To think Kate and William saw Harry and Meghan as a real threat to their image?

I recall seeing the engagement interview and being amazed at how she made it all about her. If one's marrying into any family isn't it usual to take it slowly at first rather than side-lining the partner as she did? Whether she liked it or not at that moment Harry was the senior person in the relationship but her constant pawing, touching and talking over him made her ambitions quite clear. I rather liked her before then, I'd never heard of her or Suits but she seemed to be the ideal person for Harry and in the future the four of them, W, K, H and M could take the RF forward together. Clearly W and K will be the main pair as King and Queen but H and M's role in supporting them and developing their own distinct roles would have been ideal.

Unless you watched Suits (which I didn't) nobody, and I mean NOBODY knew who she was, so she was hardly giving much more than a cable actress.
Not remotely comparable to Grace Kelly or Diana.

Er Princess Margaret?

If K and W were at all concerned about the great popularity of M and H at the beginning (a big if) it would be because they saw right through M very early on.

At the time of the engagement interview I said to my friends that M wouldn't last in the role or in this country, though I could never have foreseen quite how badly she and H would behave.

more about how public perception can create pressure inside the Firm.
You don't get to be a centuries-old institution by panicking over short-term issues. They've always had to deal with public perception.

I highly doubt Wills and Catherine were remotely threatened by Harry and Megs.
They were a new flavour for a while and it was exciting having a royal wedding but the scales fell from everyone's eyes pretty quickly.

They are the future monarchs and expected to be working alongside them.
Funny how it all turned out.

No they didn’t see them as a threat. They would have been well aware of the extra publicity that surrounds shiny new people in the RF. they would also have been aware that Meghan’s charm was fake and would be seen through before long. They are also the future king and queen so it would be like the hereditary vice CEO feeling threatened by a new Area Manager who could never become CEO.

Charismatic? Hardly.

lol, at least use all those reading skills to come up with an original response 😆😆

Nor you! No need to either!
I am a reader. You do you!

I find all 4 of them boring. I don't see anything entertaining about Megan and Harry.

Am I fan of Kate M? Erm no. Also not a royalist.
But she’s very straightforward. She comes from wealth, went to private school, has a plummy accent, studied Art History, got lucky and married a Prince who will be King, is evidently a devoted mother, wears nice elegant not massively fashionable clothes. Is she trying to be a global fashion icon, philanthropist, inspirational speaker? Nope.
What you see is what you get with her…

Meghan was glamorous, charismatic, and had a strong public presence - something the royal family hadn’t seen before from an outsider.

Are you joking? All the glamour that family has ever had has come from 'outsiders'!

Can you not just go and practice using ChatGPT on the Royals board?

I think this is what supporters of H & M would like to believe. In my opinion, Kate is a self secured lady with focus on her kids than on any competition on Megan. I think there is a chance it was other way round.

The attetion Megan and Harry received is for obvious reasons, within a year Harry had a new girl friend and then got married. It's the same attention K & W got during when they started relationship and around their wedding. Theirs was morw spread out while M & H's everything happend so fast.

That novelty died down. Also, while Megan is glamorous, she is not out of the world stunning beauty. And I am saying as a brown skin people before you go on assuming things about me.

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I personally find William and Kate boring as sin. Regardless of what they thought about Megan I think they much preferred having Harry in tow as the kid brother, rather than forging his own path.

Meghan appeared on one US TV show on a cable channel. She was moderately well known but she wasn’t an A list celebrity. She wasn’t the sort to have a seat at the Oscars or the Met Gala. She doesn’t have any Emmy or SAG awards.
Every award she won, she did so after marrying a Royal:
https://m.imdb.com/name/nm1620783/awards/

Was a beautiful charismatic B/C list actress who was very different to the sort of women Harry dated? Of course.
Was she going to be a global fashion icon with a philanthropic organisation to rival the big names and a sellout podcast and TV show? On the basis of current evidence, also no.

Conversely are William and Kate going to be King and Queen. Yes. Are they going to host global leaders for State dinners and hobnob with the powerful by simply having that role? Yes of course.

@OrangeAxolotyl you don't need to keep responding to me justifying yourself. You do you!

Yeah right and they would be smirking right now with the mess h & m have got themselves into now.

AIBU to think that, at least at the time, William and Kate felt genuinely threatened by how much attention and influence Harry and Meghan were gaining?
This is way off base. Kate made it clear (way back, in the Noughties) that she wasn't going to be the media's fool; that she wasn't going to be another Lady Di. Remember when she broke off the relationship for a bit until ground rules were established? That's why she plays safe and steers away from fashion.

Meghan fell into the Lady Di Mark II trap.

you are deceiving yourself
this woman told the world she never heard of Harry. A screaming sign how much she really organised the whole thing to happen

I think this is just what fans of M and H think.