The PR Whodunnit?

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So what is this all about then?
Who did it and why?
And whoever's PR team is responsible needs tearing off a strip, it's going to backfire.
I know there was a thread about this earlier today but it was deleted due to questions over how genuine the OP was. As this story is everywhere at the moment I thought I would have a try myself and see how we go. Just a couple of preemptive points:

1. My MN credentials are rock solid so don't anyone even go there😁
2. Lets also keep some perspective, at the end of the day we are talking about a bunch of privileged and entitled millionaires who likely wouldn't even pee on us if we were on fire and that goes for both 'sides'.

https://news.sky.com/story/meghan-wrote-to-king-charles-expressing-concern-about-unconscious-bias-in-the-royal-family-reports-12863044

🤞🤞🤞🤞

Of course CandC have nothing to gain from leaking anything in the run up to the coronation unless they have concrete proof of the Sussexes telling lies and are wanting to open that can of worms just to present their proof and take control of it, rather than being blackmailed via media for the next five years.

Back to a pp, I just can’t see who this story benefits. I suppose it raises the “who is the racist?” question again, which has all the core rf (except Charles) under the microscope.

It makes the Coronation all about Meghan again, which, to be fair (and j am no Meghan fan) I wouldn’t think she wants given that she has distanced herself from the “revenge” during and after Spare.

Obviously it’s someone who knows about “private” letters but that could be, say, someone on the legal team of either “side” who is simply a leaker, or who picked up a handsome sum for this info.

Aah, so that is the point of this whole story.

To make the Sussexes look petty? That should be the focus? Thank you.

Doesn't have to do with the discontent of queen camilla and cost of coronation by any chance?

As I have just explained... I am saying this to counteract your post saying it came from Meghan. See my post to you of 09.24.

Her leaking it doesn't make sense to me either. And please don't say she wants to disrupt the Coronation, she's barely been seen for months and is living her life.

I have no idea what the point of this story was, that was why I started the thread in the first place.

I’m just making a comment based on what has recently been posted. I’ve no more idea who/what/why is going on anymore than you or anyone else, we are all speculating m/discussing all angles because it’s a bit odd.

@Livingwitheyesclosed I agree, PH seemed fazed by the fact she had said it.

I also think in the Oprah interview there were cultural differences UK vs US that explained some of the “inaccuracies”. My biggest take away is how little her husband prepared her for Royal life. I can understand he didn’t want to frighten her off, but once married he should have explained about the “job”, titles etc.

When did the 5 friends talk to People magazine? Wasn’t that months after the wedding when everyone had stoped talking about it?

those ‘leaks’ started the whole drama up again & got people talking about Meghan.

Obviously it’s someone who knows about “private” letters but that could be, say, someone on the legal team of either “side” who is simply a leaker, or who picked up a handsome sum for this info.

Given the story is still up, one thing we can be sure of is that the person who took it to the Telegraph was not commuting any breach of confidence in doing so. As we are told lawyers on both sides have been involved, if someone had leaked the contents of private correspondence without permission, the story would have been taken down.

Also, given the way the article has been changed since it was first published -most recently with a new sentence added saying how appallingly Meghan and Harry were treated by the Royal family - it’s quite clear who’s holding the pen behind the scenes.

The wild speculation and mind reading as well as projection about camillas action, thoughts and emotions, is crazy making. I read some of this nonsense and think I've fallen down Alice's rabbit hole. The only person who knows camilla s thoughts is camilla. Just stop or we'll all have some kind of breakdown too.

As if anyone would believe the Sussex statement about having moved on 😂

The five mum friends sounds like something out of The Twelve Days of Christmas.

Five mu-uuum friends
Four household staff
Three bloggers
Two chat show hosts
And a journalist hid in a tree

No idea! But Meghan has put out a statement denying it and I believe it

if you actually read her statement, she doesn’t deny leaking the correspondence. She says “Like I’m bothered, please!” But hasn’t denied it.

Smoke and mirrors. Like she never denied the bullying reports either. Her supporters read into them what they want to believe.

Camilla would not have been famous if she had not been first Charles's mistress, then his wife.

Diana would not have been famous if she had not married Charles.

Kate would not have been famous if she had not been William's girlfriend then his wife.

Anne's two husbands would not have been famous if they had not married her.

In fact, the Royal Family as a family is famous for being the Royal family not for the talents or achievements of its individual members. They are, as a family, not bursting with either exceptional brains or talent.

I can think of only three members of that family who achieved their fame from their work and talents, and not just because of who fathered them or who they married.

Anthony Armstrong-Jones was a renowned photographer before he married Margaret. Of course he became more famous afterwards, but he was already known as a society photographer.

Mike Tindall would have been famous even if he had not married Zara. He was a successful sportsman.

Meghan Markle would have been famous even if she had not married Harry. She was a successful actress with her own well-regarded blog. No she was not an A last actress, and in any event that's not the only kind of actress that is successful.

She is definitely the only woman who came into that family with a measure of name recognition for achievements outside the family.

It's silly to pretend otherwise.

The friends came together when the negative stories about MM were at their pick. That was the reason. The palace told MM they were protecting her, and they were not. It was visible to everyone outside.

Don't try to twist it.

Sounds like Camilla is the hand behind the pen.

Yes, of course Camilla asked the Telegraph to change the article to add in that the Royal Family treated Meghan and Harry appallingly. 🤣🤣🤣

But that screenshot from BuzzFeed news isn’t talking about the current leak, which is what Serenster was talking about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Phillips
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zara_Tindall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne,_Princess_Royal
Most people had never heard of Meghan when she first appeared with Prince Harry

Yes, of course Camilla asked the Telegraph to change the article to add in that the Royal Family treated Meghan and Harry appallingly

it certainly takes some mental gymnastics to arrive at that conclusion 😂

Another change that was made to the article was that the reference to an “innocuous comment” was removed - the alleged racist incident having been described in the first version as something Meghan agreed was an innocuous comment made without malice.

No one can seriously suggest that anyone at the Palace requested a change in the article to remove something that minimised the allegation against them.

That is an amusing suggestion. “OI! Why don’t we look worse? We want to look MUCH WORSE! Make it happen!”

Most people had never heard of Meghan when she first appeared with Prince Harry

Just because someone is unknown outside the UK, or outside Mumsnet, does not mean they are unknown everywhere.

The 3 million followers of her blog The Tig certainly knew who she was, and 4 million on average watched Suits every season, just in the US. She was well known in Canada through her different adverts. In my part of the world, it was a very popular show, which ran on a platform across Africa with about 10 million subscribers.

She was also known within the UN, to World Vision, and to readers of the magazines she wrote for, and the products she advertised.

Unknown IN the UK ...

Ahhh yes... Mark Phillips... the guy who fathered a child whilst still married to Anne. Never gets talked about
Funny that

He featured heavily in a recent documentary about Anne actually.