Royal-Tea with zero sympathy☕️ From one of our FB members!
Meghan just got played by Her Majesty. I’m sure most of you are aware of this DM story that ran about a week ago titled “Queen ‘invites Meghan’s mother Doria to spend Christmas with Royal Family at Sandringham’ – an offer never made to Kate’s relatives.”
Yeah, I’m sure the sugars were over the moon. Now, I can report this story was a leaked by MM’s PR people originally to the Express UK. In fact, the DM never had their own source—they just ran with it quoting the Express UK. This is sloppy by the DM and now it’s come back to haunt our little Megglet.
According to my source, PH called BP to clear the arrangements for his beloved mother-in-law to join the RF for Christmas.
That’s when things got crazy. Her Majesty’s aides promptly informed PH they HAD NO IDEA WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT.
OH SNAP! My source said palace gossip is QE aides played dumb causing PH to confront MM.
Megatron must have been feeding PH the line she needs to see her mommy and so what about Kate— her family lives here etc. For some reason PH was under the assumption Dorito would be cleared to join the RF at Christmas.
KP sources (a second-hand source) claim PH called back to once again try and get his mother-in-law cleared and he was told “NO.” PH was told QE didn’t appreciate the leaked story which was mean-spirited toward Kate.
That caused a huge row between MM and PH. MM screamed, “It’s my mom! She’s all alone! And I can invite her if I want! This ‘getting things cleared with Buckingham Palace’ is bull shit!”
PH screamed back, “Are you leaking to the press, again? Answer me, Meghan!” Then, per the inside sources, MM started crying denying she leaked anything. “I have no idea what you are talking about…you know the press makes up all kinds of stories about me. I can’t be expected to answer for that too!”
PH left the room and slammed the door. He must be starting to realize he isn’t married to this ideal woman who seemed to be perfect for him. No, now he is seeing the real monster he married.
The Queen played this perfectly. She waited— knowing at some point PH would have to make arrangements for Dorito. This tidbit was too good to sit on.
The ball is back in MM’s court. If she thinks she is going to dupe the Queen with obvious pro-Meghan, anti-Kate press leaks—she better think again!!
SO, what’s MM’s next move? Does she book a flight for Dorito anyway—to really push the issue or does she retreat?
Forbes recently released their 2019 “30 Under 30” list of “the brashest entrepreneurs across the United States and Canada” who are also under 30 years old. A persistent criticism of the list is that many of the people on it are there because of family or other social advantages. As Helen Rosner tweeted of last year’s list:
My take is: all 30 Under 30 lists should include disclosure of parental assets
In a piece for Vox, Aditi Juneja, creator of the Resistance Manual and who was on the 30 Under 30 list last year, writes that Forbes does ask finalists a few questions about their background and finances but also notes they don’t publish those results. Juneja goes on to assert that no one in America is entirely self-made:
Most of us receive government support, for one thing. When asked, 71 percent of Americans say that they are part of a household that has used one of the six most commonly known government benefits – Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, welfare, or unemployment benefits.
And many people who benefit from government largesse fail to realize it: Sixty percent of Americans who claim the mortgage-interest deduction, which applies to homeowners, say they have never used a government program. If you’ve driven on public roads, gone to public school, or used the postal service as part of your business – well, we all rely on collective infrastructure to get ahead.
And then she lists some of the ways in which she has specifically benefitted from things like government programs, having what sounds like a stable home environment, and her parents having sufficient income to save money for her higher education.
I went to public schools through eighth grade. My parents were able to save for some of my college costs through a plan that provides tax relief for those savings. I stayed on my parent’s health insurance until I was 26 under the Affordable Care Act. I have received the earned income tax credit, targeted at those with low or moderate income. I took out federal student loans to go to law school.
Juneja’s piece reminds me of this old post about how conservatives often gloss over all of the things that the government does for its citizens:
At the appropriate time as regulated by the US congress and kept accurate by the national institute of standards and technology and the US naval observatory, I get into my national highway traffic safety administration approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build by the local, state, and federal departments of transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the environmental protection agency, using legal tender issed by the federal reserve bank. On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the US postal service and drop the kids off at the public school.
Or think about the idea of family, in the context of everyday life. It’s one thing to talk about family values as a theme, or a wedge – but what’s it actually like to have a family? Your family does better if you get a fair wage, if there’s good public education, if there’s good health care when you need it. These things intuitively make sense, but we’re out of practice talking about them.
I also think we need to talk about a different kind of patriotism: a fidelity to American greatness in its truest sense. You think about this as a local official, of course, but a truly great country is made of great communities. What makes a country great isn’t chauvinism. It’s the kinds of lives you enable people to lead. I think about wastewater management as freedom. If a resident of our city doesn’t have to give it a second thought, she’s freer.
Lists like 30 Under 30 reinforce the idea of American individualism at the expense of the deep spirit & practice of collectivism that pervades daily American life. America’s fierce individuals need each other. Let’s celebrate and enable that.
It’s so so brilliant. Charles with the pigs is how I shop for kids. “Kids like dinosaurs, right? Dinosaurs are gender neutral, they’re great. I like dinosaurs so kids must like dinosaurs.”
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Well, it seems MM has had her official royal smackdown, in case there is any doubt. And she was quite pissy about it. In fact, she took it out on her assistant “Melissa.”
According to my source, MM & PH had a meeting w/ advisors who told them QE was not happy w/ the shenanigans on their tour. Immediately, MM puckered up into a pout—the actress that she is—- and gave them her best “I tried so hard, and being preggers and all I did my best….”. With tears streaming down her face.
The thing is—-MM doesn’t get she ain’t in America anymore. Rumor has it PH didn’t buy into her tears and told her to stop. MM thinks she can turn on the waterworks and all will be forgiven. “She does not understand,” my source said, “That she may have manipulated PH to get married, but the Queen won’t let her run roughshod over the Monarchy.”
Later, after the advisors informed MM that she would have little to no engagements in the coming months, she then blamed Melissa saying, “Mel is against me! She wants me to fail! She’s a f*cking spy!!” This outburst supposedly happened right after the advisors left and MM had to blame someone.
Well, gossip travels quicker than the speed of light in the palace and by the time it got back to Melissa she told PH she was leaving. Now, this can’t be confirmed but rumors are PH begged her to stay but she told him: “For the sake of your grandparents and the United Kingdom– open up your eyes. She’s a monster.”
I also know MM was livid at the seating arrangements, per my source. I have been out of the loop in the last week, so my apologies. Usually, I have read up on MM daily…from what I can tell the seating at the “Festival of Remembrance,” and then her balcony position.
According to my source, “MM got a dose of reality when the Queen banished her off to the side. She browbeat Harry to change the seating and her balcony position, saying, “It’s a public slap in my face!” PH didn’t respond.
Rumors are she has been in meltdown mode screaming about how this is not what she “signed up for.” MM got really angry when the story about the Queen and her tiara (wedding) hit this past week. Why? Well, even the popular fashion American magazine “Cosmopolitan” ran the story. (Usually a pro-Meg magazine)
My source says, “MM knew the PR tide was turning when one of her old go-to sources, Cosmo, ran the embarrassing story about the Queen and the ‘Tiara Debacle’ which also indicates the palace PR game is ramping up. MM knows this game all too well, this is war.”
Now, MM feels unwanted and not appreciated. She is being taken out of the limelight she craves more than anything. She flippantly told aides, “I’m like Rapunzel locked in the tower.”
Palace aides say it’s really sinking in now that this entire fairytale she thought she wanted—to be one of the most famous people in the world—isn’t turning out how she thought it would. She is American, and a narcissist— and so she has no love of the United Kingdom, hell, she isn’t even a patriotic American. So she doesn’t appreciate the UK’s solemn days.
That’s what is upsetting so many in the palace. It’s not that she is an American, because I am an American and can appreciate solemn days if they are explained to me. She doesn’t care to understand why these days are important to her adopted country –one she is supposed to be representing.
When she learned she was not next to the Queen like Kate at these events, rumor has it she whined, “I guess the American isn’t good enough,” laughing sarcastically….pretending it was a joke.
In a People Magazine article titled, “Why Meghan Markle Didn’t Stand with the Queen, Kate and Camilla at Remembrance Ceremony”—-is a big MM leaked story, where is trying to save face.
Notice the line in that People article that says, “A palace source said that Meghan’s balcony position ‘would have come from her.[Meghan] There’s no one laying this out, telling her where to stand.”’ (OH PLEASE)
She just can’t stand to not be in control—MM must broadcast “I’m in control!!” When it’s apparent she isn’t making these decisions!! If you’re shaking your head, you are not ALONE!!
Lastly, I have no pregnancy intel. My source says MM is giving push-back about having royal doctors. Don’t know if that is true or not…..One last tidbit: PH is said to have had a “heart to heart” w/ William. An unconfirmed source says they talked for hours— “PH asked for marital advice.” Which some are saying PH now sees this marriage may not last and is really depressed….don’t know how true that is, but the bloom of lust is over. That’s for sure.
“The coat Meghan wore at the wedding was only attention seeking. If she didn’t want to ruin Eugenie’s day she could have chosen something else. The coat was a a deliberate choice to cause pregnancy speculation.“ – Submitted by Anonymous
Timothy Laurence is a giant cinnamon roll and if you have a few hours to spare, I will gladly sit you down and tell you all of the reasons why you should love him as much as Anne does and as much as I do.
Mark Phillips is t r a s h and I also have the receipts for that if you want them 🙂
Update: you shall have the receipts, but probably not until later because I’m in college all day
Ok so I’m home, and here are your receipts.
BASICALLY
Mark cheated on Anne numerous times during their marriage. You’ll usually see a lot of Anne-haters talking about how she’s an adulteress because she cheated on Mark with Tim and this resulted in the end of her marriage. This is completely WRONG. And it’s pretty much the other way around.
When they first married, Anne and Mark were really happy together. Yes they had arguments like any other couple, but there were no major problems in the marriage. From the biographies I’ve read and the archived newspaper articles I’ve read, it’s pretty clear that Mark began to lose interest in her after Peter was born, and they started to drift apart. This was, I think, when he first started seeing other women behind her back.
Several stories were run by numerous newspapers that Mark had cheated on Anne with a number of women in his circle, the most infamous of these being Pamella Bordes, who received horse riding lessons from Mark and stayed in a cottage on the Gatcombe estate while Anne was abroad.
Now, none of the affair stories have ever been proven true, apart from one, which is enough to suggest that he was unfaithful with more than one woman, perhaps in more than one country. In 1985, Mark fathered a child in New Zealand after a one night stand with a woman called Heather Tonkin. He said the allegations were completely false at first, but it later emerged that he had been making payments to Tonkin for five years after initially asking her to have an abortion. After he and Anne had separated, it was confirmed after a DNA test in 1991 that Mark was indeed the father of the little girl. He has never met her, nor acknowledged her in public.
In the same year he fathered Felicity Tonkin, Peter Cross sold a story to the News of the World claiming that while he had been her protection officer from 1979 to 1980 before being dismissed for over-familiarity, he and Anne had had a ‘close’ relationship. That newspaper has since been shut down, but some of his claims were included in a biography I read about the Queen.
His claims have never been proven, nor has Anne ever even acknowledged them. Her staff that worked there at the same time have also called his claims ridiculous and completely false. Personally, I think that she was lonely and certainly had a close relationship with him at the time, but I don’t believe it ever became more than someone to confide in. I certainly don’t believe the rumours that came out of it that he is actually Zara’s father. It just doesn’t add up. Cross had been trying to sell his story in Fleet Street for years before one of them eventually took him up on his offer. He obviously wanted to cash in and exploit whatever trust she had in him. Another dick, basically.
ANYWAY, Mark fathering that child was enough to allow Anne to divorce him. This was finalised in April 1992, and in December of that same year she was finally able to marry Tim. Again, I don’t have enough time to tell you what a sweetheart Timothy Laurence is, but if you do want to read the story of how he and Anne fell in love, I suggest reading this. It includes a short summary of their early days together that I think is SO sweet and sums it up perfectly. This came from one of Tim’s friends at the time:
“Tim never stopped thinking about Princess Anne from soon after their first meeting…. Anne has treated him as her closest confidant for some considerable time. Obviously, Tim and the princess were physically attracted to each other, but their friendship goes deeper than that. Tim has filled a loneliness in her life and given her a shoulder to cry on when she needed someone to tell her troubles to. He understands her tantrums and the bad publicity she attracts. But most of all, he cares for her in the way her husband does not.”
It’s also important to note that Mark hasn’t changed a bit. After he and Anne divorced, he married his second wife Sandy Pflueger in 1997 and had another daughter, Stephanie. Then in 2012, it emerged that he’d left his wife of 15 years for Lauren Hough, a show jumper who is the same age as his son Peter. What did he have to say on the matter? “I might only be alive for another five or ten years so I might as well be happy”. What a dick.Unfortunately for Lauren, if this post is anything to go by, she isn’t getting *ahem* much out of it.
SO, that’s pretty much my explanation as to why Mark Phillips was, is and always will be a fuckboi of the highest order and doesn’t hold a candle to the sweet cinnamon roll angel that is Tim Laurence. I’m sorry it’s so long, but there’s a lot to cover and this isn’t even all of it lol
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It’s very strange that the people you love are often the people you’re most cruel to.
Billionaire filmmaker Howard Hughes has long been regarded as one of Hollywood’s most eccentric and prolific playboys. A few years back, writer and film critic Karina Longworth stumbled onto an online message board, listing women Hughes had had sexual relationships with – just a list of names, no other information.
“In each of these names there’s a whole life and a whole story,” says Longworth, who hosts the film podcast You Must Remember This.
Longworth’s new book, Seduction: Sex, Lies and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood, tells a story of big-screen exploitation by focusing on 10 women who had relationships with Hughes.
In some instances, Longworth says, Hughes “was getting studio contracts for women based on a sexual relationship they had already had or the promise of a sexual relationship to come.”
Longworth sees a direct link between Hughes’ behavior and the issues raised by the #MeToo movement.
“The thing that I’ve come to understand from studying the 20th century of Hollywood is that these things have always happened and they were never talked about publicly,” she says. “Just the fact that we’re having a conversation is completely revolutionary.”
I don’t think he thinks he’s 70, I think it’s just a number to him. There’s no way that he will slow down. You must be joking. I keep saying 70 is getting on a bit. It’s not very old but it is old. You have to slow down a bit. – Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall on The Prince of Wales
But he’ll stick with his papers, I know he will, while I am trying to sing happy birthday. I might just even have to hold up a sign saying “Happy birthday, darling”. – Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall on The Prince of Wales
Happy 70th birthday, Charles Philip Arthur George (*14.11.1948)
Four years, 527 countries, 25 million dead. Soldiers and civilians. Innocent people. Women and children slaughtered. Their homes and their villages looted and burned.
The Duchess of Cambridge photographed with her son Prince Louis of Cambridge. The photo is part of official photographs to mark the 70th birthday of HRH The Prince of Wales
LOOK AT THE LITTLE FAT ROLLS ON HIS CHUBBY LITTLE LEGS BABIES ARE SO CUUUUUTE
I don’t know about you all, but Mercury Retrograde has reared its angry little head early for me this week. The worst! So naturally, the only thing to do was distract myself with reading up on the news beneath the news.
(By the way, if anyone else wants to do a tarot reading for me on whether my hot water will be working again by tomorrow morning, I wouldn’t argue.)
Opi xx
What kind of stories does ‘Melissa’ want to spill?
Story 1: Somebody is making caaassshh behind closed doors with some shady business deals (Clouds, Fish). They are trying hard to keep the root of these profits secret (Anchor) to maintain the image of status quo. Something tells me it has to do with the media, since profit from communication was showing up (Fish, Letter). This might have something to do with their body or conversations about their body (Tree), or I don’t know…maybe something that happens to one’s body when they are expectant. But they are wanting to lock this story down and keep any news of side cashflows from leaking, for sure.
Story 2: Somebody else who is the man in the public eye is beginning to get very wobbly behind closed doors (Bird, Child). His stress is quite apparent now, but he’s scared about his loss of reputation (Garden, Coffin) and wishes he could withdraw from public life. This person is also worried about losing something or someone (Coffin, Bird) and is trying to stick it out publicly because they’re about to be a parent (Man, Child). Apparently, it ain’t so easy to hide once the cameras are off.
Story 3: Somebody is a truly, truly horrendous boss. There might have been a friendship and loyalty with that person to begin, but their overly dominant behaviour became exploitative and damaged this loyalty (Dog, Bear). That person has transitioned into a new role (Stork) and has become snarky, judgmental and extremely aggressive (Woman, Whip). The way that person was treating their employee was abhorrent, and now the power dynamics are beginning to shift (Stork, Bear).
Story 4: Looks like there might already be a third party in the marriage (Man, Crossroads), and the male figure is the one who has been philandering. This person has been really struggling, finding it difficult to sleep and has been fighting with conflicting emotions (Moon, Mountain). They are dutiful and feel bound by their responsibilities (Cross), but they have been quietly suffering and might have recently found someone else to lean on for support about this. They’re now faced with a problematic choice, but are pushing on out of a persistent feeling of duty (Cross, Mountains).
House of Brat 