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Why is Meghan hated?

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YourBrickTiger · 07/10/2025 13:26

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?

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bluegreygreen · 08/10/2025 15:49

But she didn't insult the Queen - at least not on purpose. Surely it was as clear as crystal that Meghan was mocking her own ability to perform a curtsey?

Which might just be believable, except that she does know how to curtsey
-she learnt ballet, which teaches you to curtsey early
-if by some strange chance she had forgotten, she had to curtsey in character in an episode of Suits

Letmeoutodhere · 08/10/2025 15:57

Indianrollerbird · 08/10/2025 15:15

So? It's not actually illegal to have an affair. When did they lie about it? Were they asked to go on public record and denied it? Please do provide the evidence if they did.

Do you know that Diana actually broke the marriage vows first and had at least 7 affairs pre divorce? She even harassed the wife of one of her lovers, plaguing her with phone calls. Do you think all of that should have been in the press at the time - after all, she was going to be the future queen?

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I don’t think there is any evidence that Diana had an affair first actually. She started having affairs in response to his clear involvement with Camilla. Who could blame her?

BananaPeels · 08/10/2025 15:59

bluegreygreen · 08/10/2025 15:49

But she didn't insult the Queen - at least not on purpose. Surely it was as clear as crystal that Meghan was mocking her own ability to perform a curtsey?

Which might just be believable, except that she does know how to curtsey
-she learnt ballet, which teaches you to curtsey early
-if by some strange chance she had forgotten, she had to curtsey in character in an episode of Suits

And surely a quick search on the internet would tell you how to do it?

wordler · 08/10/2025 16:03

Letmeoutodhere · 08/10/2025 15:57

I don’t think there is any evidence that Diana had an affair first actually. She started having affairs in response to his clear involvement with Camilla. Who could blame her?

She was fairly young, hurt and lonely so it’s understandable that she looked for comfort elsewhere, however I do judge her for picking married men, knowing as she did what that felt like.

Also with how public she (and Charles) made their affairs with their tell all interviews without considering how horrible that would be for their sons, especially William surrounded by teenage boys at boarding school.

ozarina · 08/10/2025 16:04

Aethelredtheunsteady · 08/10/2025 15:14

@ozarina I didn’t mean to imply that you had made any racial commentary - apologies if it came across that way.

My point is that there has been racial undertones to the coverage and vitriol thrown at Meghan. The straight outta Compton headline. A poster on this thread saying that ‘she doesn’t know if she’s black or white’ etc etc. It frustrates me when posters claim it doesn’t exist. I just feel the constant slagging Meghan off over literally everything she does emboldens parts of society who have an issue with her that’s far more unpleasant than the way she holds her jam tongues.

Thank you. No one is saying that these things didn't happen - the headline, the monkey pic by Danny Baker. What some people myself included are saying is we don't give a shit what colour she is - it's her lies and actions that are in question.

No one cares about all the crap like " our biracial princess took a white prince away from salty island" 😂 . People in general are more educated than that.

It's the lies and the pretence in public.

Charlenedickens · 08/10/2025 16:05

I think it’s a bit odd to say she shagged loads of men as Charles had an affair with Camilla. She shagged lots of men as she wanted to shag lots of men, inc married ones.

and this is the first time I’ve seen someone try to justify shagging a married man by saying well her husband was shagging around, so you know what, that’s fine if she shagged your husband.

Charlenedickens · 08/10/2025 16:08

jumpingthehighjump · 08/10/2025 15:41

My sympathies were always with Diana. She gets very maligned on here frequently. Imagine being just 20 years old, marrying your fairytale prince, and on the honeymoon or weeks before the wedding finding a bracelet engraved with their pet names Gladys and Fred. She was a lamb to the slaughter. Charles never really gave up Camilla.

Oh he wasn’t her fairy tale price, give over, they met twice before the engagement, it was an arranged marriage and she knew it. And signed up for it. She may have been young, but Diana in no way thought after two dates this was her fairy tale prince, it was no mills and boons story, they tried with her sister, who said no, so Diana said yes, after meeting him twice.

jumpingthehighjump · 08/10/2025 16:13

I read they had met 13 times when they married. I didn't think it was only twice pre engagement. She was 19. And probably naively thought it was a fairytale love story. The age gap was far too big when they married. And his heart was elsewhere.

BoudiccaRuled · 08/10/2025 16:21

BrillantBriony · 08/10/2025 14:51

When you strip everything away; the insult to the Queen (surely the real insult is her pedophile son), her supposed insult to Kate…blah blah blah. It really comes down to racism. But it’s a complex racism if she was a movie star/TV actress who married a well-known celebrity no one would batter an eyelid.

But people view the royal family as theirs, it’s institutionally British. It also possess that same allure as the lottery the ‘it could be you’. And Meghan Markle is not you. She’s not institutionalised, and she’s not ‘ours’ With the royal family comes a hierarchy, a class system, and black people are below white people in that class system. Because the class system is solely and firstly the property of the white man, colonialisation taught us that.

Look at the controversy that Märtha Louise marriage to an African man caused. White woman being fooled and duped by black man; equally Harry’s the white man fooled and duped by the black woman. History has indoctrinated into us that Africans are beneath us and lesser, yet they possess this voodoo ability to dupe and fool the white man. These white people have no agency they must have been fooled into it.

Unfortunately, it’s a racism. It’s a complex one but at its core it’s racism.

The heirs to the Crown barely ever marry Brits, Charles and William are outliers with that. William marrying a commoner would have been unthinkable 50 years before but, thank god, someone must've suggested breeding in some extra IQ and to damn with the blue blood.
Yes, Megan was the first non-white to marry someone high-ish up in the line of succession, but the colour of her skin (or the colour of half her family's ancestors) is definitely NOT the reason for us finding her incredibly irritating, smug and lacking in authenticity.

Indianrollerbird · 08/10/2025 16:22

Letmeoutodhere · 08/10/2025 15:57

I don’t think there is any evidence that Diana had an affair first actually. She started having affairs in response to his clear involvement with Camilla. Who could blame her?

Well nobody has the definitive truth, and we can only go by what the various parties said about it and what the people around them have disclosed.

Charles said in 1994 that he only resumed his relationship with Camilla when his marriage to Diana had irretrievably broken down. Diana said in 1995 that she had been mad about James Hewitt, although she'd already had an affair with Barry Manakee before Hewitt.

Allan Peters, a former royal protection officer, said in 2023 (in a documentary called King Charles: The Boy Who Walked Alone) that it was categorically Diana who strayed first, and that's the point where the marriage became irretrievable. The affair was with Manakee, a bodyguard, and when Allen noticed something going on between them, he transferred Manakee out of the royal household. Allen alleges that Diana physically attacked him over this. Charles wanted to know why she was upset about a bodyguard being transferred and that's when the penny dropped.

Obviously it's all he said, she said, and the truth may never be known. As a product of an arranged marriage with an age gap and all manner of issues myself, I feel sorry for both Charles and Diana, they should never have been pushed together; but also hugely unimpressed with both of them too, especially when children were involved.

InsectsMatter · 08/10/2025 16:26

U53rName · 07/10/2025 13:32

Jealousy

Xenophobia

Racism

You’re kidding me. Absolutely nobody is jealous of Meghan Markle.
The Sussex Squad need to stop rehashing these exhausted tropes.
Find a better way to earn a living.

partytimed · 08/10/2025 16:31

I don’t like the fact she pushes her duchess title on all of her commercial endeavours. She’s been caught out telling a lot of lies and she gives me the impression of someone playing the victim all the time.

binkie163 · 08/10/2025 16:36

*I haven't read whole thread.
@BrillantBriony Andrew is a peadophile? When did that happen? I'm not sure there is any suggestion of under age girls or children.
@YourBrickTiger a proven sex offender? When did that happen, I wasn't aware of it going to court.
As far as I am concerned Andrew is an absolute sleeze, sex pest and an arrogant, unpleasant man but he has not been charged or found guilty of any sexual offences in UK or USA.
Stating it as a fact is a bit naughty whatever you think of him.

Charlenedickens · 08/10/2025 16:43

jumpingthehighjump · 08/10/2025 16:13

I read they had met 13 times when they married. I didn't think it was only twice pre engagement. She was 19. And probably naively thought it was a fairytale love story. The age gap was far too big when they married. And his heart was elsewhere.

I understand it was twice to it being agreed and 13 to being announced publicly. It was an arranged marriage, I don’t think either of them really believed they fell madly in love and this was some fairy tale. Diana knew full well what this was. No matter how young she was. I mean Christ they were trying to marry him to her sister weeks before.

CheeseyOnionPie · 08/10/2025 16:46

I think if a lot of people (and honestly it seems to be women that really hate her) look deeply, it’s that they feel wronged somehow that this mixed race woman has even been elevated to the royal family in the first place (Prince Harry surely couldn’t have picked her!) and she doesn’t have the “gratitude” to put up and shut up when she gets abused in the papers and suffers micro aggressions from the other Royals.

I don’t particularly like or dislike her but it seems to me that her and Harry’s popularity was rising quickly and at some point (after the Vogue edit I think) she started getting slated for everything she did. The comparison between reporting on Megan doing something vs. Kate doing exactly the same is so wildly opposite, it’s clear a decision was made to tear her down.

Rattlerange · 08/10/2025 16:48

If you found it that stomach churning you would not have watched any more and maybe you misjudged it.

A multitude of professional TV reviewers and 10’s of thousands of viewers with negative reviews, means very few misjudged the tripe she presented, it was godawful in the extreme, as judged by the majority.

Baital · 08/10/2025 17:21

BrillantBriony · 08/10/2025 14:51

When you strip everything away; the insult to the Queen (surely the real insult is her pedophile son), her supposed insult to Kate…blah blah blah. It really comes down to racism. But it’s a complex racism if she was a movie star/TV actress who married a well-known celebrity no one would batter an eyelid.

But people view the royal family as theirs, it’s institutionally British. It also possess that same allure as the lottery the ‘it could be you’. And Meghan Markle is not you. She’s not institutionalised, and she’s not ‘ours’ With the royal family comes a hierarchy, a class system, and black people are below white people in that class system. Because the class system is solely and firstly the property of the white man, colonialisation taught us that.

Look at the controversy that Märtha Louise marriage to an African man caused. White woman being fooled and duped by black man; equally Harry’s the white man fooled and duped by the black woman. History has indoctrinated into us that Africans are beneath us and lesser, yet they possess this voodoo ability to dupe and fool the white man. These white people have no agency they must have been fooled into it.

Unfortunately, it’s a racism. It’s a complex one but at its core it’s racism.

You don't find anything problematic about Martha Louise's husband? The only reason people dislike him is because he is a Black African, not because of his beliefs?

Suggesting cancer patients wanted cancer isn't a great look, whatever your heritage. And admitting to crossing a line sexually during a healing session is a bit problematic too.

Edited for spelling

Mylovelygreendress · 08/10/2025 17:30

jumpingthehighjump · 08/10/2025 15:41

My sympathies were always with Diana. She gets very maligned on here frequently. Imagine being just 20 years old, marrying your fairytale prince, and on the honeymoon or weeks before the wedding finding a bracelet engraved with their pet names Gladys and Fred. She was a lamb to the slaughter. Charles never really gave up Camilla.

Not sure the wives of Will Carling and Oliver Hoare would feel as sympathetic!

BunnyLake · 08/10/2025 17:49

InsectsMatter · 08/10/2025 16:26

You’re kidding me. Absolutely nobody is jealous of Meghan Markle.
The Sussex Squad need to stop rehashing these exhausted tropes.
Find a better way to earn a living.

I don’t really understand why anyone would be actively jealous of her. Surely not for being married to Harry (erm, no thank you) or even her lifestyle (again, no thanks).

There are far richer and prettier famous women if jealousy of celebs is your thing. I can’t think of a single celebrity I’m jealous of anyway.

BettysRoasties · 08/10/2025 17:55

I don’t hate her or really care that much at all.

I do think she’s lied a lot and is likely a bit of a bully. I think Harry is an overgrown mad child whose evidently been jealous of his brother his entire life and lives in his victim era cashing in on his mothers death.

I think they egged each other on and fuel this ego trip while actually both seemingly failing at pretty much everything they try.

All married in royal women and let’s be fair even some born is get ripped to shreds in the papers at times. Everyone gets their go. Meghan was actually protected better than most and invited to things way before Catherine ever was.

Why not the hate for Andrew and Fergie? Simply because most already agree they are a pair of twat. Not much to debate or argue there.

Letmeoutodhere · 08/10/2025 17:56

Yes, I don’t get it either! I genuinely don’t see what there is to be jealous of. I wouldn’t want her life for anything.

CurlewKate · 08/10/2025 18:09

She does have lovely hair…..

ThreePears · 08/10/2025 18:20

bluegreygreen · 08/10/2025 15:49

But she didn't insult the Queen - at least not on purpose. Surely it was as clear as crystal that Meghan was mocking her own ability to perform a curtsey?

Which might just be believable, except that she does know how to curtsey
-she learnt ballet, which teaches you to curtsey early
-if by some strange chance she had forgotten, she had to curtsey in character in an episode of Suits

Oh not this curtsey thing AGAIN 😫How many more times?

utters many many swear words at the total infuriating frustration of it all

ozarina · 08/10/2025 18:24

CurlewKate · 08/10/2025 18:09

She does have lovely hair…..

Looks like she's suffering though from a receding hairline plus Botox can do that. It's a difficult look for a woman of her age.

ozarina · 08/10/2025 18:25

ThreePears · 08/10/2025 18:20

Oh not this curtsey thing AGAIN 😫How many more times?

utters many many swear words at the total infuriating frustration of it all

Not ANDREW again ? 😂😂😂😂

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