Public members rude to meghan

[RheanaT]

I've seen a clip on Instagram where a group of women completely blanked MM when she spoke to them. It was awful to watch.
I feel so sorry for her, she didn't deserve that at all.
I saw another clip where someone had asked her for a hug, she obliged and when they hugged she really held the member of public and closed her eyes, it looked as if she really needed that hug .
No wonder she ran away from the UK

I would have blanked her too. She has been so disrespectful to the Royal Family.

@Ohnonevermind
The difference between me and some posters is that I attempt to give an alternative view in the absence of credible evidence.
The fact that she took so many flights does not mean that her passport wasn’t taken from her. It may just mean that she had to ask for her passport when she wanted to travel.
she obviously felt uneasy about this or she wouldn’t have mentioned it. Also , with all the other daily criticism she was facing at the time she may felt a bit defensive and felt that she was losing control of her life .
Just an alternative view..,

I fully expect that over in her palace at Montecito and indeed whilst travelling Meghan even now chooses for an employee to hold her passport. Just like most very wealthy individuals do.

How?

The trouble is (for me anyway, Lampzade) that you have to come up with so many “alternative views” that actually, in the end, you’re really just twisting yourself in knots to avoid facing up to some unwelcome facts.

Quite.

I noted that in Finding Freedom, Omid Scobie wrote that Harry and Meghan had agreed that they didn’t want their home filled with staff, like William and Kate.

Interestingly however in the podcast with Serena, Meghan talked about the nanny that they’d had for quite a while when they went to South Africa with baby Archie. And then in the The Cut article the writer talked about the scented candle “lit by an unseen hand”.

Seems like they have gotten over that concern, anyway.

Meghan could have said to Oprah, "it was another world. I was so privileged that I didn't even need to keep my own passport. I just said where I wanted to travel to and staff made all the arrangements, first class travel, private jets, full security detail, transatlantic baby shower, even for my numerous personal international visits to friends and family. When I wanted to travel internationally and keep it secret they made it happen for me. What a life. And I never paid for a thing! Imagine! However much did it all cost I wonder, both in $ and carbon footprint?!!!"

I don't like anyone holding onto my passport, not even my husband.

So whilst I understand that it's easier to hand it over, it must be quite jarring.

Why should she have to pretend she was fine with it?

Would I hand over my passport in exchange for lots of travel? Yes. Would I like it? Probably not.

I think that these threads would be dreadfully dull if we all thought alike.
I am not asking posters to agree with me.
I will continue to give alternative views when posters don’t provide credible evidence to prove their theories
. When I don’t regard their ‘credible evidence’ as credible, I will challenge it.
It really is as simple as that

a better more honest explanation

when I got married they took my passport, they have a whole office co-ordinating travel arrangements for them, I’d no idea before I got married.

They booked all my flights and security, whisked me through the airport, booked amazing rooms. My days on trip advisor and web chats on ryanair were behind me.
I never even had to remember to pack my passport.

Seems like they have gotten over that concern, anyway

Sorry Serenster that sounds just so sarky.

A nanny, shock horror, that's one person!

And the unseen hand lighting a candle could be Doria, Harry or the nanny!

It wasn't a concern. It was a preference as to how they wanted to live their lives as a family. Why can't that be accepted as opposed to rubbishing it?

Yeah, it was Donald Trump who barged in front of the Queen. How an earth can anyone confuse Meghan with Trump? 🤣

@Lampzade

Do you think Meghan herself is on the phone changing their return flight details, or does someone handle her flight details now including holding her passport.

I don’t have the foggiest idea .

I think it's common for very wealthy people to pretend they have less help to run their lives than they actually do in order to seem more relatable, even more so in the case of using nannies. The reality is that many have one nanny on duty per child 24/7 round the clock.
I find it unpalatable when celebrities minimise how much help they have as it is misleading and denying of the privilege that they have.

Maybe the passport is now in a safe that both she and her assistant have access to, rather than in the palace where she had no unilateral access.

Why can't that be accepted as opposed to rubbishing it?

Because it’s just another example of a statement that’s probably not remotely true being used to gild the Sussexes (“they don’t want servants, they’ve so relaxed and hands on!”) and deliver a barb (the Cambridges though - they have a home “filled with staff”). Generally this is via Omid Scobie or a “friend”

Here’s another example, where the barb is very clearly aimed at the same target:

“She wants to raise Archie in a household that is filled with laughter and joy and lots of hugs,” Meghan’s pal told the publication. “It’s still weird to her that no one hugs and that everyone is so uptight, especially Kate”

This is something that happens a lot. And please don’t try to tell me that these comments are nothing to do with Meghan herself. I simply don’t think that’s credible.

She's just very LA. Full of self-help saccharine waffle. It's not something Brits have much respect for.

a travel office would have been located centrally, she’d just have to ask for it to be brought or call to collect it.

she’s in a mansion now but she was living in a block of palaces, Perhaps she could have rung HR

Phishy surely it's the effect of who held the passport that is in question here? Was Meghan prevented from travelling because she didn't hold her own passport or not???
There is no evidence that she was and her multiple trips provide evidence that she was not prevented from travelling.

She was pushing a trapped voiceless victim
narrative. The facts had to be twisted to suit that narrative

Doesn’t make her a liar

She didn't say she was prevented from travelling. She probably just wanted access to her own passport. It's just a glimpse into a cloistered life.

She clearly couldn't live like that, hence the move back to the US.

Well...you are on the negative side and I'm not.
One nanny.
That's great.

Even if the palace said that they took Meghan’s passport to prevent her leaving the country some of you would accuse her of lying
This is my point, some of you don’t want to hear an alternative view because you are very comfortable with your own view.