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Meghan back on Instagram

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PrettyFlyforaMaiTai · 01/01/2025 17:21

Looks like she’s back on Instagram

www.instagram.com/meghan/reel/DESeJO5vFSN/

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TulipTiptoer · 04/01/2025 21:54

MakeYourOwnMusicStartYourOwnDance · 04/01/2025 21:50

Some of us are just ordinary, normal people who don't have anything to do with so called Squads, just can't stand bullying, pack like pile ons whereever it's coming from.

Well said. Anyone who doesn't revile Meghan is a member of the Sussex squad. And so many people are, as you say, just ordinary women who have a different opinion and feel the constant denigration of another woman is wrong.
I won't be boxed in and called that.

PrettyFlyforaMaiTai · 04/01/2025 21:59

Just treated myself and bought some stuff from Longleat Emma’s Kitchen 🥰

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MummyJ12 · 04/01/2025 21:59

MakeYourOwnMusicStartYourOwnDance · 04/01/2025 21:50

Some of us are just ordinary, normal people who don't have anything to do with so called Squads, just can't stand bullying, pack like pile ons whereever it's coming from.

Yet funnily enough, these same posters were not posting in the same outrage on the vast amount of threads bullying Catherine last year…..those threads were the worst I have ever seen on this platform.

HunterdeButts · 04/01/2025 22:02

PrettyFlyforaMaiTai · 04/01/2025 21:59

Just treated myself and bought some stuff from Longleat Emma’s Kitchen 🥰

What did you get? I'm coveting all that chintzy pottery with the critters on.

TulipTiptoer · 04/01/2025 22:09

MummyJ12 · 04/01/2025 21:59

Yet funnily enough, these same posters were not posting in the same outrage on the vast amount of threads bullying Catherine last year…..those threads were the worst I have ever seen on this platform.

How do you know that?
You don't

MummyJ12 · 04/01/2025 22:14

So many posters name changed after that period. Hopefully because they were and still are so ashamed of themselves. The people who were as shocked as me by the threads and reporting them are still on here with the same user names.

ShamedBySiri · 04/01/2025 22:54

JSMill · 04/01/2025 18:16

Yes I definitely think Emma should find some way to make money off this. Someone upthread mentioned the possibility of her suing them. I hope she doesn't. Netflix lawyers have deep pockets.
Emma is an absolutely beautiful and elegant woman. I know her in laws behaved disgracefully towards her but she and her husband came through the storm and they seem to be doing a good job at Longleat.

I hope she doesn't sue.
She's a beautiful woman who seems a genuinely lovely person, I loved her on Strictly and more recently when she had her portrait painted on Sky arts Portrait artist of the year.
She was subjected to horrible racism when she married, but her style seems to be to carry on being lovely and rise above it.
She doesn't do complaining and victimhood.
I'd be sorry to see her lower herself to engage with this nonsense, the better way is to celebrate the new fans and positive publicity. Which I'm sure is what she will be doing.

Rhaidimiddim · 04/01/2025 22:55

MakeYourOwnMusicStartYourOwnDance · 04/01/2025 21:50

Some of us are just ordinary, normal people who don't have anything to do with so called Squads, just can't stand bullying, pack like pile ons whereever it's coming from.

Mrs Danvers walks among us

Rhaidimiddim · 04/01/2025 23:01

PrettyFlyforaMaiTai · 04/01/2025 21:59

Just treated myself and bought some stuff from Longleat Emma’s Kitchen 🥰

For Christmas this year I bought loads of Highgrove jam for people. Treated myself to a two-jar gift set, too. Prepared to be disappointed, but they are really the best jam I've bought. I can highly recommend them, and ill be buying more.

We really need to expand the meaning of the verb 'to Markle' to cover this phenomemon.

PrettyFlyforaMaiTai · 04/01/2025 23:03

HunterdeButts · 04/01/2025 22:02

What did you get? I'm coveting all that chintzy pottery with the critters on.

Honey, Eton Mess, Rose Petal Jelly (with Champagne) and the Chinese Wallpaper tea pot

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Rhaidimiddim · 04/01/2025 23:04

MummyJ12 · 04/01/2025 21:59

Yet funnily enough, these same posters were not posting in the same outrage on the vast amount of threads bullying Catherine last year…..those threads were the worst I have ever seen on this platform.

And the posting styles. The haranguing. The pretend naivety. The scolding. The vocab.

The tag-teaming.

The claims that the RF fed the press nasty stories about H&M and that the press were soooo racist. The failure to provide examples ( beyond Compton, Rachel Johnson and Danny Thing) when pressed.

At least we're spared the "what lies did they tell?" part of the script - I don't think.I could take another round of daft excuses for the we-were-really-married-three-days-before narrative.

wigsonthegreenandhatsforthelifting · 04/01/2025 23:16

Lndnmummy · 04/01/2025 21:16

I don't venture over these boards often. I know why now. I find this obsession with fault picking of MM really obsessive and unhinged and I find it astonishing that @MNHQ let these threads stand. It is the ugliest form of pack mentality. Extremely distasteful.

I'd like to ask, genuinely, if MM was to post on instagram, what would in your views be an unacceptable post. A post undeserving of your ridicule?
The white dress on a beach was not acceptable. Would a white dress in the supermarket be ok? Or a blue dress on the beach? What could she do without being ridiculed and harassed? Apart from not breathing?

Do you? I find them really interesting.

wigsonthegreenandhatsforthelifting · 04/01/2025 23:17

EmotionalCarrot · 04/01/2025 21:30

Nothing she do will ever be OK for some people. They've got issues.

Meghan and Harry certainly have issues.

Mylovelygreendress · 04/01/2025 23:20

@Rhaidimiddim

“At least we're spared the "what lies did they tell?" part of the script - I don't think.I could take another round of daft excuses for the we-were-really-married-three-days-before narrative.”

That was part infuriating part hilarious the way some posters tied themselves in knots trying to defend an out and out lie .

wigsonthegreenandhatsforthelifting · 04/01/2025 23:21

MakeYourOwnMusicStartYourOwnDance · 04/01/2025 21:50

Some of us are just ordinary, normal people who don't have anything to do with so called Squads, just can't stand bullying, pack like pile ons whereever it's coming from.

And some of us are just ordinary, normal people chatting about the RF and what is revealed in the public domain?

I don't see "bullying" - other than that the insults applied to anyone who expresses a negative opinion on the pair of them!?

WinterCrow · 04/01/2025 23:25

Do you remember when one of them let the cat out of the bag about how they were chatting about threads among themselves somewhere away from MN? I can't remember if it was on another forum like Reddit - there was possibly some mention of knowing each other's email addresses?

Anyway, it certainly wasn't In The Spirit of MN, where a thread is supposed to be a spontaneous conversation.

wigsonthegreenandhatsforthelifting · 04/01/2025 23:28

WinterCrow · 04/01/2025 23:25

Do you remember when one of them let the cat out of the bag about how they were chatting about threads among themselves somewhere away from MN? I can't remember if it was on another forum like Reddit - there was possibly some mention of knowing each other's email addresses?

Anyway, it certainly wasn't In The Spirit of MN, where a thread is supposed to be a spontaneous conversation.

I don't remember it but I wouldn't be one bit surprised!

Rhaidimiddim · 04/01/2025 23:36

wigsonthegreenandhatsforthelifting · 04/01/2025 23:21

And some of us are just ordinary, normal people chatting about the RF and what is revealed in the public domain?

I don't see "bullying" - other than that the insults applied to anyone who expresses a negative opinion on the pair of them!?

The scolding here seems to have increased to pre-Catheribe-announcement levels now that M has got a new venture out there.

It didn't happen with POLO.

Angrymum22 · 05/01/2025 00:01

The trailer for Meghan’s new cookery show has been released by Netflix on YouTube. Netflix has failed to switch off the comments. It’s an interesting read.
Not sure whether this is an oversight or they are gaging the reception it’s likely to receive.

After all they make their money via subscription and if people are leaving in droves they will likely be trimming the unpopular programmes.
Maybe the “Polo” series had a negative effect on finances.

MakeYourOwnMusicStartYourOwnDance · 05/01/2025 00:07

Rhaidimiddim · 04/01/2025 23:36

The scolding here seems to have increased to pre-Catheribe-announcement levels now that M has got a new venture out there.

It didn't happen with POLO.

Scolding 😂 are you usually this delicate?! 😁
Nice there's even a conspiracy theory going about people having a difference of opinion, must be due to something about pre Catherine announcement levels and M having a new venture.
🙄😁

HeddaGarbled · 05/01/2025 00:08

Ha, yeah, anyone who is for a moment fooled by the pretence that Mumsnet is a hotbed of anti-Meghan should spend a minute reading the comments on YouTube.

Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 05/01/2025 00:22

I am just fascinated by Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. I can honestly say that in seven decades of walking the earth, I have never come across anyone quite like her ( or maybe I should say, as she seems to be). 39 pages seem to indicate I am not alone.

I think most women have come across other women like Camilla, or Sophie, or Beatrice or even Kate. Most of us have come across Jess Phillips and Lady Thornberry, yes, even Jill Biden. Not exactly like them, of course (‘ yes, we are all individuals’) but as types or patterns, they are recognisable .

But Meghan is something quite unique, I don’t think anyone understands her even glancingly. Those threads where people have to say whom they would like to meet , and people say Elizabeth 1, or Joan of Arc, or Mary Magdalene or Anne Hathaway….I would choose Meghan. I would just like to be in the same room and look into her eyes, and see what dances there.

andIsaid · 05/01/2025 08:58

LeavesOnTrees · 04/01/2025 19:33

The other thing with Meghan is that she never seemed to learn that the best course of action with the media is to ignore and plough on through.
Every royal new wife has had horrendous things written about them. Meghan was by no means the worst, look at Camilla. She said nothing, got on with it and is now the Queen.

I'd never heard of the Marchioness of Bath before. She seems like someone who's not afraid to put in the hard graft, has a clear vision and is actually nice.

Our tabloid media is aggressive, nasty and sexist.

The Queen, PoW, her mother and sister, and MM should never have had to put up with their disgraceful, continuous attacks in decades of abuse.

The women are human shields for the King and Prince of Wales, who hide behind them and say nothing while their partners are being abused. Presumably to avoid getting pasted themselves.

It is a devastating price of entry, with humiliation at its core.

MM seems to have decided that the price is too high.

72 MPs agreed with her.

I do not think our tabloid media is something we should ever be proud of.

Mylovelygreendress · 05/01/2025 09:04

@andIsaid

“72 MPs agreed with her.”

I wonder if they still do ?

GreenTeaLikesMe · 05/01/2025 09:06

Lavenderfarmcottage · 03/01/2025 17:19

I think Meghan can succeed at this and go far.

However the Mindi character. We have seen this before - Mindi does the whole self deprecating, not a size 0 dorky friend routine, “this is my most glamorous moment” referring to herself eating a sponge cake. Meghan head in hands laughing. I’m sorry but this trope is so predictable - the best friend who also doubles as a fan girl. Why don’t they ever have a tall blonde Swedish model friend saying “this is the most glamorous moment of my life, you’re amazing, so amazing”. I find it such cliche’.

Its like they haven’t worked out yet that the average viewer isn’t dim witted, we’ve seen this play before. All the women commending Meghan and the bees and honey - as if someone isn’t doing all the hard stuff.

The friend saying we are family. Come
on now.

I they could add in some genuine warmth and real moments. If they could find out who she really is and stop putting on this big show.

"Why don’t they ever have a tall blonde Swedish model friend saying “this is the most glamorous moment of my life, you’re amazing, so amazing”. I find it such cliche’."

I'm confused, why would the above improve the show or make it more relatable?

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