation' to the Duke of Sussex and other stars gave him and his associates 'legitimacy'.
Lil Rod's lawyers claim guests were drawn to Diddy's alleged sex-trafficking parties because of his 'access to celebrities such as famous athletes, political figures, artist, musicians, and international dignitaries like British Royal, Prince Harry', court documents filed in New York say.
The court documents filed in the US last month do not suggest any wrongdoing on Prince Harry's part. MailOnline has asked the Duke of Sussex to comment.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13239279/prince-harry-lawsuit-sean-diddy-combs.html#:~:text=Lil%20Rod%27s%20lawyers%20claim%20guests,filed%20in%20New%20York%20say
Moderator comment:
Please step back from the politics, Russia, conspiracies and so on.
Resuming normal discussions.
Thank you
Nor am I surprised that the Ginger Whinger Has been on the periphery of some of P. Diddy’s parties. The Dookie Has always gravitated to bad companions and he is one himself.
Definitely shades of uncle Andy’s trouble repeating itself. With the salient difference being that while Jeffrey Epstein courted friendship with a Prince of the United Kingdom In order to burnish own reputation and attract other high rollers to his s*x parties, Andrews nephew would not offer the same cachet. What possible benefit would it be to any celebrities reputation to be associated with Harry in his current state? I have to smile at the notion that P. Diddy needs Hairball to give his endeavors “legitimacy”. Yes, the Dookie formally known as Prince Dumbarton of Sussex Epitomizes legitimacy in the popular mind on every possible level.
P Diddy has been rap royalty here since Harold was in short pants. I’d wager that more Americans know who P. Diddy is then know or care who Harold is.
when were these parties that he allegedly attended; how many did he attend
did he get cash compensation to be there
did he get unlimited party favors to be there.
did he participate in the um well with the girls and underaged girls.
lots of questions.to me he had to be at some parties otherwise seeing him once at the diana concert wouldn’t be enough for P Diddy to brag he was at other parties
why list his name now? either it’s salacious nothing burger to get eyeballs all over this or it’s an invitation to dig deeper into other alleged sex trafficking connections.
how does the mrs feel about all of this? did they know about this when she sent the flying monkey’s after the princess of wales hoping that it would be swept under the rug?
did this some out now because of the raid? heard that the court docs were from at least a month ago? who knew it was there and um did the palace/william use this info to get back at the sussexes for the Catherine stuff? (h said that the palace regularly did that 😉)
are wales and sussex at war but via social media? Back when the spare was released there was a great thread on twitter/x supposing the armies of the cambridges versus the armies of the sussexes. here it is. it a hoot and a tribute to the english history lessons learned
https://x.com/andyrileyish/status/1611270372548136960?s=46&t=YXyXKJ_wC7rBPDWFwIRuLg
on a last note. since we have so many parallels to andrew the spare and harry the spare i hope Wm and Catherine can break the cycle with Louis. talk about lessons learned.
I keep hearing that the Biden administration is ‘protecting’ H by nit releasing/acting upon numerous visa irregularities. What May have started as a courtesy to the British monarch, former and present, by overlooking some paperwork at customs is going to blow up if Harold is tied to an Epstein-sized scandal involving the breaking of numerous U.S. laws. Would he leave the country to avoid being subpoenaed in a Diddy trial? Maybe this is how we divest ourselves of CRIII’s runaway kid (who will be 40 this year.)
Dookie's "humanitarian" days are over with this revelation. Humanitarians don't force underage females to have sex.
Harold might have kept dodgy company but that doesn't mean he had sex with underage girls, let alone forced them. The same also goes for Andrew.
Harry is like a moth to the flame when it comes to drugs. He just makes so many bad decisions without thinking of the consequences. So he has a bodyguard to protect him from physical harm but what about all the spyware, hidden cameras, eyewitnesses that put him in jeopardy. Also, Harry is the end-user of illegal drugs, sniff sniff, but how many INNOCENT people have been injured or killed from manufacturing to transporting to selling of those drugs by the cartels so Harry can get high? Such a selfish, destructive idiot.
Elskainga
I once saw a PBS show (think like mid 1980's) which said that you can expect that at least one person was killed during the transport of that cocaine you are about to sniff up. (that's a party fun downer)
They keep talking about the violence in the various cartels, all the this or that group being kidnapped and killed, dead bodies dumped on the side of the road - that I'm sure that number has gone up way past one over time.
Shameful behavior by an over-privileged rich arrogant stupid arse.
It’s hard not to draw parallels between two international scandals involving money and celebrities and two royal princes from the same family, a generation apart. I didn’t assume that only young girls were involved. Hollywood is an equal opportunity debauching ground and I am convinced that Harold actually prefers batting for his own team. Just a vibe I get considering some wood I would be in very inappropriate tactile behavior with Invictus veterans and general body language. It’s ironic but I never realized how confidently masculine Harold is NOT Ever since he got with the wife. Due to her complete ball breaking dominating personality, she’s completely shined a light on how very beta Harold is in relation to her. Eclipsed by his wife and his brother both who both have bigger cojones that he’s got is I think the fundamental source of his self loathing and rage. The Sussex marriage is a business arrangement in which they are bearding for each other. They made an agreement to role play being in lurve and being parents for mutual benefits and in exchange for the public (bad) cosplay, they each get a partner that doesn’t care what they do. whom,
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Diddy attend
Diddy not
Once Sean
Never forgot
If true
may hazza rot…
@Swampie
Puff Daddy
Seems appropriate
@Hikari
Thank you
The news about Catherine
and Williams supposed reaction
is unprecedented.
The days of “Never complain
never explain”
Gone, much like morals
decency and love of country
Meghan Markle targets the pet food market: Duchess of Sussex new lifestyle brand American Riviera Orchard could sell bird seed and edible pet treats, trademark documents reveal
Meghan Markle hopes to sell products from bird seed to pet treats and gardening shears to napkin rings with her new lifestyle brand American Riviera Orchard.
The Duchess of Sussex has listed a range of items in documents sent to the US Patent and Trademark Office, also including bath soaps, curtains and yoga blankets.
Other items in the papers - which were submitted on March 13 but have only now emerged - are ketchup, incense burners, flower pots, pet food and recipe books.
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What next, toilet paper? (Luxury, quilted and bearing her crest). This really smacks of desperation.
DM and other websites.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13244181/Meghan-Markle-American-Riviera-Orchard-Prince-Harry-pet-food.html
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" Mr. Combs was known for throwing the "best" parties. Affiliation with and/or general business partnerships with Mr. Combs garnered legitimacy, immense success, and access to top and emerging artists, celebrities, famous athletes, political figures, musicians, and international dignitaries like British Royal and Prince Harry."
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The original is (with all the errors):
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"Affiliation with, and or sponsorship of Mr Combs sex-trafficking parties garnered legitimacy and access to celebrities such as famous athletes, political figures, artist, musicians and international dignitaries like British Royal, Prince Harry."
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Both original and amended do not state that hapless attended the parties but implies that one of the 'rewards' for attending these parties was a chance to meet these famous and important people. I find the text lacks clarity in both instances. But, it is notable that only hapless is named as the only confirmation we have that the two ever met was a few photographs of hapless posing happily with him after the concert for Diana, and William is standing to the side, smiling broadly at his brother, in one if the photos (definitely not huddled together for a group photo as hapless was).
One thing I do agree on is that their 'so in love' behaviour has always looked performative. And, especially in the early days, they persisted on laying it on thick in formal settings where it was inappropriate.
Latest Harry Markle
https://www.tumblr.com/random-thoughts-and-jottings/745571503916056576/reblog?source=share
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgofakeyourselfmeghan.files.wordpress.com%2F2019%2F07%2Figsussexexif.jpg%3Fw%3D640&tbnid=7mAxSHFApj4JVM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgofakeyourselfmeghan.wordpress.com%2F2019%2F07%2F22%2Farchies-christening-photos%2F&docid=QRYkCfq0Nj-olM&w=640&h=583&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm4%2F2&kgs=ec82068ea9a9458b&shem=abme%2Ctrie#vhid=7mAxSHFApj4JVM&vssid=l and
What is exif data?
"The date and time when the original image data was generated.
For a digital still camera, this is the date and time the picture was taken or recorded. The format is "YYYY:MM:DD HH:MM:SS" with time shown in 24-hour format, and the date and time separated by one blank character (hex 20)."
The exif data gives the time as late at night (22.46.06).
Can anyone confirm that the raw data given in that post is actually the original from the photo? I have not been able to find the original with the raw data. I have checked Getty images and the tabloids that published the image - none of them give access to the raw data.
So where did this person who posted this on social media get access to the raw data?
The video of her has been removed. Why?
She has 575 k followers on IG.
@Maneki Neko
Thanks for the article about what she has added to her trademark application. Does she wake up with a bright idea and then just add to the application? Do these 'amendments' slow down the process of getting the trademark approved? This all seems to be so messy.
If she is looking for investors, then my guess is that the response to her prematurely launched website and IG account is not going to help her. (It is great for a mid-range brand, but does not come close to Paltrow, the Kardashians, and so on.)
Feminine hygiene products & incontinence supplies? Sex toys? Kinky boots?
If you search for the quotation, you'll see it's in any number of trash sources. Now I wonder why?
She should sell it with her picture on it to make sure that everybody leaves with a purchase.
Ha ha! You have a lot more imagination than I have!🤣 This reminds me that I thought they donated (not a chance) or asked people to donate/buy (that's more like it) feminine hygiene products. They did indeed. This is from six very long years ago reseeding presents. Six years already! (nearly). Who would have thought they'd last that long?
'The couple has asked for donations to a handful of charities instead of presents for their wedding in Windsor on Saturday, and the Mumbai-based Myna Mahila Foundation is the only foreign organization they have picked.
The charity aims to improve access to sanitary protection for women living in Mumbai's slums, providing them with pads that are both affordable and hygienic.' (CNN)
I meant ' ... six very long years re wedding presents.
I'd forgotten that.
Imagination? Well, it's not particularly ladylike.
Prince Harry’s failed legal bid to overturn a Home Office decision to deny him the right to automatic police protection cost the taxpayer more than £500,000
... 'Figures released via a Freedom of Information request reveal that the total cost of fighting two separate judicial review claims lodged by the Duke of Sussex over his security reached £514,128.
That included more than £180,000 for counsel, £320,000 for the Government Legal Department, £2,300 in court fees and almost £10,000 in e-disclosure.
Mr Justice Lane dismissed the Duke’s case in a scathing 52-page ruling handed down in February after two-and-a-half years of legal wrangling.' ...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2024/03/27/prince-harry-failed-police-protection-back-taxpayer-500000/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/royals/26961997/sussex-squad-trolls-kate-middleton/
- although we are aware of circumstantial evidence linking * to SS, allegedly.
This is an odd little piece ... no source for this is given. So, I am calling it fiction.
do you know if he's appealing the decision? When the decision was handed down, I remember reading that he said he was appealing, but in other sources, people said that since it was a High Court decision, no appeal was possible.
The 'evidence' of their link to the SS:
* A phone call from TBW to one of the squad to thank them for their support.
* Photos of hapless and TBW, singly and together, posing for a photo with a SS member or several SS members to n a number of occasions.
* SS being officially acknowledged in the Archwell annual report as donors.
Someone on the Saint Meghan Markle is appealing for assistance in gathering this evidence. I am surprised that The Sun didn't do this but perhaps they want to avoid a court case ... and know that social media will do the work and then they can report on that. Not much in the way of real investigative reporting happens in mainstream media or the tabloids (three sources, documentation, and so forth).
I have been coming across this a lot - Australian reporter Peter Ford telling Bouzy that the gig is up and the person behind the SS is going to be exposed. Does anyone know anything about Peter Ford and his credibility?
I slipped in the SS, but Peter Ford did not mention them in his tweet.
I didn't read the whole Telegraph article but apparently H will appeal.
'The ruling left the Duke facing an estimated legal bill of more than £1 million.
Undeterred, he has announced that he plans to appeal the ruling, meaning that the costs are likely to rise further.'
Reuters said the same today.
When you're in a hole, stop digging, or keep digging if you're * & H.
Harry’s is typical Narc behavior. Double Triple Quadruple down on bad decisions and refuse to stop agitating until they get their way, no matter how boneheaded. He and the wife are twovrancid peas in a pod.
a quote from a DM article about *'s offering from Word Salad Ranch that I found particularly entertaining
Neil just did this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOU2qA0meVU&t=2s
He mentions that allegedly * was upset about demoting of their place in the palace website and that it hurt the future for her/their new venture.
But really, I'm not convinced it was a spite placement designed to throw a spanner in her plans. Karma but not a tit for tat.
We have been hearing for years (years not days or weeks) that plans to resurrect the lifestyle blog in some format was in the works but no forward momentum to speak of. While the royal website revision comes off as more of getting things crossed off the list of the BRF - because they do it periodically and it was well known to be way out of date.
As for the William is "...feeling scared and helpless..."
Well duh but it's not just only found in the usual suspects sources but the phrasing has a funny tone to it. It has a similar tone to it as when there used to be articles which made it sound like Prince William was afraid of the duo and was hiding behind the sofa while the couple were strong and very powerful.
Scared sounds very American while someone is frightened somehow sounds more British to me (Perhaps because I sometimes read British murder mysteries and American ones).
If you read any of it (Post is an option but they take it from another source) there is something about how PW is described as asking family to handle his work, a slight about how thinly stretched they are but that he wants to spend time with his family, helping the kids and all. Something about it makes it all sound as if he suddenly is now wanting to be involved with the kids as if he hasn't been all along.
And besides, there are two sources and neither have any sort of description other than a source. No palace or, even family friend.
https://puck.news/meghan-markles-flamingo-estate/
I've never heard of Flamingo Estate, which frankly sounds even worse than American Riviera Orchard, but apparently it's A Thing amongst the Fancy People, and Nutmeg couldn't come to an agreement with them, so she did what she always does. Allegedly.
Original Tweet:
https://twitter.com/Mystifeye/status/1773486865640788175?s=19
I've just had a look at the website, and it's the exact sort of thing she'd love. It's even a bit word-saladesque. 😂
But you can tell a great deal of work has gone in to it, which is where Our Meghan will fail miserably.
https://flamingoestate.com/pages/the-estate
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The Duchess of Sussex has launched a lifestyle brand called American Riviera Orchard and I am here for it.
Quince bark coffee, tomato leaf soap, taster pack of salmon sperm injections, hand-embossed make-your-own voodoo doll kits, moonbeam gummies — whatever the heck Meghan is selling, the first merch drop can't come quickly enough for me.
And the only question to ask is this: what took her so long?
The Duchess is one of those women who was born to tell other women what to buy and think and do. She walks among mere mortals simply itching to enlighten us all on how to be, where to shop, who to adore and why greige is the new taupe — whether invited to or not.
Since Meghan's influencer days on The Tig, where she posted recipes, beauty tips and style hints from her Toronto base, it was clear that sooner or later she'd return to this lucrative world of clicks and likes; that she would be back among her merchant-class kinfolk quicker than you can say 'add to basket'.
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The Duchess of Sussex has launched a lifestyle brand called American Riviera Orchard and I am here for it.
Quince bark coffee, tomato leaf soap, taster pack of salmon sperm injections, hand-embossed make-your-own voodoo doll kits, moonbeam gummies — whatever the heck Meghan is selling, the first merch drop can't come quickly enough for me.
And the only question to ask is this: what took her so long?
The Duchess is one of those women who was born to tell other women what to buy and think and do. She walks among mere mortals simply itching to enlighten us all on how to be, where to shop, who to adore and why greige is the new taupe — whether invited to or not.
Since Meghan's influencer days on The Tig, where she posted recipes, beauty tips and style hints from her Toronto base, it was clear that sooner or later she'd return to this lucrative world of clicks and likes; that she would be back among her merchant-class kinfolk quicker than you can say 'add to basket'.
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All she had to do to maximise her online profile and boost any future profits was to somehow — somehow! — elevate herself from B-list television actress to becoming a significant figure on the global stage; a somebody that everybody had heard of, a person who went from not knowing Oprah Winfrey neither personally nor professionally, to inviting the all-powerful media star to her wedding. Anybody got any ideas?
Whatever you might think about the former Miss Markle, you must agree that it was mission accomplished on that front at least.
And how! From first date to locking the Frogmore door for the last time took just over three years, less time than the gestation period of a salamander or certain kinds of shark.
Of course, Meghan didn't marry Harry purely to winkle him out of the Royal Family, like extracting a sulky whelk from a pearly shell, just so that she could go on to use her royal title to launch a commercial lifestyle website selling cosmetics, jams, nut butters and organic birdseed in California.
Be serious! No wacky conspiracy theories on this page if you don't mind.
Yet one still must admire the clarity of thought, the audacity, the sheer drive and twin peaks of mutual ambition it took the Sussexes to get where they are today. I admire the energy, if not the approach, simply because far too many people were kicked to the kerb on their fast lane to liberty.
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However, surely even Harry and Meghan must be exhausted by the industrial grievance complex that has funded their own lifestyle thus far?
That's one reason why I hope that this American Riviera Orchard venture will usher in brighter times for them both.
So, bring on the five-wick candles and the youth-dew elixirs, make haste with the seven-ply cashmere lounge pants and the overpriced jars of honey.
Let's all dig deep and online shop till we drop to keep this young couple in the luxury to which they have become accustomed and feel that they deserve.
To this end, here is Meghan; back in California arranging white roses in a vase, cooking something virtuous for lunch, launching herself as a tastemaker and a mompreneur who leads by example.
Someone who imposes her terrifying sense of style upon the dreary, civilian she-turnips in the real world by wearing £1,500 Roland Mouret day dresses and no end of delicious designer gowns to pick up her latest humanitarian award. So inspirational!
Yet, just like all those other lifestyle gurus — including Martha Stewart and, of course, Gwyneth and her mighty Goop — one can't help but feel that sometimes their online sisterly solidarity is as manufactured as their signature scents.
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And — whisper it — also that it is avarice rather than the giving of advice that really floats their boats. Out there in brand-land there are certainly millions of dollars to be made, but it is difficult to see where American Riviera Orchard fits into this crowded marketplace.
In the U.S., brands such as The Pioneer Woman started off as a farm-girl blog and turned into a multi-million-pound business, today boasting a hotel, a pizzeria, a cooking-utensil range and a TV cooking show that's run for 37 seasons and made founder Ree Drummond a very rich woman.
This week, Ree is raving about a new milk frother and wondering if you can feed carrots to dogs, while her wildly glamorous rival, Hannah from Ballerina Farm, is selling sourdough kits and 'mountain raised meat' on the Utah ranch where she lives with her husband and eight children.
Closer to home, even Kate Moss is giving e-commerce a whirl with her Cosmoss company, a new line of beauty and self-care products sold online and in-store. The range features a facial oil made from something called Mythical Tears of Chios — a resin native to the Greek island of the same name — that sells for around £105 for 30ml, making it almost as expensive as scorpion anti-venom. Has everyone gone completely mad?
Cowgirl, party girl, Goop girl — but what is Meghan's USP going to be? Surely she wouldn't dare to play on her royal connections? She promised not to, after all.
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The Duchess has said that she wants her brand to be more 'accessible' than Goop, but is impressed by the polished elitism of Flamingo Estate, another California brand that sells organic soaps and an exclusive lifestyle.
Apparently Martha Stewart is her main inspiration; solid, dependable Martha who is known for her practical advice on everything from skimming gravy to running a home and keeping it clean. Recent Martha posts included 'how to grow a tapestry lawn' and how to 'clean a broom' — indicative of her attention to detail.
I'd listen to Martha's advice on anything, but what does Meghan know about brooms, except perhaps — as her enemies naughtily claim — how to fly one?
'I am flattered,' said Martha, when told that she inspired the Duchess of Sussex. She advised her to 'produce good products that work and will help the homemaker have a nice life. That's what it's all about.'
American Riviera Orchard seems to be rooted in a sense of place rather than a person. Meghan is selling the California dream, one jar of jam at a time. It is Montecito that is the major sell, but even still, there is the faint air of unearned emplacement; the feeling that she wouldn't be living in this upmarket millionaire's paradise were she not married to a prince of the British realm.
Indeed, some are convinced that American Riviera Orchard will taint the monarchy with an unsavoury strain of commercialism, but not anyone who has perused the Highgrove website recently.
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You won't believe the stuff that King Charles is flogging under the auspices of his beloved country home in Gloucestershire.
Everything from £375 corduroy gilets for country gents to £150 silk scarves, triple-milled soaps, Prince of Wales check washbags and a £9 teabag tidy. Yes, you might not be surprised to hear that a member of the Windsor family is selling Yakhak Milky Rock Crystal Quartz Charms for £39 apiece — but it is Charles and not Meghan who is the culprit here.
If Gwyneth's Goop famously 'nourishes the inner aspect', what will Meghan's Orchard do? Give everyone the pip?
To launch a brand such as this, you must be popular and admired, you need a roaring army of fans to build your brand, you need to have the pulling power of someone like Jeremy Clarkson.
I've seen with my own eyes how hundreds of people will queue for two hours just to buy a bag of Jeremy's potatoes from Jeremy's farm because Jeremy grew them.
Can Meghan inspire the same devotion in her public? We will find our next month when the site launches at last. In the meantime, here's what I imagine we are in for …
The Candle of Grievance (£86)
Beautifully housed in a reclaimed jar, this soy wax candle is impregnated with crystal petals which make a sobbing sound when they burn. Light it for a frenemy, light it for yourself, lighten up for God's sake.
With top notes of prickly thorn and a dry down of sour grapes, this will fill your space with a keen sense of injustice that lingers long. Burn time: three years and counting.
Shearling Noise Cancellation Headphones (£256)
A sophisticated solution to plugging your fingers in your ears and shouting, 'la la la, not listening'. Instead, pop on these fluffy beauties and marinate longer in your own thoughts, be they petty or ever so grand. Lined with hand-milked muskrat silk to keep your lobes toasty. Accessorised with opals for emotional amplification.
Dog Bowl Padded Ruff (£99.99)
Have you ever worried that someone might burst into your kitchen and throw you on the dog bowl without a by-your-leave? If so, this is the gadget for you. Simply clip this velvet padded ruff around your dog bowl, ready to cushion your fall in any emergency. Made from a repurposed ceremonial robe no longer needed. Available with sustainably farmed ermine trim, apply for details.
Mood Bracelet (£799)
Multi-strand quartz bracelet that will help align your chakras and promote calm. Featuring rose quartz for unconditional love, malachite for pure odium, cellulite for self-acceptance and compassion and cherry quartz for cherry picking fights.
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Our burnt butter sage
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Ohm Alert Portable Meditation Set (small £55, med £75, large £95)
Featuring a pre-loved cardboard box inscribed with the words Meditation In Progress, Do Not Disturb. Using her formidable calligraphy skills, the Duchess of Sussex personally inscribed each box herself, turning this practical aid to meditation on the move into a valuable collector's item.
Wherever you are, simply pop the box on your head to create a safe space for chanting personal development mantras, manifesting, lucid dreaming and grounding the ego. (Limited edition autographed version, £100 extra.)
Silent Not Silenced Revenge Diaries (£125 each)
Set of thick-lined diary notebooks for journalling, collecting evidence, settling scores and keeping secret lists of potential royal racists. Each volume comes with a special 'unconscious bias' section and an enemy index.
Hummingbird Sage Dishwash Soap (£38)
In honour of the moment when 11-year-old Meghan changed the world by writing to Procter & Gamble about a sexist dishwashing liquid ad. Has she mentioned this before? 5p off orders of 12 bottles or more. Discounts for the unwaged.
Merrie Olde England Gourmet Section
The Duchess of Sussex is thrilled to introduce her own recipes and culinary ideas to entertain and delight. Included is Marry Me Roast Chicken, featuring the exact roast chicken and sacred herbs Meghan was cooking when Harry proposed.
Look out, too, for a family favourite called the Frozen Wieners Supper and a spectacular Japanese Puffer Fish dish that Meghan liked to serve to her in-laws, followed by Hard Cheese and Simply Crackers.
https://archive.ph/2024.03.29-023224/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13250061/JAN-MOIR-Meghans-candle-grievance-sobbing-crystal-petals-selling-buying.html
In this thread, scroll through the picture gallery ... the last slide is most enlightening. Yes, she partied with Harvey Weinstein at Soho House (as did many other celebrities). Yes, Markus arranged for her to meet many celebrities. She was single minded in what she wanted: fame and wealth. Those two things would give her all the goodies she believes she is entitled to and all the attention she believes she deserves.
Capturing hapless was preceded by years of trying to break into the wealthy celebrity circle. I just wonder why she set her eyes on the UK. First she was after guys like Ashley Cole, so I wonder what turned her attention to royalty? Did she meet someone royal adjacent at Soho House and think 'me, princess ... good idea'?
I find that supposed tea from Neil Sean most odd.
BarkJack has been saying for a long time that the Royal website was being updated and the duo were going to be 'demoted'.
This was done under the authority of the King. The timing is coincidental.
I have never understood why changes to the Royal website are either so slow to take place or seemingly half done. I have worked on maintaining and updating a website and it does not take much time to do. I assume any changes have to be approved by a number of people but I still fail to see any operational reason why changes take so long. Perhaps the King held things up by trying to balance being pragmatic in dealing with reality while adhering to protocol and tradition.
As for TBW blaming her 'failure to launch' on the downgrade on the website: I think most know her well enough to know that is not the case and it is all her fault. Many have launched lifestyle brands in America, and some have been hugely successful without having her advantage of the royal brand. She has failed because she launched without securing a trademark, with no product to sell, and with no contracts for the production/purchase and branding of products, with no staff, and with no infrastructure. She launched an idea.
@GWAH
Much Moirish
Jan’s delish dish 👌
I was being very cautious in the way I expressed myself, just as the reports are, about whether it is true that they are in command of the SS. We are convinced that the human component of the SS gets paid; we believe the reports that SS members are planted in the crowds so she can be photographed with them; and so on.
It's just that unless an allegation has been tested in court and proved true, that's all it is and asserting it as proven truth can get one into serious legal trouble.
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Generally, one has to apply to the court for leave to appeal. If H has been declared a `vexatious litigant', he won't get permission to proceed. I don't know how close he is to being told to sling his hook.
Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vexatious_litigation gives a full account of this definition. I would think that it's already been demonstrated that his case for special protection is without merit.
The dream of this one and that one is that William moves away from the future on throne and they finally reach they true potential as the queen and king (in that order, the queen first).
All that money and power that this-one's-wife considers as her right will at last be hers.
The baron and baroness are very unbalanced individuals and they both seem to consider themselves better options for Britain and the Commonwealth than William and Catherine.
Harry is incapable to see his own limits as an intellectual human being and his wife is just bat shit crazy.
Montecito or Bust!
No beginning nor end
Her down spiralling trend
Will she thrive
She’s asking
for a friend…
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@BarkJack_
Calling the #SussexSquad “fans” or even “many people” is misleading.
Our exclusive, 2022 open-source technical analysis showed many bots AND many accounts seemingly ran only by a handful of people. (1 person using many phone #s to control multiple accts).
https://twitter.com/BarkJack_/status/1773474929821823335
you're a genius!
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I know it's time for my eye test but I don't agree. According to the Oxford Dictionary , the word means
`(of a person) lean and haggard, especially because of suffering, hunger, or age.'
Are the writers so used to seeing only those who carry too much weight that someone in what the NHS considers the `healthy weight' range looks skinny?
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Her blog began as a home-schooling blog, and she started sharing recipes occasionally, then snippets of ranch life, then a bit of their remodeling, then full on cooking. It was a very organic process, but, just likw Martha Stewart, she was well off financially ling before her online success.
Flamingo Estate - well spotted. "lush orchard and pleasure garden on a California hillside", maybe * thinks this sounds like her Montecito paradise. It would be entirely in character for * to plagiarise Flamingo Estate.
@Magatha
'Abase-ment sale
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You've surpassed yourself. Thank you for yet another good chuckle.
It looks as if the King may be at church on Easter, according to Hannah Furness in the Telegraph.
Here's hoping.
Thanks for the link to Jan Moir's article. I couldn't read it as it was behind a paywall. Very funny.
Apart from what Charles is selling from Highgrove, there is also the Duchy Organic produce sold through Waitrose supermarkets. 'The brand is a partnership between Waitrose and Duchy Originals Limited, a company set up in 1990 by King Charles III when he was Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall.[3] The Duchy Originals company is named after the Duchy of Cornwall estates that are held in trust by the Duke of Cornwall, who often holds the title Prince of Wales.
The Duchy Originals brand was originally conceived in 1990 as an outlet for the organic food grown on the Prince of Wales' Highgrove House estate[4] and nearby Home Farm which he had leased from the Duchy of Cornwall in the mid-1980s.'
A tad more reputable than any pretentious rubbish from Montecito.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waitrose_Duchy_Organic#:~:text=The%20company%20Duchy%20Originals%20Ltd,the%20charity%20from%20its%20profits.
"He’s also a fan of people he deems to be rogues – Meghan Markle, for instance. ‘I like her now. I fully like her. As soon as she launched her lifestyle brand, I liked her because it all became apparent and obvious, and it became very funny. I would have lunch with her. I think she’s a great con artist and I respect the great con artists. She’s one of the greats – one of the great con artists of our time. To leave a country because you’re concerned about racism and because everyone’s being racist, and it’s not fair and there’s privilege, and then to come and live in the wealthiest town in another country, which is Montecito, Santa Barbara. To live in that town and then to launch a lifestyle brand called American Riviera Orchard is truly one of the funniest things I have ever seen. It’s absolutely hilarious. It’s a level of shamelessness to be commended. Meghan is a Hollywood actress. If you think the royal family is cold, if you think the royal family is calculating, you’ve never met a Hollywood actress.’"
https://archive.ph/2024.03.29-190443/https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/tim-dillon-your-tour-guide-to-the-end-of-the-world/
Here is the article:
Approximately one month into my first job as a reporter, I attended the first of many royal visits throughout my career. Little did I know at the time that I was seeing history being made.
The visit in question was none other than one of the few photocalls made by the then newly married Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, in their brief tenure as a working royal couple.
On September 28, 2018, the couple paid a visit to Loughborough University to attend the Coach Core awards, and even then - some 16 months before they announced their intention to step down as senior working royals - there were clues that the royal dream could not last.
I remember very distinctly, that even as a very new reporter, standing in my spot in the "media pen" at the opposite end of the sports hall, how uncomfortable Meghan seemed to be.
While her husband looked at ease in his role as the prince, cracking jokes with the students and other attendees and comfortably throwing a ball around, the same could not be said for his wife.
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With hindsight, photos from the day paint an obvious picture that this was not the world for Meghan.
She looked incredibly uncomfortable while she played catch with the students, her wide stance and lost look should have tipped us all off that she wasn’t going to continue with her royal duties.
By far, though, the biggest glaring error was her - or perhaps her stylist’s - choice of shoes.
While Princess Kate always makes sure she is wearing trainers, or sports gear, and ties her hair up for any hands-on visits, Meghan did not follow her sister-in-law’s immaculate and well-practised style.
Instead, she chose to wear stilettos, paired with smart black trousers and a form-fitting navy top, and kept her hair down throughout the visit.
Perhaps this contributed to how uncomfortable she seemed on the day, but regardless of the circumstances, someone made a mistake.
However, for me, and I imagine all the other journalists gathered there, the most obvious red flag was how much Meghan clung to Harry throughout the day. If he moved away, she quickly followed, and even if she was having her own conversation with a student, her husband was always nearby.
Around two months later, I went to my second royal visit - this time, to see Prince William and Princess Kate attend a memorial service for those who were killed in the Leicester helicopter crash at the King Power Stadium on October 27 that year.
In what was a significantly more difficult visit, especially for the future King, who had known the club’s chairman personally, the couple showed poise, calm and sympathy.
Perhaps, if Meghan had taken a little more notice of how the Waleses conducted themselves in these visits, the current dreadful mess Meghan and Harry find themselves in could have been avoided.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240330131254/https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1882253/meghan-markle-uk-royal-visit#amp-readmore-target
https://archive.is/2024.03.30-154639/https://pagesix.com/2024/03/30/royal-family/whats-going-on-with-meghan-markles-american-riviera-orchard/
in the following excerpts, the 'clapback' in the last paragraph does not contradict, but indeed confirms, what is said in the paragraph above:
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Well-placed sources at other lifestyle brands told Page Six that American Riviera Orchard is all the gossip on industry What’sApp groups around Los Angeles.
Tellingly, however, they have not yet heard anything about Markle 6hiring buyers or a sourcing team.
One insider who knows the Sussexes told Page Six that it’s looking like a typical Markle project: plenty of glamour, little substance. “They [Harry and Meghan] consistently make announcements and roll things out really early … to what point?” the insider said.
Sources close to Markle point out that no timeframe for an actual product launch has been given yet.
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Other than the various problems highlighted in the article, the following is what we have all been saying:
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She thinks her audience is high-end wealthy and wear Cartier and Tiffany — because she does,” the insider said. “But I think they are J Crew. She is really in the mid-tier market.”
Undoubtedly, the hardest pill of all for her to swallow. She just isn't high end. Not even close. I don't think she could've been even if they had stayed as working Royals. She just doesn't have that vibe. She is California Casual/Girl Next Door.
And she could have run with that, and made her millions. But no, she is trying to force something she isn't.
Her vulgar pretentiousness and narcissistic personality make everything 10 times worse, but were she the sweetest person on Earth, the lack of authenticity would still be obvious.
'The ginger haired one might have got a larger inheritance from grandma than his brother, but it won't do the alliterate one any good unless she can pry it from him while they are still married. Perhaps a bigger "marketing" budget for the new company.'
A bit of a mixed bag but interestingly, according to a couple of comments Anne is in charge of Harold's trust fund. I'd like to see * go past her.
Even the insane and stupid, here's looking at you Duchess Dookie, can recognize powerful figures.
I always figured the kids and grands got sentimental tokens and the rest was left to Charles; that he was then on his honor to dole it out as needed, in the form of houses, college educations, etc.
And even if I am wrong about that, and undoubtedly I am, there was plenty of time for Her Late Majesty to stop anything getting in Nutmeg's claws. I suppose putting Anne in charge was an excellent way of managing that, but she likely won't outlive the grifters, and even then, if they remain married til death do them part, the Mrs will ultimately still have access to it.
For pity's sake, who writes this drivel in Hello! ? In all her 96 years, I doubt if the late Queen ever `wore' a handbag...
“It’s a fairly common thing to do among the British royalty, but in Charles’ case expediency is necessary,” says the source, who notes that “some courtiers believe Charles’ cancer is worse than they’re making it out to be.” “Operation Menai Bridge” is set to include familiar protocols. When the monarch dies, Charles’ body will be moved from the throne room at Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall. He will lie in state, and his official funeral will take place nine days later. He will likely be buried in the royal vault at Windsor Castle.
“It will have all the pomp and circumstance befitting a British monarch,” adds the source.
The update comes shortly after a separate high ranking royal insider told In Touch that Charles is not only battling pancreatic cancer – a timely update given that he did not share what kind of cancer he was diagnosed with – but has a mere two years to live.
In Touch Weekly: King Charles' Funeral Plans Unveiled Amid His Cancer Battle:
“King Charles is much sicker than the palace lets on and simply isn’t up to the job of running his fractious family, the crown’s business interests and fulfilling the daily duties of the monarchy,” the member of the royal inner circle revealed in early March. “His cancer is eating him alive. He’s very frail. The situation is desperate.”Royal watchers have begun to witness his decline, too. Though he will be stepping out on Easter Sunday for a service at Windsor, the king is missing from the royal calendar for the foreseeable future, instead relying heavily on his sister, Princess Anne, to do the work of the royal family. While many would have assumed his heir, Prince William, would be stepping up to the plate, he too is missing from the royal schedule due to Princess Kate Middleton’s own cancer diagnosis and treatment.
However, additional sources told In Touch that more could be at play between Charles and William outside of the family’s respective health crises, as the king is under the impression William is not ready to take the throne.
“Behind the scenes, Camilla is disgusted by the king’s apparent weakness and is providing him little comfort as he battles his fatal cancer,” a palace courtier told In Touch in early March, highlighting her vacation from royal duties which started on March 4. “By going on holiday, she was thumbing her nose at stepson William, who is incapable of shouldering the monarchy’s burdens on his own.”
Have a tip? Send it to us! Email In Touch at contact@intouchweekly.com.
March 29, 2024 By Louisa Marshall
Headline: King Charles' Funeral Plans Revealed After Monarch Is Given Two Years To Live With Pancreatic Cancer
Can you believe this? Who in hell sent this in on the 'tip line'? Meghan with the hotmail?
And didn't the initial reporting of Charles's indicate that the cancer was seen during his prostate procedure? It's been a few years since I attended an anatomy class, but I wouldn't think the pancreas would be visible from the, uh, general area the medical team were faffing about in, so to speak.
Sarah seems to share with Our Meghan the inability to work out her proper size, or proper foundation garments.
No, a celebrity gossip rag.
It starts well enough, going as far as `...“It will have all the pomp and circumstance befitting a British monarch,” adds the source'.
Frankly, any vaguely aware subject of His Majesty could have written that, telling it like it is. That's how it's done and most of us know about it.
From there on it looks like pure malice, mischief making and pure nastiness towards the Queen, all from an anonymous source.
The report seems to have originated both a Pakistani paper and an Indian one simultaneously on 30th March:
https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1173774-new-details-about-king-charles-funeral-plans-cancer-is-worse
Indian paper: The Daily Jang had it at the same time
How the heck would they know? Now who pays bot farms in that part of the world?
Of course Operation Menai Bridge is intricately planned. Every head of state gets funeral arrangements even if they are 25-year-old young mothers. Ensuring the continuity of leadership is paramount, regardless of the individual circumstances.
When the troops start rehearsing for Operation Menai Bridge, then we can worry, not before. Until then I don’t believe a word, especially not when the copy includes something as utterly asinine as “Princess Kate Middleton”, ffs. Sounds like something this one’s wife would come up with—-aka utter drivel.
https://archive.md/2024.04.01-053949/https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1882363/prince-harry-meghan-markle-duke-duchess-hollywood-title-change
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have sensationally asked King Charles for permission to change their titles to the Duke and Duchess of Hollywood.
It's thought that the move could earn them millions - with Netflix potentially interested in paying way too much to film a 27-part docu-series on the name change, even if absolutely nothing of interest happens.
The name change is likely to be revealed in a chat with Oprah Winfrey, who will look suitably shocked when told the news.
American celebs who Harry and Meghan have tried to befriend in the States have apparently been left baffled by their Duke and Duchess of Sussex titles - regularly asking them "what is a Sussex?" and "is Sussex near Australia?"
Royal commentator Bennie Bond said: "Experts have told Harry and Meghan becoming the Duke and Duchess of Hollywood could be worth tens of millions.
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"They've been telling friends they need a new sofa so having lots and lots of extra money for doing nothing is very appealing.
"Being the Duke and Duchess of Hollywood would also impress a lot of Hollywood's biggest names. Tom Cruise is going to want to hang out with them.
"Tom Hanks is going to want to be in on the action too. And Harry's been threatening to go back to the UK if they can't hang out with some celebs who aren't James Corden."
Meghan is reported to hope that by becoming the Duchess of Hollywood she'll have to be nominated for an Oscar for her next video on Archewell's website.
Hollywood gossip columnist Chad Chadson said: "This will instantly make Meghan the most famous woman in Hollywood - she's already been in negotiations to star in Fast and Furious 523, or whatever number they're up to.
"But if this happens they'll be telling Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling to do one so Meghan can be Barbie and Ken in the sequel."
Buckingham Palace is understood to have misgivings about the upset the decision could cause in Sussex. But as it's one of the few places King Charles doesn't have a massive mansion they haven't ruled out approving the move.
An insider inside the inside of Buckingham Palace said: "Prince Andrew's heard the news and asked if he can now become Duke of Sussex. There's a Pizza Express there he's a big fan of so it would make a lot of sense.
"Harry's told King Charles if he can't become Duke of Hollywood he might have to write a sequel to Spare and go into even more unnecessary detail about how he lost his virginity."
The last thing Charles wants is to have people reading the book and sniggering whenever he pops into his local WHSmith.
"To be honest, it could have been worse. Last year when he asked them what they wanted for Christmas, Harry said he wanted to be on first class stamps and Meghan wanted her picture on £50 notes."
There's no problem at all about the Queen Mother:
That law applies only to those in the line of succession. Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon was not, and could never have been in the line of succession. She was the daughter of The Earl of Strathmore, not of a king or prince of the blood. Nor was her mother a princess of the blood married to a related prince. Even if her real mother was not the Earl's wife, there are no legal birth records showing otherwise. In any case, Even if she were a foundling of unknown parentage, it wouldn't have mattered
OTOH, H is a prince of the blood, in the LOS. He is legally married to * (another requirement) but there is no evidence that the wife gave birth to the children, so their jackets are on a shoogly peg with regard to the LOS. At the moment, however, it is a technicality (annoying though this is) that would only become relevant should all the Wales family be wiped out. To sort it out now would only give the Harkles another grievance.
Any bastards which H may have fathered are excluded as he was not legally married to the mother(s). The Duke of Monmouth tried his luck on that one...
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/1bt4q8y/born_of_body_is_that_written_somewhere/
Thanks for giving me another great British phrase to add to my lexicon—“their jacket’s on a shoogly peg”. I have searched my mind banks for an equivalent Americanism. The best I can come up with on the fly is “Their canoe is full of holes” But I will have a think because I’m sure there are more. Generally stateside we hang our jackets up on a hook, not a peg…but we do know how fond Hawwy is of pegs…
You are right that it does not matter if Elizabeth’s mother was technically illegitimate because she was legitimately married to the duke of York when she became a mother. And she and her younger brother were officially acknowledged as the issue of his legal wife Lady Strathmore, Even if they are status as the “bonus kids” seemed to be tacitly universally known in aristocratic circles. Surely Queen Mary would have heard the gossip, but she in fact urged the young woman to accept her second son who was despondent to have had his suit rejected twice. If it didn’t matter to QM, I guess it was irrrelevant, and if Bertie ever knew that his betrothed was born on the wrong side of the blanket, he did not care either. Legally it could not be proven otherwise since they didn’t have DNA testing back then. The queen mother did have both of her daughters via cesarean section, But being cut out of your mothers body is just as good as coming out the traditional way for the rules.
I think the majority of us here are convinced with ample evidence that this one’s wife didn’t birth no babies of his. I would go even further back and wonder about the legitimacy of their marital union. Someone on another board pointed out something that had not occurred to me at the time, but during the ceremony, the bridal couple took their vows under the names “Harry“ and “Meghan”, ie Their nicknames rather than their legal entire birth names. Rachel is Rachel Meghan but “Hawwy” appears no where as a legal name of Henry Charles Albert David. Wondering if that is grounds for invalidation.. Beyond that, there certainly was fraud involved and getting to the altar and the groom did not seem to be acting wholly under his free will. Perhaps annulling the “marriage” will be the way to sidestep the “kids” in future.
“ We aren’t saying that M didn’t birth these 100% REAL children…it’s just that there’s been an unfortunate glitch with the ceremony and well, it turns out your kids are bast*rds. So sorry dear boy; the Archbishop sends his apologies but We are not having a do-over.”
Now, Is there anyway you could speak reason to the poor deludedly Australian man who insists that as the product of Chas and Cam’s clandestine teenage love, he is the true Prince of Wales?
And yes, Lady Strathmore was reported as desperate for more babies but that would have endangered her life, hence an `arrangement' to everyone's satisfaction.
I am seeing comments which are good, sometimes really good but there is also in there some actually specific personal information which I do not want anyone using that as a starting point to verify that someone knows who you are, where you live, what your phone number is and now wants to make your life miserable. Because they can.
So, please send me a message that you are YES or NO comfortable having me copy your post but edit out the personal information (mentioning this is really your post, not mine) or how do you want me to handle it if it is a NO? ask me to post something about too personal, please resend?
A lot of people read this blog. 2,570 people just yesterday and less than 500 was read this particular post.
Perhaps this is a little over-reacting but then again, maybe not. That's a lot of people and they are not posting either and we have no clue who they are. I just hope they are good people.
I don't want to see any of you hurt. So please send me a message. Thanks
Did she steal the lemon olive oil cake from Cory? The one she makes does not have the raspberries and meringue, but it is likely that she 'discovered' the recipe when with Cory and makes it without the raspberries and meringue, so in her mind she has 'invented' her own recipe. She also does not use the same method as him - she kind of just puts everything into a bowl and mixes it all up (and uses limoncello and lemon extract instead of making lemon sugar with a freshly squeezed lemon). This is her recipe, which she gave to World Food Kitchen for their recipe book.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/1btnqqn/the_duchesss_lemon_olive_oil_cake_recipe_featured/
Other commentators are saying this is being fuelled by the duo, who are now truly in their 'endgame' and trying to 'save themselves'. Perhaps a bit nasty, but this is how one commentator puts it:
"We're here to rubberneck the dramatic implosion (or explosion) of Meghan and Harry turning on each other when they hit rock bottom.
They're not at rock bottom yet. They've landed on a fragile narrow ledge that could give and drop them any second now."
https://www.tumblr.com/brf-rumortrackinganon/746611257883394049/arent-we-in-the-i-dont-give-shite-phasemost?source=share
Personally, I think when they do 'fall off the ledge' a lot of people are going to be spilling the beans and even we will be shocked at what is revealed. But, they still have money and there are a number of wealthy and famous people who do not find their behaviour abhorrent and still want to be associated with them.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/king-charles-kate-middleton-health-harry-meghan-b2521852.html
@Hikari `Shoogly peg' is a Scots expression.
My Londoner father used to say that someone's `eyes stood out like chapel hat pegs' but church folk say `like organ stops'. Dad was referring to early Dissenting chapels which had to accommodate hats like those of the Pilgrim Fathers, wooden pegs with a long straight shank and a knob on the end, just like an organ stop.
Dad used idioms that probably originated in the 17th or 1&thC. had he known the Harkles, he'd have said that he wanted to `stop their smoking in church' - a sentiment worthy of Archbishop Laud!
I wonder even today about one of my mother's sisters, who didn't look like much like either of her sisters, who both had the very `French' look of their mother. Admittedly, their father died when the eldest girl was not quite six and I have no idea what he looked like but her birth was registered later in the day she was born, by Grandma. According to my solicitor though, the documents showed she was legitimate - end of.
The Registration of Lady Elizabeth's birth is undeniably curious though.
It was registered a long way from Glamis Castle (which is where many Scots think she was born) in Hertfordshire, as if at the family home at St Paul's Walden, just north of London. Her birthday was, as we all know, on 4th August (as * well knows) but was registered late, the Earl being reprimanded by the Registrar. The 12th August is the `Glorious Twelfth' when the grouse shooting season opens and I would expect the Earl to be up in Scotland in good time - no namby-pamby stuff about being with his wife. Striding the moors and firing at grouse can be expected to be higher in his priorities than the birth of his eighth child.
Where his wife, or even his cook, really were is open to question.
The difficulty is that in the heat of the moment, that can easily be forgotten as one is happily typing along.
It makes my life a notch up in that I have read each one carefully before clearing it for publish. No more just oh, that's so and so, put it on through when I haven't had enough coffee or tea yet (which is how stuff can slip through unintended).
The rich are not like you and me, as the saying goes…the aristocracy have always had sexual customs that shocked the bourgeoisie. Lard & Lady Strathmore’s solution for more children was a surrogacy arrangement if all parties agreed; I don’t imagine that made it any less emotionally complex for the 2 women. One gets the distinct impression that Lord Strathmore really couldn’t have cared less after siring 8 children whether there were a few more or not. Oftentimes if a servant found herself in a family way by a man of the family, she was strong armed into handing over her baby and promising a lifetime of silence in exchange for retaining her position.
I was under the impression that Marguerite was the cook at Glamis and stayed there, safely away from London and any talk. But since David and Wallis delighted in calling Bertie’s wife “Cookie”… It’s a safe assumption that news of Elizabeth’s true mother had reached the Royal family’s ears. For anyone not in the know, it would have sounded like an affectionate jibe at her love of sweets and her plump figure. But it was a calculatedly cruel reminder for the subject of it, if the story was true. One wonders if David and Bertie ever got into it, broken dog bowl style, over aspersions cast upon Bertie’s wife. No question that the naval man could’ve bested the acerbic fop in a physical dust-up… And David would’ve had it coming.
One would’ve thought 8 children enough for anybody…Lady Strathmore was either a masochist or a saint. Or she just found a dignified way to save face. Elizabeth Marguerite certainly brought glory to her house, whoever her mother may have been.
Elizabeth was a stunningly beautiful child, like a Princess out of a Victorian storybook. Those looks did not make the transition to adulthood. The beautiful child turned very dumpy when she grew up. Just as well both of her daughters took after their father.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/1bu5usj/shes_back_cosplaying_as_her_dead_mil_again/
https://people.com/meghan-markle-reads-favorite-books-childrens-hospital-los-angeles-storytime-8623636
Copyright for photos: Children's Hospital Los Angeles:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13264867/Meghan-Markle-channels-spring-2-776-floral-Oscar-La-Renta-dress-595-Aquazzura-pumps-reads-kids-Childrens-Hospital-Los-Angeles.html
Dan Wootton is doing an expose of the SussexSquad (not yet released). It will be interesting to hear if he has any new information or evidence to add to the pile we have gathered here. (Not on how vile they are, which we all know, but that they are definitely linked to the duo.)
Thank you for this find - * visiting a children's hospital. The very thing she would have baulked at during her time with the BRF. As we can't have photos of Catherine doing the same at the moment, * makes a 'royal' appearance with a photographer in tow.
The People article states 'The mom of two ... gave animated readings, adding voice inflections and gestures to go along with the stories.' I can't stop laughing at the thought. Remember her voiceover for Disney?
As for the DM article, who writes this tripe? * 'was effortlessly stylish in a floral ensemble', * 'wore her glossy brunette tresses loose and kept her make-up simple and understated to complement her lively ensemble.' The article mentioned another one, 'How Meghan Markle has turned to Hollywood stylist Jamie Mizrahi who specialises in 'shifting public perspectives' with clothes ahead of American Riviera Orchard launch'. I'm afraid * will need more than a new stylist and new clothes to shift public perspectives about her.
I know this is petty, but this is what princesses do when they visit a children's hospital. They do not pose for photographs but interact with children and parents and ignore the photographer.
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If you enlarge, you can read this article from Heat magazine ...
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/1bu3i1t/harpy_says_im_not_heartless_is_the_pope_catholic/
A friend of hers is quoted, so it may be legit. It confirms that they were blindsided by Catherine's announcement.
* But, she knew the King had cancer when she launched her non-existent business. No concern about that.
* It seems her concern is optics - she does not want to look as if she is heartless and overly ambitious.'she hates to be called heartless and does not want to seen as insensitive'
* The implication is also that Catherine and William are to blame for not telling her ... it is not her fault.
* An interesting throwaway at the end of the article about hapless 'who has his own guilt'. I wonder what that guilt is about.
The Snide Viper of Ham n m
Rickety, bigotry
she’s at it again
Using the sick
as means to make yen
Mouldy locks
and her greasy airs
Spinning rat tales
giving kid’s nightmares
Our thirsty thespian
known in folklore
As the claw that broke
her man of straw…
That ship sailed when Prince Philip was dying and she did not give a damn how she made the Queen feel with the Oprah "truths".
Moron.
A Wolf in Cheap Clothing
With her ginger-bred house
and her ginger-bred kin
Hair hanging down
her long skinni chin grin
She’ll huff and she’ll puff
but she’ll not blow them down
The Firm is solid
as is the Crown…
Poisoned Aro
Aro-und ‘n’ aro-und
her needles stuck
Usual sh*t
pyrite covered muck
Wool covered, fleeced
drop-stitched from a-row
Spit one, hurl one
her pattern
you know…
@Maneki
Have you seen the photos in DM
of the hookworm reading to
those poorly children.
Her hair blends with the mask,
ZZ top hahaha, the Mail’s taking
the PP! the bearded woman
side show alley!
Rumpledthinskin
@GWAH
S’no’s we nose ❄️
@WildBoar
Sorry, just about caught up
Twpsyn- fool, idiot
Apologies to the Welsh if I’m incorrect
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/65b32dc53f9e51d946f85fc193846a91b986707ce0e144f3054da3b186b37624.jpg
Thank you for your comment. I appreciate you.
And, I was able to catch that before it went out. No problem.
Dan Wootton's expose of the SussexSquad is at the above link. They really are vile. But I was disappointed that he failed to dig down into the direct links between the duo and the SS.
For those who believe the government-sponsored propaganda that Russia, China and Iran are behind the co-ordinated attack against Catherine and William, even though it is blatantly absurd ... It was a co-ordinated attack, but the source was the SS and Bouzy. They thought they were being very clever in using bot farms in those three countries (either because those bot farms are cheap in those countries or because they thought they could hide their tracks), but I would not be surprised if that was false information planted in the public consciousness by governments who want to go to war against and destroy those three countries. If bot farms were used in those three countries, they were hired by someone in America, and they did not act because of ideology or as a sinister plot of their governments, but did it simply because they were paid to do so.
I do not think the duo have the intelligence to be masterminds of an evil plot but they end up being caught up in evil and just do not have the moral compass to avoid it, and their default position is to always blame others and paint themselves as victims.
I did not realize that is a dress and always thought it was a skirt and blouse. Yes, I saw the rip in the side of the blouse part of the dress. (How the heck does a dress that expensive rip so easily?) Astonishing ... like the label hanging off the dress when she landed in Morocco. She is so caught up in her fantasy image of herself that she does not actually see what the mirror is showing her. How can someone spend so much on her appearance and not keep her clothes in good order? Is this perhaps a sign of a severe mental disorder?
Yep, all sorts of strange things happening with the hair, the most noticeable to me being the rats tails. Use a brush! I am sure you have an entire room full of brushes and hair products. Use them!
@MM
Wolf in Cheap Clothing!
She has the amazing ability to wear ridiculously expensive clothing and end up looking cheap.
I guess that by now, no stylist wants to admit association with her! No way would a stylist let her go out in public looking as she does.
But I can believe that she did consult a stylist, and I imagine she used a lot of word salad about soft, romantic, caring, nurturing, effortless elegance, authentic in describing the image she wanted. She heard the following from the stylist (maybe a meeting over lunch was the extent of the collaboration?): soft, light fabrics, long flowing skirts/dresses, pearl white ... She went off script for that paid for appearance at the gallery awards thing. Oh, and I think the stylist may have told her to drop the aggressive stiletto heels.
Nutmeg doesn't do flowy, feminine looks well. No fault of hers, it looks ridiculous on me, as well; I just don't understand why anyone who calls themselves a stylist can't see that it doesn't suit her at all. I can only assume that Madame thinks flowy and feminine will change people's perception of her, so she's paying someone who does this for a living to reinforce her own opinion. I'd like to think the stylist attempted to steer her towards more flattering options that still met the goal she was after, and finally just quit beating her head against the wall and sourced what Madame wanted.
From Nordstrom Off the Rack, apparently.
I figured her for a golddigger from the engagement interview; I gave the marriage 3-5 years, but I really thought she’d make a bit of effort during that time. There is being a golddigger… then there’s being a dangerously unstable psychopath with the mentality of a 12-year-old Mean Girl. If even a portion of her self-promoted CV had been the truth, she could’ve become a modest lifestyle success on her own merits and parted more or less amicably from H.
You’d suppose that a Narc with an obsessive need for control and micromanaging her image, that has unattainable standards everyone else is falling short of would be equally obsessive and demanding with herself and would always be impeccably dressed and groomed. But TOW exists in the realm of pure fantasy—she takes “Think it; be it” literally. She dreams up ideas for wealth and fame, and apparently thinks she can wish everything she wants into existence by twinkling her nose, registering your domain name and creating a website. She designed a website for the business she wishes she had, but then loses interest in the hard work that actually implementing this idea and making it real would require. After receiving the short term dopamine hit of Internet chatter for her “new business“, that’s already worn off and she’ll be onto the next thing. She’s got no product, no licensing deals, no manufacturing facilities, no distribution capability and no staff. American Riviera Orchard is literally nothing but a ripped off website slapped up on the Internet. She may have already been hit with a copyright infringement action by the Flamingo Estate people.
TO and TOW are both addicts in constant search of their next fix. That’s all the further their attention spans or long range planning capabilities. TOW’s favorite drug is Internet attention, especially when it detracts from the legitimate activities of the real Royals. Between hits of that Narc fuel supply she is not organized enough to even tend to the details of her personal hygiene or styling.
She is a completely empty gong…tgere is nothing there but rage and envy. Even self proclaimed Ultra Narc Psychopath H.G. Tudor professes lavish praise for Catherine in his latest video. By this I suss that he is not actually what he claims to be, only posing. He understands Narc kind, but doubt the level of self awareness he exhibits is possible for a true Narc. Certainly it is not for Madam.
I also wonder where they are on the 2023 taxes as the deadline is ... soon.
Taxes, always on my mind.
Is the partly white, light chiffon dress to show a more feminine, softer side of *? Not that we would be fooled but some people might. Sorry,*, it won't work, you're no Catherine.
'Me First' Meghan is in a situation stickier than huckleberry jelly! Kate's tragic cancer news now means 'American Riviera Orchard' must wither on the vine... or else the Duchess risks looking like an unfeeling Viscountess of Venom
The article certainly brings her down a peg or two.
https://tinyurl.com/5n6cjufj
Harry has several anonymous accounts on Twitter and other social media (that he reportedly hates) to monitor how he and Meghan are being covered and talked about.
The Sussexes are fully aware of what Sussex Squad does and directly feed into it. Scobie and Bouzy are in direct contact with the Sussexes. Bouzy and Meghan's PR teams are also in direct contact with many of the Sussex Squad accounts/users. Byline Times is one of Harry's partners.
Sussex Squad has been targeting Wootton since he published Megxit. Wootton's sources include people close to Harry and people close to Sussex Squad.
Sussex Squad created KateGate and began certain rumors about William. Wootton was able to identify the account responsible for starting #WhereisKate and alleging her disappearance is because of William's temper.
Bouzy is most likely the individual responsible for Getty's flagging of KP's pictures and Kate's video statement as being edited and inauthentic.
Wootton hints that Sussex Squad somehow found out about Kate's cancer diagnosis and/or their coordinated attacks on KP (probably via the KateGate hysteria) forced Kate to announce her cancer and treatment plan before she was ready and before she had fully come to grips with it.
Sussex Squad has been spooked off Twitter and now use Discord for their collaboration.
...
Wootton also identifies and discusses 3 Sussex trolls:
Troll 1 is a techy in NYC who is a close Bouzy collaborator. She is one of the main accounts that have harrassed and targeted Wootton and his partner because of Wootton's critical coverage of the Sussexes. She has publicly admitted to it. She is no longer trolling because it's toxic and allegedly has quit Twitter, though not before claiming that Wootton and his people were threatening to hurt her and her dog.
Troll 2 is a business dude in Tampa. He specifically targets Camilla and has claimed that she is Meghan's main bully and has enlisted Jeremy Clarkson and Piers Morgan in her bullying campaign. He also tries to keep connecting Charles to Germany, and specifically to N*zi Germany.
Troll 3 is a British advertising executive. This individual has alleged that Camilla is responsible for Charles's cancer, because she has been poisoning him since the coronation so she can retire "young."
https://www.tumblr.com/brf-rumortrackinganon/746781724267233280/dan-wootton?source=share
As I said, I am disappointed that he did not include the direct links between the duo and the SS.
Thanks for the translation - that makes more sense than Google Translate! My Welsh vocabulary is limited, mainly to placename elements, whereas Mr Wildboar gives up completely when it comes to road signs - regards the wording as `a load of anagrams'.
I looked closely at her garb for the hospital visit and was certain that its the same Oscar de la Renta outfit she's wearing in the back view of her & H heading for Frog Cott, with dead-frog Archie dangling by her side (June 2022). This was confirmed by the Antipodean press before it made it to Hello!
Is this rewearing after 21months significant? Has she run out of clothes suitable for encountering children and can't afford anything more?
I find this an appropriate comment (my edit): `
Interesting_Duck_355
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2h ago
I'm starting to see that TOW and TO are heading up what looks to be an all out criminal organization. What a bizarre twist this has taken since Harry thought she was going to be a team player in the BRF!!! Harry should be renamed ROCK HEAD or otherwise known as head full of rocks.
Critical-Artist2441
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1h ago
Your comment makes me think the Sux squad thing is going to warrant some kind of RICO conviction down the line, along the lines of taking down the Mafia.
Interesting_Duck_355
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54m ago
I felt that way as well. Appreciate your comment.
As a Brit, I had to look up RICO - see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act
At first sight, it shouldn't be too difficult to apply this to The Sussexes, Archewell and the Squad - I expect we have not dissimilar legislation and I look forward to seeing the main miscreants in the dock at the Old Bailey, as Harry Markle predicted so long ago.
Is she angling to do a Diana in an operating theatre, so she can gaze soulfully over a surgical mask, as she did at Harefield Hospital in '96?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5098843/Princess-Diana-s-surgeon-lover-Hasnat-Khan-gets-engaged.html
The video here shows that she posed with children for polaroids and then autographed them for the children. I find that weird.
Malignant spent thousands to have a blurry (her MO) video made, and then, Nothing.
Usually a video is premiered when a product is ready to launch, but she ain't got Nothin'.
She launched Nothin'.
Malignant's got vague ideas of what she wants to sell...but Nothin' else.
In the end, maybe all Malignant wanted was to be on film, in a big dress, doing vague things.
Malignant's behavior is really quite bizarre.
... A lawyer who worked at Harvard University, and currently serves as UCLA's Director of Race and Equity, Perkins has spent recent weeks spreading vile falsehoods about the princess on his X (formerly Twitter) account, including doubting whether she is 'still alive' and making the entirely baseless claim that her cancer is fake.
Posting to some 31,000 followers, Perkins, 37, flaunts his credentials as a 'public academic, higher education attorney, lecturer and podcast co-host', adding – not a little ironically – that he is devoted to 'creating a more just and equal society'.
Among his many recent posts about the princess, most malicious are his accusations that she is a 'known liar', and that he does not believe she 'had/has cancer'. ...
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More in the same abhorrent vein. This is another of *'s defender that we didn't know about. The university won't sack him but 'the university's 'Inclusive Excellence Framework' states that, in his role, Perkins works to 'uphold dignity for all' and 'foster open-mindedness, understanding, compassion and inclusiveness'.' Hypocritical in the extreme and how they can keep him on is difficult to understand.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13268699/UCLA-race-equity-director-kate-cancer-fake-meghan.html
'Meghan Markle will 'make six figures' within weeks of launching American Riviera Orchard, brand expert claims - adding it 'wasn't an accident' that the glossy lifestyle business was launched at the same time as the Diana Legacy Awards'
That was about 3 weeks ago. Do you think she's close to making a 'six figure' sum? She hasn't flogged anything yet as far as I know.
The clenched left fist on Perkins's webpage tells us all we need to know about this disgrace to scholarly values. Disgusting.
In his case it surely means `Liberty , Equality and Fraternity for Us but not for Them.'
Perkins' political stance puts me in mind of an essay I once attempted in an exam -`Liberty, Fraternity and Equality - three incompatible ideals'.
Incidentally, Liberté, égalité, fraternité is the national motto of France .
In Perkins' case, are Equity, Diversity & Inclusion 'three incompatible ideals'? It would appear so.
Mais oui!
@WildBoar @Maneki
Flibberti(gibbet)
temerity, parti pris
The unholy trinity
of me me me…
Apologies:Little Jack Horner
Rhubarb Rhubarb
Li’l meg moaner
Skulks in her corner
Aiming her aro high
Whilst rimming scum
She pulls plums from her bum
And labels it
Pie in the sky…
@Sandie
Mutton dressed as ham
As for the tear in her day wear
I thought it was an inner
belt hole, similar to wrap dresses?
As it’s meh, I’m going for a rip, torn!
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/1bw6uia/gem_from_sub_in_case_you_missed_it_to_think_about/
It's the question of whether the title can be hereditary now? I don't think it can be, unless it can be proved that `Archie' is entirely legitimate, as born of his father's wife. Adoption may make a child legitimate (as opposed to illegitimate) but in other questions of inheritance it doesn't carry the same rights as a `full blood' offspring has, as in say cases of intestacy, in English law.
I recall the solicitor being very clear about this when I was trying to discover if my deceased cousin had any half- or step-siblings on her father's side. He reassured me that only full blood relatives can inherit if there's no will.
Based on the big hint from Lady C, I wonder what might happen after H's death if Harry has any sons born before A? Suppose one or more popped up to claim the title? That'd be fun because they'd be ahead of A in the queue...
Charles II had 14 bastards. At least 4 of his sons were created Dukes: of Grafton, Monmouth, Richmond & Lennox, and St. Albans. Monmouth's dukedom came to an abrupt end on the headsman's block but the 13th Duke of St Albans is still alive and it looks as if, all being well, there will be a 14th Duke.
Interesting times, eh? I'd like to hear a lawyer's view on this.
From ‘Philip: The Final Portrait’ by Gyles Brandreth
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/1bwcyur/prince_philips_advice_on_cameras/
Considering how TBW always looks directly at the camera and is always aware of posing for the camera, I think most of the royal family knew she was not suitable and was not going to fit in. Hence, Charles suggested that she should keep on acting because he could not afford to support her from the Duchy of Cornwall revenue. (This conversation supposedly happened at a shooting weekend where hapless attended to corner the late Queen and get her permission to marry the actress.)
TBW and hapless must have sensed that senior royals did not think the marriage or her being a working royal was a good idea, or at least had reservations. I am sure that Diana and Sarah were not the only royal brides in history who ended up causing a lot of trouble. Although they accepted the inevitable and gave her not only full support but also broke rules for her, the couple are the type to hold grudges and be hellbent on petty revenge. I have always said that marry-ins should definitely have at least a year of training and education before being unleashed on the public. Both Catherine and Sophie had years of being the girlfriend and living with their future husbands and visiting royal homes (Sophie living with Edward in BP and Catherine often spending weekends with William at Clarence House).
Also, something peculiar happened to my draft post - the comment box shrank to one line, leaving just a couple of innocuous phrases which could have been about anything. All I could was get out of it and come back here. Did you see anything odd, Abby?
There had earlier been speculation on SMM about the witch lurking on that site. Did she sweep it away with her broom?
No sense of humour, some people. Typical!
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/1bwgf51/
Interesting observation about who does not and who does look at the camera. I think it says a lot about how each person viewed themselves within the family.
I think they knew she would have a bumpy time adjusting. As for they were certain it would not work out - I'm not there.
I suspect he (and the rest of the family) were hoping things would work out for his son (very few people ever want their kid, whom they love, to be married to someone where you know it will be a bad marriage).
I think he had this conversation as a heads up/reminder that:
Although when getting started, she needed more (appropriate) clothes, that being in the family/senior member of the family is not an endless blank credit card of always new clothes for every single occasion. (I and the duchy cannot continue to afford this level of expense - probably where that was going)
And that sooner or later, as his father, he would be king and then, at that point, William would have the Duchy funds which were currently taking care of them. Thinking of it as a warning that this will end and he did not want them to suddenly be flailing about for money just as he takes on his new role as King.
I suspect also that her ability to find work and have it be very profitable was pitched to him or even both of them (so there expectations were that she could make money and that would help keep her husband clothed and fed.
America does not wish to claim TOW as representative of us any more than the citizens of the UK want to claim HazNoNutz. They are our crosses to bear, alas.
Then she opened her mouth and talked all over Harry at the engagement interview and I knew she was full of ****. But little did any of us know how bad it would really get.
I think the queen granted permission for this marriage with reservations but hoping for the best.
After being burned over her sister and Peter Townsend, HMTQ didn’t like to interfere. Nobody knew the depths of the psychopathy they were dealing with. We do now.
I think your analysis is spot on, but the duo never understood and just got resentful.
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"At the intersection of this incredible roster of artists, is a reminder of the resilience, identity, and power we strive to instill in those we serve, echoing the very essence of 'forget- me-not' which Sentebale means in Sesotho," Prince Harry and Prince Seeiso said in a statement. "We are so honoured that these artists are contributing their work in support of ours, as we engage with children, young people and their communities in Lesotho and Botswana in forging sustainable solutions for a brighter, more inclusive future."
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a60410248/prince-harry-sentebale-charity-first-benefit-auction/
Grandiose word salad and appalling grammar ... but if you read the whole article you will find a South African from the charity who seems to be the source of this nonsense. The artwork is splendid, but you are trying to sell it to the highest bidder with a stream of meaningless word salad designed to sound lofty but which says nothing about what the charity actually does.
Re Catherine (and the Queen) never looking at the camera but * having a camera radar and always looking at the camera, actors - good ones - are trained not to look at the camera. She had years of being in front of the camera whereas Catherine never had such training, yet Catherine is the one behaving correctly and * has to stick out like a sore thumb as per usual.
@Wild Boar
Thanks for the link to he video. I had to pause it a couple of times to be able to read some of the product descriptions. I particularly liked the todger cream and its benefits! It's great to have a laugh first thing in the morning.
Age? Educational background/qualifications? I'd love to know.
You've summed up perfectly what I thought at the very start of all this, until she opened her mouth. My reaction then was `Oh de...ar, she's got an awful lot to learn' and I crossed my fingers.
@Maneki - glad you enjoyed it, a very polished piece of work, unlike Princess Henry who is just a right piece of work.
@Hikari @Wild Boar
Then she opened her mouth and talked all over Harry at the engagement interview and I knew she was full of ****.
True, but I think most of us had sussed her out right from the word go: the smug look at the 'unveiling' at the Invictus games in Toronto, the Vanity Fair interview, being supposedly papped on her way to her yoga class, the spooning bananas etc. She wasn't royal bride material.
As @Hikari said, however, 'But little did any of us know how bad it would really get.' Not only that, but never would we have imagined how inadequate, unsuitable and inappropriate her behaviour would be.
She adds: “She typically ewwws and awwws over Harry at these events and allows him to have the limelight.”
From:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1883873/meghan-markle-first-lady-impression-invictus-games-prince-harry
Do you get the impression your senses are letting you down? This is gaslighting at its finest. Or as we sometimes say in UK - `Yer Wot????!'
Lady C has given interviews to The Avid Gardener, According 2 Taz, and Popcorned Planet that are interesting.
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I have watched the one with Taz and I can recommend it.
https://youtu.be/EQrkUmDyhjQ?si=PiYbqgPwYxE1EKkB
I actually was behind current events leading up to the wedding. I had seen the pictures of her in the wolverine ripped jeans at Invictus and I was underwhelmed, but I figured hey it’s a casual sporting event, Harry is dressed down too, a low key look was more appropriate there than a more formal setting. Her attire at the engagement photo call was a bit bizarre as well but I thought she looked quite attractive then and seriously reminded me a lot of Pippa Middleton
All during the engagement I would see occasional photos of her like the infamous poop hat at Sandringham where suddenly she didn’t look like a Pippa Middleton anymore but rather more like figure skater Michelle Kwan…TOW Occasionally appears like she has Asian ancestry, Filapina maybe? At least she did several plastic surgeries and bouts of weight gain and loss ago. I didn’t pay much attention to tabloid reports of her at the time. I didn’t get people magazine and I didn’t even have a working television at the time. Then just a few weeks before the wedding I decided to play catch-up and watch the engagement interview. Immediately I wondered why an experienced television actress was so awkward and jangly. I’ve seen a few interviews that she gave when she was promoting Suits, and she seemed perfectly together. On the heels of the engagement interview, during which she incredibly claimed to have had absolutely no idea who Harry was before they had a date… The biggest pile of BS ever shoveled… I watched the infamous Craig Ferguson interview from 2013. Interesting. There was Harry’s betrothed, greased up, almost naked on national television and coked up to the gills. I’ve never done coke in my life but. I know what it looks like.
You can only chalk so many things up to “nerves”. Unlike Catherine or Diana or Sarah Ferguson, who got thrown into being royal fiancés with zero media training before hand, here was a professional actress unable to handle a couple of television appearances without completely unraveling. The drums of disquiet were starting but I kind of buried them. I still liked Harry at that point, and was glad that he had found someone. Since she was so unlike his usual type, and they had allegedly been together for a couple of years, I thought maybe he found somebody with whom he could finally make it work. No one counted on his new bride apparently changing him so much.
I have to hand it to that blogger for being on the scent of the Fraudess from the get go. Harry’s love life has never been of interest to me and I didn’t realize I needed to pay attention to the newest addition until it became clear to me that the royal family had been infiltrated by a con artist. That she was lazy and sloppy and entitled became clear fairly soon, but I did not fully realize the extent of her narcissism and mental illness until the debut of Moonbump Mountbatten Windsor. I discovered this community immediately after Nutty had posted the “ Who wears a white dress immediately after giving birth?” Entry.
I’ve been like a dog with a bone since. I tried to give this woman the benefit of the doubt for probably a year. That all came to a crashing halt in December 2018 when Square Bump appeared on her first solo engagement. Then I knew that Harry had married a malignant loon, but before that I wasn’t completely sure.
I had elementary students who came from parents like that, and/or my colleagues did. Some of those children were like animals in the expression of their anger and frustration. A person doesn't know the fury until an 8 year old has destroyed a classroom. Also, those individuals are remarkably stubborn and insistent in getting their way. Their brains were forever damaged by the mother's partaking of drugs while pregnant.
My guess is that Malignant was always a problem child, was probably sent to parochial school for her on-going behavior issues. Mr. M was probably up at the school at least once a week dealing with her aberrant behavior and non-compliance. Children like that have few friends, unless the friends are also behaviorally disturbed. That much Mr. & Mrs. Malignant have in common, but that commonality does not translate into a happy union. Photos of her as a young child do not show someone cute and lovable, no, there is something undomesticated, and wild that is not attractive, but concerning in her eyes and general demeanor. She must have been two handfuls of trouble for Mr. M.
She is currently running amok with no plans, no work ethic, no center of gravity.
Time is going to take care of her.
Their vulgar marriage service did not seem to have any religious feeling that is the relevant point when you get married in a church. The archbishop's horny slobber and idiotic grinning with the bride was disgusting and the priest from USA did not understand that this was not a wedding in a country church in the Deep South with echoing hallelujahs from the congregation. The bride looked unwashed and rumpled and her hair was a bird nest under a tiara that was ugly. The music was total catastrophe without any binding idea. The giggles of the members of the Royal Family were easy to understand but didn't create a solemn feeling.
And last but not least that woman showed to the Queen that her veil was even longer and more "magnificent" with two boys carrying it like that of her Majesty's had been over 71 years before when she married prince Philip in Westminster Abby.
The whole thing was tasteless mishmash but it was of course a very good prediction of the future of their marriage, I give them that.
The SMM comment reported that H had apparently agreed to reveal the truth back in the autumn but had reneged on this (ILBW's doing?). Hence as long as H avoids having to do it, they are safe. Were the RF to reveal it, they themselves would be engulfed in a storm of accusations of lying, as they allegedly had over the photo, and of support for M & H.
DM has a list of favourite films
These re-makes would score
an Oscar sweep
For our acrid actress
Feral Heep
Malificent Obsession
All About Me
Grind in the Pillows
Incense and Insensibility
Brideshead Revisionist
Iscariot of Dire
Dial M for Ordure
Children of the Con
The Basest Ho on Earth
As she straddled the aisle
shrouded in white
The collective sigh
she looks a fright
Our voracious vixen
grimace lupine
Her Malodorous Mist
surely a sign
A Malevolent Monster
Bride of Frankenstein…
Scold’s Bridle March
The floating faeces
denied the red carpet
Plotted revenge
divide, demarcate
A fly in the face
as she gurned at the altar
Her mask didn’t slip
flinch nor falter
Silly knobhead
didn’t choose well
Diving ‘head’ first
into the jaws of hell
Flying soho
should’ve disembarked, quit
A lucky escape for the many who’d
farked it…
This is interesting ... Shauna from The Vintage Read takes a look at how hapless and Scobie describe Catherine pre TBW. They liked her very much and they had warm interactions with her.
TBW came along with her insane jealousy and envy and turned both of them. Perhaps I am jumping to conclusions, but it is difficult not to when considering the evidence.
At the end, does Shauna hint that surrogacy is going to be exposed and the trio are going to blame the Palace?
Well, DUH. OF COURSE they are going to blame somebody else for their misdeeds. NOTHING is ever their fault!
/It isn't like the 'children'are going to have anything to inherit besides a title, so WHY? Oh, right, so the parents can monetize them!
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/1by4mw7/in_the_room_where_it_happened/
Was the basic idea to get * talking to HM on the phone for concessions, if so what were they? The Bafta's or Half & Half?
BTW `Guest Speaker' is thought to be *'s pseudonym for making SMM comments.
QEII
The Entire UK
The Press
She's gotta come up with a story where she can be the victim, score some interviews and sympathetic column inches.
lovinghoagieartisaneggs asked:
Question: So if it's pretty well-known to those in the industry that Soho House is a place where escorts are regularly used, why would Megan have wanted to identify with that from the very beginning? It seems like she would want to distance herself as far away as she could from Soho, especially marrying into the royal family.
Answer from https://www.tumblr.com/brf-rumortrackinganon/747132992178274304/question-so-if-its-pretty-well-known-to-those-in?source=share:
First, she valued the industry connections being in Soho House gave her more than the association with escorts.
Second, yes, Soho House was well-known to have escorts within the industry, but it was also mutually-assured destruction. Someone starts blabbing about the escorts, someone else (Markus probably) could leak about that person's specific preferences and destroys them 5 times worse. That's the privacy deal Meghan was banking on when she joined the royal family - you keep your mouth shut, I'll keep my mouth shut. It worked.
My opinion is that someone --either in the press (like a Dan Wootton-type) or a KP person (like a junior staffer close to William)-- got really close to finding out the truth about Meghan's involvement in Soho House and Markus's relationship with Harry and it spooked her but before they could do anything with the information (or rather, instead of waiting to see what they did with the information), Meghan flipped out, going scorched earth with UK press or started isolating Harry from William.
https://uk.yahoo.com/style/prince-archie-dad-prince-harrys-125110048.html
Is this an oblique way of H acknowledging that this child is his son?
According to that authority on English law, Marie Claire, the law about the monarch having custody of royal children is still on the Statute Book. Presumably it can, in theory at least, still be applied.
TOW’s ability to slide out of accountability for her actions reminds me of a remark the Queen Mother (Victoria Hamilton) makes to Tommy Lascelles (Pip Torrens) about the Duke of Windsor; “That one’s like mercury; slipping through the tiniest crack.” TOW is very similar.
After the Snotrags gave the Winfrey interview while the Douchess flaunted her second Megnancy in the birdshit dress and lobbed R-bombs while PP lay dying, I began to get a sense of foreboding that unleashing the Kraken— The truth about the origin of “the children”— Was not going to be the end of her the way we’ve hoped. I have no doubt she’s got a prime speed dial for another exclusive interview scoop—“How the Racist Misogynistic Royal family FORCED her into the Surrogacy Charade— twice.” What will follow, punctuated by a perfect tear out of her left eye will be a heartbreaking tale of fertility problems Met with indifference by a cold institution that decreed “Harry Prince of Wales MUST HAVE HEIRS. She apprised of this decree and afraid that if she admitted she couldn’t have children, she would be prohibited from marrying her one true love, concocted a desperate scheme to “have a baby“, and not only did the palace know the entire time, but they forced her to continue the show for public optics, and all the belly clutching that ensued was her desperate cry for help in an untenable situation. The strain of having to keep the secret impacted her mental health so severely she became suicidal… But the heartless palace just double down and made her repeat the performance after her heartbreaking mythcarriage as related in the NYT.
Of course Catherine will also be blamed for her callously flaunting her natural motherhood in TOW’s face.
Mentally sick illusions are always destructive and dangerous, specially to the children of the sick person.
@Hikari
Apart from the toxic vapour, mercury is too kind a simile for H&M. Two local pests I can think of are rats, which can compress themselves almost flat, or get through a hole the width of a pencil (extraordinary skeletal adaptations involving hinges) and slug which have no hard parts to speak of and which I suspect can flatten themselves to 2 cells thick - and even then the cells could be compressed.
Rats and slugs are about their level although hagfish are about as repellent as they are.
It is from Netflix.
Why now? If that was so important to draw the connection between the two of them by photos, why is this coming out now or appears to be a now thing? I don't remember anyone remarking on the photo resemblance of the two back when the Netflix doc first came out. I don't recall any mention of the photo or any discussion about the child in the show at the time of the movie.
It seems so blatant. Until I realized it was a screen grab from Netflix, I mentally questioned if the photo had been shopped.
As for she would do some big I was forced to have these children, it would actually raise more questions than the shocking alleged claim of truth.
First off - WHY?
There are three kids ahead of him already (not them, she is not in the LOS).
If there is some kind of truth to the idea, how to explain the second child when they weren't really allegedly under the thumb of the Palace?
I seem to remember that they had been cautioned not to even try right away as the Palace had concerns of her being pregnant and Zika exposure during the Down Under Tour and there she was.
Um, one cannot ever be guaranteed to get pregnant even with the help of modern medicine. So claim of being forced doesn't hang well as it could not be guaranteed that it would work. There are a lot of people who spent incredible funds and nothing to show for it that I know.
Besides, how could they force this? hold her in some cell, tie her down and force all the set up drugs to encourage the "take" of using a basting tube or placing embryos, keep her confined while then they were placed and then ... what? no one noticed she was missing for days, weeks on end? any of her staff? The press? Why not casually mention this when visiting HR because she was suicidal?
And, not once but twice were able to do this to her?
Or him? How did they get the starters from him?
Well, the reveal probably would not with Oprah. Optics if found to be false later. And probably reinvigorate the falsehoods from the first interview when it is first mentioned as it just doesn't sound possible.
I did meet a paternal aunt once some 40 plus years ago (since deceased). I was excitedly asked what instruments I play because the entire family (except apparently moi) is musically gifted. However, our son could play anything with strings or percussion related and was self taught.
So, do the alleged children favor Harry? I couldn't say. I don't know if any of those children's photographs were 'real'. Children mimic the speaking patterns/vocabulary of the adults that they are associated with. My oldest grandson, with his extremely dark brown eyes and black hair was 'assumed' to be Filipino just like the family of his home daycare lady. He was BFF with her grandson. His favorite food was eel cooked in coconut milk. He spoke Tagalog as a toddler. (Sadly, they were Navy and had to relocate when he was still very young.) His Arabic doc 'assumed' that he must be Arabic or half Arabic. The Mexican restaurant people spoke Spanish to him. The black AND Hispanic kids thought he was mixed race throughout school. Both of daughter's sons were listed as Hispanic in the school records (although the parents were never consulted). Per oldest grandson's DNA, he's mostly 95%) English, Scots, Welsh, Scandinavian, and Icelandic. Go figure.
The pix are there for all to see as are the videos. The infamous falling bump on the visit to Birkenhead with * cosplaying Diana in a red coat and purple dress is a very good example. I just googled Meghan moonbump to check. Look up images and videos too.
They're still there.
Could anyone ever force Meghan to do something she didn't want to? her usual MO is to give in grudgingly, if at all, solely so she can use it later as a whine.
I have also seen pictures of young Augie Brooksbank that had me wondering if they weren't borrowing pics of him from Eugenie to pass off as Archie.
But in all likelihood, there's a strong resemblance between them. I have cousins who could pass as sisters, so it does happen.
I still cannot make myself believe that are faking children. Pregnancy, yes. But even Henry isn't stupid enough to believe they could pull that off.
Some things that come to mind for me that are odd:
* The claim that they returned to Frogmore Cottage so soon after an epidural birth of a first child (something like back home within two hours of birth). Catherine left the hospital very soon after the birth of her third child and that was a notable 4 hours.
* She has always had a sticky-out tummy, but on the Australian tour, when she was just two months' (8 weeks) pregnant, she arrived with a flat tummy for her first engagement and within two weeks she looked as if she was at least 14 weeks. That was odd.
* Up until about 7 months' pregnant, she could squat with knees together and stand up again, wearing killer stiletto heels, without any assistance, not even putting a hand on the ground to steady herself. That is highly unusual.
* Her noticeable weight gain, especially the marked puffy face, when she reappeared post birth seemed odd. I think she went off on maternity leave about a month before the birth, but the marked puffiness only showed when she reappeared within a month of the birth, and did not seem to affect her legs or ankles. Postpartum swelling would usually disappear by then. But every woman is different and every pregnancy is different so there may be a natural explanation. (The weight gain could be explained by her sitting at home and eating for the two months or so that she disappeared from public view.)