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.

Age-ism much?

You can absolutely guess a woman who hates Megan miles away (and it is 99% women) they’re always the same type

I'm "older" & couldn't care less. I'm mildly amused by it all & wonder what will happen next, but that's it. My kids (20 somethings) couldn't care less & would barely know who they were.

Quite. And nasty with it.

I’m definitely old, over 70, and quite frankly bemused and unimpressed by their behaviour.
I guess it’s what happens when an overindulged, not particularly intelligent man suddenly realises that the Royal family doesn’t revolve around him and his wife. I think Meghan was and is unaware of how unpleasant he is; her sole aim is to swan around with everyone kowtowing to her while she wears priceless gems and soaks up the accolades.
Their behaviour is crass, vulgar and disrespectful much of the time, hogging the limelight and making everything about them.
It’s like watching a slow motion car crash.

Not a royalist 😂

Im over 60 and not interested either way.
Most people wish them well, whatever they choose to do. Some of the comments on here have been astonishingly nasty
it is not representative of the majority

I'd like to see the whole lot of them released back in to the wild

I think you've muddled up your "ists" there @Illicililly .... but you're excused, in view of the fact you're "elderly" - nearly as elderly as me! 😉

Except the grandparents were his, who he'd known all his life, as were his father and his SIL. Not hers. He wrote his book and took the court cases, yet it's all her fault?
Maybe the RF need to ask themselves if the hereditary principle really works if they consistently produce such stupid weak minded men who can't make decisions for themselves and are constantly led astray by others? Surely it's a risk too large for us to take to have a family that regularly produces gullible dimwits despite having every single resource, the very best education, no money worries, people falling over themselves to give them advice etc and then has a right to foist these fools on all of us as Heads of state or make us pay for them to ribbon cut and ask inane questions for the rest of their lives?

I think most people of any age don't give much of a toot. The RF Board is the safe space for hate filled obsessives to drivel on about this, which means the sane majority don't need to see the bile.

No, but I DO think that it's only fucking idiots who keep posting this crap in AIBU rather than the Royal Family board

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Yes, of course it’s ageist not sexist.

If there is a split it's more likely because younger generations are more forgiving of a grifter. Which is what Markle is. Her type are possibly even admired as doing whatever it takes to get ahead. Misrepresenting her past, cutting off the inconvenient family members, self aggrandizing infantile stunts like the motivational bananas, fabricating sensational gossip for Oprah, endless leaking, deals with Netflix etc etc. To some this is an independent woman hard at work on doing whatever it takes to earn her dime. To older generations this behaviour is low class and unbefitting of a member of the Royal Family.

This isn't to say other members haven't also disgraced themselves. More that the direct comparisons are Catherine and Sophie and Markle's behaviour falls way way way below the bar they set.

I think as you get older you do get pissed off by members of the so-called establishment being corrupt, publicly lying and wasting tax payer’s money. I think it speaks to people’s lack of social and political awareness if they gormlessly say they ‘couldn’t care less’. 🙄

The royal family, whether you are for or against, have a constitutional role in this country. Harry has acted selfishly and recklessly and wants his cake and eat it. I think that is notable. And even if older people do have a view, so what?

I am well into my 60s and couldn't give a flying fuck.

I suspect you don’t dedicate this level of time and vitriol to hedge fund managers, tech billlionaires and bankers though do you? It’s only the easily accessible, easily understood establishment. Who also don’t damage the world anything like as much as the first group.

i mean god forbid an international bank fixing LIBOR, let’s talk about Megan trying to flog Jam

What a delightfully hyperbolic bingo card you have posted! Well done you being anti-discussion and anti-free speech…
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Yes let’s talk about that too. 👍🏼

My 82 yo MIL tried to start several conversations about them this weekend several times, but none of the rest of us picked it up. Not the adults, nor the teenagers. I just don’t care about them and what they do.

How are we defining older?
I don't know anyone of any age who's interested.

YouGov poll says otherwise so actually I wouldn't call ageism on this one.

Im over 50's, not interested in either of them, not happy about having to pay £5 million for their security for non working royals, but nothing i can do about it. Wished they stayed in the USA but not angry about it or anything.

Interesting question, and as I fall into your 'older' category (66) I'll share my observations. I'm an anti-monarchist, but I find monarchy fascinating in a know-thy-enemy kind of way, and how much our views are driven by the press.

It seems my parents' generation, who were of the queen's generation, were the last one to view the royals with deference, as did the newspapers of their day, so they were fed positive stories and generally worshipped them.

My generation, more on a par with Andrew and Edward, seemed more critical, as were the newspapers, especially when Diana came along. Remember the Daily Mail printing a photo of Diana's thighs to let the world know she had cellulite? Handily circling the area in the picture to be sure we didn't miss it? This was the era of royals being treated like real people rather than mystical superior beings.

After this they became more like celebrities and were hounded as such. We know where that led for Diana.

Now, with the next generation of royals, we have the newspapers, and consequently ordinary people questioning what good they do, or rather highlighting anything/everything bad they do. Also the right to the use of titles, who should or shouldn't even be called royal, and people baying for the removal of titles, privileges, funding etc. Even that certain people (H) shouldn't even be allowed in the country. There seems to be genuine anger about this.

As far I've observed, people who are interested in monarchy tend to adhere to the outlook they grew up with, and my DM certainly still has a deferential view of them, and worries about Harry. Most of my friends don't care, and like me treat the whole thing as an entertaining soap opera.

My DC have zero interest, but they also don't consume news from mainstream sources so perhaps have escaped the anger that seems to be driven by the likes of the Daily Mail and general trash media.

So I guess my conclusion is that it's younger generation trash media consumers who are apoplectic about them, while the older folks are on a sliding scale of deference to disinterest.

I'm personally angry that we have an expensive and greedy monarchic family, not about the ill-advised actions of one member of it.

I’m pretty apathetic about the royal family in general. I do think they should pay for their own security. Lots of other rich people seem to manage.

If there was a vote I’d abolish the monarchy. It’s pretty archaic to get to be head of a country by benefit of birth. I did used to quite like the queen but Charles and his infamous tightness annoys me given everything he /his family owns was probably purloined off the people, can’t afford to pay the living wage though and volunteers would be better if possible 🤨