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With another podcast set for release this week, The Sunday Times has a piece addressing Harry and Meghan's apparent strategy:

Courtiers are bemused by the Sussexes’ determination to rage against the past. As Davis observed of Meghan in her article: “She has taken a hardship and turned it into content.” A source who knows the Sussexes questions why Meghan “is constantly looking back at how awful it was to briefly be a royal. What does success look like, is it a number in the bank? Is it that they’ve killed off the monarchy?” Another Palace source says: “Ultimately they are bashing the institution that has put them in the position they’re in, the longevity of that strategy is not sustainable.”

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/harry-and-meghan-keep-bashing-the-monarchy-because-its-good-business-royals-believe-nq29p6g7z

I'm curious about their strategy, too. They seem to think that criticizing the royal makes them look better - it really doesn't. Instead, it just makes them look petty and increasingly irrelevant.

In light of their endless attempts to control the press, I wouldn't be surprised if they responded to the article by making a fuss. It backfired incredibly.

No media coverage of their charity visit today it seems.

The author may be just going on holiday?. It’s interesting reading replies though.

Her tweet doesn't sound like it...

in other news, for the first time in....... ??? .... i'm going on extended vacation, out of pocket, living in the moment*
pray for my tl/inbox/dms etc.*

SilverLiningPlaybook if you're thinking of the OneYoungWorld summit, I thought most of it takes place this evening?

That's an interesting point. Maybe Meghan has had her work cut out in persuading Harry to sort his mental health out. I seem to remember him saying that she had suggested he get help (was it said that it was for anger issues?? Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong on that) In my book, that suggests quite a tricky time for her, as I don't suppose he was always easy to live with, quite apart from the fallout over leaving the UK and his reported fury at the way he felt he was treated.

I am sure that sometimes a holiday is just a holiday! 😀

(Most writers are freelance, not employees anyway, aren’t they? It’s the editorial staff who are permanent).

Oh does it?

Definitely sounds like an enforced holiday without pay. One of the replies says as much.

Anyone know how come H&M's security have managed to put a ring of steel around the Manchester venue (if, indeed, that is true)?
Does that happen for other royals?

That's an interesting point. Maybe Meghan has had her work cut out in persuading Harry to sort his mental health out. I seem to remember him saying that she had suggested he get help

Harry had counselling before Meghan was aroundSpeaking in 2016

Sorry 2017

I know he'd had counselling before. This was something more - I think to do with anger issues.

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This maybe? From Elle magazine

That's very intriguing ...

My guess is that Sunshine Sachs hired The Cut to do a puff piece on Meghan and is furious with the result, so the author has not only been put on extended leave, she'd been gagged.

That article wasn't brilliantly written, but it was clever in it's tone, because if you weren't really concentrating you could read it as quite sycophantic, and yet it really wasn't. It was subtly snarky.

I would love to hear the inside scoop on what happened with 'Pearl' too. You know, the animated series that Meghan was supposed to be creating with Netflix.

Here you go, SilverLiningPlaybook - it definitely says the "Live from Manchester" broadcast bit starts at 6pm tonight:

www.oneyoungworld.com/summit-2022/agenda

I would love to hear the inside scoop on what happened with 'Pearl' too

In fairness that could be exactly as presented. After all it's widely said that Netflix's numbers are dropping and they can't fund everything

Good point. Seeing as the cover was a 'me too' of the Diana photo, I'm guessing they were expecting a piece that was all about how similar she is to Diana...

Good for her for going against expectations and being true to herself! Something Meghan should surely applaud!

I’ve always suspected that Netflix had to pretend to be interested in Pearl in order to get the Invictus documentary in the same way that Random had to agree to The Bench in order to get Harry’s memoir.

I would love to hear the inside scoop on what happened with 'Pearl' too.

In fairness that could be exactly as presented. After all it's widely said that Netflix's numbers are dropping and they can't fund everything.

It could, but that could also be a convenient excuse for knocking it on the head. In Tom Bower's book he details what a fucking nightmare Meghan is to work with, so that's why I'm curious and more than a little sceptical about Netflix's real reason. She was supposed to be working on it with David Furnish, who is clearly used to managing his notoriously tantrum-prone husband, so he sounds like just the man for the job, but still ...

Netflix closed its whole animation department apart from projects already in production.
My 12 year old was gutted as they were adapting the wings of fire books, and as Meghan’s project was in pre-production it was cut too.
I think it was part of the a big cost cutting exercise.

I just spotted a photo of them arriving. The really long scarf though made me think of the scene in Fire Saga

I haven't seen any pics as yet but the words 'long scarf' always bring to mind Tom Baker's Dr. Who.

Please tell me the thing isn't striped!

In the photos I have seen Meghan seems to be the star of the show. Harry is trailing along in her wake looking very uncomfortable. I thought this was originally his gig?