Hello again Skippy! I felt like I would answer some questions tonight, instead of compiling them in to a word document and just adding to my extra stress. But thank you everyone for being so welcoming and lovely 🙂
Firstly – the Diana as rebel image is only being used to contrast to her current image of Diana 2.0.
I will go in to a story: When her PR team in the States approached us, we came up with a strategy plan for what we thought would be “best” to help ingratiate Meghan with the British. We felt scrapping Diana would be best, and having her admit to her past mistakes – not all of them, but the majority – and acknowledge her life before Harry would be smarter than what has currently happened which is effectively bleaching her past. We felt that if she admitted that she was a bit of a minx back in the day, it would perhaps endear her to people because she was willing to be so honest and potentially sacrifice love. A sort of Princess Margaret-Peter Townsend situation. We saw the sympathy Margaret gained posthumously thanks to The Crown, and so thought something similar may have been more effective.
Her PR team, however, refused this. They had already drafted the “I didn’t know who the British Royal Family were” saga, and therefore any admittance by her that she knew exactly who they were would have destroyed this. Any acknowledgement to either the British – specifically Harry – that this was a well oiled plan of hers would have been wrong and ruined the engagement.
Clearly, the PR team she went for pushed for the Diana 2.0 image. Counter PR was released to the tabloids – such as her photos at Buckingham Palace.
I am saying that Diana will be projected as an unstable rebel by her PR team primarily so that she can be perceived as the saviour of Diana’s rebellious son. By doing so, Meghan appears to be “towing the line” and not “out to get the monarchy” but also “saving” Prince Harry from his “demons”. The hope is to appeal to the Diana fans, but she cannot do that now. They’re the Daily Mail readers truthfully, and they probably know far more to the truth than what will ever be printed.
Secondly – a child will never be in such close proximity that anyone will ever hear anything. Take a baby for example. Meghan will be photographed clutching on to the little hand of a baby, cooing over them, giggling with them. A baby may not respond in the way that say a five year old might.
We felt Meghan would be best suited approaching slightly older children – say the ten year olds – as she could at the very least offer some sort of childish Cinderella narrative. Hence why the appearance with Harry saying about the girl “She wants to be an actress too!!!”.
And again, the hugging. Boy did the team want that. In American PR, hugging it seems is the same as bringing someone back from the dead. You hug a fan, you’re practically a saint. That’s not how we do it in the UK, and we emphatically told them that. Her PR is still pushing the American Princess picture, which is how focussing on the teenage market is so crucial.
3 – The Teenage Market is easy to manipulate and also, very VERY easy to sell to.
Meghan looks older, but projected herself as a saviour. She hugs! She acts! She looks nervous! She’s human – JUST LIKE YOU. She didn’t go to Private School in the English Countryside! She’s never played Polo! She doesn’t even know how to wear a fancy hat!! SHE REALLY IS LIKE YOU. OH – AND SHE HOLDS HANDS WITH HER BOYFRIEND/HUSBAND JUST LIKE YOU DO/WILL DO TOO!!!
That’s the narrative they are going for. If you go in to a WHSmiths or a Sainsburys and look in the Teen Magazines, you’ll find articles of “Meghan is our modern kickass Cinderella”. Why sell those? Because when this goes south – and it will – the Teen’s will have fallen in to her category of ‘fans’. They will remember her wedding, her dress, her smile, the fact that she “broke the boundaries” so to speak. In their eyes, she is very progressive, and that’s important in this MeToo world. Yes she is much older, but the initial PR was to make her accessible to a more easily manipulated audience.
7-10 year olds aren’t interested in this real world Royalty – yet. They’re more interested in Disney or narratives where they’re the Princess of their lives.
The older millennials don’t fall for the nonsense anymore. They’re a far more educated and questioning group – they don’t like the monarchy, because they represent everything that is elitist and classist. Meghan appears hypocritical to them. She sacrificed everything for a stale organisation which will make her Kate 2.0.
And so that is exactly what will be sold to her teenage/young adult fans.
I felt earlier I should add that – when we had the initial meetings with her American PR firm – they were very specific that Meghan was to remain an AMERICAN Princess. I think we all know why.
Anyway, again, let me know if you have any queries or questions. I hope this is of help to some of your questions.
Thank you so much! Very helpful! We really appreciate it!😁❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
What a failed plan, it’s going to backfire badly
Please BP stop playing with the public and put us out of our misery so we can enjoy our summer and plan for a nice Christmas. There will be street parties ( unsubsidised) when this is over.
Well, anyway with all of her PR team effort it did not help at all and it’s not working right now because she’s too fake and lousy actress. Thanks PR anon.
If you fail to learn from the mistakes of others PR, you’ll burn along with your clients…
