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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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TartanTexan · 20/10/2019 14:26

@Joyfullittlehippo you are spot on. What’s worse is when families with children/young adults with very serious MH issues are promised help, support and then things are not followed up and they are totally isolated

Engineering2001 · 20/10/2019 14:31

@tssdncop

LOL you believe an article originally posted in the high quality sun. Okay then if you insist so also consider this quote

"Throughout her career, the new royal has not won any major awards for her "Suits" character nor has the show be nominated for an Emmy."

Engineering2001 · 20/10/2019 14:48

Irony of the little group on here saying people who don't like Meghan are believing what's written in the tabloids and you've done exactly the same thing 😂😂😂

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ShirleyPhallus · 20/10/2019 14:48

Try suffering from the same mental health issues as a wealthy person but with the ADDITIONAL problems of having no money, being unable to pay your bills, worrying about how to feed your kids or that you could lose your home, and struggling to get any kind of support via our overstretched national health service.

This is what I don’t understand. If someone came on here and posted this exact situation and everyone came on to tell them to be grateful for having a roof over their head and access to a health service that provides some resource, everyone would (rightly) tell them to slot off. Why can so many people only see others’ problems through their own lense and not ever accept that others have different experiences and that there shouldn’t be a limit of empathy you have for other people?

pallasathena · 20/10/2019 15:00

If you drill down behind the nasty comments, the sneering, the misogyny and the sheer nastiness directed at MM you'll discover a simple fact.
MM is not like KM. And the media don't like women like Meghan who have agency, attitude and confidence.
MM isn't a 'surrendered wife', like KM.
And so, she's fair game isn't she?

TartanTexan · 20/10/2019 15:08

Can the Queen/palace issue statement to ask media & others to give MM & PH a break?

TartanTexan · 20/10/2019 15:10

@pallasathena nail on head I think.

Hey1256 · 20/10/2019 15:16

@ShirleyPhallus exactly!!

That was my point, but typically people only have empathy for those in a similar or worse off position than them.

It's disgusting isn't it. I couldn't agree with your post more.

jitterbugintomybrain · 20/10/2019 15:23

I saw the interview and really feel for her, think you'd have to have a heart of stone not to. It doesn't matter who you are, you still have feelings and are even more vulnerable when pregnant/ with a newborn when the hormones are all over the place. The media are disgusting, particularly that disgusting GMB presenter who thinks it's ok to bully her daily. He is vile.
Just leave her alone. She doesn't deserve the vitriol.

Dongdingdong · 20/10/2019 15:40

That was my point, but typically people only have empathy for those in a similar or worse off position than them.

It's disgusting isn't it. I couldn't agree with your post more.

You’re the one who’s disgusting. Read Joyful’s post on the previous page - it might give you some much needed insight into the real world.

And you clearly still haven’t read my post properly either, because where did I ever say I don’t have empathy for Meghan?

Puzzledandpissedoff · 20/10/2019 15:51

Can the Queen/palace issue statement to ask media & others to give MM & PH a break?

They can issue whatever statements they like and they've done similar before, but it might sound a bit hollow when H&M choose to bleat at interviews and constantly plaster themselves on social media. These aren't media exposes using long lenses, bugged phones or whatever, but a reflection on what they've willingly engaged in

Which is why I said elsewhere that a pause of a few weeks to reflect may be no bad thing

Dongdingdong · 20/10/2019 15:58

@Joyfullittlehippo you are spot on. What’s worse is when families with children/young adults with very serious MH issues are promised help, support and then things are not followed up and they are totally isolated

Absolutely. But according to some posters on here, these families’ situations are no harder than someone with MH issues who also has immense amounts of wealth and unbridled access to the best support money can buy.

Cohle · 20/10/2019 16:24

MM isn't a 'surrendered wife', like KM.

That's quite an unpleasant thing to say, and the public really doesn't know about her marriage to have any idea if it's true.

You can defend Meghan Markle without sinking to the same level as her detractors.

pallasathena · 20/10/2019 16:33

@Cohle
I am referencing The Handmaid's Tale actually....suggest you read it.

ShirleyPhallus · 20/10/2019 16:56

But according to some posters on here, these families’ situations are no harder than someone with MH issues who also has immense amounts of wealth and unbridled access to the best support money can buy.

NO ONE has said that. Literally not one person.

What some of us are saying, is that if someone came on and said in the situation you posted that you didn’t have cause to complain or any sympathy for you because they lived in a very poor village in a 3rd world country and had no access to healthcare and had no money and had mental health problems and to them, you had all the the riches in the world, you’d probably a bit miffed.

SillyBillyBandy · 20/10/2019 17:05

Pallas I've read THT - a lot. And I find you patronising and confused Smile

pallasathena · 20/10/2019 17:31

Are you having an identity crisis?

HarryDaylight · 20/10/2019 18:10

I am referencing The Handmaid's Tale actually....suggest you read it.

Pretentious wanker klaxon......

Eastie77 · 20/10/2019 18:27

I still don't understand who is supposed to be asking her if she is ok. It's not as if members of the public can approach her or rock up to wherever she lives and ask after her health so presumably she is not annoyed with 'us'. She can't be referring to her friends - barely a week goes by without George, Serena or one of her other circle praising her or slamming her critics. She is estranged from virtually her entire family apart from her mum and they seem close. Who else is she expecting to check in on her well-being?

Cohle · 20/10/2019 18:37

I am referencing The Handmaid's Tale actually....suggest you read it.

Does that make your remarks any less unpleasant?

The term "surrendered wife" was popularised by Laura Doyle btw, not Atwood.

BilboBercow · 20/10/2019 20:13

I wonder if the people suggesting that MM's behaviour is poor in comparison to other members of the royal family actually know anything about the royal family?

The queen is only the queen because her Nazi sympathising uncle abdicated to marry a woman far less "suitable" than Meghan. Her sister was an alcoholic with a string of unhappy relationships, who also had an affair with a married man, Andy's friendship with a paedophile sex trafficker, Fergie's toe sucking photos, Charlie conducted an affair throughout his marriage, the cringeworthy tapes where he said he wished he could be a tampon, the matching confession interviews with him and Diana.... Fergie and Sophie's newspaper stings, Harry's Nazi stunt, his bare arse being on the front page of the Sun after playing strip poker. William's alleged affair. The list goes on and on.

Are these people the barometer for civilised behaviour that the attention seeking American just can't live up to?

Ratcatcher9 · 20/10/2019 20:35

I agree Eastie. Who does she want to ask her? The neighbours at Frogmore? Weren't they asked to keep away?

I actually think that her saying 'No-one has asked if I'm ok' is quite passive aggressive. She is her father's daughter.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 20/10/2019 20:40

BilboBercow all the things you mentioned are exactly why some of us have referred to two utterly dysfunctional families being involved

A lot gets written about Meghan's, but it's worth remembering that some of the Windsors are no better

BalloonSlayer · 20/10/2019 20:43

If Edward VIII had been allowed to marry Wallis Simpson and stay King; the Queen would still be the Queen, she just would not have acceded to the throne till the early 70s.

This would have meant a quieter upbringing for Charles, Anne, Andrew and Edward, but not much quieter.

derxa · 20/10/2019 21:21

MM isn't a 'surrendered wife', like KM. Yuck