PR disasters thread 24

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What more summer shenanigans await us from the Montecito duo?

We're all the beautiful people here - as explained on the swiftly deleted "Dummy's guide to royal threads on Mumsnet" ;-)

Meghan ‘felt a lot of sadness’ at missing UK events with Prince Harry

https://www.thetimes.com/article/73ae7e2b-b496-4e02-a527-09d85689b9b4?shareToken=b5b146d255aad9435e0d94cf10ec50cf

The Times playing for clicks again with straight reporting of the people article, knowing the BTL comments will explode.

And obviously they have deliberately selected a not especially flattering photo of M, but zoning in, there looks to be a scar on her nose and lumpy filler in her brow.
I’m one of those who think she was a genuinely beautiful woman who has taken Hollywood treatments too far.

MN loves to paint anyone who has a daily glass of wine as an alcoholic. There's also the fact that poor Harry is a ginger living in California with a mixed race wife. Their sun tolerance will be vastly different.
I'm currently on holiday in the Med. I'm not ginger, but not far off, and I wake up puffy, look sweaty and blotchy all day really. I am having wine in the evenings but nothing extraordinary and zero drugs of any sort except coffee.
My olive skinned husband and daughter look amazing. If we were photoed at an awards ceremony, Heat Magazine (in the 90s) would definitely have me in the circle of shame and predicting rehab before the month was out.
I think Harry is a total knob but he looks fine in the photos, just a sweaty celt/Angelo Saxon. It's the "don't trust a fart after 40" comment that signals his "diet" might be amiss.

Lol no I am find it amusing though the outrage of Meghan's show being nominated and the comments made and well now ...seems like double standards don't you think?

Oh I missed that one. Sorry. I mean, I can pass for half my age and my DH doesn't look a day over 21. But I'll clear off with my exhausted 40 something friends who generally look a bit......wilted.

Yes. He would have had that at Radley too. I am not arguing he wasn’t hugely privileged - of course he was. Just offering an insight into why he ended up so academically lost at Eton. Schools like that don’t usually provide for those who are going to struggle with the curriculum. So, in many schools he would have found others of similar level in terms of intelligence- not Eton.

Have you looked up what the criteria for being nominated? Its not all about whst critics have said etc. But hey those facts aren't important are they.

Nobody knows, no has seen him doing it recently, no pictures or videos its just based on he took them before and him saying he does. Noone knows how often or what he takes.

It's pure speculation.

I don't think he looked beraggled his face was red which could be due to the heat, sunburn the lighting making him hot, allergies causing puffiness and redness literally a dozen of reasons.

No, because one is Meghan's show, about her being a hostess. The other is by Eugene Levy about William and his work being the Heir to the Throne. So it's Levy's show.

I remember teachers at Radley being pretty insulted at the insinuation they were better suited for stupid rich boys. Of course they would have taken Harry, but none of them were looking forward to the massive headache involved, and all for a boy who Eton wouldn't accept 😅
Rivalries exist!
(Was Harry even 1st XV? Doubt it.)

A school like Eton is going to - and did - make massive adjustments for a royal prince. Perhaps you remember what happened with his A level Art.

Still there!

Perhaps they actually took note of some of the comments we all made on that disappearing thread a few days ago.

Very possibly, @anautumncrow, but surely she could still have attended the New York thing as his plus one?

They could even have staged another "near catastrophic car chase" ...

Yes. They did. And yes I do remember. It doesn’t change my point that he has a massive chip on his shoulder which can only have been augmented by being surrounded by many who were more intelligent- probably leading to him being more obnoxious. And being singled out for extra help is often utterly hated by teens.

No. He was utterly useless at nearly everything. And an obnoxious clown by all accounts.

NB @Morelovelyandtemperate Radley dodged a ginger bullet. (Or auburn sunset…..)

No. he adores her

What happened with his A level art?

Not the many 100s I've helped over the decades, but I suppose the difference was that they weren't entitled and appreciated help and support.
You're right about the "chip on his shoulder". He's just always seems to look for problems and negatives. With all his privilege!

Rumour has it he drew stick men and someone else did the detail work enabling him to pass.

Oh dear

No I haven't, because I'm not that invested in the Emmy nominations issue. But I'd be interested to know what elements of that were not met by the Eugene Levy William interview, that would make people think it's not a worthwhile nomination. Otherwise I don't see what point you are trying to make about double standards? As I said before, people's incredulity about WLM being nominated came from the general opinion that it wasn't very good.

We have a new Police Commissioner, Tisch. She is VERY efficient. She is also from a family of billionaires. My money is on her.

H still considers himself a working royal. I'm not sure if he's so thick, he didn't take it all in at the Sandringham summit or it's just his way of grifting. That will not change. He has said he would like his children to have the option to be working royals. How can he think this is possible? His brother will be monarch then.

I do think only way around this for PW in the future is remove the titles.

I find it quite telling because if the issue really was the awards process and the submission fee, then the same criticism applies regardless of who was nominated. The fact that the reaction seems so different depending on who is attached to the project is what stands out to me. People can have their own reasons for disliking Meghan or the show, but when people are making comments that she has bought the nomination ignoring the fact it will have been Netflix who paid the submission fee it looks like a biracial woman is accused of "buying" a nomination while a white man with a programme that includes a Royal member is accepted as part of the normal awards process, the optics of that contrast is difficult to ignore for me. What else could be the reason for not applying the same criticism if not that? Its either anyone submitting is buying a nomination or they all aren't.