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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All this size of a rescue boat highlights is that Harry and Meghan realise they’re sunk.

An insightful post, Baital, and good to see this back with things actually said rather than silly rumours

It's only what I'd expect from a member of a family raised to believe their very existence is enough, and it may even BE enough for less questioning Brits, but good luck with that attitude in the US

But it's more of the same... ANOTHER team of PR and comms advisers.

Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting to get a different result...

So a large, PR/Comms team.
How is that necessary for someone selling pancake mix and jam and her somewhat ineffectual husband?
They're copying the royals.

The same kind of desperation we’ve had up till now and that they’re now admitting to.

Mmmm, now... what's that a definition of? 🤔

Remember... they're "not replicating the Royal Household", no indeed. They're just trying to make money from pancake mix. That's all!

But seemingly with more people doing it this time, Baital?

Never mind ... when some of them end up walking or rocking in corners, at least it might leave a balance left over to carry on the work

It's worked though, hasn't it? It works in the USA. They are only where they are because Harry is Royal. Why are they so famous and rich? Because Americans appear to love it, pay them and support them.
It's not the UK.

Yeah he’s been wanging on a lot lately about ‘being born into this’, on top of previously pushing the kids’ ‘birthright’ crap around their titles.

The new (confused and confusing) narrative seems to be that there is No Escape Ever from ‘being born into this’ and he must be richly compensated for that and the fact that his mere existence constitutes service and embodies actual royalty - and, to paraphrase the remarkable personage of Rebekah Vardy, he wants paying for that.

I think the key point H misses over and over is that the men in grey were absolute experts at quietly clearing up his worst messes and selling him as the cheeky chap prince.

Since he found freedom and lost their protection we've all seen the reality of the nasty, petulant manchild lurking beneath the surface.

All the clever PR people in the world can't change that.

I don’t understand where this belief comes from that they think they have anything to say that people need to hear

I think Harry more than any Royal really believed the hype that he was the most popular royal. My guess is he believed it was intrinsically him that created his popularity, not the fantastic opportunities the Royals gave him and the safeguarding of his image.

He bit the hands of those who made him popular i.e the Royal household. I don't think he fully realises how unlikeable he is and everything he has done since flouncing has been negative..from the "freedom flight" video to the latest interview he just reveals how entitled and out of touch he is. He talked of 35 years of service. Most of that when living as a Prince, in castle and having photos taken at formal events. Is that what he defines as service?

I don't think he will ever be humble enough to apologise for his behaviour.

Good points 👍

Those children are being fully prepared for a royal life. Those titles were selected and are used for a reason.

I don’t even think he can be referred to as a ‘washed up has been’. He’s never really been anything, other than a royal doing royal things like all the others. Mostly meet and greets with the ‘people’. Not a one hit wonder pop star wanting a come back, not an aging actor missing out on leading man role, not an author with one successful book. He’s never had anything interesting to actually offer.

Since he found freedom and lost their protection we've all seen the reality of the nasty, petulant manchild lurking beneath the surface

Perfectly said..he is too old to genuinely change who he is and any alteration in his behaviour won't be believed.

I think maybe to keep her on board in case of potentially juicy stuff in future - so another series which includes the DC, or reconciliation with the RF, or divorce.

Well it's certainly true that it has worked, if only because of his curiosity value, but I wouldn't say it's working any more now they're both seen to be empty vessels

As PPs have said PR can do a lot, but I'm not convinced they can turn this round - and that's supposing the pair were even prepared to listen to their advisers

Indeed!
he has been busy for the last few years telling “his” truth and showing us who “he” really is !
now we know and don’t like what we see , he apparently wants us to forget and time travel back to the facade the apparently “dreadful “ men in grey fashioned for him!

sorry no ! , you can’t suddenly expect people to suddenly all suffer from mass amnesia because you don’t like the outcome.

But not a real royal life, a fake one.

Poor children.

Well no one is going to believe that for a start but anyway shouldn't they be operating as a marriage of equals ..After all theirs is the greatest love story ever.

With their Dad rocking the in corner saying "I was a Prince once, honest"

The children might not even get invites to royal events as Harry has said he won't take them to the UK since they won't be safe.

It’s crazy isn’t it. I used to really like Harry, he was fun silly and informal. I was so excited for their wedding (I had a little tea party and everything) and had big hopes for them. Meghan would bring a modern perspective and Harry would still be the cheeky prince. They could have had it all. Yet it was clearly all a facade.

The 2018 me could not have predicted the shit show and loss of respect that would happen less than two years later. They could have been pioneers but instead they are now seen as grifting victims and entitled whingers, universally mocked and the butt of contemporary popular culture’s joke.

The Royal PR machine really saved his arse at the time only to be derided when he felt they weren’t doing enough to clean up his (and Meghan’s) messes.

The money they have is a drop in the bucket for what Meghan wants. She wants to be stinking rich, not tens of millions of dollars rich, which they could easily spend in their lifetime, given their lifestyle. She wants to be Oprah rich, Kardashian rich, own private jet, hundreds of millions of dollars rich.

It's been said over and over by people who are familiar with her, how focused on money she is. From the outside, I feel they've peaked in terms of their ability to make money, because what else have they got to sell, apart from stuff they won't want to, like filming a no-holds-barred a reality show? But Meghan isn't going to step out of the limelight by choice, oh no, from her POV I reckon she feels she's only just getting started. She wants to be richer than William and Catherine, for sure and Harry would just love to stick it to those two.

Yeah, that will convince precisely no one. Nothing wrong with the woman being the leader or the dynamic one in a partnership of course. But the idea that Harry is a bit of a spare part in his own life has clearly struck a nerve. Pity there is no evidence at all to support this idea of him 'wearing the trousers' 😄