Meghan - lucky life

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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!

My point was that Kate had a job. It's you that's trying to pick an argument over her smile. I mean, is that the worse you've got against her? That she smiles.
We're all products of our experience.
She doesn't smile on command. She smiles because she's meeting people and it puts them at their ease. It's good manners. Or maybe you don't appreciate manners? Meghan always smiled when she met people too. At least as far as I could see. Did that make her a simpleton too? Are you angry with her?
Isn't it true that Harry and Meghan are being feted now? Would she be being feted if she wasn't the Duchess of Sussex? Would anyone even know who Harry was if his father wasn't king? Are they distancing themselves ftom their royal connections or are they just trying yo maje money ftom them? Aren't they, too, surrounded by sycophants saying how great they are?
I guess you're really angry with both the women because it seems they have behaved very similarly. Why aren't you angry with the men?

You're not making sense.
She was 25.
I was 25.
She had a job.
I had a job.
Hers was not for life.
Mine was not for life.

There. Comparson done.

Oh wait. Another comparison.

I never went to a gymkhana.
Kate never went to a gymkhana.

Hey, thanks for this. I never realised how much she and I had in common. 🙂

Lol obviously it is a good gig because KM chased it so hard throughout her youth. She could have walked away at any point in ten years but did not.

And MM seems to have decided the same over a shorter time period.

Both PH and PW offer nothing particularly special except their status. They themselves are unremarkable people though PH seemed somewhat charming in his public appearances.

My point was that Kate had a job

She never had a real job. Jigsaw was part-time at best and then she ‘worked’ for her family firm. It kind of shows these days in that she has few other public-facing skills and could have really benefitted from full-time work.

I think what the Queen did really well was actually not being too interesting, not revealing too much personality, not being controversial or charismatic or political or divisive. Just being a symbol, not saying too much, not complaining, not even smiling too much, just getting on with the job - that's what made her a great Queen.

Maybe it wasn’t the ‘gig’ Kate wanted, but the man. Is it so astonishing to consider she really loves William? She’s been a brilliant wife to him and they obviously love each other deeply. Not everything is about ambition and status. Meghan really did chase Harry out of ambition and a wish for status.

Maybe it wasn’t the ‘gig’ Kate wanted, but the man. Is it so astonishing to consider she really loves William? She’s been a brilliant wife to him and they obviously love each other deeply

I don’t think she loves PW and while she’s been a good wife to him, you can’t say the same for him. Being snapped in a club getting handsy with some blonde, whilst she was home with the kids must have been humiliating. She always looks at him adoringly but he rarely looks at her during joint engagements

www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/20221206158914/kate-middleton-looks-at-prince-william-loved-up-earthshot-awards/

Are you sure about that?

No it isn’t well known. It’s gossip.

Does it not? One couple who get on with their ‘job’ without complaint. Who support their families and behave with dignity. The other who strop, moan and whine about how hard done by they are whilst living in luxury, causing untold misery to their families and embarrassing themselves hugely.

What have you ‘seen’ that proves William has had an affair? Do you know them personally then?

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 🤷‍♀️

As I said previously, do draw any comparisons you wish,and I see you have eked out a list.
wow, I mean such uncanny coincidence, your shared commonalities, such fortitude
Your fervent support of the incumbents has been noted and is predictable

Also an item for media studies is how the British press framed the ski trip. Instead of focusing on PW sleazing on young blondes, they instead splashed headlines about his ‘dad dancing’ and clips of him drunkenly dancing on his own … very clever and that’s all most ppl remember about it 😂

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.

She doesn’t seem to have been blessed with good family other than her mum which is a difficult thing. Her father has really let her down. She’s had to deal with a lot of racism from the press, public and her husbands family. She’s had mental health issues and felt suicidal, so the comments about never being unwell are not valid. No idea if she needed assistance having her children.

I guess some people see the things like money and glam country, whatever that means 😬 and think that equals being fortunate overall. It’s a good quality if you can think a bit deeper and realise anyone can struggle.

It's certainly known from what I've seen???

What've you seen then?

'She doesn’t seem to have been blessed with good family other than her mum which is a difficult thing. Her father has really let her down.'

Absolutely true, Meghan's family have been pretty horrible, but why then choose to go after the royal family rather than the Markles - why is that? Perhaps because no-one would be interested in salacious gossip about the Markles and it's all about the $$$$$$.

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.

@ancientgran Her parents had shared custody. She lived between both their houses.

Thanks, that makes sense. I couldn't work out why it would be her moving with her father, 50/50 seems more normal to me.

I think it gets alleged to make accusations against Meghan along the line of - you were happy to live with your father then and now you don't want anything to do with him.
It was shared custody as is fairly normal now. It says nothing about how well Meghan got on or did not get on with either parent.

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.