PR disasters thread 24

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What more summer shenanigans await us from the Montecito duo?

Over on X there is speculation regarding Where's Meghan?? She's not been seen since the roundabout speech
Not quite at the level of Where's Kate yet, but give it time

Dear god, @ShamedBySiri, not this again!!

Fortunately I don't use Twitter, but wouldn't you think they'd have learned from the last time?

Well you can make light of it and no one is exactly surprised, but it’s not exactly great PR or particularly clever or intelligent to say that the King hates our national sport, one of our biggest industries and exports, especially during a major international tournament.

One might almost think that William doesn’t get on with his dad … .

Interesting to see Harry cosying up to the Murdoch media empire, appearing for a fee on Cordens Fox sports channel. Wonder what Harry’s fans think of that, the fans who for years blamed all H&M’s bad press on Murdoch.

How many times is Harry going to have to eat humble pie!

This from Tom Sykes for those interested

New Week, New Harry: The Cheeky Chappie Rebrand Nobody Ordered
Get a neck brace: Beers on the table on Fox, the man who complained about being falsely portrayed as a joker is now back doing crowd work.
TOM SYKES
JUL 20

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PREVIEW

It’s a new week, and it’s a new Prince Harry. The latest exhausting polish on the rebrand rolled off the production line last night on Fox’s World Cup after-show, and this season’s model is: Cheeky Chappie Harry. Beers on the table. Banter with James Corden. Swearing on American television. A right laugh!
If memory serves — and I have the memoir, the Netflix series, the Oprah sit-down and roughly nine hours of promotional interviews to consult — the cheeky chappie was the one thing Harry told us he never was.

That was the Palace’s invention, remember? Spare is, at its core, 400 pages of a man complaining that the institution cast him as the thick one, the naughty one, the party prince, the lovable ginger idiot — a role assigned to him so William could be the serious one.

A word to our sponsors (you): Harry has Netflix money, Spotify money, memoir money and a palace on standby. I have you lot. Unlike the Duke of Sussex, I cannot rebrand — this is it, I'm afraid, snark and royal-watching until one of us dies — but I cankeep turning up in your inbox every time a Sussex does something hilarious, which, as you may have noticed, is a growth industry these days. Seriously, The Royalist turns one on August 4, at which point your subscription may cease if you have a legacy deal from The Daily Beast. Renew now, no money will be taken until your comp expires.
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He was misrepresented, and, actually, he kept insisting, he was a thinker. A sensitive soul. A seeker. A man of depth and wounds.
Six years of that, and now here he is on Fox, doing the cartoon stuff again, voluntarily, one assumes, with an unconvincing look and an even more unconvincing glass of lager!
Being packaged as a cheeky chappie was an unforgivable institutional cruelty when the Palace did it, now it seems to be a savvy relaunch strategy. Glad we’ve cleared that up!...

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They are irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, they won’t be King and Queen, they are not working members of the royal family, they don’t represent the government of the United Kingdom, but their own words actions and behaviour provide endless juicy gossip so prepare yourself for thread 25, 26 and beyond, whilst they provide the content we will still be here discussing it 🍿 🍿🍿

One thing that occurs to me: remember the Charlotte Griffith revelation about how it was Sussex PR that leaked the balcony 'thaw' meeting between the King's and Sussexes' spokespeople? And they then blamed the leak on the Palace? And Charlotte Griffiths sat on all this till after the court case that Harry pursued and Meghan reportedly wasn't keen on?

Well, was that episode and example of HaM leaking and blaming together, having both agreed that strategy? Or, is the Charlotte Griffiths revelation actual news to one of them?

Imagine being Harry and reading that 'G-String' article in the Mail, and realising that Meghan did that behind your back and has been blowing up what your thought were your careful plans for a future reconciliation. (Or, of course, vice versa.) And the house is now supposedly in M's name ...where she and the children will live, without Mr RentAGob if necessary. He knows where to send the cheques.

Yes, before Megxit, when he was a working member of the RF, with all of the lovely perks and privileges, he did nothing but complain bitterly about how hard his life was. Now however, he just seems to epitomize the phrase 'you don't know what you've got till it's gone'!

The issue is that he is still trying to cosplay being royal. Yet the Royal family don’t criticise sports teams representing the UK, they praise their efforts.

Exactly.

There is, of course, a previous very popular clip of William doing football commentary on Rio Ferdinand's own TV show; but there is no way he will be seen commentating on a loss by the English team.

Instead, he has praised them and commiserated with them.

Oh fgs. Has it shaken the nation that KC isn't a soccer fan? We'll get over it.
You're dredging the barrel if you think that's been a bad move.
We don't know that he "doesn't get on with his dad". Unlike Harry, they don't give interviews, write books or have Netflix series slagging each other off for money.

MasterChef Australia is whipping up excitement for Meghan's episode on Sunday.

The Beckhams attended the England matches. They would have used their influence to keep him from getting an invitation.

That box would have been fun, Victoria looking stony faced while getting quietly hammered, Meghan doing her best seal clapping and offering to be the face of her brand.

Harry would have been trying to twerk David’s nipples and ask where he got his rug

The Beckhams and the Sussex’s both love a self important statement so the Beckhams would declare they would bring both sides together and Harry and Meghan could offer to bring Brooklyn back in the fold

I think intentional voluntary deprivation of assets like that would be illegal. You can’t get out of paying a debt because you’ve given your money to someone else.

I thought it was an interesting comment! But genuine and relatable. Not a crime.

Yes! , and still the defenders have yet to comment on “pill gate” ! , where are the comments about that!! 🤔

Yes but imagine the uproar and criticism that would have ensued had Harry said it! That’s the point!

I think if Harry had said that, most of us would have thought; there's something else Harry is claiming to stay in the news.
William doesn't. He has no need to constantly say desperate things for attention.
It came up in a podcast he was invited to join. Not like Harry's habitual loose lipped approach, but contextual.

Harry has indicated he hardly has a relationship with his father.

People who feel Harry has been unkind and unfair to his family are absolutely going to scrutinize every word he says about them until he makes some kind of public amends commiserate with his public criticisms.

<a class="break-all" href="https://archive.is/20260720044640/www.dailymail.com/debate/article-15988975/harry-meghan-reverse-megxit-maureen-callahan.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://archive.is/20260720044640/www.dailymail.com/debate/article-15988975/harry-meghan-reverse-megxit-maureen-callahan.html

But we don’t need any imaginary situations as H&M provide more than enough material for ‘uproar and criticism’ more or less daily - but I prefer to characterise it as ridicule - most of their delusional and grandiose shenanigans is just pure entertainment - don’t think any is worried that they have any clout or impact.

Not sure if you can access my link. Maureen Callahan article. Would certainly explain why Meg is quiet lately

I mean it’s kind of obvious that Charles doesn’t like football. Is anyone genuinely surprised by the revelation? 🤣

Hence why it’s not a big deal! 🫣

Wasn't it supposed to be based on her WLM series and the recipes she used?

I believe so but can't see it happening now

I think this also shows that PH can’t even get England adjacency never mind royal adjacency - he’s totally persona non grata culturally and socially when he can’t even get an invite to WC game on his home turf.