I doubt it was Canadian cops. Wendell can tell a Canadian from a Brit.
Even if it was an RPO, it still means someone from the UK was shelling out money for Megsy to have that level of security, which she certainly did not merit.
They’ll likely try that, but is it believable? I mean, look at the big picture. He flew an actress he’d just met to Botswana on a work trip, then he gave her royal security, then he flew to see her after an official tour, all in the space of a few months. He got away with A LOT.
I’m beginning to wonder if this article will end up opening the door to more articles in Fleet Street exposing money shenanigans, particularly those by Megs and Harry.
Maybe, but I don’t think Wendell would mistake UK secret agents for Canadian private security. He’s an actor. He’s used to having security around.
Cui bono? That is, who benefits? Megsy does NOT benefit from this story.
1) With all her clothes spending, she does not need stories circulating that she got more protection than Kate before Kate became engaged to William. And for an ENTIRE YEAR!
2) Megsy clearly cut Wendell off since he wasn’t at the wedding. More likely, he figures he has nothing to lose in telling stories about her when he worked with her on Suits. And he’s right, he doesn’t really have anything to lose.
I don’t see how they can bury it. It’s apparently an interview he did for Extra so there must be video out there somewhere. You don’t get more legitimate than first person recollection caught on video for a different publisher.
And what are they going to say? That they paid privately for Mi5 to follow Meghan around? Is that even possible? That a US actor mistook private security for Mi5? That’s pretty ridiculous.
Given the timing of this story, I’m beginning to wonder if anything else is just going to fall out of the cracks in the next two weeks.
I don’t know if it was truly MI5, but I have no doubt the security was British. Like AHPF said, “As if a television actor would be impressed by American bodyguards. NBC has tons of them.” Wendell has been working in Hollywood for more than 20 years. He was in Waiting to Exhale with Whitney Houston. And that was back when Whitney was a superstar and hadn’t hit the decline that you saw in the 2000s. Wendell has been around long enough to figure out the difference between bodyguard employments. I have no doubt the security was British and not paid by NBC.
I’m very curious to see who pounces on this and whether they let KP brush them off with a haughty non-denial. This is potentially a big deal. There’s no “they might have been engaged” here.
Well, maybe it was just a drop in the bucket compared to all the cash they’re letting her spend on her clothes…
Even still, this girl racks up QUITE the expense bill!
LOL, and I was bitching about a couple of hours at Invictus. This would be hundreds of thousands in taxpayer money. There were rumors that Doria had RPOs in LA too. I wonder if those were true too.
Yup. This chick gets whatever she wants and still complains. Nothing is good enough for her. Meanwhile, Kate really did suffer harassment for years.
Every day since the day the relationship was announced? Reeeeeaaaaaalllllyyyyyyy? This isn’t an anonymous source. This is an eyewitness from the show putting his name on it. I wonder if anyone will comment.
When you think about all the harassment Kate received from the paparazzi, this is really ridiculous.
Every day since the day the relationship was announced? Reeeeeaaaaaalllllyyyyyyy? This isn’t an anonymous source. This is an eyewitness from the show putting his name on it. I wonder if anyone will comment.
Ah yes they leaked their own relationship and need MI5 protection. I’m not surprised by the abuse of power.
“As soon as it came out that they were dating, everyone was warned to stop talking or they would be fired”
I don’t find it a coincidence that Wendell didn’t attend the wedding and is now spitting out these details…
Screen shots of this article in case it disappears…
It’s what everyone does in a divorce. The wealthier, non-custodial parent uses money to gain more access to the children and the less wealthy custodial parent uses the children to get more money.
The weird part, imo, is that Angelina is acting like someone who is really short on money. I’d heard rumors about her out-of-control spending, but I was skeptical. I guess the rumors were right.
And I have no doubt this is one of the reasons why Laura Wasser quit being AJ’s lawyer.
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?
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.
so royals get money through basically 2 main ways.. the Sovereign Grant and a Duchy
Sovereign Grant is a percentage given back to HM from the earnings of the Crown Estate from a previous year. This money goes to fund the majority of the royal family. This next year that money will be going up due to major reno work at Buckingham Palace
The Duchy of Lancaster is a private portfolio of land that was set aside to fund the monarch and his/her family
The Duchy of Cornwall is a private portfolio of land that was set aside to fund the Heir and his/her family. This is the main source of funds for Prince Charles, Camilla, William, Kate, Harry and Meghan. This funds the CH and KP households.
Note: this funding does not include the cost/source for the security/rpos. that is a whole different thing
Note #2: Royals are not allowed to take freebies and any gifts received while on “duty” are theirs to use for life but are property of the crown.
Note #3: Contrary to recent popular belief, no Meghan is not buying her own clothes, as a working, senior royals all of her expenses are covered by the Duchy of Cornwall.
if anyone wants to correct or add on, please do so
To add on a couple of points as Rosie graciously said we could:
– Rosie mentioned security isn’t included. Neither are the costs of away days or tours. When they go overseas the host country pays. When they go for a whole day to a specific area of the country- an away day as it’s called- the trip is paid for by the local council and can be very pricey (upwards of five figures).
– Also not included in the official figures the royals mention is the cost of the monarchy in the Commonwealth. The Queen is head of state in several countries but doesn’t live there so she has representatives who act on her behalf on a daily basis. These costs are met by the Commonwealth nation and are never included in figures regarding the cost of the monarchy. In previous years Canada have actually spent more on the monarchy than Brits have!
– The Duchy of Lancaster and the Duchy of Cornwall are legally considered private sources of income but should the monarchy be removed, they would return to the public and the income would go to the nation
– If the Crown Estate’s profits decrease the queen’s income is not allowed to decrease. She is not allowed to have her pay cut, essentially, and her income has risen at a rate higher than inflation. This is quite controversial against a backdrop where public sector workers are having their pay slashed by the government or where pay is increasing below the rate of inflation
* 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)
Yep, once she started piling on the Givenchy and Cartier, the gig was up.
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.
“Meghan & Harry are a prime example of why the British Family really needs to trim its expenses on these irrelevant royal members- the future are Kate, William, their 3 children, and their children’s children, while in the upcoming decades Harry & Meg will be pushed to the side just like Prince Andrew (brother of future King) & his children, so it’s funny to see these 2 prance around wasting millions of taxpayers of money and shaking hands with them in concern shamelessly, just move to the side.“ – Submitted by Anonymous
Most probably other anons have already sent you this, but I find it remarkable, as “shameless extravagance” is quite a strong wording, spot on but very strong for British usual politeness.
“One final piece of advice. Perhaps Meghan should book an appointment with Rigby & Peller, providers of lingerie to the royals — and get herself a proper-fitting bra.” nipple-gate has indeed reached the news.
It’s a ton of money! That’s why they are using strong language. What they don’t say is that they’ve been bitching about the cost of Kate’s clothing for years.
But they did mention Megs spent more than Kate’s first year married to William.
“Meghan, in her Givenchy trouser suit, at the Famine Memorial” – that’s golden! I hope this description sticks around. And every time Irish visit is mentioned MM to be known as “in her Givenchy trouser suit, at the Famine Memorial”. Like Kate is still being dragged for pink coat on Ground Zero memorial (funny side note – Camilla wore a pink suit to Ground Zero in 2005, guess that’s where Kate got the idea https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/royal-visit-ground-zero/ and absolutely noone cared or felt insulted by this shade of pink).
But what I find absolutely mind-blowing is Dior at RAF100. That’s just such a huge faux-pas. I’m not taking about the dress itself or black colour, overall MM looked fine. But absolutely inappropriate. First, This sort of services in the bound-duty of BRF. They all wear uniforms to show their ranks. Men wear literally uniforms, royal ladies wear their most distinct uniform like outfit. It’s not by chance that after RAF100 everyone is talking that Kate has settled into uniform. Yes, she did and yes that’s how it should be. And then there is MM with hollywood glamoure in haut couture black dress. Second, the price. We don’t have so far the numbers, but I really hope that roaly reporters and bloggers pest Dior for the quotes on such bespoken. My guess: the costs of the dress will easily surpass the combine costs of royal ladies outfits. That’s the Queen, 2 future Queens, Princess Royal, Countess Wessex. What sort of arrogance MM must have to think that she’s worthy of that much! This brings to the third point, who paid for it? MM sugars are screaming that she has millions of her own. Please! Total BS. Not even gonna entertain this notion. If Charles’ credit card pays for it, then why he allows such extravaganza? Personally, I don’t think Charles would approve the bills like that. My guess is that he gave them a budget, they have already blew it long time ago. And this Dior is a freebie. Which is even less acceptable than millions spent on clothes.
Oh I hope the reporters will spin and spin and spin the reciepts. And when push comes to shove how Charles will play it out? What is worse for him? Acknowledge freebies which opens doors so many other freebies probes? Or let total sum of MM clothes+jewels be attributed to his allowance and basically label MM a gold-digger?
Thanks for sending this in! I’m very curious about how much that Dior cost.
“I’d say the right comparison is Kate’s first year, not this year. ” – Heck, they may as well compare to the total of all Kate’s 7 years. The end result might be either “almost the same” or even “slightly over”. Just a fast google search, all numbers are from tabs articls in thousands £
I think May2011-Dec2011 was about 55K, but can’t find an article.
What we have so far ca. 500K. The missing 2 years and a half could be max 200K. Her totals for 7 years will be ca. 700K.
I’m afraid MM has already spent that. And wait till the end of the year.
Thanks for sending this in. I can’t find those years either. Funny because I could have sworn that they did this every single year. BTW, Kate’s entire Australia tour was 55k and I think they were counting repeats.
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.
Yeah! I’ve been banging on about this for years!! I think their annual report should give a better breakdown of what exactly the money is spent on and I think they should give an annual report with the exact cost of the monarchy to society. At the moment they say the monarchy only costs x per person based on the Sovereign Grant. They need to start summarising the cost as a whole which will include the Sovereign Grant, transport, local visits which are paid for by councils, and the costs to Commonwealth nations.
I don’t think she sold “access.” Harry doesn’t have that kind of pull. I used to track how much money she was making, but I stopped when it reached six figures in April 2017.
And I do think that’s partly why the Markles feel entitled to sell pics and interviews. Meghan did the same while she was dating Harry, so they feel the BRF doesn’t have a right to get snotty about it. She gave US Weekly a “Harry hates Trump” story full of sources detailing H’s political thoughts, so they don’t see why everyone is so upset that they are doing the same.
Hi Plant! I imagined you saw CB’s post about Markle’s expensive clothing, and OF COURSE, Kaiser blamed all the criticizing about her crazy expending on racism! (And, of course, she threw Kate under the bus, as always!) I’m so tired of this delusional, faux feminist bitch and her fake outrage about everything, she’s gotten so delusional that even the majority of the people in the comments were disagreeing with her. They were saying that they didn’t criticized her because of her race but because that money was coming out of the British people’s pockets and that England wasn’t stable enough right now to be expending money on some z-lister’s I’ll fitting clothes, which it shocked me, since Kaiser only accepts comments that agree with her point of view. Honestly, the first time I saw Markle I thought she was white, it never crossed my mind that she was biracial, much less black (which she isn’t) I’m honestly so over people blaming everything on racism, sexism or whining about something as stupid as ‘micro aggressions’ (which by the way, WTF is that??) sometimes you just criticize someone because you can see right through their bullshit, thirstiness and fakeness. Just like most people do with Markle.
Thanks for sending this in. I lol’d at the racism charge. Seriously? Kate faced this exact same criticism for a much smaller bill. Mary and Letizia get criticized every year. Sofia was lambasted last year and she spent like forty thousand euros or something like that–that covers maybe two of Meghan’s outfits. How is it racist to maybe start thinking that Meghan is spending too much when she’s hit the seven figures in six months? At the rate she’s going Meghan will have spent more in one year than Kate spend in her entire Duchess life. Heck, she may spend more than ALL the royal ladies together spent in 2017.
LOL, it’s “racist” to think that it’s too much money. And they bring up Kate’s clothes too. Dude, THE WHOLE POINT is that Meghan is spending ten times Kate’s yearly budged in six months, THAT’S THE WHOLE POINT.
Kate was famously wearing Reiss during her first year–heck, she recycled her engagement dress during the Canada tour–and she was STILL criticized for spending too much money. Kate was absolutely dragged for that 50k bill and it was a small fraction of what Meghan has spent.
And let’s not even mention that Meghan looks like absolute crap in her expensive couture. Her best looks so far have been the Halo dress, the blue off-the-rack Roland Mouret, and the black capris at polo this weekend. According to Katie Nicholls, Megs is now in the market for a stylist. That means she knows she’s royally fucking up. LOL, this is now the fifth person they’ve brought in to help.
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.
He’s buying insurance. When she turns to bite the hand that feeds her he can show receipts of all the money, aides, and royal events that they gave her.
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