PR Disasters- Part 9

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PR disasters of Meghan and Harry.

Left off at the last page with Meg selling candles to people who want to know what her young children smell like. She’s also using the kids full titles in the press release….just for a dash of extra exploitation.

As you were

@TheAutumnCrow I got lost a bit through the money breakdown, half working half listening. The money competitors have to pay for room/ catering package is added onto invictus income stream?
Half the income goes in managerial salaries
8 million unaccounted for
Is that about the crux of it?

Isn't someone else doing a deep dive on the finances for invictus? Half their financials are redacted that surely isn't legal for a registered charity.

Edited to say:
That's not a charity that is a business and as such should be paying tax. If they were paying for competitors to access, train, travel, accommodation, support etc it would be a charity. I'm pretty shocked at those figures even for sir scamlot.

Of course 🙄

Redacted by the Canadian government, no less! (For the Whistler games.)

Cheeky fuckers.

I'm furious that this is not being made, I would pay vast amounts of money to watch Harry tell Putin and Trump that they're sociopaths to their faces, then ask them to discuss their mummy issues whilst he explains how much better a person he is because he turned out so well. Please, please, please - the world needs this!

I also don't think I knew, or at least registered, that the Sussex dukedom was hereditary... so Archie will become a duke, and presumably his little sister will be nothing. After all his whinging about the unfairness of the whole heir and spare palaver? Good grief.

@OtherS - I think we'd all have liked to hear those podcasts. Even if they were more ludicrous than Alan Partridge's desperate Monkey Tennis! - how H thinks he could talk to anyone who promised not to disagree with him and not ask him hard questions is unfathomable.

Re the Dukedom. I can see the RF not wanting to take away titles in case it make them look spiteful. A halfway house thought would be 1) The dukedom is for H only ( like Edward and DofE. )- A doesn't inherit it . 2) Prince and princess stops with A&L. So any of A's children aren't titled. I think that would be a fairly mild way of doing it. & how could H complain ( although he indubitably would) . B&E - prince/princess stops with them already . Zara and Peter n/a. I think S&E seem fairly calm about this sort of thing and would go with the flow.

The titles will die out with A&L as their children will neve**r be the grandchildren of a monarch which is where the Letters of Patent of 1917 draws the line. So that's a useful stop.

** highly unlikely

I would like Ricky Gervais to have a word with H re his political speeches - this clip isn't long and quite quickly get to him telling people about political opinions

Oh by the way thank you @Tablefor4 for correcting me 💐

As well as A and L being the last prince and princess in their line, the Sussex dukedom ceases to be a royal one after Harry. So the titles are gradually fading away. BP may be playing the long game.

Just a thought 🤔
Harry has written/appealed to the home secretary ref his security. I wonder how her and her foreign office colleagues are feeling about harry getting involved in world politics, especially him being such an expert and all?

I really think Archie and Lily having the Prince and Princess titles is really problematic, maybe not so much when they are cute little kids but they will grow up to be the adult children of the bitter and aggrieved Harry and the jealous and money hungry Meghan, so can you imagine how those children’s minds will be influenced and shaped by their parents over the years, will they grow up respectful of the institution and the heritage they were born into?, or will they take after their parents angry, aggrieved, ego driven and money hungry? plus not to mention the rivalry that no doubt their parents will encourage with the Wales children. Personally I don’t think the Prince and Princess titles dying out with A&L is the answer, I think it’s just asking for far bigger problems down the line.

H is on a solo tour to Ukraine! He's competing with his brother to be a global statesman, telling Trump and Putin, respectively, to support Ukraine and stop warmongering. As he is standing on a stage against a backdrop of Union Jacks, he looks as though he is representing the UK and the monarchy. What will it take for BP to take action?

@Thedom Thank you for posting those excerpts, fascinating reading and basically confirming what we have all been saying on here for years!

That's the formal situation, only grand children of a monarch being HRH. Lili can't pass it on as female. Archie can pass on the Sussex title but not HRH.

Yes, agree about potentially problematic parenting, but that's separate from the titles - Sophie and Edward being proof of that.

Yes I know how the titles work, that’s irrelevant to my post though, not sure the relevance of Sophie and Edward’s children either in relation to my comments, completely different situations. The point of my post is it’s problematic Archie and Lily having titles and how they will be used by them and their parents when they are adults.

I agree. I was thinking that the titles will be monetised by the parents (it's already started, at least an attempt), and later on the pair will surely exploit them.
I suspect if you're called Princess Lilibet Diana, and your parents are the Sussexes, it's given that this will be exploited. I dread to think in what way.

Agreed, look at the apparent dodgy dealings of the York sisters and they were brought up within the family and the institution and they still took advantage of their titles, what would two renegade Prince and Princesses do especially with their angry, entitled and money and fame hungry parents behind them, it’s got disaster written all over it.

Can you imagine? Having been nurtured in that environment of desperate monetising and publicity? They're used to being filmed and photographed regularly for the clicks.

A disaster waiting to happen unfortunately. Maybe something is in the pipeline. Mind you, it took Andrew being arrested to rid him of his titles

Look at me - baiting Putin ! Waaah! People are out to get me. I need security ! Waaah !

IMHO, A&L cannot misrepresent themselves as representing the UK.

H grew up in the Royal Family and had the support of the men-in-grey to create and reinforce an image of a working royal over several years. By contrast, A&L are associated with chaotic marketing of overpriced drop-shipping products.

A&L are growing up in the wake of the ongoing collapse of last vestiges of their father's royal life and within the Hollywood nepo-baby bubble. IMHO, A&L pose no danger to the next generation of UK royals but are themselves in danger from their vicious nepo-baby peers & momagers, who will fight A&L for clicks and relevance.