#the suxs

[thewales]

The Telegraph

(…) At the time the Beast from the East was sweeping through the UK, leading to freezing temperatures, heavy snow and heavy winds. Royal aides were therefore surprised to find Meghan had dressed in a summer dress for the summit – as Kate, who was seven months pregnant with Prince Louis at the time, opted for something rather more conservative.

According to an insider with knowledge of the engagement, Meghan seemed uncomfortable having to so publicly play “second fiddle” to William and Kate as the superior royals in the palace hierarchy. “I think there was always a sense that Meghan felt she was a self-made woman whereas Kate hadn’t really had her own career.

“She seemed to feel like she had more of a right to speak than her sister-in-law, who had married into the family as an unknown whereas Meghan regarded herself as a philanthropist who could teach the royals a thing or two about charity. I think she found it difficult that the Royal Foundation was already a well oiled machine by the time she got there,” said the source.

Around the same time as the Forum, Meghan’s mother Doria Ragland flew to London for her daughter’s baptism and other wedding preparations but, curiously, she was never introduced to William and Kate – despite the Prince and Princess repeatedly asking to meet her.

Meghan always pointedly insisted on calling the Princess of Wales “Kate” even though the rest of the family referred to her as “Catherine”.

The Middletons also soon proved to be a bone of contention for the Duchess. She mistakenly believed that Kate’s parents, Michael and Carole, were cashing in on their royal connections to get special treatment. Harry had apparently already voiced concern about Kate’s sister Pippa Middleton publishing a book on entertaining called Celebrate in 2012, rather ironically accusing her of commercialising her links to the monarchy.

Another bugbear for Meghan was the Windsor Suite, the VIP lounge at Heathrow. Wrongly convinced that Kate’s family had free use of the facility, which usually costs around £5,000 to access, she insisted Doria be able to use it when travelling to the UK, allegedly citing the risk to her safety. In fact, no one can recall the Middletons using the Windsor Suite – although William and Kate do use it whenever they travel through the airport. Doria was spotted there en route to Windsor for Harry and Meghan’s wedding.

William and Kate’s superior accommodation at Apartment 1A, Kensington Palace was said to be another sore point for Meghan, who was confined to the rather more modest Nottingham Cottage with Harry until they moved to Frogmore Cottage in Windsor in April 2019, before the birth of their first child Archie.

William and Kate had not only used Nottingham Cottage as their London residence after their marriage from 2011 to 2013, but even had Prince George living with them there for several months – something Meghan either didn’t know or was apparently reluctant to acknowledge, preferring to think they had been living at the Middletons estate in Bucklebury, Berkshire. When Doria came to stay, she made a point of cramming her into the cramped cottage, insisting she couldn’t stay at the nearby Royal Garden Hotel because it “wasn’t safe”.

As well as seemingly resenting the close knit nature of the Middleton family – which was in stark contrast to her own rather more fractured upbringing – Meghan would “bristle” when praise was lavished on Kate for her mothering skills, wardrobe and general kindness. The Duchess was a woman in a hurry while Kate was the complete opposite: an introvert, uncomfortable with confrontation. Meghan was a natural oversharer while the Princess has always kept her cards close to her cards close to her chest. She was also seemingly unassailable when it came to the loyalty of their shared team.

While she certainly got on well with her father and mother-in-law, there was perhaps also a sense that William and Kate got on with them even better – and sometimes even gossiped about the Sussexes over dinner, as Harry suggested in Spare. Kate was also adored by the late Queen for the very reasons Scobie seeks to denigrate her in Endgame. She was “coachable”, “comfortable in her role” and “willing to bring the requisite smile and elegance to her duties as princess”.

Despite being comparatively less charismatic and an inferior public speaker, Kate was loved by the public for “never putting a foot wrong” – and carrying the mystique of someone who has never given much away about themselves. She was also a renowned clothes horse – and as a self-styled trend setter, the endless focus on her wardrobe appears to have irritated Meghan, who subsequently complained she had less help with her clothes and was forced to wear muted tones – even though she appeared in a vast array of colourful outfits.

It perhaps can’t have helped that when Kate was first introduced to Meghan’s best friend and stylist Jessica Mulroney, “she fangirled like crazy”.

But when Meghan became engaged to Harry in November 2017, sources claim that she may have expected to receive even more preferential treatment from hand-picked suppliers than she had already grown used to.

As with the family hierarchy, however, there was a pecking order: and to Meghan’s dismay, Kate always appeared to get first dibs on designers, including one of the Duchess’s favourites, Erdem Moralıoğlu.

“She was constantly competing with Kate,” said one observer, commenting: “Whatever she had, she wanted more.”

Ultimately though, there was only ever going to be one Princess of Wales, replacing Princess Diana in the public’s affections.

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[royalcyphers]

The fact that this shitshow has been going on since, at least, 2016 - and it's still only getting worse - is mind-boggling to me.

I really couldn't care less about these two, and I am tired of them and their shenanigans.

Just imagine how tired KC and W must be of it.

[quintessbrit]

They're finished. They're done.

[thewales]

I mean, she didn’t lie but I’m really surprised she said it so… publicly 🤭

From The Telegraph:

“According to Seward, the Prince of Wales cannot forgive Harry for repeatedly throwing Kate under a bus in his autobiography, Spare, with claims that the “formal” Princess made Meghan cry, winced at the notion of sharing her lip gloss with her sister-in-law and berated her for mentioning her hormones. Seward says: “Unfortunately, it points to Meghan doesn’t it? Maybe Harry was a little in love with Kate.”

What?!

“No, no, no – I don’t mean physically but mentally. Remember when it was just the three of them? He always longed for a sister, he told Diana that. Psychologically I think he just adored her and he was always there, at Kensington Palace, in their fridge, you know, ‘What’s for supper?’.”

“I think that Meghan must have been incredibly envious and then jealous of Kate. I heard Meghan actually thought she was going to be a princess and live in Windsor Castle. Instead, there’s William and Kate with this beautiful house, while they are stuck in Nottingham Cottage which Harry used to call ‘my hovel’.”

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[thewales]

🙂.

[thewales]

No way William reconciles with Harry during this time. He's the very least for his concerns. H&M spewed vile about his wife in his book and documentary, belittled her experiences with the media, and used a man in their documentary who is an open social media bully of Catherine. Harry crossed lines that should have never been crossed just so he could make a quick million. William is and has always been fiercely protective of his wife and children there is no way he is letting H and any of the drama he brings into their bubble right now.

Harry crossed lines that should have never been crossed just so he could make a quick million.

THAT.

[thewales]

the times:

The Prince of Wales has not met 'el pendejo' since he arrived in the UK and has no intention of doing so. Palace aides have made it clear that there is “nothing in the diary” scheduled between Prince William and el pendejo.

[thewales]

🫢🫢🫢🫢🫢🫢🫢🫢

[thewales]

WOW

The Times:

While some have attributed “recollections may vary” to Alderton, more than one source has said that the author was in fact Jean-Christophe Gray, William’s new private secretary, who had been in post for less than three weeks. At least two senior officials in other households were against its inclusion, because they feared that it would rile Harry and Meghan. But once the phrase had been added to the draft, it was — according to another source — the Duchess of Cambridge who pressed home the argument that it should remain. “It was Kate who clearly made the point, ‘History will judge this statement and unless this phrase or a phrase like it is included, everything that they have said will be taken as true.’ ”

[thewales]

Lately I've had an epiphany about Harry being ashamed to tell his family about Meghan's struggle with adjusting to the royal life, and I've realized he was not ashamed of her or of his inability to help her, he just didn't want to "lose it" to William. Again.

When Meghan started to crack under pressure, he refused to go to his family because it would have meant to admit William did a better job preparing and protecting Kate, it would have meant William was right when he told him to take it slow, it would have meant William's marriage had a stronger foundation than his and Meghan's. So he let his wife suffer in order to protect his ego.

You may have a point, Anon 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[thewales]

https://x.com/indieg2022/status/1734606955992555600?s=61&t=BoCfEDTnWWFanvwKiYhzmA

Apparently they do have the same title 🥴

Okay, this changes the conversation and Damn 😬😬😬 that’s a big difference.

[thewales]

O. M. G

TMZ:

Backgrid's lawyer has rejected the Sussex's demand, saying in a letter ... "In America, as I'm sure you know, property belongs to the owner of it: Third parties cannot just demand it be given to them, as perhaps Kings can do. Perhaps you should sit down with your client and advise them that his English rules of royal prerogative to demand that the citizenry hand over their property to the Crown were rejected by this country long ago. We stand by our founding fathers."

Backgrid says they had 4 photogs, 3 in cars and one on a bike, adding they "had no intention of causing any distress or harm, as their only tool was their cameras."

There's no legal basis for Backgrid to turn over its footage -- no lawsuit has been filed that would require the agency to turn over documents. Nevertheless, the demand was made.

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[thewales]

Omid Scobie is a fucking misogynistic son of a bitch. If someone talked about M like that he'd be the first one to do articles and scream his head off about it but he can do it because is Catherine he's talking about? Fucking weirdo frustrated that his golden goose has rotted.

[thewales]

You have to love the German 😭

So according to this article and the video, the police arrived not exactly because of the supposed car chase but because Harry’s security team was blocking the street 🧐

[thewales]

The Times:

This was, said the source, yet another example of Kate is often far steelier than she appears. “She does not get as much credit as she should, because she is so subtle about it. She is playing the long game. She has always got her eye on, ‘This is my life and my historic path and I am going to be the Queen one day.’ ” The toughened-up draft went to Buckingham Palace for approval, and came back a couple of hours later. The Queen had said yes.

[thewales]

I know it may sound silly at this point but it still astounds me that Harry is letting all of this happen, especially because it involves Kate. I always thought that he really did care for her. They *seemed* to get along so well! How can he see her being branded a racist and do nothing?

It's true that we don't know what actually happened. If that conversation even existed, if Kate and Charles were part of it...but even if it did happen, I just can't see Kate making a comment with malice about a baby..

Well, after reading parts of his book, I don't think he really liked, respected or thought highly of Catherine. In the same way, he didn't with William. The fact that he never clarified what Meghan said in 2021 and the fact he has said nothing now, confirms it.