W has always been the golden boy, H just had some positive yrs and a huge charisma in his favor. In their 20’s W looked doomed doing things bc it’s tradition and playing a bored married life before time, while H was the youthful passionate about everything he was involved. In my teens I became fan of the shy and mature teen W, but got annoyed with his “taking time” for this and that and tought it was excuses, but now looking at his steady life seems he knew what was the right thing to do.

anonymoushouseplantfan:

Yep.

newyorker:

How Women See How Male Authors See Them

The canon is lousy with authors who yearn to be admired for their sensitivity to the full range of female personhood, be that personhood luscious, pert, or swelling coyly against a sheer camisole. These are writerly men confident that they’ve nailed women’s psyches, all because of how single-mindedly they want to nail women.

Read more on the ridiculousness that ensues when bookish men perform interest in women’s inner lives out of a misbegotten sense of nobility. 

Both brothers sought out what they wanted to be themselves in their spouses. William who always wanted to be normal, picked a normal woman, albeit one that was still wealthy enough to be apart of his circle. He wanted a solid, discreet, countryside loving life. Harry through Diana became obsessed with celebrity. He’s a spare in the BRF, but he can make waves as a celebrity, just like divorced Diana who lost her HRH. It’s where he feels prized and influential, and superior to his family.

anonymoushouseplantfan:

This is very insightful. Thanks.

I think we all pretty much agree that MM is a narcissist. Even family members have called her that. What do you think about Harry’s personality? I can’t quite figure him out. Maybe because his PR was so good in the days after the Vegas fiasco. Just not sure what to make of him. Is he needy? Why was he so desperate to win over a D-list TV soap actress? I don’t understand him at all.

anonymoushouseplantfan:

You are asking the wrong person because I cannot, for the life of me, understand it either.

But he’s been fishing in D-list waters for a long time. People say Meghan “isn’t his usual type,” but that’s because they are just looking at Cress and Chelsy. He also dated Natalie Pinkham, Caroline Flack, Flo What’sHerFace, Mollie King, etc… He was flirting heavily with that Dr. Who actress at the polo. Katie Nicholls says he was handing out phone numbers to every starlet he could find. JLaw said she turned down a date request from KP. There was also that Burberry model he was dating when he was “falling for” Meg.

When you think of it, there were a lot more starlets than there were aristos in his rolodex. I think Cress and Chelsy were the ones who were allowed to become “official” girlfriends. I don’t think he was able to get any of the celeb girlfriends approved. 

Then Meghan came along and refusing her was racist and, voila, he finally found a celeb girlfriend he could force through. They couldn’t say not to her.

I don’t understand why, but I think he really is star-struck. It’s bizarre.

I think the 20th – 21st – CHOGM ended so won’t interfere with that. Plus Cambridge #3 should have arrived and will distract a bit. HM’s birthday so she won’t have to be at any family celebration. But yeah the 17th sounds good too. Also avoids HM’s birthday even better. But this is ending. There won’t be a wedding. She’ll show for the 6th and maybe the youth forum but it is clear this is done.

I can’t say that the Queen’s birthday on April 21st will be a happy occasion for her this year.

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anonymoushouseplantfan:

was wondering since i also read other tumblers, and you seem pretty sure there is going to be a wedding. what makes you so certain?. there are never any pictures of her with harry. even kate is pictured grocery shopping. everything seems to be consistently proven to be fake about Meghan from not living at nott cott, not ever going to Africa with harry and prince charles not attending the baptism because he was at another engagement etc. just to name a few. a lot of fake pr from her side, but you seem to believe the press a lot. i hope these questions dont offend you, just wondering why?


I’m not offended. I believe there will be a wedding mostly because KP has said that there will be a wedding and Harry has said there will be a wedding. They put seals on it and gave interviews. It’s as legit as it can be.

I know A LOT of this relationship is fake pr (including, sadly, stuff that has actually been said by KP), but I do believe those two things. The military really is mobilizing for this and they really are contracting for new trumpets and stuff. The government really is instituting security measures. Charity workers really are receiving invitations. That is not just press magic. Those are actual official releases, budget provisions, and interviews with real people.

That being said, I won’t be crying into my coffee if it turns out that there is no wedding. I’ll be happy to eat heaping plates of crow and congratulate the other bloggers on having been right all along. I don’t really have an ego about this. I truly believe that this wedding is a disaster for the BRF and Harry, and if it doesn’t happen I’ll be celebrating along with everyone else. I won’t even mind if all of tumblr sends me “YOU WERE TOTES WRONG, PLANT” anons. Heck, I’d welcome them. I’d love to be wrong about this.

But, sadly, I don’t think I am.

A lot of what this anon writes has to do with the Conspiracy Trio and their “agreement” theory, as far as I’m concerned. They can’t bring themselves to admit that this is a legitimate engagement because doing so means they would have to place some blame on Harry’s head for this. And they won’t do that. So instead they’ve created a crazy “agreement” theory that IF IT WERE TRUE would actually end the monarchy because millions of people in the UK would be pissed off that THE QUEEN had trolled the entire nation and commonwealth about a false engagement and wedding that were never going to happen. The Conspiracy Trio is too deep in their denial to realize this.

Megs is currently the girlfriend Harry karmically deserves but not the one he needs. Life is just going to throw some curveballs here in the next month to fix that.

Between april 15 and 22 kate will give birth and because you see a death too i have a bad feeling that might be not philip. Hope i’m wrong.

I think you’re making things up in your head. There is nothing wrong with Kate. 

Most articles put the likelihood of Kate giving birth in late April. Even Meghan’s friend Lainey mentions today Kate giving birth in late April.

If I was going to harbor a guess of when Kate is going to give birth–which is something I’m not really interested in–then I would guess between 0900 on 22 April and 0900 on 24 April.

I will say this, H has nearly met his match with her. Fortunately for him, M is an amateur man-eater so he might stand a chance. She stroked his ego for a year and half before she started trying to break him. That’ll backfire on her. It took her a year to get a proposal, when it should have only taken about 3 mths. H still tells her off, that should have been nipped in the bud by 4 mths in. She had no time limits-bad strategy-amateur hour

anonymoushouseplantfan:

Well, she waited until she got the ring to start making him over.

You know, I don’t think of her as a man-eater. I view man-eaters as women who are into the thrill of the hunt and are kind of cynical about using men.I don’t think Meghan is not like that.

I think Meghan has a very specific goals she expects to achieve in each relationship. I think she honestly goes into the relationship thinking this will be The One who will turn her into a Hollywood star (Trevor), a lifestyle maven (Cory), or a humanitarian fashion icon (Harry). When, due to her own shortcomings, the expected goal is not achieved she turns sour on the man and starts looking around for the next self-transformation (with suitable male abettor).

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anonymoushouseplantfan:

Patricia Treble’s analysis of the Royals engagements.  HM is actually 24% above last year.  And she has comment about Harry’s leisurely work schedule.  Thinks he wil drop out of the top 10 royals by April at this rate.  Not good when your pregnant sister in law beats you.  Will has almost doubled his numbers.  PC as always with Anne are the workhorses of the RF along with HM.  

https://writeroyalty.com/royal-family-work-stats-for-the-first-quarter-of-2018/


Thanks! That is very interesting. Here are Harry’s numbers from that blog post.

And he’s only that high because he is counting his lunches and African vacays in that total.

Sophie and Edward are doing great as well. I’m glad to see that. I just hope Kate keeps her work schedule up after the baby is born.