If there is reconciliation, tabloids will still make a mountain out of a molehill. Not everyone watched Oprah interview or Philip’s funeral, I didn’t. But clearly many have and they were intent on finding holes in stories and analyzing body language. One poster even referred to a tabloid employing a lipreader and then took it to gospel that poor Harry was ignored
Or why Harry and William were “separated” as though they cannot be civil without someone being placed in the middle. If I could have found the information so easily when the funeral plans were discussed, it’s clear as day others could too but they just believe what they hear. Also the very fact that the press could have found this information and instead of sharing inaccuracies just shows that not everything you read is actually true.
It’s also clear that Harry and Meghan had read tabloids a little too much. If your mental health is fragile, one can only imagine how it must feel reading untruths and misunderstandings in the tabloids added to the fact Harry still has issues with the press.
Ideally, even though the Royal Family do not openly address every single mistruth, they should have addressed at least once and for all, the way Meghan and Harry were being portrayed and any racist undercurrents should have been dealt with straightaway. It does beg the question, if they saw the beg the question that perhaps they didn’t see anything that was inherently racist? There were some posters on a few threads who are adamant that media reporting of Meghan was not racist, after all the Royal Family have a history of turning a blind eye to many things.
But Harry clearly got over his mistrust of CBS, which published pictures of Diana, when British press refrained from doing so, by doing an interview with Oprah on CBS. I do think Harry and Meghan are either not following advice and going off-piste or they are very ill-advised.
It’s clear that the tabloids will add more to the fire, it’s also clear that people read these things and even take The Crown to be some kind of accurate source of information. I really do think the Royal Family should have stepped in when rumours were spreading about Meghan. They could have just addressed the whole issue.
But I also didn’t like Harry and Meghan’s approach of leaking information left, right and center. Perhaps they feel like this is the only way to redress the balance? They had sit down interviews before but they do seem to mistime them a lot.
They have had the access to the best healthcare and are in contact with mental health experts, Harry can leverage a job at Disney for Meghan but can’t get the help she needs? But somehow it’s only the Royal Family to be blame for not asking enough or being supportive enough.
No one comes out of this smelling like roses. And to the poster who mentioned Kate sharing photos on her terms so that they have some privacy. This is not a “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch your back” policy but rather something a lot of celebrities actually do. Some celebrities share their photos, some give hints where they are so they can be papped, in exchange they maintain relevance in exchange for some of form of privacy. It’s pretty much an open secret that celebrities do this all the time. There are of course paparazzi who do hound certain celebrities, but it’s very naive to think some celebrities won’t have representatives or “friends” who leak locations or that other celebrities do not share photos on their terms.