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Harry and Meghans Aussie extravaganza 2.

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jeffgoldblum · 14/04/2026 16:01

Hope Avid doesn’t mind ! The last one finished unexpectedly and it’s only day 1!

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OctopusFriend · 15/04/2026 17:52

jeffgoldblum · 15/04/2026 17:50

Meghan on masterchef is as ridiculous as Katy Perry playing at being an astronaut!

😂

Indianrollerbird · 15/04/2026 18:05

IdaGlossop · 15/04/2026 17:34

All sadly true. Only The Guardian and, occasionally The Times and Channel 4, are covering the serious stories about the Royal family - the duchies, the IHT exemption, the ability to pre-approve legislation. The obsequiousness of the Royal rota is alarmingly close to what I imagine waste thoughless adoration of the medieval masses.

Not this canard. The royal rota’s job is to report on the royals’ royal duties/visits, not critique them. Unless one of them punches a civilian, it’s going to be fairly anodyne coverage. The rota members take it in turns so the event isn’t swamped with press and the attending reporter shares the information between the others - hence rather similar coverage. For every rota reporter there is a plethora of editorialising ones on each publication who are perfectly capable of critical copy and who do regularly criticise. I’m sure you know this, it’s not new information.

Anyway, apologies again to Jeff for the derailment. I’ll try not to add to it again.

OctopusFriend · 15/04/2026 18:07

It's worth it to have it explained again though, @Indianrollerbird , because some posters do seem to misunderstand what it is 🙏

Jellybelly80 · 15/04/2026 18:17

IdaGlossop · 15/04/2026 16:06

@BigWillyLittleTodger it troubles me too, so much, in fact, that I have emailed [email protected], the Buckingham Palace comms director, saying millions including me are heartily fed up with the Sussex situation and that what's happening in Australia makes the monarchy look ridiculous.

I was going to ask if anyone would be interested in writing to the palace.

Scorchio84 · 15/04/2026 18:18

jeffgoldblum · 15/04/2026 17:50

Meghan on masterchef is as ridiculous as Katy Perry playing at being an astronaut!

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I love this! What a perfect analogy

ASuitableName · 15/04/2026 18:32

IdaGlossop · 15/04/2026 15:50

Well how interesting. Pa was misguided to write letters to Harry and place them in an envelope on his pillow but Meghan is an MM (model mum) for writing an email every day for 18 years to each of her children. 6,570 emails. That's going to take some ploughing through. And Archie and Lili might say: 'You thought digital communication was a good idea? When you were busy telling the parents of the world about online harms? And you could have just walked from your mansion to our chicken coop and told us all this?'

And great material for a memoir in years to come when Harry and Meghan cut them off financially as they work through their intergenerational trauma.

Examples from this rich source, accessed on 6 May 2037:

'You children love me so much.'

'I see myself in both of you.'

'I protected you by only ever photographing the back of your heads.'

'Lili, you said today: 'Momma, could you buy me a hairbrush?' And I said: 'No, my love. You live a wild, sunny Caligirl life, just scratching around barefoot in the hen feed. A hairbrush is a symbol of the formality of the royal life poppa and I rejected. It speaks to misogyny, racism, colonialism, empire, and misogynoir. A hairbrush's DNA is white DNA. Momma knows best. Matted is best.'

'Bedtime story 'The Bench' recorded by momma when on a trip to Australia with poppa (Link - not found)'

🤣🤣🤣 That’s hilarious! Thank you for making me laugh so much

TheAutumnCrow · 15/04/2026 18:32

jeffgoldblum · 15/04/2026 17:50

Meghan on masterchef is as ridiculous as Katy Perry playing at being an astronaut!

They’ll probably end up with the same face eventually.

IdaGlossop · 15/04/2026 18:38

ASuitableName · 15/04/2026 18:32

🤣🤣🤣 That’s hilarious! Thank you for making me laugh so much

Any time 😊

jeffgoldblum · 15/04/2026 18:39

TheAutumnCrow · 15/04/2026 18:32

They’ll probably end up with the same face eventually.

🤣

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Thedogscollar · 15/04/2026 18:51

OctopusFriend · 15/04/2026 08:25

I don't blame you, @RecoIIectionsMayVary . Some of the - how can I put it - more extreme royalist fans on here are just blind to the faults of H&M and it's akin to worship.
Not healthy.

Oh the irony

OctopusFriend · 15/04/2026 19:00

TheAutumnCrow · 15/04/2026 18:32

They’ll probably end up with the same face eventually.

It's sad, really. Why do these women ruin their lovely faces?
That Superfan upthread already posted images which gave us some idea of the end result, though😂!

IcedPurple · 15/04/2026 19:00

One thing that strikes me about this little Aussie farce is that it shows once again how these two always manage to be behind the times.

Cosplaying a 'royal tour' just at the time when actual royal tours are increasingly looking like rather quaint relics of a former age is classic H&M.

jeffgoldblum · 15/04/2026 19:02

Thedogscollar · 15/04/2026 18:51

Oh the irony

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OctopusFriend · 15/04/2026 19:15

jeffgoldblum · 15/04/2026 19:02

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Idem rersus 😉

NautilusLionfish · 15/04/2026 19:16

jeffgoldblum · 15/04/2026 17:50

Meghan on masterchef is as ridiculous as Katy Perry playing at being an astronaut!

Katy Perry did go on Masterchef Australia. And look, its bagged her a former PM. Megh has everything though

Indianrollerbird · 15/04/2026 19:23

Oh gosh, a not yet divorced, black face loving, former authoritarian PM! Why can't we all have one of those?!

IAmATorturedPoet · 15/04/2026 19:35

NautilusLionfish · 15/04/2026 19:16

Katy Perry did go on Masterchef Australia. And look, its bagged her a former PM. Megh has everything though

What point are you trying to make here?

jeffgoldblum · 15/04/2026 19:54

NautilusLionfish · 15/04/2026 19:16

Katy Perry did go on Masterchef Australia. And look, its bagged her a former PM. Megh has everything though

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CathyorClaire · 15/04/2026 19:54

Confused now.

Is it 'effectively a favour' or a paid gig? Confused

CathyorClaire · 15/04/2026 20:04

corblimeyguvnr · 15/04/2026 16:47

An extra 264 pounds to get a photo taken with Meghan ?

A table photo too.

If we assume a table of say four that's over £1k.

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NautilusLionfish · 15/04/2026 20:12

IAmATorturedPoet · 15/04/2026 19:35

What point are you trying to make here?

no point reall. if i must....then

that its curious who Masterchef AU gets, esp the non chef guests.

I wonder if she will make roast chicken to remind us thats its what "my husband cooked the day he proposed" or her famous lemon cake. I wonder what flower sprinkles she will use and how much of her merch will feature.

in any case, kudos to them : they keep trying

jeffgoldblum · 15/04/2026 20:14

NautilusLionfish · 15/04/2026 20:12

no point reall. if i must....then

that its curious who Masterchef AU gets, esp the non chef guests.

I wonder if she will make roast chicken to remind us thats its what "my husband cooked the day he proposed" or her famous lemon cake. I wonder what flower sprinkles she will use and how much of her merch will feature.

in any case, kudos to them : they keep trying

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ShamedBySiri · 15/04/2026 20:21

I don’t think she’ll be cooking Nautilus - she’s guest judging. Whoever puts flower sprinkles on the cake wins.

I’ve never watched Australian masterchef - it seems very celebrity loaded with those female judges dressed up to the nines. I much prefer our more low key version, but maybe it will glam up with Nigella.

There’s a suggestion there may be product placement/collaboration.

StrawberryWasp · 15/04/2026 20:22

The way H talks about his children is quite disturbing. Children are not upgrades, they are unique individual human beings in the same way every child who ever existed is. Each generation isn't an upgrade on the last one. What would that mean?: they are more intelligent? more moral? more creative? happier?

This view reveals an underlying belief in the constant progress of humans beings being improved upon, rather than the belief in an essential consistent human nature. This itself is quite dangerous, but quite prevalent and it's leading to ideas such as transhumanism and eugenic approaches to foetus selection.

Totally dim H though thinks his upgrade is being brought about by his amazing parenting due to his therapy.

The fact that he thinks that guarantees to me that he's actually being a shit parent ,caught up in the hubris that because he's found the new shiny way to be great he can make his children great. A terribly destructive idea for children

This approach to parenting is currently rife and he's bought into it. The current generation of parents do seem to believe they are better parents than their parents were and so their kids are going to be just great. In reality this totally ignores the data that the kids are now more unhappy, more medicated, more fearful and less engaged in life than any othergeneration.

This therapeutic ,self absorbed, self congratulatory, parenting as a self validation tool, is making children miserable and ill.

Yes it's good that we no longer smoke around children, make them wear seatbelts and don't leave them outside pubs with a packet of crisps for hours, but we've also isolated them, removed opportunity for free unsupervised play with friends, pressurised them to achieve academically, scheduled all their free time (so they can go to clubs and be upgraded) and removed them from wider family structure and isolated them from grandparents.

In fact one of the key factors in childhood resilience is a wide family network around you. Particularly relationships with grandparents and an older generation. It provides children not only with more people to love them, but crucially forms their identity, and opens up new learning social and general experience and knowledge. This is true even if the grandparents are a bit shit (not true if their abusive).

So H is actually engaging in a key parenting approach which actively harms his children, while congratulating himself on what a fantastic parent he is, and how his children will be 'upgraded' because of it.

It's a vile way to view children

ShamedBySiri · 15/04/2026 20:22

Sorry - forgot image.

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