#Royal PR

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

What is going on?

The Meghans bullied Charles's parents into an early grave. Now Catherine is ill because Charles won't discipline his darling boy and that daughter in law from hell.

The press knows Catherine never had a discussion with Sparry (or anyone) about his future children's physical characteristics and yet Catherine took the blame for Camilla.

They have been relentless in the bullying of a sick woman who was far more OPEN about her medical situation than the king in his two (2) sketchy press releases, but the press suddenly has glowing stories about Charles and his positive influence on Catherine.

Charles hasn't spoken about his own cancer, but he's taking credit for Catherine's courage and strength.

Not a peep out of BP while Catherine was supposedly AWOL, but suddenly they have "stories" to share.

Oh and no man is wandering around the wards of any hospital (even VIP) with a foley catheter inserted into his penis while his bloody urine is collected in a plastic baggie just to have heart to heart conversations with his daughter in law on the 1 of 3 days he's lucid. 🙄

Make it make sense.

[yrsonpurpose]

we won't know. but there will be signs. bonus ±

[my-drama-heart2406]

Lee Jae Wook and Lee Jun Young for <로얄로더> The Impossible Heir

[amyriadfthings]

[charlotte-of-wales]

Queen Máxima comforting Dutch cyclist Puck Pieterse who missed out on a podium due to a flat tyre | July 28, 2024

[jmdbjk]

And another thing...

Korean news media hyping how BTS has continued to release content with no gap even while enlisted in the military.

Yonhap News.

KBS News.

"Is this BTS' military service?" astounded, like... what kind of military service is this where the members are still active while they are enlisted??

They've even coined a new term to describe it: Rubber Shoe Content.

Apparently this sort of thing has not been done before, at least not to this extent, when an idol group is on break fulfilling their military obligation and release things for the fans while they are away.

"They are creating a new activity model to fill the gap with so-called 'rubber shoe content' for fans waiting for BTS, from music videos and entertainment documentary films to offline events."

The planning that had to have occurred and length of time it took for all of this to be produced... BTS and their staff, along with their agency BigHit and the resources available to them via Hybe, were able to carry out this extensive effort so that we would continually have things to look forward to while they are away. They worked hard before enlisting for us.

And we know more is coming! Wait until K-news sees Jimin and Jungkook doing MMA in their sleep!!

[houseofbrat]

As someone who works in PR I am ASTONISHED at how bad Kensington Palace is at all of this. It’s the most interesting part of the whole thing for me. Well that, and how much it seemingly vindicates H&M and Harry in particular in what he’s said about the firm and the media’s role in protecting the Heir at all costs.

Yeah I work in PR for a public company and anytime we want to put something out we have to run it up the chain - we need legal and Investor relations and executive approvals.

Even if KP and BP had their individual PR teams, which makes sense, there should still be one main central PR office that everyone answers to that manages the entire royal families PR, makes sure schedules and press opportunities and STRATEGY AND MESSAGING all aligns, before running up the chain for final approvals. There’d be a social team and a crisis team and government relations team and a branding team and a general “talent rep” kind of team, all working in tandem to serve the overall strategy for the royal family.

The fact that there are so many cooks in so many different kitchens is why the royal family has had so many PR disasters honestly for decades now. They’re truly doing it all wrong. So many Worst Practices here, not Best Practices.

It really doesn't seem like there is an overall PR team. Just the separate entities

Yeah and that’s the problem IMO. They are a business that should be run like a business. They should have the individual departments I suggested, and even more, working in tandem.

The fact that there are so many separate entities with different agendas and priorities is a huge part of their problem IMO.

But Charles has been transparent for the most part!! And photographed repeatedly. It’s so bizarre when compared to KP, and feels passive aggressive to me to be honest lolol.

They’re really so so so bad at this 😭😭😭😭 but the British public and the media lets them get away with it 🙃🙃🙃

For heaven’s sake. If she’s recovering nicely, why resort to recycling old photos?

Other sources are making a pretty good case for the fact that it’s a November photo, taken after Catherine and the children visited the baby bank.

Does nobody, and I mean nobody, know how to do PR in that place anymore? Now it's pin all of this on just-recovering-from-abdominal-surgery Kate? Why not on William since they were so proud about how he was the one that took the photo? Somehow they keep making everything ten times worse.

I’m sorry, but I don’t believe for a second that Kate personally edited that photo together in such a way that it had to be killed as inauthentic. The pulling of the photo is likely more about the refusal to provide metadata or the raw image for proof rather than silly Photoshop choices. That isn’t an issue of “mummy going wild on the computer,” it’s a larger organizational issue about trust, transparency, and KP’s overall poor approach to news orgs and the press lately.

Why is Kate taking the fall? Why is William such a lout to let an ill Kate put this on her own shoulders rather than admit KP made an error or say KP is going to reevaluate their practices and make a change?

Are college interns running Palace p.r.? Because I cannot understand how they're botching this so badly. If Kate couldn't/wouldn't pose for a legit photo, then just don't release anything. The Royals are basically dumping tankers of gas on the inferno by playing all these games. 

Sorry, am I going insane? After saying they wouldn’t respond to these conspiracy theories, they

a) responded by putting out a doctored image,

b) responded to the backlash of doctored image by claiming the woman recovering from a medical issue was playing around in Photoshop, and

c) responded to the backlash of editing claims by putting out an image where the person in the photo is supposed to be Kate but could LITERALLY BE ANYBODY.

NONE OF YOU ARE FINDING THIS WEIRD? NONE?!

"Kate's Back"

Well, it is indeed a picture of Kate's back

Apparently the main symptom of her mysterious medical condition is that any photo with her in it immediately becomes grainy, blurry, or with people's wrists trying to escape into a fifth dimension.

Good Lord, I haven't followed a disaster story this closely since Oceangate Titan and this one may be even worse. The narrative is out of control and the rules have gone out the window.

They already lost control of the narrative at this point. No matter what they do now, they will be scrutinized more than they've ever been before. And they seem grossly unprepared for it.

She’s not even facing camera, how is this supposed to help? This just feeds the conspiracy theorists! headdesk

It's becoming a PR nightmare that only Olivia Pope can rescue.

Maybe the better question is that people are concerned about Kate's welfare, and most WERE okay with waiting under the timeline KP initially offered that is she will likely return by or after Easter.

However KP has mismanaged the messaging, and with that concern grows over how weird some of the updates are. The article explains why this medical time out is turning into an absolute PR crisis. It isn't so much about Kates right to medical privacy (she definitely deserves that )

It now is about institutional reliability, the heir William's arguably erratic or unusual behavior or his courtiers' comments, the mess with the all kill photoshopped/Frankensteined photo (which has never happened before with a palace released photo), the very different approaches from BP vs KP, etc etc. It's become bigger than Kate sad to say.

And ultimately now people are worried for her, in a way they wouldn't have been, because things have become so irregular and bungled. So the urgency to make sure she is safe and okay has become louder and more insistent.

“CNN is now reviewing all handout photos previously provided by Kensington Palace.”

“In editorial photography, photojournalists and editors commonly adjust a photograph’s exposure or color balance in order to more accurately reflect the scene. Most news organizations, including CNN, regard it as unacceptable to move, change or manipulate the pixels of an image. To do so would alter the reality of the situation the image is intended to document.”

“In the past, the family’s amateur photographs have been well received when posted on social media. But on this occasion, this photo was also released to media organizations as a handout and the palace wasn’t transparent about the fact it had been adjusted.

That will have damaged the trust between the palace and media organizations – many of which, like CNN, will likely be assessing all royal handouts. The editing storm has undermined the existing relationship and when public interest over any possible cover up escalates, as it has done recently, many news outlets will now have take that speculation more seriously.”

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St. Octavius Palace, May 12th 1823

Cadence [giggles]: Or do you remember that time Florence tripped in front of that guard to grab his attention.

Patience [laughs]: How could I forget, she sprained her ankle after that and had to be on bed rest for almost three weeks.

Florence [laughs clearly annoyed]: Very funny you two, at the end of the day though, Papa put him as the head guard in charge of protecting my bed chambers.

Patience [teasingly]: Calm down Florence, me and Cadence are clearly just admiring what you would do to get what you want

Cadence and Patience [both laugh]

Florence [rolls her eyes]

Servant: Excuse me your highnesses, it seems as though Princess Patience has a visitor.

Florence: Who is it?

...

Alexander [mumbles]: I should have just stayed in my room, what am I even doing here...

Patience [breaks him out of his thoughts]: Your Imperial Highness?

Patience [worried]: Is everything alright?

Alexander [stutters]: Yes- I am sorry to worry you. I was just wondering if you would like to join me in seeing another part of the palace grounds since the alliance meeting is almost over and...

Patience: Of course, I would love to join you!

[shesjustanothergeek]

Tom Glynn Carney being anti-monarchy is such big dick energy.

[trexalicious]

According to the alleged photo time stamps it was a rather short 'meeting'...did he even have time to beg dear Pa for a couple million...🤔

[pseudophan]

honestly they were disrespectful to themselves. they let it get completely out of hand for a MONTH. the palace did this to themselves

yeah... look nobody will get me to agree with people being like 'conspiracy theorists have gone too far' 'you've all been disrespectful towards catherine' 'there was never a reason for any of this' 'you should be ashamed for what you said' etc etc etc. because like... first of all, again, i hold zero respect for these people. why the fuck should i. but even if i did... it's their own fucking fault???? the fuck?????? lmao?????????? literally only a handful of people gave a fuck until that doctored photo. and then they just kept making it worse. and i'm sorry but i actually don't think they're entitled to their privacy when their entire job is pr and they're blatantly lying in all their pr shit like ? what else are you good for lol. but then that also makes me angry because as much as i don't like kate for several reasons i'm still a bit genuinely offended at her behalf for how they've handled all this shit.. like making her take the blame for the photoshop (i hope for her sake it was her own idea, because otherwise........), having her appear alone in the video announcing her cancer (why tf isn't william there when she's talking about how he's by her side lmao), the general just lack of giving a fuck about anything whilst the world went wild theorising about her.... i can't tell whether she's taking the fall to cover for something else or if they're just all absolute assholes ?? again like. i don't like kate middleton. for many reasons. but i like william and charles a whole lot less and it's infuriating that they're making me feel like she's been wronged lmao

[15-lizards]

why not stannis for master of laws? Kevan was Tywin lite

Be serious Stannis would invent Westerosi prohibition or something and cut off appendages for loitering

[purplehoodiesandclementines]

No words can do justice to how EXCITED I am about this. 💜

Lisa! The Permanent Rain Press!! TWO parts!!! This is what I silently, secretly wished for after Lisa's Instagram post, but I didn't believe we would really get it. THANK YOU, Lisa. 😭💜

And only one day after the interview with Linnéa Roxeheim will come out, whaaaat?! What a weekend.

Will definitely devour both of these and cherish them for a long time to come, as I have done with all the other fantastic interviews with the YR cast and crew that The PR Press has gifted us over the past 3 years.

@thepermanentrainpress THANK YOU for continually feeding the fandom with all this wonderful material, you really are the best!!! 💜

[into-the-hell]

I am really excited about Joker Out coming to Riga because most artists skip Latvia, but i’m not sure if they can sold out the venue they are playing. Latvians aren’t the most active concert goers and Eurovision isn’t too big here anymore. And i’m worried there won’t be too many people and then they’ll feel like they aren’t appreciated here.

So if anyone from abroad wants to go to JO gig and you don’t know where, Riga it is. And if you need a tour guide and a local friend, don’t be shy and hit me up!

P.S. Loreen is having a gig this week at the same venue and it’s nowhere close sold out.

[ellieaka]

Apparently a lots of adults in this fandom still don't think teen psychology is a thing to be considered in netflix nordic pr strategy. There are some things that can be easily done to avoid at least half of the mess we've seen in the past few days.

1. Move the "Next" event a few days later than 18 March, even if it is only a day later. Showing that 18 March is for young royals and young royals only. Or at least announce the young royals fan event FIRST!

2. Have APOY promoted at least 1 months later than YR so that Edvin (and Felicia) doesn't have to promote the two projects side by side.

3. Some goofy contents (no spoilers) to distract the fans. And announcement of the promo events that's on the way.

Netflix Nordic could've easily done a thing or two so it doesn't have to end up in a situation where Edvin and Felicia being viciously attacked and the NN IG comments section filled with angry yr fan comments purposely trying to tank APOY using the zionist director as the perfect excuse.

This is a PR failure, no matter if you agree with me or not. It is also obvious that NN started damage control as soon as they found the comments were spiralling out of control. They annouced the yr fan event (which I suspected it's earlier than their planned schedule). They have the Sweden official account posted the yr event announcement. Lisa came online and replied DM from concern fans.

Considering teen feelings in the promotion of a teen drama where a lot of audience are teens who spend way too much time online is not encourage bad behaviors but in fact lead to better fans behaviors and less conflicts. There is a reason why K-pop is extremely successful among teen fans. And I believe there is a thing or two from their perspective that can be learned, instead of arrogantly dismiss whatever the "problematic" teens do online.

If there is a online massive outcry from the teen fans for something that seems as trivial as "Edvin posted APOY first!", maybe people should take a look and see why this is happening and what can be done now to de-escalate. Additionally, what can be done next time so it won't happen again.

I honestly think the yr fandom teens are actually very civil already. The situation could be worse if it were a kpop fandom back in my time. I'm talking about death threats and collective boycott towards the other projects and statement of apology being issued etc.

[houseofbrat]

As time goes on, this is looking more and more likely, no matter how much people want to deny it.

This is why I said--back when the news first came out on 17 Jan 2024:

Someone isn’t being honest about what is going on, and it’s definitely not me. It sounds to me that The Princess of Wales had a nervous/mental breakdown and needed to be hospitalized. Except that they can’t say that, so they’re going with “planned” “abdominal surgery.”

"Nervous/mental breakdown" is a substitution for a different, two-word phrase that I'd rather not use at the moment.

If Kate really did end up having surgery, it was emergency surgery, and the real question is what happened beforehand that led her to having such a serious, emergency surgery.

Because that's why they've been lying about her surgery being "planned."

It wasn't planned.

That's why there isn't a real Mother's Day photo that they can give to the photo agencies for verification. Because as Tina Brown said today, the photo they produced on Sunday was "a jigsaw."

There is no real photo because the kids are too upset & freaked out to pose for photos right now. That is why "a jigsaw" of the kids posing with someone else was used and spliced with an old image of Kate. Kate also probably can't fake being happy enough for a photo right now too.

Because eventually, the questions are going to arise about what led to this situation. Questions William is definitely going to avoid. For the rest of his life.