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 Another year and what will it bring for them (and us who watch)?  

One thing I thought of is control of their image for appearances.  It isn't just that they have lost so many people in such a fairly short time period but who they lost.  The people who advised, handled details to make the events happen - road trips to volunteering.  We've been saying all along that each loss is a ripple of warning towards a potential new hire coming in.  New hires, yes but what about fund raising?  Cash flow?  This, from SMM, is an interesting read:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/1puzsvh/impact_report_990_review_from_a_nonprofit/

Which leads us to money.  Keeping their image engine running costs a lot.  No doubt there are a lot details, paperwork, contracts to negotiate and find new groups to partner with.  Hence the need for a good team. The duo could do some of it or all but for how long?  

side note: the people losses are just the big name public staff losses, we know nothing about cooks (she is unlikely to cook all the meals), cleaners, gardeners and koi people might have come and gone.


With the recent changes to the foundation (making it more of a family thing with the kids) will that mean that now the kids will make appearances?  give speeches, full photographs of?  and all that.   It has, after all, started up with William's kids.  There was always a strong sense from Harry that he had a limited timeline before being replaced by those kids.  And, it's clearly started.

  

The campaign to reconnect with his family - this might get interesting to follow as it appears that the main support staff for helping have left (unclear who is still around).  Sure there are existing connections with supportive UK political people but it will take time for a new hire to come up to speed on this.  I can't help but think that someone will need a good understanding of British history, culture in addition to diplomatic skills for this.  It would be harder, not impossible, for someone from the US to come in with that level of understanding and sensitivity.  Easier perhaps if they lived in NYC or DC  but California is where I learned the term: GUD - geographically undesirable.  Everything is far away and traffic is bad.  But they knew that when they bought in Montecito.  

What is new is that the palace is starting to request receipts.  Giving notice to expect it in the future if it feels something is not quite right.  That was a change not generally projected as likely to happen in 2025.

At any rate, it will still be difficult to gain traction with his family still not exactly expressing any support of forward reunification plans.  You can bring a horse to water and all that.  

In the mean time, the BRF in the UK are just continuing with their lives.  Sure cancer was a hiccup but that seems to be over.  They are just living life to the hilt.  As life should be.  



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Sassie said…
Emails please. Happy New Year!
I'm not much of a finance person but even I can see that there's enough evidence here to conclude that the way Arsewipes works stinks to high heaven.
The use of `aesthetic' to describe its function is as good as saying that much of what they do is a profitable vanity project and that the main beneficiaries of their `charity' are themselves.
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/prince-williams-rift-harry-reportedly-set-explode-like-dynamite-over-king-charles-health-1767671

Just disgusting speculation.
Girl with a Hat said…
News yesterday that Hairy would not join Sentebale again and that its finances are in dire straits.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15429751/Prince-Harry-not-returning-tarnished-Sentebale-charity-founded-bullying-row.html
At:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/1pytqq4/just_seen_on_x_it_sums_everything_up_with_perfect/

A perfect post which hits the nail on the head:

BrightAwareness2876


Edited 5d ago
`The UK is a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy. One of the oldest democracies in the world. With the monarch being the head of state.

This is something I never understood. How was this allowed to happen? Harry and Meghan did not only attack a family or some kind of folklore for coffee mugs and biscuit tins, they attacked and tried to destabilise a state. One of the good ones, by the way.

And for all those who call us pathetic, this is my grudge against them. Frivolously, arrogantly and self-servingly trying to destabilise a healthy political system and all of its people, just for their own benefit. This I will never forgive.'

Thank you, BrightAwareness2876, I agree whole-heartedly. Yes, we are a Sovereign Nation. How bloody dare they.

I’ve been thinking about something from when * was living at Nott Cott.

Reportedly she was regularly sending mysterious `packages’ to the US – and did not trust anyone else to post them. There was speculation that these were instalments of her secret diary, being saved for future use against the Royal family, or else cash being sent to Doria for herself or for `washing’. I couldn’t help wondering if these consignments, whatever they were, were being intercepted by the Security Services.

Some time ago, I read a thick book detailing the history of the Post Office and was intrigued by the fact that almost from the birth of the Royal Mail (in 1660) letters were being intercepted on a grand scale, by the authorities, copied, then sent on their way to the addressees, in order to trap plotters against the throne. BTW It’s a criminal offence for anybody else to `interfere with the mail’.
Perhaps *’s communications weren’t as secret as she thought? Was she protecting them as only as far as the post box?
I’ve just come across this:
https://news.joblane.co.za/the-royal-excommunication-meghan-markles-lifetime-ban-from-kensington-palace-explained/
I’m pretty sure that the `right people’ knew all about her, if not from the start then very soon after. I’d love to know exactly what was in those packages.

We seem to be caught in a time shift, reliving old history with the Harkles. I was in Scotland on New Year’s Day and spotted a chap dressed as a Highlander from the 18thC. His large flat bonnet bore a `white cockade’ and I was tempted to ask him if he’d been in the ’15 or’45, and what he thought of there being a Charles III on the throne `at last’… I didn’t though.
Girl with a Hat said…
The Duke of Sussex has won his fight for armed police protection when he visits the UK, it has been claimed.
The royal and VIP executive committee (Ravec) is said to have determined that Prince Harry meets the threshold for official protection and a ruling in his favour is expected in a matter of weeks.
Harry, 41, in May lost a high-profile legal claim against the government over the decision to remove his right to automatic taxpayer-funded police protection.

https://archive.is/DNsDz#selection-1629.0-1637.158
Girl with a Hat said…
That last comment was from the London Times, but I found it from behind the paywall.
abbyh said…
I read something yesterday which said they were going to get this with the source from their camp and I thought: in your dreams. But maybe I was wrong. HG Tudor had one vid that he got it.

I now suspect that it would be reviewed again periodically. As just happened, things might change (again).
Girl with a Hat said…
There are people who think that the current Labour government is trying to destroy the monarchy so they will try to insert Harry and his loathsome wife back into the country to stir things up.

By the way, HG Tudor's latest video's title is something like "Charles demands that Harry show that the children are real".
This is from the Independent; it appeared in MSN when I was trying to get to my preferred home page & I haven't a clue how to find the URL now:

"Prince Harry has reportedly (NB `reportedly’) won the right to automatic armed police protection when he and his family visit the UK, after a lengthy high-profile legal battle.
In May last year, the Duke of Sussex lost his court case against the royal and VIP executive committee (Ravec) over their decision to remove his right to taxpayer funded police protection after he left as a working member of the royal family.
However, the 41-year-old wrote to the home secretary Shabana Mahmood in September after a stalker, who had previously made online threats, was able to get within a “stone’s throw” of the duke during his recent visit to London.
As a result, Ravec, which is overseen by the Home Office, launched a fresh risk assessment and is said to have (NB `said to have’) determined that the King’s youngest son does meet the threshold for official protection.
According to the Mail on Sunday, a source close to the Sussexes (NB. Two dodgy sources here) “It’s now a formality. Sources at the Home Office have indicated (NB. Not `stated’) that security is now nailed on for Harry.”

Weasel words galore here - I still shan't believe it until it's expressed clearly by either Reuters or the Press Association.
Sadly, only we critical thinkers will see through it.
GWAH:
Sorry, I missed your post. Weasel words `...it is claimed.'

SMM hasn't picked up on it yet - are the Harkles sitting on it for the US or is it simply a matter of time zones?
TBH, I don't think the Independent believes the `reports' either - and the involvement of People suggests can sleep in peace tonight.
The baroness believes that if papers publish her thoughts and desires it forces people to fulfill those thoughts and desires magically...
Magatha Mistie said…

Singalong 🎤
Apologies: Bob Dylan
Blowin’ in the Wind

Overblown

How many jams does our meh
have to flog
Before we call out her scam
How many teas does our
suits-case sell
Before she’s named as a sham
Yes, and how many times must our
gruesomes lie
Before they’re as ever banned

The answer, my friends
is hoeing being sin binned
The answer’s
blowin’ rimmed and skimmed…



Magatha Mistie said…

Happy New Year Nutties
Still here, just!
Jan Moir has a good article in DM
“netherworld of nothingness”

Girl with a Hat said…
I found this very interesting. I think you will as well.

Princess Margaret and the Curse: An Inquiry into a Royal Life by Meryle Secrest
English | September 9, 2025 | ISBN: 1510782567 | 304 pages | PDF | 12 Mb

A Groundbreaking New Perspective of Princess Margaret by Renowned Biographer Meryle Secrest

Meryle Secrest, distinguished biographer in the arts and humanities, and recipient of a White House Medal, has turned her focus to royalty. In Princess Margaret and the Curse, she has put the conventional view of a much-reviled Princess on its head. Her latest study, which she considers more of an investigation than a biography as such, proposes that nobody knows the truth about the fabled, doomed Princess.

She is the first person to have looked at Princess Margaret in a particular family context. That is to say with reference to her mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the daughter of a famous, hard-drinking Scottish family that had inhabited an ancient dwelling, Glamis Castle, for centuries. Her older brothers were already renowned for their prowess in alcohol consumption. Decades later, once she became Queen Mother, this Elizabeth would begin to imbibe by eleven in the morning. She was already lamenting the loss of her "drinking powers" when, because of severe bouts of morning sickness during her first pregnancy with the future Queen Elizabeth in 1926, she could not drink. Four years later, while pregnant with Princess Margaret in 1930, she was not so handicapped. Doctors believed it was perfectly safe for a mother-to-be to drink, so she drank.

The doctors were wrong. But it took another forty-three years, until 1973, before new studies established that alcohol in any amount was poisonous to the developing human being. The effect is lifelong. We now know that victims’ growth is stunted (Margaret stopped growing at five feet), and their skeletal structures are fragile. They get sick sooner and age faster. There are characteristic emotional differences, too. They never develop maturity of mind. They remain subject to sudden tantrums, rages, are poor judges of character, and particularly prone to run and hide, as Princess Margaret tried to do all her life. They may be as intelligent and gifted as she was, but mulish and fly into a rage. They are, it turns out, exactly like the person she became.

None of this has ever been recognized, let alone understood. With this study, the author places Margaret's life in its proper perspective. It seems particularly sad that someone expected to be perfection itself in her manners and behavior should have been born in the one situation where perfection was, in fact, impossible. It is time we looked at this public figure from a new and more forgiving frame of mind, and with a new understanding.
@GWAH
That's very interesting - thanks. QEQM's drinking, at least in her later life was well-known. Do we know if Diana was a drinker?
Maneki Neko said…
Of course, we'll never be able to establish the truth. I am thinking of Margaret's children and grandchildren an also the rest of the BRF. Yes, Margaret's character might well have been flawed but does it serve any purpose for this book to blacken her mother's name? I don't know about a "famous, hard-drinking Scottish family" but Wikipedia says she was 'Born into a family of British nobility', certainly on her mother's side. Wikipedia has a description of her father - the Scottish side - taken from different sources: 'His contemporaries described him as an unpretentious man, often seen in "an old macintosh tied with a piece of twine".[5] He worked his own land and enjoyed physical labour on the grounds of his estates; visitors often mistook him for a common labourer.[6] He made his own cocoa for breakfast, and always had a jug of water by his place at dinner so he could dilute his own wine.[7]'.

There may well have been some hard drinking and the Queen Mother did enjoy a tipple, as did Margaret herself. The Queen Mother may have drunk alcohol while expecting Margaret but I don't think Margaret presented characteristics of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder. I am not saying the Queen Mother was some saint but personally I'm taking the book's findings with a large pinch of salt.
Kiwi_love777 over on SMM gives her opinion, as a real business founder (of Montecito Minimalist) about As Ever's (non-)success - so many dogs that haven't barked in the night!
There are umpteen things that would have been expected to have happened were it as successful as * claims but which didn't.
Girl with a Hat said…
There are various degrees of fetal alcohol syndrome
Maneki Neko said…
@Girl with a Hat

You're right, there are various degrees of foetal alcohol syndrome. The fact that Margaret was short doesn't mean anything, her mother was short herself, barely an inch taller than Margaret. I once saw Sarah Chatto, Margaret's daughter, and she is also an inch taller than Margaret. The rest I find debatable (personally).
Fantasy for today?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bMsSKyms6w
Impossible! Or not?
Girl with a Hat said…
The odds of someone being shorter than their mother are very low, especially since as a member of the BRF, Margaret had access to a much better diet than her mother did as a member of a household of 11 children. That is the determining factor usually in a child's adult height - the nutritional aspect of the early years, except for fetal alcohol syndrome where that is determined in utero.
Girl with a Hat said…
A few commenters at CDAN have noticed that there haven't been any blinds about the alliterate one for a few weeks. Some people have speculated that * has put the owner of the CDAN blog on notice that his blind items are not appreciated by the Duchess of Sausages (as the Royal Rogue calls her)
abbyh said…
PSA from your moderator:

Please be careful about some of the websites as they are highly manipulative in the editing.
I stumbled on one which was allegedly an interview between Tucker Carlson and Harry. In the comments were statements about how the FBI has just raided the Montecito house, millions are missing from Archewell, they will be going to jail yada, yada. Basically the what we all have thought would happen at some point, finally has. And, isn't it convenient, just up our alley?

Just like Neil is having someone do a spoof site of him, there are others out there as well.

So just like phishing, A) is it the original youtube channel (it wasn't Tucker and Harry link on his channel is with Piers). B) are there other news agencies also reporting (um, no, nothing about the FBI).

Think of it as "disinformation" you are (unwittingly) being asked to promote as truth. Don't know but it might make you trackable?

(if in doubt, cite the youtube channel and something when it was produced like Jan 5th or just a key word from the title? enough for someone to look it up if they want to. As they used to say on Hill Street Blues, "Let's be careful out there.")
There is something wrong with her left eye, unsuccessful beauty operation?

And Harry's eyes look like small pig's eyes.....
Sometimes that's an effect of blue eyes with very light lashes, and a touch of being bloodshot which all together, emphasise their smallness and porcine appearance, but without a pig-like nature.
A number of today's papers have the story that H wants the King to join him at opening of Invictus Games, apparently, it's his `dream'. The Express goes straight to the point though:

"Prince Harry's latest 'olive branch' to King is so he can 'boost brand', expert warns.".

The Sun is still pushing reconciliation with headline `Clearing the heir'- I bet that wording came from Montcito. Dream on, Harry.
We had our biannual visit from Jehovah's Witnesses this morning. I know they mean well but their timing is never convenient. It reminded me though of H ringing random doorbells. Should Meghan dump him, might he find a refuge in a similar organisation? Could that incident foreshadow a life as a door-to-door missionary? Was he practicing? Stranger things have happened. Hare Krishna, I believe, has success with addicts. Will we yet see him dancing up and down Oxford St?
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/news/prince-harry-could-take-on-royal-duties-in-uk-return-as-a-smack-in-the-face-to-william/ar-AA1TXv2X
...from Daily Record.
I really would have thought better of Jennie Bond than to put her name to this.
abbyh said…
A couple of thoughts:

I keep reading articles and so on that state security is to be resumed ... but has it? the article above (and others) talk about it mostly as a foregone conclusion. This, does hedge and says it hasn't been confirmed yet.

say what? What has changed? besides the chase which lasted for hours in NYC traffic, what threats have there been? And, more importantly, where? What countries is this all happening? If the UK, well, that can make some sense but else where?

One article in the DM pointed out that to give him security, would mean that he would be getting it whilst doing nothing for crown or country while the other senior members only get it while on work duty. Meaning he could fly in for some ribbon ceremony for Archewell and get protection.


As for Invictus, reading about the trying to rope in his father to participate, all that ran through my mind was a flash of the other ceremonies she ran rip shod over the real participants and how she could insert herself into Invictus again. Then, there was this nasty little thought of him agreeing but they had to bend the knee to the King, maybe forehead to the ground, kiss his shoe (not his ring) ... Ok, back to real life. One of the comments pointed out that having the King there would lessen the chances of Harry being booed. I could see that as a hail Mary try to less the boos.
Sassie said…
I just read a truly fantastic comment on Daily Mail article entitled “Prince Harry 'desperately wants King Charles to open the Invictus Games' when it returns to the UK next year”

Read this comment!
“JettaRockets, Whiterock, Canada, 15 hours ago
shouldn’t Princess Anne be the one to oprn Invictus? She is an Admiral of the Royal Navy, a General in the British Army, and Air Chief Marshal in the Royal Air Force, with the Army and RAF ranks. She also serves as Colonel-in-Chief for numerous regiments and holds senior Canadian military appointments, acting as Commodore-in-Chief of the Canadian Pacific Fleet. So it would make sense for her to do this honor, and also she can put little Hawwy in his place if he acts up.” - end quoted comment -

This commenter, I think, honestly has such a great solution, since Princess Anne would honor the Invictus war-wounded participants by her presence; she is a top Royal which would indicate to the world that this is a worthy cause to back (no matter how loathsome a loser the current patron and his grifter wife are, and no matter how much they’ve damaged the cause in the past few years - my opinion so any reading sugars just back off); and as the DM commenter wrote, she would firmly put Hairball (and his handler Megaliar) in place if he/they try to pull their typical shenanigans.

Article https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15450831/Prince-Harry-King-Charles-open-Invictus-Games-UK.html?ico=comment-anchor#comments
re my post at 5.53pm
Here's SMM's take on it: https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/1q8ms28/ingriftus_getting_desperate_for_cash_to_fund/#lightbox
Don't Panic! Don't Panic!
Or rather keep Calm and Carry On- here's the clearest statement yet that H hasn't yet got what he wants and that the important people see through it all: https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/1q9054g/government_source_claps_back_at_news_that_harry/
It's interesting that the 2027 Invictus in organized in Birmingham that is one the poorest cities in UK, with endless trash on the streets and no money for the poor people, yet they have money for the very expensive happening like Invictus. I wonder if the baroness will come and show her pricey wardrobe for the people of B:ham? And what will those people think of the show? Will they enjoy it?

abbyh said…
Well, well, well. Apparently she is willing to come to the UK for Invictus if security is arranged. Shocker I know.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15452459/Meghan-Markle-return-Britain-summer-Harry-invictus-games.html
Maneki Neko said…
I'm not entirely sure * would be willing to show her face in the UK - that she reportedly hate - even with security and, I'd imagine, an expensive new wardrobe. As for Charles, he might make an appearance at the Invictus games, they'll be held in England after all, but it might be a stretch for Harry to think his father would open the games.
I was reading something yesterday about the money spent on the games but can't find the article. I have found this, though, about their finances. Total income £3,833,574, total expenditure £3,283,176, which leaves £550,398. The operational costs are astronomical. Incidentally, the games are not just for veterans but active personnel as well.
https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/5054988/full-print

As for Birmingham, it is the largest city in the UK after London with a very diverse population (about 51%) but it is now classed as a poor city. This is partly, if not largely, due to incompetence at a local level. It declared itself bankrupt well over a year ago, there's been a bin men strike for over a year and problems with the implementation of a new IT system. The city need a major overhaul if it is to host the games.
Birmingham was put on the map on the map back in the 12th century, by its lord of the manor securing a market charter. This started its journey from a 3 ox-team village at Domesday, worth £1 a year to the lord, to a major industrial centre in the 19th & 20th centuries. Sadly, those days are over. It may have taken longer than 3 generations `from clogs to clogs', as we say, but the results are the same.
On the face of it, IG is the last thing the city needs,
abbyh said…
Yes. Exactly. Thank you.
It is too convenient and just the kind of hot gossip that people would want to pass on to their friends who think like they do - saying: look, see. the kraken has finally come to her. Schadenfreude.

I'm seeing more and more similar stories (proof she's this or that, linked to Andrew, final proof the kids this, Harry's filing for divorce and so on) with supposed "facts" on similar sites but not with people I think of as more trustworthy about their facts or sources.

Lady C, Neil - they have been around for a long time and have made many friends over the years. They are, also, "local" to beating heart of the BRF, what William or Charles may be thinking (or MI5/6, the review board and grey suits) versus Hollywood.

Not saying some of this way out there stuff is impossible and as the US media is not bound by the laws the UK media is which is why it is sourced from the US - only that it is less likely to be swear in a court of law true. Take with salt and see who else is dropping this information as confirmation.

And wait a while longer before believing.
Girl with a Hat said…
She had a "big" announcement today - the As Ever bookmark!
https://x.com/RoyalDailyTea/status/2011123955449446562
What does Harry mean when he says (?) he wishes he didn't have to choose between his old life and his new one? I think he made quite clear for six years ago he did not want his old life and was happy to escape it? At least that is what he told several times and with a proper conviction to everybody.

The Royal Family and the Great Britain have moved on and are living a life six years forward from the date when Harry left. Or?

All this sounds that he is returning back to his dream of being a prince when it is glamorous and having fun doing money tricks when royaling is boring. What did the papers call it? Having your cake and eat it? Half in and half out? Doing exactly as you please and see that everybody else is paying the bills?

Poor Harry, most 40 years and plus people understand that when you are nearing your life's middle years there is NO going back to your carefree teen years but Harry has never left those years and now he thinks he can get his golden royal life back by just insisting he wants it. Maybe he can, what do I know...?

But somehow he seems lack a few things his family has like sound work ethic, discretion, respect towards the peoples of his fathers realms and the great trick to know when to SHUT UP and keep going even when it is difficult and you want to answer back when someone has hurt your feelings.

Perfect examples of those Royal virtues being the Prince and Princess of Wales, God bless them. That's all I say.

Girl with a Hat said…
Celebrity reporter Rob Shuter claimed unnamed insiders say Meghan wants exclusive hotel access, bulletproof glass, armed security, and luxury cars for a possible July countdown event tied to the 2027 Invictus Games in Birmingham. Critics call the requests excessive for a charity honoring wounded veterans, with royal author Angela Levin suggesting it gives her reason to skip. While earlier reports hint at her joining Prince Harry if his security clears, neither the Sussexes nor the Invictus Foundation has commented, as discussions highlight polarized takes on the unverified gossip.

https://x.com/i/trending/2010776056689561754
Girl with a Hat said…
I think that`s what he meant - half in, half out with the perks of both.
Girl with a Hat said…
She claims that her bookmarks are made by females (although why that matters is beyond me) but she lies again.

https://x.com/ThinkBeautiful_/status/2011485587069681977
Girl with a Hat said…
So she even copied her bookmark from other people? https://x.com/unreMARKLEble/status/2011131459327705528
Maneki Neko said…
Re *'s alleged return to the UK - please, no! - Madam has made a list of demands. This would be par for the course for the viper.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/1qdp0c6/the_clap_back_insider_denies_diva_duchess_meghans/
Girl with a Hat said…
Meghan told Harry that her father "interfered" with her when she was young.
Lady C tells us how she was told. Very short video.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/i6F0AzEOSA8
Maneki Neko said…
I wouldn't put it past her. That will be the excuse not to go to the funeral. If the story is true, then why didn't * cut ties with her father much earlier? Or was it ok to take his money?
Maneki Neko said…
Not sure whether any of this is true but there is possibly a train of truth in it:
* caught at LAX trying to flee to Dubai with $12M. The 1st video is HG Tudor. I speed up his videos as his speech delivery is a bit slow. Apparently there are several sources with the same info.

https://youtu.be/9cc07NE5KVg?si=1FElVlitSzWpGa_s
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php/?story_fbid=767609733026336&id=100093319480733
And to crown it all, a Hot Gossip video - now this could just be gossip - from a woman claiming * tried to seduce her ex husband, an Arab billionaire, in Dubai... It would be delicious if true. It's entertaining anyway.

https://youtu.be/nXH6E_j4g5M?si=H-SzXiLpIMfc_iJr
Girl with a Hat said…
Meghan shares intimate footage of her and Harry dancing in video filmed by Princess Lilibet - as Duchess hops on viral 2016 throwback trend with photo from couple's early dates

So Invisibet is their videographer now. She's 6?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15471923/Meghan-Harry-dancing-video-Princess-Lilibet.html
abbyh said…
Seems more steady than I think of for a four year old.

And I'm not sure about the perspective of the height of the camera for shooting. It seems higher than it ought to be (as in a kid isn't going to hold onto the camera above their head but more like their chest level which would be increasing steadiness as well as lessening the chance of being dropped) which would put it less than three feet off the ground.
Girl with a Hat said…
A lot of commenters at the DM are saying the exact same things.
She's getting more and more ridiculous.
Soon, she's going to try to convince us that she was a CIA spy or in the Special Forces.
Maneki Neko said…
I've just watched the video of the duo dancing barefoot. Totally cringe. The wide shorts emphasise her body shape and thin legs. Not a good look. She looks considerably shorter than Harry who is around 6"1 (1.86m) so I doubt she's 1.70m as she once claimed. As for the way she jumps on Harry at the end and wraps her sticks around him... I can't unsee it.
Well, something to ponder about:

Youtube Cognition Unlocked: "JUST NOW: Charles Uncovers Harry's Secret - Titles Revoked Ahead of Summit"

@Alianor.
I wish we knew exactly who `Cognition Unlocked' is, apart from appearing to be a clear-minded psychologist/psychiatrist. Is he to be trusted? Does he have reliable sources? All we can do is wait and watch.
It reminds me though that even as I listened to Charles Spencer giving that address in the Abbey, I thought it sounded like a threat.
Perhaps we should have studied him more closely?

PS the speaker does confuse Althorp with Sandringham - the Spencer place is inland, in Northamptonshire, far from the Norfolk coast, unlike Sandringham. A slip of the tongue or evidence of a deep lack of understanding.
What do other Nutties think?
abbyh said…
Some good questions (and yes I did see that story that she was spotted in LAX with that amount last week or the week before).

I always start with:

Is it possible? and usually it is. So, that doesn't help us.

How valid do I think this source is? Neil, Lady C, I'm good (long term players of generally really reliable intel). Some of the others fall in the "let's let them prove themselves over time before I trust".

Is it plausible? and in this case of fleeing, I think not for at least parts of it - which drags down the rest of it.

Do I think she could be playing with someone else? eh, you could say she has form from when she was in Canada, hooked up with H and who knows before that as nobody is coming out needing to tell their story.

Dubai? close connections historically with UK AND allows extradition. So why Dubai? If it's really that tenuous legally, Dubai is not far enough away.

But the real clinker in the story is the money. Ain't not no one gonna be toting 12 million dollars in cash on them. And you can't trust putting it as checked luggage. Full stop. You'd have it in an account you could access from anywhere in the world. Very Hollywood though to pitch the idea of carrying a large sum of cash. I grant you that.

They have not printed dollar bills larger than $100 since before 1950 (as part of not needed and lower money laundering. So, she'd have to be collecting cash in $100 bills. Banks are legally required to note when $10,000 (or even close to that amount) is deposited. Don't know about that amount for withdrawals but ... a good forensic accountant can trace the money. Again, concerns of money laundering has banks keeping an eye on movement.

Let's do some math. 12 million, over 6 years would needing to collect about 55 $100 bills per day. 1 million dollars would be about 22 pounds.

So ... that amount of cash as part of this is not a reasonable part of validation.

But what or really why is it part of the story? Well it draw us in, doesn't it? And who would (or why) want to give us bad intel? You know who we haven't heard about in a while? that guy who was a big name in confronting erroneous social media which made his friend,*, look bad.

I don't know. I just don't know.
Maybe it is part of some crazy plot to show how they have been badly maligned and, therefore, ought be able to come back, get the security, bop in and out for things that they want ... all as part of Operation Thaw - bring them back into the family fold, appear on the balcony, photos on the table for the Christmas speech, re-sprinkle royal alure and get money/fame/fortune for self, spouse and kids. Or maybe it's someone pushing something out to see if anyone would bite and run with that story?

I guess one of the main problems with this all along has always been that a lot of it is plausible, just crazy enough to be true stories and that the longer this goes, the crazier it sounds which makes it sound even more plausible of a final solution - that we want to believe is true - that he/she is getting their comeuppance, and justice has prevailed for people we care about.


Girl with a Hat said…
There is only way anyone would carry millions in bank notes and not get caught at the airport and that is via diplomatic pouch which cannot be searched, x-rayed or even touched by anyone but the courier.
The amount would be transferred electronically and in such a way to obscure the paper trail.
Wild Boar Battle-Maid, you are absolutely right. I have no idea who this gentleman is. But I found it charming that someone talks about the sussex situation with calm and sense because the constant hysteria over anything about Harry and his wife is so exhausting.

Many years ago I saw a film of the Royal Family in a concert and the music was so powerful that the then Prince Charles was crying with many tears in his eyes. His father Prince Philip sat there with great irritation on his face clearly thinking that his son aught to have had more self-control and not to make a great show of himself.

Maybe it would be better for the Monarchy if the King could find a little more of his father's character in himself when dealing with his unbalanced younger son's hysterics?

But it is easy for me to sit in my beautiful cold snowy homeland and comment the doings of the great and important people. I have not their worries.
Girl with a Hat said…
* rehired Sunshine Sachs as their PR consultants

https://pagesix.com/2026/01/18/royal-family/meghan-markle-and-prince-harry-reunite-with-hollywood-pr-firm/
I found an interesting psychologist who talked about narcissists. She said that they have a very unformed idea of themselves and it leads to this constant, never ending defining of themselves. "She found herself AGAIN".

Adults who are normal KNOW who they are, they are very stable, narcissists do not. They are constantly "seeking" themselves, "finding" themselves and "defining" themselves.

I have been having a difficulty with the baroness constantly repeating (when she gets a new idea) that she has not had possibility to talk about or do something when she has done and said exactly that all the time again and again. But it seems that she is not talking to us. She is convincing HERSELF that THIS is the first time when she can (AT LAST) be herself and do or say things.

Poor woman has NO idea how stupid and intellectually constrained she truly is! Oh, sorry! She has told us again and again that she has always been the smart one (and breathtakingly beautiful)!!

Yeah.....
Girl with a Hat said…
Hairy arrived in London for the opening of his trial against the Mail on Sunday today.
abbyh said…
Page Six's sources says Netflix will not have a season 3 (as was predicted - shocking I know). Possible a holiday show but someone, somewhere said she is said to have said that the show was a lot of work. Putting on a show like that takes a lot of work? no kidding. One wonders about the tone of voice used when it was allegedly said: relief of ending, complaining about the level of involvement, or gratitude.

A show, any show like that, it isn't just sprinkling flowers or what ever but having the background (knowing) of the particular subject to pull it off. Julia Child - cooking. Martha. Icons. Shows which continue to be watched. Both are knowledgeable, able to convey this well, easily to the audience (you can do this too) and a force of nature/personality not to be argued with. They clearly control the space on camera.

@alianor d'aquitaine
Thank you. I'm somewhat lost for words at the moment - but I'm glad you re safe in your ` beautiful cold snowy homeland'.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/1qh9mxz/prince_harrys_friends_were_a_good_source_of_leaks/

SMM article asserting that a great deal of the info published about Harry was from legitimate sources. It bears out the wisdom of William's approach to ensuring that his friends were trustworthy. Having an entirely different kind of life from H is also clearly significant .
Magatha Mistie said…
What concert was this?
@alianor
Maneki Neko said…
@abbyh

I was just going to post about *'s non happening season 3 on Netflix when I read your post. Yes, such a show is 'a lot of work', especially when you have no discernible talent. Nothing is easy in life and a cookery/lifestyle show is a bit more than putting on a new frock and simpering to camera. One of the comments in the DM said, quoting * "Not only is Netflix partnering with me on my show, but also in my business, which is HUGE.". Delusional as ever.
Delusion? There's a lot of it about.
Prince Henry in court today looks like a balding orange hamster that has hidden his lunch in his cheeks. He doesn't seem to live a very healthy life and considering his wife's propensity to mind people's looks that does not predict happy outcome of his marriage. "Fox" and "handsome" are not words anyone would use now.

I find it fair to comment his looks after the cruel and self satisfied smile he had when Anderson Cooper read his comments in "Spare" about William's hair. I hope my comment is "cutting"!
Maghata Mistie,
The concert I was talking about happened over 30 years ago so I have no possibility to prove you anything. But I do not need to do that. I am not interested in your beliefs, so please, you do you.

Considering that His Majesty is a person who dearly loves classical music I am quite sure he has had tears in his eyes many a time before and after that concert. I certainly have had tears in my eyes when listening something beautiful. I believe it is quite normal.

Why I remember that picture of His Majesty? Well, there was a scandal in Britain because of a biography of the then Prince of Wales by Jonathan Dimbleby which was hurtful to his parents.
Girl with a Hat said…
https://pagesix.com/2026/01/21/royal-family/prince-harry-says-meghan-markles-royal-life-was-absolute-misery-during-uk-tabloid-trial-testimony/

Prince Harry insists Meghan Markle’s royal life was ‘absolute misery’ during UK tabloid trial testimony
Girl with a Hat said…
from a comment over at page six

Harry's testimony is irrelevant and should be stricken from the court record. It is immaterial and not germane to the case. Meghan Markle has absolutely nothing to do with his lawsuit. The events in question occurred between 2001-2013 well before he even met Markle. The case is supposed to center on illegal information gathering. Harry turned into another one of his performative grief sessions. In a court of law facts do not care about your feelings. Harry brought no evidence. Press intrusion and commercialization are not illegal. It is a bit rich to whine that your life has been commercialized by the press when you yourself have done nothing but sell all aspects of your private life to the highest bidder. Harry and his wife violated the privacy of the BRF over and over and over again. They made his grandparents final months an absolute misery. This vanity lawsuit should have never been allowed to proceed this far.
I see one of the Court Artists is Elizabeth Cook - she gave a talk about her work to the local Art Grip some years ago. She and her like are amazing.
They are not permitted to draw in court but have to fix the appearance of the personae in their minds, then dash out and commit the image to paper in any breaks they can. The medium is pastel.
Respect!
Maneki Neko said…
Harry comes across as a moan bag. The DM has an article on his lawsuit. 'Prince Harry was put under pressure to foster working relationships with royal correspondents and ‘forced to perform’ for them, he told his High Court privacy case on Wednesday.

The Duke of Sussex said he felt he could not complain about articles or Press conduct because of a Royal Family policy of ‘never complain, never explain’, which he had been ‘conditioned to accept’.' I think he complained and explained a lot in his memoir, Spare. Elizabeth Arden 8 hour cream and a frostbite on a certain part of his anatomy, anyone?

I think he seemed content to accept the RF policy at the time. Is all the bitterness now due to wifey? I think she's behind it and this comment in the DT confirms it . . .'What he really means is that his wife cannot see why everything about him cannot be commercialized, something she gave away when in Australia complaining about not getting paid in the belief they should get rewarded over and above for every little view of his royal worthlessness. ' . . .
His claim hangs on 14 articles published between 2001 and 2013, many concerning his relationship with Chelsy Davy. This is ancient history, why is he still banging on about it?
Girl with a Hat said…
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Girl with a Hat said…
It`s funny that during his counter-interrogation, the Mail on Sunday`s lawyer asked Hairy if one of his friends would leak details of his private life to a newspaper. He replied "they would never do that" when in fact, the Daily Mail printed an article the day before with the names of his friends and acquaintances that gave details of his private life to the paper. Doesn`t Hairy read the papers?
This, from the Times, is priceless - but better put your coffee down before reading:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/1qjn1aa/harry_took_the_witness_stand_and_the_times_is/#lightbox
Maneki Neko said…
Harry doesn't appear to be a very good witness and didn't make a good impression, I think.
'The Duke was rebuked by Mr Justice Nicklin for arguing with allegations put to him, and was told: “Part of Mr White’s job is to put allegations to you. This is a big moment. You are doing exactly what lots of litigants do – you tend to argue back about what he is putting to you.”

Prince Harry did not “have to bear the burden of arguing the case”, the judge added, saying that was a job for his barrister. Later, he told him he should not feel under pressure to argue specific points, but should just “answer the questions”.' (DT). He couldn't stick to the facts and had to argue back. I thought he'd had enough experience of this sort of trials.

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