Harry and Meghan - Fairytale or not?!

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After watching the Netflix series - I’m just in awe at how perfect their relationship is. How in awe he is of his wife, and how strong they are as a couple.

Does love like that really exist?!

"LOOK AT US EVERYONE. WE ARE IN LURVE. THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE JUST IN CASE YOU NEED AN EXAMPLE TO FOLLOW! NOBODY IN HIS FAMILY HAS EVER BEEN IN LOVE. FOLLOW US AND YOU WILL LEARN HOW BUT YOU WONT GET TO THIS LEVEL BECAUSE WE ARE THE FIRST SINCE ADAM AND EVE!"

I think their relationship has a strong sense of "us against the world" and "aren't we special!" which unites them. If the newspapers, social media, TV channels, forums such as this all stopped giving them publicity I'm not sure what would happen. If nobody was there fueling this idea victimhood - or there being sycophantic - then what would they have? I don't know the answer.

I think that starved of any publicity they might struggle.

It would be nice to be wrong.

Good grief, are you feeling OK?!

No it can't be Richmal C(r) ompton because it's not 'Just William', it's both Kate AND William that Meghan and Harry want to drag down.

I was being tongue in cheek about the writer.

Wow I never expected so many replies, most of them quite thoughtful but this post made me laugh.

Also the post that resonated with me the most was, starved of any publicity, what would be their identity? Do they need this identity in order to be strong, or are they strong without it?

It is beautiful to think that love like that exists, that it can look pretty much perfect. But when you have maids, and nannies, all the money to do the dream career and projects and you have access to fabulous healthcare etc and you don’t have to to worry about who looks after the kids if you get sick etc. Life would look pretty rosy too, if that wa available to everyone.

Racism occurs everywhere, and some people even get murdered or torchered because of it. They were lucky they had the means to escape, money and contacts that were available. Many people are stuck in situations they don’t want to be in, out of absolute misfortune, and live in fear.

I don’t think love like theirs exist, because there environment is very unlike majority of people, so the fact they try to ‘relate’ to normal people makes
me feel - I don’t know what the word is.

*their environment

So you admitted you had to Google the place and then launched into a lengthy story/narrative that you've made up in your head to justify the racism so clear in this article.. Anybody who grew up listening to rap in the 90s will know that Compton was famous for 'black-on-black' gang violence/drug crime

That's not true. In Jason Knauf's evidence to the court during Meghan's court case he presented a detailed account of action they took against the press on Meghan's behalf. They did protest a number of stories directly with the newspapers and were successful in preventing other stories from appearing. You can't take Meghan's word for it when she says these things. She isn't telling the truth and was proven to have lied in court. Jason Knauf's evidence was probably partly why she was only awarded £1 in damages for invasion of privacy (or however it's worded) and is also why she hates him so much.

Ahaha I didn't know this. So they did the interview for free and they got the house for free - it's a great deal, no paper trail for the tax man

@bakalava 🤣🤣🤣

It's reminiscent of the Mandela Foundation and Harry's UN speech.
The MF had made a documentary but couldn't sell it. H&M bought it and took it to Netflix. The MF invited Harry to speak to the UN.
So Harry gives money to MF, and in return Harry gets to speak at the UN.
The relationships between the famous and wealthy seem very incestuous.

I hope they are deeply in love and happy and I hope for their sake that it stays that way.

They do seem to portray that it is them against the world. I’m not sure that it is entirely healthy or indeed helpful to be so dependent.

I’m not convinced that some of the choices they are making are necessarily ones made by genuinely happy people and I am not sure that when you are deeply in love you need to ‘prove’ it to anyone else by showing private moments of how in love you are. Why should anyone need such earnest convincing?

Ultimately no one knows but them. Not really.

But for their sake? I do hope it is a fairytale. It will be a bloody awful place to be if it is not.

I thought Oprah hated her according to bitches people on here

The thing that annoys me about them is most people are in the public eye for a specific reason e.g to promote a film, an album, but their whole claim to fame to to whinge about the royal family. Ok, now what? Why are they both obsessed with being famous for the sake of it? Just move on with your lives.

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I think the press has always been waiting in the wings for a ‘rags to riches’ type story to raise its head and that this is what they have been obsessed with over Meghan, on the whole. Not the colour of her skin

you have to be absolutely beyond the pale to get wound up over skin colour in the UK. Who the fuck cares about it? On the whole no one gives a shit about Meghan’s heritage apart from a very small number of ‘haters’

the press made quite a big deal about the fact Kate’s family were ‘normal’ folk. The fact Meghan was an actress and came from a split family in a rough part of the US was absolute fodder.

on the whole that has been the main angle the press has persisted with, not her skin colour.

This morning I saw a Facebook post of some people’s Christmas with many hashtags along the lines of “The World’s Most Wonderful Family” and, worse, “This is the family everyone wants to be in”

It reminded me of H&M’s professions of love and romance. Why the need to hit people over the head with a sledgehammer about it? It’s too much.

Frankly the only people I know who live their life as a couple permanently in giddy love alienated their dcs. Who was it who said The children of lovers are orphans?

My God, this is my parents’ personalities and marriage. My Dad lost his Mum at 12. 😔

Yes, the press tried to make out that Charles and William married “commoners” so when Meghan came along they had a field day.

Constitutionally, it's significant that senior members of the Royal Family are marrying individuals who don't trace their ancestry back to members of the aristocracy. Historically, this is a significant departure from tradition and may or may not indicate a correlation between evolutions in society and evolutions within the institution of the British Royal Family. The trend, I think, is about fifty years old.

Diana Spencer was an aristocrat by birth, but Prince Edward's wife Sophie was not. Andrew's wife Sarah Ferguson did have aristocratic antecedents, going back generations, I think. I don't think Princess Anne's first husband, Mark Phillips, did.

Interestingly, I think that on her father's side, Kate Middleton had some gentry antecedents - but not aristocratic. If you go back far enough, lots of people have 'blue blood'. Doesn't Danny Dyer, the Eastenders actor, have royal blood to about four English kings?

I don't agree with the Press reporting on a person's social antecedents or ethnic ones, at all. Especially not now. We know that the Royal Family and aristocracy don't only marry other aristocrats, as they did 100 years ago. Unless the press are going to make clear why they are doing it: to show the way the Royal Family is 'modernising' their structure, if that is what the journalist thinks is happening, then don't say it because it it isn't following the principle that everybody in British Society has an equal right to try for any job or position, regardless of social/ ethnic background, and as long as they are qualified.

I can see the press might want to write about constitutional and historic change, but the cack-handed way they are going to do it to make it snappy, will only obscure their meaning and leave readers thinking that they are being personally unkind to the person marrying in. I'm not convinced that most people care about historic constitutional evolutions, so I think they can cross it off the list of key angles every newspaper article should contain when written about a royal marriage. Time, date, guests, BBC or ITV, is sufficient.

AppleDumplingWithCustard · 23/12/2022 19:24
In awe? He’s fucking terrified in case he displeases her.

This. He would be losing his mother all over again.

You do realise it's a work of fiction?

There's not a chance in Hell that Meghan would have fallen in love with Harry if he'd just been plain Mr Harry Windsor, a logistics manager for Amazon. She married him to further her career and profile.

Agree with TheRedLip
The relationship is codependent and unhealthy.
The fact that their bond is based on being estranged from their families says a lot.

Unfortunately it worked.