Can someone explain why Harry and Meghan are Humanitarians of the year ?

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15178897/prince-harry-meghan-markle-award-new-york.html

You would have thought so but there are numerous reports from both sides of the Atlantic of her bullying staff.

I think she is so arrogant that she simply can’t see that she is the problem .

She’s reactive and her emotional disregulation is easily overwhelmed in certain situations that threaten her control of her environment and concocted image. There is a looooong pattern of behaviour witnessed and reported over the years where her emotions escalate and she tries to micromanage, then belittles, harasses, bullies or flips the other way and coldly detaches and dumps.

Accurately put, Unhinderedd

She might have abilities which suit certain fields - like the small part in the cable show, which no doubt plenty of other actresses would be pleased to get - but they're certainly not abilities which serve her in the world she aspires to be part of

I've just googled to find the 9/11 comment. She smiles because 9/11 happened, ruining her trip

Sorry what ?

That’s just so bizarre. Everyone I know who was living in the US at the time found it a scary experience and don’t look back on it with a smile. No one could be sure there wouldn’t be another strike and having the entire airspace shut down was very weird to people. The skies were eerily quiet.

This is the quote from the Daily Mail - nothing wrong with it.

We were meant to fly [to Chicago] but here's why we didn't: because 9/11 happened on that same day,' she shared with the stunned audience.
'So the two of us ended up driving 30 hours over three days. 10 hours a day. From Los Angeles to Chicago, together at one of the most fragile, tender times in this country.'

Shorn of context, of course not. She recounts the story grinning like it’s a cute anecdote though. Which some people could find inappropriate

(I’d definitely reminisce about how 9/11 impacted me personally with friends by focussing on the more lighthearted elements, but if I was speaking in public I’d be careful to be entirely respectful about it. Particularly to an American audience).

I was on my way to work in NYC when the planes hit. When I got to work, the Pentagon had been hit. That terrified me more than the Towers. I grew up the in NYC metro area and had drills in school about what to do if Manhattan was hit with a nuke. I still won't visit the 9/11 Memorial Museum. I would not describe that as a fragile, tender time. More angry and grieving.

Yes she was definitely grinning recounting that story. Very inappropriate.

Similar jarring, insensitive, inappropriateness collecting The Humanitarians of the Year award - breaks into grinning, gushing nonsense about her incredible children who are only 4 and 6 (hesitated - looks like she was waiting for an ‘aahhh’) to an audience of traumatised, grieving parents who had lost their own children in the worst way. Read the room.

I believe the explanation is that it’s a commonly used mechanism for organisations seeking to raise funds. They look for high profile recipients who will grab attention. Once they have the spotlight it opens opportunities for fundraising. The award itself is meaningless.

I have no issue with the charity and recognise how the process on how to raise funds - but it’s basic manners to shine a light on the grafters and the charity not be insensitive to their suffering and hog to opportunity to hawk your own brand.