Ham pr disasters 61! ….enough is enough…is enough…we can’t go on!…no more tears! ……

[jeffgoldblum]

It’s the bodyguards fault was a new revelation!
who’s fault will it be next?
answers on a postcard please…….

Peter is head of a department in a talent and marketing agency.

Harriet has left her NHS job and is starting a role in a private foundation which uses her professional skills.

I don't see anything particularly to criticise there.

Mine’s goosegog jam. We have found it in a local(ish) grocers, so we don’t have to order it on online any more. And it’s cheaper, about £4.50 a jar.

Honestly? I’m not convinced Harry does watch much news or read any newspaper articles that don’t concern him or his immediate family.

Although I do agree that even his eyes must be opening at the latest twists.

And therein lies an irony. The Middletons have worked for a living, made money, prioritised family, lived quietly, have a rogue relation and, arguably, behaved less than well over the folding of their business. The Markles' story includes divorce, drugs, probably jail, possibly paedophilia, possibly sex tourism, orgies, alcoholism, and public feuding.

I'm pretty sure that Peter Phillips founded a sports management and corporate hospitality company and works for that.

IIRC He has previously worked (marketing?) jobs for a bank, a car company and FI racing. I'm pretty sure I also read that he worked for a company that did something mundane - like producing digital maritime shipping certification.

He gets no taxpayer funding and is not a titled or working royal, although he attends family events such as Christmas and summer in Balmoral.

What could harry do now? He's stuck with her and her awful family now. Divorce? What about the hamlets? She would most likely get full custody and take them back to cali. Also, he may be besotted but in some sort of his addled brain he must know she would sell him down the river.

Yep & the Middletons really got dragged through the mud, James & Carole got a particularly hard time.
The media have largely left the Markles especially Doria alone

The Middletons have made a huge success of their lives both materially and personally and produced well rounded and grounded children. I'm not at all surprised PW loves them and being with them.

I wonder if the awareness of that contrast between families is a factor behind MM's dislike of Catherine, even subconsciously.

I have a particular soft spot for James & his devotion to his dogs.

I think you’re absolutely right. Catherine had the lovely childhood that Meghan would have liked for herself. Two interested parents in a tight knit unit. Siblings that were supportive and brought up with good values. Just another reason to dislike Catherine.

I have often thought this. Catherine has exactly what Meg wants and that includes a warm, loving family.

I see TM is in a residential dementia unit now.

A very inoffensive article to promote Harriet becoming patron of a charity. Any mention of RF is positive and bland so unlikely to cause any offence.

Meghan rather reminds me of the character Debbie in the film Addams Family Values ! Just her demeanour not her murderous actions!

And wealthy.

I don't really care about Harriet doing it.
She's not a working royal - so there is no conflict.

She's very discreet. The only really private and personal thing she talks about is her Christian faith, and that's her business and her choice to talk about.

And she's taken on the patronage of a charity; part of that is promoting and publicising it.

'Hello' thy name is anodyne.

[Wanders off to do a Google search]

Regarding the Hello article, I would think that Princess Anne is pragmatic enough to realise that Mr and Mrs Phillips have to make a living.

I think it must be but also I think MM thought she could play the comparison to her advantage. All the pretending that she was poor, not well fed, calling herself a latch key kid. I think that's why she made up so many lies about different jobs she's had as a teen/young adult, trying to contrast herself with Katherine who received flack for not having had much of a work history.
Seemingly every time she speaks she remembers a different job she had, afaik no one has ever come forward and said they worked with her. She said she worked in a frozen yoghurt shop when she was 13. She was a babysitter. She said she sold doughnuts in a mini doughnut shop and she gave the company name but when this was looked into it turns out this company have never had a shop, they produce doughnuts in a factory but no shop. I think they were also based in a part of the US that she has never lived near. She did calligraphy for weddings between acting auditions and she'd have to hide the ink stains on her hardworking little hands during auditions 🥹
She worked in a bar in Chicago, she nannied for various Irish catholic families, she was a retail assistant and she worked in a restaurant. She was a coat check attendant. She taught gift wrapping classes and she taught book making classes.
She likes to make a lot out of a morsel ("when I worked for the US embassy") to get across this picture of someone so productive, entrepreneurial and hardworking. I wouldn't be surprised if someone of those jobs were outright lies or based 1 afternoon try out.

I’ve always thought this is her main issue with Catherine, I think it eats her up, add to that she has the Princess of Wales title and will be Queen and Catherine’s card was marked even before she married Harry.

"I'm such a fraud."

I think it must be but also I think MM thought she could play the comparison to her advantage. All the pretending that she was poor, not well fed, calling herself a latch key kid.

Also a good point. "Look what I've done and where I've got to and I never had any of her advantages!"

I'd say even Catherine having a mother like Carole who I would think knows how the Royal Family operates & was always on hand to give Catherine advice . Even now with everything going on in the rf Catherine is so lucky to have her parents as confidants.

I doubt Doria knew jackshit about the rf & in fairness why would she living in Cali..

I wouldn't be surprised if someone of those jobs were outright lies or based 1 afternoon try out.

Didn't Thomas Sr say she never needed to work when she was at school or university?

These inconsistencies imo were why she didn't want him at the wedding.