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.

@SamanthaBrique

Hadn't seen that and didn't come up on my Google foray - puts it well into context though. Thank you!

I much prefer Bertrand's direct line of questioning (BR knows I've compared her to Jeremy Paxman in the past).
I dislike the faux lack of memory and faux gratitude in the sealioners.

@SamanthaBrique that cartoon is fantastic.

To Jeremy Paxman?!🤣
Delusional much? 😂

she's not a flippin' saint Since when did speaking out against victimisation mean that people think the victim is a saint?

I find it interesting that I havenMr had any response to this post.

““H and M are a PR disaster at the moment yet racism is the only thing their supporters come back with.”

Well, actually, I’ve come back with lots. The excellent charities benefitting many “ordinary women” she has supported. The fact that she has cheerfully and charmingly carried out loads of ordinary royal duties since her engagement. The factual inaccuracies of many of the stories about her in the press. The fact that it is hard to describe more than possibly two of the women on her Vogue front cover as “awful”

To Jeremy Paxman?!🤣
Delusional much?

Do you mean me?

I don't think I am. Maybe that proves I must be....

It was a joke I made in the past.
You do know I don't really think BR is JP, surely?

Still, glad to have caused such merriment and knicker-wetting. We all need a few more laughs in the current climate.

No, if it's true it's just plain annoying and will be a case of her using her fame to fast track to being a children's author. Which she is not and people work hard in the industry.

“No, if it's true it's just plain annoying and will be a case of her using her fame to fast track to being a children's author”

Or to raise money for a charity?

will be a case of her using her fame to fast track to being a children's author.

Fergie did that. Actually.

As did Prince Charles.

Oh good grief, is that a serious suggestion that Meghan might, by writing some cute dog stories for her charity, prevent some other struggling author of cute dog stories from breaking out of their garret?

At this rate the woman won’t even be able to join her PTA.

Just in case anyone fancies a bit of light reading.....

Charities do have accounts and trustees and auditors, you know!

But actually accusing her of fraud is a new one. Is that allowed on Mumsnet?

On instagram MM and Harry change charities monthly, highlighting them in turn. The charities have said that has raised their profile and donations have risen for them.

Too many of you blindly throw money at the big ones without knowing a thing about how your money is spent/wasted. I have worked for a high profile national charity and a local one, I know which one wasted the most money on vanity projects.

And Shergar. Americans, all of them especially Californians, hate horses.

Meghan, I really hope you’re reading this thread whilst you take a break from engineering global domination on your hideaway island (reachable only on foot or bicycle to watch that carbon footprint) and having a good laugh.

Yes, the charities I mentioned earlier in response to the accusation that she does “nothing for ordinary women” are all small ones that have benefited greatly from her patronage.

Will be interesting if the money raised from Meghan’s exciting new foray into authorship is to go directly to the Mayhew or charity specified or straight to their Foundation. Not sure if a Foundation has the same checks and balances as a charity.

Anything that helps animals is fine by me but observers are noting the irony that the putative author left their 5-year-old rescue in Canada because `he was too old to travel’ and her other dog ended up with its legs broken in a car accident (some say then put down) and was under supervision with Noel Fitzpatrick, who interestingly had a coveted invitation to the wedding, causing unkind speculation that this was to buy him off. I understand they need privacy but all the secrecy creates a climate when all sorts of wacky opinions get credence.

I too think it unfair that Megan gets all the vitriol (cherchez la femme) when in my view much of this PR disaster is down to `nice but Tim’ Harry, who undoubtedly means well but is incredibly irritating with his cherry picking of what it means to be royal. This latest Google Climate Camp fandango is just a continuation of his virtue-signalling hypocrisy.

But it’s not just him, he and Meghan are just one of a throng of exasperating celebs who expect ordinary folk to give up their holiday to Benidorm while they jet off to climate change conferences. The latest is that ordinary holiday makers and residents near the camp were told not to look out of their windows by police. A nearby hotel owner was asked not to allow his guests to use the building’s balconies.

The arrogance of the rich and famous! Bring on the tumbrils!

When a middle-aged, Tory voting, one time royalist gets so fed up, the royals should realise they are in big trouble. I think the time has come to give some palaces to the National Trust and fund their own lifestyles a bit more – with some allowances for any duties they may be doing. Prince Charles is extraordinarily extravagant but has got away with it till now, perhaps because he is a bit more sensible and experienced.

But Prince Harry and Meghan have really caused a spotlight to be shone on their incredibly extravagant and wasteful lives which could cause the whole royal pack of cards to come tumbling down. It’s a fine line they tread after all. The world has always been unfair but their antics prove that it is even more unfair than we thought.

I’m always suspicious of charitable foundations.

I really don’t think we should be accusing her of fraud........

I’d love a climate change conference to be done exclusively by VC in major cities with every attendee being able to “attend” by not flying. You could do a great visual with that.

And some people don’t reply to statements on here because there is no defence. No one has stood up for her standing up Invictus participants with horrific injuries.

She does however turn up to 99.9% of appointments.

I too think it unfair that Megan gets all the vitriol (cherchez la femme) when in my view much of this PR disaster is down to `nice but Tim’ Harry, who undoubtedly means well but is incredibly irritating with his cherry picking of what it means to be royal. This latest Google Climate Camp fandango is just a continuation of his virtue-signalling hypocrisy.

But it’s not just him, he and Meghan are just one of a throng of exasperating celebs who expect ordinary folk to give up their holiday to Benidorm while they jet off to climate change conferences.

Completely agree with this. As somebody mentioned up thread, see also Emma Thompson flying 5,000 miles to join in extinction rebellion, the Clooneys and their private jet being used like the family car etc. Liberal luvvies are bad enough when it's 'ordinary' celebs, really don't need it from the royals. That's my issue with H and M.