New Sussex website

[MaturingCheeseball]

So I see there is a brand-new Duke and Duchess of Sussex website. Very glossy.

But the self-aggrandising! I just read Meghan’s bio and - cringe - it was the worst of LinkedIn. Sometimes less is more!

It's just a website though

Well, pardon me - it's the website of The Dook and Duchess of Sussex, don'tcha know? I

Just a website, indeed!

No headache, @Spectre8 . A bit of bafflement, some disbelief and a good deal of amusement, though!

Well you can sya that about any celebrity of royal then can't you. If only they all donated the cost of one of their dresses to one of their charities....you going to also call kate out on it to? Or is it only reserved for meghan?

I've taught a girl called Princess.
We know full well what the difference is. It's an emphasis on the royal heritage and status of Archie and Lilibet. It's for status, privilege and wealth. Princess Lilibet - that will open doors.

Who knew mumsnet was a disguise for an underground website police group....going round policing website, how many website is one person allowed? What punishment is there if there is a typo? What rules are in place on how much you can say or what you can say.

😂

Wow they've gone full Alan Partridge. No self awareness whatsoever.
Senseless word salad, referencing ' paid for ' awards. The desperation is obvious.

Apparently the website is problematic because it “apes” being a legit offshoot of the British rf, which is forbidden, particularly if its intention is commercial (and it is .com). There may be a new coat of arms, but it is made to look officially royal.

I also read that rf silence could be construed (or legally argued, rather) as tacit approval. Dh some years ago received a letter from his boss saying times were hard and he was reducing dh’s salary by a third (!). Dh threw the letter in the bin. Big mistake: boss argued in litigation that he assumed dh had accepted this because he didn’t reply. (The verdict was 50/50 but dh learnt his lesson the hard way.)

@Spectre8 - I think it's somewhat about the many many changes of clothes, the fact they really do shit all anyway for any charities unless its the tiniest of things, they jump on that bandwagon and suck dry the publicity.
At least the really RF have the grace to actually help their charities, reward clothing, aren't ostentatious and demanding of publicity for their own gain - she probably spent more
Money on those clothes, albeit she'd maybe even put those costs against their charity support as it was expenses for attending, I'm
Speculating of course here but when those two show up everyone smells greed and bullshit

Must be a spoof surely?

They can't be this deluded, can they? 🫣

@ThePoshUns - Alan Partridge.. spot on.
Those awards!

And there was me thinking that there was a decent site about living in Sussex, not just 2 people who have had such a hard life…..

Knowing me, Alan Partridge, knowing you, Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Aha!

I agree the pomposity and lack of self awareness are hilarious. So many words, for so few achievements. And they clearly desperately miss their royal status, don't they?

I wonder where the 'Office of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex' is? Is it equidistant between Archewell Foundation and Archewell Productions? I guess that's the genius of its location.

Looks like quite a lot has been missed out of the glowing cv…

Way back in the day I worked for an International charity abroad that worked with refugees, trafficked women and children etc. It was around the time that Angelina Jolie was getting alot of attention for her support of UNHCR. (I had friends who worked for UNHCR and they all only had good things to say about her, just to say. She was the real deal). But loads of celebrities jumped onto that bandwagon. I recall a Very Famous Actress come for a visit to one of the projects I was working in. She brought her own media and got lots of lovely photos of her hugging children with tears in her eyes. All well and good. But she also insisted that at the cost of the charity we fly in bottled water from a particular town in Europe. You could get bottled water in every shop in town, but it was not the Extra Special Bottled water which she drank.

That's how I view H&M's charity work (except for possibly Invictus). All show no substance. And all about them.

I’m not sure about the lack of self awareness but this is more out of necessity. Love, loathe or indifferent about any branch of the royal family the extortionate amount of money it costs to be royal is always a grubby side. They are a commodity to be sold and they need self promotion and no amount of PR can disguise that they need a hefty income supply so need to sell themselves. Part of this maybe is that they have come to terms that there will not be a funded security package and long term need more money.

Are they utterly brazen, or just very dim?

She's utterly brazen and he's just very dim.

@Roussette
“Why shouldn't Meghan mention an internship... how weird to criticise this!”

Is that the internship organised by her uncle ? The one she didn’t invite to her wedding ?

Absolutely😂

I wonder what the good people of East and West Sussex think about their home land being co-opted via “Sussex.com” by two people living and working in California and hoping to use the name for the personal gain.

It would be a bit like me starting a website called santabarbara.com, for my livery/dish soap making/whatever else business portfolio in Gloucester.

'Show up, Do Work' more like 'Shut up, Dear God'

They are their own worst enemy. The hubris of all this.

There has been a lot in the press recently about the benefit of a Royal Warrant for business and that Camilla, William and Catherine may soon be able to give out Royal Warrants.

I half wonder if this use of a coat of arms on the website is leading to this sort of 'endorsement'. There has been a lot of rumour that the Tig is going to be back - and in the past Meghan has endorsed products on this. Are they are leaning towards using this coat of arms as a sort of Sussex endorsement.

Otherwise makes no logical sense. When you produce a documentary using terms such as Empire 2.0 - why on earth do you continuously align yourself to that institution?

I just can't see the long term future for them financially.

The crux of the problem is that they are living the life of the rich and famous with multi million pound property and hugely expensive security, expensive clothes and accessories without a guaranteed forward income stream.

But the rich and the famous have amassed their wealth and are sitting on huge deposits of past income with future projects that will generate more wealth.

The RF (senior members) in the UK do not need to generate an income stream in a commercial way either. Lesser royals do.

But for Harry and Meghan to continue to live the American "film star" life the serious money they need to generate is just going to elude them going forward unless something miraculously happens.

They've played this all wrong and just continue to do so.

@Roussette she’s 42 years old!! There comes a point when you stop listing GCSEs, A Levels, degree subjects and grades, work placements (her internship was 6 weeks when she was a university student). That’s not necessarily a specific age; it’s when you reach a level of seniority and your accomplishments speak for themselves. In some industries, your name precedes you and you really don’t have to say much.

If, at 42yo, you have to mention the grade school you went to, the university you attended, your work placement job that your uncle got for you….well, I think that says a lot and NOT what the subject thinks!

Less is definitely more. The bios look rushed in terms of thought and language, but labored over in terms of PR. Which would be absolutely typical.

They work so hard and do so much good, all power to them!