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 would respond but I have no idea what you’re talking about!

So you don’t know that Meghan was praised to the rafters by her spokesperson, Omid Scobie, for being media savvy? That she was so self confident about becoming a royal that she didn’t want to take some time to learn or accept help, but wanted to hit the ground running? That she described herself on the Tig as She-Ra? I would have thought that sort of person wouldn’t be even remotely phased by some daft use of her name in an article about avocados.

I’m surprised you don’t know any of this, considering the amount of time you spend making confident assertions about her on these threads.

Well she has great legs so she would be a star turn on the Moulin Rouge. Seriously she is raising the future King, i think that is notable enough.

Do you have an opinion on Donald Trump?

Oh, I see. No I didn’t know that-I’ve heard of Omid Scobie but never read him. I only linked to that article because people are saying that the British press weren’t negative towards the DofS. No idea whether it upset her or not because unlike many Mumsnetters I don’t know any members of the RF personally.

Is It negative about her or avocados?

Was the wedding bouquet one negative about the royal brides (it referred to 4 of them) or Lily of the Valley?

You seem to be exactly the sort of gullible person these articles are designed for. You can’t see beyond the clickbait title. Anyone with any media savvy would get this sort of “attach a celeb” clickbait article is par for the course in high profile, highly public life.

Harry wrote about various stupid articles like the bouquet one in Spare, so clearly their fragile egos, zero sense of proportion and lack of critical thinking skills results in them being upset. The Sussexes have revealed a lot about themselves in their various money making vehicles - far more than any British newspaper would get away with printing. You don’t need to know them to listen to the words that come out of their own mouths, and that they put into the public sphere.

I say this every time this story is touted as an example of the press targeting Meghan with negative stories.

It wasn’t a story about Meghan. It was a worthy but dry climate/economic/human rights story. Stories like that are hard to pitch to editors at tabloids because it’s not going to get the clickworthy headlines of more gossipy or shock value news.

So in this scenario either the writer, editor or headline copy writer has looked for a way to juzz up the click ability of the piece. The obvious way to do that is do a keyword search on avocados and see what recent stories got the most click and at that moment in time - bingo! Meghan’s make up artist had done a social media post showing some avocado toast that Meghan had apparently made him and it was written up as an easy quick article at the time getting a lot of hits because Meghan’s name was very click worthy. So now there’s a way to glam up the story.

It’s not reporters sitting around thinking what nasty story can I write about Meghan’s eating preferences. It’s oooh can I get a bit of that topical celeb glamour to spice up my dull story.

Actually one thing that should be noted about how internet clicks, SEO and algorithms have affected the way a lot of online news publications make their editorial choices is that they are often led by what’s worked well before.

So if critical and negative stories are getting vastly higher numbers then more and more of those types of stories will be written and the whole online beast drifts in a direction fueled by clicks rather than creative and ethical choices.

Look how everyone reveled in the ‘where’s Kate’ madness. It wasn’t just Kate haters who ran away with it - it was everyone - the royal commentators were ecstatic - they hadn’t managed to drag the Waleses into a good drama for ages.

The point is that it’s money/clicks/audience numbers that drive all of it - for the majority of the press ( apart from someone like Piers Morgan) there’s absolutely nothing personal in it - it’s not a hate campaign against Harry and Meghan - it’s a plug stories in - check which get the most views - find ways to repeat to repeat those ones.

No, just his politics. (General dislike of sex pests aside)

The avocado thing isn’t quite the same as saying that the press went on about her pregnancy being fake though, which is what was pp claimed was in the msm, when it most decidedly was not

Catching up and also v. tired but while I'm no Rachel supporter this:

Meghan forcefully promotes herself as many things, often in complete contradiction to what she’s actually doing.

Could and does apply to so many other royals.

As I say so often. All equally appalling.

But she isn’t royal. She’s married to someone who was born royal but that’s it. So what other royals do and what Meghan Markle does aren’t going to be comparable.

She styles herself uncontestedly HRH The Duchess of Sussex.

Therefore entirely comparable.

In her eyes maybe. Not in the real world.

And how do you know he’s a sex pest? (As I assume that’s what you’re implying by that comment). Is it per chance by what you see online, in newspapers and on TV?

The real world is waking up to the scam perpetrated upon it by all of 'royal' ilk.

Rachel should be credited with hastening the process 😎

I think that's really unfair of you to be so judgmental about a person you've never met and know nothing about, except what you've seen online, on TV and in the papers. I mean, have you actually met Trump? do you know him personally?

Love this!!!

It is possible to form an opinion of people based on their words and actions eg Hitler , Ceaușesc, Ian Watkins .,

According to some, none of us can form any judgement about MM because we don't know her personally. We only know what we have been told by the dodgy media.

(Despite it coming from H&M via Oprah, Spare etc).

The same, of course, could be said of any public figure...

Not this old rubbish again ?

The press did NOT suggest her pregnancy was fake however they did carry articles about the trolls who said this. Defending her wouldn't you say ?

Why rubbish?

Media outlets may be more or less accurate/ reliable, and of course you must interrogate the source.

But ultimately we can only know about Trump (or any other leader, elected or not) through the media?

Just like H & M. Or any other person putting themselves in the public eye.

Racism.

UK is still a racist country, never mind Harry DARING to leave the "fold"...

It should be Andrew who people should be disgusted with....

Through the media and by their actions and words. I can't even believe I am having to repeat that the Sussexes have done all of this repeatedly.