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Ham pr disasters 44! Will there be karma? Or will the slippery mackerel of consequences pass them by?

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jeffgoldblum · 26/09/2026 14:49

Still not bored , still interested, if you find this thread not for you please pass us by.

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Mylovelygreendress · 29/09/2026 10:01

Usernameinabeyance · 29/09/2026 09:59

If you didn't post it on your socials, or have the paps following you to get your best sympathy expression what was the point.

No , I just , you know, did stuff 🤷‍♀️.
Clearly I have a lot to learn .

Usernameinabeyance · 29/09/2026 10:05

Mylovelygreendress · 29/09/2026 10:01

No , I just , you know, did stuff 🤷‍♀️.
Clearly I have a lot to learn .

That's ok it's not too late. You can post retrospectively about your busy week and add some emoji. You can always get a bookmark made at a later date

Mylovelygreendress · 29/09/2026 10:06

Usernameinabeyance · 29/09/2026 10:05

That's ok it's not too late. You can post retrospectively about your busy week and add some emoji. You can always get a bookmark made at a later date

😂

CoffeeCantata · 29/09/2026 10:38

Wheresthebeach · 29/09/2026 09:59

I'm not sure we'll ever know the reasons for them leaving the US in quite such a hurry. It simply doesn't make any sort of sense unless they had really run out of money which I find hard to believe. Harry does look increasingly scruffy, I think he's trying to be 'relatable' and he just looks dishevelled. Markle continues to post on IG so she's not gone anywhere, although I agree she's a bit on the quiet side.

Invictus is his last chance to show some relevance. I just hope they refuse to pay his expenses, and that he gets replaced soon. He's no help whatsoever, and damaging the games.

It IS a mystery. Yes, I know there are various theories, but even so, what a bizarre turn of events. It there isn't some desperate reason, I just can't imagine what their thinking is/was.

If they were planning to come back, expecting KC to say 'No hard feelings - and would Meghan like to ride in the carriage next week? We've been helpless without you both!" then the letter sent by the king to various organisations must have absolutely stopped them in their tracks.

Did anyone know they were returning? I'm sure the secret services must have been keeping tabs on them. It's hard to believe it was a complete surprise.

Whole thing is better than fiction! And people ask why we constantly discuss them - because it's a case of 'What on earth will they get up to next?"

ButeNonagenarianMadeMeGasp · 29/09/2026 10:55

Maybe someone is pursuing them for unpaid debts. I am imagining Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men. It would explain their desperate need for security 🤔

Lookatmelookatmedontevenlookatme · 29/09/2026 11:07

Usernameinabeyance · 29/09/2026 03:21

If you can sell your spread when all about you

Are writing clapbacks and blaming it on you;

If you can merch yourself when all the posters doubt you,

But post emoji later for a spare uncle too;

If you can whinge and not be tired by whinging,

And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream- and sell it to Oprah after;

If you can go to Eton and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can reject triumph and court disaster

And write another book just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

Retweeted and keep going on like a fool

Or watch the netflix contract you sold your life to broken,

And stoop quite a lot lower with a frozen tool;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on the wife's luxury jam,

And lose, and unflounce back to your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your ginger and thinning locks

To serve your hairline long after they are gone,

And so moan on when there is no substance in you

Ignore Will.who says “please make it stop”;

If you can get security for imagined crowds and demand your ravec retinue,

Or walk away from the King and lose the common touch;

If neither Frogmore or BP can accommodate you;

If US and GB disagree with you, You're not asking too much;

If you can fill the unnecessary minute

With sixty seconds’ worth of droaning on-

Yours is the storefront and everything that's sold on it,

And -which is more- you’ll have luxury jam, spare son

Exceptional work, @Usernameinabeyance.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

BemusedAmerican · 29/09/2026 11:35

Henry the VIII also spent much of his adult life in agonizing pain from his open leg ulcer. Constant fever, horrible smell, limited mobility. For a man who prided himself on being a hot athlete, this would have been hard to accept.

TheWayOfTheWorld · 29/09/2026 11:36

Re Ari Emanuel, I believe she is not in the book but he was asked about what he thinks her plans are - and he said something along the lines of being happy it’s not his problem to worry about any more…

Wheresthebeach · 29/09/2026 11:41

I do wonder if there is some very large scandal brewing and they were hoping that a return to the Royal Family would give them protection.

BunnyBunbunbun · 29/09/2026 11:48

Wheresthebeach · 29/09/2026 11:41

I do wonder if there is some very large scandal brewing and they were hoping that a return to the Royal Family would give them protection.

They haven't returned to the royal family and their return didn't seem planned around a return to the royal family.

Mylovelygreendress · 29/09/2026 12:02

Wheresthebeach · 29/09/2026 11:41

I do wonder if there is some very large scandal brewing and they were hoping that a return to the Royal Family would give them protection.

I know a lot of people don’t like Blinds and that’s fair enough however Enty has posted a Reveal naming M ( photo as well) so will be interesting to see if she sues.
According to Enty a former friend of M’s is writing a book.
As I have said before I have no interest in how many consenting adults she has shagged but if there are links to Epstein or ( as in this case ) ME , it may well be relevant.

Mylovelygreendress · 29/09/2026 12:04

BunnyBunbunbun · 29/09/2026 11:48

They haven't returned to the royal family and their return didn't seem planned around a return to the royal family.

Well H seems to think that A and L can be working Royals so it appears that there was a belief they could creep back in .

CoffeeCantata · 29/09/2026 12:08

BemusedAmerican · 29/09/2026 11:35

Henry the VIII also spent much of his adult life in agonizing pain from his open leg ulcer. Constant fever, horrible smell, limited mobility. For a man who prided himself on being a hot athlete, this would have been hard to accept.

Yes - poor teenage Katherine Howard having to deal with that!

I’m surely this kind of thing does influence events. I’ve read theories that the Reformat ion was kick-started because of Martin Luther’s agonising haemorrhoids and similarly Judge Jeffries at the Bloody Assizes! Possibly not to quite that extent but you’d certainly choose your moment to put your argument to the king if you were Cromwell, wouldn’t you?

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 29/09/2026 12:09

the letter sent by the king to various organisations must have absolutely stopped them in their tracks.

I imagine that was like running full tilt round a corner only to faceplant a brick wall.

CoffeeCantata · 29/09/2026 12:10

Mylovelygreendress · 29/09/2026 12:02

I know a lot of people don’t like Blinds and that’s fair enough however Enty has posted a Reveal naming M ( photo as well) so will be interesting to see if she sues.
According to Enty a former friend of M’s is writing a book.
As I have said before I have no interest in how many consenting adults she has shagged but if there are links to Epstein or ( as in this case ) ME , it may well be relevant.

The control freak in Meghan won’t like that! She’s dropped friends behind her like old tissues - I wonder if it’s someone she’s upset?

BunnyBunbunbun · 29/09/2026 12:14

Mylovelygreendress · 29/09/2026 12:04

Well H seems to think that A and L can be working Royals so it appears that there was a belief they could creep back in .

The kids are nowhere near the royal family, though, and if he wants them to grow up to be working royals then he should stop being so performative about not showing their faces.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 29/09/2026 12:15

CoffeeCantata · 29/09/2026 12:08

Yes - poor teenage Katherine Howard having to deal with that!

I’m surely this kind of thing does influence events. I’ve read theories that the Reformat ion was kick-started because of Martin Luther’s agonising haemorrhoids and similarly Judge Jeffries at the Bloody Assizes! Possibly not to quite that extent but you’d certainly choose your moment to put your argument to the king if you were Cromwell, wouldn’t you?

One of my history tutors said there are (or were, this was 50 years ago) two underrated and unexamined factors that can affect historical events and their outcomes. One was the weather and the other was the health of the ruler or a significant political/religious figure

The book I'm reading (Hunting the Falcon) suggests a reason why Katherine of Aragon has so many unsuccessful pregnancies. Had her first son lived and she'd had more to safeguard the Tudor succession, there'd likely have been no Reformation, no Elizabeth I and probably no Stuarts or Hanoverians.

ShamedBySiri · 29/09/2026 12:16

Mylovelygreendress · 29/09/2026 12:02

I know a lot of people don’t like Blinds and that’s fair enough however Enty has posted a Reveal naming M ( photo as well) so will be interesting to see if she sues.
According to Enty a former friend of M’s is writing a book.
As I have said before I have no interest in how many consenting adults she has shagged but if there are links to Epstein or ( as in this case ) ME , it may well be relevant.

I can't deny a take a look now and again, most of it goes completely over my head. However #18 made me laugh out loud!
Just silly gossip I am sure so not repeating it here, but still funny,

Lots of hints about an alleged book (not sure who's - ?Jessica Mulroney?) so if there is a book time will tell what bits turn up though I can't see me bothering to cross reference but no doubt someone else will.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 29/09/2026 12:21

BunnyBunbunbun · 29/09/2026 12:14

The kids are nowhere near the royal family, though, and if he wants them to grow up to be working royals then he should stop being so performative about not showing their faces.

I can't get over the steaming hypocrisy of that ginger headed twit. His kids get their faces blurred, other people's kids get six cameras shoved in their faces.

Fondmemories · 29/09/2026 12:25

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 29/09/2026 12:15

One of my history tutors said there are (or were, this was 50 years ago) two underrated and unexamined factors that can affect historical events and their outcomes. One was the weather and the other was the health of the ruler or a significant political/religious figure

The book I'm reading (Hunting the Falcon) suggests a reason why Katherine of Aragon has so many unsuccessful pregnancies. Had her first son lived and she'd had more to safeguard the Tudor succession, there'd likely have been no Reformation, no Elizabeth I and probably no Stuarts or Hanoverians.

I'm guessing syphilis?

Mondommountain · 29/09/2026 12:26

Mylovelygreendress · 29/09/2026 09:20

The book has been released, seems he didn’t bother with anything Meghan

In an interview about his book though he seemed happy to be rid of her.

“One of Hollywood's most influential figures has admitted that his agency previously ended its association with Meghan Markle. Ari Emanuel, who heads WME Group as executive chairman, stated that they quietly parted ways with Markle in 2025 and made no secret of his relief at no longer having to drive her career forward.
^^
Emanuel was featured in a profile by the UK's The Sunday Times in order to promote his upcoming memoir, "Roll the Calls," when he made the candid disclosure.
^^
Asked about the direction of the Duchess' career following their split last year, the Hollywood agent gave a blunt response. "Here's the great thing: I don't have to think about that anymore," he said.

So it does look like this rumour at the time was actually correct.

a February 2025 report suggested the agency had dropped Markle. The agency denied the claim to Page Six at the time. An industry insider had said that the "Suits" star was cut loose for being "too demanding" and "difficult to work with."

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 29/09/2026 12:40

Fondmemories · 29/09/2026 12:25

I'm guessing syphilis?

Disease mental and physical both in the ruler and society as a whole. Both Mary Queen of Scots and James II had mental collapses at crisis points in their reigns that meant they couldn't be as effective as they needed to be.

Not just syphilis, the Black Death in Britain triggered a lot of changes in English society. I recall reading some very interesting discussions about where syphilis came from - did the sailors bring it back from the New World or did they introduce it there?

Edited for meaning

OrangeBlossomsinthesun · 29/09/2026 12:43

Seasidewalker · 27/09/2026 23:49

I was a year younger when my mum died. I have very few memories of her and I wasn't at boarding school from 8. I think the grief in these situations affects memories.

Yes, I don´t think it´s odd he has few memories. My grandmother died of a brian tumour whne my father was about ten and he was sent to boarding school for the last couple of years of her life as his father worked away a lot (overseas) and she was increasingly unable to look after him and increasingly odd because of the brain tumour, so quite frightening for a young boy. He later said he had absolutely no memories of her whatsoever, even though he must have had a normal life with her for the first 8 or so years. But trauma like that can do very strange things to memory.
What would be odd is if Harry now claimed to have loads of memories of her, having reviously said he didn´t.

Lunde · 29/09/2026 13:08

Do we think that Harry and/or Meghan will turn up at the Charles Spencer book launch party in NYC tonight?

KilkennyCats · 29/09/2026 13:30

OrangeBlossomsinthesun · 29/09/2026 12:43

Yes, I don´t think it´s odd he has few memories. My grandmother died of a brian tumour whne my father was about ten and he was sent to boarding school for the last couple of years of her life as his father worked away a lot (overseas) and she was increasingly unable to look after him and increasingly odd because of the brain tumour, so quite frightening for a young boy. He later said he had absolutely no memories of her whatsoever, even though he must have had a normal life with her for the first 8 or so years. But trauma like that can do very strange things to memory.
What would be odd is if Harry now claimed to have loads of memories of her, having reviously said he didn´t.

You’d have to wonder what he imagines he can bring to a documentary about a person he has very few memories of? Nobody else wants to get involved, and it’s all been done already anyway…
He’s not even pretending it’s anything other than a cash grab.

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