Ham pr disasters 36! The clap backs continue!

[jeffgoldblum]

A continuation of our continuing discussion of our favourite private citizens! 😁

Many 'public figures' have kidnap insurance, especially those travelling in corrupt countries like Columbia, Mexico, Nigeria as it is a huge organised crime money spinner. Wealthy families also have the children insured not just the principle.
H would be an idiot not to have his family covered, private security recommend having a family policy.
I remember when Denzel Washingtons film man on fire came out, the media was full of it and how most wealthy people have cover. How the other half live.

IIRC, Zara has long-standing sponsorship deals with Rolex, LandRover and an Australian bookmakers. Easy £££.
How did H&M fail so badly at commercialising themselves? Their initial "Freedom Flight" focus on trashing the RF made them toxic. Dior, for one, basically told M to fuck off.

Ah, I see what you mean, @Lunde, but with H&Ms' approach I'd be absolutely amazed if it ends up being spent on "philanthropy"

Unless of course they've got to the point of regarding themselves as a charity now ...

Yes def gone. Maybe the comments were too awful :(

But on another note doesn’t Helen Mirren look FABULOUS!!

Edited to add, I looked at the Insta page 6 photo of Harry at the studio and my god the comments!

That's what I don't get. They were an incredible position when they left the UK.

Beatrice and Eugenie “married well”

Now I am laughing, m in a fabulous ball gown at bob Marley film premiere in Jamaica, except they weren't with the A list, they were in a different cinema with the plebs 😂😂😂😂 seated 4 rows back, walking through spilt shit on floor and when m sat down the dress ballooned up round her ears. Comedy gold absolutely hilarious.

Charity does begin at home puzzled …

Zara had RF connections and sporting success but importantly she had the correct character and reputation. If you want luxury brands to sponsor you then you need to be incredibly careful with your reputation. HAM were failing on this before they even left the UK. One of the most important characteristics would be discretion which HAM lack

But they had to walk behind W and C .

😭

Meghans reputation obviously precedes her. Demanding, entitled, rude and a bully. If the likes of the hollywood reporter, which is an industry bible, are willing to write about it, it must be pretty bad. That's why no one wants to work with her.

What instagram page is it ? Are the comments still there ?

Under Delaware's rules, I believe only 5% of it has to be spent on philanthropy, which leaves a juicy $7.6m to spend on other things. Like posh frocks and private jets.

I was just reading that the Sultan of Oman is coming to the U.K. for a State Visit in October . I would imagine M would love to attend such an event especially when it was widely reported how annoyed she was because she wasn’t allowed to attend one when she was Harry’s girlfriend .

I think they were partly unlucky - their prime time for getting really good deals was during Covid when no one was focusing on the luxury goods market.

I think also they were very unwise to push the negative stories they did - it made them look either toxic (if you didn't believe them) or sad (if you did). Neither of those is good for promoting a brand - you need happy, positive, uplifting images.

They are very impetuous and the opposite of strategic which you need to be if you want to market yourself.

And they were (still are) very delusional about their position in the world and what it could get them.

Zara is sticking to her lane - she keeps her focus tight on riding and horse related activities, and the brands that are attracted to the horsey set. She also very wisely decided to focus her main money making activities in the Australia, where she gets to be a bit special (granddaughter of the Queen) but in a casual Australian way - away from the UK paps who might be tempted to do the odd negative story about horsey rich people if they were aware of it too much.

Harry and Meghan spent their main time (when they weren't being negative about the UK and the RF) trying to be global spokespeople on big causes, or hoping for big paid speaking gigs. The problem with that is they just don't have the real world experience, or funny entertaining anecdotes to pull that off.

Those state occasions are something, aren't they?
I would love to go to one of those banquets. 😍

Oh ! What a shame that they won’t be invited as private citizens then mylovely!

@Thedom These photos … I asked Grok Ai about the knob 🍆 underneath the signature. I’ve screen shot his reply 🤭

I agree, and in all honesty, trashing the family, and telling somewhat tall tales really isn't a great idea if you want to market yourselves.

Can you give us a flavour of the comments, @PlotTwistPending ?

😂😂

Because they are not nice people, relatable or hard working.
You can only be a ‘brand ambassador’ if you resonate with the brand and if the link is believable.
People like Zara. She’s popular within the family, she has achieved a lot in her career, represented her country in top level sport, has talent&ambition, looks normal but brushes up well -and she married the second best person to marry in this century. The wonderful, brutally honest, down to earth, laughing, rugby playing Yorkshire man Mike with who she seems to have a happy marriage and 3lovely kids. (If anyone is in any doubt I bloody LOVE Mike Tindall. Him, Zara, Camilla and
H&M wanted lots of money for doing -well nothing.
By the time they buggered off to California people here were sick of them. The brand was tainted then -we just had no idea of how much worse it would get.
They are divisive &toxic, It would take decades of hard work to turn this round and they are not into hard work.
Seriously -if you wanted to promote your charity, your high end brand selling expensive items which people covet, your restaurant, your country, your local £1 shop , or Iceland (frozen foods) why would anyone choose them? It would put off more people than it would attract.
They can’t even sell their own ‘artisan’ factory produced UPF Shite products.
I honestly have zero ideas how they can make any long term money - even going on only fans would hardly raise enough for a weeks shop. Who wants to look at a ginger todger covered in 8hr cream -any takers??

It is his regular signature - it's on his Wikipedia page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Harry,_Duke_of_Sussex

The weirdest thing to me is they just keep operating on the same playbook - constantly attacking the UK and various members of the Royal family and they keep getting the same result - lower and lower ratings in public opinion.

Why can't they see it?