The source is that I've seen them with my own eyes via blogs and social media accounts. The original rumour was said to have originated from someone who is allegedly a friend of Meghan. I will not name them but the original tweet is still available if you care enough to find it. There is of course no allegation that Meghan or any other member of the Royal family is responsible but it's symptomatic of the battleground that the Sussex v Cambridge "fued" has become.
Harry's stance has always been that the press coverage of Meghan has racist undertones. Olivia Coleman, Hillary Clinton and numerous other public figures have claimed the same but nobody has ever been able to produce a single shred of evidence. It's a bold claim. The British public and press have been accused of being racist bullies, Harry has continually fuelled these accusations with his statements. As a member of the British public I take offence to this and I will continue to call it out.
I don't care to look up silly online rumours normally, no. There are a lot of silly things said on Twitter, in comments on news boards etc. Some of them I find harmful (like things with racist undertones) others I just think are stupid and hope no one actually believes it.
How would I know if I could trust a 'rumour
said to have originated from someone who's
allegedly a
friend of Meghan"? To me it's all a layer of silly season stuff that I'm not so interested in, but if it creates a lot of fallout...then I'm interested in how and why it's created that fallout.
I think in that whole world there are a small number of people who will go silly in defending someone they've taken a shine to (some celebrity or whatever) by their perceived 'competition' or 'enemies'.
I do personally feel that some of the tabloid stories have a little something in them to make Meghan sound worse than she is, and then a small number of vocal people in the comments sections who have racist feelings will then associate Meghan's awful behaviour with her racial heritage, and only a very small number of them will comment in absolute and clear racist tones, though I find any that do use that language to be horrific. But a larger number of the posts that I associate with an undertone of racism, they're not so blatant about it...it's an almost more insidious thing.
I do not believe either of those are representative of the UK public as a whole. And those people with those views are still going to exist even without negative, false, twisted, or exaggerated stories in the press. But I don't believe they represent all of us.
I don't 'love' the Royals like some people seem to love celebrities (and I find this celebrity thing has changed a lot in the past 20 years with the internet and celebrity news and tv series). I don't hate Royalty either. I never used to much 'like' a few individuals in the Royal family (like Andrew and Sarah) and then I saw some negative celebrity stories about Royals like Bea or Eugenie, and I felt I was 'primed' for those stories to further my dislike. Then I just though "no, I'm not going to go along with this, I'm going to consider them not 'bad' people unless I find out otherwise with strong evidence" So I'm trying to keep that attitude for each individual in the Royals, and extend it to anyone else. For me it's more a case of "stuff I'll roll my eyes at" when I see it, but I don't want to get worked up over it...but it does bother me when it takes on a life of its own and creates wider fallout.
I
am interested in how all these stories, and their spin (whether that's from an insider or an outsider) affect peoples views on a person or issue...in this case, the Royal Family as a whole, or individuals in the Royal Family.
