Anyone else thinks it telling MM had no family besides her mum at the wedding, no exes & she's no longer talking to ex bff & her bridesmaid Jessica Mulroany?

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Anyone else think it's telling Meghan only had Doria at the wedding? No other family member!
None of her exes were there, Harry invited Chelsea & Cressida & both attended.
Before Harry Meghan & her stylist & bff Jessica Mulroany were inseparable, now they don't talk. Coincidently Jessica was part of the top echelons of Canadian society so did Meghan no longer need her friendship when she married the Prince of England?

Of course, they would have been crazy to turn down an invite to a Royal wedding. Why would they? It’s excellent publicity for them.

Same as the z listers smiling in OK at a no body out of Eastenders wedding, pretending they are best mates but they have never met.

I’m not a fan of Meghan but I completely understand why she didn’t invite her father and sister to the wedding.

I have to say I'm not on either 'team' - and hate how everything is so polarised nowadays, no critical thinking or nuances - but washing your dirty linen in public for money, and accepting a prize for standing up for 'structural racism' in the RF when you're more than happy (in fact desperate) to trade on the connections and wanting titles, is just beyond awful.

Saying that, to invite exes to a wedding is surely the exception rather than the norm, no?

Do we know for sure that Meghan wanted the big, state wedding (especially since she mentioned, even if not strictly true, the private service a few days before)? Maybe she didn't just because of the fact she was somehow ashamed of her family (and I can understand why in relation to several of them)?

Saying that, and as pointed out by another poster, I'm surprised that neither M&H went to see her dad before the engagement/wedding (or did they?).

Query I have is this - why did Meghan live with her father for so many years after Doria and he split up/divorced? And how long was it for?

Still, odd to invite celebrities and not your old school mates. I do find that those friends/acquaintances I have who seem to 'go off' friends or leave them behind, always seem to be fairly anxious/glass half-full type of people. Most of my more settled friends (and I) have friendships lasting from primary age.

Am loling at the outrage by some of discussing H&M (the H&M who have a Netflix series out, a book and countless TV interviews ongoing) on a RF thread.

Personally, I think the RF are vacuous, pointless and highly dysfunctional. But if they want to parade themselves either for entertainment or duty (doing their 'pseudo-jobs' as one commentator so neatly put it), I am very happy to be entertained.

I also have massive sympathy for Diana (my era) and thought she was royally stitched up (pun intended) from her 'courtship' through to marriage.
The paparazzi might have caused her accident, but it was the RF (and actually, her own unsupportive family - 'your face is on the tea towels - too late to pull out now!') wot led her there.

Harry knows the RF are culpable for this, but one of them is also his dad, so no wonder he is so screwed up.

The scumbag litteraly sold his granny's soul for a few quid

I mean, who bought her soul? Where is she now?

'glass half empty' rather!

This is judgement from the site that regularly advises others to go no contact with their friends, relatives, parents, exes, or anyone else they have concievably met in life????? Talk about double standards.

There is virtually nothing on this thread past the fact that there was a wedding that is verifiable. She's been blamed for wanting a big wedding (did she, who says she did) but if they'd eloped with a couple of people MN would have been down on her like a ton of bricks for denying them all the gossip about the wedding.

If people have nothing better to do than make up facts, pass them off as true, then speculate about them is viscious and bullying ways, then they are (a) sadly lacking a life and (b) actually a hell of a lot worse than the person they are talking about.

I know it may come as a shock to many around here, but nobody in the royal family, past or present, is a paragon of virtue, and the way people are acting around here, you'd think that this was a personal attack on their beloved granny. The royal family has always been dysfunctional, throughout history. That's what living in a rarified atmosphere where people bow and scrape does for you.

I'm not sure she DID want the big wedding.

Query I had is, how many years did she live with her dad, apart from her mum, and why?

If I was in her position & also a divorcee I would have said " H can we have a small intimate service with immediate family" but no she had to have the big state affair

She was marrying the heir presumptive, a senior royal, son of the then future King. There was no choice but to have a big state affair. It would have been seen as disrespectful to the people, and to all the state dignitaries who are invited to royal weddings, not to do it properly and exclude them all.

Anyway, how do you know Harry didn't want it that way? The book implies that he's hugely resentful of William's position. Not that he had any choice either.

She did invite her dad - he was supposed to walk her down the aisle

Have said before, the whole part about him never made sense to me. He goes awol the day before he was due to picked up, you hear he is in hospital, you think someone's taken over his phone and you just leave it? Just never speak to him again ?

She does have friends some were in the Netflix thing and there was the lady with 2 daughters who were bridesmaids (sat near Doria)

But yes all a bit odd especially the niece - I don't even get the 'advice' given that it would look strange given the half-sister never mind taking that advice

Same as the z listers smiling in OK at a no body out of Eastenders wedding, pretending they are best mates but they have never met.

Well quite. Everyone is schmoozing around for favours. No depth to these "friendships".

But where were all these amazing strong women & their children that helped raise her? Sure of course she can pay "friends" to go on Netflix saying how great she is. Why weren't they at the wedding or baby shower? Why weren't they bridesmaids?
Amal Clooney who claimed not to know her( & distanced herself from the Sussex pair the second they spoke badly of the monarchy) was at the baby shower.. Where were her family, cousins & childhood friends?!

I think people are this overly invested in believing a “Meghan is a narc and a sociopath, here’s some random evidence” because the alternative is to believe (some of) what Harry is saying – which would mean dismantling strongly held royalist beliefs that the bloodline is somehow special, and must be venerated. The rage and the obsession against Meghan for her “crime” of leaving, and taking Harry with her, is really quite something: is the royal family, who do not give two hoots about the general public (except so far as they need the public to prop up their position), really worth this level of energy? The royals wouldn’t expend this level of energy on you.

Prince of England?????? Really OP?

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/william-kate-name-childhood-friends-2368319

Kate & William still have their childhood friends! Where are Meghan's? We know where the Markles are, where are the Raglands? Why were they not at the wedding, baby shower etc? Serious red flag alert!

Totally agree, pelargoniums. Marina Hyde (brilliant Guardian journalist) nailed it when she wrote 'no one who is actually IN the Royal family is even one tenth as mad as some people are ABOUT the Royal family'

She's estranged from her family & childhood friends. Now Harry is in the same situation.. It's not hard to put two & two together. Misery loves company.

I know it may come as a shock to many around here, but nobody in the royal family, past or present, is a paragon of virtue, and the way people are acting around here, you'd think that this was a personal attack on their beloved granny. The royal family has always been dysfunctional, throughout history. That's what living in a rarified atmosphere where people bow and scrape does for you.

Hear hear

No she still has her childhood friends. And she's estranged from her own family for GOOD REASON, as Harry is. Your narrow-minded ignorance tells a lot about you.

MM was a divorced millionaire TV star, her best friends were people in her circle , like Serena Williams, the billionaire Tyler Perry , black people who have her back. She knows people like Abigal Spencer, actors like her. She attended a very white private school , I have a very dear friend, black, single parent background who went to private school who knows none of of his old classmates.

Comparing her to Kate, a white upper middle classed girl who had done nothing in her life and met William when she was a virgin teenager, is utterly pointless ....

At the same time, I do like the way MM triggers certain people.🤗

Its a great way to delve into someone, 'What do you think of Meghan' lol!!!

Best friends who dropped her like a hot snot when they realised what lying liabilities the Sussex pair are🤔

Thomas Markle said he didn't receive a wedding invitation. Did it get lost in the post? Was he lying? Or was he never invited in the first place.

when did the phrase 'dropping someone like a hot snot' become thing?