PR Disasters chapter 12

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Meg n Harry giving us plenty to talk about as usual…..

How could politicians shut him up? Excuse my ignorance on this. He only has a platform as Duke of Sussex. If title was removed, he'd have less. He is spouting very inflammatory nonsense

13 out of 101 councillors on Birmingham City Council (IIRC the biggest one in England) were elected on a pure-play anti-Israel in Gaza platform. That's almost 1 in 6. This is not going to go well.

Thank you @HoldMyWine

& here's one from me. Anyone want to bet me a fiver he won't slap anyone' arse - not even once 😊
https://www.dailymail.com/news/royals/article-15817739/King-Charles-Golders-Green-stabbings-Jewish-community.html

The point you make in yourvlast sentence.

This worries me. I have not read the article, only quotes from it. But I don't believe he wrote it because hevhasn't the intellect. He is now someone's useful idiot, pointing him at war zones and hot political potatoes, for their own strategic purposes, while promising him it will make him look the serious international figure.

It beggars belief that anyone who reads New Statesman thinks this came from H.

I posted this about a year ago about Meghan's need to constantly reinvent herself. For someone who talks a lot about "authenticity" she seems to have no clue who the "authentic Meghan" actually is. Just since she met Harry she adopted multiple new personas some of which contradicted past claims.

... and I've probably missed a few

Nature loving Charity activist - She seemed to attract Harry by being the "boho" philanthropist and Diana 2.0. She convinced him that she loved camping trips to Africa and charity work. But that seemed forgotten as soon as the marriage certificate was signed and she never visited Harry's "beloved" Sentebale projects in 7 years or returned to "magical Botswana".

The royal "modernizer" - she was going to whip the RF into 21st century shape through "American" workplace practices, feminist mantras involving washing-up liquid, not following dress codes, ignoring hierarchy and using her royal status to make money - establishing the Sussex Royal website to merch her products. But after 72 appearances and ignoring any advice it all got too much that they took an extended holiday for a couple of months and never returned.

"Just an ordinary couple" - a very brief phase after they "found freedom" where they eschewed titles with "I'm Meghan", "just call me Harry" and we "chose not to have titles for our kids". It seems to have gone out of the window with the circling back to wanting traditional royal status - prince/princess titles for the kids, recent title merching and "don't call me Markle", faux royal overseas tours to Nigeria/Colombia - now Australia and sending gifts from HRH Duchess Meghan Sussex". Now the revelations in a news article that she has herself announced as "Meghan, Duchess of Sussex" when she enters empty rooms! 😂

Media mogul - Meghan would be the new Oprah by producing and appearing in a whole range of programming and podcasts and becoming a billionaire. The US companies threw $millions at them although there have been few successes. "Meet me at the Lake" needs to be re-named "dead in the water" as it was announced to huge fanfare in 2023 but has no director or cast in 2026. Although I'm a bit disappointed that she didn't make the "Miss Havisham as a feminist icon" drama that was in pre-production a few years' ago as it sounded hilarious. According to rumours online - Netflix has turned down the Harry and Meghan vow-renewal TV special.

Tradwife/lady of the manor - was the persona she adopted for WLM where she tries to convince us that she is digging her own veg, making jam and sending the kids to market while hosting gracious garden parties in floaty dresses and making crap, sorry crepe packet mixes with the kids which are smeared with liquid jam and pot-pourri sprinkles.

Female founder & Super Mom - she's a business woman who is selling stuff while being supermom. Although her podcast revealed little actual business knowledge beyond trite platitudes about running her business from her kitchen while packing lunches and doing school runs. She seems to have a very strange stock control system as she never orders enough so her online shop is either sold out in minutes or she has thousands of items that nobody buys. She keeps launching "special collaborations" - jam & flowers/jam and squashed chocs - but nobody seems to be buying

Lifestyle Influencer - recently she seems to have circled back to 2016 to sell herself, her lifestyle and her kids on Instagram. Strangely posed curated "lifestyle" photos, merching the clothes she wears to events online. However her foray into "wellness influencing" with the retreat was flopped and she bailed to watch rugby instead....

The constant reinvention must be exhausting .....

Are the diamonds the same or has she swapped these?

My narc ex 100% believed that he deserved respect and consideration from me, even after treating me extremely badly, and was genuinely puzzled that I was frosty with him. (I know cos he complained about it to the DC. )

It is a real narc thing.

He gets support from certain politicians - Yvette Cooper accompanied him to the Ukraine and the UK government paid his expenses for that trip and Harry stood there in front of Union Jacks

Unfortunately it seems that Harry is a useful idiot to many political interests - he risks becoming his generation's AMW

I don't think Yvette Cooper 'accompanied' him to Ukraine. She was there at the same time, but I don't believe they travelled together.

Don’t know honestly 🤷‍♀️ , I’m assuming they are still the original ones because I would like to think even Meghan would not go so far .

Thank you @jeffgoldblum for the photos

Lunde - She's swapped out the Botswana diamond for a bigger emerald cut one . So of the original ring , what's left are the two smaller diamonds which were Diana's.

I would if it was that one 😆

Harry and Yvette Cooper were said to have been on the same train on the 2025 trip to Ukraine.

He said he 'checked with the British government' before going.

Telegraph archive link: https://archive.is/kv4x4
Yvette Cooper, the new Foreign Secretary, is believed to have travelled to Kyiv on the same train, although it is not known whether she met up with the Duke.

I haven't seen anything reliable saying that the UK government funded that trip or the more recent one. Someone on X said they had but that was because Invictus said they hadn't paid for it.

Sorry too late to edit - @Lunde may have seen something I haven't re the funding - didn't mean to sound like I was contradicting you!

It’s too much of a coincidence that Cooper and Windsor were in Ukraine at the same time. She’s a republican and has fallen for the “media racist towards Meghan” line, having been a signatory to the letter from various female MPs (who all ignored Catherine when she was being called misogynistic names and upskirted by the paps). Didn’t Harry declare that the Home Secretary had intervened to get review of his security shortly thereafter? The one we are still waiting for.

For someone who talks a lot about "authenticity" she seems to have no clue who the "authentic Meghan" actually is

Excellent post in it's entirety, @lunde, but just taking this bit, "authentic" seems to me another of those things it's best left for others to say - also that the apparent need for the person themselves to say it suggests straight away that it's not true

And well done on finding those ring photos, @jeffgoldblum
Just one question ... where's the Welsh gold wedding band among the pic with about 5 rings??

I've probably missed it on here, but has someone posted a link to any article about H&M saying that KC has been "disloyal" and it's "triggered" them?

Even the Jam and butter and bread/pasta/pancakes/shortbread don’t strike me as foods she’d eat a lot of. I bet it’s all green smoothies and salmon ceviche in her fridge. Maybe that’s why she sits on the butter

Yes, @Marmaladelover - it's just a big conversation!

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/insight/prince-harry-meghan-reportedly-struggle-after-king-s-us-visit-with-trump/gm-GME3F206C2?gemSnapshotKey=GME3F206C2-snapshot-1

https://www.aol.com/articles/prince-harry-meghan-markle-suffering-130000000.html

Here you go @SqueakyDinosaur It's a "sources close to"

I believe it was Invictus's Digital Communications Manager who said, in his disastrous AMA on TwiX, that Invictus had not paid for H's Ukraine visit, the UK government had. He has locked his account now, so I can't check.

Invictus flatly denied funding Harry's Ukraine ventures. But if UK ministers are travelling into a warzone, with maximum security, during an active war you can bet that everyone onboard has been approved to travel and is covered by the UK government security arrangements - it's not like they just happened to be on the 4.50 from Paddington at the same time.

It's the same with the recent Kyiv security forum - Harry stood in front of British flags to attack Putin and the British delegation didn't complain so there must have been tacit approval at least. Unclear whether the UK funded the actual travel or if it was one of the Soros-funded think tanks.

The problem for Harry now is that he seems to be trying to play both sides. On the Jordan trip he positioned himself with the Palestinians which gained him support from certain UK politicians - but now he is presenting himself as pro-Israel with his latest article so his message is confused as he drifts away from humanitarianism and into diplomacy which he is ill equipped for.

The Invictus Games is facing a huge headache - both on the field with the participation ... are countries involved in ongoing conflicts with each other going to be able to meet over a game of football? Then off the field with a huge funding gap, and a hostile local council.

Thanks - I'm enjoying the quote marks around "suffering" and "PTSD" in the headline!!

Rumour has it QE2 confiscated it when M was force-marched from the National Theatre and put on a plane to Canada back in 2020.

The five ring stack was Trevor not Harry @Puzzledandpissedoff, so not there , she still wears it as far as I can tell ( however it is difficult to tell which is which, so I understand the confusion!)