While I wait for the washing machine to end its cycle (washing machine minutes being very different from human minutes, so who knows if I'll get to the end):
at home with Archie as he stirs awake, sleepily telling her, “Mama, don’t work too hard.”
No, he didn't tell her this, or at least not like this. Much like Elon Musk's 4yo son told Trump he isn't the President, and to shut his fucking mouth up, children that age don't say things like "don't work too hard" unless they've heard it as a kind thing to say to people when they observe stress. The child was asleep, and said this on waking. I would say this to my husband but would feel devastated if my 5yo sleeping next to me said this to me. He should be dreaming sweetly, not having is waking thought be concern for me.
I appreciate everyone who gave me the grace to make mistakes and figure it out and also to be forgiving with myself through that. It’s a learning curve,
I wonder who gave her the grace to make mistakes: Netflix? Harry? An agent? People who depended on her for their livelihood? Why did she have to figure it out as she went along? Does she not have access to advice? Pretty sure she's excellent at forgiving herself for mistakes. Wonder how the bullied employees feel about that.
"It’s our shared name as a family, and I guess I hadn’t recognized how meaningful that would be to me until we had children,” she says. “I love that that is something that Archie, Lili, H and I all have together. It means a lot to me.”
Don't even know where to begin with this. Perhaps she's talking about not sharing a name with her divorced parents? Perhaps she showing appreciation for this gift from HMTLQ? Perhaps she doesn't realise that even today the majority of women take their husband's name as do their children so really this isn't noteworthy? Of all the things of meaning to a nuclear family, a shared name is (a) surely very low on the list (b) implies those without a shared name are lacking some level of togetherness? Why wasn't she able to anticipate, when she got married with an oft-expressed (at least by her husband) desire to have children, that one day the family would be bigger than just her and her husband? This is just such a wast of time thing to say. Or I'm missing something. Is she really saying that her children are what gave meaning to being bestowed with a dukedom/duschessdom (?), not the fact of the thing itself? Wouldn't surprise me...
“When your children get to a certain age — when you’re not just playing in the sandbox with them but almost playing in your own sandbox again — it’s super joyful,” she says. “As a woman, a mom and a wife, to be able to find yourself again — in a way that was always present but that you maybe couldn’t put as much attention on as you now can when your kids are a little bit older — is a wonderful feeling.”
What on EARTH is she talking about? Is she saying she's glad to be out of the high-needs baby/toddler phase? Is this what "elevating" means?
“You have to imagine my friends’ experience through the past few years,” she says. “They spend all this time with me at home and at their houses or out at dinners. For them to see who they know to be reflected onscreen, it brought them a lot of joy.”
I just can't imagine ever saying such a thing out loud. It's breathtaking. Firstly, normally you'd give the journalist the name and number of people you've primed with the script, and let them talk to each other directly. Not so Meghan. She'll tell the interviewer straight up that she herself knows (whether true or not, who knows) she's brought her friends a lot of joy by allowing them to experience watching her live her life and then see her do that on a screen. I mean, who does this?? Who thinks like this?! I can imagine a friend saying in passing "it's so cool you get paid to just be you, so happy you're emerging from behind Harry's fame and becoming known for your own talent!", but this is something quite different.
“Once you know us, I think you want us to have the same normalcy as parents and for our children as they do, despite however unique our situation is.”
Oh, do you think? Or is this a riposte to Montecito's local rag posting tidbit after tidbit from neighbors who have lived quietly in the area for decades saying they think they're better than everyone else, are aloof, don't contribute to local fundraisers, don't join in, have no right to monetise 'American Riviera' etc etc. As for unique: that neighborhood is stuffed full of unique people. The public don't even know who 99% of those people are. Meghan and Harry probably are unique over there in that....he and Archie are the only British Princes and Lilibet the only British Princess and Meghan is married to Harry? Everyone there is unique. You're just as normal in your uniqueness as they are.
I could go on, washing machine done though. I shouldn't waste my time on her anymore. She really has nothing to offer other than a level of delusion and deceit that never ceases to amaze me.