"He loves me so boldly...." - Haarpers Interview with Meghan

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https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film-tv/a69289143/meghan-markle-cover-story-interview-2025/

She's a beautiful woman but i can't understand why she just doesn't drop the titles and be herself. And it's odd how she talks about how much 'H' loves her but not how much she loves him.

IIRC didn't Oprah say herself that she contacted Meghan for an interview in 2018, only to be told that it wasn't the right time and that she wouldn't be allowed to speak without royal staff in the room anyway?

I was in Windsor great park yesterday. I have been several times but I always forget how beautiful and relaxed it is yet it’s a hop, skip and a jump from London and even the rest of the world if you factor in Heathrow airport. I would kill to live there!!

Makes you wonder how much times she spends in LA- to want to meet up at the BH hotel for her interview and her schmoozing with guests there.

Seems like it must be a regular thing and she isn’t always picking tomatoes, barefoot in the garden like she’d have you believe.

🤣 I did think it I must admit! And was very careful with my spelling! 🤣

I believe I heard that ! And I also heard her reps had been in talks with Oprah too ! 🤔

I think she had a very "wealthy American philanthropy" perspective of royal charity work where you turn up to a red-carpet Gala or fundraiser in a ballgown and tiara at a luxurious location (museums, 5* hotel, Stately home etc) - the rich and famous donate millions to meet and eat dinner with you and donors take the tax write-off.

It is noticeable when she does events like Invictus etc with Harry that she rarely speaks a lot to the people she meets - it's a quick "hi", photo op and then on to the next person. I found it odd that a professional actress seemingly couldn't talk to people. I'll never forget her walking away from a woman in a wheelchair at a Buckingham Palace disability reception who was trying to tell her about something.

I also think she had a very Disney Princess/Hallmark Christmas movie idea of being in the royal family. So wet Wednesdays in Wigan community centres or chaotic African villages were not what she envisaged and decided to pursue her main interest - Hollywood fame.

Ah yes the African trip where they stayed in a “Housing Unit” ! I still remember certain supporters typing themselves in knots explaining that the term wasn’t an insult .

I wouldn't! Massive jumbo jets rattling the window panels every 3 minutes. Smaller planes every other minute. Very few people sitting out in their gardens around Windsor. Awful.

If someone wants to loan me a mansion there, I would happily give it a go!

So she didn’t want to live in London at Kensington Palace, Frogmore wasn’t grand enough. Wanted to live in Windsor Castle until HMTLQ slapped that idea out of their head. And now conveniently Windsor is rural obscurity? What planet does she actually live on? What would she have been happy with? She rewrites history so many times I’m surprised she doesn’t get dizzy. So ungrateful and pathetic.

She has to shit on Windsor because W+C have just moved into a nice big house there.

I can’t remember the exact phrase but in the Oprah interview she actually says something like ‘it’s not like it is in the movies’ re inside royal life.

Yes but she wanted to live in actual castle . It was interesting that H and M introduced Archie to the world from Windsor Castle . Clearly for an American audience.

Much grander than standing outside a hospital.

I misremembered - she compared the image to fairy tales not the movies:

Oprah: So, you didn’t have a conversation with yourself, or talk to your friends about what it would be like to marry a prince, who is Harry, who you had fallen in love with . . . you didn’t give it a lot of thought?

Meghan: No. We thought a lot about what we thought it might be. I didn’t fully understand what the job was: What does it mean to be a working royal?

What do you do? What does that mean? He and I were very aligned on our cause- driven work, that was part of our initial connection.

But there was no way to understand what the day-to- day was going to be like, and it’s so different because I didn’t romanticise any element of it.

But I think, as Americans especially, what you do know about the royals is what you read in fairytales, and you think is what you know about the royals. It’s easy to have an image that is so far from reality, and that’s what was so tricky over those past few years, when the perception and the reality are two different things and you’re being judged on the perception but you’re living the reality of it.

There’s a complete misalignment and there’s no way to explain that to people.

She is coming across as rather silly, self obsessed and desperate for attention.

Agree MM’s lawyers, agents & SS etc were all about the once in a lifetime and life changing level of $$$$ for them that could be accrued in fees. MM was a D list cable actress with the appropriate “high street’ level agents, lawyers etc - they had all been with her throughout her humdrum days and accompanied her on the stratospheric gravy train - they didn’t give a shit about the quality of the content of the deals struck - it was all about their personal cut and dishing dirt made them the most $$$$ personally.

I seem to recall , they (H&M) were offered a large apartment in KP but it would have taken a while to do it up. (I think there is some asbestos or something - so not just installing fancy bathrooms ) but they turned it down. I don't know - it might have been a squidge smaller than K&W's but still - I'd love that. I do believe there is scant living accomodation at Windsor Castle apart from a flat for the monarch and some rooms for guests - that was never going to be a goer. Personally I think Frgomore Cottage is absolutely lovely. If you see it properly it's a proper big but very pretty Grade II listed early C19th house of some size & beautiful gardens & they apparently had soundproofing installed to mitigate nearby Heathrow. This is just a personal opinion , but I'd take that anyday over the faux chateau stuck in a chi chi development in the middle of nowhere house they have now. BUT that's just me. (for the avoidance of doubt I have a small terraced house so what do I know) I do think H&M when leaving the WRF perhaps confused absolute amounts of money with financial security.

ETA to add H&M to clarify "they"

Yes, she did say something along those lines.

As always, Meghan is too arrogant to understand that royal staff would have sat in on any interview for her own protection. If she had ever been close to A list, she'd have known that that is also standard procedure in the celebrity world. To step in if the interviewer asks an inappropriate question or strays from pre agreed discussion points. Given what a fool Meghan has made of herself in subsequent interviews, she should be grateful for the assistance of professionals. But that's not really her style, is it?

The 'housing unit' in question. Otherwise known as the High Commissioner's residence in Cape Town.

Complete dump.

Absolutely!

Wouldn’t catch me in that hovel !

Is that where the apparent ‘fire’ was?

Definitely not fit for a Duchess, is it?