There hasn't been much news about these 2 for a while. Doubtless they will find some nothingburger to blow up again in the near future, but I am finishing off this series for now:
Coronation was a triumph for real royals and disaster for Harry, Meghan - "The surly spoiled brat barely mumbled the oath when the congregation was invited to say it, and looked like he found singing the national anthem in tribute to his dad as pleasurable as sucking on a lemon soaked in Tabasco. A lip reader later revealed that Harry spent most of his time during the service complaining to Jack Brooksbank, Princess Eugenie’s husband. “I’m fed up with the way they treat me,” he apparently said at one stage, adding: “They don’t care.” We don’t know whom he was talking about, but if it was his family, it was a laughably tone-deaf refrain given the way he and his wife have worked so tirelessly to embarrass, shame and cause damage to the royals and the monarchy. What was very notable was how none of the royal family — aside from Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice and their husbands, who all entered the abbey with him, and a fleeting exchange with Princess Anne — wanted anything to do with their Judas. But what did he expect in return for his despicable disloyalty — to be received with warm hugs, kisses and high-fives by his grateful relatives? I’ve no idea why Harry was even at the coronation for a father he has so relentlessly criticized becoming king of a monarchy he’s described as a callous, racist prison camp. And he got exactly what he deserved: stuck behind the large red feather plume on Anne’s hat, just as Meghan was hidden behind a candle at the Queen’s funeral. These things don’t happen by accident. It’s the palace’s way of telling the world you’ve behaved so badly, you’ve abrogated the right to bathe in the reflected glory of a big royal occasion. Harry couldn’t wait to get away after the service, almost running into a waiting car outside the abbey — paid for, like his security in the UK, by the British taxpayer — to speed him straight to Heathrow so he could fly back to California. We were assured this was all so he could see his son, Archie, on his fourth birthday, being the wonderfully caring father he is — unlike his own supposedly cold, cruel dad. But I’ve had three sons celebrate a fourth birthday, and trust me: By the time he got home, long after 9 p.m., young Archie will have been fast asleep. No, like everything else in Harry and Meghan’s world, this was all performative, self-serving PR nonsense, gleefully spun by their regular fork-tongued lickspittles."
"A man who has gone off the deep end': Experts Claim 'Constantly Whining' Prince Harry is Mentally Unstable, Brand Him the 'Prince of Wails' - "he initially believed the death of his mother, Princess Diana, was a hoax. He further thought that Princess Diana had faked her own death and would come to surprise him one day. As said by the Duke of Sussex himself, he thought that she was alive until he was 23 years old... Prince Harry claimed in Spare that he was only brought up so that he can be an organ donor in case Prince William, the future king ever needed a transplant... Dr. Holly Schiff talked about the Duke of Sussex’s behavior and why he thought of such things. He said, “Clinically, I would say I have concern for him not being in his right mind“. He further added, “It is absolutely possible he is delusional and spouting lies.” Schiff further claimed that Prince Harry might be just blaming the Royal Family for all his problems only to avoid taking responsibility for his own actions"
Meghan Markle cruelly heckled at New York Gala with Prince Harry - "as she stepped out of a blacked-out SUV after arriving at the Ziegfeld Ballroom a heckler shouted: “Meghan, how do you feel being part of two broken families?”"
Clearly just a coincidence
Prince Harry and Meghan in 'near catastrophic car chase' with paparazzi in New York - "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been involved in a “near catastrophic car chase” involving paparazzi photographers, their spokesman has said. The "relentless pursuit", which took place in New York on Tuesday evening, lasted more than two hours and resulted in several near collisions with drivers, pedestrians and police officers, the Duke’s spokesman claimed. Speaking later at a press conference, Eric Adams, the mayor of New York, expressed concern that public safety may have been compromised and said two of his officers "could have been injured". However, he also seemed to cast doubt on some of the details of the incident, adding: "I would find it hard to believe there was a two-hour high speed chase....but we will find out the exact duration.""
Prince Harry and Meghan involved in 'near catastrophic' car chase with paparazzi - The Washington Post - "The taxi driver who transported the couple after attending an event on Tuesday told The Washington Post in an interview that he would not call the incident a chase, adding that he felt safe during the ride... Harry has frequently referenced how his mother, Princess Diana, was hounded by the paparazzi and he blames them for their role in her death... “I don’t think I would call it a chase,” Singh said of his period driving the couple. “I never felt like I was in danger. It wasn’t like a car chase in a movie. They were quiet and seemed scared but it’s New York — it’s safe.”"
Prince Harry and Meghan 'paparazzi car chase' was not 'near catastrophic', NYPD officials suggest - "two New York police officials have played down the incident saying they do not believe the chase was "near catastrophic" and described a "bit of a chaotic scene"."
When you're fading from the headlines...
Whoopi Goldberg Doubts Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Car Chase - " “Their spokesperson called it a near catastrophic car chase. Others said it wasn’t bad, but I think people in New York know if it was possible to have car chases in New York, we’d all make it to the theater on time,” Goldberg, 67, joked during the Thursday, May 18, episode of The View. The EGOT winner then cast further doubt on the rep’s characterization of the incident, which took place on Tuesday, May 16, in New York City. “I think their spokesperson referenced something that you generally would reference in Los Angeles"... Fellow panelist Joy Behar agreed with the sentiment, chiming in, “Sometimes I’m in the city and I hear an ambulance trying to get through and I think, ‘That person is dead.’... "Remember early on? She had like a couple of paps following her and he released a statement, like, ‘I’m not gonna allow to happen to her what happened to my mother.’ That’s not what’s happening. Welcome to being a public figure, grow up.”... “Perhaps this was the worst car chase since Princess Diana, but people have a hard time believing it because they’ve been raising their hands so much, saying, ‘We are experiencing the same thing as my mother who was killed in a paparazzi car chase.’ It’s a story that keeps being pushed.”"
Harry and Meghan Seek Both Privacy and Publicity After Paparazzi Car Chase - The New York Times - "the episode underscored a basic paradox in the lives of this celebrity couple: they plead for privacy, but also seek publicity, with a Netflix documentary, a tell-all memoir by Harry and public appearances that will inevitably draw cameras... “The example of what happened in New York suggests that the kind of police protection Harry wants in London is not going to be enough to protect him or his family,” said Ed Owens, a historian who has studied relations between the monarchy and the media. “He’s not engaging with this reality.” In California, where they now live, Harry and Meghan employ private security guards who are licensed to carry guns. But they are not allowed to travel with armed guards in Britain, which is one reason Harry has asked for police protection, and has offered to pay for it himself. Lawyers for the Home Office argued in court that police officers should not be hired out to paying customers. Harry has described the loss of his security detail as one of the most worrisome consequences of his bitter split from his family and his withdrawal from royal duties... A police spokesman acknowledged that the photographers posed a challenge, but said the three arrived at their destination on the Upper East Side without “reported collisions, summonses, injuries, or arrests.”"
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Car Chase: Photo Agency Refuses to Hand Over Photos - "Backgrid told the BBC it sent a letter via its lawyers which stated that "In America, as I'm sure you know, property belongs to the owner of it: Third parties cannot just demand it be given to them, as perhaps Kings can do." "Perhaps you should sit down with your client and advise them that his English rules of royal prerogative to demand that the citizenry hand over their property to the Crown were rejected by this country long ago," the letter continued, reported the BBC. "We stand by our founding fathers.""
Inside Prince Harry’s sad new life of empty hotel rooms and late night gaming - "Nearly exactly six years ago, Prince Harry touched down in Sydney and the city succumbed to a bad case of Aitchmania. The dashing HRH was in town to drum up some noise about the next Invictus Games and such was his lure that crowds braved truly bucketing rain to see him. (One headline at the time read, “He Can Do No Wrong.”) Things looked like they were only on the up for the royal: He had a fabulous girlfriend who promised to be the best thing to happen to the royal family since they stopped marrying their first cousins and his charity work was going gangbusters. It’s just a bit depressing when you contrast that Harry with the man of today with a new report throwing up a bevy of claims that make him sound less like someone freed from a lifelong cage and more like a teenager who could do with a shower, stern talking to and a day job. Claims like he games until the wee hours; that he has not one but two hotel rooms he allegedly ‘escapes’; that there is a “chasm” between he and wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex over fame versus privacy; and that his friends back in London want about as much to do with him as Queen Camilla wants to sit through a slam poetry festival... On paper, Harry now has everything he seemed to desperately want: He had escaped from indentured royal work, has a family of his own, and even Hummingbird feeder to keep him out of Meghan’s hair... Perhaps the most eyebrow-raising assertion is that the Duke, despite co-owning a nine bedroom faux Tuscan estate with a guesthouse, has a couple of hotel hidey holes away from home and where no one asks him to take the bins out... “Nobody really speaks to him any more and even the people who have remained by his side have lately begun to fall away because he is so consistently negative,” an insider has told the Telegraph. “He’s often complaining and rarely asks after others … Now they just see him as completely lost.” OK, but he’s got his army mates right? Not according to one former military colleague who told Tominey: “No one in the forces has got any time for him at all, which is such a shame because he was hugely popular. You can blame Meghan, but he’s brought a lot of it on himself.”... Launching a crusade against a 1000-year-old institution and antagonising one’s entire family all while having to find the cash to pay for a score of beefy bodyguards lacking necks must really take a toll. Meanwhile, over at Page Six, a report has raised the possibility that the Sussexes, like people with mortgages the world over, have been doing some economising. A source has said: “Harry and Meghan’s people called The Carlyle ahead of the trip and asked for a discounted room, and the hotel said no. “If they had just paid up and got a hotel in the first place, this supposed ‘dangerous’ paparazzi chase around town would never have happened. They would have been driven back to the Carlyle, been photographed going inside and that would have been the end of it. “They should have just gotten a hotel for the safety of everyone. Instead, they were cheap and wanted a free place to stay.”... It’s hard to imagine that Harry of 2018, so wonderfully in love and seemingly having found happiness, would ever envision a life cut off from his family, playing Halo late into the evening and “completely lost” in the eyes of his mates."
Prince Harry’s absence from witness box surprises High Court judge - "Harry was ordered by the judge to attend the High Court in London in expectation that he might start giving evidence in his case against the publisher of the Daily Mirror. Instead Harry flew from Los Angeles on Sunday evening having spent the day celebrating the second birthday of Princess Lilibet at their home in California... Mr Justice Fancourt, the trial judge, expressed his concern at the prince’s failure to appear, saying: “I am a little surprised that [despite] the direction I gave . . . that the first witness [Harry] is not going to be available.” He said it was anticipated Harry could start his evidence after lunch, which is “why I directed that the first witness be available”. Andrew Green KC, representing Mirror Group Newspapers, said he was “deeply troubled” at the duke’s failure to attend. “It is unsatisfactory that we were told last week that he was not available for the first day of his trial,” he added. “It is absolutely extraordinary.” The barrister said he wants to cross-examine Harry for a day and a half instead of the day that was initially planned... Media from around the world had gathered at court in anticipation of Harry becoming the fist senior member of the royal family in more than 130 years to give evidence in court from the witness box."
Tourré Bakahai on Twitter - "Imagine instigating a hugely expensive legal case in a country you no longer live in, claiming it's part of your "mission in life", travelling 5000 miles, and then failing to turn up for the opening. What an absolute dunce."
Prince Harry has no proof Mirror Group journalists hacked phone, court told | Prince Harry - "“I believe they would have gone to extreme lengths to cover their tracks,” he said, alleging there was widespread destruction of evidence."
A royal rumble: Prince Harry’s clash in court left him lost for words – but not defeated - "The prince was repeatedly made to seem ill prepared and unused to this kind of rigour. Invariably he admitted that he could not remember reading the story in front of him at the time of its publication. “If you hadn’t read it, how did it cause you distress?” Green asked. “They were all distressing to me,” the prince replied. Watching this performance was to be reminded of the sheer scale of invasive scrutiny that the prince, like his mother, had endured over the years – a kind of national pathology of surveillance."
Amazing. Cross examination in a case that you yourself brought is bad
‘Woefully unprepared’: Prince Harry reflected as ‘very entitled’ in court case - "Broadcaster and Commentator Emily Carver says Prince Harry coming “woefully unprepared” to his court case reflected him as “very, very entitled and a little bit naïve”. “Unfortunately for Harry, his statement and answers to the questions throughout … the problem was it was all feelings over fact,” Ms Carver told Sky News host Rita Panahi. “He had no clear-cut evidence, he thought he could just rock up and say, ‘I feel this, and that happened, I speculate this, I accuse this’ and that he would be able to get through to the Judge on that regard. “He came woefully unprepared, and I think that does reflect a man who is very very entitled and also a little bit naïve’."
Spiteful Prince Harry may think UK is at 'rock bottom'... but he is the one left all alone - "JUST when you think Prince Harry can’t possibly get any more irritating, he outdoes himself once again. He jetted back to the UK this week to inform us: “Our country is judged globally by the state of our press and our government — both of which I believe are at rock bottom.” Perhaps we should be getting used to his monumental arrogance. But before Harry makes another flying visit to pour a bucket load over the land of his birth, perhaps he should take a long look at his own life. He has alienated himself from virtually all of his own family and has never even met his father-in-law. He is living in exile but still tries to act like a member of the Royal Family when it suits him. His life appears to be one long rant against past perceived injustices. Harry is a man who no longer knows who he is, where he actually lives or who he wants to be. He can’t seem to stop hitting the self-destruct button because, whenever there is a glimmer of true reconciliation between him, Charles and William, he goes and ruins it... He has become obsessed with pursuing legal cases. Maybe it is because he has little else to do with his time. Harry has chosen to live in exile and make his Montecito mansion his home, he has chosen to be venomous to his family and he has chosen to ditch the royal duties he was once so proud of. His actions have left him alienated and alone. Now that’s what I really call rock bottom."
Royals interfering in politics is good when liberals approve of it
Why Netflix overpaid for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle documentary - "Netflix overpaid. As with nearly everything Harry and Meghan do, 'Volume I' of their Netflix docuseries is pompous, mean, self-aggrandizing, and yet more of their specialty: Over-promise and under-deliver. The much-ballyhooed 'Harry & Meghan' has landed with a thud. The reviews have been scathing: The Hollywood Reporter rightly says the show 'takes a lot of time to reveal very little.' The Atlantic asks if Harry and Meghan 'really want to spend the next 40 years as small angry planets trapped in the gravitational pull of the Windsors?' And Variety says, 'The Sussexes surprise us yet again with just how narrow their vision of fame is, how pinched and unimaginative their presence on the world stage has become.’ Finally, the karmic wheels of justice are turning towards these two self-pitying, untalented, ungrateful hypocrites. No one deserves it more. Let's savor it, shall we? There's nothing scandalous here — except, of course, the casual cruelty Harry and Meghan, World's Greatest Bleeding Heart Philanthropists and Humanitarians, mete out to their nearest and dearest. It's stunning. It's heartless. And, as is their trademark, it's utterly lacking in self-awareness. As Harry marvels late in Episode 3: 'It's amazing what people will do when offered a large amount of money.' You mean like selling out your family, who have loved and supported you, financially and otherwise, your entire life? Like publicly accusing them of racism? Like secretly filming yourselves behind palace walls, long before you claimed you had any idea you'd be Megxiting and monetizing, videotaping and photographing your most private, intimate moments — like Harry's marriage proposal, which Meghan seems to have secretly recorded on her phone without Harry's knowledge — and saving all that ostensibly sacred stuff for a $100 million Netflix deal?... If there was any hope of reconciliation with William, Harry just torched it. And what has Kate ever done to deserve such bile from her brother-in-law? These are the parents of his niece and nephews, his children's cousins — but as we know, Harry and Meghan play checkers, not chess, and they play with cold hands and even colder hearts. They don't think or strategize long term. They're all about the twisted, short-term dopamine hits they get from acting out their never-ending victimhood... Meghan contradicts herself a fair amount here, in one case backpedaling on her original story that she didn't really know much about Harry before they met. Initially, she said they met on a blind date, now she says they met through Instagram. You can watch the wheels turning in Harry's head as he tries to square this circle. He surely has practice, living as he has in this alternate reality for years now... Back to Meghan reenacting her introduction to the queen, performing a theatrically deep curtsy and wiggling her eyebrows mockingly as she laughs and says, in a sickly-sweet fake voice, 'Pleasure to meet you, your majesty.' Harry looks nothing short of pained. He should consider this a preview of the rest of his life until the woman he's left everything and everyone for will surely train her venom, her victimhood, and her penchant for publicly tearing down close family members squarely on him. There's no doubt it will happen or that Harry will deserve it. The Meghan Markle we see here — and she really believes she's showing us her best self — will discard anyone once they no longer make her look good, feed her narcissistic supply, or are of any practical use. Consider her adult niece Ashleigh, the daughter of Meghan's estranged half-sister Samantha. Meghan rhapsodizes about seeking out and cultivating this relationship, how important her niece is to her, and in turn her niece describes Meghan as 'all the things' — an aunt, but also a sister figure and a mother figure, one who took Asleigh on vacations and talked to her about anything and everything. Then Meghan got engaged to Harry and, well . . . their phone calls got less and less frequent. Can you guess who got disinvited to H&M's wedding? Yes, poor Ashleigh, who doesn't seem to buying Meghan's vague excuse here that nameless palace 'advisers' forced her hand. Ashleigh sits in this docuseries tearful, confused, humiliated and skeptical, yet still kind enough not to openly wonder why her beloved aunt invited celebrities she had never even met before — Oprah, the Clooneys, David Beckham — instead of her own flesh and blood."
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's last surviving media deal £81m one with Netflix - "Meghan Markle was today dealt a crushing blow after bosses at streaming giant Spotify announced they were axing her Archetypes podcast after just one season. The move is expected to see Meghan and husband Prince Harry losing the full £15million ($20million) payout after the show failed to hit production level targets - following a sluggish start."
Actress likens Sarah Everard 'murder' to Piers Morgan's Meghan Markle 'rants' - "An actress sparked fury today for likening the apparent death of Sarah Everard to Piers Morgan's criticism of Megan Markle - saying they are both 'part of normalised entitlement that men are encouraged to feel towards women'."
Criticising women is the same as killing them. What happens when women criticise/kill other women?
“She’s Trouble”—But So Is He! - "When British Conservative politician Ann Widdecombe dared to say what any rational person believes about the soon-to be-royal Ms. Meghan Markle (“I think she’s trouble”) she was branded a “racist dinosaur”... the deeply religious Widdecombe, ensconced in the UK’s “Celebrity Big Brother House,” didn’t mention Markle’s ethnicity or the fact that this is a mixed-race marriage at all. But given the psychological and strongly genetic factors that predict divorce, this whole marriage is “trouble.” A “super-forecaster” acquaintance–whose meal ticket is his ability to make correct predictions—reckons about three years to separation, five or six years to divorce. In the case of the marriage of Harry’s brother Prince William to Kate Middleton, only one of them is from a broken home. Prince Charles and two of his three siblings are divorced. Princess Diana’s parents divorced when she was 8, and her brother, the Earl Spencer, has two failed marriages behind him. Kate’s parents seem to have managed a loving and successful union and, perhaps, so will she. But divorce is about 40% genetic [Marriage and divorce: A genetic perspective. Beth Jerskey et al, Personality & Individual Differences, October 2010], so it becomes much more unlikely with Harry and the former Suits starlet. Markle’s father has been divorced twice. Her mother has been divorced once. Her half-sister has contracted two failed marriages. And then there’s her half-brother, a divorced alcoholic, who has charged with holding a gun to his girlfriend’s head in 2017. Markle herself was already divorced at 32, after just 23 months of marriage, sending her ring back to her ex-husband via registered mail. Her divorce and her ruthless treatment of her ex imply low altruism and low impulse control, both key predictors of marital breakdown... And Markle is also a very successful actress. The key predictors of success in the world of acting are altruism, extraversion, mental instability and being something of a fantasist who can escape into an imaginary world, a trait known as ‘Openness’ in psychology. However, it’s already clear that Markle is low in altruism, so her success must be down to her extraversion (which predicts risk taking) and mental instability, which predicts a very rocky relationship. Naturally, these two traits also predict divorce—see Fani and Kheirabadi, above—which explains why Hollywood is so liberally peppered with multiple marriages. Harry, of course, has shown himself to be an embarrassing risk-taker: the nude photos, the drug taking, the Nazi uniform worn to a costume party when he was 20. People from broken homes are prone to risk taking... According to evolutionary psychologist J. Philippe Rushton, we all sit on a spectrum between a fast Life History Strategy (LHS), typically black, and a slow LHS, typically white and, especially, Asian)... And the whole basis of their relationship seems to be purely physical; unsurprising considering Meghan has dated a porn star and she’s so shallow that she’d rather invite celebrities (whom she hardly knows) to her wedding than the perfectly respectable diplomat uncle who gave Meghan her first job. Meghan and Harry met in 2016, when she was in a stable, two-year relationship with another man, even living together in Toronto. But Meghan broke up with him and eventually bagged a prince who was utterly besotted with her, bombarding her with text messages until she agreed to go on a date... even Meghan’s violent half-brother Thomas, in his occasional lucid moments, has greater insight than the MSM does about these nuptials. In an open letter to Prince Harry, since retracted, he wrote that this is “the biggest mistake in royal wedding history”"
Harry and Meghan's brand could come crashing down after end of Spotify deal - "Spotify's decision to cut their losses and scrap their deal with Meghan and Harry could cost the couple $10million and does not bode well for their fading hope of becoming a $1billion brand... The ditching of the Spotify podcast now means the couple's last major surviving deal is the £81million ($103.6million) with Netflix, the makers of their controversial documentary series... Spotify also reportedly became impatient about the pace of recordings - 12 episodes in two years... the head of Spotify admitted he got a 'little carried away' and 'over-invested' in expensive podcasts as the streaming giant made a loss of £187million ($230m). Brand and culture expert Nick Ede told MailOnline today that Spotify will have pulled the plug and it is a sign that the post-Megxit wave the couple were riding is crashing. He predicts more brands will dump them amid rumours Netflix are also unhappy... Her decision not to be in London to see her father-in-law crowned King allowed her to celebrate Archie's fourth birthday with her mother Doria and friends - but it also gave her time to plot her next move in TV, books and podcasting, insiders claimed"
It is telling that I haven't heard about these troublemakers in a long time
Meme - "Prince Harry and his mother Diana's riding instructor"
Prince Harry Must Pay Daily Mail Publisher Over $60,000 After Failed Legal Challenge - "A court ordered Prince Harry to pay the publisher of the Daily Mail just over $60,000 on Monday, following a failed challenge by the Duke of Sussex to strike down a legal defense by Associated Newspapers, which claimed in a report that Harry attempted to mislead the public... Attorneys representing Harry argued an article published by Associated Newspapers in February 2022 was “fundamentally inaccurate” and libelous when it suggested he lied in public statements over his dispute with the British government’s decision to remove his security detail after he and his family moved to the U.S."
