What next for Prince Harry & Meghan ?

[MrsPeachBottom]

I hope after the trauma & troubles of Harry that this is a new chapter and renaissance for him.

I can see Meghan and Harry hosting an annual ‘Met - style’ Gala/high brow event in Diana’s honour with a listers, red carpets and music performances. Donating the proceeds of the televised coverage to mental health research at a big Ivy League university or some other big cause & using the event and celebrity power to end the stigma

I can see Harry abs Meghan doing what they’ve done with Invictus - something really substantial that makes a huge difference.

I don’t truly know what exactly the Royal do and I read royal news - I know Kate does early years etc but not what they’re doing beyond promoting and visiting places.

I can see a Meghan & Harry really doing something global and substantial and hitting the ground running.

I see the royals getting stale with the new streamlined Royal not getting headlines. It’ll be tricky with no lesser royals to generate scandals and glamour, weddings and babies and leave the main players to look aloof, above being Human and immortal.

what do you predict for the next chapter of royals and Harry Meghan ?

Yes I know she was divorced before, but it's different being a 'happily married' formerly divorced woman when facing the camera as opposed to being a single mum with 2 kids.

Americans like their presidential candidates to be playing happy families, I find it weird but they are always calling their families to join them on stage during the political rallies. Why would I care if the candidate has a nice looking family but it's evidently important to some people.

Oh please. Not merchandising Harry's dead mother. Heard it all now

seriously? do you work for them and are you testing the waters? They've tainted too many things now I think they'll find a more limited amount of groups want to be associated with them.

Look who is sounding "deranged" now.

Also saying 'MM could stand for president' makes the process sound nice and easy - like passing a selection committee then standing for election like MPs do. She has no prior political experience, no background in politics and it takes a huge financial campaign fund - and she'd be up against people who have all those things. About the only qualification she has is being born American.

www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/elections/presidential-election-process/

And before anyone says ah, but Trump, he'd been trying to get elected POTUS since 2000.

I agree with a lot of the posts above.

A listers value discretion very highly, and won't touch these two with someone else's. Besides, what do they have to offer? No marketable talents, no real money, no connections. What they did have of value was royal adjacency but I think it's safe to say they've royally messed that one up.

I think they had a good opportunity to build a viable 'brand' 3 years ago. Obviously the pandemic didn't help but they had a lot of popularity and interest then, which could have been capitalised on. Instead, they went down the road of endlessly slagging off Harry's family, and their 'brand' is now one of rancour and discord. Not terribly attractive. Their 'control freakery' around their image and inability to take even the slightest criticism doesn't help either.

I think it may be too late for them to turn things around at this stage, especially after The Book. Sure, it will make money in the short term, but it will do serious long term damage to what remains of their 'brand'.

The order of play was:
They left, there was a lot of goodwill and sympathy from the global elite - NED positions in SF, GS talk etc
They put out a few daft projects.
Obamas rapidly ghosted them along with other megastars.
Since they were already ghosted but still wanting to keep up, they decided to pull out all the stops as their people had already turned away from them so what was there to lose?

American politics is brutal.

How long would a person who still holds a grudge over the finer details of a bridesmaid's dress fitting 5 years ago manage to last?

I'm not sure America wants a president who's husband is a pothead?

Nor does America want a president who's a pothead themselves.

I just read in The Guardian that talk-show host is now a real possibility for Harry, given that he went down well on John Colbert.

Do you always need megabucks to run for President? The Obamas did not have vast wealth, and what about Sarah Palin? You just need someone to bankroll you.

Worst case they will spend the next couple of years trying to eek out a living from their RF gripes, selling stories about potential reconciliations that then fail "because the RF are unreasonable", while the public's appetite for this stuff diminishes. At that point either they'll have to find something else sufficiently juicy to complain about (which is unlikely) or they'll reach a point they can no longer sustain the lifestyle of people with a $10m pa income. Meghan will move on. Harry will spiral into paranoia and it will be a horribly acrimonious divorce. Hopefully his family will be forgiving enough to look after him.

My hope is that they will go quiet, invest what they have earned from the book, live carefully, and, if they want to, to try to build bridges in private. Neither of them seems to have had much in the way of functional family in their upbringings, so it would be good to see them build something lovely for their kids long term. They could concentrate on their charity work, but would have to accept they are not going to be able to live like billionaires from it.

Astonishing all these predictions of failure when every project they have done is a smashing success. It really is wishful thinking. Harry has now sold 1.4 million books in two days, in just one market, and looks set to earn his advance by the end of the week. He has outsold even Barack Obama.

The Netflix series was watched in every country with Netflix, and topped the charts.

Archetypes topped the charts, and won a People's award, voted for by listeners.

His well received appearance on Colbert has been watched by more than 4 million, the most since Obama appeared.

When will you get it in to your minds that they are doing well, and are not going back. They are not coming back. That is a certain prediction. And they and their kids are now set for life, which was the point of all these projects.

Here are my predictions if you are interested:

Meghan's next big project will be to relaunch The Tig.

Their next Netflix production will be a romantic movie. Possible directed by Tyler Perry.

She will go into a high value couture partnership.

She will NOT run for president, why would she? She is ambitious, but she is also highly intelligent. She has greater freedom outside politics.

Both of them will do their charitable work with Archewell.

I predict that the Sussex Brand will be worth a billion dollars in about a decade.

And I predict that they will not divorce, if only because Harry and Meghan is a more lucrative brand.

PS I also predict a royal reconciliation in the next year or two, possibly even before the Coronation. The Institution is very, very good at survival.

If the Commonwealth matters to Charles, he will need to make a formal apology for slavery and colonialism. And the survival instincts will direct this, because etc Commonwealth is quite fractured. But any apology will look insincere if he can't even talk to his biracial daughter in law.

So I predict peace and survival, and much success for H and M, "in their life overseas."

To quote Hamilton, the world is big enough for both Harry and the Royals.

I think Harry should start a self help group for all the little runaway princelings who've escaped their mean and horrid families from their spacious home in Montecito. Perhaps they could sit adjacent to the chicken run and be inspired by the happy cluckings and scratchings of their feathered brethren while they contemplate their new, free lives with multi millions in the bank? It warms the cockles of my heart to think of them meditating in the sunshine, free from the tyranny of their loving families at last.

It takes time to build a respected brand. You need to build trust. But you also need a certain degree of charisma, judgement and self-reflection. In theory they could have done this - get positions on charity/philanthropic trusts boards and sell high end products/services of some sort. Or even accessible but aspirational products like Charle’s (now William’s?) Duchy brand. But I don’t think they have the skills for that. Meghan more likely than Harry but she seems to struggle with staff management and delegation. They could invest in a company of some sort but unless they take sound advice they risk loosing their money that way.

All their "achievements" to date as listed by @MrsMaxDeWinter have been firmly based on Harry's family background. He's now used most of his material and even the book has hardly been an unalloyed success when you look at the repetitional damage it has resulted in for H and M. As time passes, they will be able to use Harry's family less and less and ventures like romantic movies or couture will have to succeed on their own merits. There is, quite simply, nothing to indicate that either really has any talents in either direction - Harry even had to have a ghost writer for his own memoirs, after all. The royal family isn't going to risk any real reconciliation because they won't want to give him material for more fictional memoirs.

So something tells me your predictions are nothing more than wishful thinking, Mrs Max.

Spare Change

Like the descendent of crazed matadors who put Spare in the “early release program”, I too can’t wait for the follow-on books that are a promise on the horizon of this budding artist in the throes of his first epic literary achievement.

Some have already begun to compare him to James Joyce, which I think is apt: the book is unreadable (unless you are hallucinating and in a lively discussion with latrines in a book club).

That said, I am concerned he may experience writer’s block in face of the pressure to produce three follow-on blockbuster bestsellers.

So, here is a muse-like heartfelt tip to get him started:

"Spare Change": This faux autobiographical account imagines Harry’s meteoric descent from the heights of literary fame to panhandling on the streets of Montecito.

He situates himself just outside “Lucky’s”, a famed Montecito restaurant.
The location was chosen by his wife, PR guru and literary agent, for its ironic backdrop.

While he hits up patrons at the front door who he is used to battle with over the most coveted tables, his entrepreneurial wife peddles used bridesmaid dresses soaked in “Meghan’s Tears” – a top shelf laundry detergent softener which had formerly added millions to the family’s “kitty” and that once flew off the shelves as a result of being heavily promoted by the F50 manufacturer in atonement for the wrongs committed against her when she was 12 years old.

While it starts out grim, the story has a Frank Capraesque quality when a new-in-town, hot-shot literary agent trips over Harry’s heavily damaged Bruno Maglis, a brand he favors and could once afford, that he bought at a box store outside of town.

The agent, thinking he caused the damage, immediately apologizes and asks how he can make him “whole” (obviously not recognizing the once unofficial Mayor of Montecito as he was forced to shave his dominant-gene ginger beard since he could no longer afford a personal barber).

His willingness to apologize – with no strings attached – triggers something primordial in Harry.

Harry explains he is a famed author and is currently working on a book but can no longer afford to buy paper and he has recently hawked his iPad since he has no electricity.

The agent squats down and they immediately start tough negotiations. I won’t reveal the ending (proof I have no Spanish blood roiling through my veins), but it ends very well for Harry – not so much for his wife who he replaces as his literary agent.

I'm not in denial. After the punch a carefully aimed kick in his balls whilst he wines in those not do dulcet Kiwi tones.

Well, @MrsMaxDeWinter , that’s all very nice, but you don’t mention any further books, which Harry is contracted to “write”. Also in your scenario Harry is still Spare. Floating around, maybe as a figurehead of a few things, but just the same second fiddle as he’s always been. His USP is being Prince Harry, so I can’t imagine his choosing to move on.

Spot on crowdfund to top up and I'm good for 20 quid. Jimmy Kinmel and John Oliver and the rest now.

I think it's inevitable that Harry is going to end up as cross between Princess Margaret and Edward VIII: on his own, a somewhat bitter loner sniping ineffectively from the sidelines, but having to remain in exile because Charles and William will refuse to fund the luxury accommodation he wants if he were to return to the UK.

That sounds both deranged and xenophobic. Isn't the Sussex Squad meant to be setting a good example ?

They are not coming back

Promise? really, really cross your heart and hope to die promise?

Dear me. Can you imagine what would happen if a poster expressed a desire to slap Meghan because of her whining in her “Yank” accent? Or to administer a toe in the balls to Harry, for moaning in his plummy, upper class accent? All hell would break loose. It would be cited for eternity as evidence of “hate” most likely with the added descriptor of “racist!” towards M & H.

Rules for thee but not for me…

As usual 😒

😂This is where i see megs going back too............ hahahaha

Yatch Girl any one.............