I’m legit dying of second hand embarrassment now. “Shop our Royal collection and be the ROYAL that YOU are.” Jess issuing to put out a “royal” collection too, isn’t she? Probably “Duchess” short shorts and official princess lip fillers.
I’m no Mary fan, but she dresses a lot better than Meghan and carries herself professionally. She rubs me the wrong away (I find her arrogant and cold), but I have to admit that she looks and acts like a princess and future queen. I cannot even picture Mary wearing a friend’s “royal collection” oversize jacket (”be the ROYAL you can BE”), or showing up somewhere with ginger-chocolate-chip-and-banana bread.
Meghan is a frustrated lifestyle blogger who found a lonely prince and decided that this was her ticket to a life full of published cookbooks, merching, and domestic goddess profiles. She’s trying to use the brf’s platform to create a royal version Goop or something like that. It’s bizarre.
Sorry for the long absence, guys. Sadly, blogging will continue to be sporadic until after the US midterm elections. I have a ton of work to do until then and it’s a lot more important than royal anything. By the way, if you’re a United States reader, remember to go vote on November 6th!!!!
But I’m still pretty obsessive about the blog, so here are some thoughts on the past few weeks.
The boots came back! Kate wore her trusty Penelope Chilvers on her first post-maternity engagement. I thought this event was spot on. she looked casual but perfectly groomed and she was great with the kids (I loved the cup-holding Duchess). She just kind of stepped back and let the kids and the charity shine.
Meghan then wore some hideous leather skirt to Sussex. I’ve been bitching about Letizia’s tacky leather skirts for years, so I obviously hated this. Meghan is truly amazing, though. She managed to wrinkle leather, which I didn’t think was possible. This is also her third nearly-identical green ensemble.
Then Kate wore an Erdem dress I actually liked. We must be entering end times. I love that the dress was inspired by the Queen. That (and the POC plaid) was a nice touch. I liked the plum pumps and clutch, but hated the earrings (which were also Erdem, so I still get to say that I hated something Erdem).
That dress outglammed Meghan’s fug black Givenchy in every single way. Same thing happened at Eugenie’s wedding with Kate’s semi-recycled raspberry dress outshining Meghan’s maternity funeral-wear.
I see a lot of Kate fans taking the “real queens fix each other’s crowns” high road on twitter. I think that’s partly because they are genuinely nice people (far nicer than me!), and partly because this is not a competition at this point.
Eugenie’s wedding was lovely and heartwarming. The groom, was too cute and the bride was gorgeous. I loved the colors (the tiara had emeralds!), absolutely adored the unusual floral arrangements (chinese lanterns! York roses! Blue thistles!), appreciated all the details honoring Eugenie’s family and heritage, and enjoyed the nods to their charity endeavors. Andrew hovering around like a mother hen was adorable, and Fergie and Bea looked gorgeous. Fergie’s carousel party looked like a lot of fun. It was heads and shoulders above the über-basic Pinterest wedding the Sussexes put up.
And speaking of, this how the Sussexes showed up in Australia. They look like a hot mess. Is it me, or is Harry’s bald spot huuuuuuge now?
I still can’t believe they are being this irresponsible, but this is Meghan to a T. She’s on a schedule and she won’t let anything, not even her baby’s health, stand between her and her goal.
I wouldn’t word it as strongly as that. She is harboring some sort of resentment
and feels like they are being pesky in holding her back from doing as
she wishes. There is very little will for cooperation or, as an anon so
aptly put it, compromise on her part. As the contrasting spreads on her and Harry showed in the reading – Meghan puts her own needsbefore even those of her own husband’s, let alone his family or “job”.
The MoeNay®
is beyond me. Whether it is a mix of what people call “merching” and
actual purchases…? It’s way over Wemps’ interest. There are other
bloggers far better at it than I. Would however agree that the tally is
rather on the atrocious side! It really is very curious that she chooses to carry on in this manner. But then again, remember the steamrolling KoW in my reading? -The person in that card believes they are entitled to whatever it is they are pursuing. They’ve got their blinders on and may step on toes getting to wherever it is they are trying to get to. Might come off as arrogance.
PR anon. I like to try and educate by exposing the game Markle is playing in the hopes that people will see just how pernicious PR is and how manipulated they are. Avoid the divisiveness and denial the political content creates by just using her as the example. It is still an uphill battle. Take the recent spate of articles allegedly about her in People this week. You always see a bunch of thinly disguised adverts for the shit she wears after an engagement. Pt 1
Pt 2 These are ads – she is basically endorsing the brand and gets paid for the use of her name as well as a % of the sales made. People gets a % too. It looks like a story but it is an ad and usually there is a disclaimer at the bottom of the page. You do not see this with Kate BTW. Also, she pumps fake stories like this pregnancy garbage out to maintain anticipation keep the interest up. None of it is true it is just a standard PR technique. MM is a hustler and con artist.
And political
situations like this are exactly why Kate and the rest of the royal family
dress “conservatively.” Because their job is to be a stable influence and not
be flashy or constantly show off wealth.
If the Brexit
situation doesn’t get better, then I think it’ll be a sure bet that there will
be articles critiquing Meg’s couture wardrobe on the tour. Given the possible
political situation, the articles practically write themselves. It’s basically
a no brainer. If it gets bad enough, then perhaps we would see an aide go
shopping for Megs to buy something cheap and local when they’re in Australia. But I doubt Megsy would
want to do that. She’ll probably want to stick to her guns about whatever Jessica Mulroney has brought over and arranged.
And that leaves an
opening for anyone to explicitly expose whatever is truly going on whether it’s an ex-friend or someone else. It could be that Brexit talks tank even further in mid-to-late October, and then we start reading articles on Megs and/or Harry in November.
I have a feeling the American brands will be huge during the Australian tour-Carolina Herrera, Ralph, etc.. Jess was in NYFW doing the rounds. Meghan will likely wear whoever was making a big push during that week. Unfortunately, I don’t follow fashion that much and don’t know who that was.
The fact that she hasn’t been photographed with the Queen speaks volumes. Megsy can have her pr put out article after article saying she’s the Queen’s favorite; however, she hasn’t been pictured with HM The Queen since right after her wedding. (Group appearances don’t count.)
I wonder if Harry & Megs will go to the Polish state visit. I think it might depend on how their big tour down under goes. Or the state of their relationship knowing those two can’t behave properly anyway.
I’m not going to harbor any guesses as to what could or couldn’t come out. Since you mentioned it, I think the UK press doing an article about the merching with Jessica Mulroney is probably a big possibility. Megs will probably be wearing different, expensive, couture ensembles multiple times a day. Writing about the huge cost of her wardrobe for that tour practically writes itself. It’s a 16-day tour. By day 7 the press will already have seen almost half of it. Multiple articles could easily be written. And it will be very easy to point out that Kate works with a much smaller budget.
I know that tarot readers have said that secrets will be revealed–as in things Megs is hiding that Harry doesn’t know about–but I’m not convinced that those are the kinds of things that will instantly come out in the press. It’s certainly possible. But it could be just revealed to Harry and the royal family and not the press at that stage. Perhaps the press just writes about it later. We’ll just have to see.
Here are two of Naomi Tarot’s most recent readings regarding Meghan’s secret.
Oh, I think your’re right, but at the time I was completely taken in by his pr.
If you look at my early posts, I was completely convinced that there had to be some blackmail/fauxmance arrangement going on. I simply could not picture a royal willingly doing such obvious Soho House/NBC/etc… merching. Suits was using the relationship as promo! Meghan was pap-walking two, sometimes THREE, times a week! She was selling “Harry” necklaces and rings! She was doing DM “date” articles for her blog sponsors!
I still can’t believe he did it. This was Instagram model level stuff. Have some pride, dude!
Okay, is part 2 of a longer anon. I’m not posting the first part because I don’t want to post the blogger’s post or name. I don’t like getting into Tumblr spats.
I think the receipts you are asking for are about the engagement dress? Am I right about that? I’m not sure because the post you cite said the dress cost “25k” and the engagement dress cost 56k pounds or $75k.
If you ARE asking about the engagement dress. KP told the DM that the dress was “privately purchased.”
The Sun was the only one who added the “not from official royal funds” and “it is thought they spent nowhere near that figure.” It is unclear whether they got that from their palace “source” (no other outlet got that info), or if they are talking about some other “source.”
A lot of people thought that the dress was sent to Jess as a freebie and then she gifted it to Meghan, thus circumventing the “no freebies” rule, but, as far as I know, there was not confirmation anywhere.
However, People subsequently noted that royals cannot accept clothes for free. They also stated that they “understand” that, at least up to March 2018, Harry and Meghan were playing for her clothes independently.
As you can tell, the sources of the statements get cloudier and cloudier. KP is on the record as saying that the dress was “privately purchased,” but once you start to ask where the funds came from the statements are attributed to “it is thought” and “People understands.”
I think the cloudy sourcing is why people bring Jess into the equation.
But it’s interesting that we all assumed that Givenchy was leaking Meghan’s (or Eug’s or Cam’s) dress fitting for promo purposes and it didn’t even seem odd or anything. That’s how far the brf has sunk. Something like that would have been unimaginable two years ago.
For the Brit brands: they are not used to give it to the royals for free. It’s just not done like that. Of course, Sarah Burton might give Kate a huge discount when she orders 5 coat-dressed from the same pattern but in 5 slighly different shades of pastel. But look at that from the perspective that at these numbers it’s no longer a bespoken, it’s a mass production! And Erdem might give Kate a wholesale discount for buying a whole line of curtain dresses in one day. I mean, they have to encourage their loyal customers. But absolutely free? Nope, still not done for the royals. As for Meghans: she does not have budget left. Whatever PC gave her, she blew it up already. So Canadian and US freebies it is. Whatever JM can find.
Thanks for sending this in! I think she still has a Stella tux somewhere (at leas according to one of the leaks), but, in general, I suspect you’re right.
Well, regarding the alleged embezzling, I think it’s good to keep in mind that not everything that CDAN publishes is accurate. There are always a lot of people in Hollywood submitting things to that site with various agendas. Those agendas are never held in check or verified by the publisher (CDAN) to ensure accuracy for the readers. There are a LOT of things submitted to that site that seem purely based on fan speculation or a pr rep needing to get a certain rumor out to benefit a certain pr agenda. I do not believe that everything published there should be taken as fact.
That said, I think what some people like to forget is that Harry got in this situation by not listening to what his family likely told him. Harry was dumb, lonely, and desperate to get married. So now he is. He could have waited to get married for another 6 months. If it’s the true love that Harry and Megs fans like to say it is, then there is no reason they couldn’t have had a wedding further down the road. Except they didn’t. And now it probably isn’t going to work out for a bunch of reasons including that Tweedledee and Tweedledum aren’t suitable for a long-term relationship.
Prince Fuck-Up will do what he does best: fuck up.
Pt 2 I know she has a pr firm pumping out content like crazy especially in the US media. Anyone who knows pr can recognize this and also recognize where she is going with this – a very ugly divorce. Yet the tarot readers don’t see this. You however do not seem to be making these assumptions and so you seem more reliable to me. So to annulment. Harry’s best chance for his future is the annulment and the “sources” have been saying that will be the attempt. con’t
Pt 3 so kudos to you for picking up on that. She needs the “I a martyr to their suffocating ways just like Diana” divorce so how do they get to annulment? I’d bet Harry does not want to be seen as the bad guy so he won’t initiate break up what do you think? Consistent great observations from you – love it!
1) Which tabloids are you referring to? There is a wide variation in reporting amongst various publications. You have to consider that there are US and UK tabloids. Both of which come from a variety of angles.
2) As I understand it, tarot readers read the cards based on the questions asked. If the tarot reader isn’t asking about merching, then they’re not going to get cards about merching. I have seen references in Naomi’s readings about a possible loss of money for Harry and Megs. Some people assume that could be a loss of merching money. Generally, the tarot readers are going on about the relationship between Harry and Megs, and whether or not she’s going to bail or if they’re going to break up. I don’t know that everyone is aware of the merching issue outside of close royal watchers. And even then, some royal watchers give Megs a pass anyway.
3) Regarding the pr firms, same thing. The tarot readers are reading the cards about the relationship between Harry & Megs. They’re not asking about whether or not Megs will run out of money to pay her pr firms. Or what new thing she’ll have them issue a press release on. That’s an entirely different issue.
4) I think it’s totally possible that Harry initiates the process, but that doesn’t mean we’ll see it as publicly as we would like. He’s a fickle, whiny bitch. Once he realizes that his new life will always revolve around having to deal with his wife’s bullshit relatives and her drama, the newlywed glow just kind of instantly fades. I mean, does Harry get press on his own anymore? Not really. And that’s got to burn his inner famewhore to no end. Megs really has nowhere to go. The divorce process in the UK means that she can’t ditch people as easily as she ditched Cory and Trevor. Fleet Street will be on her ass, and once the palace pr isn’t going to protect her, things will be much more difficult for her on the public relations front. In fact, let’s remember that the reason she’s able to flood the presses with her pr rep’s emails is because the palace is backing her due to Harry. Fleet Street isn’t going to come at her with all the resources that they could when the palace is still backing her. Her only real audience is the US, but even then she pales in comparison to regular celebrities and the daily Trumpalooza. Odds are, she would get lost in the US press if/once Trumpy gets impeached next year.
CDAN cracked the merching. Jess gets the clothes for free in exchange for advertising the designers. Jess then gives the clothes/jewels to Meg to wear. Meg gives Charles the full price receipt for “reimbursement.” Then Meg and Jess spilt the money Charles has paid.
This is a really big deal. Much bigger than a protocol breach. Is she paying US and UK taxes on those funds? IF Charles really has spent $2.5M on her since the engagement using fraudulent receipts submitted by Meg, isn’t that embezzlement of some type? Wouldn’t that be financial fraud. Wonder where she learned to do that?
This is the 2nd article I have seen in US media that makes excuses for why MM is not selling. The first article claimed her legs were so skinny cause she was under stress due to PC yelling at her for all the money spent on clothes and she could not eat. Which is nonsense she has always had very thin legs. The other article also talked about her balding again due to stress.
This article is again blaming her skinny legs, ill fitting clothes on weight loss due to stress. And her too large shoes are to prevent blisters – uh too large shoes cause blisters. And everyone wears their shoes too big. I didn’t get that memo. But eh this is Meghan Markle world where the most absurd claims are to be believed.
She obviously is not doing well in getting new sponsors and this article makes that clear. I don’t find it surprising her post Harry plan for fortune as a mercher luxury brand endorser is failing. She looks dreadful most of the time. She has been looking for sponsors before Polo she has ads all over and right after Polo she had a “Meghan’s Fav looks” in People so she is not getting either the freebies or the paid contracts. She really overestimated her attraction as a celeb endorser.
Thanks for sending this in! The problem is that her style is not that good. She looks good in simple dresses, pencil skirts, and skinny pants, and that’s pretty much it. You can build an excellent professional wardrobe out of that, but you’re not going to end up in any “style icon” or “fashion muse” lists.
The weird part is that she could have a lovely royal style out of the pieces she looks good in, but that’s not enough for her. She has to be edgy and/or couture and she simply looks awful in those looks.
I think the clothing expense is really going to bite her in the ass.
I have no clue what they were thinking. I expected her to pick some charities and start doing black-slacks-and-messy-buns visits after the wedding. Instead, she scheduled a ton of royal events and maxed out Charles’ credit card on couture that wasn’t even freaking British. Her appearances were all celeb or aristo events. Her leaked stories were about all the houses the Queen was giving them. She skipped out on all of Harry’s charity and fundraising events (event the Sentebale Africa trip!). The only one she showed up for was the Sentebale polo fundraiser and that was just to have a kiss pic that would overshadow Tom’s interview.
I don’t understand their post-wedding strategy at all.
“Dior, Givenchy (doesn’t matter if the designer is British – it’s still a French brand), Ralph Lauren and Roland Mouret…not even a year as a British royal and Meghan has probably worn more non-British brands than Kate ever did in two years. It’s funny how people would rip Kate apart when she dared wear foreign brands once even when she wears a lot of British fashion but now people are quiet when Meghan does it even more than her.“ – Submitted by Anonymous
* SHOES probably one of her Manolos Blahniks or Sarah Flints so I’m not counting it in. But then again, she does have an history of buying the same pair of black whatthefug from the same designer just to buy it again so it’s new… so it’s anybody’s guess at this point.
* JEWELLERY not seen any, haven’t counted any in.
TOTAL TALLY FOR WIMBLEDON OUTFIT = £3’925 (pounds) OR $5’193 (dollars)
I don’t want to blame anything on the Kardashians, but the pressure to emulate that lifestyle is infectious, and some of my clients don’t realize that other celebrities are getting a lot of stuff for free. There are celebrities who get paid to be courtside at basketball games, $25,000 or $50,000 just to sit there for two hours. And not only that, they’ll get an entire box of designer clothes shipped to their house so they can pick out what to wear, for free. It’s impossible to keep up with that, but it’s natural to want to. My clients experience the same social pressures that we all feel, in normal life, except for them it’s amplified and more public.
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