The Palace seems to be Leaking like a Sieve

[Meanderings]

These people are apparently worried about what Harry will write in his memoir but we've somehow managed to get a play by play of what has gone on this week.

From blocking Meghan's visit to Balmoral to how the joint greeting of well wishers came about.

Please note that these writers are making it clear they are speaking to Palace sources.

Now when H&M start speaking (in defense of themselves), people will complain.

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Well it's certainly unusual to only have one relative invited when you're not short on numbers you can invite.

Presumably Doris has no relations she is on good terms with or old family friends either

*Doria

I once posted about a wedding I went to where it was all the relatives on one side (the BG) and not the Bride and I was told I was making it up and lying, so I'll give up on that one.
The one thing I did not do at the time of the wedding was criticise the Bride I know for her choices of who came to her wedding. Families are convoluted and complicated.

It really isn’t. Perhaps you should peruse the wedding threads and AIBU to see that how second family dynamics can affect the children in those unions. It is apparent that the bride was distant from her siblings (not unusual as they were all so much older than her) and she was mostly alone with her father in her teens. It does not appear as if her family had been invited to her first wedding either.

True, unusual certainly applies here.

Or Doria isn't close to said relatives? I've got family members that won't be invited to my wedding simply because my Dad was never close to them, so a relationship wasn't fostered. It is what it is.

Right. I'm not buying that people find it that unusual. They'll exaggerate for the sake of othering Meghan though.

You know all reasoning flies out of the window when it comes to H&M. Doria is a gem and I'm glad Meghan has her.

I went to a wedding once where the groom’s divorced parents both made such a fuss about not wanting to come if their ex spouse would be there too that he eventually said “Eff you both” and disinvited both of them!

Anyway, it’s the kind of thing can be a red flag of issues, or can be simply explained by circumstances - I don’t think you can draw conclusions just from the appearance alone.

That's sort of my point. You wouldn't invite someone you disliked. So if she had relations on her mums side and didn't invite them, it would seem she didn't like them. Especially if she was inviting and sitting in her family seat, people she'd only met once or twice.

But, of course, she might not have any family on her mums side, which would contradict the poster I replied to.

Of course, Meghan might not know her relatives well which is why she didn't invite them. Perfectly reasonable. But then if they don't know her, it wouldn't be surprising that they didn't speak badly of her, which undermines the argument if the poster I was, replying to.

@Meanderings

The argument that Meghan didn’t invite her relatives because she hardly knew them is somewhat weakened by the fact that she happily invited the Clooneys and Oprah who she didn’t know at all. Reece Witherspoon mentioned getting an invite to the wedding but declining as she didn’t know them.

She had many of her friends there who were not as high profile as the Clooneys or Oprah. Meghan became friends with Amal Clooney when she moved to the UK. I’m not sure that Meghan didn’t know Oprah at all before the wedding as Oprah herself has said she met her when she got engaged to Harry. But you may know more than me about it.

I've googled everywhere and I can't find any interview twitter or Instagram (or anything) where Reece Witherspoon mentioned she was invited to the wedding and she declined.

I can see twitter posts where she posted a picture of the wedding and said "I Love Weddings" and another where went souvenir shopping and bought Meghan souvenirs.

Can you link where she says this?

You'd never find it, another lie made up by the deranged.

Clooneys and Oprah knew Harry LONG BEFORE Meghan. Why do you think Meghan invited them and not Harry? Harry and Oprah also had that mental health documentary in the works.

See how people lie on Meghan's name. PLEASE show where Reese Witherspoon ever said she was invited @Ohnonevermind

I should imagine he wasn't glamorous or rich enough. I remember him commenting about his non invite in quite sad tones. She was entitled to invite who she liked but that was an omission which said quite a lot about Meghan's character.

@derxa Really???
I did not invite my Uncle to my wedding. I barely know him, so why would I.
It is her wedding so up to her who she invites.

I did not invite my Uncle to my wedding. What a shame

@derxa Not a shame at all. We would have struggled to recognise each other.
I wanted people there who meant something to me.

@antelopevalley I agree entirely and really, whose business is it who a couple invites to their wedding? I have cousins I wouldn't invite to mine and no, it isn't a shame or a tragedy, I just don't know them.

Anyway, royal weddings always have slightly odd guest lists - see Ricky Martin and Demi Moore at Eugenie's - but Harry and Meghan's is the only one still scrutinised, nearly 5 years on.

@AnnunciataZ Exactly. As long as they did not invite dodgy guests like Epstein, I do not care who they had at their wedding and I struggle to understand why anyone would. Unless you are looking for a manufactured reason to bash them.

Yes but Meghan did know her uncle and he helped her. There was plenty of space.