Page 3 | To remind you Harry & Megan wanted out of the limelight!

SpideyCraw · 01/12/2022 19:26

Endwalker · 01/12/2022 18:40

The treatment of her by the press was disgusting. There was a comparison done between headlines about Catherine and headlines, Catherine was written about positively and Meghan was written about negatively.l despite them doing the exact same thing.

www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellievhall/meghan-markle-kate-middleton-double-standards-royal

There were also real and credible threats against Meghan's life and Harry's life, threats which others were downplaying, so I can understand why they didn't feel safe and didn't feel their children would be safe.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/29/duchess-of-sussex-faced-disgusting-threats-to-life-senior-met-officer-says

Let's not forget too the many comments online (and in real life too) "innocently" speculating about what Archie would look like and insisting that it was an outrage that they weren't doing a photo on the hospital steps as if it was their right to see. These same people are probably also the type of people to ban visitors for two weeks after their own births but heaven forbid another woman not want to go on public parade just hours after shoving a human out of her vadge. The photo on the steps isn't even a long standing tradition, Diana and Charles started it but it's not some centuries old convention like people seem to think.

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All of this can be true and it also be true that they are behaving badly in producing this documentary (assuming they are going to air Harry’s family’s dirty laundry in it).

Stressedmum2017 · 01/12/2022 19:32

They are actually pathetic. I am far from a royalist and yes the daily mail etc definitely were unfair towards meghan compared to Kate but God that doesn't stop meghan from still being absolutely awful 🤮

704703hey · 01/12/2022 19:33

Did they ever say they wanted half in half out? That gets repeated endlessly, but there is so much misinformation

Willyoujustbequiet · 01/12/2022 19:36

Cant stand the pair of them. Total hypocrites.

WinnieTheW0rm · 01/12/2022 19:37

MarieTharp · 01/12/2022 18:43

You could just hide the thread(s) - it's ever so simple.

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There is a topic

www.mumsnet.com/talk/the_royal_family

HeraldicBlazoning · 01/12/2022 19:38

They wanted out of the ribbon cutting at a community centre in Scunthorpe, or sitting freezing your bits off trying to appear interested in a niche sporting events.

Schmoozing in California and spilling your guts in a Netflix documentary is a totally different type of limelight, obvs.🙄

CatchYouOnTheFlippetyFlop · 01/12/2022 19:38

It is so very easy to avoid anything about them.

I actually like them both and will be watching their Netflix documentary, but I never read about them in the media - easy to avoid. Unless you're reading trashy tabloids or watching ITV morning shows or whatever.

I actually think it's hilarious the way people have such huge vitriol against people they don't know and will never meet, or clamour to start threads frothing at the mouth in disgust.

It's frankly, fucking weird.

x2boys · 01/12/2022 19:41

CatchYouOnTheFlippetyFlop · 01/12/2022 19:38

It is so very easy to avoid anything about them.

I actually like them both and will be watching their Netflix documentary, but I never read about them in the media - easy to avoid. Unless you're reading trashy tabloids or watching ITV morning shows or whatever.

I actually think it's hilarious the way people have such huge vitriol against people they don't know and will never meet, or clamour to start threads frothing at the mouth in disgust.

It's frankly, fucking weird.

It's bizarre isn't it?

idonotmind · 01/12/2022 19:42

I don't want to give them any more air time and create more content for them but can't help but post: these two drive me up the wall. A couple of megalomaniacs.

MarigoldPetals · 01/12/2022 19:45

Yes they did ask for privacy and to step out of the limelight. I do think they come across as hypocritical.

yentirb · 01/12/2022 19:50

I just don't pay attention to them, or the royal family tbh

ShirleyPhallus · 01/12/2022 19:51

Merrydance · 01/12/2022 18:39

But the public would not want to see every photo of them and their family forever. They would only need be seen on public duties and state occasions if they had continued as working royals. They could have lived relatively quiet lives out of lime light if they had chosen like Edward's and Sophie's children, as their children would be way down the line of succession
I think they thought themselves more interesring to the public than they were, everylne was excited to see them marry and have a baby, then the interest would have waned

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I think you’re missing the point, she wasn’t literally talking about just photos - she was referring to the whole lack of privacy involved

TheKeatingFive · 01/12/2022 19:52

Yes they did ask for privacy and to step out of the limelight.

No, they didn't. They said they wanted to step back as senior royals and keep their children away from the U.K. press.

saoirse31 · 01/12/2022 20:03

I think the remarks re Lady Hussey have shown the actual racism that exists in the British royal family. She was a 'lady in waiting', so a respected member of royal staff. Instead of trying to deride Harry and Meghan maybe some posters should consider the more important question, are you happy to have as head of your state a royal family system that expresses such views? Maybe you are...

Lemonlady22 · 01/12/2022 20:06

They wanted out of the limelight and public duties, but wanted to continue getting the funds from the public purse for doing nothing…now they are not happy because their lavish lifestyle has to be funded by selling their souls, instead of the British tax payer!

Merrydance · 01/12/2022 20:17

ShirleyPhallus · 01/12/2022 19:51

I think you’re missing the point, she wasn’t literally talking about just photos - she was referring to the whole lack of privacy involved

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But they are happy for their everyday life to be filmed and documented for Netflix, they do not seem to have a problem with this. They may have some control of this but ultlmately will keep them in the public eye and attract media they can't cpntrol
I can completely understand their decision to step back from royal life and live in the US, but to complain about lack of privacy and their image being in the public domain but creating their own Sussex brand, writing books on the back of their royal stories and having their lives documented very publicly on Netflix, seems rather hypocritical. Following their marriage, they spent a very short time as part of the royal family. If they are upset with their treatment by the family or establishment, sit down with them and try to explain and resolve issues. If they have a problem with the way they are portrayed in the media, stay out of it (media will always have a mix of negative and positive). Access other support from friends/counselling
They need to be mindful of being critical of family, as at some point the media and world will lose interest in them and end up very isolated having burned their bridges with family

HRTQueen · 01/12/2022 20:20

He can never live a life out of the limelight and neither will his children

they didn’t want to be hounded continuously they wanted some control over the narrative

good luck to them

ShirleyPhallus · 01/12/2022 20:22

Merrydance · 01/12/2022 20:17

But they are happy for their everyday life to be filmed and documented for Netflix, they do not seem to have a problem with this. They may have some control of this but ultlmately will keep them in the public eye and attract media they can't cpntrol
I can completely understand their decision to step back from royal life and live in the US, but to complain about lack of privacy and their image being in the public domain but creating their own Sussex brand, writing books on the back of their royal stories and having their lives documented very publicly on Netflix, seems rather hypocritical. Following their marriage, they spent a very short time as part of the royal family. If they are upset with their treatment by the family or establishment, sit down with them and try to explain and resolve issues. If they have a problem with the way they are portrayed in the media, stay out of it (media will always have a mix of negative and positive). Access other support from friends/counselling
They need to be mindful of being critical of family, as at some point the media and world will lose interest in them and end up very isolated having burned their bridges with family

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But they’re in control of it, it’s entirely their decision. What they dislike is that control being taken out of their hands.

That said, I do agree with you that yet another docu seems unnecessary

Dontaskdontget · 01/12/2022 20:23

x2boys · 01/12/2022 16:03

You don't want them to have any limelight ,than maybe people should stop with the endless bitchy threads then ,just a thought ....

Hear hear!

LondonWolf · 01/12/2022 20:24

Hooverphobe · 01/12/2022 15:57

Pair of fuds.

Actual lol 😆

feellikeanalien · 01/12/2022 20:28

I just find the whole royal saga a bit of light relief in these pretty gloomy times.

HardRock · 01/12/2022 20:28

LiaRz · 01/12/2022 15:38

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It says they wanted to “step out of the limelight.”

Now they’re stepping back into the limelight.

So what?

Merrydance · 01/12/2022 20:37

I am also a bit puzzled about Netflix stating they promise to show "the clandestine days of their early courtship". That implies the documentary was planned prior to marriage and decision to move to US. I thought this was about telling their story from leaving for US of why the decided to do so and their life since

HardRock · 01/12/2022 20:45

Merrydance · 01/12/2022 20:37

I am also a bit puzzled about Netflix stating they promise to show "the clandestine days of their early courtship". That implies the documentary was planned prior to marriage and decision to move to US. I thought this was about telling their story from leaving for US of why the decided to do so and their life since

I think you’re reading into that far too much to fit your own cynical narrative.

Netflix probably asked them to talk about their early courtship. And the couple could talk about it and show the pictures they had taken. Hard to believe they had Netflix involved in the early days of their courtship when they didn’t know for certainty if they were serious enough to marry and have children.

WinnieTheW0rm · 01/12/2022 22:14

"the clandestine days of their early courtship"*

It'll be them talking about their recollections of that time, possibly with previously unseen photographs. If clandestine in the normal sense of the word, then there probably won't be friends who can talk about it. Just them