Is As ever all over? Starting to feel like it.

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It’s been 14 hours since the launch of the 2024 Rose. Nothing has sold out. This is despite it being designed again as a scarcity drop, so it can’t be argued she’s finally got her stock levels right.

• As ever stated the wine launch going ‘live’ at on the 5th August. Language designed to get you to rush and buy. Just like all this SM shopping you get now.
• Meghan put out a message many hours ago, stating that they have so much more stock (sad clapback to stuff not shifting) but hurry and be quick because it’s selling fast!!! (It’s clearly not)
• This launch however, has attracted very little press compared to previous drops

The scarcity gimmick is already tired and because she’s been absent from SM for 2 months…save for a few stock images/videos- she’s lost any momentum she had. She’s putting in bare minimum and her customer base feel it. She’s checked out.

There’s been talk of another series of WLM 3 and Meg getting a new NF contract, but I think that is just to fill the void until she can get WLM2 out. At which point, we will find out if there is any truth in any further deals.

The reason why I doubt WLM3, is that for continuity, you would need the same venue. But the home is now being used to to host weddings etc, it’s no longer a private rental but one open to the public to rent. There’s no way Meg would film in that location now. In addition she would need to have gotten the go ahead already for WLM3 and be filming right now to be able to stick to a schedule. The fact that it isn’t already confirmed, it’s giving the signal that WLM is over (in addition to knowing NF deal is done)

Now if WLM is over, I don’t think she has the draw to pull people to As ever. She doesn’t engage with her fan base enough, she does the bare minimum of SM posts, which she hasn’t even achieved the last few months. The Shopmy page is dead too. This is why the new wine launch has barely registered and hasn’t sold out 14 hours later. Yes, there will be more stock but it’s been designed for a sell out so there won’t be huge numbers.

As ever I think will be slowly wound down. There will be WLM2, with maybe another 18 months of drops. Then like everything else, it will be dropped quietly. Everyone is starting to get a bit bored by the half hearted, very beige effort she’s put into her ‘business’ and have tuned out.

She will have to launch yet another version of herself very soon. We’ve had actress, feminist, activist, producer, philanthropist….now female founder. God knows what’s next!

How do you know how much he inherited? It’s not public knowledge and anyway wouldn’t be in dollars.

In his book or one of his many interviews, Harry talked about the inheritance from his late mother. Suffice to say, he is a very rich man, by dint of birth.

Oh yes, of course. He’s a millionaire several times over, but none of us know exactly how much he’s inherited .

Very true, like attracts like, they deserve each other.

He inherited money from both Diana and the Queen Mother. The British pound is worth more than American dollars. Depending on the conversion rate, a pound can be worth as much as two American dollars.

Yes I know.

One of the Royal Japanese princesses married a lawyer and moved to NYC. He works for a NYC law firm and she served as an art history consultant for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They actually take buses and subways and live in an apartment like normal New Yorkers. They have jobs and interests.

For what it is worth I think a large part of the reason Harry hasn't spoken / written about Andrew is that he doesn't think much beyond himself. In the sense that he is clearly concerned with how W&K are treated compared to he and M. But I suspect he doesn't give a thought to those lower down the pecking order than him. They ( KC's siblings) are all financially secure and living extremely comfortable lives by being part of the WRF & supporting KC - not PA obviously - well not the WRF part but yes still living far too well for my liking . But I do think Harry doesn't think like that - He has too much of an It's not fair mentality Also he would do well to remember he did inherit many millions from his mother , whereas PP had no real money of his own so he (H) was already much better off than previous "spares" . People have written that M encouraged Harry's sense of grievance. I simply don't know. This is purely opinion but I ithink Harry & M somewhat suffered from "envy is the thief of joy" . But I don't really know and they were set on leaving so I do hope they're happy.

You could be right and - like everyone else on here- I don’t know but I do think there could be some truth in the rumours (which refuse to go away) that Andrew was acquainted with Meghan pre Harry . It would then make sense not to criticise him.

It's many a year since that was the case!

@Ladedahlia I suspect BemusedAmerican has automatically translated the amount we pretty much know he inherited into the currency she uses day in and day what with her being American. It makes it easier to quantify an amount and It’s what I automatically do with the currency where I live, so local currency into pounds or pounds into my local currency.

And do we know for sure just how much he inherited? No we don’t, but it has been possible for people who know about these things to work it out given Diana’s divorce settlement, and what it would have been worth after investing for a couple of decades.

So whether the amount was mentioned in a post in dollars, yen, francs or Melissa and Doug, it’s not going to change the fact he inherited the same original amount of millions of pounds.

Can I ask why it appears (to me at least) that you don’t want it to be said Harry is loaded, a millionaire many times over, and it’s to the extent you make what seems (to me at least) a desperate attempt to dismiss the amount of inheritance by saying ‘it wouldn’t be in dollars anyway’.

I remember reading about that. Didn’t she have to give up her Royalness so to speak because she married someone her family didn’t approve of or am I confusing it with another Japanese royal.

Regardless of who it was though, she’s certainly doing a proper job of what Harry and Meghan got themselves into and can’t handle.

It must be such a slap in the face for those parents who have lost children to social media bullying to see Meghan given Chrissy Teigen a platform. It's as good as endorsing her behaviour.

We do know M encouraged his sense of grievance because in the NG series, she talks of the ‘cottage on palace grounds’ which was decorated like a ‘frat house’. It was so awful apparently that she had to get out her credit card and spring for some Ikea furniture!

Do we know who these 'friends' are that she groomed to speak to the press? Are they still actively in her life - or have they distance themselves realising they had been skid-markled?

“A cottage in the grounds?”
“Frat house?”
And she was quite disparaging about the accommodation provided in South Africa where they did that tour, saying “They had us staying in this compound.”
Way to go, Meghan. Insult your hosts.

And on a different note, anyone else think it was a bit rich for Prince Andrew of all people to warn Harry off Meghan, allegedly because of her “past,” with HIS record?!

She also complained that they were “only” given a wing in the Governor’s mansion in Australia rather than the whole mansion .
I remember the podcast where she talked about the S African accommodation ( I think she actually called it a housing unit?) and supporters were bending over backwards on MN trying to say it wasn’t an insult , it was an American expression. Until American posters put them right !

Indeed ! However maybe he was concerned about her blabbing ?

So, Harry went mad in his book about William warning him off about Meghan, but Andrew did the same? Strange he never mentioned that.

I imagine anyone who genuinely cared about Harry would have talked to him about not rushing into marriage.. to be fair to any bride entering the Royal Family there is a massive amount to learn. I do understand that Meghan probably felt under pressure at her age to have children.

Harry has denied Andrew said anything about Meghan, it was interesting to see how quickly they got their lawyers onto that one !

It does make it a bit more suspicious now how quickly they jumped straight in to 'defend' Andrew or was it Meghan they were defending.

He is loaded, undoubtedly. We don’t know what he got in terms of other inheritances either but he’s a very very wealthy man. It has been said many times that Meghan earned millions but I very much doubt it. It just annoys me when people name specific amounts of money when they can’t know. We don’t know how it was invested or what the yield was. Also it was paid in pounds, and it irritated me a bit when the amount was quoted in dollars. That’s all.

Yes. That is very strange.

Your recollection is correct, TheMeasure, and while we don't know what ANL paid for the more technical copyright breach, we do know that Meghan received just £1 for the "invasion of her prrivacy"

Which says a lot for the judicial view of just how private she intended to keep it