Ham pr disaster thread 35! …Charles has played a blinder!

[jeffgoldblum]

A continuation of the shenanigans of our favourite non working royals! 😁

You're correct as so often, Jeff, and the poster you're referring to was one of those who was very keen to ascribe any objection to Meghan's behaviour to racism

Obviously there's little positive to say in H&Ms' defence now that behaviour's led to the utter failure so many of us foresaw, so I guess we're back to "why do you care" and the like, for want of anything better

And I'm still trying like hell to catch up ... my blasted flight time t cancelled last night and I'm stuck in Rome until Thursday night

They could actually be asking for appearance fees (with confidentiality agreements over them). Lots of people are paid to work for charities and definitely for other organisations. The celebrity speaker circuit is very lucrative for some and I would be surprised if H wasn’t tapping into that market. But the RF as public figures do not charge for appearances (they have already been paid to do them).

One of mine isn’t. We start next week! Loooooong summer.

My niece (state school) doesn’t go back until tomorrow. But that’s so exceptionally late that my sister actually checked that 10
Sept wasn’t a typo!

Blimey! That is long! 😯

Hadn't his appearance fee dropped? I'm not sure what Harry can talk about, apart from his own sense of resentment.

Sounds tiring puzzled ! But still far more glamorous than my life!😁 , your post has made me think of a question to ask the thread though!

No! That's so frustrating. What a nightmare. This is what happens when systems crash.

I wonder how many emails their office is now getting saying thanks but no thanks to having them anywhere near charities/organisations...

Hopefully he stays in Balmoral as long as possible .

I am sure plenty of people would be happy to hear him talk about that but it does seem likely they wouldn’t want to pay too much to do so.

It’s what they see when they’re looking for a new user name. I’ve done it myself 😳 my next user name will be DogEaredBookNearYellowLampshade

What were the rumours on x?

The charity "engagements" give HAM easy publicity and an aura of royalty-adjacancy (note the word "engagements"... not sure that the non-royal celebrity charity patrons use that word?).

It costs HAM nothing apart from a couple of phone calls, and a few hours of shaking hands and being photographed next to smiling people who look grateful to meet them.

It gives HAM an ego boost. It also gives them free publicity, and (most importantly) helps to sustain the fake-royal status which is ultimately all they really have to sell. All their actual moneymaking activities depend on that. And high-visibility charity visits are an easy way to create the fake-royal look. Without any actual work put in to support the charities, obviously.

Damning article by Sarah Vine in the DM.
https://archive.is/SP7lw

l know lots of people hate the DM -but here’s a poll they are doing.
Yes, yes I know the demographic of the DM swings towards liking the RF/Indifference but not being keen on HAM.
This poll has been done by over 70,000 people though. Nit the usual ‘out of 273 people asked’ malarky .

I believe that HaM don’t realise how disliked they are and how much indifference there is towards their ‘work’ 🙄
Today, their shock at being private individuals rather than public figures shows their utter utter lack of self aware. They create hubris wherever they go but think they are loved -Harry especially. Is it starting to trickle in? Meghan is more self awareness on this than Harry - she is keeping her head down because (l think ) she’s terrified of being booed. Imagine that.
Be a bit like the bread bun lobbing at Camilla in Waitrose after the Diana interview went out.
But it’s so so much worse than that was.
They WANT to be seen as ‘public figures’ because they want the paid for security. I don’t for a second think that Meghan gives a shit about any British charity, she just wants the security because of the status that gives.

Anyway -here’s the poll.

Yeah, although I imagine it would be quite boring. I'm wondering what the fee would be?.

They are trying to get relevance and more ‘public profile’ to re-energise commercial offerings

All the "clap backs" keep them in the news-but at what price in the light it shows them?

The Worldwide Privacy Tour continues...

I wouldn’t want to eat a defrosted Mars Bar icecream but the consequences might get me down to a size 8 👍

😂😂
Or maybe 'AngryStrawberryBlond'

Next thread. I’m sure he will oblige 😇

When they first left Harry got paid $1million for his first speech. He wittered on about himself and his dead mother.
Fast forward to last year - he got paid $50,000 ( Australian dollars ) for a speech which didn’t sell all of the tickets.
How much would people pay to hear him here! Their ‘brand’ is utterly tainted. No company /organisation will want to pay out big money when he is considered so toxic.

BelittlingBeigeBraggard

As the person who was concerned about Blind items at the beginning of the thread I thought I would just clarify.

I wasn't expecting them to be banned, it's a public forum, apologises if that was thought to be my aim. I was mentioning my own discomfort with this type of rumour because I try to be fair and if they were about William or Catherine, both of whom have similar unpleasant rumours spread here fairly regularly, I would be commenting on them. It didn't feel right to me not to at least register my feeling that posting rumours and photos doesn't make them true or even likely to have happened.

There is obviously interest in X posts, probably because so many people don't go there anymore.

Did anyone see the new Matt cartoon? Gave me a chuckle. I will try and post it.