Inbred Rich People: The Royalty Thread

[Sarzy]

Guys with attitudes like that aren't going to like someone who comes along and challenges them on their views.

[waterslide]

Well, maybe Meghan just naively believed that she was sitting in a room with a bunch of people who had attended the best schools on earth and didn't expect for them to be so ignorant.  I really seriously doubt she was "reprimanding" anyone - she probably just thought she was having an adult conversation.  But young rich white guys turn into rich middle-aged white guys and so on, so of course they're going to act like that.  And then they were doubly butthurt because she didn't lie down and take it.  

The author added that the production team 'avoided eye contact with her' because she 'complained' the 'tea was the wrong blend', the 'vegan juice was warm' and the hotel bathrobe and slippers 'weren't Dior'.

I love the lack of context here.  I hate chamomile tea and if someone served it to me, I (not a duchess) would "complain" or  at least say "hey, that's not the tea I had ordered, would it be possible to get something else?" Maybe she didn't want that much caffeine that day or something.  "The vegan juice was warm" is sig worthy because it's 100% LOLable.  And as for the bathrobe, how do we know that someone asked her if the bathrobe and slippers were comfortable or nice and she said, "Well, they weren't Dior, but they were fine."  I mean, I don't know, maybe she's the raging asshole so many people want us to believe she is, but this sounds like a whole lot of nonsense.  

And maybe the production team should work on their professionalism if that shit got to them to the point they avoided eye contact with her.  

[MsDark]

Jul 20, 2022 1:41:28 GMT waterslide said:

Well, maybe Meghan just naively believed that she was sitting in a room with a bunch of people who had attended the best schools on earth and didn't expect for them to be so ignorant.  I really seriously doubt she was "reprimanding" anyone - she probably just thought she was having an adult conversation.  But young rich white guys turn into rich middle-aged white guys and so on, so of course they're going to act like that.  And then they were doubly butthurt because she didn't lie down and take it.  

The author added that the production team 'avoided eye contact with her' because she 'complained' the 'tea was the wrong blend', the 'vegan juice was warm' and the hotel bathrobe and slippers 'weren't Dior'.

I love the lack of context here.  I hate chamomile tea and if someone served it to me, I (not a duchess) would "complain" or  at least say "hey, that's not the tea I had ordered, would it be possible to get something else?" Maybe she didn't want that much caffeine that day or something.  "The vegan juice was warm" is sig worthy because it's 100% LOLable.  And as for the bathrobe, how do we know that someone asked her if the bathrobe and slippers were comfortable or nice and she said, "Well, they weren't Dior, but they were fine."  I mean, I don't know, maybe she's the raging asshole so many people want us to believe she is, but this sounds like a whole lot of nonsense.  

And maybe the production team should work on their professionalism if that shit got to them to the point they avoided eye contact with her.  

Ha!  Those are both sig worthy.

I have been robbed of the opportunity to bag on this woman like I ordinarily would a member of the RF because a subset of Brits who feel like they own these people body and soul have lost their collective shit over this three-strikes-against-her (American, actress, and BLACK) woman ending up in the family and they'll never get the fuck over it.  

She's not the one they're making me dislike with these stories.  

Attn Brit press:  Leave this woman alone with your racist, classist BS and let me find my own reasons to hate her, goddamnit!  

[sleuth]

Here’s a link to another extract - it’s too long to copy/paste.  It’s focusing on Prince Philips funeral, Jubilee and Invictus Games. 

Meghan, Prince Harry and the War Against the Windsors

[no1novice]

Jul 20, 2022 1:41:28 GMT waterslide said:

Well, maybe Meghan just naively believed that she was sitting in a room with a bunch of people who had attended the best schools on earth and didn't expect for them to be so ignorant.  I really seriously doubt she was "reprimanding" anyone - she probably just thought she was having an adult conversation.  But young rich white guys turn into rich middle-aged white guys and so on, so of course they're going to act like that.  And then they were doubly butthurt because she didn't lie down and take it.  

The author added that the production team 'avoided eye contact with her' because she 'complained' the 'tea was the wrong blend', the 'vegan juice was warm' and the hotel bathrobe and slippers 'weren't Dior'.

I love the lack of context here.  I hate chamomile tea and if someone served it to me, I (not a duchess) would "complain" or  at least say "hey, that's not the tea I had ordered, would it be possible to get something else?" Maybe she didn't want that much caffeine that day or something.  "The vegan juice was warm" is sig worthy because it's 100% LOLable.  And as for the bathrobe, how do we know that someone asked her if the bathrobe and slippers were comfortable or nice and she said, "Well, they weren't Dior, but they were fine."  I mean, I don't know, maybe she's the raging asshole so many people want us to believe she is, but this sounds like a whole lot of nonsense.  

And maybe the production team should work on their professionalism if that shit got to them to the point they avoided eye contact with her.  

Thing is - if you drink a lot of tea, you can taste the difference. I hate Earl Grey, I have a friend that loves it. If they get it wrong both of us are going to say something!

[mel]

Jul 20, 2022 4:09:59 GMT sleuth said:

Here’s a link to another extract - it’s too long to copy/paste.  It’s focusing on Prince Philips funeral, Jubilee and Invictus Games. 

Meghan, Prince Harry and the War Against the Windsors

I guess it's because I'm American but this is a bunch of rubbish. I saw the clips from the funeral. I guess I'm not a mind reader like the author because I certainly didn't get that Harry was nervous about "betraying" the family from his expression and gestures. I certainly didn't see the Apple TV as a betrayal like the author seems to. Enough with the Netflix stuff. I don't know if Meghan wanted to be on that balcony or not, but I really don't think Netflix cared. Geez.

[no1novice]

Jul 20, 2022 9:57:06 GMT mel said:

Jul 20, 2022 4:09:59 GMT sleuth said:

Here’s a link to another extract - it’s too long to copy/paste.  It’s focusing on Prince Philips funeral, Jubilee and Invictus Games. 

Meghan, Prince Harry and the War Against the Windsors

I guess it's because I'm American but this is a bunch of rubbish. I saw the clips from the funeral. I guess I'm not a mind reader like the author because I certainly didn't get that Harry was nervous about "betraying" the family from his expression and gestures. I certainly didn't see the Apple TV as a betrayal like the author seems to. Enough with the Netflix stuff. I don't know if Meghan wanted to be on that balcony or not, but I really don't think Netflix cared. Geez.

I'd go with money-spinning bullshit

Harry’s presence remained a problem. As a private citizen stripped of his military titles he could not dress in uniform. To minimise the embarrassment for both Harry and Andrew, who was mired in allegations of sexual sleaze, all the male members of the royal family dressed in morning suits.

And once again, an accused pedo is less embarrassing than someone that marries *gasp* an American, allegedly, to this bunch of clowns.

Meghan had cited her seven months’ pregnancy as the reason for not travelling.

OMG! "Cited" how insidiously sly of the author.
It's COVID, she's pregnant and it's a long haul flight. Seriously.

For the British, the sight of William, Charles and the Queen walking through a garden, and alongside the world’s leaders, represented the monarchy’s enduring strength, and William and Kate represented its future.

Mediocre, boring, sexist,

[kittylady]

Jul 20, 2022 4:09:59 GMT sleuth said:

Here’s a link to another extract - it’s too long to copy/paste.  It’s focusing on Prince Philips funeral, Jubilee and Invictus Games. 

Meghan, Prince Harry and the War Against the Windsors

That was breathtakingly biased and speculative. I've seen whirligigs with less spin going on than that extract. The Daily Heil readers are going to be emptying their piggybanks to buy it on the day it comes out, plus an extra copy each for when the first one becomes unreadable after repeatedly being masturbated over.

I especially liked how it was repeatedly underlined about Meghan being ferociously fame hungry.  If you ignore the constant stream of Daily Heil clickbait we actually see very little of her. A flurry of pictures when they've attended an event, but the rest of the time? Nothing.  And the whole snark thing about Harry talking about mental health issues too. When Bill and Cathy do it we're supposed to fall over ourselves gibbering about how wonderful, how kind, how sensitive and what a wonderful, superfuckawesomeamazing King and Queen they're going to be.  There's no doubt about it, Charles left a lot to be desired in terms of fatherhood. He was emotionally crippled by his upbringing and passed the sins of the father (and grandfather and great-grandfather etc) on to his sons so what's so wrong with calling it out?  There are many ordinary people who have grown up with an emotionally unavailable parent for whom that will resonate with and who have faced a lifetime of mental health struggles as a result.  Finally I notice that the narrative on Harry's relationship with Camilla has done a 180 since she started to become more popular and Harry less so. It used to be how well they all got along and now it's all about Harry seeing Camilla as Cruella DeVille to his mother's Dalmation.

I'm surprised they stuck it out in the UK for as long as they did.

[loftybike]

What? I think Harry gets along with Camilla. She makes his father happy and probably a better father and grandfather, from all we know she does not meddle and does not try to "mother" him or Whats-his-name.
This whole thing is just trash.

[Sarzy]

Two completely different opinions in this article about Harry's feelings about Camilla 

If you've ever wondered how Prince Harry feels about his step-mom Duchess Camilla, apparently it's somewhat complicated. Royal expert Ingrid Seward recently revealed that Harry "doesn't have great respect" for Camilla, and has pretty much no interest in starting a close relationship with her.

"I don't think Harry is interested in developing a relationship with his stepmother at this stage in his life," Ingrid said on the Pod Save the Queen podcast (via The Daily Mail), adding that both Harry and William were initially "very happy" to welcome Camilla into the royal family, and that she "kept in the background" and "didn't interfere." But apparently things changed?

"I don't think Harry has a great deal of warmth for her, he waxes and wanes with her," Ingrid explained. "I don't know about the recent trip but certainly I think Harry was quite happy to accept Camilla in the beginning but then went off the boil about her and I don't think he holds her in great respect."

 

There's been some concern (read: royal spiraling) that Harry might be writing about Camilla in his upcoming biography, but back in March biographer Angela Levin said (via The Sun) that Harry was “very nice about [Camilla], said she was a wonderful woman and said he liked her very much” when they met, and noted that Camilla was “very helpful to Meghan when she first joined—took her out for lunch and tried to teach her some of the things she needed to know—the restrictions and the disadvantages as well as the positives.”

In other words, chances are there isn't quite as much drama as is currently being reported...but guess we'll see what happens when Harry drops his memoir later this year 🙃

www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a40638443/prince-harry-no-interest-relationship-duchess-camilla/

[Pixie]

Jul 20, 2022 1:41:28 GMT waterslide said:

The author added that the production team 'avoided eye contact with her' because she 'complained' the 'tea was the wrong blend', the 'vegan juice was warm' and the hotel bathrobe and slippers 'weren't Dior'.

I love the lack of context here.  I hate chamomile tea and if someone served it to me, I (not a duchess) would "complain" or  at least say "hey, that's not the tea I had ordered, would it be possible to get something else?" 

No no no no no, you'd say your VEGAN tea has the wrong grass in it XD

[MsDark]

Look, if I were Meghan, at this point if I ever went back even for a visit I'd just go all out and do a JLo or other celeb style rider where I insisted on white everything, certain types of flowers in every room, specific brands and types of things, detailed instructions. Just to fuck with them since they already think I'm a crazy entitled bitch.

In fact, here's a fun activity.  Let's create Meghan's (potential) rider.  

I'll start with white roses in every room

[Sarzy]

The BBC has agreed to pay substantial damages to the former royal nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke after false allegations she had an affair with Prince Charles were used to obtain Martin Bashir’s 1995 interview with Diana, Princess of Wales.

Legge-Bourke’s solicitor, Louise Prince, told the high court the allegations caused “serious personal consequences for all concerned”.

As well as the allegation of the affair, the court was told Legge-Bourke was falsely accused of becoming pregnant with Charles’s baby and having an abortion.

Prince said Legge-Bourke, now known as Alexandra Pettifer, had not known the source of the allegations over the past 25 years but that it was now likely the “false and malicious allegations arose as a result and in the context of BBC Panorama’s efforts to procure an exclusive interview with Diana, Princess of Wales”.

Bashir is alleged to have spread the fake accusations in his successful attempt to win Diana’s trust and convince her to sit down for the Panorama interview. In an effort to get access to the princess, the journalist also created fake bank statements and suggested people close to Diana were selling stories to newspapers.

Originally hailed as one of the all-time great journalistic scoops – with Diana sharing the details of her failed relationship with Prince Charles in front of tens of millions of people – the Panorama interview is now considered so toxic that the BBC director general, Tim Davie, has pledged never to show it again.

Davie on Thursday apologised again to the royal family for the “deceitful tactics” used by the BBC in pursuit of its interview and “for the way in which Princess Diana was deceived and the subsequent impact on all their lives”.

He said it was a matter of regret that the BBC did not properly pursue accusations about the interview when they were first made in the 1990s.

“Had we done our job properly Princess Diana would have known the truth during her lifetime. We let her, the royal family and our audiences down.

“Now we know about the shocking way that the interview was obtained I have decided that the BBC will never show the programme again; nor will we license it in whole or part to other broadcasters.

www.theguardian.com/media/2022/jul/21/bbc-pay-damages-ex-royal-nanny-bashir-diana-interview-tiggy-legge-bourke

[kittylady]

Jul 21, 2022 8:29:44 GMT Sarzy said:

Two completely different opinions in this article about Harry's feelings about Camilla 

If you've ever wondered how Prince Harry feels about his step-mom Duchess Camilla, apparently it's somewhat complicated. Royal expert Ingrid Seward recently revealed that Harry "doesn't have great respect" for Camilla, and has pretty much no interest in starting a close relationship with her.

"I don't think Harry is interested in developing a relationship with his stepmother at this stage in his life," Ingrid said on the Pod Save the Queen podcast (via The Daily Mail), adding that both Harry and William were initially "very happy" to welcome Camilla into the royal family, and that she "kept in the background" and "didn't interfere." But apparently things changed?

"I don't think Harry has a great deal of warmth for her, he waxes and wanes with her," Ingrid explained. "I don't know about the recent trip but certainly I think Harry was quite happy to accept Camilla in the beginning but then went off the boil about her and I don't think he holds her in great respect."

 

There's been some concern (read: royal spiraling) that Harry might be writing about Camilla in his upcoming biography, but back in March biographer Angela Levin said (via The Sun) that Harry was “very nice about [Camilla], said she was a wonderful woman and said he liked her very much” when they met, and noted that Camilla was “very helpful to Meghan when she first joined—took her out for lunch and tried to teach her some of the things she needed to know—the restrictions and the disadvantages as well as the positives.”

In other words, chances are there isn't quite as much drama as is currently being reported...but guess we'll see what happens when Harry drops his memoir later this year 🙃

www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a40638443/prince-harry-no-interest-relationship-duchess-camilla/

"Nice" articles about Meghan and Harry don't sell to the tabloids and "Nice" articles piss off Bill and Cathy's pets and would mean the author is cut off from scurrilous titbits of information about what goes on in The Firm.

[czb]

now the dirt is that camilla is the one who asked about the baby's color. who knows??



Camilla Parker Bowles allegedly joked if Meghan, Harry’s baby would have ‘ginger Afro hair’
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle may have fled the UK, and the royal family, over Camilla Parker Bowles, according to a new book — which also alleges that Harry will expose his stepmother as “racist” in his upcoming memoir.

Tom Bower claims in “Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors,” out now in the UK, that “The Sussexes’ suspicion that the Duchess of Cornwall had made racist comments about [their then-unborn son] Archie had fueled their fearsome denunciation of the entire royal family.”

Bower goes on to write that Camilla allegedly made a “racist” remark about what Meghan and Harry’s future child’s hair would look like, sometime after their relationship became public.

“During those weeks, Harry met Charles and Camilla at Clarence House. In Harry’s version, the conversation alternated between serious and joking and touched three topics,” Bower writes in an excerpt obtained by Page Six.

“First, Harry was told that Meghan should continue with her acting career. Second, Scotland Yard could not automatically be expected to pay for his girlfriend’s 24-hour protection. And third, according to Harry, someone speculated about what his future child would ‘look like.’ In one version, Camilla remarked, ‘Wouldn’t it be funny if your child had ginger Afro hair?’”

Harry allegedly “laughed” at the comment, but, per Bower, “subsequently, Meghan’s reaction to that conversation turned Harry’s amusement into fury.”

Enlarge ImageThe book also alleges that Harry's upcoming memoir may call Camilla "racist."
The book also alleges that Harry’s upcoming memoir may call Camilla “racist.”
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In a bombshell March 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex said that, before Archie was born in May 2019, they were left stunned when an unnamed member of the royal family asked what color their child’s skin would be.

Asked by Winfrey who was responsible for the comments, Markle said at the time there were “several conversations” — although when asked about his take on the matter, Harry said there was just one, insisting: “That conversation, I am never going to share. At the time, it was awkward, I was a bit shocked.”

Winfrey later stressed that she had been told by the Sussex camp to clarify that it was not a comment made by Harry’s grandparents Queen Elizabeth or the late Prince Philip.

Bower also predicts that Harry’s memoir, expected this fall and ghost-written by American journalist J.R. Moehringer, will further explore the divide between Harry and Camilla.

Enlarge ImageHarry and Meghan told Oprah Winfrey that an unnamed family member questioned how dark their unborn child's skin would be.
Harry and Meghan told Oprah Winfrey that an unnamed family member questioned how dark their unborn child’s skin would be.
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“Meghan was expected to help the ghost-writer understand the pain inflicted by the royal family on herself and Harry,” Bower writes. “Among the targets besides William, Kate and Charles would be Camilla. Meghan had identified her as racist.”

Bower writes of Prince Charles: “Camilla, he suspected, would be cited in Harry’s memoir as a reason for the couple to turn away from Britain.”

The book also claims that the Queen’s announcement back in February that Prince Charles’ wife will one day be made Queen Consort was met with “stony silence” from Harry.

Enlarge ImageAccording to the book, Harry was not pleased when Queen Elizabeth decided Camilla will become Queen Consort once Prince Charles becomes king.
According to the book, Harry was not pleased when Queen Elizabeth decided Camilla will become Queen Consort once Prince Charles becomes king.
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“Harry’s refusal to acknowledge the Queen’s decision foreshadowed the problems to come,” Bower writes. “Charles had good reason to fear that Harry’s dislike of Camilla had been re-energized by Meghan.”

According to Bower, “Easily persuaded, Harry edged towards betraying his father, Camilla, the Cambridges and even the Queen … To earn out the publisher’s advance, nothing and no one had been sacrosanct.”

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