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The royal family

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OneHeartySnail · 13/05/2024 15:50

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DelectableMe · 18/05/2024 16:35

User14March · 18/05/2024 16:32

@DelectableMe you may be right but does have the self knowledge?

Not from the evidence of the last 6 years.

AliceOlive · 18/05/2024 16:38

DelectableMe · 18/05/2024 16:35

Not from the evidence of the last 6 years.

Evidence in US from the last 8 years is that lack of self knowledge is a major requirement. We are also very content with candidates that make things up about their own history out of whole cloth. Also, people that are highly divisive. 🤔

User14March · 18/05/2024 16:40

@DelectableMe exactly. It will be interesting to see how things evolve.

AnnieSF · 18/05/2024 16:43

While that is true @AliceOlive the mere idea of Meghan being considered is laughable 😂

DelectableMe · 18/05/2024 16:44

AliceOlive · 18/05/2024 16:38

Evidence in US from the last 8 years is that lack of self knowledge is a major requirement. We are also very content with candidates that make things up about their own history out of whole cloth. Also, people that are highly divisive. 🤔

Ok. I stand corrected. She would be a good candidate then.

AliceOlive · 18/05/2024 16:45

I agree. Even a truly qualified woman would be a long shot. But it would make a great satire!

AutumnCrow · 18/05/2024 16:49

Seems to me that being in modern politics and surviving is more than knowing where and how to attack other people and being a (self-proclaimed) figurehead. You also have to be very aware of your own weak spots, and where others can successfully land barbs.

Anyone with a 'past' that has the potential to cause embarrassment has to get all that shit out in the open early on; or be very, very sure that something isn't going to come out the woodwork at an inconvenient moment. Even the Cult of Trump is taking a hammering now that his past is being laid out for forensic examination. He doesn't quite have all the balls in his pocket.

In my tinfoil waking-from-dream-sleep moments I can imagine Putin is currently laughing his way through 3 days' worth of secretly recorded tapes from H&M's Nigerian tour, including from inside their hotel suites.

Abouttimeforanamechange · 18/05/2024 16:58

In my tinfoil waking-from-dream-sleep moments I can imagine Putin is currently laughing his way through 3 days' worth of secretly recorded tapes from H&M's Nigerian tour, including from inside their hotel suites.

Seriously, I would not be at all surprised if at some point some deeply embarrassing or compromising photos or video did emerge. If not from this trip, then from another future non-royal tour.

Thedom · 18/05/2024 17:05

There is a German documentary coming out soon which H&M are allegedly worried about.

Not sure if it is about Invictus, as there has been some disquiet about the cost of hosting it, or if it is specifically about H&M.

ShamedBySiri · 18/05/2024 17:20

I can't imagine in a million years that M would end up in the Whitehouse.

IF, by some bizarre trick of fate she did, it occurs to me that she would probably adopt a role not unlike our own dear departed late Queen. Or rather, I should say, she would see herself in that role, whilst remaining totally ignorant of the deeper complexities.

All affairs of state organised behind the scenes with no input from her✅

Sitting behind massive desk going through documents brought in by minions in a red box awaiting her flowery signature ✅

Turning up to huge banquets with lots of heads of state and making the after dinner speech✅

Wearing standout clothes, lots of expensive jewellery and bestowing her presence on a disaster scene✅

"Decorating" a huge Christmas tree and inviting in some special orphans or needy children to put a bauble on the tree and offering a marvellous photo opportunity ✅

Have a whole slot all to herself to make a New Year of Christmas
Day speech.✅ New Year I think. Christmas is so last century and not inclusive enough.

No disrespect to the lifelong hard work and achievements of HMQ obviously, just reflecting on Meghan vision of the job.

ShamedBySiri · 18/05/2024 17:23

It would lend itself to an updated version of "Yes, Prime Minister".
"Yes, Lady President".

TheTallestSally · 18/05/2024 17:53

Pray god there is a Malcolm Tucker there if she starts throwing herself on the oval carpet.

DelectableMe · 18/05/2024 17:54

TheTallestSally · 18/05/2024 17:53

Pray god there is a Malcolm Tucker there if she starts throwing herself on the oval carpet.

😂

Lifesabeachbaby · 18/05/2024 18:07

Abouttimeforanamechange · 18/05/2024 16:58

In my tinfoil waking-from-dream-sleep moments I can imagine Putin is currently laughing his way through 3 days' worth of secretly recorded tapes from H&M's Nigerian tour, including from inside their hotel suites.

Seriously, I would not be at all surprised if at some point some deeply embarrassing or compromising photos or video did emerge. If not from this trip, then from another future non-royal tour.

Actually, thinking about it, that sort of footage could be used to blackmail the RF.

BemusedAmerican · 18/05/2024 18:14

If I were on the RF, I would say publish and be damned. They weren't on an official visit. Then I would remove them from the succession.

BemusedAmerican · 18/05/2024 18:15

Harry can't deal with the press. Meghan's opponents will just have to stage a few incidents with H and reporters and it would be over. No one will vote for a female president who can't control her husband.

OneHeartySnail · 18/05/2024 18:29

I can't see Meghan putting herself into a position where she has to answer serious questioning (rather than OW's fake gasp.of shock), or expose herself to the possible (likely?) rejection of the electorate.

Given she can and does surround herself by people who accept her at her own valuation and provide adulation.

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LaMarschallin · 18/05/2024 18:45

What if someone called her something awful like a "diva" as Mariah Carey did.
(Although, apparently it was okay for Meghan to call Mariah a diva 🤔)
Political debate won't get tougher than that.

User14March · 18/05/2024 18:46

Is there a USA political role, not quite president, that M might gun for?

DelectableMe · 18/05/2024 18:48

It would be strange to go for any kind of role in a republican nation such as the USA when you are the supporter of an hereditary monarchy and use a title from said system.
Most peculiar.

TheTallestSally · 18/05/2024 18:58

User14March · 18/05/2024 18:46

Is there a USA political role, not quite president, that M might gun for?

Cleaner.

What with the meticulous attention to detail and all.

This post was brought to you by Astonish Ed that this is even being considered

User14March · 18/05/2024 19:01

@TheTallestSally time will tell. I laughed when I saw Trump’s image on trucks in States, as if…

TheTallestSally · 18/05/2024 19:03

If she ever sits as President, I will sit on top of the Tower of London in the nip.

TheTallestSally · 18/05/2024 19:09

I’ll have a living breathing pigeon frock.

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