Why is Meghan hated?

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I have very strong views about the Royals especially Camilla, however I am genuinely interested and want to find out more as to why Meghan Markle seems to be so hated. I'm asking in case there is something I have missed. I do read up as much as I can and watch shows from 'both sides' of the argument, but there is nothing that I have seen so far that warrants the level of sheer hatred geared towards her - I don't mean on here necessarily, but on social media in general. She cannot do ANYTHING without a swarm of people descending on her like vampires to tear her apart.

She isn't an adulteress, she's not a paedophile or sex offender, she isn't lazy, she seems to genuinely care about people in need.....and from what has been shown, she genuinely loves Harry and is just trying to make a life with him. He left the UK to start a life away from a nest of some awful people, his mother died when he was 12, his uncle is a sex offender, there is racism and a rigid set of rules within that family where he won't be king anyway so what is wrong with him leaving?

I'm not starting this to start an argument I am genuninely interested in why she is so rabidly disliked and why? Maybe I will start to feel differently if there is more of a reason but at the moment I cannot see one?

I don’t know either. I like her.

Jealousy

Xenophobia

Racism

Because she's young and beautiful. Because she's richer than the majority of people. Because she comes from a mixed heritage background. Because she's seen as dividing the royal family (in reality Harry is capable of making up his own mind). Because she's irritating and has an ego. Because she's not Kate or as bendable as Kate.

Maybe read the other million threads on this in the Royal Family section?

This will become a Meghan bashing thread in about 3 minutes time.

I don't know. I don't believe it's racism or the fact that she's not British. When they first got together and the wedding the public adored her. She was more glamorous than dependable Kate. I think it comes down to the perception that Harry had to choose between her and his family because she didn't want the job / life of a Royal.

I don't hate her at all. I've never hated anyone (actually, that's a lie, I hate one person). I am just indifferent to her.

I think she is very self promoting and very ambitious, but that's not a reason to dislike someone. She's just not my cup of tea.

im fascinated by her, I don’t particularly like her but I certainly don’t hate her.

She annoys people with her word salads and clearly very high opinion of herself. She tells weird, pointless and easily refuted lies and that irritates people.

Shes very attractive and even when she fails at whatever her current venture is she pivots and manages to keep herself relevant, that provokes a lot of jealousy.

Shes a woman of colour which brings out the racist misogynists.

I have no idea. I think many people like women that marry into the RF to be less than her. She was successful in her own right and driven, and more accomplished and confident than we’re used to. Add to that a healthy dose of racism, and she really can’t win.

I quite like her. She’s a great public speaker and role model and I think she’s a loss to the RF.

I don't get it either. She seems to be a perfectly nice and decent person. When I ask people who complain about her what's she has done wrong they can't tell me. They just don't like her.

South Park episode sums it up for me.

we wnat privacy we want privacy. Commissions yet another lay ourselves bare doc. Harry is her equal.

Attention seeking, inauthentic, low intelligence, inflated ego.

Bore off. No hate.

Why do you have strong views of the royals “especially Camilla”? Do you have stronger views on Camilla than Andrew??
I understand why some people don’t like her, but if I was picking out a royal to have strong views on, it wouldn’t be her!

Puzzles me too. I think she seems OK. Some people are horrible about her.

Someone phoned in on the Vanessa show the other week, and said 'I loathe that vile creature. (Meghan.) Vanessa was stunned, and said, 'but why?' The woman said 'she's just horrible, what a dreadful woman she is.'

Couldn't say why though, silly moo.

I agree there is prejudice in some of the extreme reactions to her.

But, it’s hard to believe some of what she says or to deny that there is a good deal of what looks like performing.

I think with the best will in the world, no one believes that she didn’t really know much about the royal family when she met him.

I think claiming that no one supported her when she joined the firm is fairly convincingly contradicted by other sources.

To be fair to her, she discovered that she didn’t like royal life, the restrictions and feeling like she was second class all the time - which is the ball game in that family and is easy to see from space.

So she has lost potential fans by being so assertive about her narrative even when some of what she says is quite implausible.

She didn’t fit in that family and she was going to go noisily - that’s fine. But even for someone like me, who is far from a monarchist, it’s hard to watch the complaining they did as a couple.

I don’t think she really had that much to complain about honestly. Yes that institution is deeply embedded in the racism of empire - but she is smart, appears to be better educated than her husband and I believe that she knew what she was doing; what she didn’t know is that she wouldn’t like it.

I think where she is amazing is in fashion, her style is stunning and I guess that’s where she shines naturally and in a way which makes sense of her fame and genuine beauty. But the moaning of millionaires is unacceptable these days and if you want authenticity to be your brand - you can’t have a history that contradicts your claims to be authentic and then complain when the world finds you out as a bit of a faker - them’s the breaks on the world stage.

The lifestyle programmes, IMO, are truly awful, just trying to do goop. Not filming it in her own house, having “friends” over and talking as if there is intimacy when there is evidently none at all. It’s too fake. The jam! Enough.
I am happy to have her swanning around in great clothes but I don’t want to watch her teasing coriander around some scallops and licking her fingers while flirting with the director - it’s all so nauseating.

She is as annoying as my sister in-law - and that’s not illegal.

I have been in a relationship with a narcissist and once you have finally shaken it off, you can not unsee the signs.
She is a narcissist.

She's awful in so many ways. Look at the subreddit for examples why. I don't believe you can be as ignorant as to why she's hated as you say you are.

Loads of people will say it's racism. It's not racism. She's just bloody awful.

I don't hate her, but I do have a negative view of her.

I started out quite positive, happy Harry had found someone to be happy with, enjoyed the wedding etc etc.

But she appears not to have liked Royal life. She and Harry could have moved to the USA and quietly got on with a new life. However they went on Oprah, Harry wrote his book etc. It wasn't necessary or constructive.

She seems alienated from her own family, and has helped Harry alienate from his family.

Didn’t take long did it? Normally you can at least contain them on the royal forum.

I first heard about her when Harry wrote that letter to the press telling them to back off from abusing her. Felt really sorry for her and for all the stupid nasty headlines the papers wrote about her in the build up to the wedding. Every little thing she did was torn apart even for things like having scented candles in thr wedding.

She's had more hate directed at her than could ever be justified.

But She's also very Hollywood, a self-promoter and in interviews she comes off as smug and self-involved. She's also been caught out in lies or half-truths. All of that makes her hard to watch/like from a British culture point of view. We value self-deprecation, and honesty. And we also value getting up and getting on with things so to continually rake up past offences done to you comes across as petty.

She's the kind of annoying that is satisfying to moan about in private but obviously the moaning isn't happening in private.

Still not saying all the hate is justified and people should just leave her alone. But that's my answer to your question.

That’s so nasty. You see it on here too.

There’s a reason Kate is universally popular. (Apart from being British and white that is.) She plays the game and her blandness is strategic. Shows up, smiles, waves. Says very little indeed. She never expresses opinions, avoids controversy, and fits traditional expectations of demure royal femininity.

Look what happens when someone independent, direct and assertive comes along. And she has the temerity to be divorced, biracial, American and an actress. She was on the back foot. So when she voiced opinions, corrected stories, or defended herself publicly, tabloids and haters labelled it defiance or diva behaviour. Those labels have stuck as have all the unsubstantiated stories started by the haters.

I think it’s a real shame

She's black and confident. People don't like this. The establishment and the press especially don't like this.

She now lives in a big house in the sun and makes expensive jam, which makes some people very angry.

Racism.
Classism.

Racism and misogyny- just the usual Daily Fail stuff really.

I wonder what it was about constant racial abuse, death threats and being brought to the brink of suicide that she didn't enjoy? Yeah, people should just stay quiet about racism and mental illness so that others can feel comfortable.

All the isms - racism, classism, anti-Americanism, sexism and general cynicism.