Hi Plant! I imagined you saw CB’s post about Markle’s expensive clothing, and OF COURSE, Kaiser blamed all the criticizing about her crazy expending on racism! (And, of course, she threw Kate under the bus, as always!) I’m so tired of this delusional, faux feminist bitch and her fake outrage about everything, she’s gotten so delusional that even the majority of the people in the comments were disagreeing with her. They were saying that they didn’t criticized her because of her race but because that money was coming out of the British people’s pockets and that England wasn’t stable enough right now to be expending money on some z-lister’s I’ll fitting clothes, which it shocked me, since Kaiser only accepts comments that agree with her point of view. Honestly, the first time I saw Markle I thought she was white, it never crossed my mind that she was biracial, much less black (which she isn’t) I’m honestly so over people blaming everything on racism, sexism or whining about something as stupid as ‘micro aggressions’ (which by the way, WTF is that??) sometimes you just criticize someone because you can see right through their bullshit, thirstiness and fakeness. Just like most people do with Markle.
Thanks for sending this in. I lol’d at the racism charge. Seriously? Kate faced this exact same criticism for a much smaller bill. Mary and Letizia get criticized every year. Sofia was lambasted last year and she spent like forty thousand euros or something like that–that covers maybe two of Meghan’s outfits. How is it racist to maybe start thinking that Meghan is spending too much when she’s hit the seven figures in six months? At the rate she’s going Meghan will have spent more in one year than Kate spend in her entire Duchess life. Heck, she may spend more than ALL the royal ladies together spent in 2017.
LOL, it’s “racist” to think that it’s too much money. And they bring up Kate’s clothes too. Dude, THE WHOLE POINT is that Meghan is spending ten times Kate’s yearly budged in six months, THAT’S THE WHOLE POINT.
Kate was famously wearing Reiss during her first year–heck, she recycled her engagement dress during the Canada tour–and she was STILL criticized for spending too much money. Kate was absolutely dragged for that 50k bill and it was a small fraction of what Meghan has spent.
And let’s not even mention that Meghan looks like absolute crap in her expensive couture. Her best looks so far have been the Halo dress, the blue off-the-rack Roland Mouret, and the black capris at polo this weekend. According to Katie Nicholls, Megs is now in the market for a stylist. That means she knows she’s royally fucking up. LOL, this is now the fifth person they’ve brought in to help.
This relationship just revealed who he truly was, imo. That’s why the royal reporters all jumped on the romance bandwagon while the fandom was still thinking that she was just another press-hungry starlet using his name for publicity. They knew about the celeb-chasing, the Soho House dates and the Botswana booty calls. They’d known for years.
I worked with people who were in those circles in the Diana days. Stories get told. I do not think Diana wanted to take the BRF down. She wanted to take Charles down. And she essentially succeeded. Diana was a very politically astute woman. She “became” whatever the group she was with wanted her to be. If you were a republican crowd Diana would drop hints as to being republican and of course then that group adored her. Which is what she wanted. To be adored. More than Charles. So people projected their own desires on to her. Something she did deliberately. Hence you get these stories about her wanting revenge and taking the BRF down.
Peter Hitchens has a remarkable take on Diana. “ If what I saw on that cold morning had been what the public were used to, her reputation and effect on the world might have been completely different. She looked a good deal more like the formidable natural politician she was, and a good deal less like the breathtakingly pretty but rather lost and lonely young woman most people thought she was. But the camera loved her so much that the world saw the naïve and lovely victim, not the brilliant wielder of public relations skills and tactical genius.”
Harry is not his mother he is not tactical genius but like Diana we project on to him our motives and desires. Harry does not desire the abolition of the monarchy any more than his mother did. I suspect Harry just wants a good time and his father’s attention.
Thanks for sending this in. It’s very insightful and I’m going to have to re-read that Peter Hitchens piece.
Pt 2. Ultimately he thinks this branding approach destroys monarchy. And that is Diana’s real legacy. Whether she want5ed it or not. Her appeal was to those who held a grievance especially women. Not because she was some great humanitarian. So Markle in order to achieve her Diana status must appeal to that same sense of grievance – she was done wrong by the BRF. And that is what the BRF must not let happen. Hence the mil wardrobe and all these gestures of acceptance.
This is very insightful too. It explains the constant “protocol breaches” articles and all the other pieces we are seeing right now (loves garlic but can’t eat it, etc…). I thought the change of title of that NYPost article was interesting. It went from “fashion disaster” to “royal life destroyed her style” and then started getting copied.
I think there is a real thirst out there for the “royal victim” narrative right now. I think the sugars think it’s because of racism and many of my anons think it’s Meghan manipulating the coverage, but I think your “grievance attraction” theory should get a hearing. There seems to be a thirst out there for that particular story. No matter how much money they spend on this woman or how many “bffs with HM” pics they put out there, it simply will not go away.
Okay, the segment starts at 25:00. It’s not very interesting except for the epic awkwardness between the hosts at the beginning and the co-host saying “okay, time to talk about Meghan Markle, another chance for Melanie to get more hate messages.”
Okay, at the end of the video they start talking about the Givenchy and Melanie goes “I can show you my tweets” because she has been swamped with troll attacks. LOLOLOLOL
Do all Californians and people who move to California have bad taste in clothes. Geez that one chick thinks Rachel looked amazing while wearing floaters on her arms
the grievance theory is about women who feel aggrieved by mistreatment of some sort from men – who symbolize the “establishment”. Diana was in this telling the victim of a man Charles and the establishment which rallied around him. So women who also felt “aggrieved” by men (legitimately or not) identified with Diana hence her winning the War of the Wales. She successfully manipulated the pr to paint herself as this victim and found herself supported by a horde of well placed females in US society – Tina Brown as an example or the “fashionistas” like Anna Wintour. Diana the triumphant victim was touted heavily in the pages of Vogue by these women. MM do note has no such support although she courted it.
Charles could not possibly win. Those who sought to support him were largely men. Although he found support in a number of male anti establishment figures such as Christopher Hitchens who happily and I’d suggest accurately railed on about the “cult” of Diana. PC was never a fashionista LOL and he did not court the media figures in NYC. He couldn’t.
This is what MM aspires to. And do note her “sugars” are primarily young women who use social media to aggressively attack anyone even another woman who dare suggest that MM is lacking in any way. Providing a whole new twist to the Diana pr war. Rebecca English gets threatened with an acid attack because she mildly suggest a 56K dress is not appropriate. Emilia Wickstead gets attacked because she makes the obvious observation that the dress did not fit (although a male designer who made the same observation was not attacked). Melanie Bromley who by and large is a sugar and even Emily Andrews the super sugar also get attacked for statements of fact.
This is what the RF faces with Markle – a nightmare I am sure for those in the family who went through the Diana days. Only with now the additional weapon of social media. The grievance now is elitism and race potent weapons in the aggrieved victim sweepstakes.
Harry is irrelevant in many ways to this struggle. My sources say he was trapped by his own foolishness into the marriage and has deep regrets. He is certainly no rebel and will ultimately adhere to what the family requires. The real issue is how does the BRF deal with this nightmarish repeat of grievance politics? It would seem they have decided to allow her to do whatever she wants – to merch and leak and secure pr to her hearts content. To give her royal and family events to demonstrate how accepted she is. So under no circumstances can they be accused of failing to support her. She will of course at divorce carry on about her “grievances” against the establishment stifling her etc. They can only hope the obvious support she has received will result in her complaints looking like ingratitude and nonsense. Most of all they are probably hoping she will lose media support. Without the media she can’t get much traction of whatever grievances she may air.
I always though if Diana had not dyed her mousy ash colored hair into that vibrant glamorous blonde she’d never have become what she became. Poor Markle even with hair dye could never equal Di’s ability to project to the camera that beauty and glamour.
IMHO – I think the media is starting to turn. This is why her failure as a fashion icon is so important. If she is not making money for the media she is of no use to them. And she has failed as a fashion icon. Her move to “youthful” lower cost fashion is a sign of that failure. No money making equals no media support which equals no way to air her grievances. Her social media minions are irrelevant then. This time the RF wins. Maybe.
“I had such a build up for Wonder Woman, I got the part in 2012. I was so ready, I had these months of me getting super excited about this character, I literally just wanted to attack, to give it a bite, to dive in. And the only thing that I cared about was telling Diana’s story.” —
Gal Gadot.
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Putting the shallow stuff aside for a second, Maxima is an amazing royal and I’m really so pleased to see her in the UK. I would love her to meet Kate and bond because she has been so incredible for other royal women. Charlene once said, “Maxima has been unbelievably supportive if I need help with anything. Because she came from Argentina and moved to Holland, we have made similar lifestyle choices. She has given me advice that I identified with.” Maxima offered support to Crown Princess Masako when she was dealing with her mental illness and it was so meaningful to Masako that she made her first overseas appearance in years at Maxima and WA’s accession to the throne because she wanted to be there for her friend on such a big day. Now that she’s lost her sister and we’ve heard more about Ines’s struggles I can understand why Maxima goes out of her way to try and support women who are dealing with the pressures of being royal. I think Kate copes pretty well with the pressure but with her interest in mental health and the huge role she’ll one day take on it would be so amazing for her to be able to learn from a young woman who is a successful, beloved queen and knows how important it is to listen to people when they’re struggling.
The wives, gf, and ex wives of those royal men received hell especially with the paps stalking them. Honestly Rachel didn’t receive the stalking from the paps, she did get some rude articles pertaining to her race. It’s like I’ve said since the beginning of this farce, if the only thing you talk about is your race that is the only thing the public will talk about. Before harry Rachel constantly talked about certain things in this order race, clothes, food, and travel that is outside of her blog. So the moment she leaked she was sleeping harry (while sleeping cory) the press did what we did, google. Guess what popped up all the time, how to be both and her struggle with her mom being black, her struggle with having stars in her face. It was always about her race and how she looked. She feed the press their own articles, they just tweaked it little. The moment she wanted people to stop talking about her race was too late in her game, the India paid for advertisement. If you want people to remember you for the things you’ve done rather than your race, do something, anything. She didn’t mentor mixed raced kids/teens, never heard about her speaking out of the senseless killing of the black boys, she wore a shirt with the word racism for a campaign but has done nothing to fight it while her, harry and her sugars have comstanly called anyone who is suspicious, asks 1 too many questions, or just not interested in her/them a racist. They created the narrative and so far hasnt stopped sticking to it. Can you tell I’m over this crap.
Pt 2 But the real problem is not just her fashion roadkill look it is her numbers. They are non existent – she is not catching the public’s interest. Can’t cure that either. The other problem is the extravagant wardrobe pr that is now everywhere – no designer wants to be associated with a controversial figure and MM’s extravagant ways is controversy not to mention the threat of “revelations” that is rumored to be happening soon. She could become untouchable.
Well, “fashion roadkill” actually comes from an episode of Sex and the City, so I can’t take credit for it. It seems completely appropriate in this situation though.
I know people keep on saying capris for the pants, but I always think of capris being a little loose and not completely body hugging. What she’s wearing just looks like tight jeans that are too short. Maybe it looks better close up, but I doubt it.
I’m curious to see what she wears on Thursday though. It’s make or break for her in the fashion realm these next several days. I would bet that she’s about to become untouchable after this next month, but we’ll see.
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She’s attending a lot of royal events, but there is no charity work and it appears there won’t be any for a long time. And when they announce something it will likely be some crap umbrella that sounds impressive, but it just means she hosts a reception once a year, or a Commonwealth initiative that justifies some travel.
But hands-on charity work is what people expected, given the image she built for herself. She was supposedly someone who was eager to do on-the-ground work with organizations, setting agendas and all that crap. Tbh, that’s what I expected too–honeymoon then lots of church basements and “learning” trips.
But that’s not what happened. She did not like the “regional tour” at all and could barely bother to brush her hair or look interested toward the end. She hates the Jenga games and kid theatre recitals. She likes royal events, posing for paps in designer clothes, and palace receptions, and that’s what they are giving her.
Showing up to these events is a kind of work, but it’s not what people were expecting. It’s probably what we should have expected though. Traveling three hours by train to visit a REC center in Nowheresford-on-the-Knoll is not what Meghan signed up for. Shopping for a 20k crap ensemble she can model for an hour in front of the world press is the kind of “work” she wanted to do.
Her pre-Harry schedule was a yearly week-long “glam humanitarian” photoshoot, lots of vacationing, and lots of shopping and posing. That seems to be her royal schedule too.
I love that Meghan is setting up these copycat photoshoots because the contrasts are genius. Kate with her family and friends watching the game being totally normal in cheap clothes, and Meghan posing with celebs in the VIP area in something that’s five times as expensive and looks ten times worse.
Wow, amazing E! video on Meghan’s wardrobe. Melanie Bromley calls it “extreme” and her co-host says “but she was supposed to be the relatable one…she duped us.”
I had a ton of anons asking me if I would stop blogging after the wedding. THIS is why I didn’t stop blogging. This is the best part, people figuring out that it was all fake pr.
Jess is now throwing Meghan under the bus. It’s every man for himself now, I guess.
This article is one part throwing Jess Mulroney under the bus, one part merching preview, and one part mea culpa on Meg’s fashion disasters.
Her engagements in the next few weeks are probably still make-or-break for her in the fashion world. No designer wants their pieces looking like fashion roadkill over the next five months.
I’m glad someone said it. Everyone else is busy blaming the courtiers and even HM’s pr person for not handling Thomas correctly, but the responsibility was all Meghan’s. He’s her dad.
I hope she’s looking down [at our family] with tears in her eyes being incredibly proud of what we’ve established. I’m sure she’s longing for me to have kids so she can be a grandmother again … but I hope that everything we do privately and officially, that it makes her proud. – Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex
You said it came from Harry and not her. I suspect it came from both.
No, I don’t think she’s doing just fine. I doubt the goal here was countless articles about her protocol fails and million-dollar wardrobe, but that’s what they got. I suspect they intended it to be all “Meghan dazzles in high fashion looks as she flawlessly adjusts to royal life,” or something like that. Harry said in the engagement interview that she was going to be wonderful at the job and I think he meant it.
My caveat had more to do with Harry’s involvement in this. I do think he sold herself to Harry as the best thing since chicken nuggets and those expectations are not being met. However, I think the driving force is Meghan. She’s the one who thinks that the black-clothes-into-pink-clothes, no-fruitcake, plain-wedding-dress, tons-of-celebs strategy is absolutely brilliant. She really is a complete idiot about this. That interview the anon pulled up had a paragraph where she patted herself in the back for having American Rachel wear a “Canadian tuxedo,” because it made her look like “one of us.” That’s the kind of think she thinks is brilliant.
I agree that’s her goal, but I’m on the fence as to whether he’s figured it out or not. I have many anons saying he’s caught not, but I’m not sure.
I think he knows this is not going well, but I don’t know if it goes beyond that. I think he thinks this can still be salvaged. If there is a change in his attitude, I expect it will happen after the Balmoral vacay/August polls.
Thanks for the Throwback Saturday, anon. That interview is so bizarre in retrospect. It really illustrates how Meghan SAYS all the right things, but then she doesn’t execute AT ALL.
Here she is on what she supposedly learned from the Suits wardrobe department.
That lesson didn’t stick at all. She clearly does not know what looks good on her figure.
Here she is on recycling and mixing and matching:
Another one that didn’t stick at all as we’ve had expensive new pieces on pretty much every single outing.
Here she is talking about craftsmanship:
This is the most ironic statement EVER. The “work” has spoken for itself in the past couple of months and what it has said is not nice.
Oh, and this is why she moved from blacks to pinks:
That’s why she went from blacks to pinks. She was re-enacting her Rachel Zane plot line. If only she’d re-enacted the wardrobe too.
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