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Subtle Tide Shifting

 In the past, it always kind of bothered me that the media tended to call Catherine as Middleton.  This even when they had been married for years.  On some level, I felt perhaps they had missed notice of the wedding or something?  Kind of spitefully mean middle school response.  

I just saw this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHtWxSvzGRo

Very interesting about why it doesn't apply to Meghan.

Think back through the history of antagonism towards the media - Harry with his past (photos, comments) and then bringing her in (where it was more she controlled output + good for her plans of expansion) to now the situation where she no longer could.  Full stop.  And, not a whiff of apology for the most part.  

Notice that it follows other stories of how the BBC have been rather coming face to face about past less savory actions to get what they wanted (lies to Diana and so on).  

I think we are seeing a shift in how reporting will handled - in ways it has not in the past.  The King?  William, Prince of Wales?  Don't know but I think the people who will most benefit will be Camilla Queen Consort, Catherine Princess of Wales and the Wales children.  





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Maneki Neko said…
Yes, the comments in the DM always berate the paper/it's journalists (if you can call some of them that) for calling Catherine Kate Middleton. She was known originally as Kate but William asked for her to be called Catherine. She wanted her friends to call her by her full name, perhaps knowing she would be part of the BRF, although this was before the engagement. They decided to get married although William didn't actually propose until 2009.

It's perhaps worth noting that Diana was Lady Diana or sometimes Lady Di and Princess Diana but Fergie, aka Sarah Ferguson, was always Fergie, occasionally the Duchess of York. Perhaps this is because Diana was from an aristocratic family. Short names can be viewed as more 'common', e.g. Andy, Steve, Dave. Inversely, some politicians think it makes them more 'relatable', e.g. Tony Blair, Tony Benny etc.
Poor Harry, he has a bowl some (disgusting looking) food in his hands so he is eating. And then comes his wife and forces him to kiss him. I hope she got some of that food in her mouth as a punishment!

Sassie said…
“I cannot recall any celebrity ever who has waterboarded the public so hard to force us into submission to accept her. It's brutal.”

Don’t you all think this comment is spot on? I just read it on Cheere Denise’s most recent video about the Harper’s Bazaar cover and article.
It would be better look for Harry if he had his hair cut short.
Girl with a Hat said…
All I know is that it's impolite not to call someone by the name they wished to be called by. That says a lot about the British journalists.
I wonder how many of these journalists envy Catherine and would have wanted to marry either William or Charles.
Girl with a Hat said…
I recommend you go to
https://nypost.com/2025/11/20/entertainment/meghan-markle-has-risen-to-comic-levels-of-self-importance/

and read the articles, and especially the comments.
The one about the fire hydrant and the responses to it are particularly funny.
Girl with a Hat said…
over at Saint Meghan Markle, on this thread, they reveal that * got Harper's Bazaar to agree in writing to release the interview and the story that she was on the front page, when Catherine had a major event, according to Neil Sean

https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/1p37ekb/behind_the_scenes_at_harpers_bazaar_it_seems/
Girl with a Hat said…
https://archive.is/AJu0X

The home that * used for her interview in NYC for Harper`s Bazaar, belongs to Victoria Jackson, owner of No Makeup Makeup Company and a patron of the Harkles. She lends them her private jet, and her home in Montecito and in L.A.
This explains *`s decision to try a no makeup look on the Harper`s cover.
Girl with a Hat said…
The relationship with Victoria Jackson = royals for hire
https://x.com/sage1411/status/1992078368536408435/photo/1
Maneki Neko said…
That no makeup look didn't look good on her, I don't think the lighting helped either. As for the Reddit story, the photo of her in a raincoat, cream blouse and black skirt is hideous. The pose is one I've seen on clothes websites, only hers is 'dead' and looks ridiculous. She has a bulging tummy as if she was about 4 months pregnant. I'm not trying to be nasty, it's really not a flattering photo and I'd be mortified to have it in a magazine.
I suppose Victoria Jackson is a 'friend' for now who'll go the way *'s other friends go when she deems they are of no further use.
Maneki Neko said…
There is a very good article by Jan Moir in the DM with very apt remarks, not just about As Ever products.

'My trip to Meghan Markle's pop up shop where even the Montecito set baulk at £24 for a jar of honey!'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/article-15315193/JAN-MOIR-Meghan-Markles-shop-Montecito.html
I noticed that Blair didn't go as far as calling himself `Tone', the truly proletarian version of Anthony. Neither did Mr Benn, the former Mr Wedgewood Benn/ 2nd Viscount Stansgate.

It's considered disrespectful to refer to anyone by a name they have asked you not to use. `Meghan Markle' was her `professional' name as an actress. I despise her and use that name to disrespect her. `Duchess of Sussex' sticks in my craw.
Girl with a Hat said…
A quote from the article that made me laugh: Meghan portraying herself as the hostess with the mostest is a little like Cruella de Vil being in charge of a puppy farm – sooner or later the fur is going to fly.
OKay said…
Including some of the fellas!
Maneki Neko said…
@Girl with a Hat

Personally, I like how Jan Moir talks about 'our favourite jampreneur':

’. . . Meghan is seen single-handedly inventing Christmas before invading her own privacy by kissing Harry, boiling up some of her twig tea in a saucepan, tablescaping like a lunatic and making a wreath out of broccoli florets before gurgling: ‘I love the holiday season. It’s about finding time to connect with the people we love.’' (except her father and in-laws)
Maneki Neko said…
Does * ever stop whingeing? Now she's complaining that life at KP was like a prison. She was 'left 'horrified' at the prospect of being routinely driven from Kensington Palace to various official functions.'. I'd certainly be similarly horrified!! The woman never knows when to stop. I'd be delighted with an apartment in KP... This is from Kensington Palace, a book by Tom Quinn, royal biographer.
Girl with a Hat said…
From a comment at Saint Meghan Markle:

Am currently in Singapore at a conference. Visited the Hermes shop with a friend who can afford that stuff. She wanted a Hermes blanket. I told her that the one she was looking at had been shown on one of the many Markle videos/shows. Immediately she said ‘I can’t stand her - you’ve ruined it for me. Won’t be buying it’. The shop assistant looked disappointed but said it was a common reaction
If she's not careful, * may well end up finding out what gaol is really like...
Can you imagine if she'd been expected to get on a Transport for London bus, or go by Tube? Would she have demanded to have an entire bus cleared or would she have been satisfied with having `upstairs' all to herself?
She wouldn't have qualified for a Freedom Pass so would have had to have paid her fare. What a come down that would have been.

TBH, I'm surprised she hasn't yet claimed to be a refugee on account of how she was persecuted. Does the rubber dinghy on her Chat GP coat of arms perhaps represent a plan to paddle across the Channel/ La Manche, to claim asylum in France?
A further thought: If, at some point in the next reign, legal action were to be taken against the Harkles for their alleged financial and /or treasonous crimes ( I'm thinking of the alleged Interference in the Succession, should they have gone down the surrogacy route but still claimed princely titles for their children, to say nothing of others being charged with conspiracy as well*) the case would be called at the very least `Rex versus the Duke and Duchess of Sussex'.
Her wish for legal confrontation with William will be granted, but not in the way she expects. I wonder if she realises that , or if she's relying on not being extradited from the US?

*The Old Bailey's gonna need a bigger dock!
abbyh said…
Leaks are forming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvWzRbbVTAk

What I really noticed was the idea that they will be "recalled" back to the UK to serve and help the King. Whew. That's really out there if you ask me.
Their delusion is off the scale!

Joking apart about buses, didn't she complain that her driving licence had been `taken away', along with her passport? We may have assumed that it was simply looked after for `safe keeping'' but could it have been because she was seldom fit to drive, for whatever reason?
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/1p541gz/the_eyes_are_the_windows_to_the_soul_or_lack/
Interesting post here. I'd already had a go at testing how symmetrical her face was/is in this way and got such a diabolical-looking `2025 right-side of face' (had a choice of leaving slight gap between the halves or overlapping them? result that I wondered if some of her early UK photos were manipulated to flatter her.
That `2025-RHS' face gave me the same chill as her stare into the TV camera at Eugenie's wedding.
Girl with a Hat said…
HGTudor - what MI5 knew about Meghan Markle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DECqlegnEKE&t=44s
Girl with a Hat said…
over at CDAN, they have the entire dossier summarized from twitter posts. Even the item about Andrew paying her $34k to spend 3 weeks with her.
I've just picked up on this and and now beginning to digest it.

It seems legit to me. We have speculated that HGT was in some way acting as an advisor to Royal security, so he may be an insider. The dateline is 5 days ago so were it unauthorised I imagine it would have disappeared pdq if not, like that `announcement' from KP about surrogacy.

The content is no real surprise , it's more or less what I would have expected, apart from how early MI5 is said picked up on her - I just feel profound sadness that they were able to get HM over a barrel.

The reference to H as `Sussex' as early as 2016 suggests to me that this may have been a code name, based on conduct of previous holder of the title, later used for real.

If it is fake, it's a very good one.
This one from 5 days ago, had me reeling. It is, of course, speculation but does suggest a way ahead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr71SZazSKU
`Operation Aurora: To stop the Sussexes'

`HG Tudor analyzes a purported top-secret operation to mitigate the Sussexes' impact on the British monarchy. The plan involves several strategic moves, detailed in a confidential memorandum. This in-depth examination explores potential political and social ramifications'.
When papers write that the King has always left the door open to Harry that "darling boy" seems to interpret it like: "I can waltz back home whenever I want and continue my royal life as before this California chapter". Maybe Harry is right.

Maybe the King wants his reign end in peace without The Sussex Scandal even if his elder son is then forced to start HIS reign with that same wretched scandal (i.e. to make Harry and wife plain mr and mrs)

If the baroness chose herself the front page photo in the harper's bazaar she DOES NOT SEE herself as other people do, that's all I can say.

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