Meghan and Harry spotted out and about - Montecito Moments Edition

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Part 6 of positive threads, delving into all things Meghan and Harry. Whether it’s the causes they support, their business initiatives, or Meghan’s fashion choices (Harry’s too, on occasion 😉), there’s plenty to discuss Just a pro-tip - that there may be use of MLE terms and discussions of dupes - you might want to exit stage left if these things offend. This is a relatively drama free zone - let’s keep things light! Clinking a glass of lemonade 🥂 to @queentim for the original inspiration.

But her engagement ring is "the most-searched celebrity engagement ring in the world"?????

I agree - it’s a bit much but sometimes magazines have to find content to fill their pages and this is some sort of content I guess.

I don't remember her ring being that unusual in design. But I thought Diana's ring was hideous and have always felt sorry for Catherine having to lug it around, so what do I know!

Well deserved! It is actions like this that helps to negate the toxic environment created by the tabloid press in the UK regarding Harry and Meghan.

Meghan’s engagement ring making waves globally is also amazing! More than twice the interest than the second most popular one.

Clothes all wrinkled so very apt!

It's not really weird though is it? There were people on here ( not a fan site) salivating about earrings and saying they were going on their birthday or Christmas list whichever it was. You have to therefore assume that fans will do this.

Tizzwazz

Meghan’s engagement ring making waves globally is also amazing!

Wow! Yeah!
And it only took her third attempt at an engagement ring to make such waves.
If only Harry had got it right the first time, eh?

@LaMarschallin too true! I feel sorry for Harry - first red flag - you’re ring isn’t good enough

“You’re “ grammar isn’t good enough to be criticising anyone else.

Overtheatlantic

“You’re “ grammar isn’t good enough to be criticising anyone else.

You've had trouble yourself with "Megan" vs "Meghan".
I'm sure you know these things can happen.

The thing is Meghan's engagement ring ( in whatever iteration) was created much more recently than Diana's and Meghan has been in the news much more over the past year than Diana or Catherine, so it's not surprising it's searched for more.

Diana's engagement ring was plastered all over all the papers and magazines and TV when she got engaged and massively influenced engagement ring fashion at the time, there must be so many women of a certain age with the sapphire and diamond engagement ring, albeit on a smaller scale. It also came to prominence again when Catherine got engaged. It was a memorable ring, whether or not it was your style. I bet many more people could describe Diana's ring than could describe Meghan's.

If the internet had been around in Diana's time the number of searches would have undoubtedly been hugely far higher than those for Meghan's.

@Overtheatlantic
I must have touched a nerve, when you are bringing up grammar mistakes in the days of auto correct. Thanks for the opinion, not.

Don’t think I’ve seen it:

Oh that “The invitation” The one where the wealthy UK family turn out to be blood sucking vampires.

Lots of (grudging) recognition of Misan Harriman's photo of Meg and Harry in the B*tshit media today...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2024/05/24/national-portrait-gallery-prince-harry-and-meghan-photo/

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/harry-meghan-national-portrait-gallery-permanent-collection-b1160099.html

... and this hilarious click-bait title...

because, you see, "Katy Perry" isn't enough to drive the clicks, she has to be described as "Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's extremely famous Montecito neighbour"

Well I never....

https://www.hellomagazine.com/homes/553870/prince-harry-and-meghan-markles-extremely-famous-montecito-neighbour-wins-major-victory/

That's not quite true, is it? Harriman has submitted it to the NPG. They get a lot of submissions. They have yet to evaluate, catalogue it and decide whether or not it will go on display.

https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/royals/meghan-markle-duchess-of-sussex-madness-goes-too-far/news-story/0232c918c8b11b5bd92691d932b6967a

And this up there with the some of the greatest Royal photos ever. As for "steel" we have a first person recollection vs some random photo from the internet.

The umbrella shot is Sam Hussein, not Misan Harriman, though. Sam has a fabulous eye for composition.

That is definitely a good picture, the colour and the composition are great. I'm not a fan of the Harriman pictures - they're always in black and white, which I find a bit dull and his manipulation isn't always great. Photographers nowadays digitally alter pictures, of course they do, but he seems to somehow make them look a bit lifeless.
Anyway, all portraiture is subjective.

I am vastly entertained by how excited some people are that Meghan has 'won' the 'Internet Searches For Vulgar Engagement Rings' Olympics. Will there be an award ceremony, I wonder? I bet her 'people' are on it as we speak.

I think a lot of people - both the “grudging” you refer to and the very excited posters on MN might be missing the whole point of the National Portrait gallery?

As the national museum responsible for the history of British Portraiture its mission is to maintain a collection of portraits of the most eminent persons in British history. They welcome offers of gifts to their collection, to further their mission.

It already has quite a collection of Prince Harry (starting from what he was a baby) and of Meghan, including wedding and engagement shots - you can see them in the link below.

So it’s not like Misan Harriman was filling a gap in the collection. Perhaps he wants to be able to put the fact that he has a photo in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery on his CV? Or maybe he just really likes the shot of them and thinks it shuould be preserved for posterity? Who would know.

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait-list.php?search=sp&sText=Prince%20harry,%20Duke%20of%20Sussex&firstRun=true&OConly=true

Also, @Serenster , we've yet to see if the NPG consider it to be worth displaying.
They get a lot of submissions and have to decide which to catalogue and display.

I love the umbrella shot. It's the sort of picture that has to be taken in the moment by someone with an excellent eye. It's absolutely joyous and makes me smile when I see it, despite not being enamoured of its subjects.
The photo of them in profile is technically very good, I'm sure, but there's the advantage of being able to take - and tweak - numerous shots in a posed photo.
The first thing that one made me think of was the profiles taken of the monarch for currency and stamps.

Interesting article from Newscorp, Australia arm, FirmBiscuit. thank you for posting the link.

To delve into royal Twitter these days (look, I just can’t bring myself to call it X) is to be submerged in a toxic soup of conspiracy theories about the duchess especially, with her generally painted as being Catherine de Medici done up in Carolina Herrera. (How long until someone accuses the duchess of trying to poison her foes à la ol’ Catherine?)

So true. I spent quite a few hours reading that part of Twitter, ‘royal Twitter, recently - just a look, see - and it’s insanity. It’s also leaked out of Twitter unfortunately.

The extreme, extreme polarisation of the discourse and conversation around the royal family, including the Sussexes, has gotten to such an exaggerated sense- and logic-free point where Meghan could single-handedly bring peace to the Middle East and she would be lambasted for failing to have fixed Taiwan and China too.

Yes. The anti Meghan rhetoric is extreme.

Imagine posters//twits haranguing the Save The Children charity. That’s downright mean and nasty. And fucking madness. Extremism.

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