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.

Hmmm. Her only middle name is…..Diana. That would stir up a whole other can of worms 😂

The beaches here at Roker and Seaburn are known as the "Roker Riviera". We don't have majestic wildebeest, sadly, but we do have herds of majestic gnus. (Yes- I know it's the same animal, but here up North we like the Flanders and Swan song . . . )

I wonder if they could point to the UK on a map, never mind Sussex.

Edit for spelling.

One short sentence and I cocked up the spelling.

Granted, but they made a point at the time of saying that she would be known as Lili and that’s what they seem to call her. I think “Lilibet” was a gesture but I don’t expect to see it used much by them.

I’m quite surprised they didn’t choose to call her Princess Diana to be honest.

I'd be annoyed if my brother got a podcast, and foundation, a production company etc named after him, and all I got was a cutesy clothes line. I'd be questioning my parents' feminist credentials tbh.

That’s what happens when you have too much time on your hands and you’re consumed with envy. You have to delude yourself that the object of your obsession is the comical figure – when, in fact, to outside spectators it’s quite the reverse.

Archie is a regular childs' name - Lilibet not so much. She'll always have that very specific link.

I’m not the one being rude here, love.

Me too. But sadly she's dead and they were licking up to the live monarch but it backfired spectacularly.
She was not amused and I don't blame her.
You don't take someone else's "pet" name and use it normally do you ?
They thought it would help inveigle their way back in to the good books after the sh*tshow of the Oprah Winfrey interview.
The brown nosing failed.

They did use Diana as a second name.

I agree that using Lilibet would be problematic for the reasons @CoffeeCantata says. But I really don’t think they will.

What struck me more, aside from the merits or otherwise of the name, is that there wasn’t even a CEO in place at the time of the launch. So I think the problems of getting this thing off the ground are rather more fundamental than what it’s called. And I say that as someone who would like it to succeed for them.

SS talking point 587: They are all just jealous of the real queen.

I don't understand why anyone would have a launch without (seemingly) having anything to launch.

Is saying that 'tearing apart' the people behind the launch?

That's a rather over dramatic way of describing it. The launch was to get public attention, so surely those of us commenting are doing what H&/ or M want? They have our attention. All good.

All I can picture with "American Riviera" is America Ferrera of Ugly Betty fame.

Posts like SallyWD's are interesting. Poster plops onto reasonably toned discussion, uses emotive language - 'tearing apart' rather than 'discussing' or 'analysing critically' - language designed to put posters on the defensive about their stance or their tone, anyway - then disappears, taking no further part in the discussion.

@MrsDanversGlidesAgain It's a very common, conversation ending tactic. Tell people having a reasonable conversation that they are an "ist", a "phobe" or challenge their personal security by saying they are jealous. People feel they need to justify themselves and the discussion is hijacked. After a while it becomes water off a duck's back imo, and easy to ignore. It's funny when it gets turned back on them, though - if absolutely any discourse can be labelled as problematic, then the people chucking that label around will fall foul of their own stupid rules sooner or later. Unfortunately, the effect is to dilute real examples of hatred, and piss off the otherwise sympathetic public.

More to the point, it's been over 3 weeks since the 'launch' and still nothing?

Nada, nothing, not a dicky bird to offer us.
However, they have managed to harvest for themselves quite a few email addresses!!

I’m not convinced anything else will be forthcoming tbh.

It's one I've noticed on MN, especially on this board. A good conversation gets going and then someone pops up with 'you're all OBSESSED!' or something. Then disappears. Didn't they get the memo? 😄

Telt. 🌱 🐉

Oh and no. Not at all envious of a resentful tantrummy Prince and his piss-taking spouse. 🌱 🐉

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