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The royal family

PR disasters thread 23

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BigWillyLittleTodger · 11/07/2026 23:05

Let the games continue…….

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Starryfifty · 14/07/2026 23:56

ShamedBySiri · 14/07/2026 23:39

Mark Dolan's take down of Harry's podcast is very enlightening, since I haven't listened to the podcast and was unaware of some of the details Mark goes into.
It starts with Harry being very belligerent and somewhat aggressive to the show's hosts. It's so weird - why is he like that? Does he think he's being funny in some way? He was rude to John Travolta - Hollywood Royalty. He's rude to these guys. Isn't the normal format when one goes on a podcast to gush what a fan of the podcast you are and how pleased you are to be invited on? That would be far to humble for Just Call Me Harry.

There's no way he can ever be allowed back in the WRF - he's far worse now than whatever he was like before with youthful indiscretions (putting it kindly) smoothed over by MIGS, now he's a rude, blustering, total liability. Well on the way to Andrew mark 2.

I cannot bring myself to listen but saw snippets as he is being ripped apart by everyone on YouTube (mark D included). He's so belligerent and obnoxious. He said something about Harry Kane which I thought was odd.

His comment to John Travolta was absolutely horrendous and he should have been pulled up on this

jeffgoldblum · 14/07/2026 23:57

DaisyDooley · 14/07/2026 19:10

That is wonderful advice as as soon as we have eaten dinner & I’ve cleared up I’m going to go upstairs and£ as long as I havent had any ‘don’t do it’ posts from the royal style thread l’ll start one.
And the first post will have rubies ❤️

❤️

jeffgoldblum · 14/07/2026 23:59

IAmATorturedPoet · 14/07/2026 20:04

The programmed has been shelved
I suspect she has indeed self-nominated and if she meets the eiligibility criteria and has paid the processing fee she's likely to go through to the nomination stage.

Facts matter! , it also looks like someone has forgotten they are not supposed to tag or quote me!!!
so forgetful! , so very rude!!!

jeffgoldblum · 15/07/2026 00:02

Rhaidimiddim · 14/07/2026 20:46

Some of those jewels are awfully lazy.

You know it! 😁

Starryfifty · 15/07/2026 00:02

I do have a theory on PH though. Would he have a bitter jealousy of other men? Men he feels are better than him, more attractive than him, more successful etc ? John T for example. Highly respected, accomplished. Joe marler and his fellow podcasters, witty, attractive etc.. lifeguard in Australia, slapping his arse in the hope yo humiliate him. As for his brother (say no more)

BillyBites · 15/07/2026 00:06

Going off-track for a second, can someone tell me what the W stands for in WRF?

Starryfifty · 15/07/2026 00:08

BillyBites · 15/07/2026 00:06

Going off-track for a second, can someone tell me what the W stands for in WRF?

Would it be "working" royal family?

jeffgoldblum · 15/07/2026 00:09

Starryfifty · 14/07/2026 22:15

The run up to the Emmys will be insufferable

Don’t worry! It’s just another in a long line of pay per play awards!! , nobody thinks Harry is a legend of aviation! And certainly nobody thought he was awarded the pat tilman award fairly! ( including his mother!) , it will inevitably end up one of two ways!! …it wins ..public outcry and derision for the obvious cheating! …it sinks without a trace! …the program was crap! .. hardly anyone watched it who wasn’t taking the piss! .. Meghan conclusively proved she can’t cook .

desperatehazzer · 15/07/2026 00:27

LifeIsTooShort247 · 14/07/2026 23:20

You can criticise charity honors all you want, but claiming you can whip out a personal credit card to buy a Television Academy nomination just shows you don't actually understand how the Hollywood industry works. It takes two minutes to look up the difference.

The first step is paying 325 bucks . Also shocked to see you have to pay for your own statue 😂

Alfveederzayn · 15/07/2026 00:38

Harry isn’t a ginger, apparently. He’s auburn. Is he trying to be funny?

jeffgoldblum · 15/07/2026 00:41

Alfveederzayn · 15/07/2026 00:38

Harry isn’t a ginger, apparently. He’s auburn. Is he trying to be funny?

Harry likes to test women with white pills without consent! , is he an abuser?

Starryfifty · 15/07/2026 00:59

jeffgoldblum · 15/07/2026 00:41

Harry likes to test women with white pills without consent! , is he an abuser?

No, he's a cheeky Chappy 🙄

BruFord · 15/07/2026 01:34

I agree with those saying that a couple of family visits a year would make sense, no royal role as such. Apparently, Meghan is appearing on MasterChef Australia as a guest judge - better to keep the money rolling in that way. I also hope they stay together, because a divorce would be horrible for their children and Harry would probably have a complete meltdown.

HurrahforHollywood · 15/07/2026 05:34

Starryfifty · 15/07/2026 00:02

I do have a theory on PH though. Would he have a bitter jealousy of other men? Men he feels are better than him, more attractive than him, more successful etc ? John T for example. Highly respected, accomplished. Joe marler and his fellow podcasters, witty, attractive etc.. lifeguard in Australia, slapping his arse in the hope yo humiliate him. As for his brother (say no more)

Ah, now that's an interesting idea!

GoddammitPrincess · 15/07/2026 06:30

ShamedBySiri · 14/07/2026 23:47

I do feel for the Royals, specifically Charles and William whom it falls to to manage the Harry problem. H&M are only in early/mid 40's - there's likely to be another 40 years of this. Harry needs a meaningful occupation to fill his time and they both need money. Lots of it. How are they to get it? The Royal family can't possibly bail them out for the next 40 years. If - big IF - Harry +/- Meghan gave up on life in the USA and slithered back home, tail between his legs, they'd end up having to give him somewhere to live on a Royal estate somewhere with security and pay for him for the rest of his life.

I honestly don't know how this will end.
But I'm here for the soap opera/car crash what will happen next.

I think when William’s and Kate’s kids are of an age when the press are “allowed” to print more about them, after uni etc HaM will soon drop out the headlines!

They have 5 years max of anyone being interested in them. Look at AMW. He’s done some truly awful things and doesn’t get as much press as them.

They have an ever decreasing shelf life and they know it. Hence trying to wiggle back in to the RF.

In 40 years time I suspect most won’t even know who there are.

HurrahforHollywood · 15/07/2026 06:37

I think their children will come the focus if they don't stop putting their backs on instagram. It will be hell for those kids .

LipglossAndLies · 15/07/2026 06:42

jeffgoldblum · 15/07/2026 00:09

Don’t worry! It’s just another in a long line of pay per play awards!! , nobody thinks Harry is a legend of aviation! And certainly nobody thought he was awarded the pat tilman award fairly! ( including his mother!) , it will inevitably end up one of two ways!! …it wins ..public outcry and derision for the obvious cheating! …it sinks without a trace! …the program was crap! .. hardly anyone watched it who wasn’t taking the piss! .. Meghan conclusively proved she can’t cook .

If facts matter then:

  1. prove she paid for the nomination because what the other poster wrote is right, you only pay a fee to submit for a nomination but that doesn't guarantee you are nominated. It is determined by a number of people.

  2. Explain how she will have cheated? That a wild accusation to be making.

  3. provise the proof thay of the millions of people who did watch it were doing so to take the piss, love to see those survey results or whatever data you have to back that up

  4. where is the proof Meghan submitted for a nomiantion? Netflix has a team that submits many of their shows for nominations.

As that other poster said this nomination speaks to the work of the production team too so you're now also dismissive of their hard work too. What did those people ever do to you?

Lifestooshort71 · 15/07/2026 06:59

ShamedBySiri · 14/07/2026 23:47

I do feel for the Royals, specifically Charles and William whom it falls to to manage the Harry problem. H&M are only in early/mid 40's - there's likely to be another 40 years of this. Harry needs a meaningful occupation to fill his time and they both need money. Lots of it. How are they to get it? The Royal family can't possibly bail them out for the next 40 years. If - big IF - Harry +/- Meghan gave up on life in the USA and slithered back home, tail between his legs, they'd end up having to give him somewhere to live on a Royal estate somewhere with security and pay for him for the rest of his life.

I honestly don't know how this will end.
But I'm here for the soap opera/car crash what will happen next.

I've no idea how it will end either (nor will I know - I'm more disappointed that I won't see George as King!) but I don't see M ever settling in the UK and I don't think H will want to live that far from his children. A much smaller pad for him in both places? An apartment at KP with its existing security? Any divorce will remind him of his upbringing and he must be keen to avoid that for the HAMlets.

JSMill · 15/07/2026 07:00

Justdancevance · 14/07/2026 22:05

EJ stuck his oar in with George Michael. EJ is great for invading others privacy in his autobiography like Harry.

EJ didn’t like his own dirty linen aired hence the superinjunctions. He’d be quite happy to weaken press rights to keep his own shenanigans under wraps

George Michael was a lovely guy, so I’m not a fan of EJ, he’s a repulsive toad

What did EJ do to George Michael?

HurrahforHollywood · 15/07/2026 07:07

Lifestooshort71 · 15/07/2026 06:59

I've no idea how it will end either (nor will I know - I'm more disappointed that I won't see George as King!) but I don't see M ever settling in the UK and I don't think H will want to live that far from his children. A much smaller pad for him in both places? An apartment at KP with its existing security? Any divorce will remind him of his upbringing and he must be keen to avoid that for the HAMlets.

Harry and Meghan both had divorced parents. That's what they know . Meghan has already been divorced herself. Both Harry's Uncle and Aunt are divorced . I think a KP apartment is most likely with the kids spending school holidays with him under the radar. Meghan will have to live more modestly in the US .

Lifestooshort71 · 15/07/2026 07:31

HurrahforHollywood · 15/07/2026 07:07

Harry and Meghan both had divorced parents. That's what they know . Meghan has already been divorced herself. Both Harry's Uncle and Aunt are divorced . I think a KP apartment is most likely with the kids spending school holidays with him under the radar. Meghan will have to live more modestly in the US .

We don't know the divorce's impact on M but we do know that H's parents' divorce seems to have contributed to his 'traumatic' childhood.

Ohpleeeease · 15/07/2026 08:02

I agree that divorce tends to beget divorce. I don’t see it imminently for H and MM though. I get the impression they’re quite self contained as a couple. I think money problems may get to them eventually but they can still afford a holiday home in Portugal apparently so not yet on their uppers.

I don’t see any sign that they put their children first in marriage so sadly I don’t expect they will in divorce.

JSMill · 15/07/2026 08:03

It’s amazing that W turned out to be such an apparently balanced person when you consider that he was very much a witness to his parents’ turbulent marriage, his dm leaned unhealthily on and then he lost his dm in a tragic accident. H also experienced this but less so because he was younger.

DJPJ · 15/07/2026 08:15

Have we had any explanation as to why MM didn’t attend the charity events she said she would last week? She made a big announcement of her attendance so the charity and people involved - sick children, maimed military hero’s, Chelsea pensioners etc would have their expectations raised then dashed.

They were all given some bull about her security - is she a greater risk than PH?

Then she sauntered in to Highgrove to meet KC3 and stayed over at Althorp…..so her ‘security’ risk / concerns can be recalibrated and removed if she is meeting someone more important (someone who will give her royal adjacency to line her pockets) than the charity’s and their clients?

Alfveederzayn · 15/07/2026 08:16

For that we have to thank the Middletons for showing W what a functional family looks like. Carol is a strong woman. I have Pippa’s much maligned book, unfairly maligned as there are some lovely recipes and stories. The section on beach picnics is very telling. Everyone pitched in to make the sandwiches, something I’m very jealous of as my lot leave me to do it all and then complain when I’ve left something at home.

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