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susan12345678 · 31/08/2022 20:51

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Roussette · 01/09/2022 09:48

AuroraCake · 01/09/2022 09:17

Ask him then.

Ask who what?

AuroraCake · 01/09/2022 09:50

theworldhas · 01/09/2022 09:46

@AuroraCake

one of your own: POC and liberal successful woman

Yeah because oPOC ought to think the same and support/oppose the same people. Jesus.

In her view I guess. It in mine. I couldn’t d care less but she must have had a say in who interviewed her. The journalist just wrote as she found really I guess.

AuroraCake · 01/09/2022 09:51

Roussette · 01/09/2022 09:48

Ask who what?

The composer. Surely if it’s him he is the one credible witness apart from a Meghan.

LittleBearPad · 01/09/2022 09:51

Samcro · 01/09/2022 09:42

i doubt they would. they never had the amount of hate directed at them that M has had.
people seem to think that because other royal women have had bad press, that M should just suck it up.
back when those women joined the rf SM was not really a thing (or as widespread) as it is now. just look on here and you can see how bad it is.
why should she just suck it up and keep quiet.

You think Fergie didn’t have an incredibly rough time with the press. The only reason the papers now leave her alone is she shut up.

Roussette · 01/09/2022 09:53

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Absolutely
There's a multi million pound industry put there to feride Meghan in the press

It won't stop, what would the likes of Witchell, Tominey and Levin do without her to throw barbs at. Witchell can

Lostinabba · 01/09/2022 09:54

@mumsnet Why was @Festoonlights post deleted? There was nothing in there that broke talk guidelines?

You have let posters call Prince Andrew a peadophile, other posters make nasty threads saying the Cambridges marriage is breaking up but let them stand. Appalling double standards.

Roussette · 01/09/2022 09:55

Witchell can barely contain himself when he's getting a thinly veiled insult in about her. Such glee

Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 01/09/2022 09:55

Readinginthesun · 31/08/2022 21:10

Are we any further forward establishing who called innocent children the n word ? For me that’s the most serious allegation.

No one. If they had, they would have been in court by now ( unless it was HM herself, which Megs has denied).

why on earth would anyone think their children would be black anyway? The father is white ( ginger ), the mother has a white father and a black grandmother

There’s a lot more to worry about in their intellectual and emotional heritage than their racial inheritance

AuroraCake · 01/09/2022 09:56

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It’s a toxic fireball to be sure. But it is just a toxic dynamic. They both think they are being provoked and needled all the time. Although I have noticed certain section of the media now seem to be dealing with it calmer and just disputing wrong claims. Then if you are going to have yourself and your colleagues branded as racists. Your backs going to be up and the RR aren’t exactly the phone hacking press people, they are the posh end of journalism. They mostly speak as posh as the royals themselves.

Wheresthebeach · 01/09/2022 09:56

The shame is, if they'd moved to the States and worked hard, doing charity work it would all be so different. But they court publicity about being victims, complain about being cut off financially when they have millions, and are in their 30's! They claim they want independence but then behave like spoiled teenagers. Everyone would leave them alone, if they stopped all the interviews, the complaints and the hints at more to come. Head down, work hard, get results. But no...it's endless interviews and complaints.

fancytulip · 01/09/2022 09:56

Butterdishtea · 01/09/2022 09:18

I completely understand why it might take a decade to process and move on from her lived experience in Britain..I remember her being relentlessly teased, criticised and ridiculed in the press. She was. Very few people on earth would know how that feels. I certainly don't but I've had reputation pulled apart in a much smaller scale and healing took years. She needs another few to move on.

That being said I increasingly have to agree there is something else wrong with Meghan. The experiences in Britain couldn't have happened to a more complex personality. I don't know how much of this was lying dormant and was perhaps triggered by the press. I do think there are genuinely lovely sides to her personality and her altruism is often in good faith. But something else is going on too. My private guess is narcissist traits.

Can she not just have an experience, rather than a 'lived experience'? Sorry, that phrase drives me nuts 😉

Roussette · 01/09/2022 09:59

LittleBearPad · 01/09/2022 09:51

You think Fergie didn’t have an incredibly rough time with the press. The only reason the papers now leave her alone is she shut up.

I hope you're joking

Have you not heard the endless interviews about her rock of an ex husband, how honourable he is blah blah
What about her books, 70 at the last count, Sarah duchess of York every single one of them. Last one last year.
Does anyone talk about that on here,? No.
Yet Meghan brings out one children's book and mumsnet explodes

Sarah hasn't shut up. She is just keeping more quiet because she is on the royal family gravy train living off of taxpayer money and knows which side her bread's buttered

SilverLiningPlaybook · 01/09/2022 09:59

Readinginthesun · 01/09/2022 08:52

I would love to have seen someone “ making “ MM do or not do something!

Very true. In the end though, it was down to the Palace to decide what they did and when. I’m sure if they had put the brakes on M would now be moaning about having her hands tied and how they wouldn’t let her work etc. She was never going to fit in whatever.

ajandjjmum · 01/09/2022 10:02

Meghan would not be happy unless she was made Queen - and even then, she wouldn't like the old houses and old jewels!

Only slightly tongue in cheek.

Lostinabba · 01/09/2022 10:02

I can understand people feeling there is a campaign against her in the press.

But the Cut interview was signed off by her. She either has awful PR or doesn't listen to them.
The photos were stunning, she is very beautiful.

derxa · 01/09/2022 10:05

Yet Meghan brings out one children's book and mumsnet explodes That's because it was drivel and not appealing to children at all.

AuroraCake · 01/09/2022 10:05

Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 01/09/2022 09:55

No one. If they had, they would have been in court by now ( unless it was HM herself, which Megs has denied).

why on earth would anyone think their children would be black anyway? The father is white ( ginger ), the mother has a white father and a black grandmother

There’s a lot more to worry about in their intellectual and emotional heritage than their racial inheritance

I’d stay away from that topic. People are what they want to be. I mean I have heard Zadie Smith talk about her own experiences as a mix race child, who self identifies as black, I think she often used brown to describe herself, and then about her own experience as a parent, her husband is white Irish, who doesn’t have children who look like her and they look like their father and how that was odd for her as everyone thinks their children will look like them. This got her thinking of her own parents experiences as she looks like neither of them. She also tells sorties about being in Gambia and having to pull out pictures of her mother to convince people she was black. Meghan and her children’s self identifying is their own business.

Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 01/09/2022 10:05

MissMarpleRocks · 01/09/2022 08:50

Perhaps it was Harry that insisted that Meghan be given her due as a working royal, without considering that his SIL & aunt Sophie had years training for their roles & his aunt had made mistakes by not taking it slowly.

Maybe he was worried that had Meghan known what she was letting herself in for, she’d have bolted.

Frankly no one would have blamed her for that. It’s the way they have gone about it that aggravates.

Say: beloved family but cultural differences & expectations would have been so much better for them all, than victimhood without taking some of the responsibility as well.

Sophie didn’t have ‘years of training’. She was working as a PR executive when she met Edward. They were married quite soon afterwards, after a normal( for then) engagement.
I actually have first hand knowledge of this, a friend of mine’s daughter was one of the bridesmaids and I was aware of the relationship pretty much from the word go.

Sophie’s current incarnation as a safe pair of hands wasn’t achieved without effort, her first years were clouded by a cash for access scandal. She’s turned it round admirably.

LittleBearPad · 01/09/2022 10:08

Roussette · 01/09/2022 09:59

I hope you're joking

Have you not heard the endless interviews about her rock of an ex husband, how honourable he is blah blah
What about her books, 70 at the last count, Sarah duchess of York every single one of them. Last one last year.
Does anyone talk about that on here,? No.
Yet Meghan brings out one children's book and mumsnet explodes

Sarah hasn't shut up. She is just keeping more quiet because she is on the royal family gravy train living off of taxpayer money and knows which side her bread's buttered

What endless interviews? She keeps very quiet and she’s never been rude about the Queen etc.

She does know which side her bread is buttered. Meghan not so much!

FoggyCrumpet · 01/09/2022 10:08

Who wants to take a bet that somehow she will shoehorn in a mention of "Waity Katey" in the episode relating to Old Maids?

It is interesting the author references the series title of "Archetypes" before going on to talk about "stereotypes". As a pp said somewhere on the previous thread, the author is a sly one.

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ShirleyJackson · 01/09/2022 10:10

Even if the Mandela thing is true, you’d have to be a bit of a wanker to take it in and then repeat it in public, wouldn’t you?

If someone said that to me, they’d be greeted with, ‘Give over!’

I’d then tell my husband, roll my eyes, laugh about what a brown-nosing berk I’d just met, and get on with my life.

You’d have to have an ego the size of a planet to actually believe and repeat it, wouldn’t you?

LittleBearPad · 01/09/2022 10:11

^Bitch (well, "B-word" she clarifies and
then squeals, "O0000h! I don't want to say that word. It makes me so
uncomfortable!"*

Christ alive - she’s tedious!

Roussette · 01/09/2022 10:11

derxa · 01/09/2022 10:05

Yet Meghan brings out one children's book and mumsnet explodes That's because it was drivel and not appealing to children at all.

Have you read "Dining with The Duchess" or "Dieting with The Duchess"?

Sarah's books. An ex member of the RF, cashing in on her title, that's just two of her 70 books written with her title,. They were nonsense, haven't seen you commenting on them.

Meghan wrote one you didn't like, you are not the audience, children are and saying it was not appealing to them...you don't know

AlexandriasWindmill · 01/09/2022 10:11

Yy and The Cut was an US publication not one of those meany-beany UK ones Hmm Smile In media circles, both in the UK and the US, there is genuine bemusement that they're getting it so wrong. SS are supposed to be good at this. It's starting to look like deliberate sabotage.

It would be easy to turn this all around. The UK does accept successful people but we tend to like success served with some self-deprecation, a dose of humility, a dash of humour and a smidgeon of gratitude. Possibly more than a smidgeon if we feel we've funded it in some way. The US tend to like their European Royals quiet, working steadily on good causes, or being glitzy patrons and throwing fabulous events.

shedwithivy · 01/09/2022 10:11

Lostinabba · 01/09/2022 10:02

I can understand people feeling there is a campaign against her in the press.

But the Cut interview was signed off by her. She either has awful PR or doesn't listen to them.
The photos were stunning, she is very beautiful.

I wonder if she is still pleased with the article?

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