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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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Justneedaflippingtemporaryname · 22/10/2019 22:41

Justaneed - do stop tittering , like a weak bully behind a swot. You are ridiculous.*

Says you. Bullying a new mother from the comfort of your keyboard. Pathetic.

TSSDNCOP · 22/10/2019 22:43

The thing is, there is actual unpopularity and unpopularity according to you (or me, if we were perhaps discussing different people). The only actual way to measure the Nations appetite for a Referendum would presumably, like Australia, require a vote. As I mentioned, recently they’ve not gone quite according to plan in the UK. Hence my reference to the EU referendum.

JacquesHammer · 22/10/2019 23:06

Yes love

Forgive me if I doubt that given your obvious lack of ability to read as evidenced on this thread.

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TSSDNCOP · 22/10/2019 23:06

Having watched the ITN interview, I’m left feeling that it’s Harry that’s unraveling. I think they had ambitious and rather admirable plans for an alternative but not necessarily controversial approach to ways they could influence change and opinion. On top of the criticism levelled at his wife, this walking in Diana’s footsteps must surely be triggering like crazy for him. Africa stopped being his solace on this trip and became a re-run of his mother’s final months.

The Sussex’s would benefit from hot-footing to wherever HMQ is in residence, getting some sound advice and perspective from the one person that likely can help them the most.

narcissistseverywhere · 22/10/2019 23:08

This is all being orchestrated by their crisis PR agency (the same agency that represented Harvey Weinstein) We are being manipulated

OatyGoaty · 22/10/2019 23:11

I felt sorry for them. I wondered if the 'fake' accusations were her attempt at stiff upper lip. People should lay off.

stairway · 22/10/2019 23:33

Wallis didn’t kill the King he died from a smoking related illness. She was a Nazi sympathiser though so just as bad really, probably best they were both exiled,
Meghan is an angel really in comparison. I do think all this is a distraction from the delightful Prince Andrew. Poor Dim Harry and his naive wife are being used as pawns imo. They are nice people they could have a lovely life in LA with their celebrity chums. They could even release a Kardashian type documentary to keep the cash coming in. They could call it keeping up with the Mountbatten-Windsor’s.

daisychain01 · 23/10/2019 05:45

It is amazing how all this media storm has come about.

Less than 2 years ago they were riding on the crest of a wave, Big Royal Wedding, new baby, nice house renovation and now you look at them and wonder what's gone wrong. It is quite a winge -fest, and difficult to know what their actual problem is.

I think they're both quite spoilt and out of touch with reality - unintentionally they're shedding a very positive light on W+K who are establishing and maturing their image very nicely!

daisychain01 · 23/10/2019 05:53

I think they had ambitious and rather admirable plans for an alternative but not necessarily controversial approach to ways they could influence change and opinion

If "influencing change" involved giving the British people a finger-wagging lecture about living more eco-friendly lives while simultaneously jetting around in gas-guzzling aircrafts at the drop of a hat, that didn't go down well, and backfired spectacularly (pun intended!).

And the barbed comment about having fewer children went down like a lead balloon to W+K.

They really ought to stop digging, when they get into a hole, but it's one gaff after another. I bet they've had loads of PR advice and ignored it all.

Quirrelsotherface · 23/10/2019 06:34

I'd like to hear Harry is still close with his brother, his old group of friends.. every single appearance of Harry he looks close to a nervous breakdown whilst Meghan seems to go from strength to strength in her confidence, constantly patting his back as if to reassure him, taking the lead on interviews and interrupting. This was a man who was strong and confident, started the Invictus games etc. Something has happened to him and it does seem to coincide with his marriage.

smilethoyourheartisbreaking · 23/10/2019 06:38

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Dongdingdong · 23/10/2019 07:04

I think that Kate and William broke up for a while before getting engaged precisely because she had concerns about what she was walking into.

It was the opposite wasn’t it? I thought William broke up with Kate.

WineOrGinOrBoth · 23/10/2019 07:13

I think like Charles & Diana, this is two very fragile people who are looking for something in their partner that the partner is unable to give because of their already fragile state.

Meghan is a consummate professional & is IMO doing her best in public but is struggling at times.

I don’t think I’ve explained this very well but I know what I mean in my head & hopefully it’s not too rambled.

StartupRepair · 23/10/2019 07:19

She is a new mother and I am sorry she is struggling. However apart from the batshit racists and conspiracy theorists, people are entitled to question some of their decision s. Not least the decision to wreck the goodwill and legitimate interest in their Africa n trip by using it as a backdrop to highlight their own suffering. Why not come back, enjoy the goodwill, then release the lawsuit and be interviewed at Windsor about how terrible it all is?

BalloonSlayer · 23/10/2019 07:20

William dumped Kate. Then realised he had made a mistake when she kept being photographed looking fantastic and seeming to be having an amazing time without him (was probably miserable), and with all the papers saying stuff to the effect of "who's the lucky bloke who will get to go out with Kate Middleton now?" He thought he could do better but it turned out it was her that could.

Sorry that sounds catty, I don't actually dislike William at all, but I felt really sorry for her at the time. I have always thought that if a couple break up during their courtship it'll never work out long term if they get married . . . OK it seems to have done though but still . . .

BalloonSlayer · 23/10/2019 07:24

I think like Charles & Diana, this is two very fragile people who are looking for something in their partner that the partner is unable to give because of their already fragile state.

I agree Wine. I read somewhere once that the problem with Charles and Diana's marriage was that both of them got married thinking that the other was going to look after them.

(Another similar view is that there are 3 types of romantic relationship, brother-sister, parent-child, and child-child. The most successful is brother-sister as it is an equal partnership. Parent-child can work if both parties are happy with it they way thing are. Child-child is the least likely to succeed, unless both parties occasionally take a turn at being the parent when their partner needs it most. Charles and Diana were child-child.)

bohemia14 · 23/10/2019 07:39

I'm very interested to see what this 'full schedule of engagements' before they have their well earned six weeks off looks like. Meghan had her first official engagement last night since their return from Africa so she hasn't exactly been getting up at the crack of dawn every day to go to work.

I'm appalled at them using the African tour to complain about how hard things are for them. Utterly self absorbed. Disgraceful behaviour.

BertrandRussell · 23/10/2019 08:07

“ I'm very interested to see what this 'full schedule of engagements' before they have their well earned six weeks off looks like.”
Find me a member of rhe RF where a “full schedule of engagements” is anything but a piss take. Except her Maj- and that’s only because she’s old.

bohemia14 · 23/10/2019 08:13

@BertrandRussell I agree, but I don't hear any of the rest of the family announcing that they will be taking a six week break for 'family time'

BertrandRussell · 23/10/2019 08:30

True. But a) I’m sure they’ve done it before and we just haven’t noticed (because why would we?) and b) I don’t think any of them have ever said on TV that they are suffering from a mental illness before.

joyfullittlehippo · 23/10/2019 09:07

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peridito · 23/10/2019 09:11

Though if MandH didn't announce it there would be lots of speculation as to why they were in the public eye ." harry and meg breakdown ,admission to Priory " etc

peridito · 23/10/2019 09:11

not in public eye

Myimaginarycathasfleas · 23/10/2019 10:24

I'm continually shocked at the way people turn on each other on these threads, defending or attacking a woman I'm guessing none of them have met.

Personally I'm not a fan, but if other people feel differently, that's their prerogative and I'm not going to shoot them down over it.

Is it not possible to share opinions without making spiteful and derogatory comments towards each other?

Puzzledandpissedoff · 23/10/2019 11:05

Plenty of other royals go weeks or months without “working”, they just don’t announce it

This is true, and it's also why I'd normally point out that H&M have plenty of "family time" already in the 240 or so days a year when Harry isn't working. But the whole thing's becoming such a mess that I honestly wish them well with it and think it might be worthwhile if they use the time wisely

Whether they'll actually do that remains to be seen ...