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If you had millions like Meghan......

153 replies

lentilbake16 · 07/03/2025 09:16

Would you be making a series about petals and spaghetti or doing something useful?

I watched about 3 minutes of it.

OP posts:
Lentilweaver · 07/03/2025 12:06

I assure you, if you really want to do humanitarian work as you claim, yoy can sponsor a child's education for £5 a month. Most people don't want to do humanitarian work though. They just like to think they would.

x2boys · 07/03/2025 12:16

lentilbake16 · 07/03/2025 10:03

@PrincessAnne5Eva it can be!

I'm not interested in her or being horrible about her.
What does interest me is humanitarian work. And the mentality of people who have much more than enough but don't share it.
I would love to be in such a position and run and manage schemes to help people.

You mean like the royal family?

AlleyRose · 07/03/2025 12:28

I've always been a bit indifferent towards her until this. Didn't love her, didn't understand the level of hate, didn't watch anything she was in, but this...

This is just toe curlingly embarrassingly awful. I caught a bit of it on TikTok where someone was taking the mick and it was truly, truly awful. What was she thinking?? It's so fake 🤢

x2boys · 07/03/2025 12:38

AlleyRose · 07/03/2025 12:28

I've always been a bit indifferent towards her until this. Didn't love her, didn't understand the level of hate, didn't watch anything she was in, but this...

This is just toe curlingly embarrassingly awful. I caught a bit of it on TikTok where someone was taking the mick and it was truly, truly awful. What was she thinking?? It's so fake 🤢

Here ,s a novel thought don't watch it ?
It's the fourth most popular series streaming on Netflix, no doubt avidly watched by all those people who love to tear her to pieces for whatever she does so they csn start endless threads about how terrible she is. She doesnt t care it helps her keep on making money.

Chuchoter · 07/03/2025 12:40

People like Meghan only want to do good for others if there is a huge spotlight on them, a trumpet fanfare and adoring 'fans' clapping their good deeds.

BrightonRocket · 07/03/2025 12:47

x2boys · 07/03/2025 12:38

Here ,s a novel thought don't watch it ?
It's the fourth most popular series streaming on Netflix, no doubt avidly watched by all those people who love to tear her to pieces for whatever she does so they csn start endless threads about how terrible she is. She doesnt t care it helps her keep on making money.

She doesnt t care it helps her keep on making money.

Seemingly she doesn't care. Yes she is terrible and loves to tear staff and colleagues to pieces and dozens have since spoken up about her bullying behaviour over nearly a decade.

joose · 07/03/2025 12:49

even when she's acting for camera with her "mates" it always feels as though she's a few seconds away from punching someone. Barely concealed rage.

MyBigFatGreekSalad · 07/03/2025 12:50

KitsyWitsy · 07/03/2025 09:57

I'd hire a 'Glam Squad' like on Real Housewives. No excuse for the state she is in half the time.

Well aren't you just delightful🙄

FanofLeaves · 07/03/2025 12:52

MyBigFatGreekSalad · 07/03/2025 12:50

Well aren't you just delightful🙄

Nah, she does style herself awfully, nothing she wears truly flatters her in shape or colour but I assume she doesn’t listen to advice, even though she could have a stylist available 24/7 on speed dial. Remember the wedding dress? Gorgeous but needed a final fit. The garish red Poppy dress? Not fitted at all. She says that the RF only had her in muted tones and she wasn’t allowed to wear colour but it seems she actually favours shapeless oatmeal slub wear.

Now I’m in Vinted throw-on most of the time but that’s because I’m poor in both cash and time. She’s not.

HermioneWeasley · 07/03/2025 12:53

She has an expensive lifestyle and not much in the way of assets so they both need to earn.

that’s why they left the royal family- she couldn’t believe they weren’t able to monetise their titles and profile. She likes the idea of being a humanitarian, but wants to be richly paid for the work, which is rather incompatible.

x2boys · 07/03/2025 12:53

FanofLeaves · 07/03/2025 12:52

Nah, she does style herself awfully, nothing she wears truly flatters her in shape or colour but I assume she doesn’t listen to advice, even though she could have a stylist available 24/7 on speed dial. Remember the wedding dress? Gorgeous but needed a final fit. The garish red Poppy dress? Not fitted at all. She says that the RF only had her in muted tones and she wasn’t allowed to wear colour but it seems she actually favours shapeless oatmeal slub wear.

Now I’m in Vinted throw-on most of the time but that’s because I’m poor in both cash and time. She’s not.

Edited

Get a grip .

CurlewKate · 07/03/2025 12:54

Do you feel the same about Gwneth Paltrow?

FanofLeaves · 07/03/2025 12:55

x2boys · 07/03/2025 12:53

Get a grip .

Ooh what a comeback 🤣

QuickMember · 07/03/2025 12:56

It depends on my personality and skill set. Nothing wrong with the trad wife thing and Meghan’s show does serve as an escapism from news and politics. It’s just she is trying too hard.

AlleyRose · 07/03/2025 13:02

@x2boys

Here's a novel thought. Why don't you read my post properly?

I didn't say I watched it. I said I caught a bit of it on TikTok and was astonished by how insincere she was.

Chuchoter · 07/03/2025 13:39

She's not the world's best dressed as she doesn't have things altered to fit her better, which is a shame.

The hair extensions are a bone of contention because it's human hair and there is something unsavoury about women or even children selling their hair in foreign countries so that women in the western world can use it to adorn their heads.

RedRidingGood · 07/03/2025 13:40

Chuchoter · 07/03/2025 13:39

She's not the world's best dressed as she doesn't have things altered to fit her better, which is a shame.

The hair extensions are a bone of contention because it's human hair and there is something unsavoury about women or even children selling their hair in foreign countries so that women in the western world can use it to adorn their heads.

I like the way she dresses!

BrightonRocket · 07/03/2025 14:04

HeadNorth · 07/03/2025 12:01

OP - head to Royal Family topic where you can bitch about Meghan Markle to your heart's content. It is preferable if the obsessive hate of a woman who has committed no crime could be confined to the one, easily avoidable place.

a woman who has committed no crime

Harrassment and emotional abuse are a crime in the US - no one is required to endure and be subjected a hostile working environment.

newkettleandtoaster · 07/03/2025 14:16

lentilbake16 · 07/03/2025 09:36

I was sort of disinterested in her tbh. But it turns my stomach. How do they live with themselves? They could quietly achieve a great deal.

I feel the same.

Not Meghan in particular, I have no real feelings towards her.

But rich / famous people in general.

Why do they keep going? The ones who don't need the money, I mean.

The ones who have made millions and (if they don't piss it all up the wall) would never have to work again.

If it were me I would either do something for good, as you say.

Or just live a quiet life with my family, enjoying not having to work for money.

I don't understand why these people cling so desperately to staying in the public eye and staying "relevant".

ItShouldntHappenToMeYet · 07/03/2025 14:23

lentilbake16 · 07/03/2025 10:12

I seriously don't get it. The level of disconnect from what is going on in the world and what is going on in their world.

Anyhow, no worries.

But that situation isn't peculiar to the Sussexes. Plenty of people with ( and without) money float around disconnected from what is going on in the world.
So what? It's annoying to those of us with a conscience, but this is how it's been for millenia

ItShouldntHappenToMeYet · 07/03/2025 14:26

Hoppinggreen · 07/03/2025 10:36

She is an actress, presumably she enjoyed it so I can see why she would want to continue and given who she married it might not be appropriate for her to do the kind of roles she did before. Plus she wasn't great to be honest.
So by doing these lifestyle type things she still gets to act in a "safe" way

You could also ask why does Tom Cruise still make movies

Or why Rod Stewart and the similar oldies who can no longer sing, carry on. Because they can abnd because they want to

MajorCarolDanvers · 07/03/2025 14:30

They live a mega million lifestyle so I guess she has to keep replenishing the pot.

can’t imagine she’d be willing to downsize 🤣

BodenCardiganNot · 07/03/2025 14:45

Thought this might be a safe zone away from Meghan bashing - and yes, I know I didn't have to open the thread.
I asked MN to move it to the Royal Family board but zero response from them...

madaffodil · 07/03/2025 14:51

What do you mean, 'doing something useful'?

There's millions of rich people in the world, all spending money like it is going out of fashion, and indulging their whims and fancies. They don't all 'do something useful' with their money either.

So why are you making an example of her?

Nothatgingerpirate · 07/03/2025 14:51

No.
I'm waiting for my "millions" from inheritance only to retire from society. As much as possible, without my safety being compromised.