Harry and Meghan

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Welshbeef

49,633 posts

198 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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Lord Marylebone said:
You are utterly deluded if you genuinely think that his earning ability is £35k per year.

There will be global brands queuing up to work with him.

Headlines should usually be taken with a pinch of salt, but even if they are half-correct then he will be raking it in.

“Billionaire business leaders are in a 'gold rush' to work with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry - and the couple are set to be invited to speak at Davos in 2021, source claims”
No - if as he stated he doesn’t want Press involved then that is diminished.
Unsure what he can add at Davos TBH ?

Dr Murdoch

3,444 posts

135 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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Lord Marylebone said:
You are utterly deluded if you genuinely think that his earning ability is £35k per year.
Can a handyman expect more than £35k?



Dr Doofenshmirtz

15,225 posts

200 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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Welshbeef said:
Unsure what he can add at Davos TBH ?
I imagine it'll be something along the lines of suggesting us minions shouldn't be flying on planes to go on holiday...or some other such 'do as I say' mantra.

anonymous-user

54 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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Welshbeef said:
if as he stated he doesn’t want Press involved then that is diminished
This is the bit I can’t get my head round.
They appear to be relying, deliberately or otherwise, on their celebrity status to bring home the bacon.
And yet they’ve made it clear they don’t want the media involvement which is somewhat essential to maintaining celebrity points.

anonymous-user

54 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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Welshbeef said:
Lord Marylebone said:
You are utterly deluded if you genuinely think that his earning ability is £35k per year.

There will be global brands queuing up to work with him.

Headlines should usually be taken with a pinch of salt, but even if they are half-correct then he will be raking it in.

“Billionaire business leaders are in a 'gold rush' to work with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry - and the couple are set to be invited to speak at Davos in 2021, source claims”
No - if as he stated he doesn’t want Press involved then that is diminished.
Unsure what he can add at Davos TBH ?
If I was guessing, I would say he will most likely be offered well paying non-exec director roles with various companies and global charities.

He will be free to take several roles as they only require a day or so per month each. That will mean he can collect a few hundred thousand a year whilst still having a 'flexible' lifestyle.

Doing those sort of roles won't mean he has to be in the public eye much.

eldar

21,740 posts

196 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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Wills2 said:
No that's called Le Big Mac...

No imagination, the French.........

kev1974

4,029 posts

129 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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Lord Marylebone said:
Welshbeef said:
Given Harry was punching well above his level with Megan / but countered by being a Prince isn’t the reality now his earning ability is what £35k pa which is his only paid job he has had to date.

If he is expecting her to get back to work with him doing Invictus every 2 years then perfecting his skills on fiddly winks in between I’d wager she will boot him out
You are utterly deluded if you genuinely think that his earning ability is £35k per year.

There will be global brands queuing up to work with him.

Headlines should usually be taken with a pinch of salt, but even if they are half-correct then he will be raking it in.

“Billionaire business leaders are in a 'gold rush' to work with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry - and the couple are set to be invited to speak at Davos in 2021, source claims”
Who / why? The only thing interesting/exciting about the guy boiled down to him being royal ... he's effectively no longer royal ... contestants on next summer's series of Love Island have more going for them now!

There's only so many dinner audiences / sponsors that will pay to hear him bleat about not having a mother etc, there will be a new series of X-Factor along soon enough to supply those sorts of sob story.

His brand is absolutely tarnished now by their shoddy handling over the last couple of months, nobody is going to care what sort of toothpaste or cheeseburgers he gets paid to tweet his love for any more than they care what products Katie Price puts her face to.

Ayahuasca

27,427 posts

279 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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Interesting that H&M have stated that her majesty has no control over the use of the word ‘royal’ outside the UK.

anonymous-user

54 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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kev1974 said:
Who / why? The only thing interesting/exciting about the guy boiled down to him being royal ... he's effectively no longer royal ... contestants on next summer's series of Love Island have more going for them now!

There's only so many dinner audiences / sponsors that will pay to hear him bleat about not having a mother etc, there will be a new series of X-Factor along soon enough to supply those sorts of sob story.

His brand is absolutely tarnished now by their shoddy handling over the last couple of months, nobody is going to care what sort of toothpaste or cheeseburgers he gets paid to tweet his love for any more than they care what products Katie Price puts her face to.
I think you are underestimating his global status as a brand or as a 'name'. Some of the British public may feel his brand is tarnished, but the rest of the world is a different matter. North America won't be able to get enough of him/them.

Companies will be queuing up to have him on their Board. They won't even need him to do much, just simply being able to tell people he is working for them will be enough.

I'm happy to be wrong about this, but I can see him easily getting some extremely agreeable work opportunities.

768

13,677 posts

96 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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Ayahuasca said:
Interesting that H&M have stated that her majesty has no control over the use of the word ‘royal’ outside the UK.
Petulantly - they don't have the backbone to use it because they won't give up Frogmore and the income they continue to get.

kev1974

4,029 posts

129 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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Lord Marylebone said:
kev1974 said:
Who / why? The only thing interesting/exciting about the guy boiled down to him being royal ... he's effectively no longer royal ... contestants on next summer's series of Love Island have more going for them now!

There's only so many dinner audiences / sponsors that will pay to hear him bleat about not having a mother etc, there will be a new series of X-Factor along soon enough to supply those sorts of sob story.

His brand is absolutely tarnished now by their shoddy handling over the last couple of months, nobody is going to care what sort of toothpaste or cheeseburgers he gets paid to tweet his love for any more than they care what products Katie Price puts her face to.
I think you are underestimating his global status as a brand or as a 'name'. Some of the British public may feel his brand is tarnished, but the rest of the world is a different matter. North America won't be able to get enough of him/them.

Companies will be queuing up to have him on their Board. They won't even need him to do much, just simply being able to tell people he is working for them will be enough.

I'm happy to be wrong about this, but I can see him easily getting some extremely agreeable work opportunities.
Honestly can't see it. What companies, US or other, want a known quitter on their board?

Sarah Ferguson was famous for exploiting her royal connections on US shopping channels ... never quite managed to earn enough to pay all her bills though.

You only have to look at the comments on their Sussex Royal instagram page, which will be coming from all over the world not just UK, to gauge global public opinion of them, and see that it is somewhat negative. A cynic might say that since they got rid of the 15 staff the other week, nobody is deleting and sanitising the comments as fast as they are posted now.

anonymous-user

54 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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The Royal Scam - Steely Dan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zu4ON8D0fk

And they wandered in
From the city of St. John
Without a dime
Wearing coats that shined
Both red and green
Colors from their sunny island
From their boats of iron
They looked upon the promised land
Where surely life was sweet
On the rising tide
To New York City
Did they ride into the street

See the glory
Of the royal scam

By the blackened wall
He does it all
He thinks he's died and gone to heaven
Now the tale is told
By the old man back home
He reads the letter
How they are paid in gold
Just to babble in the back room
All night and waste their time
And they wandered in
From the city of St. John without a dime

See the glory
Of the royal scam

anonymous-user

54 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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kev1974 said:
Honestly can't see it. What companies, US or other, want a known quitter on their board?

Sarah Ferguson was famous for exploiting her royal connections on US shopping channels ... never quite managed to earn enough to pay all her bills though.

You only have to look at the comments on their Sussex Royal instagram page, which will be coming from all over the world not just UK, to gauge global public opinion of them, and see that it is somewhat negative. A cynic might say that since they got rid of the 15 staff the other week, nobody is deleting and sanitising the comments as fast as they are posted now.
Anything is possible.

I guess we will just have to wait and see what transpires.

Mort7

1,487 posts

108 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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£85000 per Instagram post?

https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1245779/megha...

Markle already operating as 'Sussex Global'?

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/1246325/...

Remember the days when the Daily Express was in awe of the Royals?

anonymous-user

54 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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Mort7 said:
£85000 per Instagram post?

https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1245779/megha...

Markle already operating as 'Sussex Global'?

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/1246325/...
Jesus Christ, how unbelievably tacky can you get?

anonymous-user

54 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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bloomen said:
She's far too strategic to do that. She'll talk him into believing that walking off the top of the tallest building in Toronto is exactly what he wanted to do all along.
laugh

That sounds about spot on.

Touring442

3,096 posts

209 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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Publicity etc will only go so far. As soon as William becomes King, the ginger one will be history. Best start saving now mate.

anonymous-user

54 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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Mort7 said:
£85000 per Instagram post?

https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1245779/megha...

Markle already operating as 'Sussex Global'?

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/1246325/...

Remember the days when the Daily Express was in awe of the Royals?
Well hopefully that will put a few posters at ease. I know there were a few in this thread concerned that they were a tarnished brand who wouldn't be able to make a living.

eccles

13,733 posts

222 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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poo at Paul's

Original Poster:

14,146 posts

175 months

Monday 24th February 2020
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Have they paid the £2.3M back yet, or are we going to see Paul Bohill popping round to signed them up for £50 a month?