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/

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All this hate on display!!
that I can’t seem to find! 🔍

It does feel as though the H&M situation has been escalating in recent weeks. Just when you think nothing more extreme can happen, it does. One has to wonder what the limits of their resilience might be in the face of all the press coverage and commentary. I have said before that I know following their captivating story and commenting on it reflects badly on me. Even so, I also think that people who make themselves into public property have to deal with press and other commentary.

Criticism is not hate .
holding someone accountable for their actions is not bullying.

The BBC website is reporting Meghan using HRH.

It’s not an airport departure lounge. No need to announce you’re leaving, just stop typing.

I would like to know how their fans justify the lies that they tell. In this latest podcast, Meghan talks about preparing the children's lunch boxes when she has clearly questioned whether they are still 'a thing'.
How do they reconcile the use of HRH when they've been explicitly told not to and then issue a statement denying it. The accusations of the RF being racist and then Harry saying they never said that . Saying they want privacy and campaigning for children's safety on the internet and then putting their children on the internet. The list goes on and on.
I'd love to hear their thoughts .

i don't think there is a real end game with as ever other than it looking successful. The importance of " it's sold out" appears to be more important than the sales or even producing enough stock to begin with. The part about how busy Meghan is, well that's what happens with piss poor preparation unless this is the desired look. The same with the work that goes into into being a mom (the bestest with all the advice) until she slips in she's has the same nanny for five years.

Two thoughts: ice cream ??!! Who sends people ice cream?!! “Er, thanks, HRH, some listeria…” (Mind you, it was for the person’s in-laws…….)

Second thought - Meghan looks different every time she appears. In this podcast she resembles Pippa Middleton really strongly, with the lighter hair.

I’d love to hear their thoughts

We never get a counter argument from them do we? No challenging of points that are actually raised on the thread, just a tirade of you are all mean bullies and then a performative flounce thinking that’ll teach them 😂.

Really? Does wording on a card from Meghan warrant a bbc article?

(I know I’m on a thread about her, but I’m not a bbc journalist)

It’s not just “wording on a card” as you know fine well.

IMHO, it all goes back to the reckless Megxit statement which laid out H&M's plans to pursue a half-in half-out strategy. They have proceeded full speed ahead with their plans and have routinely violated the Sandringham Summit agreement. There is no reason for the RF to engage H&M given that H&M are bad faith counterparties do not honour their end of a deal. Furthermore, I think that after Endgame and Where's Kate-gate that there is zero appetite for any overtures coming from California, particularly for W. And the blunt reality is that with a 75-year-old cancer suffering monarch, power behind the scenes is swinging inexorably towards W and W will determine the monarchy's position on the House of Sussex going forward.

It is quite sad that H&M's kids have missed out on the extended family on both sides. Hopefully, since H&M have not publicly slandered the Ragland side of things, perhaps the kids can form friendships with these cousins, so A&L have some family bonds in their generation versus pseudo aunts/uncles drawn from H&M employees or social climbing targets.

Finally, most celeb kids who speak of their experiences at school just want to fit in and be seen for themselves and not as a shadow of more famous relatives. Given L's name, she will have quite a time of it at school. Once A&L enter middle school (age 11-13), they will face the legacy of their parents' verbal incontinence...and tweens can be awful at recess (break time in the UK) as my teacher friends have noted. Imagine being taunted that your dad touched his private parts with cream while thinking of your grandma!

This is what I believe too.

Having listened to her latest podcast about the Highbrow Hippie hair serum and supplements, the plan is that you become a viral, low quantity, high desirability product which you then flog to L'Oréal or Unilever for $$$.

It's why Meghan is so stressed about the packaging and how it looks on Insta. Doesn't matter that the stickers are wonky or bubbly and you wouldn't notice the white tea bag tags as long as the unboxing looks great. Unfortunately she's a cheapskate who sends her stuff in ugly brown generic boxes (porch pirates, my arse).

If she was likeable or her products were 'different', it might work, but she and they are not. I am going to continue to listen to the podcasts because I find them interesting.

@Iloveyoubut , think on this.

H&M are public figures because they have made themselves so. They could have been living a quiet and anonymous life in the US these last 5 years. They chose not to. They chose one high profile medium after the next to share "their story", to attack the head of state (past and future) and the public and media in the UK. They have not stopped doing this at all. Their entire public profile depends on their credulity as victims of an unfair system, and the people they need to convince is the public who fund that system and whom they insist on telling these stories to. The public is not required to sit back and listen uncritically. We are allowed to comment.

H&M are commercial figures. They make their money from selling themselves to the public through their various vehicles, be that books, Netflix, jam or advisory services - all of their profits are funded from members of the public putting their hands in their pockets. They need to persuade the public that their products are worth buying. The public is not required to sit back passively and uncritically and consume these products. They are allowed to say they are shit or that they sound shit - or, for that matter, that they are great or sound great.

H&M are political figures. They have never stopped portraying themselves as members of the RF, political influencers and states people. Apart from all the quasi royal visits, they are directly involved in the political landscape and the shaping of public discourse, privacy and freedom of speech through their work with the Parent Network and the Aspen Insitiute, and Archewell's funding of political think tanks (seeking to influence the flow of internet information) on both sides of the Atlantic. They have shared platforms with a number of political figures, and have the sort of access no "private" couple would have. The public is not required to sit back silently and let them do this without comment. What they are doing, if they get their way, will effect everyone.

H&M are litigious figures. Every one of their court cases uses publicly funded resources in the form of court time, space and personnel. Resources that, some might say, should be better spent on the massive backlog of cases in our courts dealing with people presently in distress and need of justice. Not only that, through their suits against RAVEC they are costing the public purse in direct litigation costs. They also cost the tax payer every time they set foot in this country. If Harry has his way, they will cost us a lot more than they currently already do, when they are providing no public service in return. We, the public, are not required to sit back silently and uncritically while this happens.

HTH with your misinterpretation of fair public discourse as "hate".

I suppose the litmus test - would you also be relaxed if Sarah Ferguson decided to start calling herself H.R.H. The Duchess of York again?

I’m not a fan of Meghan’s so wasn’t defending her.

But if that’s the comparison, then if Sarah Ferguson put HRH on a card a year ago, I doubt it would be front page bbc news on the app that’s all. And I’d probably just think it was a little sad, clinging on to a royal title (as I do with Meghan tbh), or an in joke with a friend (which doesn’t sound like the case with Meghan).

I think in Casa Markle these two really, truly, see themselves and their children as British royalty. Sure they don't live in Britain, sure they don't do anything royal, but by birth and marriage, they believe they are just as royal as working and non-working members in the UK.

They don't see or understand or accept that whilst there may be a familial connection, they are not in the institution. Hence the entitlement to taxpayer funded security and national intelligence; hence the use of titles etc.

I expect waters may be a bit muddied by them still being on the RF's website - I can see them saying that either they're in or they're not (and they most definitely still want in, on their terms). That really should be sorted out. And of course there's the Andrew situation - if he's still in, they will say, they are DEFINITELY in. And I'm pretty sure there's fairly regular communication over all sorts of things such as giving notice of impending visits, invitations to stay in royal residences to alleviate security issues etc.

But I don't think they think that Megxit is over. I think they think it's still being sorted out, and that they might still get some of what they wanted (they got Prince/Princess for their children, after all - biggest win of all since they left). And they want things to move along, hence the provoking by using the HRH, by affiliate linking clothes Charlotte and George have worn. Things aren't moving along as they want, they're aren't any meaningful comms directly from Pa or brother, and they need resolution. It's why Meghan hasn't gone scorched earth. She's still holding out hope.

I really don't think they've understood that they're out, and that all the HRH's and flouncing and heartbreak over lost patronages is just cringeworthily embarrassing rather than a genuine loss of identity. It's so desperate, in a Real Housewives way, for MM to use the HRH. She has single-handedly diminished the value of "Duchess" and now "HRH" by clinging on to them so tightly for status and relevance. She herself has rendered them a joke.

The HRH has just as much to do with the late Queen as Meghan. I can see why it's newsworthy to defy the late Queens wishes. TBH Fergie has got bigger problem than HRH.

This

And as for the interview with JLK: it is, yet again, "nobody understands me, how much work I put into my As Ever line, how much effort it takes to coordinate social media, that just because things are out of stock doesn't mean I'm not working to replenish them, how much effort it takes to choose between various options of packaging presented to me etc etc - and I'm being a mom and a wife and a friend the whole time too, packing lunchboxes and brushing my teeth, and I'm just like you because I don't have time to meditate anymore and which working mom does haha".

It's just more whining about the unfairness of all the things that are said about her online and in print (none of which she reads apparently), while also being the happiest she's ever been in her whole life (apparently), and about the extent of her victimhood, and how misunderstood she is. This is her and Harry's USP. She cannot see that people understand full well, but reject it. She can't allow herself to accept that people don't love her, and that if they really saw her they would. Hence the endless, interminable clapbacks delivered in gently bruised soft tones, tears, and what she thinks is a daintily weary and relatable tone. It's all an affectation, from start to finish.

IMHO, Andrew deeply resents being the second son to Charles and will try to hold out to irritate Charles as much as possible. After Charles, Andrew's daughters will force him see reason as they would want to maintain decent relations with dear cousin KW5 for the benefit of their own kids (Andrew's grandchildren).

Moreover, neither daughter has married mega-money capable of supporting the upkeep of the Royal Lodge. So, both need to be on good terms with dear cousin KW5 to snag a smaller property at "family and friends" rental rates and to continue refresh the royal connection by attending garden parties, riding in carriages at Ascot, attending Christmas Carol service and walking to and from church on Easter & Christmas. And, just as Andrew conveniently had COVID during the platinum jubilee, I expect a convenient illness to pop up around KW5's coronation.

I think the tricky bit with prosecuting the dodgy financial dealings is not only Andrew's family connections but also who else was involved. Some influential third parties many be highly motivated to bury the evidence and prevent Andrew from speaking under oath.

Fergie would not use "HRH" because no matter how much of a mess and all the mistakes she has made, directly disrespecting the late Queen was not one of them.

I expect waters may be a bit muddied by them still being on the RF's website

Not only are H&M on the RF website, but their own private website is linked from those pages - which I think is a huge mistake by the RF. Why lend their private enterprises the royal seal of tacit approval/legitimacy with a link?

If there’s even the slightest chance of getting back on , it will have to be while KC is around . Once William is King there is absolutely zero chance.

@RandyRedHumpback

Fantastic post and should be used as a template answer when the usual suspects arrive and ask “why do you care?”