When your own family starts openly reminiscing on podcasts about the days when you “used to be fun”, you know you’ve lost the room.
Welcome to another week in The Days of Our Montecito Lives!
When we last left them, Harry and Meghan were shocked (shocked!) that her Geneva shindig was a bust and that their phones weren’t ringing off the hook from all their celebrity pals — whom they had so graciously invited to their wedding, despite not even knowing them — hadn’t wished them a happy eighth anniversary (No One Came, No One Calls: Meghan’s Geneva Flop, Lonely Wedding Photos & Hollywood’s Cold Shoulder).
Perhaps it was the never-ending rebrand that has exhausted everyone, or the fact that Meghan’s only real product she’s trying to shill is herself… and no one’s buying, but people are cottoning on to the hapless couple and their manipulation of charity to enhance their image.(Meghan Markle Is Her Own Worst Enemy: Aliza Licht Explains Why Nothing Sticks; Blake Lively, Meghan Markle, and Other Starlets Weaponize Philanthropy for PR).
But the snubs didn’t end there.
This week, they found out their royal and social erasure is officially underway.
Between a June 6th royal wedding snub that groups them with the disgraced Prince Andrew, and a Geneva trip that can only be described as a total trainwreck, Project Thaw is dead and buried. And they did it all to themselves.
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Left off the guest list for Harry’s cousin Peter Phillips’ June 6 wedding to Harriet Sperling? Harry and Meghan, who, alongside the disgraced former Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, are personae non grata. Talk about brutal company.
Meanwhile, Harry’s other cousin (by marriage), Mike Tindall, recently went on a podcast and openly reminisced about knowing Harry “when he was fun.”
You know who is fun? Prince William! The future king let off some steam and danced around with friends to Sweet Caroline at an Aston Villa game… a video Harry must have looked at with longing (and resentment)
Meanwhile, the royal reshuffle is taking place as the Windsor family aggressively fills the gaps left behind by various high-profile exits.
Out of the rotation
Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie have effectively been forced to step back from full-time, front-facing roles due to the ongoing fallout from their father, Prince Andrew’s, scandals.
The replacement guard
Enter Peter Phillips and Harriet Sperling. Hardworking, warm, and actually likeable — basically everything the public used to love about Harry. They are widely tipped to fill that void.
The commercial takeover
Outside the palace walls, the cultural replacement is equally real. Serena Williams has found a new best friend in Emma Thynn, Marchioness of Bath, who is capturing the public fascination and admiration for her stint on The Ladies of London that Meghan yearns for. Meanwhile, photographic evidence is emerging of Meghan attempting to literally copy Emma’s style by wearing the same or similar outfits years after the Marchioness of did:
Meghan blatantly copying Emma’ style
Also, replacing Meghan as a “fashion icon”? Harriet, who is now considered one of the best-dressed women in the world.
The Geneva disaster
Meghan’s trip to Geneva was a total trainwreck: her WHO appearance is facing major plagiarism allegations, she held a sparsely attended private pre-event setup , ghodted the main event, and sat down to a dinner with “really big people”… Finnish Minister of Social Affairs and Health Wille Rydman,
To top it off, she posed for a selfie with the Finnish politician, only to later find out he is currently facing active allegations of sexual harassment and racism.
Oops.
All that and once again, she posted extremely embarrassing yet revealing behind-the-scenes pics of her wedding, in which she focused on herself, Harry, and… Elton John (side note: HUH?). Not a loving clip of her mother, Doria, in sight. Now I’ve never been married, but even that seems off to me.
Then she tried to merch the event, but selling candles tied to the date (which, also, fun fact, is the day Anne Boleyn was beheaded by Henry VIII — pretty sure her astrologer should have told her that!). Let’s hope those candles had some wicks this time, eh?
But the reality is: Project Thaw is officially dead, and the scrutiny on Archewell, Invictus, and Travalyst is only compounding.
Meanwhile, King Charles is off fiddling, without a care in the World, in Northern Ireland —good for him, I say!
And while I am moving next week (and so will be unusually quiet), don’t worry… I will stil be tuning in! And so, until we meet again my fellow Lobsters.
Big kiss from me and Doug, The Dragon Lobster King!
