To think Meghan Markle has every right to worry about her security?

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I’m not a monarchist and haven’t really taken much notice of the whole saga, but obviously do know the main points.

However, the comments across Mumsnet and multiple newspapers and websites are absolutely insane and unhinged. People who don’t know them insisting she’s leaving Harry and the kids, is controlling him, that they’re skint and tge
kids will have to go to state school if Charles doesn’t pay, people saying they hope a random stranger sees her and gives her ‘some home truths’.

It is absolutely crackers and I worry about the sanity of the people who seem to really believe they know them.

Harry & Meghan, Eugenie, other non working members of the family. I don’t want to support them financially, I don’t need to know about them.

Should they only be " revealed" when they become an adult ?
At least they have some relevance to the monarchy.

The children I feel sorry for are Archie being laughed at by his mother at Disney and Lili kneeling at her mother's feet.

Again, you and I can think “how sad that someone is bothering to check M’s stock levels on a daily basis” (I agree with you btw!) but how does someone seeing how many candles her business has sold mean there is a security threat?

@metellaestinatrioresponse on this makes sense

Which is why he gets security.

This makes sense but what does it mean if he’s living here? He gets the higher level tax payer funded security?

I feel really worried for her returning to the UK. She must love Harry to put herself back here. The press we're horrendous to her and there are nut cases who want to harm them. I hope people can get behind her a bit.

I have no idea what you are talking about in your second paragraph. No doubt some DM shit

I think the three Wales children should not be hawked around like they are. Sometimes they just look really uncomfortable.

Just google if there were credible threats and you'll find there were.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63804711
The MET police and counter terrorism confirmed it. We don't know about the amount of arrests and foiled terrorist plots there are, but they are weekly. Sometimes armed police presence is enough to stop them, which is why we now have armed police at our Christmas markets etc. But some years we don't, becausethe terror threat has dropped. Put the name Meghan in the equation and everyone's critical thinking goes away. If I and my children were personally under the same threat, I'd want armed security. He was willing to pay for it. Unless it is allowed by Parliament, they can't be armed and share information with royal security.
Meghan actually stayed in for ten days at one point and there were still newspaper reports, every day, all negative. But it suited the Palce, no-one was talking about the breaking Andrew scandal. Her wedding was picked apart. Every bride gets her choice of flowers and scent, but Meghan was 'demanding' and it went on and on. She was accused of not being invited to places. As for her family, I think they should be pictured in the dictionary, as they are the very definition of batshit crazy. Although I loved how Samantha had to argue with her Brother when he claimed that Meghan was older than she was, because the timeline of their childhoods would have been completely off. Even the right wing media have had to admit that Harry always said he wanted British education for his children and that's what's happening. A lot of mistakes were Harry's mistakes, like not announcing the pregnancy before Eugenie's wedding.

We really don’t see much of the royal children though. Just a few carefully selected photos and public occasions. If you are concerned about children in the public eye then influencers children are the ones to worry about - they can have their whole lives portrayed.

As adults apart from the immediate heirs, the rest get on with life out of the public eye the vast majority of the time and are only seen when they pop up at royal events.

Then you haven’t been paying attention.

Really? You haven't seen the photos Meghan HERSELF posted? It's not some DM shit - it's from the horse's Insta. 🤷‍♀️

The Wales children turn up at official events and are photographed . They are relevant.

Yes, @Ponoka7, they all face credible threats. Which is why they get appropriate security per level of threat.
Fortunately.

I am not on IG and no doubt there will be a view on a photo that, if I were to look at it, I wouldn't get.
I don't care about Meghan's IG, unlike some.

Ive never understood the hatred for them.
I mean their just people 🤷 like the rest of us.
Live die end of.
I read some threads on here with nothing but hate and think my god some need a rain check, in 20 30 50 years none of it will matter.

I even stopped watch some news channels because all I was hearing was hate hate hate for the couple.

Calling out liars isn't hate.

Well it would make you better informed as you dismissed Meghan's output as " DM shit" which is clearly wrong.

Your view on it sounded like that. Hence me jumping to that conclusion.

Absolutely, there are levels of obsession. Also, to be fair, M&H didn't help things security-wise for themselves and the RF during the 'freedom flight/Megxit' chapter.

I don't have the energy to be hating on them like some do. It is hard to understand. But, that's social media in general.

I assume there will be a review and new arrangements will be put in place depending on what is considered to be necessary and appropriate. In theory, Harry would get no security as he is returning as a non-working royal (so is in the same position as Zara, Peter, Beatrice and Eugenie, none of whom have publicly funded protection). However, it may well be that it’s assessed that Harry needs a certain level of security due to his position as the King’s son, his deliberate provocation of the Taliban in his book or other factors. I guess we will never know unless either Harry or Meghan make the information public (e.g. if he brings another judicial review application because he is unhappy
with the arrangements).

Schoolboy error .

No. Totally understandable.

In terms of privacy, H&M have put in a huge amount of effort courting publicity. They have gone to great lengths to get people interested in their lives - through documentaries, interviews, books, tours, etc, In doing so Harry has been worse than the tabloids he claims to hate in selling private details of his family.

How so?

I didn’t really get the conclusion from Burnham’s statement re a private matter.

The media seemed to interpret it as he’ll cover it himself but it surely means the tax payer will fund it we just won’t know by how much. Unless there’s a way with FOI but maybe security is out of that remit.