There is a reason royals don’t show PDA (along with them being old school and private about there lives) it draws attention away from the work. Every headline on this tour is about them touching each other or lovingly looking into each other’s eyes. What is a dubbo, what is there plight, what’s happening with there people. I don’t know because of BANANA BREAD. Your job is not to be cute. It’s to bring attention to things so people can help/support those issues. Your constant touching and cuddling under umbrellas is not modernizing the family or bringing them into the 21st century, it’s DISTRACTING! They need tot stop acting like teenagers in there first relationship and grow up. Your marriage is also a job it time you start doing it. Maybe if you would have stopped for 10 seconds to think about that before you got married you would have known it’s not the job you wanted. STEP UP, OR STEP OUT!
I think they usually send out press releases to that effect. Harry and Meghan’s press releases are just different.
It appears to me that Meaghan is changing how the KP press officers that work for Harry and Meaghan perform their PR. PR for W&K is still typically work focused in a traditional royal manner. However, Meaghan and Harry’s PR seems to be taking a turn towards typical celebrity PR tricks.
Even Rhiannon Mills, Sky News’ royal correspondent, commented on Monday that the royals typically did not make such announcements before major events or tours in order to not detract from their work. In other words, the baby announcement on Monday was not normal for the BRF.
“Why couldn’t Harry and Meghan just wait one more day to share the good news with the entire family? Why steal the thunder of Eugenie on her big day? Honestly, they will always have a lot of attention than Eugenie, don’t try to take even that away from her on her one big day.” – Submitted by Anonymous
“I think it’s incredibly tacky and rude to announce to the family that you’re pregnant at someone else’s wedding. That’s akin to proposing to your girlfriend after the couple said their vows. There’s a time and place for that. Congratulations, I guess.” – Submitted by Anonymous
“I understand that it’s exciting news, but it was rude of Harry and Meghan to let family know she was pregnant at Eugenie’s wedding, They should have let her have her moment rather than trying to take away from her and Jack.” – Submitted by Anonymous
“I wish that Meghan and Harry had actually waited for the dust settle regarding all the hype around Eugenie’s wedding day before announcing they were expecting. It’s rude not to let Eugenie at least have her moment.” – Submitted by Anonymous
“It was downright rude of Meghan to announce her pregnancy on Eugenie’s wedding day. Talk about trying to steal the bride’s thunder by making it all about you.” – Submitted by Anonymous
“I absolutely hate that not even a full day had passed after Eugenie and Jack’s wedding before Harry and Meghan’s pregnancy announcement. They really screwed them over. Could they not have scheduled the Australia tour even a little bit After Eugenie’s wedding to allow her HER time in the spotlight.” – Submitted by Anonymous
“Meghan and Harry shouldn’t have announced the pregnancy at the wedding. Just let Eugenie have her day! She already came under enough scrutiny from the press.” – Submitted by Anonymous
EXACTLY. That’s why I say every single event is biographical. Hamilton was about her Hollywood connections and her favorite play. Sussex about her American heritage and seeing a copy of the Declaration of Independence. The museum opening was about her upcoming tour. Grenfell was about her love of food and the important role it played in her life. Invictus is about their love story and her first public appearance. Her arrival in Australia turned into a pregnancy announcement. Dubbo was about her banana bread.
It’s truly amazing how she can make it all about her.
And she had the coat made weeks in advance! That’s the funniest part of it for me. She was picking clothes out in August and decided she would wear a fug couture tent to Eugenie’s wedding to stoke the rumors. She’s amazing.
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.
Yeah, um, she could stay in Australia and attend all of the Invictus Games events, but that would mean that Megsy would have to do work. I doubt she wants to do that.
I bet this blind is more about Megsy trying to get her way on something rather than actually being pregnant. It would be nice if people remembered she looked like this 10 days ago (Oct 3):
Rather than this yesterday (Oct 12) where she kept her coat on and tried to look pregnant:
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.
Eh. I agree with Houseplant in that it probably is just a Soho House property.
I see no details to freak out about until there is something more lengthy posted about it instead of a pr ploy to say why Megs isn’t going to talk to Samantha.
Megs has such short-term thinking. She’s only thinking about what she has to say to look good regarding Sam being in the UK.
She doesn’t and can’t think further down the road to when angry mobs are protesting about frivolous spending, like hers. And yet, she thinks she’s some kind of pr genius.
The really interesting part of this article is the location of Doria’s penthouse.
I’m going to drop into conspiracy theory here, so #conspiracywarning. This new pad, which is suspiciously far away from their main home in the Cotswolds is NOT for Doria. Meghan is buying herself a bolthole in the city far away from palace staff. Also, it’s going to end up being a Soho House property.
Oh, really?! Brexit is going terribly and is going to affect the entire UK, but Megsy needs to decorate an expensive flat for her mom, who let us remember did not stay longer than a week after the cookbook photo op.
I agree. it will be up into a big “will she go or won’t she go” frenzy during the tour and then she’ll show up in Tonga and everyone will be told that “her uterus is no one’s business.”
When you’re not famous and never have paps following you around, but still manage to only get papped in LA. No stalking in London or at Soho house, shame.
I’m not surprised. They only have been liking tweets from the royal family Instagram or from charities. Only 3 4 of the likes from the last 5 days have been about William, everything else is Rachel or the pheasant.
Exactly. This is what Meghan is saying through KP using Richard Kay as a mouthpiece. She’s trying to normalize her non-royal mother as part of the royal family for her appearances.
I don’t mind people disagreeing with me. I just think that Meghan has ambitions outside the royal sphere, so I don’t think Kate is what she’s measuring herself against. She’s not using the royal yardstick anymore. She was still using it during Wimbledon, but she knows that thanks to her family she can’t meet the royal standards, so now she’s pivoting hard towards celebrity. Her competition is Chrissy Tiger, Posh, Amal, Angeline, and Gwyneth now.
Yeah, but Megs can’t sustain a competition with those celebrities long term.
Are you kidding right now? It was probably like a two minute car ride! Should Doria have walked?
I can understand if they travelled a long distance, but that car drove like…500 yards… It’s not that deep.
It doesn’t matter if it’s one penny or one million pounds. You don’t get away with misusing public funds just because you could theoretically misuse them in a more serious way. If something’s wrong you don’t excuse it entirely just because the person could have done something more serious. If I stabbed someone and they didn’t die they don’t say “well you could have killed them and you didn’t so we’ll just let you go free with no consequences.” (Yes that is a wildly exaggerated analogy but it works). This is definitely not a big enough deal to overshadow the whole event and I have posted separately about how great I think it was and how much I like this project in general but given that it’s part of a wider pattern of misusing public funds then yes, I’m going to mention it. I mention it when other royals do it so I’m going to mention it now. There is a clear understanding between the British people and the monarchy about what perks they get and what they do in exchange for those perks and this is not sanctioned within that understanding. If you can’t do something without misusing public funds then don’t do it at all. If they were that close, why didn’t they all just walk and avoid this whole drama?
That’s where their relationship is right now. Charles had to step in and save her wedding. The Sam Cohen “pretty pink princess” makeover was a dud. Her family attacked her all summer long and the brf did nothing. The public doesn’t see her as a real royal.
Meghan is pissed and feeling like a victim right now. She thinks she’s the real star and these people should be doing a better job of protecting her and supporting her, and they are most definitely not doing their job. Thanks to their incompetence her “royal” launch wasn’t the success she expected and she spent most of August in a funk.
But she now sees a light at the end of the tunnel. Now that she has Hamilton and the Grenfell names behind her, she’s feeling like Harry and the brf are maybe not as necessary as she thought, and she can do this on her own, as a celeb and not a royal. She’s not ready to break out yet, after all she still needs that US tour under her belt, but there’s definitely a plan B on the works. Her focus from now on will be promoting herself and Doria, and building up her resume for an eventual break with the brf and a return to the US. To that end she needs (i) the US tour, (ii) some kind of self-produced documentary, (iii) a baby.
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