The absolute state of the Daily Mail (re Meghan Markle)

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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7298013/Meghan-Markles-organic-baby-shawl-used-swaddle-Archie-workers-earning-37-PENCE-hour.html

This is there top story. Meghan is using a cheap shawl & DM have found the factory it was made in.

She’s been criticised non stop for her spending, uses something cheap and the DM visit the sweatshop it was made in! I’m sorry but we are all guilty of this, very few people I’m sure track down where everything they buy is made and how much the staff are paid.

It’s just getting ridiculous how they’ll find literally anything to criticise.

If the DM want to expose sweat shops (something they care little about usually) they have the resources and man power to do so but they don’t give a shit they just want to go after Meghan.

Pulling stunts like putting Jameela Jamil on the front cover of Vogue, someone who has called Beyonce a stripper and told rihanna to 'put her minge away' does not seem like a smart move.

Jameela makes no secret of being ashamed of her past comments and has apologised for them.

Jameela's vicious public attack on an award winning female journalist for speaking up about child safeguarding wasn't in the past.

Meghan and Harry do push a certain type of politics and whilst it may be popular on MN, and suit the current “mood”, by its very nature politics is fickle. It’s all very well thinking they are just being platitudinous “woke” and this is “motherhood and apple pie” type stuff which is uncontroversial but it really isn’t - it is politics and the RF do well to stay clear of all but the most anodyne statements and supports. Support or lack thereof, of “isms”, population control, environmental policy and the way we live our lives is blatant politics. If they like politics so much, ditch the royal role and stand for election.

But they won’t. Because they love the trappings , the lack of be need to be unaccountable, and lap up the cap doffing respect they get from many which allows them to continue to pedal their nonsense.

“H and M have chosen to be political. With that comes criticism and scrutiny, along with disagreement from those who disagree with your brand of politics.”

Yes of course. But it’s pretty vanilla politics. And pretty vitriol flavoured criticism.

I don't think Prince Harry's recent endorsement of Mermaids for example is vanilla tbh.

The criticism of the royal family is petty imv.
Look at the other many, many rich families in the U.K. who gaily ship their money to tax free off-shore havens - Richard Branson, Duke of Westminster, Philip Green and any other loaded land owner with all their money in non tax paying trusts or hidden overseas of which there are thousands I'm sure. That's not counting celebs or footballers,
We are so bitchy in the U.K. - there are royal families in Spain, the Netherlands , Monaco - no constant headlines about them (except for fraud or sensible reason).
This post will generate reasons justifying the pillorying of the RF. Let's Just admit we're a jealous spiteful bunch (Pers in particular).

What really fascinated me is the accusations that DofS does not do her royal job properly. I never know what this means. She did shedloada of walkabouts and openings and appearances and stuff before she went on maternity leave. And she always looked smily and friendly and talked to people.There were no stories about her not turning up or anything. So what didn’t she do?

No one in the DM must wear anything from Nike, Primark, Addidas, etc. etc. as they are ALL made in sweat shops, at least this one pays minimum wage and does not support child labour!!

Every piece of evidence suggests she tried everything she could for months to make amends with her abusive grifter father - writing him heartfelt letters, arranging fancy clothes and private jets to bring him to England for the wedding, telling him he didn’t have to lift a finger for the wedding all he had to do was get on the plane and she’d do everything for him

To bring him to a wedding to a man he hadn't even met, and still hasn't!

He was a recluse with fragile health, yet it was too much for Harry to deign to get on a plane to go meet him, despite both of them being more than capable of jumping on private jets for flimsy one off parties.

He was under constant strutiny from the media who literally parked outside his house - he broke and staged a few photos so what?

Then he did an interview on GMTV where he said nothing but courteous and flattering things about both of them...resulting in him being cut off.

This after he supposed had a heart attack

Once cut off and without advice from Palace PR the media had open access to him. The DM flew to interview him. At least they made an effort for a trip.

If M was so very concerned about her Father's wellbeing and wanted to prevent him speaking to the press, why didn't she jump on a plane to speak to him one on one?

Then talks about inclusivity and kindness.

Starts at home doesn't it?

Tbh I think it's being done on purpose, create public dissatisfaction, wear down the family and somehow she will no longer be a member of the Royal family. If the article is true or not is irrelevant. They will post anything to get the fools who don't like to read to comment and the hate just festers. As for Piers Morgan, seems like he's leading the charge in a Boris and Gove like fashion (similar to brexit).

The same zeal the palace had when that French magazine took pics of Kate is the same the should have with the Meghan bashing. Shutting stories down and preventing further scandal. It's just having the royal family in the press for the wrong reasons and not for what we know them for.

Time will tell when this will take a toll on their relationship, but I guess that one of the burdens of being in an interracial relationship in the media spotlight.

Mumsnet always tells people to go no/low contact with people who are negative in their lives.

they are going from one PR disaster to another

Are they? Or is it just that the tabloids are out to get them no matter what they do? The Mail and Sun have been nothing but vile re Vogue ever since the news broke. Yet Kate's garden was given overwhelmingly positive press from the start. And that could've easily been turned around and criticised as overpriviled etc, as a poster has pointed out upthread. Hell, Kate's early years mental health initiative could have holes poked in it too if they tried, but they don't.

Mumsnet always tells people to go no/low contact with people who are negative in their lives

Too much in my personal opinion. But that's by the by.

At the time he was cut off he hadn't done anything 'negative' as evidenced by her gushy public Happy Father's Day message on her Insta during the time she was dating H, and her previous corresspondance with im which was full of love yous and thank yous.

His crime seems to have been finding the press scrutiny difficult to deal with on his own, staging photos and being an embarrassing parent.

She would absolutely not be where she is today without her fathers considerable tutelage and spending on a first class private education.

There is no excuse for neither her or H not traveling to meet him before the marriage. It speaks of a certain arrogance from H in particular.

Hell, Kate's early years mental health initiative could have holes poked in it too if they tried, but they don't.

^This

Harry endorsed Mermaids. I shall have to go away and think about that.

If Jameela said that to Rihanna she’s getting a little cheer from me.

Mermaids were invited to a Heads Together round table discussion on young people's mental health but it sounds like "endorsed" isn't quite accurate. Their CEO is notorious for bigging herself up

He called them 'amazing'.

Prince Harry on Mermaids "amazing".

He's dramatically gone down in my estimation.

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According to Susie Green @GlitchStitch and I'd take her words with a large pinch of salt.

Irrespective of Rihanna’s heritage and how well you think she does her job I’m really quite fed up at seeing what she’s had for lunch. Something I’d be happy to say to her face. I think you’ve really got to look up misogyny in the dictionary.