The Markle Debacle Is Bigger Than You Think
A pro costumer will tell you that’s an old uniform, a hand me down. Those kinds of uniforms are very expensive to clean. Everything has to be very carefully unstitched, cleaned and renovated separately. Then very carefully hand stitched back together. Often working with gloves on, because uniforms worn by royals usually end up in museum.s
Was trying to keep my gob shut out of respect for the English royal family. My family are not so distant cousins, from New Zealand. Yet it’s become obvious this is a wonderful learning opportunity for you my wonderfully weird GigListers. If it’s not weird it’s not different. If it’s not different, it’s not original. You gals and guys, and undecided, are weird and that’s what I love.
Oh goodness where do I start? I’m writing as I think. My ALister and royal friends will know what I’m talking about. There’s a couple of items that crossover with A-list and royals. Apart from both are forms of monarchies, one inherited and one by clicks.
AList are not only chosen for talent and popularity. The same as a person is not a “royal” because of who they marry. AList and royals go though many years of training and practice. Since they’re little kids or teens in many cases. Since little kids for all real royals.
Regarding royal titles. My blood rank is higher than Harry’s mum. I’m from Prince Philip’ side, Harry’s grandad. Which makes me a duchess without a duchee. AKA I have the training, community work resume and title, but without a small country of my own to look after. “Look after” is the key phrase. Royals don’t rule people, they look after their people. That’s how it’s aways been since before recorded history.
King Charles checking out the new prime minister. The formal palace setting is to remind everybody this is important for their country. It’s not whisky and cigars. Though they might have some whisky and cigars at the after party. Which is also a kind of ritual, to get everybody to relax and be real.
Anything from Hollywood is fake news, start with that, since the 1920s. Hollywood started with a political agenda and ideology. People are writing history books with it like it’s real history. And it’s biting today’s industries and all levels of society, religion and culture on the arse. The stuff people need to exist and be happy. People today are wondering why history books don’t make sense navigating to today. It’s because history books today are fake.
Royals’ real job is to make sure there’s enough good farmland for food. And make sure the government in place are trained properly and aren’t being assholes. Royals invented and pay for hospitals, schools, animal shelters, social services and community centers and pay for security to keep their people safe. From their own pockets, often sending themselves broke. Even in the 21st century.
If it weren’t for royals, you’d all be living in mud huts with mass disease and scavenging for food. No medical doctors or cars or wifi or movies or light bulbs or washing machines. No museums or public arts, no police or ambulance or rescue teams to call for help. Study real history to disprove it.
There’s a reason why monarchists wear elaborate hats on group outings, such as public events with royals and weddings. It’s for everybody to be able to wear a tiara and feel equal with royals.
Sharron Osbourne got asked about the Markle Debacle in an interview recently. Her answer the most eloquently modern. Sharron’s my inspiration for writing this piece. In as many words my beloved show biz heroine, Sharron Osborne, said “Some people can’t handle money or fame.”
San Francisco was built by royals and wealthy gold industry and agriculturalists. Moving film was invented here. Somebody else bought the technology and moved to Hollywood for cheap rent. Hollywood expects you to look Hell wealthy, at least for looks, to impress San Francisco and New York.
What makes a real ALister is grace and poise, calm and nice and being genuine and able to keep your shit together like a real royal. Be professional! No diva attitude! Dress as much diva as you want, but don’t think you’re shit doesn’t stink like every other human being’s. Who wants to work with a self-entitled asshole? Certainly not AList producers and casting directors or international diplomats. Their time is money, big money, and sometimes people’s lives. Every producer, diplomat and casting director is on a schedule and not an unlimited budget, even the AList.
A royal’s tantrum isn’t to get to wear a Tribes-people’s ancient and sacred ritual tiara. Why do you think everybody dresses up when they wear tiaras? It’s an ancient sacred rite and part of recorded history. It’s not to be Princess Barbie. It really is an actual ancient tribal rite. Our tribe’s been around so long that the tiara’s and crowns developed from feathers and hand spun thread into diamonds, rubies and pearls.
The jewels aren’t from invading other countries, but from international diplomacy. Important ritual gifts exchanged by monarchs of different countries to keep international peace and trade. They are treated as sacred to show respect for the country and people the jewels came from. Regardless of wars. Royals are not taught to be ideological, all people are equal. Royals an monarchies come in all colors and creeds.
The tiara Markle Debacle insulted many millions of people from the countries the jewels came from. What fabulous adventures and inspirations to create a wonderful world are stolen from you! That’s just a snippet of how anything out of Hollywood is fake news. And also kind of predatory, stealing what’s the peoples’ for themselves.
A real royal tantrum is to get real stuff done. Like getting a hospital re-opened and updated for mentally ill, disabled or elderly. Or advocating for eco friendly technology. Whenever you saw Her Majesty get upset, it was for real reasons. Not for clickbait!
Visiting a refugee settlement to raise awareness for Save the Children. You can see in Princess Anne’s eyes she is very tired, but alert and caring. And genuinely interested. Royals have a healing presence and give people hope. An important person, a real royal Princess, came to sit and talk with them and listen to them. Several appearances and receptions and meetings everyday and night for 4 days. Then on to the next country. Year round for life. How can you not respect that? As a show biz professional, how can you not aspire to that level of commitment to your role as a humble servant to all the world’s people?
Real royals don’t wear a theatre mask. They will put on a smile, but people are allowed to see behind the smile. Such as passing of a family member or friend. We saw it in Princess Kate. Princess Kate put on her best, but her people were allowed to see the … I don’t know how to say it. You saw the emotion of it it in her eyes. Holding back real tears. From a classical portrait artist’s perspective, that can’t be faked. Especially not for days of being out with their people. (I trained at Heatherlys in London UK. Specialists in life drawing, fine details of humans.)
Royals don’t go out and greet the people and do selfies for charities to get a salary. Public royals are trust fund babies or have day jobs. They start doing community work when they start day school. They work for their people for mostly free for life, until actual death, because they love their people. They can opt out anytime, gutsy real royals don’t. It’s the toughest job in the world, but real royals don’t play victim.
If you can’t handle the role you’re cast for, bitching about it won’t do you any favors. Certainly no favors in London, Paris, New York or San Francisco. The tribe’s sacred royal tiara incident was totally gutter, racist and unethical. Read Dr King’s full speech. Royals traditionally lose their titles when they marry non-royals. The British royal family were being modern, but look what happened!
If you don’t know how to handle it, you can’t handle it. Bow out gracefully and go back to acting and etiquette school and read the 8 Beutitudes from the Bible. Stop doing damage to yourself and others, including disrespecting your own ancient heritage.
In Australia just about everything is trying to kill you, including the cute stuff. You know what one of Australia favorite poems is?
I love a sunburnt country
A land of sweeping plains
Of rugged mountain ranges
Of drought and flooding rain
I love her far horizons
I love her jewel sea
Her beauty and her terror
The wide brown land for me
Dorothea Mackellar’s poem, “My Country,” published 1908 as “Core of My Heart” in The Spectator in London. On a visit to England, Dorothea was 23 and homesick and wrote her ode to Australia. How she loved her country and her people so much, she’d endure danger, fear and hardship for them.
(Dear Delete Negative Megan Markle News team. One of GigsList’s long time followers and personal friend and festival coworker is an entertainment lawyer of big projects. He’s now a court judge. So go for it baby cheeks! GigsList is from San Francisco, a city and big bay of fabulously crazy and weird and fearlessly independent creators, founders and real talent. When one stands down, another stands up. Also my audience are all influencers in their own right. Everybody has followers here!)
Only top shelf for my GigLister people <3
Deborah
Photos: The Crown Chronicles https://thecrownchronicles.co.uk
I didn’t gramma check. The poem keeps making me emotional.
