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To think Harry/Meghan are coming out of this worse than the Royal Family?

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Bassarid · 23/05/2021 06:01

Is it just me?

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TurquoiseDress · 24/05/2021 22:08

YANBU

They need to stop talking & give it a bloody rest!

Cacacoisfarraige · 24/05/2021 22:09

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FromEden · 24/05/2021 22:09

Oh the faux outrage has started. How dare people discuss 2 public figures who are literally airing all their dirty laundry to the entire world just because one of them happens to be pregnant. Thread will be pulled shortly.

amusedtodeath1 · 24/05/2021 22:09

I agree puzzled it's only manipulation if she wasn't really suicidal. I can certainly see how she could be. No matter what anyone thinks of her there was a lot of racist and just plain nasty comments, Samantha and Thomas's betrayal, plus wedding stress, plus becoming a member of the RF. That would probably have broken me too.

However if I was a narcissistic personality it probably wouldn't have broken me but made me angry.

We have no way of knowing.

Skiptheheartsandflowers · 24/05/2021 22:10

@Skysblue

He gets to live in sunny California tho.

Who’s the fool eh him or the tabloid editors staying up late to write more crap about him.

Well, we do keep hearing that he's immensely happy and living his best life. Only he doesn't seem to have told his face.
amusedtodeath1 · 24/05/2021 22:11

So you think if Edward had dressed up like a Nazi, or called someone my little friend he would have been forgiven so easily, because I don't.

Roussette · 24/05/2021 22:12

OK. I put that into google, and the top sites were... in order as below...
gossipcop (whatever that is)
Reddit
Quora
pagesix (again never heard of it)
Daily Star

And most of these are 'Samantha Markle says'. As she sells books disparaging her... it really is not sites I pay much attention to, to be honest.

mermaidsariel · 24/05/2021 22:13

@VeilofWinterFog

For the first time in his life, since his mother died, Harry has found someone who has understood and loved him 'unconditionally'.

After years of people 'not getting him' this is mind blowing for Harry.

The problem is, whether consciously or unconsciously, Meghan doesn't have his best interests at heart. She is fuelling the very worst of his nature. His paranoia, his suspicion, his victim hood.

I think he is fundamentally a good person but damaged. He met the wrong person at the wrong time.

Totally agree
Blossomtoes · 24/05/2021 22:13

@amusedtodeath1

I meant good will, sympathy for him. We excused his mistakes because we felt sorry for him. I find it incredulous he can't feel like that for his own grandmother a month after her husband died.
We certainly went easy on him. The early years were peppered with episodes like the Nazi uniform, the drugs, falling out of nightclubs off his face and most people said he was young and he’d grow up.

Then there was the Army where he was loved by the troops and genuinely seemed to want to do it properly. He was respected for his Afghanistan tours and we laughed indulgently at “Too much Army, not enough Prince” in Vegas.

He left and we had Heads Up and Invictus and Sentebale. He connected with veterans, played with kids, laughed and smiled a lot. He seemed to have some of Diana’s magic. Most people seemed delighted when he got married and started a family.

And three years later, here we are ...

Roussette · 24/05/2021 22:14

Thread will be pulled shortly

I shouldn't worry, there's hardly any posts to go

Puttingouthefirewithgasoline · 24/05/2021 22:15

Bizzarely I'm quite neutral when it comes to the royals, I'm not especially anti royal although I feel for everyone's sake including theirs they should scale down, I think pa is Vile, utterly dispicable, but I'm warming to Prince Harry!
I'm definitely going off William and Kate.
I like Charles although I imagine he's been a crap dad and I think camila looks like a laugh... But again I can see why Harry and William wouldn't warm too her.

Puttingouthefirewithgasoline · 24/05/2021 22:16

Blossom and others, it's not our bloody right to go easy on him, he's not ours!!

IcedPurple · 24/05/2021 22:16

Samantha and Thomas's betrayal

Maybe Samantha and Thomas were just sharing their truth?

Bravely opening up about their struggles with a toxic family member?

For their mental health?

Isn't that a good thing, according to Harry and Oprah?

Serenster · 24/05/2021 22:18

Page Six is the celebrity gossip site for the New York Post.

I didn’t say you’d find authoritative comments (no one actually qualified to opine on such a matter would do so in the media, I would hope!) but just that it is being very widely discussed on the internet, when you’d said it was ridiculous to suggest this.

randomkey123 · 24/05/2021 22:19

@IcedPurple well said.

amusedtodeath1 · 24/05/2021 22:21

@IcedPurple

Samantha and Thomas's betrayal

Maybe Samantha and Thomas were just sharing their truth?

Bravely opening up about their struggles with a toxic family member?

For their mental health?

Isn't that a good thing, according to Harry and Oprah?

Actually when you put it that way, of course their betrayal wouldn't count would it, it's just a trifle really! Grin
IcedPurple · 24/05/2021 22:22

Why, according to some, is it 'shocking' and 'vile' to say that Meghan may be a narcissist, but it's absolutely fine and even commendable for Harry to tell the whole world what a crap parent his father was, only weeks after losing his own father?

To say there are double standards at work would be an understatement.

StormzyinaTCup · 24/05/2021 22:22

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Roussette · 24/05/2021 22:24

Sigh.
I said it was ridiculous to say that 'the entire internet was talking about it.'
Not what you have just said.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 24/05/2021 22:24

Well that’s Meghan finished in politics if Harry’s saying she’s sobbing over some mean comments

I could be wrong - I often am - but feel pretty safe in saying Meghan will never succeed in politics even if she was foolish enough to try

If she finds the machinations of the palace not to her taste, the filth of politics would finish her off

amusedtodeath1 · 24/05/2021 22:24

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IcedPurple · 24/05/2021 22:28

@Roussette

Sigh. I said it was ridiculous to say that 'the entire internet was talking about it.' Not what you have just said.
Actually no that's not what you said.

I quote:

"So you think it's OK to just label someone like that? Really? It wouldn't happen on MN with anyone else well known."

You seem to share your heroes' disdain for free speech.

amusedtodeath1 · 24/05/2021 22:29

But, in all fairness it's not Meghan running off at the mouth, it's bloody Harry that needs to shut up.

Roussette · 24/05/2021 22:29

Go back and look at my post. You are incorrect.

If you are going to try and catch me out, get it right. Someone said the ENTIRE internet was talking about it
I disputed that

Don't be so rude.

P22 · 09/01/2023 18:40

They have right to air their responses to the incessant attacks from the royalist press

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