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Harry and Meghan news

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callmeadoctor · 08/06/2020 09:29

www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1292590/meghan-markle-prince-harry-la-career-plans-latest-royal-news

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FruitPastillesaregood · 19/06/2020 10:02

Harry is worse, often looking as if he pulled his clothing out of the “least dirty” pile on the floor.

That’s why the rest of the RF have valets! I don’t think he’s ever had one. Mind you, don’t think William does either.

Viviennemary · 19/06/2020 10:06

Yes I think it will come as a massive shock. Everything will have been taken care of. Need to go anywhere. Car magically appears. It's raining umbrella appears over your head. I wonder how many staff they employ. It all costs money. Their bills must be massive even with the free accommodation if they're not paying rent. I read somewhere they are now.

OneMile · 19/06/2020 10:24

From all accounts, Jessica has a touch of narcissism - Sasha followed her and she followed Sasha on insta. Sasha puts out a pretty generic call out but does specifically state she has noticed white friends on social media that have not posted any support on BLM and who have failed to use their influence.

JM reads this, feels very defensive - as she has posted pretty prolifically about her show but nothing on BLM, not even the black page everyone was doing .

Having a touch of narcissism - she immediately takes this as a personal attack. How dare this minor player who she has graced with a follow publicly call her out. The rest is history.

ajandjjmum · 19/06/2020 10:28

I can't help but feel that from their engagement onwards they were probably surrounded by sycophants whispering in their ears ' you could be earning so much', 'you're both amazing - just think of how much people would pay you to attend their functions', 'if you didn't have to work so hard for the Royal Family, you could earn a fortune'.

The reality was never going to be quite so straightforward, particularly taking into account their loss of status - throw Covid into the mix - the reality is nothing like they expected.

The men in grey suits would have explained this to them - if they'd been consulted. Unfortunately they believed the hype.

Viviennemary · 19/06/2020 11:14

Nobody that knows the first thing about the royal family would have suggested that they try and make their own money and stay in the family or even half in. So If there were suggestions to do that it's not difficult to guess where they came from. Sophie tried it years ago and it ended in disaster so the Queen wasn't going to allow that. Without CV they could have given it a go but I'd say now it's dead in the water. I think they'll come back.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 19/06/2020 11:29

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ARoseInHarlem · 19/06/2020 11:53

@OneMile

The best way, I think would for the pair of them to team up with a respected black journalist (Gayle King?) and do a 'fire side' type chat - JM uses it to rehab her image, MM gets to talk about BLM, publicly (but gently) chastise JM whilst being an advocate for using mistakes as an opportunity for growth and change

I find this a very ugly suggestion.

Why on earth would Gayle King (or any other respected journalist, black or white) be interested in rehabilitating Jessica Mulroney’s image? Outside of MM, who many people are not remotely interested in, who even knows who JM is?

Why does MM need to talk more about BLM? What does she have to say about it to Gayle King that a more famous and better respected expert on the subject couldn’t do a hundred times better?

Now that I’ve made that point, this is also a good example of how H&M can easily come unstuck. The audience for them as individuals is small (by LA celebrity numbers) and only for the gossip, desperate tit-for-tat reality-TV style. Their only interest to large numbers of the public is as providers of RF gossip. There are so many, many more qualified people in pretty much every field than them. Their USP is being inside the RF, the one thing they can’t talk about. Nobody knows Harry or Meghan, they as individuals are not what pulled in the crowds. They, as Prince and Princess, is what mattered. They know this (hence the “HMQ doesn’t own the world Royal, Harry is still 6th in line you know” shameful petulance), but out of sheer arrogance don’t/won’t/can’t believe it (maybe they do now, but they didn’t at the time they flounced off).

Viviennemary · 19/06/2020 12:32

The best thing JM could do at the moment would be to keep quiet. IMHO. We shall have to wait and see if she makes a come back. Can't see that somebody who loves the limelight will be happy to stay out of it for long.

CherrySpritz · 19/06/2020 12:42

@Roussette

People have different opinions to you. That doesn’t mean the thread is ‘turning pretty horrible

What was said was.

And deleted by MNHQ.
So obviously, at the time, yes.

Well then both you and MNHQ were wrong on this occasion. I made a generalised comment.
CherrySpritz · 19/06/2020 12:48

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ButteryPuffin · 19/06/2020 12:51

Harry is the one who's never lived independently. From boarding school to the army and then back to palace living. All of them places where his day and his general needs will have been planned for. To go from that to having nothing to do all day is a massive shock to the system. And Meghan will be trying to adjust to him being in that state while working out what they do next. I doubt he has a clue about any of it. All his decisions have been made for him all his life.

Samcro · 19/06/2020 13:07

I have no idea who JM is. I have only heard of them on mn.

Roussette · 19/06/2020 13:37

Cherry

For goodness sake, it wasn't your post that was deleted! We are at cross purposes here.

My post you highlighted above. You say to me nobody has said they are creaming off the charities. I replied...
In the post that was deleted it did say that.
I haven't referred to anything you have said, just corrected you when you said nobody has said that. It was in the post that was deleted.

I don't know why you are being so rude.

Roussette · 19/06/2020 13:39

Cherry I said...
someone did say that.

I did NOT say...
you said that.

An apology is in order I would say.

thisenglishlife · 19/06/2020 14:18

Inspiralcarpetry said that they thought H&M would cream off fees for themselves and were 'grubby' for that.
Someone else then posted the quote (Harry Daylight) and agreed with them

Sousone · 19/06/2020 14:31

As I bystander who has never got involved in any disagreements on these threads, I’d just like to share an observation.

Certain posts have been present on every thread that has been deleted. They have the same MO on every single thread. It goes:

  1. I’m here to balance the negativity
  2. I disagree with you
  3. Let me remind you that I’m entitled to disagree with you
  4. Here are more reasons why I disagree with you
  • if at this point they haven’t managed to escalate the ‘disagreement’ into a bunfight, they move to stage 5:
  1. You’re disgusting/hateful/racist/misogynistic/and so on.

Stage 5 almost always gets a rise out of posters who then bite back and posts get deleted. The thread then gets zapped.

It comes as no surprise that we’re entering stage 5 just as the thread almost manages to reach page 40.

I enjoy reading these threads and hope they continue. Please posters, pay attention to what is going on and avoid it.

alliwantisagoodnightssleep · 19/06/2020 14:32

Why do we continually have to rehash deleted posts. Something was posted, someone complained to MNHQ who then deleted it. For the love of dog let it go! Otherwise we fill a thread up of bickering.

alliwantisagoodnightssleep · 19/06/2020 14:33

Sousone you said it more eloquently!

Roussette · 19/06/2020 14:41

Strange. I have never called anyone hateful/ racist/ misogynistic. I have said that some posts are unpleasant/ untrue/ mean/ unwarranted.

I presume from your post Sousone you are saying that posters are not allowed to disagree?

If I think something that someone has posted is not right or unfair, I will disagree, whether you like it or not. You can call it a bunfight as much as you want, what an easy cop out that is. That's saying... only come on this thread to be negative about H&M, or I will say you are trying to cause a bunfight.

Why do we continually have to rehash deleted posts. Something was posted, someone complained to MNHQ who then deleted it. For the love of dog let it go! Otherwise we fill a thread up of bickering

Totally agree. But then along comes a poster being very rude to me about her post that I haven't even mentioned anywhere!

Inspiralcarpetry · 19/06/2020 14:58

Speaking non-specifically of course, so as not to offend anyone, I shall have private thoughts about any foundation being started by anyone who might not necessarily intend to put their own money into supporting it and might hope to raise their own profile or take some other benefit from it.
Philanthropy is defined as the desire to promote the welfare of others, expressed especially by the generous donation of money to good causes.
I look forward to seeing how philanthropists in general apply their humanitarian and educational skills for the greater good and success of outcome for all involved in any new startup foundations.
Changing topic completely, there was a frequent poster called Dandy Penguin who became very poorly with Covid. Does anyone know how they are? Not seen a post in a while and hope they are ok?

thisenglishlife · 19/06/2020 15:11

It's not a foundation according to an article from Monday: Meghan and Harry plan to launch their own charitable organization, but it will be a non-profit, not a foundation. and the projects will be announced next year

thisenglishlife · 19/06/2020 15:13

there was a frequent poster called Dandy Penguin who became very poorly with Covid. Does anyone know how they are? Not seen a post in a while and hope they are ok?
Doesn't appear to have any posts since early April

Sittingontheveranda · 19/06/2020 15:13

Sousone

To summarise your point i

  1. when people dare to disagree with a thread whose primary purpose is to criticise and bulky one woman,
  2. They are shouted down by the anti Meghan brigade,
  3. They refuse to go away
  4. Things escalate

Isn’t that strange 😎

Inspiralcarpetry · 19/06/2020 15:24

I hope Dandy is ok. I remember her relapsing again and again with Covid. Thanks for the update.
She was a very frequent and interesting poster on royal threads and I think on the royal style thread, which I also enjoy.

Samcro · 19/06/2020 16:01

@Sousone im curious.
are people who don't agree that HaM = bad not allowed to post?
is this in the talk guidelines?
I always thought that as long as guidelines were not broken it was ok

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