Meghan and Harry spotted out and about - ¡Viva Colombia! Edition (Part 7)

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Welcome to Part 7 of our positive threads, where we explore all things Meghan and Harry. From the causes they champion and their business ventures to Meghan’s (and occasionally Harry’s 😉) fashion moments, there’s a lot to chat about. This is a drama-free space, so let’s keep it upbeat! High five to @queentim for the original inspiration.

They are completely doing the colonial cosplay! It's very amusing.
They're certainly loving the royal lifestyle 😂

So pray tell, where are you seeing "continuous bitterness and jealousy against them"? I'm not aware of that at all. Criticism, yes, and why not? I don't think anyone cares enough to be either bitter or jealous, so you are just making things up!

I'd have thought someone of your age and experience wouldn't have been fangirling this pair - you'd have more sense!!

MM just wanted to show off her espanol,
" . . .I learnt it years ago in Argentina . ."
Rubbish, she may have lived and worked for some weeks in Argentina, but Spanish used to be taught in American schools, especially in California.
PH just reminds me of a dog on a lead.

elessar · Yesterday 13:21
Less than 10k and most of that only pledged?

That's just embarrassing, even more so given that they're promoting themselves as leaving a legacy and the cost of hosting them was over $2 million.

I do find it interesting the way the fans all just completely ignore the inconvenient truths and just keep banging on about how they're strong, in love and admirable.

$10K - Oh crikey - if that's the case, it's a scandal. They're just using poorer countries as a backdrop for films to portray themselves as white saviours (and I count Meghan in that category - she richly deserves the charge). Can you imagine if W and C had done what they did in Colombia? The SS would have torn them to shreds.

I've known private individuals in my quite affluent area donate that kind of amount to local primary schools in one go. It's an insult in the context of what they appeared to promise from the visit, and their grandiose self-presentation - not to mention the cost to Colombia. And will it be paid? Reminds me of Liz Hurley's flash Cotswold wedding years ago - apparently she promised the small local parish church all kinds of things, but a few years later the vicar admitted he'd not seen so much as a penny.

The whole thing is embarrassing - can't their mesmerised fans see it? But nothing doesn't seem to matter, as long as Meghan looks good and they put on an act of being loved-up.

Is this a new thing? Grown women (it's mainly women, I'm sure) who fawn over them like teenagers? You get these people on MN, but the fact that the VP of Colombia's reason for inviting them was because she'd fan-girled them on Netflix is extremely depressing. I hope the country will show their disapproval at the next election.

I want to know who the "international agencies" were who contributed to the cost of the visit, and how much.

Did they take monry from.charities and/ or UN-type organisation for their jolly?

Who are these sources? They can no longer blame the RF or Josh Kettler for leaking. They are either purposely planting these stories as has been found to have happened before or their team are leaky sieves.
Either way, it’s clear that the couple are upset and embarrassed by the reaction to their visit to Columbia.

www.ok.co.uk/royal/meghan-markle-upset-prince-harry-33521306

Me too. I would guess that Invictus paid towards it.

They're obviously leaking and planting stories, that's what these celebrities do. They have a team to present and promote them. They're going to need to regroup. It doesn't really work cosplaying official working royalty, however entertaining it is for the rest of us.
I would agree that they're at the crossroads. However, the road taken will be the one giving them the most pictures and headlines.

Invictus paid? That would be shocking, if true.

It wouldn’t surprise me. He did “work for Invictus”/a visit while there. They helped pay for Nigeria too.

They're using Invictus to pay for their pretend royal jollies?! Really?

Invictus even sent members of the management team out to Nigeria with them such as David Wiseman (International Development Director). There’s no transparency to the Invictus accounts (they aren’t doing anything wrong here but) everything goes under the umbrella of “charitable activities”. Read into that what you will, interesting though that the expenditure for such has gone up considerably in the last few years, and a certain CEO has recently announced his departure.

@CoffeeCantata I get the impression that the women who idolise Meghan tend to be women of colour themselves, often from countries like South Africa. Their agenda seems to be based on the idea that here is Meghan who has got one over on white society by marrying a Prince. She was then too popular and people picked on her and so she left. Her leaving is seen as a huge middle finger to the people of that country. Their princess continues to reign from California.

It's a very odd way to look at things and one that is entirely based on their own racism.

Dear me. Theres’s really no need to be so relentlessly snippy to people who simply hold a different opinion to you Runnerinthenight

Try taking some dyspepsia tablets or something!

Being rude doesn’t make your argument any stronger you know.

I’m a bit younger than Petitchat but just because we are more favourably inclined to H and M than you are, and and wish them well doest’t mean we are mindless “fan girls” thank you very much.

I admire them for standing up for themselves and getting out there and doing their own thing. And I wish them personal happiness.

I can’t understand why everyone is so enthralled by the RF tbh! Do we have clear records of their accounts for example of all the personal donations that they make to good causes, and where that income comes from originally?

H&M didn't "stand up for themselves".
They weren't oppressed or badly treated. Just selfish, greedy and entitled.

Leaking stories to the press in their favour like Buckingham Palace do? How is this any different? Is it ok if one lot does it and not the other then?

I think the difference between them is that Harry in particular has complained about this tactic, yet has been found to be complicit in doing the very same thing he complained of others doing.

In your opinion! Why bother doing charity work at all if they are so selfish? They are not obliged to do it.

And it always makes me laugh when H and M are characterised as greedy when …

According to Forbes magazine …

www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2023/05/04/inside-king-charles-iiis-25-billion-real-estate-empire# www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2023/05/04/inside-king-charles-iiis-25-billion-real-estate-empire/#]]]]

Ahead of his coronation on May 6, the new British monarch lords over seven palaces, 10 castles, 12 homes, 56 cottages, and 14 ancient ruins where he can hang up his crown.

It’s so easy to be superior and dictate to your own son about being half-in half-out when you have a £46 billion empire at your disposal isn’t it?

I mean seriously, do people really believe here that the Charles and Camilla are any better and they don’t benefit financially from their vast estates and assets? KC has substantial commercial interests:

Charles now also oversees $19.6 billion in commercial, residential and agricultural properties throughout the U.K., ranging from Ascot Racecourse and the Oval cricket ground to at least three golf courses, a private airfield.

So how come it’s ok for him to combine commercial interests and royal duties?

No doubt loyal posters will say that most of the profits are ploughed back in to maintaining assets for the nation, but so many of them are not even open to the public!

And what about the warrant system? Isn’t that just another way of the RF benefiting from the perks of the job or do you think the RF pays full price for all of their Rolls Royces and Land Rovers?

Does Charles really need twelve homes in addition to access to seven palaces and ten castles in order to carry out his work properly? They say he is overworked; wouldn’t he be able to focus more on helping the people of the UK if he had a slimmer property portfolio to manage?

Why aren’t there threads and threads of criticism directed at Andrew for still living in Royal Lodge, when he doesn’t even carry out official duties anymore?

And why is it necessary for Sophie and Edward to live in the 120 rooms of Bagshot Park worth £30million in order to do their charity work properly? Can anyone explain this to me please? I don’t get it!

And I don’t get why everyone is so passive about these matters when the country is only just emerging from a cost of living crisis, councils are going bankrupt, homelessness is rife and the number of children living under the poverty line is increasing!

But all everyone seems to be bothered about is H and M making a visit to Colombia? Come on everyone! Wake up!

Finister
I’m a bit younger than Petitchat but just because we are more favourably inclined to H and M than you are, and and wish them well doest’t mean we are mindless “fan girls” thank you very much.

I'm sorry, Finister, but I agree with Runner. Some pps (not all...) really do have a misty-eyed, rose-tinted Romance Story view of M and H and especially of Meghan. The evidence is on these threads for us all to read!

I remember being like that when I was 14. I adored my idols, read every word about them, wouldn't hear a word against them, pinned pictures up on my bedroom wall and basically wove a fantasy about them. But I'm assuming MN contributors are adults, and often parents, and as Petitchat has said, (like me) not spring chickens. This 'mature years' fandom honestly strikes me as weird and a new phenomenon. I admit that it makes me queasy.

Don't people at the very least recognise that with celebrities like M & H, a very, very artificial, controlled and curated image is being served up to us? And that's particularly true in their case, since they show an extreme level of control over that image - as in their Colombian jolly? Why do grown, intelligent adults take it at face-value?

Why aren’t there threads and threads of criticism directed at Andrew for still living in Royal Lodge, when he doesn’t even carry out official duties anymore?

Because everyone agrees on this. He is universally despised. Other than by members of the SS who sympathise with him when King Charles removes favour and security, because they hate those who are in the line of succession ahead of Harry more than Andrew. Which is just sickening to be honest.

BP never leaked any stories which were negative of Meghan and Harry. That was (yet more) of their lies.

Because, @Finistereoverthere , like most celebrities, the Sussexes do charity work to enhance their public image.
It gives them the all important headlines and photos. They'd have to pay otherwise.

Harry and Meghan are the only ones PROVEN to leak stories, the evidence is there, Meghan had apologise to the court for lying that they didn't leak stories.

I think Harry and Meghan have a special kind of greed. Merchandising privacy of others and deliberately spreading the worst kind of lies to make money. That's their lifestyle. Not nice, nothing to admire, imo.