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 So I started thinking about the whole history of her and them which leads up to now she's done with the British Royal Family.   I was influenced by Beeb's video of how she believes that there is a case that they expected to be chased to come back into the family, get everything they wanted when they  left.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK9uNrbb-lg  I don't think it was the first bluff though.  For me, I think it may have started maybe about the time he "asked" the Queen about her approval of marriage to *.  Her comment was more along the lines of I guess I have to agree to this.  I remember reading it in his book and thinking: Boy, that is just not a ringing endorsement by her, is it? Then there was the wedding date.  That whole pushing aside his cousin so he could get married before her.  That degree of rush, rush kind of sounds like a need (for appearances) rather than a desire to marry.   All the family has do...

 https://archive.is/20260627000715/https://www.dailymail.com/news/royals/article-15933083/Harry-Meghans-Megxit-deal-ALISON-BOSHOFF-Sussexes-agreed-return-UK.html I'm not understanding a whole lot of things here. They want to visit ... blah blah blah ... won't be leaked ... blah blah blah ... he's changed, he's now grown up ?  Wait, what?  Where's he been all these years?  and why do we need to be told he's changed without a how?  This is according to some Anonymous Source (AS from now on -technically there looks like  more than one)?  But Haz had years of practice of not behaving like an adult when most people consider someone an adult.  The people I know who can make that kind of level of reversal tend to be people who have joined AA and NA.  Known track levels of support from people who have walked that same path.  What support does he now have that he did not before? Reviewing things historically, they left after being told they could...

 Will they really come in the summer?  or will it blow up at last minute like the wedding? Part of me thinks they won't but ... if they do ... will it become the See the Real Faces of the Kids show instead of who it should be on - the people will be out on the playing field? https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15907341/Harry-Meghan-returning-UK-children-Invictus-Games.html

 Title pretty much says it all.  The sarcastic side of me says that maybe in another 10 years they will allow a real face shot. But let's think about this. Allegedly * bristles as the criticism of the unkempt hair.  Couple thoughts about that. Archie doesn't seem to have the same issue.  He seems to get regular hair cuts. Roll this around: She is raising her daughter to be a California Girl, just like her.  What does that mean and look like? So how is this going to play out once the kid discovers what ever the current equivalent of Tik Tok is and lets loose?  Goes whole hog into the showing off of herself.  You know kids are better than a cheating spouse at being able to hide technology they don't want others to find out about themself. Do we really think she will want to present herself as, well, unkempt hippy not pulled together later on?  Maybe but maybe not.   In a lot of high end places, there is a lot of social pressure to wear the...

 So I was reading the DM article talking about how * has friends.  Important friends.  Powerful friends.  And,  they  have friends layered below them.  What does that mean to us today?   So it is an interesting article filled with unnamed sources.  That's nothing new.  We see this quite often in the oh how wonderful the Sussex family members are.   Make no mistake - these are very powerful women.   Oprah - she has been there for a long time since the wedding and the interview.  According to the article (and even that seems to hedge by saying something about "I'm told" that Oprah was the push for the Kardashian party.).  So Oprah still seems to be around even though we don't see photos of them together. Mellody Hobson is next up.  Quite a power woman who is very knowledgeable in finance (her own Investment company), Starbucks and more.  She did appear in Archetypes.  An unnamed source (aga...

 Four days.   What do you think might happen? What do you think might not happen? And, why ?

Sentebale is suing  Harry. Exact details are not out there (yet) but we do know they were having severe money difficulties. What we also don't know (yet) how closely Invictus will be following this.  Maybe this will allow them to get out from underneath him (and her) as he is too compromised?

 And we have yet another person making the rounds about how she ought to come back to acting, yada, yada, family would likely support this and so on (claims of how good she is). This time it is Eric Roberts who worked beside her (no idea if he was invited to the wedding or not).  Last month or maybe it was the month before there was some other article about being in some movie thing with lots of others.  Her part was for a day or two as I recall. Before that it was in a clip for Clevr Brands.  Don't know if you can count the various Netflix shows or not.   When I think of where she lives, it's not near the centers of where things are really happening in acting world.  That would make it hard to get back into that kind of circulation.  Montecito reminds me of Frogmore.  Each was out there and far from a lot of other action, nightlife, edgy events.  But what do I know?  I don't live near either and have no real direct knowledge. ...

 I've been thinking long and hard about the upcoming trip Down Under.  I don't think it will likely go as planned.   Last time it was all about how they out did everyone - even his father and mother in that place.  The numbers were off the charts (not really - compare to the Pope and so on).  This is where the idea that they could outshine the Family and so the Family was in fear of their power, awe and draw seems to have originated. Back then, they were the new, shiny and she's pregnant.  Now, things have changed.  Life has moved on. They would no longer be there on a British Royal Tour.  William and Catherine, would be.  Big difference.   I think a couple things.    One is that the numbers of people out to look/greet them will be much lower all the way around for the Duo.  Not official so less flashy, probably not likely to do as well as last time when they were unknown AND not as great as for William and Cathe...

 Andrew has been arrested and the police are looking about.  Not certain what could still be around but it is what it is. What I wonder about is how this could open up the flood gates to how to handle the California bunch. Thoughts?

 I read somewhere an observation of parallels of Harry and his mother - of how they both appeared to become bored after they no longer had their official duties.  And how they seemed adrift as to what to do next  with themself . I started thinking then of how Diana (probably) had certain expectations of what love, marriage would be (maybe he loves me, only me and not her, happy ever after and who knows but perhaps that marriage is all sweetness, light, happy and joy like in a romance novel) ... which leads to expectations of what marriage might have been for Harry's wife.  Or even Harry. Oh boy.  I don't recall marriage comments but do remember how he talked and wrote about how he wanted for his kids to be able to grow up with their cousins, second cousins in what sounds like how he grew up playing with family, doing the annual this and that with family (minus his parents not getting along).  A vestige of his childhood he wanted to repeat, pass on as import...

 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 peopl...

 Loud noise about how Harry "won" a review of his protection status - although the article (DM so far) was that it may/was initiated by the Home Office.   Maybe?  Maybe not. One of the comments was that actually it was part of a periodic review to see if the safety status has changed.  It's been, what, five years? That would be logical.  Status can change and therefore their interpretation of safe/not safe would need to be adjusted.  Timing is good. The comments are running heavily in the No, don't give him an upgrade.  Hot and heavy there.  But ... sometimes I like to read the opposite comments to see how they phrase/look at the world.  And, how their supportive numbers are running.  Only a fraction supportive when you compare to don't give in group.  Vocal?  yes.  Massive?  no.

 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 hand...

 Talk going around that the next direction for her business might be into make up.  This may be part of the discussion(s) with Kris Jenner since make up as a concept is part of the overall Kardashian business plan.  It did give Kylie $1.2 Billion when it sold 51% to Coty.  Kim sold part of her SKKN (20% for $200 Million) to Coty as well.  As of June neither was known to be happy about how they felt the direction each brand was being managed.   Make up can be very lucrative.  Quite.  Forbes has an article of just how lucrative it has been for some people.  People like Hailey Bieber (Rhode to elf for up to $1 billion but the deal has other founders and is said to be stretched over years).  I also saw a list (Forbes) almost 30 people who are either billionaires or mega millionaires through make up.  Some inherited the business (think the various Lauders).  But is that a realistic (meaning good) idea, now? I'm not quite so cer...

 Well, that is a plot twist - Prince Andrew is giving up titles - announced by the Palace. Dude is willing enough to face the future without that after his name.  Say what you will but he is being honorable about this (we may not ever know the details of what it took to get it).  Is there something else to come out we don't know about (yet) or is it just it has taken this long to drag out negotiations between the various parties to ink a deal?  Time will tell. For him, I wonder how it will play out about Royal Lodge.  A place he has been totally unwilling to leave.  Or how it will play out for the future of his daughters.  Sarah - let's not go there.  It is a real twist already.  We don't gloat here. BUT what about how it could impact the duo?   Well, well, well. Takes the whole racist claim off the table (and into the nearest deep ocean never to be taken seriously again by most who might have bought it previously).  Expect it ...

 So I read Richard Eden's article in the DM about how recent events from the couple are actually part of a calculated plan to change how the family views them and ... how the UK views them ... and then they can come back yadda yadda and * will  "... ‘Meghan will return to Britain before the year is out,’ the friend tells me, adding jokingly that she will be ‘bearing humble pie’. It remains to be seen whether ‘bearing humble pie’ - and eating it, presumably - is sufficient to placate the Royal Family or the British people.... ". He ends with a comment about how he would not accept this unless she apologizes to the various BRF for hurting them. Ok.  He also mentions a specific person (1, count it one) Yvette Cooper, who  is new to the job as Foreign Secretary who specifically is open to him, presumable * as well, being more active in the British spheres.  What more active might or might not be is not defined. What we don't know: Is how well she knows him and fo...

H doesn't think he aired any dirty laundry in Spare or Netflix (or we suppose any of the other sources of what they were thinking or feeling like with the Oprah interview or Omid Scobie's books) according to an article on the Daily Mail.  And, he has a clean conscience.  Difficult but hard truth he was promoting. Really?   He talked of setting up his father driving in a car by a guy in a plane who didn't know it was the Prince of Wales he was ordered by H to follow before being redirected elsewhere.  He talks of how his brother tried to make him acknowledge that * was being disruptive to the staff - physical fighting and his bracelet was broken.  The list goes on and on. No one but he and his wife come out looking good.  They are innocent victims of a modern persecution by his family against them.    In another article was more about what and where there had been some problems between the two couples.  So it doesn't say this ... but...

 It was about the length of a cup of tea (more or less) but what do you think really happened? I am expecting lots and lots of ink about how the two have reconciled, suddenly all is well between the two and expect unicorns in the garden with elves throwing glitter in the air level of happy walk into the sunset. Full reconciliation?  Are you mad? Have you looked at the definition lately?  It's about settling a disagreement, making someone accept something unpleasant or restoring friendly relations.  And, in that short a time period?  get real.  It is about enough time to ask how you like your tea now adays, ask about your health (times two for both sides), make some polite conversation about weather, show a couple of photos of the kids and sip the tea. Probably stilted conversation with prearranged topics as well as ones which would be banned like security.  Or a complete return to the UK (with support from the King).  Also minders present before, ...

The definition of doldrums is about stagnation, inactivity and or depression. Well, they aren't inactive.  We don't know about depression.  Stagnation?  well maybe as it refers to not flowing or moving.   They sorta have some stuff going on - her second season (side note: uproar about Chrissy Teigen and bullying) and he's coming back to the UK for something but other than that?  Not much is shaking and baking from them. However, there is an ever so slight uptick on articles which point out something negative.  Even on both sides of the pond.