PR Disasters….Part 8

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PR Disasters of the The Duke and Duchess of Sussex continued :

• So far we have Meg using charity events/sick children/vulnerable adults to merch her fashion, with the launch of her new fashion platform
• She will be appearing on MasterChef Australia
• Harry claiming to have had therapy when Archie was born, even though he never sought MH help for his ill wife a few short months earlier.

Wow off topic @TheAutumnCrowbut I’ve been posting beside you for years and never would have guessed you weren’t from the U.K. originally, I won’t be nosy and ask where though because obviously it’s not my business or relevant.

Excellent post, LondonRidge, though what surprises me is that anyone expected any different, be it on this tour or elsewhere

If they'd got anything of value to offer we'd presumably have seen it by now, but there really is absolutely nothing beyond whining about themselves and engaging in pointless photo ops to try to shore up a fatally tarnished image

And Murdock played along.

Someone wise on these threads once pointed out that if BP tried to pressurise an editor to tell one story (e.g. H&M) rather than another the editor now had 3 stories: the original one, the second one, and the story of the cover-up.

It's not like Hollywood, where celebrity publications can play off one star against the other.

Those dastardly men in grey suits!

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I’ve often wondered that @bluegreygreen. What’s in it for the RF to brief against each other when the whole point of them is that they are a family.

I don’t mind having a monarchy. The soft power has its uses, love seeing the bling come out and don’t want a 3rd tier of politician!

But, as AMW is showing, and Diana could have done, and I think the racism comments about the unborn Archie could have really shown, there is an element of they stand and fall together. AMW is now tarnishing the image of QEII and had the Archie comments been proved, I would have switched to wanting to see the RF abolished because I do not want racists as my head of state.

So petty briefing against other members makes no sense and it particularly makes no sense for Charles to have been leaking stories about his sons because their youthful indiscretions reflected badly on him. Showing him taking Harry to a rehab hostel after a drugs story, that makes sense. Leaking that they’ve met Camilla and liked her, that makes sense. Releasing bad news - that’s a stupid move to me.

Or have I missed something?

Harry didn't present any evidence to support his accusations of leaking stories.

What journalists have said is that it is common practice, for anyone in the public eye, to try to barter one story about themselves with another that is more flattering. I'm sure that goes on in the palace as with any other famous person. But if we are going to say that family members leak against each other, as Harry claimed, there needs to be evidence.

Is that why the poor child is rarely in photos posted by Meghan? It’s confirming that Lilibet’s is the favourite?
Utterly sickening and appalling behaviour from his disgustingly selfish and narcissistic parents.

Muttley, is that you?
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Oh yeah, well that old billionaire needs the money doesn’t he, I expect

every time I hear Megan speak, it’s like watching an actress recite her well remembered lines. There’s nothing real or authentic about her.

I think in the past the different ‘households’ have been quite territorial and senior staff have been very protective of their principals and have developed relationships with members of the press to hype up ‘their’ royal or disparage another in comparison.

That in turn helps them in their own staff hierarchy.

So less that Charles is directly ordering a hit piece on a family member but that his private secretary is annoyed that another family member is getting all the good press and air time.

I do think that the royals are aware of this leaking and some of them don’t mind it when it goes in their favour.

It’s also one of the reasons the press get annoyed with William because he runs a very tight and controlled staff operation with no leaking - which is very boring for the press who have been used to getting their inside gossip for years.

It was funny how absolutely furious a lot of them were by bringing blindsided by the Eugene Levy interview that no one had breathed a word of before it dropped.

It’s rather disgusting to make fun of a woman who experiences mental problems either pre- or post-partum imho.

Also they get blamed for not photographing one child enough and another child too much? They really can’t win!

Plus I think it’s pretty sickening to negatively judge the parenting of someone when you don’t know them.

Archie's dad has already stated, very clearly and on the record, that the RF aren't racist. He's married to a Black woman, so he should know.

One thing that Harry’s own ANL court case has shown us is that no-one in any palace needed to be ‘leaking and planting stories’ about him, because he and his chums were blabbing like crazy all the bloody time.

But as I said in reply to you earlier , they said they wanted privacy for their DC then allowed Netflix to film Archie in his bath !

You’re really struggling with this thread aren’t you? Why exactly are you here?

Do you tell that to the people who criticise the Wales children ?

He really shot himself in the foot with that court case.

Blimey you really are spinning a yarn now. I don't see anyone here defending Andrew. Who is ?

Here you go, @Crumpledelist678. ANDREW IS A MONSTER.

What have H&M ever actually said to explicitly condemn him?

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I’m not aware of what happened in Birkenhead. What would I Google pls ?

‘Meghan surrogate conspiracy’ or similar, I expect.

Personally I find it all a bit mental but the gruesome twosome’s bizarre pronouncements about Archie (pregnancy, alleged suicidality, unlikely birth tales, lack of bonding, therapy, tears on the floor etc) will be grist the mill of those who think something is shonky. Sigh.