Harry and Meghan News ( Finding Freedom!)

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twitter.com/i/web/status/1261788333577056257 This is so funny if anybody fancies a giggle, royals eye rolling!!!

Hi @Roussette I was wondering why it was taking you so long to show up. You were a very poor sport in the last thread starting arguments with every poster and derailing the thread so you could successfully get it pulled.

Probably best we ignore you so it doesn't happen again.

Even if a reporter is being rude, it's very unprofessional to be anything other than utterly charming

...it's very unprofessional to be anything other than utterly charming

Yes, its not really playing the game, is it?

I also didn’t think the reporter was rude especially since he was there to do his job in interviewing the most important people at the event and at this stage, few people had heard of MM. Her actions came across as intending to intimidate and belittle; very much a bullying persona. I suspect if she challenges people and they stand up to her, she walks off. Rather like she has done with all of her family.

Why should she be utterly charming? Maybe she should call out someone who is always looking for a more important person. Maybe he should be professional. He was clearly embarrassed as well he should be!

Why should she be utterly charming?

Because she is there to sell her show.

Maybe she should call out someone who is always looking for a more important person.

It didn't look like he was looking for a more important person, just that he glanced away from her for a moment. For all we know, his next interview was waiting, and he was just gauging time. Most of these interviews are prearranged, but "sold" as "on the spot, I just happened to be passing by".

Breasticle it was the first time she was meeting this reporting. Would you lash out like that to a person you’re meeting for the first time? Would you not give them the benefit of the doubt? He was there to do a job and anyone working in the industry with a bit of experience will know not to take that personally. She went on and on about it, went and read his list, and in the end finished by saying he spelt her name wrong. Such a diva. You can bet she wouldn’t talk like that to Oprah or someone else.

Can it be a cultural clash? A massive one?

In terms of personality. I find the very touchy feely, in contact-with-your-emotions hard work. But that is just me (introvert, geeky, Scandinavian).

In terms of politeness, the English are beyond polite. It takes a while to assimilate. When I moved here 20 years ago, it took me about a year to realise that when an English person become very polite, it meant he hated you and were actively trying to get you fired. Scandinavian people (and maybe US?) will be quite open with dislike.

We also had this list circulating (some examples below):

I’ll bear that in mind =“Forget it” (in a polite way) (Scandinavian interpretation is “great, I will follow up”)

Pretty good = “this is not that good” (Scandinavian interpretation “pretty good”)

Not too bad = “pretty good” (Scandinavian interpretation “not that good”)

Why should she be utterly charming?

Because it's the job. She was there at work. She is deliberately courting positive press coverage. You do not get that other than by being charming. It is the entirely self-interested position to take.

And because whose bum has it come back to bite?

• reporter and not reporting

But I agree in a certain way with the OP who mentioned they like her more for this. It certainly is well more genuine than the sickly sweet act she puts on, therefore more likeable.
Won’t anyone ask the reporter how he is? Is he living but not thriving?

She was representing her employer, the production company. She should be pleasant, fun, and at all times professional.
She was arrogant, dismissive and came across as a bully.

I didn’t really realise naively that this is how the whole thing works re the interview clip. People looking over one’s shoulder to find someone better to talk to is the height of rudeness in a domestic setting, but if that’s how it’s done due to set up, scheduling etc I can see she may be perceived as rude herself. Either way that Meghan is much more likely to ruffle feathers in the RF and then run into barriers and opposition.

Glacinda it's hardly bit her on the bum. She's world famous and hopefully a happily married mum.

He's ... sorry who is he again?!

I followed these threads as thought H & M had made some awful own goals. But this is just nasty bitchy misogyny. Shame on you.

To me it's not necessarily the way she's behaved in that interview or any other before she met Harry.
That's her personality, she maybe a bit abrasive, obviously very confident and wants to be heard and that's ok.

But since she got together with Harry she's came across very differently.
The question is why, has Megan changed to fit in with Harry's idea of a perfect woman or has/was she made change by Harry to fit in as the perfect royal bride and now clearly that mask has slipped.

Breaking News: Kate is not sending Charlotte back to school next month.

If you don't like Meghan she comes across as rude in that clip. If you do like her she comes across as confident and assertive in that clip.
What definitely came across to me in that particular clip is her parting.

@BreasticlesNotTesticles, MM is world famous solely because of who she married. Hardly a ringing feminist endorsement, is it?

Glacinda it's hardly bit her on the bum. She's world famous and hopefully a happily married mum.

Out of this, what is any special achievement? Being famous for marrying someone famous? Being married? Being a mum?

And why so sneery saying: “He’s... sorry who is he again”?

You are the bitchy one’

@Institutkarite, I don’t like nor dislike MM. I certainly don’t wish her ill. She just strikes me as someone who, at times, is her own worst enemy.

I also happen to believe that a lot of things she’s been blamed for are Harry’s doing. He does get far more of a free pass. There seems to be a view that he has no say, that he’s not an equal partner in the marriage, and will eventually leave her, a broken shell of a man. I don’t buy that narrative. I believe Harry instigated the break with Thomas Markle, and that he insisted on the lawsuit.

I think currently, Harry is given more of a free pass by the UK press because he’s HMQ’s grandson. I think that Andrew, in the past, was given the same deference. I think that should change.

What comes across in that clip is a supremely confident and sassy woman who knows how to call someone out if (She feels) they have slighted her.

I think the issue is that she isn’t classy in her manner. She is abrasive and enjoys the humiliation too much.

People want the wife of a prince to possess impeccable good manners. And that is where MM falls short by a long mile.

She is abrasive and enjoys the humiliation too much
of others, that should be pointed out.
I've no idea @Winterlife why you singled me out in your previous post. I made no reference to your opinion of Meghan at all. Just like others here I'm posting my own views if I want to make a point to a particular poster I will.

And also the point wasn’t how twatty the interviewer was, but how different her reaction was to how she usually portrays herself. If she were as sweet and kind as she presents herself, all doe eyes and charm, her first reaction wouldn’t be the one she had.

I think her reaction, upon seeing the interviewer looking over her shoulder (for other stars to interview?) should have been to smile through the realization that she wasn't as important as she thought she was.

I think her reaction was very narcissistic. She felt slighted by the idea that someone else could be more interesting or important than her, so her mask slipped.

He may have been looking at anything, but she was just furious that he took her eyes off her.

I thought the video showed her being snappy, easily offended and abrasive to the interviewer. I have wondered how she managed being a second string actor in Suits and presumably having to accept that other actors were the main stars.

i think its rude to look out for someone else when you are talking to someone. its like checking your phone all the time when youre with someone. he could be more careful about that.
and for MM, there cant be more important, more pretty person in the world , so she couldnt take it and then regretted what she said and changed the subject asking his high school, etc.
being a mum can change her a bit, can make her a bit milder of her usual form.