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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I wish she'd stop talking nonsense actually get on with it. She's flogging crap on-line - it's not that difficult. Even the loopers on Facebook who make 'hampers' out of a Twix bar and some cellophane can manage it. She's not working out how to harness electricity or invent the internal combustion engine - she's selling Home Bargains-type tat to people of limited taste . She must be unbelievably irritating to work/live with.

It just shows their utter level of entitlement, narcissism and contempt for the world. She thinks she can just sell a few jars of jam and suddenly it becomes a multimillion dollar business because…

…(fill the blank)…

Founder is quite a stretch for an enterprise that lasted 45 minutes in its first incarnation.

What's with all this harvesting of info all the time?

Hmmmmm.... very interesting !

I am really wondering where all this will end up. Where will they be in ten years time. I think by then all the opportunities will have completely dried up. Even Harry will have accepted that he will never be accepted into the family again . Their children will be teenagers and Charles most likely dead. It will all be very different. All of Harry’s ranting and court cases will surely be over and the money running low at the rate they are spending it. They’ll find it increasingly difficult to find new staff.

I think she’s the perfect example of ‘ you can fool some of the people some of the time but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time’.

All of the hot air she’s been blowing about her business will probably take in most of her supporters, but going forward that’s not going to happen when she goes out into the real world looking for backers and they say to her, “let’s see the figures from your previous projects”

She needs to decide if she is a business woman in the making who wants to be taken seriously, or if she’s a social media influencer. If it’s the former then going back to school and doing a business degree before she sets up anymore vanity projects would help. As would spewing up her word salad dictionary before trying to get a foot in the door of anyone she’s hoping is daft enough to give her some of their time. She might then have a bit of a chance but not in the scale she wants and after a few years she/they will just fade away into a private life. And if it’s the latter? I think it will run its course and in a few years we won’t hear much about them.

They really are stuffed either way, not that it had to be like this.

remember the day the boys returned from Balmoral after her death and William taking flowers from the crowd outside BP and repeatedly saying "thank you so much for coming" and keeping it together. Lord knows how, he was only 15

It was horrendous. And then the walk a few days later. The whole thing was absolutely bloody horrendous for the boys.

from the article that @BasiliskStarelinked above:

”Instead, the couple intend to take an approach more in common with the image management techniques practiced by modern celebrities, communicating directly with the public through social media and carefully choosing which parts of the media they deal with. Rather than feeling obliged to provide universal access, they will deal with outlets they feel foster “inclusivity, diversity and tolerance” – singling out the likes of National Geographic rather than the British tabloids.”

how the mighty have fallen - the pair of them that have People magazine as their primary mouthpiece, and use their spokespeople and friends to feed exclusives through to the Daily Mail all the time.

Meghan being awarded by the LA Natural History Museum:

“We are proud to honor Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, a native Angeleno, whose work to advance community wellbeing and expand opportunity — especially for underserved communities — aligns with our equity-focused approach to developing science literacy for the next generation, including through our STEM and STEAM Pathways programs.”

Not sure what they are evidencing this award on. Sounds pay to play to me.

It's taking place on 14 June - same day as Trooping the Colour.

https://people.com/meghan-markle-honored-la-natural-history-museum-gala-exclusive-11745549

The As Ever shenanigans are really something to behold.

It makes no sense at all that after planning for a year, you wouldn’t have a supply chain hooked up that could deliver a constant flow of product. I get she wouldn’t have wanted to commit to that straight away, but surely you’d have all the work done in the background ready to switch that on if that’s what you wanted.

or if you wanted to stick to limited product drops, at the very least you would be ready to go on signing up for a much bigger order if your first sold out so quickly, so they could have restocked in a week or two.

Talking about pausing the business to rethink everything is just nonsensical. Her credibility was limited to begin with but if she pivots again into another new idea, I’m not sure there’s anyone left out there that will take her seriously.

Apparently the history museum will. Do you think this means they think her business efforts are so poor that now she is history?

Her lawyer, Rick Genow, is the Gala's co-chair.

But sh eis restocking to beat the "June gloom", and adding some extra products. This is after having said, both in the business article and in her latest podcast (aired just yesterday) that she was taking a break until 2026 to assess the success of the first launch.

Well her social media style is practically prehistoric, so....

She just remembered her BIL's birthday is coming up. Wonder if she'll send him a hamper.

She’s posted pics of Lili for like 4th birthday. Still with the face covered. However, every pic includes Meg. Not the whole family or Lili with her brother, or just Lili on her own. Just Meg and Lili. Why always make it about herself? Definitely mommy dearest vibes.

Her lawyer, Rick Genow, is the Gala's co-chair

And even he seems happy to have organized this for her without Harry being mentioned.

I’d be worried if I were Harry. Weren’t they going to be setting the world alight together?

What's the June gloom? Is that an American thing?

I wish she had stuck to not showing the children at all. These glimpses of their faces are getting more open and I don't see the point, other than to sell stuff.

It was the only thing I admired about them when they said their DC would be brought up away from the spotlight.

I gather it's a term used by people living in Southern California. June is Spring/early Summer, but it tends to be a very wet/overcast/cool, resulting in gloom.

edit @MrsLeonFarrell

That makes sense, I can see why she used it. I need to remember that she is aiming at the US market.

I felt quite sorry for Meghan through a lot of this because I wouldn't marry Harry for anything. But this business does seem one bungle after another and using the children seems desperate.

I do wonder if it's a coincidence that her bonus momprenneur , Tina Knowles, has launched a clothing line off the back of her daughter's fame. I wonder if this is MM's next move with "Lillibet's Closet".