To feel really sorry for Prince Harry breaking down

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At the awards show. I have been a little skeptical about him recently but my heart really went out to him when I saw the footage.

I have a feeling that having a child has triggered a huge amount of unresolved grief and anxiety. Now he has this dear little boy who is at the mercy of the tabloid press, as is his wife and there is little he can do to protect him.

It's time the press laid off. This is a human being breaking in front of us.

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/prince-harry-wellchild-awards-speech-emotional-meghan-pregnant-tears-a9157751.html

The point is Betrand, it isn't all about racism.

You genuinely think the press coverage Kate got was anything approaching what Meghan gets?

“ The point is Betrand, it isn't all about racism.”

No, it’s not all about racism.

Sorry but you can't have it both ways Bertrand. You've been quite happy to use (irrelevant in my book) comparison as means to try and undermine everyone elses arguments for not being pro Meghan and Harry with a 'please justify not liking meg in the light of K&W etc.

But when others employ the same means of argument, you assert it has no relevance?

Ok fine. I'm open to that. But lets do it across the board then shall we?

I think what's causing problems is celebrity friends calling her attention to only the negative.

Lets compare to the average joe blogs: Her wedding day was spectacular, with pageantry, security paid for by the taxpayer, and thousands of total strangers wishing them well in the streets. She married a prince and instantly received numerous titles with their associated benefits and the deference they command. She previously lived in an apartment - now she lives in a grand cottage in the grounds of Windsor Castle and has several homes. She has been on unpaid tours around Britain, Australia and New Zealand and now South Africa. She has met dignatories and kings, She has staff and cooks 24/7, a full time nanny, a comfortable easy 'job'. Extra staff to help her with that job and a generous clothes budget provided by her FIL that even a footballers wife wouldn't sniff at.

Also an adoring husband who showers her gifts, adoring friends, people of note who would love to become her friends, Friendship with the Queen, a beautiful new baby, no pressure to afford child care, no financial worries. No mortgage.....

I'm sure what Fergie got in the 80s was horrific but that doesn't make it okay for Meghan to get the same now. What's with this race to the bottom mentality?

And yet it's so hard to cope?

No one is saying it's ok. They are saying it is not unprecedented or due entirely to racism as Fergies treatment shows.

Fergie had a bloody awful time. Of course she made a lot of mistakes and had very poor judgement but she also received very little support during and after her marriage from all quarters. She's an ordinary looking woman who was put beside one of the most beautiful woman in the world and expected to be a clothes horse as well. It's amazing she stayed smiling through it all tbh. I think if there's anyone who could be bitter and angry, it's her but she has been gracious the whole way through it. I used to think she was a bit of an embarrassment, going off to the US to make some money, but now I realise she was just trying to survive.
Beatrice and Eugenie also have had some unpleasant comments over the years. Remember how people made fun of Beatrice's hat at the royal wedding? I believe she auctioned it off for charity (while employing a professional stylist for the next occasion).

In Fergie's days, the media was not quite as widespread. We were travelling then and I remember that it was mostly UK and European press that covered her extensively.

Nowadays, the negative MM coverage is worldwide. She cannot escape from it. Top that off with internet trolls - everyone is voicing an opinion, and taking it upon themselves to be her judge and juror, not just reporters (can't really call them journalists, sorry), probably hence why the real death threats.

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Good to hear from those with first hand experience of H&M. But haters are so determined, they will still nit pick and try to twist things into a fault.

But to dwell only on negative press and internet coverage is to overlook the overwhelming positive coverage. As for trolls someone pointed out on another thread that its literally just a couple hundred regulars retweeting and posting crap. Fergie experienced a smaller and more intense negative coverage which was balanced with the positive.

*Which was not

Fergie did also not have Bertrand et al in her corner

“ Remember how people made fun of Beatrice's hat at the royal wedding?“

I do think there might be a touch of false equivalence here!

I remember it well too. It was horrible. That makes a difference to the vilification of Meghan exactly how?*

@BertrandRussell that's my point. It's not different. You said further up the thread that no member of the RF had ever received the same treatment as Meghan.

Agreed

If he doesn't want his every movement in the press he should step back from public duties. Meghan's just as bad.
Jump under the spotlight and complain it's too revealing?
Be careful what you ask for

They've all been dragged through the same - Kate, Camilla, Charles, fergie, Diana and now Meghan. You can't have a glitzy Instagram account, play cat and mouse with the media and then moan when it doesn't go your way!

And yes kate did get it as bad -
Her family -mums job as an air hostess, uncle Gary and his drugs, janes and his business ventures and girlfriends. "Waity Katy", work shy, too thin, does own makeup, topless photos. How is it any different to what press Meghan gets?

I'm not a MM fan but I just watched the wellchild coverage and i can't see where she stays on stage...I think they brought a child in a wheelchair to come up and get photos taken with her and prince Harry which was the right thing to do surely?

Again, such bad timing, for her to be talking about the hardship of being a newly wed with a newborn, living under the spotlight when they have just toured a country with real, actual problems

Good point. I'm betting many of the people they met would happily swap places.

Was she perhaps with another child?