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The "Where's Meghan" Question Has Been Definitively Answered ...

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MrsMaxDeWinter · 30/01/2023 11:50

She's been busy!

I hope that those who expressed concern will be happy to know that she has been working with the Archewell team on their just released Impact Report.

Meghan and Harry are polarising figures but there is no doubt that they have galvanising power to get projects, both little and big, off the ground.

Harry, with William and Kate, was a co-founder of the Royal Foundation in 2011. They had a start-up fund of just under 5 million pounds, of which 1.3 million pounds was given away in grants.

10 yrs later, Harry and Meghan set up Archewell, with start up funds of 13 million dollars, and give away three million dollars in grants.

As with both foundations, the reserve is carried over.

The range of their projects is interesting, from working with the Vaccine Alliance to raise private sector contributions to distribute vaccines, endowing academic fellowships, working with partners in resettling refugees from Ukraine and Afghanistan, working with World Central Kitchens, to smaller projects like the Uvalde community playground and park and a really cute project to a small charity that gives free hair braiding to young black girls in Texas.

archewell.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/The-Archewell-Foundation-Impact-Report-2020-2022.pdf

I am so pleased for them, their advisors and staff as this is a dream start for any start up. I have long been sceptical that they may have spread themselves too thinly, so I am glad to see they are now focusing on just three areas, as they find their groove.

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Ohnonevermind · 30/01/2023 21:39

i’m not twisting anything. they are her words. She just airbrushed her siblings out of her childhood, despite them living with her 🤷‍♀️

she didn’t say ‘essentially an only child’ why don’t you google the interview. ?

Perhaps if Meghan hadn’t been so spiteful feeding stuff to Omid Scobie about her siblings relations might not be so strained today ?

Aspiringmatriarch · 30/01/2023 21:50

Ohnonevermind · 30/01/2023 21:39

i’m not twisting anything. they are her words. She just airbrushed her siblings out of her childhood, despite them living with her 🤷‍♀️

she didn’t say ‘essentially an only child’ why don’t you google the interview. ?

Perhaps if Meghan hadn’t been so spiteful feeding stuff to Omid Scobie about her siblings relations might not be so strained today ?

Yes, she said she grew up as an only child. If you have older half siblings who are already adults, have moved out and don't have much to do with your life then that's fair enough. You're growing up on your own, you're self reliant, you don't have those sibling relationships. They didn't live with her. And I saw the interview, thanks.
Anyway I'm totally bored of the microscope on Meghan's every utterance, what she said is really not a big deal and makes sense in terms of her experience. Probably was a bit pointed too given that they're both completely odious people. And I'm sure you know Samantha was publicly very spiteful long before Omid started his book.

Ohnonevermind · 30/01/2023 21:57

My mum says two wrongs don’t make a right.
Meghan stooped as low as her sister, and made herself look as spiteful and petty as her siblings

So much for Harry saying she never has a bad word for anyone 😀

MrsMaxDeWinter · 30/01/2023 22:33

Ohnonevermind · 30/01/2023 19:57

@MrsMaxDeWinter

Why don’t you take your own advice ? ‘Just because something is said does not mean you to pay attention to it’ Why are you quoting her brother from you tube.. Why don’t you just ignore it ?

But didn’t say Meghan say she was ‘an only child’ in an interview. He must be a figment of your imagination

Indeed, Meghan grew up as an only child. Her father and mother had just her.

But yes, she has a half-sister from her father's first marriage who is 17 years older and a half-brother who is 15 years older. I assumed everyone knew the set up so didn't say "half."

From the age of 2, when her parents separated, she lived with her mother and visited her dad at weekends. By the time she moved to live with her dad in high school, both her sibs had begun to have her own children, and she would obviously have seen them when they visited but they did not "grow up" together as the older two were already grown.

That's the potted history of the Markle sibs!

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debbrianna · 30/01/2023 22:35

MrsMaxDeWinter · 30/01/2023 20:05

@debbrianna

It's a riot.

If you have 20 minutes to kill, get to YouTube. It's utterly insane. Last week, Samantha did no less than three rounds of interviews. She is the closest some of the conspiracists get to Meghan so they ask stuff like did she really slap Charlotte, did she collect her frozen eggs, did she use a surrogate etc. And Samantha whose currency is that she is in the know, gives some very strange circular answers, then she is invited to the next one. Tom Jr is off the scale wacky with his rubber chicken.

Meghan needs to stay away from that hot mess! I felt a little sorry for her dad until I saw him high giving some of the worst conspiracists.

I think I will stop at snippets from the DM that gets posted about. I am not going to the pits of YouTube.🤭

Coronateachingagain · 30/01/2023 22:46

Wimbz20 · 30/01/2023 13:56

Nobody asked about her actually 🤷🏻‍♀️

😅

Coronateachingagain · 30/01/2023 22:49

Ohnonevermind · 30/01/2023 20:29

Unfortunately looking at their choice to pick the lion king over the veterans awards , they seem to run faster towards the higher profile higher paying appearances.

So much for Invictus - only if it fits the schedule - as they were there to get voiceover jobs weren't they? (Harry's quote)

Ohnonevermind · 30/01/2023 22:52

@MrsMaxDeWinter

Most people manage to acknowledge their ‘half’ siblings, it reflects rather badly on you that you think that half siblings don’t count as siblings. It’s not very inclusive of you.

her father had three children, not the one per your post above

Ohnonevermind · 30/01/2023 23:09

Perhaps if her siblings had been rich and successful she might have acknowledged their existence 😀

MrsMaxDeWinter · 30/01/2023 23:11

@debbrianna

I am fascinated by the psychology of "anti-fans", people who obsessively dislike a public figure but spend time obsessing over them with others. One term for it is "shared hate."

www.refinery29.com/en-gb/2021/06/10518195/megxit-meghan-markle-anti-fandom

Am also fascinated by the idea of Meghan as a "disruptors", here's an academic paper on the subject if you are interested.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14680777.2021.1928258?journalCode=rfms20

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Coronateachingagain · 30/01/2023 23:14

Ohnonevermind · 30/01/2023 23:09

Perhaps if her siblings had been rich and successful she might have acknowledged their existence 😀

😅😳

Aspiringmatriarch · 30/01/2023 23:17

Ohnonevermind · 30/01/2023 21:57

My mum says two wrongs don’t make a right.
Meghan stooped as low as her sister, and made herself look as spiteful and petty as her siblings

So much for Harry saying she never has a bad word for anyone 😀

No she didn't, what a ridiculous claim 🤣. She pointed out a few pertinent facts and said they don't have a relationship. After multiple public attacks from Samantha including a bonkers book called Princess Pushy in which she complained about the then two year old Meghan throwing some raspberries on the floor! Samantha also has no relationship with her children who have made it clear how abusive and unstable she is.

Aspiringmatriarch · 30/01/2023 23:19

Ohnonevermind · 30/01/2023 22:52

@MrsMaxDeWinter

Most people manage to acknowledge their ‘half’ siblings, it reflects rather badly on you that you think that half siblings don’t count as siblings. It’s not very inclusive of you.

her father had three children, not the one per your post above

Your comments are getting loopier and loopier! How about focusing on your own life instead of critiquing someone else's family dynamics that you know nothing about?

Ohnonevermind · 30/01/2023 23:21

@Aspiringmatriarch

She told Jason to tell Omid (for his book)that her sister had dropped out of high school and had three children with different fathers.

Going High there Meghan 🤣

MrsMaxDeWinter · 30/01/2023 23:28

Ohnonevermind · 30/01/2023 22:52

@MrsMaxDeWinter

Most people manage to acknowledge their ‘half’ siblings, it reflects rather badly on you that you think that half siblings don’t count as siblings. It’s not very inclusive of you.

her father had three children, not the one per your post above

Her mother and father had one child. Her father had two others, who become adults as she was growing up. I was referring to the fact that she "grew up" as the only child of her parents. You don't have to be particularly imaginative to see that blended families are difficult to navigate especially with such large age gaps. And it can't have been easy for Doria to hear herself referred to as "The Maid" by her step daughter, a nickname her own brother and father confirmed to Andrew Morton.

But you are definitely right about the disparity in wealth: if the siblings had been more successful in their own lives, things may well have been different and they may have been less resentful. Estrangement seems to be a Markle pattern as well: Samantha is estranged from her own mother and the three children she did not raise. Meghan's dad has no contact with any of his five other grandkids, and Tom Jnr is estranged from his two kids by his first wife. Now Meghan is estranged from all of them. It's a hot mess.

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Socrateswasrightaboutvoting · 30/01/2023 23:32

F4chrissakes · 30/01/2023 12:54

Hair braiding charity? My, oh my, we really need that, don't we?

God forbid any charity would address black issues. I would stick to pillowcases if If were you. That seems much more up your street.

Socrateswasrightaboutvoting · 30/01/2023 23:34

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 30/01/2023 13:09

Hair braiding?

Good to see black issues are so funny. Do you hand embroider your pillowcases or machine stitch?

Ohnonevermind · 30/01/2023 23:34

her siblings were discarded as she had no use for them.

Her poor uncle who got her the internship was discarded too once he longer had value.

not very nice

Socrateswasrightaboutvoting · 30/01/2023 23:35

Dreamstate · 30/01/2023 14:42

Well even more bizarre then that if your having to use places that provide 'charity' and 'help' to then bash other charities for doing the same isn't it. Which is my point of those on here who have been. If you don't like H&M keep it about them, don't then disparage the good work the foundation and charities they've funded to help people who need it. Imagine if one of those charities was a food bank, really going to sit there and bash the food bank for helping people with food...of course not but seems like a charity helping kids with their hair is of course perfectly okay to bash.

This.

MrsMaxDeWinter · 30/01/2023 23:36

@Socrateswasrightaboutvoting

It all went down hill from there.

Imagine disliking someone so much you sneer at a charity that does a lovely thing for poor and homeless black kids. I was even told the project was sexist because boys can also have braids. As was the Grenfell cookbook apparently because men also cook. In other words, Meghan supports sexist projects. You can't make this stuff up. All you can do is sit and wonder and laugh😂

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Ohnonevermind · 30/01/2023 23:37

I wonder if her uncle was a retired ambassador (rather than plain embassy staff
living in a trailer park) would he have made the cut too and got a wedding invite

MrsMaxDeWinter · 30/01/2023 23:41

Ohnonevermind · 30/01/2023 23:37

I wonder if her uncle was a retired ambassador (rather than plain embassy staff
living in a trailer park) would he have made the cut too and got a wedding invite

The best I can suggest, as we will never know, is that you should build a time machine, travel back in time and advise him to become an ambassador, then fast forward to the wedding and let us know how it turned out. Good luck!

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Ohnonevermind · 30/01/2023 23:44

@MrsMaxDeWinter

We both know the answer - he probably would have been sitting next to her long term bestie Oprah 🤣

Socrateswasrightaboutvoting · 30/01/2023 23:56

MrsMaxDeWinter · 30/01/2023 23:36

@Socrateswasrightaboutvoting

It all went down hill from there.

Imagine disliking someone so much you sneer at a charity that does a lovely thing for poor and homeless black kids. I was even told the project was sexist because boys can also have braids. As was the Grenfell cookbook apparently because men also cook. In other words, Meghan supports sexist projects. You can't make this stuff up. All you can do is sit and wonder and laugh😂

People like this are exactly why this country is going to hell in a handcart. I can only hope that Darwin is right "It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change". Some genes really should not be passed down!

onlylarkin · 30/01/2023 23:59

MrsMaxDeWinter · 30/01/2023 23:11

@debbrianna

I am fascinated by the psychology of "anti-fans", people who obsessively dislike a public figure but spend time obsessing over them with others. One term for it is "shared hate."

www.refinery29.com/en-gb/2021/06/10518195/megxit-meghan-markle-anti-fandom

Am also fascinated by the idea of Meghan as a "disruptors", here's an academic paper on the subject if you are interested.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14680777.2021.1928258?journalCode=rfms20

Thanks for posting these. I, too, am interested in the psychology of it all. I look forward to reading these once I finally finish the book.

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