PR disasters (IYKYK) thread 5

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For Meghan and Harry, As ever and Archewell posts.

In other news Meghan is smiling from children's bedsides in LA. You have small companies donating 100 % of certain profits but nothing from Archewell except a photo opportunity for Meghan. The kids will be thinking who is she?

https://makemarchmatter.org/#partners

It is not a good look when people see that the kids are getting nothing while a D-list celeb gains publicity.

H&M are paupers relative to the Montecito set...Oprah's foundation has over $175 million in assets and can make sizeable donations. When H&M tried to position themselves as "humanitarians" it backfired as they lacked the financial heft of the typical A-lister.

Repeating the failed strategy in 2026 is an interesting choice.

She’d gain more traction grinning from the bedsides of her own father, her father in law, her sister in law, her husband’s grandfather and husband’s grandmother - all of whom she showed zero care or compassion for when each was suffering life changing / life limiting illnesses or were on their actual deadbeds - instead she either humiliated them personally in a public media spat, ignored them or trashed their family globally whilst they were dying or grieving.

I am assuming there are photos of MM with the children in their hospital bed? So it’s ok to invade their privacy and put their photos all over the media, but their own children are sacrosanct ( well for know anyway).
Thier hypocrisy is off the scale.

Who put the photos up? Did Meghan post them? Hospital? Because insee the hospital posted them on their sm sccount and this was then picked up ny newspapers

So how can you blame Meghan for putting up pictures all over media?

Apparently Meghan was at the hospital for less than 30 minutes .

https://archive.ph/uZ8vo

The Times. From the new book Betrayal.

Just enough time for the photo op.

According to …

Did she not have a word with the people who put the pics up before hand about the dangers of posting pics of children on social media? That is her jam, right - one of the humanitarian platforms she campaigns on?

Now that this has been pointed out to her, she could ask for them to be taken down, like she did with that nice Mrs Jenner, no?

The part about Invictus is really sad.

Yes, especially about the Nigerian basketball team.

I’ve read that ! 20 uninjured trained American basketball players against 8 Nigerian players missing limbs !!!! , the one Italian veteran wheeling himself into the cafeteria having to pay for his meals, surrounded by volunteers and their families getting paid for!!! 😡

Not really a surprise.

I remember that the Our Big Kitchen, Thanksgiving photo op one (disgusted) volunteer for the organisation revealed that the Sussexes were in and out in 17 minutes - just enough time to dress up in aprons and baseball hats and snap some photos before they left.

Exactly !

Yes 😞.

That's quite the summary. It's a horror story.

It’s just awful!! There needs to be more exposure of Invictus, the whole thing just sounds disgraceful.

Its very clear that invictus is not fit for purpose, it needs to be finished, it clearly hasn’t been about the veterans for quite some time, it’s a vehicle for Harry and Meghan to showcase themselves, nothing more.

Yes! , I’m amazed at how angry just that example has made me!! , it’s disgusting, what were the organisers thinking? , how is it possible that the entire us team had ptsd and no physical disabilities? Why were they put in wheelchairs they didn’t need? ( we know why !) .
why when the rest of the Nigerian team couldn’t get in due to visa issues, did Harry not do something? , why was the match not cancelled? , why did they not at least reduce the amount of us team members to the same amount? .
lastly ..the Nigerian man who was invited and was responsible for getting Harry and Meghan the tour in Nigeria was completely snubbed by them! , they used him for what they wanted and I’m of the opinion that invictus was the carrot or payment for the Nigerian tour, they didn’t hold up their side!
bad hosts to invited guests, I hope they don’t wish to go there again, they have completely burnt that bridge!

This needs a thread of its own.

What strikes me is just how devoid of new ideas Sunshine Sachs appear to be for handling Harry and Meghan's PR again. They just seem to be sticking with the same tired ideas that failed 5 years ago.

"Humanitarian" visits with photo opps✔
"Keynote" speaker gigs for random events ✔
"Cash for access" meet and greets ✔
Photo opps at sporting events/concerts where SS can get premium seats ✔(usually the Sussexes don't stay for the whole event like at the recent basketball photo opp)

It's just same old, same old ... rinse and repeat.

But an increase in the manifesting about H and his dad reconciling? Or is it just me thinking that?

They get the press attention that they crave but not the dollars.

In fairness, what would you do? I can't at this point think of anything that would work to rehabilitate H&M's reputation so they may as well keep doing the same things over as any fans they still have will clearly stay loyal no matter what, and they're unlikely to make many new ones no matter what they do. Plus I imagine the company's aware they'll be fired soon anyway for not somehow making the pair of them national (or international) treasures, so probably not much point making any effort.