Sasha Walpole

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I really really like her!! She's so respectful, humble, funny, chill and genuinely lovely! No drama, no backstabbing, no dissing the royals or even Harry. What a thoroughly nice person!

If Harry had stuck with her and she had stuck with him, they would likely have been a fantastic duo and I fully expect Harry would have turned out far more normal, down to Earth and waaaaaaay less wokey/therapy-speak/narcissistic & self absorbed etc.. (though might not have had such a positive impact on Sasha!)

Sasha, u r awesome!

Sasha has definitely not stepped forward for fame. She would have had a glow up if that was what it was about. There are a set of procedures which fame hungry wannabees go through to look presentable on TV and hopefully get noticed for bigger roles. Just ask Meghan or have a look at the Love Island contestants.

The usual suspects are using PM (who is objectively an advanced level idiot) to discredit Sasha. Actually, I think the fact that she didn't rise to any of his goadiness and didn't turn the interview into a bitch fest against H&M does her even more credit. She just told her side of the event and nothing more, she didn't say anything more or less than the original interview. The woman's life has been turned upside down, and lord only knows what she and her family will have to put up with going forward. If she's getting compensated for it, then good for her.

I will say this again. There is no way she would have been able to hide from the tabloids. She and the friendship group were already on their radar back in 2001, because they were the same crowd that went to the Rattlebone Inn with Harry, which was the focus of a tabloid investigation into his drug taking (and also a police investigation). Why do you think the tabloids have pictures of him cavorting around with these stable girls from 2001? Because they were being watched. Once they had eliminated the likely Elizabeth Hurley types, they would have been looking at this crowd. Lots of their friends knew something had happened in the field that night. Either SW let them blab to the press, and put up with being doorstepped and forced to respond, or she took the narrative herself. She was brave enough to take the reins (pun intended) and good for her.

And bloody hell, do none of you H&M fans care about how Harry's version might have hurt and humiliated her? Making her out to be some Mrs Robinson seducer who treated him like an animal? She was barely an adult herself. He was her friend. He turned up to a party with a gift and a card with a sweet message about their friendship. He was apparently trying to comfort her distress at the sight of his ex and new gf (anyone remember how much broken teenage romances hurt like hell?). He made the first move. She is incredibly gracious about never having contact with him again, but it must be devastating to feel that this is what he thought of her. And then for it to be put in print for the world to speculate about? With zero notice from Harry? And she hasn't complained, she's just gently explained the situation without all Harry's dramatic embellishment. She's a bloody impressive, classy woman who can hold her head high.

I do indeed care and I believe I have been consistent with a sympathetic approach throughout. I really wish she hadn’t gone on Pier’s show - he really is an all around bad actor when it comes to Meghan.

Have you seen his wife? There was a topic of conversation which allowed him to make money, same as for all the other journos. Why wouldn't he?

Sasha seems like a nice, hard working woman who has been put in a difficult position by Harry. He should have had enough sense to realise the press would ferret her out. If he had any decency he would apologise to her and her family.

I don’t like Piers Morgan and find his obsession with Meghan strange and more than a little creepy. I hope Sasha was paid heaps for the interview.

I always find you to be reasonable and measured, skullbabe.

And bloody hell, do none of you H&M fans care about how Harry's version might have hurt and humiliated her? Making her out to be some Mrs Robinson seducer who treated him like an animal? She was barely an adult herself. He was her friend. He turned up to a party with a gift and a card with a sweet message about their friendship. He was apparently trying to comfort her distress at the sight of his ex and new gf (anyone remember how much broken teenage romances hurt like hell?). He made the first move. She is incredibly gracious about never having contact with him again, but it must be devastating to feel that this is what he thought of her. And then for it to be put in print for the world to speculate about? With zero notice from Harry? And she hasn't complained, she's just gently explained the situation without all Harry's dramatic embellishment

That's quite a lot of embellishment there yourself, you should write a fan fic! 😂I think Sasha is fine now, she's had her say, she seems pretty jolly about it all and presumably made a bit of money. Far worse things have happened/are happening to people in the world than being known for shagging a prince.

Far worse things have happened/are happening to people in the world than being known for shagging a prince.

the thread sis take a turn and became about Meghan,
Sasha no doubt could have had her pick of interviews. but she chose PM. thats a fail in my books as he is an odious sleeze.

she's done interviews with many people and newspapers, why not make the most money she can out of an unsavioury situation while she can. Harry has made millions out of her and people like her, he has outed.

Hahaha, pardon me, but the person who says I somehow linked MM tweets to piss? Sorry, where is that? I can see PM @ing MM quite a lot, but I don't see MM posting to him.

Granted, PM admitted that he met and spoke to the cast of Suits - you have to bear in mind he was in mainstream tv back then (so the producers of the series thought he was of some use). Can't see how any producers would touch him now.

It had come to a point where PM sees you across the room at a press junket and you are his friend.

Know what? I once went to Cannes awards years ago, and have seen a lot of celebrities around London.

If only I had tweeted Leo and Kate someone or other, all those years ago. Well, we would be bff's by now. Dammit ! 😂😂😂

I agree. she is making money that is good. just a shame she did an interview with PM. that was a bad move IMO. (which I am allowed to have)

One idiot uses vulgar wordplay to corrupt a perfectly nice name and the sub-idiots follow suit 🙄 So predictable.

Which idiot are you talking about? Not you, per chance.

Is that Duke and Duchess of Sussex magically transformed into Markles? Or maybe Harkles? Yep, saw that on here on MN.

I can tell you that most people have not regularly used Middletons, nor Middleclass or any other word to refer to the Cambridges/ Prince and Princess of Wales recently .

@notanotheroneagain I think they are referring to 'piss'. To be fair though, he is a boiling streak of it.

No worse than Megain or Meagain etc, which you see on here regularly.

Haha, I will definitely call him that, of all people . But why does my spell check correct it to piss? Not gonna argue, I have to say.😂😂
He is a boiling streak of it, isn't he

Now, I try to stay away from name calling with other royals

You see all names on here, for H&M.

No one bats an eyelid, most certainly not the anti H&M brigade.

I bat an eye. But I try not to engage. I don’t think other people behaving a certain way is an excuse for me doing so. And no one is going to stop just because I take umbrage, in fact it seems to egg people on.

But then I was called a good one last night and it tickled me. Was sad to see it was deleted.

So you are saying that she wasn't good enough to be his girlfriend. You are an obvious Meghan fan so your assessment is based on the high opinion you have of Meghan which others may totally disagree with. Many would expect the brother of a future king to marry somebody a lot more successful than Meghan. Even Freddie Windsor (much lower down the line of succession) did this. Andrew wanted to marry Koo Stark but was not allowed and she was a more successful actress than Meghan.

@Plitvice

Yes, that is exactly why she would never have been accepted.
I'm telling you that there is no way she would have been seen as a suitable girlfriend for any member of the RF.

There is a reason no serving wench or stable hand in any of the households of the leading families of the realm for the entire history of Britain were ever seen in public on the arm of the scions of those families. They're good enough for a romp in the hayloft but absolutely not marriage worthy. If you think there haven't been legions of liaisons between Lord this or Viscount that or the Earl of whatever and the scullery maids, for centuries, you need to give your head a wobble. Not a single one of these woman ever had a hope of leaving the coal scuttle behind through marriage to the men who used them. The idea that Sasha Walpole might have had a chance to be Mrs Mountbatten Windsor is utterly preposterous.

This is nothing to do with Meghan Markle. The RF and the aristocratic families have always seen marriage as a matter of maintaining the pedigree of their offspring, in exactly the way racehorses are valued for their bloodline. It is only in this generation that the likes of Catherine Middleton and Meghan Markle have been acceptable to the RF as spouses. Koo Stark was completely unacceptable forty years ago. Sarah Ferguson was because her father was close to the Court, though they dropped her like a hot potato eventually. The aristocratic families of Britain grudgingly accepted American heiresses a few generations previously - Winston Churchill's mother is an example. These women are acceptable because they have money, their own and their family's money in each case, and the same goes for Mrs Freddie Windsor. Young women from some estate somewhere should never indulge in the delusion that they have a chance.

Omg I've just realised Mrs Freddie Windsor is Big Suze!!

Wow! Since when was it ok to be classist? It seems on Mumsnet one can be openly classist but not racist. Obviously neither are at all ok, but just wondering why one is acceptable still in 2023

If the monarchy truly want to modernise what the flip is wrong with marrying a lovely lady with true honour, class, humbleness and humility, that just doesn't have as much money? Crazy world.

Oh come on!

The Royal Family sits at the top of the aristocracy. It's the very essence of classicism.

@GretnaGreenIsLovely is right.

Sasha Walpole would NEVER in a million years have married Harry. For one thing, all the Royal wives since Diana have had one thing in common: very good looks. Even Sarah, unfairly mocked over her weight, was very pretty and improved the Windsor gene pool. The only exception in the good looks department was Camilla, but that marriage was not about improving the Windsor gene pool, as the heir and spare were already there.

Charles, Andrew, Edward, William, Harry ... the Mountbatten Windsor men (Phillip excepted) all have in common that they married women who punched way above them in the looks department, and as a consequence, produced kids who are better looking than they are.

Sasha may be a lot of things, but even as a young woman, the pictures she has released indicate that she was plain. This is before we even consider her education and background.

You are all fantasists if you really believe that in the class obsessed world of the aristocracy and the Royal Family, a groom with no qualifications, and who was not blessed with good looks could ever have been a Princess of the United Kingdom. Kate Middleton, who was middle class and from a family with money, was considered a commoner, doors to manual jokes etc. What more Sasha?

Saha and Harry had a five minute bonk. That's all it was, and that's all it could ever have been.

Sorry it is @mathanxiety who is right, not @GretnaGreenIsLovely

I'm sorry but Sasha was Harry's "bit of rough". There was no romance to be had there

having looked (yep I googled) there are a couple of photos of her when she was young. she looks young and perfectly nice looking. I think saying she didn't have good looks is nasty. I might not be a fan of her and her 15 mins of fame. but thats not nice.