To think it’s only the older generations that have strong feelings about Harry and Meghan?

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Does anyone younger actually care at all? I just don’t understand the strength of feeling at all. I don’t know them, who knows what is true and what isn’t. It’s just family drama that so many families unfortunately have. I just don’t quite understand how some people are so passionately angry about it all? It’s just celebrity gossip essentially, who cares.

Define ‘older’?

I am not angry about them in the least but it’s nice to have a bloody good gossip about their motivations and what might kick off, it’s a bit of light entertainment for the plebs 😂

What’s your definition of older or younger?

Well I am older, and I have no opinion at all.

Good point, over 50 maybe?

Yes I agree it’s just gossip and light entertainment, but some people seem so passionately angry about it, like it’s personal?

YABU to post here about them; post it in Royal

Well thank you, i must be "younger", I'm 52 and couldn't give a toss

Hmmm. My sons are in their twenties and think H is a tw&t, mainly for how he treated his db and df. They don’t care about the RF at all but they relate to it on a family level.

Hehe - funny.

I'm 62 and couldn't give a shiny one about Harry and Megan.

I am "older" and have never heard any of my friends or acquaintances proffer an opinion on this. It's not a topic that comes up at all.
I do sometimes take a quick look at the threads on MN though!

Well I’m early 50’s and couldn’t care less about any of the Royal family.

However, what I do despise is the British media and the public (including those on MN) hounding and vilifying anyone, Royal or not, and in tragic cases there has been some who have taken their own lives as a result.

Tbh, we’re older (early 50s) and I don’t think we’ve ever had a conversation about them.

Our young adult sons I suspect, barely know who they, nor any of the royals, such is their disinterest.

The number of threads about them on MN (and how long those threads are) is disproportionate to real life. I couldn't muster an opinion on them (beyond my general anti-royal sentiment, which isn't about them per se), I can't imagine them coming up in any conversation I'd have with anyone I know and yet some people - I don't know what demographic! - seem to have such strong feelings about them.

I'm over 50 and couldn't give a shit even if I overdosed on laxatives.

In general I think the older generation are much more interested in the royals full stop, but there was much less of a celebrity culture when they (we? I’m 58) were growing up so the royals were the celebrities and were cooed over in much the same way that Zendaya and the Kardashians are cooed over now. I guess they’re also popular with people who read supermarket magazines - Take a Break, Woman’s Own - that type of thing - and the tabloids as they’re plastered all over those if they do so much as scratch their ears. Those two demographics may heavily overlap. I am not interested in them, but I find the posts on here with people getting their knickers in a complete twist about them absolutely fascinating. There’s a PhD in there somewhere.

I think the royal family are more important generally to the older generation. I think the people who can remember the Queen as something other than an old lady.

I think you're right.

I had a lot of news stories on my Facebook feed about this over the weekend (due to my algorithms) and it seems to be mostly women who appear 60+ years. I think some are really obviously trolls - and bots, though.

Some comments are just awful and ridiculously vicious.

My children and their girlfriends (early 20's) didn't really know who they were when I mentioned it.

I do find it hard to understand why people care; it's ridiculous to be so offended and angry on behalf of people they have never met. QEII dealt with all the accusations around the Megxit era in the ultimate adult manner and that was 6 years ago now...

Im late 60s and dont give a toss about any of them

What counts as older? Im in my 50s and don't care. Dad is late 80s and doesn't care.

I do know a lady in her late 70s who is obsessed by H and M. Mainly MM really.

There's a thread on here about H and M, but we're never going to know the ages of the contributors.

I don’t think about them very often. I don’t have any emotions towards them. I do have strong opinions about how taxpayer money is spent, about the importance of upholding the law and the judicial system. That includes any decision to provide or fund their defence after a court has made it clear that there is no case for such funding.

I’m over 60 and have never been in a conversation about H & M. I don’t know anyone with any interest in them,

It's not about age

It's about whether you've been radicalised by the Daily Express and GB News agenda.

I am 58 and genuinely have no idea why we're supposed to hate Meghan Markle, other than the general racist tone of those outlets.

No I’m 35 and have very strong feelings that they should fuck off back to USA, grifters

Over 50 and couldn't give a shit.

I was out with a group of friends at the weekend 40 - 60ish and someone brought the subject up. No one particularly interested, general consensus that they're a couple of overprivileged drama llamas then we moved on to more interesting topics.

70s and couldn’t care less about them. I want a republic with a democratically elected head of state.

I’m in my 50s and I actually quite like them, but I’m not at all invested in the drama. I think from an historical point of view what’s happened with them is interesting, as is their decision to return; I am vaguely interested in the longer term implications for the monarchy and how that might change as traditional royal roles shift and change. I work in heritage and understand what a significant contribution to the economy tourism makes, and how much of that is bound up in the monarchy and its history, so I do think that there is a degree of importance to what happens among the senior royals.