Ham pr disasters 64! …….Prince Charming…Prince Charming…..ridicule is nothing to be scared of ! …..

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A lack of humour and self reflection is not helping.

No, no make up, make up.

I understand she was to introduce him .
No, me neither ….

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It was her hand in pocket that annoyed me. Who does that when a guest especially. Weird. Perhaps it's a comfort thing.

Anything to get publicity I guess, even if it means you look desperately ridiculous.

They can't possibly live on one of the Royal estates, KP or Windsor are out of the question due to proximity to the Wales family and most of the others are too remote and not suitable.

Whilst Charles could, if he was so minded, which I doubt he is, give them a wodge of cash to pay for a house, he absolutely couldn't get involved in any other way buying a house for them. As soon as he gave the green light they would be like children wanting that extra sweet when you say they can have one. Two??? pleeeeeaaase...OK TWO, NO MORE...Three??? Just one more??? PPLLEEEEEEEaase...
They would want a house bigger and more expensive than the initial budget. Then it would need doing up. And the bills are so much more than expected, what with mansion tax and so forth. Then...Oh dear ... what about security?????

DM is playing both sides against the middle. Don't come out and say anything that will prejudice any future fantastic scoop with a Sussex about, let's say, a sensational marital split. It was suggest on here some time ago that the Mail having Bryony 'Harry is my friend' Gordon was for just that sort of access in that kind of situation.

And of course, the ANL vs Harry is still rumbling on. They won't want to stir the pot with that.

And of course it's 'Mad Nads' Dorries. She's probably exhausted anything she had to say about living in the Cotswolds (an area with which the DM has a fixation verging on the unhealthy).

Sorry to be a plopper but I’m working my way through the thread.

The effort H has to put in is a lot less than most. He doesn’t have to drive himself there, find a parking space, negotiate the diversions to and from. If he wants a warming coffee he just has to ask and someone will bring it to him. He’s not standing on arthritic joints for hours.

It’s an easy win for him, and of course he made sure he was captured on camera doing it. So no medals from me I’m afraid.

It’s makeup, but it’s the no-make up makeup look, tons of makeup but very minimal looking.

My thoughts too . Perhaps Archie sleeps in a bed shaped like a crown with a sceptre over it? A throne for a chair.

I was just thinking does their appearance fee go down or is it halved if only one member of the travelling circus shows up?

Its rude.

Is Brussels a paying gig ??

If you look at that photo caption it says the image of the princess bed is from the property’s pre-royal era.

I don’t think this is about her, it’s about Harry.

He has to publicly show support for his wife, but he has not uttered a single word of support, (no surprise after Meghan’s disaster of a statement), so this is how their PR are presenting him, holding his wife tightly by his side in a big public show of support, because as you say, there is absolutely no need for her to be there.

You can do Brussels in a day trip anyway, so kids not missing out, wonder did they take the Eurostar ?

Strong enough to endure a manicure. So brave.

I thought he wasn't speaking. It was some installation or something?

That's quite a look Markle's sporting in Brussels - a masterclass in funereal.

While she shouldn’t be blamed for her father’s situation I’m going to be cheesed off of the BBC give her lots of soppy sympathy. The RF had to just get on with their public lives in the immediate wake of those damning accusations made by Meghan and Harry I don’t remember much empathy there.

I get that she’s naturally upset but she needs to stay at home and withdraw from the limelight for a while. What could be the reason for her accompanying H other than to play the poor victim once again and to garner sympathy?

There is no other reason! I think it’s a very deliberate and calculating strategy.

Ok.. twas heavy no make up makeup in that case!

I think she has been practicing the hand in the pocket look in front of the mirror..
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”putting hands in pockets is a recognized and frequent catwalk move”

She is the most vapid and transparent celebrity of our time.

'withdraw from the limelight for a while'

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Personally I think a return to MIG access was off the cards the minute WAHHH ! was published. Perhaps even earlier.

However that doesn’t mean Harry isn’t capable of deluding himself that there must be a way back inside The Golden Cage. I don’t know that he’d jettison her in a last ditch effort to claw his way back in. But proffering a wife who lost her good hand of cards might feature in some “cunning plan” he’s cooked up inside his head.

I may be guilty of allowing my bias to under-estimate Harry’s ability to work out how to turn the tables as effectively as possible on his own. But, IME, the spouse turning the tables usually needs ongoing support to keep them on track at least until habitual residence has been firmly established for the children. I don’t think it’s the MIG, but maybe somebody who has seen similar in their own orbit, feeling sorry for Harry being the more limited one in the marriage AND being on the wrong end of an uneven play field. Who wants him to be able to operate within his marriage on a more level playing field.

The mystery to me is where are the people who should have been telling Meghan that she was taking the risk of walking straight into an elephant trap ? Or maybe she knew, but felt like she’d run out of other options. Perhaps the Cali Christmas was her planned exit ramp if needed. But that’s been taken off the table.

It’s also possible that all of the above is utterly irrelevant in the couple’s decision making process and I’m guilty of seeing patterns where there are none. Because my viewpoint is strongly coloured by my own experience of seeing the “habitual residence & turning the spousal tables” so many times.

I think the BBC should be held to a higher standard which shouldn't include regurgitating pity pieces about MM from her spokesperson. I agree she is not responsible for her father's actions but there is still an open IPCC investigation into the 2019 letter and personally I do think she faces questions about what she did / what questions she asked about any investigations. From some accounts she wrote to her father twice about these allegations and seems to have accepted their veracity. She may well have done this. In which case a simple statement would clarify this. As I said before, however hard it is for her personally, I do feel this is a time when she should resist the temptation to make herself the centre of a victim narrative.

Absolutely Meg is not to blame for her father. However, she had a moral obligation to report what she knew in 2019. As did her husband. Unfortunately, like every other hypocritical nonsense they do, this too will be ignored and they'll get a way with it

The photos appeared in the DM before 9.00 so either they had a very early start or they stayed over last night . M would have needed time to have her no make up make up done plus hair .
Cannot see them on Eurostar .