PR Disasters, chapter 13

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Meg and Harry and all their PR shenanigans

Trigger Warning: this thread may contain talk about sleeves.

She married him for his title. Simple. He has absolutely no redeeming qualities. Her bullshitting that she didn't know who he was was quite frankly insulting

Oh god, yes, the engagement interview was so cringey - the doe-eyed pretence at never having heard of him, saying she only wanted to know if he was KIND....

Absolutely this.

I'm sure there are many parents who think this but most would not say it publicly where they know it will be picked up by the media and preserved for posterity.

Oh that little video of the wedding makes me sad. It was such a happy day and they both seem really happy together. What a shame that their monumental hubris, bitterness and narcissism have brought them to where they are now.

Her ex husband is reportedly very kind, if that's all it takes. Anyways, he's turned down many offers to tell his side of the story.

Something odd had happened - if you compare to Eugenia’s wedding where George and Charlotte just mixed in with the other bridesmaids and pageboys at the end and didn’t need to be with their parents.

Catherine who was only four weeks postpartum also went in the car with Charlotte to the chapel - unlike Eugenie’s wedding where she just went to the chapel with William and let the kids be chaperoned by others.

It’s as though she didn’t want to leave Charlotte alone.

Meghan's first husband has a much nicer house than her: https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/beverly-hills-home-of-trevor-engelson-by-daniel-joseph-chenin

The thing about the wedding though is we were all very happy watching it on the telly, and they seemed happy, but the fractures were already there in the family we just didn't know it.

The family must have been thinking 'bloody hell if only they knew' when we were all waving our flags and having tea parties.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with not being academic, plenty of very successful people had to work their arses off at school for mediocre results. There are plenty of other forms of intelligence which these people tend to have in abundance.
Harry's problem is that he's thick as shit. The only thing he's good at is sport, and he's gone and married someone who doesn't appear to have a sporty bone in her body, and not even any interest in it.

I don’t get this comment.

’Where they are now?’ Is this a bad thing? They’re living what seems to be very happily in a lovely place. They’ve escaped the awful Royal Family and the nasty British Press.

Why do people see what isn’t there? It’s pure spite.

Yes, and his refusals say a lot about his integrity - something his ex wife and her latest husband would do well to learn from

Oh dear !

I think the army suited Harry as a structured environment where he didn't have to think and plan for himself. I think he should have stayed longer in the Army but he was difficult for them to place. But I expect he could have done something like Invictus from within the Army. There was a guy I knew at Uni who had been in boarding school since the age of 7 and was unable to function outside of that sort of structure - he was unable to plan his studies and knew nothing about money - once spending 2 months of living expenses on diamond jewellery for a girl he met a fortnight before - to compensate he tried to live on baked potatoes but damaged the cooker when they exploded (he didn't know you needed to prick them). When he failed his courses he left - to join the Army!

But I agree Harry should have got some experience of some sort of civilian work. He could have had an estate to run - Charles wanted to gift him one after marriage but they turned it down. Or, with a good team around him, he could have done something involving breeding/training horses - polo ponies or race horses - where playing polo or attending the Ascot could be written off as work.

I think celebrity TV/media development was the worst idea as he had no experience or particular talent for developing ideas or knowing what people would watch - some of his "ideas" sounded like teenage fantasies - like a podcast interviewing Trump and Putin about their childhood trauma.

Why are the Royal family awful?

I agree about the press.

Think it’s time ….

What sport is Harry good at? I've never seen him take part in any sport in any serious way. He doesn't even seem to have much of an interest in sports. Certainly nothing compared to William's love for Villa.

He's an excellent skier and horse rider. (We may not necessarily approve of polo, but it requires a high level of horsemanship besides other skills.) He was a massive rugby fan as well.

I heard someone say recently (possibly Hugo Vickers) that Princess Anne really rates Harry’s horse skills, and he could have followed in her footsteps.

Meghan is very good at sucking up to people she deems important, and punching down on those she seems less so.

Not skills I’d like to have myself