Meghan Markle interview

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“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

@GlitchStitch Meghan seems an A type personality and a highly organised, driven planner by no means a ‘fly-by-seat-of-pants’ woman. She will have thought about his suit, the fit, the walk down the aisle and the emotional toll and adjustment period required.

Did he refuse to come to the UK earlier?

Also wasn't there also a previous letter Meghan wrote to him thanking him for everything he's done for her and quite gushing towards him? I don't doubt that they are quite dysfunctional and the sister for sure is awful, but I think that, at least initially, the biggest problem with her Dad was that he's a bit of an embarrassment to her and this image and lifestyle she's cultivated.

The Markle family spent months claiming that Harry had met her dad pre-wedding Really? Not once did I hear or read that.

She did a gushing blog about him on the Tig.

Wasn’t he on the order of service?

Oh, well. It led to that charming moment when Charles met her and took her down the last bit of aisle. That melted my shrivelled old Republican heart a bit, I must say. Although I do wish her mother had walked with her.

I cried when Charles walked her down the aisle! I think it might have been too much for Doria who doesn't seem comfortable in the spotlight.

I think there was a reason Doria was weeping in the chapel and I don't think they were tears of happiness. I'm sure she looked at all the pomp & ceremony and general circus surrounding the wedding and thought WTF is my daughter getting into.

That was a cross post with Glitch!

So the letter where she was positive about him is a result of her upbringing, but the letter where she talks negative about him is clearly the truth? Surely the point is that none of us can know for sure what has really gone on.

But you appear to have taken the second letter as gospel, when arguably there was more of an agenda to be had with that one, especially as her friends also briefed the media about it.

I do maintain that the issue of her Dad was handled badly and Harry or the royal advisors could have helped nip it in the bud from the start. I don't think he's an angel at all, they are clearly a dysfunctional family. I also don't believe he was an awful father who did nothing for her.

Good for you Megan standing up to the bullies- the stiff upper lip is overrated and not something the Americans care to develop. She seems by all account a girl who has had a good upbringing, has good values and happens to be good looking as well and people in the UK can't seem to bear it when someone 'gets above their station'. There seems to be this sense of snobbery that a 'commoner' has married into this elite family. The Royal family are also made up of regular people, who have no choice but to be in the public spotlight to some degree. I can only imagine how triggering this will be for Harry who has had to live through losing his mum at possibly the worst age possible and now to face people being so venomous towards the second woman in his life that he is clearly deeply in love with. I hope they do bugger off to America where they will get more appreciation than this hostile denigration that they have done nothing to deserve. They are regular people, in non regular roles, with good values trying to do positive things in this world and no wonder they are creaking under the pressure of the daily hate directed at them through the media, with a new baby, Megan's ongoing estrangement from a father who has tried to exploit her position for his own gain, one way or another. No wonder she went non contact.
I hope they get the space and less scrutiny so they can build their family and their relationship under extreme pressures, few of us will ever be under.

That presumes she meant the letter to stay private. In which case why did her friends tell the media about its existence? Like I said, who knows what has really gone on. There is certainly contradictory stuff from both sides.

My personal view is that as a jobbing actress the blue collar father working on TV sets, introducing her to showbiz suited her image hence the gushing on her blog. As a member of the RF not so much. I'm interested to see how the court case goes anyway, I imagine more stuff will come out.

Totally agree with @CoolCarrie about Wallis Simpson. It was Noel Coward who said “a statue should be erected to Mrs. Simpson in every town in England for the blessing she had bestowed upon the country.” in preventing Edward from becoming King.

Bert - you take some nasty pops at Kate Middleton.

“ Bert - you take some nasty pops at you take some nasty pops at Kate Middleto

Do I? I don’t like her clothes because I think they make her look dull and old before her time, and I don’t think of her as a good role model for a girl- the hanging around waiting for a proposal is hardly admirable. And her use of the word “kiddies” does make me feel homicidal, I agree! But I don’t thing that’s particularly nasty, is it?

I don’t like her clothes because I think they make her look dull and old before her time

In any other context you'd be raging about the sexism and ageism here! Judging women on their wardrobes etc.

Good Lord- I wasn’t judging her by her clothes! I was just trying to think of where I had taken “nasty pops” at her, and I have not liked her clothes on the royal style threads. Where I have been equally critical of William‘s wardrobe.

You've several times said she is too thin, Bert, and not in a kindly way.

Oh yes, I do think she is too thin. Not sure how I said it! If she was my dd I’d be worried about her.

God, I wouldn't! She's lean and athletic, the picture of health. Also looking at Ma Middleton it's genetic.

What would “normal” Mumsnet say about a man estranged from his entire family?