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Royal Family News – Meghan Was Allowed An Editorial Perk
Tina Brown’s new book, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor, shines a spotlight on Meghan’s disastrous entry into royal family, her equally bombastic exit and her current rescue chicken glory days with husband Prince Harry in California.
According to Brown, the summer of 2019 signaled a drastic change in the couple’s relationship with the media. Their son was born in May and they made the event into a James Bond type of espionage thriller, keeping everything top secret in a bid to keep their privacy intact.
Royal Family News – Harry and Meghan Made Like James Bond
Brown writes, “At the core of the difficulties was determining whether the Sussexes were celebrity royals or royal celebrities, two very different states of being … the summer of 2019 confirmed to the media that the Sussexes had made the decisive and deadly pivot to the meretricious side of the equation.”
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After snubbing the media and effectively calling it enemy number one, Meghan’s editorial lapse got the media very curious.
She recalls, “It was the Vogue project that was Meghan’s Waterloo. Celebrity guest editing is usually a risk-free media suck-up,” Brown writes.
Other royals had done the same, with far less scrutiny including Prince Charles for Country Life magazine, Harry for an episode of Radio 4’s Today show in 2017, and Kate’s attempt with Huffington Post UK. All of those instances were well received according to Brown, but Meghan’s not so much.
She blames Harry and Meghan for the fallout.
Royal Family News – Meghan Caused Fallout
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The Duchess of Excess wanted her try at publishing to be, “an authentic representation of her passions and personal beliefs.” Which is why when she declined to put her mug on the cover it was interpreted as a dig at Kate who was on the magazine’s cover in 2016. Meghan’s next muck up was making the issue about, “empowered female role models … including Greta Thunberg and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden,” but not the queen.
Thus, “The glossy package was seen as snotty piffle by the tabloids,” Brown writes, “a pious fluff package by upscale columnists, and a mystifying bore by traditional Vogue readers who would have preferred solutions for more immediate problems like where to find the best camel hair coat with a kimono tie.”
Sounds about right, it’s the same self-centered manure the couple have been peddling since their defection or as Brown writes, “That went over in the media like a flatulent blast of methane.” And they have been gassing it up ever since.
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