Confessions of a Female Flounder part 2

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I've embarrassed for Meghan saying that her arranging takeaway food on a plate is the same thing as what Figs Heather Hasson has done 😬

I suspect M is quietly investing in some of these start ups and hoping that one or some of them will come good at some point.

This the Daily Mail - but here https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/article-14753285/meghan-markle-difficult-behaviour-magazines-vanity-fair-anna-wintour.html

These allegations don't seem to be going away - if anyone did a real deep dive on this I'd be interested. Whatever the outcome.

Meghan's views about money are interesting. https://nypost.com/2025/05/28/entertainment/meghan-markle-reveals-fear-of-being-broke-were-taught-to-not-even-talk-about-money/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

I think she wants to appear ‘rich’ at any price, perhaps, as a consequence of ‘feeling’ poor growing up?

@StartupRepair and @User14March I have a friend who has a good amount of money - not M&H money - but she has a nice flat (no mortgage) a decent pension & savings. She realises she is being unreasonable but admits herself she worries ( she was widowed a few years ago) about having enough money to be "safe" "comfortable" on her own. Objectively she absolutely has but she , whilst recognising she is in a good position , admits she worries abut it. Now we are talking a teeny weeny tiny fraction of what I suspect M&H have already & friend lives in the real world but some people do worry about money.

I wonder if M thinks reports of her wanting to be a billionaire don't resonate with doing things you love and grow organically out of your passions. She might think she is sugar coating by saying - women should not be afraid of talking about money (agree - although my mother who is nearly 90 always said it was gauche to talk about money 😂 but then she did not like ITV so probably generational ) , it is fine for a woman to want to be rich (which it is) and somehow tap into the working her way through college narrative / scared of being broke. Just a thought.

Why would Meghan tell her then 4 year old that Santa isn't real, but let's her 6 year old believe in the tooth fairy?

Does rethinking For Ever brand mean that part 2 of WLM will not be followed by a seasonal drop of pumpkin spiced flavoured shortbread, tea, spread and pancake mix? No autumnal themed flower sprinkles? Bummer. I was looking forward to a few online tastings.

There’s a difference between acquisitive tendencies arising from a need to feel financially secure and insatiable greed. The former is a very reasonable response to a financially precarious upbringing, the latter is just how she is.

It is good to talk about money and have financial plans and aspirations. Meghan met her aspirations through marrying a very wealthy man and immediately decided that was not enough.

Perhaps he wasn't as wealthy as she imagined. Perhaps being a working royal was not as lucrative as she had hoped.

She’s very ambitious & will have been amongst poorest of peers in Red Schoolhouse dtc. In CA status through the most wealth, beauty etc is everything & life often shallow, very transactional. I think she felt inadequate & this spawned an ‘I’ll show them’ ambition. Not in itself bad but like anything taken to an extreme, ultimately unhealthy.

Why would Meghan tell her then 4 year old that Santa isn't real

She didn’t, did she? 🙈

I think Meghan’s childhood might have been quite traumatic. Difficult family situation, living with different parents at different times, big financial ups and downs which must have felt very precarious to a child, given an excellent education but alongside many wealthier peers, possibly identity issues due to being mixed race but relatively white passing (acknowledged by Meghan on her acting cv), her mother absent for a long period of time I believe. All in a very image- and wealth-focused part of the world.

Being rich makes her feel both secure and superior, but in the RF Harry was a relative pauper and she couldn’t cope with his relative lack of status and wealth in the family and her role a few rungs down the pecking order - arguably below him as well. She has to feel like the most important person in the room, hence clinging to the title. ‘Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven’ 🤷‍♀️

Yes, I think that sums up very well.

I think the whole money thing was another boast from Meghan, nothing to do with feelings of guilt about being wealthy. Many of the women she spoke to are massively wealthy, far more than her and Harry, but she was placing herself in their orbit while only having a fraction of their net worth.

I think the issue is that the use of jargon is an obfuscatory tactic, designed to hide failure and negative news. You get it a lot in the business world. e.g.:

"After an encouraging start, we have made the strategic decision to step back from this vertical whilst we re-focus our efforts on leveraging exciting new growth opportunities"

sounds better than

"This product line sold really badly, so we're dumping it. We're going to try and find some other more profitable product line, but tbh we're really struggling to identify any new lines that might actually make us any money."

Who was it who said that if a philosophical or scientific concept cannot be explained in plain language, then it's probably specious? Bertrand Russell maybe? It sounds like the sort of thing Russell might have said.

The veteran investor Warren Buffet regularly rails against corporate jargon, accusing it of being a cloak with which to hide subpar performance. He says that if the average man on the street can't understand what a business does, then that business probably isn't worth much. Not for nothing has he made $billions for his investors and is known as the Sage of Omaha.

I think it was Albert Einstein, @GiveMeSpanakopita if you mean

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

I cheated and googled it!

It's so so true. Meghan is now trailing a surprise guest on an extra episode.

She said back in 2024 (on one of her word salad panels) that he no longer believes in Santa. I assume he got that from someone within her household.

I’d assume he believes in the ghost of Lady D though who made presence felt in myriad mysterious ways via obscure paintings in Tyler Perry’s home & haunted Xmas decs etc.

A humblebrag you mean?

Meghan has no problem flashing the trapping of extreme wealth (her wardrobe, private jets, swathes of private bodyguards).

Sorry, Randy...I'm going off topic for a minute because your post reminded me of a hilarious moment when my son was about 4.

We were in the car and he and his little friend were in the back seat talking about losing teeth. The other little boy said he'd put his tooth under his pillow and got £1 from the tooth fairy. My son then said 'I got a pound for mine but I think it's actually my mum', to which the other lad replied with amazement 'Your MUM's the tooth fairy???'

I had to pull the car in somewhere, I was laughing so much.

That's brilliant @CoffeeCantata 😂

Such a sweet story @CoffeeCantata !

Exactly, a stealth boast, she has embraced all the trappings of a HNW lifestyle.

UHNW plus & desires more.