Meghan pushes ahead of Harry, a blood Prince, of course she’s going to try to push ahead of married-in-like-me-except
-I- was-a-self-made-uber-woman-first-and-look-at-my-entrepreneurialness-now Kate Middleton/ Waity Kaity (let me just remind people in my Oprah interview that’s that what she was, but oh wasn’t that a cruel moniker, the tabloids were so mean to her but of course nowhere near as mean as they’ve been to me)! I’m pretty sure Meghan will think she’s a higher achieving, more successful woman than Kate. She’d have grounds to think that all Kate has she achieved through marriage, the very thing Meghan is constantly accused of and Kate never, which Meghan will HATE. Except she can’t say this because Kate bagged the King and Meghan got the Prince, which she will also hate!
But I think if she or Harry have enough dealings with the MIGS again, they’ll find the structure quite different from when they left in 2020. Kate, especially, will be cordoned off and protected fiercely as the future of the monarchy, and this will be felt by H&M. Kate will be off bounds completely. Charles and his team will be deferring to her advancement, too, she’s that integral to the monarchy’s future. Pretty much what she says will go, and I think what Kate will say is what William wants and what she thinks would be best for her children.
It really leaves H&M doing their own things regardless, like parallel play. That Closer magazine/rag article (Closer seems to have become a British outlet of choice for H&M, perhaps their publicist has a contact there?) says Meghan says (who knows) “we don’t need them”, meaning Kate and William. That’s a nicer way of saying nobody owns the word Royal, Harry is a prince too, my kids are a Prince and Princess too, Charles wants us back, we can just do our own thing with/without Kate and William. Doesn’t have to be a competition (as she’s said before), there’s enough space for everyone. It’s the kind of advice you read on MN threads tbh. She’ll never win, but she’ll say she’s not competing. However, the media and the people want to see them compete - same as Fergie and Diana.
As for Meghan ever curtsying to Kate: she curtseyed to QE2, to Camilla and Charles as PoW. If she doesn’t to Kate and William it’ll be a statement which she knows will be picked up on. She’d rather avoid being in public with them than that, she knows she can never win (in a competition she will say she doesn’t want to participate in). I mean, if random members of the public aren’t required to bow and courtesy (and I never would, to any human, ever) I kind of see the point. But then I would never accept a gong or title either so As Ever, Meghan ain’t going to escape her hypocrisy! If she thinks she can rewrite the rules of this monarchy to suit herself (just because I carry a title, doesn’t mean I have to buy into the whole thing and curtesy to someone), she picked the wrong prince to marry!
Gosh, I wonder whether she ever reflects on the extent to which she landed on her feet when she hooked Harry. Where would she be now but for him, I wonder. I’ve no doubt she’s still better off with him than without, regardless of just how dud a man and husband he must be to live with.