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.

and you do to know that this is not true?

Didn't you see Jack Brooksbank blank Harry at the Queen's funeral? As Mike Tindall said, 'Harry is a bellend'.

If anyone flung arms round me when I met them I would not be happy

Can @mnhq please explain to me why my post breaks talk guidelines?

it literally said calling someone out on their racism does not mean every British person is racist?

I haven’t even received an email as to why I’m
breaking guidelines?

Yeah, that's weird - I quoted it and see it now says your post was deleted 😕
Definitely didn't seem to break any rules, would be interested in the reasoning behind that one myself!

Well you would believe the wonderful Mime Tindall wouldn't you.
Never saw any blanking.

This is someone off topic and I haven't seen the documentary but from the details I have seen, Date 1 and Date 2 were at the same restaurant and fairly brief as they were sandwiched between other commitments. One of the date planning texts they released said to meet at 6:00 as they had another dinner at 8:00 so a pretty brief date if you have to be at another locationtwo hours later.

But then their third date was in Botswana?

How did they get from two short dinner dates to a multiday date on another continent?

Plane?

Things are different for these super wealthy people like the royal family who have never really had proper jobs or real life responsibilities and worries. They don’t see jetting off to here there and everywhere the way we do. Like how in Friends Pete tells Monica ‘let’s go for pizza’ then flies her to Italy. Just normal batty billionaire behaviour. Bet if I dated Elon Musk he’d shower hundred dollar bills by the fistful every time I pretended to laugh at one of his jokes.

It would be my nightmare to show up across the world to spend ten days in a 'tent' with someone I had briefly met twice. You just don't know them yet at all.

I think it's more that people project their own unacknowledged attitudes and insecurities onto her tbh.

What did she say that was so bad, OP? I think you are massively over-reacting, she came across as quite endearing here and open and admitted she didn't understand the differences. She is putting blame on herself for not knowing and is quite self-deprecative. She made me think more highly of her with this self-deprecative comment. I think you are reading something into it that wasn't meant.

If that's true OP then you would understand that Meghan didn't understand the differences in culture and you would appreciate her admitting she didn't know. It seems you expect her to think the British culture is the dominant culture and to know beforehand all that the British culture is. People are different, you know. Maybe you should consider that.

You don't seem very culturally tolerant, OP. You come across as superior and prejudiced. That's how you come across to me.

Meghan is playing the star role in her biggest series yet. Maybe life is too quiet and dull for her in America after all.

TBH, I think they should consider reviewing whether their training is fit for purpose.

I think that Meghan is no saint and I also think she experienced racism in the UK.

All these threads, Meghan, Meghan, Meghan. When it was Harry who sold his story, both in netflix and in his upcoming book.

This is life, since the beginning of time:
Flawed man - blame the wife.
Flawed woman - blame the woman. Pity the husband.

There is nothing 'wrong' with what Megan is saying, but from it I get the impression that she feels those around her should change/adapt to suit her and she shouldn't have to make any self effort. I hate to hug strangers, does that make me abusive?

I think this is the crux of the situation. I think she has persuaded Harry this is what being 'modern and emphatic' is, and to have to adapt yourself, toe the line or have a stiff upper lip is oppressive. I think this may have been the subject of the conversation with the RF member who stated his wife had to get through it (media attention).

I was delighted when I heard about H&Ms engagement, but I remember hearing an interview where she said she was going to drag the RF into the 21 century, or words to that effect, i remember it struck me as a little presumptuous.

From hearing reports from aides and household staff, and then looking and listening to M&H say, I think we can deduce M is a bit narcissistic, she is probably not a 'bad' person, but I dont think she will drop the narrative until she feels she has come out on top.

she feels those around her should change/adapt to suit her and she shouldn't have to make any self effort. I hate to hug strangers, does that make me abusive?

But she never said that or even implied it? She just said she didn't realise or know that formalities weren't dropped in private. She was only making a comment! She never said.. everyone should be a hugger!
I'm a hugger given the chance but never ever hug anyone who doesn't reach out for me. Does that mean I think everyone should change for me? No.

😂

I think you are massively over-reacting, she came across as quite endearing here and open and admitted she didn't understand the differences.

Endearing 😂😁😂

She implies the attitude of the RF and lack of support affected her mental health. No one is right or wrong, we have to accept difference.

We are making inference based on articles, podcasts and one sided TV shows. But some cold hard facts we do know.

M&Hs household staff made a formal complainr about her.
M&H had staff resigned in unprecedented numbers.
M reduced staff to tears
M had support/coaching for her Royal duties.
M has cut off her own famly
M dumped a previous husband in a very cold manner.

This behaviour doesn't fit very well with the poor naive but kind caring Megan persona we see on Netflix. Just a bit fishy ( and very disapointing) in my opinion, she could have used her appeal in a great way. As a tax payer I expect the RF to deliver. Just as well she stepped back as she didnt pass.

It reads like she is USING Eugenie (from Harry's family) and her niece (from her family) as covers to show that she is not the problem but the rest of their estranged families are. She needs one person from each family to deviously demonstrate that she can get along when the opposite is true.

They allow her to use them because Eugenie has negative feelings towards her family on behalf of her mum as does the niece. It does not change the fact that she is using them to mask her unpleasantness .

Grossly insulting?! Get a grip. You've led an extremely privileged life if someone saying she didn't realise that the formalities of the royal family extend into personal settings gets you so worked up.

GET. A. GRIP.

If that's true OP then you would understand that Meghan didn't understand the differences in culture and you would appreciate her admitting she didn't know.

She comes from America. She knows you don't automatically hug everyone you meet for the first time. 🙄 But I can understand her telling the differences in how she behaves but not why she had to make out that W&C are always formal and reserved in private. That's just not true. It just seemed like yet another dig at Catherine.