Meghan now flogging clothes for commission.

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But she’s not an influencer?

This is really sad actually.

Making out you're going to save the world with your magnificent, empowering philanthropy but ending up as the new Fergie because your true frame of reference is just 'fame, merching, monetisation' is surely a deserved comedown.

To attest to the power of online merching, this thread has made me realise it is decades since I have seen The Grifters so I am off to see if it is streaming anywhere. Great film.

We've clearly underestimated her 😂 If I'm making myself a hostage to fortune here so be it. Good luck to her .

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14534627/Inside-Meghans-closet-fashion-experts-warn-fans-snub-extortionately-priced-collection.html

@EsmaCannonball when did she say she’s going to save the world!! I need to see!

Is it so hard to credit that not everyone is the same as you?

Live and let live, yeah? The OP is not harming you in any way, shape or form.

FWIW I think Trump is massively more disliked than Meghan. Why did you compare her to him?

Does that not equally apply to the posters whose opinions you are complaining about? That they are "expressing an individual opinion?

Nobody should be "allowed to do that without it being questioned" - it's literally a discussion board.

And I as an "older woman" too would prefer to see actual "opinions" being expressed rather than tear those of others apart! Though my age is in fact irrelevant as I am pretty sure I would feel the same as a younger woman!

I've been sucked into the sniping in the past and I am trying really hard not to let that happen.

The forum is so much more enjoyable when people express their views and respect those of others even if they don't agree!

You are aware that many countries have a head of state?
and not all of them are royalty either?
you obviously have mixed up head of state and king !

Maybe if she had an actual "hat" on she wouldn't be risking getting her hair all over the food! Or at least tied it back!

She did not leave because of the tabloids. This was planned all along

I think you need to read further back in the thread mainecooncatonahottinroof

I was wrongly accused of “targeting” the op when I was just posting like everyone else!

I wholeheartedly agree with you that we should all he allowed to freely express our opinions as long as it is done respectfully, and that threads like these are much more enjoyable to read when posters address the subject in hand rather than derailing.

It was probably a mixture of both. Press not on the rota can and do congregate in public areas when there’s advance notice. But if you don’t have a rota pass then you can’t follow into buildings or more restricted areas.

The expenses for the press are often covered by the host country for foreign tours because the publicity and international profile is the whole point. Which makes Harry’s comment even more ridiculous - I’m not sure he understood the point of his role.

I was never high up enough on the food chain to do an overseas engagement but the ones I did domestically were really hard work. The royal press officers are like sergeant majors telling you where to stand, what to do and not do.

You’ve got to battle your way to a good position against all the other press doing the same thing, then you’ve got to keep an eye on the time so that you can get something to your editor by various deadlines, you have to fight your way out of the scrum to a more peaceful spot to file your piece, and hope the herd doesn’t move on without you and you lose your place, then you’ve got to battle your way back to a good position for the next bit.

Not sure how I missed that report about Harry's appalling rudeness on the plane back from the Australian tour but I wasn't aware of it.
Jesus! And he wonders why he gets bad press! Is he really so thick as to not have worked out to keep an (at best) uneasy truce with them? I can't imagine many in the Royal Family (or public eye generally) love the media but they recognise that they need them and therefore they're polite and guardedly friendly. Harry has only himself to blame at this point.
And also, the Sussexes would have done well to remember that they were on a ROYAL tour. It wasn't meant to be about them, the Harry & Meghan show, even if it ended up appearing that way. They were meant to be in service to the Crown at that point and they cocked it up as they became the story, rather than all the people/charities they should have been supporting, publicising and championing.

Hattie in EastEnders many years ago had a John Rocha top that I'd bought in Debenhams! I never wore it again.

The very square deputy head teacher of my kids' school rocked up in another (I think Debenhams actually!) top I had and it was consigned to the bin too!!

Only read up to this comment, so please forgive if someone else has made this point, but yes, the Oprah special could not be shown in the UK with the headlines they were saying were UK ones when it was broadcast in the US, because it was untrue. Then, in the Netflix special, they used footage of the press from a Harry Potter premier and Katie Price attending court to make out that this was an example of the press hounding H&M. Had they actually had any racist headlines from the British press, or footage of press harassment, they would have shown it. They didn't, so they couldn't. The narrative that the press was racist or even particularly hostile towards Meghan is a fallacy. Most of the time they were calling her a superstar and her sister in law a boring frump in comparison(an actual description from one of the papers).

I am royally tired of extreme comments like "obsessive haters" being bandied about! If she sat on her backside on her husband's money then I would neither know nor GAF.

Could people maybe express actual views on Meghan's business instead of having a go at what other people have posted? It's beyond tedious.

Harry said in Spare I think that everything started to unravel after that tour. He felt the RF treated him differently. I think the news of how he and Meghan behaved on that tour made them quite concerned. He thought they were jealous, but my guess is they saw H and M could do damage .

Thank you @wordler. Honestly the things I learn on these threads about all sorts of things 😊

Whatever became of their "cause-driven activities"??

The only "cause" I can see is their own bank balance.

I had the pleasure of meeting Hillary Mantel, not long before she died. I really admired her, she was a superb writer. But this was really unnecessary and vicious, even from a republican.

I think that Meghan probably had a shock regarding the press because she was more used to how it works for celebrities in the US.

The big PR firms and agents have stables of stars and they have a lot more power to kill a story or promote a particular angle because of that. A journalist who steps out of line on one celebrity l can be threatened with being frozen out of all the other clients news and events.

They will also do exactly what Harry claims was happening within the royal family - offer a better story with one celebrity in exchange for killing a different story.

I expect Meghan assumed the RF would work along similar lines - that they could get the UK tabloids to stop printing negative things about Meghan by either offering an exclusive with another member of the family or threatening to end their rota access.

I think that’s what she meant in the Oprah interview when she said she was told she would be protected and then felt that she wasn’t.

But I think ‘protection’ meant that they’d make sure she had good staff to manage the press enquirers and they’d advise on protocol for engagements - but they expected her to ignore tittle tattle in the tabloids and comment sections like everyone else in the family did.

It seems Harry really doesn’t understand anything to do with the role he had, the history of his family, anything about protocol or why things are done the way they are. It’s often said in these threads that he should have warned Meghan, but it sometimes appears as though he himself didn’t have the first clue. I suspect he spent his life before he met M just doing what he was told with no understanding of why. That is surely the fault of his grandmother and father. He appears to have been molly coddled and covered up for but not really had anything explained to him properly. Perhaps William got the teaching and he didn’t.

The jury is well out on that one for now at least! Don't think Richard Branson will be losing any sleep!😁

If Meghan was sat on her backside living off her husband’s money we would all know about it because there would be countless news articles, podcasts, and threads on sm outlets, accusing her of being lazy and lacking in initiative! She literally cannot win at this point.

IIRC, Harry confirms this in Spare. He says their 2020 exit was over 2 years in the making. That would mean they planned to go probably for the entirety of their public relationship, only stopping to collect the £60m wedding on the way.

That’s really interesting and I think all very fair points Wordler - there was a considerable culture clash playing itself out and a lot of misunderstanding on both sides.

Actually I disagree. . If they had left on good terms with the RF and lived quietly under the radar, everyone would have wished them well.