Am shocked Meghan said this…

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She said: 'Even when Will and Kate came over and I was meeting her for the first time I remember I was in ripped jeans, I was bare foot, like I was a hugger, I have always been a hugger I didn't realise that is really jarring for a lot of Brits.'

'I started to understand that the formality on the outside carried through on the inside, that there is a forward facing way of being and then you close the door and thing OK we can relax now, but that formality carries over on both sides and that was surprising to me.'

What an utterly horrible thing to say about your sister and brother-in-law. I am done with her now. People are DIFFERENT Meghan. We are not all like you you you you.

But I am ethnically Jewish so sit back down. I did (and still do) find the Nazi dressing up really offensive.

I was being sarcastic. I agree with you.

Ok, sorry!

It's not Anne's fault Mark Phillips couldn't keep his pants on.

@bakalava No worries. I try to stay out of these threads but sometimes frustration gets the better of me.

@CoffeandTiaMaria Are they really doing irreparable damage to 'everyone'? I mean it's been a rough ride but I think my family are just about coping with this shocking revelation and I think we can repair the damage that she has obviously caused us!!

The RF will be fine, they survived all the drama in the 90s and I'm sure William and Katherine et al will just about cope somehow. The royal family have very good PR nowadays (as these threads always show).

Totally agree. I was just pointing out about scandals and stuff going on within a family.

I agree but the British do it all the time. If someone asks you how you are , you are meant to say ‘ fine ‘ not tell them all about your latest doctors visit.

‘we must have a coffee soon’ is just a way of closing a conversation, it doesn’t mean as my relative does ; ‘let’s get out diaries’ and sort a date now . However I hate the US constant smiling and wishing you a ‘happy holidays’ when they don’t know me from Adam , and really don’t care, they just want my tip. So it goes both ways .

Can people not change?
The Nazi costume was nearly 20 years ago now.
I remember reading in an interview with him that meeting Meghan opened his eyes to racism, he saw it through a new lens so to speak, will try to find a link to it.
Experiences change and shape you.

I know I should too. I just watched it back-to-back and need to get it out of my system. They were paid to provoke a big reaction and get more people watching Netflix so I am only doing what they hoped. I think they both have a tendency to troll themselves!

Good take.

Harry really botched this. I am no huge fan of the stiff W&C but if W really did advise caution, and slowing down, he was right.

Still can't get over the use of the Queen's nickname, either.

Thewomantheycantcalljayne I would assume that once W & C know people and know they can trust them they relax in private company.
When they were meeting M for the first time they probably still needed to be on their guard. They cant relax immediately the way we can with new people because who knows what stories would be sold about them if they did.

Seems W & C had their finger in the pulse? Sadly it still didnt protect them.

I find that alien. I'd never say that to someone just to close a conversation. I'd expect them to get in touch with me to arrange a time! I'd just close the conversation appropriately.

I'd look further up the line of succession for that particular problem!

And Meghan did very quickly take a story about Kate to a Toronto gossip columnist that she already knew, that was published early in 2017 (Snobby Kate wouldn’t give Meghan a list to the shops) so they weren’t wrong about being on their guard…

And ? She is right . In fact I’m not a fan but I admit I like the Netflix documentary , I’m surprised I’m finding myself seeing her in a much better light .

Nor me, and I’m probably one of the older MNers.
And I have never met anyone more hellbent on finding fault, and selling it presumably to the highest bidder, with with as many members of one family as she is.
I don’t hate her as a person (I don’t know her obviously) but her behaviour stinks, as does Harry’s.

This is how I took it too. Trying to make herself out to be this down to earth, warm neighbour next door person and then there is Kate cold and formal and all RF. It was a direct comparison of again, I am so great and she is so awful.

And huggers who like to grab people they have never met need to learn personal boundaries. I can't stand when people grab and hug me.

She may have been a bit surprised to find out they were a more formal or reserved family than she had expected behind closed doors but that happens everywhere. Usually you ask your partner what to expect when meeting their family. Are they formal or informal, huggers or not, like flowers or no, barefoot or shoes etc People ask about dress for simple events, much less than meeting your partner's family, particularly when RF, for the first time.

That's my recollection and impression too, but if you go back to the 80s there was this press 'rivalry' between Diana and Sarah. Once Sarah joined the family Diana could do no wrong and Sarah was dreadful.

She's 25pc black given Pa was Dutch and Ma was half white IMHO

Meghan's mother is not half white. See pic below with her obviously black grandparents.

Hardly the worst thing that's come out of her mouth

It's a fair excuse.
I've been bitten on the bottom in similar circumstances with no decent reason

You're quite right, though - that sentence really needed a comma to make sense in the way that - I'm sure - the poster meant.

I am not sure what more Meghan wants. Everyone to love her? She has the money and fame that she wanted, she got what she wanted from the RF and then left. She has her husband and kids and life in California hob knobbing with the rich and famous. What is the purpose of this?

I dunno I would make a bit of effort to my appearance at meeting my sil for the first time - why wouldn’t you?! Why would you wanna look like a slob?

all this ‘take me as you find me’ stuff is a bit arrogant in my opinion

The purpose of what?
The documentary,?
If you watch it, they say themselves - there's many people out there, telling their story, people they don't know, have never met.... 😕..... so wouldn't it make more sense to hear their story from them , not strangers, or people with their own take on them?
With Harry and Meghan on this one, makes complete sense to me.

@bakalava This I agree with. I don't actually mind H&M at all (although can't really say I care much) and I do think Harry was sincere in his apologies, and despite that massively racist incident I don't think he's racist. But some of the same people who were are fine with this seemingly won't entertain any kind of apology from David Baddiel. Because, well...