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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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BertrandRussell · 22/10/2019 17:22

“ I had to smile at the bit about "being truthful to HRM’s subjects is absolutely imperative" though ... if they all did that there'd probably be no RF any more”
Yes-amazing that people still hold the RF in that sort of awe. I suppose all the people who line the road to wave flags do...

BertrandRussell · 22/10/2019 17:25

Actually, the labour/birth announcement thins was so very weird that I do wonder whether it was a cock up of some sort. Why would you lie in a way that you were bound to be found out in a matter of hours? Particularly if you were an arch manipulator.......

Dooleydally · 22/10/2019 17:28

“ I had to smile at the bit about "being truthful to HRM’s subjects is absolutely imperative" though ... if they all did that there'd probably be no RF any more”
Yes-amazing that people still hold the RF in that sort of awe. I suppose all the people who line the road to wave flags do...

That’s not what I’m saying. It is imperative that HRM is utterly truthful to the public. It is part of their oath. Whether that is actually what happens is open to speculation. But they are expected not to lie to their subjects.

Harry and Meghan deliberately and blatantly misleading and out and out lying is not a good look.

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Bluerussian · 22/10/2019 18:00

What are they lying about? What have I missed?

BertrandRussell · 22/10/2019 18:16

There was confusion over the in labour/birth announcement. It was very odd and doesn’t seem to have benefitted them in any way. The obvious answer is cock up- but conspiracy is obviously more fun.....

BertrandRussell · 22/10/2019 18:18

“ It is imperative that HRM is utterly truthful to the public. It is part of their oath” Is it? I bow to your superior knowledge. Not sure if any member of the family has kept that particular oath.....

Moknicker · 22/10/2019 18:25

The double standards are really quite shocking. People on here who read the tabloids regularly and not much else will of course believe the drivel. Hopefully the twitter link works
I really hope that they win their case against the rubbish tabloids

twitter.com/48notwrong/status/1186024748427468800?s=20

BertrandRussell · 22/10/2019 18:29

Katie Hopkins 40k views. Just the same as what happened to Kate Middleton.....

Dooleydally · 22/10/2019 18:33

What are they lying about? What have I missed?

There is also the issue of Meghan claim that she paid her own way through college which her father strongly disputes and is prepared to show documentation refuting this.

Again, this may be a fudge which a grain of truth - ie she may have worked and contributed a token amount - but the way she presented it was that she had no other financial support which understandably upset her father. That said, he doesn’t come across well either. Who sells out their own daughter to the media? Dreadful behaviour.

HarryDaylight · 22/10/2019 18:56

BertrandRussell
That Katie Hopkins link was poisonous. I wish that I hadn't clicked on it Sad

BertrandRussell · 22/10/2019 19:01

@HarryDaylight- I’m sorry. But I just get so pissed odd with all this “oh it’s exactly the same as being snobbish about Kate’s aircrew mum” stuff. It’s not- it’s an order of magnitude worse.

BertrandRussell · 22/10/2019 19:03

@HarryDaylight- don’t click on my other link- it’s much worse. But more obviously batshit.

CarefullyDrawnMap · 22/10/2019 19:14

It is not a matter of 'arseholes being arseholes'. It's repulsive, bullying racism. The links BR has linked are horrifying.

Justneedaflippingtemporaryname · 22/10/2019 19:18

LOL, Roald Dahl was right when he talked about beauty coming from within. Katie Hopkins looks BATTERED! Difficult to believe she's only 44 Shock

Puzzledandpissedoff · 22/10/2019 19:19

It is imperative that HRM is utterly truthful to the public. It is part of their oath

Well, that's easily addressed isn't it?

Just for a start, they could rescind their exemption to the FOI Act and Charles could unseal the legal report into the validity or otherwise of his "marriage" ...

TSSDNCOP · 22/10/2019 19:33

I am wondering if perhaps the oath being referred to is one taken in Court vs the Coronation Oath? The CO refers to the Monarch preserving the laws of God, which I suppose could stretch bearing false witness to lying? No expert here either. It I reckon the birth thing was a cock up, resulting from a firm desire to ensure privacy around the birth unlike the approach required of the Cambridge’s. I’m also not convinced who of the Markle crew,Thomas, Samantha et al I’d believe given their penchant for selling out to the highest bidder.

Cockervin · 22/10/2019 19:36

I haven’t read the entire thread but; the apparently suffering from MH issues caused by bad press Duchess looks pretty confident , nay happy, going to an event by herself today . She has even braved cameras and all that painful stuff. It must be a consequence of all the acclaim from modernising the British monarchy virtually single handedly.
Disclaimer : this is an ironic comment.

RueCambon · 22/10/2019 19:43

Katie Hopkins as lovely as ever 😯👹

RueCambon · 22/10/2019 19:45

i thought KH was at least 46. Thought she was about my age. You cant shave a few years off when you look that tired

JellyfishAndShells · 22/10/2019 19:45

Awful, manipulative and ill judged. Ugh.

ShirleyPhallus · 22/10/2019 19:51

the apparently suffering from MH issues caused by bad press Duchess looks pretty confident , nay happy, going to an event by herself today . She has even braved cameras and all that painful stuff

Exactly what do you want from her? To be crying and looking outwardly depressed? You do realise that for a lot of mental health issues absolutely no one would have any idea there’s anything wrong with you as so much of it is about putting on a brave face but just feeling shit inside

LittleAndOften · 22/10/2019 19:54

The RF are truthful? Let's examine Prince Andrew through that lens shall we... Hmm

TSSDNCOP · 22/10/2019 19:57

I have to admit I read the article with the source claiming H & M modernising the monarchy, and couldn’t help thinking of the scene in Friends where the writer kills off Joey for self-aggrandising. Is HM sitting in a turret at Windsor issuing a proclamation as we speak?

DreamOnReggie · 22/10/2019 19:57

I did wonder if the weird labour/birth announcement was actually designed to stop anyone doing what those two Australian radio presenters did with one of William and Kate's babies, when that poor nurse killed herself. Maybe it was because of that?

Puzzledandpissedoff · 22/10/2019 20:07

The Coronation Oath refers to the Monarch preserving the laws of God, which I suppose could stretch bearing false witness to lying?

You may be right, but in any competition between the RF's self interest and divine command, I somehow doubt God would get a look in ... unless it suited, of course

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