@GoLightlyontheEarth
They weren’t plain cruel. Most people were overjoyed for Harry and wished him well. Me included.
I think a lot of us were extra excited to see multicultural society finally reflected in the senior BRF, or in the case of us republicans just slightly pleased when normally we would swerve royal stuff.
So in fact, she had considerably more goodwill that most royal brides (as well as some hate from the back). She appealed to a much broader demographic than most girls in pearls marrying princes.
Maybe that gave her further to fall, but it also meant she would have got a lot of leeway to do things differently. All she had to do was stay in the country, do the job she had accepted and ignore the haters. The vast majority were on her side.
I know it made me really disappointed that the modern, mixed race, self made royal of partially African descent stood in Africa and whinged that her diamond shoes were too tight. On a tour on which they’d been meeting all kinds of underprivileged people. But she was complaining to camera that not enough people had asked if she was okay, and saying “it’s not enough to survive, you have thrive”. Instead of “shining a light” on the problems in AFRICA. I felt dismayed by that. I suspect some of her ancestors would too.
I dunno. It’s just all very disappointing.