The latest MM pics

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I’ve thought she’s been treated horribly by the media in recent weeks/months. I am however very surprised that she’s set up pap pics. I thought this was all about privacy so why would she do this?

Reported!?

Why?

When I was a first time mum it took ages to get the hang of slings. It's enough of a battle just to get them in it. In my experience you always think they're higher up than they are. I think boobs get in the way also so you're shimmying them around to get a comfy nook. When they nod off you don't want to piss around readjusting you want to enjoy the peace and quiet! I think she looked very happy and relaxed whatever. Good for her.

Apparently she wasn’t relaxed! She says she was papped! From photographers hiding in bushes. She’s looking happy so she didn’t run home. Did she really think no one would find her and photograph her in North America. It’s deludional. It seems she is so against any photos now she sees evil in all of them. I’m hoping we hear nothing about her or Harry for at least a year. Or Archie.

Why battle with something you don’t know how to use. Get a pram. No baby was harmed by going in a pram!

Those security guys look remarkably relaxed if there were indeed people hiding in bushes with devices that may or may not have been cameras.

And yes, in all the time Meghan lived in the UK, we never once saw pictures of her out walking her dogs, with or without Archie in a sling. I presume that was, as mentioned above, because the British press who are targetting her all the time abided by an agreement not to publish such shots. The Cambridges, who must have the same misgivings about the press, have struck a sensible agreement - no pap shots and we'll release photos as and when. Why couldn't H&M have done something similar.
Instead, they've moved all those thousands of miles away, only to find themselves outside the protection of the British media they loathed, and at the mercy of the world's worst paparazzi. Good luck with that. Hopefully, interest will die down in the near future.
Also, as Peter Phillips must have been endorsing shite products for years now, I wonder if the opportune release of the milk ad today was as some sort of warning to H&M: this is how you could end up, if you're not careful.

Good post, Angelina

As senior royals their appeal and newsworthiness would have been forever.
As ‘private celebrities’ they will be in demand for a year or so and then interest will move on to the next big thing. I don’t think they will be earning as much as they think they will in 5 years time. I really hope they can’t then just walk back into their old positions!

Paparazzi are no better than many stalkers - they just get paid handsomely for doing it.

Now that we know that the photos this thread is about were taken by paid stalkers, and of a mum and her baby on a private walk, I hope the thread will be taken down as another similar one has been.

I am not a follower of the Royals or of any celebrities. Yes, we can chat, but threads so full of mean comments about an identified individual - a new mum - who has done no real or serious harm to anyone, and who has bravely admitted she has not been feeling ok, are not in the spirit of mumsnet in my view.

It is completely understandable if Meghan's mental health has suffered as a result of intense and often negative, sometimes racist, scrutiny at a time when she is recently married, a new first-time mother and was trying to settle in a new family, home and country. Never mind strangers, she has estranged extended family members jumping on the bandwagon to stick the knife in and cash in - and they wonder why they are estranged? I imagine Harry has been feeling 'not ok' too, for himself as well as for his wife.

I can identify with at least some of that and will hold my hands up and say - shock, horror - just like Meghan I didn't handle it all perfectly, there were contradictions, and just like Meghan I am not a perfect mum. But, you know what? It's ok to make mistakes, to be just 'good enough', to just do your best.

To the haters: you are behaving like schoolgirl bullies in the playground. What does this woman have to do to get you to feel bad, to stop, or to feel enough satisfaction, even pleasure, that she's got what she deserves - for the marriage to break down, harm herself, actually take her own life? Or would that just be more evidence of attention-seeking behaviour in your harsh, judgemental, we told you so minds? Would you all be found to be perfect and blameless if we shone a relentless spotlight on you?

To Meghan: the haters gonna hate. Illegitimi non carborundum. Just carry on doing your best, keep your true friends close and your mum, husband and son even closer. Build and maintain bridges with your husband's close family. And most importantly keep looking, really looking, at your husband and son.

My comment got deleted. I can’t even remember what I said. I think it was that the baby looks uncomfortable - but he does and others have said that, on here and on social media and comments on news sites.

We have reached peak Meghan Derangement Syndrome on this site

Is Meghan reading this? Who knew?

Maybe she is, maybe and hopefully for her own sanity she isn't - but if she is, how would all the mean girls posts make her feel?

She held the baby fine at the polo.

All this photo looked like was the carrier slipped down and she was doing her best to take his weight without dropping the dog leashes. It was likely momentary.

These threads are a mess.

She looked uncomfortable holding the baby at the polo too I thought. I would stay that about my sister or best friend if they were doing the same but in a way that’s not hurtful like ‘oh these baby carriers are a nightmare shall I help you practice? Or let’s look on YouTube on how to do it’ I can’t understand that knowing the press are scrutinising them that she doesn’t hold the baby well.

Or that no one has given her advice considering she has all lot of staff and advisors!

My biggest question is, does the baby have adequate clothing for the weather? Never been to Canada, but I know it gets freakily cold there. The baby is dangling there in some leggings and a pair of something woolly.

It's like all those yummy mummy types who go baby jogging and manage to freeze their poor kid who's actually sitting there inactive and not sweating from all the jogging.

"Feeling" I have reported your post. Terrible way to talk.

To the haters: you are behaving like schoolgirl bullies in the playground What does this woman have to do to get you to feel bad, to stop, or to feel enough satisfaction, even pleasure, that she's got what she deserves - for the marriage to break down, harm herself, actually take her own life? Or would that just be more evidence of attention-seeking behaviour in your harsh, judgemental, we told you so minds? Would you all be found to be perfect and blameless if we shone a relentless spotlight on you?

Yes, yes, yes

We have reached peak Meghan Derangement Syndrome on this site

The only times W&K have pap pics are when they are staging a commercial flight, staging sitting with the plebs at Wimbledon and at a football match.

Those pics were clearly taken with a long lens. H&M aren't particularly going to sew themselves.

The BP has been trying to sell this narrative that they were protecting H&M with the rota system and now they will be hounded by the paps. Except they did no such thing, instead they took advantage and used a more permissible route of hamming them down, disguised at criticism - all with a bit of story twisting, omitting certain info and barefaced lies. Atleast now, H&M will have all sorts of media reporting, and someone is bound to say, hold on a sec that is now what happened.

When the BP said, but we never hound them like the paps do with Diana, and others have had worse, it kind of reminds me of when someone emotionally abuses someone and say, but I never laid a finger on her. All the while reaping them to pieces everyday with words, because well, that is the norm of what we do to everyone before her, she should take it as well. Funny how it always happens to women.

sue, not sew.