Prince Harry and Meghan

He and Meghan are senior leadership for Archewell
archewell.com/about/
It’s a management position, essentially - strategic decisions about the direction the company should take.

He’ll be an executive producer on Archewell productions - they have a whole partnership with Netflix to produce programming and Spotify to produce podcasts.

Exec producers are not necessarily creative themselves, they are often more about persuading creative people to partner with them and jump on board. It’s a lot of networking - which he is obviously very good at. They’ve already demonstrated what they call ‘convening power’ with the Global Citizen vaccine effort. Multiple people who worked on the campaign said that their ability to get big companies to agree to sit down for a meeting was pivotal.

Live to Lead is an example of that
www.netflix.com/gb/title/81406763
They are co-producers - they struck a deal to get involved once the production was already conceived and under way. Their profile was valuable to the production and that is primarily what they have contributed to it.

archewell.com/productions/

archewell.com/audio/

He is also CIO of Better Up:
www.betterup.com/en-gb/about-us/leadership-team/prince-harry-the-duke-of-sussex

Again, part of his job there is his profile, bringing attention to the company.

And of course he is still involved with the Invictus Games and Africa Parks and Travalyst and Sentebale, which were pre-existing.

How many jobs does one man need?



People seem to have this weird thing of not recognising how successful he has been in his career. The reason that he can still be involved with Invictus Games and Travalyst and Sentebale and Africa Parks is that they were not ‘Royal’ projects - they were not ‘engagements’ that he carried out on behalf of the Crown. They were his own projects.

And his Army career - he really was commanding missions, he really did have responsibility, he really did earn his rank. He has transferable skills just like any other veteran.

The Daily Mail front page today was hilarious. I think the headline was something like "Please Spare Us!" followed, it was promised, by 17 pages inside of their readers not being spared.

Harry has stuck a huge target on his back. This won’t end well. Please, please may I be wrong

Several prominent military officers, nothing to do with Harry have said he should not have said what he did and the way it was said. He has been so poorly advised as to wording etc in areas of his book.

That is funny. But I've been thinking that this circus of over-hyped outrage is effectively distracting from important things. The Tory MPs quoted in the DM telling Harry to shut up. Why don't they shut up and start working on the cost of living crisis, ending the rolling strikes, bringing inflation down, et al? After all, the DM is the de facto mouthpiece of the Tory establishment, albeit a vulgar mouthpiece. It's classic misdirection, screaming headlines at one target, helping the easily distracted reader forget that the government is still effectively doing nothing to make things better for struggling families.

I think the actual memoir will be very different from the well-poisoning press headlines, and that people who actually read it will feel very differently about him than the people who don’t.

We’ll see.

There's an interesting piece in The Times today, with this : "This isn’t just a revenge book, it’s an attempt to blow up the institution. If he can’t be a royal, no one can." But at the end of the day, Americans enjoy Royal-watching. Meghan wouldn't have sought him out if he was just some random Brit. But the timing is what is so troubling. I'm a republican and on the Left but see why the Queen was a useful figurehead for the Commonwealth at a globally very insecure time. Damaging that now - another very insecure time with a new Cold War - is narcissistic selfishness. He's a dangerous dickhead.

But she didn’t ‘seek him out’. He saw a picture of her on a mutual friend’s Instagram and asked to be put in touch.

This was covered (including the picture!) in the Netflix series.

The whole idea that she ‘sought him out’ comes from the deranged internet stalkers who do things like photoshop pictures of Princess Diana into the background of pictures of her as a child in her bedroom, to make it look like she was Diana-obsessed.

It's one thing actually going into a war zone and fighting/killing.  But to openly talk about the number of people you've killed in a book that the whole world can read (and now that excerpts are all over the press, you don't even need to wait for the book to come out to read the relevant extract!)?  Absolutely disgusting, not least because it puts a target on the backs of Harry and his family, and on the rest of us innocent Brits (and also Americans, since he's married to one and lives there now)!  I don't suppose that crossed his mind when he was churning out his magnum opus!
  

It's irrelevant what the actual passage says - the Taliban have seen the excerpts all over the media (both mainstream and social) which is all they need to take offence and possibly retaliate.  Harry's 'kill tally' should never have appeared in the book!

Some of the stuff circulating out there literally is a spoof. People trolling the media to see if they can get them to pick up ridiculous stories.

Other stuff will just look very different in context.

I don’t know why people are finding mention of a necklace being snapped and a dog bowl being broken in a physical fight funny, though. All it indicates to me is the amount of force being used during the assault. It ain’t easy to break a necklace when it’s round someone’s neck.