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All the og's coming back. All the lurkers using their voices again.

Fandoms (and i actually do not lile to call the royal watching space that, but essentially it is obviously) are most fun when interacting with other like-minded people. At least it is to me.

I really do think we're in the endgame now - it's the Sussexes' end or Charles's end. Or both. Either way, something is definitely ending.

Not just the media strategy, though - it's also William's insulation of KP; pulling his family, his staff, his foundation, his office away from London, away from the greater BRF, away from Charles and the BP/CH apparatus. I think that's going to prove important as Charles/BP/CH descends into chaos courtesy of the Sussexes.

Going by recent history, Charles and the Sussexes will get into tit-for-tat PR briefs and backbriefs and counterbriefs, everyone else (Camilla, Phillips-Tindalls, Edinburghs, Yorks) will also get dirty as collateral damage, but KP will be relatiively protected and, as long as they keep calm/carry on/have a slight uptick in their workload, they'll come out of this pretty unscathed.

And I wish people would stop treating Catherine as if she were made of glass. She is a cancer survivor mother of three, and has proven is a tough cookie.

Well, what you’re seeing is the power of the Sussexes’ “flood the zone” PR - they publish so much so constantly, one hit after another after another, to overwhelm us and provoke us into an emotional reaction, which plays right into their grubby little hands. They want the frenzy, they want the spiteful media articles, they want the press attacks, they want royal-watchers melting down because, like you said, it gives them relevance. It also gives them power, as the anon pointed out yesterday when she suggested that the older blogs coming back means Sussex Squad was right that the monarchy is dull without Harry and Meghan.

Which is part of the Sussexes’ cycle and the redundancy of the last six years — they make a big move like this, put out a “shock and awe” PR campaign that floods the zone, people get overwhelmed by how much there is, they react emotionally, the Sussex thing happens, the dust settles, and…it wasn’t that bad in the end because the Sussexes overplayed their hands, shot themselves in the foot, played victim too much that they ended up the villain, whatever it is.

Frankly it’s the only thing Meghan has been successful at — provoking people into an emotional outburst. It’s why I say she’s PR savvy - she may have failed at everything else she’s ever done, but she knows how to work PR to get what she wants. And what she wants now, with this PR cycle, is either a) her return to the UK to be so criticized and so condemned that it leads to a safety crisis (“see, H, they hate me so much, I can’t possibly be safe here, my (Feb 2019 claim) is coming back!” and she never moves or b) to be invited back into the A-List celebrity ranks via the BRF.

Martha Stewart just reminded us, with far lower stakes, what can happen at a dinner with a loose-lipped, full of herself Meghan.

They do. You have some articles that are straight plants, like the Horner one. They are usually published by younger reported who don’t have much name recognition yet. These are the ones we say are planted. Usually they are press releases the publicists email to the paper and the junior journalists just copies it verbatim. These are usually pay for play.

The more senior reporters (Jobson, Eden, Sykes, etc…) write their own articles based on calls or contacts. We call these ones leaks because the contact is usually a publicist working with the celebrity. The publicist doesn’t write the whole article, but they usually provide some language. The “private royals +” language came straight from a Sussex publicist, for example. These aren’t pay for play but there is usually some give and take between the reported and source.

Then there are opinion pieces. Those are sometimes pay for play but the reporter writes them.

Pay for play doesn’t have to be cash. Very experienced publicists usually have a long history of favors they’ve done for reporters and relationships they have built over time. When a celebrity hires a publicist they are paying for that history of favors.

The business is changing, though. Now you have a lot of royal reporters on Substack, Tik Tok, and YouTube. Those guys are not doing straightforward deadline-oriented reporting. It’s more similar to podcasting where you are engaged in a more leisurely conversation. That means they can be more independent and honest because they don’t have to rely on leaks and contacts. The scoop is not as important as the delivery anymore, so they discuss things more thoroughly. It’s interesting how they’ve changed as the business has evolved.

What racist press? 90% of the British coverage has been glowing. This spin is like the Emperor's New Clothes.

Louis might still be young but George and Charlotte are aware of their pain these two have caused to their parents. They might don't know all the details but they have seen the results. Charlotte is 11 and judging by the relationship I had with my mother back then, she knows and understands a lot of things. Charles doesn't care of their pain either, he had always had Camilla's grandkids as his and now he will have two more. The next 10 years will be brutal because they either stay until Diana's anniversary and get new things to say/write/monetize or they will stuck in Britain cause they would have nowhere else to go and gain money. I can see their kids ending up at boarding schools in Britain even in that young age.

@telegraph is again trying to sell the public a familiar story: that Harry should be welcomed back because he is a hero. But the record is far less flattering than the mythology. The Independent reported that he “slept through entire Camp Bastion attack,” and The Sun ran the headline “Capt Wales & the missed drugs test.” That is the kind of detail the polished hero narrative usually leaves out.

For years, “Hero Harry” was part of a carefully managed PR image designed to soften his worst behavior and distract from the racist “Paki” and “rag head” comments that damaged his reputation, along with the uglier stories that followed him for years — from roughing up sex workers to recreational drug use.

The military record is no less inconvenient for the mythology. Two American soldiers were killed in the line of duty protecting him after the base was targeted because Harry was treated as a high-value symbolic asset.

His service was heavily protected, tightly managed, and constantly framed for public consumption. That matters, because the hero branding was always doing more work than the facts themselves.

The visual record also tells a different story from the one now being pushed. The Royal Foundation created the Invictus Games, not Harry. The photographs show Prince William at the forefront, engaged and taking notes, while Harry sat back. Invictus was later spun off from the Royal Foundation to give Harry a project of his own.

The effort to turn him into a permanently protected icon may work on readers who prefer slogan to scrutiny. It does not work on the record.

Do you know why it worked so well the first time around? Because these campaigns had the full backing of the Palace. Here we are ten years later, and the Palace is refusing to distance themselves from what we can all see coming. Instead we have Charles doubling down on giving them legitimacy, and it will start with Harry being allowed to wear his uniform on Remembrance Day.

I see some accusing Charles new secretary. It reminds me sugars who were accusing Queen's secretary as the man in grey suits because they didn't want to believe that it was the Queen herself behind those decisions. He does what his boss tells him yo do. And if it's true they decided to move after their meeting with Charles then they aren't the best parents. Deciding to change a continent, with something serious happened, so soon it's not good parenting.

None of us predicted that they would fail so spectacularly.

As for security, Harry already gets security everytime he is in the UK. This extends to his family as well. What Harry wants is the kind of security that the King and his Heir get, 24/7 armed security. The kind of security he wasn't entitled to even back in 2018.

As for the Charles new Private Security to be, I am one of the people accusing him. Theo Rycroft isn't a free agent, he works at the pleasure of the King. Theo serves a useful purpose i.e. allowing Charles to keep his hands clean even though he is the one holding the proverbial gun to William's head.