Feeling sorry for the Duchess of Sussex

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It must be so surreal for her to be caught in everything that is happening at the moment. I know H&M are controversial to say the least but they came here to do a feel good tour and are now caught up in everything that's going on. If I were Meghan, I'd travel back to the US to be with my dc and leave Harry with trusted family and aids. It was odd that the Sussexes said they'd both travel to Balmoral and the media now say that King Charles said that Meghan wouldn't be welcome. I can understand why as only close family attendee's Balmoral.

To sum it up, I feel sorry for both Harry and Meghan, I think they are out of their depth. Their autobiography will be interesting.

Bollocks to the bloody lot of em !

Of course if the website is correct then it proves that Meghan was telling the truth on Oprah, and Charles was planning to change the law once he became King, to strip them of their automatic right to HRH.

I'm sure eventually we'll have proper confirmation as to whether Charles did change the law or not.

It's not just a 'website' is it?

It's the official royal Line of Succession.

And William is already listed as Prince of Wales, and his children 'of Wales' even though that was only announced yesterday evening. Why would the Sussex children not have their titles updated if it were 'automatic' as you claim?

Has he the power to change laws then ?

If social media had been around in Diana's days, she'd have had her haters too. Social media has a lot to answer for the toxicity in modern society.

Totally and utterly agree.

Diana did plenty of ‘boring’ engagements, and some very very tough ones such as hospices and people with AIDS. I can’t remember Meghan ever doing such an engagement - I don’t think she would have the grit or emotional depth to do it successfully and without trotting out one liners from Disney. I think she quite fancied Diana’s fame and iconic status though.

At the behest of his wife?? Does he not have a brain and balls?
H issues with his family began long before M came on the seen. He obviously felt he no longer needed to be silent about it.
Also, H has his own agency so why blame M for this?!

It's only because she died. She was vilified at the time. If MN had been around then, Diana would have been as hated as Meghan.

Weirdly a lot of the lies made up about Meghan, are actually true for Diana (and there are things said about Meghan that are not true for Meghan, but true for Kate - odd projection going on).

Through parliament-yes. Might not be approved though.

Regardless of what Meghan has done in regards to interviews, books, etc if I was on my deathbed I would not want my grandson’s wife who I’d only met a few times even if I got on ok with her. I’d want close relatives only, people I felt comfortable with in an undignified situation. So no she didn’t need to go.

And then when you throw into the mix the tell all books, the constant sniping, etc……well it’s a bit rich to go shooting up there. 🤷‍♀️

Well Diana didn’t try to make money out of it, for one.

she also didn’t start talking about how in life “it’s not enough to survive, you need to thrive” during any of her many visits at hospitals, in front of people with HIV

But MeGain did say exactly that while on a trip to Africa when she was there to “supposedly “ highlight the plight of Africans !

@DamnUserName21 interesting. Does that apply in UK law?

I assume you hold William and Catherine to the same standards then? No one has done more lecturing on the impact of children on the environment whilst continuing to churn them out than William. Though to be fair he was only suggesting that people in Africa control their family size. I suppose if you’re rich and white it’s ok?
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2021/11/30/experts-critique-prince-williams-ideas-on-africa-population

but definitely no racism in that family.

yeah Meghan’s obvious and very clear connection with her black mum probs didn’t influence the media reporting either

its seems folk really can believe 6 impossible things before breakfast

So that's a no then !

That's not correct.

Princely titles are in the gift of the sovereign. He can grant or revoke such titles at the stroke of a pen.

He has just granted us serfs an extra BH to mourn QE!

Diana was the wife of the heir to the throne.

Of course she had more prominent public engagements than the wife of the brother of the heir.

They do seem to have learned and toned it done a bit with the new Princess of Wales though.

LOL at her being shallow because she had the temerity to do a real job before marrying into the Royal Family!

a) that website currently has a front page caveat that some parts may be inaccurate at present

b) it also does not describe the Wessex DC as TRH Prince and Princess even though they are entitled to use them. The Wessex parents (and Lady Louise once she turned 18) decided not to use them. The Letters Patent gave the Sussex DC the right to use the styles of TRH Prince and Princess, as they have become the DGC of a monarch, and so it is now up to the parents to decide if they bring them in to use

Re Meg allegedly being suicidal when pregnant with Archie, why did they expect her father in Law to arrange help ? she would have been seen regularly by her Private Obstetrician and her private Midwife why didnt she mention her feelings to the professionals?

We'll see.

Yes by issuing new Letters Patent.

Issuing LP is the only way to change the current law which states that all grandchildren of a monarch are automatically HRHs and automatically hold the title of Prince and Princess.

Why would the Sussex children not have their titles updated if it were 'automatic' as you claim?

It's a website. Someone has to manually do it. They probably don't know yet whether Charles is planning to issue new Letters Patent or not, or whether Harry and Meghan plan to accept or reject the HRH titles, and they want to avoid a PR storm by changing the titles then removing them again.

Plus like I said, whoever runs their digital and online content is really not very good. Often that list of succession has taken days to be updated.

Or maybe they have declined the titles ? I would think most people would agree that would be the right thing to do .

I was talking about laws in general, not titles.

Not quite, and if we were to become a Republic, the revenues would part of our national income, instead of going to an individual who has done nothing to earn this.

www.republic.org.uk/taking_back_the_duchy

H issues with his family began long before M came on the seen

Did they? It was very, very well hidden if that’s true.