The revolving EXIT door of employees chez Sussex continues

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13922531/Meghan-Markle-Prince-Harry-global-press-secretary-announces-major-job-change.html

Ashley was approached by other clients who were seeking the high-quality counsel she has provided to the Sussexes.

'High quality counsel' that's a bit of a stretch! she should have left when she originally quit, they clearly paid her to stay on at that time.

It's really lousy timing for this announcement, immediately after the employee bullying disclosures, and the spin they are trying to put on it is amusing. Likely the retention package expired at a very inconvenient time and she was not staying a minute longer as their employee.

How very embarrassing

The revolting EXIT door of employees chez Sussex continues....

I keep mis-reading the thread title as above.

Christ, just seen the People pictures. She looks haggard, strained, manic. Sun-damaged, aged, she's clearly been hitting the surgery harder than ever since she's got into her 40s - her eyes and chin are different.

I think she must be on Ozempic also, it gives a certain look.

Bloody hell. Her hair and make up aren't much cop, reminds me of what hair and make up looks like right at the end of a night in a club, rather than red carpet ready.
As for the choice of dress for a sick kids gala.. words fail me 😳

Heads up that this has been posted by a member of the Sussex Squad I think (the control of who can reply is a giveaway), however! Interesting video of a short interview with Meghan on the red carpet here.
More word salad. “Other worldly” about a children’s hospital is an odd turn of phrase. And the obvious “from my standpoint as a mother”. Also, how many old school friends do we actually believe that she is in touch with, never mind those who would be unfortunate enough to be in a position to need the services of this hospital.
“Just happy to be here to support”! Yep, on the red carpet. Because it doesn’t sound like she stayed for the duration so exactly how does she feel she supported?! It seems to me that the cause supported her by giving her a photo opportunity. Edited as forgot to link!

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She's clinging on because that's how she controls people, situations and interactions. If a man acted the way she acts towards her husband - guiding him, pulling him away mid conversation, elbowing and shoving him out of the way - he'd rightly be considered controlling. She'd doing it in that footage to her friend, and it's jarring to see her doing it to this woman, because it can't be interpreted as "loving" (in the nauseating way her supporters caricature her clawing), Normal women do not treat our female (or male for that matter) friends that way. But we have all come across the type of woman who manipulates a social situation to put herself centre stage, even when it's not her stage to monopolise. The friend is absolutely pissed off, and hopefully her metaphorical eyes are as wide open as Meghan's actual ones are.

Oh dear God how she crow bars 'old school friends and local mom friends' into that interview to make herself seem warm and popular is embarrassing!!

It's about ill children Meghan, not about how amazing and popular you are.

And no one believes you have old school friends or actual mom friends.

And she started out with very little advantage of birth

Just a double Emmy-winning dad in the business who paid for school, and an uncle who could serve up a highly desirable internship

I just feel like any public event like this with her is comedy gold. She just can't behave! I got second -hand embarrassment from that video. Just so desperate; clawing at her friend, not letting her friend have a photo alone, going back onto the red carpet for a second round.. oh Meghan 🙈

It does seem like she only attended the red carpet and didn't stay for the gala. Which is mind boggling. She is shameless.

Well yes, there was advantage there for sure. I suppose I was thinking that compared to her husband there was very little advantage. But yes, you are right.

It does sound strange though about Harry not letting the children leave the house in case they get photographed. If true that sounds controlling beyond belief, and actually I'd even go so far as to say abusive. If Meghan wants yo take her children out to do some normal kid stuff and Harry is somehow preventing here then I feel sorry for her.

I do wonder, though, why she isn't taking them out now that he's off in Lesotho and can't stop her? Maybe she's afraid he'll leave her if she does or something? It's all just so very odd.

And regularly on the set of ‘Married with Children”

So basically she's shown up on the red carpet for a fundraising event for sick children and not even attended the event to help raise money??! She really is shameless.

So I think we are all in agreement that this was a PR stunt, to get away from the bully headlines and to show the world Harry would never leave someone this gorgeous. So she went to an event for sick kids, to look hot and kind to kids. Weird combo.

Anyhoo

Her husband is still away. It’s over two weeks now. He spent the evening of his birthday (so when the kids went to bed) away with his friends, he hasn’t mentioned her or defended her in the press. The papers are heavily hinting at a separation. Last year we had the same rumours.
Why are they not controlling this? Why are they letting it grow legs?

Almost every couple I know, don’t work together. We all manage it. But it looks like they are separating their social lives on top of their work lives.

Meghan knew how it would look if she went to the event on her own, clinging to the hand of her bestie. So why is she wanting these rumours to fly?

But she's deliberately fed his paranoia about the press for years, because it suited her agenda. You could clearly see on the NF doc how she winds him up by pretending to see paparazzi everywhere, even when there are clearly none. So if it's coming back to bite her now that it doesn't suit her agenda anymore for the media to be the enemy.. then I don't feel one bit sorry for her. I do feel very sorry for the children however, it doesn't seem that they are having an ideal childhood.

So why is she wanting these rumours to fly?

Any publicity is good publicity?

It's better to be talked about than not talked about (regardless of the context)?

Sorry, the quote is:

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about
(Oscar Wilde).

I can see the separation of "business" interests (Meghan, although God know what they are, ARO makes Duchy Originals look like Microsoft) and "public profile/ sub Royal stuff" (Harry) being the latest plan, sort of feeding into the greater good of H &M. Perhaps the penny has dropped that Harry looking like he's taking part in a hostage video when they're out together is erm damaging to any enterprise, commercial or otherwise. I think the bizarre public appearance of last night rather goes against my theory though, because I don't see Meghan tolerating the loss of limelight. What a mess.

I'm not convinced that there isn't more going on behind the scenes but I suppose we'll see.

For a pair that have 2 children, neither Meghan nor Harry ever talk like they have any idea what it's like to be a parent! First in Spare we had the weird birth story where Meghan was happily eating Mexican food during labour, then had an epidural, then was home 2 hours afterwards (?) Now she has loads of friends and loads of mom friends that all have children in hospital. It is, fortunately, pretty rare for children to have to stay in hospital (I'm excluding accidents being patched up here)! Who are all these people, she talks like it's normal to know loads of people with hospitalised children. It isn't.

Anyone else expecting a 'looking sad in a car park' pap photo any moment? Single tear, left eye, endless speculation and attention. Left hand held up by face, possibly without rings.

Edited to include face clutching.

I do feel very sorry for the children however, it doesn't seem that they are having an ideal childhood.

Archie is five, he should be mixing with other children and doing whatever is the US version of Early Years education. Maybe he is at kindergarten, and they've just been very successful at keeping it quiet.

Well, at least we know where she’s been. More surgery. Her eyes are slanting upwards.

Meghan knew how it would look if she went to the event on her own, clinging to the hand of her bestie. So why is she wanting these rumours to fly?

Attention. It all seems manufactured to me, I expect to see H&M together soon wrapped around each other gazing adoringly into each other eyes, cue more headlines to divert from the bullying ones, job done, mission accomplished.

If rumours are flying so what. They will jump up hand in hand and shout boooooo you all got it wrong. Tbh I never thought it would last more than a couple of years so I got it wrong.

Very true . They talk about their children as if they are abstract concepts.

I think the infamous interview in The Cut said that Archie was at preschool, I don't think I'm remembering wrong. I certainly hope both children are mixing and socialising.

ETA on the subject of preschool, I'm pretty certain me and everyone else I know never went around hand in hand with their friends much after the age of 5. It's cute in very small children, less so in middleaged women who want to be taken seriously.