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Don't tempt our member resident there let along I feel the definition of "useful work" might be different to both parties
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Unfortunately there is every chance of him coming here. We know all his friends here, nodding terms, it will be interesting how they treat him. None are British so may not know what has been going on. If we bump into him again we will do the same as we did the last time and pretend we don't know him.
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Prince Harry is getting back on the road
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/04/uk/royal ... index.html
Well, it looks like the Prince of Wales isn’t the only royal making their way to Singapore soon. We recently found out that Prince Harry will also be grabbing his passport and heading to the Southeast Asian nation for his own charitable cause.
The Duke of Sussex will be competing in his Sentebale charity’s annual polo match there next weekend. Harry co-founded the organization with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho in 2006 with the goal of helping children in southern Africa affected by extreme poverty, inequality and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Since 2010, its polo fundraiser has raised more than £11 million ($14 million), according to the charity.
Ahead of the competition, Harry described the event as “essential” to his charity’s work to ensure “children and young people are healthy, resilient, and able to thrive.”
He continued: “The funds raised this year will support our Clubs and Camps programme, which provides intensive psychosocial support to young people living with HIV. In a time where being HIV positive is no longer a death sentence, we are empowering young people to know their status, stay healthy, and eliminate the stigma so that they can break the cycle.”
The duke will play on the Royal Salute Sentebale Team, while his close pal, polo player Nacho Figueras, who is also an ambassador for the organization, will helm the opposing Singapore Polo Club Team.
Before touching down in the Lion City, the duo will make a stop in Tokyo on Wednesday for the ISPS (International Sports Promotion Society) Sports Values Summit, where they will join discussions on “the power of sport, community and philanthropy.”
ISPS founder Haruhisa Handa said: “ISPS Handa are delighted to be partnering with Sentebale this August on the special edition of ISPS Sports Values Summit in Tokyo and the annual Polo Cup in Singapore. Our respective organisations share a mutual responsibility to empower and aid those most in need and believe we can use the power of sport to do so.”
While he’s away, Prince Harry will no doubt be keeping across any developments in his ongoing legal cases against several British media outlets (more on that later). But with this trip, he’s clearly projecting a return to regular programming and refocusing public attention back on to his advocacy work after months of scrutiny over his private life.
Harry and Meghan also appeared to quash any conversation about their future by appearing together in a video released this week speaking out against cyberbullying. The pair were filmed calling several Responsible Technology Youth Power Fund recipients to talk to them about their work and thank them for their entrepreneurial efforts. It was the first time the pair had been seen together since the New York paparazzi car chase incident.
Meanwhile, Harry’s elder brother, Prince William, also has a trip to Singapore in his diary. But before you get too excited at the prospect of the pair reuniting, we have to burst your bubble as William’s trip – for the third iteration of his Earthshot Prize – is scheduled for early November.
William and Harry share a passion for polo and have often combined their love of the sport with their altruistic efforts. For the past two years, William has appeared at the Out-sourcing Inc. Royal Charity Polo Day raising funds and awareness for 10 organizations that he and his wife, Catherine, support.
For those unfamiliar with the game, polo involves horses charging across a field as their riders try to whack a ball through two goalposts using long-handled mallets.
It features two teams of four players and two mounted umpires. In the UK, a game is split into four chukkas, or quarters, each lasting seven minutes. If this all seems a little anachronistic, well, that’s because polo is more than 2,000 years old. It originated in Persia as early as the sixth century BC as training for cavalry troops before it morphed into a sport.
For the British royal family, it has provided the backdrop to serendipitous romantic meetings, family bonding and a very special gift from former US President Barack Obama to young Prince George.
In recent years, almost every member of the family has been pictured at a polo match, with King Charles, William, Harry and the late Prince Philip playing, while other family members presented trophies or watched from the sidelines. It was also at a polo match in Windsor in 1970 where a young Prince Charles reportedly first met Camilla Shand and they became friends.
Love of the game seems to be handed down to the next generation during childhood. One of the first times Prince Archie was photographed was at a polo match in 2019, when he was just two months old, as he watched his dad and uncle play at Billingbear Polo Club in Surrey, England. And his cousins George, Charlotte and Louis have also frequently been snapped at polo matches, though not necessarily watching them, but instead running around in the grass nearby or playing soccer. So, while it may not be a sport with mass appeal, polo’s future as a royal favorite seems safe.
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Well, it looks like the Prince of Wales isn’t the only royal making their way to Singapore soon. We recently found out that Prince Harry will also be grabbing his passport and heading to the Southeast Asian nation for his own charitable cause.
The Duke of Sussex will be competing in his Sentebale charity’s annual polo match there next weekend. Harry co-founded the organization with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho in 2006 with the goal of helping children in southern Africa affected by extreme poverty, inequality and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Since 2010, its polo fundraiser has raised more than £11 million ($14 million), according to the charity.
Ahead of the competition, Harry described the event as “essential” to his charity’s work to ensure “children and young people are healthy, resilient, and able to thrive.”
He continued: “The funds raised this year will support our Clubs and Camps programme, which provides intensive psychosocial support to young people living with HIV. In a time where being HIV positive is no longer a death sentence, we are empowering young people to know their status, stay healthy, and eliminate the stigma so that they can break the cycle.”
The duke will play on the Royal Salute Sentebale Team, while his close pal, polo player Nacho Figueras, who is also an ambassador for the organization, will helm the opposing Singapore Polo Club Team.
Before touching down in the Lion City, the duo will make a stop in Tokyo on Wednesday for the ISPS (International Sports Promotion Society) Sports Values Summit, where they will join discussions on “the power of sport, community and philanthropy.”
ISPS founder Haruhisa Handa said: “ISPS Handa are delighted to be partnering with Sentebale this August on the special edition of ISPS Sports Values Summit in Tokyo and the annual Polo Cup in Singapore. Our respective organisations share a mutual responsibility to empower and aid those most in need and believe we can use the power of sport to do so.”
While he’s away, Prince Harry will no doubt be keeping across any developments in his ongoing legal cases against several British media outlets (more on that later). But with this trip, he’s clearly projecting a return to regular programming and refocusing public attention back on to his advocacy work after months of scrutiny over his private life.
Harry and Meghan also appeared to quash any conversation about their future by appearing together in a video released this week speaking out against cyberbullying. The pair were filmed calling several Responsible Technology Youth Power Fund recipients to talk to them about their work and thank them for their entrepreneurial efforts. It was the first time the pair had been seen together since the New York paparazzi car chase incident.
Meanwhile, Harry’s elder brother, Prince William, also has a trip to Singapore in his diary. But before you get too excited at the prospect of the pair reuniting, we have to burst your bubble as William’s trip – for the third iteration of his Earthshot Prize – is scheduled for early November.
William and Harry share a passion for polo and have often combined their love of the sport with their altruistic efforts. For the past two years, William has appeared at the Out-sourcing Inc. Royal Charity Polo Day raising funds and awareness for 10 organizations that he and his wife, Catherine, support.
For those unfamiliar with the game, polo involves horses charging across a field as their riders try to whack a ball through two goalposts using long-handled mallets.
It features two teams of four players and two mounted umpires. In the UK, a game is split into four chukkas, or quarters, each lasting seven minutes. If this all seems a little anachronistic, well, that’s because polo is more than 2,000 years old. It originated in Persia as early as the sixth century BC as training for cavalry troops before it morphed into a sport.
For the British royal family, it has provided the backdrop to serendipitous romantic meetings, family bonding and a very special gift from former US President Barack Obama to young Prince George.
In recent years, almost every member of the family has been pictured at a polo match, with King Charles, William, Harry and the late Prince Philip playing, while other family members presented trophies or watched from the sidelines. It was also at a polo match in Windsor in 1970 where a young Prince Charles reportedly first met Camilla Shand and they became friends.
Love of the game seems to be handed down to the next generation during childhood. One of the first times Prince Archie was photographed was at a polo match in 2019, when he was just two months old, as he watched his dad and uncle play at Billingbear Polo Club in Surrey, England. And his cousins George, Charlotte and Louis have also frequently been snapped at polo matches, though not necessarily watching them, but instead running around in the grass nearby or playing soccer. So, while it may not be a sport with mass appeal, polo’s future as a royal favorite seems safe.
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Prince Harry's 'His Royal Highness' title removed from royal family's website
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Prince Harry's "His Royal Highness" title was removed from his profile page on the royal family's website more than three years after he and his wife Meghan Markle stepped down from their roles as working royals.
As part of the agreement made between the couple and the royal family in January 2020, Harry, 38, and Markle, 41, would no longer use their "HRH" titles after stepping back from their official positions. HRH titles, which refers to "his/her royal highness," are spoken and written in front of the names of princes and princesses, as well as their spouses.
Two references to Harry were changed from "HRH" to his title of "the Duke of Sussex" or "the Duke" Tuesday following a report on the oversight that was published by the British outlet Express last Friday.
The outlet reported that the royal family's website had not been updated completely following the death of Queen Elizabeth II last September and the coronation of King Charles III in May.
According to the outlet, Charles and his wife Queen Camilla were referred to by their former titles of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, while Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton were designated the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
William and Middleton still retain those titles, which were given to them by Queen Elizabeth on their wedding day in 2011, but they were also named the Prince and Princess of Wales by Charles following his ascension to the throne.
The outlet also noted instances in which Elizabeth was still referred to as the reigning monarch instead of Charles, as well as other errors. As of Tuesday, all the outdated references on the website that were pointed out by the outlet had been corrected.
"The Royal Family website contains over five thousand pages of information about the life and work of the Royal Family. Following the death of Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, content has been revisited and updated periodically. Some content may be out of date until this process is complete," Buckingham Palace said in a statement to the outlet.
Buckingham Palace did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
According to the publication, Harry's profile had also been moved lower on the website's landing page. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex' profiles can now be found beneath those of the working royal family members.
The profile page for Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, is listed last on the landing page. Andrew lost the use of his "HRH" title, his military roles and his royal patronages in January 2022 following allegations of sexual abuse, which he strongly denied.
In February 2022, Andrew settled a lawsuit with his accuser Virginia Giuffre, an American woman who alleged that the royal raped her when she was a teenager at the home of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Both instances in which "His Royal Highness" was used to refer to Harry on his profile page concerned his work to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and end the stigma around the disease.
In January 2020, following the couple’s announcement that they were stepping back as senior members of the British royal family, Buckingham Palace announced in a statement they would no longer use the "HRH" title.
Harry remains fifth in line to the throne behind William and his children, Prince George, 10, Princess Charlotte, 8, and Prince Louis, 5.
The royal family's website was updated in March to reflect changes to the titles of Harry and Markle's children.
The couple's son Archie, 4, and Lilibet, 2, were named the Prince and Princess of Sussex on the website's line of succession page after they were previously designated "Master Archie Mountbatten-Windsor" and "Miss Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor." The two are sixth and seventh in line to the throne behind their father.
The website was updated one day after Harry and Markle used the title of Princess for the first time when announcing Lilibet's christening.
The changes were in keeping with a 1917 decree issued by King George V that the children and grandchildren of a reigning sovereign have the automatic right to the titles prince or princess and HRH.
After Charles ascended to the throne in September, his grandchildren Archie and Lilibet became eligible to receive royal titles. As monarch, Charles could have revoked their titles but opted not to when Harry and Markle decided to use them.
"The children's titles have been a birthright since their grandfather became monarch," Harry and Markle's spokesperson told People magazine at the time. "This matter has been settled for some time in alignment with Buckingham Palace."
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Prince Harry's "His Royal Highness" title was removed from his profile page on the royal family's website more than three years after he and his wife Meghan Markle stepped down from their roles as working royals.
As part of the agreement made between the couple and the royal family in January 2020, Harry, 38, and Markle, 41, would no longer use their "HRH" titles after stepping back from their official positions. HRH titles, which refers to "his/her royal highness," are spoken and written in front of the names of princes and princesses, as well as their spouses.
Two references to Harry were changed from "HRH" to his title of "the Duke of Sussex" or "the Duke" Tuesday following a report on the oversight that was published by the British outlet Express last Friday.
The outlet reported that the royal family's website had not been updated completely following the death of Queen Elizabeth II last September and the coronation of King Charles III in May.
According to the outlet, Charles and his wife Queen Camilla were referred to by their former titles of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, while Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton were designated the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
William and Middleton still retain those titles, which were given to them by Queen Elizabeth on their wedding day in 2011, but they were also named the Prince and Princess of Wales by Charles following his ascension to the throne.
The outlet also noted instances in which Elizabeth was still referred to as the reigning monarch instead of Charles, as well as other errors. As of Tuesday, all the outdated references on the website that were pointed out by the outlet had been corrected.
"The Royal Family website contains over five thousand pages of information about the life and work of the Royal Family. Following the death of Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, content has been revisited and updated periodically. Some content may be out of date until this process is complete," Buckingham Palace said in a statement to the outlet.
Buckingham Palace did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
According to the publication, Harry's profile had also been moved lower on the website's landing page. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex' profiles can now be found beneath those of the working royal family members.
The profile page for Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, is listed last on the landing page. Andrew lost the use of his "HRH" title, his military roles and his royal patronages in January 2022 following allegations of sexual abuse, which he strongly denied.
In February 2022, Andrew settled a lawsuit with his accuser Virginia Giuffre, an American woman who alleged that the royal raped her when she was a teenager at the home of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Both instances in which "His Royal Highness" was used to refer to Harry on his profile page concerned his work to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and end the stigma around the disease.
In January 2020, following the couple’s announcement that they were stepping back as senior members of the British royal family, Buckingham Palace announced in a statement they would no longer use the "HRH" title.
Harry remains fifth in line to the throne behind William and his children, Prince George, 10, Princess Charlotte, 8, and Prince Louis, 5.
The royal family's website was updated in March to reflect changes to the titles of Harry and Markle's children.
The couple's son Archie, 4, and Lilibet, 2, were named the Prince and Princess of Sussex on the website's line of succession page after they were previously designated "Master Archie Mountbatten-Windsor" and "Miss Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor." The two are sixth and seventh in line to the throne behind their father.
The website was updated one day after Harry and Markle used the title of Princess for the first time when announcing Lilibet's christening.
The changes were in keeping with a 1917 decree issued by King George V that the children and grandchildren of a reigning sovereign have the automatic right to the titles prince or princess and HRH.
After Charles ascended to the throne in September, his grandchildren Archie and Lilibet became eligible to receive royal titles. As monarch, Charles could have revoked their titles but opted not to when Harry and Markle decided to use them.
"The children's titles have been a birthright since their grandfather became monarch," Harry and Markle's spokesperson told People magazine at the time. "This matter has been settled for some time in alignment with Buckingham Palace."
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Dukedom next?
Mr Princess Royal would be a good fit.
Mr Princess Royal would be a good fit.
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Nutmeg is wearing a stress patch. Oh dear.
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I suspect that perhaps she is being sponsored for 'happening ' to be photographed wearing said patch.
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Are you sure it's not an HRT patch?? Where did you see it anyway?
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What is a stress patch anyway, do I need one?
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What is a stress patch anyway, do I need one?
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There are photos all over the press. She has her coat sleeve (only the one) rolled back so that it is visible. it is claimed that the photo took some time to take not just 'snapped'
https://store.nucalm.com/products/nucalm-pro-discs
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The "all over the press" obvously doesn't extend to the on-line Forres Gazette. I haven't seen ANY pictures of the lady anywhere. Maybe I'm being a bit blase about the sort of media I trip over.
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EXCLUSIVE: Firm behind Meghan Markle's stress-busting disc uses her to advertise it - as expert claims it's 'no accident' Duchess showed off 'strategically placed' $4 device
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... evice.html
The makers of a $4 anxiety-busting wrist patch worn by Meghan Markle have already turned it into an online advert, MailOnline can exclusively reveal today.
Brand and culture expert Nick Ede believes it was no accident that the Duchess of Sussex managed to show off the NuCalm Biosignal Processing Disc on her arm while walking in Montecito over the weekend.
With Harry on a boys trip to Asia with Nacho Figueras, the Duchess of Sussex, 42, had been wrapped up in a £1,200 Max Mara wool coat despite it hitting 73F (22.7C), but royal watchers spotted her left cuff was turned up and a mysterious blue sticker on her arm.
Hours later the patch was confirmed as a NuCalm Biosignal Processing Disc, by the company itself. The US mindfulness business shared pictures of the Duchess on their official Instagram page.
Offering a free trial, a discount code and promoting an app costing up to $49-a-month, NuCalm, which says its products are 'clinically proven to reduce stress and improve sleep', said: 'The Duchess wore a disc, which activates the parasympathetic nervous system'. In a hint Meghan may use the app, the firm said the wrist patch is a 'tool to get the most clinical benefit from your NuCalm subscription'.
NuCalm used the pictures of the Duchess showing off the wrist patch to promote their company and offer people a free trial and a discount code
Nick Ede told MailOnline today it is yet another sign that her lifestyle blog The Tig may soon return, bankrolled by new business partnerships.
He said: 'Meghan's strategic placement of a stress pack from a relatively new start-up company who reposted the image of her in their own social media is a clear message that she is looking to build her lifestyle brand and create a platform for her followers to benefit from her experiences and the products that help her.
Dr Blake Holloway developed the products over 20 years
'The image was a clear message to say she's stressed but she's using a patch to help her. Her brand is very strong so I think that this is a good way to go, with partnerships'.
MailOnline has asked the Duchess of Sussex's spokesman to comment.
Meghan is known to love an 'arm party' - beloved by the West Coast's celebrity elite - with the royal often stacking her £7,050 Cartier love bangle and Princess Diana's Tank Louis Cartier watch, likely to be worth around £140,000 or more.
But it was the $4 patch on her wrist that sparked the most attention. Its makers claim it is like a 'tuning fork', which when attached to the wrist uses 'vibration frequency and resonance to deliver a calming signal to the brain'. Some experts, however, call it 'pseudoscience' and insist there are scarce amounts of evidence that it works.
Guy Leschziner, Professor of Neurology and Sleep Medicine at King's College London, said: 'It doesn't look like they've actually proven anything. They may well prove us all wrong, but the burden of proof is on them.'
Meghan, 42, was seen near her home in Montecito, California, over the weekend wearing a NuCalm Biosignal Processing Disc.
Developed over more than 20 years by neuroscientist Dr Blake Holloway, NuCalm patches are just the latest in a long line of inventions from a company which has treated patients for conditions such as general anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.
The adhesive discs, approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, are said to work by using biochemistry, physics and neurophysiology to relax the body and brain.
The Chicago Blackhawks ice hockey team is known to be NuCalm devotees to help recover after matches.
Another fan is US motivational speaker Tony Robbins. 'When you've got Tony Robbins as your main proponent, that has to ring some alarm bells,' Guy Leschziner told the Telegraph.
She was seen wearing a $4 anti-stress patch that 'provides resonance and frequencies' on her wrist as she left an appointment on Thursday
The Duchess of Sussex, 42, was without her husband Prince Harry, who is currently in south east Asia, as she walked through a parking lot with a bodyguard close to her side
The former Suits actress was seen wearing an anti-stress patch on her wrist from NuCalm. It is said to accelerate the onset of the relaxation response and costs $80 for a pack of 20
The discs have also been deemed effective at helping patients to enter a deeply meditative state by a co-director at a teaching hospital at Harvard Medical School. So how do they work?
According to the manufacturers, the NuCalm patches are like batteries.
Each contains a tiny Tesla coil – a type of electric circuit designed by inventor Nikola Tesla in 1891 – that emits waves which mimic the natural frequencies of neurotransmitters in the body, such as gamma-aminobutryic acid (GABA) and L-Theanine.
These are the body's natural relaxation chemicals and normally when you are very stressed, your body resists them.
For something so small, the science is very complicated.
'There is nothing simple about these discs,' says Jim Poole, chief executive of NuCalm maker Solace Lifesciences. 'We understood that we need to saturate the brain with GABA A and GABA B, the body's primary inhibitory neurotransmitters – the opposite of adrenaline – to put the brakes on adrenaline.
'It took Dr Holloway four years working with German physicists and Chinese medicine experts to locate the frequencies of these amino acids and what these discs now hold is the recipe.
'They're like a tuning fork, using vibration frequency and resonance to deliver a calming signal to the brain.' Each patch has enough energy for two hours. No chemicals are released, only frequencies and biosignals.
Meghan was walking back from an appointment on Thursday cloaked in a coat and a scarf despite the 70 degree temperature
She accessorized her look with black-and-tan Chanel slingbacks worth around $1,150, a $450 belt from Givenchy and a white Goyard tote which costs $1,650
As Meghan showed, the discs should be put on an acupressure point on the left arm which, according to Chinese medicine, has a direct line (or meridian) to the sac containing your heart. Some people feel a little tingling but others don't feel a thing.
The frequencies a patch emits are said to travel through the arm to the heart and brain, interrupting stress hormones cortisol and adrenaline, slowing your brainwave frequency and relaxing the mind and body.
Previous inventions from NuCalm include chewable supplements, skin creams, headphones playing relaxing music and light-blocking glasses. But NuCalm say the blue discs are the most effective and affordable invention yet.
They have no reported side-effects, need no medical supervision and are available in packs of 20 for £63 or packs of 100 for £315.
Dr Holloway, who died aged 73 in 2020 after a long illness, found an immediate market with dental patients when the system was unveiled in 2009.
On Tuesday, Meghan was spotted at one of Taylor Swift's concerts at the SoFi stadium in LA.
She reportedly jumped out of her chair to sing along to the hit You Belong with Me but noticeably didn't take a photo with the singer.
The former Suits actress was with her British friend Lucy Fraser, who featured prominently in the Sussexes' tell-all Netflix series.
Although it is not known exactly where Meghan was reportedly situated in the stadium, she did not appear to be in the VIP tent - where Charlize Theron was happily filmed dancing along to some of the songs.
She enjoyed the girls' night while Prince Harry, 38, spent time in Asia.
He enjoyed a two-day trip in Japan before flying to Singapore to play in a polo match on Saturday in aid of Sentebale, his charity set up to help children and young people in Lesotho in southern Africa.
Harry is without his wife Meghan and two children Archie, four, and Lilibet, two, for the trip and is accompanied by his polo player best friend Nacho Figueras.
It comes after the prince's title of 'His Royal Highness' was quietly ditched by Buckingham Palace on the Royal Family's website recently.
Under the terms of the 2020 Megxit agreement, the Palace said Harry and Meghan Markle could retain their HRH titles but would not be allowed to use them after stepping down as senior royals.
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The makers of a $4 anxiety-busting wrist patch worn by Meghan Markle have already turned it into an online advert, MailOnline can exclusively reveal today.
Brand and culture expert Nick Ede believes it was no accident that the Duchess of Sussex managed to show off the NuCalm Biosignal Processing Disc on her arm while walking in Montecito over the weekend.
With Harry on a boys trip to Asia with Nacho Figueras, the Duchess of Sussex, 42, had been wrapped up in a £1,200 Max Mara wool coat despite it hitting 73F (22.7C), but royal watchers spotted her left cuff was turned up and a mysterious blue sticker on her arm.
Hours later the patch was confirmed as a NuCalm Biosignal Processing Disc, by the company itself. The US mindfulness business shared pictures of the Duchess on their official Instagram page.
Offering a free trial, a discount code and promoting an app costing up to $49-a-month, NuCalm, which says its products are 'clinically proven to reduce stress and improve sleep', said: 'The Duchess wore a disc, which activates the parasympathetic nervous system'. In a hint Meghan may use the app, the firm said the wrist patch is a 'tool to get the most clinical benefit from your NuCalm subscription'.
NuCalm used the pictures of the Duchess showing off the wrist patch to promote their company and offer people a free trial and a discount code
Nick Ede told MailOnline today it is yet another sign that her lifestyle blog The Tig may soon return, bankrolled by new business partnerships.
He said: 'Meghan's strategic placement of a stress pack from a relatively new start-up company who reposted the image of her in their own social media is a clear message that she is looking to build her lifestyle brand and create a platform for her followers to benefit from her experiences and the products that help her.
Dr Blake Holloway developed the products over 20 years
'The image was a clear message to say she's stressed but she's using a patch to help her. Her brand is very strong so I think that this is a good way to go, with partnerships'.
MailOnline has asked the Duchess of Sussex's spokesman to comment.
Meghan is known to love an 'arm party' - beloved by the West Coast's celebrity elite - with the royal often stacking her £7,050 Cartier love bangle and Princess Diana's Tank Louis Cartier watch, likely to be worth around £140,000 or more.
But it was the $4 patch on her wrist that sparked the most attention. Its makers claim it is like a 'tuning fork', which when attached to the wrist uses 'vibration frequency and resonance to deliver a calming signal to the brain'. Some experts, however, call it 'pseudoscience' and insist there are scarce amounts of evidence that it works.
Guy Leschziner, Professor of Neurology and Sleep Medicine at King's College London, said: 'It doesn't look like they've actually proven anything. They may well prove us all wrong, but the burden of proof is on them.'
Meghan, 42, was seen near her home in Montecito, California, over the weekend wearing a NuCalm Biosignal Processing Disc.
Developed over more than 20 years by neuroscientist Dr Blake Holloway, NuCalm patches are just the latest in a long line of inventions from a company which has treated patients for conditions such as general anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.
The adhesive discs, approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, are said to work by using biochemistry, physics and neurophysiology to relax the body and brain.
The Chicago Blackhawks ice hockey team is known to be NuCalm devotees to help recover after matches.
Another fan is US motivational speaker Tony Robbins. 'When you've got Tony Robbins as your main proponent, that has to ring some alarm bells,' Guy Leschziner told the Telegraph.
She was seen wearing a $4 anti-stress patch that 'provides resonance and frequencies' on her wrist as she left an appointment on Thursday
The Duchess of Sussex, 42, was without her husband Prince Harry, who is currently in south east Asia, as she walked through a parking lot with a bodyguard close to her side
The former Suits actress was seen wearing an anti-stress patch on her wrist from NuCalm. It is said to accelerate the onset of the relaxation response and costs $80 for a pack of 20
The discs have also been deemed effective at helping patients to enter a deeply meditative state by a co-director at a teaching hospital at Harvard Medical School. So how do they work?
According to the manufacturers, the NuCalm patches are like batteries.
Each contains a tiny Tesla coil – a type of electric circuit designed by inventor Nikola Tesla in 1891 – that emits waves which mimic the natural frequencies of neurotransmitters in the body, such as gamma-aminobutryic acid (GABA) and L-Theanine.
These are the body's natural relaxation chemicals and normally when you are very stressed, your body resists them.
For something so small, the science is very complicated.
'There is nothing simple about these discs,' says Jim Poole, chief executive of NuCalm maker Solace Lifesciences. 'We understood that we need to saturate the brain with GABA A and GABA B, the body's primary inhibitory neurotransmitters – the opposite of adrenaline – to put the brakes on adrenaline.
'It took Dr Holloway four years working with German physicists and Chinese medicine experts to locate the frequencies of these amino acids and what these discs now hold is the recipe.
'They're like a tuning fork, using vibration frequency and resonance to deliver a calming signal to the brain.' Each patch has enough energy for two hours. No chemicals are released, only frequencies and biosignals.
Meghan was walking back from an appointment on Thursday cloaked in a coat and a scarf despite the 70 degree temperature
She accessorized her look with black-and-tan Chanel slingbacks worth around $1,150, a $450 belt from Givenchy and a white Goyard tote which costs $1,650
As Meghan showed, the discs should be put on an acupressure point on the left arm which, according to Chinese medicine, has a direct line (or meridian) to the sac containing your heart. Some people feel a little tingling but others don't feel a thing.
The frequencies a patch emits are said to travel through the arm to the heart and brain, interrupting stress hormones cortisol and adrenaline, slowing your brainwave frequency and relaxing the mind and body.
Previous inventions from NuCalm include chewable supplements, skin creams, headphones playing relaxing music and light-blocking glasses. But NuCalm say the blue discs are the most effective and affordable invention yet.
They have no reported side-effects, need no medical supervision and are available in packs of 20 for £63 or packs of 100 for £315.
Dr Holloway, who died aged 73 in 2020 after a long illness, found an immediate market with dental patients when the system was unveiled in 2009.
On Tuesday, Meghan was spotted at one of Taylor Swift's concerts at the SoFi stadium in LA.
She reportedly jumped out of her chair to sing along to the hit You Belong with Me but noticeably didn't take a photo with the singer.
The former Suits actress was with her British friend Lucy Fraser, who featured prominently in the Sussexes' tell-all Netflix series.
Although it is not known exactly where Meghan was reportedly situated in the stadium, she did not appear to be in the VIP tent - where Charlize Theron was happily filmed dancing along to some of the songs.
She enjoyed the girls' night while Prince Harry, 38, spent time in Asia.
He enjoyed a two-day trip in Japan before flying to Singapore to play in a polo match on Saturday in aid of Sentebale, his charity set up to help children and young people in Lesotho in southern Africa.
Harry is without his wife Meghan and two children Archie, four, and Lilibet, two, for the trip and is accompanied by his polo player best friend Nacho Figueras.
It comes after the prince's title of 'His Royal Highness' was quietly ditched by Buckingham Palace on the Royal Family's website recently.
Under the terms of the 2020 Megxit agreement, the Palace said Harry and Meghan Markle could retain their HRH titles but would not be allowed to use them after stepping down as senior royals.
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I doubt if the Forres Gazette has tripped over this piece of utter cheek either, from some time ago and the thought of them both at the Air Force One departure gate (if there is such a place, which I doubt) thumbing a lift "back home" would make another script of the UK Channel 4 series 'The Windsors';
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news ... with-biden
Luckily someone in the POTUS retinue had the good sense to refer them to an airline timetable, any airline timetable URL...
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Stress stickers, soothing frequencies...... absolute hogwash, balony and snake-oil. Just what one would expect to find the Princess of Pout promoting.
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Bovine excrement.
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This guy has it sussed.
'Yes, Madam, I am drunk, but in the morning I shall be sober and you will still be ugly.' Sir Winston Churchill.
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In my post #2933 I suggested the Princess of Pout had been conned into believing that stress-relieving arm stickers somehow "worked". I wish to retract that statement and apologise to the PoP, as it's obvious she believes nothing of the sort, but very astutely has instead received huge amounts of dollars to promote the stress-relieving arm stickers (which don't " work").
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Popcorned Planet: brilliant. Thanks for the post.
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Prince Harry appeared to have difficulty pronouncing the name of a general as Meghan Markle watched on and smiled during an episode of his new Netflix documentary.
The Duke was seen stumbling over the pronunciation of Onno Eichelsheim, Chief of Defence of the Netherlands, while giving a speech which featured in his latest series - Heart of Invictus.
(All that white powder he does numbed his nose and lips).
The Duke was seen stumbling over the pronunciation of Onno Eichelsheim, Chief of Defence of the Netherlands, while giving a speech which featured in his latest series - Heart of Invictus.
(All that white powder he does numbed his nose and lips).
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The organisers need to know. Best lay a place for her. If she.doesn't Ginge should have a golliwog under his jacket to plop in her place. No one would notice the difference. 
Except that the gollwog has a greater IQ
Except that the gollwog has a greater IQ'Yes, Madam, I am drunk, but in the morning I shall be sober and you will still be ugly.' Sir Winston Churchill.
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Finally, after all this time, the Royal Family are going to ostracise and forget Harry and Megan completely.
"And I thought it was quite awful, any of the media, a lot of the media coverage of their trip to Dissoldorf because as I predicted last week, they've used the whole Invictus Games to promote themselves. None of the coverage actually was seeing a race by these veterans."
Bower continued: "The syrupy stuff of her visiting the German homeless in Dusseldorf and then going back to her mansion in Montecito is everything is so confection, everything is so false. And what's marvellous is that finally, finally, the Royal family have realised, seen the light and decided to ignore them completely and ostracise them. Don't give them any help.
“And I hope that next time they land in London they have to go through customs and immigration like the rest of us.”
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"And I thought it was quite awful, any of the media, a lot of the media coverage of their trip to Dissoldorf because as I predicted last week, they've used the whole Invictus Games to promote themselves. None of the coverage actually was seeing a race by these veterans."
Bower continued: "The syrupy stuff of her visiting the German homeless in Dusseldorf and then going back to her mansion in Montecito is everything is so confection, everything is so false. And what's marvellous is that finally, finally, the Royal family have realised, seen the light and decided to ignore them completely and ostracise them. Don't give them any help.
“And I hope that next time they land in London they have to go through customs and immigration like the rest of us.”
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