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Harry and Meghan Resigning (Act 6 Scene 2) Is Everyone Okay?

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TheMustressMhor · 17/01/2020 00:06

This is Thread Eight in a series which I did not imagine would last more than one.

Meghan's friends are now writing on social media that she has been fortunate to "escape the clutches" of the Royal Family.

We, who care enough for the Queen that we are appalled by Meghan's blatant disrespect for the Crown (and the family which embraced her) are still reeling as we go from revelation to revelation. This bizarre and unprecedented situation has unfolded over a period of just eight days.

We are now beginning to see what Meghan's likely agenda was. It seems that abandoning the UK was her plan even prior to the wedding - a wedding which cost the British people £20,000,000.

Not many people actually begrudged paying that £20,000,000. But some were prescient enough to say that the marriage would not last and that Meghan would abandon this country once she had a child.

She has. She has fulfilled those prognostications amply.

It was just rather...quicker than perhaps we had imagined...…. and a good deal more brutal. Cries of "racism" have abounded - cries which are simply not justified.

What will happen next? Meghan has gone to Canada, a country which does not seem particularly keen to foot the huge bill for security which her presence requires. She is dropping in on charities for disadvantaged women, almost unannounced, without the backing or knowledge of Buckingham Palace. It is cringeworthy and embarrassing in the extreme.

Prince Harry seems to be lost in the maelstrom of public opinion. What will happen next? Will Meghan announce a second pregnancy?

And is the RF okay?

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GoFiguire · 17/01/2020 18:39

Does anyone else think the Meghan looks like Rebekkah Vardy in this photo? They should be friends.

Harry and Meghan Resigning (Act 6 Scene 2) Is Everyone Okay?
The80sweregreat · 17/01/2020 18:40

Ah oldbut! That's nice.
I'm on the wine now to try and take the pain away of Pilates. Your lunch sounds legendary' : go girl and I hope the wine was ok?
I doubt even the Queen would take Archie away , but you never know!
I agree that Sarah F could ask for anything now! Hi, remember me? I'm ok now and the public love me again.
Even Camilla is probably having a private smirk on her own ; she was hated for years and years. She is also going down the charts mostly because nobody sees her much.

TracyBeakerSoYeah · 17/01/2020 18:40

It all seems rather mad behaviour.
And so awful if it has been planned from day one or even before that.
I think the part of me that likes to see the good in everyone is hoping that H&M have just gone a bit batshit crazy & will come to their senses.
Like I said it al seems completely bonkers.
And HMQ must definitely have a major migraine with it all, now I bet she wishes she'd run off to Canada to get some peace & quiet.

WineOrGinOrBoth · 17/01/2020 18:42

I hope someone has asked HM if she is ok.

Leighhalfpennysthigh · 17/01/2020 18:43

I don't think the changing ring is all that a big deal
I was given an engagement ring last year. My partner is skint so it cost £70 from Etsy. It is a rose gold band and a small morganite stone and to me it is beautiful and perfect as it represents our commitment to each other and our love. I'm better off and can afford a more fancy ring, or to get this one blinged up - but why would I, when this one was chosen for me as a symbol of my partner's love?

Cindershasoddsocks · 17/01/2020 18:45

I think I just crashed into your thread

Is it okay to stay.?

MrsBrentford · 17/01/2020 18:45

She is dressing completely differently too it’s weird (I get it’s cold - but on her “engagements” - apparently her PA called the refuge on Monday to arrange Tuesdays visit?).

It’s like she is no longer playing the role of a “Duchess” it’s all so erratic and weird.

The80sweregreat · 17/01/2020 18:46

The Queen would give anyone asking her this a 'Paddington Stare' and tell them where to go ( politely) !
She's seen it all and done it all. She knows what Meghan is up to! She knows they will sort it out. As long as her tea is on the table at five it'll all be alright.

peaceanddove · 17/01/2020 18:46

I think MM's behaviour demonstrates she isn't and never has been in love with Prince Harry. When I look back at some of the scuzzy shit holes DH and I lived in as students, but we were so happy because, you know, madly in love and trying to shag each other to death, and everything.

But Meghan married PH because she was desperate to live a certain hugely privileged lifestyle. And now that lifestyle ain't happening exactly how she wanted, she's mad as Hell and has fucked off back where she came from. In her eyes this is a business contract that has gone tits up and she's having none of it.

TheMustressMhor · 17/01/2020 18:46

@Cindershadoddsocks

By all means stay. All posters welcome here - as long as they are (ostensibly) ok.

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Leighhalfpennysthigh · 17/01/2020 18:47

Sorry for the totally random post btw. I was reading the previous thread and copied and pasted from that. I'm way too invested.

Myimaginarycathasfleas · 17/01/2020 18:50

I love a good conspiracy theory but I don't read anything into the baggy jumper look. I think she has shed her Royal skin and this is Canada Meghan underneath, probably close to how she was before she met Harry.

Though I'm cross at how she went about things, and a lot of this stuff is self inflicted, I still had a lot of sympathy for how she must have been feeling before she left the UK.

However what she has in spades is self-belief. We are seeing that now, as she closes the door on past chapters and reinvents herself for the umpteenth time. She'll be fine.

Harry is a different matter. He has fallen for a woman who needs to be worshipped and indulged above all else. He is going to spend his life alienating people at her command unless he opens his eyes. It's a very sorry tale.

diddl · 17/01/2020 18:53

"I think MM's behaviour demonstrates she isn't and never has been in love with Prince Harry."

Hope you're wrong-that would be awful.

But when I think back to the engagement interview, they came across (to me) as so childish.

And I couldn't help thinking it was mainly Harry & thinking wtf does this woman see in him?

CatherineOfAragonsPrayerBook · 17/01/2020 18:53

Exactly leigh why would you?

Someone posted a pic, (no idea if it was real or not) of her previous engagement rings which were eerily similar to the new revised ones...

I really thought PH plain gold band was understated and complimented the bling of the Botswana diamond really well.

All I've got to say is,it's just as well W got married first and K got Diana's Sapphire. I think I read that they had a pact that whoever got married first, their wife would get Diana's ring!

Weedsnseeds1 · 17/01/2020 18:54

Can I have Eltham Palace as my London residence ( always fancied a big dining room) and maybe Castle Howard as a country retreat?

itwaseverthus · 17/01/2020 18:55

*The latest abuse of this word is over Meghan Markle – former “Suits” actress and now the all-but non-domiciled in Britain Duchess of Sussex and wife of Prince Harry. The criticism she has received from the British press and public is said to be racist. Of course.

No matter that, at first, the public were delighted and gratified that the Royal family would no longer be entirely white-skinned – an enthusiasm displayed not only towards Meghan Markle herself but also towards her mother.

No matter that, in refusing to provide details of baby Archie’s birth, display him after he was born or reveal the identity of his godparents, Prince Harry’s new wife refused to fulfil the first rule of Royal family members: that their rites of passage are made visible to the public.

No matter that she has behaved with enormous contempt and disrespect to the Queen, the monarchy and thus Britain itself.

No matter that, as Prince Harry’s biographer Angela Levin wrote today on Conservative Woman, she has also behaved with astounding arrogance:

“Move on just a few weeks and first impressions could have been that Meghan was the royal and Harry the novice. She gave speeches at official visits, leaving Harry looking lost as he hovered in the background. She has since answered questions on his behalf even when reporters directly address the prince. I even saw her pass flowers from well-wishers during walkabouts to Harry to hold, a job usually handled by junior staff.”

All of this is deemed irrelevant and brushed aside. The only conceivable explanation for the criticism of Meghan Markle is, of course, racism.

In fact, such reflexive impunity given to people of colour says very much more about those shouting “racism” than it does about their targets.

First and most obviously, they are judging people not by the content of their character but by the colour of their skin.

Worse, implicit in their position is that people of colour can do nothing wrong. Which means they can never be held responsible for their actions.

And since at the heart of being human lies the responsibility each of us takes for what we do, the assumption that people of colour can never be held responsible is to treat them as less than human. Which by any definition amounts to appalling racial prejudice.

In other words, it’s those shouting “racism” at the critics of Meghan Markle and other supposedly “powerless” groups who are themselves the real racists here.

www.melaniephillips.com/why-anti-racist-mob-real-racists/

The80sweregreat · 17/01/2020 18:55

I agree that her actions are erratic. Despite my obvious sarcasm, her actions seem almost wild and a bit odd. The clothes are strange ; almost a finger to those that critiqued the tights and her dresses and just about anything she wore in the UK. So casual and normal.
It reminds me of an abused wife who finally is free of her demons and can do what she wants now. I'm not suggesting this is the case or anything , but just her actions and her demeanour is the same.
She feels free of the Royals. For now anyway!
Just a shame she has upset so many people though! It is odd.

NumbersStation · 17/01/2020 18:56

The lovely Camilla has been near me lately.

I bet she is having a throaty chuckle over a g&t and a fag. She’s walked the same kind of road - unfairly I thought at the time of her nuptials - and has come through it.

The duck and ducky of petulant likely will not.

MrsBrentford · 17/01/2020 19:00

Camilla took a lot lot worse for 30 odd years.

Cindershasoddsocks · 17/01/2020 19:01

I’m mostly ok
And have enjoyed reading all that’s happening
Shall sit back and be quiet again
Hope everyone has an okay evening

Lordfrontpaw · 17/01/2020 19:01

Well I remember the scene at Paw Hall when the exSIL finally fled the scene.

Much rolling of eyes and puffing of cheeks - and sighs of relief. I suspect the same is happening on the RF...

MrsBrentford · 17/01/2020 19:02

I wonder who asked Camilla if she was ok?

Lordfrontpaw · 17/01/2020 19:03

I suspect chuck does that. They seem to care about each other (and not what everyone else thinks).

TVdinners · 17/01/2020 19:03

Does anyone remember when Madonna was quoted as saying that when she lost her virginity , it was a career move ? ( i don't know if she really said that, but it was widely reported at the time) . Well, I think MM may have regarded her marriage as a good career move. She is now probably one of the most talked about women in the world.

CatherineOfAragonsPrayerBook · 17/01/2020 19:05

Does anyone here remember the series called The Buccaneers?

It was about American society heiresses marrying into British Aristocracy

One of the female leads was played by the same Actress in Downton Abbey. She married a Duke who turned out to be secretly gay and in the end she ran away with her lover!

I just had a flashback to the scene where they make a run for it and it reminded me of all of this and I thought of M&H Grin

Anyone remember?

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