PR Disasters Part X

[AtIusvue]

For all Meg and Harry PR shenanigans

Papercompany - I know what you mean about insiders - I'm not saying it's true , just giving you a link. On balance I think they would have watched it - or at least I would have thought they would be interested in how C&C are going down in the US.

If she had a strong International Relations focus in her degree then I'm surprised she's never spoken about her courses and her Bachelor Dissertation/Thesis as she's spoken endlessly about the washing-up liquid letter as proof of her political activism/principles.

Thank you for that. That makes sense that she would talk up the more "glamorous" or important sounding modules she studied in order to inflate her accomplishments. Especially coupled with her breathless/wide eyed claim that she "worked for" the US embassy in Buenos Aires.

Didn't her father come out and say that this was actually a school project and no letter was actually posted ?

I do know that Graydon Carter when he was Editor of Vanity Fair , who are very keen on fact checking , said they could find no evidence of the story the way she tells it.

I agree, Indianrollerbrd, and besides it wasn't really the time or place - especially as any comment about them would almost certainly have brought another ugly response from Harry

In such a context it's surely better to keep state and family completely separate, though that probably wouldn't affect Harry's view of the matter

also calling H a retard and claiming the children could be as well.which is why they dont show their faces. I am not.fan of either H or M but that is appalling . I cant believe anyone would consider that acceptable.

I think this is interesting - why has no one sold a picture of her graduation, even in the background.

I can find Mayim Bialik's graduation photo (just first person I thought of)

Totally agree

Charles was there an official capacity so why would he mention them?

& then rewrites "his truth" version of history

Yes it’s odd. Also, I’m surprised her father hasn’t sold a picture.

I would never have thought about the Royal family watching each other's speeches and things like that

Rival and satellite royal courts have been a thing since forever.

The whole darn lot watch each other like hawks.

There's a wonderful scene in S1 of The Crown where we see the Coronation partly through a party thrown by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, where he's explaining the flummery to a roomful of (probably bored/bewildered) guests as it plays out on a teeny tiny telly which most of them can barely see.

"Ugly response" nails it..

I remember reading that George V was hurt that not all his sons congratulated him fulsomely after he had made the first ever Christmas King's Speech over the radio.

I imagine King Charles is thrilled at the (deservedly) positive reaction by everyone to his US speeches, and I think he will value his family's opinions the most.

It is sad, but also a reflection of the fact that she wasn't a perfect mother (none of us are, but most of us don't delegate to full time nannies and boarding school aged 8...).

She was a product of her upbringing, class and era. But certainly not a model of parenting I would want to follow.

Unfortunately H still - in his 40s - doesn't seem to be able to appreciate her strengths but also acknowledge her weaknesses as a parent. It something we all have to do as we grow up in order to have a healthy understanding of ourselves, and get away from the saint/villain approach to relationships

M is posting again on Instagram and we now hear Lili’s voice !

I think William has clearly learned a lot from being around the close and highly functional family unit of the Middletons

Apparently he's learned nothing from the blatant shedding of responsibility and culpability demonstrated by the Mids in regard to their business.

I thought it ran successfully for a couple of decades and folded because of COVID?

And that it was a Limited Company - which is a way thousands of people use to protect their personal assets from business risks?

But I haven't followed the story very much.

What responsibility/ culpability did the Middletons shed?

Oh ffs 🙄

it is odd. Daily mail would constantly jump on anything her and H posted. Fart and they all over it yet nothing lately

I thought the same thing .
Curious .

I doubt they listen to each other's speeches normally, but for an occasion like this I would expect that the Wales's and perhaps others would listen. A great learning opportunity for George I would think.

As for H&M - they haven't clapped back at reports that they didn't watch/listen so I suppose that is likely to be the truth. Have they really kept Archie & Lili in complete ignorance of this historic occasion of the widely praised visit by their Grandfather? I suppose they must have. Beggars belief that they (it might just have been Harry) can talk about the children possibly choosing to be working royals when they grow up (which obviously would never be an option for them) but at the same time keep them in total ignorance of what working royals do. Bonkers.

They come across as being quite sad people really .Royal Celebs?

The writers write according to their audience. As far as I'm aware, Australian Good Housekeeping is more low-brow than British Good Housekeeping. The Aus version's readership will have a lower reading age, hence the more simply structured writing. It's a reflection of the readership not the writer.