My question is this: do you think the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge came up with their hare-brained scheme to slime and smear Harry and Meghan all on their own? I feel like that might be the case, because Will & Kate were not even subtle. They left their lazy, obvious fingerprints all over those Times of London stories. I’m asking if the Keens did so with the authorization of Clarence House (Charles) and/or Buckingham Palace (Liz). I don’t think Chuck and Liz authorized it, because just before the Times articles came out, Buckingham Palace was leaning in HEAVILY to the “Prince Philip is so sick, that’s what we’re paying attention to, you guys” narrative.
The Royal Family has ‘more important things to worry about’ than Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s ‘shocking’ bombshell interview with their friend Oprah Winfrey, Buckingham Palace aides insisted last night as Prince Philip was transferred to a leading cardiac hospital.
The Duke of Edinburgh, 99, was moved to St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London for ‘testing and observation for a pre-existing heart condition’ following a two-week stay at King Edward VII Hospital yesterday, just hours after dramatic clips of the Sussexes’ explosive interview were released by a US television network.
Though Buckingham Palace is bracing itself for ‘shocking’ revelations from Meghan and Harry’s interview, aides suggested that the family’s focus was solely on Philip, who had already spent 13 nights in hospital and is expected to remain there until at least the end of the week.
One source told the Telegraph: ‘The family is very worried about him and their thoughts are very much with him rather than this Oprah interview. They have much more important things to worry about.’
Another aide described how there was a ‘significant shift in the mood’ following the Duke’s transfer, telling the Mirror: ‘There has been an almighty and collective effort to keep him [Philip] and the Queen safe during the coronavirus crisis over the past 11 months but there was a significant shift in the mood when everyone started finding out the Duke wasn’t coming home any time soon.’
“The family is very worried about him and their thoughts are very much with him rather than this Oprah interview”... which is why Will and Kate showed the world that they’re actually focused entirely on smearing the Sussexes before the Oprah interview and not at all focused on grandpappy. William still hasn’t gone to see his grandfather. The Queen still hasn’t visited Philip either! Despite the narrative of “the Sussexes are terrible for carrying on like normal while Phil is in the hospital,” it seems like everyone in that family is carrying on like normal. Which means that Philip’s hospitalization is being used by the Palace for exactly one reason:
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are being urged by some commentators in the U.K. to ask CBS to postpone the airing of its Oprah Winfrey interview, in which they are expected to mount a stinging attack on the royal family, as concern mounts over Prince Philip’s prospects of beating an infection. Philip, 99, was moved to a specialist heart hospital on Monday and royal sources have been quoted by British newspapers saying the family is “pretty appalled” at the idea of the interview, which Oprah has said sees Meghan saying “pretty shocking things” being broadcast while Philip is so unwell.
Penny Junor, author of Prince Harry, Brother, Soldier, Son, told The Daily Beast that airing the interview while Prince Philip was undergoing very public health travails risked making the interview look inappropriate, saying, “Anything could hijack this interview. Philip is ill. He is 99 and could die at any time. They were not to know he would get ill, but it could be seen to be the wrong time. But I doubt it is in their gift to postpone the interview. The control is in the hands of CBS and Oprah.”
Robert Lacey, historical consultant for The Crown and author of the definitive royal biography Majesty, told The Daily Beast, “I think it would be a marvelous turnaround for Harry’s image if he took the brave step of canceling the whole thing this weekend—or, if that’s not practical, postponing it at least.”
Royal commentator and former editor of Who’s Who Richard Fitzwilliams said it would “surely be appropriate” to postpone the interview. He told MailOnline, “Oprah is their friend and neighbor and would undoubtedly comply if asked and the gesture would I am sure be appreciated by the royal family. If an interview has been extended, as this recently has, it can also be postponed, as this undoubtedly should be.”
And it just kept on going and going – the carnival of so-called experts all got the same talking points from Buckingham Palace that the Sussexes are completely awful for NOT postponing the interview, an interview which the Palace is not scared of, but please, please just cancel the interview. So… why then did Kensington Palace throw themselves into this petty little hate machine, using 2018 emails (!!) all while Philip is so, so sick? The palaces got their smear campaigns crossed.
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Well, well. It’s all coming out now, isn’t it?
The minute Oprah said…”wait…hold up wait a minute” the British media LOST IT! At this point I will believe every single word From Meghan/Harry. It’s not normal to attack someone on something they haven’t said yet…unless???
Make no mistake, Oprah is taking notes on the reactions since announcing the interview.
Oprah said WHAT?
lol. that’s funny Ken.
@bay – in the teaser, there’s a part where Oprah says “wait wait wait hold up a minute” or something similar.
Even the Queen is not focused on her husband. Nice try KP, BP, CH. WE are not buying what you are selling.
The Queen, is in fact, smiling for the first time in ages. I’ve never seen her so happy as on her zoom calls this week, while Philip is in the hospital. So her PR told her to put on a happy face to show the world what’s she’s really all about? so strange.
She’s been on tv here in Australia, jolly as you like, about a statue of her that people are taking photos in front of
Obviously, she is just devasted about her husband…
Does his room have a window? Can they wave at him from the grounds below the window?
KP made any complaints about Harry doing the Oprah interview while Philip is in the hospital null and void.
and thats exactly what Chris Ship said on twitter. If the interview is poor timing, so are these latest “revelations” to the Times.
And because of that – how ticked do you think BP and CH are at Willileaks? He just couldnt help himself, but he’s screwed up big time here.
They’re gona kill Philip aren’t they?! Like on Tuesday or Wednesday, and it’s all gona be Meghan’s fault.
They (family/courtiers) made a decision to kill one king so his death would make the morning papers. None of them are above killing a prince to derail another media thing.
I seem to remember it was the physician who made that decision on his own, and he cited a desire to lessen George V’s suffering and ‘loss of dignity’ as his primary motivations. The newspaper thing was definitely further down the list, but it’s the reason people like to talk about the most.
@ficklepickle Yes, Lord Dawson of Penn, the physician, made the decision and noted it in his diary. The revelations came out several years ago. The king was suffering and it was just a matter of hours. He made the decision to end his suffering and thus his death would be released in the establishment papers rather than the more tabloid-y ones.
I feel like I saw somewhere on twitter that even Chris Ship was like “well, if the Sussexes are being criticized bc of PP’s health, then this bullying story should be criticized too” — not quite that statement, but more or less his point.
He did say pretty much exactly that.
He works for ITV and they got the UK interview broadcast, so I’d be surprised if he’s among the reporters calling for it to be cancelled.
He also replied to someone saying “it leaves them (the monarchy) in an interesting position” or something like that when they asked Chris about the UK being a republic.
His twitter feed is interesting sometimes, because while he’s pretty anti-Sussex, he’s not quite at the level of Richard Palmer or someone, and once in a great while there’s a little tidbit of rationality that comes out.
There was an interesting squabble on his twitter feed last night though – Valentine Low (who wrote these Times stories) replied to something, there was back and forth where Ship had to console him that it was “excellent” reporting and then Dan Wootton swooped in and I couldnt tell if he was anti-Valentine Low or pro Valentine and there were some swipes that went over my head.
Messy messy messy.
Someone on another article said that since Ship works for ITV which has brought the rights to air the interview so perhaps he’s gotten a peak at what the contents are and knows what’s been said.
I am starting to think he’s gotten a sneak peek as well and either he knows Meghan doesnt throw Knauf et al to the wolves, so this is a total overreaction on their part, or that Meghan says things that are REALLY bad AND she has receipts, so to speak, so this story isnt really going to detract from that after the interview.
There is not one competent braincell between the lot of them
There might be courtiers from CH or BP working with KP, but my take is that Charles and the Queen are going with “oh no prince philip is ill, what interview?” which makes it all the more obvious that this is coming directly from KP at william’s behalf. He’s unhinged at this point, don’t let him visit philip or he might take matters into his own hands as the final distraction measure.
The Queen managed to remove all of Harry and Meghan’s patronages while Philip was ‘so, so ill’. Just saying.
Yeah Philip is so sick alright. But are any of those disgusting excuses for human beings considering that Meghan is pregnant?
I keep wondering why they don’t ask ITV to postpone when they air the special in the UK? Isnt that on them? Unless CBS gets to decide that from the US? I know PBS has aired specials on the other royals weeks if not months later so I don’t know why they just don’t ask if ITV can show the special once Philip is out of the hospital instead of harassing Oprah like they are. I hope she issues a big FU statement to them before the special airs.
It’s about control and intimidation. Contrary to Jobson’s whining, the RF does indeed operate like a damn mafia. They’re used to getting people to cave to their threats and demands, and they’re mad that CBS and Oprah are cheerfully ignoring their screams.
They’re mad Oprah & CBS DGAF? The Royal Family conveniently forget that We The People won that little argument about whether to bow to them when the Treaty of Paris was signed on September 4, 1783.
We’re not part of your “Empire”, Betty.
It’s as if the British Royal Family and the U.K. Press wants the entire world to watch the Oprah Interview.
Lol.
exactly! so many on Twitter were saying they had planned to skip the interview, but now they need to watch it to see what happened to Meghan!
No one ever taught Workshy Wanderdick and the rest of the BRF about The Streisand Effect, that much is obvious.
They are using an old sick man health as excuse for their bully behaviour.
They can’t even coordinate the pity ploys, lies and smears effectively.
Will and Kate exposed themselves completely with that ridiculously obvious budget jet stunt. “Lazy and obvious” is correct. My god, you would think they would be better at this by now.
I forgot about the plane stunt. They even drug the kids into it.
Well, when you’re lazy it’s hard to get better lol.
At this point it’s clear that Will and Kate are rampaging on their own. They are “comfortable” being so boldfaced because Elizabeth and Charles have done little to nothing to stop them. I DO wonder what the latter two and their teams are thinking right now. The Norfolk Nuisances have hurled open the door for questions on the family’s collection and interactions with corrupt regimes and I can’t imagine they’re too happy about that.
I agree. I think w&k are completely going off script at this point and not including BP and CH in their recent smear campaign. I highly doubt the queen or Charles would want people questioning the provenance of royal jewels when it has come out that Charles was probably helping the Saudis obtain weapons. They probably don’t want tweedlekeen and tweedledumb shitting all over their poor Prince Philip narrative with this obvious half brained attack, coupled with the worst victim blaming that I’ve seen. This is literally Diana 2.0. on top of The Crown sweeping the top awards. How can they be this fucking dumb? Petty Betty and Charles should use this as reason to completely dissolve W&K’s press office at KP. It’s clear that they are incompetent, lazy, and down right stupid to launch this tomfoolery before the interview has even aired. It’s obvious that the keens are behind 90% of everything directed at H&M.
I think Charles was giving them enough rope to hang themselves and with the Times story, he might have them now. Dissolve all the separate offices and combine under one main office until the Queen passes away. Call it a cost-cutting measure or something. The Magnificent Seven can learn to work together.
I posted on another thread that Camilla was quoted today as saying Prince Philip is feeling better. Hence, he’s not going to die in time to stop Oprah.
Fairly inconsiderate of him. It’s like he hasn’t read the rules.
(sarcasm y’all. I don’t wish the man any ill will)
Again, what are they so afraid of? If Meghan said something incendiary they could refute it later. All they are doing now is making sure everyone will want to tune in for the interview! I guess no one over there has heard of the Streisand effect
i guess that’s the point, Meghan will tell the truth and they won’t be able to refute it. and they know what they did so are therefore shitting their pants!
I really do hope that this is KP’s last stand. They are in the last throes of battle, realizing they are losing the war and want to go out with a bang before surrendering.
Because if there was a case for downsizing and preventing every royal house from having a team, this is it.
I said the same thing before seeing your comment. I should have scrolled down. There are too many cooks in the kitchen. W&K have completely gone rogue and it’s making the entire RF look bad. This is embarrassing and downright shameful. They are literally telling on themselves. Those two need to be moved under CH and completely muzzled.
Absolutely. They aren’t doing enough work to warrant an entire team. The team and the decisions coming out of KP definitely don’t justify their existence.
There is literally no work happening at KP. 8 years for 5 questions. No wonder they felt harassed because Meghan wanted updates. All those taxpayer funds are being spent to wage an expensive smear campaign. KP is literally telling people that the hated Meghan because they were asked to do their jobs. They’re upset because Meghan wanted some degree of professionalism and accountability. How can the justify the expense anymore? The damn “global statesman” can’t even keep his staff busy but he’s supposed “lead” the country? Give me a break.
Anyone else feel like half of Philip’s stay is because he needs a break from Liz?
Yup, philip stays at the hospital is like a vacation for him from Lizzy. Atleast, he can ask all the beautiful nurses to set up his Zoom with archie in peace.
Didn’t the queen just dedicate a statue to herself? And Sophie give a house tour? Once again those double standards
I’ve got no idea of who said what or who did what to whom, or when or why. But I am making a garbage can-sized bucket of popcorn and opening the wine. 🍿 🍷
That’s BS people. William senior aide sent the Tabloids accusation that Meghan is a bully.. So what happened to “what about poor ole sick Prince Phillip”..
I knew it all along William is the Media’s source for stories..
And if you are not paying attention William’s intent was to kill off any hopes of Harry making a living in USA. Well He thinks, Harry can always write a book about Big Brother. I think he should and bury him.. PAYBACK TIME.
The Queen hasn’t visited Prince Phillip in the hospital? I mean, Charles went. Presumably Edward and maybe Andrew did as well? If he’s been in the hospital for almost two weeks and he’s 99 year old, wouldn’t you think his wife would visit him? Talk about cold. I get that they didn’t have a happy marriage but it seems like the Queen has stopped all pretense of caring about him — unless they can use his impending death to attack her grandson?
This family, man, I don’t know. A lot of us have messed up family members but this is next level.
Kensington just played themselves. These headlines were a serious mistake. Watch what happens next. Tiaras and tea.
Borrowing an old adage, “Silly Willy thinks it’s his world and we’re all just living in it.” He’s about to get an atlas thrown at his head. Buckle up, buttercup.
I really hope you’re right, Tasz.
Barbara Streisand clean up on aisle Britain
Methinks the palace doth protest a wee bit too much (with apologies to Shakespeare)
There’s an online petition to stop the interview from airing in Britain. At least one Royal analyst is putting it out on social media.
Lol, that’s hilarious
Why should they postpone it? It’s not like the royal family stopped their smear campaigns because Meghan is pregnant. They’ve tried to tear her down in the media both times now
They don’t seem to realize that an American TV network has no obligation to cancel or postpone a show because someone in another country is in the hospital.