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.
Yup. This relationship has clearly sunk after their honeymoon, regardless of wherever they did or did not go.
It wouldn’t surprise me if some super crazy shit happened between 22 July and 4 August, but particularly between 25 and 28 July because I have a wedding to go to and will miss possible said crazy shit. Like, it wouldn’t surprise me if it would happen when I can’t enjoy it. Murphy’s law and all.
It also wouldn’t surprise me if Harry decides he’s over it in the fall and decides to go for an annulment. Divorce in the UK is much tougher to get than in the USA. There’s only FIVE reasons available when filing for divorce.
Prince Fuck-Up has got to continue his current trend of fucking up…
I think they’ve had a pretty good record with Meghan, in the sense that when they say something will drop, it usually drops. The caveat is that sometimes it drops a year later, and sometimes it’s totally underwhelming. For example, the Snapchat nude got covered up as photoshop, the topless honeymoon pics were covered up as a doppelgänger, the topless Greece pics were covered up as fake, etc…
Likewise, Blind Gossip got the Stella dress sort of right, but it wasn’t the actual wedding gown, and the damaging information that the friends were selling to the tabloids right after the relationship got out didn’t drop until after the engagement.
I’d say they are a good 7-8 on general accuracy and a 3-4 on timing and impact.
They’ve been saying for a while that there are two big things yet to drop: (i) more nudes, including a video, and (ii) a Heather Mills-type expose about her yatching. My bet is that they do have something, but nowhere near as inflammatory as they claim. Definitely not something worth 8 figures. Maybe it’s the rest of that Snapchat video and a couple of Deal or No Deal girls telling stories. Something like that. Her sugars will probably go “but everyone masturbates on SnapChat and has sugar daddies in their twenties” because that’s how they roll.
From what they’ve been saying, the people holding the information are trying to get as much money as they can. They aren’t just out to hurt Meghan, they want cash. That’s likely why nothing has come out. They think they are sitting on a gold mine and they are probably sitting on $20k worth of blackmail money or something like that.
Will it ever come out? Your guess is as good as mine. The Heather Mills stuff took YEARS.
The media and social media landscape has changed a lot in the last 10+ years since Heather Mills though…
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.
Can you imagine the shitstorm if her father actually did die this summer while this is already going on? You know, it’s already a new celebrity death every day…
I agree re: Tom and Meghan two peas in a pod. No sympathy for either. But Meghan if she had two IQ points to rub together should have known she had to handle them. During the “affair” phase of this scam it benefitted her to let the family carry on because it was the one thing that gained her sympathy. So she allowed it. But once the wedding was on she had to know that the family drama was not going to be helpful. And she refused to do a thing about any of them except Momma. The real family ruined her delusional ideal of family she had described in The Tig and her interviews. So she ignored them. They were an embarrassment. And her determination to avoid that embarrassment and still attempt to get the sympathy vote over rode any intelligent assessment of shutting the scandal down.
This is a woman who chose to invite people she did not know and had not even met to her wedding while ignoring all but her mother and mother’s brother. Hard to feel a whole lot of sympathy for her especially since using then discarding people has been amply demonstrated to be her style.
What is curious is that Harry or the RF did nothing until things got totally out of hand in the days before the wedding. They clearly acted as if they saw it as her responsibility and were caught flatfooted by the whole heart attack drama. Even now it seems they exert no influence on her to stop the drama. That is interesting.
Thanks for submitting this! THAT is the question. Why was this not neutralized? I think the BRF KNEW how to neutralize it. They expected Doria and Tom to arrive for the baptism and PC and Cam were ready to wine and dine them, However, the parents never showed up. Tom and Doria were expected to show up a week or two before the wedding for more wining and dining. The BRF has been charming people this way for generations. They knew what to do.
But Meghan never brought her parents. Doria only made it in two days before the wedding and the BRF had to go all out wth tea and presents and crap right before the wedding.
I think they set everything up and left it to Meghan to bring in her parents–and she never did. Meghan is in the same tough spot social climbers have been since the dawn of time. She’s built her Holly GoLightly persona and she doesn’t want the old Lulla Mae identity to contaminate her new existence. She didn’t want her parents there. She HAD to have Doria because she needed that racial cred, but that was it. Once Tom had to bow out, she was happy to let him do so.
AH well The Sun can’t let DM have all the fun. And Harry is now stomping through the halls of KP screaming at his staff “make this go away”. He deserves every bit if this. Stupid twit.
And they are already bringing up the Fergie comparisons.
My favorite statements from this column:
“I don’t think either of them [Harry and Megs] comes out of this well.”
“Meghan seemed cold with a statement declaring she has always ‘cared’ for her father following the news his heart condition meant he wouldn’t walk her down the aisle.“
“The ball is very much in Meghan’s court.”
“…but these will be tricky times for the newly minted Duchess of Sussex.”
“She needs to cement her popularity in these crucial early days.”
Looks to me like this column is practically prepping the waters for what will likely come later this month and August.
Well, we don’t know for sure that she’s actually taking Xanax. I’m sure she was self-medicating with something, but we don’t know what it was for sure. But regardless, she’ll have a much harder time doing those engagements–RAF and trip to Republic of Ireland–if she’s on any kind of medication where she can’t talk normally to people.
I have no clue how they are going to manage the christening, the RAF anniversary and the Irish tour, all in the span of three days. I’m hoping for a real fuck-up this time.
And we’ll probably get a real fuck-up at that time.
Harry has a new beaded bracelet, guys! Oh, and his trip included Botswana. We all know what happens in Botswana, don’t we? This is another possible explanation for Meghan’s Xanax look.
This might be one of the best things I’ve read this morning. (Sorry, I have a couple stressful days ahead.)
But what you’re saying explains a lot of things. She’s still merching. I just CANNOT understand what any luxury brand sees in her though. I mean, do you know? She looks terrible in all of her recent outfits. Like that blue disaster she wore to the Spencer wedding…😳
But you’re definitely right in that she doesn’t have much time. She probably has two weeks–MAYBE three weeks max–as I see it before things get even crazier.
The summer of fire is here, and July ain’t going to be pretty for a lot of people (and much of August too). Like, if you’re in the US and live in an area that could be hit by a hurricane, start preparing now. If you know people who are having tough emotional times, keep in contact with them and let them you know you care and that they’re not alone.
Shit is already crazy, and I guarantee you it’s going to get even crazier.
Well, I don’t do tarot, but I understand the general gist of things. It seems everyone who does tarot cards on them gets things that don’t indicate a good or lasting marriage/relationship.
Oh yeah, the distancing has definitely started. She couldn’t make it to Lesotho. I haven’t seen any articles or photos with Harry at polo from yesterday. And now she’s going to be hunkered up in the palace until her next engagement? Like, certain people (*cough* Markle stans/sugars *cough*) don’t seem to realize that this is not a great start to a royal marriage.
I’d probably only give this 10 months max (until March 2019) if it’s to finalize the paperwork. But we’ll see…
You’re welcome! Normally I wouldn’t think Megs still had pr different from the palace, but she must have considering how much articles are originating with US press such as US Weekly and People. Palace would always use UK media first.
I don’t think Harry is quite done, yet, but I think he’s getting there. Like, I doubt the “stuck with me” line he gave on Tuesday night was written into his speech. No way would Kensington Palace staff have written that. I assume he ad libbed it for some reason. They probably had a fight after he got home from Lesotho. When Harry is truly over it, we’ll know for sure because we’ll see “palace sources” in all sorts of articles about her bad behavior, even if there hasn’t been an official announcement. But that’ll be in UK press, not US Weekly & People no doubt.
Given how Harry played polo today without Megs present and Harry’s “stuck with me” comment during his speech last night, it certainly doesn’t seem like this is the strongest newlywed relationship. For me, based on the timing of these comments alone, it is not a good sign. (Not that there has ever really been a plethora of good signs surrounding this relationship and marriage.)
To me, it seems that this marriage is one ESCANDALO away from going up in flames. Megs can’t make it through a softball engagement without being on xanax or godknowswhat just to make it through an evening posing and shaking hands; Harry doesn’t have his wife around what many people thought would have been easy outings for them–namely a trip to Lesotho for Sentebale and a polo match. Fleet Street can see that there is an opening being created for them to just light the kettle on fire. It might not happen this week, but it wouldn’t surprise me if something happens by the end of July.
I’ve seen at least two tarot card readings where the readers were given a card with “10″ regarding the length of the marriage. They took it to mean that the marriage wouldn’t last more than 10 years. I suspect that the “10″ refers more to the 10th month–October–of this year. But again, we’ll just have to see how this all shakes out.
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