Harry and Meghan - OP updated with Threadbanned Users 4/5/21

Looks like Meghan donated two boxes of vegetables and herbs. They must have been enormous boxes to come to a $30,000 value

No, it was a cheque she gave.

Could you explain to me why people are complaining that they wanted the kids and the place they were being filmed in to look good? Would the preference being for the kids to look down and out, poorly dressed and the place looking neglected?

No, she wanted the children to have somewhere to sit on. It was outside, presumably because of covid restrictions at the time. Here is a video of the aesthetic that lived up to Meghan's standards. She is such a snob!

You begruded kids a few custions to sit on?

I have no idea what you are going on about housing units and philanthropist. Are people not allowed have cushions to sit on if they are poor? You seem to have this colonial mindset that people are just lazy and so don't deserve charity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGssm-zYj_4

In the shrinkingly small likelihood that Meghan took a cheque, and actually handed it over

a). There would have been a ceremonial handover captured by the Netflix film crew, complete with speeches from herself

b). We would have heard all about it directly from H&M several dozen times, both at the time and for the rest of time

c). Her so-called Sugars would have been crowing about it incessantly

d). It never happened

The whole exercise was entirely and solely a book publicity scheme, dressed up as a charitable venture to be used as part of the Netflix reality tv series. The cushions were to satisfy "Meghan's aesthetic" for green, no doubt to counterpose her Pear Red "$5,840 Loro Piana cashmere coat and matching $1,680 pants" - the ideal outfit to wear to visit a school where "95 per cent (of the students) qualify for free or reduced-price lunches due to their low-income backgrounds".

Also, on some occasions a release to use people's images is sought. However, it's not usual for a gagging order type constraint be used to silence people.

Let's face it, she's only interested in herself.

I'd be pretty sure that personnel working for the Royal Family would visit and make sure everything is up to scratch for a Royal Visit. For example, say if some of the Royal Family were visiting a school in the UK, their people wouldn't be in contact with the school with what they need to do and advise on 'protocols'. FFS, doesn't Charles bring his own toilet seat when away from home!

Where you see demands being made for the titilation of Meghan Markle, what she actually did was made sure the children from an area that doesn't have many resources, had something to sit on.

British tabloid trash had absolutely no business being there as all they were going to do was thrash the visit and harass the people from the school, so it was right they were banned. Its not up to a small school in a deprived area of New York to line the pockets of British print moguls and their hate and divisive agenda.

The protection was for the children and their families to keep well away from the British tabloids because they would use and abuse and then discard them. I wonder does it ever strike the tabloids to seek written permission for the stuff that they publish. A concept that they wouldn't be too happy about, but what is normal in the rest of the civilised world.

Anyway, Meghan arrived with her cheque for $30,000 which was fairly decent. How much would the British tabloids have donated to the school for the use of their images? And why should H&M let the British tabloids steal what they paid for anyway?

The main reason they were in New York (which you completely missed) was the Global Citizen Live Concert in New York to promote action on climate change which they were invited to.

Bearing in mind that they were heavily involved in providing vaccines for less well off countries, raising millions of $s (the reason I think for the meeting in the UN), the school was targetted for anti vax protesters.

So, they packed a lot into their weekend. By the way, do you object to all writers doing readings/signings/promotion of their books, or is it just Harry & Meghan you object to doing it? I'd love to know who else you think shouldn't be allowed promote their books?

Even the Royal Family have a rota of newspapers who they communicate with which doesn't include every newspaper in the UK. The White House does something similar about how it accredits media to their press conferences. Meghan and Harry excluded British publications from their events. Is there some reason you think that the hateful, racist British tabloids who spend their time slagging off Harry and Meghan should be included in a school in a deprived area of New York which is not in the UK? If I was the school, I'd want to protect the kids from those racist vultures who just use hateful bile to fill their pages and would more than likely dig until they could find something to **** stir about them and if they didn't find it, they would twist something someone said into something hateful.

I'm pretty sure news agencies like PA were invited and would have sold reports to the British press who were not invited to attend.

this is worth a listen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3yELeDXPsg

Gave it a watch. It does make some valid points i.e. Where does Meghan go from here and would she even go there (A beggar being a chooser can't work). She seems to be completely snookered/in limbo and even the likes of WME will struggle to make fetch happen since reputation is everything and a negative one can be nigh on impossible to clean even with the best PR who would be quite happy to part clients from their money in the process of trying.

Reputation in tatters because an incel and a grifter on youtube made some creepy videos?

Really?

The description was factual and apt.

Doubt GB would take me.

Also the irony of you telling me to apply for a job at GB news.

😂

The latest story about the school visit is a brilliant example of how the Sussexes failed to adhere to advice from The Godfather. Keep your friends close but your enemies closer. Harry hates sections of the media. The Mail, The Sun, The Express etc. It’s well known. It’s understandable. Their decision to exclude these outlets was going against the advice outlined above. One might despise such media but they are realistically never going to go away. If he managed to get The Sun shut down then, like a virus evolving to survive, there will inevitably be The Sun 2.0. It is a futile exercise. As such, they have to be managed. His family does this and in doing so they get accused of getting in bed with the media but in reality it is them acknowledging the futility described above. It’s not joining them, it is managing them. Keeping them closer.

If you drive a wedge between them then a consequence may be that a focus might be retained on you and if you go so far as to sue them and/or try to shut them down? They, no matter how trivial or inconsequential, will strike back wherever possible. That focus has been doubled down on considering such outlets are doing the equivalent of rooting through your trash to find dirt on you i.e. it’s not a coincidence that it was The Sun (who Harry is suing) and The Mail (who Meghan sued) are the ones who requested the detail via an FOI request for an event which lasted less than half an hour and which happened over two years ago.

A happy medium with the enemy needed to be established, an acceptance that the tabloids are trashy but aren’t going anywhere needed to be understood. They picked a fight and I find it unsurprising that the tabloid media have been going to such an effort to further dent their credibility and reputation. Using some inference then this is probably not the only event/activity these outlets have sorted through in the proverbial bin and I’d fully expect more brand damaging shenanigans to emerge in time.

A happy medium with the enemy is essential to survive if you want to be in the public eye, make an enemy of them the press and their revenge is inevitable. However I think the harkels made a lot of mistakes the principle one being disrespecting a dying monarch who was beloved for 70+ years, plus her treatment of her own father. At the end of the day one should honour your parents. Call me old fashioned but when they educate you and build you up you have to show some gratitude if you dont it is a serious character flaw.

I think it's known that Harry and Meghan are now actively engaging in and trying seperate vocations e.g. she signed with WME, while Harry didn't and she was quiet when he was promoting Spare and vice versa with promoting Archetypes.

Comparing the state of two marriages is unbalanced. W&K have been together for 23 years. That longevity reduces marital speculation as it all tends towards survivorship bias. They have a clearly defined path in the decades ahead and whether the monarchy lasts or not then William is a billionaire regardless. No financial worries.

Compared to H&M who went through a whirlwind courtship (meeting to marriage in just over 2 years) and taking the acrimony, the drama, Meghans pattern of cutting ties with people, no clearly defined path and the financial pressure stemming from that into account then the balance of and frequency of speculation about the status of the two marriages will invariably lean towards H&M.

You'll have heard of the aphorism, "Marry in haste, repent at leisure"?