Or is Meghan Markle making the right choice?

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I don't know if it actually was her choice or her father's, but it seems to me that it's the right decision for him not to come to the wedding.

He's obviously not at all well and needs to recover from his heart attack. He is also obviously wildly in over his head with the media. I think Kensington Palace have something to answer for there as they should have taken him under their wing from the start and given him more help in dealing with press speculation. But the damage is done and now he has caused himself and his daughter a lot of heartache - that must be causing him stress, and I think he will be happier and more healthy for missing it.

I really feel for Meghan. She obviously had quite a complex and uneasy relationship with her dad. She must feel so betrayed that he went behind her back to have these press photographs taken, and it seems he is also texting gossip fodder directly to TMZ. While there are mitigating factors, he very clearly hasn't been putting his daughter's wellbeing first. If he had, she'd be able to have her dad at her wedding and now she can't.

I hope she still has a great day on Saturday, and that her father recovers, and that she's able to move on from this and have a reasonable relationship with him.

I think it's to Kate's credit that she hasn't attempted to sweep her embarrassing uncle under the carpet.

There's no comparison to be made between uncle Gary and the Markle half siblings.

Uncle Gary did not bitch about Kate to the press and write a highly inflammatory book about her. He appears to like her and want to spend time with her rather than trying to pull her to pieces.

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Lying you have tried your best to get this thread shut down by urging people to REPORT REPORT REPORT previously.

Are you in favour of censorship or something or should we all follow the same narrative

Obviously he/she is hence the REPORT thing above. It really is a laughable way to conduct oneself.

user1457017537

Lying Last word from me on the subject

Ditto

Admirably succinct.

Creambun2

@firstofhername

Her name may have been on the article. I doubt she actually penned it.

Clearly some posters - the heavily invested ones, at least - are not at all familiar with the idea of using a ghost writer. Lol

For those who are old enough to remember, there were varying opinions on Sarah Ferguson back in the day, all based on the same tabloid gossip...and that pretty much played out as expected too.
It might be tabloid, and it might be gossip...but somewhere amongst the fodder, there is often a fragment of truth.

For those who are old enough to remember, there were varying opinions on Sarah Ferguson back in the day, all based on the same tabloid gossip...and that pretty much played out as expected too.

Yep. And the tabloids were bang on about Diana and Charles’ problems despite ‘high minded’ people insisting it was all tabloid inventions.

There's no comparison to be made between uncle Gary and the Markle half siblings. Uncle Gary did not bitch about Kate to the press and write a highly inflammatory book about her. He appears to like her and want to spend time with her rather than trying to pull her to pieces

No comparison to be made? On the contrary, I'd say there are plenty of very direct comparisons to be made... such as the fact that both Thomas Markle and Gary Goldsmith have been arrested for drunkenly assaulting their wives...

I feel so sorry for her / everyone is assuming that her father was a steady, loving presence her entire life. Her parents are divorced, her mother clearly brought her up and they are clearly close. I genuinely think her statement was very well worded, and her father has the look of someone who can be quite difficult....after all he is talking to tabloids.

" So every time I see MM doing the same with Harry, I am reminded of her...
As I’ve said before, we shall see. Will raise a tentative glass tomorrow..and if I’m proved wrong in years to come, I’ll gladly take it all back! grin"

Apparently mumto2two has inside info and has first handedly seen what MM does to Harry, despite not being part of the royal family, having met either of them or been in the same vicinity.

I wish the whole "OMG Meghan ditched everyone she's ever met and is clearly a sociopath" brigade would change the record. She ditched ONE toxic friend (and how many of us are still bffs with people we knew as kids)?

There seems to be some basis for these claims. The biographer Andrew Morton has interviewed plenty of MM's former friends who were duly dumped when they no longer served any useful purpose. He describes her as a ruthless social climber - he actually calls her a 'modern day Becky Sharp' which seems a rather apt comparison.

So I'm to believe a man who has never met Meghan and whose job it is to sell books?

Still unconvinced.

Firstly I think her father has majorly let MM down, publically, and feel sorry for her in that respect. I don't buy his sob story.

But I don't understand how people cannot see it is more than a little odd that a woman at the upper age of 40 has. not. one. single. long-term aquaintance or family member aside from her parents in her life.

People keep saying there could be lots of reasons and yes ordinarily I'd agree if they were joe blogs and a little reserved, maybe.

I've seen the Tig blog and you can see that's she's, far, far from reserved, in fact the opposite. She's a social butterfly, attractive, beautiful, clever, capable, and charismatic. She has managed to gain a sizable cotterie of influential acquaintances (I mean, isn't the story that she meant PH through one of those acquaintances?) in a relatively short time. You have to be a passionate networker to achieve that. And acpeople person, that's just fact.

So if she has no friends, zero, nada from her 30 odd years alive then there's at least an element of choice, as opposed to circumstances involved.

I'm not saying anything else about her, but that is enough to have a justifiable niggle of doubt about her, and its not irrational.

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hadroncollider

I agree with all of that. It's just glaringly obvious to anyone with a brain and a bit of life experience.

As for Andrew Morton, slate him all you like people but it turned out every word of the Diana book came from her own mouth. I think he is spot on about MM and I love the Becky Sharpe description: that's exactly it.

Yes, but the big difference between the Diana book and the MM book was that one was essentially an autobiography, the other is not.

*Lunis...Apparently mumto2two has inside info and has first handedly seen what MM does to Harry, despite not being part of the royal family, having met either of them or been in the same vicinity. hmm

What is it with all the wild conjectures on here? Misplaced inference is clearly a problem area, so if there are any teachers to hand, there are clearly some comprehension lessons required!

As for my comment above, regarding clutching his arm etc...every time I have seen footage of them in public, that is what she appears to do. But of course, they are clearly in love, so no surprises there...

And HadronCollider...very well put

She's a social butterfly, attractive, beautiful, clever, capable, and charismatic.

I’m all of those things and I too have no friends (LIGHTHEARTED obviously).

Social climbers don’t tend to hold on to the rungs of the ladder though do they? Just keep stepping on and up. So I’m not surprised that there seems to be a shortage of acquaintances.

I am surprised that more damage control wasn’t put in place to manage those selling stories about her in the lead up to the wedding though.

Who are the relatives she's extremely close to karyatide? Are they coming to the wedding?