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Meghan now flogging clothes for commission.

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AtIusvue · 24/03/2025 16:22

Commissionable links- means when a potential customer clicks on the link, it's attributed to the affiliate, allowing the brand to record the source of the traffic. If someone buys a product using an affiliate link, the brand will pay the affiliate marketer commission on the sale

But she’s not an influencer?

This is really sad actually.

Meghan now flogging clothes for commission.
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Puzzledandpissedoff · 25/03/2025 19:26

Seems like a much riskier business than to work hard on the NF contract and actually produce

Yes it does, @AtIusvue, but they've shown themselves unable to produce much that's worthwhile and the current Netflix deal runs out in September ... so what else is there?

MrsLeonFarrell · 25/03/2025 19:30

wordler · 25/03/2025 16:49

As I mentioned Fergie has been using her title front and center for years in commercial ventures.

Harry and Meghan were told they couldn’t do half in half out, they were to stop using the HRH, and were not to use the Sussex Royal branding which was already established as their working royal ‘brand’ - so to prevent the possibility of confusion between what had been official royal business vs new commercial business.

The royal family have never taken a position on using their titles in general. Just like they didn’t with Fergie.

My favourite thing on this thread

I had no idea Fergie's full title was

Duchess of York and Weight Watchers

mainecooncatonahottinroof · 25/03/2025 19:32

Fortunypleatsingreen · 25/03/2025 16:39

Blimey, you’d think Meghan was peddling crack cocaine the way some people carry on!

There’s nothing offensive about it,

And she remains the wife of the son of the King ; so the royal connection is there whether she promotes it or not.

Seriously, so what if she sells some white and cream clothing? I don’t understand why that is anything to be embarrassed about?

Surely it’s more embarrassing to already be in possession of a €610 million fortune like Prince Charles, most of it acquired through inheritance, and still take money from the public purse and even seek preferential tax advantages not available to ordinary citizens?
Now that is really something to be embarrassed about imho!

I don't know why he would be "embarrassed", as this is literally how the monarchy works!

I don't really care that much what Meghan is doing, though it's entertaining to observe and to discuss, but I dislike the blatant monetising of the title in the very way she was at the very least requested not to do. She's always stuck two fingers up at the monarchy, hasn't she, while hypocritically benefitting massively from the association. That is what I cannot stomache.

mainecooncatonahottinroof · 25/03/2025 19:36

Mistyglade · 25/03/2025 17:10

An absurd anachronism in this day and age.

How quaint.

JessicaBlabbit · 25/03/2025 19:41

wordler · 25/03/2025 19:07

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.

Didnt work in the US though did it ? She was unable to stop Vanity Fair last month and The Hollywood Reporter 6 months ago publish their investigations into her appalling behaviour towards staff and colleagues. Where were her all powerful WME etc then?

I expect the US had now seen what the BRF had seen years before.

mainecooncatonahottinroof · 25/03/2025 19:43

Fortunypleatsingreen · 25/03/2025 18:52

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.

I have read the entire thread as it's been posted. We may have to agree to disagree on your first point.

I just wish people would actually debate like adults and not waste everyone's time merely trying to score points off other posters.

mainecooncatonahottinroof · 25/03/2025 19:52

Conundrumseverywhere · 25/03/2025 19:03

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 .

I think that totally tone-deaf interview Meghan did with Tom Bradby opened a lot of eyes. Standing there in the midst of poverty when she was on a royal tour whinging that nobody had asked her if she was ok! Putting on a whole act with the doe eyes and "poor me"!!

Frankly I don't even believe that. It's the done thing if someone is new to a role -you would automatically ask a new or newer colleague in the office if things were going ok. It's the one piece of common ground you have when you haven't got to know each other!

glitterturd · 25/03/2025 19:55

FromTheOfficeOfJammyTodger · 25/03/2025 19:01

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).

Embroidering again !

glitterturd · 25/03/2025 19:57

@mainecooncatonahottinroof I have to elevate the shame and disgrace. I had a top which I then saw Pat Butcher wore on Eastenders 😳😳 many years later I had to donate my wool coat to charity as Yasmin in Corrie wore it and put me off it 😂 .

QueenOfHertz · 25/03/2025 20:00

Sad to see there are no Elizabeth Arden products in her curated beauty list.

glitterturd · 25/03/2025 20:01

I was surprised at how cheap the cashmere jumper was .

My2cents1975 · 25/03/2025 20:17

FromTheOfficeOfJammyTodger · 25/03/2025 19:01

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).

Some of the newer royal watchers don't realize that not so long ago, tabloids hailed Fergie as the cool new kid on the block versus frumpy staid shy Di.
"In the early days, Fergie was popular. She was like the girl next door, undaunted by protocol, relaxed, irreverent and determined to have fun: people talked about her being a breath of fresh air".

Even further back in 1923, decades prior to Fergie, the late Queen Mother, young Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon was a breath of fresh air in the stuffy Windsor family. She was "very warm and charming presence and she was obviously respectful towards them but didn't take them all that seriously."

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

mainecooncatonahottinroof · 25/03/2025 20:19

Fortunypleatsingreen · 25/03/2025 19:12

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.

Of course there wouldn't! Nobody would know anything about her. She'd be living quietly and privately and while they have enormous entertainment value, I wish they would do just that!

Mistyglade · 25/03/2025 20:20

mainecooncatonahottinroof · 25/03/2025 19:36

How quaint.

What the institution with its old-fashioned charm of inherited wealth and multitude of palaces? Or it’s very existence being anachronistic? I can’t tell.

wordler · 25/03/2025 20:22

JessicaBlabbit · 25/03/2025 19:41

Didnt work in the US though did it ? She was unable to stop Vanity Fair last month and The Hollywood Reporter 6 months ago publish their investigations into her appalling behaviour towards staff and colleagues. Where were her all powerful WME etc then?

I expect the US had now seen what the BRF had seen years before.

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I don’t think she’s been paying for PR or Agents at the level you need to to get that protection for a while. The woman who used to work for them who then set up her own PR firm and was said to be working with them wouldn’t have that kind of clout.

AtIusvue · 25/03/2025 20:26

Avon lady calling!

Meghan making commissions on beauty recommendations.

https://shopmy.us/ms/beauty

https://shopmy.us/ms/beauty

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Mistyglade · 25/03/2025 20:27

mainecooncatonahottinroof · 25/03/2025 19:02

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.

I don’t have a view on her business. I couldn’t care less. I do have a view on the never ending tidal wave of hatred towards this woman. I’m sorry if you are sick of hearing this however perhaps if the hate brigade ceased long enough the opposing parties would too. It’s so boring. It’s so negative. She is not hurting you.

Fortunypleatsingreen · 25/03/2025 20:31

Mistyglade · 25/03/2025 20:27

I don’t have a view on her business. I couldn’t care less. I do have a view on the never ending tidal wave of hatred towards this woman. I’m sorry if you are sick of hearing this however perhaps if the hate brigade ceased long enough the opposing parties would too. It’s so boring. It’s so negative. She is not hurting you.

Totally agree; very well said 👏

EmpressOfTheThread · 25/03/2025 20:32

Conundrumseverywhere · 25/03/2025 19:08

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.

Or perhaps, like most people, he could have informed himself? He was an adult. He'd been through a military academy. If he wasn't sure, then he ought to have informed himself. He and Meghan were surrounded by people who would have helped.
I think there's a case of "wilful ignorance" here.

mainecooncatonahottinroof · 25/03/2025 20:32

glitterturd · 25/03/2025 19:57

@mainecooncatonahottinroof I have to elevate the shame and disgrace. I had a top which I then saw Pat Butcher wore on Eastenders 😳😳 many years later I had to donate my wool coat to charity as Yasmin in Corrie wore it and put me off it 😂 .

Love it glitter!! Could have been worse though - could have been Pat's earrings!! 😂

mainecooncatonahottinroof · 25/03/2025 20:35

Mistyglade · 25/03/2025 20:20

What the institution with its old-fashioned charm of inherited wealth and multitude of palaces? Or it’s very existence being anachronistic? I can’t tell.

Your view is quite quaint. Most countries have a head of state. I fail to see anything "anachronistic" in that?

EmpressOfTheThread · 25/03/2025 20:35

Mistyglade · 25/03/2025 20:27

I don’t have a view on her business. I couldn’t care less. I do have a view on the never ending tidal wave of hatred towards this woman. I’m sorry if you are sick of hearing this however perhaps if the hate brigade ceased long enough the opposing parties would too. It’s so boring. It’s so negative. She is not hurting you.

It's a discussion. Mostly, with evidence and points which are substantiated. Most people on here are measured and informed. There is no "tidal wave of hatred" against this woman. Such hyperbole. Criticism isn't hate.
If you see hate on here - report it. It's against talk guidelines.
Meghan is not a victim.

EmpressOfTheThread · 25/03/2025 20:37

mainecooncatonahottinroof · 25/03/2025 20:35

Your view is quite quaint. Most countries have a head of state. I fail to see anything "anachronistic" in that?

Some people don't understand what the role of Head of State entails, or that all nations have them. Or that they all cost money!

EmpressOfTheThread · 25/03/2025 20:41

QueenOfHertz · 25/03/2025 20:00

Sad to see there are no Elizabeth Arden products in her curated beauty list.

It's such a useful product. I hear.

Mistyglade · 25/03/2025 20:42

EmpressOfTheThread · 25/03/2025 20:35

It's a discussion. Mostly, with evidence and points which are substantiated. Most people on here are measured and informed. There is no "tidal wave of hatred" against this woman. Such hyperbole. Criticism isn't hate.
If you see hate on here - report it. It's against talk guidelines.
Meghan is not a victim.

It may be a discussion’ in your book however for those us who have no desire to persistently and obsessively put the same woman down it does look like a barrage of hatred. Perhaps this behaviour is normal is your lives but it really isn’t in mine.

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