As ever and PR disasters continued

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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 would wager that Invictus is now the piggy bank du jour.

There are so many red flags around Invictus that IMHO, H&M and Liam will face significant questions when this "charity" undergoes the inevitable meltdown given the taxpayer dollars involved.

And again, I side-eye KC3 the enabler for not protecting his veterans from his son H.

Maybe it will become like jury service, and any of us could be summoned for a short stint ghost-writing Meghan’s Instagram captions and forcefully emailing Anna Wintour to ask whether any of the quiet months are free for a magazine cover.

If only ...

Telegraph archive link https://archive.is/al2at

😮‍💨🤭

“Now, Page Six can reveal that Holt’s long-time counterpart, Archewell VP Shauna Nep, is not even a full-time employee, but is working on a “consultant” basis “

Well we didn’t have to wait long to hear about the fate of 330k Shauna Nep……

‘Now, Page Six can reveal that Holt’s long-time counterpart, Archewell VP Shauna Nep, is not even a full-time employee, but is working on a “consultant” basis.’

Another consultant 😂

Mass cut across the board. Archewell productions staff have been cleared out:

‘In addition to this, there are just a few employees left on Harry and Markle’s production business — and they could lose more staffers if Markle’s show, “With Love, Meghan,” is not brought back for another season.
“Anyone still there is simply an enabler, enamored with what the couple once was, not who they are today,” claimed one industry source familiar with the Sussexes. “From a year ago, they have decreased their staff by at least 80-85 percent.”‘

‘Another person familiar with Archewell added, “They’ve essentially shuttered Archewell.”’

‘Every time someone leaves Harry and Meghan say they are staying on in some capacity,” said another source, “But they are never heard from again.’

Yip! We know that

‘Shauna hasn’t been a full-time employee in some time,” added the source, “This is crazy — they have lost their Foundation in a matter of weeks.”’

So that all of the Archewell Foundation staff gone

https://pagesix.com/2025/12/29/royal-family/prince-harry-and-meghan-markles-entire-brand-in-peril-as-they-lose-head-of-archewell-charity/

Dear oh dear!

Andrew's girls walked at Christmas and received plenty of vitriol due to their parents' behaviours and the fact that their parents essentially brought them into their shady associations with bank deposits from shady characters and all.

Handing the godfather role to someone who they barely knew seems like a quid pro quo...free housing for godfather role, certainly diminishing the role in a child's life. By roping A&L into the so-called "philanthropy" and using the kids to promote the As ever business, these children are being roped in with zero agency...and any shenanigans will reflect on these children in the future.

IMHO, it is utterly disgraceful of H&M to be so very irresponsible with their children's future reputations.

I think they'll split up in the not too distant future then M will write a book, give a big interview to the highest bidder blaming H.

This is certainly the biggest challenge they’ve been through since Megxit. I mean, I don’t know whether they thrive on drama or what….but eventually, this level of stress will start to pull couples apart.

They need to walk away from this ridiculous life they’ve created for themselves and live a quiet life with the kids.

I have never thought the marriage would last which is sad for the DC who are innocent in this mess and yes I agree that Meghan will be right out there with “ her truth” but will anyone believe her ?
Maybe the threat of losing her title will shut her up.

Remember, during the pandemic, all the talk of Meghan running for President 😂. That cold call to a senator about maternity leave, after she’d just had Lilibet and felt qualified to lecture? All the beseeching and preaching and speeches to camera, carefully coordinated for release to worldwide press outlets for transmission to the great unwashed at the same time under a unified tagline? Please vote, please donate, please keep your kids off social media, please support victims of mass shootings…on and on and on and on.

I always thought most of it was fishing/testing waters, faking it until we believed it and they made it, that it was just the two of them at the kitchen table on speakerphone with this or that person wfh (their “employees”, only ever freelancers with a single client so they never had to comply with labor laws and pay healthcare and insurance etc); with this or that agency on some sort of retainer that never got paid because opportunities provided were never good enough to be taken up and who would sue Prince Harry for payment due. One reliable photographer, an Instagram account, and the rest was just bullshit outsourced to cheap manufacturers, unpaid agencies, and one or two people paid to execute Meghan’s bidding, which she never knew herself. They don’t know HOW to be employers. They don’t know HOW to ask for or take advice. They don’t know the first thing about charitable foundations or image control or media manipulation. They just don’t know how to do the things they want to do.

How pitiful. How a person can get invited to Kris Kardashian’s 70th birthday party and Jeff Bezos’s house and balls THAT up is unfathomable. Even Stacey Solomon or Helen Sinclair would have done a better job of it than them 😂🤣

ETA: lol, just saw the bit about Shauna Nep being a “consultant”. Nice to know you’re right! I bet they’re all “consultants”. A 330k salary with benefits (because nobody is going to work without healthcare and paid sick leave and paid holidays) is well over 500k to a small employer without infrastructure as well as a fuckton of admin. These two muppets haven’t the first clue!

I think he'll buckle and bolt. To go from a life of immense privilege and no financial responsibilities to what he is now must be, for him, quite traumatic. I'm sure he must also miss all the deference that was shown to him. I also wonder if he lies awake at night thinking WTF have I done.

But what about the DC ? Marriages break up every day but I cannot see Meghan agreeing to A and L coming to the UK and how often would he see them if they stayed in the US ?
But I agree that this is not the life he envisaged when they flounced off 6 years ago.

H didn't see much of his parents growing up. But yes I agree it would be tricky.

That’ll never happen though.

I think this will only happen when she has played all the cards, the Archie and Lily cards are yet to be played fully, if the kids don’t pay their way once she has fully launched them then she is out of options, even then she will bide her time until Charles dies to ensure whatever Harry gets left she gets her piece of the pie (hopefully the palace will outsmart her on that one with any inheritances tied up in trusts so she can’t get her grasping mitts on it). I think when William is King is when she knows her game is up and she will cut Harry out as he won’t be of any use to her by then, she can then relaunch herself as a “single mom” victim of Harry and the awful royal family, books, podcasts, more tell all interviews, I mean she’s already been caught out fishing for a publisher in the event of a divorce so I don’t think I’m going to be too wide of the mark in my predictions.

If inheritance money is ring fenced its not deemed to be marital wealth. Not sure they could make that much money using the dc though. Time will tell I suppose. I feel sorry for the children as one day they'll find out what their parents threw away espically their extended family.

I think Netflix is hanging on for the divorce interview/series

I read somewhere (sorry can't remember where) that by claiming the kids are a part of the new "philanthropies" means they can write off some of the kids' expenses as tax offsets as expenses of undertaking charity work.

I agree that the kids won’t bring in much money, but Meghan probably thinks otherwise, they are a Prince and Princess after all 🙄 she will be in for a shock when the dollars don’t come rolling in once the initial interest has worn off. Yes I wouldn’t want to be Meghan and Harry having to explain to curious teenagers as to why despite being a Prince and Princess of the United Kingdom and having a grandfather who is/was King of the United Kingdom and it’s realms that they have absolutely no contact with, not only their royal relatives, but their heritage as part of the most famous royal family in the world.

I think the insistence on never again having contact with the now poor grandfather, while fishing for reconciliation with the mega rich grandfather, even though apparently both treated them terribly, tells quite the story.

James Holt claiming Meghan is a kindred spirit, doesn’t look too good on him !

More leaks now that they were also unhappy with the job he was doing, so many fall guys for H&M. Its likely his leaving message was pressure from Harry to put a positive spin on his departure and say nice things about them.

And then this, such great philanthropists.

“And those tours to Nigeria and Colombia? The couple brought a lot of attention to both countries, but it seems they kept their pockets firmly zipped. Only $10,000 (£7,400) was granted to organisations in sub-Saharan Africa and only $8,310 (£6,150) to organisations in South America.”

Not a lot of spend.

I saw the NY honours list is out. Sir Idris Elba. Well deserved. Services to young people through the Foundation he and his wife run.

Just out of interest I looked up how much they deal with. A fraction of the income of Archiewell, but check the spend.

2023, income 302k. spend 350k

2024, income 209k, spend 738k

ELBA HOPE FOUNDATION - 1200793 (charitycommission.gov.uk)

Outgoings more than income. I have limited internet where I am, but I am sure someone can find Archiewell spend for 2023, 2024. See how it compares.

Found the Idris Elba donations.

4. Analysis of Grants

During the year the Foundation made grants of £485,006.

Analysis

Grants to Institutions Support Cost Total

lPrince’s Trust £320,000 - £320,000

Cocoa Source £ 75,000 -£75,000

Mothers2Mothers - £7,867 - £7,867

Afine FC Football Club - £6,308 -£6,308

Black Women in Law £792 - £792

Bonthe District Family - £3,923 -£3,923

Rice for Life - £71,116 -£71,116

charity-search (charitycommission.gov.uk)

So, outdoing H&M

Outgoings more than income - how does that work?

Magic :-)

Accrued and carried over it seems.

I didn’t realise James Holt had a starring role in their Netflix series, agreeing with their claims of a UK conspiracy against them because of their popularity. Wonder how he feels now, seeing how unpopular and irrelevant they are in Meghan’s home country ? How they have failed at everything they have attempted in the US, and now throwing him and their staff under the bus as a result.

explains the ‘kindred spirit’ comment, I guess.