Meghan and Harry Debacle part 2

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Has anyone seen that Lady Colin Campbell has written a book on Harry and Meghan using insider information. Apparently she’s has members of the Markle family to stay. She’s brave!

It’s always a risk putting yourself the public eye.
Much better to release photos- I’m sure there will be lots of people analysing mothering skills / dress/Archie’s development/ bonding etc etc
I think they would do well just to release beautiful pictures - that video should have been for private family viewing to protect Archie not for the public to pore over!
It’s a video grandparents would love.

A plain white babygro would have been completetley unidentifiable as a brand. And respectful to Archie.

The most revealing part of the that video was at the end when she said she would like to call into her dad’s house but wasn’t going to because “they weren’t on the best of terms right now.”

Interesting.

Yes, I heard that too...I wonder what the fall out was over that time?

I think A wasn't dressed in a "cute outfit" for the book reading, because that's what Kate does. Cute outfits, which are then sold out on line within hours. I think M doesn't want to do anything K does and that drives a lot of her choices.

I agree Ygritte

Not just that, I don’t think she wants to do anything the way the RF does.

I imagine it was presented very much as a moral choice too "my child is no ones advertising tool!" or something like that when really had Kate not got form for doing it M would be all over it.

I think it's pretty poor taste to use these feeloading millionaires to promote Save the Children. They've gone down in my estimation. Bad move.

Yes that doesn’t sit well with me either. Archie is a very very fortunate child of parents who don’t work and live in luxury. Advertising a charity that cares for disadvantaged children who lack even the basics. Whose idea was that?

Haven't watched the video of younger Meghan but teenagers acting up and not getting on with their parents is not unusual. I wouldn't want to read too much into that.

It was a mutually agreeable deal for them and Save The Children. The birthday video release will have made their campaign known much more widely. I know of Save the Children but hadn't heard anything about the reading campaign till the Archie video came out. Public attention means donations.

On their part they get to look philanthropic without actually having to do much or hand over cash themselves. Agree @YgritteSnow that Meghan wants to look like she's taken the non-Kate route. Unfortunately the clapping video the Cambridge kids did really covered the same ground, with less of the awkwardness.

Save the children.... save Archie 😆 Or at least change his nappy...!!

Viviennemary - Lots of celebrities took part in the story campaign. It was to raise money for children in the UK and around the world affected by the coronavirus outbreak. What isn't good about that?

Aren't Save the Children the charity who have been pulled up for the behaviour of their directors and workers?

@Mummyoflittledragon I think in the video she was saying her ex bought the classy girl sign in the plate holder, not the whole car!

She was rather too gleeful about it for my liking but she was only a teenager, albeit a somewhat "full of herself" one.

@ajandjjmum no that was oxfam I think, for their behaviour in Haiti

What s not good about it is pretty obvious to me.

@Myimaginarycathasfleas
Ah thank you. That makes sense. I thought she meant he’d bought the plate holder. But couldn’t work out why that was a big deal as I didn’t spot the sign thus questioning myself. I thought the whispering was because she thought she’d got one over on her ex possibly by keeping the gift.

Imo she sounded very self assured and like I would imagine a typical overindulged teen to act. Oh yes, I’m doing this audition then off shopping for some “pants” ie trousers. Me me me.

I also noticed the tiff with her father. I agree teens often fall out with their parents. However, it sounds as though perhaps she hadn’t seen him for a while and regardless of how she felt about him at that moment, he was the hand that fed her the chocolate croissant for breakfast and paid for her to live and attend college .

@mooching @ajandjjmum

www.bbc.com/news/uk-51749168

I think both Save the Children and Oxfam and also NSPCC, not all related to the same problems but they have all been in trouble for various reasons.

At the very end of the video filmed by her friend when she was 17, she says specifically that she and her father were not on good terms at the time. Did anyone else notice this?

sorry - just seeing that previous posters have noted the same

Megsy grilling her big burgers there on that Men’s Health link. Charming.

Exactly Jillyhilly. Hardly an advocate for feminism.

@fannycann thank you for that. I had a feeling there were a few. So sad that there's a murky underside to charities.

My dad worked for MacMillan for a while a long time ago (about 25 years) and was so horrified by the waste in funds (he'd come from the city) that he left. It has always made me suspicious of where to donate although I think they have stricter guidelines these days.

I very recently found out I'm pregnant, Yay . Anyway it led me down a Google rabbit hole of when to annonce it to family, and when celebs announced theirs publicly.

Meghan announced hers to the public on the 15 October, three days after Eugenies wedding which based on Archies birthday would have made her around 8 weeks.

I know everyone's diffrent and I didn't think much of it at the time, but now I'm 7 weeks myself I don't think I feel ready to announce it to close family never mind the entire world. I think she done it to take the attention away from Eugenie. Especially it reports are true that she told the family on the wedding day, and was there really a need for the maternity coat?

Or did it need to be announced because of security issues because they where off on a royal tour?