Ham pr disasters 50! …will Thursday be the start of something big ? …or just another damp squib!

[jeffgoldblum]

It’s all happening! 3 charity visits coming up!

Can you share with us why you feel you have the wisdom to give others advice or the credibility for it to feel relevant to strangers?

Do you think we may all feel inspired to go out into the world after seeing your post and share your glorious message?

Is what you are doing here a wise way to use your life?

Am watching it now... the commentary of the locals is the best bit!

The Sun got the Rota memo of lines to take and will guarantee privileged access and maybe gongs down the line.

Wow. No one gives a shit do they?

To the last point a resolute no - you are quite right to take me up on that. I will soon enough bore off.

Check out Nottingham Live Facebook page!
They posted a video of Harry taking to a group of schoolchildren & literally out of nowhere the claw comes & pulls him away as the children are answering him!
The comments are priceless!

Compare them fairly with the crowds Queen Elizabeth II attracted at the height of her popularity.

You can't compare fairly. Two entirely different metrics.

And remember that the working royals are funded and supported by a substantial publicity machine,

That's because (capitals for the hard of thinking) THEY'RE WORKING ROYALS.

It’s a foolish argument to make if you’re trying to prove one side is more popular than the other

Got that right, at least.

Where?

Of course they are winning. No matter how many fairytales you and the like invent to convince yourselves otherwise. It’s another example that shows that your opinion of them does little to disrupt their everyday life. You are part of a very small, albeit determined, minority that direct all your time and energy to hating on a couple who, through their actions, show that you do not matter.

Depends on what metrics they (not you) consider winning though.

Did they get press attention? Yes, clearly?
Did they draw a crowd? Yes they did.
Was it as big as they were hoping? We cannot know.
Did they get a massive dopamine hit from being the centre of attention? Undoubtedly yes.
Can they make any money out of this? Unlikely
Does it add to their case for armed security? Unlikely
Is this repeatable? Yes - although they’ll probably face a decline in public and press interest the more they do this - novelty is a big factor in interest here I suspect
Will it secure a future income stream? Unlikely

Looking at that’s it seems it’s been a successful tactic, yes. But is it a hallmark of a successful strategy for their future? That looks far less likely. Thinking short term has always seemed to be a problem for this couple, and so it continues.

And as others have said, they intentionally walked away from this exact life to chase stardom and riches in Los Angeles. Yet now they are back, geographically and circumstantially. Making lemonade out of lemons is laudable (and we know Meghan is not a quitter) but going back to square one because you are out of other options is not generally considered a win.

Yep. This visit to Nottingham has really spooked the Sussex machine.

Some of these posts are worded really strangely aren’t they ?

On a positive note, I did like Meghan’s coat.

Especially as they used local news media to drum up interest in the visit and gave exact timings of where they would be by putting a poster in the Nottingham Post.

.... a bit odd for a couple paranoid about security to announce the exact timings!

Neil Sean, who has over half a million subscribers around the world, will do an episode tonight. He's very even- tempered and recently has been very accurate. I'm going to believe his reporting.

As well as not knowing what 'hapless' means you don't know the meaning of 'sham,' 'cynical' and 'pseudo,' either.

A lot of very familiar posting styles too.

I'm sorry, I laughed at that. How tacky and desperate.

Brilliant! My favourite is, ‘and the crowd went mild’

Tom Sykes has a great jacket & tie at least.

Ok we did just see Meghan! A bit. She doesn't like showing her face, a bit like her kids perhaps?

What I find sad about the reporting is that it’s all about them.
they are really not doing a great job of getting these charities publicity.
it’s so obvious this is all about them.
Shame a few people can’t see this for what it is 😮‍💨

Honestly can we stop feeding the pigeons - they are flapping about, shitting all over the board and being inadvertent given disproportionate airtime and profile by others engaging with them and quoting them.

Be more RF - grey rock the tantruming toddlers.

Is no one following the Nottingham tradition of robbing from the rich to give to the poor? 😁

Bless them, they're a bit over-excited, that's all. The Nottingham visit is a bit of a sugar rush for them.

£1,495 apparently.

Making lemonade out of lemons is laudable (and we know Meghan is not a quitter) but going back to square one because you are out of other options is not generally considered a win.

A quitter is exactly what Meghan is. Whatever happened to her 40 x 40 initiative? Her Spotify contract? Lemonada? Netflix?

And I wouldn't say they're going back to square one. Look at their 2017 visit to Nottingham. Cheering crowds in the thousands, a police escort, every detail worked out smoothly by the royal machine. They have none of that now. They walked away from actual royal life to a pretendy version thereof. Far from a win, that is, as the kids might say, an epic fail.

I am cringing at these shoes. MM is stuck in the noughties and a very provincial bling version at that.

No one in London dresses like this - she is so unstylish unless she’s going for a Pretty Woman retro look. You can tell she hasn’t been in London for years.

Its not dissimilar to all the shots of her and her mate Jessica Mulroney in Toronto in the 2010s always dressing in dated (even for then) body con dresses and strappy shoes. Same with her ‘ideas’ stuck in some cringy millennial loop.