PR disasters thread 25

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The Montecito diaries continue……..will it be Balmoral or bust?

Just one other thing

It would be interesting to see whether H&M's visits to the UK , tea with the King and Althorp affect these numbers.

https://www.newsweek.com/entertainment/celebrity-news/meghan-markles-us-popularity-as-ever-visits-poll-data-12016160

The picture of meghan on the beach was the perfect example of how she’s no Diana.

Yes. I saw it as well.

Apparently KC saw H on his own for a short time before M and the DC were ushered through so I assume she was “ humiliated” by having to wait with some flunky while H spoke to his father .

That makes sense.

Of course she's a burden!! Doesn't she realise that?

I think it looks real, mainly because I have similar photos of my husband and daughter. She stands on his knees as he crouches in the pool and when ready he launches quickly and she pushes of simultaneously to get height. She ends up in some amazing positions and his arms are all over the place.

Mind you I don’t see what you all see about Archie in the pool either. It’s just a boy with wet hair with his back turned.

Regardless of whether I think differently about the photos themselves or not though, I agree with everyone, apart from the obvious exception, that the whole thing is wildly hypocritical.

Diana was called the most photographed woman in the world, maybe that is what m is aiming for. Long long way to go to have as many front page/ magazine covers as Diana. Not sure your own insta's count as front page pap fodder unlike Diana who was literally followed everywhere, often tipping off the press herself.

The whole St Diana thing that some - and I include H here - like to perpetuate is weird.

She very demonstrably, was no saint.

True but say it out loud and people are aghast!

Its like William describing his mother as paranoid because of the BBC lies they told her to get "that interview" suddenly he is his fathers son nothing to do with Diana he is scum called this by people who weren't even alive at the same time as her! Everyone drones on about how "cold" William is "just like his father" his father is overly emotional always has been but no no! apparently thats all Diana's traits and that's what harry inherited from his poor (murdered by the royal family allegedly) mother

Honestly I think she had a mental illness and he (harry) inherited that the way they spiral is so similar

From a PR perspective, I wonder how much Diana resonates with people nowadays. She seems to me a figure very much of her era (I am a couple of years younger than she was). Does she still matter to 40, 30, 20 year olds?

Completely agree with this. At the time of her death her star was waning, papers were turning against her but as soon as she died suddenly she was a saint. Never mind the marriages she broke up .
She was a flawed human like the rest of us.

It’s a bit early in the morning for popcorn, but I do enjoy the idea of People magazine’s mystery source doing her homework to recreate a Diana look and pose, then writing the press release to helpfully remind the magazine of the connection.

See through skirt - tick
black swimming costume - tick
Black only just on the shoulder cocktail dress - surely waiting at the back of the wardrobe just waiting for an invitation.

@SaltyTea agree, I was in my 20s when she died and whilst it was a tragic shocking end, I never did quite buy the innocent, batting eyelashes thing…

not sure she’s of much interest to younger gen….

HAMS Temu Diana 2.0 cosplay is just odd.

“Mystery source” 😉

Diana 0.2! Genius

The Times has a funny piece by Hilary Rose which could have come from our own august threads - why are they so miserable and angry whilst posting these (to me very boring and despite the locations pretty naf) photos?

www.thetimes.com/article/89750f4e-6bd0-4bb5-b5e4-8276a8f88a3e?shareToken=ceefc7c49437854e1e724270e6fa2222

No.

Just thinking even that photo of them at dinner which looks like a happy, unposed shot isn't because she's deliberately displaying Diana's watch and jewellery.

I guess that to many people Diana is like Wallis Simpson to those of us who heard about her when we were young - seemed a very long time ago and irrelevant. Well it is/was. Talked about at the time . This is Meghan's fate.

Lots of discussions elsewhere about the photos at Althrop and the shadows being wrong .
I am not seeing it but maybe someone can explain?

Althorp.

Photo hasn’t posted 🤷‍♀️. It’s the one of H , A and L walking ( apparently) to D’s grave .

Not this photo? 😂

Oh you meant this one 😉

I guess that to many people Diana is like Wallis Simpson to those of us who heard about her when we were young - seemed a very long time ago and irrelevant. Well it is/was. Talked about at the time . This is Meghan's fate.

@ Corblimey, I remember learning about Wallis as an 80’s teen - probably through the sale of her jewellery - and she at least seemed very glamorous. Unfortunately, while Diana, was a beautiful woman, her style was of the era, and while bits of 80’s fashion come round again, wide shouldered skirt suits and puffy ball gowns never will. So Diana is unlikely to cut through to younger generations as a style icon. And as a wannabe influencer, surely even M must realise that fashion is no longer about the look of few few individuals, but about diverse looks?

I was 16 when Diana died. Didn’t impact me then and doesn’t impact me now. I empathised with her boys losing their mum. But for me, now in my forties, she was just a person.