Rebrand, Restructure, Harry and Meghan 2025 version

[Thedom]

The Era of Joy didn't last long.

This is going to be interesting, it's going to be a full on PR onslaught for the next few months, and then we will have Harry launching his very own 'commercial project'.

Clearly an article straight from the Office of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, giving an exclusive to the DM.

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Don’t get the comment about feeling like an imposter - just because people have more money doesn’t make them better or more deserving of nice things, Capitalism doesn’t always reward the most deserving anyway and there are plenty of nepo babies enjoying the perks.
So what I’m saying is, if you ever get the chance again, keep that suite door closed, press the call button when you need anything, always be polite to the staff, relax and enjoy it. And if the nearby passengers are being entitled assholes, ignore them, put on the noise canceling headphones and enjoy a movie while lying back on the fully flat bed.

That is an interesting turn for the books.

This whole business is one unmitigated disaster after another, if Meghan is the one who is managing this as the CEO, she needs to step aside and hire people who DO know what it entails to launch a product and a brand and how to market it effectively.

Apparently they briefed vanity fair too, there’s ‘insider’ comments in the VF article

Perfectly put, Thedom - it's just pretence and headline grabbing like everything else

You'd think a couple of near-middle aged people who've had more advantages than most would be capable of something - anything - else, but apparently not

I have no patience for a man of his wealth and privilege who whines and complains, trashes his family and writes books and features in documentaries describing how miserable and hard done by he is.

Charles? I haven’t read the book or watched the full interviews but I hear he was pretty scathing of the Queen and Prince Philip not to mention the press

No, he wasn't really. It was quite anodyne. His feelings were more about being sent to Gordonstoun. He didn't criticise his parents explicitly. He certainly didn't make £millions for years by slagging his family off, exploiting them and invading their privacy. There's no comparison.

He set the precedent. Harry took it to the next level. The whole things a soap opera but with real human lives being impacted. Sad all around.

😂😂
Plenty of people co-operated with biographies.
Not one royal one, especially this one is as nasty, vindictive and cruel as this one.
Harry has plummeted new depths. It's a constant on here, "it's like Charles'!" No. It's nothing like it.
I've read both.

agree to disagree I guess.

I guess so. I've read both books, plus seen the relevant interviews. Believe me, there's no comparison.

Both Charles and Diana’s books were biographies ( written by an author that they cooperated with) Harry’s book was an autobiography directly from him ( with a ghost writer) , the books are not even the same format! 🙄

Is but but Charles! the new Andrew?

No, indeed. The Dimbleby book about Charles was actually quite dull, although there was stuff about the environment and sustainability which was ahead of it's time. The Diana one was quite juicy and, of course, caused a sensation.
Harry's tome of victimhood is something else, though, and his level of prettiness and cruelty unmatched. Followed up by years of professional whining to whatever tabloid or magazine or chat show that would pay him.
Of course, he also made £millions from his book.

I guess so! I've heard these wild claims about the Dimbleby book before, as if anything in it compared to Harry's personal cottage industry of slagging off his family! 😂

Lol calm down, it was a tongue in cheek reply to a comment that actually fit Charles pretty well. As for Andrew, the less said the better.

Whatabout Charles makes a difference from whatabout Andrew Phillip Fergie Mike Tindall I suppose.

Here come the thread police

We flew Aeroflot to Leningrad as it was, in 1978. Everyone cheered when we landed safely 😄

This whole business is one unmitigated disaster after another, if Meghan is the one who is managing this as the CEO, she needs to step aside and hire people who DO know what it entails to launch a product and a brand and how to market it effectively.

She could have spent the last five years studying for a business qualification. Would be more useful than most of what she has done. Then she might have an actual clue about what she's doing.

Quite! I think the lack of seatbelts was the first indicator of safety standards. I rather liked the cabin crews, though. Always slightly detached and sitting reading the paper with a cup of tea!

@Zippedydodah Our holiday to Russia consisted of Dan-Air (unpressurised flight from the North of England to I think Heathrow ) - then Heathrow to I think Leningrad Aeroflot - and then Aeroflot to Kiev and then on to Moscow. This was IIRC 1980 or 81. My father does seemed to have played fast and loose with flights , given the Nigeria Airways one in the early 70s. And he wonders why my mother refuses to fly nowadays 😂. She never liked it - we flew to Lagos to see him in the early 70s and she ended up lying in the aisle saying to the lovely cabin staff - I'll be OK if someone could just open a window. We were over the Sahara. 😂

@BasiliskStare 😂 your mum has endured a lot!

I agree, but then given the number of new PR staff they seem able to employ, wouldn't you have thought there'd be something left over to pay a decent brand developer?

Come to think of it, isn't it said that one of the "friends" (Mindy Kaling perhaps?) is a brand developer, in which case why not get them on the job?

Unless their views don't align with Meghan's I guess ...

Whenever i need cheering up i will think of a lady lying in the aisle dressed like a glamourous 1930s damsel asking for the window to be opened😂