The effort to place Prince William beside Meghan Sussex’s Emmy nomination is almost comical. Meghan created, hosted and produced a series that earned a Daytime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lifestyle Program. William appeared as a guest in one episode of The Reluctant Traveler. Those are not remotely comparable achievements.
The episode featuring William received a Primetime Emmy nomination for nonfiction writing. The official nominees are writers David Reilly and Christine Rose. William is not listed as a nominee, and appearing in the episode does not magically make the nomination his. By that logic, every celebrity interviewed on an award-nominated programme should start clearing space on the mantelpiece.
People reported:
Last week, it was announced that the Prince of Wales’ episode of The Reluctant Traveler With Eugene Levy received a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program. The third season of the Apple TV+ travel show also received a nomination for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special.
Prince William’s episode, titled “Living the Royal Life in the U.K.,” featured the royal heir, 44, welcoming Levy, 79, to Windsor Castle for a one-of-a-kind tour and a candid conversation about life and legacy.
Meanwhile, Prince William’s sister-in-law, Meghan Markle, is taking on the Daytime Emmys with the first-ever nomination for her Netflix series With Love, Meghan. The Duchess of Sussex, 44, celebrated her show’s nod for Outstanding Lifestyle Series on Wednesday, July 15, sharing an Instagram post thanking all involved with the production.
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What makes the coverage especially embarrassing is the sudden change in tone. When Meghan’s nomination was announced, some outlets rushed to explain why it supposedly was not impressive, why the category did not matter or why the recognition should come with an asterisk. Days later, William’s proximity to an entirely different nomination became something to celebrate.
Either an Emmy nomination carries value, or it does not. You cannot dismiss the award when Meghan’s own programme earns recognition and then inflate William’s guest appearance into a personal Hollywood achievement.
The comparison also exposes the wider double standard. Meghan is expected to create the concept, carry the programme, attract the guests and produce the finished work before receiving even reluctant credit. William can appear as the featured guest in somebody else’s series and still find himself inserted into headlines about nominees.
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The Writers Deserve the Credit
Let us also give credit where it is due. The writers, David Reilly and Christine Rose, earned that Primetime Emmy nomination. The honour belongs to them, not to the person who sat down for an interview. William can take some credit for being an engaging guest, but it is a stretch, even by royal press standards, to pretend he is now an award-nominated television personality.
Meghan earned recognition for a project she helped build. William was a guest in an episode whose writers were nominated. These are two different facts, and no amount of royal spin can turn them into the same accomplishment.
Prince William has enough titles, wealth and institutional attention without the press manufacturing achievements for him. Meghan did the work. The nomination recognises Meghan and the hard-working team behind the programme.
The press can keep trying to level the playing field by inserting William into conversations about achievement, but the record speaks for itself. One person created something and was recognised. The other appeared as a guest in an episode whose writers received a nomination. These are not the same. Pretending they are only makes the press and William look desperate.
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Everyone knows who Prince Harry sued and even with all that the smear campAign against his talented intelligent and beautiful wife, fails epically.
Glaringly obvious but tedious the obsessive fixation of the morons, trolls, dullard losers, paranoid schizophrenics, et al, with the Sussexes.
Simply comedic and delusional are the futile attention seeking efforts to attack tangible achievements, accolades, etcetera, in a one sided competition, is the best described as evidence of certifiably out of control madness.
Agree 💯 with Feminegra’s observations and the embarrassing display of the double standards and combative reporting.
👉 Motto: “do not compete where you do not compare”, 🤡😊
Consider if William’s titles, inherited wealth, real estates, land banks, palace properties, lifelong security, protection from accountability, including exemption from freedom of information, etcetera, etcetera were removed and he was defunded by the hard working taxpaying public, what remains?
Left to his own devices, without the handed down privileges, entitlements, pompous, grandiose titles, what capacity does he have to sustain himself by his own capabilities and efforts?
How will he cope with a relentless, orchestrated campaign of media smears, hostility, egregious briefings from unnamed sources, threats to his life and that of his children and wife, daily close scrutiny of his every move/utterance, jealous, malicious, deranged trolls, etcetera?
Any answers or guesses? Please put on the back of a stamp and note there are no prizes.
Well said!!
The nomination relates to the ‘non-fiction’ category, not to Prince William. With these articles, the press is ridiculing the heir to the throne and stripping him of all dignity. Were he to order this himself, it would resemble the derailed, narcissistic and morbid behaviour of the US President, who has his name affixed to the façade of the Hall of Honour dedicated to a highly esteemed, assassinated President, and who rages over every medal and every honour to which he believes he is entitled.
Yet the heir to the throne should be protected by his father from such undignified behaviour. And if he does in fact order this himself or coordinate it with the press – and it is not just the press or the people in the palace who might feel the need to ridicule him on a daily basis – then he is more deeply trapped in his traumatic life story than the public is led to believe. Untreated trauma can lead to severe depression and panic attacks, which – particularly in men who, without therapy, are unable to cope with their feelings of helplessness – can also lead to aggression towards themselves and others.
All these pseudo-positive and passively underhand-aggressive articles about the Wales family in the right-wing British and American press are destructive in a different way to those that are openly spiteful and brutally aggressive towards the Duke and Duchess of Sussex – but where is all this leading? This press, which has completely lost the plot, is busily setting out to psychologically destroy people in one way or another, rather than fulfilling its remit. Charles will lose his two sons and their families, yet this family shows so little genuine, visible and authentic loyalty towards one another that this is hardly surprising.
“How Meghan Markle’s Netflix Show Really Landed That Daytime Emmy Nomination”
👉 https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/bernadette-giacomazzo/meghan-markle-daytime-emmy-nomination
“How Meghan Markle’s Netflix Show Really Landed That Daytime Emmy Nomination”
👉 https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/bernadette-giacomazzo/meghan-markle-daytime-emmy-nomination
Dieser Mann aus England wird immer seltsamer. Ist der Mann gesund? Kann das jemand erklären?