Harry on Tour

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Just looking at the photos of Harry in Lesotho . Don’t know when I last saw him looking so relaxed and happy .
Nice to see.

Yeah I’m not sure I’d blame her.multiple people have said Harry and Megan don’t listen and think they know best. Agency staff quoted as saying they only listen to each other. I would hazard a guess working for them was one of the toughest pr jobs in existence.

although obviously it’s been said why she’s leaving to stop speculation thay it’s because Megan is a bully.

As the industry truism goes, when the PR itself becomes the story, something is not going well

The list of staff changeovers is dizzying. Admittedly I'm a lazy person who likes an easy life but surely even someone who thrives on drama like Meghan appears to do must appreciate a long term reliable member of staff, a safe pair of hands you can offload everything onto. They don't seem capable of acquiring such a person - or if they do the person decides it's too much and jumps ship.

I noticed this little detail too:

AH "accompanied and advised the couple in the UK last September during the funeral of Harry's Grandmother".

Aside of referring to The Queen as "Harry's Grandmother" I'm agog that they had their PR person in toe.

I can't imagine that smoothed their way with the Royals at the time (or since).

It could be that Meghan is offering this lady "half in, half out" which is something Meghan thinks works out fine.

It might be the same situation, the PR lady is getting loads of high offers from elsewhere but doesn't really want to leave H&M (who probably can't give her a payrise just now).

"Hansen said that Meghan helped her brainstorm a name for the company,"

All these people so grateful for the help in naming their companies!

Meghan - Three Gayes

Harry - The Godmothers

They should just stop the faux Royal stuff and set up their own PR company.

Whoops. Three Gates. Not Three Gayes

I entirely agree with those saying that at the centre of their travails is their belief that they know best, about everything, at all times, with consequent refusal to listen to advice. How can anyone operate as a PR head/chief of staff/whatever if your experience and counsel is constantly ignored?

I very much doubt that they'd have made such a dogs breakfast of things if they'd listened to a their many highly paid advisers. They can't all be useless (and the turnover indicates that to me)

“They” won’t but I bet Harry would in a flash.

That's the problem though isn't it, we have no idea what he means. If he wants people to listen to him, or those whose voice he is trying to amplify, then he needs to be focused and clear. He is neither at the moment and I find it frustrating because I think he could make a difference if he concentrated on a couple of areas.

Good spot!!

Id love to see H&M brainstorming PR strategies 😂

Nearly seven decades as PoW means that KC is personally enormously wealthy from Duchy of Cornwall income. If he chose to, in his will he could probably establish PH with something like the Billionaire bank balance to match his expensive lifestyle. I doubt that would happen, but equally doubt M would end the marriage until that windfall opportunity is resolved. Worth a reconciliation?

They did so many, it's hard to remember them all! They really need to learn that less is more.

Just remembered when they have been speechless- when Catherine was the subject of truly horrible rumours and speculation.

I don't blame her for not being able to get them to listen but I do think the fact they don't listen might be taken as an indication that she isn't good at her job, which is all about people listening to her.

But at this point it may be so well known in the industry that they are difficult clients that she'll be ok.

Their complete silence on that topic is why I find it hard to take them seriously when they talk about bullying. The fact Meghan was publically talking about bullying at the point it was happening to Catherine and didn't say anything just leaves the impression she only really cares what is said about her.

"Current" Head of Communications

I think Christopher Bouzy's input in to all off the awful things said about Catherine and William during C's treatment must surely have made some of their fans realise that H and M aren't misunderstood, but just horrible people. Due to their association they could've made a statement disagreeing with him, but they said nothing. And Bouzy seemed to be at the centre of the worst of the rumours.

They or someone they know repaid the £2.4m refurb cost to a lot of press trumpeting. It was later quietly let slip that the repayment had magically come to include eighteen month's rent without actually increasing. Later still it came to light that not only was eighteen month's rent included, it was also deemed to release the Harolds of any further rental obligations saving Henry several hundred thousand in the process.

All fair enough you might think had it been a family property but Frog is owned by the Crown Estate, profits (including rental profits) from which boost the public coffers. Padding Harold's trousers has therefore cost us yet again 😡

"the biggest difference of which needs more work, is when people from the top start listening"**
I wish people could actually hear what they’re saying

So do I, @Mummyoflittledragon, not least because that sentence makes no sense at all

As for the PR woman's departure, @Twistybranch, the confused messaging about clients sounds straight out of H&M's own playbook, so maybe working with liars becomes infectious for some?

That archived Times report from last Dec is truely damning - wonder which part was so contentious that it was pulled - was it just the AH resignation piece? Was this communicated anywhere else at the time?

Where is Harry now ?

I think he's still in Africa.

Wonder when he's due to head home?

Probably crying over this

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13925785/Prince-Harrys-bugged-thrown-judge.html

Lord Fancourt:

: 'I have previously indicated to the parties that this individual claim... although it raises important issues, is starting to absorb more than an appropriate share of the court's resources, contrary to the requirement in the overriding objective to deal with cases justly and at proportionate cost.
'It is now doing so.
'The claim at times resembles more an entrenched front in a campaign between two obdurate but well-resourced armies than a claim for misuse of private information.
'It is unsatisfactory to say the least that the court should be faced a second time with having to resolve such a large extent of disputed material on amendments to a statement of case.'

I was wondering if he would stop off in the U.K. to see his father ?