H&M PR disasters 52: Roundabouts and walkabouts

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The continuing story of the Sussexes and their PR issues.

The second hand embarrassment I felt when I read this.

I think she has achieved a lot at Longleat.

However, she does seem to be going down the celebrity route at the moment - Ladies of London reality series, Kate Moss dress etc.

I don't know if the intent is simply brand promotion.

I’ve seen pictures of Angelina jolie , Meghan and a few others doing it too! , it looks ridiculous whoever does it!

I think Emma was previously a model and it’s probably a reflex from those days!

And Meghan has such a lovely red dress that would fit in nicely

She has a couple. This one:

Or from the Nigeria visit (the one thing she wore on that trip that I liked) this one:

But she'd probably go for this one:

I know. It’s so cringeworthy.

Reminds me of that woman who screamed 'Diana!' as the coffin left KP on the day of the funeral. Well done, you're on every vid for posterity.

As a Canadian, I will say that Charles’ visit, during which he read the Speech from the Throne, was a spectacular success.

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

What were the charity staff thinking? When I was a small child, a rather odd girl I was friendly with was told that Yoyo biscuits grow on trees. Her mum crept into the garden at the dead of night, put a dead twig in the ground, and tied some Yoyo biscuits onto the twigs. The twig was located in front of the odd girl's bedroom window.

I knew aged six that this was deception and wrong. This is even worse because HaM are grown-ups!

Probably, she's a stunning woman and always looks fabulous, but even so!

If Harry and Mel Gibson had a baby 🫣

Now! , I must object, before he lost the plot , there is no denying that Mel Gibson was very attractive.

I think she wanted to eclipse Catherine, she couldn't forgive William for cautioning Harry to slow down with the breakneck speed of his relationship with Meghan, she didn't like her vast dress allowance from Charles having a limit, didn't like having to curtsey to her majesty or having to follow royal protocol, didnt like not being paid for royal engagements or playing second fiddle to W&C, didn't feel they welcomed her enthusiastically enough.

She reminds me a little of Emma Watson (although much less educated) - she got carried away with the fleeting and fickle politics of the moment and thought she could elevate her career from professional victimhood.

Meghan backed the wrong horse and swapped the elitest kind of privalege, golden meal ticket of a lifetime for 5 minutes of tacky tabloid triumph. The one thing I will say in her defense is she doesn't come from the sort of background were she could benefit from sage and reliable wisdom and advice. As I'm sure Catherine has via her family.

I've focused on Meghan but Harry sometimes feels too idiotic to even bother talking about, I honestly don't know how to excuse his inadequateness.

I think it is. She married for love, but had to take on Longleat! It's such a huge thing, they're constantly having to develop and promote it to keep going. Her initiatives have made a difference. That reality show was shown in the USA, so that would get interest from American visitors. She does work hard.

I didn’t mean she doesn’t need one. It’s that getting one or extending it or amending it wouldn’t be a problem (as between UK and USA). Of course she did what had to be done: her aides will have done the paperwork and she will have just supplied answers to questions (one get the impression that Meghan will have seen that as her doing the UK an enormous favour by allowing her privacy to be invaded in such a way). So not a problem…until it is, of course! Which is why you see royals and private individuals expelled from countries when the two countries go to war or some diplomatic incident occurs or sanctions etc, serious stuff. In that respect these individuals aren’t “free”: they benefit from enormous privileges but these privileges can be rescinded for reasons beyond their control. Same goes for tax affairs, although with less of a leash. They’re not normal people like we are, they have fewer and greater rights at the same time, fewer and greater freedoms.

It must be a horrible way to live, every relationship has to be transactional. May be going off on a tangent here but I wonder if it makes a difference to motherhood. Her children are of real monetary currency to her in a way that most people's can never be to them. It must shape the way you see them.

It is absolutely fascinating. There may be serveal things at play at once. Another option could be one of them wants out of the marriage but I'm not sure about that one.

Problem is, some toddlers will then keep getting louder and more outrageous in an ever more desperate attempt to provoke a reaction.

I remember the days when every picture a person had taken meant the woman would have a foot turned out so her lower leg looked like the bottom of a K. It was so glamorous and my mum was great at it. I like doing it to this day but I’ve a long way to go to do it like my darling mum.

They both looked like exactly what they are in that video.

What word?

I've just seen a photo of the press photographers who covered NottingHaM. Some of them have very large lenses and there are a lot of them. Almost too many, especially now they have established their own rota. Therec are more than 20.

Now I'm wondering of some of them are a set-up, like the 'crowd' - ordinary people paid to swell the ranks, clutch a camera, and make HaM look like superstars.

My deviousness is worrying me. Soon, I may start to think like a member of the Sussex Squad.

I think they looked rather loved up with Harry genuinely being protective of Meghan. I sincerely hope they go the distance and not only because any divorce/family breakdown be nothing like any ordinary divorce and I doubt any of them would ever get over it. They’d all be scarred for life.

Meghan would not see the value in reading. Harry probably hasn't got the attention span or possibly an adequate reading level. Although he did read Spare for the audiobook.