Meg’s era of joy

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Showing up to support her very close friend who lost her child and also the children’s hospital at an evening gala. What a friend to have in the Duchess. Meghan was glowing, fresh faced, wore minimal makeup, was confidant and smiley. She was well spoken and supportive of the evening fund raiser when interviewed. Show Up, Do Good. Yes, she always does. Loved her look too.

@Serenster that is hilarious !

Indeed! 😂

I wouldn’t be surprised if she has some form of ADHD. She has lots of ideas but poor follow through, seems quite impulsive (I still maintain Harry was blindsided with her comments during Oprah) and she seems to love talking about herself but gets bored listening to other people talk about themselves.

I do wonder if their therapist gets paid to tell them what they want to hear rather than trying to actually help them. They bring so much stuff on themselves and then wonder why the press and public give them a rough time.

@Serenster

Oh dear God! That is nauseating stuff. If I had ever written that, my friends and family would have laughed me out of the house. And I think that's part of M's problem. She's grown up in, and has chosen to inhabit, a world where people a) spout rubbish and b) mutually prop up each other's pretensions. No-one seems to have told her the awful truth...

I think this is the issue now for Meghan. She didn't like being in the RF, partly because their were horrid courtiers and officials who sometimes told her 'No', or who gave her advice she didn't like. But they were experienced and knew their jobs. Now she and H have fled to freedom, they employ staff who are probably absolutely terrified to give them the right advice, to tell them the truth about their daft, half-baked ideas and their ridiculous posturing and pretentiousness. If they give them the advice they actually need to hear, they'll lose their job - or their lives will be made hell by tantruming Meghan.

I've thought the same, Pretty. She clearly has a major issue with any form of calm concentration. And I suspect they surround themselves with 'Yes-people'.

I recommend Dr Raj Persaud on YouTube talking about why H's therapy doesn't seem to have worked, and he basically says the same thing. No-one will tell Harry the uncomfortable truths because H doesn't want to hear them and will just ditch the therapist and move on to someone who's prepared to make him feel good about himself, and not try to make him face any kind of responsibility for what has happened in his life.

(I also massively side-eye the BAFTAs bit. Why would any UK-based jewellery company offer a then little-known American tv actress the chance to be their ambassador at an event celebrating t UK film industry?)

@Serenster I agree. I'd need to absolute incontrovertible proof before believing that one.

What a terrible writer she is, excruciating to read.

I think she is unique in that I cannot think of anyone, ever, who comes across as insincere as she does.

I still maintain that Catherine being senior to her was simply something she could not tolerate. She could fire staff but not a member of the RF !

@Mylovelygreendress

Definitely. We know from her blog about W and C's wedding that she had Catherine in her sights - even before she met Harry. She was and is absolutely consumed by jealousy for Catherine and couldn't cope with having to acknowledge her seniority.

There's also video evidence of her trying to flirt with William - gazing at him adoringly (weird!). I'm not saying she seriously intended to break up their marriage, but I bet she wanted to claim him as a conquest - to say 'He definitely fancied me!'

She is a dangerous, damaged person - but her antics are fascinating.

It was always about the billing.

Always.

I have always maintained that there would have been zero bother if Harry had popped out first.

I’m not really into the intrigue surrounding this circus and it’s mostly because of the culture where I live and that our newspapers are about 5 pages long and they really don’t cover celebrity. But this particular thread did get my attention as I was in the UK when it started.

I did wonder if the organiser of the tennis event and the dinner/gala said something like ok Meg, you can have star billing at the tennis and Lizzy C will be on the top table at the gala.

She wouldn’t be the first friend caught in the middle of two pals who don’t get on together.

Apparently, she wanted her trip to Uvalde included in the Netflix show. I haven’t watched it so I don’t know if it was

If you mean the 6 part documentary, @Bunnylake, then no it wasn't included - which honestly surprised me. Maybe it wasn't easy to edit the photographers she was so keen to liaise with out of the shot

Edited to add I see others have already answered, @Firealarm1414, but times Meghan's really been on the "top table" recently were the silly Nigeria and Colombia stunts - but as I said they'd have played a major part in organizing those, whereas with A lister US events it seems they get little say these days

You mean if she was in line to be Queen? Yes, I very much doubt she’d have gone back to Hollywood if that crown was in her future. Trouble is she’d have wanted to be Queen regnant not consort, so she probably would still have been barging past Harry 😁

This was in response to TheMarkofTheBeast

Call me old fashioned but I think it's tarty.

Yes, my experience with depression and counselling is that the person being treated has to WANT to get better and is prepared to be challenged by the counsellor. In a book about depression there was a warning that the depressed person needs to look at himself/herself and ask if he/she is being manipulative. I'm not suggesting that either of them is what I would call clinically depressed but it would appear that both have sought help.

Some are still around and posting

Kelly wasnt the organiser of this event...

So who was? Because the article I read said she was.

No matter how much H&M try to convince people of Meghan’s similarities to Diana, absolutely no one with half a brain cell has fallen for it. They have absolutely nothing in common about their personalities whatsoever. Diana had her faults but she was real, she didn’t talk in word salad, her charitable works (and speeches) didn’t reek of
me, myself and I.

People don’t mind if you have flaws, they do mind if you reek of fakeness.

Lizzy C is out in LA touting for work. I was surprised to hear about her at the event. Agents?

So she was 37/8 when she met Harry and had been trying to break into the Hollywood celebrity world from almost immediately after university so say at least 15 years of the Hollywood hustle. That world is brutal for women - even if you have a lot of acting talent you have to play ‘the game’ - the cattle market of auditions, the predators like Weinstein exploiting their power, being ‘on’ all the time to network at events.

For actresses like Meghan who are beautiful but not stand out striking, and okayish actors but not into the craft of acting and doing theatre and breakout Indy stuff, it’s something like The Hunger Games.

It teaches you three big things:

All other beautiful women in your peer group are rivals who you have to beat to get ahead.

You are among hundreds of beautiful women on those red carpets trying to get your photos into the press so you have to be ‘on’ - find your lighting and your pose and the camera instantly as you have only about 30 seconds to get even a glimmer of a chance of being used in a news story or a photo spread.

Everything is transactional - but especially you and your body. You are going to have to do a lot of stuff you don’t want to do to have a chance of success.

So imagine slogging away in that world for 15 years and suddenly the whole world wants to take your picture, crowds turn up to see you, you are world famous beyond the world of celebrity.

I think it kinda broke her mind - it was 30 odd years of dreams and 15 years of hard hustle and now it was beyond her wildest imaginings - people were curtseying to her.

I don’t think she mentally could make the transition fast enough and it sent her over the edge.

I’d have been interested to see if things would have spiralled so badly if Harry had listened to William and taken even just an extra year of dating and introducing her slowly to the world he lived in before getting engaged.

She definitely never got out of the habit of ‘actress posing’ at events with photographers - I think it was muscle memory - you pose constantly for ten minutes and the the photographer might use one good shot. But the royals get the press coverage anyway and the video footage gets used a lot as well - which is why it looks bizarre to see someone concentrating on doing poses while they are supposed to be talking to someone on an engagement.

Perfect example of this is the coat flicking video compilation while she was very pregnant. She’s constantly flicking the coat - ONLY on the side of the photographers - to the side so that the still images will show the photogenic bump and not a bulky coat.

And because she’s doing it while she’s supposed to be listening to whoever they are meeting at an engagement she looks completely insane.

Great post @wordler

I’ve been trying a while to work out why it imploded so quickly when she was managing to keep it together enough to manage the celebrity system without having a meltdown.

So it’s either she was always a huge ego but never had the power position to unleash it, or for someone chasing fame more than anything else she got too much too quickly of her heart’s desire and she couldn’t cope.

A bit like lottery winners who blow through all their millions in a couple of years and end up worse than they were before.

I think it’s also why Kate has managed better than others - she had a long time to get used to everything and she has very close siblings and parents who keep her grounded and I’m sure give her a good ego check if she started acting ‘like a Princess’ with them.

I really think you're on to something @wordler. Add in Harry completely failing to prepare her, probably telling her all kinds of toot he thought she wanted to hear because he was desperate not to lose her and it would be a perfect storm

Plus, stupid. Or at least not as smart as she thinks.

It all went to her head, and found plenty of space there.