PR disasters thread 25

[BigWillyLittleTodger]

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

The tit for tat 'you post this so we will post that ' is very obvious .

I read that as the first birthday suit

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@PullTheBricksDown I love Gone with the Windsors. It's a brilliant satire on the Windsors' massive entitlement.

HAM only want fame / publicity. They don't care how the get it. What would really benefit them is if they took a year or 2 out. Kept their heads down but unfortunately they won't. He came across as totally obnoxious on James Corden and the last podcast. He has zero warmth / charisma/ personality. However, maybe this new "lad Harry" is his way of replacing Global Statesman which would be best laid to rest

If his Apache instructor said he could fly, then I think we can assume Harry could fly! Filming of him would have stopped because the one holding the camera would have been heading for cover away from the chopper taking off. It gets quite dusty at those times in the desert.

I predict that at some point in the not too distant future they will do a Big Reveal of the HAMlets; it's all they have left unless they can get some much needed RF adjacentcy/HIHO

Yes. That's inevitable

Maybe she is trying to keep her head down and that's why she didn't appear in the UK. I think the laddish Harry has definitely replaced 'philanthropist ' Harry. He still thinks he knows best about every subject under the sun though, and has the right to lecture all and sundry.

I think the kids big reveal was planned by HAM in UK recently but the ANL result put a spanner in the works. I imagine they want to do a faux royal walkabout like the Wales and their children

I don’t know why some see it as ok to comment and joke about baldness in men. It’s a part of the aging process and can be hard for some men to deal with. I know a couple of women who experienced thinning hair and they found it very distressing - I doubt joking about that would be tolerated.

That’s what dh called me, and where my name comes from. But I know my cousin, very well. Everyone treads on eggshells and I’ve seen the devastation he causes, to my aunt, uncle and even my now deceased grandmother and my parents, never mind his wife and dcs. Someone had to call him out on it. Yes it was risk, but a calculated one. It paid off and he no longer makes the threats, as often, but he’s still ever the victim and blames everyone but himself. I called him out on that too.

I see Harry similarly in the ever victim mode not saying he’s ever threatened suicide, it’s the victim mode and not taking responsibility that is similar. it’s bullying and emotional abuse pure and simple.

The only walkabout the Wales children do regularly is the Christmas one. Unless the Sussex children join in with that one there is no royal pattern of the children of minor royals meeting the public. It's very strange that Harry seems to want that life for his children.

My consistent take on this is that I've seen enough of how mlitary flying training works (both as a student and as an instructor) to find it hard to see how H could have cheated the system and been snuck through somehow, and I've also heard reports for a couple of those around Shawbury at the time he was there that he did OK...

However unless a lot of his post army activities have been hidden he did it just long enough to tick box labelled "helicopter pilot just like brother but unlike him I went to war.." then he seesm to have dropped flying...so no recent pictures.

He now lives in one of the easiest places on earth to get/maintain a basic recreational licence but it does need effort. Given there's no real public sign (e.g. on SM) of him doing so I suspect he maybe can't be arsed...

Compare with W who at least having left the military did put the effort in to do a mil to civilian transition to get the commercial licence and ratings needed for the Air Ambulance job he held for a while.

" serious question: Is Pilot Harry just another facet of the Happy Hero Harry created by the RF's PRs?,"

I think that's quite possible but it doesn't mean he couldn't fly a helicopter.

Meghan could have seriously developed an interest in the garden.
Their garden is gorgeous and I could happily occupy myself daily absorbed in that.
But it would take hard work, and lots of learning, failing, and honesty.

Instead she just wants to sell us a perfect image of her in her garden. Looking gorgeous wafting about with posed bunches of flowers or veg.

Nothing real about it. Obviously no genuine depth to her interest. So inauthentic.

It's the same with her 'cooking', everything is so superficial, it's obvious this isn't a real consuming passion it's just a vehicle to promote herself.

https://x.com/i/status/2079859771541271001 promo for Meghan on MasterChef.

If it doesn't play in your zone - cooking is her love language, there is talk of flower sprinkles and her children love Brussels sprouts.

I actually couldn't stomach this. How did she get this gig ???

She wants to be admired for what she looks like.

He wants to be admired for being born a prince.

The few skills they ever learned by working at them (some acting and helicoptering) they let fall away. Bloody bizarre that they then mock others with real achievements, skills and expertise, but perhaps it’s jealousy and envy of others’ staying power and depth. They find it psychologically easy to mock, but impossible to admire.

It makes him sound utterly gormless, like he’s emotionally and intellectually retarded ……🤔

If the cap fits...

I didn’t want to say that but it definitely fits!

That's what I thought. Is that the best she could come up with? Oh and a fox 😆

This. If h had any intelligence/depth, he'd realise that his brother's life is no walk in the park. PW will be a very young King. The prospect must give him sleepless nights. He's probably concerned for his 3 kids. His eldest has huge responsibility. Will his other son and daughter struggle, etc. also, will his wife's cancer come back ?

At times, I would imagine William is envious of Harry's position

Without wanting to belittle pilots in any form, being a pilot doesn't require you to have good emotional intelligence and it doesn't require anything above a "high average" of 110 IQ.

It requires above average degree of motor skills and processing skills, and above all the necessary training and sustained experience.

This applies to the vast majority of skills that anyone on the higher side of average can do. I do not know how to crochet because I haven't learned to crochet. I didn't pass an A Level maths exam because I never studied or took the exam. I am very competent at my professional specialism because I apply myself to it.

It's what you do with the raw ability that matters.

As it happens, I have a genius level IQ. Pushing 160. But I don't particularly apply it to genius level problems. Frankly, genius can run you into trouble sometimes, and due to past experience I'm done with trouble. The smartest thing I've done with my life is avoid trouble, and I'm not really ambitious. I'm quite happy thriving in my little corner of the world without acclaim or some megabucks salary.

Harry thinks that he deserves all the acclaim based on a) who he was born, b) achievements from years ago and c) things he was heavily supported with.

I agree with @notimagain What I know about flying any sort of aircraft you could write on the back of a postage stamp , but I can't see that H wouldn't have properly passed his flying training for the military . Even if you are "just" a co-pilot I assume you need to be able to fly the thing if circumstances dictate. Never mind about H , are the army going to let someone else go up with someone who isn't properly qualified?
Whether he's kept up flying since then , different matter.