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Oh dear...Harry and Meghan's Christmas card photo

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ChristmasPudd1990 · 17/12/2024 09:00

Does this scream "Photoshop" to anyone else? Lilibet's shoes, Meghan's leg and outrageously long arm,L is dressed for summer,A dressed for winter,the 3 year old looks more like 6. Jeeez...how embarrassing...🤦‍♀️

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ChristmasPudd1990 · 18/12/2024 09:15

thepariscrimefiles · 18/12/2024 08:51

I don't understand your comment. Why would anyone be accused of bullying for saying that this girl looks about 8 years old.

I was called it yesterday after starting this thread. My original post saying that she looked more like a 6 year old than a 3 year old!! Go figure 🤦‍♀️🤣

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thepariscrimefiles · 18/12/2024 09:29

ChristmasPudd1990 · 18/12/2024 09:15

I was called it yesterday after starting this thread. My original post saying that she looked more like a 6 year old than a 3 year old!! Go figure 🤦‍♀️🤣

But surely this girl isn't Meghan's daughter? There is a photo of Lily and she has auburn hair, not black hair.

ChristmasPudd1990 · 18/12/2024 09:30

thepariscrimefiles · 18/12/2024 09:29

But surely this girl isn't Meghan's daughter? There is a photo of Lily and she has auburn hair, not black hair.

But why have Archie in the same photo and not their daughter?

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RisingSunn · 18/12/2024 09:56

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This is why the these threads get jumped on. Because of nasty posters like this. What a bully!

Shall we get a photo of your children and check whether they’ve won the gene lottery?

So idiotic.

handsdownthebest · 18/12/2024 10:08

RisingSunn · 18/12/2024 09:56

This is why the these threads get jumped on. Because of nasty posters like this. What a bully!

Shall we get a photo of your children and check whether they’ve won the gene lottery?

So idiotic.

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I agree…some real twats one here. Would love to see them IRL and put them forward for a bit of beauty scrutiny 🧐

YankTank · 18/12/2024 10:19

FFS. Get over yourself and move on with your life. A certain cohort of the British public and the British press made it VERY clear to Meghan that she was not welcome here. They bullied her until she had enough and moved back to her hometown, where her family and friends live. When she left, the cohort who made it crystal clear to Meghan that she wasn’t welcome here clutched their pearls…”How DARE she leave? And how DARE her husband go with her? HE’S 5th IN LINE TO THE THRONE! They’re letting down the Royal Family!” Fuck that.

Congratulations—you won. You harassed her until she left. However, you’re clearly struggling to come to terms with the fact that yes, she will continue to live a public life in the US, and yes, that may include sending out Christmas cards from her foundation. She’s clearly not welcome here, yet your expectation is that she is not allowed to live her life in her hometown either. Why are you allowing this woman to take up so much free space in your thoughts? Why the obsession? Why is her every move and every photo taking up so much of your headspace?

trivialMorning · 18/12/2024 10:22

ChristmasPudd1990 · 18/12/2024 09:30

But why have Archie in the same photo and not their daughter?

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I could see them doing that - letting press assume but they know better.

The press intrusion must be quite something to deal with and worry about with kids.

TheLimeHedgehog · 18/12/2024 10:49

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Extiainoiapeial · 18/12/2024 10:57

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Are you feeling ok? What a very odd post 😮

TheLimeHedgehog · 18/12/2024 11:00

Extiainoiapeial · 18/12/2024 10:57

Are you feeling ok? What a very odd post 😮

Shame no one asked Meghan that, I hear she was very upset about it. 😊

OrchardBlack · 18/12/2024 11:07

YankTank · 18/12/2024 10:19

FFS. Get over yourself and move on with your life. A certain cohort of the British public and the British press made it VERY clear to Meghan that she was not welcome here. They bullied her until she had enough and moved back to her hometown, where her family and friends live. When she left, the cohort who made it crystal clear to Meghan that she wasn’t welcome here clutched their pearls…”How DARE she leave? And how DARE her husband go with her? HE’S 5th IN LINE TO THE THRONE! They’re letting down the Royal Family!” Fuck that.

Congratulations—you won. You harassed her until she left. However, you’re clearly struggling to come to terms with the fact that yes, she will continue to live a public life in the US, and yes, that may include sending out Christmas cards from her foundation. She’s clearly not welcome here, yet your expectation is that she is not allowed to live her life in her hometown either. Why are you allowing this woman to take up so much free space in your thoughts? Why the obsession? Why is her every move and every photo taking up so much of your headspace?

👏 Take a bow.

Couldn't pay me enough to be in her shoes. Poor bloody woman.

OrchardBlack · 18/12/2024 11:08

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You're so weird.

RisingSunn · 18/12/2024 11:08

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What a strange post.

x2boys · 18/12/2024 11:10

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The irony ....

TheLimeHedgehog · 18/12/2024 11:11

And just like a bus they all come at once 🚌🚌🚌

Manypaws · 18/12/2024 11:12

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Why the name calling?

TofuTart · 18/12/2024 11:20

x2boys · 18/12/2024 06:31

Ffs how nasty can you be these are two small children is it not enough fir you to call the parents ugly but now you have to imply the kids. Will be ???
Utterly vile .

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Yeah, the more you read these threads you realise that they did the best thing ever by getting out of the UK and away (as well as they could, anyway) from the toxic press and negativity, and not showing their kids faces in any photos that do get out.

TofuTart · 18/12/2024 11:21

Manypaws · 18/12/2024 11:12

Why the name calling?

Because they are seriously strange warped 😂
It was Sparkles earlier.
🫤🤣
Cuckoo

toucheee · 18/12/2024 11:46

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What did you find ugly about Meghan as a child? She looks cute as a button to me. Confused

What did you think of Catherine as a child?

ThatKhakiMoose · 18/12/2024 13:48

YankTank · 18/12/2024 10:19

FFS. Get over yourself and move on with your life. A certain cohort of the British public and the British press made it VERY clear to Meghan that she was not welcome here. They bullied her until she had enough and moved back to her hometown, where her family and friends live. When she left, the cohort who made it crystal clear to Meghan that she wasn’t welcome here clutched their pearls…”How DARE she leave? And how DARE her husband go with her? HE’S 5th IN LINE TO THE THRONE! They’re letting down the Royal Family!” Fuck that.

Congratulations—you won. You harassed her until she left. However, you’re clearly struggling to come to terms with the fact that yes, she will continue to live a public life in the US, and yes, that may include sending out Christmas cards from her foundation. She’s clearly not welcome here, yet your expectation is that she is not allowed to live her life in her hometown either. Why are you allowing this woman to take up so much free space in your thoughts? Why the obsession? Why is her every move and every photo taking up so much of your headspace?

I thought the broadsheets were very welcoming to her. The likes of the Daily Mail had headlines about her being from somewhere called Compton, and I gather that that was a racially loaded thing to say, but the rational press was very positive about her, I thought. I don't know why Meghan responded to the gutter press so badly, America has the gutter press too, and I thought everyone knows not to take them seriously. What matters is what the broadsheets say, and they were fine about her.

ThatKhakiMoose · 18/12/2024 13:52

thepariscrimefiles · 18/12/2024 08:08

Well said?? Who would pay £12 million, with all the negative publicity that it generated, unless what would be revealed was even worse than that? He was friends with a convicted international sex trafficker for god's sake.

The Harry and Meghan haters are obsessed but the Andrew defenders take delusion to another level. I never thought I would feel sorry for Charles, but he is in a Catch 22 situation with the latest scandal of the Chinese spy and the further embarassment Andrew has caused the Royal Family. Charles either has to provide Andrew with sufficient funds to stop his grubby deals and relationships with foreign spies and dictators or cuts him loose to fend for himself financially, which will obviously bring more scandal to the Royal Family's door.

As Marina Hyde said in the Guardian:

'But speaking of signs, if only there’d been some before this week that could have indicated to the royal family that Andrew was permanently unsuited to activities involving either judgment or money.'

I had thought the payment was to avoid a trial. I thought Andrew wanted to go to court to prove his innocence, but the RF said no way. Perhaps I'm wrong.

MerryMaker · 18/12/2024 13:58

Yes the payment was to avoid going to court. After the disastrous TV interview where Andrew obviously lied through his teeth, the court said the TV interview could be used as evidence in court. If Virginia had won her court case, which was looking likely, Andrew would have been branded a rapist of a sex trafficked girl. It was a civil court, but a verdict finding the allegations against Andrew true, would have led to public pressure for him to be tried in a criminal court. He had to settle.

RisingSunn · 18/12/2024 13:59

ThatKhakiMoose · 18/12/2024 13:48

I thought the broadsheets were very welcoming to her. The likes of the Daily Mail had headlines about her being from somewhere called Compton, and I gather that that was a racially loaded thing to say, but the rational press was very positive about her, I thought. I don't know why Meghan responded to the gutter press so badly, America has the gutter press too, and I thought everyone knows not to take them seriously. What matters is what the broadsheets say, and they were fine about her.

A BBC journalist likened her mixed race newborn to a chimpanzee… and we are policing how ‘badly’ she reacted to the press?

I don’t know what to say.

Viviennemary · 18/12/2024 13:59

According to the DM the card isn't the special secret card that is just going to friends and family. Wtf. I wonder if that will finally appear. Probably on Ebay.

ThatKhakiMoose · 18/12/2024 15:18

RisingSunn · 18/12/2024 13:59

A BBC journalist likened her mixed race newborn to a chimpanzee… and we are policing how ‘badly’ she reacted to the press?

I don’t know what to say.

Oh god, I had forgotten about that. Yes, that was insane. I'm so glad the journalist was sacked.

Edit: I hardly think America's a haven from racism, though. That place is famously, deeply racist.