Ham pr disasters 42! …complicit or coincidence? 🦢

[jeffgoldblum]

Still interested, still not bored!

But true! Some Kelly person I've never heard of and that Marcus guy I've only heard of because of Meghan.

So basically she's back to where she was a decade ago? Getting photo ops with D listers and small time fixers?

I laughed at that. I'm a bad bad person.

FFS. The man is an idiot.

I was thinking that M must be incredibly bored and frustrated - she's back in the UK, which she hated when she lived here before, but not out in public. And seeing W&C getting all the publicity she'd like for herself must be incredibly galling.

I do wonder if either of them has the intellectual honesty to admit how badly they've cocked things up?

Oh I remember this because of the timing: this was in LA, the morning after Archie and Lilibet were confirmed as becoming Prince and Princess. The blue sweater-wearing lady was a member of her staff. They'd had lunch and it was indeed a pre-arranged pap stroll (the paper who printed the photos said as much).

I think I’d prefer listening to him based on the modern day and his experience.

Because she's got Kelly and Markus over to stay! (sorry, probably a bit bitchy, entirely possible they've come to stay because Harry's away).

So much for the freedom flight to take their places among the A Listers and make their billions.

So he didn’t even bother learning the speech, just went in to read it? Are people paying him for this?

This is absolutely absurd

Oh dear. William to blame?

Going back to The Book, this review is cracking. Funny and perceptive

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/22/swan-song-charles-spencer-review-diana-princess-of-wales-brother-earl

It's as if Harry expects people to forget about context and just listen to him hypocritically spout whatever he's being paid to say that day. Unfortunately most of us aren't goldfish.

Someone snipped the wire on his mic having been bored beyond endurance, I’d say.

Not relevant to the thread but I need to tell you that both butter and Marmite on a crumpet (yes, at the same time) is the food of the gods 🤘

Or, is this the much-prophesied AI apocalypse.

The bots thought right that's it let's start with that whingey get.

Sarah Vine on Spencer (apologies if it's already been posted). I thought he looked a bit tanned in the interview, but there's a close-up of him (sorry) and he's clearly wearing a fair amount of slap which hasn't been blended into his natural skin tone. The make-up girl obviously took quite a dislike to him.

https://archive.is/4a0aa

Excellent. Much better. 🫣

No drop. You would have choked to death for about ten minutes.

Thanks Iced. So even with British security they’d have to pay for their own security in the holidays if they go to the US and for any trips Meghan takes back there.

I think Meghan knew Kelly Zafjen years ago and then reconnected after KZ lost a child and Meghan’s been to events for her foundation she set up after her loss.

Yes, and any security they might get in Britain will be based on threat assessments, so will always be subject to review. They're simply not important enough to qualify for police protection because of 'who they are'.

No idea who this Kelly person is. I guess some D lister of the type Meghan thought it an achievement to meet a decade or so ago. But isn't she a Duchess now? Shouldn't A listers be desperate to be seen with her?

This is gold 😀

What an absolute cracker.

"but at some point in the book you start to think, alright Alexander Hamilton, give it a rest"

Brilliant. A classic of a review.

Another corker of a review from The Guardian!

He's got a pasting here!

From the Guardian review:

At his best, in these passages, Spencer acts as a proxy for the rest of us by registering the absolute lunacy of those days after Diana’s death – by which I mean not the public outpouring, but the behaviour of the royal family, who remained deaf to the nation’s needs until they were forced to change course.

The nation's needs? What about William and Harry's needs?
He doesn't act as a proxy for me. Don't include me in 'the rest of us'.
It was and is bizarre that people who had never met Diana considered they were more important than her young sons.