PR Disasters Part X

[AtIusvue]

For all Meg and Harry PR shenanigans

From Reuters 2008.

“Asked if he would ever want to come back to Afghanistan, he said: "I don't want to sit around in Windsor.

"But I generally don't like England that much ……..

and, you know, it's nice to be away from all the press and the papers and all the general shite that they write."

The comments, made available to the media under a pool arrangement, are unlikely to be welcomed by Harry's supporters in Britain or by the popular tabloid press. ”

talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
He is too self absorbed to think through the ramifications of a comment like that . He was being bankrolled by a nation and its institutions and didn't have the sense to see how trashing them would make him look.
Neither one of them has any idea of how to conduct themselves in a dignified, professional and respectful.manner. If it is running through their heads it is spilling out of their mouths at the same time. Which only proves that neither one has what it takes to represent the RF even if they wanted to.

Balmoral, Sandringham and all personal property of family / historic interest that he inherited were sold to George VI for an annual allowance. He had significant amounts of jewellery, artworks etc as well as property.

He had free housing (or a peppercorn rent) from the French government for his Paris mansion. And they didn't tax his income.

There were endless wrangles over money with the RF for the rest of his life. He felt hard done by, they resented that he had hidden some of his wealth during negotiations after the abdication.

The money came with strings attached, such as not returning to the UK without permission.

No, she’ll be demanding Hazza cashes in his inheritances.
Have a recollection that princess Anne is the holder of the queens money for the beneficiaries … at the time I wondered if it had something to do with making sure Megain doesn’t get her hands on it

Meghan has been gradually pruning off his friends and family, this type of behaviour is common in mental health issues including paranoid personality disorder (my step mum had this so it looks very familiar to what happened to my dad). She’s very strange with her narcissism, delusions of grandeur, freakish controlling behaviour, bullying, resentment to others … very weird, Harry is too stupid to see it and the children will grow up thinking it’s normal

Totally off topic but some posters may recall from a few threads back that thanks to the sight of Meghan’s horrid looking so called marmalade I was inspired to make some marmalade and enter a jar into the annual Dalemain Marmalade festival.
Yesterday I received my judging results:
A Silver 🥈 award! Very kind judging comments too.

https://www.dalemain.com/the-festival

Well done!! That’s such a good result.

Well done you!!!

If you look at Ronbrand homes website you will see some amazing houses in the Montecito area and they all look much better maintained than Casa Sussex .

Harry is typical English Upper class -won’t mind old stuff, saggy sofas, slightly frayed textiles which is common in the ‘old money’ set.

At Longleat you can see the inhabited rooms , they are more than threadbare, they feel like a youth hostel.

Love the marmalade update @ShamedBySiri

Thank you all. I was very pleased! Also pleased not to have won!!! I have no idea how it works but the winner gets a batch of their marmalade sold at Fortnums. How is a small scale cook with a cupboard of doom filled with old Bon Maman jars meant to upscale to produce a few hundred pristine jars, and where do they get the seville oranges from out of season? Perhaps Fortnums sells a few jars of their.own stuff with the winner's name on?

I LOVE marmalade! Well done you!

What with various possible trusts, inheritances, and allowances, their finances seem very Byzantine and mysterious to me (although Atlusvue and others have a much better handle on it than I do).

But what stands out to me is that they absolutely appear to be grubbing around for money, in an undignified way. Which makes me think that - whatever the actual numbers are - they aren't financially secure, because otherwise they wouldn't be compromising their image like that. Because image is everything to Meghan, and Harry has never had to think in terms of making money at all. So (to me) it's their behaviour which really indicates financial worries.

I met a couple who have a niche business restoring chandeliers and had a very interesting conversation with them. They care for the chandeliers in the Bath assembly rooms which they said were the best in the country. They go into these rambling old houses and have to take the chandeliers down, dismantle them piece by piece, clean the glass, rewire them to modern safety standards and reassemble them. They said they see really shocking ones, that have the original wiring from when electricity was introduced, huge fire risk. They were astounded by the state of my local large estate house, horrified at the lack of climate control around the valuable antiques and paintings. Though in a way, it is a lived in country home so I can see it's not easy. Anyway the chandeliers are all clean and up to scratch now.

Why would the French govt agree not to tax him! How very strange. Surely also the properties belonged to the monarch in any case? If he abdicated his crown would the properties not have automatically gone to his brother the heir ?

Not sure they will appreciate you advertising their lack of discretion. Who else are they telling about art works without modern security?

Balmoral and Sandringham are different because they are personally owned.

So William will own them because they’ll be left to him in Charles’ will but if Charles stepped aside William would have to buy them from his father?

If this is the case then it's still unhelpful to them because as @Thedom said, that's only money they can access if they sell. Now as a few posters have also said, it would probably be more sensible for them to sell and get a smaller property instead. But they'll need to come up with a convincing narrative for that.

They have amassed a stonking amount of equity in 5 years.

Tom Sykes said as much in his latest podcast. Along the lines of the Sussexes being a laughing stock, because the house is not a nice one, and your average Montecito billionaire would have torn it down and rebuilt it long before now. If they had any brains, and really wanted to lean into selling the lifestyle “brand”, they would have built an annex where they can be seen to be legitimately hosting/filming “at home.”

And probably borrowed against it, given that their behaviour suggests a certain desperation for cash.

They must have been haemorrhaging money 2021-25. And now H is potentially on the hook for huge court losses.

Yes, George VI had to buy all the private residences from Edward iirc. Plus Edward was appointed the Governor General of the Bahamas (I think) so probably accrued an income and pension from
that role.

Not neccessarily.

Unless they're selling today and have found someone prepared to pay that amount, that theoretical value means very little.

They got a very good cut price deal on the house but purchased it from a dodgy oligarch:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/harry-meghan-bought-home-russian-22523728

Total speculation but I wonder if Uncle Scandal had some sort of hand in brokering the deal?

It might go some way towards explaining Harold's tightly closed trap on the York antics.