After reading all of the replies:
- 100% about everything everything that was said about Andrew except her "showing support" at the beginning. We don't know what Prince Andrew told her at the beginning. He probably swore to her that he was innocent and a mother will always want to believe her child.
Her paying the settlement was where I stopped having sympathy for her(did she actually pay or is it just alleged, by the way because I've seen this weird conspiracy theory that Charles was the one who paid that settlement in exchange for the Queen publicly supporting Camilla. Remember before 2022, it was always said that Camilla would be known as Princess Consort. Then on February 5th, she released a statement saying that Camilla’s title would be Queen Consort. 5 days later, a Telegraph article came out saying that the Queen would help pay the settlement).
Also, I see some people saying that the Queen should've handed Andrew to the US but he hasn't been criminally charged. She definitely should've released a statement siding with the victim
About her parenting: I've always wondered how the Queen was such an emotionally distant parent considering that she grew up with loving, affectionate parents, especially her father. But, I guess she thought she couldn't show emotions due to her position at the time. She was probably surrounded by men had to show that she's a great leader.
That really damaged her family up. 3 out of 4 children divorced, family feuds.
To be fair, while the family is dysfunctional but, if you look at all 4 children of the Queen, Charles is the only one whose children don't get along. Peter and Zara are very close (and so are their children), same with Beatrice and Eugenie (so are their children), I assume James and Louise are close as well. So, the problem might not be the family per se but the heir and spare dynamic or children of monarchs/heirs dynamics.
Elizabeth and Margaret had issues but we never heard stories of feuds between the cousins (Gloucesters and Kents).
The Queen’s children had their issues but we never heard stories of rift between Margaret's children.
William and Harry recently but all the other cousins have great relationships with their siblings.
The H&M situation: Poorly handled but I have many questions. H&M went on and on about how great the Queen was to them but did they ever went to her personally to talk about their struggles? I doubt it.
I've always said that H&M's big mistake was not going to the Queen directly and TLQEII's mistake was not to release a statement in support of Meghan. I know she's never done it for anyone who married in despite them suffering at the hands of the media (Kate, Sophie, Camilla,...) but even after the release of the African tour documentary where they complained about the media, she definitely should've said something because that documentary was the beginning of the "this poor woman who just had a baby is suffering and no one is doing anything about it" narrative. The Queen was the most powerful person in that institution by far. Just one statement from her would've made the press back off.
Which makes me think that this feud has very little to do with the way Meghan has been treated and more about resentment that's been there for years because him focusing his criticism on his brother and father while portraying the Queen as this peachy, nice grandmother who had no say, was so nice and sent them a waffle maker for Christmas doesn't make sense to me while she was the head of the institution you were so unhappy in.