Jan. 17, 2025

Does Meghan Markle completely lack any sense of timing?

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Meghan and Harry's photo-op at the LA Wildfires has not gone over so well.

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Calorogus Shark Media today several articles about Meghan's pr attempts

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gone sour suits. Co star Wendell Pierce gets off a

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pretty good Megan joke, and we find out what it's

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like to meet Kate in person. Hello, and welcome to

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Pallas Intrigue. I am your host, Mark from Answers. Daily

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Mail columnist Maureen Callahan writes, Megan issued a statement on

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Sunday afternoon, day five of this apocalypse. Gird your loins

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for this one. I am thankful to my partners at Netflix.

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Those are your bosses, Meghan, not your peers, for supporting me.

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Me me, me, me me in delaying the launch as

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we focus on the needs of those impacted by the

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wildfires in my home state of California. It was vintage

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Meghan for a bose, vague, meaningless, and thoroughly unnecessary, Because really,

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who cares about what Meghan Markle is doing or not doing?

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Especially now, who cares about her ridiculous new Netflix show

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already tone deaf before the fires. Not the vast majority

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of Los Angelino's that's for sure. Most American families are

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still struggling in this economy. Yet here's Meghan playing Marie

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Antoinette in a rented mansion with her lady Bug cupcakes

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and long hair hanging over these ostensible edibles. As for

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who made the call to postpone this turkey, forgive me

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if I am doubtful that Megan did so unilaterally. More

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likely to my mind is that Netflix, knowing how damaging

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the optics, would be pressed pause on this flop in waiting.

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But it doesn't really matter, because I, for one am

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not buying the premise that Megan much cares about anyone

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other than herself, and the only thing likely to be

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cooked in that kitchen is Meghan's reputation, scorched beyond repair.

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In the Independent test and Dunlop writes about Harry and

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Meghan touring Los Angeles after the fires. In many ways,

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the couple's little walk about was reminiscent of the late

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Queen and Prince William's arrival at the twenty seventeen Grenfell disaster,

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a timely appearance that upstaged the then Prime Minister Teresa

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May and went down in a storm. But there is

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a key difference. William and his grandmother were full time

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working royals, engaged in the long established routine of glad

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handling and acknowledging, listening and platforming in the name of

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the British state. Hurrah for the institution of monarchy, which

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acts as a block against any insinuation that his members

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might be in pursuit of self gain. As we all

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well know, the Royal family have more than enough. In

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stark contrast, Harry and Meghan very publicly exited the royal

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stage to go it alone in twenty twenty. Harry was

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adamant that they would continue to serve, insisting that a

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life of service did not depend on royal handouts. Crucially,

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the Sussets formula involved making enough money to fund a

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celebrity Montecito lifestyle while maintaining their philanthropic identity channeled through

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the Artimal Foundation and various tours both overseas and now

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in the fire stricken districts of la It is this

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hybrid identity that trips up Duchess Meghan's efforts at altruism.

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First and foremost, she is an actor, a respectfully ambitious

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woman who made it in a tough industry on her own.

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That primary image is now tempered by an apparent broader

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queenly desire to be seen as something bigger, more profound,

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a philanthropic influencer, a community player, and it doesn't wash.

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Plottish Prince Harry could probably get away with a backslapping,

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hand shaking existence as a modern equivalent of the Duke

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of Windsor, on the basis that wants a prince, always

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a prince. But Meghan is a harder sell. She married

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into royalty but rejected the life that came with it,

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much of which is premised on funded philanthropy, while opting

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to keep the duchess title and do her own thing.

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However unfair, it feels there will always be a lingering

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suspicion that Meghan's end goal is not the philanthropic mission,

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but rather the Sussex brand. Pr expert Edward Corham James

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told Express dot co dot uk. I think Megan is

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stuck between two identities, the every woman and the duchess.

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To pick a lane. If Meghan wants to be aspirational,

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she should embrace her ex royal identity and lean into

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the glamour, the intrigue and the exclusivity, stop pretending to

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be relatable and instead own the fact that she has

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a life most people can't imagine own the out of

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touch narrative, but flip it. I've lived in rarefied spaces

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and i want to use that access to make a change.

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Megan could also take a page from the playbook of

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celebrities like Taylor Swift or even Diana in her later years.

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They leaned into their flaws, embraced their missteps, and spoke

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directly to the public without over polishing their image. Meghan's

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audience might love her more if she openly confronted controversies

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like royal family tensions, without playing it so safe or controlled,

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with a differing opinion and insight it to all the

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express Megan feels like this Netflix show will be the

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perfect revenge for all her doubters and haters. She is

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so confident it's going to do well and she will

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get the accolades she deserves for it, which will finally

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shut some people up. She can't wait. She is riding

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high again and she's so proud of this show. People

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tend to underestimate, but Megan knows what the audience wants

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and she is giving them that with this show. Wendell

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Piers best known two Suits fans as Robert Zaane, Meghan

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Markle's onscreen dad is back in the spotlight, and he's

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bringing a bit of royal banter with him. Now starring

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in the CBS police drama Elsbeth, Piers couldn't resist a

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cheeky nod to his former co star Meghan Markle. In

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an upcoming episode set to air January thirtieth, Pierce's character

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Captain Charles Wallace Wagner, assigns the titular detective Elsbeth a

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homicide case. As he describes the crime scene, quips about

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its celebrity connections. The last place he was seeing was

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some fancy spa where celebrities and the royals go to,

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and then, in a laugh out loud moment, he adds,

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the global press were already trying to frame Megan Markle

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