Is there another couple like the Sussexes Part 2

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With this new authentic Insta post where Meghan positions herself as a go between in securing some signed merchandise I think there's still plenty to discuss.
This is a new image. No make up. Carefully edited insta. New lips. Is this influencer territory? Mention of " my husband and l " Echoes of the Queen ?

I think this shows how far she has fallen from the hazy days of the wedding and the A list celebrities that attended.

She couldn't contact BE directly, she had to go through others, pull favours, and then use it to promote herself.

A kind thing would have been to get them and deliver them. Not to use a teenagers loss of all worldly possessions to build followers on Insta.

She couldn't contact BE directly, she had to go through others, pull favours, and then use it to promote herself.

There is no way that can be genuine, they are both represented by WME as someone else pointed out on the other thread, , all she had to do was get in touch with her agency, it would have been handled by them.

It is another PR stunt that doesn't stand up to scrutiny..

It's just mind-boggling how wrong she gets it, over and over and over again 🤦‍♀️

All because she has manoeuvred herself into a position where she desperately needs to be relevant in order to make a living, but has nothing to sell, no skills that can get her there, and now no relationship with the RF that could have worked really well for her.

So there's just this awful fake - gasp - ohmigosh guys - you'll never guess - I made a voice note - Billie Eilish - ohmigosh - lunchbox? - eeek - teenage style utter bullshit that reeks of inauthenticity and self promotion.

No doubt there'll be more of that kind of thing in the NF series, if it ever gets shown.

Doing a kind thing then publicising you did a kind thing reveals that your motives are all wrong.

If you just want to help. Help. It doesn't matter whether others know or not.
In fact you should take care to try not to bring notice or adulation to yourself because you are then in danger of pride at the expense of others misfortune.

Advertising on insta that you are kind and generous is just self serving and therefore neither kind or generous.

Why can Meghan not understand that performing kindness for an audience is not kindness at all. She genuinely doesn't seem to understand how she is perceived or she wouldn't do this.

I immediately thought this was publicity for the cooking show. As in, "ohhhh, so this is the persona she'll be conveying, the authenticmagnanimouscaringthinkofeverydetail Meghan".

What a load of bollocks.

The whole thing is so fake. Her story doesn't add up. She didn't go to Altadena with H and she visited a centre there, not burned out homes. She 'toured' (😡) burned out homes in Pasadena with H and there were no residents there.

Not to be ageist, and in any case I'm a good decade older than Meghan, but she's frankly too old for this kind of giddy excitement over a tshirt from a celebrity.

It's barely a step up from an unboxing video on Tik Tok.

Kate isn’t looking so good these days. And it seems so performative to go on a field trip with those children. Just let them enjoy themselves without having cameras in their faces and having their privacy invaded.

Seems a bit mean - I don't think anyone suggested that Meghan didn't look good, did they? 🤔

Derail

I suggest we decline to indulge it.

Ah the famous reverse ferret!!
Meghan is not a working royal
Meghan is not on official charity business
Meghan has not recently had cancer
Meghans looks were not discussed

Meghans actions are being discussed.

This occurred to me. Meghan is in her early 40s and yet her Instagram stuff seems very late 20s/ early 30s influencer just starting out.

I think she needs to find her 40s groove and her output will feel far more authentic. Maybe leave The Tig vibe behind (in assuming that is what she did there) and grow up a bit?

@IcedPurple agree

Extract from The Spectator, most can see it for what it is.

In the latest tone-deaf offering, the Duchess of Sussex posted an apparently candid video (jeans, minimal make-up) in which she details a tortuous odyssey by which a young Billie Eilish fan, who lost her favourite T-shirt in the fires, has been gifted a stack of merchandise signed by Eilish. Although even Meghan’s celebrity-stuffed contact list does not extend to her knowing Eilish personally, there are others that she knows who do, and therefore there is a shout-out to ‘Adam Levine and Behati’, who ‘helped me get this over the line’. She ends by announcing that she is going to email the fortunate Eilish fan’s mother now, and says, ‘I just wanted to share this with you guys.’

Yet there is something so nauseatingly contrived, so fake – so actressy – about the little smiles to camera, the faux-excitement, the casual name-dropping of famous friends (for the uninitiated, Levine is the heavily tattooed lead singer of Maroon 5 and ‘Behati’ is Behati Prinsloo, his model wife) and, finally, the idea that some signed trinkets can in some way compensate for a truly epochal disaster. It screams of consumerism and fakery: both things, by now, that the Duchess has intimately associated herself with.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/meghan-markle-simply-cant-help-herself/

She did mention that she was so old when she touched the lunchbox which I thought was a little odd.

That's quite a cheap and nasty shot.

Meghan looked lovely (as always) in her video.

Catherine also looked lovely too. Her visit with the school was linked to her early years "Shaping Us" initiative, so quite right she should be stepping back into public work with it.

I also imagine all the children involved had to have their parents give written permission to allow them to be featured and photographed. That's standard with all publicised school events, moreso one which will attract international attention.

Did the family Meghan was speaking about give permission for their story to be told? I would certainly assume so.

Sorry, I bit

I worked for a company in the PR department. I read a dreadful story about a poor little child. I contacted the journalist who wrote the piece and asked if I could send her some of my company’s products to pass on to the child as they’d been referenced in the article. The journalist said yes so I did. I did think for one nanosecond that maybe I could send out a press release and grandstand bandwagon off the back of this but sensible me told me off for being a dick and not to be such a twunt. This is the first time I’ve mentioned this in almost 30 years. So yeah, there’s doing a nice thing and then telling everyone you’ve done a nice thing.

Spill @QueenOfHertz what did you send?

30 years later is when you tell this story. You don't tell Insta before you even tell the recipient.

As someone on my local Facebook posted recently a good deed doesn't count unless you post about it on SM. Smacks very much of what she's doing.

Once again turning something into all about her

The whole lunchbox thing was weird.

Fake in other words, and that is the root of her problem.

I knew someone would want the tea.

It was some branded stuff for a little girl who survived a school shooting. You know the one.

And that’s me zipped.

Very good of you @QueenOfHertz 👍

Absolutely, Keanu Reeves would never do something like this because he is genuine and not doing it for the ‘gram and likes.