Pippa Middleton’s wedding is this coming weekend two weekends from now. I’m sure all of you know that by now, because even casual gossip readers are being inundated by cheeseball stories about Pippa’s “almost royal” wedding to Terribly Moderately Wealthy James Matthews. Someone (Carole?) is really trying to make this wedding into a huge, huge deal. So… it’s a little bit funny that Prince Harry is unleashing all of this thunder-stealing qualities at this very moment, right? Like, how many times have the Middletons and Prince William thrown Harry under the proverbial bus? So many times. So, in my mind, it’s almost like Harry has dealt with years of petty grudges and decided to make his stand at Pippa’s wedding. Meghan apparently has this week off from Suits, and Harry’s apparently insisted on bringing Meghan Markle to Pippa’s wedding – all of it, not just the reception – and Pippa has finally agreed, but only after reaching a “tactful compromise.”
With Pippa Middleton supposedly tightening the guest list for her forthcoming wedding by imposing a policy to block partners unless they are engaged or married (“no ring, no bring”) a tactful compromise was reached for Prince Harry’s girlfriend Meghan Markle, who was reported to have been invited only to the reception.
Now I can disclose that Miss Markle, who mingled with the polo set as she watched Harry at the Audi Polo Challenge in Ascot yesterday, has been asked to join in the full celebrations on May 20 for Pippa and her fiancé James Matthews, including the ceremony at St Mark’s church in Englefield on the Berkshire estate of Tory MP Richard Benyon. She will accompany Prince Harry to the reception, to be followed by a dinner, in a marquee at Bucklebury Manor, the Georgian house bought by Michael and Carole Middleton in 2012.
The wedding is significant for Meghan, as it will be the first semi-official event she will attend with Harry in the 10 months the couple have been dating. She has been granted a week’s break from the Toronto set of Suits, the TV legal drama in which she has starred for five years.
It is likely Meghan will stay with Harry, as she has before, in Nottingham Cottage, his bachelor pad at Kensington Palace, and being on his arm at Pippa’s wedding will inevitably lead to further speculation of an engagement.
Previously, we heard that Pippa had merely acquiesced to Meghan being Harry’s plus-one at the Middleton Manor reception. I wondered if Meghan was going to be told to basically “wait at the hotel” during the church wedding and Meghan would have sneak in the back of Middleton Manor only after Pippa pranced around for her official wedding pap stroll. But it seems like Harry fought for Meghan to be included in everything. So now paparazzi will be angling to get shots of Meghan and Harry coming and going from the church and will any of those paps even pay attention to poor Pippa?
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I see Carole’s fingerprints all over this. She doesn’t want to look petty, and, face it, she, at least through Pippa, wants an invitation to Harry’s wedding when it happens.
Hehehehe, you are RIGHT !!
Oh yes, but if true its all PR to generate press interest for the sponsors. No one has been interested in this wedding, even with the KP press release and continued Fail articles. It will sting when the press is all about Harry and Meghan and not the renowned Buckleberry beauty and her moderately wealthy Mr Darcy.
Since he is only moderately wealthy he really should be called Mr. Bingley.
:reads the Mr. Bingley comment and spits tea everywhere:
You’ve made my day, Nic. You’ve made my day.
@Digital Unicorn – Heh heh – sting away, Harry! Couldn’t happen to a more deserving lot.
HAHAHAHA! YES. Mr. Bingley indeed!
MR BINGLEY!!
I love you, Digital Betti Unicorn.
Say what you will about Carol Middleton, the woman is a MASTER social climber and a thoughtful, long-term strategist.
Hats off to her for being smart enough to compromise.
If she was such a good long-term strategist, then perhaps she would have thought to teach her eldest how to function as a senior royal without all the hand-wringing and excuses.
That’s all.
Ok. But this is Pippa’s wedding! It’s her day! She deserves to be the star of it, and (I do not believe any of this is real anyway but) if harry insisted on using it as one of his early, showy public things, that’s not right. Again, I don’t believe much of this. I think it’s manufactured drama, and I actually am curious about her wedding and dress and all that, in a vouyer way at about the same level as any other celeb I’m mildly curious in.
I agree, and I really don’t get the hate towards Pippa on her wedding day. It is her day. Why are people rejoicing in anyone stealing the attention from the bride??
And if Harry really chose this way to make a stand against his brother, his sister in law and her sister, then shame on him. This is not the time or place to do it.
I have been getting the inkling that Harry is as much of a jerk as Wills, just with more charisma and a little better PR sense, and this gives even more credence to that.
But is she still not the star for everyone that matters?Her family and friends should still be focused on celebrating this milestone with her.
Besides she’s only famous because of stealing the paps attention away at her own sisters wedding.
Well, I do wish every bride the most joyous wedding day and I fully support every bride’s wish to organise her wedding the way she likes it even if it means to exclude half the family or even if it means walking barefoot or even if it means that life piglets are present for good luck.
But in Pippa’s case it is not really “her” wedding but a Middleton PR exercise circus organised drama telenovela staged royal romance attempt at documented social climbing and money-making whose pics are to be sold to the highest bidder. Therefore I feel free to criticise. As she voluntarily and willingly and purposefully puts herself into the press I feel free to criticise.
Does anybody really care about Pippa’s wedding? I only go to a few gossip sites but this is the only one that covers Pippa. I have a hard time believing that Harry and Megan were begging to attend.
The 20th isn’t until next weekend. The wedding is still almost 2 weeks away. So she’s going to have the week off, then go back to work for another week?
I actually thought her coming to the polo this past weekend was Harry’s way of getting some of the press out of the way before Pippa’s wedding.
You’re right, my bad!
Just think, a whole extra week of Pippa wedding “news”!
Weren’t we told last month that all of the production staff for Suits has May 14-22nd off? That wouldn’t be her asking for time off, they’re all off that week anyway.
Bridget, that would be a smart plan. The pre-approved press pool will still be fighting for position to get pictures of her if she’s at the wedding, but the initial “get them together at a big event” photos are done.
May 22nd is a statutory holiday here in Canada (in honour of Queen Victoria’s May 24th bday). Most business are closed and many people take an extra long weekend.
Neither Harry nor Meghan seem like the kind of people who would relish making a spectacle of themselves at someone else’s wedding. Rolling out photo ops now, getting everyone used to it, makes sense.
But can I point something else out? This is a huge deal. Harry officially and publicly taking her as his date – why would he force the Middletons to allow Meghan? More likely, they would LOVE for her to come, because it makes it a far higher value event. But leaking the “is she going to come?” added a little suspense. Not to mention, it’s making a statement that they’re officially going and with ample notice.
And on that tangent, Harry knows the value of these images and the value of his and Meghan’s presence as a couple. The fact that he’s choosing to give this particular star power to Pippa’s wedding to me at least says that he’s closer to his SIL than people are giving credit for.
Perhaps Harry doesn’t like the Middletons and therefore insisted on bringing Meghan. Perhaps he secretly hopes that Pippa will be upstaged by Markle’s sparkle.
Not sure, but film shoots for her series may be ending for the season around June 1st.
So soon? I thought they just started filming in March. I would think they’d be in production until October/November.
There are so many stories (esp. on the DM) about this wedding, it’s getting annoying lol.
It would make more sense for Harry to just not go to this wedding. How is this an offical event? Pippa isn’t royal.
It isn’t an official event, it is a private family event for the Middletons who have hired a PR person to handle the spin around the private event. W&K’s PR team weighed in with an official announcement about this private event, a statement which was mocked by the press and posters. It makes no sense for Harry to be there, but if he has to show up for PR to please his brother, the least they can do is let him bring his girlfriend.
Some people said that Harry and Pippa are friends?
In 15 years, he’s never been seen with Pippa, James Matthews, or any of the Middletons on personal time. The only exception was the year the Midds gatecrashed royal Christmas at Sandringham. William also faked a sprained ankle that year and substituted James Middleton into the annual William & Harry Christmas football match (which is papped every year).
Beatrice and Eugenie have been papped more with Pippa than Harry has.
Thanks for the info.
I had no idea that Beatrice, Eugenie and Pippa hung out together ^^ I’ve never seen a pic of them together.
I think calling B, E and Pippa friends is pushing it, BUT they have been papped at social events on two or three occassions and that’s still 2 or 3 more times than Harry and Pippa.
Pippa loves the limelight and has been photographed a couple of times with the York sisters at social events. I would be very surprised if they were friends, given the very frosty relationship the York sisters have with Kate,
I’m not saying they are friends, but rather that if we were going on publicly-available information, B&E appear closer to Pippa than Harry. Meaning none of them are close at all.
Exact. It is Pippa day, she should be the most important girl and press should be foccused on her and her middel rich future husband. But then Megs and Harry overshawod her, it is rude and not nice. It should be bride day- only bride wears white dress.
If Megs and Harry get married no one won’t overshadow them, even if Pippa and Kate be pregnant with twins (4 babies in to 2 wombs).
I thought Harry and Meg are more sensitive
Yeah, I’m one of those who thinks the bride is entitled to do whatever she wants, and invite whomever she wants.
I don’t know if only the bride wears white is a thing there. Pippa famously wore white to Kate’s wedding. She invited Harry to make it more Royal and get more press any overshadowing she brought on herself.
@Lindsey-to be fair-it’s not like she went rogue and wore a tight, white form fitting dress as a random guest. As Kate’s maid of honor, it was chosen with Kate. If Kate didn’t want her wearing it, she would not have been.
Pippa didn’t just show up in white to her sister’s wedding. That would have been Kate’s aesthetic choice.
For what it’s worth, it’s been a trend since Victoria for bridesmaids in british royal family weddings to wear white.
The main branch since Victoria, more often than not, wear white.
I think it’s incredibly rude to invite a Prince and try to make him keep to the ridiculous “no ring/no bring” “rule”. If you’re so desperate to have a prince there, let him bring a date, FFS!
If Pippa/Carole really wanted the day to be all about Pippa and not about Pippa’s royal connections, they should not have invited Prince Harry.
I genuinely don’t think there was ever a question about Meghan’s attendance. I think it’s just a way to come up with some drama.
She was always going to go. There’s no way they could tell Harry he couldn’t bring a date, when he barely has a reason to be going to this thing in the first place. The narrative of the supposed ban, and now Pippa “graciously allowing” Meghan to come was just more attention seekin from the Middletons. Let’s face it, the press is desperate for sightings of Harry & Meghan; each new appearance together signals the seriousness of their relationship, so this just helps Pippa sell her wedding photos for more $$. If anything, I think him bringing her to his best friend’s was a bigger deal, Pippa hardly features in his life.
WORD
Exactly.
Also didn’t Harry have a date to Kate’s wedding to his brother?
No. He didn’t. Chelsea Davy did attend, but they had already brokenup at that time.
THIS. It’s all about the money and the famewhoring with Clan Middleton. Carole and Pips probably grokked, belatedly, that excluding the next potential Royal Duchess was not a good look and would spectacularly backfire on their attempts to be accepted in the upper echelons of society.
After all, Madame Parvenu still needs to find a blue-blood wife for their precious heir James…
Anyone else wondering about Pa Middleton? Do you think he’s sick of his wife’s gamesmanship?
Carole will struggle to find someone they find appropriate to foist James onto. There is something creepy and off about him. All 3 siblings have a major sense of entitlement that just shines from them. They think that they deserve whatever they want and will use whoever they need to to get it.
I don’t know much about James, apart from his failed business ventures – he seems as shrouded in mystery as his father.
I’m curious what you’ve gleaned from reports that suggest there’s something creepy/off about him. What’s the gossip?
Hmmm. Given how they know Markle will be a big pap draw, and they’ve already gone to the trouble of announcing through Kensington Palace that Harry and William are attending, I can’t help but see this as a deliberate trade-off; the Middletons are so desperate to bring attention to the wedding that they’ll invite Meghan to lure in the paps, even if that means sacrificing Pippa’s chance to be the centre of attention. I may just be incredibly cynical, and perhaps Pippa thoughtfully made an invitation so that Meghan wouldn’t feel left out and have to wait around for hours on her own in a foreign country. But given the Middletons’ normal treatment of anyone they can’t use (hell, just look at Kate’s bullying of the York girls) I’m very doubtful that they made this offer out of the goodness of their hearts – nor that they would be blind to the implications of Meghan attending a family wedding.
Exactly. They’re so desperate to have Harry come and perpetuate this seconday-royal wedding idea, that they’ll let Meghan come even though they know it’ll take away all the attention.
I want to know more about this bullying. I also want to know why we never see Duchess Kate with any childhood friends.
The was a story from an ISSA fashion show (during LFW) a few years ago that concerns Pippa and the York sisters. Pippa was originally sat in the 2nd row and upon discovering this demanded to be sat in the front row. The York Princesses were there in the front row and she, allegedly, stomped up to them and demanded that they make room for her, when they told her no she had a hissy fit and kept demanding that they move for her. Can’t remember what happened after but I think she ended up having to take her original seat in the 2nd row – which is considered ‘back of the queue’ for celebs at these types of events.
Then there is the fancy dress charity roller disco Waity ‘helped’ Holly Branson organise (during the 2007 breakup). Waity invited Princess Beatrice and her BF at the last min and allegedly didn’t tell them it was fancy dress and they both turned up in normal wear. When B asked Waity why she didn’t tell her about the fancy dress it became unpleasant with Waity cussing out B, telling her to ‘f@ck off’. The Daily Mail reporter (Katie Nicholls) found B in the toilets crying about it. The only reason we know about it was that it was done in FRONT of the paps invited to the event, with Nicholl writing about it in the Fail.
Duchess Kate’s only friends are people that are helpful in her quest to be and to remain William adjacent.
Any childhood friends that couldn’t help in this quest were either not made or were chucked.
It’s quite sad to think that if William chucks her, all their friends will side with William simply because they are all his friends from all ages of his life.
I’ve seen a few versions of the Issa incident, none of which involved Pippa stomping up and demanding the York girls make space. I’ve always wondered if it even happened, as there wasn’t a single photo of this.
Bridget: there were no pictures, but story was written up in a few places.
Google produces this article from 2008
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1068477/Beatrice-Eugenie-snub-Kates-sister-fashion-stand-off.html
@LAK: everything I’ve ever found references that exact same Katie Nicholl blurb (which came out a couple of weeks after the incident). Nothing more. And again, it was the front row of a fashion show, if 3 of the highest profile guests got into a tiff at a venue with a ton of photographers, how was there not a single photo?
Bridget: society stories in the DM are more often than not written without pictures even if photographers were present.
Pictures tend to turn up in biographies rather than in the column.
That said, these 3 have never been the highest profile guests at any fashion gathering even with titles and being Kate’s sister. Even for society designers.
A society upstart throwing a red-faced tantrum to get the Duke of York’s daughters to move? I think that would have warranted a photo or two, since that’s pretty much what everyone hopes that those shindigs will turn into.
Obviously an event 9 years ago isn’t important, nor is the dialogue about whether Pippa Middleton’s thunder will be stolen at her wedding. I actually just think that how we gossip says more about *us* than anything else, especially when it’s the stuff that we go negative about. This is the space for gossip, I’m just trying to bring up a different angle. ‘Tis all.
The roller skate party is true, imo, as I have never heard any other version. I have heard two versions of the fashion show story. The one mentioned here and the version that states that Pippa’s seat was in the fifth row but the show’s workers/press got excited when Pippa arrived. They thought it would be a coup to have her seated with the princesses and asked her if she would let them move her up. The princesses, however, didn’t want to go along with it and Pippa had to stay in her seat. In that version no one was asking Bea and Eugenie to give up their seats. I’m leaning towards the second story because Pippa may think she is more entitled than she really is but she is not a rude, demanding diva. This makes the princesses look petty but they could have also been saving that third seat for another invited friend.
Bridget: i get where you are coming from, but it’s simply not how the society pages work here. The society pages are not TMZ. They often repeat the embarrassing behaviour of various grandees without adding pictures. And 9yrs ago, neither party was the tabloid catnip they are today even if 2 of the parties were members of the royal family.
As far as acknowledging the pedigree of the subjects, even if they were not yet tabloid catnip, it made the papers and that in itself was unusual.
It is an open secret that the York sisters cannot stand Kate. People always say that Pippa stole Kate’s thunder at her wedding (Well Pippa did overall looked nicer than Kate). But the two people who really did upstage Kate were the York sisters with their preposterous hats. Beatrice’s hat in particular was making headlines weeks after the wedding had ended, so much so that in the end she auctioned it off for charity. The hats made them both look like ridiculous pantomime characters, to deliberately draw attention to themselves thereby stealing it away from Kate. I will bet my bottom dollar that the sisters will not pull any such prank when their beloved Harry marries Meghan.
Um, I think you’re giving the York girls too much credit. I get that there’s resentment at the pleb cutting in and pushing the York girls farther back, but they seem to me to dress abysmally all the time. They’ve got, like, some kind of Bad Dress Chromosome. I don’t think they dressed that way to steal attention from Kate – I think they dressed that way because they have appalling taste. It’s like they have magic mirrors on the walls at home that keep assuring them they look fantastic. Whatever attention they “stole” was minimal. In that situation, the Heir and the future Queen Consort and the Abbey, I really don’t think they took much off the bride.
I’m still guessing Harry and MM will have a less extravagant wedding, more like Edward’s and Sophie’s, but I’m sure that whatever the Yorks wear will equally exhibit their utter inability to dress elegantly.
Beatrice trusted the royal hat maker to make a hat that went with her pale pink (Valentino?) with the criss-cross design. He came up with the hat, she wore it. No ulterior motives.
B&E give newer designers chances, which is when things go wrong. When they dress in established designers they can look great (Eugenie in Westwood, Beatrice in Saab). Beatrice re-wore part of that wedding outfit to another royal-ish wedding the following year (Amedeo and Lily?) and looked great.
@Lulu – I see this in a completely different way. I think it likely that the Middletons were simply boxed in between a rock and a hard place. Pippa’s wedding would always have attracted attention I don’t think they needed to worry it would be ignored. But they KNOW MM and Harry’s appearance will represent more than “attention”, it will throw the media into a frenzy and it WILL deflect attention from Pippa. My guess is that having invited Harry, and the public knowing they invited Harry and he accepted, he outfoxed them by stating that if he couldn’t bring MM, he wasn’t going to show, 1) raising speculation about a family rift over Markle, and 2) making the Middletons look churlish.
They really had no choice, but I’d bet my last dollar they do not want her there. I’ll bet it was Harry’s ultimatum. No Meghan, no me, and you explain it to the paps.
Yes, no one in the press cared about this wedding, only after her pr leak about that stupid ban on Meghan. they were smart enough to use her for piggyback publicity
Pippa didn’t have much choice. She wanted as many royals there as possible. Harry might have chosen not to go if Pippa tried to keep Meghan away. And if engagement is on the horizon, it would be a bad idea to piss off a potential future member of the royal family.
Gah! The wedding is one freakin’ day of their lives. It’s not like Meghan is joining them on their honeymoon, right?
Why would one (see what I did there?) invite one’s sister’s brother-in-law to one’s wedding?
One would do it for the attention and perhaps to make sure a certain American learns her place.
Which is hopefully going to be HRH Duchess of Sussex and miles ahead in rank of all Middletons except Kate. (Not that I care about that sort of thing, but I’d like to see Carole and Pippa deal with it).
We spend almost every holiday with my fiancee’s brother’s wife’s family. I’m absolutely inviting her mother, sister and her husband to our wedding. Not all families are the same.
She’s wearing designer clothes costing thousand of dollars. Harry must be spending a lot of British taxpayer’s money for her. I doubt her money from Suits gig is enough to bankroll her designer clothes.
Perhaps the designers are providing them gratis for the publicity?
There are entire Tumblr blogs dedicated to the idea that Meghan and her accomplice AKA sometimes stylist and BFF, Jessica Mulroney have nefariously tricked poor naive, ‘stupid’ Harry into going along with her dastardly moeymaking plans, to drag the BRF into disrepute by walking out and being photographed wearing… gasp, clothes! Because as an actress/ model it’s not like it’s her job or anything…
He wouldn’t be spending any Duchy money on her clothes. She is wealthy and successful in her own right (worth several million which she earned herself). As a tv actress, she may be receiving freebies from designers. She had a successful website and a line at Reitman’s long before she met Harry, so designers might have seen her as someone they wanted to dress. Until such time as she marries into a royal family, she is allowed to accept freebies.
Nota. That’s not really true. Her website took a lot of time with hardly any hits so she shut it down. As well Reitmans sells poor quality clothes that she most likely wouldnt be caught dead wearing considering the clothes she has been seen in.aren’t exactly cheap. She wouldnt have made much endorsing that store. I think a lot of her money came from her divorce. Her ex does fairly well and looks very much like an older version of Harry. She was with her ex for a number of years and he helped her get her get a few small bit parts on movies plus her stint on Suits. When that took off he told Howard Stern she had no time for him. The marriage came to an end and she was dating a chef in Toronto when she met Harry. The chef became history.
Joannie I think u should do your research before u comment on MM, it’s okay no to like her, but use facts,MM did not ask for or receive spousal support, husband may have helped her get bit parts , but the part for Rachael in suits was open call which means tons of actress showed up for audition. As for the Mamas boy she was married to and the cheating player the chef, nuff said
Andrea where are you getting your so called research? Mine came from a pretty good source. Assuming I dislike her is quite presumptuous on your part. She is not wealthy by any means but gets plenty of perks esp now. Good for her!
Joannie, please name your sources. I get that you love the shamebridges so I shouldn’t be surprised you’re putting down MM but still…
Won’t she have to give up the free clothes if she marries Harry, and she will also become a burden on taxpayers, as Kate is with her budget for clothes? Who pays for Harry’s wife’s clothes? He sure doesn’t, as he doesn’t work, and I don’t know what she makes on a pretty obscure cable tv show, but it’s not in the millions, that’s for sure.
If and when Meghan becomes HRH Princess Henry, Duchess of Clarence, Charles will be paying for her clothing, and he will make sure that she gets everything that Kate gets in terms of access to clothing for official engagements.
Princessk, so Meghan the Independent is going to be just like Kate, mooching off the taxpayers. That should go over well with the british taxpayers. /snark
Reitmans is actually pretty bargain basement, along the lines of Smart Set or Suzy Shier. Not sure what the US equivalent would be. But it’s not very good quality and it’s not a store that would make anything she’d wear to one of these functions, nor would it catch the eye of actual designers. My bet for the clothing/designer connection is Jessica Mulroney, stylist, wife of TV show host and daughter-in-law of wealthy former Prime Minister.
I thought Joannie was the aunt of a stable worker that has met William? Am I confusing her with someone else? Joannie is the poster who maintains that William is a very nice, down-to-earth person based on her niece’s stories, right?
What’s with all the research on Meghan Markle?
……as I push my Reitman’s bag under my desk with my foot, let me say that MM is probably richer than most people would ever be.
Can we please all note how Joannie has disappeared when asked to back up her claims?
Meghan has income outside of Suits. She likely made a decent amount from her former deal with Reitmans. I wouldn’t automatically assume that Harry is buying her clothes.
What an ill-informed statement you make. You have no idea of her finances. Furthermore, she hardly seems the gross, hungry type who would hit up her relatively new boyfriend for shopping money.
She’s BFFS with Jessica Mulroney who is a very well known stylist in Canada. I’m thinking she gets Meghan’s clothes comped or gets her some kind of deal.
LOL Harry doesn’t have to buy her anything–and she doesn’t strike me as the type that would make the mistake of asking.
As a working actor, she makes a very good income–supplemented with social media marketing and a couple of brand partnerships up until very recently. BUT she was also the most googled woman on the planet last year, which means that top brands are most definitely sending her free merch by the truck load. Given the fact that she’s given up ALLL her supplemental revenue streams, she would be a perfect fool not to take what’s given to her for as long as she’s able to.
I would bet money that Meg was professionally styled for the polo event and possibly the wedding in Jamaica as well, so she was loaned or gifted the dresses she wore.
Whoa, she was the most googled?!
Forgive me, I misspoke – she was the most googled actress of 2016.
Nope. She’ll have made good money from Suits as on top of her fee for filming she will get residuals from DVDs etc…, then there is public appearance fees, PR events (mag interviews), endorsements etc..
Plus given that the relationship is now public designers will be throwing clothes as her – the Middleton sisters certainly took full advantage of that. Most of the ISSA clothes they wore were comped, something the designer/owner admitted to (not just for the Mids but for other celebs).
She’s 3rd or 4th billed on a USA show. She’S making decent money, but nowhere near what you’re thinking. It’s more likely that she’s being given the hookup by her Canadian connections.
If I had to guess, I’d say she’s getting maybe 20k per episode. That’s an excellent yearly salary for her. Most magazines don’t pay for interviews – free publicity is the compensation for most interview/editorial subjects. In the past, though, she’s used her instagram to promote certain brands, and that can be very lucrative. Actress Busy Phillips said recently that her 2016 earnings from instagram surpassed her acting income…
I’m sure she’s made a nice chunk of change and she seems like the kind of lady that is smart about her money. But people here are assuming “TV star” = tons of money, which just isn’t likely. What Megan does however have are connections. I have zero doubt that she has labels falling over themselves to dress her.
Carole was stuck between a rock and a hard place with this one. If Meghan attends all the attention will be on her and Harry and if she is not invited the Middletons look petty. I feel a bit sorry for Pippa and TMW James if they are upstaged at their own wedding. Most people will be clamouring to see Harry and Meghan.
My feeling is that Harry and Meghan are sensitive enough to know that this is Pippa’s big day, and they will try to be as low-key as possible. Maybe they can sneak out the back door after the ceremony sothat the press attention will be on Pips and MW James.
That won’t matter as the press afterwards will be ALL about Harry and Meghan – they can be low key all the like but it won’t stop the press going ga ga over them.
Chickens coming home to roost for the Middletons. Kate was notorious for this at the weddings of his friends. She’d often show up in an outfit guaranteed to make her stand out and I don’t really recall her sneaking in and out the backdoor, she made a point of going in the front entrance so she could be seen by the paps.
Agree, but is Pippa responsible for Kate’s actions? I like Pippa and it is her big day.
Every bride should be the centre of attention on her wedding day but this is a dangerous game the Middletons are playing over her wedding, such is the desperation for media interest. But I guess they gotta give the sponsors what was promised, as there is no way that they are paying for it all – they will have been deals done for freebies and comp’d services/gifts in exchange for PR.
The other way to avoid all the paps attention would have been to say, sorry, nope, can’t make it that day, things to do, people to see, the Middletons aren’t important enough. That would send a message to Carole.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that they’re releasing photos now.
And in a 24 hour news cycle, literally everything will be huge news. Because there’s such a huge space to fill. We’ll see Pippa and her dress all over the place. We’ll see whatever Kate wears. And we’ll see tons of photos of Megan.
I say Karma is a Bitch, Middletons! lol! Yes, poor Carole, they must be in quiet fits over this. Oh how I’d love to be a fly on the wall…
Let’s face it, the news will be about Megan and Harry and I love it. Who really cares about Pippa and her unattractive husband…I wonder what Megan will wear…lol!
That is really mean. I think that Pippa should be the center of attention on her wedding day, not someone Harry has been dating for less than a year. Why so hateful toward Pippa? Of all of the Middletons, she seems to be the only decent one. She doesn’t deserve to be upstaged at her own wedding. No one does.
Pippa will be the center of attention at her wedding. It’s only the press that will ignore her.
The Averagetons have hyped this wedding beyond belief since the engagement. I honestly cannot wait until Megan “outranks” Pippa.
Like there is a choice! She wants the royal family there and he wants her there. Part of the roll out.
I really wonder what the real story is with Meghan’s invite. I would think Meghan would be so insulted if she was told she was only invited to the reception, not the church ceremony. Then later on to have the Midds come back and say, oh nevermind. You can come to both events. Meghan strikes me as someone who is smart and knows how to present herself. She’s playing the long game as well.
Meghan may be insulted, but I think she is savvy enough and not stupid, so she wouldn’t say no to the invite of reception only. You think she would say NO?
I think Meghan can take or leave the Middletons.
I wonder if it was a situation where Harry said he’d miss the ceremony too and just come to the reception with Meghan so they gave in…who knows, I hate seeing articles in my Facebook feed about this wedding because people are buying it as a “royal wedding” when it’s not
So everyone is just going to ignore the obvious that the reason she can now come is because she got the ring already?
I don’t think that’s why. I’d imagine they will have a William and Kate style announcement when and if it happens.
I don’t know if she has the ring yet-but clearly it’s coming soon.
I think the promise of a ring coming has already been made between Prince Harry and Meghan. She is not a fool.
I also think the Midds knows this is the real deal – Prince Harry and Meghan, hence the “exception” was made.
I am sooo glad! I was B.O.R.E.D by this wedding. I mean how many paparazzi pictures of florists can you look at before zzzz…
No, I’m here for Princess Sparkles and everything she puts on her well-toned shoulders! I’m a grown woman, but Megs turns me into freshly cut sugar cane. Sugar sugar sugar! No objectivity! Megs for the win!
…..but what about Nico. And Alex and George 😉
Question: Is it REALLY called Bucklebury Manor? I always thought that was our fun ‘oh so posh’ name for it!
I think the engagement is barrelling down the track and there is no way they cannot invite her as she will be part of the family.
I have been hoping that Harry and Meghan do not attend the wedding at all, I really do not see what Harry has to do with it, or the Middleton’s really. Would Charles attend Sophie’s sister’s wedding, if she had one? If Harry and Meghan do attend it will be because Carole and Pippa insisted on it because they want as much publicity as possible in order to recoup the costs of the wedding. But I would be so happy if they were a no show. There are so many better events where Harry can introduce Meghan…Royal Enclosure at Ascot? Wimbledon in the Royal Box? So much better than this tacky arriviste Middleton wedding.
Why is Pippa a tacky arriviste and Meghan not?
And I like Markle. But I am genuinely asking because they seem fairly similar to me.
The only reason anyone knows Pippa is because she and the rest of the family have been trading off a royal connection for years.
While some like to ignore it, Meghan Markle is a successful tv actress on a show that has run 7 seasons. Whether you watch it or not, it has enough of a following to be on 7 seasons. She earned her own way in this world and was known before she started dating a royal.
The Middletons invited Meghan because if they didn’t the family would be dragged through the media mud (and they didn’t want to miss out on the extra publicity). They definitely want to be on the guest list if the queen gives the thumbs up for a Harry-Meghan wedding. If would be funny to see Carole and Pippa curtsy to HRH (Rachel) Meghan, Duchess of________________.
For God’s sake, this isn’t a Royal wedding! Pippa is nobody! The Middletons are not important people! The fact that Prince Harry is attending should mean he can bring whoever he wants! Pippa is just a semi-celebrity due to her connections which she has used and abused to make herself seem way more important than she really is.