'QUITE STRESSFUL'
Royal biographer Ingrid Seward said: “Christmas at Sandringham can be quite stressful so perhaps they don’t want to go with Archie at such a young age.
“Having said that, Sandringham has played host to many many children through the ages and is well set up for them.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle choose not to join the Queen for Christmas
Not my favorite either. Wish, wish, wish she would go for less structured things more often. I guess we all have our own tastes!
However, for a casual look, I think her hair is beautiful here. Natural and elegant.
And, a pet peeve: Could HM loosen up the keys to the vault a little, please? I would love to see some of the younger generation making use of the contents a bit more. I know, she's lent some to the DoCam recently, but they were ginormous "gala"-type jewels, and almost dwarfed Kate. I'm thinking that some of those jewels could be worn, at least in their smaller versions, or some of the smaller pieces, for a quite a few occasions by the DoCam and the DoS.
And: I'd also like to suggest that those two could add some pieces of their own, even parures, using some of the semi-precious stones that are so appreciated today. I'd love to see a piece or two, given for an occasion, then added to later, if needs be. Not necessarily "gala-type" jewels, yet a bit more than the itsy-bitsy, teensy-weensy things we've often seen when they've added things themselves so far (such as the "baby" green amethyst earrings the DoCam wears.) Nice, but something a bit.....more, please!
Some ideas for stones: Citrine, Imperial Topaz, Amethyst, some of the pretty, pastel pearls (even Baroque), Peridot.
Glad to get it all off my chest, finally!
Yes, exactly! And now we have fellow Sunshine Sachs client Hillary Clinton parading around here calling us all racists on Meghan's behalf. Of course there are umpleasant individuals everywhere, but on the whole Britain is one of the most tolerant and diverse countries in the world. It breaks my heart that the warm and welcoming British people are being portrayed as racist bullies with sticks up our behinds because these people are trying to gaslight us into liking her.
I can't imagine that it would be acceptable to say such awful things about any other nation or their culture. It's all gone far too far and I hope the Queen is finally putting her foot down. I hope they go to the States for Christmas and stay there.
OTOH, if relations are frosty it might be a welcome sigh of relief?
Her Majesty is an understanding woman I think, and as a Mom herself she may well understand Meghan could be homesick. Even more than Meghan does.
Plus, if Meghan and Harry are going to meet with her Dad, that’s a very sensitive subject... Meghan has issues with her Dad. When things are heavy hearted it might put a damper on everyone else to try and just put a face on for tradition?
I hope they do work on restoring Meghan’s relationship with her Dad. Introduce him to his grandson. He loves her and took care of her growing up. It would do her a world of good.
—But that’s just me knowing what it’s like being a child of divorce, how relationships can veer wildly and how healing forgiveness can be... or at least acknowledgement can be...
Meghan and Harry went on a veering wildly expedition in their documentary. Hopefully this time they need to take will go towards a centering time for them. Because that “stiff upper lip” comment was all about what is unresolved in Meghan, and not British society. —Just my take & Imo.
Yes, exactly! And now we have fellow Sunshine Sachs client Hillary Clinton parading around here calling us all racists on Meghan's behalf. Of course there are umpleasant individuals everywhere, but on the whole Britain is one of the most tolerant and diverse countries in the world. It breaks my heart that the warm and welcoming British people are being portrayed as racist bullies with sticks up our behinds because these people are trying to gaslight us into liking her.
I can't imagine that it would be acceptable to say such awful things about any other nation or their culture. It's all gone far too far and I hope the Queen is finally putting her foot down. I hope they go to the States for Christmas and stay there.
Former actress
Town and Country
The Christmas plans are all speculation at this point. But I really wish Meghan and Prince Harry would go away from the spotlight.
It doesn't matter what any of our own holiday experiences are like. She married into the Royal family, not a regular family. She didn't just marry Prince Harry, she married into the responsibilities, expectations, and duties that come with the title.
If not many people are asking her if she is "o.k.", then she needs to evaluate why. Is it possible that she got rid of all the people she used to be friends with, the ones that cared. So sad, too bad.
And here we are talking about Meghan's personal issues and problems rather than being able to talk about the wonderful work that the other royals who married into the family are engaged in.
Prince Harry needs to take a page from his great uncle and disappear with his American divorcee trouble making bride.
Oh that’s disappointing. “Racist” is bandied about every other word here... but we have issues right now. That says so much more about the U.S.
I think social media is a terribly hurtful place. It just gives liscense to anonymous haters. All over the world.
People saying that are doing Meghan no favors. Either she is endearing and likeable on her own or she is not. Harry is not so popular right now, either. Is that racist too?
Plus, there’s a US political endorsement feeling in there too. That can’t be good for the BRF’s political neutrality.
Former actress
Town and Country
The Christmas plans are all speculation at this point. But I really wish Meghan and Prince Harry would go away from the spotlight.
It doesn't matter what any of our own holiday experiences are like. She married into the Royal family, not a regular family. She didn't just marry Prince Harry, she married into the responsibilities, expectations, and duties that come with the title.
If not many people are asking her if she is "o.k.", then she needs to evaluate why. Is it possible that she got rid of all the people she used to be friends with, the ones that cared. So sad, too bad.
And here we are talking about Meghan's personal issues and problems rather than being able to talk about the wonderful work that the other royals who married into the family are engaged in.
Prince Harry needs to take a page from his great uncle and disappear with his American divorcee trouble making bride.
Paranoid re disasters here is over rated....MAY. Not will. I doubt if they want to spend a month in the US with their baby. Fires, shooters. Don’t think so
I abhor racism. I will call it out and face it down whenever I see it, no matter the cost to myself, but in this case I am not seeing it. I won't suggest that we don't have a single racist individual in this country, of course we do, but we are not a racist nation. There are many reasons why a lot of the British public do not gel with Meghan but I won't go into them because it's been done to death, but not one of those reasons is because she is mixed race. I can assure you, we would have all been over the moon had he married Dame Jessica Ennis, Lupita N'yongo or a million and one other extremely impressive black and mixed race women. In actual fact, we were beside ourselves when he married Meghan! We grew up with Harry, we watched him lose his mum. All we wanted was to see him happy with a good woman. Nobody cared about her heritage.
BBM : Sometimes, when everyone around you is giving you the same feedback, the time has come to look in the mirror. I say that from bitter experience, I have learned the hard way.
UPDATE: HELLO! has confirmed that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will not be spending Christmas at Sandringham this year.
AKA as babymaking time
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry will reportedly spend Christmas in the US
And the UK have constant IRA threats... they will be fine hereActually not overrated. My own grandchildren were in a real lockdown in a school in Minnesota.
And the UK have constant IRA threats... they will be fine here