Next week, Time Magazine will reveal their Time 100 list and cover story. The Time 100 is basically a newsy listicle of the 100 most influential people in culture, entertainment, sports, science and politics. Ahead of the Time 100 list, the magazine did a poll of its readers to see who they wanted to see included on the list. This would be the People’s Choice Time 100. Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan took the #1 slot. Iranian women fighting for their rights took the #2 slot. Healthcare workers took #3. Guess who took the fourth slot?
Third and fourth place went to Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, each of whom earned about 1.9% of the vote. The Duke of Sussex made headlines in January after the release of his memoir Spare, which recounts monumental moments ranging from Princess Diana’s death in 1997 to Queen Elizabeth’s death in September. He is also known for founding the Invictus Games, an international sporting competition for wounded, injured and sick service people.
Meghan Markle, a former actress turned humanitarian, now hosts her podcast Archetypes, where her mission is to “investigate, dissect, and subvert the labels that try to hold women back.” She previously narrated the Disney documentary Elephants and has been an advocate for anti-racism and women’s rights. The couple have also launched nonprofit Archewell Foundation, as well as Archewell Productions, which has a creative partnership with Netflix.
While these readership polls are less scientific than Britain’s fakakta YouGov polls, it’s still yet another sign that the British establishment’s attempts to marginalize and denigrate the Sussexes aren’t working. How many times was that f–king South Park episode mentioned as a “sign” that America “hates” Harry and Meghan? I doubt any British outlet will mention that the Sussexes made the top five of the Time 100 readership poll as consistently as we had to f–king hear about South Park. Also: hahahaha, Time’s readers don’t rate King Charles, Queen Side Chick, Peg or Buttons.
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- Dusseldorf, GERMANY – Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex attending a lunch reception during the One Year to Go event, one year before Invictus Games Dusseldorf 2023, at the City Hall on the Market Square in Dusseldorf, Germany. Pictured: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex BACKGRID USA 6 SEPTEMBER 2022 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Dusseldorf, GERMANY – Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex attending the press conference during the One Year to Go event, one year before Invictus Games Dusseldorf 2023, at the Merkur Spiel-Arena in Dusseldorf, Germany. Pictured: Prince Harry BACKGRID USA 6 SEPTEMBER 2022 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Dusseldorf, GERMANY – Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex attending the press conference during the One Year to Go event, one year before Invictus Games Dusseldorf 2023, at the Merkur Spiel-Arena in Dusseldorf, Germany. Pictured: Prince Harry BACKGRID USA 6 SEPTEMBER 2022 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- 06 September 2022, North Rhine-Westphalia, Duesseldorf: Britain’s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, arrive in front of City Hall. The prince and his wife are coming to Düsseldorf to promote the “Invictus Games” 2023, which Prince Harry helped to launch. These are Paralympic competitions for soldiers who have been injured in war. Photo: Rolf Vennenbernd/dpa Where: Duesseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany When: 06 Sep 2022 Credit: Rolf Vennenbernd/DPA/Cover Images **ONLY AVAILABLE FOR PUBLICATION IN THE UK AND USA**
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- 06 September 2022, North Rhine-Westphalia, Duesseldorf: Britain’s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, arrive in front of City Hall. The prince and his wife are coming to Düsseldorf to promote the “Invictus Games” 2023, which Prince Harry helped to launch. These are Paralympic competitions for soldiers who have been injured in war. Photo: Rolf Vennenbernd/dpa Where: Duesseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany When: 06 Sep 2022 Credit: Rolf Vennenbernd/DPA/Cover Images **ONLY AVAILABLE FOR PUBLICATION IN THE UK AND USA**
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- 06 September 2022, North Rhine-Westphalia, Duesseldorf: Britain’s Prince Harry (3rd from right, Duke of Sussex) and his wife Meghan (3rd from left), Duchess of Sussex, arrive in front of City Hall and stand together with Alfred Marstaller, Brigadier General (l), Stephan Keller (CDU, 2nd from left,), Lord Mayor of the state capital Düsseldorf, Siemtje Möller Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Defense (2nd from right) and Markus Laubenthal, Lieutenant General. The prince and his wife are coming to Düsseldorf to promote the “Invictus Games” 2023, which Prince Harry helped to launch. These are Paralympic competitions for soldiers who have been injured in war. Photo: Rolf Vennenbernd/dpa Where: Duesseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany When: 06 Sep 2022 Credit: Rolf Vennenbernd/DPA/Cover Images **ONLY AVAILABLE FOR PUBLICATION IN THE UK AND USA**
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- 06 September 2022, North Rhine-Westphalia, Duesseldorf: Britain’s Prince Harry (3rd from right, Duke of Sussex, and his wife Meghan (l), Duchess of Sussex, arrive in front of City Hall and walk a red carpet alongside Alfred Marstaller (r), Brigadier General, and Stephan Keller (CDU, 2nd from right,), Lord Mayor of the state capital Düsseldorf. The prince and his wife are coming to Düsseldorf to promote the “Invictus Games” 2023, which Prince Harry helped launch. These are Paralympic competitions for soldiers injured in war. Photo: Rolf Vennenbernd/dpa Where: Duesseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany When: 06 Sep 2022 Credit: Rolf Vennenbernd/DPA/Cover Images **ONLY AVAILABLE FOR PUBLICATION IN THE UK AND USA**
Lol!
I bet the Sussex Squad will love to rub this under some noses on social media 😀
And I love them for it. I know I am petty. I acknowledge it.
Omg I didn’t know she narrated the Disney documentary Elephants! So I just watched it and omg it’s amazing!!
I love reading Celebitchy. This is my first posting. You are all so incisive and I respect that you monitor each other…so we end up with distilled good humor and truth.
I am Jamaican and we LOVE Harry and Meghan. Consider us their cheer leaders in this moment! Go Sussexes!!
Welcome Cheryl, you’re in good company here. I also love Celebitchy. I was looking for a blog where Meghan is seen as a human being with feelings, intelligence, and a fabulous wardrobe. She has a lot of fans and stans here.
I’m a Jamerican, first generation. I applaud Jamaica’s intention to fire the monarchy. I imagine the Commonwealth is watching Salty Island’s hatred and disdain for Meghan. It’ll be a glorious day when all of the Caribbean isles have cast off the British royals.
LOL at “and a fabulous wardrobe.” Couldn’t agree more.
Congratulations to the Sussexes!!
I am thrilled that they are being recognized for their contributions towards universal service, their hard work and dedication.
Well done.
It is wonderful for them to be in the top five of the list.
I love how those blurbs have NOTHING to do with their time as working royals – well Harry’s does a little, because of the Spare reference and he started Invictus as a working royal – but as Twitter has been saying this week, there is a blank spot on their resumes and I LOVE it. They are advocates, humanitarians, philanthropists, and they don’t need the royal family for that.
Funny you should mention that, on Twitter they were laughing about the MS write up, there was nothing about the time Meghan spent in England.
And yet the Derangers are always claiming Meghan need/use the BRF for attention.
Yes: honoring the Sussexes for their post royal work by essentially a popularity contest is brilliant! Separately! And in the top 5! Love it:)
And for the deranged right-wing idiots: Trump faked Time Magazine covers with his vile face, because he thinks Time is so important. Hahahahahahaha
I’m sure this is because they are SO unpopular here in America. 🤣
I saw this yesterday and the fact that both Meghan and Harry are there separately and independent of each other in the top 5 THRILLED me. The way that those petty, racist hags and losers will be seething and gagging warms the cockles of my heart 🤣🤣🤣🤣
H+M are crushing it right now! And the DM is doing its best not to report any of it. They barely did anything with the Woman of Vision Award, and they haven’t touched the Gracies. Such a dark time for the BM 🤣.
Recognition well deserved! Love love love this.
This is hilarious, I’m sure they’ll be a Newsweek poll soon about how everyone hates them really! And a Royal Rota article calling Time woke, or Dan Wooten saying they’ve declared war on the monarchy. I had forgotten about that South Park episode and my mom reminded me about the lady who claimed to be Harry’s first, I had forgotten about her too. It’s wild how every other day the BM writes about how this is the final thing that’s going to ruin them and we forget about it a month later.
These constant, bogus Newsweek polls drop them so much with every fake poll that they must have them rated at about -256% by now. Who could possibly take that “poll” seriously? Do they think their readers are that stupid??
José Andrés captured Harry and Meghan so perfectly, “When we need them, they always show up.” It’s how I want the world to be. It’s who I want to be
I ordered their new cookbook and look forward to trying recipes from it, especially hers!
@Carrot, 100% true. #ServiceIsUniversal
Time could have done better with the write-up. They left off a lot of H&M’s work. And Meghan isn’t a “former actress turned humanitarian”. She has always been a humanitarian. The titles aren’t mutually exclusive.
@equality totally agree. The write up by time alluded to Meghan becoming an activist after instead of being an activist the entirety of her life.
Congratulations to them both. keep the great work coming and keep winning those accolades.
Congrats to the Sussexes. It’s still a big deal especially when all the polls are always skewed against you.
People’s attention spans and memories are short in this day and age.
That’s why I’m always annoyed when fans of Harry and Meghan bring up the worst accusations or words used against Harry and Meghan. That’s what the British media would love for you to do. They want you to flood Harry and Meghan with negativity.
Meanwhile most people have forgotten and moved on celebrating Harry and Meghan’s wins.
Repeating British media and troll talking points is doing exactly what they want you to do.
Focus on the good.
MUM, I totally agree.
All together now, “Hey Mr Wotton, CRY NOW YOU USELESS BSD”. I LOVE THIS, still you rise Harry and Megan, still you rise, and in all honesty, “south park”? Best episode ever was the William and Kate one lol. Now, being a Brit I will keep a close eye on the television news and ALL the UK press just to see if it is mentioned and I’m going to have a great time listening to the insane SCREAMS of jealous rage coming from BP and KC, even in cornwall I expect to hear them 🤭
I LOVE that they made the top 5, the British media is having stroke right now.
AND, as a healthcare worker–I’m number 3!! A faceless member of the list, but still on the list. 😉
@Jenna – THANK YOU and congrats! Congrats to H&M as well! 😃
Thank you, Jenna! You’re in fantastic company!
Go Harry and Meghan!!!
@Jenna As a cancer sufferer, you and your profession are MAGNIFICENT, thank you 👋👋👋
Healthcare workers, although acknowledged from time to time, have been greatly underappreciated. I don’t know how any managed to stay in the profession after the last 33 years. Jenna, you deserve this and so much more. Thank you and Congratulations!
@Jenna, I applaud you all!
Please, please, please have them be put on a cover!!!
Who? Aren’t these the two who were banished from Britain, stripped of their honorifics, and sent packing into cold, lonely obscurity? Wait … so they’re actually popular and influential? Does the RF know? Surely not or they’d apologize and make amends.
Honestly if the Murdoch publications stopped attacking them, they would get mostly positive press in US. We ousted the royals long ago.
And then next year, there might even be a Grammy nomination/ win … as a nice, um, crowning touch. lol Love it!
We need to oust Murdoch too and get his slimy hands off the throat of this country.
Congrats to Harry and Meghan-the world is looking forward to seeing you rise and shine.
Well done! I look forward hearing about how their other charities and places they support are doing as well. They are well deserving of this recognition. Every charity, or business they work with always turns out to be gold. There was a small jean company in England they helped bring to light about that was going into the red, but because Duchess Meghan wore a pair of their jeans, they now are on the map with other companies and thriving. I also drink Clevr because she made me aware of their Chai tea! I have their books they wrote and look forward to reading more. I enjoyed her TheTig blog, watching cooking segments on the Today Show with Duchess Meghan cooking. I love her fashion sense and would love to see a collection in Target, Walmart, JC Penneys, Kohls, Catos, and Burkes if she has a thought to do something in that area. Keep up the great work both to Harry and Meghan, I send best wishes from outside Austin, Texas.
Congratulations to Harry and Meghan. May their light continues to shine bright.
Insulating that the YouGov polls are scientific is extra …LMAO.