I agree re: Tom and Meghan two peas in a pod. No sympathy for either. But Meghan if she had two IQ points to rub together should have known she had to handle them. During the “affair” phase of this scam it benefitted her to let the family carry on because it was the one thing that gained her sympathy. So she allowed it. But once the wedding was on she had to know that the family drama was not going to be helpful. And she refused to do a thing about any of them except Momma. The real family ruined her delusional ideal of family she had described in The Tig and her interviews. So she ignored them. They were an embarrassment. And her determination to avoid that embarrassment and still attempt to get the sympathy vote over rode any intelligent assessment of shutting the scandal down.
This is a woman who chose to invite people she did not know and had not even met to her wedding while ignoring all but her mother and mother’s brother. Hard to feel a whole lot of sympathy for her especially since using then discarding people has been amply demonstrated to be her style.
What is curious is that Harry or the RF did nothing until things got totally out of hand in the days before the wedding. They clearly acted as if they saw it as her responsibility and were caught flatfooted by the whole heart attack drama. Even now it seems they exert no influence on her to stop the drama. That is interesting.
Thanks for submitting this! THAT is the question. Why was this not neutralized? I think the BRF KNEW how to neutralize it. They expected Doria and Tom to arrive for the baptism and PC and Cam were ready to wine and dine them, However, the parents never showed up. Tom and Doria were expected to show up a week or two before the wedding for more wining and dining. The BRF has been charming people this way for generations. They knew what to do.
But Meghan never brought her parents. Doria only made it in two days before the wedding and the BRF had to go all out wth tea and presents and crap right before the wedding.
I think they set everything up and left it to Meghan to bring in her parents–and she never did. Meghan is in the same tough spot social climbers have been since the dawn of time. She’s built her Holly GoLightly persona and she doesn’t want the old Lulla Mae identity to contaminate her new existence. She didn’t want her parents there. She HAD to have Doria because she needed that racial cred, but that was it. Once Tom had to bow out, she was happy to let him do so.
Even if she is, it won’t show yet. Not till she’s over 12 weeks or more. I didn’t even know I was pregnant till my 8th week and only because I noticed changes in my body.
@impossiblefiregarden I posted the initial photo because I think it highlights Meg’s slimness. Breasts increase more than the lower abdomen in the first trimester of pregnancy. It doesn’t look to me like she has more cleavage up top at this moment of time.
If other members of her family had shown up, the media would have been all over them. The DM can spot a Markle or a Ragland at a million miles away at this point.
“It’s weird that no one Meghan’s family was really invited to the wedding. I get you don’t want to invite all the relatives that have been bashing you, but what about people from her mom’s side? What about the relatives that stayed quiet and were happy for her? They deserve to be there and wish you well on a very special day.“ – Submitted by Anonymous
AH well The Sun can’t let DM have all the fun. And Harry is now stomping through the halls of KP screaming at his staff “make this go away”. He deserves every bit if this. Stupid twit.
And they are already bringing up the Fergie comparisons.
My favorite statements from this column:
“I don’t think either of them [Harry and Megs] comes out of this well.”
“Meghan seemed cold with a statement declaring she has always ‘cared’ for her father following the news his heart condition meant he wouldn’t walk her down the aisle.“
“The ball is very much in Meghan’s court.”
“…but these will be tricky times for the newly minted Duchess of Sussex.”
“She needs to cement her popularity in these crucial early days.”
Looks to me like this column is practically prepping the waters for what will likely come later this month and August.
I’m surprised at how much coverage it’s getting, but I was also surprised at how much coverage that video where she supposedly tries to hold Harry’s hand got. Poor girl is desperate to be known for her fashion. and instead she’s getting “dad trouble,” “protocol breach,” and “fake accent” coverage.
And it’s going to get worse before it…doesn’t get better.
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.
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.
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.
Yes, IVF is a treatment for male infertility. If you can’t get a decent sperm sample through ejaculation, then they have put the sperm & egg together in the lab because it can’t happen naturally.
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.
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.
2_there was some backlash to her Vogue pics by DeMarchelier, how she was now 100% celebrity, mastering the art of (fake) accessibility. Her lowest point was right before her death – remember Dodi was a known coke addict and womanizer, and his dad was persona non grata and a rumored arms dealer. She was playing it up. Nobody thought that would end well.
3_Even back then there was a “what is she doing” attitude about her social life, and how futile her pursuit of true love seemed when you really looked at her temperment, expectations, requirements and circumstances. She’d fall in with the Fayad-types (“Eurotrash” for want of a better word) as she did.
4_also, her antics with Tiggy were well known to the public and very unflattering, particularly as to the position it placed her boys. What elevated her in the end was what she did on AIDs, on mines, and her demeanor engaging the public whilst married to Charles, stuck. Markle’s demeanor with the public is opposite to Diana, try as she might to imitate her. Even if Markle died she’d have no chance at St. Di.
Very good points. Di’s imagine would be very different if she hadn’t died because the criticisms were piling up.
Oh, yeah. I’ve seen it before. AHPF has done a good job cataloging it. It’s so ubiquitous that we hardly even notice it now. This here is a good write-up that AHPF did back in January. I know she did some write-ups after the “statement” was released in 2016, but I just don’t have time to find them.
Generally I agree with you, but People participated in the War of the Wales 25 years ago, so yes, they will participate in royal-vs-royal attacks. They’re not printing attacks currently because it doesn’t benefit them in anyway. If they could see a benefit in it, they’d do it.
The US market is the only possible market that Megs could make work for her. She’s not sophisticated or interesting enough for the world market. Also, an American in the British royal family being “popular” feeds American narcissism about being the best, which is also why many in the US don’t second guess Megs being declared “popular” in the UK. It’s just another version of “USA #1″ in the media.
I completely agree with you that post-divorce Diana is her aim, but I do wonder how she’ll get what she wants. If she’s the more guilty party, she’ll be the most unpopular woman in the UK. If Harry’s the more guilty party, no matter what she says he’s done, he’ll get away with being foolish. I don’t think he’ll ever reach the Charles-like “villain” because so many people see him as the boy behind the coffin. We’ve had these people asking Meghan to look after him, like haribo lady.
Would it not be the same in the US? Because if she’s not liked, then the only thing she’ll have is fame/media hounding. So is it just for fame or profitability after the RF? I suppose it doesn’t quite compute in my mind because she might be aiming for Diana, but without that level of popularity wouldn’t it be so easy to fall into post-divorce Fergie?!
I was only about 4 when Diana died, but I know people who have said she only reached this “sainthood” level after she died (I really don’t mean to be offensive, I think it’s quite common for people who die young). So for Meghan to have the Diana life, rather than Fergie, would it just come down to things like photo-ops on the diving board of a yacht?
I think I’m going around in circles here! Sorry about that!
Thanks for sending this in. Diana only reached “People’s Princess” status after her death, but she had a huge post-divorce “princess finally breaks free” pr drive in the US and that’s what Meghan is likely aiming for.
Di sold her old clothes, cut her hair, toned down her makeup, got papped in jeans and gym clothes, ditched her UK charities and began doing more international humanitarian work, etc… She slammed up, got more sexy and wore the “revenge dress.” She started hanging out with celebs more.
The whole thing was spun as finally breaking free from the stifling brf and becoming a superstar on her own. That’s the Di that became popular in the US. That’s the Di Meghan wants to be.
Diana also worked the age difference between her and Charles to her advantage in the press before they were divorced.
Pt 2 ultimately though she can’t maintain public interest – brands look at the numbers and hers suck. She cannot sustain interest especially without Harry. And she does not show clothes well. Too short can’t walk in stilettos and the makeup and mistakes generate too many negatives. Notice Prada did not feature her on their IG when she wore that Prada. She tries but she really is just a zlist celeb. Givenchy took her pic off their IG when she wore the wallpaper dress. But her reps keep try
This is what I got when I did the MM + Givenchy search:
I suspect MM’s engagement on July 5th, and her engagements from July 9 through 11th are make-or-break for her on the fashion front. If she can’t look great, then I doubt she’s going to get anything else after. It’s becoming obvious to too many people that she’s a dud.
I think another anon also mentioned fertility treatments.
Really? If fertility drugs are the cause, then why–as others have noted–does Harry treat her differently? If it were fertility drugs, then wouldn’t he be more understanding since he wants kids. Something doesn’t quite make sense.
Anyway, the side effects for two of the most common drugs for IVF Cetrotide and Lupron can be found here and here.
I’ve noticed. I’ve seen it mentioned over at AHPF quite a bit. I know I’ve reblogged some of it but certainly not all.
Considering how frequently she has articles getting published over nothing, that money is going to run out pretty quick. Celebitchy only does articles if something has previously been published somewhere else. Megs had TWO articles today on that site:
Considering the last one is STAR magazine, she must be running getting low on funds. She couldn’t get People magazine or US Weekly to run it. Not to mention that she doesn’t seem to want to wait until she has another engagement before having articles appear. It’s just constant bombardment. (Not a smart move.)
It may be that the UK tabs will kick in with the narrative they want to run when she can no longer pay for a pr agency to send things to US media. Like, she won’t disappear completely when her money runs out because then Fleet Street will seize their opportunity. She won’t have the funds to combat them and will be at the mercy of what the palace pr decides.
Hello dear Plant I’m sorry I don’t know how to send multiple pics, I did a research from Italy (there are some privacy laws that modify the Google search so it might be different from the States) of Vogue Paris and Meghan and you can see every time there is a press release it’s stated on the result. So it was very interesting. A lot of press releases about fashion brands, jewelry, makeup. I’ve researched also Kate on Vogue Paris and I found only one press release about her, that was the article of her and Char coordinating outfits. I will send you other pics next so you can see but you can probably do it better.
Thanks for sending these in! I think many of these are press releases from the brands themselves, but the Diana and “psychological pink” ones are coming from Meghan. They don’t really support any brand. But one reason why we are seeing so much Meghan coverage is that all her brands are sending press releases. In this pic alone we have shoe, beauty and clothing brands e-mailing stuff.
Kate does do press releases, but they are usually about family or work stuff. Also, she usually wears established UK brands that don’t scorch the earth like this.
But it’s interesting to see how it works. Thanks for sending this!
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