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Meghan - lucky life

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exhaustedManager · 05/12/2022 20:48

Sounds a weird thing to say. But Meghan really has had the life of a lot of women's complete fantasies hasn't she ?

  • born in hot / glam country
  • parents win the lottery
  • received private education. Hobbies. Makes great connections ag school eg Katherine foster
  • financially supported into late 20s
  • enables her to have a fantasy actress career
  • can pay for cosmetic surgery eg nose, chin and hair treatments. Has amazing clothes
  • marries a prince
  • has 2 kids as an older mother without assistance
  • lives in a luxurious beautiful community

Never been unwell , never done a boring / basic job in her life, has no financial worries ever.

On paper it is so much better than my life !!

I've had to grind my way out of poor upbringing and get into higher pay brackets like most do!

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lightand · 07/12/2022 13:27

peaceandove · 07/12/2022 13:13

No, I feel slightly sorry for her. Clearly, she was blisteringly ambitious from an early age with a laser focus on becoming a Hollywood A-Lister. Yet, it just never happened for her. Her career pinnacle was being a second-string actress on a second rate Canadian TV show. Many Canadians/Americans had never even heard of her.

Then, even that mediocre success was starting to fall away because she was the very wrong side of 35. But then she meets Harry and thinks she's been gifted the Golden Ticket. Royalty FFS. Actual royalty. A bona fide A-Lister with real diamond tiaras and castles to live in.

Except she realises (too late) that she's yet again a second-string royal, always to walk 6 steps behind William & Kate, no castle or palace to live in, and she wasn't even allowed the blingy-est tiara to wear. She's facing a lifetime of opening Leisure Centres in Dulwich or standing in chilly cathedrals for umpty-million Memorial Services.

And, she's stuck with Harry 'Nice But Dim' Windsor. A second string prince, no less.

I suspect she's spitting blood and is still desperately chasing the glitzy A Lister lifestyle to which she always, always aspired.

Stuff others can only dream of.

And still you feel slightly sorry for her??

MarshaMelrose · 07/12/2022 13:32

Aw, no. I can remember their marriage and she practically shimmered she was so happy. She definitely loved him. And still does. She just undermines it all by trying too hard to make it seem perfect, when no marriage is.
Was it a bonus that he was a wealthy Prince? Sure. But I don't know why people doubt their love.

I think she grew up loved by both her parents, got a good education, pursued and was successful to a certain extent in her acting career, married someone she loved, has healthy children, lives, n a house she loves, doing a job she loves and has no worry troubles. Sounds like a pretty lucky life to me.

susan12345678 · 07/12/2022 13:32

I feel sorry for her - because she’s been cursed with both a ‘difficult’ personality, which makes many dislike her, as well as a raging desire for admiration and a wafer-thin skin. And the latter two mean that the former is doomed to torment her.

superdupernova · 07/12/2022 13:46

Yet, it just never happened for her. Her career pinnacle was being a second-string actress on a second rate Canadian TV show. Many Canadians/Americans had never even heard of her.

I first started watching Suits when i lived in France and several of my friends there did. My sister and brother in law in Ireland watched it. When I moved to the U.K. several of my colleagues had watched it. We all knew who Meghan Markle was when their relationship first came out.

bakalava · 07/12/2022 13:59

So many assumptions being made here about how much people love one another within marriages they actually know nothing about. It makes me laugh.

bakalava · 07/12/2022 14:02

I think it is a barter issue. You take the expensive wedding, jets and palaces. You give back cutting ribbons in Darlington in the rain when you are told (not when it suits you). People will complain if you grab an expensive white wedding and a mansion then walk out of the job and complain from California . It applies for whichever institution is giving those perks to somebody who wouldn't have had much to their name without their generosity. If you don't want the job you hand back the perks or it is almost fraudulent.

antelopevalley · 07/12/2022 14:05

@bakalava I agree about the jets and palaces.
But they do not have a choice about a big public wedding. William and Kate could not have slipped off to the registry office even if they had wanted to. Harry and Meghan could not marry on a Caribbean beach even if they wanted to.
Not everyone wants the massive public wedding.

derxa · 07/12/2022 14:11

antelopevalley · 07/12/2022 14:05

@bakalava I agree about the jets and palaces.
But they do not have a choice about a big public wedding. William and Kate could not have slipped off to the registry office even if they had wanted to. Harry and Meghan could not marry on a Caribbean beach even if they wanted to.
Not everyone wants the massive public wedding.

Except Anne and Zara married fairly quietly in Edinburgh.

antelopevalley · 07/12/2022 14:15

Zara was not a working royal.
Princess Anne's first marriage was not low-key. Her second one was. Like Charles and Camilla, the protocol for second marriages appears to be to keep them low-key.

MarshaMelrose · 07/12/2022 14:16

antelopevalley · 07/12/2022 14:05

@bakalava I agree about the jets and palaces.
But they do not have a choice about a big public wedding. William and Kate could not have slipped off to the registry office even if they had wanted to. Harry and Meghan could not marry on a Caribbean beach even if they wanted to.
Not everyone wants the massive public wedding.

They didn't have to have a public wedding. I don't think anyone cared that much. I confess I watched it and loved it but I was just looking at the clothes, really. Wedding ceremonies are quite boring - and I've been to quite a few. A few pictures afterwards like Charles did with Camilla would have been fine. No one forced them.

susan12345678 · 07/12/2022 14:17

But they do not have a choice about a big public wedding

Harry and Meghan were given the option of a small private wedding (much more appropriate for a divorcee anyway) and they rejected the suggestion. They insisted on all the bells and whistles.

antelopevalley · 07/12/2022 14:30

Link please. Never heard that.

stuntbubbles · 07/12/2022 14:31

derxa · 07/12/2022 14:11

Except Anne and Zara married fairly quietly in Edinburgh.

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Bloody hell, I knew the royals were incestuous, but…

derxa · 07/12/2022 14:33

the protocol for second marriages appears to be to keep them low-key. Well Meghan should have had a low key wedding in that case but she chose to have a 'spectacle' instead.

RosettaStormer · 07/12/2022 14:35

stuntbubbles · 07/12/2022 14:31

Bloody hell, I knew the royals were incestuous, but…

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They could have had any wedding they chose. William is the heir to the throne. That’s very different.

antelopevalley · 07/12/2022 14:37

derxa · 07/12/2022 14:33

the protocol for second marriages appears to be to keep them low-key. Well Meghan should have had a low key wedding in that case but she chose to have a 'spectacle' instead.

You have no idea of that.
I remember at the time the papers saying the Royal Family welcomed another big wedding as this is what they are good at.

RosettaStormer · 07/12/2022 14:41

ancientgran · 07/12/2022 11:05

Somewhere on here someone said she lived with her father after her parents split up. Is that true, she seems close to her mother so I wonder if it is true that she didn't live with her or do 50/50.

My understanding was she lived with her father during the week and spent some weekends with her mother. Her father was the main carer. Didn't her mother disappear for a long period of time also? I am sure it wasn’t 50:50. Her father mainly brought her up.

RosettaStormer · 07/12/2022 14:45

Diverseopinions · 07/12/2022 07:47

It seems to me, that the relationship between Harry and William and their wives has been framed as conflict. That fits with Meghan's comment: ' When the stakes are this high....'. What stakes? There is a World Cup going on in Qatar, and the stakes are high for France. They could win, if they first beat England.

Meghan and Harry have framed the relationship with their family as 'conflict'. When Harry came ove to unveil his mother's statue, the brothers stood alongside. It wasn't warm: it was cool, but it wasn't conflict. The Queen said beautiful loving things about the couple, before she died. Charles did not retaliate by taking titles away, after H and M told Oprah that the Royal Family is racist. The actions of the Royals was considerate, on the occasion of the Queen's funeral, with a combined walkabout of the former Fab Four. William moved along or did something to accommodate them in a pew. Harry wore uniform.

Body language hasn't been warm, but the royals have not disseminated an extraordinarily level of attack. They haven't said 'I can be quiet if I choose, or speak if I choose'. They haven't issued veiled threats. The royals have been passive and conciliatory. They haven't openly condemned.

Any positive things said about Kate and William is sticking up for them when they are under attack. It's so obvious that it isn't saying one couple are perfect and running down the other.

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So true. One side behaving with good manners and courtesy. The other just in an open slanging match to discredit and cause embarrassment.

stuntbubbles · 07/12/2022 14:46

I’ve just been poking Wikipedia about the wedding – there was a commemorative coin and stamps, multi-channel international broadcasts, etc. It’s not like they stamped their foot for a big wedding and no one was interested. Turnout was huge! And Harry was 5th in line so he had to have the Queen’s permission to marry, which seems a reasonable “this deserves some pomp” reason.

Edward and Sophie had a big televised wedding too and who cares about him?

RosettaStormer · 07/12/2022 14:49

MintyFreshOne · 07/12/2022 06:53

www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/royals/new-photos-emerge-of-prince-william-gyrating-with-two-blondes-on-notorious-bender-in-the-alps/news-story/4518613a16b94bc80cf9f49c66605a5d?amp

Not an affair as such but acting disrespectful to his wife.

Tbh we don’t know much about their private affairs but PW often looks tense and somewhat peeved when in public, can’t be easy to be around someone like that. Literal entitlement tho 🤷‍♀️

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William was dancing with friends. A bit drunk. That’s not an affair or disrespectful. Kate may have had words with him, she may not. It’s their business. No one is perfect. They undoubtedly adore each other. If he looks peeved sometimes it’s probably because he’s struggling with the strain of the past few years. Kate often looks strained. Anyone would be struggling with the way H and M are behaving. It must be heart breaking for them.

bakalava · 07/12/2022 15:10

Their wedding was very exciting and uplifting to watch. But her first wedding seemed that way too even though they couldn't be more different. Maybe she throws a good party!

bakalava · 07/12/2022 15:12

The downside (for her) was that it created doubts about her family rifts and her celebrity guest list. If she had chosen to go smaller, it would have been the best thing for her provided that she was hoping to live a life of service, But maybe she wasn't hoping for that?

monsteramunch · 07/12/2022 15:16

@susan12345678

Harry and Meghan were given the option of a small private wedding (much more appropriate for a divorcee anyway) and they rejected the suggestion. They insisted on all the bells and whistles.

Do you have a link for that please? I've never heard it before.

Coxspurplepippin · 07/12/2022 15:23

I don't think the Queen would have had an issue at all if they hadn't wanted a big wedding. I'm sure if they'd wanted, they could have had a small garden ceremony with the Archbishop of Canterbury perhaps. Anyway, something smaller and more intimate than they had. It would have paved the way for a lower key relationship with the press and public if that's what they wanted.

The wedding was a grand occasion in a beautiful setting with lovely flowers and frocks and a bit of pomp and ceremony, coaches, choirs and a jolly good knees up, but I don't think they were forced into it.

stuntbubbles · 07/12/2022 15:37

bakalava · 07/12/2022 15:12

The downside (for her) was that it created doubts about her family rifts and her celebrity guest list. If she had chosen to go smaller, it would have been the best thing for her provided that she was hoping to live a life of service, But maybe she wasn't hoping for that?

I’m pretty sure Harry got married too that day, it was his guest list and wedding too.