Meghan's back in the movies

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15262991/Meghan-Markle-return-acting-Hollywood-new-film.html

And I must expand this to add !
the evidence has always been there lurking in the shadows, surly expressions caught on camera (since his youth) , snotty comments about his brother on camera ( explained away as jokes and banter!) people just wanted to believe the facade presented to them.

With Meghan I get a real Ivanka Trump vibe - in that they both think they're more important, credible and intelligent than they actually are.

Remember that awkward moment when there was a group of world leaders, Head of the IMF talking in a group and Ivanka broke in with some word salad and they had to just smile and nod awkwardly? I get that with Meghan at all her speeches.

Wasn’t she also gazing adoringly at Trudeau? Very Meghan.

Stunt bottles 😂 sums her up 😂😂

True. The “banter” always has an edge. His manner is brittle and he’s not sharing a joke, just making a nasty comment under the guise of humour. It’s not very well hidden, as John Travolta learned! There’s a really telling picture of him from the younger years (20s I think). He’s in a crowd, sulking, with his armed crossed and looks just like a toddler. Catherine is beside him and seems to be trying to placate him or cheer him up. Man baby.

The Kardashian’s party is exactly where Meghan Markle wants to be, she’s a first class hustler and undoubtedly she’ll come away with some profitable connections. What a way to live though, whoring yourself around for cash, without regard for the consequences. It’s what got Andrew and Sarah Ferguson into such trouble.

Yep exactly @Indianrollerbird! I was thinking of that exact picture! And it wasn’t a one off there are many of them , along with the pictures of assaulting his bodyguards and photographers!

i have always felt that Meghan was unfairly blamed for Harry’s behaviour! ( and have said so many times on this board!) , Meghan is responsible for her own behaviour, Harry is responsible for his , she didn’t change him or force him to behave this way .
this is who he has always been.

I think …

If he had…

IMO…

I suspect …

This is your valid opinion but speculative analyses like these always tend to overly focus on the negative. As do all media reports.

An alternative scenario could be that Harry is fairly happy enjoying freedom and fatherhood. He always appeared very much at ease interacting with young children, even before he married and had his own.

But of course I don’t know for sure. None of us do!

I don’t agree with how he went about leaving but I think he might be justified in feeling sad and hurt at how ruthlessly the establishment and his family turned their backs on him once he had left, having protected Andrew, a potential criminal, for years.

(Let’s be honest. Where Harry went wrong was that he didn’t keep quiet. If you keep quiet in the RF, virtually whatever you do, you will be protected. Once you break the omertà; or too much info leaks, you are out!)

I definitely think he needs to find more purpose, Flying a helicopter for a medical charity would be a good start. Just do one thing and do it well and stick with it. Quietly.

The truth is that neither of us know for sure what he is like or how he feels and I think it’s pretty silly to pretend that we do! But we keep on doing it!

We also tend to focus mostly on negatives when in reality most lives are a mixture of good and bad aspects.

I’ve met quite a few well known people during a former career - my role was in a very minor capacity I should add so they didn’t need to be polite to me - and many of them came across completely differently to how they were portrayed in the media. The ones you were dreading meeting were often lovely; and vice versa. Only a few were pretty much the same as anticipated.

Thanks to the odd way that the RF share their marriages, funerals, children with us the public, we all feel we know them and have some strange form of ownership over them. This is an illusion. Their lives as elite rich-as -Creusus -folk are in reality completely removed from our own. And you need wit, self-discipline and strength of character not to be corrupted by the life they lead too.
And in this 24 hr news culture and digital age, I don’t think it’s a productive set up for them or us.

Far better, imho, to let them go and live a comfortable life in peace and privacy, especially the children, and take all emotion out of the equation, and let us elect a steady, non-controversial intelligent, dare I say boring, Head of State, who isn’t protected by enormous wealth and privilege, whose actions are transparent and who is fully accountable for their financial arrangements and both are subject to independent public scrutiny. And then we can focus on what are the really important issues for the UK.

We can still honour our traditions and history but the RF can be gradually confined to that history, where imho, in a modern, accountable democracy, they belong.

So much attention and rhetoric is directed at and towards the royals! Why are we so focused on this toxic soap opera? Can we not raise the level of public debate? As a collection of countries, I think we can do better and we deserve better.

Her problem is that she's just a terrible actor. I don't just mean among other actors, but people in general. Every encounter with anyone just looks so false, so affected, and the results are awkward.

I think I'm one of the few people who saw the video of her in Africa, when the poor young woman was telling her about her child dying. She said 'He died', and Meghan turned her head away, and the woman thought she mustn't have understood (because how could anyone, especially a new mother, react with such indifference), so she said 'He passed away'. Meghan looked at her impatiently, then sat on the floor to play with the babies/toddlers with a big smile, while looking for the camera. The bereaved woman looked crestfallen and utterly bewildered.

I think that was the real Meghan, the Meghan that the royal family and ex friends and family got, the Meghan that her staff get. The on camera version is just so obviously phony that it's hard for those of us that see it to understand those that don't.

And then there's incidents like the wine and no licence, she just fumbles every single bag. It's difficult not to find it amusing once you've seen through her.

Anyone else think of Kenny Everett's Cupid Stunt when reading this?

I saw that video @SidekickSylvia I felt so much for that poor woman, can you imagine how Diana, Sophie, Catherine or Camilla would have reacted and Ann as well, though less demonstrably emotional than the latter would have listened and engaged, not ignored her and played with children whilst sat on the floor. I really don’t think Meghan has an empathetic bone in her body, any emotion she shows is only for herself or performative for the cameras.

I did think of the Mumsnet stunt pineapple! 🍍

They both enable one another, to be the worst versions of themselves they can be.

That incident in South Africa absolutely outraged me. Losing a child must be the worst thing that could happen to a woman. I can’t imagine how painful it must have been to have been ignored when you were trying to share your experience. M really showed herself to be a cupid stunt.

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apparently Meghan didn’t wear a poppy because they are hard to get hold of.

Where did Harry get his then?

Canada, apparently. But didn’t bother getting one for Meghan. Speaks volumes about his actual commitment to his ‘causes’ and also his lack of intelligence around how his wife is perceived. I mean, I’m not very bright, but if I was always wanging on about how badly treated my spouse was in the press and online, I would do whatever I could to help them avoid criticism…such as knowing that there would be pics of them in the press on Remembrance Sunday not bothering to wear a poppy. Of course he might have bought her one and she might have refused to stick a pin in whatever hugely over priced piece of polyester she was wearing, but there you go. They don’t help themselves.

I think a more pleasant, unjealous woman would point out all the benefits of being the spare to him. They could have had a wonderful life. His wife would need to rub along well with William & Catherine, which looks like it would be easy enough (but I don't know them).

According to my American relatives , poppies are easily available however it occurred to me that she might have borrowed the dress and didn’t want to put a pin it ?

It’s because she couldn’t give a shit! She wanted those women there for one reason only, to make her look good, and she messed that up!! She shouldn’t be allowed to see people who have suffered, she’s a user and couldn’t care less

That incident in South Africa absolutely outraged me. Losing a child must be the worst thing that could happen to a woman. I can’t imagine how painful it must have been to have been ignored when you were trying to share your experience

You and me both, @JSMill, and while it didn't tell us anything we didn't already suspect it certainly confirmed it

Even if not actually interested you'd think an actress could at least have pretended to show some concern, but as so often the obsession with the camera came first, and yet again she showed all the blather about "compassion" to be completely fake

Oh I don’t disagree. I think he is an entitled little whiner and also was. I just think MM has profited more from the relationship than Harry.

People went to war fighting for the right to choose, and the right of freedom of speech and expression for our country. Noone should be tell6ong anyone whether they should or shouldn't wear a poppy, this isnt a dictatorship and goes against everything those people who lost their lives fought for. What did Jon Snow say .. its like poppy facism when people start to tell you off for not wearing one.

There are millions of British people who dont wear them, UK celebrities/ famous people to. 🙄 not wearing a poppy doesnt mean you dont care.

I think she is closer to her goals than Harry is to his. It’s hard to think of anything Harry has gained.
I agree she had her sights set on universal admiration and is instead only a legend in her own lunchtime but he doesn’t even have jam.