But you are so gleeful to rebuke them, so i guess it's well balanced
The answer is target markets.
The book is intended for the American audience, because that is where H&M want to build their “brand”. They come across as spoiled and petulant in the articles about the book in the UK media- I’m not sure it will play out that way in the US. They might come off as victims of the BRF and establishment, which will garner them the sympathy and help brand building— the whole point in broadcasting their side of the story.
This is all true...Like you said, who ever was criticizing her ? She was pretty much unknown...a mediocre actress on a not popular show. I can’t imagine she was talked or written about then, so I doubt she was paranoid about that sort of thing...although I do believe she craved that kind of attention.
I don’t know why Harry cares so much...maybe because Meghan does. In any case, if they didn’t care, if they just did their thing, they wouldn’t have such silly and unrealistic expectations of the BRF feuding with the media. How does he not understand this?
I disagree, especially with Meghan. From even when she was a little girl, she was acutely aware of inequality and actually persuaded a retail giant to change their commercials. That is not a bad thing in and of itself, but it IS when she chooses to get involved with the son of the future King. I do stand by my previous comments, although I will admit that in this regard, I think Harry likely just follows his wife.
There did appear to be genuine affection on the part of both Charles and Meghan, although obviously a picture doesn't tell the whole story. Supporting her when her father was causing chaos was lovely. And the Queen also took her on a joint engagement early on and gave them both important jobs with an international outlook and there's been nothing particularly concrete in this book about why it crumbled beyond the petty and trivial even from people who say they've read the whole thing. That's partly what's confusing to me. Lightweight has many royal "tell alls" are I expected a bit more. Especially about the sudden announcement of it all.
Eugenie liked all the official "Happy Birthday" posts on Instagram but did not post anything publicly herself.
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We saw it on the screen - not only did Charles walk her down the aisle, but he was very warm towards Doria...
I think they expected the BRF to go to war with the media over their treatment of Meghan.....expectations that were always unfair and unrealistic. The problem is that both H and M care way too much what people think; they read articles about themselves as well as comments on social media. For anyone in the public spotlight, that’s a bad idea.
The answer is target markets.
The book is intended for the American audience, because that is where H&M want to build their “brand”. They come across as spoiled and petulant in the articles about the book in the UK media- I’m not sure it will play out that way in the US. They might come off as victims of the BRF and establishment, which will garner them the sympathy and help brand building— the whole point in broadcasting their side of the story.
Yeah most people are socialists when they are young.. but most people get less radical as they get older. I think that yes Harry (while he's not a card carrying Tory) just didn't think much about politics and didn't know much about them.. but Meghan has the "standard set of Democrat attitudes" and she's passed them on to hm. And maybe he reckons that now he's out of the RF, he can talk a bit more freely on these issues.
however with regard to Meghan, I think that (whatever she was like as a kid) nowadays, she may have some sincere desire to do some good, but - a lot of it is a bout the red carpet and ego gratifying nature of charity work. If they had really had a strong dislike of the inegalitarian nature of royalty, and had felt "we want to get out of here with all the grey men and rules and curtsies and so on... and do some real good for people in need".. they would have left, bought a house somewhere and lived on the income they had..and had a GREAT opportunity to do hands on good for the poor and needy...
The answer is target markets.
The book is intended for the American audience, because that is where H&M want to build their “brand”. They come across as spoiled and petulant in the articles about the book in the UK media- I’m not sure it will play out that way in the US. They might come off as victims of the BRF and establishment, which will garner them the sympathy and help brand building— the whole point in broadcasting their side of the story.
so why did they go there if they are not Canadians?Meghan nor Harry are Canadian citizens. They couldn’t just stay there. Meghan and Archie are Americans though. Also they can stay where they like. Honestly we haven’t seen that much of them... COVID or not.
As for people not caring? I would agree. Overall I don’t think really care about celebrity or royalty in general until something interesting happens. So I don’t know if people would show up to see her speak at event until that actually happens. The same way I have zero idea how the U.K. public would react if either returned until we see it.
People claimed no one would care and the reaction would hostile when they did their final engagements and that was far from true. We just have zero idea.
Time will tell though.
As far as I can tell, no one in the States gives a bleep about Harry, Meghan or the book. Of course they have their fans, but they’re just segments on Entertainment Tonight; even in better days, they were never making the evening news or headlines. H and M are completely irrelevant, not that they were ever relevant even in the best of circumstances. Their fans will buy the book, but why would anyone else want to read a book that is essentially a list of complaints by rich, entitled people who live off of their celebrity “friends”?
so why did they go there if they are not Canadians?
I’m a Democrat, so I’m sure I probably agree with her on most things, but yes, I’m sure that’s true about Harry feeling like he’s been freed to some degree. Though, personally I can’t take him seriously anymore as I find him self-righteous and hypocritical...not to mention annoying.
I agree with your last point. I’ve said it before, they’re so desperate for privacy that they left the quiet of Canada for the paparazzi capital of LA, specifically Beverly Hills? For those saying that Doria is there, they could have moved anywhere in the area, not BH. I think Harry and Meghan also wanted to be around their celebrity friends.....for many reasons.
Why not? They went for vacation and extended their trip. People are allowed to visit places. You can even temporarily stay. You can’t stay long term without getting a visa. Canada limit is 6 months. Neither being citizens made it complicated. But maybe they initially intended to stay longer. Covid changed a lot of plans.
They paying security now so would that had really mattered? They could have payed it there too. In fact we know they left before Canada even pulled their security, so clearly that was not the issue.
Yes they could have stayed there. Maybe they would have but let’s not pretend a lot of things happened including a global pandemic. It’s clear they wanted to be near family — so it was either his or hers. They picked hers.
Yes but if you are left of centre, sincerely so, you usually want to get rid of institutions like the RF.. or reform them radically. I Can't see any sign that Meg wanted that. She was quite happy to have the expensive dresses, to take the title and to borrow the tiara etc etc. I don't think it bothered her to be part of the RF in itself, she was happy enough to curtsy away to senior royals and so on.. as long as she was getting the comfortable lifestyle from it. But I think she misread things, and thought that the being part of the RF would mean that she got public adulation and never got criticized and didn't realise that the Press is always ready to bash the rich and the royals...
so she was rich and famous, she had the comfortable and luxurious lifestyle... but she wanted more. She was finding she was not immune from criticism. Perhaps she was a little bit irritated that she would have been warned that she would have to keep her political views to herself, and stick to non controversial viewpoints in public. but again I don't know if it mattered all that much to her in itself.
Perhaps she just saw the whole RF as quaint but its oddities didn't bother her because she felt that she could essentially do as she liked all the same. She didn't maybe take the strictures too seriously. But she found that she could not just do things as she chose, that the Press was not that nice to her, that the RF were maybe a bit snooty at times in private, she began to get angry and feel that if she got out of the RF as a fulltime thing, and went off to the US she had the best of both worlds.
They'd still have tax payer funded security, they'd come back for a few weeks to do engagements, and in the meantime they could make money, do glitzy charity stuff, say controversial things if they wanted to...
I suspect that maybe she saw it like a hiatus from a steady TV show.. where she could go and star in a movie during the off time...
Her attorney 100% did give info about the suit to friendly reporters for coverage but it wasn't just Omid. I remember other reporters posting the same info. Victoria Murphy being one of them. Jack from Newsweek being another but I am not surprised MOS focused on Omid -- if I were them I would too as his name is in the media currently.
The 20 page document also highlighted how the MOS purposely mislead their information. They even went to print with info before it was even officially available in court notes... all for clicks. Both sides playing too much out in the media.
It was wise for the judge to put an end to that (for now). And funny enough the coverage of this ruling was pretty straightforward. But that was to be expected.
Also her attorney was Johnny Depp's. He did the same in his case too. Media games.
I never said any such thing if you mean it in the American sense of Republican Party... If you mean preferring a republic to a monarchy, yes Id say most left of centre people would prefer a republic...