Confessions of a Female Founder fails to chart this week

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It's not good news for Meghan. The podcast by Meghan is out of the Spotify 100 in the US and the UK. With Apple it's not even in the top 200 chart.

https://podcastcharts.byspotify.com/

There are only two people who have said Meghan is like Diana. One is Meghan and one is Harry.

True, but ... ouch.

I can't help feeling a little bit sorry for them, even though they are both so hopeless and much of the damage is self inflicted. Pity rather than sympathy.

I agree the As Ever range is trying to be like the Highgrove range, but failing miserably.

Didn't the Lily voice say "momma" though? And she couldn't think of any words other than "zebra" that the kids pronounce in a British way. She's full of shit and can't keep up with her own lies.

Don't the kids have full on American accents in the snippets that she has released? Just more BS

What? You aren't planning to present your kids with thousands upon thousands of emails of the most mundane shit to wade through when they turn 16?

Guess it's just meghan then who is such an amazing mother and not the rest of us plebs. I wish her luck trying to get teens to care though. The rest of us can barely get a reply to our texts lol

Its giving "Amanda" from "Motherland" before she finds some integrity....

I can understand the concept of the emails for the kids (I have kept 1 or 2 birthday cards from each year - but tbh, it's probably more for me). It's the fact she just keeps having to do it biggerer and betterer than anyone else, it's constant top trumps.

An email once or twice a year? Absolutely, cute idea. Everyday? Completely unmanageable and frankly - unbelievable.

Harry does his mother a great disservice by comparing her with Markle. She was a flawed human being like all of us, and got a lot wrong, but she knew the job she had taken on and if the Queen hadn’t told them to divorce she would have stuck with it no matter what.

@JADS is right, they are the only two people who make this comparison. One didn’t know her at all and the other was a child who would have had no adult insight into Diana’s complex personality.

And to be honest, Harry believes Meghan is like Diana because he wants to - because he’s living in a warped fantasy world where Meghan is a proxy for Diana and this time round he can “save her” from the “evil media” in the way that he couldn’t save his mum.

it doesn’t have any bearing on reality. A normal person would have discouraged Harry from these harmful comparisons, but Meghan has fuelled it and exploited it and used it to her own advantage.

Also Diana was authentic in her both her 'flawedness' and her passions. She was a groundbreaker in many of her initiatives not a shallow imitator of others.

That was the biggest alarm bell for everyone around PH in the early days - him besotted and deluded comparing her to his mother - no one else could see it but could see what she was. She constructed this contrived persona for her own ends.

The whole thing has very much a Heather Mills McCartney about it.

Whatever therapy Harry has had , it hasn’t worked . Sad . His family must be in despair.
He hates the media , blames them for his mother’s death but is married to a woman who will do almost anything to be in the media and is now using her DC .
It won’t end well .

meghan appears to have put herself in a competition with herself, she the best mother, the best wife, the best business woman and the best best friend. I don't know how she reinvents herself from this as most people want to see humble or flawed, her idea of self deprecation is to tell us other people can't believe how amazing she is. Maybe this is the American way but they don't seem to be buying it at all.

Has this been mentioned ?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14657087/Fury-Meghan-Markle-uses-royal-title-gift-basket-podcast-host-despite-warned-against-late-Queen.html

It’s weird! Who wants to be compared to their dead mother-in-law. I would want to be loved and known for being myself, not trying to cosplay and be Diana 2.0.

It just shows their mindsets that they think this is a healthy and normal relationship.

She doesn't need to email the children every day. All she needs to do is buy a Daily Mail. The Sussex obsessive rag.

He is getting slowly smoked out - no contact with his immediate family and cut out of his UK society chums, failing personal reputation eg Sentebale and US media not afraid to put him under scrutiny eg Andrew Ross Sorkin interview which he reponds badly to demonstrating what a prickly, precious, grandiose, deluded and ultimately nasty fool he is.

The tag on the gift basket she sent to her friend is a little odd too. Jamie had her in laws staying (for most people, that would not be a big deal) and the friend is herself a millionaire. Meghan sends her a gift basket of icecream and Meghan’s jam to “help out”.

Which is fine - a nice gesture to be thoughtful to a friend, I guess. Not my world, but the very wealthy are different I guess and do indulge in performative gifting like this.

Except the gift was accompanied by an impersonal compliments slip from “HRH The Duchess of Sussex” - giving the impression they are not actually that close? Why would Meghan, famous for her handwriting, not send a handwritten note with a thoughtful basket to someone she is apparently close to? And then - the main question - why is it being presented publicly for us to see? It leaves the impression Meghan wants the world to see she has decided to start using HRH again.

Watching the JKL podcast. Meghan even says they call her "Momma."

I imagine BP will not be happy but will they ignore this as they do everything else ? To go against the late Queen’s specific instructions is highly provocative as well as rude.

I think they are trying to provoke a response from the RF. The grey rocking is driving them mad and they're becoming more and more provocative to get the RF to act in anger and trip up. I hope the rf keep their cool and fight these childish mind games with more grey rocking and calm legal management. It's rather unfathomable how rude and strange the Sussexes are being. None of what they're doing comes across as sophisticate or classy or in control.

It won't be long before they attend an event with a welcome of " HRH Duchess of Sussex and her husband Harry". I think that maybe the draft judgement has landed and the swords are starting to be raised.

Who wants their lover / husband to say they're like their mother. Icky.

They can’t pretend they didn’t understand that they had agreed not to use the HRH style - and they haven’t, not for more than 5 years now. So does Meghan have some leftover compliments slips from her old life she has just discovered (previously, she’s been using notepaper with her monogram at the top - an “M” under a coronet)? Or has she had new paper printed?

If the latter, it’s hard to see it as anything but an attempt to bait the Palace into doing something. It would fuel their victim narrative, I expect.

Re the gift basket - just why would you send a personal present to someone and send it with compliments. Surely a nice message, even a brief one, is more appropriate.

Meghan really is the Queen of getting things wrong.

When I look on Celebitchy, that lovely hate-site, the dreadful Kaiser always refers to Meghan as 'Duchess Meghan'. This really grates with me and shows just how ignorant about the UK that whole site and its deluded contributors are.

No-one is ever 'Duchess (first name)'. Get it right if you want any credibility!

@SerensterI agree, it feels like a very deliberate choice. In other cards and announcements we’ve seen from her it’s been either “Meghan” or “the Duchess of Sussex”

HRH hasn’t made an appearance on anything publicly for years - so either they’ve been using this covertly all this time to friends and this time it happened to be leaked (seems unlikely) or this is a deliberate choice. It feels like they might be goading the RF - they’ve been grey rocked for years, not engaged with and not challenged on any of the things they’ve done to make money that skirt very close to the wind (or even cross the line) on the use of their titles to make money.

I wonder if this is M saying to Harry- look, your family are ignoring us so what’s to stop us using our HRH, nothing will be done about it anyway. A first test of the water of this approach.

if so, it will be interesting to see if there is any reaction from the RF if this continues. I think at some point there would have to be as this feels like a step beyond something they can just ignore, particularly if it carries through to public appearances and so on (rather than just comp slips on gift baskets)