I honestly think that they have to do something but whatever they do will probably get a backlash. They could issue a statement but that could stoke the fires more. They could try to sit down with the Markle family and ask them what it would take for them to sign an NDA but if they don’t then the family would definitely sell it as a story that they tried to get them to sign an NDA. If they go a legal route then it again could create more attention or could backfire if they don’t win in some way. So yeah. I don’t know what I’d advise at this point but I don’t think they can let it continue as it is right now.
Personally–the way this is going–I wouldn’t be surprised if next week or the week after if Thomas Markle hopped a plane to the London and did an in-the-studio LIVE interview with Piers Morgan.
And more interviews with Fleet Street. In person.
I mean, we can all see which way this thing is going…
Yep, and he had to apologize through the press because they weren’t talking to him. That was the issue.
And they ghosted him AFTER there were a ton of leaks from the palace about how they didn’t blame him for the pictures and they were so concerned about his health and the were going to go see him in Mexico. I bet he thought everything was okay and he had been forgiven and then he realized they weren’t taking his call anymore. That’s when he decided to apologize through the press.
I doubt it’s a coordinated strategy, however. I feel like it’s more that her family knows her and they’ve been in this situations twice before. They know what she’s going to do.
Tom Sykes is on a roll defending Megha’s decision to ghost her dad now.
You know it’s about to ‘go down’ when you’re actually slowly whispering “oh my goood”. Daddy’s got an in with the UK press now. It’s official. The Sun is his UK TMZ.
No response wringed from RoyalMeg or KP out of his Saturday & Sunday exclusives in The Sun, so now the old fox is shooting warning shots with a sharp loaded shotgun! LOL, good heavens. He’s basically going, ‘oh you thought this was embarrassing? Pick up the damned phone or I’ll show you embarrassment.’ He’s really much better at this media game than his daughter.
I mean…, “If I chose in a month, or couple of months, to go to England — I want to see my daughter. I’m thinking about it. I don’t care whether she is p***** off at me or not.”
And, “I still want to meet the Queen. If she’ll meet Donald Trump, why not me? (!OMG!) I’d like to be treated by the royal family like Meghan’s father. I should be regarded with the respect of any other father of the bride.”
Well you go daddy-o! LOL. Dear oh dear…
Here’s to him actually doing it. Can you imagine the brouhaha he’ll cause with Fleet Street chomping at the bit? The poor (literally and figuratively poor!) father, pictured outside of KP gates, not being let in, pouring his heart out to his darling daughter through the press in an attempt to reach her. Fearing she’s being held hostage in there; smothered into silence under a mountain of £€$£€$£€$ bespoke swag. DANG! Do it Thomas Markle Sr. Doooo iiiiiiit!
Thanks for sending this in. It’s turning into quite the soap opera.
It would actually be a big chance for her. She could have a public reconciliation, introduce him to the Queen, and then leak that she’s now talking to him but being very careful about what she says because she knows he’s talking to the press. That would neutralize him.
But it sounds like she’s going to try ignoring him, which will just make him rant and rave. That’s going to look pretty funny when she decides she wants to do charity again and starts going on Heads Together events telling people that “we must all help” the mentally ill and families in crisis and there should be tons of support and no stigma.
They are going to get blamed anyway, by Tom Markle of all people. It’s hilarious because Richard Kay had insiders saying that the staff was desperately trying to get Meghan to make up with her family and she just refused to do so. Now they are getting blamed for it all.
Well, that’s what I don’t get about this sudden “toxic parenting” talk. Tom was supposedly a saint (amply documented in Meghan’s speeches, essays and social media) until early May 2018.
Yep, it’s interesting how they use the language of abuse, but her dad was apparently fantastic to her until the tabs started circling and he got no media guidance from KP.
So, basically now that Mio has stupidly set up a rationale that Megs needs to separate herself from her father, we can probably expect that Tom Sr. is going to come back with everything that he did for his daughter growing up and beyond. Attempted ghosting isn’t going to work this time. Shall we take bets on whether or not Tom Sr. is going to appear on Good Morning Britain? Whether or not Meg’s previous Instagram posts will appear?
Just sayin’…cause this girl gives Fleet Street a lot to work with…
OMG… Thomas Markle Sr’s sold a weekend’s worth of exclusive interview to The Sun [+on Sunday]…
Since Meghan’s not answering him, he’s texting some poor KP staff, and they’re not answering him either. And it’s been months. Yowza. Tom’s more shrewd than I gave him credit for. In one interview, he managed to make out that his Meggy’s terrified and being pressured by the Royal family, and on Sunday, it’s that he’s going to dies soon and doesn’t anybody care?! (That was for you Meg.) Oh and bonus: he ‘opened up his family album’. Oh daddy…
And he complained that the BRF should have seated Doria with them at the wedding, and not sat alone on Meghans freaking side(!!!) because she had nobody but celebrities there and looked like she was alone. In what universe but the Dingle Universe can you turn the tables around like this? Haha, it’s unbelievable.
She has officially ghosted her own father: “The phone number I had been calling Meghan on is no longer picking up.” LOL omg. Not since the day after their wedding. After which she seems to have burned her old SIM and phone and ditched daddy dearest. So, “I sent a text to my palace contact saying I would like to reach my daughter and got no reply.” Cheesus. This is so classy.
I don’t know if you guys know of the long-running soap “Emmerdale”. But the Markles are JUST like the Dingles on that show (including Meg herself, which I ID as Charity Dingle- prozzie, con artist and cold gold digger extraordinaire).
The BRF can bend over backwards, forwards and tie themselves into a pretzle – in the end, these American Dingles will find a way to blame eeeeverything on them when Meg bails in less than 2 years. They just can’t win this one. All they can do is to make sure there aren’t any ‘incriminating’ images out there to illustrate Meg’s coming narrative – so BIG SMILES EVERYBODY!
Thanks for sending this in! She has completely ghosted him. This is supposed to make his interviews worthless to the press because he has no contact with the royals and hence no news to share regarding any Meghan “trouble.” However, he has completely twisted it around so that the ghosting itself is evidence of Meghan’s troubles.
I think they underestimated the Markles. These guys have been in Hollywood for a while. They know the tricks.
I don’t watch Emmerdale, but I’m going to look up the Dingles. It really is interesting how the BRF will always get blamed, no matter how much money or events they throw at this girl or many protocols they allow her to “break.” The old guard is clenching its jaw as she prances around in shoulder-baring outfits, turning her back on the Queen, Charles is wincing as he signs checks for French couture and worthless foreign tours, the entire family is grimacing as they pose for happy pics…and yet they are all going to get blamed when this turns to shit.
I think your last paragraph really nails it, and, yes, they are probably going to go on a huge “happy families” drive this summer, likely at Balmoral. However, it will be for naught. I think the real onslaught will come in the Fall when Meghan unveils some crap “female empowerment” umbrella program instead of the blockbuster innovative whatever that everyone is expecting.
I think it’s quite possible that it gets released this summer. Obviously we won’t know for sure until it happens.
I imagine its worth diminishes as she gets older. No one would want to see her sex tape when she’s in her 40s and 50s when she looks old. The people who would make money off something like that have more to gain by publishing it when she closely matches (physically) how she looks on the tape than by when she doesn’t.
Yup. This relationship has clearly sunk after their honeymoon, regardless of wherever they did or did not go.
It wouldn’t surprise me if some super crazy shit happened between 22 July and 4 August, but particularly between 25 and 28 July because I have a wedding to go to and will miss possible said crazy shit. Like, it wouldn’t surprise me if it would happen when I can’t enjoy it. Murphy’s law and all.
It also wouldn’t surprise me if Harry decides he’s over it in the fall and decides to go for an annulment. Divorce in the UK is much tougher to get than in the USA. There’s only FIVE reasons available when filing for divorce.
Prince Fuck-Up has got to continue his current trend of fucking up…
I think they’ve had a pretty good record with Meghan, in the sense that when they say something will drop, it usually drops. The caveat is that sometimes it drops a year later, and sometimes it’s totally underwhelming. For example, the Snapchat nude got covered up as photoshop, the topless honeymoon pics were covered up as a doppelgänger, the topless Greece pics were covered up as fake, etc…
Likewise, Blind Gossip got the Stella dress sort of right, but it wasn’t the actual wedding gown, and the damaging information that the friends were selling to the tabloids right after the relationship got out didn’t drop until after the engagement.
I’d say they are a good 7-8 on general accuracy and a 3-4 on timing and impact.
They’ve been saying for a while that there are two big things yet to drop: (i) more nudes, including a video, and (ii) a Heather Mills-type expose about her yatching. My bet is that they do have something, but nowhere near as inflammatory as they claim. Definitely not something worth 8 figures. Maybe it’s the rest of that Snapchat video and a couple of Deal or No Deal girls telling stories. Something like that. Her sugars will probably go “but everyone masturbates on SnapChat and has sugar daddies in their twenties” because that’s how they roll.
From what they’ve been saying, the people holding the information are trying to get as much money as they can. They aren’t just out to hurt Meghan, they want cash. That’s likely why nothing has come out. They think they are sitting on a gold mine and they are probably sitting on $20k worth of blackmail money or something like that.
Will it ever come out? Your guess is as good as mine. The Heather Mills stuff took YEARS.
The media and social media landscape has changed a lot in the last 10+ years since Heather Mills though…
what struck me about it is she wants to leave. And that reminded me of the story from Cory’s friend that she snubs/ignores people who are not important can’t do anything for her. That seems to me to be what is happening here – she got her photo op these folks can’t do anything more now to advance her agenda so she wants to go. She is bored now. It ain’t about her. Harry though is working so he is not running off. I bet it bothers her that people want to talk to Harry she isn’t the star. This may explain all the early leaving of events.
She also has no idea what to say or do that may be why she stays plastered on to Harry.
Thanks for sending this in! She just seems so, so fake to me.
Honestly, the only period when they were all smiles, imo, was between the engagement and Sandringham. Then they looked briefly happy (in a pharmaceutical kind of way) during the wedding. Other than that they’ve always looked kind of stressed and forced.
No one is going to pay 10 million dollars. NO ONE.
I want this to be real, but seriously? They are asking for $10 mil and plan to put it on PAY PER VIEW????
I suspect the 8 figures is more of a negotiating tactic to get as much $$$ as possible. I doubt the royal family would even pay if they were asking for 5 figures.
The royal family as a whole can plan the dumb card though. Except for Megs. Depending on what’s released, maybe Harry.
Can you imagine the shitstorm if her father actually did die this summer while this is already going on? You know, it’s already a new celebrity death every day…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
House of Brat 