The revolving EXIT door of employees chez Sussex continues

[Thedom]

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.

Yes, it's mentioned on this thread, we can't decide if she was shooting out because she hadn't paid for a table herself, so had no 'place' or if she was shown the door by a staff member ... whatever the weather it seems she's visioned as a desperate shameless blagger who puts women's hands in her crotch area

I dunno. When she had that weird long hug with the president guy. She said oh it’s my pleasure, which makes me think personally he was thanking her, and she’s turned up on request to lend it (and her) publicity, although that doesn’t explain why she didn’t attend the event itself, unless she didn’t wish to.

but that would be bad, if she’s now just turning up to lend publicity to things. And get some from herself.

mayne he was just thanking her for a gift. Or a blowie in the loo. Who knows. 😂

Firstly he probably didn't know whether she was coming or not as she could have been a plus one, and other people would have been doing the job if invites and who should come
Secondly he'd hardly say sod off you freeloader 😉

I have to say that if this is right and she just turned up to walk the red carpet, have a few pics taken and share some word salad, it is a new level of oddness.

Willing to be wrong if evidence emerges that she was there "properly", of course, because otherwise it is just...weird.

Lizzie Clundy says she was at the top table and Meghan wasn’t there.

People article says Meghan was at the top table too with Jimmy kimmek and his wife,sitting next to the CEO

However her friend Kelly we know was at the top table with Jimmy Kimmel and his wife and she took many selfies with them. Why didn’t she take any pictures at all of Meghan who was at the same table as her?

My thoughts exactly, it’s all a stunt to divert attention from the bullying claims, they will be wrapped around each other declaring undying love before the week is out, PR job done.

There is some drivel out there 🙄

“It was incredibly sweet, and at one point Ella’s mom and Meghan had a relatable moment about having two young kids,” an attendee tells PEOPLE. "

A relatable moment?

Was it " other worldly" ?? 🙄😂

@BigWillyLittleTodger

Totally agree!

"My thoughts exactly, it’s all a stunt to divert attention from the bullying claims, they will be wrapped around each other declaring undying love before the week is out, PR job done."

I’m still inclined to think she gatecrashed it and was shown the door at the earliest opportunity with the minimal amount of publicity.

I agree

I'm sure we'll hear from Lizzie Cundy at some point t, there's no love lost there as MM used her like many other people!

"relatable" is a hideously over-used word in puff piece articles

Is a relatable moment like a quick chat would be for normal people?

Agreed.

I can't see how Meghan's life is in anyway relatable to a family where one of the children had cancer. You know who might be able to relate? Catherine, William and their children. You know who also spent time with a young cancer survivor this week? Catherine and William.

Now I've seen that link, I can't unsee it. I hope this is just a coincidence, but I can't help but think it isn't.

@FloofPaws what happened with your font size ? 😂

I think it was a gatecrash of some description too.
You don't rock up at an event where you don't have a space at the table.

"Kate got her pic taken with a sick kid. Come hell or high water, I'm gonna do the same."

Cross post.

I never thought of that! 💡

🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ I did not see it. But oh goodness now I can

I can’t believe that she just turned up for photos and left. I can’t - it’s more damaging than not going at all, obviously! She can’t be that stupid.

WME should have piled her on to a table with some known sycophants for some photos of her (in the middle, centre stage) with her arms round attractive women laughing uproariously at a shared in joke and another shot of her looking earnest, sympathetic and concerned with a weeping WASP who’s crying on her shoulder about some photogenically injured offspring. Also she could have been gazing up at Jamie LC’s speech, eyes brimming with unshed tears, to show how she Shows Up.

She can’t possibly have just pitched up in a remodelled dress, clutched people’s hands to her crotch and sidled out as soon as the cameras turned to someone else. It’s mad.

I will say, peculiar bust detail aside, she looks good in lots of stills. Video is slightly awkward with a hint of mania. Or panic? And I like her hair.

The most dogged of the Sussex Squad were never that keen on standing up for Harry. I always thought he was more irritating for whining SO MUCH so publicly after so much privilege and bleating about his privacy and it was largely let go. They were standing up for a black woman not a couple. One of them literally said they stood up for her “because” she was black. Poor Meghan.

I will say, peculiar bust detail aside, she looks good in lots of stills.

Bright colours suit her, and slim fitting styles suit her, far better than lots of frills and flounces. But I wish she'd occasionally go for something other than the bare shouldered look. A simple low V-neck would have been good, and focused attention on her face, rather than her bust.

Edit for typo.

This is a bit curious

https://www.thesun.co.uk/royals/30920305/harry-meghan-marriage-clemmie-moodie/

If you can’t read the article it’s here too:

https://archive.ph/ZCC6F

The Sun, going to great lengths to say that they can’t say they are separated they because of libel laws basically. Very odd to make a story about how they can’t write a story.

But according to dodgy mags across the Pond, and even one in spain the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are in the middle of a trial separation and/or heading to the divorce courts before you can say “finding freedom”.
Over here, of course, we wouldn’t be so bold — or legally liable — to write anything so silly.
And because I can sense my lawyers now twitching furiously — for the record, Harry and Meghan have NOT announced their separation.
Newspapers and broadcasters can, however, slowly drip-feed the facts.
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Members of their team have been studiously briefing, insisting all is fine and that it’s perfectly normal for couples to spend some time apart.

Which, in itself, seems an extraordinary and unnecessary move if all truly is well.
Surely, say nothing.
Friends of friends from the UK claim that earlier this year the pair stayed at their Californian mansion, in Montecito.
But I am reliably told Meghan was barely seen — prompting speculation she was perhaps not in the marital home.

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To conclude — as my wise mother once said: “I give it seven years."

They've been together 6 1/2 years

She does seem to go for maximum skin on display, lots of cut outs and plunging neckline.

It feels somewhat like the tabloid sharks have scented blood in the water.

Whether that's for reader clicks or there is any credibility to what's being insinuated, who knows?

It does however look based on their appearances/different schedules that something has changed.

Could be a new PR strategy, could be simply a timing issue of obligation clashes or something else more personal.

I simply cannot fathom how people with the resources they have seem to lurch from one PR crisis to another, where their pushback is not only ineffective but often gives the original story more traction (or creates new ones).

For a couple who've been represented by some of the top PR firms in the US it's utterly bizarre.

They hire the experts but then dont take their advice anyway because they are so self rightous, deluded and grandiose.

This was evident in the PR 'response' to the HR bullying expose - 'watering the seeds' drivel - those are the words of MM and not any PR expert - also the timing weeks later and the approach complete rebuttal with the pips squeezed on staff to 'support'..... I imagine the press release issued was in gold swirly calligraphy.