Prue Leith on Meghan Marble

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I just saw this article about Prue Leith's pronouncement on Markle's new programme, which she says she would never watch. She says that she isn't a Markle fan because of all the "touchy feeliness" and talk about what creams you put on your hands. She says life is too short to think about what people think of you. Prue Leith is around 80 years old (?) is alway impeccably and colourfully dressed, her hair just so, her skin is lovely, she is always talking about food that is or isn't "worth the calories" - all of which which suggests that she very much cares what people think of her and that she takes a lot of time with her own appearance even though she is much older than Meghan who I would argue - as I would for all young women - that they should enjoy and relish their youth and beauty and make the most of it while it lasts.

My question however is about why Leith found it so easy to make this comment in public. I can't imagine her judging another celebrity so publicly and forcefully. So what makes Meghan different to the others? What makes Leith so incensed that she had to be so negative about her in a TV interview? I am sure that Meghan is not the only touchy feely, hand moisturising celebrity on the planet.

Aside from your feelings about her estrangement from the royal family which has been discussed ad nauseam what legitimate reason is there for treating her like that?

https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/netflix-meghan-markle-duchess-lady-gaga-sussex-b1216699.html

I don't know much about her but I do know PL is a talented and respected cook and author. She was asked a question in an interview and answered, in her rather blunt way. But I'm pretty sure she isn't losing any sleep over Meghan Marble.

Had no idea she was Danny Krugers mum.

*Bearing in mind - can’t edit previous post

Leaving aside the whole can of worms with Meghans apparently inflated skill set !

that was Harry’s role , his job for want of a better word, they left , they quit , they didn’t want to do it anymore.

leaving aside the clearly false reasons for this ….. they left and quit the job, the role , the country .

if you leave your job , you do not still expect to get paid or have any of the extra benefits that the job gave you.

they quit , it is on them to make a living and fund themselves, Harry does not have the right to go to a republican country ( that literally fought a war to get rid of monarchy ) and cosplay royalty and attempt to do his “job” in a country that it doesn’t exist in!

he and she needs to find a proper role or job to make a living and stop grifting of the royal family.

Meghan was an actor on Suits when she met Harry—describing her skill set this way is hardly inflationary.

Yes, they left/quit, and need to fund their security because of who Harry is. They are doing it within the parameters of their skill sets. They are not being funded by the Royal Family—I wasn’t aware that they were expecting to be funded—it seems pretty clear to me that they are earning.

How else do you recommend that they earn the salary required to fund a security team?

Are you saying that famous people aren't allowed to have a private life?

Her job at suits had already come to an end when she met Harry.

they are millionaires! They aren’t scrabbling down the back of the sofa to pay the electricity bill!

neither would need to work again had they bought a more modest mansion and stopped spending like billionaires.
i personally don’t care how they make a living, but one that doesn’t involve backstabbing and telling outrageous lies about other people would be a start!

and your wrong about Harry , he does expect to be funded by taxpayers! , his court cases are exactly that , not only do they cost us money but they are purely to gain access to publicly funded security.
and everytime they ponce about in America it cost the American taxpayers money for police escorts and such , do you think the security in the Columbia and Nigeria faux royal tour's was paid by them? , no it was the poor tax payers!

Sorry, I'm still laughing at Meghan Marble😂

It is funny! 🤣, it reminds me of something! But I can’t recall what ?

It reminds me of those things you see on FB eg change one letter in the name of a band or film to make it funny. Eg Meghan Barkle 😂

Mrs Mangel on Neighbours?

🤣 no @glitterturdbut good guess! 🤣

He inherited about $30 million from Diana and the Queen Mother. Buy a smaller house with lower taxes and a smaller footprint that is easier to secure. Spend less money on privatec ets and expensive clothes and jewelry. Take some business classes so that if they do roll out a business, it is done properly.

Lots of people lose their jobs. They earn new skills, get a degree, go back to school. Harry had a huge inheritance, enough to fall back on when he retrained.

I think the issue is that I expect them to have a private life and they don't really have one.

Maybe Prue Leith thought it was a Meghan Marble Cake 🤪

Edited to say: the following is in reply to Wordler’s post at 19:07 pm.

All of this shows just how absolutely unsuitable these two people are to be engaged in domestic and international diplomacy on behalf of the head of state

I think it does if you are determined to see it that way! There is always an alternative viewpoint however:

~MM attended Wimbledon in a private capacity on that occasion, she was not there representing the RF and as such was entitled to privacy. And Wimbledon has privacy policies regarding the photography of individuals who are not there officially as part of the event.

~Although some aspects of them were possibly unwise, Oprah + Spare + Netflix a
weren’t whingefests in their entirety. If you read or view them, rather than the articles written about them, they are far more positive and forgiving than all the hyperbolic media spin about them.

Also, I imagine that the RF, complete with its considerable influence and PR machine, alongside its cabal of establishment friends, and contacts in the media, is quite a formidable opponent, so if you want to convey an opposing view, you have no option but to go full force.

And make no mistake, the son of the Monarch, departing the RF on bad terms, is seen as a direct body blow to the institution, and as such, the establishment pressed the red exterminate button. The monarchy are all about protecting their own survival and privilege. They protect themselves ruthlessly without caring who falls under the category of collateral damage. And because the key individuals involved have all suffered to a similar degree within this “golden cage”, I believe that they are particularly unforgiving to those who leave.

Remember that BP wanted Diana to uphold the pretension that everything was ok in her marriage, and that Prince Charles didn’t have a mistress. And the only way Diana could get around that without being buried was going directly to the media and telling her own story. And Harry said repeatedly that his reason for writing Spare was so that it was all out there and journalists couldn’t make things up.

~ Many commentators found the timing of the bullying accusations, leaked funnily enough just before the Oprah interview, to be highly suspicious. Ultimately though, as reported by Grazia, none of the reports or anonymous sources surrounding staff departure alleged any bullying back when they were first published – and this was around the time Meghan was already under unparalleled scrutiny from the tabloid press, so it seems unlikely that such a complaint would have gone unpublished. And the PR man involved, Jason Knauf was given an award by William and now works for Earthshot, so it could be argued that he’s hardly an unbiased commentator!

Newsweek 2023,
”The Prince of Wales performed the investiture ceremony that made Jason Knauf a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (RVO). Knauf was named on King Charles III's first New Year Honours List and was given the award on May 10 at Windsor Castle. Recipients of the Royal Victorian Order are, unlike most honors, chosen by the royal family themselves and not by the British government.”

If you view the bullying accusations as allegedly part of a calculated smear campaign, as I do, then it makes sense that malicious reporting about H&M have found their way to the US and Australia, and that way, the three main English-speaking territories were covered.

And as the following article points out, it’s a very underhand tactic to put an accusation out there, apparently hold a review, and then not publish the results. Highly convenient if you ask me!
https://mattaoffact.substack.com/p/jason-knauf-just-cant-quit-meghan

~So many posters belittle Harry’s protests about security but Neil Basu, the former head of counter-terrorism policing in England, said to Channel 4 News:
"If you'd seen the stuff that was written and you were receiving it, the kind of rhetoric that's online, if you don't know what I know, you would feel under threat all of the time," he said.
When asked if there had been genuine threats to Meghan from the far-right, he added: "Absolutely.
"We had teams investigating it. People have been prosecuted for those threats."

Also, don't publicly piss off the Taliban.

You thought though that was MM for a minute though, didn't you? 😂

Oprah + Spare + Netflix are 'positive and forgiving'?

Really?

Diplomacy 101

Yes, if MM was popular she wouldn't have said it. She said it as she knows there are loads of Meghan haters who would approve.

I used to like Prue Leith but ever since reading that she drowned some new born kittens in a sack when she was 11 years old,I've never been able to look at her in the same way again.

Under protest, forced to do so by her mother, traumatised by the experience, honest enough to write about it in her memoir and advocate for neutering and spaying.

I saw someone call her MegSux which made me choke on my butterfly pea flower blue tea and shortbread crostini

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Prue Leith is another ‘celebrity’ upping their public profile by opining on Meghan.

I met her son Joe in Brighton 😂

I know who Prue Leith is and isn't it her husband who throws all those oversized beads and specs at her?

I've no idea who Danny Kruger is. I don't think I want to know.

I peaked meeting Joe Mangel. Poor Kerry.