Meghan, Duchess of Sussex III
Apr 11, 2022 9:51:06 GMT -4
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Post by Ladybug on Apr 11, 2022 9:51:06 GMT -4
I hope that you can see this link to Tina Brown's interview in the Telegraph. I am so excited for this book to come out!
Here are some relevant quotes on what Brown thinks of Sussexit. I think she's spot on with her assessment.
This is what we said here at the time! They tried dictating the terms without consulting anyone and it backfired terribly and made them look horrible.
*nodding vigorously*
YES! You can see how this played out. They thought they were the most popular, therefore the most deserving of the #1 assignments. Cutting ribbons at the old folks' home wasn't going to satisfy her.
They spent several months away and it resulted in their Sussexit plan. I think once she figured out she would never be on top of the pyramid no matter how hard she worked or how popular she was she just didn't want to stick around.
Someone send some aloe vera to Montecito to sooth this burn.
I get that the British aristocracy is hard to break into, but Brown forgets that Meghan also attended private school and an elite private college, was a member of a sorority, and had spent years networking in Hollywood and the Toronto social scene. She wasn't completely alien to kissing up to the rich and powerful.
I agree with this. That's the headline that prompted Harry's 'love shield' and William's statement of support. The palace had no idea how to respond to attacks like this and they never really learned how. Understandably Harry wanted to speak out about how offensive this was but it set the precedent for Meghan that they could speak out on every negative, false, or offensive story, and that just wasn't going to happen.
Ya' think?
Cosign all of this.
'Living in Goop'?
Brown thinks that when the Queen dies, Harry will break down and go home. He will want to be there for the national mourning that will take place. I don't know about that. I think he's really done for good.
Here are some relevant quotes on what Brown thinks of Sussexit. I think she's spot on with her assessment.
‘Frankly, I think they should have found a way to work it out,’ says Brown. ‘The problem was that the way Harry did it was so catastrophically rude that it got everyone genuinely angry and feeling that he just had to go. He was incredibly hot-headed about negotiating their exit. Dumping that website with all those terms and conditions before you have agreed it with the Queen? He just alienated everybody. And now, unfortunately, he’s paying the price for it and so is England actually. Because Harry and Meghan would have been an amazing asset for the Commonwealth. They didn’t understand the Queen was giving them this platform for soft power which could have been tremendous if they’d done it in a patient, strategic way.’
This is what we said here at the time! They tried dictating the terms without consulting anyone and it backfired terribly and made them look horrible.
‘But doing battle with the British media is a lost cause,’ Brown continues. ‘And, unfortunately, Meghan is as combative about it as he is. William and Kate calm each other down a lot; their marriage works very well in that way. In the Sussex marriage, they wind each other up and it’s Us Against the World, and that’s a disaster.’
*nodding vigorously*
‘Even as Meghan became bigger on the global stage, like Alice in Wonderland she had to shrink into the voiceless requirements of service to the Crown. She just couldn’t comprehend that. For an actress, star power is leverage. If you don’t get what you want as an actress, it’s, “Call my agent!” But if you’re in the Palace and you’re married to the sixth in line, however big your star power, you are not that important to the Palace. I do understand how extremely frustrating that was.’
YES! You can see how this played out. They thought they were the most popular, therefore the most deserving of the #1 assignments. Cutting ribbons at the old folks' home wasn't going to satisfy her.
‘I think Meghan felt she could get in there and change it all,’ she says. ‘Frankly, she could have done a great deal to change things had she stuck around, but the thing that’s most baffling is such impatience. She could have spent a year away and come back with a great game plan.’
They spent several months away and it resulted in their Sussexit plan. I think once she figured out she would never be on top of the pyramid no matter how hard she worked or how popular she was she just didn't want to stick around.
Meghan gave royal duty 20 months; as the monarchist Brown crisply observes, ‘Diana gave it 16 years.’
Someone send some aloe vera to Montecito to sooth this burn.
What does Brown make of the Sussexes’ allegation that Meghan was the victim of racism? ‘I think she must have felt extremely alone there. There’s only eight per cent of diversity in the Palace staff. All the other women in the family are white women who’ve been to the same schools or versions of the same schools. She didn’t know who to talk to to feel that sort of secure confidence with people.
‘Her entry into England was very tough. For a Hollywood actress, who’s used to soft access pieces, to have all of that media pile-on.’ Brown singles out the Mail’s ‘(almost) straight outta Compton’ piece, ‘which really does smear Meghan’s mother as a person who lives in a gang-infested neighbourhood. Utterly untrue. It was actually a very well-tended community. That smear would have been traumatic. I don’t think [the Palace] understood why that was distressing for her.’
I agree with this. That's the headline that prompted Harry's 'love shield' and William's statement of support. The palace had no idea how to respond to attacks like this and they never really learned how. Understandably Harry wanted to speak out about how offensive this was but it set the precedent for Meghan that they could speak out on every negative, false, or offensive story, and that just wasn't going to happen.
Brown, who lived in the dizzying vortex of celebrity during the Vanity Fair years, believes that the Sussexes are ‘addicted to drama’. Harry feels he can save Meghan in a way he couldn’t save his mother, which is poignant but also hugely destructive.
Ya' think?
The Oprah interview was desperately damaging to any relationship that Harry could ever hope to have with his family. And even that could have been gradually assuaged if he hadn’t then announced he was doing a memoir. I think the memoir was actually more breathtaking than the interview. It was like, what?! Frankly, berating the world for the lack of privacy he’s had and now he can’t stop giving interviews… It’s amazing.’
Harry’s memoir, she says, has the potential to turn the Platinum Jubilee into another annus horribilis. ‘William was disgusted about Meghan’s attack on Kate because she can’t answer back. But that’s nothing compared to how furious he’s going to be when this book comes out.
Because Harry’s not going to go after the Queen, she’s sacrosanct. And he probably won’t go after Kate, whom he’s very fond of. But he will go after Charles and Camilla and maybe William. And that’s so unhelpful to them all at this particular moment; for William that’s the big cloud in their relationship right now.’
Harry’s memoir, she says, has the potential to turn the Platinum Jubilee into another annus horribilis. ‘William was disgusted about Meghan’s attack on Kate because she can’t answer back. But that’s nothing compared to how furious he’s going to be when this book comes out.
Because Harry’s not going to go after the Queen, she’s sacrosanct. And he probably won’t go after Kate, whom he’s very fond of. But he will go after Charles and Camilla and maybe William. And that’s so unhelpful to them all at this particular moment; for William that’s the big cloud in their relationship right now.’
Cosign all of this.
The truth about Harry, she says, ‘is he’s so emotionally needy that he’s been completely and utterly taken over by Meghan and his whole personality has changed. It’s a really sad thing to a great many people. Meghan seems to answer some huge need in Harry and it seems like they are in a powerful co-dependency. And I do question how it will end.’
Perhaps, she muses, ‘he’ll wake up and realise he’s living in Goop [Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle website] and he has to get the hell out, go down the pub and see his friends’.
Perhaps, she muses, ‘he’ll wake up and realise he’s living in Goop [Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle website] and he has to get the hell out, go down the pub and see his friends’.
'Living in Goop'?
Brown thinks that when the Queen dies, Harry will break down and go home. He will want to be there for the national mourning that will take place. I don't know about that. I think he's really done for good.
