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Is Meghan a narcissist?

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Clbs · 28/09/2025 08:20

I keep seeing these reels and social media smears on Meghan being a narcissist and abusive partner to Harry. She certainly doesn't seem overly popular with the royal family or understood the expectations of her as a royal when she married him.

I'm by no means a royalist or a fan of Megan's. But I'm the same age as Harry so always felt I could relate a little to him. I haven't read his book or watched the netflix docs.

The main thing that doesn't sit quite right for me is they wanted a 'private life' and then done anything but. Did Megan use Harry's desire for privacy to isolate him from his family and friends?

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Tubestrike · 28/09/2025 12:10

rwalker · 28/09/2025 11:51

The problem is the information we use to make these assumptions all come from the media a lot of that is one sided and sensationalised
all that said she does seem to fallout with and alienate herself from everyone the media, friends and family
there’s only one common thread her

I think most of it comes directly from her and Harry. I watched the Oprah interview and heard the lies with my own ears.

Themagicfarawaytreeismyfav · 28/09/2025 12:19

Catpiece · 28/09/2025 09:48

She had no intention of fitting into the RF. She set her stall out before the wedding. I don’t think she could believe her luck when Harry fell for her. She came across as completely disingenuous in the engagement interview. Gushing, fake and taking the lead that wasn’t hers to take. At the engagement photo shoot she took the lead. She truly believed she could undo years of royal tradition to make life all about her. She’s bitterly jealous of Kate and I don’t believe for a minute any of them mentioned her colour. That was most likely her poking the race situation with a stick to see if anyone responded. In what we thought was her final act of defiance she took off to the States with poor sap Harry in tow and claimed she wanted a life out of the spotlight which has turned out to be laughable. She’s done a right number on Harry. He’ll be discarded soon like the first husband was and she’s made sure his bridges have been burned. What an incredibly foolish man he’s been.

Absolutely spot on.

CandleMug · 28/09/2025 12:25

Soupandaroll · 28/09/2025 08:56

It is frustrating that so many arm chair psychologists want to label another person with a personality disorder. It just can’t be done that way.

I can’t speak for Meghan’s mental health, and I really liked her to begin with, I found her beautiful and aspirational. But I agree with others that she is a ruthless operator, she knew what she wanted even pre-royal times, she is constantly changing herself and recycling old stories to project a varying life history depending on the audience, lied to a court about things she leaked via “friends” and has used and bullied people along the way. She has let horrible things be said about Catherine based, even by their own admission, on really minor things like lipgloss and wedding tights, they let the world call her a racist then rowed it back to blame the press and unconscious bias once the damage was done, she let her flying monkeys (Sussex squad) hound Catherine during her illness and never rebuked them. (To be fair, Harry is as much to blame in all this as she is).

It makes me cross to see her breezing around like the Queen bee - such as when she barged Sophie Chandauka off that podium - with so little self awareness and no apology or kindness. I don’t want to see her fail or brought low, but I don’t think I’ve even heard a single world from her mouth that has sounded like humility or apology for anything. I guess that’s maybe where the narcissist accusations come from?

Yes this, great post!

I think we all liked her to begin with as she was a breath of fresh air and most people had a bit of a soft spot for Harry, because he seemed like a cheeky chappy and obviously it was horrendous the way in which he lost his mother. Most people were cheering them on initially.

It just seemed to go down hill though and we all seen the interviews with our own eyes and the way she was portraying herself as the victim at every opportunity. “We want a quiet life…. But I want to go on the biggest talk shows” and the hypocrisy in that.

They seemed to like airing their dirty laundry in public, much in the same way you see relatives or ex’s having a spat on social media. People read it for their own entertainment, it’s like watching a real life version of a soap opera. We are also cringing at the same time for those types of people thinking have some decorum
and keep quiet.

I never reply to these threads about MM but this one captured my attention. I think she plays the victim very very well and there will be some instances rightly so, but from what I can see she plays the victim when she absolutely isn’t the victim. They know that RF can’t say anything back or be interviewed to give their version, so H&M have the upper hand in that respect and they’ve thrown some grenades and no doubt burnt some bridges that will be extremely difficult to fix imo

Bladderpool · 28/09/2025 12:26

Yes, I think she was convinced that somehow her magical presence in the family would usurp hundreds of years of constitutional monarchy and that she and H would leapfrog the entire Wales family to become the first in line to the throne just because of their enormous popularity and force of personality.

When she realised this was completely impossible she upped and left.

NautilusLionfish · 28/09/2025 13:05

PrimeTimeNow · 28/09/2025 08:31

Yes she is and yes she did.

If/when the relationship breaks down he’ll be in no man’s land:

Should he stay in America - a foreign country - or should he come home, where he’s shot himself in the foot with his family by writing that book and doing those interviews.

She’ll never bring those children to England and so he’ll likely stay in America just so he can see the kids.

Charles will always love him - it’s his kid - and I’m sure the door with be open to Harry as far as he’s concerned. But as soon as William takes over Harry’s stuffed. William and Kate will never forgive him for what he’s done.

So William and Kate are vicious unforgiving people? Oh and how do you know with such certainty that W&K will never forgive Harry. Or that Charles loves Harry.

Oh and since we are diagnosing people without meeting them, with no clinical assessment and many with no expertise in personality disorders/pathologies, can I diagnose you?

Let's see.... you have......
No. Can't do it without the expertise or a clinical assessment but that's just me

MrsFinkelstein · 28/09/2025 13:12

Handsomesoapdish · 28/09/2025 11:37

She absolutely did not say that. That is what people inferred and when she said about the “real” wedding it was obviously she was speaking figuratively not literally. I know exactly what she meant at the time. The actual wedding was a fiasco just for public show as all royal wedding before and since have been.

Point of fact - they were offered the option of a much smaller, non televised ceremony.

They both refused this. Harry in his own words in Spare - said he/they asked for St. Paul's or Westminster, and that Meghan refused the blue aisle carpet as she couldn't get the red she actually wanted.

It may well have been a 33M televised fiasco - but it's the fiasco they both wanted and asked for.

LeavesTrees · 28/09/2025 13:20

I don’t know.

But I think the press reaction to Harry and Meghan by endlessly smearing them (pointlessly) and comparing them negatively to Will and Kate proves that Harry was right to remove his family from this country - they are hounded and scrutinised when they don’t live here, so goodness knows what it would have been like if they stayed.

Nothing Brits like more than a pile-on and ripping people to shreds.

StrongLikeMamma · 28/09/2025 14:03

Muffinmam · 28/09/2025 09:05

Yes. She wasn’t born with connections and
money. She had had to work for everything she has. I don’t like her as a person but I understand her. The British aristocracy hate that she has married in. However, Harry was given a hovel to live in when he was with Megan and the workers cottage he was later leased was decrepit and he had to fix up using his own money.

Oh dear! 🎻

Shinybrightdarling · 28/09/2025 14:31

Handsomesoapdish · 28/09/2025 08:38

What lies did she tell on Oprah that she felt like the practice ceremony that was private felt like their real wedding? That was a feeling how are people still arguing with a feeling. That she felt there was racism she felt that, again a feeling. I actually don’t see the lies in both of those they are perceptions.

I believe that she “felt” those things, but she spoke as if they were the concrete truth rather just her perception. For instance, she said the private ceremony actually was the real wedding. No one would have had any objection to her saying she felt as though the practice was the real thing, but that’s not what she chose to say.

Shinybrightdarling · 28/09/2025 14:36

Handsomesoapdish · 28/09/2025 11:37

She absolutely did not say that. That is what people inferred and when she said about the “real” wedding it was obviously she was speaking figuratively not literally. I know exactly what she meant at the time. The actual wedding was a fiasco just for public show as all royal wedding before and since have been.

She intimated that Archie was not a price because of the colour of his skin. If you are perceptive enough to have immediately understood that she was speaking figuratively about the “real” wedding then you must be more than capable of discerning that.

Talltreesbythelake · 28/09/2025 14:43

So, if H had said, I feel married already, let's not bother with the legal stuff, you believe that M would have agreed and skipped off into the sunset with him? Nah, she needed that real, legal wedding because without it, what is she? A cable show actress.

BoudiccaRuled · 28/09/2025 15:24

I don't know about a genuine personality disorder but she has mind blowing self confidence and seems to believe she can go above and beyond in anything that takes her fancy, despite years of evidence to the contrary.
Harry is used to working with people who make grand ideas happen, so believed Megan could do the same without realising the sheer bloody work that has to take place, involving multiple skill sets.

MrsFinkelstein · 28/09/2025 15:48

Handsomesoapdish · 28/09/2025 11:37

She absolutely did not say that. That is what people inferred and when she said about the “real” wedding it was obviously she was speaking figuratively not literally. I know exactly what she meant at the time. The actual wedding was a fiasco just for public show as all royal wedding before and since have been.

She seems pretty clear, no mention of feelings, just we got married 3 days before.

'During a revelatory two-hour interview earlier this month, Meghan told Oprah: "You know, three days before our wedding we got married."

She said: "No-one knows that. But we called the archbishop and we just said: 'Look, this thing, this spectacle is for the world, but we want our union between us.'

bluegreygreen · 28/09/2025 16:05

MrsFinkelstein · 28/09/2025 15:48

She seems pretty clear, no mention of feelings, just we got married 3 days before.

'During a revelatory two-hour interview earlier this month, Meghan told Oprah: "You know, three days before our wedding we got married."

She said: "No-one knows that. But we called the archbishop and we just said: 'Look, this thing, this spectacle is for the world, but we want our union between us.'

Yes, quite clear.

So much so, that the Archbishop then had to deny it publicly.

DevaneyRob43 · 28/09/2025 16:07

Is Prince Andrew a paedophile? Answered your question

TheRealGoose · 28/09/2025 16:26

DevaneyRob43 · 28/09/2025 16:07

Is Prince Andrew a paedophile? Answered your question

He’s not actually a paedophile from what I understand, I think maybe you don’t know what a paedophile is. It is an adult who is sexually attracted to prepubescent children. Andrew has never been accused of this. So I’d not be insinuating he was on line.

he is accused of having sex with a 17 year old. The two issues were 17 was under the age of consent in the state it occurred and she was trafficked. Both major issues, but not paedophilia.

rwalker · 28/09/2025 16:28

DevaneyRob43 · 28/09/2025 16:07

Is Prince Andrew a paedophile? Answered your question

She was 17 he was 21

jumpingthehighjump · 28/09/2025 16:31

I think the OP has literally lit the blue touch paper and ran

Good to see the normal armchair psychiatrists are out in force again

I admire her resilience given she receives more constant negative and nasty press, media, online comments than very very many people. She's irritating at times but she isn't a mass murderer. On here you would think she was.
She is called every name under the sun. And some of it is quite revolting

crazeekat · 28/09/2025 16:42

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HappyByTheRiver · 28/09/2025 16:44

Some people say they were stepping back for privacy, but others, including Meghan and Harry, say they didn’t say that. Meghan said she wanted boundaries but I don’t think that’s the same as saying they wanted to never be heard from which is what some people seem to say they said. People interpret it to suit their ‘side’ I suppose.

No idea if she’s a narcissist. I think people can have traits of it, I expect a lot of the Royals do as they’ve been brought up to think they’re special, but that is different from actually being a narcissist. It’s not something that can be diagnosed by seeing someone in interviews, the press etc.

HappyByTheRiver · 28/09/2025 16:49

rwalker · 28/09/2025 16:28

She was 17 he was 21

He is about 25 years older than her isn’t he? Those ages aren’t right. He was 40 something.

lonelyhearts3 · 28/09/2025 16:52

i don’t know, I don’t know her.

Britanniaa · 28/09/2025 16:58

I think she is, but the press are fuelling this - I think Fergie and Andrew are 100% worse IMO.
I think the RF's PR team are hiding all hideous goings on in the York's household.
History will see her as Wallace Simpson 2.0.

Beesandhoney123 · 28/09/2025 16:59

The thing that bothers me about meg is that she might come back over here, expect us to pay for everything, as if nothing has happened, swan about trying to make everyone curtsey to her. And want her title back. And a tiara. Maybe renew her vows with H in a big gold carriage being waved at by the public! On the Telly!

Then have an affair with someone - a national treasure like Gary Lineker, say, someone you can't imagine being so gullible.

DrowningInSyrup · 28/09/2025 17:02

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 28/09/2025 09:01

I could not agree more about that bloody word. Mumsnetters absolutely love it and misuse it daily.😤

I hate it too. I also despise the constant analysing and obsession about Meghan. To be honest I admire the fact she hasn't jumped off a cliff, she is the most hated woman in Britain and to remain strong in the face of that is pretty remarkable. The media is utterly horrible. I neither dislike or like her because I've never met her.