Thanks for engaging with the robust debate
I would say in return that many people outside of these particular threads hold different views, on other platforms for example, and some of course rather depressingly follow the Daily Mail narrative, and it’s quite arrogant for a few people who continually post from one perspective about H & M and the other royals, not to acknowledge the different perspective of others. Or even that they exist!
To “us” and I use that term loosely to mean republicans but each of us hold individual stances, you are the cat haters! Because we don’t see the RF in the same way or think they deserve any higher respect than any other person, and so a lot of what H & M have supposed to have done, just goes over the top of our heads.
It’s not about right or wrong it’s about different perspectives.
To use a concrete example, that excerpt in the Netflix series where Meghan does the mock fancy curtsey is indeed excruciating to a UK royalist’s eye when you see it clipped out of context. It looks like she is making fun of everything royal. It looks impertinent at face value. That’s perspective one, And that clip has been used again and again to “prove” her arrogance and disrespect.
Some of us who don’t give a toss about royal protocol weren’t horrified and could understand why someone who grew up in California would find it baffling why people would curtsey to one another in private (which I think was the point she was making at that particular moment). That’s perspective two.
Those of us who don’t care about curtseying at all and think it is disrespectful in itself to have someone’s supposed innate value so starkly demonstrated and compared to that of another human being. That’s perspective three.
And finally, those of us who didn’t have any skin in either game, bothered to watch until the end of the clip where actually it’s clear that Meghan, although not very clearly, is sending up herself and confirmed that by saying, “I didn’t have a clue what I was doing!” That’s perspective four.