PR Disasters thread 16.

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Meghan and Harry the grift that keeps on grifting. Long may they continue. Better than any soap opera on the telly.

There was a TV series about the Sweeny Campbell marriage and scandalous divorce case a few years ago - one of the “A Very British Scandal” series. Claire Foy and a good looking English actor whose name I can’t remember now, but he’s in loads of things. Awful man, and she was used by him but a bit bonkers (bonk being the operative word) herself.

Decades ago when I was a student nurse we all had to put our names on the doors of our rooms in the nurses home.

One arrogant arsehole, let’s call him Fred Bloggs, put his name on his door with his previous educational achievements underneath:
Fred Bloggs
BA Hons First Class

This piss taking which followed was epic and in three years of training he never lived it down. I still chuckle when I think of it now.

It’s interesting because I do think Charlotte has a resemblance to Diana as she gets older. I still see the Queen and Sarah Chatto in her, but the last few times I think she looks a bit like Diana at a similar age.

As a confirmed cynic where these two are concerned, I do wonder whether the hiding of the faces is more to do with whom the children resemble than with safety or privacy. Partly of course because if safety and privacy really were the issues, she wouldn't post photos at all. There's obviously the commercial exploitation and using Lili in particular for press attention and clicks, but at the same time, I don't think Meghan would enjoy comments about how unlike the cousins are, with Charlotte resembling Diana and/or QE2, while Lili is the spit of Thomas Markle snr.

Prince George's eyes are in the Diana ball park. The other children are thoroughly Middleton /Windsor though.

I think it's more of a teasing until the inevitable reveal tbh

I think that William really looks like Diana and Charlotte really looks like William. But Charlotte doesn't look that much like Diana.

Wait until she finds out that noone cares.

Delusion. This is a woman promoting her crap for Father's Day when she has cut all ties with her own father and father in law.

I see George looking like Edward VIII. I think he's the spitting image of him.

I remember when Lili was born, that Harry took great pains to claim that she had 'blue, blue eyes' and 'she's definitely a Spencer'! Of course, her face has never been shown so it's hard to tell if that's really true but it does show how keen they are to push the 'Diana's granddaughter' angle!

Ha ha @Corryvreckan I once met a woman who introduced her self as Lady Fiona So-and-so . It turned out it was something you could buy over the internet - bit like a square inch of land in Scotland, so you could say you owned land in Scotland. Not sure these are still things now.

He certainly is. Willie has always looked like Diana. Isn't this another bone of contention for H??

I was gifted one of those by a friend in my 20s, a square inch of land in Scotland so you are a laird or lady! (I have no idea where the gift is and have never introduced myself as LadyFallenNight....though that will be my next name change.

It’s the super fans who are publishing AI images of the Sussex kids, praising and complimenting their Spencer genes, presenting them both as uber white.

I've always wondered how the super-fans can support Meghan as their 'Black Princess', and complain about racism, and then do this in the next breath.

To be honest, I think it rather sad.
Although I can't stand them now, I was very supportive of Meghan when she first appeared in the RF.
The point here is that they could have left the RF without the sniping, and if they had been prepared to put the work in, (and listen to their PR teams), they could have made a successful enterprise after leaving.
What is their brand? Well it's clear to me there brand has always been 'Trash the Royal Family, and reveal gossip about them, especially negative, as much as you can'.
This does not really go down well, in the US, or anywhere frankly.
If only they had dropped the titles, never posted pics of their children or talked about them in interviews, then they would not be seen as such hypocrites.

😂@FallenNight Make sure you type carefully , FallenNightLady may not have the same resonance

California is ground zero for plastic surgery in the US.

IMHO, it strikes me as ensuring that there are no "before" pictures, because even aggressive plastic surgeons would likely refuse significant pediatric non-medical cosmetic surgery for liability reasons below a certain age threshold.

Momager M can always claim that dear A&L were born with their resemblance to their very famous dead grandmother. (Forget about looking like the living grandmother!)

Omg surely even Meghan wouldn’t go there 😱
I suppose she has had a few procedures herself, mind.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if, at some point in the future, Lili appears with short, dyed blonde hair and bright blue contact lenses!

In spite of Lilibet's "blue, blue eyes".

Despite the Windsor heritage of QEII and Prince Philip both having blue eyes as well as KC, PH could tell they were Spencer's?! Desperate stuff, really.

To be fair, they may have inherited the Spencer hair…

We saw Lili on her first birthday which was celebrated at Frogmore . I recall that most people commented how like the Markles Lili looked .
We have not seen another photo of her face since .
Coincidence ?

Both the Spencer's and Windsors have redheads in their lineage. PH's is more likely a Spencer trait (I remember seeing a Spencer cousin who looked remarkably like PH when they were young). I do actually wish we had no indication of what his children looked like. I really don't like the stickered faces but everything else visible. That doesn't protect them at all.