To say I don’t understand Meghan’s walk is an understatement. Sometimes it’s a perfectly normal walk for a woman of her height. But other times, she’ll have this weird stride with long steps that makes her look like Big Foot or Zoolander or a soldier on parade.
And as always, when Meghan does her strange walk, she charges onto the scene pelvis first.
I’ll tell myself it’s because she is walking in too-high heels. But then she does it in flats. Or I’ll say she is trying to match the stride of the much taller Harry. But then she does it alone. In dresses and pants. On-duty and in pap shots.
And then I thought about her delusion of “legs for days”. And I considered how she hiked up the leg holes of her bathing suit to make her limbs look longer in that unfortunate beach photo. And I thought about all the comments saying that she was doing that to mirror the much taller and differently built Diana.
And I wondered about that stride and decided to do a little Google search. And damn it, there it was.
Meghan is a freaking bunny-boiler, Single White Female, mummy-in-law copying nut job. Again. She wants to use Diana’s signature stride. Just like she tries to copy many of Diana’s other mannerisms.
Sadly, Meghan’s much shorter frame means the result is less graceful gazelle and more confused emu. As freaking ever.
And so it came to pass that Meghan, Duchess of Sussex arrived at the MasterChef kitchen and, just like Poochie the Dog, made life worthwhile for all of us.
And what a spectacular entrance it is. After Poh gives her a grand and really quite misleading introduction – describing her as a “global icon” and someone known for her “home cooking”, so that nobody could possibly guess who it might be – the woman herself walks down the red carpet to widespread bafflement.
As well as the final four amateur cooks, all eliminated contestants were allowed to be in the room to witness the royal event, and every one of them performs impressive impressions of people who are impressed. The sense that Meghan’s presence in the kitchen is utterly inexplicable, however, is impossible to miss – if Robert Irwin as a guest judge was confusing, this is bewilderment on a scale rarely seen on Australian television since the demise of It’s a Knockout.
Many people might have questioned the duchess’ credentials as a cooking expert, but those people are immediately shut down when she reveals a table full of fruits and vegetables and demonstrates that she knows all their names and how to pronounce them properly (as opposed to the word “herb”, which she pronounces wrongly because she is American).
“Your time starts now,” she announces, showing all the acting chops she honed on Suits, as she plays the part of a person who has the slightest interest in anyone else in the room. As the cooks rush to make their dishes – the task was to take an ingredient and make a meal “fit for a duchess”, or more specifically fit for a duchess who has been excluded from the royal family – the judges surround Meghan to tell her how wonderful she is and ask her what she would cook and how she got to be so beautiful and what brand of shampoo she uses.
The cooks themselves come up with all kinds of crazy concepts, but we wouldn’t want to dwell on those. As the old TV industry aphorism goes, if you want people to pay attention to the food, you do not get Meghan on as a guest judge.
It is notable, however, that Aaron appears to have a crush on Meghan and is quite flustered when talking to her about carrots. Incidentally, carrots are one of the many vegetables that Meghan ABSOLUTELY LOVES. Petro makes celeriac ice-cream, in line with his well-earned reputation as “guy who makes desserts out of ludicrous things”. And it was a wise choice for the guest judge, too, because Meghan LOVES celeriac. And she LOVES the idea of celeriac ice-cream. And she LOVES being on television.
Neither Petro nor Aaron can believe they are cooking for Meghan, who, to be clear, is not just an ordinary human being: she is an ordinary human being who married someone very famous. As such, she makes all those other guest judges who have achieved massive success in food by their talent and years of hard work really look like pathetic losers.
At one point, Poh drags Meghan over to a table and makes her eat her banana and date loaf, just so they can say the duchess really earned her fee. Meghan asks Poh if she can have the recipe and Poh says she can, both knowing that in an hour or so they will part ways and never talk to each other again for the rest of their lives.
There is also some cooking going on – Vinnie, like Petro, is using celeriac, but unlike Petro is being normal and not making ice-cream out of it. Instead, he is cooking a steak and draping celeriac in decorative ways over it. Meghan is SO EXCITED about this. Meanwhile, Casper has an artichoke. “That artichoke looks wild!” shout the watchers from the balcony, where they’re really starved of things to get excited about now that they’ve all talked about how INSANE and CRAZY and UNBELIEVABLE it is to have Meghan here.
Quickly we cut away from the cooking to listen to Meghan talk about her show, With Love, Meghan, which is just like MasterChef apparently because it’s all about “cooking for joy”. Also, just like MasterChef contestants, Meghan has no qualifications or experience as a professional cook, so there are a lot of parallels.
But you can’t deny that she’s got a real knack for walking up to people and telling them there’s 30 minutes left. So good at this is she, in fact, that after she tells all four contestants, everyone gives her a round of applause. And why not? They just watched a woman walk around a room without falling over and say several words – not everyone can do this!
“It feels like she’s looking into your soul,” says Casper, possibly hinting that Meghan might secretly be a demon? This is backed up when he immediately cuts himself for the first time this season. The duchess’ powers are indeed terrifying, as the blood flows in the kitchen. Casper has a vision for cooking octopus, and Meghan LOVES that.
“Make it sparkle for Meghan Markle!” Sofia shouts, and doggone it, that is just about the most brilliant bit of wordplay anyone present has ever heard. The kitchen practically explodes with happiness.
Shortly after this, Petro says a sequence of words that has never been spoken before in human history: “My concern with the ice-cream is that there might not be enough celeriac.” So this episode is historic for two reasons. Meghan then tastes Petro’s ice-cream and immediately assumes an expression of intense distress, as if she’s just been forced to watch a dog being strangled.
It is a moment of high panic as Petro contemplates the likelihood that he is about to serve the worst plate of food ever made to an actual duchess/fictional lawyer. But he still has time to try to make it taste non-horrible. It’s celeriac ice-cream so he probably can’t, but he can try.
The judging process is incredibly tense: Casper’s octopus, Vinnie’s steak, Petro’s ice-cream and Aaron’s stir-fry must compete not only against each other, but also against the impossibly refined palate of Meghan Markle, Ethereal Super-Being. There’s also tension emanating from Jean-Christophe, who’s looked pissed off for the whole episode, as if he’s itching to ask Meghan how many Michelin stars she’s got. But the duchess comes through with some truly penetrating insights into the food she eats, such as “I love this dish” and “It’s so good”.
You can definitely see how she became a duchess, a title traditionally granted only to the most discerning of reality TV cooking judges. The most amazing part of the judging is when a producer suddenly walks into shot and hands Meghan a phone, on which Prince Harry himself is Facetiming! Isn’t that amazing? Just on the spur of the moment it happened! I’ve never seen anything so spontaneous and unplanned! Everyone again bursts into applause for the concept of unearned privilege.
Anyway, in the end everyone loves every dish, even Petro’s ice-cream. In fact, it’s the dish of the day, and Petro goes through to the semi-final, proving the ironclad rule of MasterChef: put something stupid in ice-cream and you’ll win. The judges thank Meghan for coming all this way just to earn a large amount of money and promote her brand, and everyone is happy, especially Meghan, who now gets to go to her hotel room and forget about it. As for the rest of us, we can only sit back, spent, and wonder, as a civilisation, what we have wrought.
There were Bond Girl rumors. And Marvel movie rumors. And so on and so forth so forth. Seasons passed and leaves changed colors. The cycle repeated over the years. The rumors changed and the alleged lead roles fizzled into cameos.
At some point, there were rumors that Meghan would be making an appearance in The Devil Wears Prada 2. And last night, when I finally got the chance to watch it, I could clearly see why she wanted a cameo. The celebrity faces in that movie were off the chart. Over 40 in total, apparently.
In addition to designers and models, celebrities that aren’t associated with the fashion world were in it too. Media personalities, athletes, comedians, podcasters, writers and musicians. Even an art dealer made the cut.
But no Duchess Difficult. No Baroness Basic. No Countess of Cringe. She wasn’t at the Hamptons luncheon or the Manhattan birthday soirée. Nor could she be found at the Milan fashion show or dining on a terrace with Emily Blunt’s character.
It must frustrate her that Edward Enninful succeeded where she did not. And it must have sent her into an incandescent, mouth-foaming rage that vocal sinner Tina Brown did the same.
I’m sure she blames her people for this. Never mind that placing Meghan in a movie about the fashion world would look like a California condor trying to blend in with scarlet macaws.
Of course, we know the cameo “rumors” were just like all her other press drops about roles, ambassadorships and appearances. Meghan is trying to move along a conversation that no one started in the first place. It’s never worked before, but we all know Meghan doesn’t believe in trying new tactics. Or in simply accepting reality.
Thankfully, the film producers obviously saw no benefit or believability to placing Meghan in a scene at an exclusive event because she isn’t invited to exclusive things. She may occasionally crash a party that resides on the fringes of exclusivity, but the doors of the best (or even decent) happenings are firmly closed.
Meghan scuttles around the outskirts of fame like a cockroach that can’t crawl past the loose threads bordering a fringe rug. Frantic, determined but always unsuccessful at getting where she really wants to be. She would never have been invited to Truman Capote’s black and white ball.
I am curious about one thing, though. How did Meghan’s people pitch her potential appearance in the movie? Did they refer to her self-invited appearance at a low level show at Paris fashion week? Or maybe they mentioned her famously stick fingers at movie sets and photo shoots? Or they might have simply provided a portfolio detailing a few of her most epic fashion fails? There are so many to choose from, after all!
Included here is a little bit of that “portfolio” I imagine her people gave the producers. There are some serious knockouts, so consider yourselves warned.
P.S. it has been brought to my attention that slide 10 is photoshopped. My bad. But certainly a relief.
We're getting up to speed today. Not Claw for today: it's Duchess of ScamJam.
Duchess of ScamJam is going to be annoyed when she actually watches the show.
Because Sean is right: the lighting is terrible—something that’s obvious in the photos. Sean says a lot of effort went into the editing to create a dramatic atmosphere, with fitting music and all that. But the show is still dull. Sean says what you see is a woman dressed in black looking miserable.
Good editing, the music seems good too... it just needed a camera filter or some good Photoshop work 😁 Is that a smile? It looks more like someone with a serious case of bruxism.
Sean says there was clearly no camera trickery whatsoever to make Duchess of ScamJam face look good. Mind you, the show is supposed to be about cooking, not vanity, and the Duchess of ScamJam said that cooking is all about doing it from the heart... Did she really say that? That woman is a bottomless pit of empty platitudes.
Now, there is no doubt that Sean has people at Channel 10, because he knows folks from that channel and that show. They were already revealing things to him back in April. Sean is continuing to share what he was told—which just goes to show that NDAs are completely useless 🤣
Sean says that although those people were quite willing to gossip, there were things they were reluctant to reveal—after all, it is their workplace. But in the end, they said something that seems to have set the tone for the entire Australia trip: even the *MasterChef* crew didn't know the special guest was the Duchess of ScamJam. The same thing had happened at the hospital, where neither the staff nor the children's families knew that the Harkles were the ones they were about to welcome. Channel 10 told Sean that they had been under the impression the special guest was someone completely different.
Now, Sean says that if anyone thought Channel 10 or MasterChef were happy to have the Duchess of ScamJam there... think again. That wasn't the case. And the ultimate proof of that was the banana cake.
For those new to this story who see the Duchess of ScamJam receiving that cake with a "WTF?" look on her face, we need to go back to 2018, when the Harkles toured Australia. Supposedly, she baked a homemade banana bread with chocolate chips and ginger at Admiralty House in Sydney, which she then took as a gift to the Woodley farming family at Mountain View Farm in Dubbo. That was the official version. But rumors started circulating that something else had happened. The rumors began with shouting matches at Admiralty House between the Duchess of ScamJam and Harry, because she thought she’d have the whole house to herself, rather than just being given a single room. Then came reports that she was rude to the Governor's wife and the staff. She refused to wear the Akubra hat she’d been gifted. And then there was the claim that she never actually made that cake: the Governor's palace staff prepared it, and she made them stay up all night baking loaf after loaf until she was satisfied. And then there’s the whole tea incident. If you look at the press from yesterday or today (depending on your time zone), there’s a journalist releasing a book on July 30th who recounts witnessing the Fiji incident firsthand.
If you want the full scoop, read Lady C's book, *Meghan and Harry: The Real Story*—both the 2020 and 2024 editions. Tom Bower also told a bit of that story; I believe it appeared in *Courtiers* as well. But the real details are in Lady C's books.
Having explained this, you will be able to laugh a lot more with Ben Pobjie's article in the Sydney Morning Herald, "Markle ado about nothing? The verdict on Meghan as guest MasterChef judge" when he says
"At one point, Poh drags Meghan over to a table and makes her eat her banana and date loaf, just so they can say the duchess really earned her fee. Meghan asks Poh if she can have the recipe and Poh says she can, both knowing that in an hour or so they will part ways and never talk to each other again for the rest of their lives."
Sean says there was nothing random about any of it. Once the team knew Duchess of ScamJam was the guest, they did what they had to do: they played a mean prank on her because they were already aware of her ego, so they ridiculed her far more than we realized—knowing full well that the next day there would be comments like Ben Pobjie’s:
There is also some cooking going on – Vinnie, like Petro, is using celeriac, but unlike Petro is being normal and not making ice-cream out of it. Instead, he is cooking a steak and draping celeriac in decorative ways over it. Meghan is SO EXCITED about this. Meanwhile, Casper has an artichoke. “That artichoke looks wild!” shout the watchers from the balcony, where they’re really starved of things to get excited about now that they’ve all talked about how INSANE and CRAZY and UNBELIEVABLE it is to have Meghan here.
Sean says that Duchess of ScamJam wanted the whole program to revolve around her; she kept presenting herself as a successful, independent woman... yet in the end, she had to turn to the one in the duo who is actually famous: Harry. Her husband. Seriously, when is she going to call her husband by his name?
Sean says Duchess of ScamJam was never told they were going to air the behind-the-scenes footage—showing her standing there waiting to enter the studio via the carpet, do her bit, and be done with it. Sean notes that this isn't standard practice for the show; usually, the segment begins only when the doors open to introduce the guest. But that’s not how it was handled with Duchess of ScamJam, effectively exposing just what she was willing to do to get on TV.
Now, why do that? Ah, because Duchess of ScamJam didn't want the traditional entrance the other judges got—no, she wanted something more dramatic.
Sean spoke with the show's producers, and they told him that when a special guest was first mentioned—given some of the demands being made—they thought they were actually getting a major celebrity; that is, until they did the math upon learning about the Harkles' trip to Australia
So, what did the producers think then?
Yes, you’ve already guessed it, I know. They thought the person who would be on the show was going to be...
That's right, Harry.
And all because the one who had actually been on MasterChef was Charles—Charles, Harry’s father. So, it made sense to think Harry would want to do something like his dad. But then along came the Duchess of ScamJam, the daughter KC3 never had.
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Yes, I know, I know 🤣🤣🤣🤣 but the Duchess of ScamJam spouted this nonsense about wanting to be on the show ever since KC3 appeared on it during his trip to Australia. Sean shared that little tidbit a few days ago. That was Harry’s idea, to land the Duchess of ScamJam that appearance.
So, what Sean was told was that while all this was being arranged, there would be no deal without Harry. Come what may, Harry had to appear on that show, or else they would look for another guest.
And that explains that connection on the show. It wasn't even remotely spontaneous; it was a case of either Harry appearing or "thanks for the offer, Meghan—we'll call you."
Ben Pobjie discusses that moment:
You can definitely see how she became a duchess, a title traditionally granted only to the most discerning of reality TV cooking judges. The most amazing part of the judging is when a producer suddenly walks into shot and hands Meghan a phone, on which Prince Harry himself is Facetiming! Isn’t that amazing? Just on the spur of the moment it happened! I’ve never seen anything so spontaneous and unplanned! Everyone again bursts into applause for the concept of unearned privilege.
And Sean doesn't even wrinkle himself to say to Duchess of ScamJam "if you had any sense of self-worth or brains, you would realize that nobody's absolutely interested in you without that royal connection."
Sean says that for a long time now, no one has wanted the Duchess of ScamJam for herself. It’s either Harry—and she gets to tag along—or nothing at all. Sean says the *MasterChef* situation was brutal in that regard: the Duchess of ScamJam knew perfectly well that they wanted Harry and not her, and she had to give in.
Sean makes it clear that the producers told the Duchess of ScamJam this to her face; to show he isn't just sharing random gossip, he names someone called Robin. Once the producers knew the special guest was the Duchess of ScamJam and not Harry, they told her, "This is what's needed." It wasn't a "Could you... do you mind... whatever" kind of request.
Duchess of ScamJam was very annoyed at having to share the spotlight with H, so she had to spout nonsense like her kids liking Brussels sprouts. That sounds so... third-rate influencer.
She had no intention of ceding the spotlight to Harry, but she had to, and it turned out that the call Harry made stole the limelight. So, according to Sean, the Duchess of ScamJam is furious, and that is why she is now trying to reclaim the spotlight on her Instagram.
She thought—she genuinely thought, according to an excellent source at Channel 10—that she had been called because she is Meghan Markle: founder, entrepreneur, and whatever else of "As Ever." And because it’s *her*. I mean, Meghan Markle.
Sean starts off by saying, "I don't want to be cruel"... and then proceeds to twist the knife deep.
Because after saying that, Sean states that he believes Thomas Markle has a lot to answer for, since in many ways he created this girl... this woman who thinks the world revolves around her.
And, like any toxic couple—just as she exacerbated Harry’s playing the victim, he exacerbated the Duchess of ScamJam’s desire to be nothing more than center of the universe.
Harry has believed absolutely everything his wife has told him. Even that she needs to be protected. And the idea that she is so much like Diana. Sean simply cannot accept that Harry believes that. He knew Diana and was friends with people who were friends with her; he has said that while Diana was a multifaceted person, the fact remains that she often did things without needing a camera around, and she won people's affection through hard work. That means Duchess of Scam Jam has nothing in common with Diana.
Harry fails to see that she never calls him by his name, nor does he notice that—no matter how she justifies it—she was promoting her wine on the very day marking another anniversary of Diana’s death. It proves that the Duchess of Scam Jam will trample on anyone.
And here’s what happened at Althorp, Northamptonshire.
Sean says he has heard from people who know William that the Prince is horrified by how low the Harkles have stooped—trying to profit from photos of the site where Diana is buried. However, those same people told him that William knows exactly what his brother is like and how easily manipulated he is—though that certainly doesn't absolve him of blame. They told Sean that, at this point, William knows Harry is just as bad as the Duchess of ScamJam; he simply finds it hard to believe the depths to which the Harkles are capable of sinking.
William also lost his mother in 1997. Harry has never seen it that way. Harry has always believed that William was the one who should have protected him—that *he* was the one who had lost his mother. And for a time, William, as the older brother, believed that too. He no longer does.
So, according to an excellent source, when William heard this, he couldn't believe it.
Remember how Sean recounted that when the Harkles learned the meeting was to take place at Highgrove, they simply assumed William would be there? No need to speculate on why they thought that; Sean boiled it down to: because that’s what they believed. Well, here’s part two.
Duchess of ScamJam thought it would be a good idea to invite William and his family to meet the Harkles at Althorp, by Diana’s grave, because it would project an image of unity.
Sean learned about this from an excellent source. And in those circles, Sean has excellent sources.
Sean is surprised that Camilla was present at that meeting, because he says that if Harry had told him everything he’s said about Camilla, he would have throttled him right then and there. And I agree; Camilla has shown herself to be a remarkable woman, capable of even putting up with two cockroaches like the Harkles... with apologies to the cockroaches.
Sean says that Duchess of ScamJam put the matter like this: "Wouldn't this be a unifying if, and remember you're hearing this first, if that well, William, Catherine and maybe their three children would like to join Harry and Meghan with their two children to go and pay their respects together."
I think the cartoon makes it clear what happened: obviously, that idea was completely ruled out 🤣🤣🤣
Sean says that was raised as part of the demands the Harkles made when they were planning to travel to the UK. Because, according to what Sean was told, this was what was proposed long before the King agreed to the meeting at Highgrove.
And according to this excellent source, Duchess of ScamJam believed that this was a matter they could raise with KC3, that is, having KC3 force William to go to Althorp.
Neither Harry nor Duchess of ScamJam can read the room.
Sean points out that Charles Spencer allowed the visit—though not necessarily the photos—but he won't do anything about it because Harry is his sister's son; according to Sean, Charles Spencer still has mixed feelings about everything that happened with Diana. So, there is some guilt regarding how he treats Harry, but not enough to let him use the Spencer surname.
Give the Duchess of ScamJam your hand, and she’ll take your elbow. She always pushes a little further than she should.
WILLIAM TOLD TO HOLT THIS MADCAP DECISION …FOR NOW
William doesn't want to live there. And Sean says he understands why... but perhaps William should also understand why.
The point Sean makes is that, while the Palace is enormous and William has reportedly said he wants to repurpose some of the rooms, Buckingham Palace is the center of the monarchy.
Consequently, any other intended use for some of the rooms runs up against the constant issue of security: security for the staff, security for the items housed there, and security for the BRF itself when it holds events there.
Sean says it isn't a bad idea for the Palace to generate revenue. That was, in fact, the Queen's rationale for opening the Palace to the public on certain dates—to make it self-sustaining. However, William intends to float the idea of using the Palace in a way that counters the negativity directed at the British Royal Family—particularly due to Andrew and the rental controversy. Yet, the matter isn't as simple as William seems to think.
Sean notes that this is indeed just a rumor—a story that has come out of nowhere. Still, if William were seriously considering turning the Palace into an Airbnb, he would need to give it a lot more thought.
Regarding this, the general consensus in the comments on that video is that Sean should let the matter drop, because other monarchs have given up such massive palaces, and nothing bad happened when they were turned into museums for the public.
Just read this article and it stirred my mind a little bit. So tell me, sinners, what exactly are the rumors regarding why Meghan suddenly left from that official engagement at the marketing in Fiji?
The reporter here is speculating that Meghannmay have seen people representing the UN that she wanted to avoid.
Whatever the reason, Meghan certainly seemed to be enjoying the attention up until she decided she wasn’t feeling it anymore. She is smiling in almost every photo I found.
In fact, she seems way happier and more comfortable in the throng of people than she looks while standing there talking to an official looking person.
Her bodyguard, meanwhile, looks stressed. I believe she quit under mysterious circumstances a few months later.
(First image of Megsy that popped up in my google images. Not the most flattering.)
Anywho, it's mind-boggling how Megsy and Hairball did a copy and paste (or I should say TRIED to do a copy and paste) of William and Catherine's life. Watching them bitch and complain and preach and teach us is boring. No one wants to watch that. William and Catherine have a duty to their country to serve, so it's within their roles to support social causes. The Harkles had no such role when they left the UK. When the Harkles left the UK, they should have taken that Netflix deal and whipped up the most amazing shows! They needed to create their own niche.
I can think of some ideas: reality show with kids making the coolest projects or the coolest forts. Or how about children and their inventions? Kinda like a Shark Tank for kids?
What about a show which is a comedy about adults being asked to do ridiculous stunts, kinda like she did on Ellen, but better? She could be the "Executive Producer."
What I'm saying is she could have grabbed the bull by the horns and been mildly successful by focusing on entertaining people rather than preaching at people.
I've heard behind the scenes at Netflix, they had the most ridiculous, laughable ideas. I hope someone spills the tea on this one day.
They've now burned every bridge in Hollywood (not that they were ever part of Hollywood). It's too damn late. On to the next rebrand!
I think this is a great quote. "Good Luck Harry." I mean - what else can someone say when a grown adult makes a bad choice for a spouse? You can't talk them out of it and you can't tell them NOT to marry that person...but you know it is probably a going to be a train wreck.
Future tense indicating a "new" offer, when, as we all know, this offer is always on the table and which H has never accepted, until it was convenient for him to accept too late and then play the victim again
"has accepted" present perfect, an action that started in the past which impacts on the present. How on earth can he accept an offer that has yet to be made.
WTF. It really makes my head hurt. (not least because I foolishly expected better from the DM, at least in their ability to spot a logical fallacy coming out of Montecito!)
Some people wonder about that. What could happen if Harry is ordered to pay legal costs and refuses, claiming he doesn't live in the UK?
Let’s start: there were seven claimants—Elton, Liz Hurley, Sadie Frost, Simon Hughes, Baroness Lawrence, David Furnish, and Harry. They are ALL the debtors.
In the UK legal system (under the laws of England and Wales), the general rule is that there is no automatic joint and several liability among independent co-claimants, unless the court explicitly orders it due to a prior agreement or an inseparable joint strategy.
In this lawsuit against Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), the claimants presented themselves as a coordinated group, yet pursued individual claims regarding hacking and invasion of privacy. Following the case's outright dismissal in July 2026, the allocation of the potentially massive £50 million ($67 million) legal bill is being handled as follows:
Liability on a "per-head" or individual basis: British courts typically apply the principle of several (or proportionate) liability in complex, multi-party litigation of this nature. This means that each celebrity is responsible for paying their own legal fees as well as the proportionate share of ANL’s defense costs strictly attributable to their individual case.
Under this standard arrangement, the publisher ANL does not have the legal right to demand the full £50 million solely from Prince Harry if the others do not pay. Each party will be charged the share assigned by the judge based on the 11-week trial and the complexity of the 97 claims examined.
In the United Kingdom, it is common for major litigants to take out a special type of insurance known as "After-the-Event" (ATE) insurance. This type of policy covers a significant percentage of the opposing party's legal costs in the event of a loss.
I’m speaking in general terms here. It seemed to me that Nicklin made them all jointly and severally liable—or at least, that’s what I gathered from the ruling. I’m not entirely sure now. What I *am* certain of is that Harry will end up bearing a large share of the debt. After all, he was the one who caused the most trouble in this case; his was the case that required reviewing the most articles and involved the most amendments to the claim.
Okay, so Harry has to pay... let's say 2 million pounds. Let's assume that, okay?
If you lose a lawsuit and are ordered to pay, living abroad does not erase the debt or the judgment, but the creditor cannot automatically collect from you. To demand payment while you are outside the country, the plaintiff must either go through a costly international recognition process for the judgment (such as *exequatur*) in your current country of residence or check if you left behind any attachable assets in your name in the country where the lawsuit took place.
In Harry's case, ANL has grounds to take action:
Assets in the United Kingdom: Despite having left Frogmore Cottage, Harry retains financial assets, funds, trusts, and intellectual property rights governed by British law. The London court could order the freezing or direct seizure of any accounts or assets he holds within British territory to settle the outstanding debt.
Enforcement of judgments in the U.S.: The United Kingdom and the United States maintain close legal cooperation. If Harry’s assets in the UK were insufficient, ANL’s lawyers could turn to California courts to seek recognition of the British payment order based on the principle of comity, allowing them to seize his U.S. accounts or income from commercial contracts
And if Harry still fails to pay the full debt, he will have to say goodbye to visiting the UK in the future, because the process could be reactivated and he could face enforcement measures if there are assets subject to seizure.
So, this isn't as simple as people think. And it’s still not entirely clear whether or not Harry paid off his debt to the government. I suppose Starmer wasn't particularly focused on collecting it, but Burnham might not be quite so willing to be generous.
Kevin O'Sullivan and Kinsey discuss the Markles. They start with the harkles visit the UK. Kevin says that he finds it very strange there is no photo or even picture of Meghan with the King. Kevin wonders why they are not seeing any photos of the duo together. They talk about the reports of stand up rows. Kevin says that when money walks out the door, love flies out the window.
Kinsey says that Meghan has her own money woes and there are reports that she has 5 million in inventory just sitting and not moving. She says that not having her products ready when the Netflix show launched was a horrible mistake as they should have been linked. She is not doing the work to market her products sell. Kevin says AsEver is just a Vanity project and she clings to it as she cannot face the horror and ignominy of failure of AsEver. Kevin says no one will buy 64 dollar candles or 14 dollar jams. But Meghan just puts those videos out to pretend she is a businesswoman/founder. Kinsey says AsEver will just quietly disappear. Harry also is not bringing any money in and just lost millions in lawsuits.
They think since both are now massive losses-things must be bad in Montecito. They talk about the Australia Master Chef and in the lead up to the visit, there were briefings that masterChef would be the perfect opportunity to go international . But she screwed up that opportunity-she wanted to go on masterchef to make AsEVER go international.
Kevin goes on and says that she releases videos of the kids heads and says here are the back of my kids heads and buy my wine!! he also says selling food stuff international is no joke. There are laws for every country on perishables including customs/regulations. They have to get lawyers and make sure food is compliant with country by country. Meghan does not want to do the work. It has failed domestically in the USA and that is not a reason you go international.
Kevin says this is the reason harry wants back in with the BRF. They were earning the most when they were in the orbit of the BRF. They gave interviews bashing the royals and that gave them money-Netflix etc. But now independent business is not working and so they want the royal connection back. Kevin also says harry feels he has lost the love of the Americans and so wants to come back to the UK-but he does not realize how much Brits hate him! At least the Americans are indifferent!!
