Harry, Meghan and Netflix too

[CathyorClaire]

Last thread has filled up so I thought I'd create another to chat trailers and teasers while we hang about waiting for better more truth bombs to drop in the main event.

She always said it was RV’s account

On the documentary they said that Meghan won in summary judgement (ie without all the evidence), the mail appealed (at which point Knauf made his statement) and then Meghan won with a front page statement (which read that she’d won her copyright infringement case). I didn’t care much at the time, so took the headline ordered by the court to be accurate. I accept that I may have been wrong though.

She always said it was RV’s account

Tbf, the court accepted that accusing “RV’s account” and accusing RV herself were essentially interchangeable. She won because she was (on balance of probabilities) right that RV was the one leaking stories.

From what I've gleaned, but I can't tell you exactly from where, they weren't too good at managing staff well, even if it didn't amount to bullying. Wasn't part of Kate's and William's distancing from them partly to do with that?

You never for one minute thought she meant anyone but Vardy. And she never corrected that.

With the best will in the world, if you’re working for two very stressed bosses, then it will be very stressful. When you add in that you also may have two other very stressed bosses that disagree with the other two very stressed ones and that they’re two sets of married couples… well, no thanks.

I think there are pictures of that! 😉

Of course. But what I want to know is if they had more staff quit / move on than W&K. Because my only information on this comes from the press (who can be biased) or via an unreliable source (a friend of a friend worked in the royal household).

Though I would point out that there are lots of jobs which are way more stressful (anything medical for instance) but the staff don’t quit on a regular basis. H&M are relatively litigious so one might reasonably assume that if the bullying accusations were demonstrably false (on balance of probabilities) they would have sued over it. But then again, maybe not - court cases are stressful in themselves. Perhaps time will tell - if bullying accusations are true, H&M will continue to lose staff at an alarming rate.

I agree @BreadInCaptivity - the US media reaction is interesting and is becoming increasingly critical of H&M. Maybe they’re just getting bored of the non stop whining despite H&M’s privileged lifestyle.

I think that the timing of Covid lockdowns worked against H&M’s quest for glory….rather than glittering galas and Hello magazine spreads they were forced into isolation in their various mansions where they marinated in their grievances. They missed their sweet spot for making a splash on the A lister circuit due to the virus. That was probably William’s fault too.

I think M was treated unfairly by the press & racism was one of the root causes of that.

However I've cringed watching this, Megan's DD was a scumbag fir selling out his daughter to the press. What H&M seem to miss with glaring lack of self-awareness is they did the same thing with the Oprah interview. Repeated again with the Netflix deal - though they also contradict themselves. Clearly the book will again repeat selling out family.

It's just not believable to most of us that while they struggled to deal with where to live/finding security they also git a 24/7 camera crew to follow them about their home as they read out text messages! The part about Beyoncé texting was just tacky and showing off their famous connections.

They have each other, a fortune, contacts & freedom to do philanthropy plus 2 cute kids. They need to ficus on their mental health & the future and stop selling out their version of being wronged, it cannot be healthy & it's just so tacky

And from the lack of a TV I'm guessing they had 2 living rooms.

No concept of the real world where people are homeless or live in overcrowding

Sorry just realised photo is fake!

I remember a PR expert saying at the time of their departure announcement saying they had the potential to become A list players with the ability to harvest golden eggs but to do so they shouldn't do books/interviews etc re: the RF because that was their "laying goose"

Quite surprising a supposed expert might consider a bloke with little discernible talent and his wife whose career peaked in an obscure TV series could become A-listers.

Their connection with the royals is literally the only thing that distinguishes them from any other wannabe.

fgs wtf has she done for ur country what a narc

Quite surprising a supposed expert might consider a bloke with little discernible talent and his wife whose career peaked in an obscure TV series could become A-listers.

I think at the time of their marriage they seemed quite glam, what with the guests at their wedding. Makes you wonder how, if at all, well they know people like the Cloonies, Obamas, Oprah, Idris Elba etc.

Makes you wonder how, if at all, well they know people like the Cloonies, Obamas, Oprah, Idris Elba etc.

Interesting how quiet all of these guests are on the subject.

the Cloonies, Obamas, Oprah, Idris Elba

Always the same crew popping up for the same purpose. Hmm

Megan reminds me of my brothers ex girlfriend who ended up being incredibly manipulative. Obviously Megan is her own person but little things she says and does give me tingles back to my brothers ex girlfriend. There's something disingenuous despite the warmth and intelligence. I'm still trying to decide if it's the American/LA way of being that gives this impression or if it's something deeper.

It's the juxtaposition to suggest something leaving the option to claim 'but I never said...'

So, lots of Hollywood A-list at the wedding implies these are the circles M moves in, these are her friends. But, of course 'she never said they were her friends'.

Plus the use of David Olusoga to talk about the historic links of the RF with slavery, Empire/Commonwealth etc all of which is accurate and credible history, and creates the impression of an overwhelming force of racism against M. But few specific allegations or any attempt to explore the range of reactions, so nothing that can be denied or held to account.

Like the OW interview 'someone' at 'some point' made a racist comment (unspecified) about the colour of Archie's skin. There is no way to hold anyone to account, including those making the allegation.

Didn’t one of the A list guests say afterwards that she was surprised to be invited as she’d only met Meghan once briefly and had never met Harry?

it was all for show that wedding i belive shes friends with serena williams but thats it

Odd. There's at least half a dozen friends who have spoken up on her behalf on the Netflix series, totally backing her up.

So that's not 'it'

Could you name names (from the A-lsters)?

Why have her friends got to be A listers? These were school friends, work friends, people she'd connected with over the years

But people were talking about the A Listers invited to the wedding, various of whom were surprised to receive an invitation when they didn’tt know them.

I rather think that Oprah /Netflix had been approached prior to any wedding and possibly from the first point of contact between M&H