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.

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Maybe they’ll tell him that ‘Prince Archie’ is his name, like Prince Adonis, Prince Rico or Prince Tyson II.

Tbh if I had thread after thread after thread after thread written about me full of bile by people I didn’t know and was subject to a global smear campaign and used as a useful distraction to keep the public and press from focusing on a sexually abusive and corrupt uncle, then I think I would have cause to feel pretty upset about my situation.

Endless posters saying nasty things about H&M are the same people attacking them for feeling hard done by? Does no one see the correlation?

And btw it’s never ok to make jokes about people’s physical appearance. When did this become ok?

It is as if there is a super injunction in place.

I have no idea if there is or not

But the failure of even the most critical commentators to mention the Portland thing, the Birkenhead incident, the Cali gynecologist who delivered Lili and then retired. Either they're really not interested or they're gagged.

Oh it was a GLOBAL smear campaign? So it was everyone else in the world that was the problem? Not them ?

Harry gave it a good go in Spare, his money-making (for him) autobiography. Maybe ask him where his out and out cruelty comes from.

I was just waiting for that answer!

But it still doesn’t mean that it’s ok for women on a website that’s supposed to be supportive of other women, to make silly, nasty posts about someone’s legs fhs.

Third option: they’ve investigated and found them to be without substance.

I didn't. I am not 'women'. HTH.

Maybe Meghan could have a crack at not laughing at runway models who nearly trip, and at singers with autism in Canada?

Where do you get this from ? This idea of you have to be supportive of ALL women just because you are the same sex ? It's an odd idea.

Or… Buckingham Palace has great contacts in the three main areas of the world where broadcasting and publishing rights are in English, a very healthy PR budget, friends in the Telegraph and the DM, and it serves certain members of the RF quite well to have H&M disparaged and discredited globally.

Especially when it has become known that the powers that be paid off a corrupt sexual abuser to avoid him going to trial. Someone they are still covering up for btw, while trying to spin that they are cooperating with police.

If it didn’t serve them well, there would have been a reconciliation by now.

There’s nothing odd about disliking attacks on people’s physical appearance that they have no control over whatsoever. It’s simply unjustifiable.

Yes, have you written to H to explain this?

There's nothing to stop anyone cos playing royalty, if they can find other people to play along.

H&M have - at the moment - some people willing to play along. I doubt official statements would make any difference. I predict the number of people willing to play along will continue to shrink - a bit like those around the Duke and Duchess of Windsor over the years. Desperately trying to hang on to their former importance and headline status, but the world moving on. And not being able to find the inner resources to make the most of their privileged existence.

I’m not excusing comments about MM’s physical appearance - other than to say when people gush about her looking half her age and posting AI pictures of her it’s pretty hard not to bite back - but comments about how she looks are the least of her worries.

Most normal people would be mortified to read that they were perceived to be bullies. They would be horrified to think people believed them to be money grubbing grifters with no interest in anything but themselves. Speaking personally if those criticisms were aimed at me it would make me think very hard about whether there was any basis for it and how I could do better.

Yes, maybe you are right. But it would have to be an "against the world" injunction to stop foreign publications saying anything on the matters. And I would have thought it would be possible to breach it in the light of Harry's own writing on Archie's birth, especially somewhere there is no cross jurisdictional enforcement in play. In any event, going back to my original gripe, a factual account of what the Portland offers in their maternity packages is not a controversial counterpoint to print in response to MM's claims she had no MH help.

Good points. I know Fergie went into commercial stuff but she never bad mouthed the Royal family. It was probably not even a thought in their minds that Harry would do what he has done since they left.

I don't like the merching of outfits but I do think this is a good outfit for her. She is much better at casual dressing.

The Portland package is simply a fact, though. Even the NHS offers mental health support during pregnancy - which many of us know from personal experience - and, in 2019, Kensington Palace was in an NHS catchment that had a dedicated telephone line to confidential, free mental health support for all. And Harry says he was receiving therapy. But yet he was too 'ashamed' and supposedly too inept to seek help for his pregnant, suicidal wife via either their private Portland package or the available NHS resources.

The 'went to HR' story is one of their usual unfinished tales that raises more questions than it answers. How was this approach made? To whom? What exactly was asked, and what exactly was said in response? Were other solutions suggested? Who knew what, and when?

I suppose I'm a bit surprised there hasn't been any MSM pushback on this implicit suggestion that heavily pregnant Meghan was left floundering in some sort of primitive backwater by the British establishment, and that this then formed a key underlying reason for the 'Freedom Flight'.

At this point H and M have very little control over what is printed, or broadcast about them, most of which is produced through a prism of bias. Even if they did something truly magnificent and selfless now, it would be turned in to something nasty by the global media. They cannot win. They are too lucrative a story. People are making their living off the back of disparaging them.

The nastiness has got way out of hand and is totally disproportionate to anything they have done.

Wow really?

Commenting on how someone dresses, isn’t making a joke about their physical appearance. The best dressed people enhance their physical attributes and wear what suits them. Plenty of people of average height manage to do this with a modest budget.

Also if you are merchandising your outfits, you need to expect commentary.

Shift dresses make people’s torsos look square and blocky when they are too short, especially when their torso is also short. The dress needs to be knee length to lengthen the body and look balanced. This was an I’m going to show my legs off outfit and it didn’t work. Shape wise she looked like an ice lolly. Colourwise, a teabag.

I’m sure she imagined it as a classy outfit - it just didn’t work.

Like baldness? Or having scoliosis?

Maybe if they had considered Harry’s options carefully and he had not been blind-sided by a fair accompli, he may not have felt the need to publish his book. People do drastic things when they feel powerless and unheard a d pushed in to a corner. Especially when he had seen his Uncle Andrew being protected and privileged while operating HIHO for years!