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To be completely bored of the constant coverage of Harry and Meghan

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Frenchpastry · 12/08/2020 06:18

It's just too much! Way too much media focus on a them and all their drama. There's a global pandemic, explosions, oil spills etc. etc. etc. There are so many more important things going on in the World than a bunch of over-priviledged plebs and their family drama. It's not interesting, it's not relevant to the rest of the World and it's not in any way beneficial to anyone to keep speculating about them. I get that some people may find it interesting but so interesting it dominates headlines for months on end?!?

I should point out, I'm moaning about the media's obsession rather than them as an individual couple; whilst I'm not a fan of theirs by any stretch, it's the ridiculous number of articles I've seen about them across different news sites that's bugging me. Surely there's not that much to say about them?!

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LaurieMarlow · 12/08/2020 12:47

How do you know the ethnicity of anyone on here that you're calling racist?

What’s that got to do with it? Internalised racism is also a thing.

Lifeandjoy · 12/08/2020 12:49

CallneAngelina, I can hazard a very good guess that the people attacking Meghan are disproportionately white. I can hazard a very good guess that those who say it isn’t about her race are disproportionately white.

The criticisms have racial undertones.

Apparently racism does not exist in Britain and race has nothing to do with how Meghan has been treated. This extreme hatred and obsession is simply because she is the worse person currently alive and a threat to the very British psyche and way of life.

As one poster said, she is so bad she deserves a punch in the face.

Lifeandjoy · 12/08/2020 12:50

Indeed internalised racism and institutionalised racism means that even people of colour can attack others based on socialisation of what is good and proper.

LaurieMarlow · 12/08/2020 12:51

Jeez I really think I don't care but it's a slow day so I'll bite

Everything you’ve listed there is extrapolation based on random photos, speculation by unnamed sources, stuff other royals do without comment, common or garden lies.

You’ve fallen for the press hate. You don’t actually know anything about her or what genuinely happened in any of the ‘stories’ you’ve referenced.

EthelMayFergus · 12/08/2020 12:53

Toptotoeunicolour Totally agree with your post, but just to add the fake feminism too. Publicly showing support for Mermaids last year was the last straw for me although it's not been mentioned since, so it was probably just another passing bandwagon.

MouthBreathingRage · 12/08/2020 12:56

She has dumped her sick elderly father,

Her father has used the media for his own attention. She obviously had and has a very fractured relationship with him and if she feels he hasn't been a good enough father to be a part of her life then I can't see why she should be judge for that.

sat sulkily at Wimbledon having had all the plebs from all around her removed

Media painted bull.

lacks the grace to invite any of her family to her wedding apart from her mother,

Again, if she has a fracture relationship with her family then she doesn't owe them anything. Anyone outside the public eye wouldn't be forced to 'make nice' with family just because of blood ties and 'its a wedding'.

put Oprah where her family should've been sitting (implies social climbing extraordinaire),

Making your own assumptions.

denied her own mixed race heritage for a long time,

Evidence of her denying her mixed heritage?

flew on private jets whilst asserting eco credentials,

Obviously people in their position should make a point of only flying Easy Jet. Or hitchhike.

spends unnecessarily extortionate amounts of tax payer money on clothes,

She can afford her own clothes, should she just wear supermarket clothes made in sweatshops? More to the point, Kate gets dressed by the taxpayers and did so for much longer than Meghan did - no outrage about that?

flew all the way to South Africa to highlight the conditions of the people there but only managed to moan about how no-one asks how she is in spite of having staff to help with the baby

Thats the only singular thing she did on the entire African trip what 'have a moan'?

Gets through said staff at a fairly brisk pace,

The horror. And again, no actual evidence of this bar the media reports.

allows taxpayer money to be spent refurbishing her home and paying for her wedding without any sense of duty or payback,

Again, as opposed to other royals doing exactly the same?

spent the Disney premier touting for work when he should have been at a long standing prior engagement in honour of army vets.

Harry told one person that his wife was good at voice work, so you translate that as not doing any of his army vet work?

The whole idea that they can set up a foundation to serve charities and cream off some money for themselves to live their very expensive lifestyles.

Sorry, not sure what you're suggesting here but it very much reads like you belive they are taking charity money to fund their lifestyle? I'd be very careful if that's the case.

derxa · 12/08/2020 12:59

Harry told one person that his wife was good at voice work, so you translate that as not doing any of his army vet work? Grin

EthelMayFergus · 12/08/2020 13:00

Mouthbreathingrage By Meghan's own account, her father has been very good to her her whole life up until she met Harry. Are you suggesting that she lies about stuff? Have you read her many tributes to him up to 2016? All lies?

Why was the whole section of Wimbledon empty around her? I've never seen that before, including for HMQ.

Marnie54 · 12/08/2020 13:02

I feel really sick they have now bought an 8 million property and not paid back re Frogmore Cottage, in other words our tax money.

EthelMayFergus · 12/08/2020 13:02

Also, it's not the flying on private jets that's the problem (well, it is for the environment obviously) but it's the preaching about the environment to the rest of us.

MouthBreathingRage · 12/08/2020 13:07

@EthelMayFergus I'm not saying she didn't have a good relationship with him previously. He admitted getting the paparazzi involved for attention in the time leading up to her wedding. She was already very much in the spotlight, he broke her trust in an awful way. We can all have an opinion on what one can forgive from family, but I don't judge her for how she chooses to have a relationship with her own family.

Port1aCastis · 12/08/2020 13:08

Yes I'm fed up with the constant bitching bullshit and lies, the world and his wife assuming to know what someone said or did when they actually do not have a bloody clue If my Father flogged my private letter to the highest media bidder Id never speak to him again, how disgusting that man is, yuk

LaurieMarlow · 12/08/2020 13:11

Also, it's not the flying on private jets that's the problem (well, it is for the environment obviously) but it's the preaching about the environment to the rest of us

So exactly like Charles and Wills do. But no one mentions them.

LaurieMarlow · 12/08/2020 13:14

I feel really sick they have now bought an 8 million property and not paid back re Frogmore Cottage, in other words our tax money.

Have you access to their accounts? How privileged.

I don’t even understand this point. They don’t own Frogmore. It’s a royal property which will no doubt be handed over to another royal resident. It needed extensive renovation to be habitable, they’re not benefiting from it in any way in the long run.

LaurieMarlow · 12/08/2020 13:19

spends unnecessarily extortionate amounts of tax payer money on clothes

Just on this point, the one time Meghan did spend more than averagely (royal standards) on clothes was the engagement dress, which bought before she had a clothing allowance. Meaning that she paid for it herself or was given it as a gift.

Since then, what she spent on clothes was pretty much in line with royal norms.

So another point that makes no sense.

Pepperwort · 12/08/2020 13:20

Why all this sudden acceptance of their privileged position? They’ve done bugger all to earn it. Britain really is going back to the Victorian age, tugging our forelocks to our betters. It is so sad.

LaurieMarlow · 12/08/2020 13:22

Why all this sudden acceptance of their privileged position?

I’ve no time for the royals at all, but I totally object to Megan being held to totally different standards to the rest of them.

Alongcameacat · 12/08/2020 13:22

The constant coverage is just MN threads!

Serenster · 12/08/2020 13:23

he broke her trust in an awful way

I'm curious - did the five friends who spoke without her knowledge to a gossip magazine about her relationship with her Dad, and her life in the UK also break her trust in an awful way? Did the sources who spoke to Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand about deeply personal aspects of her life, including the birth of her son, her text messages with her husband and her inner thoughts about a number of occasions also break her trust by doing so? Is she now criticising any of those people, or rather staunchly supporting them? Given this, is it appropriate that we consider her actions towards then, to compare and contrast them towards her actions towards her father with whom she publicly professed to have a close and loving relationship with until she met Prince Harry?

LaurieMarlow · 12/08/2020 13:24

Is she now criticising any of those people, or rather staunchly supporting them?

She’s simply arguing they shouldn’t be named. Which given that they didn’t do anything illegal, aren’t on trial and the press are total vultures, seems like a principled move.

daisystone · 12/08/2020 13:26

LaurieMarlow

There was no need for them to move to Frogmore Cottage and have such extensive renovations. They CHOSE to move from the 'cottage' at Kensington Palace and although it would have been the done thing to move to quarters in Kensington Palace they CHOSE to spend a shit load of tax payers money on a property that while they do not own, they wanted exactly to their taste and specifications. It was completely unnecessary and to make matters worse they do not even live in the property after all that.

SunbathingDragon · 12/08/2020 13:27

Over saturating the public with media articles is might well not benefit them if they wish to draw attention to good causes or earn a living through public speeches etc.

The back of the book confirms they cooperated with it, yet they have released a statement saying they didn’t. I would imagine the media who dislikes them is enjoying the fact they have been caught out in such a way.

Pepperwort · 12/08/2020 13:30

It’s no different to the way Diana was treated. Fergie got a bit too. The relation between the press and those two, particularly Diana, is more complex than the innocent victim some seem to think, as most of us were well aware at the time. These two are as bad as each other and are very welcome to, ahem, take up their celebrity status in America without being funded from here.

LaurieMarlow · 12/08/2020 13:30

They CHOSE to move from the 'cottage' at Kensington Palace and although it would have been the done thing to move to quarters in Kensington Palace

They had a choice, like the other royals. I’m sure there were lots of reasons why Windsor suited them better. Money would have been spent on it anyway at some point, as apparently it wasn’t in great repair.

they wanted exactly to their taste and specifications.

So exactly like all the other royals then. Is now a good time to remind people that Kate spent tax payers money on moving a tennis court a few feet to one side to get a better view. Wink

Pepperwort · 12/08/2020 13:30

Although Andrew should be under investigation for actual criminality imo.

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