Harry and Meghan sign with A-list agency to hit the speaking circuit

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Harry and Meghan sign with A-list agency to hit the speaking circuit

By Lisa Richwine

 

FILE PHOTO: Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, leave after attending the Endeavour Fund Awards in London, Britain March 5, 2020. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/File Photo

 

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Prince Harry and wife Meghan are ready to hit the speakers' circuit after signing with an agency that works with former U.S. President Obama and other high-profile clients, according to a person familiar with their plans.

 

The pair is being represented by the New York-based Harry Walker Agency, whose roster of speakers includes Barack and Michelle Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton and Oprah Winfrey, the person said on Wednesday.

 

The move is one of the first major steps by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to engage in paid work beyond the British royal family after they announced plans in January to lead a more independent life and to finance it themselves. They now live in Los Angeles with their 1-year-old son Archie, according to media reports.

 

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle will be available for speaking engagements after signing with an agency that works with former U.S. President Obama. Edward Baran reports.

 

The couple's speaking engagements will focus on issues such as racial justice, gender equity, the environment and mental health, an important topic to Prince Harry who has talked publicly about his struggles with grief following the death of his mother, Princess Diana.

 

The pair will speak together and individually, the person familiar with their plans said.

 

The arrangement with Harry Walker, owned by media company Endeavor, was first reported by the Los Angeles Times.

 

The speaking circuit can be lucrative for high-profile celebrities. Big-name speakers can earn six figures for a single appearance.

 

Meghan recently narrated a Disney nature documentary and Harry teamed with Winfrey for an upcoming mental health documentary. Both projects were in the works before they stepped back from the royal family.

 

Harry and Meghan also have supported charitable causes. On Tuesday, they donned hair nets, aprons and face masks to bake with employees of Homeboy Industries, a Los Angeles-based social justice organization that hires former prisoners and gang members.

 

(Reporting by Lisa Richwine; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-06-25

 

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[pegman]

 Got a pay for all that security somehow. 

[ezzra]

Most people who will attend their "speaking circuit" will no doubt be more of the rubbernecking type than those who want to hear anything they have to say I'm sure...

[Denim]

41 minutes ago, pegman said:

 Got a pay for all that security somehow. 

 

And when people are finally bored with listening to them or reading about them they will just have to pimp each other out to make ends meet.

[JonnyF]

I really can't wait to hear what the Prince and Princess of Woke are going to be lecturing us on next.

 

Telling us not to fly? Denouncing our white privilege? Reducing our energy consumption? Should be really fascinating stuff and in no way hypocritical either  .

[emilyarin]

God give me strength

[faraday]

Next stop Broadway!

[VocalNeal]

I've heard Beckham is a nice guy as well?

[JonnyF]

1 hour ago, Denim said:

 

And when people are finally bored with listening to them or reading about them they will just have to pimp each other out to make ends meet.

Once people are bored of all the Woke nonsense they'll probably "dish the dirt" on the Royal family. After that, they've really nothing to offer. 

[sammieuk1]

Riveting news????

[PatchinExPat]

Famous simply for being famous.

 

People are so easily entertained, you wonder how

they had enough sense or luck to become rich in the first place.

Or even come in out of the rain.

 

Oh, well, they are a charity case now , so throw them a few dollars.

They don't have a talent that could support their life style.

[PatchinExPat]

The rest of the royals better hire food tasters. 

Prince Harry and  Meghan are likely to become 

very jealous  and want back in the royal life style.

[RuamRudy]

Another Harry & Meghan thread, another tirade of hate from the usual suspects. If only Harry had married a nice, proper, white CoE girl, all this stress could have been avoided - am I right?

[colinneil]

5 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:

Another Harry & Meghan thread, another tirade of hate from the usual suspects. If only Harry had married a nice, proper, white CoE girl, all this stress could have been avoided - am I right?

Colour has absolutely nothing to do with this.

The woman is just a limelight seeker dragging poor ole Harry along, cause he is just doing as she tells him.

[RuamRudy]

24 minutes ago, colinneil said:

Colour has absolutely nothing to do with this.

 

I disagree. 

[JonnyF]

1 hour ago, RuamRudy said:

Another Harry & Meghan thread, another tirade of hate from the usual suspects. If only Harry had married a nice, proper, white CoE girl, all this stress could have been avoided - am I right?

Amazing how you can find a reason to shout RACIST in every situation. Does it make you feel more virtuous, or do you actually believe it makes you look more virtuous?

 

It seems to me that you are the one obsessed with race. It's so typical of a woke, left wing 'liberal' to reduce everything to someone's racial makeup. I took a dislike to Markle long before I knew her mother was black (she looks white/Southern European to me and I actually assumed stories of her racial heritage were fabricated by the press for a few months).

[RuamRudy]

4 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

Amazing how you can find a reason to shout RACIST in every situation. Does it make you feel more virtuous, or do you actually believe it makes you look more virtuous?

No, it is because I believe it to be correct. You should try critical thinking now and again, rather than simply spewing out all your Alt-right soundbites and buzzwords. I appreciate that this would leave your posts rather hollow, without any substance whatsoever, but that is the price you would have to pay if you wanted to come across more genuine. 

[CGW]

7 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:

No, it is because I believe it to be correct. You should try critical thinking now and again, rather than simply spewing out all your Alt-right soundbites and buzzwords. I appreciate that this would leave your posts rather hollow, without any substance whatsoever, but that is the price you would have to pay if you wanted to come across more genuine. 

[JonnyF]

2 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:

No, it is because I believe it to be correct. You should try critical thinking now and again, rather than simply spewing out all your Alt-right soundbites and buzzwords. I appreciate that this would leave your posts rather hollow, without any substance whatsoever, but that is the price you would have to pay if you wanted to come across more genuine. 

Alt right? You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about ????. Yet another tired old cliche from the wokest of woke. Anyone who isn't a leftist, Woke "liberal" (I use inverted commas because modern day liberals like you are anything but liberal) is simply demonized as Alt Right and racist.

 

When anyone lazily calls me Alt right and racist they do so because they have lost the argument, so they throw out a lazy 'one size fits all' insult. I'd like to say I expect better from you, but I don't ????.

 

Have you ever considered the possibility that someone dislikes someone else not because of their race, but because of the content of their character (now where have I heard that before)?

[simon43]

Toxic couple.... and I never even realised that Markle's mum was black/POC/ African heritage or whatever PC definition is in use today.  Unlike the lefties and snowflakes, who see racism (ie, whites discriminating against blacks - it can never be the other way round, can it?) at every turn, I simply see people for what they are.

Edited June 25, 2020 by simon43

[colinneil]

1 hour ago, RuamRudy said:

I disagree. 

You disagree? Bit lame dont you think, you are basically calling most members on here racist.

Yet most of us are in fact married or are in a relationship with coloured ladies here.

So how the hell can we be racist?

[RuamRudy]

1 minute ago, colinneil said:

You disagree? Bit lame dont you think,

It is a statement of fact - it is neither lame nor... not lame.

 

2 minutes ago, colinneil said:

you are basically calling most members on here racist.

I don't believe that most TV members have articulated their opinion of Markle either way, so your point is laughably hyperbolic. 

 

4 minutes ago, colinneil said:

Yet most of us are in fact married or are in a relationship with coloured ladies here.

So how the hell can we be racist?

Jim Davidson had a mate called Chalky - how could he ever be called racist?

[sungod]

1 hour ago, RuamRudy said:

Another Harry & Meghan thread, another tirade of hate from the usual suspects. If only Harry had married a nice, proper, white CoE girl, all this stress could have been avoided - am I right?

No in short.

 

No one mentioned skin colour until you brought it up. Why play the race card?

 

If she was white CoE, you would have turned it into an anti monarchy/privileged thread. But, oh, how so convenient for you......

 

 

[RuamRudy]

2 minutes ago, sungod said:

No in short.

 

No one mentioned skin colour until you brought it up. Why play the race card?

 

 

This is not a new topic on these boards or on social media in general, and the implications I suggested were not floated by me in the first instance. The appalling way she has been treated by the British press and the stark difference in treatment she has received from it compared to her sister in law is well documented. 

 

Going through the reams of abuse dished out on this thread and all the previous ones that have gone the same way, there is a consistent dearth of anything close to justification for her treatment, so I am more than happy to be educated as to why she merits such abuse. Tangible things only please.

 

10 minutes ago, sungod said:

If she was white CoE, you would have turned it into an anti monarchy/privileged thread. But, oh, how so convenient for you......

I must be honest in stating that I have never, before, noticed your name or avatar so I would never be so bold as to predict your response to any given subject. I am surprised that you are so confident in your prediction of my response to your imaginary scenario. I am humbled to have made such an impression upon you. 

[owl sees all]

3 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

I've heard Beckham is a nice guy as well?

There's still a noose hanging from a lamp post in Northumberland Park. Spurs fans have long memories; they have to have.

[CGW]

36 minutes ago, simon43 said:

Unlike the lefties and snowflakes, who see racism (ie, whites discriminating against blacks - it can never be the other way round, can it?) at every turn, I simply see people for what they are.

I see it different! I see people who allow themselves to be manipulated - invariably they will be the last to realise that - if they ever do!

[sungod]

2 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:

 

 

 

 I am surprised that you are so confident in your prediction of my response to your imaginary scenario. I am humbled to have made such an impression upon you. 

 

No impression, at least not long lasting or favorable. No need to flatter yourself ????

 

[RichardColeman]

It will all end in tears - on the front of the glossy magazine that pays the most

[RuamRudy]

15 minutes ago, sungod said:

 

No impression, at least not long lasting or favorable. No need to flatter yourself ????

 

Now you have just ruined my day; nay, my whole week.

[giddyup]

They'll end up like poor old Fergie, borrowing money everywhere to a support a lifestyle she can't afford, resorting to even pimping out her ex to make a buck. Pathetic.