Harry and Meghan are so petty and bitter

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They knew that announcing Meghan's new venture would be big news. So they dropped it 45 minutes before William was due to speak yesterday evening. At an awards ceremony dedicated to harry and William's mother's memory.

But that wasn't good enough. Oh no. They then announced the winner of their own awards. While the Diana awards were still going on and Prince William was handing out prizes.

Is there no level this petty, bitter couple won't sink to?!

Can any marketing experts tell me why the Duchess of Sussex would choose a time like 5.15 pm Montecito time to launch something? A launch of nothing specific currently. It smacks of the same things the Duchess says all the time to the press about "exciting things" ahead. You are a bit in danger then of people saying "Oh is that it?" when the things actually arrive. I'm also confused by jam - I thought that the Duchess liked to use farmer's markets and local produce so is a big company producing jam not hitting at these kind of local events? It is also selling a certain upmarket lifestyle. Basically there are just too many fingers in too many pies and the message gets lost and people are left wondering what is it all about?

"Hate speech"? Blimey.

Dear Lord, the reaching on here to justify the hijacking of this high-profile event.

Coincidence
Helping William and Kate out (!!!)
It didn't detract from the Diana Legacy Awards at all
Best of all (so far) "All of these activities are completely unrelated"

Anybody want to add to the list as the thread progresses?

I'd agree that their message is lost, it's messy and diluted, and yes there's a lot of hype but not a huge amount to follow so far. I think they are lost identity-wise.

However, I also think in the UK they are doomed PR-wise no matter what they do and no matter how good it actually is. I'm getting fed up with this too tbh, it's been years of that.

@PurplePansy05 I have to agree with you. There is always going to be this association now of the Sussexes as being untrustworthy after all the talk about how the wedding wasn't real blah blah. It's a very difficult scenario to recover from.

I agree with this, I think so much of what MM does is exactly as you say, a lot of hype and not much substance. It is similar to her speeches, lots of phrases and words that really mean nothing and don't communicate any real message at all.

An online homewares merchandising company just seems so far away from the kind of brand she has been trying to introduce since they removed themselves from the RF.

They’re despicable. Yesterday should have been about the Diana Legacy Awards and Harry is as ugly as can be for condoning what went on yesterday.

I think Meghan had lofty ambitions of being an internationally successful content creator and producer. What with her B list TV actress background and all. Spotify and Netflix fell for it.

But that didn't go so well, so now she is selling her supposed lifestyle. Like any other grifting influencer.

Posters saying Harry and Meghan’s activities are separate. Well, I’m sure they may be, but surely you might mention you are doing a speech at the Diana awards? And surely you might mention you are launching your new venture? There was no need for the launch at that precise moment, given that there’s nowt to sell yet.

Dh and I do a lot of separate things, but we coordinate and we are not exactly on the world stage! (More like low-level step stool)

Hate speech?!

That's hilarious!

I think OP is being ridiculous, but I don't think call someone petty and bitter rises to the level of actual hate speech.

Maybe they are trying to take the heat off the Princess of Wales,
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I'll have you know that launching preserves is a matter very close to mine and my husbands (royal) hearts.

Jam sales are one of the things Diana would have absolutely wished for for her favourite son so to launch during a memorial was entirely fitting

I actually think Meghan and harry could have been incredibly successful if they had gone about things in a different way.

Finding freedom was a bit mean about the RF but it portrayed them as different from the stuffy RF, free, unconventional even.

The fact that harry is an actual British prince and Meghan a married in Duchess, they could have created an image of very coveted alternative royals Cali style.

Rather than this cookery and crockery site, I think Meghan should have started a very upmarket cali clothing line like Hollister but with a posh cali/ brit twist.

She was barefoot when meeting Prince William, so she could have projected a posh surfer image, aspirational but also very down with the kids.

Preppy basically. But more inclusive and more modern. They could have pretended to be quite modest, just the royals living in California and people would have flocked to them. As Harry and Meghan completely destroyed their relationship with the RF, their kudos and USP went out of the window.

I actually think buying a vineyard could have also been very cool, Sussex sparkling wine etc.

A proper merger between British and cali culture in terms of fashion and maybe lifestyle.

Anyway.

Sussex sparkling wine, made from sour grapes...

MarmaladeMarkle 😂

Dianna Awards is UK mainly - does it get muchnotice or attention any where but here?

Of course it doesn't, no one outside of the UK has ever heard of Diana!

Maybe because they are keen to position themselves as Diana’s ‘rightful heirs’? So making these announcements on the back of the Diana Legacy awards, particularly the Archewell award they were debuting, gives their activities a bit of brand Diana DNA?

I agree. They’re showing themselves to be horrible people. I don’t understand how some people can’t see through them. Their bitterness and jealousy just oozes out of them.

Yes, I think their reputation is really in a jam right now

It’s true that they don’t have to coordinate with the RF so how is it that they always manage to clash with something or other? It’s happened so frequently that it does look deliberate, and therefore petty and bitter. So many coincidences.

It must be coincidence with that freakish eye for detail

Deeply offensive hate speech???

Where?? There's nothing in the title that remotely resembles either of those things.