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. The royals have done this for decades and the foreword is always short with maybe one personal anecdote and they are never on the cover. It’s a HUGE contrast.
The walls are banked with sprays of flowers in my two shades of Blush and Bashful, pink carpet specially laid out for my service, and pink silk bunting draped over anything that would stand still. That sanctuary looks like it’s been hosed down with Pepto-Bismol. Steel Magnolias (1989) dir. Herbert Ross
“The trips were so secret she took only a small camera crew with her, all the better to make a tiny film"
“And while it would be wrong to think the caring Duchess is using the people of Grenfell to burnish her own caring credentials, isn’t there something a tiny bit self-serving at the heart of this endeavour?”
Jan Moir calls out Meghan. Scroll down for the blurb. I think all UK journalists are so onto her. It’s a matter of walking the fine line between hanging onto their jobs and being able to say what they really think.
Thanks for sending this in! I think everyone knows what this was really about.
BTW, I hadn’t noticed that gorgeous pink coat. The community kitchen ladies were serious styling during this event.
Isn’t that weird. Less attention than the Hamilton event, and I thought it was a lot more hyped, with video and television coverage and lots of hoopla.
I suspect she’s quickly realizing the limits of royal coverage.
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 think she will. She needs the US tour, a documentary, and some more magazine covers. I also think she’s still trying for a baby.
Megs can’t leave on her own after Christmas. That would make it an automatic annulment. She wouldn’t get to keep her title like she would in a divorce. She would have nothing to negotiate with against the royal family.
She doesn’t keep the tittle even after divorce. She’ll loose the HRH and when Harry remarries she’ll loose it fully cos the title is Harry’s NOT HERS. You cannot have 2 Duchess of Sussex. Also bear in mind the only reason why Fergie still has it is cos Andrew has not remarried, if he had Fergie would loose it too. And no they won’t be Ms MOUNTBATTEN-WINDSOR neither. That does not work that way with the BRF !!!!
Let’s remember that Megsy will live in the US after the marriage is over. The US press isn’t as likely to adhere to UK protocol. She will use that title as long as she can. The only way to ensure that she doesn’t use it is to make it crystal clear from the get-go that she does not have a right to use the title after the marriage is over. If it’s not crystal clear, then she’s going to use all the wiggle room she possibly can.
Harry remarrying wouldn’t stop her is my point.
I hear you and understand exactly what you mean. But once the divorce is set and finalised she’ll have a clause where that will be explained that she’ll loose the HRH and when Harry remarries she’ll loose the Duchess part too. If she goes on to be stubborn and a narc and uses it she can be prosecuted no matter where she is. It’s illegal and that’ll carry all over. And in the US she won’t be able to use it as a US citizen as it won’t be recognised. She’ll just go back to being Ms markle and I bet you the UK press will piss her off using the “former” word every time they mention her and hazza new wife…
I don’t really want to go back and forth on this, but in the US as it stands right now, her title has no meaning in the USA even as she’s an HRH as of this very moment. Meghan is still a US citizen right now. She hasn’t renounced her US citizenship. She’s not a British citizen yet, and she very likely won’t ever be.
There is nothing in US law that would prohibit her using it because titles are not part of US law and custom. No one is going to arrest her in the US if she had “Duchess of Sussex” on her stationary and insisted on it being used in press appearances. She is not going to be prosecuted in the US for it.
The US press doesn’t care about UK protocol. The US entertainment & celebrity press, which publishes all of Meg’s pr missives, cares even less. As they’ve proven time and again, they take the pr email and publish it as is.
Megsy is way more interested in US press coverage in the long term anyway. You’re insisting that Megsy care more about the press in a country of 66 million versus the press in a country of 326 million. It’s been pretty obvious up to now that she plays to the US press & audience because that’s the one she truly cares about. And those people are NOT going to care about UK law and stipulations.
I think she will. She needs the US tour, a documentary, and some more magazine covers. I also think she’s still trying for a baby.
Megs can’t leave on her own after Christmas. That would make it an automatic annulment. She wouldn’t get to keep her title like she would in a divorce. She would have nothing to negotiate with against the royal family.
She doesn’t keep the tittle even after divorce. She’ll loose the HRH and when Harry remarries she’ll loose it fully cos the title is Harry’s NOT HERS. You cannot have 2 Duchess of Sussex. Also bear in mind the only reason why Fergie still has it is cos Andrew has not remarried, if he had Fergie would loose it too. And no they won’t be Ms MOUNTBATTEN-WINDSOR neither. That does not work that way with the BRF !!!!
Let’s remember that Megsy will live in the US after the marriage is over. The US press isn’t as likely to adhere to UK protocol. She will use that title as long as she can. The only way to ensure that she doesn’t use it is to make it crystal clear from the get-go that she does not have a right to use the title after the marriage is over. If it’s not crystal clear, then she’s going to use all the wiggle room she possibly can.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex arrives with her mother Doria Ragland & Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex to host an event to mark the launch of a cookbook with recipes from a group of women affected by the Grenfell Tower fire at Kensington Palace. | September 20th, 2018
The “its an issue when it’s separate” line was about RPOs. Not about cars. So if Doria is standing away from Meghan at an event and has an RPO with her, that’s an issue. But if the RPO is with Meghan and Doria happens to be standing next to her, that’s fine.
The transportation thing, is another issue. Harry and Meghan’s travel is taxpayer funded when they’re at work because they are public representatives. Doria is not entitled to use those means of transportation. Harry and Meghan’s private vehicles that they use in their private time are not taxpayer funded and Doria could totally ride in one of those. So her riding in the car with Harry and Meghan is her using taxpayer funded means of travel which is not okay. What should have happened is that she should have arrived separately from them in one of Harry’s private cars. Does that make sense?
Yeah, but after he’s desperate for attention, he’s likely going to start lashing out because he doesn’t get what he wanted. Things aren’t going his way, so he’ll probably lash out verbally, even if we don’t see it.
I think she will. She needs the US tour, a documentary, and some more magazine covers. I also think she’s still trying for a baby.
Megs can’t leave on her own after Christmas. That would make it an automatic annulment. She wouldn’t get to keep her title like she would in a divorce. She would have nothing to negotiate with against the royal family.
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.
My favourite dress of all […] was my first Dior dress, white strapless tulle and a vast satin bow at the back ~ Princess Margaret.
Christian Dior was absolutely fascinated by Princess Margaret. [This is] Princess Margaret’s actual dress. The waist is 21.5 inches, it’s absolutely tiny and she looked super glamorous. I think that’s the sort of look you hadn’t associated for a while with the British Royal Family. – Beatrice Behlen, Fashion curator and historian at the Museum of London. Most notably, the Princess wore this dress in a set of photographs taken by Cecil Beaton for her 21st birthday in 1951.
Oh there are a ton of hypocrisies in the situation that I won’t list because people already know them but the thing that’s most troublesome is that she arrived in their taxpayer funded means of travel despite having no right to. She is not our representative. I love Doria but transparency about the spending of our unelected officials and trust between the public and the royals is a bigger thing than one individual and given that this is the third time in their relationship Harry and Meghan have misused taxpayer funds, I am sighing right now. I hate to be that person that drags everyone back down to earth but royals don’t exist to be cute and adorable. They have a job and as part of that job they have set terms that they have to stick by- letting your relatives who aren’t representatives of the country use taxpayer funded means of travel is not sanctioned and totally inappropriate. It was inappropriate when Chris O’Neill did it in Sweden and I called him out then, so I’m doing it here too.
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