Meghan’s new insta feed

[Crispynoodle]

Meghan has just popped a video clip of herself in the back of a limo with her feet up travelling through the streets of Paris. Is this rather insensitive given the way her MIL died or is it perfectly normal to post such stuff?

Because her marriage has given her great status & she looks fantastic. She’s superficially highly articulate which means people think what she says has more substance. She shines on camera & has star power. It’s curious as although very attractive isn’t objectively beautiful but sum of parts give that impression & is imbued with that power the truly, unusually beautiful have.

It’s a sad indication of what we value as a society perhaps all style over substance.

Excellent summary. I watched it too, it was thankfully short but pretty squirmy.

The calligraphy again!! With the added story of how she used to wear socks on her hands when doing it (don’t believe that for a minute!). It was also a bit sad listening to a grown woman talking about this trivial nonsense.

You forgot the bit where she answers the question on the “importance of financial independence for women”. She says :/

“ financial literacy is something I specifically spend a lot of time on with young girls and their empowerment”.

I am not the only one who has wondered, where exactly does she do this work? How much time does she spend on this? What does this work involve exactly?

I also wondered how she supported herself being “financially independent“ doing bits of calligraphy and “teaching“ how to wrap presents and babysitting. Admittedly with the series Suits she was earning good money, but prior to that there was only that short stint opening suitcases that wasn’t that well paid. So I’m not exactly sure what she can teach anybody about being financially independent,but that doesn’t stop her! She is a trooper!

Also, anyone noticed a new voice? It’s definitely changed. It’s got more dominant,deeper, posher and more vocal fry, as if to say I’m a serious rich businesswoman now.

She’s superficially highly articulate which means people think what she says has more substance

^EXACTLY THIS!

it’s what an expensive education can help to create the illusion of, when there is absolutely nothing of substance being said.

I was reading a few bits about Greta Garbo the other day, and she said some interesting things. As she grew up very poor in Sweden in the 1920s, she left school at the age of 11. She was intelligent, classy, and said some original things worth saying. None of this pretentious, robotic word salad.

She shines on camera & has star power

Again, very well put - and I agree to a large extent. In some photos and in some videos, she is undoubtedly very attractive. I think of the engagement interview and the platform where she is speaking to the Hispanic womenJust as you say, she seems to shine almost.

But I don’t think she’s beautiful, because that is something extra, is more intangible, almost something that comes from within. With Megan, it is almost as if she is drunk on her own narcissistic perception of her own attractiveness, which she projects,if that makes sense. Also, good point, her increased status after she married Harry, also added to this. But real beauty doesn’t have to do anything, it just is.

(Also, some other plastic surgery hasn’t worked so there is some oddness now.)

Sounds like the Elizabeth Holmes fraudster who lowered her voice for impact.

Financial independence - that’s a joke she has been bank rolled by men her whole life except for Suits - she has chosen to partner with a series of men in her life who provided financial, career and social elevation opportunities - who she then dumps once she has exhausted their offerings.

I think she looked far better before the plastic surgery. Her face looks much thinner and longer and her forehead is different with a different hairline.

Oh thanks! I did see that footage of Catherine, but didn’t connect the dots. A bit pathetic if MM thinks the two are the same thing at all! The only thing is I think MM is very tuned in to how internet searches/algorithms work and how to get the search results you want people to see, bury things you’d rather they didn’t and piggy back off others. So now she’ll be amongst “royals in plane cockpit” on any searches as well as Catherine.

And always the same drivel …

Calligraphy, Suits, jam, H, 4 and 6, Netflix, empowerment.

😁

Who might increase her power beyond H, who’s in the manifesting sights? Or will concern for children be a check & balance here? H prob relatively easy to manipulate & it works for now. Maybe it’s even true love.

That’s some investment & risk. I think she’s going for a high class, high fashion look. With what ultimate goal?

The power thing. I think she is very much interested in power. Social power, political power, financial power, the power of looks, etc. It might also explain her overuse of the word “empowerment“.

One of the reasons she left the royal family, was that there was a limit to her exercise of power; she had to get in line (literally, behind the Queen and William) and there were other restrictions of what she could do. It looks like her main pursuit of power now is in the business and money realm. Maybe still some political ambitions (hence the Gloria Steiner visit).

Oh god, Meghan the politician, the very thought 😬

She’s not rich enough, not savvy enough, she’s too unpopular, and her self-interest too transparent. She has nothing interesting to say and no notable or relevant skills, talent or experience. She’s terrible at public speaking and interacting with other people. She doesn’t like to be criticised or to have to justify her ideas. Her opponents would make mincemeat of her.

Ahem you forgot about the letter to Proctor and Gamble ….

Interesting as I don’t think she wants to be just a WAG - she needs to be publicly celebrated for herself - she needs the adulation and validation of HER ‘success’ and ‘achievements’ - so I don’t think she would go the Jerry Hall / Jackie O route of wife to rich powerful old man - even if she had the opportunity to busy herself with a philanthropy platform - she could have done this with PH in or outside of the RF.

Having watched the Victorian Beckham doc recently I was struck by her sadness and exhaustion of having to prove herself as successful (as judged by who?) and the relentless and futile two decades haemorrhaging cash trying to build a brand which has left her brittle, bitter, disappointed and IMHO emotionally dissatisfied. I think MM is on the same track - the talent just isn’t there to be global superstar entrepreneur / influencer etc but that’s her unrealistic and ultimately self defeating goal.

If she doesn’t suffer from
imposter syndrome then she is must be clinically unself aware - grandiose and delusional.

I think the only high profile arena she has not tried yet is politics - I could see her getting a kick out of campaigning either for herself (if she had very wealthy donors / husband) or as the wife of a very high profile politician who saw themselves in the running for presidency - so a Hilary C or
Michelle O role. But the reality is she doesn’t have any depth of understanding and hasn’t done the grass roots legwork to be involved with and credibility.

This is a great post & lots to contemplate here.

There’s almost (?) a chilling ruthlessness & ‘masterplan’ here. More useful alliances may be in her sights as you say & she will surely have kept receipts from palace days, she’s a very potentially powerful enemy (?)

If H wants a quiet way back in to a UK charity role will she tolerate? Was she behind the leak on some framed photo gift when H previously visited his father?

Great post. JFK Jr would have been a perfect next step perhaps despite competition from Fergie :).

H doesn’t have limitless cash, although I suspect there’s more than we know. She needs lots of it to facilitate next steps so that may be a driver to next moves.

To add, great observations on VB & I agree. The difference between MM & VB is a complete ruthlessness & desire for power in MM. I see an inner real lack of confidence in VB & not so in M.

I find that interesting, including about the Beckhams @Winnertrinner . I always thought V Beckhan was a shockingly uninteresting ‘designer’, as far as I could see her entire collection was navy suits and white blouses. I don’t know if that’s changed. (A friend of a friend bought a Victoria Beckham wedding dress, which totally shocked me, as a complete waste of money lol). So it’s no surprise that her husband had to bankroll her for years to the tune of millions. As you so baldly state, she just didn’t have the talent and maybe you are onto something comparing her with Meghan Markle. They have that ‘power couple’ thing going on as well.

It speaks to the superficiality of our age though, as a previous poster mentioned. Like the Markles, the Beckhams are everywhere, but there is no obvious reason why!

An adjacent point, somebody on another forum mentioned that nobody under 40 even knows who Meghan Markle is, or cares. Which is interesting because an acquaintance of mine, age 38, when I made a joke about Meghan Markle, looked at me with a totally blank face! What this forum poster said was that their colleague’s only celebrity interest was the Beckhams.

That may also explain Meghan Markle’s announced planned forays into TikTok. Because TikTok is where the young people is at!

As for the whole manifestation, fake it till you make it, didnt she have one of those boards at one point where you set out your dreams and ambitions? I forget the name for them, but they were very popular at one point.

I agree, that it doesn’t look like M M has the talent to really succeed as an entrepreneur. OTOH, it just takes ONE success, like the Kardashian and her lip cosmetic lip line who basically made $1 billion almost overnight. Similarly with the Jamie Kern woman who did the same with some face creams she sold to L’Oreal!

Also MM had some strong self belief has led to where she is today, so perhaps she thinks that will continue to take her forward.

Great post. JFK Jr would have been a perfect next step perhaps despite competition from Fergie :).

That made me chuckle.🤭

I think with her determination she’ll hit on something to generate many millions. Tilktok etc a way. William/Kate are realising the power of appealing to the young in the socials.

Young people don’t see MN in same way but often say IME ‘oh my Mum hates MM, no idea why’. They think, IME again, we’re all jealous haterz.

Young people don’t see MN in same way but often say IME ‘oh my Mum hates MM, no idea why’.

^ that made me LOL too. Two chuckles today! Tbh, I quite often hate MN so I get where they’re coming from.

Seahant · Today 09:12
She’s superficially highly articulate which means people think what she says has more substance
^EXACTLY THIS!
it’s what an expensive education can help to create the illusion of, when there is absolutely nothing of substance being said.

Very much agree.
It also reminds me of contestants on The Apprentice who are very fond of peppering "big words" (generally used incorrectly) through their spiel and, because of that, are described by some of the even less able participants as "highly intelligent".
There's another amusing article in Times2 on "How to speak Meghan" if anyone has a share token.
I liked the bit about "Circle back":
"In the olden days you might say we'll come back to this later. But circle back has the punchy "I'm wearing a headset and Manolo BB heels" that Meghan likes".
"Nesting" was also good:
"This is being in your house, eating hot food and watching TV. Nesting may imply more cream and off-white soft furnishings and lot more Instagram opportunities."

@LaMarschallin we should create a list of words…I’ll. ‘circle back’ soon.

She's gone from "learnings" to "learns". "Year 1 of As Ever had a lot of learns". Nobody speaks this way. It's like she's trying to make "fetch" happen.

I note she's also once again changed the origin story of As Ever/with Love. In her Bloomberg interview, she said it was a Netflix exec who persuaded her to go down that route. Nothing about that in the Fortune interview, it was apparently all her idea and passion.

These interviewers have a lot to answer for, do they do their research? Meghan was saying As Ever was on hold until 2026 a couple of months ago, then all of a sudden the wine came out. What's that all about? Why all the mixed messaging? Why doesn't anyone ask how many units she sold when she talks about selling out the lines in 20 minutes? Why doesn't anyone ask her about what's out there and proven, which is her use of white label mass produced goods?

The audience at least didn't seem that convinced. Luke warm at best.

learns

I flinched at that too 😣

Also, the “harms” she experienced at the hands of the RF. I think she means harm. Slaughtering the English language with this nonsense.

Purpose of all this nonsense language: “ I’m really up there with the super switched on, hip-but-MBA business community and cool people generally; we have our own language even. If you could understand and speak like this maybe you wouldn’t be ugly and living in a trailer park”

That should have read “stupid and living in a trailer park”. I think everything she says and does is about proving her superiority, that she’s better than everyone. That’s it. It doesn’t matter whether it is of any value.