Families are like this though aren't they?. My exh's sisters disliked me from the get go and made it fairly obvious. I'm from a different religious background to them and I'm just not their kind of person-probably because I didn't agree with them all the time.
After a few years I stopped going as far out of my way to make effort with them because I got nothing back.So I suppose I was the Meghan in that situation....
Except that I was always polite at family stuff , even when they weren't-always showed up to endless family events and holidays, supported then h with his family stuff, made sure my kids saw them regularly...because that's part and parcel of being married. I didn't enjoy it especially, and although I tried not to let it,I'm sure that occasionally showed-not fun but that's what you sign up for.
I wouldn't have attempted to isolate my exh from his family, nor if I worked for them, have jacked my job in without discussing it with them first...even if only because I try to live by the maxim that when others go low you should go high, where possible.
They didn't all have to like each other. I'm sure any such feeling was mutual. But within that you do have to try and do the right thing. And that's doubly so if you've married into the royal family and your luxury lifestyle is being paid for as a result.
I don't think Britain is the most racist country in the world and having lived in the US we are certainly miles ahead in terms of multiculturalism, so those editorials accusing us as a nation of extreme racism are galling-and in turn won't help with H and M's public perception. Of course there are racist individuals...and they are wankers.
Some of the criticism of Meghan no doubt is racist. But I still think most of it is because to your average Brit-she comes across as hugely wanky tbh. And as a nation we are less tolerant of that then say the US seems to be.
Jennie Bond was being interviewed on the radio over the weekend and was accused by Danielle Dash of being racist when describing Meghan as 'intelligent, articulate and passionate' because according to Danielle those things shouldn't need to be stated about a mixed race person-why are they not assumed? Why should they need to be stated? Jenny was a bit non plussed as it's her actual job to describe her impressions of the royal family, she had been nothing but positive and she had described Princess Di in exactly the same way earlier. She got called 'a white racist bitch' on Twitter for saying that Meghan was articulate and smart. It's becomes increasingly difficult to achieve cohesion when even positive comments about someone are perceived as evidence of bigotry.
I love people who come on threads criticising people for talking about it. I Find it fascinating tbh-it's interesting in the way celebrity stuff is interesting (to me). Each to their own. Don't read it if you dont like it...