Megan and news stories.

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I was never interested in the Royal family until Megan came along .
I like her . She is trying hard to adapt as anyone marrying into a vastly different family from their own would.
Her family are rediculious.
Why does her older sister not just leave her alone ?
I hope she doesn't read any of the rubbish that is published about her .
The latest from her Dad is just embarrassing for him but possibly upsetting for her .

She spells her name ‘Meghan’.

I know what you mean though (I think?). I’m not at all interested in royalty but I’m very interested in interpersonal relationships/toxic families. Mine isn’t great but they look like the Waltons compared to poor Meghan’s paternal family. I really feel for her and I feel a (little) bit sorry for her father too, who probably means well but the press are just using him to their own advantage in a way that can only be to his detriment.

Toxic families are so common that it’s not surprising for someone in the public eye to have one; the way the press treats it as scandalous is very poor form IMO (though not at all surprising).

I do not read all the nasty bollocks and I wish everyone would just leave her and her family alone

It was all plastered all over the front of the Sun in massive letters, today. Horrid.

The thing is the more interest people have, the more they buy papers and click links and the more the press will keep looking for stories.

The bottom feeding vultures make half of it up

That’s absolutely right, sleeping. But even without clicking, the headlines say enough!

Yes my point was simply that if they received absolutely no interest, they'd find something else to headline.
So I've never been interested in the RF until MM attitude is what fuels it. The fact you're interested in MM suggests you're read articles etc on her and will do in the future. Which means they need news and stories

I don't envy Meghans life.
Harry seems to be good bloke and they look genuine I bet he's a demon in the sack but she now has to always look "on point". Never again to scrape hair up into dog walking ponytail to nip to the chippy.

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And now she has to deal with her jealous "family".
They are horrendous. She has been played by her father imo

sleeping I realise you’re not only talking to me bit I personally am not interested in
MM much at all really. Royalty doesn’t interest me. V interested in people though so jumped on this thread to give my 2c worth!

It’s quite possibly true that any interest at all makes it worse for them but frankly I like to express my opinion when I disapprove of things. And they were never going to get absolutely no interest, the world just doesn’t work that way (look at Katie Price, I pay her no attention whatsoever but somebody must! )

mydog yes, she’s been played by her father and he’s been played by the press. The sister seems... unwell, as does the brother. But as I said I really only have headlines to go on! The press is taking advantage of the whole family.

Yeah sorry Laugh I meant a general you but more OP kind of view

Her family are not her fault

They have utterly no class and no idea how to conduct themselves with dignity and appropriateness

It is no wonder they weren't invited and that his invite was rescinded

KP should've handled them much better from the beginning and I'd say lessons have been learned

But

In the process of this they've utterly burned their bridges there is no coming back from this for them. He will never meet the children. She probably won't attend his funeral.

I have every sympathy for her. They are jealous, resentful and embarrassing

I know that the official version is he was too ill. I doubt that very much. I don't think any of them have a direct line number for her

KP didn't support the family, they are of a different class and culture, this is the result.

I don't see why anyone should feel sorry for her. She's taken to royal life like a duck to water. She's got a haute couture wardrobe worth hundreds of thousands of pounds, a doting millionaire husband and she seems to be relishing all the attention. Basically she's just moved from her dysfunctional birth family to her husband's dysfunctional family.

I'd feel sorry for anyone who couldn't have a phonecall with their DF without him selling it to the highest bidder

That phonecall was a test and one he spectacularly failed

And the thing is he doesn't even see what's wrong with him selling out their private phone calls

He thinks he should be entitled to profit from them

He's no father

CelibateWoman I did read that Mr Markle was offered a civil servant to negotiate the media and anything else that he required support with but he turned it down. This was offered due to the mess up with Diana apparently.

Sleepingstandingup...of course I've read articles on MM that's why I started the thread! I am interested in the utter dysfunction of her family .....why they have no filter...why the older sis is so vitriolic, etc.

Bit surprised at her father. I thought they were close.

He might be getting an onset of dementia and seems to be too easily influenced by those around him, she really should have seen him before the wedding.

why? because they want to earn money on MM.

The father needed to be in a nice gated community in Arizona or similar with a kind minder/nurse. Frequent visits from local UK consulate staff. The rest of the family needed an invite to London and free bed and board (not necessarily a wedding invute but a small private function at kensington palace with prince charles popping in for 15 mins with Harry etc) dangled as a carrot before the wedding to shut them up. There could even have been an agreement that there would be a few photos they could flog to the press afterwards. Ie good behaviour not bad behaviour is what is rewarded.

That would have been the only way to manage them That didn't happen though for whatever reasons and it looks as though the palace press people have taken the view that Meghan will be moving on from the paternal family, the relationship has broken down and the general public now know the truth. Therefore there is no requirement to manage the situation - just cut the family off.

I can't see how Meghan could even go to the father's funeral now given the volatility of the situation

That would have been a good solution Gobbo. They really should not have cut them out like that . It has fanned the flames, especially with regards to the sister's anger.
I wonder does Meghan read the articles ...I reckon she is advised not too, but who knows?

That's a good idea Gobbolino

But with respect to the sister that wouldn't have placated her

And she'd have been vocal in her rejection

Oh please, if they'd let the sister come over here but not to the wedding it would have been even worse. It's pretty clear that long before Harry came along her relationship with her paternal relatives was pretty light - with the exception of her dad. And her dad has behaved appallingly. He might not himself have been famous but as a well regarded lighting director and the father of a relatively famous daughter, he should have known better how to act and react.

Increasingly, I suspect that her fabled closeness to her father was based on shared history and the natural love a child feels for a parent. I am guessing he's let her down before and this is the final straw. I think it's a real pity if she IS ignoring him, but I honestly don't blame her. And he does himself no favours by constantly running to the press to complain.