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PR disasters thread 31

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BigWillyLittleTodger · 25/08/2026 22:13

Have the eagles landed yet? Another thread to discuss yet more Sussex shenanigans!

PR disasters thread 31
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GoodnessGraciousMeh · 27/08/2026 18:27

why on earth would they need to spend that much on a house in the Cotswolds? It's obscene .

DandyAF · 27/08/2026 18:35

OK I've worked out that school from the article.
Don't feel quite right about sharing it but it's very easy to work out.

BigWillyLittleTodger · 27/08/2026 18:37

GoodnessGraciousMeh · 27/08/2026 18:27

why on earth would they need to spend that much on a house in the Cotswolds? It's obscene .

I wonder if KC has bought it for them?

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KittyTinker · 27/08/2026 18:38

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Rebekah Vardy shares delight over Meghan Markle playing her in husband Jamie's movie
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It has been widely reported that Prince Harry's girlfriend Meghan Markle is favourite to play Rebekah Vardy in an upcoming rags to riches movie about the life of football star Jamie. Appearing on Monday's Good Morning Britain, the mother-of-four shared her delight over the surprising possibility.
"That'd be great, wouldn't it," the 34-year-old mused when quizzed by host Piers Morgan. England striker Jamie, 29, confessed he initially didn't believe the biopic claims until he was approached by the film's producers. "At first I didn't think it was happening," he admitted. "But then I met the producers and they were 100 per cent [sure] they wanted to do it."

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BigWillyLittleTodger · 27/08/2026 18:44

GoodnessGraciousMeh · 27/08/2026 18:27

why on earth would they need to spend that much on a house in the Cotswolds? It's obscene .

It’s us British tax payers funding their security at their new home that I find particularly utterly obscene.

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Starryfifty · 27/08/2026 18:45

Kate Casey was on Kinsey podcast. She said Harry always did the school runs, sports days and was quite friendly/ sociable with other parents. Meg never did. Was very much hands off

Katrinawaves · 27/08/2026 18:51

The Mail is currently running an unusual for it and wholly unrelated I’m sure article about how to stage an intervention when a family member has a serious drug addiction.

Elemenfs may sound familiar…

Recklessismymiddlename · 27/08/2026 18:57

DandyAF · 27/08/2026 18:35

OK I've worked out that school from the article.
Don't feel quite right about sharing it but it's very easy to work out.

Yes I think so

SqueakyDinosaur · 27/08/2026 18:59

Would it combine a stream and a children's toy, not necessarily in that order?

DandyAF · 27/08/2026 19:00

SqueakyDinosaur · 27/08/2026 18:59

Would it combine a stream and a children's toy, not necessarily in that order?

Yes.

Although some adults like the toy too Wink

AutumnCrowFlewOverTheCotswoldsNest · 27/08/2026 19:01

DandyAF · 27/08/2026 15:29

Prepare, I'm about to throw a grenade into the thread, but...

what if Meghan was to appear in a play at The National Theatre 🤯

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

AtIusvue · 27/08/2026 19:08

He’s literally saying in the article, what’s on the schools website about climbing trees 😂

It’s not going to take long before it gets out.

BasiliskStare · 27/08/2026 19:08

If they've actually bought somewhere then they have been planning this for a while. It wouldn't surprise me if KC has dipped into his pocket for a house - HLMTQ did for all her children. Or rumours of them running out of money are greatly exaggerated.
I hope newspapers will not reveal the school or the house. I reckon H is itching for one of them to so he can get on his dragonlslaying horse again. But it will probably leak out in time, not I hope via the MSM ,but because with any set of friends / community can it be certain that something may accidentally be said and the internet is a big place.

BigWillyLittleTodger · 27/08/2026 19:24

BasiliskStare · 27/08/2026 19:08

If they've actually bought somewhere then they have been planning this for a while. It wouldn't surprise me if KC has dipped into his pocket for a house - HLMTQ did for all her children. Or rumours of them running out of money are greatly exaggerated.
I hope newspapers will not reveal the school or the house. I reckon H is itching for one of them to so he can get on his dragonlslaying horse again. But it will probably leak out in time, not I hope via the MSM ,but because with any set of friends / community can it be certain that something may accidentally be said and the internet is a big place.

When they married KC offered to buy them a country estate which they turned down at the time so I suspect this is their belated wedding gift.

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BigWillyLittleTodger · 27/08/2026 19:30

Seeing as they already appear to have already purchased a house there is absolutely no way KC would have been “blindsided” at their return, this has been on the cards for a long time and as I’ve always suspected I believe KC has been in on project thaw from the start.

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My2cents1975 · 27/08/2026 19:32

I am inclined to agree with @BasiliskStare that KC3 likely bought the house. Further, I think it is KC3 on the deed with H leasing it from King Pa on very generous terms.

IMHO, when 3 of QE2's kids divorced in a very short span the RF realised that purchasing a house outright simply bumps up the marital property in dispute in a divorce scenario. (That's why Edward got a long-term lease although ironically, his marriage is the one that went the distance).

That ties into the "15 year plan"...I suspect it is a 15 year lease to somewhat protect H from William's ascension to the throne, but not to box William into being a long-term landlord with a problem tenant who has a ridiculously long lease i.e. the scenario KC3 faced with his brother Andrew.

Recklessismymiddlename · 27/08/2026 19:36

I think the Yorks whatever little we may think of them, would never have got divorced, had those photos of SF not appeared in the papers.

Cismyfatarse · 27/08/2026 19:53

Watchdog takes ministers to Supreme Court over Salmond files

https://www.thetimes.com/article/2e9ce3c4-dbcc-466a-bae4-fb60b6d44edc?shareToken=9af644d2a6712aca283ad86479f8a5a9

BasiliskStare · 27/08/2026 19:55

A house on a long lease sounds credible to me. As far as I recall , only Gatcombe remains as an outright purchase. & that is , arguably , different in that PA has made a going concern of it as a farm. The blindsiding I am in two minds about. One the one hand I can imagine H posited this (the return as an idea - children at school UK etc ) , on the other hand I don't believe BP sources would out right lie about KC not knowing definitely until last weekend ( colour me naive , colour me naive 😊) . But I could buy into the late wedding present , replaces Frogmore cottage if you're here for the foreseeable idea. Anyway £10m+ would buy a very beautiful and sprawling estate in the Cotswolds - and would knock the faux chateau into a cocked hat I'd venture.

AutumnCrowFlewOverTheCotswoldsNest · 27/08/2026 19:57

I can’t get over the hypocrisy of Meg putting their young kids on Instagram. I’m actually surprised that their own security didn’t warn her about putting out all that detail that she’s put online about them … their smells encapsulated in candles, the physical and emotional descriptions, their favourite things, the photos showing half a face and bare feet, on and on. She objectifies them as part of what she is selling.

And then she pontificates about the big, bad, internet, while she’s been drumming up interest using the fucking internet in two primary school aged children.

It’s incredibly poor judgement from Harry and their own staff and advisors.

Dontevenlookatme · 27/08/2026 20:01

DandyAF · 27/08/2026 18:35

OK I've worked out that school from the article.
Don't feel quite right about sharing it but it's very easy to work out.

Well I hope it works out for A and L, if I’ve got the school right it seems like a very nurturing place. I hope they don’t have to keep their faces covered every day, it’s going to put a dent in them making friends.

thenightsky · 27/08/2026 20:04

Dontevenlookatme · 27/08/2026 20:01

Well I hope it works out for A and L, if I’ve got the school right it seems like a very nurturing place. I hope they don’t have to keep their faces covered every day, it’s going to put a dent in them making friends.

Plus they'd get the piss ripped out of them by the other kids.

AutumnCrowFlewOverTheCotswoldsNest · 27/08/2026 20:06

BasiliskStare · 27/08/2026 19:55

A house on a long lease sounds credible to me. As far as I recall , only Gatcombe remains as an outright purchase. & that is , arguably , different in that PA has made a going concern of it as a farm. The blindsiding I am in two minds about. One the one hand I can imagine H posited this (the return as an idea - children at school UK etc ) , on the other hand I don't believe BP sources would out right lie about KC not knowing definitely until last weekend ( colour me naive , colour me naive 😊) . But I could buy into the late wedding present , replaces Frogmore cottage if you're here for the foreseeable idea. Anyway £10m+ would buy a very beautiful and sprawling estate in the Cotswolds - and would knock the faux chateau into a cocked hat I'd venture.

I suppose when you think about it, this plan gets the HaMs right out of Windsor.

It leaves Charles with some egg on his face though, as he clearly wasn't ‘blindsided’ and clearly has been involved in the planning, and the MSM and SM will find out quite quickly. He shouldn’t make a mockery of Palace statements.

DaisyDooley · 27/08/2026 20:10

Who said that the King had been ‘blindsided’?
Because he can’t have been blindsided and bought them a house.
Where did that information come from?

My2cents1975 · 27/08/2026 20:12

BasiliskStare · 27/08/2026 19:55

A house on a long lease sounds credible to me. As far as I recall , only Gatcombe remains as an outright purchase. & that is , arguably , different in that PA has made a going concern of it as a farm. The blindsiding I am in two minds about. One the one hand I can imagine H posited this (the return as an idea - children at school UK etc ) , on the other hand I don't believe BP sources would out right lie about KC not knowing definitely until last weekend ( colour me naive , colour me naive 😊) . But I could buy into the late wedding present , replaces Frogmore cottage if you're here for the foreseeable idea. Anyway £10m+ would buy a very beautiful and sprawling estate in the Cotswolds - and would knock the faux chateau into a cocked hat I'd venture.

I would have agreed with the outright purchase theory from HaM getting married up to their Freedom Flight to California.

But given there was a strange story about M shopping a divorce book combined with the recent media briefings that M will run her lifestyle drop shipping business from California based on her tradwife brand...except the husband and kids live full-time in the UK, there are many questions swirling.

IMHO, I think it unlikely that King "I am not a bank" Pa would be keen to purchase a house in H's name.

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