“However, one obvious missing link in an otherwise flawless tour de couture was the glaring lack of Irish designers incorporated anywhere into her wardrobe. Wearing forest green for your first night just won’t suffice as flying the Irish fashion flag when you’ve displayed outfits worth over €10,000 over the course of 36 hours.”
At least someone noticed. I don’t know why she missed this incredibly obvious thing. It’s particularly glaring when she did local designers during her “regional tour” and the “Meghan Effect” was touted everywhere. Yes, they were all put forward by the London Fashion Council, but it’s not that hard to google for a local bag or necklace. Heck, the press was making lists for her.
It’s also going to look horrible if she “champions” Australian designers during Invictus.
Petty Piers is out in force…. Ah it isn’t just Piers. Markle was allegedly warned by Mischa Nonoo that the tabs would destroy her. Markle ignored that warning. Typical narc – incapable of thinking they can be defeated and always thinking they are the smartest one in the room. The Sun, The Telegraph and the DM especially but all of the tabs knew what the real nature of MM and PH’s relationship was – that it was 90% fake that when he became engaged he barely knew her and had spent little time with her. After all they were accepting the releases from her several pr firms and publishing them and they were collaborating with her in the merching and making money off it too. They knew how the pics were being taken that she called the paps. They knew when the pics were old pics being released as current. They knew exactly what was going on.
Markle has simultaneously also underestimated and overestimated the power of the RF. She thinks Harry can protect her from the media. No he can’t. The RF could to some extent but not Harry on his own and not for long. The tabs know her dirt but the 11/16 statement kept them from unloading right away. Now they have had an additional year and a half to collect more info. They will use it. Probably when she stops making clicks and money for them. Piers is just toying with her now. Interviews are being done. Lies will be exposed. The DM warned her and the RF that there would be unexpected and unwelcome revelations after a marriage. Piers is the least of her worries. There is the US media too. It is all a matter of timing.
Thanks for sending this in! There may very well be further tab revelations coming down the pike, but I think her own behavior will sink her. Right now, the coverage is all about her “new” posh accents. Soon, we will go back to the ridiculous spending and then her family will come up again. We will probably have something political come up during the tours. It just keeps piling up.
I think the lies will be exposed, but I think it will be because of her own behavior. She’s not a charity-oriented International Relations person who reluctantly gave up her dream of becoming the next Madeleine Albright so she could do sexy poses in Deal or No Deal. She’s a fame-hungry actress who was willing to do anything to secure those People covers and who early on realized that Harry was her ticket to a life of endless publicity and luxury. This becomes clearer every single day.
I don’t know that I would expect the US media to do much on the Markle debacle. Yeah, sure, they’ll cover it. But she PALES in comparison to the everyday disaster of Trump.
It’s amazing to me that she’s wiling to take Byrony Gordon to lunch in order to get absolutely zero good press because Byrony is already in Harry’s pocket, but she’s not willing to go to Mexico to visit her dad to avoid bucketloads of bad press.
So, does the fact that she’s taking a journalist out to lunch mean that money for her pr agency budget is falling low?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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’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!
Thanks! Always good to have an on-the-ground perspective. I do think the “celeb vs. royal” debate has been going on for a while in the UK, though. I’ve seen several articles about it. The Spectator has had a couple and Hilary Mantel did some essays and someone else prominent who I can’t remember right now. I even found an Australian one. This is just another slide down a slippery slope, imo.
Harry has a new beaded bracelet, guys! Oh, and his trip included Botswana. We all know what happens in Botswana, don’t we? This is another possible explanation for Meghan’s Xanax look.
Do you mean “visible” instead of “invisible”? Because Will and Kate were EVERYWHERE in 2011.
My recollection of the Cambridge’s first year is that they would disappear for weeks and then we’d get some ridiculously high-profile huge-press event like meeting the Obamas or touring the US or Kate having a solo gala. The DM has a summary of their first year.
There was a ton of coverage of everything they did (including mundane stuff like shopping or talking walks), and they were credited with re-invigorating the monarchy.
I remember there was a lot of curiosity about their personal lives–honeymoon, house, shopping, Lupo, date nights, relationship with the Middletons, Kate’s shopping trips to London. Also, Kate’s fashion had a ton of coverage. The beige Reiss dress she wore to meet the Obamas, in particular, was a sensation.
Even their first anniversary dinner was a source of huge speculation.
The main difference I see between the way the couples are/were covered by the press is that with Will and Kate there was HUGE interest in their interactions and private life. Everyone wanted to know what the cottage looked like, how they interacted with each other, what Kate was cooking, what the dog’s name was, etc… There was also a ton of interest in Kate’s clothes, organic interest and not just People mag trying to sell beach cover-ups.
With the Slutsexes, there’s more interest in how Meghan is handling the royal protocol than anything else. The “fish out of water” aspect of it is taking over. Will and Kate didn’t have that kind of coverage, mainly because Kate had been part of “The Windsor Show” for so long that her official intro was seamless.
Looking back the Cambridge’s first year, what strikes me is how “fresh” their appearances were–with the Obamas at the palace, in the Canadian wilderness, playing polo in LA, playing with kids. They really looked like a young couple who were having fun and putting a new spin on what it meant to be royal. In contrast, Meghan in her off-color pantyhose and 80s Diana outfits is already looking like a Madame Tussaud’s wax figure. Actually, the official was figure looks younger than Meghan right now.
Vox, of all outlets, has an apologia on Meghan’s crap style. It’s apparently supposed to signal that she belongs. I think the elements Meghan has chosen–80s stylings, color coordination to a ridiculous extent, mismatched designer flourishes–actually does the exact opposite.
THIS!! Meghan trying to look cute with queen but Catherine behaved like a woman with whom queen can be friends!
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Interesting. I suspected as much with her crappy sample looks.
I expect Fleet Street–and I’m including Piers as part of that–to dump a LOT on her this summer. There is no reason for them to wait. She’s done all the possible big stuff, and the press will need something to publish this summer.
If she could have learned to keep her mouth shut and stop baiting the press for good coverage every two seconds, she might have had more of a chance. But since she doesn’t know how to live without constant press coverage, well, constant press coverage will be what she gets.
Interesting article with very subtle criticisms. The “experts” want her to wear better made and less expensive clothes as well as more British designers. I do not think that’s what is going to happen.
I lol’d at this one. I thought I was the only one who noticed that hem.
Maybe. Cory & Trevor can always find ways of “talking-but-not-talking.” I don’t know all the people Megs has pissed off in her life, so there’s still the possibility of some shit coming out of the middle of nowhere. Piers Morgan is a known known in Megs life. I don’t know what else she has out there, but it’s definitely more than Piers though.
I think the most significant thing about Piers at this point is that since he’s a member of the press, it means that other members of the press will try to scoop him if they find out he’s going to break something big.
Ghosting a LOT of people is going to cost Megs in the near future. Everyone she’s dusted seems to have good reason to hate her. She could have saved herself by inviting so many people to the wedding. But NOPE!
Even Kate’s Uncle Gary went to the wedding, and obviously Uncle Gary never got a 30-minute interview on British national morning television.
Doesn’t really matter at this point. It wouldn’t surprise me if Tom Sr. gave another interview in the future, even if it was to clarify things he said in this interview.
Pandora’s Box has been opened, and it’s not going to shut anytime soon.
Thomas Markle’s interview is clearly the work of Piers Morgan. I literally do not understand why anyone would think Megs set this up.
That said, Piers probably knows all the dirt from working in the media, just like the rest of Fleet Street. Piers wasn’t going to wait for anything to happen to start instigating this shit, so he got the party started. The rest of Fleet Street is waiting for an invitation, which Harry & Megs will no doubt give sooner rather than later. Because they are that dumb.
Oh, this summer of fire is just getting started!!!
Maybe, but I think Oprah will direct it towards racial and political stuff and that’s dangerous. I think another problem is people not getting all the lies straight.
Thanks! They kept KP in the dark, uh? I think nixing the Markles’ wedding commentating as a “breach of decorum” is coming back to bite them. They better get used to being blindsided from now on.
I would bet real money that Doria will do (or has already done) that interview.
Can we remember that Megs wouldn’t allow KP to take Thomas “under their wing” before the wedding? That when Megs had KP release a statement it mentioned that Megs “cared for” her father not “cares for.” Past tense vs. present tense.
We should start considering whether these two press idiots–aka Harry & Megs–are already dumb enough to run to Oprah to whine publicly about her family in addition to any interview Doria has already done with Oprah.
He’s not being coached. That’s satellite delay! C’mon people. The royal family would never send someone out–who was coached–on national British tv on satellite delay!
Thomas is hitting back at his daughter, who has so clearly ditched him. Why would Megs put him on Great Morning Britain if he wasn’t going to do an interview in person??
I can see these two famewhores doing this after Ascot. It wouldn’t surprise me if they did. They wouldn’t want to wait a year or two for an interview with someone so well known. They’d want to do it as soon as possible so that they can maintain their hype and press interest. The thing is, once they do something like this, then it’s game on for the rest of the UK press to do what they do best.
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