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thewales · 1 year

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I remember saying to @cambridgemadness, harry doesn't look happy and bradby is incredulous. This was one of the parts where I saw that. Bradby asked the right questions and harry wasn't expecting that, which tells me that he or his people didn't agree before the interview on what Bradby could or couldn't ask. At the end of the interview more than anything else, harry was a bit defensive but tried to hide it. I don't think this interview went the way they thought it would. I don't think any of this did.

The Telegraph:

Harry appeared to have turned up for this interview in the belief that Bradby would merely be a conduit for his grievances, a way to deliver them unfiltered to a British television audience.

But Bradby came with a journalist’s agenda and, politely, began to question what he was hearing. With every suggestion he made - that the Royal family will be reeling from the disclosures of their private conversations in Harry’s memoir, that Harry hadn’t so much burned his bridges as “taken a flamethrower to them” - the interview became testier. Harry’s face grew pinker.

He seemed incredulous that someone was challenging his narrative. Bradby ventured that William might view the breakdown in the sibling relationship differently - “I think he would say he found you emotional, defensive, he couldn’t get through to you…” Harry glared at Bradby. “It’s quite a list of assumptions you’re making,” he seethed.

Bradby suggested at one point that the royal strife was positively Shakespearean. “You’ve probably read more Shakespeare than I have,” said Harry, somehow turning it into an accusation.

Bradby attempted to lighten the tone by bringing up the chapter in which Harry talks about losing his virginity. “It’s four lines or something,” Harry said dismissively. “We can talk about you losing your virginity if you want.” Well, no, because Tom Bradby hasn’t just spilled the details of his first sexual encounter for all the world to read.

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grits-galraisedinthesouth · 1 year

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Hallelujah South Park!

By Maureen Callahan 16 Feb 2023 - 17 Feb 2023

Will their delicious take-down of privacy-hungry Harry & Meghan FINALLY make them see what insufferable hypocrites - and global laughing stocks - they've become?

Well, she said she wanted to be a cartoon princess. Now, thanks to the brilliant minds at 'South Park,' Meghan Markle is one.

In 'Worldwide Privacy Tour,' which aired Wednesday night, Meghan and Prince Harry were savaged as hypocritical publicity hounds who nonetheless demand to be left alone. After promoting his memoir, here called 'Waaagh,' the 'prince and princess of Canada' move to South Park, whose children cannot abide their insufferability. At one point, the outraged prince flashes his frostbitten penis — to a child! — while defending his wife.

As the animated Harry and Meghan toddle around the globe, holding placards that read 'STOP LOOKING AT US!' and 'WE WANT OUR PRIVACY!,' their entitlement, stupidity and lack of self-awareness was sliced through by a cartoon talk-show host with, in my view, better questions than Tom Bradby or Anderson Cooper.

Appearing on 'Good Morning Canada,' Harry and Meghan — the latter speaking inanities with a Valley Girl accent — sit down to a chorus of boos. The impeccable line of questioning beings.

'Let me start with you, sir. You've lived a life with the royal family, you've had everything handed to you, but you say your life has been hard. And now you've written all about it in your new book, 'Waaagh.'

Harry: 'Yes, that's right friend. You see, my wife and I —'

Meghan: 'I was like, totallllllly, you should write a book 'cause your family, like stupid, and then [unintelligible] journalists.'

Host: 'So you hate journalists.'

Harry: 'That's right!'

Host: 'And now you wrote a book that reports on the lives of the royal family.'

Harry: 'Right!'

Host: 'So you're a journalist.'

Yes! Exactly right.

Meghan: 'We just wanna be normal people. This attention is so hard.'

Waaagh!' indeed. You have to wonder what the mood is in Montecito this morning, the online reaction from us 'normal people' nothing short of a rousing standing ovation. Do Harry and Meghan get it now? Do they understand that they are laughingstocks not just around the world, but in the province Meghan values above all others — Hollywood?

'South Park': Grade A+. Chef's kiss. This was a perfect episode. The only possible criticism: What took Trey Parker and Matt Stone so long?Granted, it seems every week does bring a brand new hypocrisy. One must work hard to keep up. 'Because I'm from the States, you don't grow up with the same understanding of the royal family. And so while I now understand very clearly there's a global interest there, I didn't know much about him.

'That was Meghan Markle in November 2017, seated next to Prince Harry as they gave their first interview to the BBC as a newly engaged couple.A fair number of people — myself included — found it near impossible, laughable really, to believe that Meghan, creature of Hollywood and student of fame, had little idea who Prince Harry or the British royal family was. Or that this self-professed smart, savvy, well-cultured woman had not so much as Googled her fair prince before their first date. No social climber she!It all sounded very Yoko Ono, who, upon meeting John Lennon, claimed to have never heard of him.Now — could it possibly be — that Meghan was insincere? A newly resurfaced post on her late blog The Tig (think Goop, but more basic and obvious) reveals that Meghan was very familiar with the British royal family and with William and Kate's nuptials. She even wrote about the type of princess she, Meghan, dreamt she might someday be.

Hey, Harry: Don't feel too bad. Even Lennon fell for it. As he told Rolling Stone in 1971, Yoko had 'only heard of Ringo, I think.'Ringo! Not the world-famous half of the most celebrated songwriting duo of post-World War II Western civilization. When you're that well known, it seems, nothing is as refreshing as someone who claims not to know who you are or what you do or why people care about you. The implication, of course, being that said ignoramus sees through the veneer of celebrity to you. They like and love you for you, not the attendant wealth or social status or privilege or refracted fame that comes with being your other half. Here's Meghan in her 2014 blog post, fantasizing about becoming a princess while also mocking the entire idea, because she's just that cool and just that above everything, even a storied institution dating back over eleven centuries.

'Little girls dream of being princesses,' Meghan wrote. 'I, for one, was all about She-Ra, Princess of Power. For those of you unfamiliar with the '80s cartoon reference, She-Ra is . . . a sword-wielding royal rebel known for her strength. We're definitely not talking about Cinderella here. Grown women seem to retain this childhood fantasy. Just look at the pomp and circumstance surrounding the royal wedding and endless conversation about Princess Kate.

'Well, well, well. How will Meghan explain that away? Or as recounted by Harry, that upon meeting Prince Andrew she thought he was the Queen's handbag holder? Or, as she told Oprah in 2021, 'I went into [my marriage] naively because I didn't grow up knowing much about the royal family'?

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By the way, Meghan's 'grow[ing] up' would have been at the height of the royal family's coverage in global tabloids: Princess Di's supernova fame, the first future king ordered to divorce, Diana's death and the subsequent wall-to-wall 24/7 media coverage of her funeral.

Meghan would have to have spent her formative years in the Yanomami Amazonian tribe, thoroughly cut off from the modern world, to have known so very little about the royals.

How will Meghan explain, as she claimed in last year's insipid Netflix doc, that she had no idea how to curtsy or why it was important to show respect to the Queen? As she sat beside her husband, who looked pained and humiliated, Meghan characterized her first meeting with the late Queen Elizabeth, one of the world's most admired women, thusly:

'I mean, Americans will understand this,' Meghan brayed, because 'we have Medieval Times, dinner and a tournament. It was like that.'

What must Harry, who wrote in his memoir that Meghan knew 'almost nothing' about the royals, be thinking now? Will he think to himself that his now-wife knew well and good who he was? As Andrew Morton wrote in his 2018 biography 'Meghan,' her friend Ninaki Priddy said that the future duchess 'was always fascinated by the royal family. She wants to be Princess Diana 2.0'

This seems to be the root of Meghan's self-obsessed rage, does it not? She married the spare. She'll never be the next Diana. If anything, Catherine, Princess of Wales, is carving out a similar beloved place for herself amongst the British people. Meghan is the also-ran, attempting to run a rival court out of a soulless Montecito manse while decrying the uselessness of all things royal.

But don't you dare not call her the Duchess of Sussex!

Lest we forget, Meghan's overarching message since joining this family has been the smug, insufferable, disingenuous utterance, 'Be kind.' It's what she said in that first interview with Harry, claiming that she made it very clear to their matchmaking friend she had one non-negotiable quality in a potential mate:

'And so the only thing that I had asked [our mutual friend] when she said she wanted to set us up was — I had one question — I said, 'Well is he nice?' 'Cause if he wasn't kind it didn't seem like it would make sense.'

We all know now that Harry isn't very nice. You don't take millions from your father and cling to your titles while disparaging and insulting him, then tell the world — for years — that they're a family of racists before taking it all back and blaming the press for your woes while revealing all manner of your father and brother's private pain and intimate information and get to call yourself a nice guy.

On top of all that, we're meant to feel sorry for Meghan and Harry.

You don't mock the physically disabled female teacher at your boarding school for kicks, as Harry did, and get to call yourself nice. You don't double-down and name this poor woman in your memoir, blame her for not being attractive enough to make you 'horny', then recount the serial humiliations you subjected her to without ever expressing an iota of remorse or guilt or shame and get to call yourself nice — let alone a humanitarian and a thought leader in mental health.

Mental health advocates — these two! It's just amazing. No matter how many discrepancies, these two evince nothing, not so much as a blushing cheek or a head hung in shame. They're like two dead-eyed sharks, moving ever forward through the chum in their wake. They don't seem to understand that credibility and authenticity is paramount when trying to launch themselves as personal brands.

They also don't seem to understand what laughingstocks they've become. After the priceless Jimmy Kimmel bit about Harry and his todger, after Stephen Colbert mocked the royal family to Harry's face during his appearance, 'South Park' — a show that gleefully flays hypocrites of all stripes — has focused their ire on these two professional victims. No one deserves it more.

As the young animated character Kyle exclaimed, 'It is seriously driving me crazy. I'm sick of hearing about them but I can't get away from them! They're everywhere. In my f***ing face.'

A cri de coeur for us all. Alas, Harry and Meghan seem to lack the one quality that might possibly redeem them: A sense of humor.

MAUREEN CALLAHAN: Do Harry & Meghan see they're now South Park jokes?

#tom bower #revenge #sussex #meghan markle #prince harry #worldwide privacy tour #south park #brand management #spare us #like a spare #Youtube #maureen callahan

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theblogtini · 1 year

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Omg Harry said on Tom Bradby that his cocaine use was not a matter of public interest and that the real matter of public interest is the relationship btwn the press and the royal family?

Uhm. The - at the time - 3rd in line to the throne committed a crime. That’s public interest.

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royal-confessions · 1 year

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“Whoops! Pack it up, everyone: Harry just clarified to Tom Bradby that he wasn't calling his family racist in the Oprah interview, that was the press and you all fell for it! Shame, shame on you all!!! LOL this backtracking fool.” - Submitted by Anonymous

“Oh for Christ's sake, now Harry admits he lied about the racist in his family? Two years later! If he was really misinterpreted he would have set the record straight long ago.” - Submitted by Anonymous

“So according to Harry, Meghan invented the story about a family member questioning the skin color of Archie. Because she definitely accused the royal of racism with that. Two bloody liars.” - Submitted by Anonymous

“Bradby: "You talk about accountability, in the Oprah interview you accused members of your family of racism"Harry (shakes his head): "No I didn't"Bradby: "Right.."So nobody cared about your baby's color then? So nobody asked about it. Was it a lie from high of the moment, a figment from everyone's imagination or the tabloids making it up? If the answer of who asked that isn't in the interview or in the book then it was made up, a book where Harry wrote about EVERYTHING(even his and his brother's dick) EVERY FIGHT (from his brother to his brother's dog) AND EVERYONE, and the name of the person isn't put there, then in was just a lie.” - Submitted by Anonymous

#Prince Harry #british royal family #popular

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jerseydeanne · 1 year

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"The Duke of Sussex will promote his memoir Spare in an interview with ITV journalist Tom Bradby, it was reported last night."

#memoir #prince harry #tom bradby

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saintmeghanmarkle · 4 months

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📸 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑭𝒓𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒚 (Sept 29, 2019): Doria Ragland runs a 5K for 𝑺𝒖𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 while Harry and Meghan were on their royal tour in Africa. When Meghan famously told Tom Bradby on camera: "𝑵𝒐𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒇 𝑰'𝒎 𝑶𝑲" 🥹

📌 TIL that in September 2019, just a month prior to their royal tour of Africa, H&M shared a post on Instagram in observance of World Suicide Prevention Day, sharing a number of resources that can help those in need.

📌 Meghan: "Not many people have asked if I'm ok."

🤔🤔🤔

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submitted: December 22, 2023 at 15:11PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit

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the-empress-7 · 1 year

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Ratings: Just 4.1 million watched Tom Bradby's ITV Interview with Prince Harry. It was beaten by BBC One's drama Happy Valley. Respectable but underwhelming figures given the non-stop hype.

https://twitter.com/lizo_mzimba/status/1612384694259130369?t=FddYjvv0tzmJKS3xLlYIvg&s=19

That is underwhelming indeed.

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ingek73 · 1 year

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Press watchdog to investigate Clarkson’s Sun article on Meghan

Ipso received more than 25,000 complaints about piece in which presenter said he ‘hated’ duchess

Ben Quinn

Thu 9 Feb 2023 19.45 GMT

The UK’s press watchdog is to investigate Jeremy Clarkson’s column in the Sun about the Duchess of Sussex after it received more than 25,100 complaints.

The Duke and Duchess last month accused the presenter of writing articles “that spread hate rhetoric, dangerous conspiracy theories and misogyny” after he wrote that he “hated” Meghan and had dreamed of her being paraded naked through British towns and publicly shamed.

As well as announcing the investigation on Thursday, the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) said it was taking forward complaints from two groups, the Fawcett Society and the Wilde Foundation, which said they were affected by various breaches of the regulator’s Editors’ Code of Practice: clause 1 (accuracy), clause 3 (harassment) and clause 12 (discrimination).

The number of complaints to Ipso was a record for the regulator. The column on 16 December 2022 was also published online on the Sun’s website, but was later removed.

Clarkson wrote in the piece that he hated Meghan on a “cellular level”, and added: “At night, I’m unable to sleep as I lie there, grinding my teeth and dreaming of the day when she is made to parade naked through the streets of every town in Britain while the crowds chant ‘Shame!’ and throw lumps of excrement at her.”

In a tweet on 19 December, he stated: “Oh dear. I’ve rather put my foot in it. In a column I wrote about Meghan, I made a clumsy reference to a scene in Game of Thrones and this has gone down badly with a great many people. I’m horrified to have caused so much hurt and I shall be more careful in future.”

The presenter later revealed he had contacted Harry and Meghan on Christmas morning to say sorry.

But the royal couple said his email was directed solely to the Duke of Sussex and that “what remains to be addressed is his longstanding pattern of writing articles that spread hate rhetoric, dangerous conspiracy theories and misogyny”.

They added in a statement last month: “Unless each of his other pieces were also written ‘in a hurry’, as he states, it is clear that this is not an isolated incident shared in haste, but rather a series of articles shared in hate.”

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The duke called the article about his wife “horrific, hurtful and cruel” during an interview with ITV’s Tom Bradby to discuss his autobiography, Spare, adding that what Clarkson had written would encourage people around the world to believe it was an acceptable way to treat women.

The Fawcett Society is a charity that campaigns for gender equality and women’s rights, while the Wilde Foundation is a platform created to “promote, educate, empower and heal women and girls, victims and survivors of all kinds of abuse”.

Jemima Olchawski, the chief executive of the Fawcett Society, said: “Of course, the comments were deeply offensive but it goes beyond that. Clarkson’s misogynistic and racist views appeared in one of our biggest national newspapers, they will have been seen and sanctioned by experienced journalists before they were published in the Sun. It is this endorsement of these toxic views that is also extremely troubling.

“Sexism, racism and misogyny have no place in our society. In the UK one woman is murdered every three days by a man; women and girls experience violence, hate and harassment at the hands of men – and it’s views like Clarkson’s that play a huge part in normalising this.”

Ipso said it would make the outcome of the investigation public through its website and on its social media channels when it is concluded.

A spokesperson for the Sun said: “We can confirm we have now received a formal complaint from Ipso. We are considering our response. The Sun has sincerely apologised, and expressed regret at the publication of the column. We have no further comment at this time.”

#meghan markle #prince harry #duchess of sussex #jeremy clarkson #camilla parker bowles #the sun

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