I am sorry if this sounds like a truly stupid question but could you please explain the principle of “merching” to me (how it works), also if you wouldn’t mind “YATCHING” too.. never heard that term in the UK. Thank you.

anonymoushouseplantfan:

“Merching” is when a celeb is paid to wear clothing or accessories. 

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/03/hollywood-fashion-stylists-rachel-zoe-leslie-fremar

“Yatching” is when a low-tier celeb is paid to be “eye candy” or “companionship” at an event. 

http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2016/08/today-blind-items-i-worked-on-yacht.html

http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2016/08/today-blind-items-i-worked-on-yacht_2.html

All the dirt is going to come about Meghan bit by bit throughout November. When do you think sh*t will really hit the fan? I remember you saying November will be terrible for Harry.

I don’t think all of the dirt is going to come out. I expect articles about how Megs treats staff to come out, particularly an article or two about her behavior on the tour. Think of that 6 minute visit to the market in Fiji. I would love to read more about that from a staff member who thinks Megs behaved in a complete bullshit manner, which she did. (For a comparison, see this part of Charles in a market buying things and paying attention to the vendors.)

It wouldn’t surprise me if an article hits the UK press as early as Thursday or Friday of next week. Meg’s behavior during the trashtastic tour would probably be my first guess. I think the odds are in favor of a merching article coming out at some point given that the personal assistant, Melissa, worked in Hollywood. She would know the ins & outs of merching, and given her six months with the royal family, she would know that the merching wasn’t something Megs should be doing. But Megs went ahead and did it anyway. 

So, I’d imagine that from now until…probably the first week in December we’ll see articles appearing that Megs and Harry would rather not see published. 

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Re: Madonna being a diva. She’s actually not. In a city where even the most basic banker dude thinks they’re entitled to private school and then scurry off to the suburbs when Precious Jr can’t get admitted to them / they realize they can’t afford it, Madonna sent her daughter to a public school. Yes it’s a great magnet school for the arts but even the most fake crunchy hippie celebs do not do public school. And Lourdes is lovely and down to earth and not trying to be a Kardashian.

anonymoushouseplantfan:

Thanks!

Other things you missed

keepingupwiththebananadrama:

anonymoushouseplantfan:

1. H&M didn’t send out thank you notes. A WEEK ago someone on KP staff sent out a form letter in lieu of a thank you note on behalf of H&M. Not even signed by them or from them. From a staff person apologizing for no note. The assumption is that they were jealous of a story about Eugenie handwriting thank you notes. It came out that they never sent them, so a staffer got to send the form letters.

2. This is from a closed facebook group that gossips about Meg. Tom Jr and his fiancee are in the group. LOL.

This is from the Charltan Duchess blog:

Some ☕️ from a member in our MMTCD closed FB group! 

Grab your tea and try not to say “I told you so” to the #sugars! 

Just a heads up this is a lengthy read. 

Several weeks ago a childhood friend of mine came to our home town to visit. He is an actor. He has study at Juilliard He has been on Broadway, movies, and several tv shows. Heck, he has even been nominated for a Tony a couple of years back. I’m going to remain his name anonymous. 

I asked him if he has ever met Meghan Markle or know any stories about her.

Well, he has met her and did he have stories.

In 2014 through a connection he had an audition for Suits. He was only going to be on two episodes. He had a reading with several actors. One of them was with MM. She came off rude, distrustful and any other negative description you can think of. She didn’t like my friend because he was 5’8. And, gave him a hard time. They had a short conversation about his experience. She walked away when he told her that he went to Juilliard. Several days later, he was offered the part. Though the same day he also got offered a part to a Broadway play, which got him a Tony nomination. 

His connection he had with Suits was someone who worked with the sound. His gentleman shared many stories with my “friend” about MM. 

-What you see from shots from her and the cast members are for the cameras. She treated those who worked behind the cameras with rudeness. Like they were not worthy enough. 

– During an interview she talked about how she stood up the director, producer, and a writer about her skin exposure on screen. Not true. She enjoyed it. Because of that they were going to fire her. Perfect time, that’s when she was getting closer to PH. 

-She does wear hair extensions or/and a wig. For the reasons we all suspect. 

-She threw a fit when she wasn’t invited to any award shows. 

-She is a regular at SoHo in Malibu and Toronto. 

-Any rumor that anyone may have heard about her is more than likely true. Such as being a “yacht girl”. There was rumored on the set she was pregnant. 

-Just recently (two weeks or so) MM reached out to the producers of Suits. Whispers are that she wants to come back. Which makes me think she knows she’s screwed with the RF. 

I’m sure I’m missing something. It was just a lot of information that someone gives you. Also, if my “friend” here’s anything else, he’ll let me know. Please let me know if you need any more clarification. 

Have a great day! And, as always, stay classy and true! 👑

3. Someone (Meg) tried to buy off/payoff Jess with a Jaguar. A person from Jag said a 105K jag was given to Jess. Jess and Ben denied taking ownership of said car in social media rantings. But, Jaguar stands by it claim.

4. The Soho house connections are surfacing again. Someone according to CDAN is ready to rat her out. People are guessing Markus bc is a secret boyfriend of an A list actor who is married (Eddie Redmayne). Pic of Meg w Eddie at Soho are coming out again in DM. Eddie is apparently former roommates w Markus.


Thanks for sending this in!

beachdeath:

lynseyaddario: At a cemetery in Georgia in 2016, Lucy McBath weeps over the grave of her son, Jordan Davis, who was killed by a white man at 17 years old at a gas station in Florida after being accused of playing loud music. After her son’s murder, Lucy became a gun control activist, and was just elected to Congress in Georgia. Her win, which unseats Republican Rep. Karen Handel, seems only more poignant the morning after 12 people were gunned down in California. 

Hi Plant! Glad you are stopping by. As I am sure you know by now, Meg’s assistant suddenly quit bc of her abuse and KP had to write her a check (I assume not to sue or maybe to keep silent). She had words with BP staff wanting a tiara shoe wasn’t tp get, and HM then had to have word w Harry about what a B Meg is. In the last few days the press seems to be turning on her. Thank God! XOXO

anonymoushouseplantfan:

I’m going to have to duck back into hiatus because my dead-in-the-water project is now alive and kicking (Yaaaaaassssss!), but I’m loving all this gossip right now.

I’m amazed that after all the crap this woman has pulled the one thing that gets her a slap in the wrist (in the form of courtiers talking to the press) is mistreatment of staff. Wow. Good for them.

What blows my mind is that this wasn’t some delicate aristo English rose having the vapors because Megs raised her voice. This was Madonna’s PA, someone who is used to divas and she was going to sue. Meghan must be hell on wheels if she’s out-diva-ing Madge. The leaks and blinds aren’t even calling her a diva. They’re flat-out calling her an abuser and whatever happened was so bad that the brf felt compelled to flatter the aide publicly.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/uknews/7706765/meghan-markles-personal-assistant-quits-six-months-after-royal-wedding/

http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2018/11/blind-item-6_10.html

Oh thank goodness your back!!! Have you read The Times article on Meghan throwing a tantrum about a tiara she couldn’t wear? The Queen was said to be “taken aback” by her “temper tantrums” and even had to talk to Harry about it… Now there is a blind claiming Meghan almost got sued for being verbally abusive to a member of her staff that just quite.

anonymoushouseplantfan:

The palace is letting it rip and I love it. There are three corroborations. THREE!!!

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/queen-warned-harry-about-meghan-tiara-tantrum-sx9bts5q5

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/7695724/royal-wedding-meghan-markle-difficult-behaviour/#Echobox=1541715689

And the timeline is that he got a private reprimand. Then it went into Jobson’s book, and now that the aide quit and sued they put it in the Sun and the Times. They are trying desperately to get these two to behave and it’s just not working. 

Meghan has balls of steel. Asking a family she was just marrying into for the biggest crown and throwing a temper tantrum when she didn’t get it! Not only that but the family is paying for her third wedding. And I love how HM apparently said why is she even wearing a veil when she was married before? Well meghan we see what the family you never had thinks of you today.

anonymoushouseplantfan:

Not only that. She then wore a copy of HM’s veil! After the Queen questioned it.

 And her assistant was quitting and threatening to sue for abuse and this woman was leaking “Kind Queen Invites Doria Over for Xmas” stories to snag a Sandringham invite for her mom. That’s after skipping Charles’ documentary two months after the man saves her crap ass by walking her down the aisle.

She has cojones like no one I’ve ever seen before. “You don’t think I should wear a veil then I’m going to wear YOUR veil.” “Thanks for saving my wedding, but, no, I don’t feel like being in your documentary.” “Thanks for paying off my assistant, btw, I want my mom over for Christmas.”

The NBC people must be laughing their butts off with these stories. 

Kate is wearing another loan from HM . Thats the relationship we want to see

talkingtarot:

Amen to that! Dang, another dig at the #Harkles. The Cambridge’s not only got seated front and center and way closer upfront compared to them (when they should be if not on the same row the row behind them) but Kate also got another loan. Yikes, sucks to be in the Sussex fandom today. 

QE knows what team Kate’s on. 

Agreed, a relationship we truly want to see. 

keepingupwiththetarot:

Q: What does Melissa think of Meghan Markle?

What I see/feel: the first image I get is her looking directly at me. That’s a first, I’m thinking she is very in tune with tarot, astrology, etc. She’s outside somewhere, the wind is blowing. The few times I get a glimpse of her face I am drawn to her eyes and they are angry. She is truly pissed. Oh gets weirder. My shoulders get heavy and I stop dealing cards, almost in a trance. I see her looking angry and it’s almost like she touches me and I start getting these flashes of images. Nothing makes sense and nothing is clear, but she wants me to see what she’s seen. Right now my frontal lobe feels really heavy. My face hurts because after that trance I’ve been frowning the whole time. She’s trying to find a way around the NDA, something is brewing.

Where are you getting that the resigned aide worked for Madonna? Amy the PA worked for Madonna, but I don’t think she’s the PA who quit. The aide who resigned is quoted as being “Melissa”. Do you have a source?

anonymoushouseplantfan:

PopBitch blind from June:

We reported a few weeks ago that some of the more old school members of the Royal household didn’t know what to make of the new Duchess of Sussex, so invented the nickname “Meghan The Menace”.

Their eyebrows have been raised further with Ms Markle’s choice of personal aide. Not a tried and trusted Royal adviser or an experienced aristo to help her navigate the choppy waters of royal etiquette, but someone from the celebrity world, whose biggest previous job was working for Madonna.

Buckingham Palace staff are already dining out on a tale of how Meghan’s new girl was calling up big brands and asking for freebies, as if her boss was in the cast of Love Island rather than married to the Queen’s grandson.

https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/172777/Madonna-s-former-assistant-pleads-with-fans-over-memorabilia

(Credit to an anonymous poster who made the Melissa Crow connection)

“At least she wore one and there’s no tag hanging from it.” I find it pretty funny and at the same sad that the bar is 6 feet under with MM and basic (royal) standards. What I mean all the “at least” people have to use and this marriage is less than a year. Just so you know, I’m not talking about what you said. I just use it as an example. But people say “at least” a lot in talking about her at these events. Welcome Back🙃☺🙃

anonymoushouseplantfan:

Oh, I say it a lot. I think that’s where we are with this woman. I officially stopped comparing her to Kate a month ago. There is simply no comparison. Kate is a royal and Meghan is a celebrity.

I think it’s hilarious that ABC is doing a Princess Diaries special about “how her life has changed.” Her life HASN’T changed. She just booked a new role and is now pretending to be a princess in front of the cameras instead of pretending to be a paralegal. She still has her merching and Soho House contracts. She’s still leaking like crazy to the press. She’s now using KP twitter and Instagram as a KensingTIG Palace blog/social media platform (credit to KUWTBD for coming up with that). She’s still doing a once-a-year charity photoshoot and hyping it to the ends of the earth. There HAS been NO CHANGE. She’s still the crap Hollywood celeb she always was.

I applaud her whenever she manages to show up somewhere with brushed hair and ironed clothes that are not see-through. That’s how low the bar is right now.

H&M are going to get worse because nothing happens to them,the Royal Family always burried or spin the PR disasters to saves their asses,I bet on the next engagement,MM will be wearing a 5k bespoke dress,they will do PDA,tacky bellycup and Doria will be in Sandringham,that’s the problem with the Royal Family,they bury their heads in the sand until the ‘problem=H&M’ completely get out of control and explode,the wedding= ‘Markle Debacle’ is a great explemple of this

anonymoushouseplantfan:

Exactly. They gave them a private reprimand during the wedding, but also gave them a train ride to Chester and Trooping and Ascot and all that crap. It’s mixed signals.

I think it’s significant that they finally felt compelled to go to the press and separate households. Too bad a staff member had to sue to get that to happen. Now, of course, they will go back to doling out goodies and press appearances, and the Harkles will misbehave again.

I do suspect that other things may be happening in the near future that won’t be “doling out goodies” though…

Why do you think all these bad articles are coming out about her right now? Somethin must be brewing.

anonymoushouseplantfan:

Semi-official slap on the wrist so she stops it with the tantrums, demands and staff abuse. 

I know her fans claim that these are all lies and misrepresentations, but they could not possibly make it more official than three leaks, one to the Times and one to an official biographer. 

BTW, this totally explains the absence of “trusty and well-loved.” That was 100% on purpose.

The royals give Meghan a free pass because they stupidly think that she makes them more relatable to Commonwealth citizens in Africa, Caribbean, Asia. Apart from a handful of elites in these countries trying to curry favour with the royals, the vast majority could not care less. Royals draw the line at mistreatment of staff ONLY because are 100% dependent on the enormous staff to protect them from the public and create public goodwill.

anonymoushouseplantfan:

The staff knows where all the bodies are buried. They HAVE to keep them happy. Meghan has done a lot of stupid things, but abusing an employee who has gold-plated media contacts and ALL THE MERCHING RECEIPTS is probably the stupidest thing she has ever done.

I think having a biracial family member does give them additional credibility with minorities. It’s just not as huge a benefit as they expected, partly because Harry and Meghan are doing a stellar job at promoting themselves and their “bump” and an absolutely crap job at promoting the family and its interests. The scholarships were barely mentioned, the Commonwealth canopy was an afterthought, The Queen wasn’t even mentioned in the official suffrage anniversary congratulations, and Charles was a footnote with regards to the environmental stuff. It was all MEMEMEMEMEME.

Mm will be livid she was put in the back where you can barely see her. How is she supposed to merch her new dress and touch her bump like this? Cameras won’t get it properly! Btw the articles about her being a b*tch also said Kate had clashed with her over the treatment of staff. Guess K&W pushed for separation cause they wanted nothing to do with her bully attitude

anonymoushouseplantfan:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/meghan-markles-personal-assistant-quits-13565809

Or her legal troubles. 

So, do you think the emerald tiara that Meg threw a fit about was Eugenie’s or the Grand Duchess Vladimir (or maybe an unknown one)? The “Russian origins” thing makes me think it’s the GDV, bc Eugenie’s doesn’t have any known Russian connections, and it would soooo be like Meg to demand one of HM’s personal favorites, and one that is considered very iconic. Maybe she though that she would also get the emerald stuff that Diana had.

anonymoushouseplantfan:

I think the reporters are hinting that it was Eugenie’s tiara. I think she wanted Di’s emeralds as an engagement ring and the same thing happened. She ended up with a generic version.

I think Harry merched one of shirts he wore on the tour because MM Mirror got details and suspiciously MM wore a shirt from the exact same brand on the exact same day. The two other times MM Mirror got details on Harry’s clothes was when he wore that William-blue Everlane sweater and the olive Club Monaco coat. I think they hoped for him to merch more because MM Mirror set up a Dress like a Duke site around February/March and their twitter is empty

anonymoushouseplantfan:

He’s definitely merching. 

“This one? I’ll check it out.” yes, this.

anonymoushouseplantfan:

The good stuff starts at 9:20. “Bit of a tyrant,” “likes people who have money and power,” “very difficult on friends.” Then again at 12:00 “he’s angry but his anger is hidden,” “anger and confusion and delusion…hidden,” “he actually has quite a temper,” “very frustrated in the public eye…wants to be in another country…Africa maybe in the States.”  Then at 16:00 “I think Harry is a big moaner…he’s not happy with his duty,” “I don’t think he likes anything having to do with structure…his diary being full.” At 20:00 “very unusual decision in his own business portfolio…online businesses,” “on the lookout for interesting ways to make money…unusual ways to make money.”  

She also talks about a “hidden Harry,” but I’m not sure he’s so hidden any more. 

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The Best Moments from Prince, Son and Heir: Charles at 70

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catherinemiddletonmafia:

“She was very supportive. In fact, she took the time to make sure that I was happy and looked-after, for that particular occasion. Which, in probably everything that she is doing is a very small element, but it shows how caring she is really.” 

The Duchess of Cambridge speaking on Queen Elizabeth II’s support in the ITV documentary “Our Queen at 90.”