Grifters indeed! Can we have a lift Joe?

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H&M asked if they could have a lift home on AF1 after HMQs funeral.
Environmentally friendly sure, but makes them look grabby and entitled again. Makes for a good story though.

Who better to cadge a lift from if you think you may have a visa re-entry issue😁

I wonder if they would have asked Trump for a lift!?!?😁

This. The White House staff would bill the passengers, unless Mr. Biden told them he would personally pay.

People don't realize that at the White House, the family pays for its own groceries, toothpaste, etc. for their private rooms and meals and personal entertaining. They are invoiced once a month.

State dinners and official entertaining is paid by the government but personal expenses are as they would be in a private home.

I read an old book called "Upstairs at the White House" by the "chief usher," which is the person in charge of the house, to whom all the butlers/chefs/cleaners/decorators etc report. It was quite interesting.

The problem Harry and Meghan have now is that - partly through some of their own actions and behaviour - lots of crazy stories about them are just about believable.

Leaves them very vulnerable to anyone with a grudge or a simple desire to make money off them to invent or exaggerate stories about them.

They need better advisors - that whole New York car chase fiasco was very badly managed from beginning to end. And made much worse for them by releasing that ridiculous statement.

@wordler , indeed ! , sadly this story is now very much believable.

She was an abused child, forced to pretend to be a boy by her abusive parents, because she had a genital abnormality - that was sorted out with surgery her grandmother paid for when she grew up. Her lovely ex and his brother blackmailed her family to give up some of her family assets (she being the wealthy one in the relationship) or risk them exposing this "scandal" by laying false claims to the press that she'd had a sex change. Her ex was violent towards her. If she's kept the title as a 2 fingers up to a violent, abusive misogynist, good for her. The Campbell family males have a history of marrying wealthy women to prop up their ailing coffers, and then shitting on them (see Margaret Campbell's treatment).

There's no need for posts like this. Criticise her all you like for her work (I don't particularly like her), but being snide to an already abused woman for entering an abusive marriage -and getting out of it quickly - when very young, is pathetic.

Well said👏👏

I imagine Lady CC is popular with some because she has a youtube channel knocking H&M.

that is sad.
but the still using the mans title is odd. it has his actual name in it.
and before someone says it. its not the same as H&M using their titles. H is a prince by birth and M is married to him.

I could be wrong but I'm sure she addressed why she kept the name?
I think it was some kind of revenge ( too strong a word but can't think of an appropriate one) .

It is the technically correct way of using her title, apparently. You use it with the man’s name.

I understand why Lady C uses her title, she supports the aristocracy and is very much a part of that world. I don’t think Megan needs her title though. Her Netflix documentary explained how the British RF is based on and upholds racism and colonialism, both of which she is against.

Megan was a well respected actor and activist before she ever met Harry and I think she’s bigger than the Sussex title. Arguably she’s more famous than him anyway.

i think in the long term she’ll trade mostly under her Megan Markle name, especially if she gets further into US politics.

ahh
so LCC good. M bad.
what a surprise.

Oh what convenient timing...news breaks about Dan W who is closely linked to the royals esp william and ta da front page headline is about some potential bs news they made up or something that really doesn't matter about H&M ...classic look over here not there distraction.

I mean who fucking cares if they did ask. Lots of ppl ask for flight upgrades, discounts and ao on everyday I mean seriously its not a cf thing to so or aibu. Its just someone asking...sometimes u might get told yes. No harm in asking so long as how you asked is polite and you accept the response

So it’s made up. Or it’s because of Wooten. Or if it’s not made up it’s totally normal.

How did you get this from that post?
Totally not what the poster said at all !

Megan was a well respected actor and activist before she ever met Harry and I think she’s bigger than the Sussex title. Arguably she’s more famous than him anyway.

Famous for what? Most people had never heard of her. Suits was a very minor series in the U.K. that wasn’t well known.

I have no Idea whether it's true or not, but my primary assumption would be that Harry wanted the security if it were true.

You don't get much more secure than travelling with POTUS.

No she won't.

In part because her name is not Megan, but Meghan.

As to @Samcro --- of course Lady CC is a good egg around here, and not Meghan! And of course she can use her title, but Meghan can't!

More importantly, you know by now surely that we should have consideration for the abusive treatment, mental health and other struggles etc that everyone in the world has faced, including Dan Wootton and Lady Colin Campbell.

It's just Meghan who can be trashed with impunity.

The optics would have been amazing for Brand Sussex - it could have been spun as the Bidens inviting them to fly back together which implies they are important enough to be courted by the most influential head of state in the world.

The plane going to Washington would also not be an inconvenience because it couls be spun as the Sussexes spending a couple of days networking with the political elite in DC.

I don’t necessarily believe this story but if it had happened it would have been a huge publicity coup for them.

Although I heartily tire of your constant cries of “racism!” @MrsMaxDeWinter i actually think you’re close to the reality of what happened with this post. I think Meghan thought she could keep it all under control at least till they were safely up the aisle but completely and understandably underestimated the might of the media and how much her pathologically jealous sister’s questionable tales would be promoted.

my issues with Meghan, were always that she seems to constantly be acting, and it’s all so sugary and soap opera-ish. Cringe. Having read your post though, I am considering why she’s acting all the time, and really for the first time seeing all the plates she’s been having to keep spinning since day one of being with “H”. Who could come across as genuine when they are indeed having to hide and control so much?

Firstly, the trial before Justice Nicklin was over a preliminary issue as to whether the article in issue was capable of being defamatory (this normal in defamation cases, as if the answer is no, the case ends there and then). That was the only issue being considered. Nicklin J ruled that it was capable of being defamatory.

In his judgement, in relation to the passages complained of by Prince Harry, Nicklin J held that: “The defamatory flavour is supplied by the criticism. Although I have found this criticism to be an expression of an opinion, it is nevertheless defamatory at common law”…

ANL has not presented their defence, actually. That happens in the actual trial, which hasn’t happened yet. You are correct though, they stated in their submissions that their defence will be honest opinion under the Defamation Act 2013. ANL intend to argue that the Mail on Sunday assistant editor was approaching the points in her piece as an “honest commentator”.

So this case is most definitely about the opinions expressed by ANL. Facts are involved in the case as well, as is almost always the case in defamation. But when you said Harry’s not based a lawsuit on opinions - well, he is in this case. As the judge explained in his judgment, the sting of the article is in the opinions expressed about Harry’s motivations here.

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@Serenster

thank you 🙏

Thank you for that post which is more accurate than your first posts on this matter.

There was some mention on here (not rf) about askers and non-askers. Clearly Harry is an asker (witness Lion King evidence) and, as people have said, what’s wrong with that? People can only say no. BUT he seems to lack any kind of filter and can’t read the room. It puts people in an embarrassing position, not least the POTUS !

Btw I saw that the leak may have come from the White House, and was a “stop bugging us” warning: Joe and Jill do not want to be besties with them.

Thank you for that post which is more accurate than your first posts on this matter.

Wow. 🤣

@Serenster

I know 🤣🤣🤣