Sept. 14, 2024

At some point this issue is Meghan Markle, right?

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The Hollywood Reporter writes: Looks like Harry and Meghan have done it again — they’ve chewed up yet another American adviser. Meghan isn't going to like that she's lost Hollywood.

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Calaroga Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Pallace Intrigue. I

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am your host. Mark Francis, the Hollywood Reporter, writes, looks

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like Harry and Meghan have done it again. They've chewed

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up yet another American advisor. Josh Kettler, the Santa Barbara

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based consultant who had been serving as chief of staff

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to the Duke and Duchess, reportedly resigned in August after

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just three months on the job, becoming the latest member

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of the ever expanding Sussex Survivors Club, as some former

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employees have taken to calling themselves. A source close to

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the couple tells Thhr everybody's terrified of Megan. She belittles people,

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she doesn't take advice to them. Both poor decision makers.

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They changed their minds frequently. Harry is a very very

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charming person, no heirs at all, but he's very much

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an enabler, and she's just terrible. She's absolutely relentless, says

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one source. She marches around like a dictator in high heels,

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fuming and barking orders. I've watched her reduce grown men

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to tears. Their unsparing portrait of her is in marked

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contrast with the kinder, gentler image Mirkael has been painting

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of herself. In recent years, the former princess has become

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an ardent admirer of best selling Texas self help author

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Brene Brown, who urges readers to cultivate gratitude and joy

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in their lives. While touring Columbia with her husband last month,

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Mikael said of her new attitude of gratitude that had

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led her to a chapter of Joy. If you're going

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to be grateful for your life, you have to be

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grateful for all aspects of it, she said. And in

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a recent episode of her Archetypes podcast, Megan spoke about

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the challenges she has faced asserting herself and overcoming natural

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reticence in professional situations. I find myself cowering and tiptoeing

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into a room. And the thing I find most embarrassing

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when you're saying a sentence and the intonation goes up

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like it's a question, and you're like, oh my god,

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stop like whispering and tiptoeing around it. Just say what

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it is that you need. You're allowed to set a boundary.

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You're allowed to be clear. It doesn't make you demanding,

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it doesn't make you difficult. It makes you clear. The

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pr battle between the Sussexes and Wales's continues, with Town

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and Country getting a thorough account of what happened during

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Meghan's recent bookstore appearance. Town and Country tells us in

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the puff piece. Meghan stood at the front of a

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new bookstore in the ocean side enclave of Summerland, California,

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over the weekend and recalled the last time she set

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foot in a similar spot. It was back in twenty

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nineteen during a covert trip to New York from the

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UK to watch her friend Serena Williams playing in the

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US Open. She stayed for a night in the West

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Village with another friend, designer Miche Nonu. Before anybody knew

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Meghan was in town, she went for a walk to

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a bookstore. For me, sneaking to New York five years

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ago was a really big deal, the Dudges said, describing

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how she put on a cap and kept her head down.

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I was still so uncomfortable being out in the world,

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she continued, hinting at that fraught time in her tenure

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as a working royal. The safety of what I was

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craving I knew I could find in a bookstore. The

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DJ took the Evening's soundtrack from Carol King to Chapel Roan.

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The party was in full swing when the Sussex's arrived,

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slipping out of a darkened range rover and into the

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evening sun splashed its store. Meghan, claddened an ivory Ralph

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Lauren tank and long trousers with a diamond necklace around

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her neck, greeted people with kisses to both cheeks, while

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Harry turned handshakes into backslapping hugs. At the end of

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the founder's brief remarks, as they thanked Winfrey for her support,

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Megan held her hand to her mouth and let out

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a whoo. The Sussex's then spent an hour deep in

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several conversations, moving seamlessly from one group to the next.

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Meghan said, I'm looking at this time as my chapter

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of joy. The more you are able to look at

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your life and really truly recognize and be able to

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be grateful for your life, you have to be grateful

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for all aspects of it. My intentionality is to enjoy

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this chapter and be able to love through every piece

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of this as best we can. Meghan also thanked the

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founders for not just creating the space, but for holding

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the space for so many people to fill seen through

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the pages, either in laughter and grief in feeling less alone.

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Prince Hary and Megan Minkel have reportedly been hit with

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a one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars tax bill

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for their Montecito mansion. According to recent claims, the Duke

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and Duchess of Sussex spent around thirteen point seven million

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on their seven bedroom home four years ago. Santa Barbara

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County figures show Harry and Meghan were charged one hundred

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forty thousand dollars in property taxes for twenty twenty three,

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paid in two installments. The property tax bill has increased

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in recent years, leaving the couple with rising costs. Records

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indicate that in twenty twenty two they faced a one

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hundred and thirty seven thousand dollars tax bill, while in

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twenty twenty one the figure was one hundred thirty y

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five thousand dollars. According to reports from the sun. As

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Harry struggles to make ends meet, Megan wore a diamond

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necklace to the bookstore. According to Royal Style blog Royal

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Fashioned Police, Megan wore the eighteen carrot for Tuna tennis

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necklace with diamonds in yellow gold from Logan Hollwell, a

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piece that set its square about thirty thousand dollars. Fortunately

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for Harry, the Queen Mother reportedly set aside approximately twenty

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three million dollars into a trust fund for her great

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grandchildren in nineteen ninety four, then equivalent to around two

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thirds of fortune. It was suggested at the time that

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Prince William and Prince Harry would receive the inheritance and

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two installments, one at age twenty one and the other

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at forty and tomorrow Harry turns forty. It is understood

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that the brothers received seven point five million dollars between

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them at twenty one, and were set to receive a

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further ten million dollars upon turning forty. Prince William, who

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turned forty in June twenty twenty two, went on to

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inherit twenty nine million dollars from the Duchy of Cornwall

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after becoming the Prince of way when Charles was sent

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in the throne. In addition to the inheritance from the

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queen mother, Harry and William were left around eight million

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dollars each when their mother Diana passed away in nineteen

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ninety seven. The sum grew over time through investments, and

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Harry reportedly inherited around twelve and a half million dollars

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when he turned thirty. Palacindri could be right back amusing

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to us is that something Harry and Meghan's polo video

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was designed to distract from Kate's video, whereas we feel

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Kate's video was to distract from a week of talking

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about Harry. Royal commentator Kinsey Schofield told gb News, I

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understand why a lot of people do feel that way

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about the polo video because we have seen Harry and

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Meghan's one up and ship in the past, like when

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the Princess's whale was announced, she'd attended trooping the Color

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and one of Meghan's friends uploaded her dog biscuits on

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social media. There are definite examples where it feels like

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Harry and Meghan are trying to steal the spotlight. It's unfortunate,

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it's especially unfortunate when this is such a beautiful video.

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Royal fans were quick to notice a surprising detail in

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Kate's video, a sparkling new ring on Kate's hand, which

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many believe was a gift from Prince William. The accessory,

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a stunning Eternity band, appears early in the video as

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Katy's seen driving. The thick gold ring, adorned with diamonds

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and sapphires, compliments her iconic engagement ring, which once belonged

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to Princess Diana. Kate is later shown gently running her

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fingers through tall grass, revealing both her wedding ring and

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the new piece of jewelry. This is at the first

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time fans have spotted the ring. It made a brief

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appearance earlier this summer in a video the couple shared

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to congratulate teen GB after the Olympics. Fans are convinced

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that the ring is a special gift from Prince William,

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with one commenting the new ring again definitely with him present.

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Another speculator the Eternity ring could symbolize a fresh start

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for Katy's She celebrates the end of her treatment, marking

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the next phase of her life, and there you have it.

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