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PR disasters thread 33

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BigWillyLittleTodger · 01/09/2026 08:21

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HeirNspareBNB · 02/09/2026 15:08

unfunnyoldbastard · 02/09/2026 15:04

What was it called though?

I like to imagine this said in a French accent - the spelling/words may be off but you’ll get the drift?

Merchezmafouffe?

😂

Cette bougie sent comme mon entrejambe.

JHITRM77 · 02/09/2026 15:08

I can't be the only one that finds Meghan being scared to take her kids to an expensive private school in THE COTSWOLDS bloody hilarious 😆🤣

unfunnyoldbastard · 02/09/2026 15:10

HeirNspareBNB · 02/09/2026 15:08

😂

Cette bougie sent comme mon entrejambe.

I googled that thinking you were saying something entirely different!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Mylovelygreendress · 02/09/2026 15:13

binkie163 · 02/09/2026 14:55

I can't imagine rugby being played in a nurturing school. I wonder if the dim duo have checked.

What exactly is a nurturing school ??

unfunnyoldbastard · 02/09/2026 15:14

You get micro cress in your egg sandwiches and someone puts on your wellies for you I reckon…

jeffgoldblum · 02/09/2026 15:15

@AutumnCrowInEmeritoVeritas, best not , I think in-jokes are probably best by pm .

unfunnyoldbastard · 02/09/2026 15:15

None of that welly on the wrong foot malarkey you got at my school.

binkie163 · 02/09/2026 15:18

Mylovelygreendress · 02/09/2026 15:13

What exactly is a nurturing school ??

God knows. I went to a posh school and it wasn't nurturing unless you excelled at sport which luckily I did.

HeirNspareBNB · 02/09/2026 15:24

Every primary/prep school in the country says it’s nurturing.

AutumnCrowInEmeritoVeritas · 02/09/2026 15:34

DandyAF · 02/09/2026 14:24

No, not that I know. My 'apparently' was based on what Tom Sykes gave away, which as I've said before could not be true or could be outdated.

But there was an interview where it was said that they were choosing a school based on it being nurturing.

Tom Sykes was in the Sussexes’ WhatsApp group for the tabloid and broadcast media for years. Years. Probably still is, for all we know. He has a direct line to Liam McGuire still, definitely.

Dontevenlookatme · 02/09/2026 15:34

Lunde · 01/09/2026 19:09

I think it's where they were at the time each child was born.

I think they thought they were being cute with Archie - a non-traditional, historically working class name or a name from comics - that fitted in with their narrative of being modernisers, not following protocol and not bothered about titles - the "just call me Harry" phase. Perhaps they were hoping for some sort of backlash or drama from the RF that didn't come.

By the time Lili was born they were desperate for royal adjacency, were definite about using their Prince/Duke/Duchess titles, being announced by them, cosplaying pseudo royals with monograms, faux tours etc etc. So they used QEII's private name ...

IIRC they didn't consult KC about the titles for their kids - they just announced it in the media taking everyone by surprise - a sort of "we know our rights and they're the King's grandchildren" rather than having a BP announcement.

So sorry, I’m miles behind as usual but wanted to comment on this whilst I could still find it.

Archie was Prince George’s nickname. Or at least it’s the name he gave to a dog walker he met whilst out with Carole Middleton in January 2019. Archie Mountbatten-Windsor was born in May 2019.

Archie wasn’t by that time a working class name, it had become a very popular amongst Boden class families, as indeed had Lily.

IMHO they retrofitted Lily as Lilibet to curry favour with HLMTQ - I don’t think it was intended to honour her but to flatter. They stated their daughter would be known as Lili - it’s rather backfired that the media has different ideas and she’s always referred to as Princess Lily-Bet.

Harrison, “Harry’s son”, was an attempt at being witty I suppose. It doesn’t fit at all with the others because it’s so obviously an American choice.

So that’s my twopence worth.

Thanks BWLT for your sterling work with the threads, apologies to all for going off at a tangent, but hope it was of interest.

IAmATorturedPoet · 02/09/2026 15:34

@JHITRM77 no, you aren’t the only one 🤣

@AutumnCrowInEmeritoVeritas there has been some very odd MN moderating happening on this board over the last 24 hrs 🤷‍♀️
(PS. loving the names 😊)

TheNinkyNonkyIsATardis · 02/09/2026 15:37

binkie163 · 02/09/2026 15:18

God knows. I went to a posh school and it wasn't nurturing unless you excelled at sport which luckily I did.

My cousin went to a boarding school and my mum was outraged she was sent to us int he holidays with a suitcase of knickers with skidmarks.

And my friend fawns over the bougee nursery she sends her daughter to - except they have sent her pics of her sitting in wet knickers and has regular issues with allergen contamination. My son's 'pleb' nursery has never done anything of the sort.

Justdancevance · 02/09/2026 15:41

i misread a post earlier as ‘King botherers’ (not future kings brother) and thought that’s a pretty good way to describe them both 😀

In fact ‘Botherers’ as they bother everyone tbeh come into with their incessant demands, complaining and lies

PoppysAunt · 02/09/2026 15:44

BasiliskStare · 02/09/2026 15:07

Just quickly @PoppysAunt - sorry if I wasn't clear - H&M could never have kept the children's name private. I agree. It's the other things they could have done to keep them private I was trying to refer to. If I wasn't clear , apologies. Those children , however far down and however irrelevant are in the LoS so no , the names could not be kept secret . Hope I've cleared my post up 😊

Oh yes I absolutely agree 👍🏼 💯!!

BasiliskStare · 02/09/2026 15:45

Out of interest I looked at the school DS went to over quarter of a century ago - it describes itself as nurturing inter alia 😂 Why wouldn't you

XYZ Blandings Prep school. "We pride ourselves on a culture of letting children learn the hard way. Our alumni consistently say 'it never did them any harm' " .

Starryfifty · 02/09/2026 15:47

Ratherhaveacupofteaandabiscuit · 02/09/2026 14:35

Oh I don't excuse him at all, he is repulsive, but she is more viscerally tacky and that was my specific point here.

Sadly we are always going to be stuck with him to some degree because he is the son of KC and a UK citizen.

I have some small hope that we can at least scrape her off at some future juncture.

He's every bit as bad as her and I notice no clap back about HAM meeting up with fergie as per A lownie's claims.

H cannot possibly be so stupid that he didn't see the red flags with Meg. He should remember that AMW is also the son of a monarch and look where he is now. Unfortunately, H has a similar destiny. Only if his brother is gracious enough to give him a bolt hole.

BillyBites · 02/09/2026 15:49

When did this craze of eulogising parenthood start? Why on earth should we be interested in Meghan selling her "superpower" of motherhood? I mean, ffs, nearly all of us are mothers - it's hardly a niche skill.
Ditto, the kids. I have little to zero interest in Archie and Lili (sorry, can't bring myself to even type her full name as I think it's SO cringe) and that's primarily because we were effectively banned from seeing/knowing anything much about them from birth. First, there was all that nonsense about where/when Archie was born, then the first viewing was of a bundle of knitting from afar, and then we weren't allowed to know who his godparents were. Why the hell not?
The first proper look we got at him was as bystanders to them showing him to Desmond Tutu.
Why, therefore, should we give the first shrug about him now? Just so Meghan can monetise it?

AutumnCrowInEmeritoVeritas · 02/09/2026 15:56

PoppysAunt · 02/09/2026 14:52

No, the names could never have been kept private! 😊
Other aspects of their lives, yes.

They could have given the children formal names for the registration, and called them something completely different and private at home. And avoided flapping their gums about their private names and posting them on Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram and on merching websites.

I am not unusual I suspect in having relatives who have very different names on their birth certificates than the name by which they are/were known in the family and at school. A school might need to see an original birth certificate, but after that they are very accommodating on names, and extremely respectful of privacy and safety as per the law in the UK.

jeffgoldblum · 02/09/2026 15:57

AutumnCrowInEmeritoVeritas · 02/09/2026 15:34

Tom Sykes was in the Sussexes’ WhatsApp group for the tabloid and broadcast media for years. Years. Probably still is, for all we know. He has a direct line to Liam McGuire still, definitely.

Yes, none of them are impartial and to be believed.

PoppysAunt · 02/09/2026 15:58

AutumnCrowInEmeritoVeritas · 02/09/2026 15:56

They could have given the children formal names for the registration, and called them something completely different and private at home. And avoided flapping their gums about their private names and posting them on Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram and on merching websites.

I am not unusual I suspect in having relatives who have very different names on their birth certificates than the name by which they are/were known in the family and at school. A school might need to see an original birth certificate, but after that they are very accommodating on names, and extremely respectful of privacy and safety as per the law in the UK.

Yes! That's a great point, and could have worked really well.

AcrossthePond55 · 02/09/2026 15:58

AustenitesUnite · 02/09/2026 11:02

If you had entered my teenage DS's bedroom this morning, you would definitely not want a candle based on that!

Parfum de the remains of last nights Chinese takeaway and smelly trainers, anyone?

I used to walk into DS1's bedroom when he was a teen and take a big obvious sniff, wrinkle my nose, and say "You're telling me that Nirvana wrote a song about this?". I thought I was a riot. After the first few times all I got was an eye roll.

Dontevenlookatme · 02/09/2026 16:02

HeirNspareBNB · 02/09/2026 08:28

Harrison in the Archers is a total bellend.

Ha! AKA “Harassment”. Another burden for that poor child to bear.

Starryfifty · 02/09/2026 16:04

More pain 😳

PR disasters thread 33
binkie163 · 02/09/2026 16:13

Starryfifty · 02/09/2026 16:04

More pain 😳

Just an absolute wanker

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