I know! We haven’t seen mudslinging like this since the War of the Wales. People are comparing the brf to Scientology!
I see the Meg fans are working themselves into a froth over Kate’s (admittedly modest) patronage track record. They seem to think this is still a competition. That’s adorable.
Yes, there was a chance Meghan would be able to bury the nude pics, sex scenes, ditched boyfriends, etc… under a stellar charity record, but, thanks to her family and her own crap decisions this summer, that is no longer the case. For some bizarre reason she decided to counter her family’s attack with tons of couture fashion ops with the royal family instead of focusing on her charity work. Now she’s going on another huge fashion show down under.
Even if she went on a huge charity spree, she still wouldn’t be able to make up for the huge family drama, million-dollar wardrobe, and lack of UK brands. And, let’s face it, there is no huge charity spree coming up. She could have (and SHOULD HAVE) done that this month, but decided to hype up her tour fashion instead. The only events where she has looked happy have been the ones with royals or celebs. Her trademark look during charity visits is “wtf am I doing here.”
Meghan isn’t interested in the charity part. She built enough of a resume to bamboozle people into giving her this position and now she’s done with it. She’s interested in fashion and celebs and that will be her focus from now on. Yes, she’ll do enough work to meet the minimum requirements, but that’s it. This is what she has done in every single job she has had. That’s why the blog was so freaking half-assed.
She’ll probably step up the charity stuff in a year or so, when she starts getting antsy and looking for an exit.
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!
I think you are mostly right. I do, however, believe that she will show up at charity events, at least at the beginning. It’s part of her Diana persona.
I think the general public (as opposed to her rabid fans and equally rabid haters) had positive feelings toward Meghan because they felt that (i) Harry loved her, (ii) she had actually worked for a living, and (iii) people were genuinely excited to see a racial minority join the royal family. I think they were willing to overlook the social climbing and Diana worship rumors due to those two things.
So I think she really shot herself in the foot when she decided to start her royal career with a slew of events that highlighted her ambitious social climbing and Diana obsession (royal appearances and tours, couture fashion, family drama, and celebrity friends). It’s almost like she was going out of her way to prove the haters right.
Nah I think it’s to stop the focus on everything else. The baby rumors are good for her. The bad thing are all of the tarot card readings, the story about her not knowing who to trust, the JM parenting, the who’s next in the markle effect curse. Those are not good. Again I’m confused about why only one pic was taken.
Yeah I’m thinking it’s from the vanity fair pheasant roll out from last year. If it’s from Alexi he did a lot of photoshop including making her look darker than she was at the time of the engagement pics were taken. You I had this weird thought that maybe JM and Rachel agreed to leak it to get the bad press that she was getting yesterday. It wouldn’t benefit jess but it would change the subject from a lot of questionable activities between Rachel and her subjects. Again. Why only one pic?
If you use the Google link, it leads to an error page. You have to search within the website to get the blind.
And, yes, the blind is pretty much an early draft of the People article. I don’t think Meghan realizes that she just confirmed everything her friends, family, and colleagues have been saying since Day One. I think she truly thinks that it’s touching and relatable that she has finally found “the family she never had.”
It’s already dying down. I know it doesn’t feel that way because I post every little thing that comes up, but this is actually slowly winding down. Here’s how Meghan’s summer went
Interesting, no? The Irish tour barely made a blip. Her birthday was noteworthy because it was the first time she was seen after her Dad did his interview. Her best events other than that were the engagements with HM and Kate. The other big interest event was the hideous Oscar de la Renta gown. Weirdly enough, Hamilton barely gave her more press than the new dog and the Clooneys gave her no press at all!
I obviously follow this compulsively and post everything I see, but don’t let that mislead you. The outside interest in flagging.
I don’t know much about Australia, but it seems the expense is a big sticking point down under. They also seem to disclose EVERYTHING in a fairly timely manner, unlike Ireland or Canada. Cost is likely to be be biggest issue in this tour, and I’m not sure that Australia can justify it with a faux tourism boost, like the UK can.
That’s one reason why I’m so confused about the length of the trip and the fact that they are traveling to the boonies instead of sitting their asses down at a low-cost, already-paid-for, super-popular venue like Invictus.
They are not getting THAT much, when you think of it. Meghan is just really, really good at hyping what she gets.
She got a mediocre non-heirloom engagement ring, but hyped it up with some “official Di collection” diamonds. She got a few minor events for her pre-engagement engagements (very minor compared to Kate’s very official lifeboat launch and St. Andrew’s events), but hyped them up as a “regional tour.” She got the generic royal wedding, but hyped it up with security cost leaks and celeb friends. She got a short visit to Ireland, but hyped it up with tons of costume changes. She got an extension on Harry’s Invictus trip and a bunch of youth group and Commonwealth canopy visits and is hyping them up. She got one event with HM and hyped it up with the train sleepover.
The only true “gets” are the Commonwealth events and Harry was going to get them anyway. She just hopped on.
She’s not getting *that* much. It’s just that she’s freaking amazing at hyping shit up. The royal reporters are apparently going to skip a full fledged royal visit with one of the most magnetic royals in the world (Maxima), because they would rather go to Australia to take pics of Meghan pretending to laugh as she watches kids play soccer down under.
Personally, I’d much rather watch Kate and Maxima rocking tiaras.
Tour schedule is out. 16 days and they will only be spending three on Invictus, which takes place from the 20th to the 27th. Looks like they will attend the Opening, one day of events (maaaaybe, if they don’t have anything better to do in Australia), and the Closing. The best part is that they will spend the bulk of Invictus week drawing attention AWAY from the athletes, since all of the media will be covering Meghan’s Down Under fashion show.
LOLOLOLOLOL. Hypocrisy like this doesn’t come around every day. I’m truly amazed at what a tool Harry ended up being.
I used to think that it was because they were waiting to do a big “charity powerhouse” pr drive for Meghan this month, but that does not seem to be the case. I can only assume that it’s because the numbers are pretty low.
An anon thought that maybe they can’t release the numbers because they did individual charities instead of a big fund like Will and Kate, but I don’t think that’s the reason. They can ask the charities if they had a bump in donations between the announcement and the wedding date and publish that. The charities will know exactly what they got and where it came from.
Tom Sykes is now claiming that “nobody knows” who Eugenie is in the UK and people are upset that their perfectly normal royal wedding is a “folie de grandeur.” Oh, get real, Tom. Everyone in the UK knows Eugenie. They’ve all seen her grow up, and her fashion fails and vacations have been covered for years. And this is the standard royal wedding that Edward and Mark Phillips got. the brits are used to this crap by now.
I was unsure before, but now I’m certain Sykes is getting his leaks straight from Meghan. I can’t think of anyone else who would pick “no one knows who she is” as the main problem here.
The baby rumors are now swirling. Can’t wait for the Celebitchy article about how Carole helping with George was psychotic neediness on the part of Kate, but Meghan bringing Doria over is perfectly understandable because reasons.
Yeah she’s gonna be on tours with them and everything. They are letting these two get away with things like they were next up for the throne. Karma is a bitch and she shows no mercy.
Well, it’s not secret if People, BS Weekly, E! and GMA know all about it, is it? I don’t get the sugars who respond to Mio’s post with “Oh, I’m so glad she has discreet friends like Jess who respect her privacy” or “Doria is so discreet.”
Meghan has leaked stories coming out every other week, just like she did when she first appeared on the scene. At first, it was semi-justifiable because she was establishing her image in the public eye, but at this point it’s just exhibitionism.
The “crappy thing to do to a friend” referred to the fact that they brought their own paps, something I concluded after the same pap took close-up reception pics and long-lens pics of Harry at the beach and Harry only filed an official complaint regarding the (presumably unauthorized) beach pics. The reception pics were published pretty much everywhere without complaints being filed.
Well, well, well, even Lainey is now bitching about the “Best Dressed Star” label and acknowledging (for the first time ever!) that the People accolades are all because Meghan and Harry and leaking like crazy to the magazine.
That’s a good point, but I was thinking more in terms of her promo, which she is very serious and practical about. It’s interesting that she’s focusing on Australia (OMG, I just realized that the dog is supposedly named Oz, LOLOLOLOL). Instead of building up a charitable credit.
On the other hand, it was depressing to see how little you actually had to do to get the “humanitarian” label, so it shouldn’t surprise me that she feels she can skimp on the charity stuff. She got people to call her a humanitarian with little effort, but she’s been unsuccessful in attaining the coveted “fashion icon” label, no matter how hard she tries.
Oh. My. God. This drama is so freaking crazy. This is all bs, of course, because it was A SCHOOL ASSIGNMENT. It’s brilliant that she credited her dad, though.
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.
Thanks for bringing that back. I’m getting confused about what happened when, so I tried to put all the Tom Markle articles in order. Boy, this soap opera went on and on.
Like you said, they seemed to be planning a visit after the wedding.
Now, that article came out on May 22nd, AFTER Tom had already talked to the press.
On May 19th Tom talked to TMZ about how much he loved the wedding, how he’d texted Meghan, and how all his relatives should “shut up.” He seemed to be expecting to see the newlyweds soon.
Remember, he had been talking to TMZ throughout the whole wedding. In fact, the whole “heart operation” drama WAS BASED ON HIS CALLS TO TMZ before and after the supposed operation on May 15th and 16th.
At this point he was just talking to TMZ to explain himself. He wasn’t saying anything about Meghan and Harry except that they had texted/spoken the day of the wedding.
On June 5th the DM got pics of him going to the barber looking pretty happy and relaxed.
Then on July 28th, Tom did the “better off dead” interview with the DM, mentioning Diana and explaining that the contact numbers he had for Meghan stopped working.
“Secret” my booty. They’ve leaked that to everyone. At first I thought it was her family making mischief, but the Times account seems semi-official as it quotes aides (that “former aide” sounds like ELF) instead of friends. BP/CH must have laid down the law.
Meghan’s “friend” is back on the DM smacking her dad around.
Dude, this MESS just keeps on getting better and better!
The Meg is too dumb to realize that she is just making this worse.
But, please, Meg, don’t come to your senses just now. Some of us are just going to watch you fuck this pr disaster up for an all-time best new royal disaster.
cont… (2/2) If Meghan isn’t the type that ghosted and discarded friends, families, and people she no longer has any use for, none of these dramas would have happened. Harry’s full of lies statement gave justification to H&M fans to be vile and vicious. Both Meghan and Harry contributed to the press harassment by their fans.
Yep, they dug their own hole and are still digging.
The UN Speech and Rwanda photoshoot were linked. I thin she also hosted a cocktail fundraiser for Rwanda or something. Same strategy as with the India photoshoot and subsequent essay. She did OneYoungWorld two years and supported Jess’ makeup charity. She also did the ice bucket challenge. I think that Toronto charity was a Suits project.
Those were all projects she took on during her 2014-17 “humanitarian” makeover. I have a post somewhere counting all her charity days and they were like 31 days in three years or something like that.
Her earlier charity projects were a coat drive with her college sorority and visiting a soup kitchen with her Catholic high school class.
It doesn’t take much to be a “humanitarian” nowadays.
Thanks for sending this in! I get a lot of anons asking when I first started disliking Meghan and I keep explaining that the spooning bananas and breakfast of champions IG posts were cringeworthy but the turning point for me was the statement and, particularly, the claims about the break-in.
It takes a special person to accuse people of a fake crime.
That seems to be the speculation I’m seeing. I would hope that W&K would be smart enough to start distancing themselves from this shit show. There is no reason for them to continue to bail out Harry. It’s a waste of their time and pr capital.
Might as well. He’s got to know by now that she’s never going to get protocol right. Things like that are exactly why she had her pr peeps leak details about the “dumb” protocol things she has to do now.
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.
few comments on the IRE tour. The reason royals go to IRE (PC goes at least twice each year) is to advance the reconciliation process. It is hard for someone not familiar with the history to understand the bitterness and ambivalence towards reconciliation with the English especially. But since they share common challenges and a deeply integrated economy it is vital to both countries to move on. PC and HM are admired because they have made serious efforts with some personal cost to advance this very important process. Nothing Harry and Meghan did contributed to this effort. Harry seemed unprepared several times. Meghan seemed more interested in posing. The mistakes made were serious ones – a Brit Duchess commenting on the politics of the Republic? Harry ham fisted insensitive remarks at the Memorial. That was shocking as if none of his aides actually knew what caused almost 2 mil deaths? The extravagant cost of her clothes. Shutting down high traffic tourist sites.
The only reason for this visit seems to have been to allow Markle to march around merching. The novelty of the location perhaps getting her the media coverage that has been lagging. The notion it was an “overseas” tour is absurd – people commute between the two islands for work. It seems to me IRE got chosen cause she wanted an overseas tour and no visa issues because there is no border between the UK and IRE. A trip to the continent would have required visas for the American Duchess.
Thanks for sending this in!
Agree except on the visas for an American. Not true.
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