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What if everything you thought you knew about Brigitte Macron and Emmanuel Macron was carefully constructed to hide the truth? In "Becoming Brigitte Macron," a shocking investigative report, you'll uncover the dark secrets behind one of the most powerful couples in modern politics.
The Macron legacy is carefully polished, but beneath the surface lies a tale of identity controversies, hidden truths, and political cover-ups. This book dives deep into the mysterious origins of Brigitte Macron, Emmanuel Macron's rise to power, and the relationship that began when Brigitte was a teacher and Emmanuel a teenager. Their story has been shrouded in media manipulation, missing records, and public relations spin, but now it's time for the truth to be revealed.
Why is Brigitte Macron's past so elusive? Why is there such little documentation about her early life? Why have key records been kept hidden, and why has the media been silent on critical questions regarding the Macron relationship? What is the true story behind their age gap, their private connections, and the accusations surrounding their public personas?
"Becoming Brigitte Macron" reveals the answers. Through rigorous investigation and uncovering startling facts, the book exposes:
- The mystery of Brigitte Macron's true identity and the missing childhood photos that raise unsettling questions.
- The real story of how Emmanuel Macron navigated his way from a young politician to president, with the help of global elites.
- Political cover-ups and legal threats used to silence independent journalists and protect the Macron family's image.
- The hidden scandals that threaten to topple the official narrative surrounding the Macron presidency.
This book is not just for those who follow French politics; it's for anyone who wants to understand how elites manipulate public perception, control narratives, and protect their own interests at any cost. If you've ever questioned the Macron administration's narrative, "Becoming Brigitte Macron" will reveal what the media refuses to cover and what the Macrons don't want you to know.
Get ready to uncover the shocking truths behind the Macron story. Buy "Becoming Brigitte Macron" today and discover the truths the world's most powerful elites want to keep hidden.
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The 29th Pure Gold Classic, William Wilberforce presents the very best of this great man's life and work. It includes his Practical View of Christianity, historic papers, and a wonderful biography of the man who became the conscience of the world and helped bring an end to the practice of slavery in the civilized world.
William Wilberforce, the son of a wealthy merchant, was born in Hull in 1759. William's father died when he was young, and for a time William was brought up by an uncle and aunt. William came under the influence of his aunt, who was a strong supporter of John Wesley and the Methodist movement. Disturbed by these developments, Mrs. Wilberforce brought her son back to the family home.
In 1784 Wilberforce converted to Evangelical Christianity. He joined the Clapham Set, a group of evangelical members of the Anglican Church, centered around John Venn, rector of Clapham Church in London. As a result of this conversion, Wilberforce became interested in social reform and was eventually approached by Lady Middleton and was asked to use his power as an MP to bring an end to the slave trade.
As a member of the evangelical movement, Wilberforce was sympathetic to Mrs. Middleton's request. In his letter of reply, Wilberforce wrote: "I feel the great importance of the subject and I think myself unequal to the task allotted to me." Despite these doubts, Wilberforce agreed to Mrs. Middleton's request, but soon afterwards, he became very ill and it was not until 12th May, 1789, that he made his first speech against the slave trade.
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“The godparents have been announced: Miss Sophie Carter Mr. James Meade Mr. Adam Middleton The Hon. Laura Fellowes Mr. Thomas van Straubenzee”
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540 American Kids
Obama-Biden never closed borders or provided financial assistance to the millions who lost their jobs & were bed ridden for months.
👉April 15th CDC reports H1N1 in US
👉April 23rd 2 USA kids infected with H1N1 Swine Flu
👉April 27th Obama H1N1 "no cause for alarm"
👉May 1st White House Press takes photos of H1N1 meeting
👉May 2nd Obama records "wash your hands" promo
👉June 11th W.H.O. declares Pandemic
💣October 26th Obama-Biden declares US State of Emergency
👉540 DEAD American KIDS before Obama & Biden declared a US state of emergency on Oct 26th! 6 months too late!
✔November 13th CDC Report by Dr. Anne Schuchat, MD:
👉 8 million American kids infected
👉540 DEAD American KIDS including newborns
👉4000 Americans DEAD
👉100,000+ Americans hospitalized National bed SHORTAGES
👉3,000 doctors ordered vaccine. By November only 400 doctors received vaccine. Long lines in 48 states & most people turned away.
💣Sebillius. "I hate to see people inconvenienced.
Talk to your local officials, go online & come back."
👉US waited for international (non-US) pharmaceutical companies to create the vaccine
✔Final H1N1 Data:
👉265,000 US H1N1 hospitalizations
👉60.8 million Americans infected
👉1 BILLION infected worldwide
👉22,000+ dead Americans final total
👉600,000 DEAD worldwide
✔Why did Biden-Obama wait 6 mo for National Emergency?
COVID 99.8% Recovery & far less lethal than the flu for in children. But during the flu pandemic, no lockdowns, no school districts on lockdown, no face coverings...
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Cover: Prince Harry’s amazing African tribute – Princess Diana’s legacy lives on
Page 4: Red Carpet – Galvan – Michelle Dockery, Olivia Munn, Connie Britton
Page 5: Leomie Anderson, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mandy Moore, Penelope Cruz
Page 6: Who Wore It Best? Rachel Zoe vs. Olivia Wilde, Larsen Thompson vs. Rachel Brosnahan
Page 8: Loose Talk – Chrissy Teigen, Billie Eilish, John Mayer, Zoe Kravitz, Sarah Michelle Gellar
Page 11: Contents
Page 12: Hot Pics – Global Citizen Festival – Kelly Clarkson, Taraji P. Henson, Chris Martin and Dakota Johnson, Katie Holmes and Jennifer Davis
Page 13: Duchess Kate Middleton and Prince William, Aaron Carter, Ashlee Simpson Ross with kids Jagger and Bronx
Page 14: Terrence Howard and Mira Pak and sons Qirin and Hero, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Hilarie Burton, The Bachelor contestants on their group date with Peter Weber, Camila Cabello
Page 15: Anna Wintour and Cardi B, Jenna Dewan and Steve Kazee
Page 16: Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Falchuk, Amanda Bynes, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kelly Ripa and Zanna Rassi and Zac Posen
Page 17: John Legend
Page 18: Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, Cher, Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez, Claire Danes
Page 19: Tracee Ellis Ross, Bella Hadid, Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska and Kristen Stewart honor Elizabeth Banks
Page 20: Instagram Poses – Sparrow Face – Debby Ryan, Lily Aldridge, Kourtney Kardashian, Busy Philipps, Squat Squad – Winnie Harlow, Kylie Jenner, Sofia Richie, Joan Smalls, Bebe Rexha
Page 21: The Flamingo – Khloe Kardashian, Kendall Jenner, Queen Bey, Alessandra Ambrosio, The Headache – Lizzo, Olivia Culpo, Gigi Hadid, Elsa Hosk, Karrueche Tran
Page 22: Stars They’re Not Like Us – Amanda Seyfried, Helen Mirren, Jennifer Lawrence, Wendy Williams
Page 24: Stars They’re Just Like Us – Jon Hamm, Katherine Schwarzenegger, Charlize Theron
Page 25: Jared Haibon and Ashley Iaconetti, Justin Timberlake
Page 26: Love Lives – Nicole Richie and Joel Madden share similar lives
Page 27: Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. true connection, Britney Spears and Sam Asghari stronger than ever, Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom to wed in December
Page 28: Baby Love – Tia Mowry’s daughter Cairo
Page 30: Hot Hollywood – Ashton Kutcher vs. Demi Moore
Page 31: New Couples Alert – Halsey and Evan Peters, Noah Centineo and Alexis Ren, Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin publicly wed, Jessica Simpson dropped 100 pounds in six months
Page 32: Angelina Jolie will never get married again, Leighton Meester’s maternal side, These mamas won’t be shamed for nursing their toddlers – Coco Austin, Mayim Bialik, Alanis Morissette, Kelly Rutherford, Gwen Stefani
Page 33: Jameela Jamil takes a stand against diet culture and unhealthy beauty standards, VIP Scene – Chloe Bailey and sister Halle, Amy Adams, Tim Allen, Niall Horan, David Spade, Sara Gilbert, Kyle MacLachlan, Mindy Kaling and B.J. Novak
Page 34: What’s in My Bag? Chloe Bennet
Page 36: Cover Story – Duchess Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s African adventure
Page 40: Bindi, Robert and Terri Irwin – their best year yet
Page 44: Hollywood’s IRL Superhero Squad – Selena Gomez, Venus Williams, Salma Hayek, Selma Blair
Page 45: Halle Berry, Sarah Hyland, Lady Gaga, Daisy Ridley
Page 46: Julianne Hough and Brooks Laich – power couple
Page 48: Gabrielle Union’s street style
Page 50: Beauty – fall hair – Mary Steenburgen, Michelle Williams, Kim Kardashian West, Naomi Watts
Page 51: Taraji P. Henson, Maisie Williams, Cara Delevingne, Constance Wu, Kendall Jenner, Joey King
Page 52: The season 4 premiere of Riverdale pays homage to Luke Perry
Page 53: The Buzzzz-o-Meter – Shawn Mendes, Kate Hudson, Cleo Wade, Jessica Alba, Kim Kardashian West, Jason Statham, Jon Bon Jovi and son Jesse Bongiovi
Page 54: Takes One to Know One by Susan Isaacs
Page 55: Zazie Beetz on Joker
Page 58: Fashion Police – Carice Van Houten, Cobie Smulders, Indya Moore
Page 59: Christina Aguilera, Rita Ora, Jared Leto
Page 60: 25 Things You Don’t Know About Me – Maria Sharapova
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"Where Are You Going, Great-Heart?" by John Oxenham - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry
John Oxenham
"Where Are You Going, Great-Heart?"
Where are you going, Great-Heart?
With your eager face and your fiery grace?-
Where are you going, Great-Heart?
"To fight a fight with all my might,
For Truth and Justice, God and Right,
To grace all Life with His fair Light."
Then God go with you, Great-Heart!
Where are you going, Great-Heart?
"To beard the Devil in his den;
To smite him with the strength of ten;
To set at large the souls of men."
Then God go with you, Great-Heart!
Where are you going, Great-Heart?
"To end the rule of knavery;
To break the yoke of slavery;
To give the world delivery."
Then God go with you, Great-Heart!
Where are you going, Great-Heart?
"To hurl high-stationed evil down;
To set the Cross above the crown;
To spread abroad my King's renown."
Then God go with you, Great-Heart!
Where are you going, Great-Heart?
"To cleanse the earth of noisome things;
To draw from life its poison-stings;
To give free play to Freedom's wings."
Then God go with you, Great-Heart!
Where are you going, Great-Heart?
"To lift To-day above the Past;
To make To-morrow sure and fast;
To nail God's colors to the mast."
Then God go with you, Great-Heart!
Where are you going, Great-Heart?
"To break down old dividing-lines;
To carry out my Lord's designs;
To build again His broken shrines."
Then God go with you, Great-Heart!
Where are you going, Great-Heart?
"To set all burdened peoples free
To win for all God's liberty;
To 'stablish His sweet sovereignty."
God goeth with you, Great-Heart!
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Catherine says treatment is ‘very scary, very daunting experience’ on visit to well-being centre at Colchester Hospital
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The Princess of Wales says that cancer patients ‘have to find your new normal and that takes time’ Credit: Stefan Rousseau/WPA Pool/Getty Images
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02 July 2025 3:20pm BST
The Princess of Wales has spoken of the pressure of putting on a “brave face” through cancer treatment and recovery, where “everybody expects you to be better – go! But that’s not the case at all”.
The Princess, who is continuing her return to public life while in remission from cancer, said there was an expectation that patients “crack on, get back to normal”.
But, she said, the “very scary, very daunting experience” did not end with the conclusion of treatment, with patients needing to take time to find their “new normal”.
The deeply personal words from the Princess came as she met patients at a cancer well-being centre at Colchester Hospital, helping to plant roses in a garden designed to help visitors find peace.
The Princess is gradually returning to work and recently cancelled an appearance at Royal Ascot.
Describing a cancer diagnosis as “life changing” and the treatment and recovery a “rollercoaster”, the Princess spoke of the importance of a holistic “mind, body and spirit” approach.
The Princess of Wales has spoken extensively about how she has found solace in the outdoors Credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA
She repeatedly emphasised the importance of patients and their families being able to find support through their illness, saying it was too often difficult to reach.
Speaking to patients and volunteers inside the centre, she said: “There is a whole phase when you finish your treatment, everybody expects you to be better – go! But that’s not the case at all.”
She said: “You put on a sort of brave face, stoicism through treatment. Treatment’s done, then it’s like ‘I can crack on, get back to normal’ but actually the phase afterwards is really difficult.
“You’re not necessarily under the clinical team any longer but you’re not able to function normally at home as you perhaps once used to.
“And actually someone to help talk you through that, show you and guide you through that sort of phase that comes after treatment I think is really valuable.”
She added: “You have to find your new normal and that takes time.”
The Princess met with staff and patients at Colchester Hospital Credit: Toby Shepheard/Kensington Palace
The centre provides therapy, community groups and holistic treatments, including reflexology.
The Princess, speaking to therapist Amanda Green during a walkabout in heavy rain afterwards, disclosed that she had not yet tried reflexology but had acupuncture as part of her own health journey.
The discussions were the Princess’s most personal and extensive insight into her experience to date, seeing her reference her own ill health several times while empathising with patients and families.
“It’s life-changing for anyone,” she said. “Through first diagnosis or post-treatment and things like that, it is a life-changing experience both for the patient but also for the families as well.
“And actually it sometimes goes unrecognised, you don’t necessarily, particularly when it’s the first time [of diagnosis], appreciate how much impact it is going to have.
“You have to find your new normal and that takes time…and it’s a rollercoaster, it’s not one smooth plane, which you expect it to be. But the reality is it’s not, you go through hard times.
“And to have a place like this to have the support network, through creativity and singing or gardening, whatever it might be, is so valuable and it’s great this community has it.
“It would be great if lots of communities had this kind of support.”
The Princess praised the continuity of care the hospital provided and the network of volunteers Credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire
Speaking to patients, including those whose cancer has returned and one who had lost his husband to cancer, the Princess asked how the centre had helped them.
“That first-time diagnosis is a very scary journey,” she said, referring to the benefits of having an on-site hospital support network where many volunteers have had cancer themselves and survived. Many newly diagnosed patients at Colchester Hospital now visit the centre immediately for counselling and advice.
“To feel a sense of hope and positivity [from speaking to people who have already been through it] is such a positive thing in what is otherwise a very scary and daunting experience,” the Princess said.
She added that “science has told us that the mind, body and spirit experience is so important”, asking if the clinical team at the hospital had given any feedback about how the wellness centre had affected patients.
After around an hour at the centre, the Princess moved into the RHS’s Wellbeing Garden at Colchester Hospital where she helped plant roses named after her.
The Princess got her hands dirty and helped plant roses named after her Credit: Toby Shepheard/Kensington Palace
Getting her hands dirty and asking if she could do a bit more work, the Princess dug alongside Adam Frost, the television garden designer, and told him she was feeling “good” and was pleased to be able to work outside.
In the pouring rain, as the engagement overran by about half an hour, she told hospital staff and patients who had waited outside to see her: “I’m just washing my hands – I’ll be back.”
She then undertook a walkabout, posing for selfies and group photographs in between asking people about their day.
Kensington Palace said the Princess was there to “celebrate the incredible healing power of nature and raise awareness of the important role that spending time in nature plays in bringing us joy and supporting our mental, physical and spiritual well-being”.
Catherine said she ‘was pleased to be able to work outside’ Credit: Stefan Rousseau/REUTERS
Wearing casual brown trousers, an open-necked striped shirt, jacket and trainers, the Princess arrived at Colchester Hospital with little fanfare, walking through the public garden as one mother told her little girl: “That’s a real-life princess, there!”.
The garden has been designed alongside a small lake, with ducks and ducklings walking among the visitors and a planting scheme including lavender, roses, salvia, allium and grasses.
Meeting staff inside, the Princess praised the continuity of care the hospital provided and the network of volunteers which saw former patients returning to help others.
“It must make a difference to people coming in here, in knowing there are people who have been through it too,” she said. “Even through the hard times and loss, there is a sense of hope and community through a space like this.”
“From personal experience,” the Princess added, holistic support during recovery “was that lifeline you need post-treatment, when you’re not receiving continuous care.”
‘A mind, body and spirit perspective’
The centre includes support groups as well as massage, reflexology, a family practitioner, advice on wig fittings, and a “cancer choir”.
“It’s looking at treatment and recovery as complementary,” the Princess said. “Looking at it from a mind, body and spirit perspective really matters. It’s great, well done.”
Hearing from a group of patients who credited the centre with supporting them, the Princess added: “What seems to be really fantastic is that there is a real personal approach: what helps one person – acupuncture or something – might not help another. Others might want different support and to talk to someone.”
“Having gone through it myself,” she added, she could now better understand the challenges of finding support.
“Some people don’t have access and don’t necessarily know how this system can help them,” she said. “Joining the dots for patients and families… while there might be fantastic community work going on, if it’s bitty and there isn’t one place and one body bringing these support networks together, it’s hard to reach out, particularly when you’re vulnerable.
“I can see it has such a transformative effect.”
Hearing about the centre’s choir, the Princess added: “Having these creative avenues is really fantastic.”
The Princess of Wales undertook a walkabout despite the rain Credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire
The Princess carried a mug of tea around with her as she spoke to patients and volunteers, joking that “as a parent you know you’ll keep losing your cup of tea” otherwise.
“It’s not just the patients, it’s the family too,” she said.
“It’s not just the cancer care, treatment, healing, it’s about the whole person – mind, body and spirit.
“We know now that all those three dimensions matter to the recovery journey.”
The Wellbeing Garden at Colchester Hospital, which opened in July 2024, is intended to be a “relaxing and restorative space for NHS staff, patients and visitors” and hosts activities for those in or visiting the hospital.
The garden is taking part in research for the RHS’s Blueprint for Wellbeing Gardens, which will launch in spring next year.
The visit came with a donation of 50 Catherine’s Rose plants, named for the Princess by the RHS, with funds from sales going to the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity.
Catherine’s Rose was unveiled by the RHS in May
A total of 500 Catherine’s Rose plants will be donated to well-being and community gardens across the UK this summer, including Maggie’s gardens for people affected by cancer, East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices and Horatio’s Gardens for those living with spinal injuries.
Meanwhile, Queen Camilla has hailed the “brilliant” Maggie’s cancer care centres while on a visit in Kirkcaldy, Scotland.
The Queen, 77, is president of Maggie’s and spent the morning visiting one of its 24 centres while her daughter-in-law spoke candidly about her “rollercoaster” experience after cancer treatment.
During the visit, Camilla spoke about the “brilliant” care that Maggie’s centres offered cancer patients and their families, adding that “there is something so special about them”.
Queen Camilla during a visit to Maggie’s in Fife Credit: Mike Boyd/PA Wire
Her Majesty also met with the charity’s founder and chief executive, Dame Laura Lee. Speaking afterwards, Dame Laura said: “It is always a joy to welcome Her Majesty to one of our centres, especially one she has never been to before.
“As always, she was incredibly generous with her time and listened closely to our centre visitors as they shared their stories. We are so grateful for her continued support.”
As part of the engagement, Camilla also met people living with cancer, similarly to her husband, the King, who is receiving ongoing treatment.
King Charles during a minute’s silence after laying a wreath at Kirkcaldy War Memorial on the second day of a visit to Scotland Credit: Aaron Chown/Getty Images
King Charles visits a centenary art exhibition at Kirkcaldy Art Gallery in Kirkcaldy Credit: AARON CHOWN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
During her visit, the Queen made a point of thanking volunteers, saying that the centres couldn’t “operate without people like you”.
Maggie’s provides free psychological, emotional and practical support for anyone living with the disease, as well as to their family and friends.
The Queen was also greeted on Wednesday by Sarah Brown, wife of former prime minister Gordon Brown, and Kirsty Wark, who are honorary patrons of the charity.
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(4) REVENGE: THE DRESS AND THE DAUGHTER - Satire and Scorn - Quora
"It was never going to be a dress.
Not for Meghan. Not after Megxit. No, her moment wouldn’t arrive under a flashbulb at the Serpentine Gallery, bare-shouldered and chin high. It would be quieter. Slower. Curated to the millimetre. Revealed on Oprah, immortalised by Harriman and released on a Christmas card. And it would not be worn. It would be 'born’.
Diana had a revenge dress.
Meghan had a revenge daughter.
The Christina Stambolian dress, with its own Wikipedia entry, had been in Diana's closet for three years. A black silk cocktail number—off-the-shoulder, knee-baring, unapologetically sensational—was always intended for maximum impact. In royal terms, it was too defiant. In theatrical terms, it was devastatingly brilliant. The very evening Charles fumbled through his televised confession about his 'homely' mistress, Diana emerged from her car like an icon of survival and sexuality. It was a powerful blend.
The image flew. Newsrooms restructured front pages. Style editors cleared space for what would become one of the most loaded garments in royal history. Diana’s dress said: "You don’t get to define me anymore." Not cuckolded wife, not mare for the heir and spare - WOMAN.
But Meghan doesn’t traffic in dresses - she has tried, and failed!
She traffics in narrative. And narratives need symbols.
Diana had already perfected motherhood - candidly. What she was staging that night wasn’t maternal redemption—it was womanhood. Independent. Grown. Glamorous in a way that rejected Palace protocols but leaned into personal agency.
Meghan did the reverse. She arrived fully formed as defiant womanhood—an activist, feminist and, as it turned out, an opportunist. But as the royal project faltered, she recalibrated. Now she leaned into motherhood: emotionally coded, visually controlled, and retroactively wrapped in monochrome and soft lighting with a narrative she hoped would echo legacy and loss. But where Diana had earned that legacy—through love, pain, and an institutional machine that ground her down—Meghan was borrowing the aesthetic without the weight. A B-list actress curating the aura of a 'Peoples' Princess'.
Enter: Lilibet Diana
Just as the Stambolian dress hung in a closet for three years awaiting its moment, so too did the daughter who was mentally gestated for several years.
Her coming had been announced—cryptically, and with great emotional weight—during the Oprah interview. The pose, the bump, the sun-dappled garden: it was the soft launch of a daughter not yet born, but already burdened with symbolism. The second pregnancy was framed not just as a blessing, but as a redemptive arc.
And the first thing she redeemed? Her mother's role in Prince Phillip's funeral. A side-show of maternal martyrdom that threatened to eclipse the 'main event'.
Her foetal presence was captured by Misan Harriman and accessorised with foliage. Named provocatively. Styled as innocence. Introduced not with fanfare but with strategy. Her existence first acknowledged in the Sussexes' 2021 Christmas card, cradled mid-laugh, mid-air, mid-myth.
The name alone was a flash of defiance. Not a sartorial two fingers to an errant spouse, but a full on flipping the bird to ‘the old bird’ who owned it.
Lilibet. A name born of childhood mispronunciation, first uttered by a young Princess Elizabeth who couldn’t pronounce her own name, and adopted as her name by 'Grandpa England.' It became a nickname used only by her father, her sister, her husband [see Morton’s footnote in comments]. The Queen once declared that the only thing she truly had that was her own, was her name.
And Meghan gave it to her child as her moment of Stambolian Serpentine Supremacy.
They claimed it was a tribute. But years later—after all the fallout, the interviews, the exile—Meghan said the quiet part out loud on her podcast:
“Keep it so close to your heart until that baby is born and it's named. Don’t ask anyone’s opinion.”
The gestation of spite was a two-headed coin.
Heads: the Queen embraces her. A Windsor christening. The Lily Font. A balm to a fractured family image. Proof of unity.
Heads: the Palace balks. The Queen remains diplomatically silent. The christening happens in California. The child becomes an icon of Meghan's rejection. An innocent cut off from heritage.
Either way—Meghan wins.
It is the logic of narcissistic narrative control: frame the story so all roads lead to you. All sympathy. All strength. All suffering.
When Tyler Perry was announced as godfather—through a Netflix documentary, not a press release—it became clear this was a production.
Perry himself recounted the exchange:
"I got off the phone, took it all in, and then called them back. I said, 'Does this mean we have to go over there and do all of that in church with them and figure all that out? Because I don’t want to do that.'"
So the child was christened in California. Off-cam. On-brand.
A pre-emptive strategy—a way of getting ahead of the rejection they knew was coming. Because the Palace was never going to give the Lily Font to a child who had been weaponised in a streaming documentary.
And in the vacuum, Meghan inserted her own mythos.
They said she was born into love.
I say she was born into intentionally created narrative warfare.
A child who, by her very existence, could be spun into either redemption or rebuke.
Diana's dress lives on as a fundraiser for children's' charities.
Meghan's vengeance lives on through her daughter.
Diana had a dress.
It said: I’m not broken.
Meghan had a daughter.
She says: I win either way."
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DeSantis clarifies comment that he would ‘sic’ RFK Jr. on FDA or CDC
The governor said he would consider naming Kennedy to a commission that would investigate government overreach during the pandemic.
“It wouldn’t be he would be the head of CDC,” Ron DeSantis clarified to Megyn Kelly in an interview on Friday. “That would be a doctor or a PhD.” | Charlie Neibergall/AP Photo
By ANDREW ZHANG
07/29/2023 01:43 PM EDT
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis clarified his comment that if elected president he would “sic” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on a medical agency, saying instead he would put the Democrat on a bipartisan task force that would hold medical agencies accountable for supposed government overreach.
“It wouldn’t be he would be the head of CDC,” DeSantis told Megyn Kelly in an interview on Friday. “That would be a doctor or a PhD.”
“I’m going to have probably a task force to go in there, hold people accountable for Covid, hold people accountable for what [has] happened,” DeSantis continued. “It would be more in that role that I’d want to get a bipartisan group of people together who understand the problem, understand the federal government’s Covid response was a disaster.”
On Tuesday, DeSantis suggested to Clay Travis on OutKick that he saw a role for Kennedy on a medical-related federal agency, noting that they align on many conservative viewpoints about vaccines and the government’s response to Covid. Several Republicans, including former vice president Mike Pence, were quick to criticize him in response.
“If you’re president, sic him on the FDA if he’d be willing to serve,” DeSantis said on Tuesday — a role that he clarified on Saturday would be “outside” any particular agency.
In the Friday interview, DeSantis said he would look to nominate to medical agencies people like Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford University professor who was a notable early opponent of lockdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic and opponent of mask mandates and vaccine passports. He also touted a pandemic policy approach of returning to normal life while protecting low-risk groups. In April 2021, Bhattacharya served on a roundtable for DeSantis around alleged censorship from technology companies during the pandemic.
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The RFK Jr. Virus
by James B. Meigs
Walk into any New Age crystal shop in Sedona, Arizona, or a hot-yoga studio in Oakland, California, or maybe a socialist bookshop in Boston, Massachusetts. Look around for the kookiest granola grandma you can find. You know the type. She’ll drive up in a battered Prius with a peeling No Nukes bumper sticker. And she’ll probably be wearing purple sneakers.
Talk to this sweet lady for five minutes and you will likely learn which planet is rising in her zodiac sign. Ask about her health and she’ll tell you about her detoxifying juice fasts and how she avoids radiation from cellphone towers. She thinks Big Pharma is a big conspiracy and that vaccines aren’t “natural.” She doesn’t trust doctors but does rely on tarot cards when making life decisions. Oh, and the aliens definitely are coming, but she hopes they’ll be “higher beings.”
It’s all cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, but mostly harmless. Now let’s turn to our new secretary of health and human services. He agrees with our hippie grandma about everything from vaccines to the dangers of cellphones. (He hasn’t gone on the record regarding tarot cards.) But where she is responsible for only a houseful of cats, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now in charge of our country’s entire bureaucracy governing health care, pharmaceutical safety, and medical research.
What could go wrong?
It’s hard to believe (but also weirdly predictable) that this lifelong Democrat and environmental grifter became a hero to the MAGA movement. A scattergram of RFK Jr.’s beliefs would map almost precisely with the ideas embraced by the wackiest characters on Fred Armisen’s Portlandia series combined with a smattering of X-Files conspiracy theories. It’s all late-20th-century leftism meets crunchy alternative lifestyles meets anti-American paranoia.
Like a 1970s commune member, RFK Jr. drinks unpasteurized milk and thinks we should go back to preindustrial methods of farming. He doesn’t approve of fertilizer or GMO crops (not even the “golden rice” genetically modified to boost vitamin A in the diets of poor children at risk of blindness and death). In fact, Kennedy is suspicious of modern technology in general. He led the campaign to shut down the Hudson Valley’s safe and carbon-free Indian Point nuclear power plant. He thinks 5G cellular networks are a plot to control users and told Joe Rogan that Wi-Fi “opens your blood-brain barrier” to toxins.
RFK Jr. famously went to Harvard (where he apparently majored in drug dealing, according to classmate Kurt Andersen). But he seems to have received his real education—the one that stuck—at the Howard Zinn/Oliver Stone Academy. Kennedy has never met an anti-American conspiracy theory he doesn’t like. He believes the CIA killed his uncle John F. Kennedy, and that his own father, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, was also the victim of a plot (and not one conducted by the Palestinian assassin who repeatedly wrote “RFK Must Die!” in his notebooks). Did you know government planes are spraying dangerous “chemtrails” in the sky? RFK Jr. thinks DARPA is responsible. Is our government hiding crashed UFOs? Maybe. “I suppose they want to keep it secret so they can weaponize these technologies,” he mused last year. Was 9/11 an inside job? Kennedy says he “won’t take sides” on the question but ominously notes, “There’s strange things that happened.” Was Covid-19 a global conspiracy? Absolutely. Kennedy wrote a whole book about that one, The Real Anthony Fauci, which asserts that Fauci and his co-conspirator Bill Gates launched “a historic coup d’état against Western democracy.”
Kennedy is best known, of course, for his decades-long battle against vaccines. In 2005, he published a long screed in Rolling Stone (and on the Salon website) alleging that vaccines were responsible for the rise in autism diagnoses. Filled with errors and wild allegations, the piece became a journalistic scandal. Both publications eventually pulled the story. (Rather than repeat the overwhelming case against the autism claim, let me recommend Seth Mnookin’s book, The Panic Virus. Alternatively, I suggest visiting any cemetery populated before World War II and counting the number of single-digit lifespans chiseled in stone.) But RFK Jr. is oddly immune to scandal and remains unembarrassed in his anti-vaccine beliefs.
He’s getting results. Thanks partly to his efforts, vaccination rates keep falling in the United States. Childhood diseases that were nearly banished are bouncing back. A measles outbreak is currently spreading across the country, with close to 1,000 cases and three deaths so far. RFK Jr. has made one tepid statement in support of measles vaccines. But his heart clearly wasn’t in it. He soon pivoted back to telling Sean Hannity that the measles vaccine actually causes diseases, and directing the CDC to focus on alternative treatments such as vitamins.
Still, like most cranks, RFK Jr. occasionally hits on the truth. He’s right that there’s too much sugar and other junk in the American diet. And, yes, our public health authorities overreached egregiously in their pandemic policies. But far more often, our new health czar simply mixes some dollops of reality into a toxic stew of crackpot ideas and paranoid fantasies.
Kennedy’s Covid theories are typical: It’s true that the U.S. funded some gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. And, as I’ve written too many times to count, it is a huge scandal that Fauci and others tried to cover up that history. But it’s not true that the U.S. was secretly “developing ethnically targeted bioweapons,” as Kennedy said at a New York press dinner in 2023. And it is something like a blood libel to assert that “Covid-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.” He added that he doesn’t know whether that targeting was “deliberate.” But the damage was done.
In RFK Jr.’s paranoid worldview, there is always a “they” behind the scenes. The people he calls “globalists” or the “new oligarchy” are controlling world events. They don’t want us to know the truth about 9/11. They are suppressing natural cures in order to pump us full of expensive drugs. They “must be stopped.” I don’t think I have to remind COMMENTARY’s readers who this unspecified “they” usually turns out to be once this kind of thinking takes root in a society.
Like a true conspiracy theorist, Kennedy is immovable in his conviction that he alone knows the truth; no quantity of factual evidence can change his mind. He’s done his own research! In his Fauci book, Kennedy proudly outlines his antipathy toward modern science in general. The real enemy, he writes, is “the century-old predominance of germ theory.” That’s right, folks. Our new head of HHS doesn’t believe germs are the main cause of infectious disease. It’s like learning that the new NASA administrator thinks the Earth is flat. To him, the discovery of pathogens—the most important advance in the history of medicine—is just another plot, this time to help Big Pharma push “patented pills, powders, pricks, potions, and poisons” instead of “fortifying the immune system through healthy living, clean water, and good nutrition.”
This is wacko logic of the silliest sort. But when combined with Kennedy’s conspiracy-minded vindictiveness, it can also be deadly. Trump promised he would let Kennedy “go wild on the medicines.” What will happen if RFK Jr. succeeds in bringing the pharmaceutical industry into compliance with his 18th-century view of disease? It is a sign of Trump’s solipsistic recklessness that he couldn’t care less about any of this.
It’s too soon to say just how wild Kennedy might go on our public health system. The measles outbreak keeps spreading, and avian flu is ripping through America’s farms. But our HHS secretary can barely bestir himself to focus on those problems (except to advise letting bird flu “run through the flock.”) In contrast, he showed giddy enthusiasm at a recent press conference announcing plans to remove artificial colors from breakfast cereals and other products. “We have them on the run now,” he said of the food companies.
While new and resurgent diseases circulate menacingly, our nation’s top health official is bravely manning the barricades, protecting our children from…Fruit Loops.
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