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The knives are out for the royal family

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justasking111 · 19/08/2019 14:26

It may be deserved in some cases, however it would seem the gloves are off as far as the media are concerned. They have lived high on the hog for centuries so what is new?

Am scratching my head here is it shoot the royal family season or a smoke and mirrors exercise designed to distract us from something more important??

I would hate to be in the PR business with the RF just now.

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SheStoopsToConker · 22/08/2019 10:46

Meghan herself has written about how she considers herself biracial and about her experiences growing up. So I think it's safe to say that that's how she sees herself.

Emilyontmoor · 22/08/2019 11:00

I can’t say either way for Megan Lots of people pronouncing on Megan’s identity when actually she has spoken for herself. 🤔 Identity is always a more complicated issue when you grow up between two cultures and everyone’s experience is different. There are for instance in spite of all these woke people who haven’t noticed that two thirds of the world’s population is Asian 🤔 countless websites about the difficulties of growing up between Asian and western culture, just google when you have a Chinese Mother..... (first on the feed www.google.co.uk/amp/s/matadornetwork.com/life/10-signs-raised-chinese-mother/amp/) I know one friend who has a British father and Chinese mother who raised her daughter quite specifically to identify with her husbands Italian culture, not because she didn’t value Cantonese or British culture but because she had always faced the same struggle Meghan describes of not ever feeling fully part of either culture. www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.elle.com/uk/life-and-culture/news/amp26855/more-than-an-other/

NoTheresa · 22/08/2019 11:16

Pamplemousecat

He’s not averse to plastic though. His wife seems to be made of it.

🤣

NoTheresa · 22/08/2019 11:19

H and M should retire from public life and quit preaching. They are a laughing stock and are seriously damaging the monarchy. But that might be no bad thing...hmmm

Gobbolinocat · 22/08/2019 11:23

She stoops, apparently there is discrepancy on flight log.

Photos obviously place Andrew with Roberts and epstein but there is discrepancy. That's the latest I saw.

Doyoureallyneedtoask · 22/08/2019 11:59

She could be blonde and blue eyed, it would make no difference.

I completely disagree.

Myimaginarycathasfleas · 22/08/2019 12:10

Well, it would make no difference to me.

LaurieMarlow · 22/08/2019 13:08

They are a laughing stock and are seriously damaging the monarchy

I find you saying that about H&M and not Andrew absolutely staggering. Just shows you what people’s priorities are.

Mrsjayy · 22/08/2019 13:40

News just in the cambridges have flown to Scotland with fly beGrin

GlitchStitch · 22/08/2019 14:10

Ha fair play to the Cambridges, they are certainly playing the game better. I wonder if that was already booked or they saw an opportunity!

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justasking111 · 22/08/2019 14:17

Well reading Jephsons book, Diana rarely missed an opportunity. It was wise of them to use flybe with all the flack flying.

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Funghi · 22/08/2019 14:17

Well I suppose they have to put the effort in to make up for having more than 2 kids Hmm

Mrsjayy · 22/08/2019 14:22

Yes offset Prince Louis Wink

Gobbolinocat · 22/08/2019 14:32

Well Prince Andrew has flown by private jet to sotogrande, and is enjoying a relaxing round of golf, apparently at 500 quid a pop.

The white privalidged male anyone?

Kit30 · 22/08/2019 14:50

Slightly off topic, but do you think that the RF will get a sympathy bounce back of popularity when QE dies? Or will the current criticism about the ongoing RF fuckwittery (hopefully) result in a much pared down 'Firm' limited to just the sovereign and immediate heir?

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justasking111 · 22/08/2019 15:17

Andrew reminds me of princess Margaret, second child syndrome who behave more grandly than the heir to the throne does.

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NotJustACigar · 22/08/2019 15:17

Surely the Cambridges could have just taken the Megabus to Scotland to save money and carbon Grin? The Sussexes and Cambridges seem to be taking some not so subtle digs at each other lately! What with the Sussexes being holier than thou about numbers of children, I think the Cambridges have taken Flybe to retaliate!

Mrsjayy · 22/08/2019 15:28

Yes he is like Princess Margaret spoiled privilleged and a pain for the RF i have a feeling Harry might go the same way .

Mrsjayy · 22/08/2019 15:29

The Megabus Grin

kenandbarbie · 22/08/2019 15:36

raised by white people (Doria wasn’t around for whatever reason

Did she not grow up with her mother around? Did she live with her father growing up?

IcedPurple · 22/08/2019 16:06

Ha fair play to the Cambridges, they are certainly playing the game better. I wonder if that was already booked or they saw an opportunity!

Obvious PR is obvious! Still, I have to say well played to them. Deffo a shrewder PR move than getting your C list 'friends' to take to twitter to defend your 'right' to 4 private jets in short succession!

Greenteawhisky · 22/08/2019 16:10

What if Meghan has another baby but it’s twins?

MangoFeverDream · 22/08/2019 16:15

kenandbarbie

They had joint custody for a while actually until she was a teenager, then lived full-time with her dad.

www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/12/inside-the-meghan-markle-family-breakdown-thomas-samantha-markle

Myimaginarycathasfleas · 22/08/2019 16:19

That article is quite an amusing read but it's Jan Moir of the Daily Mail so expect a certain bias...