In this week’s Gossip With Celebitchy podcast, CB and I talked about the hate campaign which sprang up around the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s planned trip to Australia. Everything coming out about this trip from Team Sussex has been “we’re visiting Oz in a private capacity, we’re doing some charity work and some paid appearances and that’s it.” That hasn’t stopped the international Deranger community from screaming, crying and throwing up about the Sussexes don’t deserve police protection and the Australian taxpayers should not be on the hook for this trip. Add to that, Buckingham Palace and Kensington Palace have clearly been directing a lot of fuel to this hateful fire as well. Last week, the Sussexes’ spokesperson actually clapped back on the record, reiterating that the Oz visit is being “funded privately” and calling out the stupidity of the change.org petition. Well, now a “source close to Prince Harry and Meghan” has clapped back even harder.
A source close to Prince Harry and Meghan Meghan has delivered a scathing response to the “misinformation” surrounding their upcoming trip to Australia, branding the backlash as “irrational” hate bait.
While some critics have dubbed the jaunt a “pseudo-royal” tour and a petition has circulated regarding the cost to taxpayers, the Sussexes’ camp has hit back, insisting the trip is entirely privately funded. According to those in their inner circle, the couple is heading Down Under for legitimate work and to shine a light on charitable causes like the Invictus Games – and argued that the world could use “a little more Harry and Meghan” and a little less “sad” sniping.
Someone who knows the couple tells the Mirror: “There is a lot of misinformation being spread about this trip – all designed to whip up hate. The truth is you have a couple heading down under for work. While they’re in town, they’re going to check-in on some charitable causes that they have long supported and – in the Duke’s case with the Invictus Games – he set-up. The couple are critically aware that by just visiting a charity, they can help shine a light on its work – bringing media attention that wouldn’t otherwise exist. They don’t have to do that,” the source continues.
“They could just as easily get paid and head straight back to California. It’s an irrational reaction to s***-can a couple who just want to support some of the charitable causes close to them. God forbid they try to do any good in a world that could, frankly, use a little more Harry and Meghan, and a little less sniping from ‘Royal Commentators’ who make a living by [providing] hate bait for anyone willing to platform them. It’s sad. What a way to make a living.”
Much has been made from critics that the couple seem to be operating on a basis that is not that dissimilar from the official royal tours they once undertook as working members of the House of Windsor – with the terms ‘quasi and pseudo-royal’ regularly thrown around.
If this is actually someone in the Sussexes’ camp, god bless. It feels like they’re so tired of dealing with some of the dumbest people out there. I’m not just talking about the deranged community, I’m talking about the royal commentators and the Kensington Palace clownshow too. It’s infuriating to watch these (stupid) people argue variations of “Harry and Meghan are going on a royal tour which will bilk Australians out of all of their tax dollars” while simultaneously arguing that Harry and Meghan are evil incarnate for doing commercial work and private charity work.
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- ** RIGHTS: ONLY UNITED STATES, CANADA ** Sydney, AUSTRALIA – The Duke of Sussex and Duchess of Sussex watch the wheelchair basketball final, the last event at the Invictus Games 2018 in Sydney. Pictured: Meghan Markle BACKGRID USA 26 OCTOBER 2018 BYLINE MUST READ: Vantagenews / BACKGRID 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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- USA Rights Only – Sydney, Australia -20181027- The Duke and Duchess of Sussex attend the Invictus Games 2018 closing ceremony in Sydney. -PICTURED: Prince Harry Duke of Sussex, Meghan Duchess of Sussex -PHOTO by: PA Images/INSTARimages.com -39353965.jpg This is an editorial, rights-managed image. Please contact Instar Images LLC for licensing fee and rights information at sales@instarimages.com or call +1 212 414 0207 This image may not be published in any way that is, or might be deemed to be, defamatory, libelous, pornographic, or obscene. Please consult our sales department for any clarification needed prior to publication and use. Instar Images LLC reserves the right to pursue unauthorized users of this material. If you are in violation of our intellectual property rights or copyright you may be liable for damages, loss of income, any profits you derive from the unauthorized use of this material and, where appropriate, the cost of collection and/or any statutory damages awarded Featuring: Prince Harry Duke of Sussex, Meghan Duchess of Sussex Where: Sydney, Australia, Australia When: 27 Oct 2018 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages.com **USA Rights Only**
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- USA Rights Only – Sydney, Australia -20181027- The Duchess of Sussex speaks onstage at the Invictus Games 2018 closing ceremony in Sydney. -PICTURED: Meghan Duchess of Sussex -PHOTO by: PA Images/INSTARimages.com -39354269.jpg This is an editorial, rights-managed image. Please contact Instar Images LLC for licensing fee and rights information at sales@instarimages.com or call +1 212 414 0207 This image may not be published in any way that is, or might be deemed to be, defamatory, libelous, pornographic, or obscene. Please consult our sales department for any clarification needed prior to publication and use. Instar Images LLC reserves the right to pursue unauthorized users of this material. If you are in violation of our intellectual property rights or copyright you may be liable for damages, loss of income, any profits you derive from the unauthorized use of this material and, where appropriate, the cost of collection and/or any statutory damages awarded Featuring: Meghan Duchess of Sussex Where: Sydney, Australia, Australia When: 27 Oct 2018 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages.com **USA Rights Only**
I’m sooooo, sooo glad to see the Sussexes’ team and “sources” pushing back on the insane hate bait. “Hate bait” is a great term for it. Yes, God bless. Wonder if it’s a “source” rather than their team on the record because of the (much deserved) profanity.
This is gold: ” God forbid they try to do any good in a world that could, frankly, use a little more Harry and Meghan, and a little less sniping from ‘Royal Commentators’ who make a living by [providing] hate bait for anyone willing to platform them. It’s sad. What a way to make a living.”
Why can’t the source that’s close to couple be named? Anyway, the main reason why the royalists and press are upset about this visit is because William and Kate refuse to do royal tours.
I suspect it’s because the minute you’re on the record you also become a target. This is effective even without a name.
Huh. Idk if this person is actually from the Sussex team but either way they’re not wrong. When is this trip happening again? It’s one of those things where I’m like can we just get to the fun part of the trip happening and not all this BM bullshit leading up to it. They’re gonna cry and cry and then cry some more. Boo hoo.
Last year Angela posted something awful and stupid and Wendall Pierce specifically wrote back to her on twitter and said it was a lie (about Meghan being a bad coworker etc) – he said it was a lie and she was nice to work with etc. In response to that, Angela instead of even ignoring it or acknowledging his “fact checking”, she doubled down and promoted her lie further.
We live in a world where the worst people have full ability to lie and be heard and loud and won’t be fact checked. They have this power and it somehow has to be taken from them, and people need to be better educated in terms of how to tell truth from fiction.
If this is a Sussex source fantastic, everything that they said was true. This is a business trip, that they’re trying to make into a royal trip so that they can pretend that Harry and Meghan need their association for legitimacy. They’ve been doing that for years, pretending that they want to come back to be on the balcony, get invites to Sandringham and Balmoral, and be welcomed back to family events because those are clearly bigger draws than attending movie premieres, concerts with A list celebrities, and appearing on top rated talk shows to standing ovations.
However, I’m starting to wonder if some of these sources are just actually Royal reporters and commentators saying out loud the common sense thing as it becomes more apparent that the British royal family is not a draw. It’s clear they don’t know what they’re doing, and has at their head right now someone who can’t make a decision, and the next person up to bat a hulk like rage monster. There are the true believer racists like Tom Bower and Angela Levin, but I really do feel like people like Chris Ship know the real deal and realize that they put all their eggs in the basket of being a royal commentator and there’s just nothing there.
Omid has said more than once than many “sources” are reporters themselves. Especially the lower tier tabloids. And it wouldn’t be hard to point out the obvious facts. This is clearly a business trip with some stops for charity. Harry did the same thing in Toronto and with far less of an issue.
The biggest problem for the gutter rats is this is a predominantly white country this couple will be visiting
The UK tabloids have now resorted to attacking Sussex fans in Australia who confirmed they are attending. They are trying to make a thing about one who tweeted about the cancer being a hoax and suggested Meghan is somehow directed behind it.
Meanwhile they ignore the derangers who post racist stuff non stop and have actually been photographed with Kate.
Both sides are as bad as the other. Ive pulled back on Harry and Meghan now too just because the discourse is so bad. Ill always be ride or die Harry but I dont participate in conversations much any more.
I totally ignore William and Kate and have for quite a while. There’s nothing to read because they dont do anything worth reading about.
The latest to-do because a fan got a ticket is ridiculous. So what. If a kate fan got a ticket to something Kate is involved in, would there be the same hue and cry? No. It probably wouldn’t be mentioned.
Its exhausting, it really is.
No. Even the most fringe of a SussexSquad member is nowhere near as awful as the relentless, non-stop, racist lunatic fringe Keen stan.
NO. We are NOT going to “both sides” this. Only ONE side propagates unhinged conspiracy theories and wilfully spreads malicious lies and smears and endangers the lives of the people they claim not to be fans of, while hate-watching (and hate-buying!) everything those people do.
Sussex Squad members MOCK the idiots and their principals, yes, but I have never, ever seen any of them threaten any fan of Kate and William or issue threats against those two. Never. Sussex Squad members have raised tens of thousands of pounds for charitable causes, most of them related to and/or supported by Harry and Meghan themselves. And they are quick to lend support in various forms to other members (despite there not being a subscription list) and to complete strangers in need as well.
What they do best, apart from having some hilarious takes on certain situations regarding the left behind royals, is provide RECEIPTS. They correct the record, often in real time. They make it very hard for royal commentators to lie, or to bait-and-switch in their reporting. They call out the two-faced ones who say one thing to American television and the opposite to British media. And they do this very effectively. Make no mistake, the Sussex Squad members have played a massive part in highlighting the disparities in the treatment meted out to Meghan, in particular, compared to how they treat other members of that family for the same actions, especially Kate. And how they have ALL copied Meghans actions and words while denigrating her for doing the same.
I’ll say this: you can tell a lot about people from the fans they attract. And the fact that newspapers have habitually LIED about the true nature of the Sussex Squad members shows that they fear the power of the Squad. And the funny thing is that had they been fair to the Sussexes from the beginning there would have been no Sussex Squad. So they get their minions to repeatedly mass-report social media accounts to have them banned/blocked and they spam Sussex supporters with horrific comments and photoshopped photos of their “fave” Catherine the Great, despite never, ever, putting their hands in their pockets to support any of her charities or any of William’s “projects”. They also try, repeatedly, to pretend to be Sussex Squad members and post vile things about their own faves, so that their reporter friends can latch on to this, but it is a testament to the goodness of the Squad members, especially long-timers, that they quickly recognise and flush out those frauds.
There are no both sides to this here. And there is a years-long track record to prove this.
And who have shown up in person with the stated intention of assaulting Meghan.
A lunatic deranger flew to NYC, after threatening online she was going to stab Meghan “in her fake pillow”. Cheered on by dozens of other derangers on tumblr. She was photographed outside the baby shower hotel screaming at police, wearing a kerchief to conceal her ID. Never charged.
Same one showed up at Windsor the day Archie was born. Posted photos of how close she could get to Frogmore Cottage. Never charged.
tumblr has a lot to answer for.
“God forbid they try to do any good in a world.”
That’s it in a nutshell. That’s all the Sussexes are trying to do and they get such heat for it. It’s gross.
This doesn’t sound very Sussex but what they’re saying is right. The overreaction to this upcoming trio is beyond belief. Then when the Sussexes show up to wherever they’re supposed to be without any fanfare and just coming and going, they’ll complain about that too.
I don’t know–it might be Doria. This is exactly what I would say about someone talking trash about my kid trying to do some good in the world.
I think Doria has too much class for this.
Whereas it has been proven members of the Middleton family post on royal forums. And we know Carole hired two former Fail on Sunday editors as her PR consultants for over a decade.
The visit is a simple ‘Thank You’ for Prince Harry’s resolute response to President Trump’s insult to Commonwealth soldiers who served in recent years…
All armed forces who served along side the US and including the US armed forces have been insulted without push back.
Prince Harry was a ‘prince’ about the whole episode.
Nah I think this is a royal commenter pretending to be a source cause their spokespeople always go on the record. It’s not wrong and I am shocked the Daily Mirror even posted this cause it does make the royal commenters look bad. They all need to move the heck on. It’s been 8 freaking years.