Why is Meghan hated?

[YourBrickTiger]

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?

The press also talked about how Kate was going to bring her commoner genes into the royal family and make their skin darker.

"Catherine’s commoner genes might lead to a somewhat darker-skinned baby, Saggar said.
The royals, he explained, are pretty pale. Catherine’s skin has a considerably more olive tone, and the baby will likely be somewhere between the two – but more like Catherine because her genes are dominant over lighter It ones.
“The odds are the child will have darker skin color than the royals might be used to,” Saggar said.
The same is true for eye color. The chances that the baby will have true blue eyes like William’s are relatively unlikely. Most likely, Saggar said, the baby’s eyes will be a shade closer to Catherine’s."

https://www.cnn.com/2013/07/03/health/royal-baby-appearance

I'm not implying that talking about Catherine like this excuses what was said about Meghan, but that the UK public are unfortunately used to the press picking over the married in women in the royal family. Meghan's initial press coverage was in the majority overwhelmingly positive.

YourBrickTiger

Deary me was just trying to lighten the mood, sorry. I'll chalk this up to something else I can't do right! Sorry guys.

Can't argue with that.

Really ? Apart from DB himself I don’t recall anyone complaining but happy to be corrected .

@Marriner
People don't like anyone "different" marrying into the royal family.

When you say people who are you referring to? Certain people, the press or the UK as a whole?

I think it was almost unanimously positive that H had fallen in love.

I disagree. Why does it require humility. Especially from the women in the royal family?

Kate is never allowed to have her own opinions.

Women do not HAVE to be submissive to men and humble.

When Princess Diana was out doing her own thing, she was very popular, Charles was jealous and didnt like it.

Now he is with Camilla who is submissive to him and stays in his shadow.

Meghan can think highly of herself if she wants. That is exactly what attracted Harry to her. That she wasnt fawning over him and that she had a lot of confidence.

Your question is “why is Meghan hated?” But your replies are full of hate for every other member of the monarchy, particularly Camilla. Even if everything you said was true, and many of us would dispute it, that has nothing whatever to do with why Meghan is disliked. Her actions and personality should be judged separately from the royals. You could hate every single one of them from Charles, camilla right down to Harry and Meghan. Liking all the others or hating all the others has no bearing on whether Meghan is liked or not.
I started off thinking she was lovely and Harry would have a lovely life married to her. But things changed. She obviously didn’t enjoy being part of the family, both as royals and their jobs, or as individuals. From Harry saying they were the family Meghan never had (and she seems to have had a pretty good upbringing with the father she abandoned), to claiming they were all nasty and racist. Nothing was good enough for her, she spent thousands on her clothes, no publicising British designers as Royals are expected to do. Snide comments that were lies about being married by the Archbishop before the wedding. She isolated Harry from his family, although he must have been willing so it’s not like she can be totally blamed for it. She has tried to monetise her titles despite being told they couldn’t do that. That’s just for starters. I think the way she’s behaved towards Harry’s family has been horrendous. You will come back with “what about Camilla……/Andrew/Charles ? That has no bearing at all on what I think of Meghan and Harry. They could all be appalling, doesn’t make Meghan any better

Interesting, my post comparing the ‘straight out of Compton’ and ‘exotic DNA’,to some of Harry’s absoluteiy awful racist r comments was deleted.

Meghan can think highly of herself if she wants. That is exactly what attracted Harry to her. That she wasnt fawning over him and that she had a lot of confidence. Meghan can think highly of herself if she wants

To think she could collab with the late QEII takes ‘thinking highly of yourself’ to a whole new level.😁

QE11 is not worth more than anyone else is.

Every human on this Earth has the same worth and value.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

100% this

Never thought I’d say this but “What about Andrew?”

There definitely seems to be some people with more old fashioned views towards royalty in the U.K.

I lived in Spain for a couple of years. Spain have a royal family.

People there in Spain think the royal family are the same as everyone else. They are just seen as a fairly normal family. The queen used to be a TV presenter. There is no fawning over them like they are angelic beings

Some people in the UK definitely talk about QE2 like she was some kind of higher being. That she was higher than human. An angel maybe.

No,she was human like us!

Why does it require humility. Especially from the women in the royal family?

Because the world they inhabit involves vastly more privilege than most will ever see, and it can be as well to remember that when metting those far less fortunate - and there's no "especially the women" for many of us because that applies to all of them

Sadly, though an actress, it seems Meghan can't even pretend to be interested in anyone except herself, as seen in her appalling Bradby interview in a South African township of all places, and her clear disinterest in the account of the black lady who'd suffered domestic violence

You obviously didn’t listen to any of the talk radio stations.

I meant why do the women have to be more humble than the men in the UK royal family - to be accepted?

Any time there has been a strong confident woman marrying into the UK royal family, it hasnt worked.

Only the meek, humble, subservient women survive when they marry into the royal family.

Kate is keeping her opinions down so as npt to put a foot wrong.

Of course.

But in terms of the job she chose to take on in becoming a working royal (they could have chosen not to) it was the equivalent of the new member of staff saying they would 'collaborate' with a long running, successful CEO if they could rewrite their JD and only do the bits of the job they wanted.

Then, when the CEO declines their kind offer, claims it was because of racism and jealousy.

The new member of staff, as a human being, has equal value to the CEO. They have every right to turn down the job offer, or accept and then leave if they find it isn't right for them.

They don't have the right to insist that the company allow them to rewrite the JD and still continue to employ them... and pay them a full time salary for part time work.

You have no idea what Catherine’s opinions are about anything. Just because she doesn’t share them publicly doesn’t mean she doesn’t have them. Everyone thought Diana was a meek shy thing with no opinions. How wrong were they?

I feel the same about workplaces.

I see the C.E.O and the cleaner as having the same worth.

I don't see anyone as being worth more than another.

Hierarchal titles in workplaces are very old fashioned as the people that are lower dowm on tbe hierarchy do not like them!

Exactly. Catherine very rarely shares an opinion publicly.

She knows what the UK public and press want. They want a woman who is second in line to her husband. Who is quiet and submissive.

Same worth as a human being but not the same role, responsibilities, and decision making power.

It's not that the Queen was worth more as a human being, it's that she was the UK's Head of State.

Who are you to say what the UK public want?

Catherine has immense power within the Institution, she’s the most important woman in the RF after Camilla, whose status drops like a stone if she outlives Charles.

Its important to have someone who takes that role seriously and isn’t distracted by overpowering ego and greed.

I didn’t say, nor do I think, QEII was a higher being or worth anymore than anyone else.

I don’t think my boss is a higher being or worth more than me but I wouldn’t jump in and think I could collab with him with little or no knowledge/experience of the business.

Both jobs are important to the company.

They CEO probably has a more complex skill set that is more difficult to replace. Which is why they get a higher salary, and why they are expected to make wider decisions the cleaner isn't asked to make.

I am all for a flattened hierarchy - probably why I have spent most of my working life in the voluntary sector! But a clear hierarchy, role boundaries, and decision making structure is important, it enables everyone to do their job well.

I wouldn't dream.of telling the cleaner at work what products to use etc. But when I managed the cleaner in a previous job I would have raised the issue of any unsatisfactory results. Because that was my role. I didn't have to be an expert in cleaning, but I was responsible for ensuring the standard of performance, just as my manager was responsible for my standard of performance.

Otherwise no-one can make a decision, and there's no accountability.

But everyone has value as a person.