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.

I honestly feel a tide is turning. I was quite blindly, passively supportive of the Royals until fairly recently- they were not in my face but when I did notice them, they were seemed discreet and almost stoic. That has changed, we are now being preached to by people with no credentials other than chance of birth or chance of marriage.

I wonder why on earth as a nation do we not just support this immense privilege but also pay for it?

Honestly, truly I was the same. I used to be a big supporter of the Royals but have completely had enough the last few years and the antics of these two in particular but not exclusively, have helped change my view. The extent of the funding and the sheer opulence on the public purse is quite extraordinary.

Such a relief to have something concrete to criticise.

I’m a republican too. But I do like frocks and jewels and scAndals, so i’ve always taken an interest while waiting for the tumbrils. I have never defended a member of the royal family before. But I have never seen such appalling treatment of one before. And yes, I do remember both Diana and Sarah Ferguson.

“'Polo ponies are flown all over the world all the time. '

Ah that's ok then, as long as everyone else does it confused”

Oh don’t be silly. Can’t be arsed to respond to that one.

How are foreign royals perceived by their own people, just wondering

Totally interesting that it is the republicans supporting Meghan. When she came on the scene I was expecting to love her - the diversity, the non-aristocrat joining the royal family. One of us.

Couldn't be further from the truth.

@justasking111 I believe the queen of Spain is disliked because she is divorced and used to be on TV, according to Spanish friends of mine. That doesn't sound familiar...

“Couldn't be further from the truth.”

So you’be bought the Daiky Mail spin too........

Over the years I’ve become decreasingly interested in the royal family but always thought, on balance they were a good thing, with their charity work as well as adding to the gaiety of the nation, selling newspapers and giving us all something to talk about.

In recent months I’ve become utterly disillusioned. The extravagance, peculiar behaviour, secrecy and virtue-signalling of the D and D of Sussex has allowed a light to be shone on the extravagance of the whole institution.

We all know the RF live lives of unimaginable privilege and in return they have to do a lot of boring things with a smile on their face, something most of them are able to manage.

For me the final straw is Prince Harry encouraging us to do more for the environment while jetting off to a climate change conference, along with hundreds of other gas-guzzling, Boastagram-using, woke eco-celebs. Prior to this his helicopter pilot resigned as he was fed up of being used as a delivery man when Harry sent him off on endless shopping missions to satisfying his wife’s pregnancy cravings. This was widely reported abroad but not in this country, oddly enough.

I am underwhelmed by the Duchess’s foray into magazine publishing with her promotion on the cover of Salma Hayek Pinault, a Hollywood star married to a French billionaire businessman, whose luxury goods companies are some of Vogue’s chief advertisers.

It’s great that they have a conscience of sorts but it all means nothing if they are not prepared to `walk the talk’ themselves.

So many people are fed up that a petition is taking off on Change.Org www.change.org/p/uk-parliament-stop-uk-funding-for-meghan-markle-prince-harry-s-lifestyle asking for the government to withdraw taxpayer funding for the couple.

Hopefully their exasperating behaviour will encourage the government to take a good look at royal funding across the board.

Come on it's more than the Daily Mail spin - we we are not fools. I am judging them by what comes out of their own mouths. What they publish on their own instagram feed.

I read somewhere that Charles has cut off the money supply to them, worried about public opinion.

“in return they have to do a lot of boring things with a smile on their face, something most of them are able to manage”

Yes- the DofS is excellent at that bit.

The article linked in the OP is definitely just Mail hype. As for the Change petition, how ridiculous. As if it's actually going to achieve anything. If you don't like what's happening then join Republic and campaign to get rid of the whole bloody lot of them!

Besides which "he taxpayer" doesn't fund the Sussexes or Cambridges.

I am judging them by what comes out of their own mouths. What they publish on their own instagram feed.“

Anything before this current Vogue debacle?

Anything before this current Vogue debacle?

That speech he made to the kids at Wembley about them being the most engaged generation - isn't this where he also talked about the environment? Patronising and offensive given their lifestyle.

I think they need to stop this business with wives working for ‘the firm’. I think they should mainly pay their families costs from private wealth and only born royals do the duties. Their children should be off limits until they’re 18 and wives and children under 18 are private citizens supported by private money. Never really thought it reasonable to stick cameras in kids faces.

Also agree with earlier posters pointing out Harry's cruelty to polo ponies - one even died from exhaustion! He's my least favourite member of the RF.

Also, never understood why the Queen is portrayed as this great animal lover. The racing industry is so abusive and exploitative.

Besides which "he taxpayer" doesn't fund the Sussexes or Cambridges
£2.4 million of taxpayers funds for Frogmore renovations. I'd be interested to know why the 6th in line to the throne is deemed important enough to have that kind of money thrown at his home, when everywhere else seems to be affected by cutbacks.
Apart from that they ARE funded by taxpayers, just because Charles funds them, it still comes from us.

“That speech he made to the kids at Wembley about them being the most engaged generation - isn't this where he also talked about the environment? Patronising and offensive given their lifestyle.”

Just read it- seems OK to me. He’s President if the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust and it was WE Day. It’s his job to say stuff like that!

Why are you reading that rubbish?

It's interesting how for the most part the Meghan-haters tend to be ardent royalists (or former royalists) and the Meghan-defenders tend to be more republican in their outlook.

This is broadly true.

I see a logic to it. The royalists are fine with the extravagance and privilege because on one level they see these ppl as naturally elevated above themselves.

In comes an American, mixed race actress and suddenly exactly the same privilege and extravagance from her is unacceptable because she is just a regular person. Hence all the frothing and double standards.

Then republican types step in to point out the inconsistency and end up standing up for her s not in the face of the criticism.