PR Disasters part 11

[HoldMyWine]

The ongoing dramas from Montecito courtesy of H&M.

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

Sure they did. 🤥

The only book that will work is a post divorce book from Meg and it will drip of hatred, victimhood etc. H was an abusive drug addict blah blah

Watched Rob Schuter on Maureen Callahan. He said things are very grim for m and H. They both lead separate lives. He has no friends there at all and the lunch in LA all a puff piece. If he could go to LA, why not go to Chicago for the Communion?

So that article seems to be saying M and her 'supporters' are biding their time to judge when to launch her autobiography.
M wants it to be when the narrative arc can be 'I've been through so much and now I'm thriving and wildly successful.'
She may be waiting a while for that moment.

I can also see that M and H will have very different views about her book and all the interviews that will come with it. It'll be another death knell in their relationship with the RF. So they have a problem: he wants to be semi royal again as it's all he has, she wants to launch her autobiography and be the centre of attention again.

I don't usually speculate about divorce as who knows what goes on in a marriage, but I can actually see this difference on the autobiography being a schism in their relationship.
She is ultimately bound to want to do this at some point. But it will only have negative consequences for Harry.
Trouble Ahead.

She may also want to wait tactically - sorry to be morbid - until her father is no longer around to contradict the unflattering story she will no doubt want to tell about him.

I actually think the problem is that neither of them know what family life is really.

This.

They don't have the pressues many parents do that take them away from their kids - need to earn money- they choose to do these trips - they choose to be away from still young kids.

Though that pic on the beach looks to me like siblings quietly arguing - like my DC often did - she said hold hands just hold my hand type thing. Though that doesn't mean they aren't close my DC are and argued like that.

Oh yes, she is going to want to launch all this at the perfect moment for herself, but there is going to be nothing positive in it for Harry.

There will be lots of interest in her story when it comes out. I'll be interested! But i won't buy the book I'll just chat about it on here! And that's her issue. She'll get lots of attention, she'll even make some money, but she'll further drag them into the mud in doing so.

Meghan is between a rock and a hard place really - her posts look so shit in comparison with the full face smiley photos / videos of the Wales children. But she can’t post content like that because they’ve made such a big deal of Privacy and Danger etc. So the Waleses post a pic or video for a birthday and everyone says how lovely. When Meghan does the same everyone says how weird, why trash your child’s privacy for no reason, who cares etc etc.

Yes, and if I read the article correctly between the lines, it was in order to not make it all about them/outshine the bride. So considerate of them!

She could refused to play at all - keep them out the media completely as other lesser royals do.

I suspect there's tension between Harry and Meghan and pictures of the kids in media - her wanting them out there helping sell merch and him not and this is the compromise which Meghan then tried to sell as aren't we better parents.

I'm surprised they've said they were invited but chose not to attend the Bezos wedding because they'd draw attention. This would be so easily disproven with one word from LS ( to whom I suspect this is so far under her radar she couldn't be bothered to clap back. ) I'd be equally surprised if they really didn't go because of the attention they would garner. Doesn't sound like M. At the time the published view was they weren't invited and there was no clap back then as I recall.

Re the 4 billionaire support network. Cynically I can believe Oprah's hanging around for the tell-all. Re Nicole Avant - I was listening to Marina Hyde on "The Rest is Entertainment" discussing the Beef party. She reckoned it was contractual. NF have let them go but it's not in their interest to display anything other than good relations. They do not want other talent ( well let's just say talent and drop the "other" 😊) forming an opinion of NF badmouthing people who work with them.

I think this article does have the hallmarks of deliberately trying to counter the "spiralling" article.

If these women are really making sure she doesn't fail , how is she continuing to do things people see as ridiculous and out of touch.

I think it’s also because of the coverage of the Wales children - A+L have to have that too. I’m not sure whether she has convinced herself that there is a similar level of interest or just that there should be. Her attempts to compete are painful to watch 😬

She has hinted at those awful which I really hope are rumours about her dad.

Harry won't stop her slating the RF again unfortunately.

unless it's a divorce book slating H or if they don't divorce, it'll have to be another slating the royals book.

she is beyond dull. Has accomplished absolutely nothing. Zero wit / intelligence. How could a book be of any interest to anyone ?

I agree.

Montecito is supposedly a beautiful place, but there is nothing enviable about this landscape. It looks barren and lonely, almost like a disaster film where the children were the only ones left alive after a giant meteor struck earth, and are now having to survive alone in the great wilderness.

I’m not good at spotting photoshopping and AI type things but the first time I looked at the picture I zoomed in because something about their arms/the pose didn’t look right.

I agree. It looks lonely and made me think of two shipwrecked children looking for their mum and dad after wakening up in the sand all on their own.

eta - I hadn’t read @IcedPurple’s post when I wrote mine. We’re both on the same page.

When and where has she hinted at this - assume we are talking about CSA?

Neither of them have grasped that the crowds were for the TRH the Duke and Duchess of Sussex representing the UK monarchy. Far fewer people come out for Harry and Meghan Sussex.

Even if the book is a best seller it isn't about her, it's about the fact she married into the monarchy. That's a pretty sad situation to be in.

Lady Colin C (yes, I know) 🙄 was on a podcast and Harry told his friends that this happened and it's why he wouldn't meet T markle

Any biography is ring-fenced as her pension pot and PH won’t be getting a cut.

The ‘story’ will be post divorce - where she will trash the RF - but by then W&C likely to be K&Q - and MM’s spite and ‘secrets’ will be at the optimum value to tear down a young popular monarchy - much more devastation - no one cares about KC3 and QC dirt as they have already blotted their copy books.

And that’s why OW and the other people are keeping their investment warm and their snouts in the trough - not friendship or supporting MM career - just lining their own pockets.

Thanks - good to know that rumour has very serious limitations …. LCC, PH, his friends!!!

That article is a contrived piece to try and address all of the criticisms made about her across SM.

It might work for MM, which is the clear objective, but it’s pretty bleak for H. Where is he in all this?

MM is being cultivated for the inevitable tell all autobiography. Her circle of influential women is not looking out for her interests, but theirs.

I tend to think that any divorce settlement will have very strict conditions attached . Meghan will want to hang on to her title so may not have the freedom to write Spare 2 .

I think she's screwed completely if they ever do split. And she must know that. There's no money there for a hefty divorce settlement until Charles coughs up (and that will come with a watertight lifelong NDA). Given how Spare tanked and was ripped apart by the media, anything she offers won't be anywhere near as marketable. And the few doors that are still open to her will slam firmly shut if she's no longer married into the RF.