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The markel family interview

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IamSuperTired · 30/04/2023 14:39

Anyone know how/where I can watch it? :) I think it's on today ....

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PollyPeptide · 02/05/2023 19:32

But how do you know what most do to be able to make that statement? You didn't even know what Meghan did until you deliberately decided to look?
I have no idea what anyone else has said about life post Harry. I'm not that interested. I like that they both do some charitable work.
But my comment was nothing to do with how much she did. It's the fact that you just dismissed other actors without knowing whether what you were saying was the truth or not. That seems unfair.

Roussette · 02/05/2023 19:33

PipinwasAuntieMabelsdog · 02/05/2023 19:31

@Roussette If you say so... and yes you are strange in your inability to accept a difference of viewpoint on a public figure

Have I told you that you can't have an opinion?

No!

You cannot post on a discussion forum and tell people they are not allowed to disagree, post or answer, ain't how it works!

I'm happy being strange. To you.

PipinwasAuntieMabelsdog · 02/05/2023 19:34

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PipinwasAuntieMabelsdog · 02/05/2023 19:35

I haven't said you can't answer btw. I just wonder why you can't ignore me that's all.

Roussette · 02/05/2023 19:40

I can answer, thank you. Hmm

Maybe stop the insults? Just a thought.

PipinwasAuntieMabelsdog · 02/05/2023 19:45

You implied I had tried to stop you answering. That is batshit.

PipinwasAuntieMabelsdog · 02/05/2023 19:45

Also, it's ok for you to dictate my posts? Hmm

skullbabe · 02/05/2023 19:52

PollyPeptide · 02/05/2023 19:32

But how do you know what most do to be able to make that statement? You didn't even know what Meghan did until you deliberately decided to look?
I have no idea what anyone else has said about life post Harry. I'm not that interested. I like that they both do some charitable work.
But my comment was nothing to do with how much she did. It's the fact that you just dismissed other actors without knowing whether what you were saying was the truth or not. That seems unfair.

Ok

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IamSuperTired · 02/05/2023 19:59

PipinwasAuntieMabelsdog · 02/05/2023 18:56

I felt very sorry for her family, tbh. I also can't get my head around Harry being 'OK' with Meghan saying she has lost and is grieving for her father, with his history. It also confirmed to me that Meghan is ruthless and all about her 'brand'. I couldn't help but think that if her father/siblings had been more photogenic or wealthy, that she might not have jettisoned them. The way Harry described her father in the exerpt from Spare 'stomach hanging over his belt [...] carrying a six pack' is pretty vile.

My other thought is if your relationships keep breaking down and you are the common denominator, not everyone you meet can be an arsehole, there is obviously something in the way she handles relationships that is problematic.

I agree with this.

I am not a huge fan of Samantha or her brother. However, I think they are angry with Megahn and responding the only way they can because she has cut them off. The media is the only way to communicate. I don't agree with what they are doing, but as someone prone to not always responding in the best way, I do get where they are coming from.

Quite apart from the rights and wrongs of Samantha and her northern, I feel deeply sorry for Thomas M. He loves his daughter. It's very clear. Again, it seems the only way he knows to get her to listen is via the media. I feel he's desperate and taking desperate measures by going to the media. What else could he do? And what does he have to lose?

He had a heart attack and couldn't get to his daughter's wedding. When my mum had heart trouble the only place I wanted to be was with her. She wasn't a great mum. Made mistakes (I'd imagine far more than Mr Markel), but she's my mum and there was love there, so I went to her. She subsequently had a stroke. Again, for all her wrongs, I didn't want to be anywhere but with her. It would have killed her for me to cut her off. Thomas strikes me as desperate for his daughters love. He raised her. He supported he. They loved each other for may years. It's so sad it's come to all this.

As someone who watched their mum die, I feel for Megan and how she may feel when her dad does pass away. That man raised her. He loves her. Grief is horrendous and may be especially hard if Megahn hasn't at least called to say I love you, and while.im.angry with you for recent events, thank you for raising me and all you did for me.

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DarkVelvetySilkyShiraz · 02/05/2023 20:06

Unfortunately means sister seems utterly deranged. She's a highly toxic person. I thought their reunion was incredibly cringey.

The siblings where both pushed out by Megan and Doria I imagine and they are so incredibly bitter.

LBFseBrom · 02/05/2023 20:08

PipinwasAuntieMabelsdog · 02/05/2023 19:23

A handful of friends doesn't invalidate my point though. Harry's family - mean, her family - mean, anyone with a less than glowing view of them - mean. All journos - mean

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I cannot understand what you mean.

PipinwasAuntieMabelsdog · 02/05/2023 20:09

@LBFseBrom she seems on the outs with more than most.

Whaeanui · 02/05/2023 20:09

I am not a huge fan of Samantha or her brother. However, I think they are angry with Megahn and responding the only way they can because she has cut them off.

So blackface is ok if you’re angry?

LBFseBrom · 02/05/2023 20:10

Roussette · 02/05/2023 19:26

I don't know your name at all. As I said, I am on a discussion forum ummm posting. That's the nature of the beast.

I agree.
Frankly, some people are best ignored.

Rockybooboo · 02/05/2023 20:10

PipinwasAuntieMabelsdog · 02/05/2023 19:23

A handful of friends doesn't invalidate my point though. Harry's family - mean, her family - mean, anyone with a less than glowing view of them - mean. All journos - mean

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Maybe she doesn't want loads of friend s

MrsMaxDeWinter · 02/05/2023 20:10

PrestonHood121 · 02/05/2023 19:32

To be fair, the sister lost custody because of her debilitating MS and under going HSCT treatment.

This is a lie from Samantha that she came up with after Ashleigh exposed her on the Netflix documentary.

She developed MS around 2008. Her eldest child is just four years younger than Meghan, so born around 1985. She developed MS long after Ashleigh and her brother were adopted by their paternal grandparents.

Her other daughter Noelle was referred to social services after her then boyfriend was violent to her and Samantha failed to protect her. Noelle has spoken publicly about that abusive situation and there are social service records.

If it is the case that it was because of MS, why would she have lost all contact with her kids, to the point of not seeing them at all, even now, as adults? She wasn't even invited to her eldest daughter's wedding.

PipinwasAuntieMabelsdog · 02/05/2023 20:13

@Rockybooboo No she doesn't, just people who can push her up the greasy poll, that's my point.

LBFseBrom · 02/05/2023 20:14

Iwasafool · 02/05/2023 15:55

I haven't seen it but lots of people are saying how ill Thomas Markle looked. I wonder if Meghan has seen it and how she feels. I think even if you have a difficult relationship a parent dying is hard and she must feel like he might not have long. I hope it isn't the public interest that is stopping her contacting him as it will be hard for her if he dies and she hasn't seen him.

I agree. I think it would be good if she telephoned her father and took a trip to see him privately but - would he tell everyone she phoned and was coming to visit? There has been such a breach of trust and poor old Thomas is obviously not his own man any more. Difficult. I can't see it happening unfortunately.

PipinwasAuntieMabelsdog · 02/05/2023 20:15

@Whaeanui why won't you post a link re the black face? It would change many people's view of the Markles, so why not post it?

MrsMaxDeWinter · 02/05/2023 20:23

@IamSuperTired

I am not a huge fan of Samantha or her brother. However, I think they are angry with Megahn and responding the only way they can because she has cut them off. The media is the only way to communicate. I don't agree with what they are doing, but as someone prone to not always responding in the best way, I do get where they are coming from.

Thomas Jr says he last talked to Meghan in 2010, and Samantha says she last saw her in 2008. They did not even come to her first wedding.

Why is it not getting though to you that she had no relationship with them? There was no "cutting off ". Rather, they tried to insert themselves into her life after she met Harry. By the time Harry came along, they were not talking.

All of 2016 and 2017, before the wedding was announced, they were in the media saying absolutely awful things, TJ even wrote a public letter to Harry to say he should not marry Meghan. Samantha called her Princess Pushy. They caused so much drama.

These are people who don't even talk to heir own mother, or to their own children. Meghan owes them nothing,

Take a look at this interview, where she gets some hard questions for once.

Samantha Markle apologises to half sister Meghan

The half sister of the Duchess of Sussex apologises to Meghan for insulting her and Prince Harry on Twitter and says she hopes for a reconciliation in her fi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vJZZ5eiLf0

LBFseBrom · 02/05/2023 20:23

Whaeanui · 02/05/2023 13:49

What has any of your nonsense here got to do with what I said about being a supportive parent? I don’t have a todger, I’m a woman.

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Yes, and anyway the 'todger' was a brief mention and quite humorous, he did not say he personally killed however many Afghanistans. I mean, he didn't target individuals to shoot. He was a soldier on the front line for goodness sake.

I read 'Spare' and watched the Netflix doc twice.

Rockybooboo · 02/05/2023 20:24

PipinwasAuntieMabelsdog · 02/05/2023 20:13

@Rockybooboo No she doesn't, just people who can push her up the greasy poll, that's my point.

She hasn't dumped her old college mates. She dumped Piers Mirgan, if she was a social climber, she would have schmoozed up to him and others that would have given her a good press surely. Camilla sucks up to them.

PipinwasAuntieMabelsdog · 02/05/2023 20:27

@Rockybooboo She was talking to PM until she got in range of Harry, she would have known that PM would have not been a good connection in Harry's eyes. Same as she cooled with brit. reality stars, when she thought the bigger chance was on offer. She's not stupid, just ruthless.

PipinwasAuntieMabelsdog · 02/05/2023 20:28

Diana had lunches with PM too. Why so bad for Camilla to do the same?