The British media has spent six years seething about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s powerful connections and charismatic celebrity personas. The media tries to scoff at Meghan and Harry for “using their royal titles,” which ends up giving up the game – Meghan and Harry are global superstars, regardless of titles. The titles are the only reason William and Kate have anything, because of a fluke of birth order, not because of their charisma or talent. Most recently, we saw Meghan and Harry invited to a ritzy fundraiser in Santa Barbara, hosted by Kevin Costner on his palatial estate, and they spent time with Oprah, Ellen DeGeneres and other bigwigs. But according to Richard Eden at the Mail, the Sussexes are “desperately try to establish themselves as a Hollywood ‘power couple’” while William and Kate have appointed some TV producer to a charity. The seething here is quite something.
While Prince Harry and Meghan Markle desperately try to establish themselves as a Hollywood ‘power couple’, the Prince and Princess of Wales are quietly boosting their own showbusiness links. I can disclose that Prince William and Catherine have appointed the producer of hit BBC drama Call the Midwife as a director of their Royal Foundation. Dame Pippa Harris will also be a director of the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund Trustee Company.
‘This is a big appointment,’ a royal source tells me. ‘Dame Pippa knows everyone and is an expert at getting things done.’
Dame Pippa, 56, founded the hugely successful film company Neal Street Productions with the Oscar-winning director Sir Sam Mendes 58. As well as creating Call the Midwife together, they have produced acclaimed films including Revolutionary Road, starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, and most recently the World War I epic 1917, for which they received two Bafta awards and a Golden Globe. Dame Pippa is also a chairperson of Bafta, of which Prince William is the royal patron.
The Royal Foundation originally included Prince Harry and there were concerns that it would suffer after he and Meghan quit in 2020. In fact, the opposite seems to have been the case.
It enjoyed a surge in income the following year, to a staggering £11.78million. That’s almost double the £6.68 million raised in 2019, when the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were still involved. Last year’s income was £10.1million, according to newly published accounts.The foundation develops programmes and initiatives based on the Prince and Princess’s interests, particularly in the areas of early childhood, mental health and the environment.
Last year, Lord (William) Hague, the former Tory leader, quit politics to concentrate on his work as chairman of the Royal Foundation. He formed a warm relationship with Prince William and Catherine while he was Foreign Secretary, working with them to combat the illegal wildlife trade. As chairman of the foundation, Hague replaced Prince George’s godfather, Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, who was William’s right-hand man for 15 years.
While Eden is obsessively comparing the Sussexes and the Waleses, I’m more interested in all of the weird drama with the senior positions at the Royal Foundation. In March 2022, William hired Amanda Berry to the position of CEO of The Royal Foundation. Berry used to be BAFTA CEO, only she was pushed out in a quiet and confusing drama in January 2022, something about how she was way too cozy with William and Kate. It sounded like BAFTA told her to leave because they had enough of her sycophantic behavior towards their lazy-ass BAFTA president (Peg). Now William has made a somewhat random TV producer the “director” of the Royal Foundation? Why is he hiring people from BAFTA and the British film/TV industry? Is it because he’s desperate to show that he also has entertainment-industry connections? And why can’t William and Kate keep senior staff, even at their foundation?
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William and Kate are the desperate ones. Harry and Meghan are quietly going about their business.such bias in the media.
Eden saying Harry and Meghan are desperate does not make Harry and Meghan desperate😂. It’s like wish fulfillment. They hope if they say it enough times that it will somehow come true, but sadly for them, it doesn’t work that way.
Again this is so silence of the lambs with Peg. He wants what Harry has short of skinning him and wearing him. Harry has the life he wants and that makes Peg insane. So Peg is out to copy (in his own disastrous way) Harry anyway that he can thinking that he will be the winner and then all will pay attention only to him. Peg needs so much therapy!
@susan Collins I think that man is beyond therapy at this point.
@Steph: I think you’re right he probably is too far gone.
Yup. Narcissists don’t respond well to therapy because they don’t think there’s anything wrong with them. They are massively manipulative and egotistical, and will resort to any kind of deceit and throwing people under the bus to evade responsibility and accountability for their behaviour.
Also starting to wonder if he wanted his wife. The fingers in Meg’s face is very telling of someone like William who equates violence with affection.
William is an abusive problematic bully.
How is it making connections with show biz by taking a producer out of show biz?
Do they want the RF head’s job to be making higher quality denim commercials?
He could’ve had all the connections he ever wanted, if he hadn’t treated his sister-in-law like trash.
Exactly. But I bet he wants the connections to try to blackball her in the industry instead.
Well, he can try, I guess—but it would only make him look worse than he already does. The industry is like a small town. He doesnt have the history in it that M does (and Harry) and don’t forget who is representing Meghan. That guy has his fingers everywhere and its best not to mess with his clients. I’d like to think he’s quietly working to get haters like those monetizing hate toward H&M flatlined.
He wants the connections because he knows that Hollywood know exactly what happened now and are no longer interested in the Royals.
Just look at how Chuckles had to get his people to bow and scrape to get entertainers to perform at his big party – embarrassing.
Oh, Flower, I love your comment!!! That snubbing by ALL of the big names in entertainment was hilariously unambiguous, wasn’t it?!?! Everybody was suddenly busy, even folks who were in town or nearby!
That’s how you know that the monarchy is coming to an end: when entertainers boycott you. The Windsor’s are supposed to be “apolitical”, only they are clearly right wing and unhinged. You could hide that stuff before, but we live in the digital age now, baby!
Hubby and I went to see Earth Wind and Fire when they came to town. Lionel Richie was the headliner, but everyone I spoke to at the concert was there for EW&F. We stayed for Lionel because why not??? He was included in the ticket price! 🤣🤣🤣 now, Lionel has a bunch of mainstream hits, but he’s no Earth, Wind and Fire!!! He’s got some bangers, but he is warm milk and crackers, like Wills, Kate, and Chucky K.
@Christina – Hollywood absolute snubbed Chuckle’s hat party and good for them. Had it been Chuckles and Diana being crowned, entertainers would have been falling over themselves.
Your Lionel anecdote at the EW&F concert is hilarious if not somewhat sad. I grew up listening to Motown as my dad is obsessed so watching him reducing himself to this is so sad.
I also agree that the monarchy (in its current form) is in its last stages.
Re the Hollywood crowd, I think they feel really uneasy seeing how badly Meghan was treaded so publicly by the BRF. Everyone saw the funeral pics and watched the Oprah interview – the Rota really embarrassed the BRF with their incessant attacks and embarrassed the UK as a whole. A lot of the Hollywood A listers may not speak up or make statements, but they speak in other ways i.e. by withdrawing their presence.
Those pictures of Meg in primo position at Bey’s B-day concert in California were beamed around the world and absolutely put William on notice that it would be a cold day in hell before they would show him any sort of favour.
Does Kate buy her clothes through the foundation? Because it covers her “work expenses” or whatever?
It would make sense why her budget has gone down because William is trying to make EARTHSHOT a thing and now they are actually sort of using some of the money for something philanthropy adjacent.
You can’t compete where you don’t compare.
I can’t work out if the British Media understand that and are using it in these sort of stories to undermine W&K or genuinely think that first drawing attention to all the famous people associated with H&M followed by ‘Oh but W&K have appointed Dame Never-Heard-Of to a random position in blah Foundation’ actually makes W&K look good?
I think some in the press are over the Waleses but you have some who actually believe in them. For what reason, I don’t know because they’re bland, mediocre and boring. I think the majority have buyers remorse and secretly behind the scenes know William isn’t up for the job. That’s why they want Harry back.
ITA with @Brit that many of the RRs know that what they’re spouting about W&K is total BS, but that there are still a few who still believe their own lies. However, IMO, Richard Eden is probably one who genuinely believes that W&K are “superior” to the Sussexes, and is just too stupid to realize that articles like this only make them look pathetic?
Geez, the actual president of BAFTA shouldn’t have to rely on appointing someone with connections! William should be the one who “knows everyone”, it’s not like the British film and television scene is that huge!
But a lot of them aren’t as well known globally and he wants to be a global statesman.
I was just coming to say this, Jay.
If W&K want entertainment connections, maybe they shouldn’t skip the BAFTAs, and avoid BAFTA events literally being held at their home.
But that would mean actually having to be involved with his charities and network with the people to actually accomplish something for them beyond a sneering smile photo op.
Exactely @Cessily! It means they have to make an effort! Not to mention, the more time they spend with people, the more people are going to witness their “personality”. That might not be to W&K’s advantage.
And the irony here is that that was exactly what Harry did. He got to know his charities, he knew the people involved, he networked, he made connections. So then when he left the UK, he had people willing to help him etc because……he had networked.
Good point.
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Isn’t Will the BAFTA guy? There are industry people all up in there. Why can’t he beg some of them to be his friends or whatever. Didn’t Remi Malek at EarthShit? Ask him for some favors.
I swear Will would abdicate the throne if he could take the Wales dutchy money and would move to L.A. and stalk Harry and Meghan.
I watch Call the Midwife and love the show, but honestly, Dame who?? William needs to concentrate his energies in his own country and the commonwealth, never mind chasing Harry.
By appointing Dame Pippa he is sticking to his own country. He hasn’t appointed any Americans or even someone originally from some Commonwealth country. And btw, that American comms guy is doing a bang-up job it looks like.
I’d love to see how William accomplishes going Hollywood in his flailing manner. Considering what needs should be addressed as POW and king in waiting, this is frivolous because of his one-sided competition with his brother. You know it kills him to see the Sussexes rub shoulders with Hollywood celebrities, so naturally he needs some of that.
It’s Willy the president of the UK version of the Oscars so he should be swimming in celebrity connections. If that’s all the celebrity connection he can get that’s sad for a future king given his position as president and heir. This proves that no one cares about Willy and his co-parent if Harry and Meghan isn’t attached because what was the reason to even include them in this article about the so called important royals.
In July 2019, H&M left and founded Sussex Royal. Until 2021 part of the funds raised were Endeavour Fund’s money that RF was made to part with and give to IG. They have bragged on their income (with a lot of obfuscation and lies), now detail their out-going money. And, don’t forget that W&K got a raise in 2022 with QE’s death. They worked together to combat illegal wildlife trade? Really? Exactly what did W&K get off their butts and do. What an insult to all those who did actual field work in the area.
They founded Archewell. They werent allowed to keep/use Sussex Royal.
She’s talking about before that. Before they left as working royals.
This article makes it sound like it was H&M’s fault that there wasn’t much in RF in 2019, when they weren’t involved in it for most of that year. They had actually moved their offices to BP in April 2019, so were in the process of separating from KP even before they started SR as their foundation.
@Equality: “In July 2019, H&M left, and founded Sussex Royal.”
That is inaccurate chronology. In the summer of 2019, H&M quietly began planning to leave, but they were still senior members of the firm. They went on the iconic South Africa royal tour from September 23, 2019 – October 2, 2019. The famous documentary about their trip, filmed by Tom Bradby, debuted soon after. H&M launched SussexRoyal Instagram in April 2019, and set records for the largest number of followers gained within 24 hours. They abandoned their Instagram circa March 2020 after officially stepping back as senior royals, immediately after their historic ‘royal farewell’ events, in London. They were forced to drop use of the SussexRoyal brand, but they ultimately created something even better in Archewell.
The announcement that H&M were stepping back as senior royals came on January 8, 2020, in order to get ahead of the leaked info grabbed by Dan Wootton for The Sun exclusive. H&M stepping back should not have been overly surprising. They had hinted at leaving the firm in the SA documentary. But yes, few could truly wrap heads around such a bold departure actually happening.
Regarding their Sussex Royal website, H&M may have begun planning for it in the summer of 2019, but it was not officially launched until January 2020, to help explain their half-in, half-out proposal. Meanwhile, the first use of their website was on October 1, 2019, when Harry posted his letter decrying Meghan’s mistreatment by the media, thanking their supporters and letting us know that they “really need” our support, even though “it may not seem like it.” The letter is still accessible on the website.
H&M physically left Britain and the toxic firm behind for their ‘vacation’ on Vancouver Island, in November 2019. They had completely opted out of attending any royal family holiday festivities. That same month, Prince Andrew gave his disastrous television interview. It was famously reported that the Queen said she knew the Sussex family were leaving for good, because they took their dogs, Pula and Guy, with them when they left.
Okay @Equality, I see now that you were talking about H&M leaving the Royal Foundation to start their own Foundation. It would have been clearer had you specified ‘H&M left the Royal Foundation, and announced the launch of the Sussex Royal Foundation,’ which obviously was a plan they ultimately had to abandon after stepping back from the firm, in January 2020.
Also, Earthshot was included in the foundation until it was spun off as a separate charity in June of 2022. And it’s no good just looking at one side of the ledger – how much money did they spend? In the first year, when they had the awards in London, they took in 12 million and spent 7 million of it on the awards event.
And still haven’t paid the ‘winners’.
Ever since that news about Ari Emanuel came out and there were pictures of her at the Beyoncé concert with Ted Sarandos and Jeff Bezos, that has made the BM and KP antsy. Especially the Ari news. Ari is the real deal and has more influence than someone who works at the BBC. Sometimes I wonder if the press truly believe in the Wales’ to be going this hard. It’s like, buyers remorse but still hoping that the people they’re stuck with, comes through, lol.
I’ve heard of Oprah and Kevin Costner. I’ve never heard of Pippa Harris.
William and Kate are the ones who are desperate for entertainment connections. William literally pay and flow out celebrities for his earth shot event last year that the definition of desperate he literally had to pay celebrities to hang out with him . You can feel the jealousy and envy coming from William and Kate and the British tabloids that Meghan and Harry are hanging out with Billionaires the elite they move in a crowds with CEOs and Beyonce. That Americans have completely embraced Meghan and Harry that their unhinged hate campaign didn’t work only the Karen’s and royalist who were already bitter and hateful towards Meghan anyway believe all their nonsense.
Richard Eden’s piece only proves that William and Kate were always jealous of Harry and Meghan and the British press was used as a tool to attack them. Now there’s nothing wrong with having showbiz connections. William and Kate are desperate to be Harry and Meghan.
The jealousy just oozes out of his writing like toxic slime, it truly is hard to read even in little snippets provided on this site.
It’s even sadder because Camzilla even has a group of famous racist cronies to kick back with.
The fact that W&K have absolutely nothing at all speaks to their in person appeal. Queen Side Piece is at least charming it appears
Cams, as vile as she is, probably attends lots of boozy lunches and always picks up the tab.
@Amy Bee: “William and Kate are desperate to be Harry and Meghan.”
That’s a losing, desperate enterprise for WanK. These desperate losers need to take stock of their own lives, accept their shortcomings and try to count their blessings. In doing so, they’d at least be somewhat better off in the hell they have created for themselves. If not, they will be in danger of experiencing even more loss.
They are hiring from the world of entertainment, not for the connections imo, but because essentially the Royals & especially the Waleses, play act everything they do. They perform at “serving”. Arrive. Stand on mark. Shake hands. Wave hands. Take pictures. Exit stage left. I guess we could give them a cookie for realizing it’s just a performance & that no one expects anything substantive.
Okay, so their foundation has raised a lot of money over the past two years. What’s it doing with that money?
And I agree with others, that its funny/sad that the president or patron (whatever his title is) of BAFTA has to go out of his way to find industry connections. He should be swimming in those types of connections.
That’s what I came here to ask! Glad I checked the other comments first. If all these millions are coming in, why don’t we get to hear about how they are spent? How come the Wails still turn up empty handed to listen and learn? I don’t understand.
Does he thinks he’s too good to network with anyone associated with BAFTA? I can see him thinking actors, directors etc are beneath him.
You can feel the quiet horror of all the UK people who lazily considered themselves royalists waking up to the fact that they are no longer aligning themselves with TQ but the scraggly whiny bunch that make up the current “working” royals.
Remembering the business wisdom that A people surround themselves with A people. B people hire C and D people because they are afraid of being outshone.
I think that’s been a major shift over the past year: people who considered themselves royalists slowly realizing that they only really liked QE2. And stubbornly refusing to admit it.
The gasping breaths are almost audible, at this point. Next up, the death rattle.
Right, the real Queen is dead. Long live the …. 🫣🥱😴
I don’t understand why BAFTA allows itself to be so closely involved with the royals. It’s really bizarre that an organization which recognizes artistic and entertainment merit in films must put up with royal dilettantes in order to function. They should declare their independence.
It seems like the film industry in Britain is heavy on nepotism and class status. So, being heavily monarchist makes sense.
So Maureen and Peggy are jealous of Kelly, Kerry, Oprah, Ellen, Hillary, Madea, Beyoncé and many more being Team Meghan.
That’s why they need Amanda and Pippa (no, not *that* one).
Got it.
Sad, really.
This is actually hilarious to me, the royals are like ‘we’re a totally legitimate entity and deserve taxpayer money because we’re ordained by God’ and meanwhile they’re hiring spin doctors from Literally Everything You See Us Do Is Fake Incorporated and Government Corruption Depot as if it’s all on the up-and-up.
I love the way you phrased this so much.
This article is so random and desperate for attention. They really are trying so hard to make something out of this nothing burger while glossing over the fact that staffing is a revolving door. Notice when Will does something, it’s all about name dropping and calling out how many celebrities or big names he has on his board or attending Earthshot. We don’t hear this about Archewell because that is not the focus. At Invictus, the focus was on the veterans and athletes, not if any celebrities attended. This isn’t relevant to the purpose of their work. They put the planning into the topics they care about. Excellent example is yesterday’s summit. Maybe the Sussexes should add a bunch of minor royals and aristocrats to their board. See how ridiculous that sounds. Meanwhile no mention of the Prince of Wales’ royal duties. What a clown show.
Look at the pictures, I mean really look at the ones of them sitting down. They have made the grand entrance and had people fawn over the “look” that they TRY and give of, but the moment they are seated, the show is over. Billy lookd board out of his skull, and bland is doing jazz hands to the woman sat next to her, who herself looks dazed, as if to say “, why the fk is this woman doing semaphore?
That’s why they need REAL people from the media world on side.
They will never, and I mean NEVER match Harry and Megan and what THEY have, it doesn’t matter if they hire BAFTA dames or Oscar winners, Harry and Megan do it their way and people come TO THEM without needing to be paid. Let’s face it, Billy most probably busted several televisions, windows and cushions as he watched “Heart of Invictus”, and he decided HE wants some of that, but Billy it ain’t happening. If you have to pay people to attend a vanity project like you did in Boston, you haven’t got ANY American celebrity friends. So go swivel matey, and tell your tame paps, that Megan and Harry aren’t TRYING to do anything, they are already DOING!!, and doing it WITHOUT useing the Palace or people chasing titles!!
William is such a small, weak man. How sad. He genuinely hasn’t an original thought in his insignificant head. All he can do is spin his wheels, trying to keep up with Harry and never quite succeeding. I feel such secondhand humiliation for him! If Pegs wasn’t the heir, no one would be propping up this pathetic Failure-To-Launch.
#AbolishTheMonarchy
Amanda Berry may have been pushed out of BAFTA for being too cozy with W&K, but it worked for her since they hired her to be CEO of the Royal Foundation. I’m sure that is probably one of the reasons that Dame Pippa has become a trustee. Also, Jean-Christophe Gray, William’s private secretary who is leaving, is a trustee of the Royal Foundation.
The vast majority of the money coming into the royal foundation in recent years has been from forces for good who support Harry. There is still some $ coming from forces against Harry, but William is not beholden to them. The new director is a force for good who supports ending the rift. The money is intended to go towards an autism awareness campaign.
It could also be a lot from people who despise the Sussexes, and want to try and help “prove” that W&K are better and more successful. I really believe that a lot of the people who are angry that Harry left are petty enough to go that far to justify to themselves that they picked the “winning” side.
Really @Lea. Where did you see that Dame Pippa “supports ending the rift”? Not that she has any say whatsoever in the healing of royal family rifts.
Sure, fine, whatever. The weird thing is, why bring H&M into this? The story would have been just fine if they’d left off the first sentence.
Yeah, but then no one would have bothered to read it
Everyone has read Spare, and sees Willy for who and what he is. To boot, he’s boring, with no charm or charisma. No one wants to be around him except his old school buddies with whom he shares a history.
Willy is seething with jealousy because he believes that Harry’s fame is deservedly his; that he should have even more fame. His fury is only increasing because he can’t get what he wants. There is no reconciliation in the cards for these two brothers; it’s just not possible with Willy’s level of emotional immaturity. And that is never going to change. It sure didn’t for his father, who is similarly emotionally immature.
I finally read Spare this past summer and also had my sister and mom read it(although they don’t follow the BRF as much).
One thing all 3 of us agree, it escalated even more so when Harry met and married Meghan. Who the heck goes to his brothers house and hits him for no reason.
^^ The physical violence by Willy against Harry, in Harry’s own home to boot, did not strike me as occurring for the first time on that occasion. Harry was obviously nervous, as he retreated to the kitchen, trying mightily to get Willy to calm down, to no avail.
Isn’t Julian Fellowes William’s uncle by marriage to Diana’s sister? Mr. Downtown Abbey himself or do I have that wrong.
No, that would be Robert Fellowes who was the late Queen’s private secretary back in the ‘90s. He’s married to Diana’s sister Lady Jane.
I really hate William’s black velvet jacket and Kate’s black gloves. Both rub me the wrong way. My gold standard: Would Harry wear that jacket? Would Meghan wear those gloves? William and Kate apparently have no designer friends to cultivate a chic look, which you’d think they could do with all their money and maybe prestige (to designers who want their clothes seen and bought). Apparently they don’t have the personalities or clout to pull this off, as simple as it seems. Why do they get EVERYTHING wrong?
^^ Exactly @J.Ferber! 💯 🎯
The Royal Foundation needs a CEO AND a Director?