This is what we (I’m using the first person plural because I wasn’t a hard core Harry fan but I was still taken in by his pr) were smoking. I’m going to go in rough chronological order from May 2015 through December 2015
Yes, he left the army in 2015, but first they gave him a massive send-off with a big Australia tour and haka dances and crap.
Yes, this sounds ridiculous now that we know that he was actually romancing Soho House z-listers on these Africa trips, but at the tie this didn’t sound so far-fetched. After all, he had just left the Army supposedly because he loved the front lines but not the desks. It kind of made sense when they framed it that way.
No, I am not kidding when I say over the top. He was supposedly shooting poachers and maybe flying helicopters. They were uncertain about the helicopters part.
Then on his return to England he got the WWII veterans flypast, and that cute pic with the elderly pilot that he “gave up” his plane for. I remember a rumor going around that he had been grounded for goofing around on the planes and that he wasn’t actually able to fly, but the story was so cute, I wanted to believe it. Now I’m thinking he really was grounded, which would explain why they were so unclear about the helicopters in Africa part.
There were cracks in the facade, of course. He was flirting with Jenna Coleman at the Audi polo in June, and he got drunk after England was defeated in the rugby cup (disappointing a whole bunch of Aussies who were convinced after his down under tour that Australia was “the country he never had.”) The reunion with Chelsy never happened and neither did the volunteer work with the Recovery Capability Program (I think maybe he showed up once?). He also missed Charlotte’s birth and christening.
But it was all buried under elephant pics and pilot jumpsuits and kid hugs. he even released “personal photos” on the KP instagram in December to cap off the drive.
It was a looooooooong pr campaign (nine months!) and it was masterfully done. Yeah, now we can look back on it and laugh our heads off because this Hero Harry person is nothing like 2018 Harry. Would this person hang out at Soho House? Would this person fall for Meghan Markle? Would this person now look as if he can’t take a step without a pat and a burp from Mummy 2.0? Aren’t the elephant and crocodile pics suspiciously similar to the James Bond pics after the wedding? Isn’t the whole thing eerily similar to Meghan’s current “savior” press?
I’m not surprised we were all fooled.
BTW, remember this “running into an old teacher” scene in New Zealand? It was redone with Meghan during the carriage drive.
It’s been a while since my opinionated self was last teed off, but there was something in the press releases regarding the new Duchess of Sussex’s coat of arms that really annoyed me. I haven’t posted anything on the coat of arms as there is so much about it that I don’t understand or just find ridiculous. There are numerous blogs that have been posting a ton of good stuff on the topic though.
But the coat of arms in and of itself is not really what bothers me. What it does is highlight a trend that I, and I’m sure many others would have noticed over the past few months. Just look at this headline:
“Her biggest break in royal tradition yet…” What is this, a world record attempt to see how many rules or how big a rule current royals can break? I was pretty sure that I’d seen similar phrasing before, so I had a brief look to see how often this theme comes up with regards to the newly minted Sussexes.
There are literally, pages upon pages of articles listed on google about Harry and/or Meghan “Breaking Royal Tradition/Breaking Protocol”. The shot above does not even begin to illustrate how many articles there are out there with the headline being some form of “breaking tradition/protocol/rules.” And before anyone goes “it’s the media’s fault”, the BRF does have some leverage over what the media reports, especially in the UK, so I doubt that we would be inundated with so many similar articles if this wasn’t somehow linked to a PR push of sorts. (Why they push in this particular direction is beyond me.)
Rule breaking has been a recurring theme in the media for the entirety of the Sussex’s relationship. It’s almost as if they’re both stuck in a perpetual teenage phase where rule breaking is cool just because it’s rule breaking. Where is the logic in that, I do not know. But it really does seem to be just petty rule breaking for the sake of rule breaking. Because what kinds of “rules” are they breaking anyway? Here’s one right under the headline:
To name just a few of the things that the media has so nicely pointed out for us over the past few months (this last month especially), the Sussex’s “rule/tradition breaking” consists of being total rebels over things like a cake flavor, kissing for photographers on the steps of St George’s Chapel when none has ever kissed there for photographers before, having a foreigner speak at their wedding, having only very young wedding attendants, choosing their own ‘style’ of wedding music (these ones are from legit articles btw, I’m not making them up). Also, leaking on social media, not waiting until marriage to undertake tours together/issue statements on official letterheads (by the non-royal fiancee), no walking down the aisle with the bride’s father (many women do this for various reasons, but Meghan’s the progressive trendsetter y’all), not inviting family to their
wedding while inviting a ton of people they may not know very well, possibly spending taxpayer money on leisure trips together while dating, announcing that one or both are feminists on multiple occasions, etc. Real ground breaking stuff that gets touted as “modern” and “progressive”.
Now what kinds of rules did they NOT break? Here’s one example that I’ve posted about before:
The Sussexes did not see it as modern/necessary to go against rules/traditions (whether formal or just within the family) that involve bridal jewellery (the type of wedding ring for the bride and the source of materials used – the Queens vault; the bridal tiara tradition and the tiara source – again, the Queen’s vault; the Cartier wedding gifts; the Diana ring), the carriage ride (even though this is one tradition that ~30K UK citizens WANTED them to break), the multiple receptions with their dress (and suit?) changes, the acceptance of titles by the newly married couple, the receipt of a home appointed by the Crown with an upkeep that is potentially financed by the taxpayer, etc, etc. I mean, who would dare break such rules/traditions? Not the feminist, progressive modernizing-the-monarchy Sussexes of all people. SMH.
For all the rule breaking the Sussexes have done, I cannot recall them having ever broken one that “matters” in terms of making a social statement. They could’ve made really strong, positive ones about family and race issues at the wedding for example, but they fell short on that one too. They’re just happy to “break tradition” willy-nilly and be touted as “modernizing” and “progressive” as long as it doesn’t have anything (negative) to do with their bottom line or stop them from parading in front of an audience. If it costs them and not someone else, then by no means do they want to break tradition. Honestly, every time I see a title like this:
…I wonder what the hell these people are smoking. The BRF may be an ancient institution and uphold many traditions, but they are fairly modern by world standards in the way they operate. As stuffy as being a royal wife may be, these BRF women have more rights and are more involved/included/acknowledged than women in some other royal families/other parts of the world have been IMO. In all honesty, if ever there was a royal bride whose name I would consider in the same sentence as the phrase “modernizing the royal family” it would be Lalla Salma of Morocco (who sadly, the media reports as being recently divorced).
As a bit of background, prior to Lalla Salma’s wedding to the King of Morocco, Moroccan women lacked a lot of the rights that western women enjoy and were subject to the decision making of their male counterparts. The monarch had multiple wives whom he never publicly acknowledged and swapped out as he pleased. Lalla Salma, a computer science graduate, was the woman whose marriage changed the status quo. She was the first Moroccan monarch’s wife to be publicly acknowledged, champion charitable causes, accompany her husband at public events and represent him in an official capacity. She was the first woman to get a Moroccan King to promise her that she would be the only wife, and that he would not hide her away. During her tenure as consort, women within Moroccan society gained rights and privileges that were formerly restricted to men. Now that is what I call modernizing the monarchy. Modernizing a society even. That is royal leverage used well, and I say this of both Lalla Salma and her (ex?) husband. This is an example of the kind of effort a royal couple would have to put in to get the kind of acclaim the Sussexes are trying to court. But it doesn’t happen over night. It took the Moroccans years, and they’re still in the process of change.
I would also add that not all monarchies currently need modernizing IMHO. The need for modernizing stems from a cultural climate that is stuck in a system of beliefs/values/traditions that a lot of the “modern world” had already left behind. This need for “modernizing” is less pressing in the BRF where women and men are equally acknowledged and able to succeed the reigning monarch. I know it’s not as simple as that, but I honestly don’t think the British royals have it that bad. If they’re not careful, I feel they’ll modernize the UK out of a royal family altogether. There are certainly things that I would like to see the BRF change, but none of it has anything to do with cake flavors, guest-lists or proclamations of grandeur. Why “break traditions” in an attempt to modernize a monarchy in ways that really aren’t needed? (Why does it matter to the world if royals eat fruit cake or some other cake at weddings? How does the music they play/listen to better the world?…You get the picture). If they really want to “modernize the monarchy” the Sussexes had better start doing it in ways that count – and by that I mean in ways that will also benefit others and not just themselves.
My apologies for the uncomfortable length of this rant-y post. Takeaway points: I’m sick of the endless “breaking tradition/protocol/rules” and “modernizing” articles regarding the Sussexes and the BRF in general. The BRF doesn’t need modernizing and this PR push counts for squat until one of them actually does something that brings about positive change, both for the BRF and their subjects. Until then, they can lay off the PR. It’s just window dressing – horrible, tacky window dressing that does the opposite of “selling” the BRF.
Excellent post. They really aren’t breaking anything they just want everyone to believe they are trailblazers.
“[A]nything from infertility to hair loss and relationship problems…” LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.
So, do they not have any kind of HIPPA laws in the UK regarding acupuncture? I’m wondering how he gets around that kind of thing with an article like this…
Also, for Harry’s hair loss, he’d probably have to see an acupuncturist that either specializes in fine grain moxa treatments or microneedling. Doesn’t look like this guy does either of those two things.
Lmao a NYT reporter was in the crowds at the wedding and her incredulity and snark are amazing. Few tidbits: half the crowd booed Harry the night before the wedding, cheered and *loved* seeing Fergie
I think Fleet Street will only throw soft punches from here until after the main royal events in June are done. I’m guessing after Ascot is over we might see a change. Probably late July or August for big shit for sure.
I hope you can answer these questions. How can PH/MM go through fertility treatments/IVF if they are (allegedly) using drugs? –> They aren’t frequent users. I don’t have a specific knowledge about, but I presume it does, since a drug acts on your central nervous system, and this net (CND) regulates your entire body. She was yripping with and that dress last night. Because she was drunk as a cow 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Also, why do you think MM will bolt? Imo, she will never have a better life that what she has now. As the wife of the 6th (5th) in line to the throne she wouldn’t get a huge divorce settlement (would she?). –> She is a fame whore, but I doubt she will please (did you realize that her career are only tips in tiny movies and/or movies that you never heard about? And deal with the bad press and scrutiny. She fucked io twice with HM (‘something borrowed’ gate and ‘curtsey’ gate) and that is something that the journos will make sure that she learns. 😘😘😘😘
Like I said. That visit to oprah and the last minute invite to the wedding wasn’t for nothing. Oh no but they still innocent, and her interview is a bigger paycheck now that the wedding has happened.
Cheesus, I have 100+ anons. Sorry, guys, I’ll be out most of the day, but I’ll do the best I can when I come back.
Here’s the post I wrote yesterday. It’s super-long, so no pics:
Oh, well, I reached my posting limit, so I might as well do the round-up. (yes, this was yesterday)
Sorry about that guys. I’ll pace myself next time. I’m also going to start clustering anons and answering in groups as I’m hitting posting limits waaaaay too early every day.
Anyway, wedding roundup. I love overall themes and I think the theme here was “last minute save by the BRF.”
Remember when Harry reminded Meghan “you have a wedding to plan” during the Foundation Forum? Remember the invitations without his KVCO? Remember how we all wondered about the last minute cake and flowers?
Yep, it really was that slapdash.
Titles
But let’s start from the beginning–the titles. Duke of Sussex, Earl of Dumbarton, Baron Kilkeel. A rogue baron known for his outlaw marriages and divorces, Dumb-arton, and a small Irish village with a matching reference. You can’t beat that.
The DM is already starting with the “The Only Way Is Sussex” jokes.
They really did just throw together a whole bunch of fake flowers. This looked positively nightmarish. I love the New Yorker description:
I walked in, through the “cascading hedgerow” that was wreathed around the church’s west door, and caught the full impact of the floral arrangements within. So overpowering was this that, to be frank, I wasn’t sure whether I should be taking notes or gathering pollen. If the guests had stayed in their pews for long enough, they would have ended up producing their own honey.
The guest arrivals–Amal, Idris, James Blunt, James Corden, and a cast of millions…well, six hundred anyway. This truly looked like a red carpet with the guests posing and preening for the cameras.
Interestingly, Pippa and Fergie seem to be classified as Hollywood celebs and Kate and the other royals aren’t.
This was the one part of the wedding that was definitely thought up in advance. That trip to LA in December was definitely Meghan putting together her dream celebrity guest list and getting the agents on board. Note that all of her agents were invited (of course!). This think looked and felt like a Hollywood party. I had an anon who said that it was “the Oscars she never had.” Yep, that describes it exactly.
No foreign royals (because they had no “personal connection” LOLOLOLOL). Very few non-US/UK people (even though they supposedly “own” the Commonwealth now). Few aristo friends (seated BEHIND the celebrity acquaintances, LOLOLOL). Tons of celebs that they don’t even know.
My favorite part was the DM describing Oprah as “US chat show queen.” LOLOLOLOL.
Guess the DM was right about that six-hour meeting with Doria and the pile of presents. I imagine we have an interview in the near future. I bet the BRF is thrilled to pieces about that. Not.
I gotta say, I was expecting celebs, but I wasn’t expecting THIS MANY celebs. This was a full Hollywood takeover.
But the aristo crowd still put up a good showing. Everyone looked lovely (even Fergie!). Eugenie and Bea looked cute. Chelsy, Joss, Pippa and Cress were gorgeous (even if Pippa did look like the Arizona iced tea can). Kitty Spencer stole the freaking show. She looked amazing.
Was Fergie the happiest guest there? She was positively ecstatic.
BTW, Chelsy and her friend smh-ing at all the celebs in attendance was one of my favorite moments. You can tell they are trying to figure out who all these people are. That was a big contrast, the celebs were all greeting each other in a very showy way and the aristos were all taking their seats and wondering what exactly they had wandered into.
The family looked great, if a little recycled and mournful. There was a marked blend-into-the-background effort here. Everyone seemed to be trying to be calling as little attention to themselves as possible.
I’m not sure I like Sophie’s new love for the ¾ skirt, but Louise looked great. Zara looked amazing, it a little shell-shocked by the fact that this seemed to actually be happening. Kate and the Middletons recycled like crazy and managed not too laugh maniacally through the whole thing, a testament to Middletonian good manners.
The family show saved this from being just a crap celeb wedding. Charlotte’s wave stole the show.
But the theme of the wedding was clear from the beginning. Tons of celebs and they were given preferential treatment over even old friends. The architecture of the chapel worsened this effect as there was clearly a VIP seating area. Oprah’s “I can’t choose my own seat? Don’t you know who I am?” moment did not help. Well, we know what Slutsex’s priorities are now. God, what a pair of assholes these two are.
But I love being able to use that nickname. Thanks, HM!!!!
Anyway, the DM did a seating graph, just to make sure everyone got the point.
Boy, they looked like they were going to a funeral. I think the goal here was simple elegance and this is a uniform that Harry consistently gets praise for…when he uses it for Remembrance Day. It is very somber and sad. I think they should have picked something else.
Notably, there were no “cute” Will and Harry moments. You could cut the tension with a dull knife at this event.
Time tried to go for “sweet” brother moments, but they had no luck.
I thought this was actually well done. No Spencer tiara, which was a good call. They looked lovely in the car and I’m sure Doria got a Cartier nose ring for the occasion. Nothing but class for these ladies, lol.
Elle, by the way, thought the “diamond” nose ring was the epitome of “chic.” I can’t handle it, the coverage for this fiasco is amazing.
The tiara looked fug as hell, but the arrival in the car was not bad. For a minute there, I thought they might pull this off.
Then Meghan got out of the car.
The Dress
Well, I got the designer wrong (Stella ended up doing the evening dress), but this was exactly the silhouette I was picturing. She tried out the bateau neckline with that fug Theory top in Wales.
Never in a million years did I think she would pick the house that designed Kim Kardashian’s wedding dress, but there you go.
As I suspected, it looked meh and underwhelming in the Windsor Castle setting. The dress (the whole wedding, in fact, strewn flowers and rustic cake and all) would have looked lovely in Scotland or Norfolk or a place like that. It looked bland in Windsor and it didn’t seem to fit very well. The bouquet was meh. The veil looked like mosquito netting.
The kids were cute because kids are always cute, but the stark black uniforms were just as sad and funeral-looking as the adults’.
Again, the BRF saved the day by planting a honking big (if abysmally ugly) tiara on her to make up for the underwhelming dress. They also announced that Harry had picked the bouquet flowers himself, a truly ludicrous statement since the bouquet matched those of the flower girls. I think they realized this and turned it into “one” flower or the forget-me-nots or something. LOL, I love how the KP lying is to painfully obvious now.
BTW, People identifies the true “Cinderella” story here. Meghan once struggled to get “Big Designers” to loan her clothes.
This was carefully planned to produce a charming kid photo op and it failed utterly. All we got was Meghan impatiently waiting for less’ boys to get their act together.
They scheduled the event around the US time zones and forgot that the bright Spring sunlight would not work for photography. The skylights inside the chapel did not help, and neither did cutting down the number of photographers outside the chapel. I don’t think she has one good pic. James Whatling was, of course, the favored photog, but even he couldn’t get a pic without harsh shadows and bad lighting. Even the flower girl pics were bad.
And WTF with the mini-mes pageboys and flower girls? They really did dress the kids like they did the adults. This was my one huge disappointment with the ceremony. I was expecting the trainwreck of meh, but I was at least hoping the kid outfits would be awesome. They were the exact opposite of awesome. I feel like Ma Ingalls could have done a better job with a few flour sacks and her trusty sewing box.
The big BRF save here was having Chuck walk her down the aisle. The big laugh was Harry saying “You look amazing—I missed you” and Meghan simply replying “thank you.” True love, y’all.
The Service
Tentacle hands!!!! I thought the gospel choir was lovely and the preacher, of course, stole the show. Zara’s reactions were amazing. It was a lovely sermon, but very much in the American style, and you could tell that the Brits didn’t know what to make of it.
Most giggles arose during the “FIRE, FIRE, FIRE” section, but I, personally, started cackling when the reverend said “[w]hen love is the way, we actually treat each other — well, like we are actually family.” Extremely ironic words given the state of Meghan’s family. He should have said “we actually treat each other—like we are powerful celebrities with common financial and marketing interests.” That doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue though.
Justin Welby’s “x-rated line” (“together in the delight and tenderness of sexual union”) was also the cause of much merriment.
Harry sounded sincere. I think this idiot is really in love. Meghan sounded more sincere during her Suits wedding. You’d think she’d be better at this given she’s had so much practice.
Doria did a good job and looked suitably moved. She has also had practice.
Walking out/The Kiss
Harry looked into it and poor Meghan looked like she was not enjoying it at all. I guess she’s more at home with the tentacle hands and burping. The DM called it theatrical. I guess it was, but I dunno, I think she’s done much better work before.
Well, this made up for having to kiss Harry in public. They were both positively giddy during the carriage ride. They also got their one good pic here, an overhead shot where you can’t see either of their faces. They are holding hands while they soak up the crowd noise. LOL, you can tell that’s their favorite part of the whole thing. I guess this is why they wouldn’t budge on the $40 million expense.
Meghan dropped the F-bomb. Totes relatable, y’all.
Another Chuck save as he walked Doria and Camilla out of the church. The Cambridges looked lovely. Everyone looked bloody relieved.
The Cake
What the fug was this? I expected the cake to be bad, but this was atrocious. This was another big save by the BRF as they dug up their gaudiest gold serving plates to try to make this look good. It really was that crap layer cake she was working on. Was this supposed to feed 600 people? Were they serving their guests crumbs?
The baker proudly posted a close-up of the messy frosting on her IG. She really did just spackle on some buttercream and toss on some flowers. I honestly don’t understand why this woman is not dying of embarrassment right now.
Stand-up (The Duchess of Kent arrived in sneakers, so I guess someone had warned her) and serving finger food. The BRF again saves the day by stuffing as many obscure words as they could into the menu to make it somewhat interesting. Still, asparagus wrapped in prosciutto? Tomato and basil? I guess the Olive Garden touch is a lovely nod to the bride’s American heritage. I bet the guests wished that the nod would have extended to all-you-can-eat breadsticks.
LOLOLOLOL. She got Di’s divorcee ring. That is so, so creepy. She looked overjoyed about it though, even happier than she was during the carriage ride. That ring is famous because Di wore it to her 1997 clothes auction, a huge symbolic break with her royal past. I bet the royals parted with it gladly.
And STEEEEEELLLLLAAAAAAA!!!!!!! Finally, I guess she hit TWO celeb-connected designers instead of one. She’s covering all her celeb bases. Halter top was tacky as hell and didn’t fit, of course, but it gave her a long-desired Bond Girl moment. Slut strand city too.
This wedding was all about giving her the Hollywood events she couldn’t earn through her acting talents—celeb red carpet, Bond Girl scene, tiara acceptance speech.
A new Jag, without the sentimental luggage of the car Will and Kate used for their getaway, and a very James Bond exit to Frogmore House. These two really think they are filming a movie, or rather a Bond-themed car ad. He absolutely murdered his “regular joe,” “People’s Prince” image in one fell swoop.
I loved that little wave she did showing off her Diana loot. There is a refreshing honesty to Meghan Markle. She’s not going to pretend that she’d rusticate in Dumfuck, Wales with her man. She’s into it for the BS Weekly covers, the Oprah interviews, the BFF Amal leaks and the Diana loot and she’s not ashamed to show it. Harry really does have the IQ of stale hummus, doesn’t he? I think he straight out owned this ring and he just gave it to her as a present. Good luck getting it back in the divorce, dumbass.
I’m honestly surprised at the fact that Meghan didn’t even bother to fake-cry. This dude is practically dying of dehydration, Megs. Make en effort.
But the best part of the after party is all the new celeb friends merching and posting on IG and bragging about meeting the BRF. Congrats on your “new circle” of friends, Harry.
Cheesus, even Nacho was selling cologne with his “evening invite” and I’d always been so proud of him for not using the royal connection on anything but sport and charity business. Guess the rules have changed.
I hear that someone leaked reception pics to the DM and Harry had them taken down. LOLOLOL because hypocrisy much?
Oh, and kudos to Priyanka on merching the Dior “Diana” bag. Bitch does her research.
Jess got a second Pippa “butt pic” in. LOLOLOLOLOL.
The BRF website is now officially the TIG. OMG, she’s bragging about her high school volunteering. These people have been doing charity all their lives and she’s bragging about her 9thgrade extracurricular.
I saw a few tweets wondering why she didn’t mention her acting. LOLOLOLOL, this is typical Markle re-invention. In a few months, it will be as if she never acted at all.
Random Stuff
She gave Kate a friendship bracelet!!!! I had an anon who said this would happen. Kudos anon. It looks like a Claire’s Easter special, and it’s for sale for $450 dollars because of course it is.
And on a scale of 1 to Millie Mackintosh’s publicist, how good are you at your job? This girl got more publicity out of the wedding than most invitees (Priyanka Chopra excepted, of course).
They got 4M in Australia which was close to Will and Kate’s 4.8 million. I thought these numbers were ridiculously low, but then I realized that Australia only has 24 million people. They are smaller than Texas!
Crowd seems to be generally described as “around 100,000.” I can’t find a closer number than that, but I’m guessing it’s going to come out below that.
The BBC trolled Trump with a pic of his inaguration. I loved this because I hate Trump more than I hate Meghan, but, sadly, they are full of shit. Trump was mocked because he said his inaguration crowd was “the biggest ever” and it only pulled in like 240,000 people in the Mall, which is pathetic when compared to Obama’s 800,000. He still, however, pulled in 240k and I’ve heard of Dem “scare the troops into working” emails that screech “don’t’ be complacent because he may have actually gotten 400k, which is an average inaguration crowd!!!!! Get back to door knocking you lazy buttholes.”
The general theme here seemed to be “Will & Kate’s wedding, but tackier.” Where the Cambridges stressed family and continuity, the Slutsexes are stressing materialism and celeb worship. Where the Cambridges focused on British heritage and history, the Slutsexes focus on luxury brands and self-promotion. Where the Cambridges had composure and restraint, the Slutsexes had Hollywood posing and random cursing.
And the K-Klub even produced a little merger offer. I doubt William will pick them up on it, but the Slutsexes are likely going to have a baby soon so a future Kardashian-Slutsex marriage may not be out of the question.
The other main theme is, where the hell did the money go? $270k for that David’s Bridal special? No way. The cake was tiny and took no effort. The flowers were plastic. The reception menu was a Costco appetizer platter with a good thesaurus. Did they spend all of Chuck’s money on Meghan’s gotta-catch’em-all Cartier collection and Harry’s new Jag? “Sorry, honeybun, we can’t afford the Jag AND mozzarella. One’s gotta go.” “Oh, hell, just serve them tomato with a basil leaf on top and call it a ‘tartare.’ They are American. They won’t know the difference.”
And, finally, hooray for the celebration of black America. It wasn’t what anyone expected, but I’m sure it will serve Meghan in good stead when she ditches her groom and returns to the States.
We Americans are amazing. We just conned England into paying $40M for a celebration of out culture. We rock.
This little wedding trip plays to both countries’ psychoses. We get to re-establish our position as the belly-button of the universe by having Britain’s royal family be all about us and our racial wounds, and Britain gets to feel like a world power again by acting like their two-bit hereditary whatnot trumps our first Black First Lady and validates our social progress. It’s the special relationship at its best.
Overall, however, I say this is a win for the BRF. Long after Meghan has divorced Harry, packed her Diana ring and Cartier collection, the BRF will still have pics of the day they embraced multiculturalism with a gospel-themed wedding with MLK quotes. Well done.
They didn’t look triumphant, though. That last pic of Doria, Charles, Cam, and the Cambridges was, imo, relieved, yet mournful.
My last thought is, how fucking whipped is this dude? From the “I hope Meghan’s alright” moment to the baby-ish hand-holding, to the aquamarine ring, it was pretty clear (at least to me) that this guy is idiotically in love. I’ve gotten a lot of anons asking me what’s going on behind the scenes and why is she “getting everything she wants” and asking if she’s blackmailing the BRF or something.
I think he’s in love. It’s as simple as that. He’s and idiot and he’s in love and he’s desperate to keep her and he knows this is the way he can keep her—jewels and publicity and Diana crap.
It’s gonna be pretty goddamn tragic when she ditches him the way she has ditched everyone.
I also have a lot of anons asking me what I think will happen next. I think it will be the same stuff we’ve seen until now Harry and Meghan fuck up (engagement dress, nude pics, family drama) and the BRF comes in an saves them (Sandringham, Commonwealth everything, and Charles walking Megs down the aisle). It will be wash, rinse, repeat until they fuck up so magnificently that even the BRF can’t save them. Also, baby rumors around August, baby announcement by September, and baby bump by Eugenie’s wedding. I also think they will go on a “work” spree to try to overshadow the Cambridges who will just roll their eyes and get working on Cambridge #4. We should also see a ton of ill-fitting, untaiilored high fashion “lewks” because this woman has now reached merching Nirvana.
Fleet Street is biding their time. They have the goods; they’re just looking for the opportunity. For now they’re just following the wedding high. Once that’s over, then there’ll be no reason to hold back. They’re not going on a honeymoon right afterwards; Harry & Megs are stupidly seeking more press.
It’ll come out sooner than later I have no doubt about that.
I think the New York Times article does a good job of explaining it. It’s also important to remember that Arthur Edwards is the single most respected royal photographer in the country. He’s so well regarded by the royal family that Kate and William have singled him out twice when they’ve come out with their babies. So for him to speak to the press and say something critical of the royals is a big big deal.
There’s always a love-hate relationship between the UK press and the royal family though. Nothing new.
I am hoping with every fibre of my being that something good will come out of the Markle shit show and they’ll get a new press team at KP. Please please please.
More specifically, Harry doesn’t have a long-term press strategy.
Whoa, Tom Sykes is absolutely nuking KP here. He says “maybe it was as simple as that–human contact.” TMZ was willing to talk to Tom and no one else was. I wonder when someone will connect the dots and realize that that “no one” INCLUDES HIS YOUNGEST DAUGHTER.
Yup! When will people lay the blame at Meg’s feet for this mess?
Yup. They’re clearly done with Harry and Megs baiting the press and then running to IPSO to complain. I’m hoping that the Daily Mail starts off by releasing the video of Megs doing laps in front of their offices trying to get papped. It would be SO PERFECT that I don’t understand why they haven’t done it yet. Maybe they won’t.
The Independent getting to the heart of the matter here:
And:
“[T]o question the reliability of the royals’ communication more broadly…” LOLOLOLOLOL. KP lies people. Everyone knows what Coleman Rayner does. As soon as that tagline appeared on the pics, KP knew what Tom Markle was doing. They just chose to lie about it. It’s about time you all figured that out.
1- My lovely source (one of them) just learned the hard way, don’t lie to me!
Doria supposed to be here for at least 10 days as off today (May, 15th), hence she would need to learn a few protocols, get to know Harry and even England!
The point is her wighoe daughter failed to fly her mom from US to UK, “Because she got a lot going on in her mind. She is totally distressed and hurt” (sic).
Daily Mail is pissed off at ‘No pants Harry’ and his complaints. So, expect more today coming from all sides just like yesterday. Also expect the poor-harry-and-meghan articles.
Obs. I wrote ‘sic’ not ‘sick’.
Obs2. It’s going to be a long day and week. I can’t stand this lovely person, she is such a human being that truly do deserve a Nobel, the scam Nobel!
Obs3. If I want, I will not release more info…and for YOU, just like at IG, I don’t own you any sort of pics, proofs, receipts or nothing, actually, to none of you. You don’t pay my bills!
Obs4. I won’t be answering any asks during these days, but will be every moment that can be releasing info on here (if the info is public interest, in another words, if it isn’t privileged information).
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHA!!! Sounds like Doria isn’t even going to be there for the wedding. Megs is ghosting HER MOM!!
Just that they’re not going to keep pumping out nice, fluffy, sugary, ass-kissing articles on Harry & Megs anymore. The British press seems to be done with that now. They’re transitioning to ripping them to shreds.
The paps who have taken most of Meghan’s UK pap strolls and even some in Toronto, the US, and India. They had a very limited portfolio (a few Pippa and Beckham shots) until Meghan came along. When she arrived, they were all Meghan, all the time.
They did the monogrammed necklace stroll.
The Austin pap walk.
The Heathrow Airport pap walk.
The West End pic that was supposedly captured by a “lucky bystander.”
The Mumbai airport pap walk.
And the Soho House pap walk.
I thought for sure Constant Media was Markus, but it appears not. After the engagement CM was relegated to snapping Harry coming to and from the gym and they just snapped Meghan’s relatives arriving at the airport. It appears CM was ditched by Meghan as soon as she got the ring. Not an uncommon story, as we all know.
I am now told that CM is Niraj Tanna. Take that with a grain of salt, because I don’t really have any proof, except of the fact that Tanna started acting salty after the engagement. Poor guy, first he got ditched by the MIddletons and now he got ditched by Megs.
“Deeply personal moment” for Meghan. OMG. Her dad was caught doing the same exact thing she’s done to Harry and Pippa. The only thing “deeply personal” about this is her terror that she’ll be exposed NEXT.
However, I think these royal events are horrible choices for a rehab pr drive. They should go back to the small charities in Nottingham and Brighton and hug some minority kids.
Fleet Street already has their knives out. They’re ready to feast.
If I were Megs, I’d be hoping that something else is going to save her from the soon-to-be onslaught of all the things she thought couldn’t or wouldn’t be published. Releasing the menu ain’t going to stop it. Neither would a wedding.
“Harassed” and “pursued” my bootie. They are such fucking hypocrites. Of course they knew that Tom was working with Coleman Rayner, just like they knew that Doria was working with them too. They are all calling the paps on themselves and then running to IPSO to complain. The question is, how long will the press let them get away with it?
I’m not. They’re Americans thinking that the British press will act like the American press. The American press has the first amendment and has far more leeway in what they can print, i.e. no IPSO. But the British press is vicious. They put things on the front page that the American press would never do.
After six months of unrelenting press drive, multiple events with HM, Kate and Will, and tons of wedding hoopla, her approval rating is unchanged at 40%. That’s what she had right after the engagement.
LOL, Richard Palmer is doing somersaults trying to spin this positively. She’s “beating Harry” and she’s at 40% and he’s at 71%. LOLOLOL, I guess math is hard when you’re a royal reporter.
Oh, and William is now more popular than Harry RIGHT BEFORE HARRY’S WEDDING. That’s why we had the ANZAC kiss on the cheek and that joint event.
Only 38% of Britons plan to watch the wedding.
My favorite part of the article is this one:
“Public support for continuing the monarchy remains high at 61 per cent but only 36 per cent believe Prince Charles is the best candidate to be next head of the Commonwealth, a role he will take up when he accedes to the throne.”
LOLOLOLOL, Chuck’s 36% is bad but Meghan’s 40% is super awesome.
I am baffled by this too. They are on a “Let he who is without a gay porn ex throw the first stone” kick. It’s like they don’t realize that most people do invite family to their wedding, do keep in touch with their step-siblings, and don’t have nudes online or long-lost porn exes in their lives. They are acting like this is all normal and “relatable.” Um, yeah, sure.
I suspect the fact that Megs was not smart enough to say “I love you” in the engagement interview will come back and bite her in the ass. Harry said it, but she didn’t return the favor.
Maybe, I think he must have expected some kind of press backlash and he likely was, as you say, prepared to defend her.
But I suspect that he was expecting stuff about her nudes and family. I don’t think he was expecting the Diana 2.0 revelations, or the endless parade of people explaining how Meghan pursues people, uses them, and then ditches them once they are no longer of use to her.
The tabs aren’t building a “she’s inappropriate” narrative. They are building a “she’s using Harry for fame, the way she has used everyone else” storyline, and they have copious amounts of material backing them on this one.
I think, as you say, he was prepared to defend her. I don’t think he was prepared to look like a fool while doing it.
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