As ever and PR disasters continued

[AtIusvue]

So Meghan lost her fathers number but is ringing round hospitals and will send a handwritten note, as per Sussex sources speaking through the Sun, the Telegraph and the Times.

I mean I have no idea, how it works with PR for very famous people, but surely there are scenarios they prep for?

Her dad is in his 80s, severely obese and has suffered ill health for years. You would think, there would be protocol in what to do should the worst happen.

That would include having up to date contact info. This isn’t something Meg would need to have/get involved with if she’s estranged, but surely ‘The Office of the DDOS’ would. Then engage in their set plan- whether that’s a public statement that this is a private affair or that contact has been made through the proper channels.

Whatever this is, it isn’t professional-it’s complete chaos.

I do think Charles is still supporting Harry privately, probably something close to the £2 million allowance Harry was getting before they left the RF. I don’t believe Charles cut him off totally.

Thanks for all the digging @RedTagAlan

It really is absolutely appalling when you see it laid out like that.

In essence, taking money from people, donating a token amount on really quite minor projects, getting a hail of publicity for it and using the rest of the money to swan around the world acting important and bolstering their personal brand.

As another poster said, I would dearly love for a proper investigation into all of this to be done and for them to be fully exposed. I completely agree that it just feels like a fraudulent MLM scheme.

What I am glad about though is that it does seem to be crumbling around them. As much as they’re trying to save face, there’s no avoiding the fact that the foundation has failed like every other one of their business endeavours. I can’t imagine they’re having a very joyful Christmas right now.

I just had a quick look on As Ever and it looks like there’s plenty of stock of everything, including the fabled raspberry jam. Maybe they’ve finally sorted out the stock levels, but I’d be willing to bet that demand is just not that high!

I am curious about how many staff they now have remaining. It really can’t be many as you say!

I think he may well give allowances toward to children’s education, activities, staff and lifestyles, yes. Significant allowances. He’s a guilt-trammelled, emotionally compartmentalising billionaire.

Possibly also trusts exist. And the children’s future commercial earnings eg appearance fees, use of images.

And I have such a low opinion of Harry that I do actually allow myself to think it possible that he’d allow this or some of this, and want to control and access these monies or enable its happening, psychologically assuaged by calling it all ‘philanthropies’. He’s not right in the head.

Out of interest, by the by: I’ve seen a trust fund looted here in the UK. It went to court, and long story short - the judge allowed it as it wasn’t ‘theft’ until the child came of age. Once the child turned 18, the money was still gone and the trustee was living in another country. Nothing under the sun surprises me these days.

My guess - and obviously like everyone else here it's complete speculation - is that Charles may have set up trust funds for the children's education and the like. But I really don't think he is directly funding Harry. Given that it's unlikely Harry and Meghan will ever be able to generate much income on their own, that would be an ongoing responsibility and I don't see Charles signing up for that. Even if the Sussexes never earn another penny, they have more than enough from Harry's family money to live a very comfortable, if not super luxe, lifestyle.

My hunch is that the anonymous donor was Oprah or Tyler (he is part of OW business network) as a thank you for the free interview.

They are all scratching each others backs.

The big interview that H&M gave under Archewell to launch The Parents Network (for parents who’s children died by sui@ide) - was this time last year - was that just ahead of the original scheduled launch of AE / WLM? If so this is exploiting suffering parents living the worst experience to flog her tat.

Emmmm spread !

Yes, they reduced their Archewell productions team too not long ago.

But comfortable isn’t what they want; billionaire status is the aspiration .
Given all the snarky comments Harry ( and Meghan) have made about the RF including KC himself and Camilla , then surely Harry is even more stupid than I thought if he is still receiving handouts .

Hopefully KC has set up something for his grandkids. A & L should not have to suffer just because they have numbnuts for parents. They should get the same opportunities their cousins get.

Well, don't we all want to be billionaires?

It doesn't mean it's going to happen. The Sussexes can 'want' to be billionaires as much as they like, but their lack of talent and work ethic makes it a complete fantasty. Frankly, they're extremely lucky to have the money they have, almost all of it due to the family Harry complains about so much.

Archie and Lili's future is the responsibility of their parents. Not their grandfather.

If all 3 parts of Archewell have tumbled as well as NF deal, Spotify, WLM, As ever on the skids - we should be due a MM biography - that would be her last scraping of the barrel. Should be called “Squandered” as everything they have touched has turned to shit by their own grandiose, inept and delusional behaviour.

Maybe it is all connected to the change of Archiewell, tax returns and 501 (C) status.

Now, I know nothing about law, but I don't think it's difficult to think of what is maybe not lawful. For example, using donated money to pay staff, when the staff are not actually doing much for the charity.

Insert lots of " allegedly" into the above :-)

What Is a 501(c)(3) and Can It Pay Employees? (chisholmfirm.com)

From the above law site :

"You can pay salaries, but you cannot pay any amount you want. Under IRS rules, all compensation must be “reasonable.”

The IRS defines reasonable compensation as the amount that would ordinarily be paid for similar services by similar organizations (taxable or tax-exempt) under similar circumstances."

And this from further down :

"A defining feature of a 501(c)(3) is that it must be organized and operated for public benefit, not private gain. This is known as the prohibition on private inurement and excess private benefit.

In simple terms, no part of the nonprofit’s net earnings can unfairly benefit an insider, such as a founder, board member, or key employee."

A quick look online for LA charity jobs shows most are about $18 an hour, but there are a few at about $80k a year, and I did find one at $250k a year for a Development specialist, Philanthropy Programs, spinal injuries. That last one, the very well paid one, does have targets in the job description. Minimum raised to be $250k, and more importantly perhaps, the job description does not mention " booking travel for the boss".

My layman's guess is they got a tax expert in.

Please say if you think I am getting ahead of myself here :-)

I like the end bit ’……dedicate themselves to helping others’
Shouldn’t that read ’…..dedicate themselves to helping themselves’?

If all 3 parts of Archewell have tumbled as well as NF deal, Spotify, WLM, As ever on the skids

This is another sign of how amateurish they are.

Why on earth would you give your 'commercial' and 'charitable' ventures the exact same name? Especially as it's a crap name!

if their aim is to expand their global impact….how the hell are you going to achieve that with 3 fewer staff?

That's easy, @AtIusvue ... yap about it in the hope that word salad will substitute for action in the minds of enough folk

Trouble is they've tried that so often; it didn't work before and I see no reason it'll work now

That office is looking a bit empty!

Yes indeed. I see they have an issue with their logo, being accused of plagiarism by a Spanish town. Fair enough, honest mistakes and all that, but an article I found on that had this snippet:

"The previous name, American Riviera Orchard, also faced issues because it referred to a location, one of the exclusive neighborhoods of Santa Barbara, making it impossible to register. However, she did not mention this issue, as she realized that the name was limiting her, since it was understood that everything she sold had to originate from that area."

So that explains the name change of their jam spread brand. But the fact is, or appears to be, that they launched the brand and website, without realising that the name strongly implied that the product came from there. I do remember thinking at the time that they must have a big garden.

So, with near half a million spent on "brand experts" in one year alone, nobody spotted that names do matter.

I thought they employed highly paid professionals to assist them ?
Has Meredith left yet ?

On X there is speculation there has been a bigger cull of staff, not announced, the 3 foundation employees are purportedly not the full extent of the layoffs, so it is possible their head of PR or whatever her title is, is also gone. She has been pretty useless anyway, her tenure will only be remembered for all the puerile clapbacks she issued this year.

The only thing left to market are the children. But they will try and disguise it as ‘philanthropies’ and ‘royal birthright’.

Yes, this is setting them up with a legacy….because they know they won’t be working royals. It will be the next Duke of Sussex and the Princess carrying in the good work with Archewell Philanthropies. They won’t let them go out and have normal jobs like normal people.

So we will have another generation, trading on British titles when they have no links to here.

Does Harry still have the £20-30 million he started with or have they spent that?

According to Harry ( can’t remember where he said it) it’s up to A and L whether or not they become working Royals !
Delusional .