PR Disasters part 11

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The ongoing dramas from Montecito courtesy of H&M.

I can’t see another thread but I made the same mistake last time …

I'm sure he does have regrets but Meghan won't countenance them. There is no way in hell she wants to return to the fold that apparently made her suicidal.

I'm sure Charles is deeply embarrassed by him.

I know everyone thinks Charles is keen on reunion - but I don''t see much sign of this and suspect the above.

They've tried a few times Harry immediately spoke out to press about King health or just leaked. I don't think he gets on well with Camilla - William done with him - he brings nothing but headaches and demands. I suspect arms lengths suits the RF very well given his behavior.

There is a campaign taking root on Redditt and X to bring this state of affairs to the attention of the Charities Commission. A few investigators requested info from IG. The info they received was heavily redacted around key points of expenditure. They are (and are urging their readers to do the same) following the procedure requred to get unredacted info, with the intention of raising a complaint to the Charities Commission if IG fail to meet legal requirements.

Was £25m and a KP pad really modest in the 1990s?

He used £67,000 for legal fees, without the authorisation of the board.

And, at a fund-raiser organised by Dr S for Sentebale, suggested to donors that they might channel their donation via Archewell or give it to Travalyst instead.

TBF, I reckon growing up in the RF would give you a very strange attitude to money. You'd never have the association most of us do between work and money, you'd have no concept of "too much" or "not enough", and all your finances would be dependent on the head of the family. So it would make sense that someone as dim as Harry wouldn't really see the distinction between the charity's money and what it's intended for, and his money.

Having your granny's ( and now your dad's) head stamped on the legal tender would mess up anyone's relationship with money.

There's a little vignette in Tina Brown's (excellent) Palace Papers of a friend of hers giving W&H each a £50 note, and her saying "Oh look boys, purple Grannies!"

How was he able to do that though? In most businesses (including charities), you can't just write yourself a cheque for £5 without having two signatories, let alone ££ thousands. Unless he was acting as the charity's accountant (unlikely), and sent himself a donation, how was he able to unilaterally able to move the charity's money about?

It feels almost medieval with the warring factions.

Well part of the problem was Harry installing his own chums on the Board, so I suspect it was authorised by individuals, not the Board as a whole. Alternatively he just ran up the bills and told them to send the invoices to the charity and the person in charge of Finance was either too embarrassed or under the cosh to challenge the expenses.

Speaking of the dear Duchess of Windsor, i recently read there is a movie in the works with Joan Collins playing Wallis and Isabella Rossellini playing the solicitor who abused cared for her in her later years.

I was thinking the same, I thought charities had to be completely transparent with their finances, how can they redact financial information from the public?

Whatever happened to Close Personal Friends?? Meghan's grand return to acting

That is a good point

It will be a five minute wonder, just like Spare, it will grab headlines for a couple of weeks and be serialised in the papers but that will be it. She is no Wallis Simpson, for a start there was no abdication crisis, the fifth in line is an irrelevance, as you say Wallis didn’t speak out, or bore us rigid with her grifting, bullying, constant clap backs and yawn fest daily Instagram posts, she had the allure of mystery and was known style icon who literally shaped history. Meghan Markle is no threat to the royal family at all, at best she is an annoying fly that will easily be swatted.

She was the future Queen before the divorce with a habit of manipulating the press. They couldn't leave her scrabbling around for cash.

I saw a post online (can't remember if just on TwiX or Blind Gossip) that she has been cut out of the final edit.

Just have to wait until it's released.

Kind of unrelated - but I saw this on TikTok.

For all we keep being told Harry is living his best life - we never see him being this joyful anymore.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNRsMTn8E/

It went the same way as Meg’s famous ‘return to the shows’ (aka the Zoolander moment).

Not happening.

That would be hilarious particularly as she was probably the one who leaked about the part in the first place.

Harry (or perhaps a writer for him?) on David Attenborough

https://archive.is/Q7e1Q

Diana was married to the POW so her settlement reflected both the income from the Duchy of Cornwall and the need for a secure location for her to keep future King William V safe when she had custody of him.

By contrast, Fergie's settlement, as she was married to the then Spare was $475,000...also based on the Duke of York's income and the fact that neither child (B or E) was in the direct line of succession.

How Sarah Ferguson's $475K Divorce Payout Made Her 'Desperate for Money' While Princess Diana Received $22 Million

I don't understand what either of them would gain from a divorce and neither of them would be an attractive prospect on the marriage market. They can live semi-separate lives (with another pad somewhere for H to crash in) and co-parent the children, many clebs seem to do it so it can't be that hard. He can work out an acceptance package for his visits to the UK and they can maintain an amicable separation without even having to give it a name.