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PR disasters thread 30

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BigWillyLittleTodger · 22/08/2026 19:11

Flying through these threads at a rate of knots! A shiny new thread for yet more Sussex shenanigans!

PR disasters thread 30
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BigWillyLittleTodger · 24/08/2026 22:14

notimagain · 24/08/2026 21:40

The other thing that's going on here is that as a result of the barrage of announcements and often reversals over what is often relative trivia discussion of Harry's part in the ANL fiasco and the issue of costs has pretty much disappeared.

There's also been very relatively little discussion today of him stepping down from African Parks and the background to that.

Some of the press are almost being forced to choose to persue clicks rather than keep digging into perhaps less attractive but maybe more important stories about H and maybe to.some extent M

Now who would engineer that?

Yes the “parting of ways” with Africa Parks timing is very interesting, why now? Why didn’t he step down before when these atrocities surfaced? According to Taz has a very interesting take on it, someone in the background cleaning up for Harry? Project thaw in action? It will be interesting to see if the Sentebale court case goes ahead or will that quietly and conveniently go away as well?

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MrsFinkelstein · 24/08/2026 22:20

Bri5 · 24/08/2026 21:47

I was thinking the opposite. The Horners leaked the story but HAM probably had promised not to discuss the lunch summit or move until it was safe and here they are chatting it up immediately after so they had to furiously slap it down as entirely fake. Which it could also be, we really don’t know.

I remember Victoria Beckham leaked stories about being friends and advising Meghan about the UK which HAM chastised her for causing David to get upset with Harry or something.

H&M claimed that VB leaked stories about M.

VB has no reason to leak stories - she's more famous (& richer) than H&M, and has more A list friends than M.

It was just another example of M blaming others for her own leaks.

Mylovelygreendress · 24/08/2026 22:22

sumlean · 24/08/2026 21:53

A source close to the Horners said: [...] Christian is a bit more circumspect - less overawed.

Overawed 😅😂😆😅

Sussex leak? Surely no one else would use the word overawed in relation to HAM?

According to Harry in Spare William and Catherine were starstruck when they met Meghan 😂

MissFenellaPrism · 24/08/2026 22:22

Mylovelygreendress · 24/08/2026 22:22

According to Harry in Spare William and Catherine were starstruck when they met Meghan 😂

😂😂😂😂

MissFenellaPrism · 24/08/2026 22:23

Those drugs completely addled his brain.

TheAutumnCrow · 24/08/2026 22:25

LaMarschallin · 24/08/2026 21:30

They're - or at least, Meghan is - piling up the stories of bad behaviour by the British Press which will give them Meghan an excuse to use for returning to the US.
We've already had the "backlash" that stopped M starring in a "well known, successful" (if you say so) Netflix series.
There was no backlash - nobody cared and/or believed it and saw it as the smokescreen around their return that it was. That's not a "backlash" that's just people laughing.
Now the "terrible" press is suggesting they've had contact with the Horners - such lies! Such intrusion!
And that's just a couple of days after the announcement 🙄

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They’ve already got the sugars out starting exactly these kind of threads online, including here. Special bonus points being earned (free spread?) for use of ‘unhinged’ and ‘hating on’.

BigWillyLittleTodger · 24/08/2026 22:28

TheAutumnCrow · 24/08/2026 22:25

They’ve already got the sugars out starting exactly these kind of threads online, including here. Special bonus points being earned (free spread?) for use of ‘unhinged’ and ‘hating on’.

Don’t forget “obsessed”

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BigWillyLittleTodger · 24/08/2026 22:29

TheAutumnCrow · 24/08/2026 22:25

They’ve already got the sugars out starting exactly these kind of threads online, including here. Special bonus points being earned (free spread?) for use of ‘unhinged’ and ‘hating on’.

It’s like we are back to 2021

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Starryfifty · 24/08/2026 22:29

Mylovelygreendress · 24/08/2026 22:22

According to Harry in Spare William and Catherine were starstruck when they met Meghan 😂

Ah c'mon 😂😂

MissFenellaPrism · 24/08/2026 22:31

BigWillyLittleTodger · 24/08/2026 22:28

Don’t forget “obsessed”

"with people you don't even know and won't even meet"

HoldMyWine · 24/08/2026 22:32

Living rent free in our heads

bluegreygreen · 24/08/2026 22:35

"...and won't even meet"

Let's hope not.

Mylovelygreendress · 24/08/2026 22:35

Please don’t forget “ frothing “

BigWillyLittleTodger · 24/08/2026 22:37

Starryfifty · 24/08/2026 22:29

Ah c'mon 😂😂

According to Harry 🙄

"Their mouths fell open. They turned to each other. Then Willy turned to me and said: 'F–k off?'" Harry wrote. "I was baffled until Willy and Kate explained that they were regular — nay, religious — viewers of Suits. 'Great,' I thought, laughing. I've been worrying about the wrong thing. All this time I'd thought Willy and Kate might not welcome Meg into the family, but now I had to worry about them hounding her for an autograph

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BigWillyLittleTodger · 24/08/2026 22:39

Why do you care? is a personal favourite of mine.

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LaMarschallin · 24/08/2026 22:39

TheAutumnCrow · 24/08/2026 22:25

They’ve already got the sugars out starting exactly these kind of threads online, including here. Special bonus points being earned (free spread?) for use of ‘unhinged’ and ‘hating on’.

Absolutely.
And masses of blathering on about topics that have nothing to do with this sudden, rushed return:
Arguing about whether Meghan had a career as an actress - whose cares? She hasn't got one now.
Ooh, exactly what course did Meghan do at university? Was it International This or International That. Who cares? Meghan apparently put down the one the fans thought it wasn't, so nobody really knows. Or cares.
Harry is such a caring son that he's rushed back to his aging, ill rich father.
Just hahahahahahahahaha!

Total blanking of any reasons why this has suddenly happened and total blanking of the ANL damages announced at pretty much the same time.
They were living their best life in sunny Montecito, so sussexful*, so popular...
None of them have come up anything at all sensible to explain why racist Salty Island is suddenly the place they must be.

*I know. It's a small joke.
I only say this because one of the other ways of deflecting have been SPAG corrections.

Ratherhaveacupofteaandabiscuit · 24/08/2026 22:42

Just pondering, what is M's visa status over here?
Does she have indefinite leave to remain?
Apparently marriage to a UK national does not give an automatic right.
She has done her utmost to defame our country so I find it most unfair that she can be welcome to live here.

MissFenellaPrism · 24/08/2026 22:43

BigWillyLittleTodger · 24/08/2026 22:39

Why do you care? is a personal favourite of mine.

Yes, that's a great one.

SweatyWarrenBetty · 24/08/2026 22:44

CoffeeCantata · 24/08/2026 21:50

I don’t hold out much hope for them making lots of friends if they’re going to be so touchy and precious about people mentioning them.

Who’d want a relationship with people who insisted that all interaction was kept top secret?

But when did you last hear about the Princess of Wales meeting up with friends?
Discretion does exist.

Starryfifty · 24/08/2026 22:46

BigWillyLittleTodger · 24/08/2026 22:14

Yes the “parting of ways” with Africa Parks timing is very interesting, why now? Why didn’t he step down before when these atrocities surfaced? According to Taz has a very interesting take on it, someone in the background cleaning up for Harry? Project thaw in action? It will be interesting to see if the Sentebale court case goes ahead or will that quietly and conveniently go away as well?

I definitely believe someone is cleaning up for H. But I really don't think he gave a shit about African parks. He's creaming off expenses from Ingriftus. Dubious finances there yet no outraged clapbacks. He's "known" for infgtriftus and plans to hand it down to A (yet, another very dim idea).

Sentabale will be interesting. I really do hope Dr Sophie is not paid off

Dizzierblonde · 24/08/2026 22:48

Ratherhaveacupofteaandabiscuit · 24/08/2026 22:42

Just pondering, what is M's visa status over here?
Does she have indefinite leave to remain?
Apparently marriage to a UK national does not give an automatic right.
She has done her utmost to defame our country so I find it most unfair that she can be welcome to live here.

Likely going the partner visa route to return to the UK. She only lived here 2 years before they left, so not enough residency of her own to have any right to indefinite leave, and I don't think she got very far into that one (she complained about how hard the citizenship test is - it isn't!). Of course, she's likely to want the global talent visa, cos you know, "talent", but not a chance in hell for that one.

MissFenellaPrism · 24/08/2026 22:51

Dizzierblonde · 24/08/2026 22:48

Likely going the partner visa route to return to the UK. She only lived here 2 years before they left, so not enough residency of her own to have any right to indefinite leave, and I don't think she got very far into that one (she complained about how hard the citizenship test is - it isn't!). Of course, she's likely to want the global talent visa, cos you know, "talent", but not a chance in hell for that one.

I can imagine she found the test hard.

TheAutumnCrow · 24/08/2026 22:58

Odd little piece from Nadine Dorries in the MailOnline if anyone’s interested.

https://archive.ph/G7oP8

www.dailymail.com/debate/article-16076053/Harry-Meghan-Cotswolds-welcome-party-NADINE-DORRIES.html

TheAutumnCrow · 24/08/2026 23:01

This Sky piece is less obsequious about Harry and African Parks.

https://news.sky.com/story/prince-harry-steps-down-from-board-of-wildlife-charity-ahead-of-return-to-uk-with-meghan-13576743

meercat23 · 24/08/2026 23:04

MissFenellaPrism · 24/08/2026 22:51

I can imagine she found the test hard.

Well she would have found it hard. She couldn't be bothered to find out about the family she was marrying into and the rules and protocol they live by so why would she have bothered to learn anything about the history and culture of the UK

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