Prog on Meghans finances tonight

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Channel 5 at 7.30 there is a programme called Duchess for Sale looking at her business operations.

Empty vessels make most noise.

I do find her interesting, mostly I feel quite sorry for her because I never get the feeling the things she does are things that she is genuinely passionate about. Even WLM didn't really show her as someone passionate about food but maybe about presentation. It gave me the impression that she really cares about how she presents herself, which we all do to a certain extent, and gets very upset when she gets any criticism.

I would love to see her thriving and successful, instead of just telling us she is thriving and successful because then I think they have a real chance of being happy and even reconciling with Charles. I'm not sure how she will do that with the whiny entitled man child she married but she has enough determination.

Toronto property is really expensive (I used to live there). That house was “modest” like a townhouse in Notting Hill or Camden is modest. For a single person in her early 30s, that was a nice house.

Not a mansion, and yes I’m sure the Montecito house is much nicer, but for her stage in life, that was definitely above average for Toronto. We (two doctors in our 30s) couldn’t have afforded it, put it like that!

What did Oprah say about the ducks?

I remember the duck Instagram but I thought that was just Meghan hiding in a bush then jumping out and pointing at the mother duck and the ducklings. Did something more happen?

That’s pretty funny, as is this quote from the article:

"Still, it's disappointing to see that it hasn't cracked Netflix's Top 300 most-watched shows so far - something Meghan herself is likely feeling too."

I don’t think “top 300” is a number anyone would be aspiring to - if the show was 299 it would still be embarrassing given the amount of global profile it had!

Top 50, at a push, might be something to be proud about.

500k for Polo is truly abysmal - but it shows because Harry himself wasn’t in it (so no hope of gossip) and he made no effort to promote it either - clearly thinks of himself as above that sort of thing, but it shows that his name alone being attached to it isn’t enough to draw interest, much like Heart of Invictus.

Harry told Oprah he was bringing them to her as their pond was more like a stream. Most people would call animal control for advice not box up a family of ducks in a vehicle. The mother ducks was then distressed on arrival and need to be chased to get her back to her ducklings.

https://people.com/meghan-markle-prince-harry-had-duck-emergency-at-oprah-winfrey-house-11773606

I suppose I called it modest because it reminded me of the house I lived in when I was studying in Massachusetts, where I imagine the rents are way cheaper than Toronto.Hopefully the standard of decor inside is much better!

I do find her interesting, mostly I feel quite sorry for her because I never get the feeling the things she does are things that she is genuinely passionate about.

Meghan is passionate about Meghan. That's it. She seems to have no real interests or core personality outside of her ego.

And I'm not sure why you feel sorry for her? She has the sort of money and fame that would enable her to do whatever she wants, without having to worry about money. She and Harry could have a very nice life, at least by any normal standards, without having to work for a living. She could pursue whatever 'passions' she might have in a way the rest of us could never dream of.

Because ducks famously can only survive in ponds. 🙄 Streams are fatal 🤦🏼‍♀️

They should've left the poor things alone, the mother duck would have moved them herself if she needed to.

I'm sure I read somewhere the Suits production company arranged the apartment for her (& other cast members) and subsidised it. Cheaper long-term than hotel rooms I suppose for long term productions like Suits.

When still married to Trevor (in the first few series) she would have gone back home after filming ended, then after that she was living with Cory the chef.

What they did was illegal. You can't interfere with migratory birds in this way.

What the fuck?

I can’t believe this is being recounted as a cute anecdote. Totally inappropriate to interfere with the poor duck and her family, and unnecessary - as if ducks can’t live perfectly happily in a stream. It sounds like the whole episode was very distressing for the duck, and they’re lucky it didn’t cause her to abandon the ducklings. Harry is an idiot.

Two interesting things from the article though - 1 that Oprah clearly centres the story around Harry, not Meghan - when I thought they were the ones supposedly with the “friendship”.

Secondly that it shows up just how fake the video Meghan posted on instagram was - making out as if she just ‘came across’ this duck family.

Also, what’s with ‘O’ - are Meghan and Harry incapable of referring to anyone other than by their first initial?

Wouldn’t you just love to hear from Trevor and Cory ??

It's such a weird thing for Oprah to talk about 🤷‍♀️ Is she trying to show she has access to these two?

I feel sorry for the many employees who she has routinely emotionally brutalised, hounding them from their jobs and inflicting sufficient mental injury some require medical intervention - you know normal people on who were just going to work trying to earn a living for their families. I read about one of the many nannies that they went through who said that MM and Doria were absolutely vicious to her.

Totally agree. This 'cute' story isn't cute at all.

Two interesting things from the article though - 1 that Oprah clearly centres the story around Harry, not Meghan - when I thought they were the ones supposedly with the “friendship”.

Oprah wouldn't have taken Meghan's calls before she got with Harry. The only reason she has any interest in her is the royal connection. These 'friendships' are purely transactional.

And yes, this referring to each other by initials is very juvenile and cringey.

I agree the duck story is quite shocking. Any educated adult knows you don’t do that. The lot of them are morons.

and they’re lucky it didn’t cause her to abandon the ducklings.

This is what was happening according to the story the mum ran off (abandoned them) and they were chasing after her with the ducklings in a box.

I feel sorry for them as well. More so than for Meghan but I do have sympathy for anyone who on paper has it all but can't seem to find the joy she keeps talking about.

Animal cruelty pure and simple, cruel to family, cruel to friends, cruel to staff, cruel to animals, cruel is their MO, whatever way you cut it or try to defend it Harry and Meghan are just not nice people.

Harry was also very rude and dismissive of Oprah too!
she told him to wait because she had her friends grandchildren coming and thought they would like to see the ducks .
he said “no” and came over straight away!
very , very bad manners!

Or Henry?

No. She’s trying to big them up by letting people know they have instant access to her.

She knows they’re sinking fast and need all the help they can get.

I saw that and it was obvious Harry doesn’t take a no from anyone. Not that we weren’t already aware of it.

Interfering with those ducks (are they the ones Rachel was chasing and squealing at in her IG post?) was appalling but then again there have been whispers around Harold's alleged treatment of birds for years along with documented evidence of his cruelty to animals.

Dimwitted prince scores an own goal yet again 🙄