Continuing HR article, Netflix

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See all these wise posters, lots of what we have said has been ‘confirmed’ by other sources

article in the DM:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/article-13874743/Harry-Meghan-Hollywood-turns-Sussexes-ALISON-BOSHOFF-venom-schadenfreude.html

https://archive.ph/xgEdv

One senior Hollywood publicist tells me: 'First of all, everyone industry-wide, EVERYONE reads The Hollywood Reporter. It's really striking that WME did not stop this running.'
She adds: 'WME normally – you would think – would have been threatening and denying access to other stars. Was this done here?

Thats exactly what we all thought! it’s strange how they are letting this stuff out.

As we have all seen in recent days, the dark art of covering up and killing stories- look at Al Fayed and what he got away with. So WME have done nothing???

Also, Harry attending an event in his own because Meghan is sick. No. This is part of separating their ‘brands’- I doubt she will attend any future events like these with Harry.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13875773/sick-meghan-markle-prince-harry-kevin-costner-charity-event.html

Seems like the wheels are falling off to me!

I agree.

She is a derailment and distraction to their overall 'brand' - so makes sense for him to go solo for now in order to max out the royal stuff to boost their brand power down the line. And if she quietly gets on with some stuff so that in a few years she can point to a body of work that she has achieved she can be reintergerated to the couple brand.

But that would be an ironic outcome given he wanted to be away from the blaze of publicity whilst she was desperate for the limelight.

I cannot imagine her ego tolerating any of that. It would be an existential crisis for her.

I am wondering if someone sensible has pointed out that whilst the Sussexes are very unpopular, Meghan is more unpopular than Harry. Therefore it would make sense for Meghan to step out of the limelight for a while, whilst Harry cultivates the Royal Lite brand

You could be right, @PigglyWigglyOhYeah, but can you imagine being the one to suggest this?

The only other thing I can think of is that Harry's trying to get an "in" with his family by pretending he really can think independently now, but whatever the reality is I can't see all this being popular with his wife, and the consequences of that could be unfortunate

Now whilst we know that won’t happen, I have to agree it would be an interesting read indeed.

Sadly though, the royal family actually are privy to this theoretical read and are just keeping quiet and discreet.

Something feels very off at the moment, I'm all for the truth coming out but whilst Harry is doing probably his biggest push of himself since spare with almost a free pass on the allegations of bullying like he was an innocent bystander. This is a guy whose been physical with his own security. Was witness to any toxic behaviour and even wrote about it. So either Meghan is sick or in hiding while Harry is on a royal promotional work trip or has decided to take a back seat to promote Harry and Harry has accepted this whilst his wife is getting mauled by the press. If this is all lies where press slaying Harry who believes saying silent is complicit.

Exactly, he loathes the attention and she lives for it. So even if her laying low is the smart thing to do business-wise, I can't see their home life being a bed of roses.

Old toothy-veneers 😄

Perhaps they haven’t bribed her enough, another ‘Princess’ title?

I agree with all the above but would add that never in a million years would MM agree she is toxic or affects H's charities/interests adversely so there must be more to it. She can't be 'poorly' poorly or he wouldn't be jogging off half-way across the world (nor can it be a major sulk), so perhaps she's just had enough of manoeuvring him into position and telling him when to speak and what to say? Perhaps she's ready to leave him behind (strictly in a working sense) and has some major project up her sleeve to produce while he's away, with a view to overshadowing his trip so the world can see who the real celebrity is?

She perhaps could have been made to understand how unpopular she has become if it was presented to her with her in the star role as the victim, practically under house arrest due to the entire world being wicked bullies and slanderous.

Remember when she compared herself to Ariel the mermaid with having her voice stolen, she has also compared herself to Nelson Mandela. She very much views herself as a romantic heroine, her father and sister have confirmed that is how her mind works.

So I can imagine a clever PR team being able to convince her if it was put to her that these are her persecution years, her being silenced, exiled. She may well have Netflix filming this 'forced seperation' of her and Harry, with her bravely holding the fort single-handedly at home etc.

3rd baby? everyone loves a celeb pregnancy, plenty of goodwill and column inches, alll the negative talk would be reigned back, no one talks bad of a pregnant woman.

I agree @Vespanest something is off.

I'm not sure how Meghan stepping back works promtionally. Meghan maybe more unpopular in the general audience but I'm not sure that translates to their own supporters. The brand Sussex and the Sussex squad appears very Meghan driven. Her being sidelined as the victim whilst simultaneously being left behind by Harry, I'm not seeing that being well taken by her loyal fans.

It's possible, she's 43 though.

She launched ARO in March . More than 6 months later , nothing except rumours . She has lost thousands of followers on Instagram- last time I looked it was just over 600k which is very low compared to other celebrities. As far as I am aware there is no date for her cookery show with rumours that the test audience didn’t like it .
I cannot see her being pregnant. Didn’t they accept / buy some award for only having 2 children ? I hope she is not ill but can’t see that with Harry being away for a couple of weeks .
I agree that something is up . As someone who doesn’t appear to listen to advice and who lives for the spotlight , I cannot see Meghan voluntarily keeping a low profile . I fully expected pap shots of her doing shopping etc while Harry is away . Very odd .

And didn't he say, for the sake of the planet, nobody must have more than 2 (or words to that effect) - a dig at W&C at the time.

I think Harry was projecting when he said Meghan did a better job than his family. What he meant was, she did a better job than him. And now she's pushed him to the sidelines.

For some reason this made me think of that footage where she elbows him out the way when he was about to greet some important people and he vaults back behind her and does this nervous little curtesy to her 😄

Or Netflix's dramatisation of the Meghan Years. I imagine it will be brutal.

Late to the conversation. Seeing how being away from the spotlight and actually ill has ramped up Catherine’s popularity, is there perhaps some subliminal stepping back to get the focus back on Meghan ?

Or am I just a cynic 🤔

That is weird. I was just about to type something exactly along those lines….

eta a sort of “where is Meghan?” vibe

It's not the first time Meghan has gone to ground. She did it in the months after Netflix and Spare came out (neither of which were positively received), then reappeared on a video (possibly an address to a university??) with a weird new face and hair to get everyone talking. Unless the wheels have completely fallen off the wagon, I don't think it's unusual for her to disappear until the heat on her dies down and the intrigue about her ramps up. It will be interesting to see if the cooking show gets scheduled alongside the polo show in December, in which case you'd expect her to be doing promotion for it over the coming months.

She's far too vain to have another child.

I think it’s just part of their plan to separate the ‘brands’. So when he does his stuff, she keeps a low profile etc.

But…..I see that part of a bigger picture of their eventual break up. The work was already separated, he was spending increasing amount of time away from home

He really doesn’t seem to spend much time with his kids. Has no problems for leaving them for long periods.

Re: the brand separation - that's been going on for almost two years now. I think Harry (or his advisors) realised that a) Harry isn't good at the Hollywood stuff and b) he was popular and well-loved when he was just Prince Harry doing the usual royal charity stuff. Hence, apart from the Invictus and Polo shows for Netflix, which are part of his contract with them, he's totally stepped back from anything else and is now, seemingly, back focused on the handful of things he managed to hold onto after Megxit i.e. Invictus, WellChild, Diana Awards, Sentebale, African Parks and Travalyst.

As for Meghan, while it's tempting to think that perhaps she's having a dark night of the soul back in Montecito after the latest round of revelations about what a nightmare she is, narcissists don't work like that. I'd love to be a fly on the wall in that house right now though to find out what's going on. Is she just beavering away trying to get ARO off the ground? Is she ranting and raging at all and sundry and that's why Harry is buggering off to Africa on his own to get away from her? I'm quite fascinated that he's going to Africa without her. She just LOVES to play Lady Bountiful on charity trips, changing her clothes six times a day to ensure maximum press coverage, hugging orphans and clapping along to local school children dancing for her. What is going on?

One more thing - remember those stories a couple of weeks ago about Harry being desperate to rehabilitate his image in the UK and go back to being popular and well-loved cheeky chappie Harry? Someone (god know who that brave soul is), seems to have had a word in his ear and said 'Harry, mate, the only way you're going to rehabilitate yourself in the British public's eye is if you ditch the toxic Missus who has to be the centre of attention at all times and shoves you out of the way. When you're with her, you just look irritated and miserable and all the headlines about you are negative. Go on your own, smile, do your charming Princey thing and they'll be back eating out of your hand and waving Union Jack flags for you again in no time at all'.