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anyone watching Harry and Megan

597 replies

Member869894 · 20/10/2019 21:06

on tv now?

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Dooleydally · 23/10/2019 20:49

I think Meghan would be wise to take a leaf out of Diana’s book and invite her media “enemies” including Piers Morgan to tea. Have a mature conversation with them and agree to a truce. This would be the best PR win for her.

derxa · 23/10/2019 22:13

Where’s Megan’s mother - is she not around? She's spectacularly ineffective

MissEliza · 23/10/2019 22:20

The source is most likely American and sounds completely clueless about how the RF works. I bet many people in the US, where the story emerged, will believe it.

Myimaginarycathasfleas · 23/10/2019 22:55

I think Meghan would be wise to take a leaf out of Diana’s book and invite her media “enemies” including Piers Morgan to tea.

Can you imagine the meal Piers Morgan would make of it though? It's hard to imagine him being more insufferable and yet I think he would manage it.

WineOrGinOrBoth · 23/10/2019 23:56

I’m hoping the Queen will give them some advice & more importantly IMO love.

missyoumuch · 24/10/2019 01:42

Just to show how Meghan’s situation is portrayed on a US parenting website

www.thebump.com/news/meghan-markle-peanut-support?utm_medium=social&utm_content=brandpost&utm_source=facebook

Britain is so vicious to her.

Dooleydally · 24/10/2019 02:09

Whether intentionally or not, H&M are feeding the media clickbait based on drama and misery.

It’s like pop songs. Heartbreak ones will sell more than happy ones.

Blingandrings · 24/10/2019 07:04

I think one of the major problems here is the split in perception between the US and Uk. Her US friends are all up in arms on her behalf , leaking all over the place. Celebrity friends are all lining up to speak , have her on chat shows etc. The trouble is they don't understand how the RF works or the nuances. They're actually stoking the fires and making everything a lot worse. Meghan ought to be trying to calm the whole thing down and realise this will do her no favours.
She also needs to try and understand how the press works over here and avoid fanning the flames and portraying herself as a victim. If she was really clever she would have done so many things differently. Piers Morgan is a slug, but he is a very powerful man and she's made a big mistake thinking she could use him when it suited her and then drop him when it didn't.
Harry just seems to be a loose cannon. He's all over the place and someone (i.e. his family) need to swoop in and help him in every way they can.
A big part of the problem is the lack of family on M's side. Her Mum strikes me as someone who is very self contained, living a simple life in privacy . She doesn't seem to be someone who is interested in the sort of life Meghan wants at all. I' m sure she supports M on the phone and flies over when she can, but it is a completely alien world to her and she probably wants to have as little as possible to do with it. If M had the sort of family that Kate has, it might have made all the difference to both of them. Given them somewhere to go for comfort and love , and Harry a loving, supportive mother in law. I am sure Doria is loving, but she comes across as a loner and someone who keeps her own counsel.

Charles I am sure has done his best in his own way, but he's never had the human touch. He doesn't seem to be very close to his sons these days or very involved in their lives. The interview W and H gave about their father recently seemed to highlight that. W in particular seemed quite sad about how little his father sees his children. They have no mother, Charles should be doing his best to fill the gap. W has been very lucky with his in laws and that\s probably made a crucial difference to his own mental health. I can't imagine what he would be like if Kate's family was like Meghan's.

Blingandrings · 24/10/2019 07:04

Having a PR woman who is American is also not helpful.

Blingandrings · 24/10/2019 07:08

I also wonder how Charles and Camilla respond to Harry's obvious distress about memories of how Diana was treated. It must bring up a lot of guilt and mixed feelings. Perhaps they shy away from getting involved as a result. After all, Diana would never have died if they had played things differently.

Candle1000 · 24/10/2019 07:09

Who are these royal sources or are the press inventing them?

Quite often the ‘source’ is the very person that they are writing about. Princess Diana was notorious for it apparently.

FlamingoWingo · 24/10/2019 07:15

Looking at the interview with her former agent (who she was apparently friendly with, lots of pics of them together having lunch etc.), it is interesting that the agent says that the last correspondence she had with Meghan was through a lawyer, after Meghan ended their working relationship, the week before her engagement to Harry was announced. She has never spoken to her since.

It seems like she just cut people off, with no warning and with no sentiment for old friendships at all, as it they didn’t exist.

I know that no-one is obligated to stay in touch with people they had business relationships with - and maybe they were not friends as her agent thought they were... but there do seem to be a number of people who thought they were close to Meghan at some point and were then cut off suddenly.

Blingandrings · 24/10/2019 07:16

Like her ex husband.

FlamingoWingo · 24/10/2019 07:22

Maybe Piers has got a point Grin

Blingandrings · 24/10/2019 07:27

Apparently Charles is furious now that his own work is being undermined by all this negative publicity. Actually, there is so little attention on what Charles is doing, or Anne or Sophie for that matter. They work hard and no one is really interested.

WineOrGinOrBoth · 24/10/2019 07:54

I’m not surprised if Charles & the rest are furious.

However,

Charles & tampongate
Andrew & paedophilia (sp?)
Fergie & toe sucking
Sophie & fake sheikh

And that’s all that I remember. I don’t think H&M are any worse tbh.

SillyBillyBandy · 24/10/2019 08:02

H&M have done nothing wrong in comparison to those examples

Which makes the own goals so much more confusing Confused

WineOrGinOrBoth · 24/10/2019 08:09

Quite.

I understand that Meghan may not have known what she was getting into but Harry certainly did. I just don’t think he prepared her enough as he was probably scared she’d back out if she knew the truth.

missyoumuch · 24/10/2019 08:15

And that’s all that I remember. I don’t think H&M are any worse tbh.

Yes thank you. Prince Andrew must absolutely love that the British public are more upset about Meghan's behaviour in a television programme, than about his friendship with man who trafficked teenagers for sex.

MissEliza · 24/10/2019 08:21

It does make be a bit baffled when people talk about Sophie like she's a model royal. That fake sheikh thing was AWFUL.

KeepingUpKartrashians · 24/10/2019 08:24

I think Harry thought she would be treated like Kate is now and that being a celebrity already would make her transition much easier than if she was a hard partying Sloane. Already used to press intrusion, photographers, press interviews, smiling for cameras etc, coupled with her charity work as a UN ambassador plus the universally positive coverage he got..... it would have seemed absolutely perfect. She did seem the perfect candidate. Fine, she’s American not British and yes she’s divorced but only a very narrow minded and weird bigot would take those details into account versus the rest of her CV. On paper she seemed ideal!

I expect she is just fed up now, has a baby to protect, has the widespread adulation in the US that is a lot more appealing than the alternative here, so it makes sense for them to sue the pants off everyone, do the documentary with their explanations of how they feel and it isn’t great and then in 12 months make the move to NY or California or Canada to start again. Or they’ll wait til the Queen dies.

BertrandRussell · 24/10/2019 08:26

“I’m hoping the Queen will give them some advice & more importantly IMO love.“
Is there any evidence from any time over the past 70 years that rhe Queen is either able or willing to do anything of rhe sort?

bohemia14 · 24/10/2019 08:33

@BertrandRussell I wouldn't expect to be privy to private conversations the Queen has with her grandchildren or other members of her family. We have no idea what advice and love she may or may not have given them.

KeepingUpKartrashians · 24/10/2019 08:37

I thought the Queen felt very strongly about protecting her very young grandsons from the press by keeping them at Balmoral after their mother died.

But whatever. How it suits anyone’s agenda to insinuate there is no evidence that she has shown love to her family beats me. The comment of a prize tit.