to wish Harry and Meghan would stop holding hands when on official engagements

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I think she is beautiful and he seems like a nice chap. I wish them a long and happy life with their child/ren.

But for the love of God, could they stop holding hands - they're not on a date, they're carrying out official business!

Makes me cringe, so it does.

Has it occured to anyone who doesn't like seeing a newlywed couple expecting a baby hold hands to NOT look at any pictures of them?

I don't really care but I do like it when Irish people add 'so it does' or 'so it is' etc to everything... so I do!

Good. I hope they keep pissing everybody off with their outrageous hand holding.

No newly wed bliss please! We're British!

I think it's nice that they hold hands. It's the constant fiddling with lock of hair on the left side that annoys me,
Put a bloody slide in it woman.

It's the constant fiddling with lock of hair on the left side that annoys me

It doesn't annoy me in the slightest. Because I don't watch them.
It's not like I have to live with her or anything.

Doesn't bother me in the slightest.....haven't you got a lot to worry about OP

I’m sitting so much on the fence with this I’ve got splinters

Walking on the beach holding hands - fine

Coming off the plane - no, because it last looked odd

he's behaving like a teenage boy with his first girlfriend who can't believe his luck.

No, he's behaving like a recently married man whose wife is expecting their first child.

How does it matter? Let's be clear- their work is mostly smiling and making nice. If it gives people the warm fuzzies if they hold hands, well, job done better.

Totally agree OP, she can stop playing the role of adoring wife now, we get it.

And please stop with the bump cradling - until she's at least 28 weeks!

Yes, YABU ....

If it bothers you, I'd look inwards, rather than outwards....

It's could be like Charles and Diana instead. Your world must be a shite place if happiness offends you.
Personally I am glad they show affection to each other because why flipping not??

I met and married my op at work. And I, like many other working couples I have known, somehow managed to get through all our working days without constantly feeling the need to paw their arms like a love struck puppy. Also managed to get through all my long, often arduous working days throughout pregnancy, without being told by my hubby at work, to go home and rest...because well, pregnancy takes it’s toll you know.
For someone who has portrayed herself as such a staunch independent feminist, there is a lot about the love struck puppy demeanour that doesn’t seem ‘real’. Or perhaps it is the other way around...

They're still in the loved up phase, aren't they? It's not as if they had been living together for 10 years before getting married.

I agree that if it bothers you, the issue is more with you than them.

I, like many other working couples I have known, somehow managed to get through all our working days without constantly feeling the need to paw their arms like a love struck puppy.

And did your working day involve you being presented and "displayed" as a couple?

Also managed to get through all my long, often arduous working days throughout pregnancy, without being told by my hubby at work, to go home and rest...because well, pregnancy takes it’s toll you know.

Every pregnancy is different and everyone comes with pregnancy differently. With my first, I was exhausted by sightseeing whilst on holiday. With th Ernest two I just had to get on with it. If I had the chance for a rest, I bloody took it!

William and Kate can’t do this:

a) because they’re going to be King & Queen and it’s not seen as compatible with the dignity of their office.
b) because they are both naturally buttoned up and averse to public displays of affection.

But there’s no reason Megan and Harry shouldn’t do it.

After all, the 80s and 90s royals didn’t do it, but they were all sleeping with other people behind the scenes and lots of them hated each other. I’d much rather have two happily married royals holding each other’s hands than a repeat of that shitshow.

I agree SoupDragon, lots of standing and walking. Nowhere to be quietly sick or have five minutes to yourself. I’ve also had a pregnancy at Meghan’s age and it’s a lot harder when you get older.

BTW, I assume you meant the next two? I like the Ernest though. You should give you children Mumsnet names Ernest 1,2,3!

Regarding Harry, his mother was quite vocal, including to Andrew Morton, that she was made to carry on during her pregnancies no matter how terrible she felt and how awful it was and how nobody looked after her or was attentive. She was forced to go on no matter what. Nobody ever told her she was doing well or was doing a good job either. I think given Harry will be well aware of that, he’s going to make damn sure his wife isn’t made to feel the same.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have an issue with people showing affection for one another. But whether they are presented as a couple or not, they are still there in a professional capacity, and in that sense, I think it’s perhaps a little too much. Newly wed or not.
And yes I also agree that every pregnancy is different, my first was horrendous. But I didn’t have the luxury of sloping off to put my feet up when the going got tough. Meetings were often spent trying to curb the urge to be sick, and my 4 hour daily commute had me well acquainted with many of the Station toilet facilities on my route. It just seemed a little lame to me..that’s all. Perhaps it was just the way it was put. And it certainly seemed to put the Queen and her loyal perseverance into perspective.
Maybe I am being harsh..but with a role model like the Queen, it’s hard not to make comparisons where royal duty is concerned!

Their job is to present a happy, acceptable face of the Monarchy, so they are acting professionally by holding hands. That’s all part of the image.

Next people will be saying William and Kate shouldn’t be hugging their kids or holding their hands because that’s not professional.

I certainly don’t see any people bringing their kids in and hugging them in my office. Or any office I’ve worked in.

I wonder if that could be because this is an entirely different situation to pretty much every other job? 🤔

I’d rather see Harry and Meghan holding hands, than Harry wishing he was Meghan’s tampon just to get close to her.

But I didn’t have the luxury of sloping off to put my feet up when the going got tough.

But sick days for pregnant women are protected and not allowed to be held against them.

So people complaining about Meghan are really saying that they want her to have less rights than other pregnant women.

How long do you guys give it before the divorce? (hides and prepares for onslaught)

I know it's a miserable thing to say, they just seem to insecure to last. Also, she will get fed up with the crown, she's too normal and feisty.

What a nasty post, London

Why are some women such utter twats? Never funny, never endearing, just transparently nasty.

Haha I'm just being realistic. I don't know them, and I wish for them they will last, especially now they're having a child. But so I do for all couples I ever come across, doesn't stop me sometimes thinking hmmm that doesn't look build to last. That doesn't mean I wish for this to happen, quite the opposite.