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MaturingCheeseball · 12/02/2024 21:39

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!

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Raincloudsonasunnyday · 14/02/2024 14:29

Re "From the Office of...":

This morning I received under my front door a thank you note from a neighbour for a favour I did (writing a letter of recommendation for her son). It was pretty thick card, slightly smaller than a postcard, in a nice envelope. Printed top and center was "From the Desk of....".

It's ridiculous. We live in an apartment block (major city east coast of the USA). She's originally from Florida, and now she's a special ed teacher. Her DH is a lawyer for the local government. Regular, bill-paying, grocery-shopping, mum of one living in an apartment, leading a normal life. Just like me - really nothing special. "From the Desk of...." is SUCH an affectation. I know (because her floorplan is the same as mine) that her actual desk is in her spare bedroom.

I cannot read "From the Office of...." re H&M without this in mind now. It's like all those instagram clips of bored housewives going about their laundry and cooking with pretty nails and cheap made-in-China crockery off Amazon, all done to make you think they're not actually bored housewives in the suburbs looking for a way to earn a few cents through clicks. The gap between reality and the image that is trying to be projected is HUGE.

Runnerinthenight · 14/02/2024 14:36

@Spectre8 At least Harry has owned his shit and apologised for it and highlighted it.

Oh do come off it - he only did that because his (POC) wife told him to!! He said as much!!

AcrossthePond55 · 14/02/2024 14:39

@Propertylover

I was wondering that too. They are using Meghan's 'impaled' CoA unless I'm mistaken. Do you think M & H don't understand how CoA's 'work'?

Runnerinthenight · 14/02/2024 14:42

@AcrossthePond55 I don't think they understand very much about anything!

Runnerinthenight · 14/02/2024 14:44

Carpediemmakeitcount · Today 09:28

If Meghan was blonde and blue eyed would the British people still have the same opinion?

Of course the British people would! We know a grifter and a user when we see one!

Runnerinthenight · 14/02/2024 14:49

@Spectre8 bit of a difference between my little Ford Focus and a private jet pmsl!

FuzzyManul · 14/02/2024 14:55

Carpediemmakeitcount · Today 09:28

If Meghan was blonde and blue eyed would the British people still have the same opinion?

Harry has ginger hair and blues eyes and is widely disliked.

The PoW has dark hair and hazel eyes (I think that's her eye colour) and she is widely liked.

The late queen had dark hair and blue eyes and was beloved.

So, the answer to your question is "yes".

Runnerinthenight · 14/02/2024 14:55

Mylovelygreendress · Today 10:57

Novella4 · Today 09:53

Orwell was warning about how easily people are manipulated by the media/ elites - look at any of the numerous hate threads here as evidence !
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You are underestimating posters when you sneer like that. Just because many of us see the whole H and M fiasco differently from you does not mean we are being manipulated.

Sad thing is, the H & M supporters are just as much manipulated as anyone else! We are all influenced by the world around us. I prefer to look at the facts, the things that are clear for all to see. Which leads me to conclude that their behaviour is execrable. I don't know how anyone can excuse it.

Turtlerussell · 14/02/2024 14:57

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MaturingCheeseball · 14/02/2024 12:04

I wonder what went on behind the scenes with the Duke of Windsor ? We all know he was hobnobbing with the enemy and fervently hoping to make a triumphant return as King, but did the rf do anything ? When was being the Governor of Bermuda was it? put in train?

With the advent of the Second World War, the close relations of the couple with Germany and members of the Nazi party became of great concern. It was believed that Hitler and the party generally felt that Edward’s abdication was a loss for them. The couple’s apparent sympathy for fascism and involvement with Germany proved incredibly difficult to navigate. As the Germans invaded France in 1940, the Windsors fled first to neutral Spain and then to Portugal. Anxious to keep the Windsors out of the grasp of Berlin but unwilling to let them return to Britain, Churchill offered the Duke the position of Governor of the Bahamas. The Windsors dallied in Lisbon so long that Churchill was said to have threatened the Duke with a court-martial (he had been made a Major-General and attached to the British Military Mission in France) if they did not leave immediately to take up the position!

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/King-Edward-VIII/

Seem to have been Churchill who got him sent to Bahamas - where he may have been involved in a cover up of murder of a rich business man.

His family didn't attend his wedding - which upset him - and they squabbled over money when he first left - and prior to war there was some trip to Paris or USA where Queen mother's wardrobe was somehow vitally important to put his wife in her place.

Basically he was snubbed by friends and family and made irrelevant - think he then stuck to very short prearranged visits for events or stayed away from UK.

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Runnerinthenight · 14/02/2024 15:01

@Spectre8 There have bene examples of other royals wearing symbols that were offensive and getting away with it.

I am only aware of one, Princess Michael of Kent. Perhaps you could jog my memory if there are more?

Princess Michael is a minor Royal who has always been a controversial figure, was not of British origin (with dubious family associations), and is not a working royal either, so I think you are scraping the bottom of the barrel here.

Vespanest · 14/02/2024 15:03

regarding racism I actually find Harry’s unconscious bias shit even more galling than his actual racism. A white privileged middle aged man mansplaining what constitutes racism and excusing it with this get out of jail free card of unconscious bias. Oprah took from the conversation that the children being to black was a problem and to this day has never been corrected, unconscious bias my arse.

Getthethrowonthesofa · 14/02/2024 15:11

Propertylover · 14/02/2024 14:27

Why does the website only use Meghan’s coat of arms? It’s even on Harry’s bio page. I would have thought they would either use both or have a joint one -https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/sep/27/william-kate-duke-duchess-cambridge-conjugal-coat-of-arms

My view is KC will keep quiet and watch how this develops. At the end of the day H is Charles’ son and as we know from many posters on MN the bonds of family can be very strong.

Removing royal titles is highly unlikely. I think H & M might push the boundaries and the Lord Chamberlain will send a firm letter reminding them of the rules.

Sadly H & M have embarked on a path that is likely to see them struggle to find their place whilst earning an income. There will come a time when KC & C or W & K do a royal visit to the US and it will really emphasis the different path H & M have chosen to take.

I understand it’s as using Harry’s really is a step too far, proper breach, and on Megan’s the lion represents Harry,

as Said they are skirting as close to a breach as possible, trying to achieve the same thing, but slither through the gaps so that the palace don’t take them down.

Turtlerussell · 14/02/2024 15:14

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Raincloudsonasunnyday · 14/02/2024 15:29

So many self styled ‘expert’ influencers think claiming a thing makes it so. Maybe it’s why millennials like Harry and Meghan think it’s as easy as just claiming to be something, such as an environmentalist or humanitarian.

I think you're right, @Turtlerussell. Meghan had The Tig, a typical influencer blog (back in the days of blogs) where she portrayed a life which could not have been more different than her reality (if she had been living the life she portrayed, she wouldn't be doing a blog. She'd be living the life). This, plus Harry being used to other people doing the work, handing him a card with key bullet points, telling him who is whom so that he can shake the right hands and say the right words and smile for the camera and take all the credit... really, it's the same thing. Faking it, in the hope people fall for it (which they do, in droves), in order to grift a living.

Also totally agree re that interviewer for The Cut. She had Meghan's number from the get-go, and Meghan totally underestimated her (how else would she have risked getting into print the comment about never having signed an NDA with the RF). She didn't have the nouse to keep her mouth shut, so keen was she to show off.

Raincloudsonasunnyday · 14/02/2024 15:33

RhubarbGingerJam · 14/02/2024 15:00

With the advent of the Second World War, the close relations of the couple with Germany and members of the Nazi party became of great concern. It was believed that Hitler and the party generally felt that Edward’s abdication was a loss for them. The couple’s apparent sympathy for fascism and involvement with Germany proved incredibly difficult to navigate. As the Germans invaded France in 1940, the Windsors fled first to neutral Spain and then to Portugal. Anxious to keep the Windsors out of the grasp of Berlin but unwilling to let them return to Britain, Churchill offered the Duke the position of Governor of the Bahamas. The Windsors dallied in Lisbon so long that Churchill was said to have threatened the Duke with a court-martial (he had been made a Major-General and attached to the British Military Mission in France) if they did not leave immediately to take up the position!

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/King-Edward-VIII/

Seem to have been Churchill who got him sent to Bahamas - where he may have been involved in a cover up of murder of a rich business man.

His family didn't attend his wedding - which upset him - and they squabbled over money when he first left - and prior to war there was some trip to Paris or USA where Queen mother's wardrobe was somehow vitally important to put his wife in her place.

Basically he was snubbed by friends and family and made irrelevant - think he then stuck to very short prearranged visits for events or stayed away from UK.

some time last year. I suppose there could have been warm chit chat before or after this clip, but the article I came across it in implied not (wasn't important enough for me to retain where I saw it).

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Propertylover · 14/02/2024 15:37

@Getthethrowonthesofa That is a distinct possibility or M is wanting to be the star,

User3353235 · 14/02/2024 15:40

I'm going to say something that I think everyone is innately aware of but nobody has articulated (I'm POC myself, for context).

Generally speaking, physical beauty and money overrides race. The more you have of both, the less your ethnic origin becomes a potential reason for something to dislike you. If you go to any ultra luxury 5 star hotel in the world you'll see a spectrum of people from all races and the atmosphere is incredibly harmonious. The reason being that they are all united in "richness" and that is far more of a uniting factor as opposed to their different races being a dividing factor. Every single human being appreciates physical beauty and your acquired political prejudices don't kick in immediately when you see an incredibly beautiful person. So extremely attractive and wealthy people cannot compare their experience of perceived racism with the lived experience of another POC who is does not fit typical beauty standards, living on the poverty line and doing work that's invisible to society.

However personality always remains a reason to dislike someone, regardless of their social status or appearance. Someone could be incredibly rich and successful but based on their actions or words, you have a fully justifiable reason not to like them.

These are the two issues that keep getting conflated with the Meghan debate and in she actively encourages it via narcissistic manipulation. Whenever faced with criticism, she quickly reduces her identity down to one single thing which is that she's (part) black. Therefore any dislike of Meghan can only be because she's black, which makes the perpetrator a racist. But ironically, in her own description of her identity, she's a wildly multi-faceted person ranging from wife, mother, friend, feminist, activist, philanthropist, actress etc. Surely there could be variables in all of those which are valid reasons to dislike her that have nothing whatsoever to do with race.

AliceOlive · 14/02/2024 15:49

Raincloudsonasunnyday · 14/02/2024 14:29

Re "From the Office of...":

This morning I received under my front door a thank you note from a neighbour for a favour I did (writing a letter of recommendation for her son). It was pretty thick card, slightly smaller than a postcard, in a nice envelope. Printed top and center was "From the Desk of....".

It's ridiculous. We live in an apartment block (major city east coast of the USA). She's originally from Florida, and now she's a special ed teacher. Her DH is a lawyer for the local government. Regular, bill-paying, grocery-shopping, mum of one living in an apartment, leading a normal life. Just like me - really nothing special. "From the Desk of...." is SUCH an affectation. I know (because her floorplan is the same as mine) that her actual desk is in her spare bedroom.

I cannot read "From the Office of...." re H&M without this in mind now. It's like all those instagram clips of bored housewives going about their laundry and cooking with pretty nails and cheap made-in-China crockery off Amazon, all done to make you think they're not actually bored housewives in the suburbs looking for a way to earn a few cents through clicks. The gap between reality and the image that is trying to be projected is HUGE.

Nah, that's been around for many decades. It's not meant to be an affectation. Just a quaint old phrase from gentler times, in my opinion.

Not quite the same as this office nonsense.

AliceOlive · 14/02/2024 15:55

Was just looking at endless amounts of stationary for sale online with this "From the Desk Of" notation and found this hysterical quote.

I have no idea what "from the desk of" is intended to mean, but I knew someone who said that they would never reply to such a message because they refuse to correspond with a piece of furniture.

Getthethrowonthesofa · 14/02/2024 16:03

Megan ha now publicly commented on the agency who created the website. Effectively giving them the blame. Saying they took their vision and elevated it. So basically any back lash should be at the agency. And she’s a fan of their work as they are Canadian.

you couldn’t make it up.

FloofCloud · 14/02/2024 16:07

I think, after the 17th person has left their employ recently, the desk of, and offices of The D&D of Grift look somewhat like this ...

New Sussex website
New Sussex website
FloofCloud · 14/02/2024 16:08

Getthethrowonthesofa · 14/02/2024 16:03

Megan ha now publicly commented on the agency who created the website. Effectively giving them the blame. Saying they took their vision and elevated it. So basically any back lash should be at the agency. And she’s a fan of their work as they are Canadian.

you couldn’t make it up.

Aahh good so I take it it's taken down now then 🤔

Bookist · 14/02/2024 16:09

Getthethrowonthesofa · 14/02/2024 16:03

Megan ha now publicly commented on the agency who created the website. Effectively giving them the blame. Saying they took their vision and elevated it. So basically any back lash should be at the agency. And she’s a fan of their work as they are Canadian.

you couldn’t make it up.

It's always, always, always someone else's fault isn't it?

As if Meghan won't have been given a final proof to carefully read and approve before the website went live. This is absolutely standard practice.

Turtlerussell · 14/02/2024 16:10

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