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Meghans trademark not allowed

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Viviennemary · 03/09/2024 17:09

The patent office apparently has turned down the trademark of Meghans new jam making business American Riviera Orchard on the grounds that you can't trademark geographical locations. You would have thought somebody would have picked up on this before now.

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IsoldeWagner · 05/09/2024 20:31

Rummly · 05/09/2024 20:29

Thank you.

I doubt Diana’s very happy about being contacted in the afterlife by a jam pedlar.

But if she is guiding Meghan I trust she’ll tell her to wear a seatbelt.

😂

Rummly · 05/09/2024 20:33

WinnieTheW0rm · 05/09/2024 20:26

@Rummly - she can communicate with seals

What? Seals in the sea?

That’s comedy gold. I wonder what they talk about. Fish?

IsoldeWagner · 05/09/2024 20:34

She sang to them, says Harry. They sang back.

Rummly · 05/09/2024 20:36

IsoldeWagner · 05/09/2024 20:34

She sang to them, says Harry. They sang back.

Oh my word. What did they sing to her? Kiss From a Rose?

IsoldeWagner · 05/09/2024 20:39

I don't think he said, or possibly my eyes glazed over at that point.
It was a strange read. Parts of it seemed like a fever dream.

StiffyByngsDogBartholomew · 05/09/2024 20:39

Rummly · 05/09/2024 20:36

Oh my word. What did they sing to her? Kiss From a Rose?

Killer

Abouttimeforanamechange · 05/09/2024 20:44

Oh my word. What did they sing to her? Kiss From a Rose?

It was at Castle of Mey, I believe, so something Scottish?

I suppose we should be thankful H has probably never heard of the Selkie.

SqueakyDinosaur · 05/09/2024 20:50

There's been a lot in the press about how Harry might come back to help KC3 out on a temporary basis, but he won't do anything until William apologises. I really, really want someone to ask him what he thinks William should apologise for.

Rummly · 05/09/2024 20:51

Abouttimeforanamechange · 05/09/2024 20:44

Oh my word. What did they sing to her? Kiss From a Rose?

It was at Castle of Mey, I believe, so something Scottish?

I suppose we should be thankful H has probably never heard of the Selkie.

Oh right. Something by the Proclaimers maybe. Or the Bay City Rollers.

I can’t think that Scottish seals would be giving it Katy Perry.

MrsLeonFarrell · 05/09/2024 20:59

MummyJ12 · 05/09/2024 20:25

Like Invictus, in his book he describes coming up with the idea and within hours/days at most he had a meeting with the guy who put on the 2012 Olympics - who then agreed to arrange Invictus within the tight timescale Harry gave him.

He’s so full of BS. He means this meeting where he looks like he couldn’t care less. Yet William is fully engaged and getting things done. Look at all of the people involved in putting it together, yet Harry makes out that he did it all on his own.

That's an interesting photo. I don't think Harry has ever grasped the power he had as a working royal was to bring the people together who know how to make things happen. Instead he seems to believe that he made things happen and is probably very confused that it isn't working in his new life.

IsoldeWagner · 05/09/2024 21:02

SqueakyDinosaur · 05/09/2024 20:50

There's been a lot in the press about how Harry might come back to help KC3 out on a temporary basis, but he won't do anything until William apologises. I really, really want someone to ask him what he thinks William should apologise for.

The extra sausage, I'm guessing.

TheStroppyFeminist · 05/09/2024 21:04

CathyorClaire · 04/09/2024 20:39

So far and including the withdrawn SussexRoyal brand I make it

Failed trademarks : 3

Rachel (with Harold off the bench once) : nil

The wedding was apparently a spectacle for us masses. Personally I'm far more entertained by this gormless ineptitude 😂

😂😂😂

IsoldeWagner · 05/09/2024 21:07

MrsLeonFarrell · 05/09/2024 20:59

That's an interesting photo. I don't think Harry has ever grasped the power he had as a working royal was to bring the people together who know how to make things happen. Instead he seems to believe that he made things happen and is probably very confused that it isn't working in his new life.

Very, very true.

Americanpseudoroyaltorture · 05/09/2024 21:09

Abouttimeforanamechange · 05/09/2024 20:10

....has not stopped them from being taken seriously by governments, media and many commentators.

Are they being taken seriously by governments? What governments have actually had dealings with them?

Media and commentators use them for clicks.

Archewell has funded research in Australia that formed the basis for their hate speech legislation, and provided research to Demos (UK think tank, very influential in government) on their report entitled Drivers of Digital Discord: How news media and social media drive online discourse – and pathways for change Published: 20 Dec 2023. Last October, Harry and Meghan shared a platform with Biden's surgeon general, Vivek Murthy to get their parent network thing off the ground. Harry is a key figure in the Aspen Institute, who are influential on the shaping of legislation limiting online freedom of speech and, and packed to the gills with fellows connected with government orgs. They have just been hob-nobbing with the Colombian VP who invited them and gave them a platform to again preach about online harm, and the Nigerian military hosted them in Nigeria (which, frankly, may as well be the government).

Americanpseudoroyaltorture · 05/09/2024 21:13

IsoldeWagner · 05/09/2024 21:02

The extra sausage, I'm guessing.

Apparently, Catherine and William have their own sausage making machine in their kitchen. I read this recently, as someone was pointing out that Meghan was aping Catherine and William's lifestyle with all their roast chicken and jam stuff. I really hope Meghan goes into sausage production with ARO. 6 to a pack plus one spare.

IsoldeWagner · 05/09/2024 21:14

I think that William and Catherine just bought it to troll Harry.

Americanpseudoroyaltorture · 05/09/2024 21:14

Rummly · 05/09/2024 20:51

Oh right. Something by the Proclaimers maybe. Or the Bay City Rollers.

I can’t think that Scottish seals would be giving it Katy Perry.

When you go,
Will you send back
A letter from America?

(Which you will then leak to Omid Scobie).

IsoldeWagner · 05/09/2024 21:15

@Americanpseudoroyaltorture 😂

MummyJ12 · 05/09/2024 21:20

MrsLeonFarrell · 05/09/2024 20:59

That's an interesting photo. I don't think Harry has ever grasped the power he had as a working royal was to bring the people together who know how to make things happen. Instead he seems to believe that he made things happen and is probably very confused that it isn't working in his new life.

I thought so too.
I totally agree with you.

FloofPaws · 05/09/2024 21:27

Puzzledandpissedoff · 05/09/2024 16:56

With Meghan, I'm more baffled - she evidently had to put the hard yards in earlier in her career, and she's clearly intelligent enough to have done that. But things like 40x40 were just so shallow - I mean, what use is 40 minutes of coaching from some random famous person? And with Archetypes, it was very noticeable that she didn't seem able to avoid framing every episode round her own experience, rather than letting her guests speak and focusing on them

Maybe it's just that nobody noticed how shallow she was before because there wasn't the same attention focused on her? Just as we maybe didn't see how objectionable Harry could be because he had a very skilled PR machine behind him?

I don't doubt for a moment that there are many in Hollywood who'd give their right arm for a burger ad, a game show and a part on some cable series which was little known before Meghan joined the RF, but this really isn't A-lister stuff.
It took marriage to a prince to achieve that, except that as a result of their own actions it seems other A-listers have now gone AWOL and the gloss is wearing off fast

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Everything she's done is shallow - literally everything. She married into something where she actually had to do some work!! And as a RF member and all she gets is bed, board, jewels, rubbing shoulders, public support and a healthy clothes allowance, not to mention attention she SOOO desires and craves , yet she feels she's worth more, doesn't get everything she wants so she's in bits ... IMO anything she's done to promote anyone or anything Else is shrouded with self promotion, egotistical self grandiosity, delusions of grandeur, alongside taking someone else's limelight, jumping on the back of others hard work - pathetic
PH had LITERALLY had EVERYTHING handed to him on a plate - he's on his own and he's only capable of lies and selling other peoples skeletons or private information - pathetic

WinnieTheW0rm · 05/09/2024 21:52

Rummly · 05/09/2024 20:36

Oh my word. What did they sing to her? Kiss From a Rose?

At least that's slightly more tactful than Crazy

IsoldeWagner · 05/09/2024 22:17

WinnieTheW0rm · 05/09/2024 21:52

At least that's slightly more tactful than Crazy

😂

Ellmau · 05/09/2024 22:26

I really hope Meghan goes into sausage production with ARO. 6 to a pack plus one spare.

Sausages were a missed opportunity for ARO.

And dog bowls, of course.

GiveMeSpanakopita · 06/09/2024 07:17

MrsLeonFarrell · 05/09/2024 20:59

That's an interesting photo. I don't think Harry has ever grasped the power he had as a working royal was to bring the people together who know how to make things happen. Instead he seems to believe that he made things happen and is probably very confused that it isn't working in his new life.

I think this is a very astute point and absolutely true. I don't think Harry previously realised how much was done for him (clothes, trips, charity ideas, events, patronages etc etc) and I think that's why they struggle to get anything off the ground now. They, and especially he, are floundering without the sophisticated infrastructure he used to benefit from (without recognising that privilege, obviously).

More generally, Harry these days wears the permanently baffled look of a man who can't understand how he got to where he is. And indeed it's difficult to overstate just how drastically he's imploded his own life.

He made the marriage to Meghan against the advice of three separate groups in his network: the Windsors, the Spencers and his old Etonian friends. That's three separate groups so he can't blame it all on Windsor racism.

He then destroyed his entire blood family relationship AND most of his friendships AND his ability to realistically live in the UK, his homeland AND the love the UK public had for him. PLUS, Invictus has lost a lot of gravitas due to his antics and is in financial trouble. PLUS he's an international laughing stock.

I mean, the silver lining will of course always be his children. But it's still a staggeringly enormous price to pay for pushing ahead with a marriage to someone he'd been dating for just a year.

BunnyLake · 06/09/2024 07:59

GiveMeSpanakopita · 06/09/2024 07:17

I think this is a very astute point and absolutely true. I don't think Harry previously realised how much was done for him (clothes, trips, charity ideas, events, patronages etc etc) and I think that's why they struggle to get anything off the ground now. They, and especially he, are floundering without the sophisticated infrastructure he used to benefit from (without recognising that privilege, obviously).

More generally, Harry these days wears the permanently baffled look of a man who can't understand how he got to where he is. And indeed it's difficult to overstate just how drastically he's imploded his own life.

He made the marriage to Meghan against the advice of three separate groups in his network: the Windsors, the Spencers and his old Etonian friends. That's three separate groups so he can't blame it all on Windsor racism.

He then destroyed his entire blood family relationship AND most of his friendships AND his ability to realistically live in the UK, his homeland AND the love the UK public had for him. PLUS, Invictus has lost a lot of gravitas due to his antics and is in financial trouble. PLUS he's an international laughing stock.

I mean, the silver lining will of course always be his children. But it's still a staggeringly enormous price to pay for pushing ahead with a marriage to someone he'd been dating for just a year.

That was the mad thing - he only dated her for a short time (she was quick to stamp on the ‘whirlwind’ reference). It takes time to get to know someone, their family, their friends, to gauge the values of that person - that never happened. To not only marry someone he didn’t really know but to sacrifice everything and burn all bridges at her behest (albeit willingly) was the behaviour of someone with precious little intelligence.

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