ARO thread 2

[OneHeartySnail]

To continue the discussion...

What next? What did the launch aim to achieve? Did it get the desired result?

It is an art.

Mummyoflittledragon · Today 09:45
When she was invited to Rwanda with World Vision, she insisted on first class flights and bringing her make up & hair artist as well as her own fashion photographer. The organiser of the trip had to stay behind as the budget was used up. They also felt blindsided how the trip was used as a fashion photoshoot for MM.

I get so depressed by this - and if you look on another thread her fans are just gushing constantly about her clothes and glamour. (That will probably get my comment deleted).

It may be my age or my upbringing, but the determination of some people to adore this woman because she's very pretty and wears some expensive clothes is utterly dismaying to me. You get some rubbish on other forums, but are MNers really THAT superficial and easily taken in?

Meghan just uses people callously - and often, people whose lives are nowhere near as blessed as hers - gets a 'high' from the publicity and the image-polishing and then moves on with absolutely no self-awareness or humility. I find it very upsetting.

It's how she's used this polo match. It's for Sentebale - but she's acting as if she's the chair of the organisation, and one of the winning players. It's very odd.

I also found it odd. Odd she was handing out the cup. Usually that’s someone like the chairperson of the organisation. I can only assume they paid handsomely for him to plau and her to give the award for the next flix program.

she Really is all about the optics though, she’s in her element.

I think it's interesting that such a persistently litigious couple still haven't sued Tom Bower over the claims in his book.

I believe Tom Bower has invited them to do so, if they dispute anything he has written.

A sort of 'come on, if yer 'ard enough' invitation.

He, and his publisher, must be quite sure of his facts.

Tom Bower has said that repeatedly - Meghan should sue if any of it is untrue.
He's certain of his evidence.

I am so going to read his book now!

@Geebray it’s only £2.99 on Kindle! I decided to purchase it few days ago as my interest was rekindled after not reading anything for couple of years, largely due to the mood and behaviour on the royal family boards here.

It's actually a good read, and very illuminating.

Pay to play Hollywood charity (of which World Vision is a classic) to boost one’s profile is very different to either starting a grass roots charity from your individual passion, and/or being there to boost the charity and not yourself, which is what royalty is supposed to be about.

I think I'll buy it too to read 📕

Here's an article on celebrity aid work:

aid worker: 'Has anyone worked out if celebrities are worth the effort?' www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/jun/30/secret-aid-worker-celebrities-angelina-jolie?CMP=share_btn_url Secret Aid Worker

Back when she was a working actress still Meghan wrote a lengthy blog post on The Tig about her trip to Rwanda. The sentence she herself chose to highlights was “While my life shifts from refugee camps to red carpets, I choose them both because these worlds can, in fact, coexist. And for me, they must”.

https://thetig.meghanpedia.com/how-to-be-both/

Interesting to contrast what’s she’s chosen to involve herself in since October 2016 when that was published. I think the trip to South Africa (the “No-one has asked me if I’m okay” trip) in 2019 was her last visit to a less-developed country with widespread poverty? (Well, at least a visit that was focussed on local work, obviously she has been to Jamaica recently but that was to walk a red carpet there).

“While my life shifts from refugee camps to red carpets, I choose them both because these worlds can, in fact, coexist. And for me, they must”.

As long as my hair is done, my make up is perfect and I can find the camera so I can pose.

There is massive poverty in California. All Meghan has to do is leave her gated community. Perhaps she could focus on local aid, especially if she allegedly wishes to run for political office.

https://www.ppic.org/publication/poverty-in-california/#:~:text=The%20poverty%20rate%20rose%20from,costs%20and%20safety%20net%20benefits.

Or visit San Francisco. We won't even discuss NYC, where 5000 asylum seekers are housed in 2 shelters in my work neighborhood alone.
https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-homeless-encampments-shelters-waitlist/14120597/

As is his book about Boris Johnson.

That's shocking, isn't it?

But ……she gets her aides to hand out backpacks with water and protein bars ! While she stays in the car !

Remember Harry said how much he wanted to live in Africa ? Like that would ever happen !

If you give a man a fish, or feeds him for one day. If you teach him how to fish ( and provide the initial fishing essentials) he feed himself for the rest of his life. 😇

“While my life shifts from refugee camps to red carpets, I choose them both because these worlds can, in fact, coexist. And for me, they must”.

What bullshit, more useless, meaningless and illogical word salad, and bloody insensitive and insulting, to say a refugee camp and a red carpet could and should coexist.

FFS, A red carpet vs a refugee queuing for hours for a single meal a day, you couldn't have anything more diametrically opposite if you tried.

Although, clearly for her on that one occasion it did coexist, considering she used it as an opportunity and a backdrop for a fashion shoot and self promotion.

These are the disrespectful and insensitive things she spouts that are more than insulting, they are degrading and disparaging, and just show how, even before she met H, she was egotistical and self absorbed.

Thedom · Today 14:53
“While my life shifts from refugee camps to red carpets, I choose them both because these worlds can, in fact, coexist. And for me, they must”.

What bullshit, more useless, meaningless and illogical word salad, and bloody insensitive and insulting, to say a refugee camp and a red carpet could and should coexist.

Yes, and a perfect example of how Meghan makes absolutely everything - including other people's tragedies and suffering - primarily about HER.

Breathtakingly unself-aware. But I think this all fits with the narcissism and 'main character' stuff. Other people's misery is a flattering backdrop and a photo-opp for Meghan.

Yes, that's the drawback of acquiring a reputation for being litigious. People draw inferences when you don't begin an action

my life shifts from refugee camps to red carpets, I choose them both because these worlds can, in fact, coexist. And for me, they must

She MUST have a red carpet life. She actually said so.

Apparently, she must also have a refugee camp life too. From one so ready to publicize anything that can garner her attention or money, we've seen precious few refugee camps from her....if any. I actually can't think of one.