Vanity Fair has two interesting pieces on this Royals at War book we’ve been discussing for the past week or so. The book’s authors are Dylan Howard and Andy Tillett. Howard was some kind of gossip wunderkind at American Media Inc, home of the National Enquirer among other American tabloids. Howard also played a role in the larger Enquirer “catch and kill” controversy, where Enquirer boss David Pecker was paying Donald Trump’s mistresses for the exclusives on their stories, only to bury their stories and leave them unpublished. VF did a detailed story on all of the background on Howard and how he’s basically just amplifying the same stories he wrote about for AMI into this book. Which is why there’s so much stale tea, because I remember reading most of these “stories” more than a year ago.
Meanwhile, VF also had some additional quotes from Royals at War, and they packaged it within a story about how Harry and Meghan actually did learn some stuff from their work-hard royal years, which is why they’re taking their time with the Archewell launch:
The delay in launching Archewell: “They are in no hurry to launch Archewell , they want to get it right, that’s really important to them,” said a source. “This is something that they want to do for the rest of their lives so they’re not going to be pressured into launching something that’s still in the relatively early stages of development.”
All of the work they are doing will go into Archewell: “Everything they’re doing at the moment is part of Archewell,” a source said. “Whether Covid, BLM or their ongoing charity work, it’s all part of how they’re working on Archewell and developing their work and focus going forward. Their team have been working on hate speech issues, and tech-for-good behind the scenes since the beginning of the year. It was the focus of their visit to Stanford in February.”
Royals At War claims Meghan did too much too fast: The new royal book Royals At War revisiting claims that Meghan drove palace staff “to distraction” by rushing into supporting projects without properly thinking things through, and “without proper research.” Sources close to the Sussexes say the book is based on rumour rather than fact, but it is no secret that Meghan clashed with some palace officials… According to one senior palace source, while Meghan’s drive was commended by some, she was urged to slow down by experienced courtiers concerned that she was taking on too much.
Meghan & Harry wanted everything to happen too fast: “You can say what you want about Meghan, but she works incredibly hard,” said a source who has worked with the Sussexes. “The problem is she and Harry have a tendency to hatch big projects over dinner and expect them to be actioned within days. Meghan had brilliant ideas, but she was always in a hurry and aides had to sit down and explain that foundations and big projects take thought, time and commitment, they cannot be rushed.”
Again, they’re taking their time: Now it seems the couple are heeding that advice and taking their time. Under the guidance of a new PR team they are hatching a long term plan to become global philanthropists and high-profile public speakers. “They have learned from the mistakes of the past and taking their time with Archewell,” said a well-placed source. “They want to get the next stage right.”
Let’s be real: courtiers told Meghan to slow down for many reasons. I buy that some courtiers were legitimately annoyed that Meghan expected huge projects to be launched in a short time, but let’s also remember that those courtiers are used to the glacial pace set by the other royals. It literally took the Duchess of Cambridge nine years to “launch” a five-question struggle survey, which is looking more and more like it was just fake busy-work for a vapid duchess. That was the other reason why Meghan was told to slow down, because she was clearly and immediately overshadowing Kate. So it’s jealousy from Kate, plus the same complaint as always: how dare Meghan have a work ethic and expect staffers to work? As for the “delay” in launching Archewell… I get that they’re developing everything and that they want to take their time. I’m just disappointed that we won’t really have a big splashy launch event this year.
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Arrest her, Meghan had IDEAS!!
She must have felt she was swimming through molasses trying to get any of them carried out!
Off to the Tower with her!!! These people ( courtiers) I just can’t.
Time would be better spent advising the top ceo how to keep a patronage from bankruptcy. H&M have demonstrated how to get things done. Take notes courtiers.
Have these people never heard that the entire world is shut down due to a pandemic?? Harry and Meghan aren’t slowing down because of some salty courtiers and their bad advice, they are waiting until the death rates drop, until people can safely leave their homes and until people can safely congregate again.
She might have been in a hurry, in a hurry to help those like the victims of the Grenfell fire that are still waiting for Prince William’s promised help and that are probably still waiting for the governments help as well.
Yes!!
Great point about the urgency, @Harla. Not everyone can wait a decade for the results of an online survey (cough).
I’ve always admired the specificity of Meghan’s causes – helping women get a reasonably priced wardrobe pieces for employment opportunities, or the together cookbook. I wish more charitable endeavors had such clear focus.
I think they were planning on launching this year, but COVID has pushed that back. I am confused though, which of the projects or charities that Meghan has supported were rushed? The one that I think they are alluding to is the Hubb kitchen and the article that came from Tominey after linking it to terrorists.
Right, @Blue36. Possibly it is the Together cookbook project that is being referenced, since it was Meghan’s first launch as a royal, about 4 months after her wedding. The criticism is obviously way off-base and short-sighted because the women of Hubb Community and all of the victims of the Grenfell Tower tragedy needed immediate help. The fact that Meghan began visiting with the people in that community even prior to her royal wedding demonstrates Meghan’s caring and sincere efforts. She clearly wished to be of help in serving their immediate needs in the best way she possibly could.
So it makes no sense whatsoever to claim Meghan ‘rushed’ into helping the Grenfell Tower community via her collaboration with the women of Hubb Community Kitchen. This was a selfless and caring act of kindness and humanity on Meghan’s part! They needed help and Meghan responded organically, utilizing her own energy, ingenuity and publishing industry contacts. She did a beautiful job ‘together’ with those enterprising and nurturing women. And it was all kept well under wraps, w/o any leaks.
Why can’t the sour royal firm, the RRs and the British media see kindness, industriousness and human generosity for what it is!? Why? Because it’s coming from an unexpected WOC in a ‘royal’ space where they never felt Meghan belonged. And they never accepted or embraced her. That blatant lack of acceptance of a brilliant, accomplished WOC has been to the detriment of the firm and the British media!
Moreover, the smearing and pettiness boils down to Will and Kate feeling outshined and inadequate. That’s a totally unnecessary, costly and ignorant way for W&K and the heinous ‘gray men’ to have responded, and to continue behaving so relentlessly. Meanwhile, Meghan is simply NOT a ‘Hollywood diva,’ but God-willing that Karma will prove to be a huge reckoning Diva B*tch!
Plus the cookbook is great in my opinion. I bought it and have cooked various things from it while feeling virtuous for supporting a good cause. Win win. I made a chocolate cake from the book for both my 40th and 41st birthdays.
Interesting there are two narratives emerging from this lockdown period, after all the shock and awe of Sussexit subdued.:
1) Gaslighting and blaming the victims: It is not KP´s fault, or Uk, that Harry and Meghan left. All the rumours were true, so Royal Rota is absolved from guilt; KP/Rf tried very hard to support them, but Meghan made so many demands and did not want to listen and Harry was convinced everybody was against them;
2) Middle ground: While Meghan and Harry made mistakes, nobody denies she is hard working and intelligent and that Harry was 100% on board, the problem being that some members indeed looked down upon her and that they both felt constrained by the limits imposed by the Royal Family, so they left, with some of Meghan´s detractors suddenly coming up and showing a degree of compassion now.
It is my guess that the first one is being pushed by Kensignton Palace, with tacit approval from the Queen´s camp ( because Elizabeth took Harry´s decision personally, hence her terrible reaction) while the second is more organic, but has some smidges of sources coming from Sussex camps and maybe- I might be reaching, but I think not- Charles.
Harry is really not interested in press, but Charles is and that is why this second narrative has his approval more than the first one.
What mistakes are you referring to? What mistakes?
@kelleybelle and Tessa
That is what both narratives say, while the second is more on the subtext saying they made mistakes, not necessarily me.
But I really think, like Tessa said, Harry thought he knew his brother better and expected better, which indeed was a mistake in hindsight.
There’s definitely 2 different narratives here. Just last week, the palace was saying they couldn’t deny the stories because they were mostly true yet on the weekend, Roya Nikkah (think it was her) had an article from the palace stating they denied as many stories as they could.
So what is it? Either they couldn’t/didn’t deny the stories or they denied them. Both can’t be true
They made no mistakes. Just underestimated how cold Harry’s relatives are.
They underestimated the jealousy of his brother and wife who spent years doing nothing and got their courtiers to do the dirty work for them.
I’ve read the book, and it was a waste of time. Yes, to all the regurgitated stuff, but I swear half of it was about Diana and William and Kate’s courtship, and they’re so steady, responsible and ready to go. I was rolling my eyes so hard.
It was also full of easily correctable errors — if I saw them a good proofreader/editor should have before it went to print. People camping out before Diana’s funeral had balmy August breezes. Actually, they had balmy September breezes. And Meghan is Duchess of Cambridge. Yes, really. those are the two big ones I remember, there were others and there were grammatical errors also.
I guess my thought is if they can’t catch easy stuff like that, that doesn’t say ,much about how much vetting this had before it went to print.
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So happy to see you back.
Welcome back bluhare! You were missed!
Welcome back!
I have a feeling that the second narrative might be originating from Charles, even.
https://www.celebitchy.com/669585/prince_charles_knew_that_strong_duchess_meghan_would_cause_problems_/
I think Charles really wants them back. He neglected his sons to the extent that now he’s forced to choose between them- and he could never choose Harry because of the destabilization to the monarchy William could cause.
Ah yes, how dare Meghan expect people to do their jobs. Excuse her for thinking the people working for what we’re supposed to believe is the pinnacle of society were competent and could handle a project, sometimes *gasp* multiple at once. Her bad. I suspect she also made the courtiers feel lazy cause they couldn’t keep up with her. Maybe that’s the real reason for the “duchess difficult” stories. That narrative seemed to have been squashed after the Sussexes developed their own team, but correct me if I’m wrong.
I feel this is another, ‘She did not stay in her lane’ story.
Meghan was too everything for this family of grifters and the one thing about a grifter, they can pick up on when someone seeing through their brand of BS.
This. Especially the Cambridges who are next level grifters.
Exactly. I think most of those “courtiers” don’t want to actually do anything, just be palace-adjacent, and she wanted people to actually accomplish something.
I also imagine she was excited with the opportunities to get involved and help, and probably also felt pressure to do a lot or she would be criticized for not doing enough.
They were asking her to slow down because they were afraid that Kate and William would be put in the shade. That awful woman who is now with the Telegraph and was with the Express before and appears to have Carole on speed dial, actually admitted that Harry and Meghan were making the Cambridge’s look irrelevant and it was so wrong that the sixth in line to the throne had a higher profile than the second in line.
So basically everyone hired to help them bring their ideas to life was lazy. I laugh at the prospect of my staff telling me that a project is impossible when we have all the resources that we have at our disposal. These people wouldn’t last a week in North American private sector.
These people would NEVER get hired in the first place in the North American Sector.
That’s kind enough of the point. They’re not in the North American private sector. The UK has employment laws that are more employee friendly (thanks to the EU).
Please don’t assume that all British workers are as lazy as the royal reporters make us sound!
DerryJ – yes, my European family are much lazier at work because it’s much harder to get fired. My lawyer cousin doesn’t think it’s fair that I earn significantly more money than her, but she has also never worked a 60 hour week in her life. I don’t necessarily think that they have better quality of life because of it. They are always complaining about something.
@Mina_Esq A lot of European countries have laws to protect workers. 60 hour weeks are not allowed in many European countries. Also, there are studies who show that people who work fewer hours are more effective within those hours. Yes, some people are lazy, but don’t mistake fewer work hours with laziness. With that said, I have no dobt the courtiers are lazy as f.., moving in syrup and extremely displeased with Meghan wanting to actually work, and expect them to work as well.
Yes, please don’t go after the European system- it’s better than our own.
The palace, on the other hand, is a terrible system filled with institutionalized racism as well as laziness.
Counterpoint from someone who has worked in events, for scholarship orgs, and the govt… lots of ‘ideas people’ at the top have no idea how long it can take to plan and execute projects to a high standard.
(Not knowing the specific demands/timelines or the truth of this to the Sussexes of course, I mean this as a general counterpoint)
But as someone who’s been on the end of unrealistic expectations from an ideas person who doesn’t want to listen to professional advice on project management and launches, this can be VERY frustrating.
I’m with you, Alyse. Not commenting about Meghan, just a general point. I work for a boss who’s an incredible ideas person but is constantly asking for completely unrealistic timelines. He’s not a details guy — he just can’t wrap his head around the million little things that have to happen to get one of his ideas started/moving. Fortunately, he’s also fairly reasonable and can be “talked down” when you present him with the options. But he can be incredibly frustrating to work with, when your plate is full and other staff are bogged under, and suddenly he wants something done next week.
All of this is true, and not to take away from any of it, but I don’t see it applying to Meghan. There have been too many stories about how ‘hands on’ she is- coupled with her many years of experience volunteering, it seems highly unlikely that she would have so little idea of the process. This isn’t even counting Harry’s input, whom I understand had some difficulties getting one of his first charities (Sentebale? I think it was) started. So I don’t see them as having unrealistic expectations, and consider these ‘explanations’ from KP as more propaganda/ass covering.
I’m looking forward to the launch of Archewell because I’m interested in what the strategy and exact goals will be but I don’t think the launch itself will be a big splashy event. Too many people are losing their jobs and homes right now (and it will get worse towards the end of the year). I think that Harry and Meghan are intuitive enough to know that anything too big or splashy will be seen as tone deaf.
These people are a piece of work. I can’t wait for Archewell to be launched. They can continue with their 5 question survey.
I believe with my whole heart they were side-swiped by the pandemic and chose to slow things down considerably in the light of so many losing their lives. They have empathy, which the others have chosen not to develop in themselves. They have fulfilled various commitments to their patronages, and most importantly, they say things that matter. And they have the experience, knowledge, etc to make what they say important. To say she went into stuff unprepared is just BULL PUCKY! I call it, loud and clear. Harry either. It’s projection, plain and simple. All Bill’s bad points, let’s put on his brother and sis-in-law. All good points, let’s put on FFK and FFQC…..it’s blatantly and tormentingly obvious.
It’s not necessarily jealousy from Kate…Kate has probably been given the same advice the whole time she’s been married to Will. Maybe even before. Whereas Meaghan knows more and knew better. Remember that skate hadn’t had Meaghan’s life experiences. So it looks drastically different from the outside. The courtiers wanted both women to play by a certain tule book. If one doesn’t then they’ll be proven wrong and they probably don’t want that or to shake things up too much. I think that’s what we’re seeing here.
Even if Kate gets ‘praise’ it’s manipulative on the part of the courtiers. Maybe they’ve manufactured most of this drama themselves.
Skate, greatest typo ever!
All hail Jules, a new Celebitchy moniker is born.
I think that’s probably right. The courtiers are deeply invested in the status quo in which they set the pace and the direction of the royal family’s “work.” For someone like Kate, who never did any real work – never really created anything – she could be easily manipulated. (Although I’m sure her mother – actually created and ran a business – has the knowledge, Carole probably had her reasons for allowing Kate to go along to get along.)
It’s a time honored tradition for supporters of the status quo in any endeavor or system to use delay as a denial tactic. And this is especially true for women and POC who try to change good-ole-boy systems. I’ve no doubt that is what Meghan faced in going up against the courtiers.
I totally agree with this. It should NEVER be underestimated how the courtiers work for their own agendas.
Meghan was first reported to be visiting Grenfell community in February 2018 and cookbook was launched in September. Apparently she already had contact with the publisher& photographer because she had been looking at a cookbook herself during TIG days. So approx 6 months to get a cookbook done where some pieces might already have been in place. How was that a rush?
Only other Meghan projects were Vogue & SmartSet. Not sure how involved palace staff would have been with Vogue (my guess is little seeing as little leaked about it)& SmartSet came about through her talking to a friend& other brands direct & when she was on maternity leave. So not sure I buy this rush narrative. I think Meghan got to work finding out about U.K. charity scene straight away & courtiers didn’t like that. Think they wanted to set her agenda more.
Also if it was about being slow and steady why was she on Ireland tour within 2 months of the wedding& the big Oceana tour within 5 months. Seems they were happy to throw her in the deep end& capitalise on interest in the newlyweds when it suited them
I do think when they were at KP the staff gave priority to the Cambridges (even their friendly papers acknowledge that) on work requests& that resulted in frustration.
Unlike Kate, who quit her “job” to “prepare to be wife of the future king”, Meghan actually did prepare and found out about charities in the UK and learned how to set up projects. There is obvious jealousy coming from both Will and Kate here because Meghan just doing the work showed those two lazy dullards for what they are.
We still don’t have the survey results…. I mean that is all handled online so why has nothing been done?
Excuse me @ABritGuest, but Meghan & Harry getting to work immediately traveling to communities around Great Britain was totally Meghan’s idea. And that was noted by KP reps at the time.
I believe the KP staffers who had been working with Harry all along were still in the process post the engagement, of trying to size Meghan up, or rather, down. They were still getting to know her and likely dismissively thought she was going to make faux pas, or it would all become too much for her, and that she would falter. They simply failed to recognize her strengths and abilities. Meghan once said on her Tig blog: “I always like to exceed expectations.” She’s not a person who should be taken for granted or looked down upon. But the RRs and the royal firm scathingly continue to do so.
They expected Meghan to kowtow and to be obsequious, and to fade into the background. Once that didn’t happen, and after Harry’s and Meghan’s huge impact and popularity became fully apparent during the South Pacific tour, that’s when the vindictive knives came out targeting Meghan. Plus, Meghan served as a convenient scapegoat to take the British media’s attention away from Andrew’s and Willileaks’ transgressions.
Remember Harry’s words about his and Meghan’s eagerness and anticipation to take on projects that could make a difference, especially to the Commonwealth. Their genuine desires and hopes are very visible in the engagement interview, which remains revealing and relevant to this day. No one was paying attention, all the while that M&H were telling us exactly who they are as individuals and as a couple. The same goes for behind-the-scenes. The Sussexes can not convincingly be blamed when they did their best to be transparent and to try and negotiate workable alternatives within the firm. They were ignored and stonewalled, and leaked on and emotionally abused. They made the right decision in leaving.
I’m not buying any softening narrative attempting to absolve Kate, nor any rewriting of history when the painful truths of this current divisive, British monarchy soap opera are very obvious.
My god-she had big ideas and wanted things implemented-how DARE SHE! My eyes are permanently rolled back into my head.
One of the telling things was the Sussex making the opportunity to work at an interrupted pace as a key reason for leaving the Royal family.
This paints Meghan as some vapid and unworldly person who had unrealistic expectations for her staff, but I think the projects she took on were actually quite specific and suitable for her strengths. It overlooks the fact that she worked with the UN, did work overseas as part of her degree, and apparently worked with endeavors like Homeboy growing up. She was ready to hit the ground running, and the courtiers who expected to be able to gossip about some “entitled, lazy, Hollywood type” are still incredibly salty about it. Harry already had Sentebale and Invictus games, too, so he certainly wasn’t some novice.
The double standard still amazes me – when Kate shows up on a zoom call, she is praised as a top CEO, while Meghan gets called out.
I agree with most of what you said-except that I don’t see that this makes her looks vapid and unworldly. I actually think it makes her look like she was energized, and that the courtiers were stuck in 1960.
Yes, I agree, but I think the authors are trying to paint her that way – the detail about “dreaming up something over dinner and then expecting staff to execute it” is how you might make fun of a well- intentioned newbie who doesn’t have the first clue about how things “really” work, nor (gasp) a lot of regard for protocol.
I’d bet she just stopped consulting these courtiers after a while out of exasperation and just called up the projects she wanted on her own, thus the bitterness about her lack of “research” (really, lack of deference).
These stories just really make the courtiers look lazy. I mean, of course she moved fast compared to Kate. Kate hasn’t done anything. And honestly, that was probably part of the problem – I guess the work culture with the KP staff was VERY, um, different, than what Meghan had expected. Couple that with the leaks, and you can see why the Queen and Charles agreed to the move to Buckingham Palace and a separate office for them.
So Kate and William are lazy and have surrounded themselves with people who enable that laziness and benefit from it, or are lazy themselves, and Meghan coming in was a shock to that environment.
The other problem with this narrative is that there is no example of what she rushed. The cookbook? The Smart Set? Vogue? Sure, she was doing a lot, but what was she actually rushing into?
I had the same question: What exactly did she rush?
Excellent point, Becks. The press can’t specify which project failed due to Meghan’s supposed “impatience” because her projects were all objectively successful. (I mean, the press disparaged each one as if it HAD failed, but even that couldn’t tarnish the real impact that each of her projects has had.)
What they call impatience, most of us would call drive. I completely understand why Meghan and the courtiers did not get along – because the former expected to actually accomplish real, tangible things, and the latter have dedicated their entire existence to creating the illusion of action where there is none. There can be no real comparison where only one side is authentic, so of course the phonies went nuclear when confronted with the real deal.
This is it. All of Meghan’s projects turned out very well and they can’t be criticized that way. They don’t need to put out the 100th article saying that she is slowing gaining confidence 10 years into the job.
This repetition of the idea that Meghan rushed into projects without doing proper research genuinely mystifies me – of all the things that she’s done over the last couple of years, which have gone spectacularly wrong? Which of her patronages have turned out to be dodgy? Which of the people that she’s been seen with since she became a royal have turned out to be dodgy? The Hub Kitchen and cookbook, and the Smart Works Smart Set were phenomenally successful and there’s been no suggestion of anything going on with the proceeds of those things. Everyone who met her in her capacity of the Duchess of Sussex has had good things to say about her. She regularly visited her patronages while she was still living in the UK, and she’s been Zooming with them while in lockdown. About the only thing that I can think of that she might have thought more carefully about before doing it was writing supportive messages on bananas for sex workers, and that is hardly the same thing as having patronages close due to lack of money (Kate), a charity’s finances investigated for fraud (Andrew), friends arrested for sex trafficking (Andrew again), friends outed as prolific paedophiles who used philanthropy as a cover and an opportunity (Charles), starting a slavery charity when her father was involved in sex slavery (Eugenie), and calling the main cause promoted by one of her charities boring (William).
The writings on the bananas brought that charity money from all over the world! They said that was the first time they received money internationally. Good for Meghan!
I’m pretty sure that’s how it’s actually supposed to work.
She is so intelligent and well spoken and engaging. Harry too – I think he is much smarter than he is painted, and also very compassionate. He’s been in therapy, he’s done the personal work, he obviously cares and has thought about these things. He’s not complacent.
Complacency really is complicity. Especially right now. I can’t think of a complacent group in the face of all that’s going on… oh wait, the BRF!
This whole story line is confusing. I thought some patronages were suggested to her, she met them a few times and then took them on. It’s not like she just googled them and showed up, and she didn’t even have that many. The whole rushing in seems weird too. I think they probably expected an action plan or outline within days, not for the actual project to be launched. When Meghan was speaking about Vogue, or SmartWorks, she mentioned the planning that went into it.They really are used to working at a slower pace, while the projects Meghan launched actually had goals and deadlines to meet, like what real world companies do. I think some in the palace are also trying to position themselves as trying to take credit for any future success by saying they learned from the ain’t sh*t courtiers useless so- called advice. As for overshadowing Kate, I think Kate &Will will go back to doing whatever they did before Meghan showed up.They’ll show up, dress up, shake hands, hand out some prizes or grants, and the public will be fine with it. Katy Nicholls is so incredibly annoying and tedious. Why do they even need a “ royal reporter” to write about the Sussexes at this point?
@Jane said:
“About the only thing that I can think of that she might have thought more carefully about before doing it was writing supportive messages on bananas for sex workers…”
I disagree that the writing on bananas to uplift the female sexworkers was ‘a mistake.’ I guess it could be described as unusual and unexpected. I look at it as inspired, genuine and ultimately effective, as @Shelley has already pointed out.
It’s exceedingly sad and upsetting that we are in a climate where we feel the urge to find some fault in Meghan, where there is none. I find myself often having to say. ‘Yes, she’s not perfect, she’s human, but look at all the good things she has accomplished!’ We shouldn’t have to qualify any of her good deeds. Of course she has faults, just as we all have. But in Meghan’s case, there’s nothing worth making a list or obsessing over like the haters, courtiers and online trolls are incessantly and falsely doing.
This reminds me of how Meghan, Hillary Clinton, Marie Antoinette and Anne Boleyn have always been portayed as ‘polarizing’ figures for all the wrong reasons, and mostly out of hate and mean-spirited expediency. Particularly, in the case of Hillary and Meghan, they are both strong, accomplished, no-nonsense women who care about people and who like to get things done. What’s the huge problem with that? In both cases, had they been fully supported, everyone would have benefited.
In Meghan’s case, she always puts her best foot forward, and she seems to view the glass half-full with positivity and a ‘can-do’ spirit. Apparently, for some people, her positive attitude and many accomplishments make her ‘too good to be true.’ Not to mention, Meghan being a WOC automatically means to many that she’s an ‘unworthy interloper’ in a ‘royal’ space.
By this point, I see Meghan as a very significant role model. She’s someone who deserves to be respected, not continually gaslighted and targeted by haters and by two powerful, woefully corrupt and deceitful institutions!
This is another iteration of the “she didn’t bow down to us” story line.
Kate’s patronages close; The Palace said she is Catherine the Great, Kingmaker, top CEO.
Meghan raises money for patronages; The Palace said she didn’t slow down and do enough research.
One if these two does work like a top ceo, one does no work at all.
It is like they do not even hear themselves, right?
The facts do not support the spin.
Translation: the Black Duchess and Prince Harry werewilling to actually work and accomplish something of substance, and the courtiers couldn’t have that because of course the rest of the RF would look like the lazy, inbred trash they are.
My take on Meghan joining the royal family:
She was warned about the press. She knew they would target her. But she’s spotless, she has zero dirt. They hired PIs, stalked her, etc and the best they could do is pay off her trashy white family. So she looks at what they could target and sees all the Duchess Do-Little. Figures it’s no problem for her; she’s been working her whole life. Figures she could hit the ground running and prove she’s not just sitting in pretty clothes wasting tax payers money. So she goes hard and is still destroyed it the press. She has no dirt and is a hard worker and they still hate her. I can’t imagine how that felt. She did everything she could to be a good duchess and they didn’t care because she is mixed, American and an actress. She ran circles around everyone else in the family with her intellect and work ethic, and she still wasn’t good enough. In fact, her coming in and being badass made them stop complaining about the duchess who does nothing and put the white one on a pedestal. I’m so glad she left.
This is such a load of sexist crap. When is a man, especially a white man, who comes in and gets things done told to “slow down, you’re doing too much”? And it’s only DO-Little who was coddled and cosseted like a greenhouse plant. The courtiers threw Diana and Fergie out their as often as they could.
So sexist! Look at the writers though, we can’t trust this because it’s by one of the WORST people of tabloid media, Australian douche Dylan Howard. He was the go to liar-for-hire for Weinstein, Trump, Bill Cosby and a bunch of white establishment sexist, racist, criminals. AMI, through Dylan Howard, would do smear jobs on victims for months in tabloid and now he seems to be trying to hustle as a new Roger Ailes. Ugh.
He’s prob getting some money from Cambridge’s and a verbal retainer from Charles royal team. But he’ll retain dirt on them so that he can put the squeeze on all parties. That was his tactic with pressuring Cosby while silencing the rape victims.
These courtiers are so lazy. How long should it take to make a cookbook or design a capsule collection?
My understanding of this whole debacle is as follows: a black, biracial, American commoner married into the royal family, and presumed to tell the Kensington Palace staff what to do. And the KP staff didn’t care to work under someone who they have been trained to see as inherently inferior, not only to the other “senior” royals in the palace, but also the KP staffers themselves.
So when people say things like, “Meghan had to be told not to speak to the staff like that,” what they really mean is, “A black woman dared to be a posh white British person’s boss, and the posh white British crowd wouldn’t stand for it, because THEY are the ones who typically get to boss people like HER around.”
At this point, I really do see the whole staff crowd at KP as a bunch of fucking ingrates. They would rather exist in blissful mediocrity than do something worthwhile with their time, which seems par for the course for most of the posh crowd that cycles through these ridiculous jobs. All of them are absolutely useless. The whole old school stereotype of the posh dilettante who has money and does nothing with their life seems to hold up well in this day and age too, I guess.