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Ham pr disasters 44! Will there be karma? Or will the slippery mackerel of consequences pass them by?

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jeffgoldblum · Yesterday 14:49

Still not bored , still interested, if you find this thread not for you please pass us by.

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gruntley123 · Yesterday 18:46

ElmBeechOak · Yesterday 17:26

@gruntley123 I was in East Anglia. Though I’ve now remembered that some classes did French and some German. Mine did French, but my mum paid for me to learn German from a neighbour. I liked languages.

(The Mumsnet website wouldn’t let me quote your post.)

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Ironically <beloved> area of my birth <Suffolk>, if only I hadn't been ripped away by cold, unfeeling parents <aka 'work'> !

Scorchio84 · Yesterday 18:40

Williaminagingerwig · Yesterday 16:46

Yes, even though William donated all the money to Invictus.

When I first heard this a while ago I was all a gasp! Harry really is a gobshite 🙄

OhTheHamanity · Yesterday 18:39

KCitsweyourHammiewevecomehomenow · Yesterday 18:00

How many times do you have to hear ‘this person cannnot take your call’ for it to sink in.

Have they forgotten how badly their airings of grievance's have gone down before.?

How sad that Closer is clearly Meghan’s mouthpiece. Tragically embarrassing really.

The print circulation is 50,000 and digital about the same.

Closer?

She should grasp it and be grateful.

They’re as take a break as they come. 😉

Puzzledandpissedoff · Yesterday 18:36

AutumnCrowAdInfinitumEtUltra · Yesterday 17:34

Yeah I’m ok, thanks, just not firing on full cylinders after another blood clot.

Really sorry to hear this, AutumnCrow, and hope you're on the mend very soon (and thanks yet again for the new thread, @jeffgoldblum)

MrsLeonFarrell · Yesterday 18:34

I'm truly in awe of their work ethic. Taking all that time to catalogue the Sandringham Statement and the Lord Chamberlain's letter. How do they find the time to shower.

Williaminagingerwig · Yesterday 18:30

TheSunIsAlwaysThere · Yesterday 18:04

I thought she implied she wore light colours so as to not draw attention and overshadow other royal ladies? Also, that they couldn't wear the same colours.

Then for a Christmas do, all the senior ladies, and Pippa Middleton, wore maroon 😂

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She didn't wear light colours though.
On the Netflix series she clearly said "beige".

jeffgoldblum · Yesterday 18:30

IdaGlossop · Yesterday 18:20

Pity the journalist who had to write this non-story. Of course they are keeping records. Who wouldn't?

They have omitted the lines 'Of course, having their staff catalogue this material as they go along breaks the back of the work a ghost-writer and researchers will need to do in due course when they decide the time is right to cash in on their latest experience of Royal adjacency. Initial discussions with publishers have already begun, with Meghan aiming for a three-book deal covering her relationship with her father, her marriage to Harry, and the couple's return to the UK.

'It's so much easier to feel a sense of grievance when you have a chronological record in front of you. Annotating each entry with comments that filter them through her lens is the Duchess's favourite evening activity, once she has read a bedtime story to her children and written each of them their daily email. A spokesperson for the Duchess said: "Authenticity is the quality she prizes above all others in how she shows up for others and in what she bestows upon the world. This storied approach to her lived experience will catapult her into the galaxied heights of the most revered of writers, embracing in a single breath the legacies of Tolstoy, Zola, Proust, Manzoni, Tolkien, Goethe, Hawthorne, Ibsen and Shakespeare"'

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Excellent post Ida! Had to read it twice 👍

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JoanChitty · Yesterday 18:27

smilesy · Yesterday 18:13

I do remember her having a major sense of humour failure when a brown hat she wore was likened to the Pooh emoji. It just shows how thin skinned she is

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At least when the hat Princess Beatrice wore to the wedding of William and Catherine was ridiculed, she auctioned it off for £81000, with the proceeds going to UNICEF and Children in Crisis.

jeffgoldblum · Yesterday 18:22

JoanChitty · Yesterday 18:18

Apparently there is going to be a new documentary about HAMs return, showing all us racist Brits dancing in the streets overcome with joy.
I believe the plastic Omid Scabies is taking part to tell us how the King is overjoyed to see them. According to Neil Sean it’s a Disney production called The return of the Prince . What a load of old codswallop!

I saw that too! , disappointed in Disney but someone else pointed out it could be part of the pr agreement from previously?
I won’t be watching it.

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IdaGlossop · Yesterday 18:20

jeffgoldblum · Yesterday 17:54

many thanks blue! , I find it interesting what they want people to know and what they don’t! , it all builds a little pattern eventually.

Pity the journalist who had to write this non-story. Of course they are keeping records. Who wouldn't?

They have omitted the lines 'Of course, having their staff catalogue this material as they go along breaks the back of the work a ghost-writer and researchers will need to do in due course when they decide the time is right to cash in on their latest experience of Royal adjacency. Initial discussions with publishers have already begun, with Meghan aiming for a three-book deal covering her relationship with her father, her marriage to Harry, and the couple's return to the UK.

'It's so much easier to feel a sense of grievance when you have a chronological record in front of you. Annotating each entry with comments that filter them through her lens is the Duchess's favourite evening activity, once she has read a bedtime story to her children and written each of them their daily email. A spokesperson for the Duchess said: "Authenticity is the quality she prizes above all others in how she shows up for others and in what she bestows upon the world. This storied approach to her lived experience will catapult her into the galaxied heights of the most revered of writers, embracing in a single breath the legacies of Tolstoy, Zola, Proust, Manzoni, Tolkien, Goethe, Hawthorne, Ibsen and Shakespeare"'

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JoanChitty · Yesterday 18:18

Apparently there is going to be a new documentary about HAMs return, showing all us racist Brits dancing in the streets overcome with joy.
I believe the plastic Omid Scabies is taking part to tell us how the King is overjoyed to see them. According to Neil Sean it’s a Disney production called The return of the Prince . What a load of old codswallop!

jeffgoldblum · Yesterday 18:15

I’ve been thinking of something that has been bothering me for awhile, it came up again due to a thread about bullying and ai ….someone mentioned trying on a notable royal family poster and the results were accurate and not flattering…..anyway I tried it on myself….to cut a long story short, it credited me as being the creator of the ham pr threads …just as some posters have here …..I need to state again for newer posters that it wasn’t me ! , it was Atlusvue who started the original ones , I only took over when she became tired of it .

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smilesy · Yesterday 18:13

TheSunIsAlwaysThere · Yesterday 18:04

I thought she implied she wore light colours so as to not draw attention and overshadow other royal ladies? Also, that they couldn't wear the same colours.

Then for a Christmas do, all the senior ladies, and Pippa Middleton, wore maroon 😂

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I do remember her having a major sense of humour failure when a brown hat she wore was likened to the Pooh emoji. It just shows how thin skinned she is

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jeffgoldblum · Yesterday 18:08

AcrossthePond55 · Yesterday 18:07

@jeffgoldblum Thanks for the new thread. I'm adding 'slippery mackerel of consequence' to my lexicon. I love to trot out the odd or unusual phrase when my sons and I are discussing something important and this one is a winner.

Son: I drank too much last night. Man, my head hurts!
Me (rueful tone of voice): Ah Son, that's too bad. Looks like you've caught the slippery mackerel of consequence after drinking too much.

On other subjects, I learned that the GCI does not pay speaker fees or honoraria nor does it reimburse expenses. Which begs the question....why did Harry accept the gig if he didn't make money on it?

Welcome across 👋

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AcrossthePond55 · Yesterday 18:07

@jeffgoldblum Thanks for the new thread. I'm adding 'slippery mackerel of consequence' to my lexicon. I love to trot out the odd or unusual phrase when my sons and I are discussing something important and this one is a winner.

Son: I drank too much last night. Man, my head hurts!
Me (rueful tone of voice): Ah Son, that's too bad. Looks like you've caught the slippery mackerel of consequence after drinking too much.

On other subjects, I learned that the GCI does not pay speaker fees or honoraria nor does it reimburse expenses. Which begs the question....why did Harry accept the gig if he didn't make money on it?

TheSunIsAlwaysThere · Yesterday 18:04

I thought she implied she wore light colours so as to not draw attention and overshadow other royal ladies? Also, that they couldn't wear the same colours.

Then for a Christmas do, all the senior ladies, and Pippa Middleton, wore maroon 😂

KCitsweyourHammiewevecomehomenow · Yesterday 18:00

How many times do you have to hear ‘this person cannnot take your call’ for it to sink in.

Have they forgotten how badly their airings of grievance's have gone down before.?

How sad that Closer is clearly Meghan’s mouthpiece. Tragically embarrassing really.

The print circulation is 50,000 and digital about the same.

AlexandraCarrington · Yesterday 17:58

When she wore that bright green dress to the commonwealth service, that was a massive f&$k you to the RF and ultimately, the Queen.

That was their last public event before the Freedom Flight wasn't it?

I thought that outfit was hideous and did her no favours.

smilesy · Yesterday 17:58

@AutumnCrowAdInfinitumEtUltra sorry to hear you are under the weather. Glad to see you are still finding appropriate variations of you username! 😆

KilkennyCats · Yesterday 17:57

bluegreygreen · Yesterday 17:49

The original story was apparently in Closer, @jeffgoldblum, and we know that the Sussex team have previously briefed that publication directly.

https://archive.is/veyWz

‘They’re often the ones keeping track of all of this stuff, because their staff is so much smaller these days. The fact that they’re willing to add this to their list of duties speaks volumes about how important record keeping is to them,’ we’re told.

Not sure how many extra staff it takes simply not to delete an email ...

Add this to their list of duties 🤣
The pathetic pomposity is off the scale. How are they taken seriously?

jeffgoldblum · Yesterday 17:55

KCitsweyourHammiewevecomehomenow · Yesterday 17:52

Karma karma karma karma karma HAM’s come undone
You come now go
You come now go

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AlexandraCarrington · Yesterday 17:55

But that last one 🙀🙀 Completely see-through!!!

Didn't she have one single person around her to say 'you need a slip with that skirt'? Didn't she have a dresser?

jeffgoldblum · Yesterday 17:54

bluegreygreen · Yesterday 17:49

The original story was apparently in Closer, @jeffgoldblum, and we know that the Sussex team have previously briefed that publication directly.

https://archive.is/veyWz

‘They’re often the ones keeping track of all of this stuff, because their staff is so much smaller these days. The fact that they’re willing to add this to their list of duties speaks volumes about how important record keeping is to them,’ we’re told.

Not sure how many extra staff it takes simply not to delete an email ...

many thanks blue! , I find it interesting what they want people to know and what they don’t! , it all builds a little pattern eventually.

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KCitsweyourHammiewevecomehomenow · Yesterday 17:52

Karma karma karma karma karma HAM’s come undone
You come now go
You come now go

JSMill · Yesterday 17:50

When she wore that bright green dress to the commonwealth service, that was a massive f&$k you to the RF and ultimately, the Queen.