SGUK Ep 166
The Crown in Crisis: Power Games and Petty Thrones
Introduction
“Throughout history, royal families have often been at the centre of power struggles that have shaped the course of nations. These struggles for power are sometimes waged openly, with dramatic battles for the throne, and other times hidden behind palace doors, with intrigue and manipulation playing central roles. Whether in ancient monarchies or modern royal houses, the quest for power within the family unit often led to conflict, betrayal, and dramatic shifts in leadership.”
The Vindictive Undercurrents and Internal Power Plays
“We explore the complex world of power struggles between royal family members, examining how these rivalries played out historically and how they continue to shape royal politics today. We will also look at the motivations behind these power struggles, the impact they had, and have, on political stability.”
Loss of Royal Power and Influence
In some cases, the aftermath of a royal power struggle leads to the erosion of the monarchy’s power. Monarchs who survived power struggles often found their authority diminished, as parliamentary bodies or military forces gained more control over governance. Over time, this can lead to the creation of constitutional monarchies or even the complete dissolution of the royal family’s authority.
We will round up the podcast by touching upon The psychological rationale and behaviour which includes topics such as Narcissistic Injury and how it relates to public smearing. I will also give examples of how these tactics are used when an individual’s or institution’s need for admiration and control is threatened.
Let’s begin the meander along the road of power struggles and games played within the circle of fragile egos and the alliances that need to be made, to ensure that with a decreasing public support base, the Monarchy and pals will survive for a little bit longer – whilst the alliances benefit all involved in each unwritten agreement.
William and Kate’s Press Manipulation History Vs Harry and Meghan’s Dignity in Building Their Business Empire Abroad
Media Manipulation: The Unfolding Saga of Harry and Meghan:-
In the ever-evolving landscape of royal narratives, few stories have captured public attention quite like that of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Today, we dive into the controversial treatment they have received from the British media and the alleged complicity of the Royal Family in this ongoing saga.
The scrutiny faced by this couple has sparked debates about bias, fairness, and the broader implications of media influence. The British press has been relentless in its coverage of Harry and Meghan, often painting a bleak picture that strays far from reality. From sensational headlines to scathing opinion pieces, the couple has been subjected to an onslaught of negativity that feels disproportionate. This isn’t just a tabloid issue; even respected newspapers have joined the fray, contributing to a narrative that many deem unfair.
Meghan Markle, in particular, has faced an avalanche of criticism since her relationship with Harry became public. Every decision she makes, every aspect of her life, has been scrutinized to an extent that can only be described as harsh. The same scrutiny extends to Harry, whose choice to step back from royal duties has been framed as a betrayal rather than a necessary step for his family’s mental health.
What’s more troubling is the apparent imbalance in media reporting. While Harry and Meghan are under constant fire, other members of the royal family seem to enjoy a protective shield from similar scrutiny. This discrepancy raises questions about double standards and bias within the media landscape, further eroding trust in journalistic integrity. The consequences of this relentless coverage are stark.
The couple’s public image had suffered immensely, but perhaps more alarmingly, their mental health had been impacted by the ceaseless barrage of negativity. Such a reality paints a grim picture of how the press can wield its power, influencing not just public perception but also personal well-being. As we dissect this situation, it becomes evident that the narrative surrounding Harry and Meghan has been blown out of proportion. The portrayal of a rebellious prince and his ambitious wife has created a toxic environment, prompting calls for more balanced reporting. The media should be a force for truth, not a tool for crafting damaging narratives. However, the British press isn’t the only player in this drama.
Allegations have surfaced suggesting that the Windsors, particularly Prince William and King Charles, may have had a hand in shaping this negative portrayal. It’s a bitter reality to confront, but it appears that the royal family could have intervened to foster unity, yet chose instead to allow the media to continue its onslaught.
Is this merely coincidence? Or is there a strategic effort to elevate William’s image while casting Harry in a less favourable light? The timing of the media’s intensified scrutiny around the time of Charles’s plans to streamline the monarchy raises further questions about intent.
One of the main points in this whole saga, and one which the BRF and their game playing, has backfired immensely, and the only people who have not come out of the game playing with any signs of any of it being worthwhile, is the BRF itself. Harry and Meghan do not respond to the nonsense put out by the Palaces, and just get on do meaningful projects with impactful outcomes. The BRF have no answer to any of that, as they do not possess the skills to start, work with others to any kind of meaningful completion, and be able to speak about to an audience of interested parties. The BRF over centuries, only understand to continue to use the same Playbook over those centuries, and expect to continue to achieve success in a society that has moved on in most parts of the world. The public are increasingly tiring of this game playing. The Hunt the Slaves operations, all using UK taxpayer funds (as I am certain that none of the BRF are using their private wealth to bring Harry and Meghan to heel, or to destroy them) has been in operation since March 2020. The endgame to force Harry back to return to be Williams footstool until the Cambridge children all become adults and can take on Royal duties, or to remove Harry and Meghan from any place on earth where they can breathe. This is the kind of red smoke of an evil aura that follows the UK senior Royals everywhere they go. UK public are tiring of that infantile war games being played on the taxpayer dime. The end is nigh regardless. Just a matter of time. The cartel operating behind the gilded gates on the Plantation is on borrowed time. Only Senior Royals feel that they will still be there flying the UK Flag centuries further down the line.
The Windsors are no strangers to media manipulation. Historically, they have cultivated relationships with journalists, sometimes to their advantage. Could it be that they are using the media to serve their interests in this instance as well?
While we may never grasp the full extent of their involvement, it’s clear that the dynamics within the royal family have played a role in Harry and Meghan’s departure from royal duties. The BRF game playing and bullying along with coercive controlling techniques backfired big time, and the result was that for each puerile gangster type of activity played out in the UK media and media pals strategically set to write strangely familiar disparaging articles, it resulted in increases in numbers of global supporters, and has continued to increase with every failure of juvenile action.
The couple’s attempts to carve out a new path are often met with derision, illustrating the media’s refusal to acknowledge their autonomy. The important point to remember here, it matters not what the UK media claim to believe or the content of what they write on their chalk board. It is all projection. The UK Media would love to be in Harry and Meghan’s sphere again, and get first bite of the news cherries, instead, they are not even allowed inside most of the building that H&M frequent. The RRS seem to enjoy flying back and forth to venues where the Sussexes are delivering speeches or working with groups on forthcoming projects, but the content of most of their articles, is pure fantasy and venom. All sources come from other media folk who need to put food on their table that week. Pathetic covers the junior mafiosa crew, sitting in front of cameras, interviewing each other, and trying to appear high brow and professional talking about this and that, when the reality is, the tv networks indulge them, and watch them earn their few pennies for the week. Whilst doing that, they shorten the lifespan of the BRF, because every time they RRs focus on H&M, they tell the world, that the rest of the BRF don’t attract sufficient level of interest, to make a regular programme out of it. All tv channels day time ‘shows’ always talk about H&M, and every evening tablopid news programme does the same. Each presenter or Reporter on these programmes are giving out anything but a positive message to the UK public, about the lifespan of the current Monarchy. The end is nearing.
This fixation on Harry and Meghan transcends mere curiosity; it resembles a campaign designed to undermine them. Former MP Norman Baker’s recent revelations shed light on the media’s bias. He recounted how he was directed to criticize Harry and Meghan while being instructed to spare William and Kate from similar scrutiny. This admission underscores the manipulative nature of media narratives and raises serious concerns about the integrity of the information we consume. Baker’s insights suggest a calculated effort to vilify Harry and Meghan while safeguarding the reputations of others. This isn’t journalism; it’s a smear campaign.
The implications of such manipulation are profound, calling into question the very essence of media responsibility and its role in shaping public opinion. In examining the treatment of Harry and Meghan, it becomes clear that they have been subjected to an unrelenting and unfair media assault. The bias displayed by the press, coupled with the alleged complicity of the royal family, reveals a troubling narrative that warrants scrutiny.
Much of this section contains quotes from the organisations listed in the Reference Sources at the end of the article, and interspersed with comments from myself.
Another point I feel important to make here, in looking for articles on the next apparent King and Queen, or even what the Heir to the Throne and his Consort are doing at the moment, even with the few headlines listed as containing narrative on William and Kate, the majority of the articles contain narrative about Harry and Meghan. In fact some short articles, consisting of only a few lines, often do not even mention William or Kate in the headline, but they do make the headline all about The Sussexes. When you click on it, 90% of a very short article is about H&M and a couple of lines refer to some non newsworthy topic. In effect, media tv shows or printed articles online or in physical newspapers, do not sell anywhere near the volume of any publication, that has any of the BRF in the headline, and that includes the 4 Senior members. That state of affairs which has existed a few years now, gives most vigilant people a clear idea of the low level of public interest in members of the BRF. If they are not interested in reading online news, they are even less likely to go out and line the streets for 24 hours, to see members of the BRF waving to them from an increasingly like a mausoleum balcony.
The Hate for Hire Gravy Train is Coming to an End, and One by One Karma has begun to Make House Calls
I love hearing of the demise and the shame of the slide down the slippery slope of Hate for Hire, because you all accumulated coins on the back of someone’s suffering. I will continue to remind you and others hiding in the shadows, that breaches in various pieces of legislation, together with much needed updates in other elements of the Law, will come back to haunt all of the Hate for Hire crews to varying degrees over the coming years. It could not happen to more deserving people. The few of you who have been challenged about your activities, did not even last a day, before you began to wilt and play the victim, yet at the same time, you were all comfortable hounding a couple for 8 Years and counting. I will remind you that laws were breached in that process, and a media badge, or whatever toy town badge you wear that represents whatever profession you believe that you are an integral part of, think again. There is no management personnel who will take the fall for any of you, even if they shared your views. All of you who gave so much time to try and bring down another person who was doing better than any of you thought deserved to do so, has left you all in the dust clouds. If no more income came in from today, the family who left te UK for their mental health and the quality of life for their children, will never ever have to rely on payment from anyone else. The family legacy is secure, and non of it comes from UK taxpayers. The efforts to destroy a family purely out of jealousy and evil intent, will come back on all of you in a variety of ways. Like I stated earlier, Karma has already begun to make house calls. Each item of news that comes along, informing the nation via tabloid articles about these captains of Hate for Hire, gives me absolute pleasure to hear about. Over the coming years, one by one, increasing numbers of people will feel a hand on their shoulder. Rightly so.
The reducing UK support base, and UK Media ensure to always use the word of Exile, when it comes to discussing Harry and Meghan and the location of their home. Those that spout and publish this propaganda, do so now because since March 2020, all those involved on the Hate for Hire train, have earned far less than when The Sussexes were sitting targets for UK media here in the UK. I will never forget one of the media crew here in the UK, who is now retired, publicly stated in the 30 years that the individual was working in the Royal sphere, the individual earned more in the 4 years that Harry and Meghan were still resident in the UK than the thirty years working with all the BRF. All the media personnel (some of whom managed to scrape into the fold because they could spread gossip like truth, and do it without blinking, because it brought in more income than they had ever known in their previous backwater employment existence.
The Sussexes have gone about their business ventures with care and precision. The couple do not just turn up for photo opps and the puppeteer type of rictus grins and then leave, and call that work. Harry and Meghan work on real projects, with increasing numbers of organisations, and policy and strategy is crystal clear, not word salad, and the impact of each stage of every project, is measured, and monitored and publicised. The couple also invest in a number of small businesses, and Archewell is divided up into 3 main categories of business activities. Archewell contains the non profit charitable foundation, alongside the business areas of the Foundation, which covers Archewell Audio, Archewell media productions and Archewell Productions.
The Spin Machine Around Illness (Cancer Disclosures, Timing, Distraction Tactics)
The power of the BRF and the establishment generally, has ensured that when one looks for information or data on such topics as Cancer disclosures, Timing, Distraction Tactics etc, information on any search engine is like looking for the Holy Grail. That is not a coincidence; that is deliberate, and in itself, it tells discerning people what we already suspect. So the lack of actually stating it in print, has defeated the object of te intention. It is as plain as day that the timing of disclosure of health issues, are used to influence public attention. There are many examples where illness has been used as a distraction or to garner sympathy. The BRF have used this particular Ace card way too often now, and it the action is weak and poorly deployed, and it becomes weaker with each attempt to try and play magician. Every time one of these tricks from way back when is pulled out of the magician hat, it is anything but a rabbit, and if it was a metaphoric rabbit, the rabbit would be wearing a clown hat. Credibility is circling the drain for the Monarchy right now.
Camilla’s Power Manoeuvring in the Absence of Kate and Charles
It does seem as though Camilla has been working behind the scenes for some time. Camilla certainly has been playing the long game for a few decades now. I am sure that Camilla and her family will be comfortable and settled by the time the new King ascends the throne. I don’t think that she will have the freedom she currently has now to influence media people in particular – or if Camilla continues with such activity, I don’t think it will be quite so public, such as the meetings over lunch with strategically chosen individuals who no doubt will hope to smooth things in the direction of travel that the current Consort wishes to achieve. Overall I think it is destined to be eroded by the new King and who he too will find the duration of that activity to be on the wain over time. The public are already tired of the games that the BRF spend time on planning and actioning, rather than actually do ‘work’ in inverted commas that make a difference to members of the public, rather than the egos of the Senior members of the Royal Family. It is old Playbook activity, and that is almost obsolete already.
How Weaponsised Leaks Reflect Institutional Fear
The puerile acts of leaking this and that, are grown adults replicating dorm room activity. They should be embarrassed. In this day and age, when people of the UK are suffering, and all the elected officials on all political parties are affluent and comfortable, less and less people believe in any usefulness of politicians or the Monarchy that pretends to be a figurehead of the nation. The majority of the time each day is spent on how to destroy someone, or a group, or how to win one over on them in some way. It is a clear sign of entitlement and narcissistic behaviour in the extreme. They all need to go and we start all over again on how and whom we elect to help manage the country. All those who do not pull their weight and produce tangible outcomes, need to be sent on their way. All these media leaks and game playing and one upmanship and stroking peoples egos, need to grow a back bone, and be an adult for a change, not an indulged child in an adult body. Societal Group One is in need of a complete overhaul.
Public Growing Weariness of the Firm’s Cruelty
Having spent years researching centuries of behaviour of the BRF, and the patterns and trends that run through that History, and which continues to the present day, the level of cruelty and evil is unmatched. More of the UK population should read about the practices of the Monarchy over the past 1000+ years. It does not make for pleasant reading, and most of it was not necessary. Todays young people do not hold the views that their parents did when it comes to treatment of people, in and external to the Royal family, and certainly treatment of women in particular was very cruel indeed. Nothing has changed in the current set up, and the public are becoming increasingly aware of it, and it is not sanctioned or supported in any way by younger generations. Like so many things, we are tired now. Our mind will never return to believing the things that are said in front of camera or printed in rags otherwise known as tabloid newspapers. The game playing is going to catch up with so many in future decades, and I am here for all of it.
Narcissistic Injury and Smear Campaigns When Supply is Lost (Psychology Note)
In psychology, narcissistic injury, also known as narcissistic wound or wounded ego, is emotional trauma that overwhelms an individual’s defence mechanisms and devastates their pride and self-worth. In some cases, the shame or disgrace is so significant that the individual can never again truly feel good about who they are. This is sometimes referred to as a “narcissistic scar”.
Freud maintained that “losses in love” and “losses associated with failure” often leave behind injury to an individual’s self-regard.
Signals of narcissistic injury
A narcissistic injury will oftentimes not be noticeable by the subject at first sight. Narcissistic injuries, or narcissistic wounds, are likely a result of criticism, loss, or even a sense of abandonment. Those diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder will come off as excessively defensive and attacking when facing any sort of criticism. While the average person would likely react by expressing vulnerability, a person dealing with a narcissistic wound will do the opposite, causing them to come off as narcissistic, despite feeling hurt inside. The reaction of a narcissistic injury is a cover-up for the real feelings of one who faces these problems.
To others, a narcissistic injury may seem as if the person is gaslighting or turning the issue back onto the other person. A person may come off as manipulative and aggressive because they refuse to accept anything they are told that they do not want to hear. It is important for those dealing with narcissistic wounds to make it clear to those whom they attack with their words that this is indeed a disorder, even when it takes the form of an insult towards another person.”
Ivy Barrow
29th June 2025
Reference Sources
https://thugtards.com/political-marriages-among-royal-families-strategic-alliances-shaping-history/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_injury