Nigeria?

[MaturingCheeseball]

Can this be true? That Harry and Meghan are off on a “royal” trip to Nigeria? What’s the game now? My head is spinning!

Some media outlets have said female members of the RF are expected to wear red, white or blue at Commonwealth Day services.

No idea if that is true. It would make sense, in that photos will have some coherence, but still gives plenty of choice of outfits.

But of course, it isn't enshrined in law

I don't know, but Sophie wore grey last time, so maybe not.

Well, i certainly wouldn't take H&M's claims as definitive!

Good grief! Then it's certainly not definitive! 😂

Another example of Meghan’s freakish attention to detail

How embarrassing.

Another example of Meghan’s freakish attention to detail

The only thing she’s missed is the second label telling everyone where they can find dupes.

I can't believe no one in her staff pointed it out to her.

Maybe she was going to return it. Not a great look, though!

@IsoldeWagner - & I do not know this definitively - but apparently Meghan is quite happy with loaned / gifted clothes etc. Which is why I suspect she doesn't spend as much on clothes / hand bags etc as one might think because she is lent them - similar for big ball gowns etc - an atelier or a brand will lend her something to wear in the spotlight to get their name mentioned. Apparently she did not realise you can't do this as part of the RF.

Yes, @BasiliskStare , I read that in the Tom Bower book. Although at the time, when she was a working royal, Charles paid for her clothes, many of which were bespoke couture - Givenchy, Dior, Stella McCartney etc.
So these may have been in addition to those.

Harry came to England and had 15 mins with Charles. Went on to Canada and did a TV interview about it during an Invictus visit.

Harry is coming to London next week where apparently he’s due to meet Charles again. Then onto Nigeria where no doubt he’ll be asked how his dad is by whoever is doing media for them, and he’ll give chapter and verse, emphasising the father-son relationship.

He’s being played, in this Nigeria trip, and he doesn’t even know it. Heck, he’s being played by his wife and he doesn’t even know it. It won’t be a tour to see the country. It’ll be a tour to see places where the IG could be held. There’ll be some ceremonial greeting etc, but none of the pageantry that an actual royal visit would have. Nigeria will want to maintain its ties with the BRF. Why jeopardise that by doing what they well know isn’t allowed by the BRF ie treating Harry and Meghan as royals?

In my old job I used to do a lot of deals with emerging markets, of which Nigeria was one (as far as Europe was concerned). Hardly any passed legal and compliance tests, which didn’t exactly have a high threshold ($$$ in everyone’s eyes). The IG will need to tread very carefully, and they’ll have trouble on their hands if Harry and Meghan apply pressure on IG executives because they would be personally enriched. And you just KNOW they’ll pull the “why wouldn’t we do a deal with Nigeria? Are you being <gasp> racist??”

It’s a minefield. They’re such a headache. The RF either has to pull Harry back in, or let him go entirely.

There’s an assumption that whatever Meghan wears, sells out and so her wearing a brand is doing that brand a huge favour.

However, it’s been a few weeks since the Polo dinner and the dress Meghan wore is still freely available. Not quite the Princess Catherine effect it seems…..

https://www.net-a-porter.com/en-gb/shop/product/st-agni/clothing/midi-dresses/plus-net-sustain-hudson-asymmetric-wool-blend-twill-halterneck-midi-dress/1647597325584722

It’s a minefield. They’re such a headache.

Yes, I agree.

Boeing - Invictus - Harry - Nigeria - Boeing
ATCO - Invictus - Harry - Nigeria - Shell - ATCO

Harry can't surely be that oblivious to the connections, the optics, the string pulling and the 'washing' of reputations?

That's because it looked awful.

I think it might emerge that KC ‘s schedule doesn’t have time to meet Harry .

I’m rewatching Game of Thrones and think Meghan has been taking inspiration from Cersei’s words to Joffrey “Someday you’ll sit on the throne and the truth will be what you make it” 😂

😂

😂😂

I can 😈

I suspect freakish attention to detail means screaming at people when things go wrong.

And yet, it was one of her better "looks."

I didn't actually see any pics of her in this - just sitting down. I wonder if she felt too self conscious in it?

I'll bet there were a few sniggering though

Can someone explain to me how Meghan is 43% Nigerian? I'm no DNA expert, but it just doesn't make sense to me.

Meghan's DF is 100% white, her DM is 50% white & 50% black. Surely that would mean Meghan has, at most, 25% Nigerian DNA?