To think the treatment of Camilla and Meghan Markle exposes a glaring double standard?

You can't possibly compare Meghan Markle to Queen Camilla. 😂

Camilla was villified for breaking up the Fairytale Royal marriage (rightly or wrongly). I didn't know MM broke up Harry's previous marriage. (Oh wait...)

Then Harry & Wills forgave their parent(s) and accepted C as stepmum. They moved on, so did everyone else.

Really weird comparison, OP. Hugely different situations.
Maybe Prince Philip is one you want to compare MM to? I mean, PP could be pretty outrageous.

Although PP didn't wave family dirty laundry around, either.

It says a lot about you, that when you think of not being able to do all of that you can't imagine saying or doing anything else so it must be quiet.

This. Meghan (and Harry) have lied and shit stirred for years for their own financial gain with seemingly no thought for the damage they are doing to their own family. So much of the Oprah interview was fact checked and proved to be wrong. They are clearly toxic.

On the face of it Harry is worse than her but his recent behaviour is very odd. Until Meghan came along William, Kate and Harry got on exceptionally well. Her arrival coincided with the breakdown of that relationship. Who knows why but it cannot be a coincidence. The fact that the entire royal family has distanced themselves from them tells you all you need to know.

Nothing to do with Meghan being (supposedly) black. She looks Greek more than anything! Nope it's everything to do with Meghan being a lying, manipulative mean girl!

Absolutely this

It took Camilla over 30 years to get to a position where she is tolerated by most of the British public after decades of not doing or saying anything controversial. I don’t think it’s a double standard at all.

I don't know that Camilla being white is the reason. The RF and the press were vile to Diana too.

I think Meghan being American and brash (for someone marrying into the RF) is a big issue for the RF, the press and the British public, though. Also Harry playing the spoilt brat (regardless of whether he has reason to) has not helped her.

Meghan: Oprah, the Netflix show, The Cut article, the “leaked” letter to her dad 2018, the filmed letter to her dad 2025 (also can’t exclude Harry with his book)

Camilla - erm, might be here a while thinking

Right now, rehabilitation seems a long way off. And it isn’t going to be achieved with their current strategy. If they can’t even envisage the long game strategies then they have no hope.

For those bringing up the current scenario, that’s not going to rehabilitate. Depending which way you spin it - Meghan either “knew” since 2018/2019, or she definitely knew since very late 2025. Not a good look either way. And she’s currently trying to spin her way out of both scenarios (which is difficult because she’s also inserted herself, by her own actions, into both scenarios).

@ThatQuickLimePombear - also, you might be best asking MN to move this to the RF board. A lot of posters, understandably, don’t like royal family threads on AIBU. If you hit the “report” option on your post, then you can flag it and ask for it to be moved.

Camilla’s rehabilitation has been entirely her own doing, insofar as she never complained or blamed, through all the years of vilification and cruelty she received in GB.
(I think Meghan is way too different a type to bear any comparison there, and Camilla fared very much worse than ever M did in terms of public abuse anyway)

Camilla’s cheerful, outward-focussed character, and her evident indispensability to the King’s health and happiness, have shone through all that nastiness, in the main.
But where you get the idea that the British public had any say in her being crowned Queen is beyond me.
She was crowned despite public opinion (though it was the wish of HMQEII, and Charles would have insisted anyway, by then.) But since the Coronation, her excellent fit as his Consort and as Queen must strike even the most desperate Di-hards.

You mean a queen is being treated differently to someone who only wants the royal connections but not to put any royal work in? And this surprises people

There is a double standard. Camilla was treated much worse than Meghan by the press.

Camilla was the person that the then Prince Charles should have been allowed to marry when he first wanted to, back in the early seventies.

The obstacles to that were his rather foolish family who thought they knew better and eventually pushed him and Diana into that disastrous marriage which was a nightmare, not a fairytale. Some of Diana's family were equally obnoxious.

I think Camilla can absolutely be forgiven. It's a shame it took the senior royals so many decades to see sense but thankfully Charles stuck to his guns this time and declared that she was "non-negotiable." As a young man in the early seventies he perhaps had much less confidence to stand up to his parents, who were leaders of an institution like the Royal Family.

Meghan - I don't hate her. I'm not sure she fully understood just what she was marrying into though and perhaps thought that experience of the press and paparazzi in Hollywood would prepare her. She didn't see that the Royals are a whole new level of that shit. I do also think that the Royals themselves could have done much more to support her against the utter racism in the media but they chose not to, taking the "never complain, never explain" mantra, which often does serve them quite well, much too far. In doing that they came across as aloof and unsupportive.

I would agree that plenty of what the Sussexes have done was damaging and unwise (Oprah interview etc.) but there was fault on both sides. I really don't think very much effort was made to support two clearly unhappy people and try to find a role for them that was a better fit.

Half in, half out has been done before. The Duchess of Kent for example, who was unhappy in the full glare of royal life.

The public didn’t crown Camilla.
I for one think very poorly of both of them for their sorted affair. Zero dignity.
He needed to 1) not marry someone he didn’t love 2) keep it in his pants.

I think this too. I don’t think anyone ever really warmed to Camilla or accepted her. Everyone still loves Diana.

Half in, half out has been done before. The Duchess of Kent for example, who was unhappy in the full glare of royal life.

I don’t think that ‘full glare’ was the issue for Meghan!

No they don't. I thought she was a manipulative hypocrite, who wasn't averse to shagging married men.

Camilla isn’t trash.

Completely different situations. Like comparing oranges and bicycles.

Because she's Black. And intelligent. And has boundaries. And people are racist.

Hardly. Camilla has benefitted from a sustained, decades long PR campaign, quietly wooing sympathetic journalists to her cause.

No they don’t. I didn’t even like Diana when she was alive, less so now she’s a saint.

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It’s bonkers.

If she were white, and she acted like a massive twat, that would be okay. I’d be allowed to have those thoughts.

But because she’s black, I’m racist.

That’s so problematic.