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?

A few examples.

She lied to Vanity Fair about her humanitarian work and was upset that they didn't include it in her article - they couldn't because they could find no evidence of it
She was found to have lied in court in the case about the leaked letter and was reprimanded by the judge
In 'Oprah' she implied the Royal Family had been racist towards her; Harry later denied in the Tom Bradby interview; despite this they both accepted an award for standing up against 'institutional racism' in the RF
In 'Oprah' she (and Harry) used pictures of a crowd outside a Harry Potter event, and photographers who photographed him with a previous girlfriend, as examples of them struggling with the media

These are simply a few that can be easily checked if you wish.

Amongst other things, the general shameless fibbing. Ie:

Lie: Archie wouldn't be allowed a title because he's mixed race!
Truth: he wouldn't immediately have a title because he wasn't high enough in the line of succession. He now is, and therefore does.

Lie: Archie won't have security because he's mixed race!
Truth: taxpayer funded security was removed when they stopped being working royals and moved to a different continent.

Lie: I categorically never spoke to Omid Scooby Doo whatsit about his book!
Truth: she actually did, but "forgot" that she had done so. She had to apologise for that one iirc.

Also the wanging on about the RF five years later is just weird. As is hating the lot of them yet still ensuring her children have their titles bestowed on them, and naming her daughter after the longest reigning monarch.

Calling Harry a fox, general guff about the beauty of doing the school run. Etc etc. I don't hate her but JC she's annoying as fuck.

This really.

Kate can have anything projected onto her because she's pretty much a blank slate. So she can be all the good things people want her to be.

Meghan not so much.

Plus she had the temerity to "take" Harry when he could have been a working royal, staying in his lane.

The media supported by the Royal family. Have a look back at history at women in the public eye, Linda McCartney, Yoko Ono ( only just recently found out that John Lennon cheated in her in her presence that’s why she split up with him for 18 months that’s not what the media portrayed they said she was controlling I think he broke her heart) Diana, think about the portillio girls, even Fergie ( now we know know what Andrew is alleged to have taken part in) dingo killed her baby Lindy Chamberlain, Joanne lees, lots of women are demonised by the press. Not saying they are perfect but blame & hate unfairly spread via the media. There are recent ones but that would detract from what I am trying to say

No it was actually in the Queen's royal biography. Blimey!

I agree. Megan is less filtered, and gets ridiculed for it. People doing the ridiculing are just embarrassing themselves to be quite honest. I have less of an opinion of William and Kate, because they do not show who they are in order to keep their image squeaky clean.

I think it was because Princess Margaret couldn't pronounce Elizabeth when she was younger?

the daily Mail are insane about her every move, there are so many articles about her in Paris and the fact that Diana died there. It’s ridiculous.

I have more respect for Meghan for speaking her mind, and being who she is BUT it doesn't fit with the RF. I find it difficult that in this day and age a woman has to act the way Kate does because she wants to be queen one day. It must be so stifling. But then there is a begrudging respect there too that she is able to do it.

I agree that Lilibet as a name for Harry and Meghan's daughter doesn't really come across well.

It might have been better to have just called her Lily.

You only hear about the things she does if you actively read about it. I hear the odd thing said about Harry - such as the meeting with Charles - but I rarely see anything about her because I don’t go looking for it. I’ve not watched their TV shows, not read his book, don’t follow them on any social media. The unhinged that post on the royal family threads actively go looking for information to attack her for. It’s nuts.

It's not nonsense.

Before they were engaged (so before she was eligible for official security) Catherine was regularly followed by groups of photographers, some of whom took upskirting photos of her - which is now illegal and punishable by a prison sentence. She had to give up her job as a buyer for Jigsaw as the media pressure got so bad.

As I said, people have selective memories.

I don’t hate her but that book, spare, and the Oprah interview. They are both spiteful liars her and Harry.

Nowhere near as bad. Like her or not Meghan's was relentless.

"People have different views on folks they don't know" shocker!

OP, you pour out a lot of vitriol about Queen Camilla (who I presume you don't know), but are surprised others dislike the Duchess of Sussex? It's exactly the same - we take a view, based on the little that we know and read. So I'm not sure why you don't understand.

Personally, I think Meghan's behaviour has been poor, and she seems to have many unappealing traits. Whereas Camilla strikes me as warm, fun and good company. But I don't really know, because I've never met them..... and it's very odd to actually "hate" a stranger!

Why did you read it then? Why did you watch it?

Origin:
The claim that the Queen found Charles "insufferable" is a misrepresentation of comments made by royal author Robert Jobson.

Jobson's book:
In his book, Jobson implied the Queen sometimes found Charles a "difficult" or "frustrating" person due to his sometimes impulsive or out-of-step ways.

No direct evidence:
Crucially, the Queen never wrote or stated herself that Charles was "insufferable". The word comes from interpretations and paraphrasing of private accounts.

Queen's perspective:
While there were undoubtedly private challenges in their relationship, the public narrative and the Queen's personal correspondence do not support the idea of her using such a strong and negative term.

This covers it really well. I think Kate must have the highest level of the personality trait agreeableness that I’ve ever seen but agreeableness is very close to people pleasing and completely losing yourself as a person so no ego. Meghan is quite disagreeable as a person and stands up for herself so she has an ego.

I liked Meghan at first - was a fan of Suits although I didn't know her real name rather than her character until she started dating Harry. I loved the idea of the Fab Four, and thought it would be fun for Kate to have another 'outsider' to roll her eyes with at some of the weirder traditions inside the Royal Family.

I thought it was a shame when they announced that they were leaving, and then didn't think much more about them until the Oprah interview a year later which I thought was odd and manipulative.

The point I felt there was something really off about her was when she flew thousands of miles in a private jet with a film crew to do performative grief tourism at Ulvade after the school shooting. A town/state that she had no connection to, turning up to be photographed before the parents had even seen the memorial that had been set up. Matthew McConaughey who is actually from Ulvade waited to visit so that he could give the grieving families space.

I don't hate her, she doesn't impact my life enough to feel that strongly but I can see how some of the things she's done and said could rile people up.

To hate a stranger enough to write, "I cannot wait to see the back of her."

I genuinely don’t think most people hate her.

I am a bit meh honestly. I liked her at first but it was instantly obvious she had no idea what the royal family was about. That isn’t her fault. The job came with the marriage but the job she got wasn’t the one she thought she was getting

she thought being a princess would be a passport into influence. Talks at the UN, high profile charity work, lots of celebrity. That’s the world she was already in, albeit slightly on the sidelines. I can totally understand form her POV that she thought marrying Harry would open up a new world of exposure.

what she got was Princess Anne’s role. Lots of engagements but quiet, no publicity. Important, duty work but no big opportunities. A quiet life of service. The big gigs would obviously go the Waleses

so she just didn’t fit. But people in the Uk didn’t like that as we do have high expectations of the royals. The press test them to see if they will crack and then relent. meghan understandably cracked and people didn’t like that. She didn’t pass the test.

so I don’t hate her. I’m glad they are living their best life. I just think the whole thing could have been avoided if she had made sure she understood exactly what she was getting into. Thinking she could change things from within was immensely misguided.

So you have met them then? Fed information that the media want you to swallow & it worked.

I think this post is fair.

I don't know why people hate her, except that there seem to be plenty of people about who have incredibly strong emotions about royalty generally. I'm not really too interested, but don't like the nastiness you see around the topic on threads like this.

But things haven't played out well for Harry since she came on the scene and, while we can't know who did or didn't say what, some people don't understand why you wouldn't just deal with all that more quietly, whatever was or wasn't said or done. It comes across as either attention-seeking on the one hand or vitriolic on the other.

I don't honestly think there is racism. People were happy for Harry before whatever went wrong (not taking sides; we can't know) went wrong.

She has 4.2 million followers who presumably like her, so there's no need for unnecessary worry.

Fed information that the media wanted her to swallow?? So the media wrote Spare did they? And the media organised the Oprah interview? Hardly - she's formed her view from the material that they themselves have shared.