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The royal family

H and m pr disasters 34!

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jeffgoldblum · 04/09/2026 11:36

A continuation of the exiting and entertaining shenanigans of ham….

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OliveMyLove · 05/09/2026 15:55

bluegreygreen · 05/09/2026 15:41

Well remembered!

It was Closer magazine on 12th August, @LADDO.

https://archive.is/qtYcS

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Wow that is a supremely ugly article. No author, either. 🤔

Beetbeet · 05/09/2026 15:58

PullTheBricksDown · 05/09/2026 15:38

Wonder how the Beckhams feel about Meghan becoming a regular at their 'canteen', as they apparently call it. There's a challenge for Markus the relationship manager - that's now his Soho
House job title...

"Relationship manager" 🤣🤣🤣

So that's what they call it now...

JoanChitty · 05/09/2026 16:12

I see from Rob Shuter, this proposed documentary of Harry’s mummy and me will have the voiceover talents of a certain Meghan Markle………

phenowomenal · 05/09/2026 16:12

BigWillyLittleTodger · 05/09/2026 15:22

Going back to the security nonsense does Harry think they will get round the clock armed security for the rest of his life? The children to have armed police officers wherever they go 24/7? Meghan to get accompanied with Met security when she flies back to Montecito? the whole family accompanied by armed guards when they nip to Portugal for the weekend? I’m not sure how the RAVEC security details work but if this is case surely the security bill to the tax payer will be far more than what it costs for security for the Wales family and the King and Queen who at least are mainly on already secured royal estates? How could this level of security ever be justified to the tax payer for non working royals who are only serving themselves?

They should just cut them loose and take their titles, job done.

phenowomenal · 05/09/2026 16:16

OliveMyLove · 05/09/2026 15:55

Wow that is a supremely ugly article. No author, either. 🤔

It will all end in tears.

OliveMyLove · 05/09/2026 16:22

Closer must be the new mouthpiece for the Sussexes. Wonder if People Mag is feeling hurt? Looks like they are smart enough not to put a name on these articles. The latest is also from “Closer Staff”

https://closeronline.co.uk/celebrity/news/prince-harry-secretly-reaches-out-to-kate-behind-williams-back-this-wont-end-well/

…off now to check and see if Markle has joined any online publication staff…

Prince Harry secretly reaches out to Kate behind William’s back – this won’t end well

Kate is ‘ready to forgive’ but insiders warn that Harry could risk isolating his brother even further

https://closeronline.co.uk/celebrity/news/prince-harry-secretly-reaches-out-to-kate-behind-williams-back-this-wont-end-well/

phenowomenal · 05/09/2026 16:26

Central to the fallout were Harry and Meghan’s allegations about the Waleses’ conduct. In the Sussexes’ 2021 Oprah Winfrey interview, Meghan claimed it was Kate who had reduced her to tears during a disagreement about Princess Charlotte’s bridesmaid dress in 2018, countering earlier reports that Meghan had been the one to upset Kate.

OMG who wrote this garbage? 😂😂The intern? AI?

Notably, Harry and Meghan have avoided public criticism of the family during this period.

How gracious 😆

It’s so obvious to her that they’ve been poisoning everybody against her and Harry for years. It’s nothing short of a miracle that Harry has managed to find a way around the tidal wave of hatred levied at them, and she gives him great credit for that

Paranoid as well as puerile.

OliveMyLove · 05/09/2026 16:33

phenowomenal · 05/09/2026 16:26

Central to the fallout were Harry and Meghan’s allegations about the Waleses’ conduct. In the Sussexes’ 2021 Oprah Winfrey interview, Meghan claimed it was Kate who had reduced her to tears during a disagreement about Princess Charlotte’s bridesmaid dress in 2018, countering earlier reports that Meghan had been the one to upset Kate.

OMG who wrote this garbage? 😂😂The intern? AI?

Notably, Harry and Meghan have avoided public criticism of the family during this period.

How gracious 😆

It’s so obvious to her that they’ve been poisoning everybody against her and Harry for years. It’s nothing short of a miracle that Harry has managed to find a way around the tidal wave of hatred levied at them, and she gives him great credit for that

Paranoid as well as puerile.

Heavy hitting report. Clearly someone who was in a coma for the last 6 years.

bluegreygreen · 05/09/2026 16:34

Thanks @OliveMyLove

Archive link to the second Closer article https://archive.is/aUiOc

I wonder if Meghan gets paid for these?

OliveMyLove · 05/09/2026 16:36

bluegreygreen · 05/09/2026 16:34

Thanks @OliveMyLove

Archive link to the second Closer article https://archive.is/aUiOc

I wonder if Meghan gets paid for these?

Thank you for the archive!

Good to have in case they change the articles later, too. The original version will be preserved.

I hope Leaker and Briefer are getting paid and not just doing it gratis.

PullTheBricksDown · 05/09/2026 16:36

OliveMyLove · 05/09/2026 16:22

Closer must be the new mouthpiece for the Sussexes. Wonder if People Mag is feeling hurt? Looks like they are smart enough not to put a name on these articles. The latest is also from “Closer Staff”

https://closeronline.co.uk/celebrity/news/prince-harry-secretly-reaches-out-to-kate-behind-williams-back-this-wont-end-well/

…off now to check and see if Markle has joined any online publication staff…

Garbage. Harry was fine with Catherine being labelled a racist in Scobie's book, and now it's convenient he wants her to 'be kind' and persuade William to be friends again? This has all the hallmarks of them manifesting an outcome they want, and also of Harry's conveniently bad memory for all the horrible things he's done to people. Can't see Catherine touching this with a barge pole.

Most concerning for me is the repeated idea that the Sussex and Wales children will obviously get to know each other. Eg:

'He’s looking forward to striking up a dialogue with Kate and finding a path forward, particularly if they’re going to bring the children together, which of course is inevitable.’

I'm sure they'd like it to be, as that's how the royal status will rub off. I would have none of it if I were William and Catherine.

PullTheBricksDown · 05/09/2026 16:39

No mention of Catherine being called a racist, or having cancer, in that article, as then Harry’s behaviour being 'forgiveable' would seem even more delusional than it already does.

JanetheObscure · 05/09/2026 16:39

Dontevenlookatme · 05/09/2026 07:57

Not sure I agree @PoppysAunt. I’m one of those who really dislikes the way in which Charles tried to rehabilitate Camilla by vilifying Diana after her death.

I’ll happily discuss that because I’m old enough to remember what actually happened. She was far from perfect but she was badly used by C and C. I don’t consider that cultish following but more a wish not to see history rewritten.

If we don’t forget the things HAM did the same goes for C and C.

However that doesn’t translate into watching the same old news and images
rehashed and discussed for entertainment. I would be very surprised if there’s any new content of real interest. Everyone who wants to speak out has done so.

I don't believe that Charles tried to vilify Diana after her death, but there was the most almighty PR campaign to rehabilitate Camilla in the public eye so that C and C could marry. That was pretty cynical at times, believe me; for example, a direct and rapid briefing to the press when Camilla bumped into William for the first time.

KatherineParr · 05/09/2026 16:44

'He’s looking forward to striking up a dialogue with Kate and finding a path forward, particularly if they’re going to bring the children together, which of course is inevitable.’

Doesn't feel very inevitable to me. Confused

OliveMyLove · 05/09/2026 16:45

@PullTheBricksDown

It’s a bunch of drivel - pretending to have an inside source on both sides. Right.

Not one word in there rings true and nothing would be shared with a team that printed the prior garbage wholly blaming W&C for everything bad the Suxxers brought on themselves.

The only ones eating Humble Pie are putting overpriced apple butter on it.

OliveMyLove · 05/09/2026 16:49

KatherineParr · 05/09/2026 16:44

'He’s looking forward to striking up a dialogue with Kate and finding a path forward, particularly if they’re going to bring the children together, which of course is inevitable.’

Doesn't feel very inevitable to me. Confused

Can you imagine the drama HAM might create with the children involved?

They’d be making up stories then leaking and briefing about them, also. Posting photos, too.

OliveMyLove · 05/09/2026 16:55

Ahh… thank you ChatGPT

Closer has a long and complicated history with the Waleses. The French edition’s publication of photographs of Catherine in 2012 resulted in legal action by William and Catherine; a French court subsequently imposed significant penalties.”

KilkennyCats · 05/09/2026 16:57

OliveMyLove · 05/09/2026 16:55

Ahh… thank you ChatGPT

Closer has a long and complicated history with the Waleses. The French edition’s publication of photographs of Catherine in 2012 resulted in legal action by William and Catherine; a French court subsequently imposed significant penalties.”

Someone’s clearly still sore about that, if they allow M to write her own nonsense for their mag.

TheMadGardener · 05/09/2026 17:00

I don't think HAM would have been very happy in one of the lessons I taught in primary last term. Doing a lesson about "British values/history", we got on to the subject of the current royal family. This was a classroom of British 9 to 11 year olds in Devon - mixed Y5 and Y6. Thought I'd check on what they actually knew.

Very confident identifying photos of Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III (we've got the official photo of the King in the school foyer). Recognised Prince William and most knew his name, but some of them were fuzzy on how he was related to the King and were surprised to hear he was his son and the next king. Many of them recognised photos of Kate, George, Charlotte and Louis, although they didn't know all their names, and we discussed how they were related to Charles and William (and that Charlotte was the same age as some of them).

None of them could put a name to any of the other photos I showed them (Anne, Edward, Harry, Meghan). Not a clue who they were.

Meghan would not have been happy!

LaMarschallin · 05/09/2026 17:02

OliveMyLove

They’d be making up stories then leaking and briefing about them, also. Posting photos, too.

Absolutely. No doubt Charlotte will pull Lili's hair and laugh at her bare feet, George will try to bully Archie but the feisty little lad will stand up to him and say "My mommy says we're linked not ranked and she's prettier than your mommy!"...
Actually, the one I really do fear for Louis. There's been so many SS snide hints about him. They'll believe any vicious rumours put out "coming from a place of love and hoping to help family etc".

OliveMyLove · 05/09/2026 17:08

Ah yes, Harry indicated The Wales children need protection. No way on earth I’d be taking his calls.

LADDO · 05/09/2026 17:12

OliveMyLove · 05/09/2026 16:22

Closer must be the new mouthpiece for the Sussexes. Wonder if People Mag is feeling hurt? Looks like they are smart enough not to put a name on these articles. The latest is also from “Closer Staff”

https://closeronline.co.uk/celebrity/news/prince-harry-secretly-reaches-out-to-kate-behind-williams-back-this-wont-end-well/

…off now to check and see if Markle has joined any online publication staff…

He’s looking forward to striking up a dialogue with Kate and finding a path forward, particularly if they’re going to bring the children together, which of course is inevitable.

Wow that’s some entitled statement.

Apologies just seen PP has also pulled out this grandiose and delusional statement.

They are using their own children as ram-rods in everything it seems

Justdancevance · 05/09/2026 17:17

These articles read like Omid Scabies articles and he has written a lot for closer over the years.

He seems to have emerged from wherever he was lurking for the last few years. Hideous man.

MrsLeonFarrell · 05/09/2026 17:19

LADDO · 05/09/2026 17:12

He’s looking forward to striking up a dialogue with Kate and finding a path forward, particularly if they’re going to bring the children together, which of course is inevitable.

Wow that’s some entitled statement.

Apologies just seen PP has also pulled out this grandiose and delusional statement.

They are using their own children as ram-rods in everything it seems

Edited

If Harry genuinely thinks that he's more detached from reality than i thought. It sounds as if he is attempting to split the King and Catherine off from William which is a ridiculous idea. William being cast as the baddie with Harry getting on fine with everyone else. The idea that Harry and the kids will hang out with Catherine and the children is just hilariously delusional.

Meanwhile on Planet Reality Harry needs to apologise to his family for what he has said and done. Maybe then some relationship is possible going forward. Catherine won't do anything without William.

HoldMyWine · 05/09/2026 17:19

Harry must be living in cloud cuckoo land. He keeps demanding apologies from PW and KC but for what? He’s been a treacherous little shit. I would be disappointed in PW if he did forgive him. Harold has no public role, I wish the press would stop giving him oxygen.