joyfullittlehippo there isn't a name from that first hand account. Whereas there is a named woman who was told to stop taking photographs who was apparently quite far away. Thats quantifiable evidence that would stand up in court. I don't really care either way, I just find it a bit forelock-tugging to defend everything wrong that members of the RF do as being mistaken interpretation by the peasants.
BertrandRussell The Royal family give us plenty of ridiculous behaviour to criticise. There has to be a reason M (sorry H and M) attracts more criticism than the others.
There has been past press criticism but not as much as you might expect due to their frankly appalling behaviour. And Prince Andrew's rumoured connections with Jeffrey Epstein have gone very quiet. I find Meghan and Harry's behaviour a bit vulgar, a bit noueveau riche in that they court attention but then like to act all grand when it doesn't suit them. Very contrived and not remarkable people outwith the fame that royalty brings.
I know a few older type aristocrats due to my business, and I had a very amusing chat with one of them who told me that the RF were considered inferior in status to many of the older families, who wouldn't want to marry their best into them. The present RF were of course cousins living in Germany who were put on the throne by parliament who wished to avoid a Catholic monarchy. They're not as old as many European royal families in direct lineage and they do behave in a very car crash way at times, considering they are in the public eye. A lot of the more wealthy older families in the UK wouldn't have 'permitted' their eldest son to marry one of the Middletons, as they were too obviously social climbing. The RF can't afford to be so choosy.
I would have been impressed if Harry had married a woman who had had a decent career in one of the professions, particularly if she had been a nurse or a doctor or similar, ie someone who had actually experienced the world of work [unlike Catherine] and was clever. But who on earth would have married him, other than a slightly hardened, on-the-make actress? It suits the RF very well, because she's mixed race enough to appeal to the commonwealth but she's part white and American and a native English speaker. So not too radical a choice. Still going to fit in.
I don't see them as that a convincing couple, particularly with all of Harry's African trips and the example of philandering he has been set by his father. But Meghan is probably a good choice in that she won't care, as she has all the status and privilege she has ever wished for now.
I really wish that we didn't have a RF, its a ludicrous concept in this day and age, particularly when they behave badly. If they were a modicum of respectable behaviour and set a good example, like the Queen, I would see their purpose. But not this lot.