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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He thinks he's picked on all the time but he makes himself such an obvious target. Eg the recent flight to Shanghai. To be carrying such resentment after all this time when it was HIS choice to leave is concerning. He didn't want to pay the fees but still can't see why he can't use the club facilities.

Because she has positioned herself in this way.
Any normal girls like Chelsey or Cressida saw the red flags and ran for the hills.

She may as well bin the Asever account as the brand is going nowhere.

I do think she believed in the hype, (and her own hype), of the Netflix series, the podcast and the business launch, so it must be hard to accept all three in quick succession were big failures,

Well the business launch was never going to be a success, with no product to sell. I have no business skills or training, and I could have told her that!

The ones H has chosen to keep on board (Uncle Spencer and the dubious Yorks) seem rather bizarre choices.

I don't think there's anything against the York girls, is there? They just seem to be getting on with living their lives.

Accurately put as usual, Thedom

It's a shame really, because we all have something to contribute and no doubt Meghan would be the same if only she'd stuck to things within her capabilities, but like a child playing dress-up she's pretending to be something unattainable and it shows

Oh she is showing us now how to cut pineapples. Her skills are never ending. It makes me think of teaching Grannies to suck eggs.

I agree. I think losing the Judicial Review has hit him hard.

I think he desperately misses his old life but can't admit, even to himself, that he messed up badly. He and Meghan seem to be on increasingly different paths. She seems happy enough with her 'lifestyle' stuff, even if objectively it's not a great success. By contrast, he seems totally at a loose end with no purpose in life, cut off from his family and friends, his status reduced to C list celebrity.

Was it all worth it?

It has gone that way, hasn't it? Almost as if it was a narrative she was keen to embrace.

That's his entitlement, loud and clear, isn't it? He's very royal, he carries on living in a royal way, but without the responsibilities.

I'm sure Meghan is extremely happy with where she is now, she has been able to crash a circle of billionaires and entertainment titans which she would never have managed to crash if she had not married Harry and moved to Montecito with him. Harry is the biggest loser in all this, he has had a massive downgrade in reputation and circumstances.

Yes, Meghan's had an upgrade from actress in a series to a global celebrity. In the Tom Bower book, he claims that she kept wanting to get onto a Real Housewives type show, and was keen to be part of Made in Chelsea, but didn't manage it. She also tried out for cooking shows but her repertoire wasn't considered adequate and she wasn't taken on
So really, she's got where she wanted to be, a celebrity housewife/hostess and a global name.
Harry? He wanted to be Royal on his own terms and not answerable to anyone. Where is he now? Bitter, petulant, arrogant and entitled, with no direction.

Plus if she is showing bits of the children it makes sense to keep the personal account and just mention whatever business she is currently advertising.

True, although at the same time it's taken her 5 years to try out this 'lifestyle' stuff. She was definitely aiming higher at the time of Mexit. They thought they were going to be 'California royals' getting invites to prestigious events and being flown all over the world for charity galas and the likes, all expenses paid. However, it didn't quite work out so now she's flogging jam and telling the plebs how to cut pineapples. Still better than she could have managed without the royal connection, but not what she had in mind with all those grandiose statements 5 years ago.

Harry? He wanted to be Royal on his own terms and not answerable to anyone. Where is he now? Bitter, petulant, arrogant and entitled, with no direction.

His own fault. He could possibly still have participated in a low key way - not state occasions, or anything where he was representing the monarchy, but 'all hands on deck' events such as garden parties, VE Day events and so on - if he hadn't publicly trashed his family and breached their privacy.

Indeed!

Yes, absolutely. He could have had an incredible life, interesting and fulfilling. Instead he chose to trash his family for money.

I think it’s because he is senior in status to the Spencers and Yorks whereas William is senior to him and he struggles to accept that just as Meghan doesn’t accept Catherine being senior to her .

I honestly just don’t think he thought it through at all. He acted in the heat of the moment, under the impression that his wife was suicidal and her life was under threat from unspecified nutters. We all know where those ideas came from.

I sometimes wonder whether the RF were relieved that the Sussexes left in such a dramatic way, while feeling sadness in the way the rift has happened.

It’s clear things were covered up for Harry by those same grey men he loathes. He just didn’t see it as he holds so much bitterness and resentment.

Wonder if he does now?

They thought they could cash in, get good deals riding on their fame and royal connections.

I think this is 100% on Meghan.

I mean Harry is undoubtedly the one with this weird hang up about his mother, but I believe Meghan realised this early on and also realised this could be used as a hook to keep him completely besotted with her, and also to control him.

just look at some of the bizarre behaviour over the years - Harry conveniently finding her kneeling at Diana’s grave, clutching the stone and begging her dead MIL for advice being the weirdest one. It keeps him under her control and it also keeps him paranoid and scared that he’s going to lose her, like he lost his mum. It’s very cruel really, any normal person would be helping him to see things rationally and gain some perspective.

I remember reading ages ago that Meghan apparently wore a perfume favoured by Diana at the end of her life on their first date. It registered because I wear a perfume Diana apparently wore at that time ( Hermes 24 Faubourg) but sort of mentally dismissed it because who on earth would want to remind someone you're dating of a parent? I'd think it would be offputting in the extreme, even if accidental.

I've wondered since though

Yes, I've read that. Meghan researched and found out that Diana wore Anais Anais by Cacharel, so that's what she wore for their first date. Clever.

I can’t think of anything that would induce me to wear Anais Anais 😆

It's my sister's favourite perfume, she's been wearing it for more than 40 years! I'm not keen, but it's an easy gift! 😊
I've read about the psychological trick of the perfume before.