Ham pr disasters thread 47! …it’s all so quiet…it’s all so still ….

[jeffgoldblum]

Still interested! , still not bored ( well slightly!) 😁

https://www.dailymail.com/lifestyle/article-16186819/amp/Commitment-avoidPrince-Harrys-ex-Chelsy-Davy-admits-spent-years-dodging-marriage-motherhood-husband-Sam-Cutmore-Scott-changed-mind.html

This is a lovely piece, beautiful family, beautiful life!

If they do offer some sort of apology ( and I have doubts about this story ) and the RF don’t immediately welcome them back then we will have interviews about how cold hearted and cruel the Family is . Meghan - one tear left eye- will sob that she did her best.

Yes I think that will be the case.

The press were critical of Chelsy Davy at the time though, not keen on colonial upstarts...
(And i wouldn't say moving to Mauritius is moving home, she was from Zimbabwe. It would be like a Brit moving to Poland and saying they've moved back home, because it's in Europe.)

And she’s not even successful. So she’s saying she’s behind her own lack of success.

IIRC, CS refusing Diana's request for a cottage/house on the Althorp estate during the divorce proceedings was widely reported (although that doesn't necessarily validate the story). It's old news, so why is he intending to sue Eden for repeating it?

https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-16187933/EDEN-CONFIDENTIAL-Earl-Spencer-Diana.html

Well it's moving back to Africa, just like we are told H&M moved to America, America is a big place too..
I'm not sure what you mean by "colonial upstarts" Chelsy is Zimbabwean born & bred, her mother is Zimbabwean & her father is South African. Chelsy often said how proud she was of her African heritage & her childhood surrounded by animals.

I'm getting racist vibes from your post.

Looks like my October diary is going to be busier than Harry’s .
I have been called for Jury Duty .
No further details will be released due to security concerns .

Charles Spencer has already successfully sued two publications (the Times and People, if I remember correctly) for saying that he refused Diana accommodation.
He did withdraw an offer to allow her to stay in the Garden House, but offered alternative accommodation (some not at Althorp).

In this story, he is saying that he did not refuse in summer 1997, because she did not ask to stay in summer 1997.

She's lied about so much that folk are naturally going to think why not this, too, Starryfifty

There was a time when some believed them, as in "Meghan just proved the RF are racist", but once willingly given away credibility can't be retrieved and here we are

If Harry's keeper allows him to read anything written by Chelsy, I hope (but doubt) he'd have enough intelligence to infer the subtext of her words - that she had never considered him as husband material.

Do people actually believe this media fabrication about an apology? What form would it take? An interview on ITV with Tom Bradby? An "I'm sorry" email to Charles and William accompanied by an As Ever hamper?

Nothing that they say will feel sincere and meaningful, they just don’t have it in them.

That was only a tiny bit of it. I think the British public became dubious of her when Doria was the only one from both sides of her family to be invited to the wedding.

The cold way she cut out Thomas Markle after she said he sold photos of himself getting fitted for a suit. Yet in the typical hypocritical fashion we are used to she sold out the Royal Family for millions & the chaos her & Harry caused ruined Prince Philips & the Queens final years.

They cannot rehabilitate their image. The British family places an awful lot on family values where are Meghan's values if she can so easily ostracise her family?

Why has Harry never met his father in law? Why have A&L never met their ill 82 year old grandfather (the one who isn't King)?

I have gone up a jeans size because I’ve eaten so much popcorn.

Megs only hope is to rinse the Sussex squad dollars. I can’t imagine anyone else willing to buy a card set with the As ever ‘original crest’

Im not sure how many of these people there are (I mean the crazy ones willing to spend $$$s and harass the clergy) maybe 500?

This is a last ditch attempt to shift stock and try and get as many of her fans to get themselves in debt for her.

I mean she is repeating the whole campaign of 18 months ago when she first launched. She’s acting as if this is day dot. If she hired an experienced team in campaigns….they weren’t going to say….do EXACTLY what you did in 2025 at the launch. It shows there is zero money and ideas going around.

The main product that Meghan sells is herself. Everything else is secondary.

You only have to look at the promotional shot she did for the advent calendar. Meghan herself sits in front, she takes up most space, Meghan is in full focus, whereas the very expensive chocolates she is meant to be selling are further away and not in full focus.

I'm not sure who she is marketing this item at? Are adult chocolate calendars a big market in the US? Would people with $150 dollars to spend on a chocolate calendar really want one with a picture of someone-else's McMansion on it? It's really unclear who her target audience is?

I also think that As Ever's marketing was pretty confused as I was never sure who her target buyer was. The focus seemed to be on the expensive packaging rather than the product. But was she aiming for the occasional gift purchase market? - but this didn't seem to fit with the industrial product rather than - say - locally produced, organic jam or unusual flavours etc. However the expensive fancy packaging didn't seem to be targeting regular, weekly/monthly, supermarket buyers as the Betty Crocker/Bridgerton products did. Her initial launch seemed to sell out to journalists, influencers, Instagramers and Tik-Tokers who flooded the internet with "reviews" but didn't appear to be a source of repeat business.

Since then As Ever just seems to have thrown random products into the mix. The ones that are really cheap to slap your own label on a few wines, (wickless) candles and bookmarks. Then the odd decision to launch the gift boxed honey/mint tea/bookmarks in last January - was it supposed to be a Christmas gift idea that didn't arrive/wasn't ordered in time? Or was it repackaged surplus stock?

Meghan seemed to have no idea who her target, repeat customer is. She originally talked about "teens" saving up their money from a Saturday job - but do they really buy jam and tea? They certainly won't be buying the $90 wine packs not $150 chocolate calendars

The products she chose seem to target an older demographic and a gift market - but has she considered their purchase patterns? For the high prices most would expect a unique product ... locally sourced, organic or interesting flavours. But who buys mass produced, factory jam at huge prices? Perhaps a one-off gift - but not a regular order.

Contrast with the UK royals - you can get a lot more Highgrove or Duchy organic jam for the price
-As Ever strawberry spread, factory produced, for profit, sold online - £9 per 215g (very small jar) or £4.19 per 100g
-Highgrove Organic Strawberry Jam organic, profits to charity, sold in gift shops, online, Fortnum's etc. £7.95 per 340g standard jar, or £2.34 per 100g
-Waitrose Duchy Organic Strawberry Jam - organic, profits to charity, sold in Waitrose, £2.80 per 340g standard jar or 82p per 100g

At the moment As Ever appears to be run as a hobby business while Meghan attempts to restart her Tig influencer career.

Agreed. The decision in July 2024, when Harry was firmly and irrevocably locked into his self-imposed embittered exile, to host Invictus 2027 in Birmingham was extremely foolish. ‘The founding patron’ is losing his mind now he’s back in Britain, Invictus is struggling, and I can’t see the Green-LD-Ind Birmingham council coalition giving Harry and Invictus an easy ride over the inclusion of the IDF.

I don't think Meghan thinks beyond her image in the mirror each day. Honestly.

It's just designed to make the RF look bad. 'Look, we are so humble and genuinely want to be back in the family again because we're such good people but they won't listen to us they are so cold/hard/formal'. We on the other hand are loving and go barefoot when we can.

And don’t forget Harry came on contradicted her in that interview, and Oprah and Meg just ignored it.

I suppose the safest bet is to find a cathedral, abbey or big church with a gift shop / display & honesty box arrangement.

I appreciate the pp’s point though that it’s annoying that many large shops don’t stock cards any more with nativity scenes.

Yes, otherwise it would have been done privately. Not touted by every news org out there.

If there was to be an apology (highly doubt it) then I think it needs to be as public and high profile as the original slander.
A new Oprah interview where the pair of them admit it was all rubbish and that they are liars complete with Oprah’s “Whaaaat?!” when M says she lied to the world.

I'm on a diet of word salad and flower sprinkles. Slightly sickly but staying on message 💪