On Monday, August 9th, Virginia Giuffre filed her federal lawsuit against Prince Andrew for sexual abuse and rape, in association with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s human trafficking operation throughout the 1990s and early ‘00s. Since the lawsuit was filed, the British press has done the absolute MOST to talk about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. It’s been completely obvious, and they’re not hiding it at all. During Duncan Larcombe’s appearance on True Royalty TV’s Royal Beat, Larcombe said many words about Harry and Meghan including a rather gaudy reference to the Sword of Damocles. I’ll give Duncan Larcombe credit for something other than being racist and sexist: he got me to read the Wiki page for Damocles. I always thought it was a reference to a Greek myth, but no, its origin is Roman, based on a story told by Cicero.
The Duchess of Sussex launched her new 40×40 initiative, intended to encourage people to commit to giving 40 minutes of their time to support women going back to work, in a video message filmed in her and Harry’s Montecito home, shared on her 40th birthday last week.
Duncan Larcombe suggested the campaign is ill-judged, adding: ‘She has left behind her a trail of devastation, on the Markle side, and now on the Windsor side. I don’t want to see her lecturing young mums having to go back to work from inside her $11million LA mansion… This initiative is nonsense, she should be spending her time trying to build bridges with the very people that she and Harry have betrayed.’
He added that the issue of the Duke of Susssex’s much-anticipated book is also looming over the Windsors. Duncan described the pending publication as ‘like a sword of Damocles hanging over the Royals now…We mentioned the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and we don’t know if it is going to be timed to come out on the day that the nation is supposed to be paying tribute to the Queen. I always laugh, if [Princess] Eugenie is helping with the book, let’s just hope for her sake that does not mean that she too does not have to live in exile when the rest of the Royal Family are all offended.’
Is the reference to the sword of Damocles appropriately applied? The sword is supposed to represent the tenuousness of power, uneasy lies the head who wears the crown. Larcombe is saying that Harry’s memoir is hanging over the Windsors’ heads by a thin thread, ready to drop at any moment. If that’s how they see it, well, they f–ked around and now they’re finding out. They should be scared.
As for what he says about Meghan leaving behind “a trail of devastation” – please, I’m begging these dumbf–ks to stick to one narrative. Either you guys wanted her to leave or you didn’t. Either she was the worst thing to ever happen to the UK or you’re still copying everything she does. Either she didn’t know her place or she was important enough to rock the monarchy to its very core. And she’s not “lecturing moms” about going back to work. She’s actively encouraging mentorship for those who want it. It’s better than Kate lecturing moms about early years and telling them that if their children grow up poor or in single-parent homes, the kids will grow up to be dysfunctional adults, addicts or mentally ill.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Vax Live, Archewell.
The lack of intellect & common sense that the British Royal family has showcased in the last 40 years is ASTOUNDING and the media over there that covers them mirrors that fact…cause ALL I want to ask the reporter regarding THIS narrative is…
“Make it MAKE SENSE!?!” WHICH…of course they CAN’T without showing their racist classict hand
The 40×40 was apparently so terrible that they are desperate for keen to join right?
Meghan and harry aren’t in exile. They’ve committed no crime and they choose to leave. On top of that, meghan hasn’t left behind a trial of devastation. The windsors have. And the Markles have. Can i just point out that meghan was a self proclaimed daddy’s girl? She loved him dearly and often wrote about it on her Instagram and on the Tig. On top of that, it was very much expected he would walk her down the aisle. Thomas Markle is the one that betrayed her.
Meghan and harry were very clear when they said why they left and what they expected from harry’s family. And the windsors thus far have done the exact opposite.
I would agree that Meghan loves her father but they have a history of estrangement due to his abuse.
There’s old footage of her in late teens to early 20s driving past his home and stating that things were not good between them at the moment & they weren’t talking.
I’m sure this happened off and on and ultimately ended with his last brutal betrayal from the wedding onwards.
As a fellow child of narcissistic father, I know she beat herself up for letting him back in and hoping & praying that he wouldn’t do what he’s always done. He failed and broke her heart.
@Crowded huntress: Yeah there were always ups and downs in their relationship. Meghan was a decent person by never badmouthing him in public. Even after all he has done in the last few years she has never attacked him in the press.
Tho i will believe that the relationship between meghan and her dad had its ups and downs, i still think that the relationship was mostly good. Especially the last couple of years before she married harry. During thanksgiving 2016 (several months after starting dating harry and after their relationship was made public) she posted on her instagram how proud she was of BOTH her parents. In the picture you saw Thomas hand and Doria’s hand holding a bowl together— it was posted on Thanksgiving.
@Pao As long as she was being the devoted daughter who supported him financially, the relationship was okay. Once she expected him to step up in a bigger way in support of her, it went downhill. It’s the same with Harry. He supported Will in who he chose to marry, didn’t out Will on things they did together (such as colonial parties), and didn’t release leaks to the press about Will. When Harry expected the same consideration, Will didn’t step up. That has to be hurtful to feel like the family scapegoat.
Pao, I don’t even know if the Tig blog and SM posts really reflected the whole story. Meghan seems to be the type of person who wants to see the best in people and will let some things slide. Her “she’s a good person” comment about the Cambridge lady was rather telling. It’s also pretty telling that Meghan seemed willing to put up with a lot and Harry was apparently the one who said “enough” and took their family out of the vipers’ nest. Serena herself said Meghan is too nice.
GB TV interview between bad dad and Danny Rotten was beyond bizarre. It was like Zoo TV and no wonder this channel isn’t taken seriously or much watched. Despite poring over TM back catalogue of abuse but presenting it like M is daughter of evil and fat dad is the victim, they concluded that it is H who is fixated on father in law and would be glued to said interview?! Maybe their lawyers have to watch this shit but H and M don’t. It must have been painful for her to process that she’d lost him to the lure of Piss Moron and co but anyone can see how truly happy and free they are now.
Yes, she had always maintained the relationship but with her father, it’s always subject to his terms being met. TM is the type of narcissistic father that will withhold his feelings UNLESS his demands are met. She must have had an emotional childhood and even into adulthood, he is still making demands. People like TM will never concede that they are the problem, not the solution. TM should have been grateful that she keto him in her life for so long.
As for for Harry’s family, their twisted and demented mind games are enough for serious therapy, which with some members desperately need, TOBB.
As there are troubles brewing in the royal family, the targeted attacks will always be Meghan as the royal rats refuse to go after the family, until a certain point. One day these rabid dogs will eventually turn on them and it will be a glorious day!!
I agree with your take too. I also think that if you want to know at what stage her relationship w/ her dad was before Harry, just look at the fact that she dated him for about 1-1/2 yrs. and she never introduced Harry to Thomas Markle. I think that says something about how close she felt to Markle, or whether she felt she could truly trust him, or how discreet he could be.
Sadly, the lesson of the past 5 years has nothing to do with consistency or logic and everything to do with ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK! That’s why you must keep the bigger picture in focus: this is all about deflection and misplaced blame. They will say anything to make her the root of every problem in the world.
Answer with facts — as this site does — and prepare for a new curve ball to be hurled.
My only comment on 40×40 is I wish Meghan had partnered with a charity, like Smart Works, which does coaching as well as providing clothing. This would have been tangible and harder for the press to slam a charity, but there is nothing wrong with this initiative.
Kate’s early years work essentially amounts to: “If you don’t have money, your young children are disadvantaged for life. Now here is another useless survey.”
Nah even if she had partnered with smart works, the press would have still slammed her. The project is fine as is. A lot of women have taken up the challenge.
The press and the derangers have attacked every charity that Meghan works with that isn’t a royal patronage. Remember how they tried to tie the women of the Hubb Kitchen to terrorism?
It’s like with abuse victims. There is nothing they can to to prevent beatings because the abuser is sick and thrives on attacking their victim. Even leaving doesnt stop the verbal abuse.
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Spot on.
Meghan has partnered with SmartWorks for this initiative. Archewell website says three partners of 40×40: Smart Works, YWCA, and L.A. Works & all these orgs have promoted it.
https://archewell.com/40×40/
The British press are determined to attack anything Meghan does. His criticism here is a lie- it’s about helping women who are trying to get back to work. But her first project helping Grenfell survivors with a cookbook, Camilla Tominey linked to funding terrorism. They have been attacking her charity work since the start.
It was the Markles & the Windsors who were attacking Meghan in the press. Just a few weeks ago the press had headlines from Lacey’s updated book that William/ his staff said she was a dreadful woman, a psychopath a bitch etc who had taken Harry away from William. Certainly not up to her to build bridges. The British press have more smoke for Meghan’s initiative than they do for Andrew being sued. I can’t take them seriously.
Speaking of Lacey’s book it’s interesting that it’s radio silence on that now & then some press are trying to push Meghan & Kate working together. Wonder if meghans lawyers having response to bullying review & Harry’s memoir has slowed down palace briefings?
What sounds psychopathic to me is saying that your brother was taken away from you like you own him. Harry wasn’t kidnapped, he made the decision to marry and then to leave. With normal people that wouldn’t be somebody being “taken away”. It might mean that your time spent together was less or you had to communicate other than in person but it wouldn’t be the dramatic “taken away”.
@equality yeah think it’s clear that Meghan and Harry had relatives with unhealthy attachments to them. I don’t know why Lacey or other royal experts didn’t think that quote was strange especially when William has his own family.
the Cambridges moved to Wales for years& we always heard how William preferred spending time with the Middletons compared to the Windsors. Yet we never heard briefings about Harry feeling Kate had taken Will away from him even when he was single in KP. Instead he said he had gained a sister, was happy when they expanded their family, talked about being excited to meet his nephews & nieces etc.
Smartworks is in England, 40×40 is asking people to volunteer their time in whatever field their work is in, could be babysitting picking up groceries.
I don’t think at this point Meghan and Harry are going to let the Tabloids dictate their lives.
She did partnered with Smart Works and several US based charities that do this kind of stuff. My only criticism would be all this info wasn’t available on social media people often tweeted about it without linking the website so people put focus on the 40 mins and dismissed it as trivial not really helpful. The project as a whole with the charities involved is really good.
All that is beyond their control tho, non? I mean the Sussexes have no presence on any social media platform so they used their website to launch this initiative. What other people do with the info on Archewell is not really something the Sussexes have control over. Like, other than issuing a directive that all comments should link to their website (which they honestly can’t do either) they can’t force people to link to anything.
Seriously?! 🤔🙄 You really weren’t paying attention were you. I saw so many people like the website and it’s all laid out on the page if you actually went there.
People will micro analyze every single thing Meghan does and still end up loud and wrong.
Smartworks along with other organizations are partners in this. Meghan does her due diligence and Archewell did this as an organization, not just Meghan. In addition, a lot of other organizations have lent their support as well, and a ton of individuals were offering to help. LinkedIn had a ton of people offering professional mentoring. The fact is the last few days have been throwing anything at Meghan to deflect from Prince Andrew. At first, they were hoping she’d have a lavish birthday, the. That didn’t happen, no one knew about the 40×40 initiative and it has been very well received. Then they tried to link her to Obama’s birthday, to criticize her for not being there, trotted out her dad, then some article comparing them to Willis Simpson and Edward with a bunch of sexist stereotypes, now this guy is going in again on the initiative. However the hits don’t land the same because the Sussexes don’t live in the UK, it’s been almost two weeks since this initiative dropped and still paying dividends, they are private citizens and not publicly funded in any way. Also, this doesn’t erase the stench of Andrew, how the royals and taxpayers paying for him and that the US courts dgaf about what they think over there. They can complain and lie about Meghan but that’s on them, and she is done with them. There are way bigger, real problems in the world that is just overwhelming. All this is just a royal pity party and BS.
And the media trotted out Thomas Junior plugging his being on a reality show and of course the 1/2 brother complained about Meghan. The deflection from Andrew IMO was in overdrive. This can’t go on forever and I think the media will go after Andrew and ignore Tom and Tom Junior. Maybe then they will go away.
Wow Tessa, you mean the same Thomas Junior who was last seen whining about how he can’t keep a job or pay for his lodgings because everyone in his orbit knows he is 1/2-related to Meghan. That guy is using her name to get work on reality TV? They are such trash, no wonder the father gravitates toward Meghan.
I wish it didn’t always have to turn into who’s good project is best. Meghan’s project is good but we can see it has it’s flaws. Kate’s project is also very valid, even if she hasn’t done anything more than highlight the issue.
Women mentoring women is a lovely thing. It’s also true that children from disadvantaged backgrounds (whether financial, health, wellbeing or all of those things), are more likely to face greater struggles.
This isn’t about who has the best project – it’s not about good projects at all. This is about the RF and the media colluding to slam Meghan. The RF was doing it because they wanted to get rid of her, and they continue to do it now because it provides cover for how dysfunctional they are. And the media slam Meghan because it makes money.
The only destruction Meghan and Harry left in their wake was a number of myths about the ‘fabled’ family. As for the Markle side, bitch please.
They have Andrew on a silver platter but this is what they’re talking about? A bad take on an initiative to help women get back into the workforce esp during a pandemic which has hit women disproportionately in terms of employment,
They are talking about this BECAUSE of Andrew. Thats why i said in a comment above that the royal family themselves is responsible for the trial of devastation. Meghan and harry said what they wanted from the royals and as you can see they refuse to listen and are still on their bullshit.
Funny how they both seem to have a good relationship on the maternal side of their families. You’d think they would also have issues with the narcissistic sociopathic Meghan who leaves destroyed families in her wake and Harry who is such a blithering idiot that he can’t make it through life without William/the men in gray telling him what to do.
I know you didn’t mean it that way, but it’s just striking the way people often adopt the terminology of the BM or other abusers. So, even people here end up calling Meghan names like “sociopathic, narcissistic, evil, etc.”; while they refer to Kate (who flashed different commonwealth nations) as “good, can do no wrong, or doesn’t put a foot wrong.”
It is amazing that no one sees the flaws in Kate’s views on early childhood development. As for Larcombe, he said when Archie was born, that he couldn’t wait for him to turn 18 anticipating that the many stories in the press about him. So he’s just passed off that Harry and Meghan left.
I just feel like everyone is laughing at the RRs now, right? This is just so predictable and sad and they can’t pick a lane to save their souls. IS Meghan reaching out to Kate for Netflix, or is Meghan just sitting in her mansion and wearing her cozy wraps and just being hopelessly out of touch? And the second part of that always, always, always brings us to this point – how is Meghan’s mansion more “out of touch” than Kate zooming from a palace, or going to visit a charity in bespoke designer clothes, or doing a conference call from one of the queen’s country homes? That doesnt even get into the queen zooming from whichever palace she is currently staying.
As an aside – after all our talk over the past few weeks in the comments about the rich american heiresses who married titles, I’m reading a book called “Husband Hunters” about them, and I swear to God, there are several paragraphs comparing the bathrooms in the US to the bathrooms in England (namely that these rich heiresses came from modern homes in NYC etc with running water, heated baths whenever they wanted, etc, and they moved to England where having a bath meant the servants still had to bring up buckets of hot water from the kitchens.) It feels like its been a long running theme about the damn bathrooms.
I’m going to check that book out!
To marry an English lord is also a hilarious and informative book in a similar vein.
It’s interesting so far, she kind of jumps around a bit between heiresses and timelines but its pretty good overall – I just died at the part about the bathrooms. SO ITS A THING lol.
That bathroom story is hilarious because the way the royal rota goes on about it i was nearly convinced bathrooms in the UK were non existent.
@Becks: No one saw how ridiculous Kate looked in white designer dress and sparkly stilettos delivering supplies to a baby bank last year August. A project which would have never been done before Meghan joined the family.
The baths for the aristos is a much darker topic than it may seem. Who dragged the water up the stairs for the bath? Young girl servants. Who were waiting in the rooms for the baths to be filled? Aristo dudes like pedo Andy. The steps the girls had to traverse were dangerous and uneven, and the water cans were heavy. It was a miserable job.
Yup, the book alludes to that, its focused on the American women’s perspective predominantly but there are some side comments about the female servants etc and how the aristos treated them.
Adding this book to my list right now. Thanks Becks!
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It was also a multi-person use of the bath, if the Regency House Party series is to be believed. You bathed in the same water in order of importance.
Let’s not forget that Kate took a damn helicopter to get to that charity in her designer dress and shoes so that she could do a brief photo op pretending to move a few boxes and then she was gone in under an hour. But of course let’s criticize the woman who earned her own money and isn’t living on taxpayer funds.
The level of hypocrisy of these rota sycophants is astounding.
I love the idea of Meghan “sitting in her mansion and wearing her cozy wraps.” It dovetails nicely with her statement in the 40×40 video about peaceful under a tree being her every day. We should all have some cozy wraps and a tree under which to be peaceful.
Yeah to be clear (I reread that sentence lol) I don’t think she’s hopelessly out of touch, just pointing out the different narratives the RRS keep pushing and how they can’t make up their minds.
I think her comment about being peaceful under a tree every day REALLY triggered some people over there lol.
Just say you don’t think a black woman should have that nice of a house and stop dog whistling!
It’s just so ridiculous. Unlike Kate at least Meghan has actual work to even criticize. Also unlike Kate people of substance sign on to support it. I can’t.
That’s the big point. Meghan made her own money. Why wouldn’t somebody who is a self-made millionaire have career advice to offer? The people she is getting to mentor are the same: they made their money. It’s not like she got say, RF members who have never held a real job to take part. The initiative also didn’t say give advice to somebody; it said “support”. That could mean helping with attire like Smart Works, providing baby sitting while someone goes to interviews, “mock interviews” to help prepare, using connections to get someone an interview, etc. I certainly missed the part where she “lectured”. Asking people to take part in something is lecturing?
@Equality, exactly— she’s not “telling women to go back to work” — she’s offering this as an idea to help those who already are. But they never apply logic, they simply want to slam her.
Yes! If you’re struggling to find a new job, you’d certanly want advise and/or help from a woman who has a successful career, and knows the ropes. A woman who might have connections to get you a job. It says a lot about his low morals and horrible view on women, when inccuraging women to help other women is wrong.
These royal reporters are SO jealous of Harry and Meghan. They thought they would be struggling and they are living their best life in California. I love it!
I’m telling you, that big beautiful desk, her fancy teacup, and her simple, chic taste undid all of them! They were supposed to be living in a shack with Walmart particle board furniture.
I keep thinking about the fact that the lovely teacup she was holding was in a pattern called “Black Regal Peacock.” Knowing how intentional Meghan is about almost everything, I’m wondering: was that a slap at the tabloids? As in, “Yes, I’m Black, and I’m regal, little though you like it.”
@booboocita, I hope it was. I definitely think there was some very subtle trolling on her part and I loved it! Btw, I managed to snag that teacup from a website before they all sold out–our girl has some exquisite taste. It’s super beautiful in person.
While they scramble and scrounge for any crumbs they can write about them, in hopes they can fund their kids’ college educations or fancy vacations. Treat them like sh*t and then think you’re going to make money off theirs back? Oh no, you don’t. Keep leaving them in the dust, Harry and Meg.
She needs to build bridges?? So it’s Meghan’s job to fix everything?? GTFO
How is Meghan supposed to build bridges with the Windsors when they accused her of being a bully?
What does the price of Meghan’s home have to do with her mentoring women who are trying to return to work? She has a job so she has the skills needed to mentor someone.
Not to mention that you can sign up voluntarily to get mentored. So obviously the woman that sign up want to “lectured” and don’t really care about the price of her house.
How can any man, in 2021, publicly state that an initiative mentoring women joining the workforce “is nonsense” ?!! What an Ignoramus!
That’s because he isn’t a man, he is a sexist jackass.
Yes, it’s alarmingly out of touch! His comments are oozing of male chauvinism. If a man had stated this in Scandinavia, it would have caused a debate in the media, with both men and women ripping him a new one. The fact that he can say this things publicly without going any reprecussions says A LOT about the “established” british society.
Note: I know a vast part of GB don’t share his view.
From what I’ve seen the last few years ,there is such entrenched sexism in the UK, and support of it from many so- called establishment feminists. For example, Julie Burchill, the Times writer fired for calling Lilibet “ Georgina Floydina”, was recently sued by a young journalist , Ash Sarkar, for attacking her in social media with a bunch of racist and sexist, anti-Muslim posts and encouraging her followers to attack Sarkar. Burchill was sued, had to pay damages and release a legalese statement of apology. However, at first, the mainstream press framed it as the “ wokes ” attacking Burchill’s right to free speech because she couldn’t take a mild criticism. There are other incidents like this where women writers of color are attacked by the mainstream establishment for daring to criticize or call out racism and sexism. It’s an eye opener and very disheartening.
@L4frimaire it’s certainly an eye opener. When I was younger I thought the US had come much further than it had, when it comes to equal rights and rasism, but especially the last presidental periode showed me there’s sooo many people working to drag the US back into the middle ages. I thought for sure at least GB was better, but it’s not, they’re just better at hiding it.
Yea yea WK can be patronizing to people who have kids, mental health struggles and working parents but Meghan is insulting everyone left right and centre. Sounds about white.
Kate did that garden for kids for a garden show but kids were not allowed to enter the garden show. That was ridiculous. But not a peep on how stupid that was. She was hailed as being an early years expert.
I think it’s only the press who is hailing her as an ‘early years expert’ None of the actual experts are speaking up to vigorously nod and agree with what she says. Her own family, never mind the royal family won’t even back up her ‘I’m an expert’ early years announcements. She has no friends to step up and say what a wonderful job she’s doing in anything, so I’m pretty sure it’s just the press saying it. Plus of course, the audience of the DM.
Kate got a degree in Art History and is pronounced an expert in the field of early childhood! It is patronizing to real scholars in the field of early childhood who get advanced degrees, write dissertations, present papers, and write scholarly articles on the subject.
No wonder these Royal Reporters have to blackmail the Windsors. They are terrible at their jobs and I’m pretty sure they couldn’t get a job writing for bubblegum comics.
Um, WHAT “trail of devastation”? The Windsors are doing fucking FINE, infuriatingly so, thanks to the sycophants who are blithely ignoring the royal pedophile.
If anything, the Sussexes left a trail of truth bombs about what goes on behind the scenes with the Windsors, and the Windsors’ reputation has taken a well-deserved nosedive since Sussexit, one I hope it never recovers from. Andrew is only speeding up the demise of that vile “family.”
The Sussexes left a trail of devastation to the Royal reporters bottom line and pocket books, because they have no exclusives, no more tours and appearances to profit off and no access. They’re stuck with the same views of the same office from Zoom shots and analyzing tea cups and blankets. Also their PR efforts to prop up the others like the Wessexes and even Kate’s desperation around the statue unveiling just look pathetic. There’s no one else and the big Andrew story is just sitting there looming and won’t go away .
OMG, the drama! Sword of Damocles??? I’m hearing a lot of complaining and explaining.
They are correct that there is a sword of Damocles, but it is more projection because Andrew is the one who is the real problem.
Well, according to one of the interpretations, the sword was hanged over Damocles head to illustrate the kings constant fear of attacks, because he’d done a lot of horrible acts to become (and remain) king. Just like the RF has done, and are still doing, a lot of horrible things, so it’s a fitting analogi about the RF’s behaviour. Not that this creep would evere agree too or admit that it’s the RF who’s behaved horribly.
Yeah, the proverbial sword of Damocles is always hanging overhead, held by a hair. It’s on the money in the sense that Meghan & Harry (both, please!) can choose to spill more (presumably racist) incidents about their time in the Royal family. Should the family try and knock them in advance as a countermove and then the future reveals are not damning, well they’ve misplayed badly. Letting the family know that “the receipts were kept” keeps the sword above their head. To have a monarchy somewhat checkmated like this is no mean feat.
@Truthiness, It’s kind of a beautiful thing. Through experience I know. When you’re the person that can back up what you say with receipts and all the other person has are lies that are supposed to be believed and excuses to why they have no evidence to support their lies-the thinking people will connect the dots-the slow thinkers won’t realize until they’ve experienced the same thing and the people that don’t think at all will remain in their bubble of cluelessness.
They’re so bitter Meghan has nice things, even BETTER things since quitting working royal life. They were definitely promised the couple would be destitute and clearly that didn’t pan out.
Also lecture where? Moms can opt in or do nothing, it’s entirely up to them. Meghan is not saying they need to go back to work. The best part of the project are the women across different industries offering their time to those who’d like to get back out there.
Thats exactly what i just said. Signing up to be mentored is completely voluntarily. Meghan isn’t lecturing anyone. And these people are salty that it was actually a success and that kate didn’t think of it first.
I agree with you. Also she said women who are trying to return to the workforce. Never did she say moms
Kate lectures the mums who pay for her nannies and cleaners.
This. Both she and William have made it clear, they think parents who work are bad parents. Those would be the parents working hard to run households, but their own homes, pay for their own things, and raise their kids. And who pay taxes off which the royals live.
I remember when Kate spent all those years not working full time, having a lot of time off, and at Jigsaw very flexible hours during the year she spent there. I remember that reading the excuses that she “could not work” because she was dating William. And she really wanted to be a wife and mother. Which made me wonder because senior royals are supposed to work and she would have lots of help with the children and a lot of perks and privileges. And the worst is when Kate is called “down to earth.” It would be hard for women of this day and age to identify with her, she spent ten years waiting for a proposal and did not take on full time work even though she had ten years to do so.
Year at Jigsaw?? Hardly. Try 3 months.
The jigsaw owner gave an interview and basically said Kate couldn’t work more than part time because she had to be “on call” for William. How many women could just drop their job like that to go on holiday with a rich boyfriend?
But I’m sure most women can relate amirite?
Total of nine months at Jigsaw as tea girl. She started 3 days a week, herself demanding a flexible schedule because of her ‘relationship with an important man’. She quickly went down to 2 days a week. Took paid compassionate leave when William dumped her and quit soon after.
We are getting to a point where I kind of wished Meghan was this “destroyer of worlds” the royal rats want her to be.
Because it is right the opposite. Meghan is vanilla, in the best sense of the world because vanilla is one of most delicious things that is. Meghan is a rich, intense vanilla of Madagascar, expensive and rare!
Forgive me for this, but Meghan makes vanilla great again!
On the other hand, RR and BRF are pure and utter garbage.! No wonder they see no other choice than to badmouth a good person, because they are evil and cannot spin their evillainy in any positive way that not by comparing themselves to people even worse- you know, like their dear friends Epstein, Maxwell, Saville, Lord Mountbatten…
It’s incredibly easy to make your own pure vanilla extract. Buy a bottle of good quality vodka/gin and drop 12-16 good vanilla beans in it. Keep it some place cool and shake it gently once a week. In 6 months you’ll have a bottle of pure vanilla extract. I started two bottles in June, some for Christmas gifts in decorated dark glass bottles I’ll find on the ‘net and some for baking.
(it seems to work quite well with cheaper vodkas also, I’ve done both)
Thank you for sharing the making your own vanilla extract info Lady D. That sounds like great Christmas gifts. If you make shortbread cookies or other cookies and want to have a stronger vanilla flavor, put a few vanilla bean pods in a container with the sugar for a week. The smell is kind of amazing. Alexandra’s Kitchen has Dorie Greenspan’s Vanilla Bean Sables recipe where I learned the sugar/vanilla bean thing. The Sables recipe is a huge hit.
@ModeratelyWealthy, when you do a deep dive into all the people that were friends with the names you mentioned it is really disturbing. The Queen made Savile an OBE for f&cks sake. It is/has been really tiring to see the RR’s mention things like celebrity or Hollywood in relation to Meghan when it was Savile’s celebrity and show Jim’ll Fix It that made him popular in England & elsewhere that helped raise money for charities and “earned” him an OBE. Meghan was raising money for charities and popular. What did that earn her? A smear campaign.
Lmao, Larcombe’s rather hyperbolic take on the 40×40 initiave is nothing short of hilarious.
Its a voluntary scheme, nobody is being forced to do anything. If people want to be mentored, then they sign up. If you don’t, then don’t. Larcombe is another expert who writes waffley nonsense to pay his mortgage.
Ah yes, the narrative to distract from Andrew’s legal bills.
Since he is a royal expert, perhaps he can opine on the legal quagmire currently facing Andrew of York??? You mean to say, he had nothing to say on such an important subject? I’m shocked, shocked I tell you 🙄
Lol. That’s brilliant
I’m sitting at home in a pretty dress and my Ugg boots, Why for no other reason than because i can, how is this relevant the same way larcombe story is relevant. the bigger picture here is Harry climbed out or that mess and is making a life for himself, being relevant to lives all around. Its not his fault that the the other second born couldnt carve out a relevant life for himself, and mummy is cleaning up his mess. lucky for Andrew he doesnt have sons as he is a very bad example to all generations. own your messes and stop hidding behind mummy and immunity. i just hope the montecito Royals don’t read the tabloids, because the psyhic pain from being continously thrown under the bus to distract from the bunch of ne’er do wells, could blow up soon.
How does her relationship with the royals/her father have any correlation to getting women back into work? There isn’t. And if people want “building bridges” then I suggest the royals can start. Not everything should be in H&M’s hands, especially when they weren’t the ones who were hostile from the beginning. They’ve actually been very very nice towards the royals and given them far more grace than they deserve – especially Meghan.
They’re just continuing to attack Meghan to distract from Andrew.
Meg and Harry both seem happy and successful where they are. Sure, the average person can’t relate to the kind of wealth they have, but at least they both work for it, unlike the royal family. And I think the 40×40 initiative is a lovely idea.
Duncan must be trying to outdo Wooten in writing over-dramatic nonsense. Exile is buying your own house and funding your own life voluntarily? Encouraging people to support others is lecturing? Leaving a hostile situation is betraying your abusers? This guy needs a dictionary. I feel bad for Eugenie who seems to be the new target. Where is the Queen who deserves “tribute” in all this? She certainly isn’t defending Harry or Eugenie, her “beloved” family members. The high-priced jubilee will quite likely fall under Andrew’s legal issues, Harry’s book, the “bullying” accusations that the RF themselves put off until next year, hopefully new Archewell content on Netflix and Spotify and hopefully anything the press has been holding back on concerning Will.
“I always laugh, if [Princess] Eugenie is helping with the book, let’s just hope for her sake that does not mean that she too does not have to live in exile when the rest of the Royal Family are all offended.’”
I’m with you, and this a**hole is teeing up Eugenie to be next in line for the abuse.
And, please, “I always laugh”???? Pull the other one, you hateful waste of air.
This guy has it backwards, as usual, the bridgebuilding should be TO Meghan. Please report when that starts or shut up. When the rest of the Lambridges do something to help anyone at all that is not a photo op please report on that or shut up.
This phone hacking Douchebag Duncan is the worst of the worst. Which is saying a lot when you look at the Rota. At any rate its 5,4,3,2,1…. before we see Kopy Kate’s “mentoring scheme” being launched which will be so much better than Meghans because it will be 45×45! Totally different!
Does anyone know how much Melissa McCarthy’s house is? Is she lecturing us from a $## million dollar home? Aren’t most successful people in nice homes? Are we all now judged based on the value of our home? Such a weird thing to focus on.
I’m honestly surprised that there hasn’t been an article by now about Melissa’s home, its cost, and how many damn bathrooms it has
Because at least Melissa is white, so she can have her fancy mansion and it’s all good. Now the uppity half black duchess, who was supposed to grovel at the feet of the RF and take any and all scraps they threw her, just to be blessed by their presence in her life? Who on earth is SHE to tell white folks how they can live better? /s
Duncan Larcombe makes a living by writing about royals, Negative comments on Meghan sells.
Duncan ‘s lawyers claimed during the phone hacking scandal that Duncan is ” a serious heavyweight journalist with ethics and morals which he applies”
I guess this no longer applies when he reports on Meghan.
Someone actually called Duncan freaking Larcombe, ”a serious heavyweight journalist with ethics and morals which he applies?” That is pure gold. Larcombe is one of the trashiest “experts” and they’re all trash to begin with.
Whoever wrote that needs to take a seat and think long and hard about where they went wrong in life to end up proclaiming this publicly.
It is unreal to me how seriously they are taking this GD Jubilee. I get that it’s obviously a milestone for Liz, but do these people realize that most of the world’s population has never even heard of it and it is only a big deal in some very specific (and very small) British circles? It is completely inconsequential to everyone in every way except Liz, yet they act as if the entire year 2022 should revolve around it. JFC
With every new announcement, now, the “experts” all have to make a point of frantically worrying if the timing will affect the Jubilee, overshadow the Jubilee, detract from the Jubilee, etc., etc. They are absolutely delusional. At the end of the day, isn’t it basically a just celebration that Liz has managed to remain alive? The fact that they think it’s up there with Harry’s memoir in terms of worldwide public anticipation is hilarious.
I doubt that even Liz herself cares about it as much as some of these gatekeeper types.
Do the gatekeepers even really care or are they just trying to build up drama?
I know, right? In every single story that comes out, the aides are crying about their goddamn jubilee. I’m willing to bet that 99.9% of UK citizens DGAF about the jubilee.
I bet the only thing UK citizens give a F.. about is the extra day off, not the jubilee.
I’m British and I haven’t heard a single person mention this Jubilee IRL.
Lol, we’ll keep Harry and Meghan, and Britain can keep pedo Andrew, as it’s unlikely he will be able to travel anywhere else.
Meghan doesn’t lecture, she inspires and leads by example.
Sooo… how does Kate look lecturing young mothers about the basics of parenting with her PowerPoint presentations? From a literal palace?
Let’s just say black girls who work and pay for their own stuff should never be able to , okay Duncunt, cause all your hee-hawing is just bullshit.
And it’s the Willy and company and the harkles that should be lining up to apologize to Meghan for all the shit they did and continue to do to her.
Duncunt! YES!
Ive had comments on my Facebook pages describing The Interview as ‘treachery’. It’s a mystery to me as to why it was.
Lol. It’s not treacherous to expose racism and abuse, unless you’re the one who’s an abusive racist.
Hmmm, so millions of women out of work and, instead of trying to help them, Meghan should focus her energies on mending bridges with the most privileged family on the face of the earth. I suppose that’s what the Queen meant when she said “acts of service.”
Sword of Damocles is an ancient Greek story. King Dionysos was ruler of Sicily, a Greek colony, back in the 4th century BCE. Cicero got the story from a Greek historian.
Exactly. And the sword of Damocles would be the crimes of kings and the retribution of the people (or their overthrow). Once again, Andrew is right there and the “royal rota” won’t even acknowledge him.
Duncan Larcombe lies.
1. She has left behind her a trail of devastation, on the Markle side, and now on the Windsor side.
No. In fact the reverse is true with the Markles and Windsors constant running to the press to smear, isolate and attempt to destroy the Sussexes. Of course this has only resulted in their self-destruction.
2. I don’t want to see her lecturing young mums having to go back to work
Wrong. That is not what 40×40 is about. He has completely misunderstood the topic, has received an F and needs to attempt this again.
3. from inside her $11million LA mansion…
Jealous much?
4. This initiative is nonsense,
Oh really! Is he really saying that it is silly to mentor women? Why doesn’t he come out and just say those exact words then?
5. she should be spending her time trying to build bridges with the very people that she and Harry have betrayed.’
Meghan and Harry will never waste another second building bridges with trolls. There must be both truth and reconciliation. The Markles and Windsors must first admit the truth, then apologize and then make amends.
6. He added that the issue of the Duke of Susssex’s much-anticipated book is also looming over the Windsors.
Why are the Windsors so concerned. I thought no one was talking to the Sussexes and taking their calls. Surely they ought to be busy doing the dutiful work of reading through very important documents, greeting ambassadors, allocating cash allowances to the family and granting some OBEs.
7. Duncan described the pending publication as ‘like a sword of Damocles hanging over the Royals now…
Why is that…. what did they do wrong? Why do they have a guilty conscience? Better to confess now Windsors before that sword drops!
8. We mentioned the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and we don’t know if it is going to be timed to come out on the day that the nation is supposed to be paying tribute to the Queen.
Wishful thinking on your part. You would love for this to happen to add yet another excuse to hit them over the head.
9. I always laugh, if [Princess] Eugenie is helping with the book, let’s just hope for her sake that does not mean that she too does not have to live in exile when the rest of the Royal Family are all offended.’
Warning to EUGENIE. RUN. They are aiming their guns on you next.
Exactly, Eugenie should have an exit plan ready because she’s next target. And it looks like she does because she is openly supporting H&M, I wonder what is happening behind the scenes.
This next 10 years will be interesting to watch BRF destroy itself.
Excellent breakdown @ RoyalBlue. The only reason Duncan ‘always laugh’ if Eugenie is helping with the book is because he probably knows she isn’t. Sussexes are not living in exile-they’re living in peace. LOL at what previous posters said about his lawyer calling him a ‘heavy weight journalist’. P$ssing on someone’s initiative to help others over reporting on Prince Andrew’s lawsuit is not heavy weight journalism. Then again Larcombe, is the same guy whose friends said in April 2016 that he was getting out of the royal beat because he didn’t want to go into his twilight years reporting on having a beer with Harry. When I see Larcombe comment on H & M, I remember the picture of Harry giving him the L loser sign at some football? game they were playing in together. That sign from Harry holds true to this day.
I live in NYC. Brownstones in Harlem, throughout Brooklyn, and Washington Hts, sell for 2.5 + million dollars and barely sit on 1/4 acre of land. The price of condominiums sells for as much as a brownstone. I live in an old neighborhood in Upper Manhattan and the Condos in my block start at $400,000. To purchase a mansion in California for $11 million (price fluctuates depending on reporter) is the steal of the century! It bothers them that the bi-racial wife of a British Prince is living in a mansion, in America. Meghan doesn’t lecture she speaks, encourages, inspires, and most of all she listens. That is why they show up. They don’t think those young ladies aspire to someday live comfortably? Or should they spend their entire lives in an urban setting on the 18th floor where at least one elevator is always out of service? Envy and jealousy are always blazing. Meghan has the descendants of colonizers drinking, neglecting their spouses, tossing and turning while she sits peacefully under a tree every day. Cheers..
Anything to sell the papers.
Why is it okay for Kate to lecture young moms from her many palaces and helicopter?
As for the Markles, they were always a train wreck.
Duncan Larcombe’s charitable endeavors have benefited how many people across the globe?
Raised awareness about the needs of others without benefiting himself?
Duncan Larcombe’s lectures others through his dishonest, dishonorable, distorted vomit of word salad!
What an accomplishment to the human race, you are, Dunc the Skunk!
Will be watching for Karma the Skunk to pay you a long overdue visit!
Meghan does indeed speak to others from her multi million dollar mansion, correct me if I’m wrong but don’t all the royals including Charles, Anne, Edward, William and their spouses do the same? Except last time I looked Meghan paid for it herself( with her spouse, though probably since they have a mortgage what I like to say is the bank owns it!) rather than the royals which has all been grifted off generations of plebes.
Sounds like a threat to Eugenie to me. Which Palace is behind this threat to Eugenie?
What exactly do they think Eugenie can do? How exactly does Larcombe think she contribute to the book? That man is just throwing crap to see what stick hoping the press come after her. However, to go after her, they need to come for her father Andrew and they don’t want to do that. They tried it with her husband and his yacht foolishness but not sure how much traction that got.
There is more drama in the royal family than Bravo’s Real Housewives.
@GraceB Kate states the obvious about early years. What she should do more of is support her charities working to highlight& address these issues, helping with fundraising or more initiatives like the baby bank one which was fantastic. There was no need for her vanity survey or research centre- waste of resources for info that is already out there.
Doubt Harry needs Eugenie’s help for his memoir but the media are clearly tying her to it to suggest she’s a traitor. The threats to Eugenie just for supporting Meghan’s initiative is insane. Who are the bullies again?
The royal family has more controversy than Bravo’s Real Housewives.
Another thing that jumped out at me from the Duncan Larcombe statement was his suggesting that Eugenie may be exiled if she “offends” the RF. Is that the same family that makes a show of their stoicism? Stiff upper lip anyone? Don’t explain, don’t complain? How come they’re so easily offended, yet they expected M & H to put up with actual abuse year after year.
The BRF complaining of the destruction left by them leaving is akin to stabbing someone and accusing them of leaving a trail of blood on your carpet.
Uh yeah? What you see is the result of your own destructive acts.