Chatting with Lady C - Meghan's letter; Diana's love Hasnat Khan's disclosure; bad royal attire

[Music] hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome back to a new episode of chatting with lady c hello mom how are you i'm very well happy how are you i'm very welcome thank you you're looking away thank you long time no see it's been a few days i know i know misha keeps himself to i himself my privacy even though we are sharing the same castle we could be in completely different countries at times well you recognize it's been so long so what treats do you have in store for us today honey so we've got a few questions and a few things that we're just gonna thank a few people for some presents okay so the first one is josh hammerman who has planted a tree in my honor which i thought was tremendously kind of human he couldn't have been nicer about me so nice in fact that i dare not read out what he said oh but it was really very gracious of him and thank you so much mr hammerman it's a really lovely thought and can you imagine a tree planted in my name isn't that sweet of you yeah it is and then we also have theresa prater who has sent us the most delicious scented soaps and things oh massage oil this is oh some soaps incredibly enough little soaps and this is lavender and rose massage oil both of which smell divine you know the scent is just heavenly definitely and you have some stuff as well yes so she sent also some bath salt yes a little heart thing it's very nice and pretty and also many little things but just another little thing to show you um a lychee soap it looks amazing smells amazing wonderful scent wonderful just delightful well all i can say thank you so much mrs crater i can tell you i'm going to be the sweetest smelly chick on the block that comes really nicely packaged i do have to say yes they don't come right from don't they yeah yeah oh but will you show at the end there will be all yeah whenever however it's appropriate we'll put it on okay thank you honey thank you so what other streets do you have in store for us so for today we've got a few questions so for our first one is from second me question for lady c i recently read the letter meghan markle wrote to her father i was astonished other than the tone and words chosen by her handwriting and the very perfect almost fake quality of her calligraphy i think this reflects her will to control everything about her image her life and how she presents herself to the world would you agree with me that she seems to organize her life around a fraudulent image of herself and that she seemingly on important aspect of her handwriting shows how fake she really is well i would choose my words slightly more carefully i would not say i would not use the word fraudulent i would use the word fabricated or self-invented meghan markle's handwriting if you consult any graphologist will tell you is a study in contrivance there is nothing natural about it uh it is contrived from the beginning to end it's not calligraphy either i know she has stated that she was a calligraphist but what she does is not calligraphy she obviously had a very nice cursive script which many people have and she has embellished it somewhat uh which many artists do well of course she's not an artist so that right there should be a giveaway but she has so to speak purloined the artistic bits of handwriting and incorporated them into her script so that people would think she was artistic there is very little about her handwriting that gives a clue as to the true nature of the person in question and by doing that it gives away everything about not only the true nature of the person but the way she presents herself to the world there are and i'm not i'm now speaking about her ordinary handwriting her ordinary everyday script and not speaking particularly about the letter to the father because i have only seen bits of it i haven't seen the whole of it but i gather from people who have seen it that from beginning to end it maintains the same stylistic contrivance let's put it that way anybody who writes the way she has written is broadcasting very loudly i am very contrived i'm i don't want to use the word fake i don't want to use the word fake but if other people wish to use the word fake i'm certainly not going to slap them down that's their right but i would prefer not to use the word fake but it certainly shows that she has a facade that she is in absolute control of that she is quite determined at great pains because to write like that no matter how adept she becomes at it it is an effort it's a bigger effort to write like that than to write ordinarily i mean the contrivances the loops and the throats and the flourishes everywhere throughout the letter it's rarely the way she speaks with her hands as well except it's even more elaborate you know it's like this is the mask that she has put on to hide feelings presumably of great inadequacy or guilt or shame but certainly hiding aspects of herself that she does not wish people to see it's that's the message of her handwriting it also another message is that she is completely in control to an unnatural and actually one would say unhealthy extent nobody writes like that naturally nobody so i suppose if you want to say that it is completely artificial yes it is and the irony is that if you cut out all of those super duper extraordinary flourishes everywhere and how wonderful i am i'm just the most wonderful marvelous person just look at the way i write i just write like you know i'm a goddess a goddess oh god it's embarrassing it's so dreadful if she cut out nine tenths of all of that artifice her handwriting would be good and it tells you that the basic cursive script is sound it is all of the embellishments it's what she's trying to hide it's the message she's trying to deliver of being so special and being so fabulous and so beautiful and elaborate that's just sickening sickening sickening i mean if you look at something like that you know there are professional calligraphers who do invitations are for weddings and parties etc they do proper calligraphy this is not proper calligraphy this is elaborate cursive script but it's very expensive and very time consuming i know because 20 30 40 years ago most smart invitations were sent out by hostesses who would getting calligraphers to do the invitations and it took quite a long time to do each invitation well for her to have done a whole letter of several pages admittedly as i say it's not calligraphy so it's going to be quicker but it's still going to be wretchedly slow you do not write a letter like that to anybody including and maybe even especially your father so cleanly meekly particularly precisely elaborately and in terms of such a pastiche of naturalness unless you in your rather deluded way expect that letter b to be seen and the people people not only the subject of the letter but people generally when they see that letter will they oh my gosh megan's just the most fabulous person can you imagine her handwriting it's just beautiful i mean she's right up there with a leonardo i mean she's just fantastic i mean it's delusional so that's my opinion and i also know it's the opinion of professional graphologists so but i didn't need any professional graphologists to tell me i'm sufficiently old and wise to look at something and see this is a study in artifice next question honey nice so for our next question today is from suzanne heming joe you must speak of the new has not khan interview please yes i gathered in fact that we had quite a few questions along those lines oh yes hashtag khan as many people know was diana's last boyfriend before dodi fayed he is a very eminent heart surgeon who studied on the semadi yakub who's one of the most eminent heart surgeons in the world he lives in england he is a completely dedicated doctor diana used to call him mr wonderful he's not dr haznett khan he's actually mr has that khan because in the medical world at least in england to be mr ranks above being doctor because mr means you are a surgeon of higher rank than a doctor who is also a surgeon so that's just a little message for those who might not know he gave an interview the other day to richard k richard k used to be the gossip columnist on the mail the daily mail he took over from nigel dempster i know richard key uh we have crossed swords and we ostensibly kissed and made up and we quite possibly have kissed him made up whenever i see him oh he's very pleasant and correct and very pleasant and correct and you know if i see him across the room he'll wave at me big smile on the rest of it how sincere he is and genuine i have no idea because a certain prince told me that he said to him he said i would never write a nice word about georgie campbell if it killed me so who knows is the prince speaking the truth or is richard k presenting the truth when he sees me but there is no doubt that he and diana were on very cordial friendly terms he is what used to be known as a gentleman uh he diana was actually very careful after she had her affair with barry manaki to not associate with people who were not outside of the world of ladies and gentlemen oh she was very careful about that and richard k falls into the category uh i think he would say that they were friends i would say that she had was using him uh and that they were friendly i would not say that they were friends because i do not think that diana like most public figures necessarily had friends with gossip colonists however he certainly advised her and she used him as a sounding board for lots of stuff with her publicity and she leaked an awful lot of stuff to richard so she definitely he definitely knew her and he knew quite a lot about her admittedly pretty much all only only rarely what she wanted him to know but it doesn't alter the fact he did know a lot about her and he what he played a part in her life and knew personally has net khan who has given this interview pointing out that he thought that martin bashir was not a nice person he told her she he wasn't a nice person he warned her against him william also warned her against him diana didn't listen to anybody but it was sufficiently important to hashnet khan who for the last 20 something years has kept absolutely stoma as silent as the grave to speak to richard knowing that by speaking to richard he was going to share his opinion of martin bashir with the world and basically he delivered a huge message to the world which is that he believes that diana was deceived misled used and effectively abused by martin bashir and that he had no really good intentions towards diana that his intentions were primarily if not exclusively towards his career and what i find interesting in all of this is that despite all these people who are eminent public figures coming out and speaking about their dubious opinion of martin bashir and i now include her brother in that number and despite the fact that there's going to be an inquiry into martin bashir's conduct he still remains the editor of religious affairs at the bbc i'm just curious as to why he hasn't been stood down when the bbc are the first ones to pay for the blood of anybody who's accused of anything untoward do you find that interesting i do you do i don't understand why they would keep him on yeah yeah well maybe he has more secrets of course you know and uh and until they have to they're not they're going to show loyalty these are people who when anybody else is accused of anything they do not take the view you're innocent until proven guilty they take the view you are guilty until you're proven innocently and stand down next question honey so for our next question today is from terry tyler megan and harry just need to stay put and quit bothering the rest of us now to what's really important is that is that statue behind you alexander the great and lucephalus i adore the art in your home and listening to you in one of the high points in my day god bless you and your family how very sweet thank you so much terry tyler oh practically everything in here was either given to me or then i have acquired and love so pretty much everything in this place somehow has a link to things i love whether it's people or the thing itself these this is one of a pair of companion pieces they are not very valuable they are not of bronze they are of spelter and they are from the second half of the 19th century they are beautiful artistically i mean i studied arts so i know what is good art and they are good sculptures uh the horses are wonderful the males are wonderful uh because there is another one on the other side which maybe at some point we can show you not now but maybe when we do a tour of the contents or some of the contents of the castle it is not of alexander the great and bucephalus it is just of a very strong beautiful young man with a magnificent horse of course to those of you who do not know bucephalus was the most famous horse in antiquity it was alexander the great's favorite horse and in fact if i remember correctly when bucephalus died there was something raised in his honor you know so well of course you know until fairly recently horses meant a very great deal to people and of course people formed huge bonds with horses well you know because when you hear olga talking about how she loves horses olga's a friend of ours who loves horses and uh you know and uh i mean people do have a very strong relationships with their horses but so thank you very much mrs tyler uh but it's regrettably not alexander the great and bucephalus just a beautiful young man and a magnificent horse next question honestly all right so for our last question today is from laura goats lady scene i love the way you dress you are always so well turned out can you please explain to me how a member of the royal family can make a full path in their attire when they have dressers advisors and other essential staff at their disposal first of all thank you so much for the compliment uh it's much appreciated secondly doesn't matter how many good advices you have you know the old adage you can take a horse to water but you can't force it to drink or the royal family do have dresses and they do have people who give them advice on a tower etc etc diana for instance had anna harvey of vogue and you know if somebody doesn't want to listen they're not gonna listen uh so basically it comes down to the fact that no matter how much good advice you're given if you don't want to take it you're going to end up looking like the back of the bus oh i mean it's kind of you to say that i dress well of course i am a dean's student from the fashion institute of technology new york and i listened to the lessons but i also was exposed to people who dressed well uh and people who had style but it doesn't alter the fact that one listens and looks around and says yup i mean you know there are certain rules such as one of the old rules was once you're dressed and you just completely in keeping with the way you think you should be dressing always take something off that's an old ruler uh norman norrell who was one of the most famous american designers of the second half of the 20th century he was the arbiter of supreme good taste he used to say a woman can never be simply enough dressed in the day and splendidly enough dressed in the evening so i think if you bear that sort of thing in mind oh but styles change and you know anybody who's interested in fashion keeps up at least to a certain extent with the trends but if a trend doesn't suit you and this is where i agree with joan collins who is quite vociferous about refusing to wear shoes that she regards as ugly if a trend doesn't suit you just give it a miss on the other hand if a trend suits you be careful not to perpetuate it beyond its shelf life now there is such a thing as classical attack and i am something of a classicist but when i was 18 19 and 20 i certainly wasn't you know i was at the fashion institute i dabbled in modeling i used to design clothes for she and abracadabra which were the two hot hot boutiques of the day and i experimented you know and francis mccall who was my guardian used to say you know those costumes that you wear george's shields see you know you can only ever wear them once and i used to say i don't want to wear them twice she used to say why don't you just invest your money in good 100 a pop dresses because now this is in the late 60s so when i'm looking back on it now i'm thinking crikey a hundred dollars a dress uh and francis used to get her because her family were in the garment industry so she used to get everything wholesale i mean crying i wonder what they cost now but anyway i used i wasn't interested but by the time i was in well approaching the time i was about 23 i'd started to calm down and sort of go into the more classical uh look which i have adhered to but i also used to every now and then you know come out with real singers like i had an amazing evening dress that i wore to a ball i've still got it somewhere this is in the days before oh you know everybody appeared seminude which they all do now in those days it was tremendous adventurous to appear at a ball in something that was really quite naughty but i mean several of us did it and i did it as well oh and i had this dress it had a cowl neckline so but it was the cowl was to the to the waist oh so it covered one's front but it's was cut straight down no back oh the skirt was ruched at an angle here going up to hair oh and then there was a huge bow on the side if i remember correctly or was it on the back i mean i've got the dress somewhere you know but i mean it was actually the sort of thing that nowadays all the movie stars wear on the red carpet and it's so happening sorry if a movie star nowadays could go on their own carpet naked they would well exactly but i mean when i did it it wasn't you know it was really cutting edge nowadays that they all do it it's really much better to prove a point nowadays it's all about trying to prove a point that some people of course do care but the rest of us don't care no no no it's true it's true just to prove a point also once something and this is my point about trends as well once a trend becomes once it's trickled down to the level where practically everybody's doing it you want to move on if it's not classical you want to move on you don't want to be the latest person with a trend trend setters are at the forefront they're not at the back you know and they're certainly not in the mainstream with everybody else so i hope that answers the question do you think it's answered the question no not clean yes no and i suspect i know who you were thinking of when you asked the question and but there are one or two others who definitely are not great stylists for instance princess anne i mean her wedding dress was magnificent and she looked beautiful and when she was young she did sort of but but she's what she wears the same things 40 years later uh which is a bit of a mistake and she's gone in for the sort of plain dowager look which with dresses and stairs that are 40 years out of date you know you need to update your look uh even if you wear something that's 40 years old maybe we're at the top but not the bottom well it doesn't work on men then oh it does perfectly sorry what what's so easy about a man we don't have this problem we just put on a suit and it could be a hundred years old that suit it would still look like a suit from today oh that's what i meant sorry i'm agreeing with you sorry i thought you were i didn't real you're absolutely right that's what's so practical for us absolutely that's why when uncle mickey died oh and jane hartley jane hardy was a friend of mine who sadly is dead now uh when and jane said to me she said uh you can't give away bespoke suits and turnbull nasa shirts and hermes ties you've got two sons you've got to save them for them and of course though the both of you are much bigger than mickey and that was the end of that a lot especially yes yes so but anyway so enough said thank you very much for listening i hope you have enjoyed this please keep the questions coming in well thank you everybody and we hope you enjoyed this episode and if you did please hit the like button subscribe and share with your friends thank you very much and goodbye

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Published: Sat Jan 23 2021