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Meghan Markle interview

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Sarahsquareddd · 18/10/2019 15:35

“No one has asked if I was ok” (alight msiqiote but typing on phone)

What are people’s thoughts? Good on her i think but equally she can leave public eye

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RueCambon · 19/10/2019 18:05

I mean, it is possible through resilience, but mere status wealth and privilege dont make emotions go away.

PortiaCastis · 19/10/2019 18:08

Editors also order phone hacks for content so I hope a couple of the redtop gutter rags get closed down just like the screws of the world was
Hacking someone's phone is an offence and that applies to everyone

100PercentThatBitch · 19/10/2019 18:16

On the one hand you can't imagine Princess Anne making such a statement but Meghan isn't British and the stiff upper lip not natural to her

Kate has had a fair bit of stick but it pales in comparison

It's probably still all a culture shock, with no real "lessons" on how to do it right

Reminiscent though of post divorce Diana I thought

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BertrandRussell · 19/10/2019 18:22

“ On the one hand you can't imagine Princess Anne making such a statement ”
During a sleepless night recently, I watched a documentary about Princess Anne- there were videos of her behaving very rudely in public, going on chat shows, on A Question of Sport- all sorts of non regal stuff. It was brilliant!

TSSDNCOP · 19/10/2019 18:26

She was being interviewed as part of a documentary. She wasn’t bunging tips bloody Richard Kay.

Princess Anne would probably give a fucking awesome interview. Hopefully next time she does a tour a news editor will ask her what she thinks.

TSSDNCOP · 19/10/2019 18:27

Did you see the one where Parky I think was interviewing her about the kidnap attempt?

What she did that night is why no feckless editor will dare interview her.

BertrandRussell · 19/10/2019 18:28

I’ll see if I can find the documentary. It has some very revealing interviews with royal correspondents too.

HairyToity · 19/10/2019 18:29

Personally I think she'd be better off if she just rose above, didn't give interviews, or even sue the mail.

I don't think Americans take the dignified silence approach though. I can see her reasons for fighting back. I just think in this instance it's the wrong approach.

TSSDNCOP · 19/10/2019 18:42

I don't think Americans take the dignified silence approach though.

Bingo!

100PercentThatBitch · 19/10/2019 18:46

@BertrandRussell

Her Parkinson interview was fab.

SunshineCake · 19/10/2019 18:52

Pixxie - the first nanny was only maternity / short term night nanny and the second was let go for not being professional. Third nanny staying. No questions begging. Stop being goady.

Engineering2001 · 19/10/2019 19:11

I don't think Americans take the dignified silence approach though.
Great point, @hoitytoity. I don't know if Meghan has any advisors but she's going to keep struggling if she doesn't try a less combative and controversial path.

MindyStClaire · 19/10/2019 19:36

How to you know Harry didn’t suggest him moving to the States?

Because it just isn't a realistic option for him. Much as he clearly struggles with being royal, he'll have been raised with a sense of duty. Giving it up and moving to the US would likely mean as good as estranging himself from his whole family.

And he just can't yet. In the unlikely circumstance that the Queen, Charles and William all die before George is 18, Harry would likely be called on to be regent.

Meghan met a guy with a family business in one country, while she lived in another. She moved to be with him, and tried to bring her knowledge from her (successful) career before marriage to said family business.

But hey, she did it while wearing expensive clothes and writing in bananas, so deserves a two year hate campaign in the national press.

PortiaCastis · 19/10/2019 20:22

The number of people that believe all the shite the press feed them and then profess to be an expert and know a person they've never met intimately is astounding

Kittenbittenmitten · 19/10/2019 21:06

I do not agree that the criticism Kate received paled in comparison. I confess to being a Daily Mail reader and the comments towards Kate were often of a vitriolic nature, at least before Meghan came along. Her figure, clothing, makeup, hair, attractiveness, social class, work ethic and family were often ripped apart. Clothing was either too dowdy or too short. Face was plain. She was lazy and too thin. It wasn't just the readers either, the hacks would write many articles on her dress sense and length of hair. It seems Meghan's arrival has ensured Kate's canonization.

NoSauce · 19/10/2019 21:27

I agree Kate didn’t get away with major criticism, some of it very personal. But this with Meghan is different, I was reading the BBC comments on FB yesterday regarding the interview with Tom Bradby and the majority of them were vile. Calling her fake, manipulative, selfish, that Harry has made a huge mistake and much more.

Honestly, you’d think she’d murdered someone the way some people carry on. It’s truly bizarre.

linentowel · 19/10/2019 21:28

PortiaCastis

The number of people that believe all the shite the press feed them and then profess to be an expert and know a person they've never met intimately is astounding

***this.

Effiedg · 20/10/2019 02:41

isn't a typical mum thing? Everyone oohs and aahs over the baby and the poor mum is left out. It's certainly true in my case. The in-laws oohed and aahed over my new born and took lots of photos all of him and them!

When they showed me the pics i think they realised, as my MIL said and there's one of you looking on. I was never sure whether she was trying to make me feel better or was pointing out that we basically ignored you and my FIL said that I looked terrible after the birth!

Having had such an experience, I said to a couple of friends/colleagues that people ignore the new mum and focus on the baby. After the birth, both said I was right.

Maybe this what Meghan encountered; lots of fuss over the baby while she was pushed out and feeling like shit. New mums need a bit of fuss too!

Effiedg · 20/10/2019 02:42

Isn't it.

Clawdy · 20/10/2019 08:43

The Daily Mail have now become Kate- William worshippers, with 16 page pullouts of their trips abroad, all gushing and over the top. Think we can will see a lot more coverage of the whole "good guys- bad guys" thing for years to come.Best not to believe a word the papers say.

WineOrGinOrBoth · 20/10/2019 08:59

I think my mum asked if I was ok after my second. The first everyone did as it was very scary & both dc & I could have died so it was very much a relief that we came through. Both of mine were sections so more reason to ask I think!

roisinagusniamh · 20/10/2019 09:37

When I had my first baby and went back to work after three months not many people asked how I was doing either.
I don't think I actually expected it.
I do remember being hurt by my own mother not even asking what my childcare arrangements were though.
I was living abroad but was amazed at her lack of interest.
It's something I always ask when a new mother is going back to work.
Unfortunately for Meghan people tend to see her privilege and not the fact that she has the same feelings of every new mother regardless of status.
It is the most overwhelming, life changing event I have ever experienced.

Lowlandlucky · 20/10/2019 09:41

Has she asked her Father how he is ?

linentowel · 20/10/2019 09:42

Why low? What business is it of yours?

Tweetingmagpie · 20/10/2019 09:42

Why should she he’s a cunt?

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