american riviera orchard - what was that all about then?

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It seems to have gone the same way as their Sussex Royal site. I don't know much about social media or PR, but this all seems pretty odd and ineffectual.

It was obvious Meghan was planning on moving to California after the wedding and getting a title

It was indeed, though some of us held this view from the start and had to wait for later disclosures to confirm it

Seen from this POV their "hideous experiences" - some of which certainly did happen - take on a rather different light, it being only too easy to exaggerate genuine issues in pursuit of something that was wanted in the first place

Oh, the pair of them are full of it.
H: My dad never hugged me, I never had a bike ride with him - then people post photos of exactly those things happening.
M: Oh, I had to wear muted colours as a royal - then people post photos of her in bright yellow, red and green.
They shouldn't tell lies that are easy to disprove.

Exactly.

After Harry I think she is probably more likely to find herself a poorer, younger, attractive man! Or else another fellow middle-aged hazbeen for consort purposes. Either way, she has never been single for long.

Rich successful men can have their pick of women. What does Meghan bring to the table?

Jam?

They shouldn't tell lies that are easy to disprove

True enough, but then it's hardly surprising coming from someone who expects to get away with lines like "there’s just as much truth in what I remember and how I remember it as there is in so-called objective facts"

Once again this shows that if you come from an institution full of people competing to tell you how wonderful and absolutely right you are at all times, it can be a bit of a shock to discover that the real world doesn't work that way

Actually I’m not sure about that . Remember the ( relatively) paltry sum Sarah received ? I certainly think KC would ensure that the DC are looked after ( unless there is any truth in the persistent Twitter rumours) but after everything that has happened I can’t see a huge cheque being written for Meghan .
I hope they do stay together as there are 2 young children plus can you imagine the one- tear-left-eye interviews ??

Just because Harry comes from a wealthy family doesn’t mean those assets would be available in a financial settlement should he and Meghan split up.

Princess Tessy of Luxembourg found that out when she and her husband, a younger son of the head of state of Luxembourg, divorced a few years ago.

The couple chose to get divorced in the UK jurisdiction, but the judge decided that the Luxembourg royal family’s huge wealth could not be factored into the financial settlement. So the Prince’s worth was based solely on his personal assets and the personal allowance he was paid. Princess Tessy and the children could live in a property the couple had shared when married, and Prince Louis was ordered to pay the princess 'nominal' maintenance and child maintenance of £4,000 a year per child. Her former in-laws are billionaires.

Recent reports say the pair are still worth an eye-watering £48m in their own right.

With M reputed to have brought some £3.5m to the marriage there's probably no need for Papa to start looking down the back of the sofa should they split.

I can’t see Meghan getting more than a few hundred grand. Harry doesn’t have that kind of money. He’s put his inheritance for his DC in trust for his children (crazy that random members of the public even know this….because he’s told us this 🤦‍♀️). The Twitter rumours of surrogacy and donor eggs doesn’t make them any less Harry’s children (or indeed Meghan’s imo) so yes I think KC will see right by his GDC in terms of education and housing and a minimum standard of living. But there would be strings attached and that would be it imo. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to see any child’s home disrupted in such a way. I hope they stay together, and think they will.

I don't see any reason why papa should be expected to sub Harry in any putative divorce anyway. They're both grown-ups and they wanted out of the RF. It would be a bit hypocritical to go running for help to the family he's dissed in print and on TV, wouldn't it?

That does surprise me . They have an incredibly expensive lifestyle with huge security costs plus a lot of staff , payments to PR etc etc . They no longer have Spotify , Netflix looks shaky and Meghan’s new venture hasn’t got off the ground . I can’t imagine a Chimpo’s salary will pay for all their expenses ( is he still employed?)
I’ve read before about Meghan being a millionaire in her own right yet she didn’t own any property or even a car !?

Jam tomorrow, though.

Any new partner of Meghans would have to put up with security everywhere they went and possibly bear the costs of it too ?

How much of that is their property value and Harry's inheritance for his DC? 48m doesn't necessarily mean money in the bank.

Ha ha ha! 👏

But the only money Harry has is from his book Spare. It is quite a few million but they're burning through that, I should think.

There were the Spotify and Netflix deals, but that wasn't cash in their pockets. That was payment for producing content. Which they didn't really do, so plenty of those amounts won't have been paid out.

Where do you go from a Prince? You try and bag a billionaire. But like others have said, Meghan will be middled aged and her lustre in other ways is wearing off too. She'd probably have to go for an older man who could keep her in the lifestyle to which she feels entitled.

I don't know about finding another rich-as-Croesus bloke in a hurry.

She's not getting any younger or more seductive, and doesn't have a particularly sparking personality. I don't move in billionaire circles, but I have always got the impression that very wealthy men (for some inexplicable reason 🤔) often manage to attract much younger, prettier, and engaging women that MM.

This is why I like Jeff Bezos. He has gone for a woman of a similar age, who is clearly kick ass.

So there may be hope for Meghan yet! She just needs to keep some of the sparkle, and do less of the whining.

I would love to think you are right, but unless thenRF make it worth her while I think she'll be very difficult to get rid of.

I have heard that H has about £40million held in trust from the Queen Mother that he can't access until he is 40. If so, there's little chance she'll cut him loose before then. Or is this the inheritance you were meaning?

He turns 40 in September, if memory serves.

I think something like that amount is being split between all her grandchildren.

Ah - I thought that was H's share.

I may have misremembered but I thought this sum was being held in trust, with the trust being overseen by Princess Anne, until he was 40.

Harry wasn't the Queen Mother's grandchild. Do you mean Queen Elizabeth's money? I thought William and Harry had received money from the Queen Mother already years ago (with Harry getting the lion's share).

I think those 'reports' are based on them supposedly getting massive sums off Netflix and other unsubstantiated claims. I doubt they are worth anything like what these 'reports' suggest. Even if they are, it's not a lot of money in the world they aspire to move in.

I also think it's unlikely that Charles would pay out big money in the event of divorce. Why would he?